Full name: The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA & Mind Control

Author: John D. Marks Year: 1979 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780812907735 0812907736

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). Similar books: The Boys In The Boat by Daniel James Brown Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank John Adams by David McCullough A Higher Call by Adam Makos The Wright Brothers by David McCullough Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom No Easy Day by Mark Owen Band of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown Empire of the Summer Moon by S. C. Gwynne 13 Hours by Mitchell Zuckoff In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn Endurance by Alfred Lansing The Code Book by Simon Singh