SOTT – Sign Of The Times
By Anastasia Safronova
RT
Tue, 24 May 2022 16:37 UTC
After World War II, the possibility of gaining control over a person’s mind became one of the top pursuits for intelligence services. Amid never-ending spy games, the capacity to make someone tell the full truth during an interrogation, or to wipe out a subject’s personality and impose another – perhaps, a controlled one – became quite attractive to secret services.
In 1979, former US State Department officer John Marks published a book called ‘The Search for the ‘Manchurian Candidate”, which focused on the CIA’s mind-control experiments and is based on agency documents released under the Freedom of Information Act.