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

The Search for the
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"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).

Praise For…


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.
— Progressive

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

Fascinating reading.
— Washington Post

Product Details
ISBN: 9780393307948
ISBN-10: 0393307948
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication Date: August 17th, 1991
Pages: 288
Language: English