THE SEARCH FOR THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01350R000200420016-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 20, 2004
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: January 1, 1978
• Content Type: MAGAZINE

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PUBLISHER's AD SHEET
June 1978
THE SEARCH
FOB THE vANC U IAN
CA DID A TE
The CIA.and Mind Control
John Marks
Interpreting the headlines about the CIA's activities with the same perceptivity as
in The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence of which he was coauthor, John Marks presentsa
true and extraordinary spy story in these pages: the gruesome history of the CIA's
"research" involving brainwashing, psycho-surgery, administering drugs such as LSD to
human guinea pigs, and conducting other illegal experiments in behavior modification-
some of which lead to death.
For twenty-five years the CIA's insidious and clandestine experimentation has ac-
counted .for a network of agents and institutions, synthetic fronts and international
conduits, sources of funding and sources of fear. Based on an unimpeachable combination
of hard-to-get facts and hard-hitting interpretation, The Search for the Manchurian Candi-
date blows the lid off such subterranean activities, revealing an extensive concentrated
program of unauthorized and illegal experiments performed on human subjects----often
without their knowledge or consent-to control human minds and behavior.
Using data obtained under the Freedom of Information Act and the techniques of I
sophisticated investigative reporting, journalist and intelligence expert John Marks was
never a CIA employee and was in no way bound by any kind of CIA gag order.
A brilliant, informative piece of investigative reportage, The Search for the Manchurian
Candidate raises a host of moral, ethical and intellectual questions about the nature and
necessity of the CIA itself.
John Marks became famous in the early 1970s when the government censored portions of
the book he had coauthored, The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence. A freelance journalist and
former congressional aide, he is an investigator for the Center for National Security
Studies.
LC 77-87829 ISBN 0-8129-0773-6
Index 320 pp.
Rights: World Rights
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