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The Search for the Manchurian Candidate - by John D Marks (Paperback)

The Search for the Manchurian Candidate - by  John D Marks (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The CIA exposé to end all CIA exposés. --<em>New York</em><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>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).<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>A comprehensive, detailed and thoroughly readable account of the CIA safehouses, the brainwashing experiments, the involvement of the universities.-- "Washington Monthly"<br><br>Fascinating reading.-- "Washington Post"<br><br>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"<br><br>Perhaps the most compelling, well-researched, organized and well-written account of CIA operations ever.-- "Progressive"<br>

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