Did Timothy Leary Advocate Dosing Reservoirs with LSD?

Ido Hartogsohn, American Trip: Set, Setting, and the Psychedelic Experience in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2020), 162-3.

In May 1962, Leary and other collaborators from the group published an article titled “The Politics of the Nervous System” in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Contrary to suggestions elsewhere [n.: Lee and Shlain, Acid Dreams, 86], Leary did not propose dosing American water reservoirs with LSD in order to prepare the population for a possible attack by the USSR. However, …he did imply that since the Soviets might indeed try to use LSD to contaminate the water supply and create mass panic in the American population, the logical solution would be for citizens to become knowledgeable and experience with psychedelics[.]

Martin Lee and Bruce Shlain, Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond, rev. ed. (New York: Grove Press, 1992), 86.

Timothy Leary, George Litwin, Michael Hollingshead, Gunter Weil, Richard Alpert, “The Politics of the Nervous System,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, May 1962, vol. 18, issue 5, p. 27.