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S'està carregant… Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control (edició 2019)de Stephen Kinzer (Autor)
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Absolutely chilling and real. ( ) Kinzer paints a picture of the true story of CIA experimentation on American citizens, prisoners of war, patients in mental institutions in the USA and Canada and more in the 1950s and 60s. This comprehensive timeline following the life of Sidney Gottlieb provides a good jumping-off-point for anyone who is interested in this subject matter. The notes I took on people, places and other authors cited in this book has created a reading list that will keep me busy for quite some time! In the past, I have been cautious around non-fiction for fear it would be boring - not so with Kinzer's interpretation of the wild actions of the government agency. Also, prepare yourself mentally to be really shocked and upset by the realization of what governments and government agencies are capable of doing under the guise of national security. My book club read this in August/September of 2020 and the themes and crimes of the CIA have very similar patterns with the last 20 years in America. Very good context for knowing what we good citizens must do to keep an eye on our government. The first step is knowing what crimes against humanity they are capable of! I listened to this on audiobook during my work commute. The reader is possibly the *worst* I've ever had to endure: he reads each sentence like he's announcing BREAKING NEWS (especially on the first disc) and he employs a ridiculous and unnecessary stutter when quoting Gottlieb. (I shudder to think how he'd read a quote from Stephen Hawking or Helen Keller if he thinks that imitating the individual like that is necessary.) He definitely enunciates -- but it's to the degree that he almost sounds like he's new to reading b/c it's so choppy and not at all smooth. Enough about the reader: the book's content is SO GOOD that it's worth listening to the reader. Super-interesting. Basically, a biography of sorts of Sidney Gottlieb, a biochemist who oversaw CIA experiments with various psychotropic drugs, most notoriously, LSD. Gottlieb was also a poison specialist and headed up the technical division to the CIA for some years to produce gimmicks like poisoned cigars, medallions concealing suicide pins and such. Kinzer's book did not grab me since many of his "revelations" date back to the Church Committee investigations of the CIA in the 1970s and earlier. Mostly, I was struck by how this biography proves Hannah Arendt's observation about the banality of evil, or the way it hides behind a benevolent seeming facade. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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