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
[…] 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
[…] favour: arrange the murder of Robert F. Kennedy. Hamshari got access to Onassis’ mob contacts () and was even put in touch with LA hypnotist and purported MKULTRA veteran, William Joseph Bryan, by an Onassis middleman.( ) Bryan, who was found dead under mysterious circumstances in Las Vegas, is a likely candidate for the […]
James McConnachie and Robin Tudge, London, New York: Rough Guide Ltd (Penguin Books), 2005, p/b £9.99 / $14.99 (US) / $22.99 (Can) This chunky paperback is intended to give readers an introduction to the world of conspiracies and the theories around them, as opposed to works which discuss conspiracy theories as a topic in … Read more
[…] of Aristotle Onassis, Jackie O, and the love triangle that brought down the Kennedys (New York: Regan Books, 2004) as having worked on the CIA mind-control programme, MKULTRA? The same source also reveals another Hollywood link, claiming that Bryan acted as a technical adviser on The Manchurian Candidate. More significantly, it also alleges that […]
William Engdahl London: Pluto, 2004, £15.99, p/b Google the author and you will find him listed as a senior member of the Lyndon LaRouche org in 1998, European Economic Editor of Executive Intelligence Review.([16]) Although I have been told by his publisher that he is no longer with LaRouche, the book’s first edition was … Read more
[…] circle”‘, one of those who liaised between organised crime and the US bureaucracy in the post-war world. He also acted as liaison in the early days of MKUltra and its predecessors. It seems likely that White’s actual job was to steer the committee away not only from the Mob’s involvement in narcotics but also […]
[…] What is new is some material on the activities of Steve Abrams, one of the co-founders of SOMA, who had been an unwitting part of the CIA’s MKUltra programme while a post-grad student at Oxford; and the section on the mysterious Ronald Stark, LSD entrepreneur and apparent American intelligence asset, has been elaborated. Most […]
