[…] to drive…'(33) However, neither he nor Wingfield – despite sitting next to Henri Paul in the Ritz – realised that Henri Paul was under the influence of drugs and alcohol. ‘There was absolutely nothing at all in behaviour, in his speech. He was behaving exactly the same as he had that morning.'(34) Rees-Jones has […]
Just ten years ago the issues were so simple, the arguments so clean. The concept of hackers was cute and quaint, best understood through Hollywood thrillers like ‘War Games.’ The major media had yet to use the word ‘cyberspace,’ a term just then created by William Gibson in Neuromancer, his first masterpiece in a strange … Read more
[…] 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) […]
[…] her allegations link to British involvement. Unfortunately even this is not simple: for Edmonds’ case touches not only on the nuclear black market, but also on the drugs and money laundering trades, aspects which also have British dimensions. The official response to Edmonds has been to put her under a gag order (under the […]
[…] major difference which seems to emerge between the Soviet armed forces and those of the United States is the US soldier’s access to a wider variety of drugs. His Soviet counterpart seems stuck with alcohol and its substitutes such as boot polish. Maybe the occupation of Afghanistan will introduce hashish to a wider section […]
Thanks again to Terry Hanstock and David Turner for contributions. Although all URLs are checked shortly before publication, occasionally websites unaccountably disappear. Contributions, comments and info welcome – my email address is Secrecy, censorship FOI and released records Freedom of Information Draft Bill http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/foi/dfoibill.htm Link to the draft FOI Bill (May 1999) and FOI … Read more
Colin Crawford. London: Pluto Press, 2003, £14.99, p/back When World-in-Action and Tribune journalist David Boulton published his excellent book, The UVF, 1966-73, (Torc Books, 1974) he bemoaned a near absence of valuable books and journal articles on Loyalism. In contrast to their Republican counterparts, Loyalists do not have a substantive support base overseas; nor … Read more
[…] in the major media. An even dodgier dossier The ‘dodgy dossier’ produced by the government of Colombia and the USA against Venezuela in March – terrorists and drugs and nukes – reported straight by most of the major media, has been deconstructed into the crude fraud it always looked like.(12) Reading the original stories […]
[…] Engineering and Research, had bought the weapons from Werbell. He didn’t tell them that he was Werbell’s partner in Defense Weapons International, or that Werbell and international drugs smuggler Ken Burnstine had manufactured hundreds of Ingrams without serial numbers for shipment to Chile when the CIA was providing aid to the military junta. If […]
[…] a DIA psychic centre in the National Security Agency (NSA); but he fails give details of the paper. On page 18 Rifat makes extensive references to hypnosis, drugs, meditation, ELF and a host of other commonly known factors; yet he fails to produce any evidence to support his comments. On page 19 he makes […]
