Convention held July 12-17 at the Sheraton-Palace Hotel in San Francisco, California. The Search for the Manchurian Candidate Marks' 1979 book, The Search for the Manchurian Candidate describes a wide range of CIA activities during the Cold War, including unethical drug experiments as part of a mind-control and chemical interrogation research program known as Project MKUltra. The book is based on 16,000 pages of CIA documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act and many interviews, including those with retired members of the psychological division of the CIA, and the book describes some of the work of psychologists in this effort with a whole chapter on the Personality Assessment System. Marks later became a fellow of Harvard's Institute of Politics and a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School. In 1982, Marks founded the Nuclear Network in Washington, DC, which was soon renamed Search for Common Ground. From 1982 to 2014, Marks was President of Search for Common Ground, a non-profit conflict resolution organization. He also founded and headed Common Ground Productions. He wrote and produced The Shape of the Future, a four-part, TV documentary series that was simulcast on Israeli, Palestinian, and Arab satellite TV, and he is executive producer of The Team TV and radio series in 17 countries and numerous other TV and radio programs. Honors and accolades John Marks is the recipient of numerous awards. These include: Honorary Doctorate from the UN University of Peace (2010- with his wife, Susan Collin Marks) The Marvin E. Johnson Diversity and Equity Award from the Association for Conflict Resolution (2010-with Susan Collin Marks) Senior Ashoka Fellow (2009) Social Entrepreneurship Award from the Skoll Foundation (2006-with Susan Collin Marks) The Temple Awards for Creative Altruism from the Institute of Noetic Sciences (2005-with Susan Collin Marks) Cultures of Peace Award from Psychologists for Social Responsibility (2002) Wild School Award from Upland Hills School (2001-with Susan Collin Marks) Works Books The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence, with Victor Marchetti. New York: Alfred A. Knopf (1974). Full text. The CIA File, edited with Robert Borosage. New York: Grossman Publishers (1976). . "Proceedings and papers presented at a conference The CIA and Covert Action held in Washington, Sept., 1974, sponsored by the Center for National Security Studies." The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control. New York: Times Books (1979). Common Ground on Terrorism: Soviet-American Cooperation Against the Politics of Terror,