THE SAMARKAND DIMENSION, BY DAVID WISE (DOUBLEDAY, 303 PP., $16.95)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000807500002-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 24, 2012
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: May 22, 1987
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/01/24: CIA-RDP90-00965R000807500002-3
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UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
22 May 1987
Book reviews
The Samarkand Dimension, by David Wise (Doubleday, 303 pp., $16.95)
This novel of Cold War espionage takes us to the ''Twilight Zone" with the
weapon of mind control -- control over matter, other minds and missiles.
James Markham Is asked by the president to infiltrate K6B security around the
Soviets' Samarkand site where the Russians conduct parapsychology experiments.
It's all mind games to Markham, who discovers he Is the victim of a CIA
mind game and is thrown to the Russians, tortured and sent back home in an
elaborately orchestrated plot.
''The Samarkand Dimension'' adds another wrinkle to the worries about what
the Russians are doing, along with concern about to what use the Pentagon puts
its appropriations.
Wise takes an Idea most of us pooh-pooh as a parlor game and turns it into an
intriguing spy story. Kathleen Ostrander (UPI)
Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/01/24: CIA-RDP90-00965R000807500002-3