[…] have identified me as a victim of inter-gang terrorist rivalry. I believed at the time (as I still do) that the incident was the result of a conspiracy to murder initiated by the Security Service (MI5) and with me as the intended victim. I thought about reporting this to the police after it had […]
[…] Papacy to get diplomatic recognition for Croatia. The April mail-shot from The Keys of Peter — an eccentric but entertaining mixture of high Catholicism, anti-Masonic thought and conspiracy theories — contains one of the truly great rewrites of an author’s intentions. Of the Aarons and Loftus book about the collaboration between the Vatican and […]
[…] Donald Neff’s Warriors for Jerusalem. Of these three only Green’s book seems to have been published in the UK. And the list ought to contain Anthony Pearson’s Conspiracy of Silence (Quartet 1978) Pearson hasn’t exactly been visible since then. Anybody know where he is and doing what? Active British Servicemen “British servicemen (are) active […]
[…] issue. Between issues 23 and 24 when I rang to arrange a meeting he told me he was too busy writing the book which became The Silent Conspiracy to meet me to discuss Lobster24. OK, thought I, this is silly: too busy to meet to even discuss the magazine which carries your name? I […]
[…] U.S. Department of State. Identifying Misinformation aims to put paid to rumours and ill-founded tales that might show the USA in a bad light. With sections including Conspiracy Theories (‘Did the US “create” Osama bin Laden?’), Military Misinformation (‘Depleted uranium’), and Deliberate Disinformation (‘Saddam’s disinformation’; ‘Soviet disinformation’), plus guidance on ‘How to identify misinformation’, […]
[…] 1940. It was very convenient for Churchill. The received view is that after Kent’s arrest Churchill/MI5 used the Kent-Captain Ramsay connection as evidence of a more organised conspiracy than really existed – a pretext – and the whole lot of them, Mosley’s group, Ramsay’s group, the remnants of The Link etc, were all rounded […]
[…] SIS on them? Then the Sunday Telegraph had to apologise to the son of Colonel Gadafi whom it had accused in 1995 of being involved in a conspiracy to flood Iran with counterfeit money. This was a whiz-bang from those ingenious people at SIS, given to Con Coughlin then the Sunday Telegraph’s man in […]
[…] the failure of his children to back up his alibi. Marita Lorenz, former lover of Fidel Castro-turned-CIA-agent, testified that she had been part of the Kennedy assassination conspiracy along with Hunt, another Watergate ‘plumber’ Frank Sturgis, and some Cubans. But her first-hand knowledge of the assassination is nil. She left the group in Dallas […]
[…] 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 […]
