5 best-selling espionage books like Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control by Stephen Kinzer

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Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control

By: Stephen Kinzer

4.09

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of All the Shah's Men and The Brothers tells the astonishing story of the ma…

If you liked the espionage plot in Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control by Stephen Kinzer , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner

1. Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

By: Tim Weiner

3.94

Format: 514 pages, Hardcover

For the last sixty years, the CIA has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its t… read more

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  • espionage
  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"To the CIA, everyone's an outsider."

-Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

"Their attempts to make sense of the world had carried heat but little light."

-Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

"The ability to represent failure as success would become an Agency tradition."

-Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

"It takes 5 to 7 years to turn a novice into a case officer capable of working in the capitals of the world."

-Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

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2. The Man with the Poison Gun: A Cold War Spy Story

By: Serhii Plokhy

4.27

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From one of the foremost historians of the former Soviet Union, a nonfiction spy thriller about a K… read more

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  • espionage
  • history
  • biography
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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3. The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government

By: David Talbot

4.43

Format: None pages, Hardcover

An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the mo… read more

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  • espionage
  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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4. Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America

By: Annie Jacobsen

3.69

Format: 143 pages, Hardcover

The explosive story of America's secret post-WWII science programs, from the author of the New York… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis by Annie Jacobsen

5. Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis

By: Annie Jacobsen

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The definitive history of the military's decades-long investigation into mental powers and phenomen… read more

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  • politics
  • psychology
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  • science
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6. Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire

By: Chalmers Johnson

3.00

Format: None pages,

Now with a new and up-to-date Introduction by the author, the bestselling account of the effect of … read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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7. The Pentagon's Brain

By: Annie Jacobsen

3.70

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, from the author of t… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • science

8. Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & the Dark Heart of the Hippy Dream

By: Nick Bryant , David McGowan

4.12

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

As a native Angeleno who was born in 1960 and came of age in the 1970s, the music produced by the a… read more

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9. Programmed to Kill: The Politics of Serial Murder

By: David McGowan

3.79

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The specter of the marauding serial killer has become a relatively common feature on the American l… read more

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10. Libra

By: Don DeLillo

3.87

Format: 291 pages, Paperback

From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and Zero K In this powerful, eer… read more

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11. The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton

By: Jefferson Morley

3.75

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

"The best book ever written about the strangest CIA chief who ever lived." - Tim Weiner, National B… read more

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12. Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK

By: Gerald Posner

3.87

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

The assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, continues to inspire interest ranging fr… read more

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13. Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia

By: Paul L. Williams

3.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

This disturbing expose describes a secret alliance forged at the close of World War II by the CIA, … read more

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14. Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

By: Tom O'Neill

4.03

Format: 504 pages, Kindle Edition

A journalist's twenty-year obsession with the Manson murders brings shocking revelations about the … read more

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  • history
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  • audiobook
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15. Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion

By: Gary Webb

4.29

Format: 601 pages, Kindle Edition

In July 1995, San Jose Mercury-News reporter Gary Webb found the Big One--the blockbuster story eve… read more

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"I was winning awards, getting raises, lecturing college classes, appearing on TV shows, and judging journalism contests. And then I wrote some stories that made me realize how sadly misplaced my blis…"

-Gary Webb, Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion

"If we had met five years ago, you wouldn't have found a more staunch defender of the newspaper industry than me ... I was winning awards, getting raises, lecturing college classes, appearing on TV sh…"

-Gary Webb, Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion

"One of the questions I have been asked many times since this story broke is this: Now that the facts are out there, what can we do? My answer, depressing and cynical as it may be, is always the same.…"

-Gary Webb, Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion

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16. Nuclear War: A Scenario

By: Annie Jacobsen

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more

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  • science
  • history
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"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

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17. Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control

By: Stephen Kinzer

4.09

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of All the Shah's Men and The Brothers tells the astonishing story of the ma… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World by Vincent Bevins

18. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

By: Vincent Bevins

4.61

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- ba… read more

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  • politics
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"locals came to him, time and time again, and asked, with genuine mystification: 'We just don't understand America. You were once a colony. You know what colonialism is. You fought and bled and died f…"

-Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

Cover of Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire by Jonathan M. Katz

19. Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire

By: Jonathan M. Katz

4.24

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking journey tracing America’s forgotten path to global power―and how its legacies shap… read more

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  • politics
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Cover of Scorpions' Dance: The President, the Spymaster, and Watergate by Jefferson Morley

20. Scorpions' Dance: The President, the Spymaster, and Watergate

By: Jefferson Morley

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

For the 50th anniversary of the Watergate The untold story of President Richard Nixon, CIA Directo… read more

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Cover of On Cuba: Reflections on 70 Years of Revolution and Struggle by Noam Chomsky

21. On Cuba: Reflections on 70 Years of Revolution and Struggle

By: Noam Chomsky

4.20

Format: 197 pages, Kindle Edition

An intimate conversation between towering public intellectuals examining the contentious interplay … read more

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8 Top audiobook books like Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control by Stephen Kinzer

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Tim Weiner

3.94

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Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

Tom O'Neill

4.03

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Gary Webb

4.29

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Nuclear War: A Scenario

Annie Jacobsen

4.47

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Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety

Eric Schlosser

4.26

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Enemies: A History of the FBI

Tim Weiner

3.93

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The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government

David Talbot

4.43

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The Pentagon's Brain

Annie Jacobsen

3.70

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