Sources: Journals

Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££

[…] 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 Leary in his memoir Flashbacks that Mary […]

When David met Stella

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] the following exchange took place.   Turner (presenting book for signing after queuing briefly behind several people, including a woman wearing an Anarchist badge) ‘Hello. Do you mind a lengthy inscription?’ Rimington (smiling, flanked by several suited goons and book shop staff) ‘That depends what it is. If it’s a long one, I’ll put […]

Sources

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££

[…] 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 […]

ELF update

Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££

[…] one hand, the CIA has already used involuntary experimental subjects in other programs it funded in the 1950s and 60s. Anyone who has read Walter Bowart’s Operation Mind Control and believed only a quarter of it would not find Girard’s claims about the way the CIA is behaving difficult to believe. The CIA has […]

The Age of Insecurity

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Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££

[…] 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 […]

The Blood Never Dried: A People’s History of the British Empire

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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] after Suez is a good time for Britons to reflect on empire. Our military is again deployed in regions of the world more associated in the national mind with the 19th century than the 21st, while the children of the poorer regions of Britain are still losing their lives defending the overseas interests on […]

Loose cuts and short ends

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] 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 […]

Remote Viewing and the US intelligence community

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] This is discussed in Lobster 30 ‘The Emergence of Project SCANATE; The First Espionage-worthy Remote Viewing Experiment – Summer 1973’. Ingo Swann, Dec. 29, 1995, InterNet. See Mind to Mind, Rene Warcollier, Creative Age Press, NY 1946. See Exploring the Ultra-Perceptive Faculty, J. Hittinger, Rider & Co., London, 1941. Ingo Swann interview on ‘Dreamland’ […]

‘Privatising’ covert action: the case of the Unification Church

Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££

[…] 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 […]

Wake Up Down There! The Excluded Middle Collection

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Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] Steamshovel and shares much of its subject matter with Thomas’ magazine. That subject matter being UFOs; what I would call consciousness politics – drugs, mysticism, the paranormal, mind control, remote viewing; secrecy and conspiracy theories; the secret state; and the interfaces between many of these. As a 52-year old who took acid, read Leary, […]

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