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Sep 9, 2019 · Journalist Stephen Kinzer reveals how CIA chemist Sidney Gottlieb worked in the 1950s and early '60s to develop mind control drugs and deadly toxins that could be used against enemies.
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Sidney Gottlieb (August 3, 1918 – March 7, 1999) was an American chemist and spymaster who headed the Central Intelligence Agency 's 1950s and 1960s assassination attempts and mind-control program, known as Project MKUltra. [1]
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Gottlieb cautioned, however, that research into the psychoactive properties of mushrooms must “remain an Agency secret.”. ― Stephen Kinzer, Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control. 0 likes.
- Stephen Kinzer
- 2019
May 19, 2021 · Sidney Gottlieb, image courtesy of the CIA ¤ JAMES PENNER: Before you wrote Poisoner in Chief, many people had never heard of Sidney Gottlieb. The Wikipedia page on him was pretty brief, for example.
Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control is a 2019 book by The New York Times journalist and historian [1] Stephen Kinzer. The book contains untold stories of a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) chemist called Sidney Gottlieb, who tried to "find a way to control the human brain".
Sep 10, 2019 · 4.09. 2,454 ratings361 reviews. 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."
Jan 2, 2020 · Stephen Kinzer’s presentation of his latest, Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control, brought some of the darkest tales of the 20th century to a perhaps somewhat unsuspecting audience at South End library on October 25. They were not alone. “Poisoner in Chief is my tenth book,” Kinzer confessed. “I tried ...
