I'm not yet 60, so I watched the hippies and free love as a child. Nonetheless, my upbringing taught me that I missed out on an incredible piece of history that shaped the future with its noble and principled actions. It was a movement to defend freedom in all its forms that marched to its own iconic music. But none of that is true! The period was extremely hedonistic, and as you note, the sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll were all injected into it by the military and the CIA. No one wants to admit that the high point of their life when they were so free, creative, and unique was not their life at all, but was rather a product of military and intelligence operations.