[…] is beyond the scope of this article, and may never be possible. Much of the activity of the anti-communist groups was clandestine: to fight the secret communist conspiracy — real or imaginary — they too operated in secret, set up cell structures. For example, there appears to be not a single academic article written […]
[…] deliciously telling acronym ‘CREEP’ (Committee To ReElect The President). To accept that Nixon’s negative reputation was solely an image problem, one must also dismiss much history as conspiracy paranoia. Greenberg sees Nixon’s worst excesses as justifiable reactions to equally ruthless enemies, like the effete liberals of the 40s and 50s or the student radicals […]
[…] discreet charm of the right-winger when he commented that: ‘Al Gore seems intent on shattering whatever minuscule credibility he has left with baseless, mean-spirited personal attacks and conspiracy theories.’ Florida again Since we’ve already invoked the spirit of Florida 2000, let’s start with what happened there. Florida excelled itself, this time getting into the […]
[…] would be interested to be shown how and where. More recently I have been accused a couple of times of being a front for MI6 by American conspiracy theory nutters. But that’s about par for the course in these fields. The examples of Soviet disinformation offered by Gordievsky from the 1980s in his book […]
[…] the circumstances of the crash with a refreshing objectivity, calmly and methodically examining what may or may not have happened that night. Demolishing many of the wilder conspiracy theories, if Cohen has an accusatory finger to wag it would seem to be pointing in the direction of James Andanson, the celebrity photographer who also […]
[…] come off, neither as a thriller, nor as a roman a clef about the Kennedy assassination. But there is material of interest here for the student of conspiracy theories. For this, to my knowledge, is the first book which has included within it the basic thesis from The Gemstone File, an American samizdat which […]
[…] of the Rhodesian Central Intelligence Organisation (CI0). Stiff reveals, among other things, his involvement in a campaign of bombing and assassination in Zambia and in an abortive conspiracy to assassinate Robert Mugabe during the Lancaster House talks in London. After Aden, Stiff went on to help train the police in Kenya. (‘In spite of […]
[…] an IRA ‘alliance with the London based Black Liberation Front.‘ (p22) (Special Forces is edited by a former British Army officer, Peter Harclerode.) The themes of insidious conspiracy and subversion within have always been a part of the British Right’s ideological package, but in the past few years they have become much more explicit. […]
[…] outcome was quite interesting. In the ‘Lombard’ column of the Financial Times, C. Gordon Tether wrote on May 6 1975: ‘If the Bilderberg Group is not a conspiracy of some sort, it is conducted in such a way as to give a remarkably good imitation of one.’ In a column written almost a year […]
[…] After arrest at Faslane base women held for 30 hours, 4 to a cell, continuous lighting, no bedding. (Guardian 1 September – letter) Peace protesters charged with conspiracy – first such charge for 20 years. (Times 1 September) (c) and computers Home Office doubts about value of computers. There is no evidence that they […]
