The Search for the "Manchurian Candidate"

The CIA and Mind Control: The Secret History of the Behavioral Sciences

By: John D. Marks

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

A "Manchurian Candidate" is an unwitting assassin brainwashed and programmed to kill. In this book, former State Department officer John Marks tells the explosive story of the CIA's highly secret program of experiments in mind control. His curiosity first aroused by information on a puzzling suicide, Marks worked from thousands of pages of newly released documents as well as interviews and behavioral science studies, producing a book that "accomplished what two Senate committees could not" (Senator Edward Kennedy).

©1979 John Marks (P)2020 Tantor

The CIA is super sketch!

I was shocked when I first heard about all the wild mind control experiments the CIA was doing. As I learned more and more, I'm no longer surprised by their depravity, I only wonder what messed up stuff is yet to be uncovered, or have the whistle blown. I am sickened by the twisted things our government has been involved in.

Nicely done

This is solid journalism and an account of an important dark part of American history. I would like to see the author tackle Operation Paperclip. I'm certain he would produce a reputable and reliable telling of the story.

Listen and find out the truth behind freedom.

Riveting account, and easy to listen to audio book about the dark past (and likely present) of The Land of the Free.

I love, love, LOVE the AudioVersion

I read this book 10 years ago, but I love, love, love the audioversion... while cleaning my closet, I just let it play thru - the surround sound!!! Awesome. This was the 1st book I listened to like this, usually try in the car short distance, and not the same AWESOME effect.

The Ultimate Trigger.

Wonderful narration.
Mark's adaptation of his research is so true to life, so unnerving, and disturbing, it perturbs the depths of murky memory, dislodging the long hidden debris of one's subconscious.

Child CIA Personality and Behavior Experimentee

I am not interested in this particular dark topic whatsoever because I take no interest in pseudo-science or sadistic torture for that matter, because I love people and enjoy getting to understand others instead of controlling them like puppets. I purchased this audiobook because I was forced against my will as a minor to participate in Top Secret Classified CIA and DARPA sponsored developmental/behavioral/personality human experimentation with "RF" and pharmaceuticals. They are trying to do too many things all at once and are too ambitious with their pseudo-science and AI B.S.

Sick people doin sick things

Great book and easy listen!you will be shocked what your government does to its people!scientists are plain simple sick twisted humans.drugging people without their knowledge

interesting

great information but the reader was like a cap of Zquil. I still enjoyed the listen.

Awesome Narrator. Fantastic and Well Researched Book.

Love this guy, his voice is so calming and interesting. He seems genuinely interested in these subjects such as lsd and 60’s counterculture. The book is fascinating and seems to be the original and definitive CIA study of covert operations.

Another tell-all about mind control research

I have, by now, read many of these books about the many experiments in mind control by many different nations of the world. This is not much different from the many others I have listened to, but it does answer the question of where the name "The Manchurian Candidate" came from. Far less dramatic than the movie starring Meryl Streep and Denzel Washington, but actually far more frightening, since this book is the facts behind the fiction. Give it a listen. I don't think you'll be disappointed. I know that I wasn't!