Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’Neill

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] for LSD research. This, of course, sets off – admittedly faint – alarm bells that the HAFMC research had something to do with the CIA’s MK-Ultra ( mind control) project. MK-Ultra These alarm bells go off big time however, when O’Neill brings in Dr Jolyon West – the man who conducted the notorious experiment […]

LSD-IRA? David Solomon, James Joseph McCann and Operation Julie

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] to blow a million minds simultaneously by pouring pure LSD into the reservoirs serving Birmingham. Detectives were horrified when they heard what the drug barons had in mind. The story, which was police-sourced, was written by Ed Laxton, the ghost writer for Operation Julie undercover officer Martyn Pritchard’s book, Busted! The Sensational Life-Story of […]

Bilderberg People: elite power and consensus in world affairs by Ian N. Richardson et al

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] If the book’s contents are unexceptional, the interesting question is: why has it taken the academic world so long to get here? Two reasons come immediately to mind. The most obvious is that the interest taken by conspiracy theorists (mostly on the American right) in Bilderberg contaminated the subject for academics chiefly concerned with […]

The Western Union Clandestine Committee: Britain and the ‘Gladio’ networks

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] element would be useful. That one of the Territorial SAS regiments took over this role from the Special Reconnaissance Squadron when it was disbanded proves, to my mind, that the role was indeed considered vial but that it should be undertaken by more specialist forces.2 7 Mainstream media coverage about the UKSF aspect of […]

Inside the Trump Administration

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] purely partisan political purposes or personal gain’. There had been what amounted to a ‘kind of privatization of national security’. (p. 253) Rudy Giuliani immediately springs to mind in this regard. This was to lead to her giving evidence at Trump’s first impeachment, a key witness whose testimony took 10 hours to deliver. But […]

Weather weapons: the dark world of environmental warfare

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] on weather modification and their tremendous interest suggests that military applications extend far beyond visiting a few showers upon an enemy. It does not require a sharp mind to figure out that wartime storms might readily be infected with virulent bacteriological and radiological substances.’1 6 The US Air Force (USAF) reported over a decade […]

The DRE newsletter (June – August 1963)

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] vessel’s seaworthiness, thus relaxing the Customs office’s surveillance and allowing the raiding party to escape. It is safe to say that no Customs official in their right mind would have taken the unsupported word of the boat’s owner on something so crucial. Cuban surnames follow the Spanish pattern. An individual’s surname is their father’s […]

Holding pattern

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] is at 2 scepticism (given full wind on social media) when post-election stories about anomalous results started to trickle in. The example that is foremost in my mind is the constituency of Bedford Borough, my place of birth and a key Tory-Labour marginal. Here it was reported that a sack containing 5,000 extra votes […]

A Difference of Opinion: My Political Journey by Jim Sillars

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] to spot in today’s public services.’ The MPs’ expenses scandal, Owen Paterson, and the sunshine freebies offered to MPs and councillors by foreign governments all come to mind, not forgetting PPE contracts for pals and the rest of the moral turpitude of Boris Johnson’s Downing Street. This political apprenticeship in Ayr seems to have […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] on the free market/business groups assembled around the Conservative Party’s spokespeople on the environment and economic policy, on a site that is new to me, DESMOG.uk.13 Never mind the imminent collapse of the environment, what we need is more economic freedom and less government regulation! The question that always arises with these groups is […]

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