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Journey Into Madness: The True Story of Secret CIA Mind Control and Medical Abuse Hardcover – May 1, 1989

by Gordon Thomas (Author)
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
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Perspectives: A Note to the Reader
Doctors of Terror
Madness Network
Specialists
Connections
Sowing the Seed
Unsuspecting
Beyond All Reason
Ultimate Weapons
Mind-Bender
Dilemmas
Chamber of Horrors
Unquiet Minds
Edge of Darkness
Madness, Madness
Oath Breakers
Devil Seekers
Onward, Ever Onward
Shaping the Future
War on All Fronts
For the Moment
Notes
Sources
Bibliography
Index
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  1. Print length
    388 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Bantam
  4. Publication date
    May 1, 1989
  5. ISBN-10
    0553053574
  6. ISBN-13
    978-0553053579
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William Buckley, the American murdered in Beirut in 1985 after his kidnap and torture by Arab extremists, was identified in the U.S. media as a "political attache" or "journalist." Basing his extraordinary investigative coup on interviews with scores of intelligence sources, including late CIA director William Casey, Thomas identifies Buckley as the CIA station chief in Beirut, an operative whose past operations included the surveillance of Egyptian president Anwar Sadat. The author ( Voyage of the Damned ; Pontiff ) pulls back the curtain over the CIA's use of medical torture and other government operations around the world, from Angola to Israel. He describes how Buckley was injected with drugs, physically abused and mentally befuddled by mind-control expert Aziz al-Abub. This Arab doctor was but one of many disciples of Ewen Cameron, a respected Montreal psychiatrist at McGill University enlisted by CIA director Allen Dulles in the 1950s to devise techniques to scramble victims' minds irreversibly. In a well-documented dossier that reads like a thriller, Thomas spills details of various operations, among them the CIA's alleged bugging of the Vatican and the Pope. Film rights to Catalina Productions.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bantam; First Edition (May 1, 1989)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 388 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0553053574
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0553053579
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.55 pounds
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 24 ratings

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Gordon Thomas

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Gordon Thomas is a political and investigative journalist and the author of 53 books, published in more than 30 countries and in dozens of languages. The total sales of his works exceed 45 million copies.

Thomas’ most recent bestseller is Gideon’s Spies: Mossad’s Secret Warriors. Published in 16 languages and 40 countries Gideon’s Spies is known throughout the world as the leading resource on Israeli intelligence. An updated edition will be published in 2012 by St. Martin’s Press. Gideon’s Spies was made into a major documentary for Channel Four in Britain, which Thomas wrote and narrated, called The Spy Machine. The Observer called The Spy Machine a “clear” picture of Israeli intelligence operations, and The Times called it “impressive,” and ”chilling.”

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PJH
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2015
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This is certainly a ground-breaking written in 1989. This torture still goes on.
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Robert Kirkconnell
4.0 out of 5 stars Solid Research and Excellent Work
Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2013
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Gordon Thomas exposes the hidden and very ugly story of the CIA's massive programs to modify human behavior. As shocking as his book is the full picture is much worse than he has portrayed here. Much of the mind control philosophy and many of the technics came right out of Nazi Germany. The so-called Nazi "scientists" and their Fascist brethren in the West sold a bill of goods to the United States that Communism was out to take over the world, and they were the only ones who could stop them. The Soviets had had their fill of killing and destruction and had no inclination to quarrel with the West.
Thomas tends to somewhat dismiss the West's responsibility for torturing children, prisoners, and sometimes college students in these outlandish mind control programs. He does not do this outright but paints a picture of just about everyone in history and the present as having done or are doing things of this nature. Virtually ignored is the fact that the cold war was created by the CIA, and also that terrorism is largely a product of the U.S.' egregious foreign policy also crafted by the CIA. Certainly Thomas presents the crimes he very well documented as immoral, but he does not put them in the realm of evil that has destroyed the very foundations of the republic. He further fails to document that these programs did go on in the U.S. at our most prestigious universities, prisons, and mental institutions funded largely by the Rockefeller foundation.
This is a good starter book in this field because it is well researched and documented. An overall excellent book.
Robert Kirkconnell
Author of: American Heart of Darkness: Volume I: The Transformation of the American Republic into a Pathocracy (Volume 1)
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Valaya Gaudet
2.0 out of 5 stars Disjointed
Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2021
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I couldn't finish this book. There are a few tidbits of interesting information but it takes forever to get to them, tangled up as they are in a web of boring stories ( Dr. Morrow's mental decline is one) and never ending descriptions of things like the Dulles's parties.
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Saildanz
4.0 out of 5 stars Amazing, frightening
Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2014
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Amazing, frightening, almost beyond belief is this account of inhumane abuse by our secret military. Almost as bad is the state of psychiatry in the 50's, where the primary technique of behavior modification was lobotomy and repeated electroshock. A truly frightening history!
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Benjamin R. James
1.0 out of 5 stars Propaganda
Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2010
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For material that is suppose to be explosive, and exposing so much, it is lacking. It gives Dullas and Ewen a pass on why they did what they were doing, "for national security and because 'THEY'(the enemy) were doing it to our soldiers." This does not at all tell the reader about the abuse, torture and rape that were done to very young children. It does not go into the deadly radiation, and mind control experiments, Ewen and Dullas, did again on children as well as adults.
If you want to somewhat fill good about these devils and excuse what little they do expose, this is a book for you. If you are tired of half truths and outright lies, don't waste your time or money.
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Lobsterbuoy
2.0 out of 5 stars Nothing new
Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2022
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Not terrible,but nothing new for anyone who has been paying attention to the problem.
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love of reading
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in Canada on October 24, 2014
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