Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
James McConnachie and Robin Tudge, London, New York: Rough Guide Ltd (Penguin Books), 2005, p/b £9.99 / $14.99 (US) / $22.99 (Can) This chunky paperback is intended to give readers an introduction to the world of conspiracies and the theories around them, as opposed to works which discuss conspiracy theories as a topic in … Read more
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] of Aristotle Onassis, Jackie O, and the love triangle that brought down the Kennedys (New York: Regan Books, 2004) as having worked on the CIA mind-control programme, MKULTRA? The same source also reveals another Hollywood link, claiming that Bryan acted as a technical adviser on The Manchurian Candidate. More significantly, it also alleges that […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
William Engdahl London: Pluto, 2004, £15.99, p/b Google the author and you will find him listed as a senior member of the Lyndon LaRouche org in 1998, European Economic Editor of Executive Intelligence Review.([16]) Although I have been told by his publisher that he is no longer with LaRouche, the book’s first edition was … Read more
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] circle”‘, one of those who liaised between organised crime and the US bureaucracy in the post-war world. He also acted as liaison in the early days of MKUltra and its predecessors. It seems likely that White’s actual job was to steer the committee away not only from the Mob’s involvement in narcotics but also […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] What is new is some material on the activities of Steve Abrams, one of the co-founders of SOMA, who had been an unwitting part of the CIA’s MKUltra programme while a post-grad student at Oxford; and the section on the mysterious Ronald Stark, LSD entrepreneur and apparent American intelligence asset, has been elaborated. Most […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
Snitch Culture: How the citizens are turned into the eyes and ears of the state Jim Redden, Feral House, U.S., 2000, $16.95 (pb) Earth Rising: The Revolution, Toward a Thousand Years of Peace Dr Nick Begich and James Roderick Earthpulse Press, Ancorage, Alaska $17.95, 2000 (pb) (available through Flatland) ‘We live in a society driven … Read more
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
MI6: Fifty Years of Special Operations Stephen Dorril Fourth Estate, London, 2000, £25 A Life: A. J. Ayer Ben Rogers Chatto and Windus, London, 1999, £20 Many books on intelligence matters simply rehash old ‘facts’, adding a new twist to – a slightly different interpretation of – well-known, if not necessarily well-understood, events. If … Read more
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
Introduction What follows is an interim report about Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple. In so far as it has a central thesis, it is that Jones initiated the Jonestown massacre because he feared that Congressman Leo Ryan’s investigation would disgrace him. Specifically, Jones feared that Ryan and the press would uncover evidence that the … Read more
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
[…] such as weapons of mass destruction, global intelligence, organised crime, money laundering, terrorism, defence.’ Current contents and sample e-journal. The Intelligence Zone http://www.ionet.net/~everett/index.shtml Intelligence links including to MKULTRA, TEMPEST surveillance and how to prevent it. FBI FOIA Homepage http://www.fbi.gov/foipa/foipa.htm Introduction: history of FOIA pertaining to FBI Electronic Reading Room – cases from the FBI […]