TWO NEW BOOKS ABOUT CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R000600080085-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 24, 2004
• Sequence Number: 85
• Publication Date: June 6, 1978
• Content Type: PREL

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Agency. Among the contributors are Victor Marchetti, John Marks,
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WEEKLY has announced that a new book by John Marks titled "The
Search for the Manchurian Candidate" is scheduled for publication
in October. The book will deal with CIA's covert experimentation
with mind-altering drugs. In the same issue, PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY
briefly reviews "Uncloaking the CIA" edited by Howard Frazier,
a collection of articles that call for further restrictions on
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Washington journalist and CIA expert
John Marks was responsible for much
of the investigative reporting that re-
vealed the CIA's experimentation with
mind altering drugs on unsuspecting
participants. Times Books promises
that "plenty more will be uncovered"
with the publication of Marks's "The
Search for the Manchurian Candidate"
($12.50), scheduled for October. The
book opens with the CIA's launching of'
the quest for the "great truth serum" in
the late 1940s, and proceeds to uncover
how the agency recruited respected ci-
vilian doctors, university professors
and Communist defectors to cooperate
with the covert psychological experi-
ments.
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UNCLOAKING THE CIA
Edited by Hotcard Frazier. Free Press/
Macmillan, $12.95 ISBN 0-02-910590-0
,Based on a conference held at Yale
University, these accounts of the CIA
gone "rogue" make a clear, forceful,'
no-punches-pulled case for dismantling
the CIA, or at least its covert opera-
tions. Although some of the hook's rev-
elations have been aired in the journal-
istic media, there is enough new, ur-
gent material here to make this it
blockbuster. The contributors fall into
three main categories: former insiders,
such as Victor Marchetti, John D.
Marks, L. Fletcher Prouty: domestic,
critics like Kirkpatrick Sale and Rep.
Michael J. Harrin'ton (D., Mass.); and
Third World figures, among t em Sal-
vador Allende's widow. Even liberal
and left-wing readers will be dismayed
at the extent of CIA activities revealed
in these pages. Covered are William
Colby's Phoenix program, responsible
for over 49,000 killings in Vietnam: the
backing of Lon Nol's coup in Cam
bodia; infiltration of U.S. universities;
and the development of mind-control
technology to deal with dissidents.
Some of the most eye-opening sections
examine CIA interference with the
AFL-CIO and penetration of foreieni
trade unions. Comprehensive, com-
pact, well documented. [June]
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