Project mind control : Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA, and the tragedy of MKULTRA / John Lisle.
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- ISBN: 9781250338747 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: x, 292 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2025.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Subject: | Gottlieb, Sidney, 1918-1999. Project MKULTRA. United States. Central Intelligence Agency > History > 20th century. Brainwashing > United States > History > 20th century. |
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- B & T Entertainment
The story of Sidney Gottlieb and the CIAâs MKULTRA project, exploring his mind control experiments, assassination plots, and spy operations, and uncovering new evidence to reveal the projectâs operations and its victimsâ struggles for justice. Illustrations. - Baker & Taylor
The inside story of the CIAâs secret mind-control project, MKULTRA, using never-before-seen testimony from the perpetrators themselves. Illustrations. - Baker & Taylor
"The inside story of the CIA's secret mind control project, MKULTRA, using never-before-seen testimony from the perpetrators themselves. Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA's most cunning chemist. As head of the infamous MKULTRA project, he oversaw an assortmentof dangerous-even deadly-experiments. Among them: dosing unwitting strangers with mind-bending drugs, torturing mental patients through sensory deprivation, and steering the movements of animals via electrodes implanted into their brains. His goal was todevelop methods of mind control that could turn someone into a real-life "Manchurian candidate." In conjunction with MKULTRA, Gottlieb also plotted the assassination of foreign leaders and created spy gear for undercover agents. The details of his career, however, have long been shrouded in mystery. Upon retiring from the CIA in 1973, he tossed his files into an incinerator. As a result, much of what happened under MKULTRA was thought to be lost-until now. Historian John Lisle has uncovered dozens of depositions containing new information about MKULTRA, straight from the mouths of its perpetrators. For the first time, Gottlieb and his underlings divulge what they did, why they did it, how they got away with it, and much more. Additionally, Lisle highlights the dramatic story of MKULTRA's victims, from their terrible treatment to their dogged pursuit of justice. The consequences of MKULTRA still reverberate throughout American society. Project Mind Control is the definitive account of this most disturbingof chapters in CIA history"-- Provided by publisher. - McMillan Palgrave
The inside story of the CIAâs secret mind control project, MKULTRA, using never-before-seen testimony from the perpetrators themselves.
Sidney Gottlieb was the CIAâs most cunning chemist. As head of the infamous MKULTRA project, he oversaw an assortment of dangerousâeven deadlyâexperiments. Among them: dosing unwitting strangers with mind-bending drugs, torturing mental patients through sensory deprivation, and steering the movements of animals via electrodes implanted into their brains. His goal was to develop methods of mind control that could turn someone into a real-life âManchurian candidate.â
In conjunction with MKULTRA, Gottlieb also plotted the assassination of foreign leaders and created spy gear for undercover agents. The details of his career, however, have long been shrouded in mystery. Upon retiring from the CIA in 1973, he tossed his files into an incinerator. As a result, much of what happened under MKULTRA was thought to be lostâuntil now.
Historian John Lisle has uncovered dozens of depositions containing new information about MKULTRA, straight from the mouths of its perpetrators. For the first time, Gottlieb and his underlings divulge what they did, why they did it, how they got away with it, and much more. Additionally, Lisle highlights the dramatic story of MKULTRAâs victims, from their terrible treatment to their dogged pursuit of justice.
The consequences of MKULTRA still reverberate throughout American society. Project Mind Control is the definitive account of this most disturbing of chapters in CIA history.