Operation Julie revisited: the strange career of Ron Stark, parapolitical alchemist

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

Operation Julie, a nation-wide police investigation of LSD production, was launched in 1976. Two years later, although some 60 members of the British ‘microdot conspiracy’ had been convicted, Detective Inspector Dick ‘Leapy’ Lee was dissatisfied. The operational commander of ‘Julie’, Lee was interested in the international connections of the network, but was blocked from […]

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U.S Army Intelligence mind control experimentation

Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

[…] Board sent an informal plan to the Medical Research Directorate of the Chemical Warfare Laboratories.(1) The plan was entitled ‘Material Testing Program EA 1279’. EA 1279 was LSD. The plan’s main thrust was the ‘method of approach to prospective volunteers’ who were to be selected from official personnel, based on their records and security […]

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Military LSD testing in the U.K.

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

In the course of my research into the U.S. Army LSD tests (see Lobster 23) among the U.S. Army records, I encountered a few vague references to similar experiments conducted in the U.K.. On February 28, 1993 I faxed a letter to Dr. Graham S. Pearson, the Director of the Chemical and Biological Defence […]

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Pipe Dreams: the CIA, Drugs, and the Media

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

[…] about heroin, his discovery of a correlation with CIA activity in the Golden Triangle must have seemed dismaying enough, almost unbelievable. Fortunately for Ginsberg, a proponent of LSD, he had no evidence that the CIA may have also been behind the expansion of LSD distribution within the counterculture. But such evidence later came to […]

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Justice Delayed

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

The CIA’s LSD testing program was part of its larger MKULTRA Program, which remains very much a mystery, primarily because its chief operating officer, Dr Sid Gottlieb, destroyed the majority of MKULTRA documents in 1973 during the Watergate scramble to plug leaks and obliterate history. Helping Gottlieb destroy these documents was the then Director […]

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Following in Uncle Sam’s dirty footsteps: chemical and biological warfare testing in the UK

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] the circumstances of his death. The cover-up survived until 1975 when it was revealed that Olsen had been one of many people who had been unwittingly given LSD as part of the Agency’s experiments with the drug, and that LSD had been a contributory factor in his suicide. In an article in the Mail […]

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The CIA and radiation experiments on humans

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

[…] of humans as unwitting subjects. The CIA sponsored numerous experiments of this kind. After the death of Dr. Frank Olson in 1953 after he had been given LSD, an internal CIA investigation warned about the dangers of such experimentation, but the CIA persisted in this practice for at least another ten years. Despite another […]

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

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: LSD-IRA? David Solomon, James Joseph McCann and Operation Julie David Black
 (This is based on a chapter from the author’s new book, LSD Underground: Operation Julie, the Microdot Gang and the Brotherhood of Eternal Love.) 1 – An Island Mystery In his book, Undercover: Operation Julie – The Inside Story,1 Stephen Bentley writes […]

On getting it wrong and getting it right: Ronald Stark, LSD and the CIA

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: On getting it wrong and getting it right: Ronald Stark, LSD and the CIA David Black Is History a fiction? In his best-seller of 1991, Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair, the late John Bossy claimed that Bruno spied for Queen Elizabeth’s enforcer, Sir Francis Walsingham, at the French embassy in London. This was […]

Acid: the secret history of LSD

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Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££

[…] D. Laing). The style of Abrams’ testimony can be inferred from his comments on Friends and his statement (in Green’s book) that ‘to all intents and purposes LSD is a CIA invention, put about by CIA agents.’ Abrams talks a good game, in other words; I couldn’t share Black’s unwavering trust in his account. […]

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