“It was fun, fun, fun. Where else could a red-blooded American lie, kill, cheat, and rape with the sanction of the all-highest?”
– Col. George Hunter White
George Hunter White in 1955
America’s Truth Serum
May 27, 1943 was another day for long time international drug smuggler and made man with the mob, August Del Gracio. Enjoying a beautiful spring morning then off to meeting with a counterintelligence officer for the O.S.S. (Office of Strategic Services -predecessor to the CIA) George Hunter White.
Little did August know that George White was part of a secret project under the Office of Research and Development section of the O.S.S. The project had been given the task to find a “truth serum” drug for the United States. With names like Henry Anslinger on the committee overseeing the project officers like White were given ‘by any means necessary’ authority to find a truth serum drug.
As August Del Gracio sat down in George White’s office he was unaware he would be the first documented victim of Cannabis being used by the U.S. Government as a weapon or truth serum on a citizen…
Some small talk between the two lead to White offering Gracio a cigarette. As Gracio accepted the smoke, White handed him a cigarette that had been laced with “tetrahydrocannabinol acetate derived from Indian Charis” aka a hash oil dipped smoke…
1936 August Del Gracio, on left, Smirks in French Courtroom
Inhaling the government laced smoke, the conversation continued uneventfully. Some time passes as the two continue to talk, after not getting desired results, a second laced smoke is offered to Gracio which he again accepts.
After smoking the second hash laced smoke Gracio, to the amazement of White, started opening up and talking about drug routes and players in the international drug game openly…
The revelations August Del Gracio divulged to White during this meeting about the who and how of international drug smuggling were so sensational they were thought to be “to grand of scale” to be true and were later blacked out of declassified documents…
This conversation was labeled as the first success of Cannabis being used as America’s truth serum…
O.S.S. 1945 declassified “Report on T.D.”
Although this was just the first test of Cannabis as a truth serum, this encounter came up with the delivery device. A cigarette laced using a needle to inject the hash oil down the middle of the smoke at a dose of .02 grams per cigarette.
Another success was the form of cannabis administered with tetrahydrocannabinol acetate derived from Indian Charis being more effective of the 3 choices, Cannabinol from Indian Charis & synthetic cannabinol being less effective.
Having obtained the desired results, “information”, the test’s with cannabis continued under various programs until at least 1947. These tests eventually lead to more advanced drugs like lsd under MKultra for the CIA with none other then George Hunter White leading the show…
Cannabis, America’s first ‘Truth Drug’…
Timothy Leary