Tag: special collections

From the Archives: William S. Burroughs and the Apomorphine “Cure”

by plasticscreen, posted in Art, Entertainment & Pop Culture, From the Archives

I’ve been requesting several files from special collections and archives related to counterculture luminary and attempted social engineer William S. Burroughs. In the first batch I received, among other things, an invoice for purchase of a gram of mescaline sulfate ordered while he was living in London, February 1960.

Today I’ll be focusing on some letters related to an article in London’s Sunday Times about Burroughs’ claims to have beaten his addiction using an alkaloid from the blue lotus flower known as apomorphine.

From the Archives: Dr. Louis “Jolly” West Docs On Possession, Dissociation & Alien Abduction

by plasticscreen, posted in From the Archives, True Crime, Corruption & Deep Politics

CIA MK-Ultra researcher Dr. Louis Jolyon West, known to some as “Dr. Jolly” was one of the foremost figures studying mind control. Today I am going through some of the most recent documents I’ve had released from the UCLA special collections. Huge thanks to William Ramsey of William Ramsey Investigates who used alumni status to help me get some of these files released sooner.

Background music “John Carpenter style synth mix” courtesy of White Bat Audio, royalty free music.

Currently working on the Kai the Hitchhiker book and after that will get back to the “6 degrees from Ted Kaczynski to Epstein” book but I will continue to collect as much of the LJW special collections and hopefully in a couple years will be ready to start working on the first definitive biography of one of the leading CIA MK-Ultra researchers.