Reports by Werner Stoll in the Swiss `Medizin Journal`, describe the mental Effects of LSD. These reports so impressed Sandoz that they were convinced, that LSD produced a `model psychosis` providing a deeper insight into the perception of mentally ill patients. They permitted shipments of LSD samples to various psychiatric institutions, clinics & mental hospitals worldwide. The chemical corporation then began producing LSD 25 under the brand name `Delysid`.
1949, the wonder child LSD became of interest to the newly founded American secret service. The US Army & the CIA ordered 100 million doses of LSD (10 kg of this substance) from Sandoz to test it as a chemically psychoactive agent in `unconventional Warfare`. Many of the humanitarian foundations in the 50ies, funded by the US Secret Service, contributed the lion`s share of research funding on the human psyche. Seeking new ways of controlling the mind through brainwashing, LSD was considered to be a potential `truth drug` in the context of their `MK-Ultra experiments`. LSD was applied to students, political prisoners, mental hospital occupants and clueless civilians. These impure motivations turned LSD quickly into a problem child, escalating the secret service operations even further. The CIA brought LSD into the United States, it then broke out of the laboratories generating new thoughts in modern beat artists such as Bob Dylan, William S. Burroughs, Watts, Kerouak & John Lennon – and along with them a new revolution.
Dr. Hofmann maintained friendships with activists from various liberation and freedom movements across the United States. This included ranking writers such as Ernst Jünger and William S. Burroughs, the precursor of Cyberpunk. Even the famous Rockband `the Beatles` sent a letter thanking him. The famous author Aldous Huxley recognized him as `the discoverer of the true moksha-medicin` in his novel `Island`. Visionary scientists such as Timothy Leary (who developed the 8-circuits model) and John C. Lilly (who implemented the hardware-software model on the human brain and its programming).