Product Description

Germ warfare? Secret mind control programs? New tell-all to be featured prominently in a National Geographic television special recounts the CIA's dirtiest deeds from insiders who have been there. In the late summer of 2001, prolific and best-selling British author Gordon Thomas received five CD-ROM disks, containing some 22,000 documents relating to secret CIA programs. None has been published...until now. In the shocking new release Secrets and Lies: A History of CIA Mind Control and Germ Warfare, author Thomas unleashes horrific accounts of the CIA's sick relationship with physicians and scientists whose aim it was to obtain control over the human mind and perfect the ultimate killing machine: germ microbes. Relying on sources that touch the very top echelon of the CIA, Thomas s methodical reporting concentrates on a triangle of men: Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, William "Bill" Buckley, and Frank Olson. Gottlieb, the former chief of the CIA's Technical Services Branch, organized an unprecedented system of medical torture using a team of like-minded staff doctors. Frank Olson was a former CIA scientist whose death sparked his son to find out who killed his father and why. And then there is Buckley, a long-serving CIA officer and an unparalleled source because of his position as a point man for the MK-ULTRA program and special assistant to Bill Casey, director of the CIA under President Ronald Reagan. Secrets and Lies lays out the facts about the CIA s massive stockpiling of biological weapons and tells the entire story of the CIA's mind control experiments, as seen largely through the eyes of Buckley, ending with his death at the hands of Hezhbollah.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #396613 in Books
• Published on: 2007-11-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 417 pages

About the Author
THE AUTHOR GORDON THOMAS is the author of forty books. Total sales exceed 45 million copies. Several were Main Selections for the US Book of the Month Club, the Literary Guild and the Readers Digest Book Club. He has received two Mark Twain Society Awards for Reporting Excellence. Seven of his books are major motion pictures, including the five times Academy Award-nominated Voyage of the Damned. His bestseller, Gideon s Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad, became a major documentary, which he wrote and narrated for Britain s Channel Four and it was later shown worldwide. This book followed almost three years of research during which he was given unprecedented access to Mossad s key personnel. The book has been published worldwide Gordon Thomas writes on intelligence matters for The Sunday Express (UK), El Mundo (Spain), Welt Am Sonntag and Bild (Germany); Wprost (Poland); and Daily Telegraph (Australia). He is a regular broadcaster on current affairs for the BBC and US networks. He has lectured widely on the secrets of the intelligence world. He is currently at work on his new book Inside British Intelligence to be published next year.

Customer Reviews

Disappointing, 'aka' Mindfield
Having read a number of books by the author, Secrets and Lies lacks much of the insight and critical details of his earlier works. While the information contained within this book is extensive, there's no new information here as it's all been in the public forum for many years.

Gordon Thomas Wrote Journey Into Madness almost 20 years ago with much of the information in Secrets and Lies Contained within this book. John Marks wrote Search for the Manchurian Candidate in 1979 and the information in this book is basically contained in these two earlier works.

The author has chosen to omit critical details about trauma based mind control and its connection to ongoing ritual abuse that would have provided a more insightful book. Having served as a mentor to Kathleen Sullivan; the author of Unshackled A Survivor's Story of Mind Control, Gordon Thomas omitted the details of her experiences as previously mentioned in his earlier work, Seeds of Fire.

Secrets and Lies contains nothing new and is little more than a brief synopsis of what has already been written. While it does contain a great deal of factual information, there are better more insightful books on these subjects. For further reading I'd suggest A Nation Betrayed by Carol Rutz.

CIA Mind Control
Journey into Madness

This book is interesting but I found Journey into Madness to be a much better book.