Acid: The Secret History of LSD (Vision Investigations) [Paperback]

David Black (Author)

Book Description

Series: Vision Investigations | Publication Date: June 2001

The true story of double-dealing, intrigue, and betrayal as governments and organized crime used LSD to manipulate youth cultures and radical groups.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 202 pages
• Publisher: VISION Paperbacks (June 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1901250113
• ISBN-13: 978-1901250114
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,994,690 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Trippy, November 5, 2001

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This review is from: Acid (Old Editon) (Paperback)

Steamshovel Press editor Kenn Thomas wrote the foreword to this new, updated and US-marketed edition of David Black's 1997 history. The angle on psychedelic history taken by Black that makes the volume unique is an expanded look at the life of Ronald Stark, a transnational doper that helped usher the burgeoning interest in LSD into the hands of the mafia. It also connects it all up to the assassination of Aldo Moro in Italy, and hence to the current political climate (the "strategy of tension", against not just psychedelic libertarians but anyone critical of the status quo. This new edition includes as an appendix "An Open Letter from the Friends of Timothy Leary", circulated after the FBI tried to smear Leary with selected release of FOIPA files, plus another appendix on the "Manson-Stark Conspiracy Theory."

5.0 out of 5 stars More about the shenanigans of a CIA spook than LSD, February 10, 2007

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Cwn_Annwn (Copenhagen, Denmark) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Acid: The Secret History of LSD (Vision Investigations) (Paperback)

Interesting book that concentrates on a CIA spook named Ron Starks who was the biggest LSD dealer in the world, as well as being linked to operation Gladio which resulted in the murder of Italian politician Aldo Moro. Starks actually spent time in an Italian prison on other charges but was mainly being held because of he was suspected of being involved in the whole Operation Gladio/P2 Masonic/CIA lodge false flag terrorism circus. Once the Italian authorities had no legal grounds to hold him any longer he promptly disappeared off the face of the earth after being released. Starks was also linked to various CIA false flag terrorism shenanigans in the middle east also. Although Jewish he could pass as an Arab and was an accomplished linguist that could speak multiple languages. Really this book would probably be of more interest to somebody interested in conspiracy oriented stuff and how CIA spooks operate than a person with an interest in LSD.

2 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The devil is alive on earth in the form of david black, February 11, 2007

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Brian David "high priest" (earth) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Acid: The Secret History of LSD (Vision Investigations) (Paperback)

as the grandson of Stark's chemist and son of the man who handed him his kilo of lsd, I must say that by trying to destroy the same culture he critiques by turning idiots against people like me, David Black has here written the true ketamine grimoire, meaning that there was never anything in any part of the known universe, let alone anything there to observe it. he also has destroyed millions of children with ecstasy by suggesting that stark was ever associated with the cia, if stark ever thought he was he truly would/should/will be dead as he was merely an underling. it is interesting to note here that Mr. Black is currently writing a book on socialism, and all of stark's acid was sponsored by the world socialist party. it was the 50's kgb' s acid and this whole cia thing really confused people. I would like to ask all parties involved in destroying my life because of this book to die quickly to avoid sinning any more. That is an ethical action in a time of war. As acid destroys the ketamine and ketamine was named by my chemical company I know what I am talking about it is very very very racist. Amazon will be shut down for taking this review off the internet ...this is the most dangerous book to ever exist. Although tark needed to be told, he did not need this in his life, and neither do I. social history of LSD is ok but its still based on talking to some "cool" "dude" from california, a stupid place some kid made it many many many years later. If you have read this far and have even thought that what those guys did was illegal, it was just illegal for some idiot street cop to find out. David black seems to have been talking to an imaginary federal agent who was involved in the investigation that didn't exist. People voted for nixon because he would allow drugs, still a party line communist, but the same man who ended the republiklan party forever with watergate. Mr. Black should write a book about that, not promoting neofacism like he does.

I will also add that stark's acid was made out of native american grains, the rez was never talked about, neither was the asian or african precursors, orowheat, or anything else for that matter. The book is written on the assumption that Mr. black doesn't know anything, as the name secret implies.
MK-ultra was pure rye, made by lilly pharmacuticals just like owsley and hoffmann, what that swiss idiot did by inventing it out of an enzyme related grain (yes, pure rye sits on you like an enzyme) which is only used in strict ceremony traditionally, kept us from making even more in secret before an idiot like hoffmann came along like he did. . a giant cycling grain composite is totally different.
you have no idea what you are talking about.
david black should have been writing about south pacific sacred plant offerings when the sailors brought the lsd by.
rot in hell devil pig
(squeal, squeal),
God