Transcript: Stephen Kinzer on Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA’s Search for Mind Control

News Report · NPR / Terry Gross interview with Stephen Kinzer · September 9, 2019

NPR interview with Stephen Kinzer, author of a book on CIA chemist Sidney Gottlieb, on MKULTRA's LSD research and how it connects to Timothy Leary and the psychedelic era. A journalist's account.

So Tim Leary's interest in psychedelic drugs was sparked by an article that appeared in Life magazine in 1957.

NPR interview with Stephen Kinzer, author of a book on CIA chemist Sidney Gottlieb, on MKULTRA's LSD research and how it connects to Timothy Leary and the psychedelic era. A journalist's account.

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