[…] then Chairman of the Security Commission’. Murray leaves this extraordinary episode thus: What happened from that point on is unknown but what is certain is that the conspiracy against Gerry Gable was brought to an abrupt halt’. Armed bodyguards, arranged by Special Branch to protect the editor of an anti-fascist magazine, after a telephone […]
[…] the model for ‘Mr. X’, the character played by Donald Sutherland in the most risible scene in Oliver Stone’s JFK. Although he was occasionally inclined to unsupported conspiracy theorising towards the end of his life, Prouty was the author of one of the best books about the CIA, The Secret Team. A senior military […]
[…] but by the Defense Secretary. In other words, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld had to personally approve any action.(7) These items alone make the case of the 9-11 conspiracy theorists look plausible. On the World Socialist Web site, Patrick Martin concludes that the evidence suggests that the Bush administration was expecting al Qaeda to hijack […]
[…] and beliefs of reporters and pundits mirrors that of the political and military establishment. The crucial propaganda function of the press was achieved not through any mass conspiracy to deceive the public but through ‘an ideology of news reporting that incorporates a set of routines, constraint, expectations – and myths.’ (p.200) Let a journalist […]
[…] was set for the 1980 election in which the Reagan campaign took over the old John Birch Society line and denounced the Trilateral Commission as a pro-Communist conspiracy. The rest is history (and may be the last we’ll ever get.) But there’s more to the story Sanders has to tell. He traces names and […]
[…] in April. When the donations scandal erupted last year, in which the LFI was implicated, Temko wrote a defence of the lobby group in The Observer, dismissing conspiracy theories about the extent of its influence. Proceeding with inquiries? At this writing the promised party inquiry by former Labour Party and Blair minister Lord Whitty […]
[…] democracy, that a 1999 investigation by the Home Office’s chief historian found that in the case of the Zinoviev letter affair there was ‘no evidence of a conspiracy in the institutional sense.’ That is to say, MI6 as an organisation hadn’t perverted the course of the election – a coterie of like-minded MI6 officers […]
[…] planes for covert missions, discussion of Oklahoma, an FBI agent provocateur, and an essay by Professor Carrie Foster of the Coalition on Political Assassinations Speakers Bureau, ‘ Conspiracy is as American as Apple pie’. Must be something in the water up there in the North-west. Good stuff, from PO Box 1327 Tualatin, Oregon 97062, […]
[…] contractor to the United States government in numerous projects.’ Even though Halliburton settled out of court, Cheney’s spokeswoman Juleanna Weiss saw it as a different kind of conspiracy altogether, saying, ‘The voters are bound to question the timing of this investigation. The timing is suspicious, given the Clinton-Gore administration’s proclivity to manipulate the Justice […]
[…] other hand, the purges in this period were the result of the ‘paranoid tendencies’ of Stalin and ‘the Centre’ which constructed a vast but wholly imaginary American conspiracy round the activities of a fellow-travelling American Quaker, Noel Field, who had been in (innocent) contact with many leading figures in the Soviet bloc. (KGB: the […]
