The Search for the "Manchurian Candidate": The CIA and Mind Control: The Secret History of the Behavioral Sciences - Softcover

Marks, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393307948 ISBN 13: 9780393307948

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1991

Synopsis

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).

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Review:

Fascinating reading.

A comprehensive, detailed and thoroughly readable account of the CIA safehouses, the brainwashing experiments, the involvement of the universities.

Perhaps the most compelling, well-researched, organized and well-written account of CIA operations ever.

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.

Synopsis:

Claims to tell the story of the Central Intelligence Agency's secret programme of mind control. The author has utilized newly released government documents as well as behavioural science studies to produce an account of CIA safehouses and brainwashing experiments.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0393307948
• ISBN 13: 9780393307948
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288