The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

[…] detail, just states that Armen got convicted and that this fact explains why the document about early British and American interest in what is now called ‘ mind control’, which Armen found, could not be used in the main text of McCoy’s book – despite being seriously germane to his thesis. Even if McCoy’s […]

Splinter Factor update

Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

When I commented on the lack of supporting material for the Operation Splinter Factor thesis (in issue 22), I somehow managed to omit the account of it in William Blum’s The CIA: a forgotten history (Zed, London 1986) pp. 59-61. But that is taken entirely from Stewart Steven’s book and his sources. To the latter’s … Read more

Disinformation: From Euros to UFOs

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] CIA documents recently released about the coup in Chile. See Scott Newton’s ‘Historical Notes’ in this issue. Good initially thought the documents were real, eventually changed his mind and is quoted in Jim Marrs’ Alien Agenda (p. 117) as believing they are a fake but contain some genuine information! At this stage in the […]

Thinking about the Falklands

Lobster Issue £££

[…] even more in her determination to demonstrate the “persistence of illusions about Britain’s place in the world.” (1) This version of events is attractive to the liberal mind because it looks like an exemplary demonstration of the cockup theory of history, and it is that which passes for political sophistication in most of respectable […]

SISies: MI6: Fifty Years of Special Operations and A Life: A. J. Ayer

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Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] description of events point their own moral: from the failed Baltic operations, through the Iranian coup, into the hi-jacking of European culture – ‘the Battle for Picasso’s Mind’ – and its recycling as a psy-ops project by the Congress for Cultural Freedom. The notion that Britain could ‘punch above her weight’, due to the […]

The Labour Finance and Industry Group: a memoir

Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

[…] of social and political changes that they have neither understood nor wanted to understand. It has a web site at . As you read this, bear in mind that this is a historical memoir of a particular period in time, from around 1991 to around 1998 at the latest. The LFIG should not be […]

Sources. Publications etc

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] Daniel Brandt continues to produce some of the best writing in the fields Lobster covers in NameBase Newsline. Issue 12 has a long essay by Brandt, ‘ Mind Control and the Secret State’, about as good a short survey of the subject as exists. Back issues of Newsline in printed form are $3.00 each; […]

Fleshing Out Skull and Bones

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Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

[…] on Skull and Bones and related areas which are of little value. The Illuminati first appear on p. 17 and editor Milligan gives us an essay titled ‘Mind control, the Illuminati and the JFK assassination’. The least risible of these essays are by the late Anthony Sutton, who has been writing about the group […]

Magazines/Articles

Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££

Parapolitics/Intelligence November 1984 – February 1985 The usual invaluable mixture of precis of stories from the world’s press plus reprints of some entire articles and the occasional original piece. November’s includes a long and excellent piece by Jonathan Marshall on the Strange career of Ronald Hedley Stark. PP/Intelligence subscriptions $20 payable to ADI at ADI, […]

The corporate ex-spook business

Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££

[…] security companies, give or take a few ex-KGB bods, are all Anglo-Saxon, with personnel institutionalised by specific national agendas, including the commercial. This not only conditions a mind set, which includes belief in racial and other dominance, but leaves them unable to cope in a market-place where: a) the ‘prestige’ (for want of another […]

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