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

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

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Pros & Cons

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Pros

Stephen kinzer’s book does a great job of capturing the two sides of sidney gottlieb, the scientist who led mkultra project. Kinzer recreates the cold war-era anxiety and sense of urgency quite well and explains much of what happened by appealing to i... Read More

This is the first thorough, well-researched, careful examination of the cia’s psychedelic and mind-control experiments during the 1950s and 1960s. In exchange for high grade * rewards volunteers were given massive * doses to see what could be withstoo... Read More

When he does offer personal reflections, they tend to paint gottlieb in a tragic light rather than superficially condemning him. Much later investigations reveal these heinous deeds but the question remains what would others have done. I feel like sam... Read More

Cons

Kinzer hits upon the same tired parade of 60s hippie * clowns - kesey, leary et al - who seem to me equally passé yet as “bizarre” as any cia “mad scientist”. There are some things in this book which can be called new revelations, but those of you who... Read More

The book is a mass of facts accompanied by very little meaningful reflection. Perhaps it is the slightly disorganized way in which he tells the story. That's why he flat-out lied or claimed hazy memory whenever he was called to testify.

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Quality

It shows the real life things that go on in the world and with the cia and ex government workers

And yet even though gottlieb presided over this carnival of horrors and eagerly participated in using the services of his san f... Read More

Im pretty familiar with the available info on mkultra but this book had stuff that was new to me

While jfk initially went along with the ill fated bay of pigs debacle and the early actions of operation mongoose he changed

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The speed that it got to me was very fast

Packaging/appearance

He also depicts gottlieb as a victim of sorts when the story first broke in the mid1970s

Competitiveness

What we dont know about mkultra may have involved successes so sinister they will never be willingly discloseda challenge to the author

Overview

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Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 58.4% of the reviews are reliable.

This product had a total of 891 reviews as of our last analysis date on Dec 31 2023.