Timothy Leary
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| Born | Timothy Francis Leary October 22, 1920 Springfield, Massachusetts, USA |
| Died | May 31, 1996 Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Nationality | US |
| Alma mater | College of the Holy Cross, University of Alabama,Washington State University ,University of California (Berkeley) |
| Children | 3 |
| Spouse | Marianne Busch |
Counterculture guru and strongly suspected CIA asset who pushed LSD on a generation. | |
Timothy Francis Leary was an American psychologist and author known for strongly advocating psychedelic drugs. Jeremy Kuzmarov, writing in ´Covert Action Magazine, observed that "Timothy Leary may have been among the CIA’s greatest assets [..] in hindsight, Leary proved to be a false prophet who helped destroy the 1960s movements by pushing young people to take a drug that fried their brains and diverted their energy from political activism."[1]
Education
Leary received his Ph.D. in psychology from Berkeley University.[2]
Activities
Dr. Aldous Huxley and Dr. Humphry Osmond appear to have selected Leary as a key person to advance research on psychedelic drugs in the service of the Cold War and arranged for his position at Harvard.[3]
He came to lecture at Harvard in 1959, and offered a position at Harvard for the 1960-1961 academic year.[2]
Leary's research entered around projects relevant for MKULTRA. Leary began teaching courses on the use of psychedelic drugs and carried out LSD experiments with his colleague, Dr. Richard Alpert.[4]
Intelligence agent
Leary said in an interview with journalist Walter Bowart near the end of his life that he was working as an intelligence agent since 1962. "I was a witting agent of the CIA" which, he said, had recognized him as "an important national asset."
Asked by Bowart to elaborate on whether CIA people were involved in his LSD-proselytizing groups in the 1960s, Leary responded: “Of course they were. I would say that eighty percent of my movements, eighty percent of the decisions I made were suggested to me by CIA people."
Leary continued: “I like the CIA! The game they’re playing is better than the FBI. Better than the Saigon police. Better than Franco's police. Better than the Israeli police. They’re a thousand times better than the KGB. So it comes down to: who are you going to work for? The Yankees or the Dodgers?”[5]
References
- ↑ https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/04/24/timothy-leary-1960s-acid-guru-may-have-been-among-the-cias-greatest-assets/#post-89402-footnote-16
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://psychology.fas.harvard.edu/people/timothy-leary
- ↑ https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/04/24/timothy-leary-1960s-acid-guru-may-have-been-among-the-cias-greatest-assets/#post-89402-footnote-16
- ↑ https://ia601503.us.archive.org/33/items/national-reporter-vol.-11-no.-2-fall-1988/
- ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/14/arts/14bowart.html
