The Dr Strangeloves of the Mind

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Harold Abramson and the Dr Strangelove of the whole shebang, Dr Sidney Gottlieb. Like his associates, Gottlieb saw his work – this included dosing unwitting subjects with LSD, many of whom would suffer from psychological scars for the rest of their life, and some who even died – as entirely justified in the interests […]

A key for a Clockwork Orange

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] ‘synthemesc’, ‘drencrom’ and ‘vellocet’.10 10 The relationship between MKUltra and the psychedelic sixties has been the subject of great speculation. At one extreme, it is theorised that LSD ‘escaped’ the laboratory as a result of careless procedures and poor safeguarding; at the other it is suggested that Continues at the foot of the next […]

Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’Neill

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] and violent gang behaviour. In the course of 1967, the Acid culture of peace-and-love hippiedom gave way to the violent culture of speed-freakery. Significantly, Manson employed excessive LSD tripping and promiscuity to ‘program’ his cult recruits, but later their drug of choice was speed. The HAFMC was founded in June 1967 by another ‘Smith’. […]

Secret Science: A Century of Poison Warfare and Human Experiments by Ulf Schmidt

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] in 1951. Another of Beecher’s objectives was to identify scientists who could be recruited for secret work back in the US. Schmidt then goes on to discuss LSD experiments with service personnel at Porton Down in the 1950s done at the behest of MI6 who were much vexed by questions of mind control, truth […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] ‘hand slapping greeting’. Their assessment of the drugs threat was also highly flawed as they were seemingly convinced that, as it was called Acid House, usage of LSD was involved: ‘Acid acts for up to 12 hours. . . . “Flashback” experiences can occur up to six months after taking LSD. . . . […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] by the USAF itself.72 Old friends David Black is an old friend of this journal. The first edition of his book on the history and politics of LSD, Acid: the secret history of LSD, was reviewed in Lobster 35. He has a new, much revised edition out, published as an e-book.73 A sense of […]

South of the Border

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] to time by this publication – principally by the editor in his View from the Bridge column. 2 See The CIA’s Secret Quest For Mind Control: Torture, LSD And A ‘Poisoner In Chief’ by Terry Gross for NPR, 9 September, 2019 at or . 3 Yes, I also thought ‘That shouldn’t take long, then!’ […]

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[…] to time by this publication – principally by the editor in his View from the Bridge column. 2 See The CIA’s Secret Quest For Mind Control: Torture, LSD And A ‘Poisoner In Chief’ by Terry Gross for NPR, 9 September, 2019 at or . 3 Yes, I also thought ‘That shouldn’t take long, then!’ […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] largely confined to RT.72 Old friends David Black is an old friend of this journal. The first edition of his book on the history and politics of LSD, Acid: the secret history of LSD, was reviewed in Lobster 35. He has a new, much revised edition out, published as an e-book.73 A sense of […]

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