Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
Into the Dark Johnston Brown Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 2006, £22.99, h/b When Fred Holroyd first made his disclosures regarding the activities of SAS Captain Robert Nairac to Duncan Campbell of The New Statesman in 1984, they were credible because Holroyd was a loyal Army Intelligence Captain with absolutely no sympathies for IRA terrorism. … Read more
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] John Mulholland, was hired to ‘teach intelligence operatives how to use the tools of the magician’s trade – sleight of hand and misdirection – to covertly administer drugs, chemicals and biological agents to unsuspecting victims’ as part of Project MKULTRA.(19) Privates on the payroll The increasing use of PMSCs (private military or security companies) […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
The CIA’s LSD testing program was part of its larger MKULTRA Program, which remains very much a mystery, primarily because its chief operating officer, Dr Sid Gottlieb, destroyed the majority of MKULTRA documents in 1973 during the Watergate scramble to plug leaks and obliterate history. Helping Gottlieb destroy these documents was the then Director of … Read more
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] the public, the beneficiaries of SIS specialist areas. That is to say, public health officials (germ warfare), forensic accountants (money laundering), doctors, nurses and police officers ( drugs running), and various United Nations officials (weapons of mass destruction). Next could come the representatives, including the religious and corporate ones, of the various communities in […]
Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££
[…] Gulf War participants believe that health problems arising since their return from the Gulf are caused by exposure to hazardous substances encountered there. These include diesel fuel, drugs, vaccines, pesticides and smoke from oil well fires. Some veterans believe their exposure has also resulted in reproductive problems including birth defects, infertility and miscarriages. This […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] friend of the victim, Lysa Rubotham, who was present throughout, insists that no rape took place. Tenthly, the victim admitted to being a regular user of hallucinatory drugs. Something is wrong, and I want something done about it.’ The Crown Prosecution Service did nothing about it. Greater Manchester Police even wrote to Campbell-Savours to […]
Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££
[…] possible eighteen Directorate members, two had resigned – Paul Johnson (charged with sending fake explosive devices through the post) and Roger Denny (in embarrassment over a soft drugs offence). Thus, even with the imprisoned Pearce’s proxy vote, the ‘Flag’ tendency now only had seven Directorate votes: Acton, Anderson, Brons, the veteran Tom Mundy, Paul […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
Frost/Nixon Or, a load of old dick When Frost/Nixon first appeared at the Donmar Warehouse theatre in London back in 2006 I wondered why on earth anyone would want to stage, to recreate, what was, essentially, a non-event. Why indeed? One can imagine mere actors relishing the opportunity to ‘interpret’ Frost and Nixon but who … Read more
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] in America. It covers everything from the apparently trivial – campaigns to get kids still in primary school to snitch on their parents if they are using drugs – through to Cointelpro and all its successor projects. Redden discusses, among many other things: a law enforcement system dependent upon criminals licensed to operate by […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[…] about ‘George’ is that he is interested in the Naga people of the Himalayas. Both writers should have informed us of this key player’s long record of drugs offences, and his reputation as a ‘grass’ after making deals with both Police and Customs. Nevertheless, ‘George’ tells an interesting tale. While some members of this […]