John D. Marks

John D. Marks is the founder and President of Search for Common Ground, a non-profit organization based in Washington, DC that focuses on international conflict management programming. He is also a former Foreign Service Officer of the United States Department of State who co-authored the 1974 controversial non-fiction book The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence with Victor Marchetti.

Read more about John D. Marks:  Career, The Search For The Manchurian Candidate, Honors and Accolades, Bibliography

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