As Breen explains in the book, the Office of Strategic Services – the World War II-era forerunner of the CIA – helped direct and shape psychedelic research early on. After LSD was discovered in 1943, ...

Dominic Green’s review of “Tripping on Utopia” by Benjamin Breen (Books, Feb. 10) goes beyond even the book in his claims about the lives and work of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson.