Snitch Culture: How the citizens are turned into the eyes and ears of the state Jim Redden, Feral House, U.S., 2000, $16.95 (pb) Earth Rising: The Revolution, Toward a Thousand Years of Peace Dr Nick Begich and James Roderick Earthpulse Press, Ancorage, Alaska $17.95, 2000 (pb) (available through Flatland) ‘We live in a society driven … Read more
MI6: Fifty Years of Special Operations Stephen Dorril Fourth Estate, London, 2000, £25 A Life: A. J. Ayer Ben Rogers Chatto and Windus, London, 1999, £20 Many books on intelligence matters simply rehash old ‘facts’, adding a new twist to – a slightly different interpretation of – well-known, if not necessarily well-understood, events. If … Read more
[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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
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