Briefly Just published is Kevin Coogan’s magnum opus on the strange America fascist, Francis Parker Yockey, Dreamer of the Day, Francis Parker Yockey and the Postwar Fascist International, (Autonomedia, Brooklyn, USA, 1999). It arrived to late for inclusion in this issue but will be reviewed in Lobster 39. Further information can be had on the … Read more
The 80 Greatest Conspiracies of all Time Jonathan Vankin and John Whalen New York, Citadell; 2004; distributed in the UK by Turnaround (www.turnaround-uk.com); p/b, £13.99 The latest edition of the Vankin-Whalen book, all 700 pages of it. The previous version was ‘The 70 greatest…’ and the authors haven’t bothered to write a new introduction … Read more
David Black, Vision, London, 1998, £9.99 pb I enjoyed this book hugely, and I’d recommend it to anyone remotely interested in the politics of psychedelia – apart from anything else, there are stories here you almost certainly won’t have heard. However, overall it aspires to more than it can deliver. As the title implies, the … Read more
It is impossible to make an omlette without breaking eggs. — James Anderton on anti-terrorism My anger in this case stemmed from the denial that things had gone wrong, that no eggs were broken even though the omlette was there to see. — John Stalker David Murphy, The Stalker Affair and the Press, Unwin Hyman, … Read more
CIA set for Pentagon buyout? Lester Coleman, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) man who co-authored Trail of the Octopus (about CIA drug-channel involvement in the Lockerbie bombing) writes in the latest Unclassified (quarterly publication of the Association of Former National Security Alumni, no. 34, Fall 1995), that the CIA feels itself threatened by a DIA … Read more
This article examines hallucinogenic-type drug experiments conducted by various elements of the U.S. Army Intelligence community in conjunction with sections of the U.S. Army Chemical Corps. Most of the related records have been destroyed. The following is what I have been able to salvage from the records available on these programs. Edgewood Tests From the … Read more
Gecas and Special Branch A wonderful example of the reach and power of intelligence connections was provided in January. Why did the British state refuse to extradite Anton Gecas, the WW2 Lithuanian war criminal, to the Soviet Union in 1976? Turns out not only had Gecas worked for SIS at the end of WW2, he’d … Read more
Our Secret Servants: the Shayler affair Things had been going rather well for the British security and intelligence services in the 1990s. Under pressure from the Wright-Wallace-Massiter revelations of the 80s, they had conceded a notional form of parliamentary accountability with the creation of the Intelligence and Security Committee. With members who either knew nothing … Read more
In an interview in The Times (Times 2, 23 November 2000, p.5) Dr Rosalie Berthell spoke of her belief that the US military is researching how to modify the weather. What looks to me like the beginnings of evidence for this belief appeared in two pieces on the Net: http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/chuss/haarp.htm http://emperors-clothes.com/docs/changed.htm The second of those … Read more
The British American Project and the war on Iraq The war on Iraq proved a busy time for members of the British American Project (Lobster 33 et seq) on this side of the pond. To cover the American countdown to war, long-time UK advisory board member Jim Naughtie returned to the New York home of … Read more
