#OTD 1974: Malcolm Muggeridge and Gore Vidal debated the permissive society. | BBC Archive

How CIA started the Hippie Movement? | MKULTRA LSD Story part-1 In the 1950s, the CIA launched Project MKULTRA—a secret mind-control program. The plan was to use LSD, hypnosis, and psychological experiments to control people’s minds. But instead, something unexpected happened… The CIA’s experiments accidentally leaked LSD into society, inspiring writers, musicians, and free-thinkers who fueled the hippie counterculture of the 1960s. From Timothy Leary at Harvard to Ken Kesey’s Acid Tests and the