[…] one message between the two leaders which had apparently not been released into the public domain. In The Independent (24 August 1998) Paul Lashmar, in ‘Pearl Harbour conspiracy is bunk’, reported that the ‘secret file’ believed to contain the aforementioned ‘secret telegram’ had been released into the Public Record Office – and there was […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] ‘missionary’ are in Philip H. Melanson’s important study, Spy Saga: Lee Harvey Oswald and US Intelligence (New York: Praeger, 1990), pp. 94-5, and Anthony Summers’ The Kennedy Conspiracy (London: Sphere Books, 1992), pp. 343-4. Oddly, John Newman came across no references to Osborne/Bowen when researching Oswald and the CIA (New York: Carroll and Graf, […]
[…] still peddling one of the original cover stories, apparently unaware of even the basic facts of the case. He continues: ‘But this and an abundance of other conspiracy theories have led to no firm conclusion. Certain facts are now clear: for example, the House Select Committee on Assassination in 1977-8 commissioned a com-puter-generated three-dimensional […]
[…] end of the remarkable sequence of events in the three years preceding Hasting’s statement to the House of Comments which are documented in Smear!, show that the conspiracy theories of the subversive-hunters of the British right – Brian Crozier et al – had ‘captured’ a significant section of the leadership of the Conservative Party […]
[…] tends to be factually correct within paragraphs while the conspiratorial connections between paragraphs are mostly pure paranoid fantasy. ….Overall it is extremely right-wing, in the international- Jewish- conspiracy mould.’ Oct., 1983: Brierley takes over NZFP through Watties helped by newly appointed chairman Papps.Papps also chairman NZ Railways and presided over transport deregulation whose major […]
[…] all the eye-witnesses who placed Sirhan in front of Kennedy; recounts all the previous attempts to get the case reopened – in short makes the case for conspiracy at least as well as it has been made before. Finally, he goes to see Thane Cesar, the obvious culprit. Cesar, of course, denies doing the […]
[…] ‘accident’), in October 1983. As far as we are aware there is as yet no detailed study of the event, nor any plausible explanation of it. U.S. conspiracy buffs, accustomed to scenarios in which liberals/leftists – Kennedys, King, Panthers – are assassinated by the right-wing, seem to be both confused by, and disinterested in, […]
[…] have done it already and better than I could. (1) For the most part the author sticks to what is known but occasionally cannot resist a good conspiracy theory. He tells us, for example, on p. 71: ‘1969-72 The CIA, with apparent DOD co-operation, undertakes a super secret domestic operation to “neutralize” America’s already […]
[…] a Marxist program to enable it to root itself in the working-class. This is why within the global anti-capitalist movement infantile and often deeply reactionary and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories (references to the Illuminati and all that crap) proliferated at the expense of Marxism. It was compounded to some extent by the naïve belief that […]
