Jonestown. The secret life of Jim Jones: a parapolitical fugue

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

Introduction What follows is an interim report about Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple. In so far as it has a central thesis, it is that Jones initiated the Jonestown massacre because he feared that Congressman Leo Ryan’s investigation would disgrace him. Specifically, Jones feared that Ryan and the press would uncover evidence that the … Read more

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Web Update

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] such as weapons of mass destruction, global intelligence, organised crime, money laundering, terrorism, defence.’ Current contents and sample e-journal. The Intelligence Zone http://www.ionet.net/~everett/index.shtml Intelligence links including to MKULTRA, TEMPEST surveillance and how to prevent it. FBI FOIA Homepage http://www.fbi.gov/foipa/foipa.htm Introduction: history of FOIA pertaining to FBI Electronic Reading Room – cases from the FBI […]

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A key for a Clockwork Orange

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Burgess’s novel – that of behavioral engineering, more simply ‘mind control’ – the only realistic interpretation is that the disinformation project concerned the CIA’s then ongoing Project MKULTRA (hereinafter MKUltra), in which MI6 was also involved.9 An exhaustive analysis of the novel along these lines would be a lengthy work of determined scholarship. What […]

The Dr Strangeloves of the Mind

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, who were praying that it did. Well, it did, for a while anyway. Twenty years were to pass before the story of MKULTRA and the circumstances of the death began to seep out. Albarelli writes that ‘The story of his strange death has taken up permanent residence in the […]

The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government by David Talbot

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of US personnel captured during the Korean war. The significance of this recurring motif isn’t immediately apparent. Related to this show-trial theme, in chronicling the creation of MKULTRA (‘The Manhattan Project of the mind’, in Dulles’s words), Mr Talbot shows that one of Dulles’s genuine fears about his adversaries was well-founded, or at least […]

Secret Science: A Century of Poison Warfare and Human Experiments by Ulf Schmidt

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] brain washing, and that’s it. End of the discussion of ‘truth drugs’, LSD, mind control experiments, and so on. Our 2 Subsequently known more famously as Project MKULTRA, though this is not noted by Schmidt. learned professor cannot be unaware of this vast field and the literature it has produced, but he chooses to […]

From the archives: Kim Besly, 1926-1996

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] pregnant women and children to stay away (at the start, children had played quite happily among the tents and caravans). There are a few allusions to the MKULTRA project7 and the TV programme Opening Pandora’s Box in KB’s ‘Preliminary Report’, (a final report was never published) which she used to show at her public […]

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