The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control (1979)

by John D. Marks

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1979

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Investigative Reporters and Editors Award (Book, 1979)

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(Introduction): "Our guiding light is not the Hippcratic oath," a doctor working for the Central Intelligence Agency told a classroom full of recruits back in the mid-1960s, "but the victory of freedom."

(Author's Note): This book has grown out of the 16,000 pages of documents that the CIA released to me under the Freedom of Information Act.

On the outskirts of Basel, Switzerland, overlooking the Rhine, lies the worldwide headquarters of the Sandoz drug and chemical empire.

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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).… (more)