Dominic Streatfeild London: Hodder and Stoughton 2006, £20, h/b One of the gaps in the parapolitical library has been a great pull-together of the material on ‘mind control’. And Streatfield has done it, and done it rather well. He is a documentary film-maker and some of the chapters here read rather like scripts. All … Read more
Dan Briody Hoboken (USA): John Wiley and Sons, 2003, £17.50 (hb) According to the Carlyle Group, once you ‘peel away the layers of factual errors and self-righteousness of The Iron Triangle, ‘… all you’re left with is baseless innuendo… [and]… this book should be exposed for what it is: a compilation of recycled conspiracy … Read more
[…] a kind of theoretical framework for the case studies which follow it, Lawrence seeks to document “striking advances (which) have emerged in the functioning of the (U.S.) secret police.” For Lawrence, “By the end of the sixties it was clear to the establishment that its traditional methods of social control were weakening, and that […]
The Strength of the Wolf: The Secret History of America’s War on Drugs Douglas Valentine London/New York: Verso, 2004, h/back, £20 This comes garlanded with praise from Jim Hougan and Anthony Summers. The praise is justified: this is, as Hougan says, ‘a ground-breaking work of investigative reporting’; and it is, as Summers says, […]
[…] that ambitious and impressive. The authors are senior British legal academics, and in this they survey the construction – and propose the reconstruction – of the British secret state. After an opening discussion of the philosophical basis of their analysis, they methodically work through the historical and legal background to the extant legislation on […]
[…] he duly reported without comment. I have been told by a woman who knew Shaw very well throughout the 1950s and 60’s that Shaw’s homosexuality was no secret in his social circle. But while his friends might know he was gay New Orleans as a town did not. If I underscore his homosexuality it […]
Russ Kick (ed.) New York: the Disinformation Company, 2002, pb, $24.95. Distributed in the UK by Turnaround () £17.99 in the UK Another massive anthology from the Disinformation people. This is 11″ by 9″ – roughly A4 sized – 345 pages, weighing in at 2 lbs and 11 ounces. Picking it up probably counts … Read more
[…] belief or simply unavailable to the public. (Some examples: ‘According to a high-ranking Pentagon official’, ‘according to Bruce Roberts, author of the Gemstone File’, ‘according to a secret CIA report’, etc.) Citations of this sort are the investigative equivalent of smoke and mirrors. In the event, Moore defines a professional conspiracist as one ‘who […]
[…] scientific pioneers had (and still have?) in investigating and trying to measure and define the ‘paranormal’.(6) He also concludes that there is, indeed, a ‘trail of top secret research …… which led to Star Wars’ which can be traced back to Tesla. Tesla died, aged 86, on 8 January 1943. A representative of RCA […]
[…] to do what they liked when they liked with all activities nodded through by supine Home and Foreign Secretaries who were often mesmerised by the words ‘Top secret’. Ostensibly these agencies activities were secret. In reality what was secret were their activities impinging on civil liberties. The agencies ran huge leak machines to stoke […]
