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Whole World In An Uproar: Music, Rebellion and Repression 1955-1972
[PDF file]: […] their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did. The War on Drugs was all about politics and by 1970 ‘key rock musicians were finding themselves arrested for drugs’. (pp. 204-205)3 […]
Anna Raccoon and the dawn of Savilisation
[PDF file]: […] abuse – that of innocent victims whose pleas for help fell on deaf ears: “The girls at Duncroft had been sent there by the courts for prostitution, drugs and because they tried to kill themselves. Who would have believed us against Saint Jimmy?” ’ 11 A 1970s Duncroft resident interviewed by the Edinburgh research […]
The View from the Bridge
[…] gunrunning and – the holy grail – nuclear material smuggling. A “senior police officer” was quoted in the Observer, 6 November 1994: “It’s very easy to present drugs and organised crime as a threat to national security particularly because of Eastern Europe. There the threat of armoured divisions has been replaced by the threat […]
The Army of Afghanistan: A Political History of a Fragile Institution by Antonio Giustozzi
[PDF file]: […] some US estimates claiming that ‘up to 80-85 per cent’ are drug users in some areas, and that ‘even senior officers are sometimes reported to be using drugs’. Why was the quality of recruits so poor? Only those who could find no other work even contemplated enlisting and, once they had enlisted, they often […]
The view from the bridge
[PDF file]: […] gunrunning and – the holy grail – nuclear material smuggling. A “senior police officer” was quoted in the Observer, 6 November 1994: “It’s very easy to present drugs and organised crime as a threat to national security particularly because of Eastern Europe. There the threat of armoured divisions has been replaced by the threat […]
The view from the bridge
[PDF file]: […] to digest and I’ve skimmed only parts of it. Here are the first few essays as listed at the beginning of the magazine. ‘Jeffrey Epstein, CIA’s MK-Ultra, Drugs, Mick Jagger, & Courtney Love’ by John Potash ‘Guccifer 2.0, Seth Rich, & WikiLeaks: Finding the Ghost in the Shell’ by Elizabeth Lea Vos COVER STORY: […]
The British Right – scratching the surface
[PDF file]: […] OMS episode McGill “created and directed a highly efficient private intelligence service, investigating not only all forms of subversion, including communism, but also the international traffic in drugs and the traffic in women and children”.70 White was recruited by McGill and by 1924 was running Section D of McGill’s operation.71 OMS appeared two years […]
Chameleo: A strange but true story of invisible spies, heroin addiction and Homeland Security by Robert Guffey
Divine Rascal: On the Trail of LSD’s Cosmic Courier, Michael Hollingshead by Andy Roberts
[PDF file]: […] carefully-planned role in LSD’s discovery and penetration of western culture. It is suggested these agencies introduced LSD into certain demographics for reasons ranging from observing how psychedelic drugs affect individuals to the intentional creation of the hippie counter culture with the aim of undermining and disrupting organised political opposition and radical social change.’ But […]