
Part One: MKUltra: When The CIA Tried to Destroy Free Will
Behind the Bastards
Brainwashing in Red China
So much of this mania is stoked by an American journalist named Edward Hunter. He's also a contractor for the CIA office of policy coordination and a rabid anti-communist so when he introduces this stuff to the United States he's not doing it just because he believes it to be true but in the best interest of the agency. Kinzer writes like a longer article for a newspaper called the new leader which is also funded by the CIA at this time including a lot of left-wing ones. In this book he tells Americans they need to prepare for quote psychological warfare on a scale in calculably more immense than any militarist of the past has ever imagined.
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