Lewis Marker

Lewis Marker and William Burroughs in Mexico City before setting off in search Yage. Marker's military background was in intelligence. In researching the U.S. Dept. of Psychological Warfare SHAEF's role in filming the gas chamber at Dachau I learned the intelligence officer in charge was Capt. Alfred de Grazia. In the l970's De Grazia, an academic who continued writing white papers on Syke War for the CIA long after retirement, meet with Burroughs in Switzerland where they discussed setting up a Free University. Burroughs' year in Europe during WWII is glossed over in the biographies. He claims to have been rejected for service in the OSS by General "Wild Bill" Donovan himself, but maybe he was on assignment in Yugoslavia when he met the first of his two wives. Literary pedophiles have a proprietary interest in the Beats. I should think it will be hard getting them to provide any evidence of their freewheeling heroes' involvement in intelligence operations.

From Tampa, Florida. Joined army, 1946, spending three years in Germany in Counter-Intelligence Corps. Left army 1949 and moved to Mexico City on the G.I. Bill, where he met William Burroughs, 1951. The pair travelled to South America together. Burroughs dedicated his novel Junkie to A.L.M. (1953).