WASHINGTON JOURNALIST AND CIA EXPERT JOHN MARKS WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR MUCH OF THE INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING THAT REVEALED THE CIA'S EXPERIMENTATION WITH MIND ALTERING DRUGS ON UNSUSPECTING PARTICPANTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 20, 2004
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• Publication Date: May 22, 1978
• Content Type: MAGAZINE

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22 May 1978
Washington journalist and CIA expert
John Marks was responsible for much.
of the investigative reporting that re-
vealed the CIA's experimentation with
mind altering drugs on unsuspecting
participants. Times Books promises
that "plenty more will be uncovered"
with the publication of Marks's "The
Search for the Manchurian Candidate"
($12.50), scheduled for October. The
book opens with the CIA's launching of
the quest for the "great truth serum" in
the late 1940s, and proceeds to uncover
how the agency recruited respected ci-
vilian doctors, university professors
and Communist defectors to cooperate
with the covert psychological experi-
ments.
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