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
DEEP BLACK: the secrets of space espionage William E. Burrows, Bantam Press, 1988 P. N. Rogers The National Reconnaissance Office is the only ‘black’ US intelligence agency remaining. Formed in 1960, the US only conceded officially that they had reconnaissance satellites twelve years later, and to this day maintain that these are the responsibility of … Read more
W. H. Bowart, Self-published, Tucson, Arizona, 1994. Operation Mind Control was originally published in 1978 by Dell Paperbacks. It came out around the same time as John Marks’ The Search for the Manchurian Candidate, a rather anodyne book which, after dealing with CIA and military LSD experiments which caused at least one unwitting victim to … Read more
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
The three Arrigos In the last Lobster (‘Spookaroonie’, p. 26) I noted the comments on <intelforum.org> of Maria Arrigo, a ‘social psychologist with experience in [intelligence] operations’ asking for evidence of ‘covert weapons experiments in post-war South America’ and wondered what was afoot. It was just an interesting little snippet which I came across at … Read more
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
