Tripped
Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age
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Narrated by:
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Kris Dyer
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By:
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Norman Ohler
About this listen
Berlin, 1945. Following the fall of the Third Reich, drug use — long kept under control by the Nazis' strict anti-drug laws — is rampant throughout the city. In the American sector, Arthur J. Giuliani of the nascent Federal Bureau of Narcotics is tasked with learning about the Nazis' drug policies and bringing home anything that might prove 'useful'.
Five years later, Harvard professor Dr Henry Beecher begins work with the US government to uncover the research behind the Nazis' psychedelics programme. Originally created for medical purposes by Dr Albert Hofmann, the Nazis coopted LSD to experiment with mind control and find a 'truth serum' - research that the US, particularly the CIA, is desperate to acquire.
Based on extensive archival research, Tripped is a wild, unconventional post-war history, a spiritual sequel to Norman Ohler's bestselling Blitzed. Revealing the hidden connections between the Nazis and the CIA's notorious brainwashing experimentation program, MKUltra, Ohler shares how this secret history held back the therapeutic research of psychedelic drugs for decades as the West sought to turn LSD into a weapon.
©2024 Norman Ohler (P)2024 W.F.Howes LtdWhat listeners say about Tripped
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- timaeus
- 14-08-2024
Great listen.
Good story, well told. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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- Anonymous User
- 02-09-2024
Great research and brilliant read
Beautifully narrated and wonderful read highly recommend. Will have another listen as so much to take in.
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- Richie
- 19-09-2024
Interesting history of psychedelics
As someone that works alongside people with dementia, I’m interested in what these drugs could do to help. This book touches on some of that and how psychedelics (particularly LSD) were such a big part of the 20C.
Apart from some morally questionable moves by the author giving his dementia-stricken mother LSD (though with consent), I found this less focused and interesting than his work in Blitzed. The way psychedelics influenced the Cold War and the hippies of the 60s was interesting enough, but it didn’t grip me like that other story did.
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