[…] French Public Prosecutor’s Report. As with the circumstances of the crash, however, there are a number of grey areas and issues that still remain unresolved. Alcohol and drugs – the lethal cocktail The immediate cause of the crash has been blamed on Henri Paul’s drunk and drugged condition, although video footage from the Ritz’s […]
[…] transmission into the brain’, January 1974: personal unpublished papers submitted to the US State Department. Schapitz suggested the following experiment. ‘Brain waves that have been produced by drugs of known psychic effect are going to be registered on magnetic tape. The recorded rhythms will then be modulated onto a microwave (or several beams if […]
[…] suspects in 1971. Streatfield shows us that these programmes involved the UK as junior partners to the US; and that by 1970 most of the experiments with drugs and gizmos had apparently ended. The NATO countries’ scientists had abandoned their search for ‘mind control’ and had discovered that to break down most people all […]
Spectre In the last Lobster 35 I reported on the new anti-EU magazine Spectre and wondered about its political orientation. In response, the editor, Steve McGiffen, sent an exemplary piece of candour from which here are some extracts. ‘….. Our original statement, sent out very widely, made it clear that we are minimalist to a … Read more
[…] gun-running and – the holy grail – nuclear material smuggling. A ‘senior police officer’ was quoted in the Observer, 6 November 1994: ‘It’s very easy to present drugs and organised crime as a threat to national security particularly because of Eastern Europe. There the threat of armoured divisions has been replaced by the threat […]
[…] about to go and work in Israel. He claimed just before his death to have invented powerful new explosives. Given the statements elsewhere about Parsons’ liking for drugs and preference for working at home with unstable chemicals, the speculation in the book that his death might not have been an accident is unconvincing Where […]
[…] Donald Gregg in the middle of contra drug operations at Mena Airport.’ The March/April issue contains another important piece by Daniel Brandt, whose essay on the CIA- drugs story is reproduced above, documenting the American feminist Gloria Steinhem’s early (1958) activities on behalf of the CIA in the great youth/student politics wars between the […]
[…] services.’ (9 December, 1993) The only bit they missed out was that MI6 got to play their ‘Eastern European threat after Communism’ card (not Communism now, but drugs and guns).(3) And was it ‘badly formulated’? It looks like rather successful psy-ops to me. The first crack in the wall was in the Evening Standard […]
[…] the termination of testing on unwitting subjects, Deputy Director for Plans, Richard Helms continued to advocate covert testing on the ground that ‘positive operational capability to use drugs is diminished, owing to lack of realistic testing……we are less capable of staying up with the Soviet advances in this field.'(11) On the subject of moral […]
Stakeknife: Britain’s Secret Agents in Ireland Martin Ingram and Greg Harkin Dublin: The O’Brien Press: 2004, £8.99, p/back Mad Dog: The rise and fall of Johnny Adair and ‘C Company’ David Lister and Hugh Jordan Edinburgh: Mainstream, 2003, £15.99, h/back Stakeknife is a former member’s account of some of the operations of the […]
