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Lobster Issue 13 (1987)

[…] pp2/3 of the P.D. Scott essay in Lobster 12. Anslinger was the primary originator of the basic US foreign policy move of accusing your enemies of running drugs into the otherwise innocent bodies of the US citizenry (China, Cuba, Nicaragua), while allowing your political allies (KMT, anti-Castro Cubans, Contras) to fund-raise by dope-dealing. This […]

Trouble makers

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)

[…] regimes which tolerate or participate in the drug traffic? The last decade has seen two more, Afghanistan and Kosovo, in which the new wrinkle is that the drugs trade co-exists with Muslim Jihadists. ‘Afghanistan is now the world’s largest exporter of heroin, and the opium used to produce it, supplying 87 percent of the […]

In Brief. Libya. Syria and the Gulf oil war. Lester Coleman

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994)

[…] on the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), which operated out of a base in Cyprus. Coleman alleges that the DEA is supervising, and the DIA is manipulating, the drugs and arms trafficking which is a part of the currency of power in the Syria-dominated part of Lebanon, as well as Syria itself. He tells us […]

Sources: Journals

Lobster Issue 27 (1994)

[…] which appeared in Steamshovel Press Number Nine. The two pieces are a reworking of some of the information we have on that fuzzy, hearsay-laden area in which drugs (especially psychedelics), the intelligence agencies and mind control programmes overlapped. In the second part the author, Greg Krupey, reminds us of the claims made by Timothy […]

Kitson, Kincora and counter-insurgency in Northern Ireland

Lobster Issue 10 (1986)

Part 1 Issue 24 of the Covert Action Information Bulletin (Summer 1985) is chiefly devoted to recent activities of U.S. government agents and agents provocateurs inside radical and labour organisations: the ‘sanctuary movement’, the Native American movement and one industrial dispute, are analysed as case studies. They are preceded by a long essay, “The New … Read more

The Strange Case of Patrick Daly, MI5 agent

Lobster Issue 27 (1994)

[…] to work. Our conversations were affable. I took him fresh fruit which he was allowed to eat only during the visit (in case they were impregnated with drugs!) He showed sincerity and loyalty to his own beliefs — which I did not share — and did not try to help himself into an early […]

Spook-wise: MI6 and Clare Short

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)

MI6 persuaded Clare Short, the Secretary of State for International Development, to task them to give her early warning about coups in Africa. (Independent 23 July 2000) MI6 now have a license to roam throughout Africa. The spooks must love having Labour in office, terrified to oppose anything they ask for. Hitherto secret Whitehall committee … Read more

Secret Contenders

Lobster Issue 8 (1985)

[…] did the same with Russian students. The intelligence value was nil. In the early sixties the CIA placed a lot of hopes on ‘mind control’, experimenting with drugs, hypnosis and programming a la ‘Manchurian Candidate’. The most bizarre episode in Beck’s book concerns an attempt by a CIA shrink to hypnotise a suspected double […]

Michael Ledeen again

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005)

[…] 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 […]

New Cloak, Old Dagger: How Britain’s Spies Came In From The Cold

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Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)

[…] death. It follows the current government line of seeking to justify the continued existence of the intelligence services by reference to economic intelligence, the so-called ‘war on drugs’ (which was lost about 20 years ago, even if it was worth fighting in the first place) and organised crime. With a straight face Smith assures […]

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