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

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

Stephen Kinzer

384 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction biography history politics tense slow-paced
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Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control by Stephen Kinzer is a gripping and absorbing read that will captivate fans of true crime, history, and science, particularly those interested in the darker aspects of the Cold War, the CIA, and the ethics of scientific experimentation.

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The 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 ma...

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