Club. Im the former executive director for the investigative reporting and the current board member and moderator for tonights program. This program is part of the clubs series by the Bernard Foundation and it is my pleasure to introduce todays distinguished speaker senior fellow at the institute at Brown University brothers overthrow hes also an awardwinning correspondent for the boston globe. His new book tells the astonishing story of the man who oversaw the cias seat medical experiments of the 1950s and 60s. On the original interviewer int, survivors testimonies and documentary research, the book brings to light the massive hunt for the secret of mind control that spans several countries including the work of nazi scientists and led experimentations on Government Employees willing and unwilling, foreign politicians and the children, prisoners, sex workers and anyone else they deem threatening or expendable. Youre about to hear a tale of the most powerful unknown americans in the 21
Assistant secretary for near eastern affairs. Next, scholars discuss the history of president ial looking at the Trump Presidency and past administrations. From Fordham University law school, this is an hour and a half. Welcome. Thank you all for being here. Before we get started, i just you that i am so happy to be having this event because we never get to talk historians. Y and we always talk about politics and the law and foreign policy. And it is all very interesting. You who know me know that i like the history. And i think it wouldve been a very good thing if more weighing in more frequently and people who write about politics in a historical people who think about whats come before. Enough of it and this is our meager attempt to try to do that. Before we get started, let me say that this is being recorded by cspan. You know the routine, which that when you get the mic, speak into the mic, wait for the mic before you speak. And be aware of the fact that its being recorded. Before
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