A secret service? In the Guardian of 12 June 2000 David Leigh had an important piece on the relationship between our secret servants and the media. At the core of this was his account of the revelation, via a libel suit in London, of an MI6 operation to plant disinformation in the Sunday Telegraph about […]
John Diamond Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2008, h/b. No price is stated but it’s around $30 on-line. In The Guardian on 4 March 2009 William Dalrymple wrote: ‘Eight years of neocon foreign policies have been a spectacular disaster for American interests in the Islamic world, leading to the advance of Hamas and Hezbollah, the … Read more
[…] Its aggrieved depositors and creditors began an unprecedented action last year against the Bank of England for failing to regulate a bank known for its involvement in drugs, money laundering, funny accounting and as a financial conduit for assorted intelligence agencies. Last year the court heard of a meeting 1989 between Lord Callaghan and […]
SIS is dead – you read it first in Lobster – but the funeral has not been announced. Established in 1909, it will not make its centenary. SIS once offered a global brand operating in a market that had been previously divided along the lines of accepted cartels (market fixing). Its market-share, however, has been … 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) […]
[…] W. Cleon Skousen, attributing the whole of the sexual-cultural changes of the post-war era to ‘the communists’. Crozier rather half-heartedly even tries to lay the spread of drugs at the door of the KGB. Crozier indeed, did appear to claim the credit for her election at a meeting of the Pinay Circle. See Lobster […]
[…] a UFO. They were tested on ‘involuntary human subjects’ and ‘ethnic minorities’ (Native Americans? Hispanics? Black Americans?). Puharich’s role in this remains unclear. His work concerned ‘shamanic drugs’ — i.e. altered states of consciousness caused by LSD, hallucinogenics, and various types of mushroom found in Mexico. By 1956 Puharich was in Mexico meeting people […]
In the course of my research into the U.S. Army LSD tests (see Lobster 23) among the U.S. Army records, I encountered a few vague references to similar experiments conducted in the U.K.. On February 28, 1993 I faxed a letter to Dr. Graham S. Pearson, the Director of the Chemical and Biological Defence Establishment … Read more
House of Bush, House of Saud Craig Unger New York: Scribner, 2004, h/back, $26.00 I bought this because it was reported in the UK that the book couldn’t be published here due to our ‘stricter’ libel laws. Naturally, I wondered who among the Bushes and the Saudis might consider themselves libelled. The book is … Read more
[…] his various allegations/fantasies; the use of the land owned by the Cabazon tribe to manufacture a number of weapons and intelligence products, launder money (or was it drugs? or both?)…… From there he spins off into BCCI, the S and L rip-offs; spook operations here there and everywhere; numerous murders and ‘suicides’. But Casolaro’s […]
