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(More customer reviews)If I were a conspiracy theorist, I would imagine dire reasons why this exceellent book is out-of-print.The research that went into is is remarkable. Thomas' informant on many of the apalling lengths the CIA has gone to in order to find the perfect "Manchurian Candidate" holy grail of total mind control was no less than William Casey, the former CIA director who was at the same time giving information to Bob Woodward for another book. Thomas gives both fascinating background to how the CIA has been researching mind control (particularly on innocent mental patients at a Montreal hospital, who eventually sued the CIA with limited success) since the 1950's, and tells harrowing stories of modern victims of torture and psychological conditioning. In particular, one of Thomas' own sources for the book, William Buckley of the CIA in Beirut, was kidnapped, broken, and killed by the Hizbollah shortly after being interviewed by Thomas. Buckley was broken by over 200 days of abuse under the direction of a medical doctor. Thomas decries the widespread use of physicians skills in interrogation, but notes that the practice goes back centuries in almost all cultures, that it was brought to perhaps its most complete institutionalization in the Soviet Union, and of course that Western governments have been among the offenders. This book is a must-read for those who want an inside look at the real practices of intelligence agencies, the fate of mid-East hostages, and the regrettable history of experimentation on human beings.
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