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The Cult of Intelligence
While looking into Philip Zimbardo’s writing for my previous post, I came across the latest edition of the International Journal of Cultic Studies, the “Traumatic Narcissism” issue. The point of the...
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Sullivanians, or the “Fourth Wall” Cult
One of the Sullivan Institute’s buildings in NYC. Thanks, http://www.thesociallifeofartisticproperty.com. Today I’m going to write about the experiences of Dr. Amy B. Siskind inside the NYC-based...
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The Unfortunate Mr. Cosby
Bill Cosby’s implosion over the past few weeks has been almost as dramatic as Tiger Wood’s back in 2009. I have a little sympathy for Cosby, because although I believe he probably did drug and rape at...
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William Colby on the Pentagon Papers
Thank you, cia.gov! I’ve become jaded about politically sensitive ‘leaks’ of classified documents. I guess it started with Alfred McCoy’s self-exposing introduction to his 1991 edition of The Politics...
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Wormwood Star
Original 2011 cover of Wormwood Star, by Spencer Kansa. Greetings, a.nolen readers! Spencer Kansa contacted me today demanding that this post be removed and threatening me with legal action– I’ve...
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Gittinger’s Personality Assessment System
John Gittinger, the CIA’s personality profiling guru. Thanks, yikibook.com. One of the weirder chapters in John Marks’ The Search for the “Manchurian Candidate”: the CIA and Mind Control is chapter...
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What Does the Fox Say?
Gloria Steinem and friend not credited, from Maria Shriver’s article at www.interviewmagazine.com. (Maria Shriver as in Arnie.) Photograph by Mikael Jansson. I’ve taken to skimming the glossary of...
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The Other Loch Ness Monster
Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page outside Boleskine House in 1971. Boleskine is now a pleasant family home with no reported supernatural activity. Thanks, LePoint.fr. A few weeks ago I wrote about...
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Ron Jeremy: OSS Brat
“A lot of kids had dads in the war. But how many kids had their mom in the war? Especially as a member of the OSS and as a spy?” It recently came to my attention that Ron Jeremy, the famous porn star,...
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Ken Anger in Context
Thank you, Time.com. For the last few days I’ve been reading Bill Landis‘ biography of Kenneth Anger; the book purports itself to be an unauthorized biography and apparently Anger ‘lawyered up’ when he...
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Steal the Mona Lisa?
A few weeks ago, my husband alerted me to an interesting documentary about the 1911 theft of the ‘Mona Lisa’ from Paris’s Louvre Museum by Italian immigrant Pietro ‘Vincenzo’ Peruggia. This 2012...
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Ken Anger’s System of Control
Matthew Stone’s 2010 portrait of Kenneth Anger, an homage to Anger’s role in 1960s London. Thank you, matthewstone.co.uk. In this post I’m going to detail how Kenneth Anger implemented Aleister...
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Rolling Through the Intelligence Community
A bust of Brian Jones in his native Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. In this post I’m going to highlight some unsavory history about the founding of The Rolling Stones. As many people already suspect, this...
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The Rolling Stones and Meyer Lansky?
International mafioso Meyer Lansky. A few days ago I received my copy of Andrew Loog Oldham’s first autobiography, Stoned, so I’m now in a position to reveal who his mother’s long-term boyfriend was:...
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Do You Have A Key to the Playboy Mansion?
Pedophile Roman Polanski with Hugh Hefner and ‘Playmates’. Polanski’s career was promoted by Cinema 16 like Kenneth Anger’s. When I was doing research for my last post, I came across this snippet about...
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Who Funds Anti Communism?
A small announcement: I’ve created a handful of pages containing ‘primary source’ material over the last few years. These pages include document images from William Colby’s ‘Family Jewels’ leaks, as...
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Anita Pallenberg and the CIA
Anita Pallenberg courtesy of Italian Vogue. While researching A. C. Spectorsky’s work for the Playboy Empire, I stumbled across this tidbit about The Living Theatre, the only known employer of Anita...
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A. C. Spectorsky and CCF 2.0
Greetings first-time a.nolen readers! If you are unaware of the IRS evidence suggesting that Hugh Hefner and his Playboy Empire are CIA assets, please see my post Do You Have A Key to the Playboy...
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An American Pravda, Part I
The ‘Sad’ Issue, March 1964. I wrote last week about how Playboy’s literary gatekeeper, A. C. Spectorsky, stuffed Hefner’s magazine full of writing from intelligence agents and assets, and how the...
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Tradecrafting Anita Pallenberg
Anita Pallenberg’s 1962 photograph for Playboy magazine; she was 18 years old. One of the fun things about blogging is how much I learn from readers. Last week ‘Nathan’ at beatles.ru clued me into...
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