[PDF file]: […] set the stage for the much larger intervention in the Persian Gulf a year later.1 It also marked a remarkable escalation in the previously metaphorical ‘war on drugs’, by establishing Washington’s legal claim to the extraterritorial use of force to apprehend suspected drug traffickers abroad. Many accounts have chronicled the war of nerves leading […]
[PDF file]: […] policies of the US government at the beginning of WWI. The demise of the FBN in 1968 coincided with an interregnum in which the so-called war on drugs was managed or mismanaged just like the war in Vietnam with which it was intricately connected. Richard Nixon’s attempt to recover US control in Southeast Asia […]
[PDF file]: […] to Porton Down, Britain’s main research centre for biological/chemical research. Dr. Sargant’s interest in the work going on there was to study the psychological implications of mind-blowing drugs such as LSD. He told me that he developed a rapport with Frank Olson during a number of subsequent visits Frank Olson made to Britain. Dr. […]
[PDF file]: […] that inspired the film makes far more sense. and accurate meanings hidden in the text, but to identify some areas designed to promote misdirection and erroneous speculation. Drugs and the psychocivilised society Comment on A Clockwork Orange returns again and again to the theme of violence, that of the hooligan and that of the […]
[PDF file]: […] Story,1 Stephen Bentley writes of his role in the elite police squad which in 1977 took down the British LSD production and distribution networks in ‘the biggest drugs bust in history’. More recently Mr Bentley has been writing ‘true crime and crime fiction’ and he has a blog which is mostly used to promote […]
[PDF file]: […] on the Spahn ranch. LASO had been watching the Family for some weeks, but the raid had nothing to do with murders; they were looking for firearms, drugs and stolen property, which they found aplenty. Given that Manson and several of his followers were also in clear violation of their parole terms, they could […]
[PDF file]: […] in Alfred McCoy, The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade (Brooklyn: Lawrence Hill Books, 1991); Peter Dale Scott and Jonathan Marshall, Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies and the CIA in Central America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988) 1 A good example is the still-murky relationship between Florida lawyer and CIA […]
[PDF file]: […] with boozed-up and aggressive attendees – good.60 The main take I have got from reading the files is the Government’s actual (as opposed to public) attitude to drugs use at such events: ‘The main problem with acid house parties is the nuisance caused by the noise. Drugs are not the main issue.’61 That would […]
[PDF file]: […] German scientists and others coming over to the Allied side now that hostilities had ceased. A section three-quarters of the way through the book is headed ‘Truth Drugs’ and runs to some eleven pages. Schmidt asserts that Britain’s exploration of ‘truth drugs’ seems to have ‘partly’ come from the United States with a visit […]
