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A former State Department officer's journey from Vietnam to investigating CIA drug experiments to private peacemaking efforts

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John Dinges
Sep 14, 2024
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JOHN MARKS DISCOVERED HIS VOCATION AS A PEACEMAKER while writing his 1979 bestseller, The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control, an exposé of the spy agency’s experiments with psychedelic drugs. He’s been on a very long personal journey since then.

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Marks was a former State Department for…

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