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Excellent history. Just the right amount of detail and analysis, especially considering most of the files were destroyed and what's revealed is primarily from congressional and trial depositions, plus a cache of surprise files found late in the game.
It's really just stunning what things the government can do in secret. I wish I could say I was surprised, but after Tuskegee, and other such things, it's hard to be surprised. Still, there it is.
My only nit, and it really is a nit, is the final two chapters sort of veer off into a cautionary tale of cults and how to recognize them. It follows considering what fuels a lot of cults is secrecy which, by example, MKULTRA and the rest provide example. "If we know this and we know it's not everything, what else could there be?" Like, AIDS is lab created, pedophile pizza shops, and who knows what else. So it's good that that is here, but it seems a sort of adjunct to the main theme of the book.
It's really just stunning what things the government can do in secret. I wish I could say I was surprised, but after Tuskegee, and other such things, it's hard to be surprised. Still, there it is.
My only nit, and it really is a nit, is the final two chapters sort of veer off into a cautionary tale of cults and how to recognize them. It follows considering what fuels a lot of cults is secrecy which, by example, MKULTRA and the rest provide example. "If we know this and we know it's not everything, what else could there be?" Like, AIDS is lab created, pedophile pizza shops, and who knows what else. So it's good that that is here, but it seems a sort of adjunct to the main theme of the book.