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

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

by John D. Marks

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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).

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780393307948
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date: 08/17/1991
Edition description: REISSUE
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 5.60(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

John Marks is the founder and former president of Search for Common Ground (SFCG), a nonprofit organization based in Washington DC that focuses on international conflict management programming. He is also a former Foreign Service Officer of the US Department of State and author of The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control.

Sean Runnette, an Earphones Award-winning narrator, has also directed and produced more than two hundred audiobooks, including several Audie Award winners. He is a member of the American Repertory Theater company and has toured the United States and internationally with ART and Mabou Mines. His television and film appearances include Two If by Sea, Cop Land, Sex and the City, Law & Order, the award-winning film Easter, and numerous commercials.

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Seymour Hersh

A wonderful piece of investigative reporting. The best account we'll ever get of one of the seamiest episodes of American Intelligence.

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