Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control

Author: Stephen Kinzer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 The bestselling author of All the Shah's Men and The Brothers tells the astonishing story of the man who oversaw the CIA's secret drug and mind-control experiments of the 1950s and '60s. The visionary chemist Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA's master magician and gentlehearted torturer-the agency's "poisoner in chief." As head of the MK-ULTRA mind control project, he directed brutal experiments at secret prisons on three continents. He made pills, powders,...Read more