Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control

Author:   Stephen Kinzer
Publisher:   St Martin's Press
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9781250762627


Pages:   384
Publication Date:   01 December 2020
Format:   Paperback
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Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control


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"The visionary chemist Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA's master magician and gentlehearted torturer-the agency's ""poisoner in chief."" As head of the MK-ULTRA mind control project, he directed brutal experiments at secret prisons on three continents. He made pills, powders, and potions that could kill or maim without a trace, and he secretly dosed unsuspecting American citizens with mind-altering drugs. His experiments spread LSD across the United States, making him a hidden godfather of the 1960s counterculture, and he was also the chief supplier of spy tools used by CIA officers around the world. Stephen Kinzer, the author of groundbreaking books about U.S. clandestine operations, draws on new documentary research and original interviews to bring to life one of the most powerful unknown Americans of the twentieth century. And in a new afterword, he brings to light newly revealed stories about Gottlieb's astonishing career at the intersection of extreme science and covert action."

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Author:   Stephen Kinzer
Publisher:   St Martin's Press
Imprint:   Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S.
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 21.10cm
Weight:   0.362kg
ISBN:  

9781250762627


ISBN 10:   1250762626
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   01 December 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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STEPHEN KINZER is the author of many books, including The True Flag, The Brothers, Overthrow, and All the Shah's Men. An award-winning foreign correspondent, he served as the New York Times bureau chief in Nicaragua, Germany, and Turkey. He is a senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University, and writes a world affairs column for The Boston Globe. He lives in Boston.

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