Secret CIA Mind Control Experiments
1959, the Height of the Cold War. The Manchurian Candidate, a thriller novel written by Richard Condon, sends shivers across the nation as to the possibility of a secret U.S. Government mind control experiment program gone amok enters the mainstream. The story is about the son of a prominent political family who has been brainwashed into becoming an unwilling assassin for the Communist Party. In the film, Major Bennett Marco, Sergeant Raymond Shaw and the rest of their platoon are captured during the Korean War in 1952 and are all brainwashed into believing Shaw saved their lives in combat. They go back home and Shaw gets the Medal of Honor. However, Marko begins to have a frequent nightmare in which Shaw kills two of his comrades. When he discovers that another platoon member has been having the same dream, he sets out to uncover the mystery about the nightmares. What is happening to him is that he has become a sleeper agent. The queen of diamonds in a deck of playing cards ...