Intelligence and National Security Started in 1986, Intelligence and National Security is co-edited by Christopher Andrew and Michael Handel, and is the first British academic journal devoted to the area. I’ve seen 3 issues and while the standard of writing and research is extremely high from contributors like Lawrence Freedman, M.R.D.Foot and Bradley Smith, the … Read more
[…] But most OTOers are Bohemians who associate the political right with fundamentalist Christians and other cultural conservatives. They also don’t worship Satan, or rape children, or deal drugs, or have much money. Some of them do participate in the occasional orgy, but you shouldn’t picture anything like that scene in Eyes Wide Shut – […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] shortly, turning into a war between those who support the UDA and those who follow the UVF and are taking a strong line against the politics of drugs being brought into the mainland by Charlie and his crew.’ Evidence for this? The word of ‘seasoned observers’, ‘inside sources’ and ‘those in the know’. Must […]
[…] thoroughly competent, even creative ways. Needing something to justify the budget, MI6 picked the international drug trade. Far as I know, since MI6 joined the ‘war against drugs’ the price of cocaine and heroin in the UK at street level has halved: it is now cheaper to get off your face, as they say […]
[…] some things are being concealed; but I think it will turn out not to be the usual suspects: political embarrassment on the part of someone important and/or drugs and/or money. Who is being prevented from speaking? Atta’s social circle in Florida have had the federal frighteners put on them; and the translator of FBI […]
[…] about to go and work in Israel. He claimed just before his death to have invented powerful new explosives. Given the statements elsewhere about Parsons’ liking for drugs and preference for working at home with unstable chemicals, the speculation in the book that his death might not have been an accident is unconvincing Where […]
[…] since the Second World War. It has over-thrown governments, sponsored wars, carried out assassinations and terrorist attacks, organised and financed death squads, kidnapped and tortured, trafficked in drugs and weapons, bribed and blackmailed, and even worked with the Mafia.(2) Despite this it remains a ‘respectable’ organisation, listened to by Western governments, maintaining stations throughout […]
[…] services.’ (9 December, 1993) The only bit they missed out was that MI6 got to play their ‘Eastern European threat after Communism’ card (not Communism now, but drugs and guns).(3) And was it ‘badly formulated’? It looks like rather successful psy-ops to me. The first crack in the wall was in the Evening Standard […]
[…] Donald Gregg in the middle of contra drug operations at Mena Airport.’ The March/April issue contains another important piece by Daniel Brandt, whose essay on the CIA- drugs story is reproduced above, documenting the American feminist Gloria Steinhem’s early (1958) activities on behalf of the CIA in the great youth/student politics wars between the […]
