Philip Hoare, Duckworth Press, London, 1997, £16.99 The opening of MI5’s archives up to and including 1919 gives historians and researchers the chance to exhume the genesis of the right in British domestic politics as well as the early activities of the secret state. Despite its title (Oscar died in 1900) Hoare dips quite a … Read more
[…] Jersey; New Page Books (newpagebooks.com), 2007, $15.99, p/b I’m not a fan of Marrs. I didn’t think much of his JFK book, Crossfire; and his The Terror Conspiracy (which isn’t included in his CV on the rear cover, for some reason) about 9-11 and its aftermath was a sorry collection of conspiracy theories and […]
Noam Friedlander London: Conspiracy Books/Collins and Brown, 2005, p/bk, £8.99 Apart from being an anagram of Oedipus, Opus Dei is a Roman Catholic organisation, which has grown from beginnings in Spain in the 1920s, led by José Maria Escriva, to being an evangelising force within the Catholic Church, aimed as much at the […]
[…] the Summer 1991 issue of Covert Action, Bill Clinton was a footnote character; now he has become Oliver North’s partner, and a principal player in a CIA conspiracy. Compromised also claims that George Bush’s sons had a direct involvement with the Medellin cocaine cartel, and that the CIA engineered the Hasenfus crash as a […]
[…] the attack on USS Liberty. ‘As with the assassination of John F. Kennedy four years earlier, the official version is even more unlikely than some of the conspiracy theories.’ John Simpson, forward to Peter Hounam’s Operation Cyanide (London: Vision, 2003) The well-documented rise of the neo-cons has highlighted again a seemingly enduring feature of […]
[…] the war from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and thus ensure that the President got a mandate from Congress for the attack on Iraq. The moment of conspiracy In Britain, at the 11th hour very senior MI6 and Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS) used a human source who claimed – falsely, of course – that […]
Operation Julie, a nation-wide police investigation of LSD production, was launched in 1976. Two years later, although some 60 members of the British ‘microdot conspiracy’ had been convicted, Detective Inspector Dick ‘Leapy’ Lee was dissatisfied. The operational commander of ‘Julie’, Lee was interested in the international connections of the network, but was blocked from […]
[…] power from the Tories, Oyston was in jail, serving a six year sentence for the rape and indecent assault of a young woman. The secrets of the conspiracy that destroyed Oyston’s business and political career now lie in a huge archive gathered during the twenty years in which he was tormented by secret enemies, […]
[…] covered the King family’s landmark case and its successful outcome — establishing that Dr Martin Luther King was killed, not by a lone assassin, but by a conspiracy. This story was largely ignored by the American and British media, including our own dear Guardian, whose American reportage is in a class of its own […]
[…] House of Lords 1997 intake for services to politics because LFIG played a small but important role in that process of transition to what we have today. Conspiracy theory Before telling the tale, let’s knock some of the conspiracy theory on the head. I am well aware of how the ‘Zionist machine’ works and […]
