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EVIEWS DAY OF DECEIT: The Truth About to stay put and wait for Japan to "commit FDR and Pearl Harbor the first overt act". They did so at the US by Robert B. Stinnett Navy's peril, but achieved FDR's aim of Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, USA, 2001 bringing the US into World War II. (with revised afterword; 1st ed. pub. 2000) __ Exhaustively researched and endnoted, ISBN 0-7432-0129-9 (167pp tpb) Stinnett's Day of Deceit has the power to Price: A$26.95; NZ$34.95; £12.99: force a rewrite of the history books. Euro20.90; US$16.00; C$23.50 . Availability: Aust/UK/USA— Simon & ACID: A New Secret History of LSD Schuster, http://www.simonsays.com; by David Black , NZ—Macmillan; Europe—NEXUS Office Vision Paperbacks, UK, 2001, revised edition (first published 1998) ISBN 1-901250-30-X (215pp tpb) Price: A$n/a; NZ$39.95; £9.99; Euro20.90; US$15.95 Availability: Aust—Wakefield Press, tel (08) 8362 8800; NZ—Addenda, tel (09) 834 5511; UK—Vision Paperbacks, tel 020 7928 5599, http://www.visionpaper- backs.co.uk; Orca Book Services, tel 01202 665432; Europe—NEXUS Office, tel +31 (0)321 380558; USA—Mind Books, tel 1800 829 8127, website http://www.promind.com he psychedelic drug LSD, or "acid", has had a colourful and chequered history, not just through 1960s counterculture but in clandestine, CIA-sponsored operations. This latter area is what particularly occupies English author David Black in his investiga- tion, Acid, first published in 1998 and now expanded with new evidence in this revised edition. Looking back, we can understand how "the summer of love" could not have 1941 has taken decades to be confirmed. been sustained, despite its intellectual sup- Journalist and author Robert B. Stinnett, porters with links to early 1960s university- who served in the US Navy in 1942-46, has and volunteer-supported LSD experiments researched this secret for 20 years, inter- in the search of new mental health therapies. viewing many former Navy cryptographers, Besides, too many people were unnecessari- he controversial suggestion that US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his top military and policy advisers had fore- knowledge of the planned Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, liaising with numerous military archivists ly hassled in crackdowns by the authorities. and gaining access to thousands of pages of ___ Entrepreneurs with connections to organ- documents via the Freedom of Information _ised crime, the Mafia, the Italian P-2 mason- Act, especially since 1994. ic lodge and Red Brigades as well as various He says that a later release in May 2000 of __ international intelligence agencies were over 4,000 communications intelligence making a fortune out of the mid-1960s _ documents "demolishes" the critics' asser- through 1970s LSD culture. One In particu- tions and proves conclusively that US radio _ lar was Ron Stark, the so-called "Godfather cryptographers had solved the Japanese of LSD" who supposedly died in 1984, naval codes months before the attack and though Black looks at evidence hinting that that the Japanese admirals did not keep strict he may still be alive. But years before, as radio silence, even giving away the exact we know, the CIA and military were con- day of the planned attack nearly a week ducting secret LSD experiments in mind and beforehand. (These were released too late behaviour control on human guinea pigs. for Stinnett to include in the hardback edi- The research was carried out under the tion, but a selected list is published in anew umbrella of MK-Ultra, the "black budget" afterword to this paperback edition.) project that covered for countless sub-pro- Stinnett proves that FDR ordered eight jects every bit as inhumane as those con- provocations against Japan in the lead-up to —_ ducted in Nazi Germany. Indeed, some for- the Pearl Harbor attack, believing that mer Nazis took part in these very projects. Americans could be rallied out of their iso- All sorts of covert agendas within agendas, lationist mindset "only to oppose an overt shocking intrigues and heady side-trips are act of war on the United States". The US exposed in Black's explosive investigation. Navy commanders in Hawaii were ordered It makes for enlightening reading. to stay put and wait for Japan to "commit the first overt act". They did so at the US Navy's peril, but achieved FDR's aim of bringing the US into World War II. Exhaustively researched and endnoted, Stinnett's Day of Deceit has the power to force a rewrite of the history books. ACID: A New Secret History of LSD by David Black Vision Paperbacks, UK, 2001, revised edition (first published 1998) ISBN 1-901250-30-X (215pp tpb) Price: A$n/a; NZ$39.95; £9.99; Euro20.90; US$15.95 Availability: Aust—Wakefield Press, tel (08) 8362 8800; NZ—Addenda, tel (09) 834 5511; UK—Vision Paperbacks, tel 020 7928 5599, http://www.visionpaper- backs.co.uk; Orca Book Services, tel 01202 665432; Europe—NEXUS Office, tel +31 (0)321 380558; USA—Mind Books, tel 1800 829 8127, website http://www.promind.com he psychedelic drug LSD, or "acid", has had a colourful and chequered history, not just through 1960s counterculture but in clandestine, CIA-sponsored operations. This latter area is what particularly occupies English author David Black in his investiga- tion, Acid, first published in 1998 and now expanded with new evidence in this revised edition. Looking back, we can understand how "the summer of love" could not have been sustained, despite its intellectual sup- porters with links to early 1960s university- and volunteer-supported LSD experiments in the search of new mental health therapies. Besides, too many people were unnecessari- ly hassled in crackdowns by the authorities. Entrepreneurs with connections to organ- ised crime, the Mafia, the Italian P-2 mason- ic lodge and Red Brigades as well as various international intelligence agencies were making a fortune out of the mid-1960s through 1970s LSD culture. One in particu- lar was Ron Stark, the so-called "Godfather of LSD" who supposedly died in 1984, though Black looks at evidence hinting that he may still be alive. But years before, as we know, the CIA and military were con- ducting secret LSD experiments in mind and behaviour control on human guinea pigs. The research was carried out under the umbrella of MK-Ultra, the "black budget" project that covered for countless sub-pro- jects every bit as inhumane as those con- ducted in Nazi Germany. Indeed, some for- mer Nazis took part in these very projects. All sorts of covert agendas within agendas, shocking intrigues and heady side-trips are exposed in Black's explosive investigation. It makes for enlightening reading. 76 + NEXUS APRIL — MAY 2002 www.nexusmagazine.com