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Visit a bookshop and you’ll find the True Crime selection is near-hidden, stashed away near the lav perhaps, and often completely separate from Crime Fiction. It’s a tacit acknowledgement that books about real psycho killers are seen as something of
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POISONER IN CHIEF Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control By Stephen Kinzer In 1955, R. Gordon Wasson set off for southern Mexico to experience a sacred Indian ceremony rumored to provide a “pathway to the divine.” Wasson
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Glass shattered high above Seventh Avenue in Manhattan before dawn on a cold November morning in 1953. Seconds later, a body hit the sidewalk. Jimmy, the doorman at the Statler hotel, was momentarily stunned. Then he turned and ran into
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These days, it sometimes feels like the whole world is upside-down, but what if we told you that the Upside-Down in Stranger Things is actually real? While that’s clearly not true, other elements of the show are apparently based on
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In 1953, the period following the Korean War was an uneasy one in the United States, which saw itself in a life or death struggle with the Soviet Union. Increasingly, the U.S. saw an entirely new field of battle in
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In 1953, the period following the Korean War was an uneasy one in the United States, which saw itself in a life or death struggle with the Soviet Union. Increasingly, the U.S. saw an entirely new field of battle in
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The head of UCLA’s psychiatric department, Dr. Louis Jolyon West had long been associated with MKULTRA, one of an array of notorious CIA projects exploring what has been politely called “mind …
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It’s hard to explain Tom O’Neill’s new book Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties without sounding like a conspiracy theorist down a rabbit hole — you try telling your friends that a reporter spent two
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In 1953, CIA scientist Frank Olson plunged to his death under the influence of LSD. But his fate, Pat Kinsella reveals, may not have been a tale of tragic misadventure This competition is now closed Published: June 1, 2019 at
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