Journey
into Madness: The True Story of Secret
CIA
Mind Control and Medical Abuse
by Gordon Thomas
From the back cover:
THE JOURNEY INTO MADNESS...
Begins today, in Lebanon, with the mystery
surrounding the beirut hostages and with a
horrifying insight into their whereabouts
and probable fate...
travels back in time to probe the history
of the dark alliance between medicine, politics,
and terrorism...
reveals how, since the 1950s, doctors in
both east and west have ignored the sacred
oaths of their profession and helped in
government-sponsored research into methods
of medical torture and mind control ....
tells the chilling stories of patients who
survived a CIA-funded research program conducted by one of the most eminent
psychiatrists of the postwar period.
Reader Reviews
A reader from Owings Mills, Maryland,
July 13, 1999
Discovering what the gov't can do shocks.
Mr. Gordon's research and objectivity is
laudable, his book an eye-opener. It lends credence to movies such as Blind
Sight. Mr. Gordon's description of Dr. al-Abub, his training and mission
and that his current endeavors continue makes one wonder what humans can
be about that they could do to others what they do. Can there still be
Dr. Camerons/al Abubs working the torture circuit in the name of nationalism
and belief?
A reader from Boston, February 3, 1999
Has far-reaching implications that are
just as important now.
The second review merely seeks to lessen
the impact of the book Journey into Madness by Gordon Thomas by
pointing out that other governments do similar things. No. Not on the scale
and with the hypocrisy that the CIA does.
For those interested, who would like to know
more about such practices and how the CIA and the medical community continue
their terror and human rights abuses here and in other countries, there
is some mention of this in The
Serpent and the Rainbow by Wade Davis. He writes of the work of
the American psychiatrist Nathan Kline (sp?) with the CIA in Haiti. This
details their search for a drug they (doctors & the CIA) could use
to control people - turn them into zombies. It mentions, coincidentally,
the secret and not-so-secret primate and human experiments occurring at
the New York State Psychiatric Institute by a Dr. Leo Rozen (sp). These
practices still occur. The NIMH, in fact, are admittedly are giving people
with mental illness Angel Dust (aka ketamine) to induce psychosis. This
causes more irreversible damage than LSD.
Recently there were series of articles in
the Harford Courant (1998) and the Boston Globe on drug abuses and torture
used in private and publicly funded psychiatric hospitals.
michaelfrench@usa.net from San Bernardino
County Ca., March 28, 1998
A riveting, intensely researched, and
chilling masterpiece
I was truly captivated, by the facts, Mr.
Gordon was able to unearth, during his research into the CIA's, dark, and
mysterious research and development of mind control techniques. We the
people, know so little about any branch, of the intelligence community.
The closest most citizens, ever get to the intelligence community, would
be the news reports, or movies, of which is difficult at best to grasp
the un-thinkable acts that was obviously standard operating procedures,
for the men and women of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Mr. Gordon's no holds barred, and tenacity
in following his leads, unearthed some the most outrageous, and cold blooded
acts, possibly ever committed by intelligent human beings, at which Mr.
Gordon documented . From the moment I opened the cover of the book, I was
spell bound. As I recall I read the book long after the Colonel Oliver
North scandal, and prior to the hearings, I couldn't recall ever hearing
of Col. Oliver North, but as I read the book I learned that he was a prominent
figure in the intelligence community.
To this day I am still amazed, at Mr. Gordens
ability to spend what had to seem like an eternity, uncovering and then
to actually corroborate the the wild and unbelievable stories. It's a miracle
Mr. Gordon, didn't fall prey to bouts of paranoia, considering the agency
he was researching.
It's difficult to comprehend, how an entity
of the Federal government, can conceive, direct, and implement not only
an abduction of a russian intelligence officer, but a politician of our
own government, then administer a powerful hallucinogenic drug like LSD,
and increase the dosages to achieve their desired result of pushing the
subject(s) to the point of committing suicide. Mr. Gordon's diligence,
and courage, at the very least, held the CIA accountable in the civil courts.
Journey into Madness is an extraordinary piece of work.
A reader, June 23, 1997
Excellent, with harrowing true stories
and inside CIA info
If I were a conspiracy theorist, I would
imagine dire reasons why this excellent book is out-of-print. The research
that went into is is remarkable. Thomas' informant on many of the appalling
lengths the CIA has gone to in order to find the perfect "Manchurian
Candidate" holy grail of total mind control was no less than William
Casey, the former CIA director who was at the same time giving information
to Bob
Woodward for another book, Veil:
The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981-1987. Thomas gives both fascinating
background to how the CIA has been researching mind control (particularly
on innocent mental patients at a Montreal hospital, who eventually sued
the CIA with limited success) since the 1950's, and tells harrowing stories
of modern victims of torture and psychological conditioning. In particular,
one of Thomas' own sources for the book, William Buckley of the CIA in
Beirut, was kidnapped, broken, and killed by the Hizbollah shortly after
being interviewed by Thomas. Buckley was broken by over 200 days of abuse
under the direction of a medical doctor. Thomas decries the widespread
use of physicians' skills in interrogation, but notes that the practice
goes back centuries in almost all cultures, that it was brought to perhaps
its most complete institutionalization in the Soviet Union, and of course
that Western governments have been among the offenders. This book is a
must-read for those who want an inside look at the real practices of intelligence
agencies, the fate of mid-East hostages, and the regrettable history of
experimentation on human beings.
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