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Whitey Bulger, MKULTRA guinea pig (Credit: WIkimedia)

Did the CIA’s Notorious Mind Control Program Create an Infamous Killer?

One of the best books about the world of secret intelligence in the past year is Stephen Kinzer’s Poisoner in Chief, a biography of Sidney Gottlieb, the countercultural chemist who ran the CIA’s notorious MKULTRA program that experimented on unwitting subjects in search of ways to manipulate human behavior. Kinzer recently spoke to Michael Isikoff...