The Pentagon’s Psychic Research

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

[…] 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 […]

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Welcome to Mars: Fantasies of Science in the American Century 1947-1959

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Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

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

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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 […]

THEY KNEW: how a culture of conspiracy keep America complacent by Sarah Kendzior

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] – and conspiracy theories, that in many ways serve to distract from, and cover-up, what is actually going on. As she points out: Watergate, Iran-Contra, the CIA’s MKUltra mind control experiments, the aborted 1960s false flag Operation Northwoods and other US government plots were all, at some point, labeled wild conspiracy theories – until […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE
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