Manchurian Candidate Edit Meaning

1.

One who has been brainwashed into preforming actions (such as assassination) upon recieving a special code word or phrase. The candidate acts and behaves normally before recieving the trigger, with no knowledge of what he will do, or what he has done while under the influence of mind control.

The assassination of the president was carried out by a manchurian candidate, under the control of a foreign power.