Did The U.S. Establishment Promote Flower Power?

[James_H]

The Laurel Canyon conspiracy seems scattered across several threads.

I wonder if this lyric from Frank Zappa (Plastic People, Absolutely Free, 1967) shows that the conspiracy theory was extant then:

And there's this guy from the CIA he's creepin'
Around Laurel Canyon

It doesn't have much context with the rest of the song, unless this following lyric is a prediction of things to come:

I hear the sound of marching feet
Down Sunset Boulevard to Crescent Heights
And there at Pandora's Box
We are confronted with...
A vast quantity of plastic people

Take a day and walk around
Watch the Nazis run your town
Then go home and check yourself
You think we're singing
'Bout someone else

However here I think he's talking about hippies being conformists in disguise, and therefore Nazis (an early example of Godwin's law).