[…] the Heckler and Koch MP5K to the Metropolitan Police. As Handgunner magazine (No 23 1984) noted: “It is soon apparent that here is an area in which conspiracy theorists could enjoy themselves.” Professor Paul Wilkinson, so-called counter-insurgency and terrorist expert, said in a letter to the Times (11th April 1984) that “The MP5 is […]
[…] the Guardian, through its editor, Rusbridger, kept from them a letter stating that they were under investigation themselves and were facing a possible prosecution charging them with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. Rusbridger’s version is that the letter was overlooked during a holiday period. Anyway, the Guardian pulled them off the story […]
[…] be understood as the working out, in public arenas, of bureaucratic, interest group, or class struggles. The study of secret societies smacks instead of pursuing discredited “ conspiracy” theories of history. In part, this attitude stems from a general ignorance of the existence and power of such groups. But they do exist: “modernisation” has […]
[…] section and dragged many of the people in for questioning. (44) On December 5, 1997, a warrant was issued for the Sanders’ arrest. They were charged with conspiracy to illegally remove parts of aircraft wreckage and the crime of aiding and abetting the removal of such materials. James Kallstrom said: ‘These defendants are charged […]
[…] of ideas have become a farce. The Left has no equal voice, no equal access to the mass media and their public facilities – not because a conspiracy excludes it, but because, in good old capitalist fashion, it does not have the required purchasing power. Notes FCO (2005) Westminster Foundation for Democracy, ‘Working for […]
[…] little later.) This is probably why I like it: that’s the stuff I grew up on. But the UK underground press didn’t have Steamshovel‘s huge input of conspiracy theories. Steamshovel also has the faults as well as the virtues of the UK underground press. Oz and IT and the rest were fascinating but hardly […]
‘Rug merchants’ was the epithet former White House Chief of Staff Don Regan used to describe the Iranians who negotiated secret arms deals for nearly a year with senior officials of the Reagan Administration, including Oliver North of the National Security Council. Regan’s dismissive characterization hardly did justice to the sales skills of North’s Mideast … Read more
[…] a New Overt Publication, Effectively American-Oriented, on the Cultural Front’, 7th December 1947, p. 4. Interview with Melvin Lasky, Berlin, April 3rd 1999. Peter Coleman, The Liberal Conspiracy, Free Press, New York, 1989, p. 16. Pierre Grémion, Intelligence de L’Anticommunisme, Fayard, Paris, 1995, p.93. Speech to the Anglo-American Press Club, February 1952, CCF Archive […]
[…] been difficult at times not to become absorbed in the information torrent on the Internet which that event has generated. It has been fascinating watching the American conspiracy buffs going to work on the subject and I have saved large amounts of that torrent with the idea that I will one day write something […]
[…] disarmament was rubbished at home and in the Kremlin (where there was Soviet arms lobby nearly as powerful as the one in the US). The ‘October Surprise’ conspiracy between the Republican Party and the Iranian regime was merely the final nail in a political coffin which had been carefully constructed by the ‘new cold […]
