He allowed the facts to speak for themselves with only an occasional sally into judgment for emphasis or summary. Marks’s modest claims for the study were matched by a restraint in presenting what he had learned. Only a few insiders, he believed, could write the full story of CIA’s twenty-five-year research into human behavior and mind control. He recognized the results as far from the whole story, even allowing for the appearance of the new material. The author used personal interviews to supplement his documentary research and acknowledged that he was assisted by a team of researchers. Even at that, this can only be considered an interim study since at a late point in the research, CIA uncovered 130 boxes of material stretching into the 1970s and related to a second-generation CIA program. Marks used as the basis of this investigative study 16,000 documents released to him by CIA under the Freedom of Information Act. The Search for the “Manchurian Candidate”: The CIA And Mind Control.

Title: The Search for the Manchurian Candidate

The search for the manchurian candidate