National Security Applications of Psychology: Helping and Hurting People: Stephen Kinzer: Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control. Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2019, 368 p., $30.00. Mark Staal and Sally Harvey (Eds.): Operational Psychology: A New Field to Support National Security and Public Safety. Praeger, New York, 2019, 380 p., $73.00

Kinzer's I Poisoner in Chief i and Staal and Harvey's I Operational Psychology i both describe histories of psychology's application to national security. A CURRENT LOOK, BUT ACTUALLY A CONTEMPORARY HISTORY Now to Mark Staal and Sally Harvey's coedited I Operational Psychology. i The title denotes applying psychology, namely clinical, forensic, social, and industrial/organizational, in a consultant role to authorities entrusted with achieving national security objectives. For years a foreign correspondent/bureau chief with the I New York Times i and now a senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International Public Affairs at Brown University, he concentrates on psychiatrists, psychologists, and ancillary personnel in national security projects sponsored by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). National Security Applications of Psychology: Helping and Hurting People: Stephen Kinzer: Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control. [Extracted from the article]