Thomas,G. Journey Into Madness. 1990
Thomas, Gordon. Journey Into Madness: The True Story of Secret CIA Mind
Control and Medical Abuse. New York: Bantam Books, 1990. 386 pages.
In January 1973, a mind-control and assassination-poison chemist by
the name of Dr. Sidney Gottlieb resigned from the CIA, but before he did
he went to director Richard Helms and suggested that his files on CIA
drug-testing in the 1950s and early 1960s be destroyed. Helms thought this
was a good idea and also destroyed some of his own files. But Gottlieb
missed some 150 boxes buried in the CIA archives, which has provided
material for writers, dramatists, and assassination researchers ever since.
British writer Gordon Thomas weaves MK-ULTRA (the CIA's name for its
drug research program) in and out of this somewhat disjointed account.
Canadian psychiatrist Donald Ewen Cameron (who destroyed patients with
electroshock and drugs and justified it by accepting CIA money), is
featured along with such diverse characters as Allen Dulles and his wife
Clover, William Casey, and Beirut station chief William Buckley (kidnapped
in 1984 and subjected to medical torture by Dr. Aziz al-Abub).
Thomas weaves all this together the way a good screenwriter would.
While he doesn't appear to have shirked on his investigative efforts, we
would be more enthusiastic over this book if he had provided more
footnotes and taken fewer dramatic liberties.
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