CIA and LSD

From the book The 70 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time by Jonathan Vankin and John Whalen :

The CIA was on to acid long before the flower children. (...)

At least one person committed suicide after becoming an unwitting subject of a CIA LSD test, crashing through a highstory plate-glass window in a New York hotel as his Agency guardian watched. (Or perhaps the guardian did more than watch. In June 1994 the victim’s family had his thirty-year-old corpse exhumed to check for signs that he may have been thrown out that window.) (...)

The CIA and the military simply couldn’t figure out how to harness the drug’s power. Thank goodness. Their idea was not to open “the doors of perception” but to convert otherwise free human beings into automatons.

Philipp Lenssen on Friday, Mar 31 2006 reg. Conspiracy Theories.