The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA & Mind Control
"The CIA exposé to end all CIA exposés." —New YorkA '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...
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"The CIA exposé to end all CIA exposés." —New YorkA '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).
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780393307948 (0393307948)
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Both this book, and Journey Into Madness, have strengths and weaknesses -- this one is more solid, but Journey is a bit more vivid. The solution to the "Woodward" riddle is, as I suspected, on pp. 136-140. Both can be read in a day or two.