"DR Allen Cohen and Hank Harrison have tried it, nearly 150 times between them, each has turned away from it...Hank Harrison directs the unique LSD Rescue Mission in San Francisco..."
"Now that we look back at some of our statistics, we've seen people spend many months in mental institutions because of it…Many of the kids who are now consuming LSD and marijuana, and very similar drugs are doing so because they tend to be seeking a new mystique, the hip mystique, and they’ve heard about this hip mystique through television, radio, newspapers, and they’re being drawn towards the Haight Ashbury and Greenwich Village, and college campuses all around the world to try LSD and various hallucinogenics…mainly because of group pressure but also because they feel that something is going to happen to them, some of the misery they feel is going to be alleviated. This is not true, LSD is not a panacea. Nor is it penicillin." - Hank Harrison, "Etched in Acid" 1967
"I think our task is to separate the profundity of the instinct [to take psychadelics] and the ignorance in trying to actualize that instinct by the use of artificial chemicals. In all honesty I could never advise someone I loved or cared for of felt well of to take LSD even once. Except…in a medically controlled therapeutic situation for specific psychological reasons." - Allen Cohen "Etched in Acid" 1967
CBS covered the San Francisco "Haight Ashbury hippy scene" of the late 60s as it was occuring, in segments such as "Etched in Acid." In it, Harrison and Allen Cohen appear to be warning of the dangers LSD presents to people, mainly youths of the then current hippy movement. Harrison speaks like a man who's job is, specifically, to analyze the effects of LSD upon people. In fact, some have said he gave LSD to his own daughter!
"He [Hank] gave me acid, I don’t remember, I’m pretty sure…my father’s just out and out nuts...He managed the Grateful Dead for 5 seconds and he was an amateur acid maker..." Courtney Love - VH1
"At the age of 5 Courtney appeared on the back of the Grateful Dead album “aoxomoxoa,” known for the hidden phrase in the title, We ate the acid."
"she’s on the back of one of the Grateful Dead album covers…Hank Harrison, he went out as their tour manager ostensibly, actually he was their LSD dealer. He’s always been heavily involved in dealing LSD…and left Courtney with like some groupie at the commune who gave her LSD in her Corn Flakes like every morning, which made Courtney extremely enlightened and self actualized, but it also did a lot of damage" - Rozz Rezabek, [former boyfriend] Rockstop 2018
"Hank Harrison, had been a college friend and roommate of Phil Lesh in the early ‘60s, had briefly managed the Warlocks [pre-Grateful Dead] “for one week” in 1965, and stayed in contact with the Dead up to the ‘70s..."
“We were doing tons of acid, changing sex partners, and tripping out,” Hank said; and in a child custody dispute, her mother would testify that Hank gave Courtney LSD as an infant…"
"Of course, it’s not known just how involved Hank was in the Dead scene in 1969, as detailed information is scanty and his books are rather obscure. It’s possible he just had occasional contact at that point. Courtney later wrote that Hank was not as close to the Dead as he claimed: “He had published 2 unauthorized books…writing from the perspective of an insider, when in fact he barely dealt with the band.” On the other hand, Courtney’s also said, “My mother had ties to a lot of the women around the San Francisco hippie scene, like Ken Kesey’s wife and the Magic Bus people.” - deadessays.blogspot.com
"Hank Harrison was a self-described beatnik who lived in Palo Alto with a musician roommate named Phil Lesh. For a couple of weeks at least, he was the manager of Lesh's band, the Warlocks, which soon became the Grateful Dead…His books are not highly regarded in Dead circles." -SFgate
"He lies," said former Dead manager Rock Scully. "He describes events he never attended. He said he went to Egypt. He didn't go to Egypt. He's full of beans." - wiki
"None of that happened! I never gave Courtney LSD! And I took a lie detector test…legitimate, CIA guy…that said I did not give her ANY drugs!" Harrison, youtube interview 2020, user "scarycoyote"
LSD RESCUE MISSION
Harrison's specific connection to the Grateful Dead [or the Warlocks, an earlier version] seems lost in a sea of acid laced recollections. But what's probably more interesting, is this "LSD Rescue Mission" project he was allegedly involved with. I wasn't able to find anything out about this organization outside Harrison's own interviews, and the brief references from CBS. I think it is important to explore this connection between Harrison, the Dead, the CIA, and LSD.
"I was bringing people down off of bad acid trips…if you see someone that’s in real dire crisis, your obligation is to intervene….lay hands on and grab and snatch, put em in a truck or a hotel or hospital or someplace - fix em! No fuckin around! You’re trying to help em, YOU'RE the boss. Not them! You gotta get em under control right away, and I knew how to do that! And I been trained to do that with - There was a guy in San Francisco named Joe Fort with Fort Help. And there’s several other groups like that…and I studied with groups like that" - youtube interview 2020, user "scarycoyote"
The question I have is, was Harrison trained to "help" these people, or was he assigned the task of "rounding them up," after they'd been heavily dosed, in order to gather data - or even further experiment upon them? Persistent rumors that he'd even experimented upon his own daughter, certainly feeds this idea. And while "proof" of just about ANYTHING here is difficult to establish within such a cloud of acid soaked haze, Harrison's own quotes taken at face value, can easily be interpreted as the confessions of a CIA/MK Ultra operative.
During the same interview I've been quoting from Youtube user "scarycoyote," the interviewer actually puts the question of MK Ultra involvement to Harrison. Here's his response:
"there was a lot of “dosing” going on. Never open your orchid in a hailstorm. Whoever was doing the dosing - if - if there was intervention - pardon me - if there was “dosing” going on, and it was with the Grateful Dead, then the CIA involvement was with Owsley Stanley, he’s dead now, the guy that developed all the acid. If there was a CIA connection it was Tim Leary for sure…there’s a guy named Sasha Shulgin. Alexander Shulgin. He was a chemist, he’s the one that taught - Augustus Owsley Stanley III…Owsley the Bear. Owsley Stanley. The Bear. He was the acid king. He was the guy that whipped up the acid…at Berkely, at the 3rd or 4th floor of the chem lab. On Campus, man! That’s the only place they could make LSD from scratch. Where they had the actual equipment...there’s a whole bunch of information about that - now I don’t wanna snitch on anybody but, I didn’t like the idea of them dumping acid on everybody everywhere. I didn’t like it. I thought it should be -LSD should have been used always as an adjuvant of psychiatric or psychology or meditational science - and they’re using it NOW for that! They’re using psilosiben as the go-to process for shell-shocking army - ptsd…
Note Harrison's "freudian slip" above. He said "if there was intervention - pardon me - if there was “dosing” going on"...Recall an earlier quote where he went on about "intervention" and how you gotta "grab and snatch, put em in a truck or a hotel or hospital or someplace" because "your trying to help em!" That's INTERVENTION. He slipped above, and mixed that word up with DOSING. So you see, he made a connection between the DOSING and the INTERVENTION. Were these simply 2 parts of the same deliberate process Harrison was an active participant in?
If you look these names up he mentioned above, it all checks out. One can spend years researching just that last quote of his. But what I want to emphesize here is Harrison's obvious awareness that LSD was being DUMPED on "everybody everywhere." He says he "didn't like it." Ok, fair enough. Maybe he didn't. But on one hand he sees acid being dumped on people. He seems to know the people involved, how, and where it's being made. [Well duh, he's one of them!] On the other hand, he's got this "LSD rescue" foundation. And on the 3rd hand, he's eating tons of the stuff! [before he had his big 75th trip awakening, that it's actually not real good after all, of course] The big conclusion is that he thinks it aughta be used as "an adjuvant of psychiatric or psychology or meditational science." In other words, it aughta be used in a laboratory sort of environment, under close supervision, for some sort of "beneficial" purpose. Well, this can easily describe the precise manner in which it WAS being used! That is, if the meaning of "beneficial" is twisted slightly and the "laboratory" means any f'n environment where people are taking it, like a party or a rock concert!
SECTION II - Linda Carroll
"She has worked as a couple's therapist for more than 30 years. In addition to being a licensed psychotherapist, she is certified in Imago Therapy, the couple's therapy developed by Dr. Harville Hendrix and Dr. Helen LaKelly Hunt. She is also a master teacher in the Pairs Psychoeducation Process, a nationally recognized relationship education program for couples. Carroll studied Voice Dialogue with Drs. Hal and Sidra Stone, Holotropic Breathwork with Dr. Stanislav Grof, the Four-Fold with Angeles Arrien, the Diamond Heart Work of A.H. Almaas, and trained with The Couples Institute of Drs. Ellyn Bader and Peter Pearson. She is also certified in the Hot Monogamy program, which helps couples create or re-create a passionate connection between them."
"She teaches workshops and delivers keynote addresses throughout the United States and is a frequent speaker at Rancho La Puerta in Tecate, Baja California, Mexico." - wiki
I don't mean to take cheap shots here, but in addition to the above, Carroll's been married 5 times [state.com]. She also once testified in court that her first husband gave LSD to their daughter, a claim that was the basis of her winning custody after/during the first divorce. This daughter of hers is thought by many to have been at least partially responsible for the murder of her own husband in the 90s - a theory also shared by Carroll's own first husband! Does this sound like a woman who should be giving advice to couples?
"Paula Fox was an American author of novels for adults and children and of two memoirs. For her contributions as a children's writer she won the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1978, the highest international recognition for a creator of children's books. She also won several awards for particular children's books including the 1974 Newbery Medal for her novel The Slave Dancer; a 1983 National Book Award in category Children's Fiction (paperback) for A Place Apart; and the 2008 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis for A Portrait of Ivan (1969) in its German-language edition Ein Bild von Ivan. In 2011, she was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame". - wiki
"[Linda] Carroll was born on April 7, 1944 in San Francisco, California to writer Paula Fox, who was 20 years old at the time of her birth. Carroll was conceived of a short-lived relationship between Fox and an UNNAMED MAN. Fox lived under the roof of acting coach Stella Adler at the time, as did then unknown actor Marlon Brando. There have been persistent rumors that Brando was in fact Carroll's father, although neither Brando nor Fox ever commented on the matter. Fox gave Carroll up for adoption at birth. She was adopted by optician Emil "Jack" and Louella Risi, a Catholic family of part Italian descent, and raised in the Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco. Later in life, she took the surname Carroll following the death of her friend, Judy Carroll." -wiki
"Veteran actor Marlon Brando has been revealed as the unexpected grandfather of wild rocker Courtney Love in a new book. The singer's mother, psychologist Linda Carroll, claims she has taken DNA tests to confirm she is the Godfather star's daughter. Love, former wife of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, says, "I am incredibly shocked by this news. I have heard Mr. Brando has more than 30 children so I can't imagine how many cousins I have." The link is Linda's mother, novelist Paula Fox. She met Brando in the 1940's through famed drama teacher Stella Adler, and the two enjoyed a brief liaison. However, it is not known whether 79-year-old recluse Brando knows that Linda - who was given up for adoption - was the result of this. Brando has 11 acknowledged children, although is thought to have many more. Carroll's book in which she makes the revelation, is as yet unreleased." - Imdb
If you've been following all of the above, recall the part about Linda Carroll being adopted by a man named Emil "Jack" and Louella Risi, a Catholic family of part Italian descent. Well Jack wasn't just "some nobody" either! But before getting into that, here's what Carroll said about him recently...
"My father, Jack, although he molested me as a young child, was also a man admired for his kindness, wit, and generosity. He remains one of the most generous people I have ever known…"I resist this culture which tries to make people 'bad' and 'good,' when we are all woven of so many complexities and they all exist within us at once. As my birth mother, Paula, once remarked, 'Good things don't take away the bad, but bad things don't deny the good, either." - https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/carroll-linda-1944
Did you catch all that? Linda Carroll is defending her adopted child molestor father's abuse against her. Publicly! This, a copiously educated couples' counselor!
Now with such impressive leaniage, the likes of which include Paula Fox and Marlon Brando, surely this Emil "Jack" Risi must be some sort of big shot too? [besides just being a child molestor and all round generous guy]. Linda Carroll wasn't gonna let just ANYONE adopt her!
"I was born into a big custody trial. And I was called “child x” in the San Francisco paper. It was a big deal because my grandparents had a lot of money...My trust fund gave me $500 a month. Who can live on that at all? I would just tell them lies. Just lie. " [in order to get larger payments] - Courtney Love, VH1"
"She would get money every month, and just blow it in a huge way. Just go out and just buy like, really expensive perfumes and candles and flowers….and drugs." - Roddy Bottum
"She would start shit everywhere…She would come to your house and she would demolish your stuff, but she had no problem paying for it." - Robin Bradbury
["Courtney Love with her best friend Robin Barbur in San Francisco, ca. April 1981. The photographs were taken by Jon Sievert when Love’s dad hired him to take photos of the girls."]
“When you hang out your shingle as a music photographer, you never know who will walk in your door,” Sievert said. “An acquaintance asked me to photograph his 16-year-old daughter Courtney and her girlfriend in my small dining-room studio. He didn’t offer to pay, but I was intrigued by his description of the girls.”
“Courtney and Robin spent an hour or so flirting and posturing for my camera in a thoroughly enjoyable session,” he added. “I liked both for their sense of humor and deadly insightful young/old wisdom. Courtney and her father left town shortly thereafter, before I showed them the slides and proof sheets. It was 12 years before I discovered them in my files and put two and two together.” - Jon Sievert, vintag.es
So, Hank Harrison "hired" a guy to photograph his 16 year old daughter in 1981, but didn't pay for it, and apparently left before looking at the slides and the proof sheets? Sounds to me like he never even saw the pictures, or picked them up - because the photographer himself says he forgot about them for 12 years after that! So what was the purpose of these "flirty," obviously sexually infused photos where Courtney and her friend Robin Barbur are all dolled up and acting trashy and loose? The photographer even references his delight in their "flirting and posturing for my camera." What happened here that WASN'T captured on camera?
"…a young Courtney Love arrived in Liverpool in 1982…was just 17 when she travelled to Merseyside with her friend Robin [Barbur?]…She had been invited by The Teardrop Explodes front man Julian Cope to stay in a house Devonshire Road in Toxteth, which was in some ways an epicentre for Liverpool's thriving 1980s music scene, after hooking up with the band at a gig in London and jumping on their tour bus home…Courtney would later describe the few months she spent living in Liverpool as the place where she learned "to be a rock and roll star”….Just how long she stayed in the city and what exactly happened when Courtney came to Liverpool is the subject of a new book by writer and DJ David Haslam, called Searching for Love." - www.liverpoolecho.co.uk
Is Liverpool where Courtney "learned to be a rock and roll star," or is it where she was TAUGHT to be a "rock and roll star?" Expected? FORCED to be a rock and roll star? She's only 17 here, what is she doing in a foreign country being tossed around band tour busses? Why does Britney Spears suddenly come to mind? Funny enough, Courtney says in the same VH1 doc referenced earlier, that she once applied for membership to the Mickey Mouse club! [where Spears started her career]
So Courtney has this photo session where she and her friend are acting all trashy and loose - looking like some kind of underground punk goth groupie chicks that would be the wet dream of your average punk/goth/new wave musician of the day. They both end up in England the following year playing those exact roles, hanging with the exact type of dudes mentioned. Is this really the story of a couple rebellious chicks, or is this a TRAFFICKING situation, where Harrison was grooming his own daughter and her friend, for some kind of position in the rock music scene? Be it - prolific groupies, or some other role? You see how this whole "girl rock" thing can potentially represent the polar opposite of what many percieve it to be? What about the Runaways? What's the real story there?
Regarding Courtney's "allowance," although $500 a month could buy alot more in the early 80s than it could today, doesn't sound like an absurd amount. But it certainly could pay rent for a nice 1 bedroom in a middle class American neighborhood [and probably in England as well]. Not many people have income to pay their own rent before hitting 18, and then well into adulthood! Here's what Harrison said about this money situation...
"I used to manage the Grateful Dead, and this girl who’s an old Dead Head came up and said “hey are you Courtney’s Dad? I’m her banker!” I said “does she have a lot of money?” She said, “Oh yeah! [but] I can’t talk about it.” All she said was “a lot.” So I took Courtney on a plane, trotted her down to Wells Fargo on Market and Post [San Francisco], she went into the Wells Fargo Office…[comes out of Wells Fargo] She says, “I’m really Rich. Why didn’t mom give me the money?” Well cause you're fucked up I guess? She was 15 1/2 - 16. It wasn’t a ton, it was 3 tons [3 million]. My wife, Courtney’s mother, was adopted. Her father was an Italian guy who was a lense grinder. In the second world war, Jack Risi got a contract from the US Government to do all the eyeglasses for all the sailers and the soldiers...he made a zillion dollars…and then after the war was over they all got invested and then joined the Bohemian Club and they all got invested in various endeavors. And the next thing you know Jack has a chain of eyeglasses stores. High class, and it’s called Ferrari and Risi. And Milton Ferarri was the salesman in front and Jack was the lense grinder in back. But they were making a huge amount of money…then when dad died, Linda got to inherit the money, [but] they didn’t wanna pay taxes on it so they gave it to Courtney, put it in Courtney’s name. Courtney was about 1 when Jack died. - alternative air
from youtube user scarycoyote: Hank Harrison Interview 2.1.20
"...after all the court cases and the divorce…forcing me to give up custody, because they had the money in her name - a couple of million dollars…that had been transferred to Courtney’s name to avoid income taxes. They were afraid that I was gonna go after the money, [but] I didn’t even know it was in her name till later!"
"...the lawyers that were running the adoption…it wasn’t really an adoption it was a “take away” - they were Catholics too, they were telling Linda and Chat Risi and Ruella Risi that…Fararri and Risi is a large optician on Montgomery street in San Francisco….and the lawyers told them if they didn’t do something about me in the end…when the child was of age I could make a claim against the money because the child was in their name, cause they were using the child as a tax dodge...That money STILL isn’t gone. That money went on forever, dude. Right now, if you went down there you’d see, there’s a couple a million dollars floating around there. They’re WEALTHY people."
"Carroll was the only child of Emil (Jack) Risi, a prosperous optician who used to operate out of well-appointed offices in a medical building at 444 Post Street...When her maternal grandfather died in 1970, Love became the beneficiary of a modest trust fund, long since depleted."
According to Amazon.com, Harrison released the above book in January of 2017. Unambiguisely titled: Love Kills: The Assassination of Kurt Cobain. This is obviously a reference to his own daughter [Courtney LOVE] - and her involvment in the "assassination" of her late husband, Kurt Cobain. Although I have not read the book, one only needs to refer to Harrison's many public interviews over the years to determine that he seems to know an awful lot about the circumstances surrounding Cobain's death - despite his apparent/chronic estrangement from his daughter over the years.
Well isn't this an interesting coincidence? Linda Carroll released her latest book last year [2020] and it's called LOVE SKILLS. Take the "S" off of that 2nd word, and you have the title of Hank Harrisson's last book about their daughter's involvement in Cobain's assassination! Probably just a coincidence...
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All very interesting. I've been following this story for a long time...striking similarities to Winona Ryder's background as well...
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