Project Mind Control: Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA, and the Tragedy of MKULTRA

Lisle, John

ISBN 10: 1250338743 / ISBN 13: 9781250338747

Published by St. Martin's Press, 2025

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Project Mind Control: Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA, and the Tragedy of MKULTRA
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1250338743
• ISBN 13: 9781250338747
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Dimensions: 16.64W x 24.26H x 2.54D centimeters 16.64 centimeters width by 24.26 centimeters height by 2.54 centimeters depth
• Weight: 522 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • War and Espionage
  • Espionage
  • Science/Technology/Space
  • JFK & CIA

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Synopsis

"I am endlessly fascinated by this subject. Your book is amazing. I'm really excited you put in the time to write it. I feel like we could talk about this stuff for hours and hours and hours." ―Joe Rogan, The Joe Rogan Experience podcast

The inside story of the CIA’s secret mind control project, MKULTRA, using never-before-seen testimony from the perpetrators themselves.

Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA’s most cunning chemist. As head of the infamous MKULTRA project, he oversaw an assortment of dangerous―even deadly―experiments. Among them: dosing unwitting strangers with mind-bending drugs, torturing mental patients through sensory deprivation, and steering the movements of animals via electrodes implanted into their brains. His goal was to develop methods of mind control that could turn someone into a real-life “Manchurian candidate.”

In conjunction with MKULTRA, Gottlieb also plotted the assassination of foreign leaders and created spy gear for undercover agents. The details of his career, however, have long been shrouded in mystery. Upon retiring from the CIA in 1973, he tossed his files into an incinerator. As a result, much of what happened under MKULTRA was thought to be lost―until now.

Historian John Lisle has uncovered dozens of depositions containing new information about MKULTRA, straight from the mouths of its perpetrators. For the first time, Gottlieb and his underlings divulge what they did, why they did it, how they got away with it, and much more. Additionally, Lisle highlights the dramatic story of MKULTRA’s victims, from their terrible treatment to their dogged pursuit of justice.

The consequences of MKULTRA still reverberate throughout American society. Project Mind Control is the definitive account of this most disturbing of chapters in CIA history.

About the Author

JOHN LISLE has a Ph.D. in history from the University of Texas, where he is now a professor of the history of science. His first book, The Dirty Tricks Department, tells the story of the scientists who developed secret weapons, documents, and disguises for the OSS during World War II. He has received research and writing awards from the National Academy of Sciences, the American Institute of Physics, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His work has been published in Skeptic, Scientific American, Smithsonian Magazine, and elsewhere.