Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££
Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S. In general, the fall of Nixon and the eventual election of Carter cut off the CIA subsidies to the Right, which does much to explain the recent financing of both West European fascists and Chile’s Cuban proteges by criminal activities, including narcotics. In late 1974 Italian Interior Minister Andreotti … Read more
Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££
[…] Police “to help the police hunt down narcotics traffickers”.(143) Even if the Thai BPP are no longer, as in the past, profiting themselves from the movement of drugs out of the ‘golden triangle’, their activities will certainly be political. The new Deputy Prime Minister in charge of the Thai anti-narcotics campaign, Amporn Chanvijit, is […]
Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££
Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S. All this has a very direct bearing on the career of Orlando Bosch, who boasts of having collaborated with the AAA in the murder of two Cuban diplomats as late as August 1976. (66) It is quite possible that this collaboration was facilitated through the international narcotics traffic, since … Read more
Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££
[…] the presence of U.S. Ambassador Robert Hill): We hope to wipe out the drug traffic in Argentina. We have caught guerillas after attacks who were high on drugs. Guerillas are the main users of drugs in Argentina. Therefore, the anti-drug campaign will automatically be an anti-guerilla campaign as well. Soon afterwards, a visiting DEA […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
Barry and the boys The CIA, the Mob and America’s Secret History Daniel Hopsicker Venice (Florida): The Madcow Press, 2006, $19.95, p/b Barry is Barry Seal and ‘the boys’ are the CIA. There is a decent Wiki entry for Seal which conveys the outlines of his extraordinary life as a pilot, large-scale drug smuggler and, … Read more
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] French Public Prosecutor’s Report. As with the circumstances of the crash, however, there are a number of grey areas and issues that still remain unresolved. Alcohol and drugs – the lethal cocktail The immediate cause of the crash has been blamed on Henri Paul’s drunk and drugged condition, although video footage from the Ritz’s […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
Official: CIA does mean Cocaine Importing Agency after all On October 8 1998 the CIA’s Inspector General published a report on the recent CIA-cocaine controversy which – apparently – more or less copped the lot, acknowledging that the CIA had ignored drug smuggling by its Contra allies. (See for example The Independent 7 November 1998, … Read more
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
Spectre In the last Lobster 35 I reported on the new anti-EU magazine Spectre and wondered about its political orientation. In response, the editor, Steve McGiffen, sent an exemplary piece of candour from which here are some extracts. ‘….. Our original statement, sent out very widely, made it clear that we are minimalist to a … Read more
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] transmission into the brain’, January 1974: personal unpublished papers submitted to the US State Department. Schapitz suggested the following experiment. ‘Brain waves that have been produced by drugs of known psychic effect are going to be registered on magnetic tape. The recorded rhythms will then be modulated onto a microwave (or several beams if […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] by Kenn Thomas of Steamshovel and shares much of its subject matter with Thomas’ magazine. That subject matter being UFOs; what I would call consciousness politics – drugs, mysticism, the paranormal, mind control, remote viewing; secrecy and conspiracy theories; the secret state; and the interfaces between many of these. As a 52-year old who […]