• The Search for the "Manchurian Candidate"

  • The CIA and Mind Control: The Secret History of the Behavioral Sciences
  • By: John D. Marks
  • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
  • Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (89 ratings)

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The Search for the "Manchurian Candidate"

By: John D. Marks
Narrated by: Sean Runnette
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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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Child CIA Personality and Behavior Experimentee

I am not interested in this particular dark topic whatsoever because I take no interest in pseudo-science or sadistic torture for that matter, because I love people and enjoy getting to understand others instead of controlling them like puppets. I purchased this audiobook because I was forced against my will as a minor to participate in Top Secret Classified CIA and DARPA sponsored developmental/behavioral/personality human experimentation with "RF" and pharmaceuticals. They are trying to do too many things all at once and are too ambitious with their pseudo-science and AI B.S.

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interesting

great information but the reader was like a cap of Zquil. I still enjoyed the listen.

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I love, love, LOVE the AudioVersion

I read this book 10 years ago, but I love, love, love the audioversion... while cleaning my closet, I just let it play thru - the surround sound!!! Awesome. This was the 1st book I listened to like this, usually try in the car short distance, and not the same AWESOME effect.

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I was expecting more

I was expecting more from the book. The book is just sorting information with out a story

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The Ultimate Trigger.

Wonderful narration.
Mark's adaptation of his research is so true to life, so unnerving, and disturbing, it perturbs the depths of murky memory, dislodging the long hidden debris of one's subconscious.

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Sick people doin sick things

Great book and easy listen!you will be shocked what your government does to its people!scientists are plain simple sick twisted humans.drugging people without their knowledge

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Listen and find out the truth behind freedom.

Riveting account, and easy to listen to audio book about the dark past (and likely present) of The Land of the Free.

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Too careful, almost sounds like a propaganda piece of the CIA

I don’t recommend it as the author is far too manipulative in the approach giving no thoughts to the practices that may have occurred outside of the white washed leftover records and traces. Comes from a basis of trusting the CIA in most angles .

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