[…] shortly, turning into a war between those who support the UDA and those who follow the UVF and are taking a strong line against the politics of drugs being brought into the mainland by Charlie and his crew.’ Evidence for this? The word of ‘seasoned observers’, ‘inside sources’ and ‘those in the know’. Must […]
[…] by Kenn Thomas of Steamshovel and shares much of its subject matter with Thomas’ magazine. That subject matter being UFOs; what I would call consciousness politics – drugs, mysticism, the paranormal, mind control, remote viewing; secrecy and conspiracy theories; the secret state; and the interfaces between many of these. As a 52-year old who […]
[…] thoroughly competent, even creative ways. Needing something to justify the budget, MI6 picked the international drug trade. Far as I know, since MI6 joined the ‘war against drugs’ the price of cocaine and heroin in the UK at street level has halved: it is now cheaper to get off your face, as they say […]
[…] some things are being concealed; but I think it will turn out not to be the usual suspects: political embarrassment on the part of someone important and/or drugs and/or money. Who is being prevented from speaking? Atta’s social circle in Florida have had the federal frighteners put on them; and the translator of FBI […]
[…] 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 […]
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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] that ‘Captain Spencer’ was the non de plume of Commander Cumming On p.365 we are told that Reilly/Rosenblum was ‘….one of the early architects of the international drugs trade….’. This is advanced because one Arnold Rothstein – a significant New York gangster in the ’20s – organised shipments of poppy seeds (5) from Manchuria […]
