Parapolitical bits and pieces

Lobster Issue 7 (1985) £££

Ex-British intelligence officer Richard Winch said KGB defectors regularly named 7 ‘MPs, trade union leaders and 1 former Conservative Cabinet Minister’ as KGB agents. (Daily Telegraph 24 and 27 September 1984) What, only 7? According to Frederick Forsyth’s ‘sources’ in the British labour movement there are 20. (See Times 31 August 1984). And doesn’t Chapman […]

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Kennedy assassination miscellany: Book Reviews

Lobster Issue 7 (1985) £££

[…] time you learned more. The guys who run things – I mean the guys who really run things in Washington – are very interested in psychology, and drugs in particular. These people play hardball, Timothy. They want to use drugs for warfare, for espionage, for brainwashing, for control.” (p155) In May 1963 Pinchot told […]

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Notes from the Underground, part 4: British Fascism 1983-6 (II)

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] October, 1992. On the subject of ‘youth’, little sophisticated significance can be attached to the various ‘Rock Against Communism’ gigs played by NF-linked bands, although the ‘Anti- Drugs’ campaign launched July 1985 had rather more salience. It is just as well the publicity for the Campaign only featured needles for the injection of hard […]

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Paranoia is what the other guy has

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

[…] clear that the mainstream media have themselves often championed doubtful and sometimes ludicrous fantasies. In the 1950s it was widely accepted in the American media that the drugs trade was driven by a conspiracy between Chinese communists and organised crime – sometimes in the form of left-wing trade unions – in the United States. […]

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Trust no one: the secret world of Sidney Reilly

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Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] that ‘Captain Spencer’ was the non de plume of Commander Cumming On p.365 we are told that Reilly/Rosenblum was ‘….one of the early architects of the international drugs trade….’. This is advanced because one Arnold Rothstein – a significant New York gangster in the ’20s – organised shipments of poppy seeds (5) from Manchuria […]

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Sources. Publications etc

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

Electromagnetics & VDU News Subtitled ‘a News Report on Non-ionising Radiation’, this is now up to volume 6, and is now extremely impressive – and pretty alarming. Vol. 6 nos 1-2, for example, includes: Dramatic cuts in EMF exposure demanded by US draft report; biggest EMF lawsuit launched by top attorney – then dropped; breast … Read more

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Magazines, journals etc.

Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££

[…] — “a new magazine challenging media censorship’ — appeared here in the summer. The first issue included very useful pieces on the Gladio network, the CIA and drugs (the Alfred McKoy interview referred to in Lobster 21), a recent post-Gulf analysis of US foreign policy by Philip Agee etc. Extremely impressive for a first […]

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Fifth Column

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] link not be drawn between the many dumb decisions of a dumb ally in the wake of 9/11 and social collapse in the UK inner cities. Yet drugs and other illicit trades and the massive accumulation of capital in the hands of organised crime are absolutely central to the collapse of social order – […]

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Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

Horses for courses? Labour MP Denis MacShane used the hospitality of The Observer extended by his old Oxford pal, editor Roger Alton, to proclaim the virtues of Nicolas Sarkozy and confide, a week before the second vote, that his success in the French presidential election was greatly desired in Downing Street. The prospect of a […]

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Miscellaneous Publications

Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££

[…] general magazine to have merged from the American radical/left since Ramparts. The January 1991 issue contained a 13 page interview with Alfred McKoy on the politics of drugs. McKoy wrote The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia (Harper Row, 1972), the ground-breaking book which showed the CIA running opium for the Meo tribes they […]

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