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

by Stephen Kinzer

Book Overview

The bestselling author of All the Shah's Men and The Brothers tells the astonishing story of the man who oversaw the CIA's secret medical experiments of the 1950s and '60s.

The visionary chemist Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA's master magician and gentlehearted torturer--the agency's "poisoner in chief." As head of the MK-ULTRA mind control project, he directed brutal experiments at secret prisons on three continents...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250140439
• ISBN13: 9781250140432
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.3"