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@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ Hofmann isolated [[psilocybin]], the primary psychoactive component of the Psilo
CIA operative James Moore, a 29-year-old chemist working under cover as a natural-products researcher, was central to the Agency's effort to obtain psilocybin. In March 1953, Moore signed an initial CIA contract worth $8,000 per year, later expanded to $16,000 annually when he became an assistant professor at the [[University of Delaware]] in Newark in 1955. His cover funding flowed through the [[Geschickter Fund for Medical Research]], a CIA conduit, categorized as MKULTRA Subproject 58. In his role, Moore maintained "the fiction that the botanical specimens he collects are for his own use since his field interest is natural-product chemistry."[^3]
Moore's most significant operation in the psilocybin chain came through [[R. Gordon Wasson]], vice president of [[J.P. Morgan]] and an amateur mycologist who had published a landmark account of a 1955 mushroom ceremony in [[Huautla de Jimenez]], [[Mexico]], in [[Life (magazine)|Life magazine]] in 1957. The Geschickter Fund provided Wasson with a $2,000 grant for his 1956 follow-up expedition (designated MKULTRA Subproject 58), which Wasson accepted not knowing it was an intelligence operation. Moore accompanied Wasson on the 1956 expedition, collected samples from the ceremony led by shaman [[Maria Sabina]], but reportedly had a poor reaction to the mushrooms. When Hofmann isolated psilocybin from the samples that [[Roger Heim]] had grown in Paris and sent to Sandoz in 1958, Moore billed the CIA $1,147.60 for mushrooms and used the Sandoz synthesis to pursue the Agency's operational research agenda.[^3]
Moore's most significant operation in the psilocybin chain came through [[R. Gordon Wasson]], vice president of [[J. P. Morgan & Co.|J.P. Morgan]] and an amateur mycologist who had published a landmark account of a 1955 mushroom ceremony in [[Huautla de Jimenez]], [[Mexico]], in [[Life (magazine)|Life magazine]] in 1957. The Geschickter Fund provided Wasson with a $2,000 grant for his 1956 follow-up expedition (designated MKULTRA Subproject 58), which Wasson accepted not knowing it was an intelligence operation. Moore accompanied Wasson on the 1956 expedition, collected samples from the ceremony led by shaman [[Maria Sabina]], but reportedly had a poor reaction to the mushrooms. When Hofmann isolated psilocybin from the samples that [[Roger Heim]] had grown in Paris and sent to Sandoz in 1958, Moore billed the CIA $1,147.60 for mushrooms and used the Sandoz synthesis to pursue the Agency's operational research agenda.[^3]
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