A short history of Lobster

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By Robin Ramsay See also: Lobster (magazine) at Wikipedia. Updated June 2022 The first issue of Lobster appeared in 1983. It was written by Stephen Dorril and myself. We met through the late Harry Irwin, who lived in Northern Ireland and was what Americans call a book scout: he bought and sold rare books. But … Read more

Acid: a new secret history of LSD

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Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££

[…] 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 […]

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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 […]

The Sleep Room: A Very British Medical Scandal by Jon Stock

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] while Ewen Cameron’s very similar Sleep Room in Montreal, which was run at the same time, most certainly was. (Stock gives a detailed account of Cameron and MKULTRA.) Jon Stock is an assiduous and diligent researcher, and his study is not only a biography of Dr Sargant but also an examination of the rise […]

View from Bridge

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[…] fragmentation of share trading across financial centres is in no one’s interest, so we remain open to discussions with the EU about this.’ Lest we forget https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/brainwashed- mkultra Norton-Taylor on reform of the spooks https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-10-15-transparency-britainsunaccountable-intelligence-agencies-could-be-held-to-account-heres-how/ Integrety Initiative https://www.moonofalabama.org/2018/12/the-strange-mind-of-christophernigel-donnelly.html Subject: Revealed: Hundreds of Saudi and Gulf military personnel… https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-07-03-revealed-hundreds-ofsaudi-and-gulf-military-personnel-trained-in-britain-as-yemen-war-continues/ what goes around comes around – […]

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