Historical anecdote linking LSD researcher Timothy Leary to Assistant District Attorney G. Gordon Liddy and alleged celebrity users

trips, but there | was, a first-timer, standing in the open doorway, reversing roles and comforting him in his anxiety about entering show business. When | told my mother about taking LSD, she was quite concerned. She warned me, “It could lead to marijuana.” And she was right. It did. After Leary got arrested in Texas for possession of pot, the notoriety of his research in Millbrook spread. Law enforcement in nearby Poughkeepsie, led by Assistant District Attorney G. Gordon Liddy, raided the estate. In the summer of 1966, Leary and his associates ran a two-week seminar on consciousness expansion, culminating in a_ theatrical production of Hesse's Steppenwo/flegend that weaved its way around the Millbrook grounds and buildings. Leary invited Liddy and members of the grand jury that indicted him, but none showed up. Leary told me about prominent people whose lives had been changed by taking LSD: actor Cary Grant, director Otto Preminger, think- tanker Herman Kahn, Alcoholics Anonymous founder Bill Wilson, 7/ME magazine publishers Henry and Clare Boothe Luce. Of course, it wasn't so difficult to drop out when you had such a stimulating scene to drop into. On the day that he announced the formation of a new religion, the League for Spiritual Discovery (LSD), | signed up as their first heretic. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015304