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Tunn On, Tune In, Rat Out!
Posted by FoM on July 01, 1999 at 14:11:22 PT
Source: The Smoking Gun
Following Timothy Leary's 1996 death, obituary writers focused on the late doctor's drug experimentation, his counterculture history, and how Leary chronicled his demise from cancer via the Internet.
Overlooked, though, was Leary's work as a government informant in the early 1970s, a role detailed in FBI files recently obtained by The Smoking Gun. Jailed on narcotics charges in 1974, Leary began cooperating with FBI agents investigating his 1971 escape from a California prison. Aided by members of the radical Weather Underground, Leary was able to bust out of jail and, after hiding in a series of safe houses, get smuggled out of the country with the help of a fake passport and other bogus ID provided by the Weathermen. After eventually being extradited from Switzerland and returned to a U.S. jail cell, Leary decided, he told FBI agents, to cooperate because he not only wanted to be released, but he was suddenly desirous of a collaborative, intelligent, and honorable relationship with law enforcement. Though it appears Leary's snitching did not result in any criminal cases, that sound you hear is Abbie Hoffman turning over in his grave. Here are some documents from Leary's FBI file, including choice excerpts from interview transcripts: Leary Explains His Decision To Snitch (1 page)http://www.thesmokinggun.com/leary/tlstatement1.shtmlRecounting The Escape Plot (5 pages)http://www.thesmokinggun.com/leary/tlescape1.shtmlFingering The Weathermen (2 pages) http://www.thesmokinggun.com/leary/tlweather1.shtmlFBI Summary Of Leary's Cooperation (4 pages)http://www.thesmokinggun.com/leary/tlsummary1.shtml Government Support For A Sentence Reduction (2 pages)http://www.thesmokinggun.com/leary/tlpayoff1.shtml
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Comment #1 posted by FoM on July 01, 1999 at 14:21:33 PT:
1960's Guru Timothy Leary Cooperated with FBI!
http://www.cnn.com/WASHINGTONTimothy Leary, the counterculture guru whose "turn on, tune in, drop out" preachings made him an antiestablishment icon in the 1960s, quietly cooperated with the FBI in 1974 and informed on a radical left group in hopes winning his freedom from jail, newly released FBI records show. His information identified his collaborators in a 1970 prison escape. Three years later, caught and jailed again, Leary told an FBI agent that he wanted to see "if I can work out a collaborative and ... an honorable relationship" with "intelligence and law enforcement people that are ready to forget the past," according to a transcript of FBI interviews with Leary in May 1974. Click the link below to read more!
1960's Guru Timothy Leary Cooperated with FBI!
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