The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] commitment to modernisation, transparency and normalization.’ ‘Normalization’? What next? Can ‘woke’ Masons be far away? Meanwhile, back on Dealey Plaza Researchers into the Kennedy assassination and the Watergate affair are currently involved in an exchange of ideas on-line,17 looking into connections between the two events. John Simkin – who initiated the whole thing – […]

Impossible Knowledge, and, The Stigmatization of Conspiracy Theory since the 1950s

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[…] in which these two books appear. 1 theories without theories? But then this is post-modernism and any old bollocks will do. From Dallas the author moves to Watergate and she has actually read some of the Watergate literature. But the muddle grows. ‘Weissman’s collection 2 thereby points towards a trend in conspiracy theories in […]

Impossible Knowledge: Conspiracy Theories, Power, and Truth by Todor Hristov and The Stigmatization of Conspiracy Theory since the 1950s “A Plot to Make us Look Foolish”by Katharina Thalmann

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)

[PDF file]: […] part, they didn’t have any theories. Conspiracy theories without theories? But then this is post-modernism and any old bollocks will do. From Dallas the author moves to Watergate and she has actually read some of the Watergate literature. But the muddle grows. ‘Weissman’s collection2 thereby points towards a trend in conspiracy theories in the […]

The Conspiracy and Democracy Project

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] have read little or none – your perception of the extent of conspiracies by governments and organisations will be a gross underestimate. There is a piece on Watergate on the site,3 for example, which makes the banal point that conspiracy and cock-up often go together but discusses only the more obvious conspiracies within the […]

The British state’s failed attempt to kill off the Freedom of Information Act

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] 2015 See or . 13 not appear to notice the towering irony of setting out to restrict the public’s ‘right to know’ in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal that had propelled him into the Oval Office in the first place (another instance of a government trying to defend itself against a supposedly ‘hostile […]

View from

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[…] 1967 CIA 4 memo to its agents and influencers round the world telling them to denigrate Warren Commission sceptics as ‘conspiracy theorists’.10 Boy, did they ever! *new* Watergate I am grateful to Professor Richard Keeble11 for the following. an intriguing revelation buried in yesterday’s Times obit for Fred Emery, their former Washington correspondent. Emery, […]

View from

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[…] notorious 1967 CIA memo to its agents and influencers round the world telling them to denigrate Warren Commission sceptics as ‘conspiracy theorists’.10 Boy, did they ever! *new* Watergate I am grateful to Professor Richard Keeble11 for the following. an intriguing revelation buried in yesterday’s Times obit for Fred Emery, their former Washington correspondent. Emery, […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] Hougan Did a pre-presidential meeting in the jungle between Nixon and a militaristic priest escalate ‘Nam? ‘A Call from Hunt: Inside the First Hours and Days of Watergate’ by Douglas Caddy ‘A Strange New Watergate Book: Lamar Waldron & Watergate’ by James DiEugenio So: this is some of the A-team as far as parapolitics […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] who was recruited while still a student at Brigham Young.47 There is even a Mormon connection to the seven people indicted by the Grand Jury for the Watergate burglary (five of whom had been involved in some way with the CIA). This was the public relations firm (and CIA front) Robert R. Mullen and […]

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