Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control by Stephen Kinzer

Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control

Stephen Kinzer

368 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction biography history politics tense slow-paced
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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 ma...

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