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The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire

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

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Stephen Kinzer

The Untold Story of the CIA’s MK Ultra

In a biography of Dostoyevskian proportions, Sidney Gottlieb emerges as a tortured soul, penned in by personal compunction and a twisted sense of patriotism.

by Stephen Kinzer, James Penner, Ed Prideaux via Los Angeles Review of Books on May 19, 2021

Lab equipment in an abandoned building.

The Secret History of Fort Detrick, the CIA’s Base for Mind Control Experiments

Today, it’s a cutting-edge lab. In the 1950s and 1960s, it was the center of the U.S. government’s darkest experiments.

by Stephen Kinzer via Politico Magazine on September 15, 2019

Gerald Ford meets with the family of Dr. Frank Olson.

From Mind Control to Murder? How a Deadly Fall Revealed the CIA’s Darkest Secrets

Frank Olson died in 1953, but it took decades for his family to get closer to the truth.

by Stephen Kinzer via The Guardian on September 6, 2019

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