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Book Cover for: The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control: The Secret History of the Behavioral Sciences, John D. Marks

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

John D. Marks

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.

Book Details

  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
  • Publish Date: Aug 17th, 1991
  • Pages: 288
  • Language: English
  • Edition: Revised - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.40in - 5.40in - 0.80in - 0.75lb
  • EAN: 9780393307948
  • Categories: EspionageGeneralAmerican Government - General

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Praise for this book

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"