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30 May 2014 23:48:38
I was showing my wife some information regarding the MK Ultra program at the Menlo Park Veterans Hospital when my wife stumbled upon an book called "Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon" which is about the beginning of the hippie movement in Laurel Canyon (near LA in California for all of you not familiar). After about 5 minutes she called me over to the laptop and told me "I think you might want to see this". What I read was quite astonishing.

Laurel Canyon boasts some of the most famous musical acts for the 60's/70's; The Doors, The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, Frank Zappa, The Mama's & The Papa's, Mickey Dolenz, etc. Now that in itself is not odd but what this book painted was very odd. The majority of people from that scene come from a military/industrial background. While that is not weird, when the dots start connecting it paints an odd picture; Jim Morrison & Gail Zappa were in the same kindergarten class. Jim Morrison, John Phillips & Cass Elliot went to the same high school. Frank Zappas' father worked at Edgewood Arsenal (known for chemical warfare & MK Ultra). David Crosby & John Philips fathers worked together in Haiti while the country was under US military occupation. The list of coincidences of all of these people getting together is too long to list.

The gist of the book was that the birth of the hippie movement was manufactured to give less meaning to the protests of academia towards the war. As well as to usher in a "drug age" which is going on in america today.

I was wondering if anyone (Ed002?) had heard/read anything like this before?

http://www.davesweb.cnchost.com/nwsltr93.html