[…] intelligence – even one on the CIA’s study of itself. In the essay on the CIA and science authors Doel and Needell skirt the Agency’s part in MKULTRA and similar projects and timidly conclude, ‘the ethical lapses of CIA medical specialists in ‘Artichoke’ and ‘MKULTRA’ mind-control experiments ranked among the Agency’s most troubling violations […]
Unfree press A recent release of previously undisclosed documents reveals that J. Edgar Hoover ordered the FBI to carry out the illegal surveillance of newspaper labour activists during the 1940s. Also revealed is the fact that informants included journalists who wanted Communists removing from the leadership of the Newspaper Guild.(1) Only following orders Psychologist Stanley … Read more
Richard M Bennett London: Virgin Books, 2003 £20 hardback This is 350 pages of summaries of political and historical conspiracies. It starts in 2330 BC but the first 2007 years take up only 84 pages. The content is mostly Anglo-American, especially after WW2. It is done chronologically, so you get odd sequences of subjects: … Read more
From: M. R. D. Foot Scott Newton’s footnote at the end of his piece on Hess, in your number tries to keep alive Dr Hugh Thomas’s tale that the pilot who reached Scotland could not have been Hess, because he bore no trace of the gunshot wound the real Hess had received in Roumania in … Read more
[…] 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 […]
[…] in an historical and operational framework which makes both their development, trial on involuntary subjects and eventual deployment not surprising.(1) The bastard offspring of Sid Gottlieb and MKULTRA are among us. Microwaves The problem for the microwave victims is that of evidence: they can produce none other than the first-hand reports of other individuals […]
Operation Julie, a nation-wide police investigation of LSD production, was launched in 1976. Two years later, although some 60 members of the British ‘microdot conspiracy’ had been convicted, Detective Inspector Dick ‘Leapy’ Lee was dissatisfied. The operational commander of ‘Julie’, Lee was interested in the international connections of the network, but was blocked from probing […]
[…] way the police departments sometimes seek assistance from psychics to solve a crime.(1) In the course of their famous mind control projects code named ARTICHOKE, BLUEBIRD and MKULTRA, the CIA allocated a small portion of the budget to study the use of mediums in seeking intelligence from the dead, and called for a scientific […]
Ken Hollings London: Strange Attractor Press, 2008, p/b, £11.99 This is a fascinating book but I found it terribly hard to write about. Looking for the opening thought to kick-start this I read again the introduction by Erik Davis.(9) He writes: ‘Hollings has collected together a mass of real signs and symptoms drawn from a … Read more
Secrets and Lies: A history of CIA mind control and germ warfare Gordon Thomas JR Books (www.jrbooks.com) 2007, h/b, £20 Gordon Thomas has written a number of books on the intelligence services and this has a glossy cover, voluminous appendices and some admiring quotes. But it adds little to what we already know about … Read more
