The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s London File on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy Calendared & Glossed by Anthony Frewin ‘Calendared and Glossed’ is pretty elegant, is it not? And totally accurate, of course. In his ‘Author’s Note’ Frewin tells us that this began as an idea for a Lobster piece but, like Topsy, […]
[…] from Common Cause, and lists the people who had attended its early meetings, among whom was….. David Moller. Now join up the dots. Hanky-panky in the British UFO world The former Searchlight agent provocateur, Tim Hepple, is now cruising the British UFO world under the guise of ‘Tim Matthews’ of the ‘Lancashire UFO Society’. […]
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 of […]
Researching the European State: a critical guide Edited by Tony Bunyan Statewatch PO Box 1516, London N16 0EW £7.00 With sixty A4 pages plus a six page index, this is, as the title suggests, an annotated bibliography. The flyer which came with it accurately described it thus: ‘This is the first bibliography on the European […]
Someone pointed out to me that Lobster 42 ranged from Gladstone to UFOs, a spread probably unique today. But this range has a downside: things get picked up and then sidelined. One such area is the field bounded on one side by what is known as mind control and on the other by non-lethal technologies. … Read more
Russ Kick (ed.), Disinformation, 2001, $19.95, ISBN 0-9664100-7-6. Available from http://store.disinfo.com. I once sat in on an interesting conversation between two well known writers on the underside of politics. At one point, one of them alluded disparagingly to one of the scruffier areas of the conspiracy fringe – UFOs, maybe. The other reacted immediately: ‘Oh, … Read more
[…] of UFO-spotters scooting as close as they could get to Area 51 and similar areas in California. So why would government disinformers publicise these areas within the UFO subculture? Also, the Bennewitz mythos was immediately taken up by far-Rightists and thinly disguised neo-Nazis. I personally saw how the mythos brought new audiences to transparently […]
[…] A loose alliance of intelligence officers in America, led by a CIA officer named Ron Pandolphi, has spent the last 20 years running disinformation at the American UFO buffs. If you have watched the X Files TV programme you have been watching themes first invented by Pandolphi and his crew. Which is an oblique […]
Parapolitics/Intelligence November 1984 – February 1985 The usual invaluable mixture of precis of stories from the world’s press plus reprints of some entire articles and the occasional original piece. November’s includes a long and excellent piece by Jonathan Marshall on the Strange career of Ronald Hedley Stark. PP/Intelligence subscriptions $20 payable to ADI at ADI, […]
Iraq – fallout continues ‘Five years on from Hutton and we still haven’t been told the truth about the war based on lies’, fulminated Peter Oborne earlier this year. (1) Also less than happy was barrister Michael Shrimpton who unsuccessfully complained to Ofcom about an interview he gave for David Kelly: the conspiracy files, (2) […]
