Remote-Controlled Man

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A former pilot closely linked to the CIA charges the agency tried to force him to do its bidding—by stealing his brain. ...

[He is] ... James Petit, 39.

The adventurer and soldier of fortune says that he has lived a chilling real-life version of the movie The Manchurian Candidate—in which a man is turned into a mindless robot who instantly obeys all orders and kills on command. ...

But while the Red Chinese in the 1962 film used brainwashing and torture to create their puppet, Petit claims the CIA made a robot out of him by inserting receivers in his brain. ...