One of the most important books of the year. 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).Ī comprehensive, detailed and thoroughly readable account of the CIA safehouses, the brainwashing experiments, the involvement of the universities.- 'Washington Monthly'

His curiosity first aroused by information on a puzzling suicide. 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. The author has utilized newly released government documents as well as behavioural science studies to produce an account of CIA safehouses and brainwashing experiments.įrom the Back Cover A 'Manchurian Candidate' is an unwitting assassin brainwashed and programmed to kill. New Yorkīook Synopsis Claims to tell the story of the Central Intelligence Agency's secret programme of mind control. About the Book The CIA exposé to end all CIA exposés.

The search for the manchurian candidate