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The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: CIA and Mind Control
John Marks
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Description for The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: CIA and Mind Control
Paperback. "The CIA expose to end all CIA exposes." -New York Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPSH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 378.
A 'Manchurian Candidate' is an unwitting assassin brainwashed and programmed to kill. In this book, former State Department officer John Marks tells the explosive story of the CIA's highly secret program of experiments in mind control. His curiosity first aroused by information on a puzzling suicide. Marks worked from thousands of pages of newly released documents as well as interviews and behavioral science studies, producing a book that 'accomplished what two Senate committees could not' (Senator Edward Kennedy).
A 'Manchurian Candidate' is an unwitting assassin brainwashed and programmed to kill. In this book, former State Department officer John Marks tells the explosive story of the CIA's highly secret program of experiments in mind control. His curiosity first aroused by information on a puzzling suicide. Marks worked from thousands of pages of newly released documents as well as interviews and behavioral science studies, producing a book that 'accomplished what two Senate committees could not' (Senator Edward Kennedy).
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Co New York
Number of pages
286
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780393307948
SKU
V9780393307948
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Reviews for The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: CIA and Mind Control
"One of the most important books of the year. . . . We see the CIA on the cutting edge of inquiry into hypnosis, drugs, brainwashing, personality assessment, psychosurgery, electric and radio stimulations of the brain, the creation of involuntary amnesia, terminal shock therapy."
Playboy "Perhaps the most compelling, well-researched, organized and well-written account of CIA operations ever."
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Playboy "Perhaps the most compelling, well-researched, organized and well-written account of CIA operations ever."
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