Wizard: the life and times of Nikola Tesla

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Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] a UFO. They were tested on ‘involuntary human subjects’ and ‘ethnic minorities’ (Native Americans? Hispanics? Black Americans?). Puharich’s role in this remains unclear. His work concerned ‘shamanic drugs’ — i.e. altered states of consciousness caused by LSD, hallucinogenics, and various types of mushroom found in Mexico. By 1956 Puharich was in Mexico meeting people […]

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Crozier country: Free Agent: the unseen war 1941-1991

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] W. Cleon Skousen, attributing the whole of the sexual-cultural changes of the post-war era to ‘the communists’. Crozier rather half-heartedly even tries to lay the spread of drugs at the door of the KGB. Crozier indeed, did appear to claim the credit for her election at a meeting of the Pinay Circle. See Lobster […]

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House of Bush, House of Saud

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Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

House of Bush, House of Saud Craig Unger New York: Scribner, 2004, h/back, $26.00   I bought this because it was reported in the UK that the book couldn’t be published here due to our ‘stricter’ libel laws. Naturally, I wondered who among the Bushes and the Saudis might consider themselves libelled. The book is … Read more

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We’re breaking new ground: Operation Century

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

Ian Cameron 17pp + 11pp documents £2.50 incl. p&p from 10 Knox Court, Studley Road, London SW4 6SA. I’ve got fucking A levels in fucking whacking fucking people…. Your fucking ceasefire’s going….I’ll be in touch with you fucking soon….You watch your fucking car. On 9 February 1996 the IRA ended its cease fire by bombing … Read more

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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 Establishment … Read more

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Freedom of Information — new access legislation

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

[…] The definition of ‘environmental information’ is broad: anything to do with water, soil, land, and activities affecting the environment (eg foods, GM crops, biodiversity, energy, noise waste, drugs, nuclear, radiation, phone masts, biowarfare). Environmental information is in any case exempt from the FOIA.(10) Unlike with the FOIA, requests cannot be denied on the basis […]

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Domestic Repression and DEA Narcotics Enforcement

Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££

[…] testimony by the Nixon administration at the first trial, showed little interest in the second.) But Camil was only one instance where the government’s expanded ‘war on drugs’ was used, at least under Nixon, to harass selected political targets – and possibly in support of major CIA covert operations against countries like Cyprus, Argentina, […]

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Nexus: postmodernism or what?

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] long piece by Uri Dowbenko, now working with Steamshovel, who is making another attempt at a sort of Christic Institute mega conspiracy theory about the CIA and drugs. It includes what purports to be an affidavit from the Reagan-era Director of the CIA William Casey. (To me it appears the most obvious forgery.) In […]

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The Open Side of Secrecy: Britain’s Intelligence and Security Committee

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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] twenty years are spurious. Their account of the CIA is wilfully inadequate, even for a three page summary. They describe the funding of the Contras without mentioning drugs, even when the CIA itself has admitted getting permission from the US Attorney General to ignore cocaine dealing in return for donations to the Contras. You […]

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The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro

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Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

[…] his various allegations/fantasies; the use of the land owned by the Cabazon tribe to manufacture a number of weapons and intelligence products, launder money (or was it drugs? or both?)…… From there he spins off into BCCI, the S and L rip-offs; spook operations here there and everywhere; numerous murders and ‘suicides’. But Casolaro’s […]

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