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Poisoner in Chief : Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control by Stephen Kinzer (2020, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherSt. Martin's Press

ISBN-101250762626

ISBN-139781250762627

eBay Product ID (ePID)17038809547

Product Key Features

Book TitlePoisoner in Chief : Sidney Gottlieb and the Cia Search for Mind Control

Number of Pages384 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2020

TopicUnited States / 20th Century, Intelligence & Espionage, American Government / General, Science & Technology

IllustratorYes

GenrePolitical Science, Biography & Autobiography, History

AuthorStephen Kinzer

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight15.5 Oz

Item Length7.1 in

Item Width8.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal327.12730092

Table Of Content1. I Needed More of a Challenge 2. Dirty Business 3. Willing and Unwilling Subjects 4. The Secret That Was Going to Unlock the Universe 5. Abolishing Consciousness 6. Any Effort to Tamper with This Project, MK-ULTRA, Is Not Permitted 7. Fell or Jumped 8. Operation Midnight Climax 9. The Divine Mushroom 10. Health Alteration Committee 11. We Must Always Remember to Thank the CIA 12. Let This Die with Us 13. Some of Our People Were Out of Control in Those Days 14. I Feel Victimized 15. If Gottlieb Is Found Guilty, It Would Be a Real First 16. You Can Never Know What He Was Notes Bibliography Acknowledgements Index

SynopsisThe bestselling author of All the Shah's Men and The Brothers tells the astonishing story of the man who oversaw the CIA's secret drug and mind-control experiments of the 1950s and '60s. 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--including some intended for Fidel Castro and other foreign leaders. He paid prostitutes to lure clients to CIA-run bordellos, where they were secretly dosed with mind-altering drugs. His experiments spread LSD across the United States, making him a hidden godfather of the 1960s counterculture. For years he was the chief supplier of spy tools used by CIA officers around the world. Stephen Kinzer, 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. Gottlieb's reckless experiments on "expendable" human subjects destroyed many lives, yet he considered himself deeply spiritual. He lived in a remote cabin without running water, meditated, and rose before dawn to milk his goats. During his twenty-two years at the CIA, Gottlieb worked in the deepest secrecy. Only since his death has it become possible to piece together his astonishing career at the intersection of extreme science and covert action. Poisoner in Chief reveals him as a clandestine conjurer on an epic scale.

LC Classification NumberJK468.I6