What I'm getting at is that I don't believe that Garcia was CIA operative as anon earlier suggested. But the CIA was definitely involved with the scene – certainly at the periphery with drugs.
Plenty of people today in very powerful positions, often through family connections, spent formative years in the GD scene – and there is an intangible, LSD-driven psychedelic vibration that links them. Many of them good people at heart – who would become involved almost innocently in some nasty shit with nasty players. Not unlike John Perry Barlow.