Extracts from the Testimony of Harlan Girard

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997)

Extracts from the Testimony of Harlan Girard Managing Director, International Committee for the Convention Against Offensive Microwave Weapons, before the Human Subjects Subcommittee, National Bioethics Advisory Commission, Washington DC, 19 October 1997. In 1982 an obscure government office called the Congressional Clearinghouse on the Future published a study called ‘Future Agenda’. The obscure chairman of […]

SIS: Dearlove, Spedding and PR

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2)

[…] of it and did not realise the shallowness of the exercise of which he was principal architect. I say ‘shallowness’ because commerce, when it has branding in mind, looks outwards and downwards; whereas David Spedding made the fatal error of only looking outwards. It is easy, but no less unforgiveable, to see how this […]

Euro-bound? Or: the same river twice

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)

I met Paul Routledge, the biographer of Gordon Brown, a couple of years ago. ‘Does Brown understand economics?’ I asked him. ‘Well, he reads lots of big books,’ said Routledge. ‘This is not the same thing.’ Of course I asked the wrong question. What I should have asked was: does Gordon Brown understand British economic … Read more

PERMINDEX: The International Trade in Disinformation

Lobster Issue 2 (1983)

[…] media had been turned off Garrison by the increasingly wilder theories, but it did help plant the idea of CIA involvement in the assassination in the public mind. That could be a mixed blessing – perhaps another part of the cover-up for other intelligence agencies (such as Military Intelligence) which may have played an […]

Re:

Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)

[…] that the authorities in Nottingham would use their own police officers to resolve what was a civil law situation, but that’s Thatcher for you.’(24) All in the mind? A series of experiments ‘tested whether lacking control increases illusory pattern perception… …as the identification of a coherent and meaningful interrelationship among a set of random […]

Feedback

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

[…] couple of tales I picked up during my ill-advised research into MK-ULTRA. In 1989, I spoke to one claimed former Navy SEAL who related, rather convincingly, that mind control (specifically hypnosis) was used on individuals sent behind enemy lines on assassination missions during the Vietnam war. This source also spoke of ‘programmed’ soldiers being […]

Politics and Paranoia

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Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)

[…] the mid 1990s, going to 66 countries. Given that we know of a great deal of research by the US military into means of influencing the human mind using electronics, microwaves and ultrasound, for example, it thus possible in my view that the experience of being abducted reported by thousands of Americans (and others […]

Like books we should have so many witnesses?: Some recent JFK literature

Lobster Issue 26 (1993)

[…] right all along!’ Natch. Seductive if you’ve never read anything else on the assassination, and disingenuous if you have. Mark Lane is working on a book-length critique. Mind Closed/Case Opened. Russell, Dick. The Man Who Knew Too Much (Hired to Kill Oswald and Prevent the Assassination of JFK Richard Case Nagell Is –). New […]

Termini

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Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

[…] – and the rest of us – are all likely to be heading. Some years ago Armen Victorian and I discussed assembling all the documents on surveillance, mind control, non-lethal weapons and so on he had accumulated over his years of bombarding the U.S. FOIA system with thousands of requests. We made a few […]

Maria Novotny: From Prague With Love

Lobster Issue 2 (1983)

[…] of Towers’ friends, one of whom tried to have sex with her in Paris. Towers, over the next year, made no sexual advances towards Maria but didn’t mind pushing his friends on her. She signed to Towers’ modelling agency and he gave her a large deposit. The day she left for New York Stephen […]

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