MILITARY / INTELLIGENCE

Cost To Test U.S. Global-Strike Missile Could Reach $500 Million - By Elaine M. Grossman (17/3/10) PDF Print E-mail
Elaine M. Grossman   
Wednesday, 17 March 2010 07:59

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Spy Takes US/Israel Secrets To Grave - By Robert Parry (17/3/10) PDF Print E-mail
Robert Parry   
Wednesday, 17 March 2010 07:58

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French Bread Spiked With LSD In CIA Experiment - By Henry Samuel (15/3/10) PDF Print E-mail
Henry Samuel   
Monday, 15 March 2010 01:03

A 50-year mystery over the 'cursed bread' of Pont-Saint-Esprit, which left residents suffering hallucinations, has been solved after a writer discovered the US had spiked the bread with LSD as part of an experiment.

By Henry Samuel – The Telegraph, UK

An American investigative journalist has uncovered evidence suggesting the CIA peppered local food with the hallucinogenic drug LSD

In 1951, a quiet, picturesque village in southern France was suddenly and mysteriously struck down with mass insanity and hallucinations. At least five people died, dozens were interned in asylums and hundreds afflicted.

For decades it was assumed that the local bread had been unwittingly poisoned with a psychedelic mould. Now, however, an American investigative journalist has uncovered evidence suggesting the CIA peppered local food with the hallucinogenic drug LSD as part of a mind control experiment at the height of the Cold War.

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Russia Drills For Nuclear War - By Global Security Newswire (12/3/10) PDF Print E-mail
Global Security Newswire   
Friday, 12 March 2010 08:08

By Global Security Newswire

Russia's strategic missile forces today launched a three-day drill expected to simulate the use of nuclear weapons, RIA Novosti reported (see GSN, Sept. 9, 2009).

Russian military personnel would follow procedures in the nation's recently adopted military doctrine for dealing with nuclear and conventional conflict, said strategic missile forces spokesman Col. Vadim Koval (see GSN, Feb. 9).

"The SMF are conducting command-and-staff drills on March 10-12 in line with the annual training program," he said. "A total of more than 2,000 servicemen and 150 theater- and tactical-level command-and-control centers take part in the drills," Koval added.

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Ex-Spy Chief: US Misleading On Detainees (11/3/10) PDF Print E-mail
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Thursday, 11 March 2010 07:57

Associated Press

[FF Editorial: If anyone believes that MI 5 was totally blind-sided by the CIA, they must be naive or fools. The British campaign in Malaya against the Commiunists were brutal and many techniques of counter-insurgency warfare that are applied throughoutn the world today were derived from this campaign in Malaya from 1948 to the 1960s.] 

LONDON --- United States intelligence agencies misled key allies, including Britain, about its mistreatment of suspected terrorists, according to the former head of the country's domestic spy agency, MI5.

Eliza Manningham-Buller, who retired in 2007 and is now a member of the House of Lords, said Tuesday that the U.S. deliberately suppressed details of its harsh handling of some detainees, including accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

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