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Brainwash

Dominic Streatfeild

2006320 pagesabout 5–7 hours
2006
first published
  • 2006Hodder & Stoughton · 440 pages · ENGISBN 9780340921036
  • 2006Hodder & Stoughton Ltd · 320 pagesISBN 9780340923641
  • 2008St. Martin's Press · ENGISBN 9781466834507
  • 2008Picador · 418 pages · ENGISBN 9780312427924
  • 2015Hodder & Stoughton · ENGISBN 9780340831601
  • 2007Thomas Dunne Books · 432 pages · ENGISBN 9780312325725

"What would it take to turn you into a suicide bomber? Do heavy metal LPs contain subliminal messages? What was M16 doing with LSD in the 1950s? Do religious cults brainwash recruits? Is the Manchurian Candidate fact or fiction? Is it possible to erase memories, or to implant them artifically? How would you interrogate a member of Al Qaeda? With access to formerly classified documentation and interviewees from M15, M16, the CIA, the US Army and British Intelligence Corps, 'Brainwash' traces the evolution of the world's most secret psychological procedure, from its origins in the Cold War to the height of today's war on terror." -- back cover.

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