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020    1250140439|q(hardcover) 
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100 1  Kinzer, Stephen,|eauthor. 
245 10 Poisoner in chief :|bSidney Gottlieb and the CIA search 
       for mind control /|cStephen Kinzer. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bHenry Holt and Company,|c2019. 
300    354 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :|billustrations ;
       |c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-335) and 
       index. 
505 0  I needed more of a challenge -- Dirty business -- Willing 
       and unwilling subjects -- The secret that was going to 
       unlock the universe -- Abolishing consciousness -- Any 
       effort to tamper with this project, MK-ULTRA, is not 
       permitted -- Fell or jumped -- Operation midnight climax -
       - The divine mushroom -- Health alteration committee -- We
       must always remember to thank the CIA -- Let this die with
       us -- Some of our people were out of control in those days
       -- I feel victimized -- If Gottlieb is found guilty, it 
       would be a real first -- You never can know what he was. 
520    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. He made pills, powders, and 
       potions that could kill or maim without a trace-including 
       some intended for Fidel Castro and other foreign leaders. 
       He paid prostitutes to lure clients to CIA-run bordellos, 
       where they were secretly dosed with mind-altering drugs. 
       His experiments spread LSD across the United States, 
       making him a hidden godfather of the 1960s counterculture.
       For years he was the chief supplier of spy tools used by 
       CIA officers around the world. Stephen Kinzer, author of 
       groundbreaking books about U.S. clandestine operations, 
       draws on new documentary research and original interviews 
       to bring to life one of the most powerful unknown 
       Americans of the twentieth century. Gottlieb's reckless 
       experiments on "expendable" human subjects destroyed many 
       lives, yet he considered himself deeply spiritual. He 
       lived in a remote cabin without running water, meditated, 
       and rose before dawn to milk his goats. During his twenty-
       two years at the CIA, Gottlieb worked in the deepest 
       secrecy. Only since his death has it become possible to 
       piece together his astonishing career at the intersection 
       of extreme science and covert action. Poisoner in Chief 
       reveals him as a clandestine conjurer on an epic scale. 
520    In the 1950s and '60s, chemist Sidney Gottlieb was head of
       the CIA's MK-ULTRA mind control project. He directed 
       brutal experiments at secret prisons on three continents, 
       made pills, powders, and potions that could kill or maim 
       without a trace, paid prostitutes to lure clients to CIA-
       run bordellos, where they were secretly dosed with mind-
       altering drugs. His experiments spread LSD across the 
       United States, making him a hidden godfather of the 1960s 
       counterculture. Kinzer brings to life a man whose reckless
       experiments on 'expendable' human subjects destroyed many 
       lives, yet considered himself deeply spiritual. -- adapted
       from jacket 
600 10 Gottlieb, Sidney,|d1918-1999. 
610 10 United States.|bCentral Intelligence Agency|xHistory|y20th
       century. 
610 17 United States.|bCentral Intelligence Agency.|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst00536259 
610 20 Project MKULTRA. 
610 27 Project MKULTRA.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00757571 
648  7 1900-1999|2fast 
650  0 Brainwashing|zUnited States|xHistory|y20th century. 
650  0 Hallucinogenic drugs|zUnited States|xHistory|y20th 
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650  0 LSD (Drug)|zUnited States|xHistory|y20th century. 
650  7 HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.|2bisacsh 
650  7 POLITICAL SCIENCE / Intelligence & Espionage.|2bisacsh 
650  7 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology.|2bisacsh
650  7 Brainwashing.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00837790 
650  7 Hallucinogenic drugs.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00950651 
650  7 LSD (Drug)|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00989740 
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