The Search for the Manchurian Candidate
A work of investigative history detailing the CIA's and U.S. military's decades-long, clandestine research into mind control and psychological manipulation. Drawing on declassified documents and interviews, it chronicles programs like MKUltra and their often unethical experiments on unwitting subjects.
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Ranked #433 of 1942 · 242 pages · Published 1978
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Book data: ISBN 9780393307948. Page count from Open Library (median of editions). Cover via Open Library Covers.