Susan. L. Carruthers Leicester University Press, London and New York, 1995 £45 hb, £16.99 pb. This is an important study of British psy-war activities, and the politics thereof, since the war. Almost all of this book was new to me, though I haven’t studied anti-British insurgencies. Originally a PhD thesis, happily, in Carruthers case, this … Read more
[…] in counter-intelligence parlance as “gray” intelligence. The question of whether they are genuine, authentic or real is not the issue here. The important point to keep in mind, as I believe, is the information contained in the documents themselves. For in these documents and the FOIA material already released, and the published facts contain […]
This article examines hallucinogenic-type drug experiments conducted by various elements of the U.S. Army Intelligence community in conjunction with sections of the U.S. Army Chemical Corps. Most of the related records have been destroyed. The following is what I have been able to salvage from the records available on these programs. Edgewood Tests From the … Read more
[…] trouser the odd rouble by advising Boris Berezovsky, Roman Abramovich’s former partner who sought asylum here from Russia a while ago. Money doesn’t buy you peace of mind, though, and security and self-preservation are paramount. Berezovsky, for example, has on occasion ‘…hired six identical limousines, which passed through the gates of his house in […]
[…] the loony fringe of America (William Cooper and dumber), via an enormous range of writing on the entire spectrum of single issue subjects (murders, scandals, conspiracies, CIA, mind control, etc.), through to major, solid pieces about the New World Order, MAI, consumer boycotts and so forth. The ratio of junk to the worthwhile used […]
[…] very charming toff. I asked him about the ‘Wilson plots’. He told me nothing of consequence; and he may have known nothing of consequence. I couldn’t tell. Mind control At is a large 1986 ‘Bibliography on the psycho-activity of electromagnetic fields’ by two of the well known names in the field, Robert Beck and […]
[…] very long, have only had time to read it (quickly) once, so this is by way of an interim report. But a second reading won’t change my mind that this is a very good book. I enjoyed this more than anything else I have read for years. It is also an important book. There […]
[…] Kelly and, most recently, who knew what over the torture and murder of Iraqi civilians, it may be useful to bear one fragment of US history in mind. Paul Lindley, the former US Congressman, wrote in his They Dare To Speak Out: People and Institutions Confront the Israeli Lobby (Lawrence Hill & Co 1986): […]
[…] practitioners of government. We are relatively free of the problems of status, of precedence, departmental attitudes and evasions of personal responsibility, which create the official cast of mind. We do not have to develop, like the Parliamentarians conditioned by a lifetime, the ability to produce the ready phrase, the smart reply and the flashing […]
[…] rightist kuromako, see Nakamura, pp. 16-19; Halloran, p. 2; Roberts (1973), p. 14. Dixon, pp. 211-212. Anderson and Anderson, p. 125. There is some question in my mind as to whether he was a ‘lieutenant’ of Kodama’s as early as 1962, or whether he only became one later. The precise dating could have explanatory […]
