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

Marks, John D.

ISBN 10: 0393307948 / ISBN 13: 9780393307948

Published by W. W. Norton & Company, 1991

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Search for the "Manchurian Candidate": The CIA and Mind Control: The Secret History of the Behavioral Sciences
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393307948
• ISBN 13: 9780393307948
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 10 ounces

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Synopsis

"The CIA exposé to end all CIA exposés." ―New York

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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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).