Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££
[…] Traccy – Believe, Obey, Fight: Political Socialization of Youth in Fascist Italy 1922-43 (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina, 1985) Kruger, Henrik – The Great Heroin Coup: Drugs, Intelligence and International Fascism (Boston, South End Press, 1980) LAB/IEPALA – Narcotrafico y Politica: Militarismo y Mafia en Bolivia (Madrid, IEPALA, 1982) Landis, Fred – Psychological […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] of influencing the democratic process. (The coked-up monkeys, similarly, were a rigged sample evidently intended to provide support for a larger campaign – the floundering ‘War on Drugs’). Labour figures moved to distance themselves from the attempted fraud. Campaign manager Peter Mandelson announced that ‘I have made clear……. that nothing of the kind should […]
Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££
[…] currently in jail for contempt of court. He refused to tell a court where he had obtained the FBI video tapes of one John De Lorean buying drugs. With an estimated $50,000,000 fortune to spend, Flynt may yet turn out to be a serious threat to various ruling elites in America. If he survives […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
Russ Kick (ed.), Disinformation, 2001, $19.95, ISBN 0-9664100-7-6. Available from http://store.disinfo.com. I once sat in on an interesting conversation between two well known writers on the underside of politics. At one point, one of them alluded disparagingly to one of the scruffier areas of the conspiracy fringe – UFOs, maybe. The other reacted immediately: ‘Oh, … Read more
Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££
[…] ‘The Far Right and Their Attempt to Co-opt Progressive Forces’, ‘KKK, The Fehme and the Founding of the Nazi Party’, and items on AIDS, WACL, CIA and drugs /mind control, assassinations etc etc. (This is roughly the same agenda as the late Mae Brussel but more intelligently handled.) They solve the problem of how […]
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 16 (1988) £££
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
Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££
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
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 3 (1984) £££
See note (1) James ‘Bo’ Gritz, linked to the US Army Intelligence Support Activity (ISA), was detained with Lance Corp. Edward Trimmer whilst trying to enter Thailand. (Guardian 23rd September 1983) They were apparently on another mission looking for American POWs. In December, for the first time since 1975, American troops were in Laos investigating … Read more
