[…] Gary Webb’s breakthrough piece chronicling the links between the CIA; the Contras and the crack cocaine explosion in Los Angeles; through the CIA’s use of psychedelics, ex- Nazi scientists and mind control, into the murky worlds of Indo-China; and then, via a chapter on Afghanistan, back to the United States and the cocaine connections […]
[…] as working-class politics in Britain remained strong and secular; socialist organisations led the battle against racism and fascism – as in the example of the mass-based Anti- Nazi League and Asian Youth Movement. Problems began when left sects like the SWP cynically transformed the ANL into a pacifist recruitment conduit and abandoned Asian communities […]
Kenn Thomas Illuminet Press, Lilburn, GA 30048 USA, 1999, $14.95 www.illuminetpress.com The Crisman in the book’s title is a man called Fred Lee Crisman who is one of only two people who were involved at the beginning of the American UFO saga and who appear in the Kennedy assassination story. The other one is … Read more
[…] this. I gave up after about 60 pages. It is strewn with errors, misinterpretations and inventions. Here are some examples. p. 20 ‘Prince Bernhard drew on his Nazi history in corporate management to encourage the “super secret policy-making groups” to call themselves the Bilderbergers after Farben Bilder, in memory of the Farben executives’ initiative […]
The mind control story continues There are three distinct but presumably related areas of activity. One is the use of involuntary implants as receivers and/or transmitters. The others are the broadcasting of voices – what has been called synthetic telepathy – and the use of microwaves to influence behaviour. All seem to exist; the technology […]
Hess: A Tale of Two Murders Hugh Thomas Hodder and Stoughton, London 1988 This is an update of Thomas’ 1979, The Murder of Rudolf Hess. Thomas argues (a) that the ‘Hess’ in Spandau prison wasn’t Hess at all but a double; and (b) that both the real and false Hess were murdered. The first proposition … Read more
[…] (and JFK) with Mark Lane, Dick Gregory, Kerry Thornley and Jim Marrs; a piece on alternative AIDS cures; pieces titled ‘KKK, GOP and CIA’ and ‘An American Nazi and Ozark tourism’ that are too obstruse to summarise here; a piece by the ubiquitous Robert Anton Wilson; and ‘Supermarket Tabloids and UFOs’. Number 6, Winter […]
[…] But, boy, some of it is hard work. There is a 26-page article with the subtitle, ‘The Curious Case of the New Communist Party, Searchlight and the Nazi honeytrap….(run by a hermaphrodite)’, which is all but unintelligible to me because, as with his pamphlets, the information is obscured by O’Hara’s speculation and his writing […]
[…] March 1987. The paper also reported that black leaders in Wolverhampton, where these events are said to have taken place, believed the ‘BLF’ to be a neo- Nazi provocation. Meanwhile, another ‘Black Liberation Front’, apparently based in London, and apparently an off-shoot of the Black Panthers (sic), disowned the Wolverhampton version. (Sunday Times 31 […]
[…] economic advisor to the National Coal Board. Not normally mentioned in accounts of Schumacher’s life is that he was the brother-in-law of Werner Heisenberg, head of the Nazi atom bomb team. 20 The seats where People made their greatest impact were Birmingham Northfield, Coventry North East and Coventry North West, all with Labour MPs […]
