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MHCHAOS Agents & Johnny Acid-seeds (Pt. I): The New Left Betrayed

Added 2024-08-07 03:21:15 +0000 UTC

The longest, strangest trip (episode) on PPM yet.

I'm hooking beloved patrons up w/ the first installment of the John Potash Interview "Counterinsurgent Strategies of Psychoactive Control" companion miniseries early.

Inside, you'll find a mammoth primary & secondary source assemblage which begins our construction of a deep history of the Columbia Uprising in '68, Students for a Democratic Society, the anti-war movement, the NYC activist milieu, Up Against the Wall Motherfucker, the Watts Rebellion & black urban insurgents in LA, various Black Panther & Black Panther in Exile party members, and the eventual militant SDS splinter group known as the Weather Underground...

Zeroing in on all of said groups’ targeting by American intel, COINTELPRO FBI informants, Johnny Acid-seeds, & MHChaos Agents... Not to mention the Grateful Dead's sound warlock & psych alchemist Owsley, who was perhaps responsible for more lasting brain damage among the '60s counterculture than any other singular person. He's closely tailed in the record books by Sasha Shulgin, that is, the Father of MDMA & a fellow synthetic drugs proselytizer, whose relationship w/ Owsley we'll peel back in some detail.

These episodes of PPM Reads... are going to be all about explicating some of the ways in which the New Left was subverted & betrayed.

To provide you w/ convincing evidence of the acid-bombing of Columbia student radicals & revolutionaries during + following the ‘68 occupations, I first have to go back to furnish listeners who may not be in the know w/ a preliminary history of MKULTRA West, the Grateful Dead, & Augustus Owsley Stanley III.

"Bear" Stanley was chief chemist for both the Merry Pranksters and the Dead/ Warlocks in the ‘60s—the man who would concoct the veritable bathtubs of acid that would melt & meld the minds of targeted communists like Mark Rudd & Bernadine Dohrn, hippies, Civil Rights activists, urban guerrillas, & idealistic youths. The Acid Tests in Watts pre-&-post rebellion & up down the western seaboard, the Merry Pranksters Further bus tour throughout the Jim Crow South at the height of the Civil Right movement’s Freedom Summer , the Pentagon raid, and the Columbia Uprising and campus occupation serve as the scenes of the crime.

This is the necessary context to unlock the full implications of the Grateful Dead’s arrival on the scene at Columbia following the SAS & SDS led student insurrection.

It's also requisite background to map out the nexus that connects the STP (a psychedelic-stimulant) public health crisis in the Haight in '67, the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic, Dr. David Smith, MKULTRA doc Jolyon West, the Manson Family, victim Abigail Folger's mother, and the Dead to the anarchist street collective Up Against the Wall Motherfucker, the SDS/ Weathermen set, and the scuzzy gang of street fighters & dealers that would mutate out of the Mother Fuckers, namely STP Family, who, as legend has it, would deal Stanley's STP... From which they took their name.

This first, "MHCHAOS Agents..." heroic dose and the following are built upon a lattice of excerpts from:

John Potash - Drugs As Weapons Against Us
David McGowan - Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon
Martin A. Lee & Bruce Shlain - Acid Dreams
Mark Rudd - Underground: My Life with SDS & Weatherman
Tom O'Neill - CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, & the Secret History of the ‘60s
Peter Richardson - No Simple Highway: A Cultural History of the Grateful Dead
Ron Hahne, Ben Morea - Black Mask & Up Against the Wall Motherfucker
and more, including a proverbial bibliotheca of pharmacological research papers, Rolling Stone profiles, STP Family forum postings, New Yorker articles, and a shit ton besides.