[…] Bush (and Governor Howard Dean) acknowledged members of Skull and Bones, it is getting hard even for an establishment paper like the Post to completely dismiss the conspiracy buffs. In the pursuit of Skull and Bones, Millegan’s collection of essays and reprints of articles is a major addition to the published information on 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 […]
[…] recent survey carried out by CILIP (the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) indicates that libraries are experiencing ‘increased police and security services activity.’(17) It’s a conspiracy…. ‘Our findings call into question current questioning about the function of conspiracy theories. If……are a means to provide explanations for uncertain events, or are a response […]
[…] own satisfaction, if not to that of others, and no doubt to the mystification of many more), Wrone moves on to prove that the Z-film records a conspiracy. In this, we have come full circle, back to the early WCR critics who used the Z-film as their ‘exhibit A’. Wrone is pretty good on […]
The Kennedys: The Conspiracy to Destroy a Dynasty Matthew Smith Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, h/b, £16.99, 2005 State Secrets: The Kent-Wolkoff Affair Bryan Clough Hove: Hideaway Publications, 2005, £15 (US $27.50) Matthew Smith has written several books covering the tribulations of the Kennedy family and is described on the book jacket as a screenwriter […]
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 […]
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 […]
[…] 1990 such a document would have been about Soviet disinformation campaigns; and this one begins with some well known examples of Soviet disinformation before proceeding to attack conspiracy theories. It names only three current sources of conspiracy theories: the two websites, Rense.com and Conspiracy Planet, and ‘Australian private investigator Joe Vialls, who died in […]
[…] within a fortnight had over 2 Mbs of data – more than could be comfortably filed, let alone digested. And it has continued growing since. ‘9-11 + conspiracy’ on Google will now produce getting on for 6 million hits. By comparison, the critical information in the JFK case appeared in dribs and drabs over […]
