[…] kidnapped and killed by the IRA, was involved in Green’s death, but the allegations were never confirmed. It was, as with the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, a conspiracy theory that was never proved’ (emphasis added). Fred Holroyd is those ‘rumours and allegations’.(1) Precisely what Nairac was doing we still don’t know. It is clear […]
[…] detail by Hugh Thomas and reiterated (though with an intriguing twist) by Frank Kippax. (1) Then there are the speculations by those who accept an element of conspiracy, both in Germany and Britain, in 1941 and 1987, but who reject the idea that the man in Spandau was an imposter. The recent work of […]
[…] of fortune’ Gary Patrick Hemming, and headed by Cuban exile Anselmo Alliergro IV, who dealt with Latin American sales. In 1974 Werbell was involved in a “ conspiracy among the CIA, Robert Vesco (international fugitive and Nixon campaign contributor) and various corporations to finance clandestine guerilla activities in South America. Vesco wanted to purchase […]
[…] to The Focus is the Nazi apologist David Irving, who adds little to the story, omits much that was known, and bends the rest to fit his conspiracy theory that the Second World War was the work of an International Jewish Conspiracy. (19) Notes Members of The Focus, including Churchill, continued to be secretive […]
[…] which exonerated the Contras from involvement in drug-trafficking.(2) My researches into U.S. government involvement with drug-traffickers date back to 1970 when I wrote a book, The War Conspiracy, about the origins of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. I returned to this topic yet again in 1986, when I noticed that certain Cuban exiles […]
[…] virtual network linking FOI movements globally and an ‘institutional memory’ for transparency and access to information rights throughout the world. Notes See for example: Justin Pope, ‘9/11 conspiracy theorists thriving’, Associated Press Online 7 August 2006; Richard Roeper, ‘Academics fill grassy knoll spot abandoned by Oliver Stone’, Chicago Sun Times 8 August 2006; Alexander […]
[…] by the right – all those elite planning groups, for example – and the authors feel obliged to admonish the reader that this is not about a conspiracy. Or rather it’s about lots of them: ‘Yes, they plan and organise with each other, but there is no secret conspiracy operating behind the visible front. […]
[…] get the name of the former D-G of MI5 wrong, calling him Maurice Hanley! If the Healey faction of the WRP have any evidence on the alleged conspiracy to destabilize the WRP it is not here. Some years ago I spent an entertaining couple of hours with one of those named in this book […]
[…] the time of the alleged airline plot in August 2006 indicated that the US considered the UK to be a ‘weak link’ in the ‘war on terror’.() Conspiracy theorists might see the extremely swift briefings on this aspect as indicating some remarkable planning in the PR management of the case. Either the US had […]
[…] 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 […]
