W. H. Bowart, Self-published, Tucson, Arizona, 1994. Operation Mind Control was originally published in 1978 by Dell Paperbacks. It came out around the same time as John Marks’ The Search for the Manchurian Candidate, a rather anodyne book which, after dealing with CIA and military LSD experiments which caused at least one unwitting victim to … Read more
[…] these people, trailing all these politically embarrassing connections to the US intelligence community, bombed the World Trade Centre.(1) None of this can be stopped because of the spook connections. The Cubans have their get-out-of-jail-free card; and, as a result, their clients are also protected from routine investigation and prosecution. The Cuban money laundry is […]
Politics and Paranoia I wrote this for Picnic Publishing’s website. Talks, 1986-2004 Robin Ramsay Picnic Publishing, 297 pages, index, £9.99, ISBN 9780955610547 There are a number of talks in Politics and Paranoia about Colin Wallace and Fred Holroyd. (Holroyd had been in the British Army Special Military Intelligence Unit and Wallace had been a Senior … Read more
Why do they do this? In the previous issue I referred to the fictitious comments attributed by Tony Blair to a doctor in Africa. They’ve done it again. In February Blair’s spin doctor in chief, Alastair Campbell, claimed to have saved a man from being beaten by muggers, The Mail on Sunday (23 February) traced … Read more
[…] book: ‘Let’s face it, the NUM were never more than a bunch of amateurs trying to take on the might of the state.’ Windsor is probably the spook Milne thinks he is, but this is true. Big boys’ rules. Notes He received admiring reviews from the British Left, notably Paul Foot (the Spectator, 21 […]
Assassination or ‘targeted killings’? Joshua Raines of the University of Iowa College of Law argues that although assassination, ‘narrowly defined’ [sic], is illegal, ‘targeted killings’ could well be permissible under ‘just war’ criteria. The US should therefore pass legislation that allows for ‘…targeted killings under a very narrow range of circumstances with adequate checks built … Read more
From Mark Hollingsworth As the journalist, along with Nick Fielding, who first reported David Shayler’s revelations about MI5 in the Mail on Sunday in 1997, I would like to set the record straight on your piece in Lobster 36 (‘Peter’s Friends’?) I have remained close to David Shayler and Annie Machon, his girlfriend and also … Read more
[…] googled the names and terms above in a single search. This led me to . This is very suggestive and worth a look. But if our anonymous spook is a fake, he simply paraphrased the story in the Baltimore Chronicle (which is a 7,000 circulation radical magazine). On the same subject former Democratic Governor […]
[…] it is partly a newsletter, in a continuous process of up-dating the reader. One of those themes is the survey of legislation and politics in the US spook world. But as well as the fairly dry details of bills, appropriations and Congressional debates, it covers the major parapolitical themes. So, for example, in the […]
[…] instincts are cautiously tolerant, are presented with ‘facts’ that constantly imply an enemy within. But is there more to this than meets the eye? The French ‘ spook’ trade newsletter, Intelligence Online (edition 531, 10 September) contained details of increases expected in European R&D expenditures in the security sector. There was an odd entry […]
