1949 CIA-leader Allan Dulles initiates a secret program code named `Operation Bluebird` to discover the potential use of LSD. *** Three further papers on the mental effects of LSD by W. Stoll`s Swiss team are published *** Dr. Max Rinkel, research psychiatrist at the Boston Psychopathic Hospital is the first doctor working with LSD-25. He brings it into the USA. The first trip is taken by Dr. Hyde, Rinkel`s associate who resists the drug and experiences paranoia. Another one of Rinkel`s early experimental subjects is a Boston cab driver; the LSD experience helps him to move out of his mother`s home. *** Dr. Nicholas Bercel, a Los Angeles psychiatrist is given LSD by Stoll; he takes it to L.A., to begin testing on subjects in his private practice.