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Thornwell

  • Drama
  • History
  • TV Movie

January 28, 1981 (US)

1h 37m

The story of James Thornwell, whose accusation that the U.S. Army used mind control drugs on him to force him to confess to stealing secret documents while stationed in Orleans, France, in 1961, led Congress to award him $625,000 in damages nearly 20 years later.

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