Summary of Stephen Kinzer's Poisoner in Chief

By IRB Media

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#1 Sidney Gottlieb was a psychic voyager who spent his career deep inside Washington’s secret world. He retired in 1973 and spent the second half of the twentieth century traveling the world and helping the needy. But in 1975, he was summoned home and had to defend himself against accusations of mind control.

#2 After his death, Gottlieb faded into obscurity. He was known as the dark sorcerer for his conjuring in the most sinister recesses of the CIA, and he was also named the maddest mad scientist in a book about the world’s worst people, places, and things.

#3 Sidney Gottlieb, the man who developed the CIA’s mind-control drugs, grew up in the Bronx. His family was Jewish, and they escaped oppression in Europe. They settled in America, and Gottlieb learned Hebrew, had a bar mitzvah, and studied hard.

#4 Sidney Gottlieb was a teenager in New York who was ostracized for his disability, but he emerged determined to excel. He studied advanced German and won high grades in math, physics, and chemistry. He took two courses in public speaking, and he was able to walk without braces for the first time at the age of twelve.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Apr 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669380641

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Sidney Gottlieb was a psychic voyager who spent his career deep inside Washington’s secret world. He retired in 1973 and spent the second half of the twentieth century traveling the world and helping the needy. But in 1975, he was summoned home and had to defend himself against accusations of mind control.

#2

After his death, Gottlieb faded into obscurity. He was known as the dark sorcerer for his conjuring in the most sinister recesses of the CIA, and he was also named the maddest mad scientist in a book about the world’s worst people, places, and things.

#3

Sidney Gottlieb, the man who developed the CIA’s mind-control drugs, grew up in the Bronx. His family was Jewish, and they escaped oppression in Europe. They settled in America, and Gottlieb learned Hebrew, had a bar mitzvah, and studied hard.

#4

Sidney Gottlieb was a teenager in New York who was ostracized for his disability, but he emerged determined to excel. He studied advanced German and won high grades in math, physics, and chemistry. He took two courses in public speaking, and he was able to walk without braces for the first time at the age of twelve.

#5

Gottlieb’s life changed in two important ways during his time at California Institute of Technology. He met a woman who would become his wife, and he began to feel a spiritual restlessness that he couldn’t explain.

#6

Gottlieb was shaped by his time in California. He was rejected by the Selective Service System in 1943, and instead decided to find another way to serve the country. He became a research associate at the University of Maryland, studying the metabolism of fungi.

#7

While he was happy with his family life, Gottlieb was frustrated with his lack of progress in the scientific field. He had no clear path out of his mid-level research on pharmaceuticals and agricultural chemicals.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The city of Munich was the birthplace of the Nazi Party, so hunting Nazis was a priority for the US Army’s Counterintelligence Corps. They compiled lists, followed leads, and arrested suspects.

#2

The American army captured Blome