Gottlieb, Sidney

Abramson continued to be quite friendly. He invited me to visit him at his home later in the year, to eonverse further. When I arrived at his house in Syosset, Long Island, he gave me an unpublished draft of a report prepared for the CIA fifteen years earlier. He also talked about his involvement in the treatment of Frank Olson, the CIA biologist who had been slipped an LSD mickey in 1953 by MK-ULTRA ehief Dr. Sidney Gottlieb. He beeame paranoid and two weeks later ended up dead on the sidewalk ten stories below his hotel room - allegedly a suieide. 

Sidney Gottlieb, M.D. - Head of MK-ULTRA s secret LSD program... 

Richard Helms - CIA Chief and sole supervisor of Sidney Gottlieb s LSD projects under MK-ULTRA... 

After the collecting of specimens was completed, Moore returned to Delaware with a bag of the sacred mushrooms for analysis, hoping to isolate and then synthesize the active principle in large quantities for the CIA Sidney Gottlieb wrote soon after that if Moore were successful, it was "quite possible that the potentiating molecules "might remain an Agency secret (not published in the scientific literature, unlike most academic discoveries). 

Thanks to Ernie Alieva, Sidney Gottlieb, and Sigrun Svavarsdottir for helpful comments on an earlier draft of this chapter. 

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