Summary: Stephen Kinzer is the author of the new book Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control. Kinzer explains how the CIA conducted horrific experiments involving LSD and other drugs during the Cold War with the goal of determining if they could destroy the human mind and then reprogram it for their own purposes. Kinzer also separates fact from fiction about “Manchurian candidates” and the hidden history of the United States government’s relationship to 1960s counterculture.
