Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America’s Psychic Spies Jim Schnabel Dell (USA) 1997, $5.99 Psychic Warrior David Morehouse Michael Joseph, London, 1996, £16.99 I approached the Jim Schnabel book with some caution. A number of people, including Armen Victorian, are intensely suspicious of Schnabel’s activities in the UFO/paranormal fields: some suspect him […]
[…] in view of his association with ‘appeasers, Russophobes and Petainists’. He was also suspect because of his persistent efforts through the cultivation of British contacts to gather secret information which might find its way into enemy hands via friends in neutral diplomatic circles abroad. I met de Courcy on three occasions while researching my […]
[…] small number of ex-convicts brought together and controlled by British Intelligence. These in turn recruited and controlled others who believed they were members of a genuine loyalist secret organisation.” (16) The gangs were designed to spread disinformation, dissension within the Loyalist ranks, and foment infighting. In the wake of the successful Ulster Worker Council’s […]
[…] free-floating entity independent of Moscow Gold or control. The KGB line is close to being abandoned. The 1970s in Northern Ireland were really the last time our secret state seriously tried to market the Moscow connection, without notable success. The Moscow line conspicuously failed in this country in 1983/4 when it was half-heartedly run […]
[…] 1954 becoming head of one of the major operating divisions of the Department of Plans – a cover for covert operations – part of that being the secret funding of liberal foundations and student organisations. When these activities were revealed (via Ramparts magazine) in the 1960s, Meyer was kicked upstairs to become head of […]
[…] KEVIN McNAMARA: To ask Mr. Attorney General, if he will prosecute Mr. Colin Wallace, former senior information officer, Psychops, Army Headquarters, Norther Ireland for revealing details of secret service operations against Her Majesty’s Government in the period 1974 to 1979 in the magazine Lobster in April. Member’s Constituency: Kingston Upon Hull North (Lab) Answer: […]
[…] over the JFK killing. But what about de Gaulle? There were many plots against his life, most of them organised by the OAS, the super-patriotic right wing secret army set up by dissident French officers in the wake of the Algerian crisis. At first blush there does not seem to be much to connect […]
[…] government be it noted the British Youth Council was said to be financed by the Foreign Office, though that may be a euphemism for MI6, the British secret intelligence service. In 1977 Mandelson and one Charles Clarke, another familiar name, then head of the British National Union of Students, put together a delegation from […]
[…] notable pieces is very useful. This latest edition includes the significant extracts from the Defence Attache article on 007, a two page review/article on Loftus’ The Belarus Secret, and precis on events in Italy, Peru, Africa, Mozambique, Iran, the General Collins trial mentioned in Lobster 1, (which has never been followed up in the […]
[…] to journalists who didn’t have time to do the research. Eventually Steve and I wrote a book about the campaigns against Harold Wilson, Smear: Wilson and the Secret State. (Writing this is the reason Lobsters 20, 21 and 22 were rather thin.) After which Steve began writing another book and I continued producing Lobster. […]
