Stephen Kinzer Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control
The visionary chemist Sidney Gottlieb was the CIAs master magician and gentlehearted torturerthe agencys poisoner in chief. As head of the MKULTRA mind control project, he directed brutal experiments at secret prisons on three continents. He made pills, powders, and potions that could kill or maim without a traceincluding some intended for Fidel Castro and other foreign leaders. He paid prostitutes to lure clients to CIArun bordellos, where they were secretly dosed with mindaltering drugs. His experiments spread LSD across the United States, making him a hidden godfather of the 1960s counterculture. For years he was the chief supplier of spy tools used by CIA officers around the world. Stephen Kinzer, author of groundbreaking books about U. S. clandestine operations, draws on new documentary research and original interviews to bring to life one of the most powerful unknown Americans of the twentieth century. Gottliebs reckless experiments on expendable human subjects destroyed many lives, yet he c
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