The branch of our Federal Government which most benefited from the injection of  German brainpower was the Intelligence Community. Developments made possible in part by German scientists included the formulation of lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD, or 'acid', a synthetic hallucinogenic drug which was designed to 'discredit' a person among the general public due to its ability to produce what appeared to be a psychotic breakdown. It was first tested in by the CIA during the mid - 1950s in the MIddle East.  It was hoped that administering it to an anti - American politician, for example, would help to prevent a given country's populous for electing the person in question. While there is no evidence that it was ever used in any operation intended to impact a foreign election, some individuals have theorized that LSD may have played a role in long - term 'brainwashing' of Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian man who shot Senator Robert Kennedy on June 5th, 1968. Formulas for producing LSD progressed from Federal laboratories into the capable hands of black - market chemists whom succeeded at producing LSD.  From the underground laboratories the drug flowed into the stockpiles of West Coast drug dealers.  Perhaps unfortunately, America was far more involved in Vietnam than it was in monitoring the changes that had been occurring in the drug culture.