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Stephen Kinzer’s new book book is Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control. In 1954, a prison doctor in Kentucky isolated seven black inmates and fed them “double, triple and quadruple” doses of LSD for 77 days straight. No one knows what became of the victims. They …
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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 an embarrassment. But they sell. And occasionally …
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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 later extolled the mystical effects of what he called the “magic …
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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 the hotel lobby. “We got a jumper!” he shouted. “We got a …
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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 real-life events. Grab yourself a slurpee and settle in for a weird …
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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 the human mind. In 1952, Allen Dulles was appointed director of the U.S.’ Central …
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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 the human mind. In 1952, Allen Dulles was appointed director of the U.S.’ Central …
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Terry Melcher was one of the key figures in the Manson Family saga, and his entire story—a new book argues—was bullshit.This isn’t quite news to anyone with a sincere interest in the events of that hot, mad summer in ’69 when a so-called hippie murder death cult slaughtered starlet Sharon Tate and …
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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 decades researching the links between one of America’s most …
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As the increasingly sticky layers were peeled back, this episode would become one of the biggest scandals to ever hit US intelligence services – a troubling tale involving biological weapons, pharmaceutical torture, illegal drug experimentation on innocent US citizens, and murder. Ultra secret The …
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