CIA Created Hippie Movement Using LSD and Grateful Dead, Documentary Claims

What was said

"In the 1950s the CIA bought up the world's supply of LSD. They brought it to the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly who reverse-engineered it, giving them an unlimited supply and a complete monopoly. Then the testing started. One early volunteer for these tests was Ken Kesey. Then Kesey went on to host events which he called acid tests. And he wasn't charging anyone. He just wanted people to show up and do acid. For these events, he hired an unknown house band called the Grateful Dead."

A documentary clip presented on the podcast claims the CIA orchestrated the hippie movement in the 1960s by flooding society with LSD, using Ken Kesey's acid tests and the Grateful Dead as unwitting vehicles. The theory suggests this was done to neutralize the anti-war movement by turning descent into something easier to combat. The clip also notes many major musicians of the era were children of high-ranking military officials.