How Does The CIA Use LSD-25?

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LSD-25 was among one of the drugs that CIA scientists tested, LSD seemed to have one of the highest potential for use in intelligence gathering. The CIA studied and utilized LSD extensively from the early fifties until 1963, when they stopped using it. Psychologists, who had been steadily building data that supported the therapeutic side of LSD, they were forced to stop their research.
Dr. Timothy Leary and Dr. Richard Alpert of Harvard University, refused to follow the new LSD regulations. They were soon relived from teaching at harvard but they still educated the public about the spiritual and therapeutic effects of this drug.

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