The Search for the "Manchurian Candidate": The CIA and Mind Control: The Secret History of the Behavioral Sciences

John D. Marks

Feb 2020 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Sean Runnette

About this audiobook

A "Manchurian Candidate" is an unwitting assassin brainwashed and programmed to kill. In this book, former State Department officer John Marks tells the explosive story of the CIA's highly secret program of experiments in mind control. His curiosity first aroused by information on a puzzling suicide. Marks worked from thousands of pages of newly released documents as well as interviews and behavioral science studies, producing a book that "accomplished what two Senate committees could not" (Senator Edward Kennedy).

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About the author

John Marks is the founder and former president of Search for Common Ground, a nonprofit organization based in Washington DC that focuses on international conflict management programming. He is also a former Foreign Service Officer of the US Department of State and author of The Search for the "Manchurian Candidate".

Sean Runnette, a multiple AudioFile Earphones Award winner, has also produced several Audie Award-winning audiobooks. His film and television appearances include Two If by Sea, Copland, Sex and the City, Law & Order, Third Watch, and lots and lots of commercials.