New Cloak, Old Dagger: How Britain’s Spies Came In From The Cold

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Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

[…] death. It follows the current government line of seeking to justify the continued existence of the intelligence services by reference to economic intelligence, the so-called ‘war on drugs’ (which was lost about 20 years ago, even if it was worth fighting in the first place) and organised crime. With a straight face Smith assures […]

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Wizard: the life and times of Nikola Tesla

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Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] a UFO. They were tested on ‘involuntary human subjects’ and ‘ethnic minorities’ (Native Americans? Hispanics? Black Americans?). Puharich’s role in this remains unclear. His work concerned ‘shamanic drugs’ — i.e. altered states of consciousness caused by LSD, hallucinogenics, and various types of mushroom found in Mexico. By 1956 Puharich was in Mexico meeting people […]

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Crozier country: Free Agent: the unseen war 1941-1991

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] W. Cleon Skousen, attributing the whole of the sexual-cultural changes of the post-war era to ‘the communists’. Crozier rather half-heartedly even tries to lay the spread of drugs at the door of the KGB. Crozier indeed, did appear to claim the credit for her election at a meeting of the Pinay Circle. See Lobster […]

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House of Bush, House of Saud

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Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

House of Bush, House of Saud Craig Unger New York: Scribner, 2004, h/back, $26.00   I bought this because it was reported in the UK that the book couldn’t be published here due to our ‘stricter’ libel laws. Naturally, I wondered who among the Bushes and the Saudis might consider themselves libelled. The book is … Read more

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The CIA and the Culture of Failure

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Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

John Diamond Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2008, h/b. No price is stated but it’s around $30 on-line. In The Guardian on 4 March 2009 William Dalrymple wrote: ‘Eight years of neocon foreign policies have been a spectacular disaster for American interests in the Islamic world, leading to the advance of Hamas and Hezboll-ah, the … Read more

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We’re breaking new ground: Operation Century

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

Ian Cameron 17pp + 11pp documents £2.50 incl. p&p from 10 Knox Court, Studley Road, London SW4 6SA. I’ve got fucking A levels in fucking whacking fucking people…. Your fucking ceasefire’s going….I’ll be in touch with you fucking soon….You watch your fucking car. On 9 February 1996 the IRA ended its cease fire by bombing … Read more

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Military LSD testing in the U.K.

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

In the course of my research into the U.S. Army LSD tests (see Lobster 23) among the U.S. Army records, I encountered a few vague references to similar experiments conducted in the U.K.. On February 28, 1993 I faxed a letter to Dr. Graham S. Pearson, the Director of the Chemical and Biological Defence Establishment … Read more

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Freedom of Information — new access legislation

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

[…] The definition of ‘environmental information’ is broad: anything to do with water, soil, land, and activities affecting the environment (eg foods, GM crops, biodiversity, energy, noise waste, drugs, nuclear, radiation, phone masts, biowarfare). Environmental information is in any case exempt from the FOIA.(10) Unlike with the FOIA, requests cannot be denied on the basis […]

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Re:

Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] John Mulholland, was hired to ‘teach intelligence operatives how to use the tools of the magician’s trade – sleight of hand and misdirection – to covertly administer drugs, chemicals and biological agents to unsuspecting victims’ as part of Project MKULTRA.(19) Privates on the payroll The increasing use of PMSCs (private military or security companies) […]

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Domestic Repression and DEA Narcotics Enforcement

Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££

[…] testimony by the Nixon administration at the first trial, showed little interest in the second.) But Camil was only one instance where the government’s expanded ‘war on drugs’ was used, at least under Nixon, to harass selected political targets – and possibly in support of major CIA covert operations against countries like Cyprus, Argentina, […]

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