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French bread spiked with LSD in CIA experiment
2010-03-11
Posted by:tipper

#16  At least nobody is claiming it's BZ..
link
Posted by: 3dc   2010-03-11 19:25  

#15  Other alkaloids of Ergot have been used for aiding in child Birth. In particular the dilation thingy...
So an Ergot contamination compared to an LSD one - esp. the pure Sandoz stuff the CIA used - would have a lot of side effects.
Posted by: 3dc   2010-03-11 19:22  

#14  Photobucket

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And all "victims" where seen flying
away on their Bush supplied broom...

Check it up on google "ERGOT"

Any girl here want flying lessons?

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Posted by: Hotspur666   2010-03-11 15:16  

#13  JFM, where can I get these "wet cereals".
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2010-03-11 12:49  

#12  The book on the subject was interesting. I think it was titled "Fire from Heaven" or something like that.
Original premise was a wet summer and fall caused a mould to form on the wheat and...voila.
There were symptoms other than merely strange behavior, physical symptoms not commonly associated with LSD.
Speculation that some medieval mass nuttiness, earlier thought to be mass hysteria resulting from an absolutely horrible and unpredictable life, might have been the same thing.
Temps got colder and the seasons wetter when the Medieval Warm Period was ending.
Could have happened.
But you never know about the CIA and their time machines.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey   2010-03-11 11:42  

#11  Wow, Man like I reckon like, man, wow, the government can be all caring, and like wow, efficient. They could like own all our bodies so we never do anything bad. Wow, good trip.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2010-03-11 10:39  

#10  making people do absurd things like voting for Obama
Damn, that was some strong acid! Wore off fairly quickly though, except for Congress (where they're always trippin').
Posted by: Spot   2010-03-11 10:14  

#9  In another news a French journalist discovered that American bread has been spiked with LSD by French Secret Services making people do absurd things like voting for Obama.
Posted by: JFM   2010-03-11 10:09  

#8  Did the CIa exist in 1951?

Had the LSD been discovered?

What has this guy been smoking?


Why would have they taken the risk to do it in France where there were no lack of doctors noticing that these not were the symptoms of common hallucinogenic molds (see below) and of laboratories to analyze the bread, plus a strong Communist party who would have been boosted by any hint of American foul play. Why not instead some South American or African hellhole farther from the Cold war frontline?

Now, seriously it has been known for centuries that wet cereals can develop hallucinogenic molds.
Posted by: JFM   2010-03-11 10:07  

#7  Now, however, an American investigative journalist has uncovered evidence suggesting the CIA peppered local food with the hallucinogenic drug LSD

I guess we're better at solving crimes today than we were then.

Or maybe it's more difficult for this "American investigative journalist" to be disproven.
Posted by: gorb   2010-03-11 09:45  

#6  Wasn't us. No oil!
Posted by: Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division   2010-03-11 09:44  

#5  was Halliburton around then?
Posted by: chris   2010-03-11 09:35  

#4  Sounds like a party I went to years ago.
Posted by: phil_b   2010-03-11 09:08  

#3  "Henri! Suddenly I zink zat we should become socialists, and bring all zee Moroccans 'ere to live with us!"

"Why zat is tres brilliant, Jacques! An' we must do zis before le spiders stop zere breathing, an' my feet turn into fromage!"
Posted by: Anonymoose   2010-03-11 08:52  

#2  .....an American investigative journalist has uncovered evidence proving suggesting the CIA peppered local food with the hallucinogenic drug LSD

Round up the usual suspect 'evil-doers' the CIA, US Army, US Gov't, long dead Scientists from Fort Detrick...dig them up please, "W" etc. Also, generous reparations to the victims of Pont-Saint-Esprit. The only "Terrible Mistake" would be in purchasing of Albarelli's book.
Posted by: Besoeker   2010-03-11 08:30  

#1  
In 1951, a quiet, picturesque village in southern France was suddenly and mysteriously struck down with mass insanity and hallucinations. At least five people died, dozens were interned in asylums and hundreds afflicted.

For decades it was assumed that the local bread had been unwittingly poisoned with a psychedelic mould. Now, however, an American investigative journalist has uncovered evidence suggesting the CIA peppered local food with the hallucinogenic drug LSD as part of a mind control experiment at the height of the Cold War.
Posted by: Parabellum   2010-03-11 07:49  

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