Poisoner in Chief Kinzer Stephen
Poisoner in Chief Kinzer Stephen 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 drug and mind-control experiments of…
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Poisoner in Chief Kinzer Stephen
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 drug and mind-control 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 paid prostitutes to lure clients to CIA-run bordellos, where they were secretly dosed with mind-altering drugs. He made pills, powders, and potions that could kill or maim without a trace--including some intended for Fidel Castro and other foreign leaders.
For years he was the chief supplier of spy tools used by His experiments spread LSD across the United States, making him a hidden godfather of the 1960s counterculture.