Introduction by Kenn Thomas Foreword by David Hatcher Childress Adventures Unlimited Press, Kempton, Illinois, USA, 1996, $16.00 Also known as ‘Nomenclature of an Assassination Cabal’, the so-called Torbitt Memorandum (‘Document’ here for some reason) has been floating around the JFK research world since the early 1970s. Torbitt looked quite promising initially: lots of interesting […]
[…] something else? Was the week’s notice not an invitation from the inspectors to the hospital managers to do this? Was the whole procedure, in effect, not a conspiracy between the inspectors and the managers to produce the ‘good results’ desired by the government? Notes 1 Marie Woolf, ‘Britain tells America how to avoid “friendly […]
JFK bits and pieces Paul Hoch recommends JFK:The Book of the Film (Applause Books, 211 West 71 St NY, NY 10023). This contains a footnoted JFK screenplay and about 350 pages of published articles, including some of the best anti-Stone stories. The final badge of honour was bestowed upon Stone’s movie by a long, ludicrous … Read more
[…] the effects of America’s anti-Soviet obsession on Italian politics and what stemmed from it: corruption of all institutions, including the Catholic Church; drugs, violence, terrorism and assassination; conspiracy, literally, as normal politics; disinformation by the barrow-load. This book is full of incredible stories, leads, hints and allegations across 30 years of post-WW2 history. No […]
[…] harmless and (b) prevented tooth decay, it wasn’t helped by being adopted by the John Birch Society. Their belief, that fluoridation was part of the international communist conspiracy, was put into the mouth of the character Jack. D. Ripper, the demented commander of the US Air Force base in England, who had dispatched nuclear […]
[…] 1947), is Security and Democracy: the CIA in transition. And a new blockbuster is on the way from Anthony Summers, he of File on the Czar and Conspiracy fame. Friends in High Places: the Bechtel Story by McCartney. (See Mother Jones, June 1984) for Bechtel’s relevance to the Reagan regime, and earlier periods in […]
[…] Let’s think: Operation Phoenix? Supporting every scumbag regime on the right since World War 2? Facilitating the world-wide heroin plague? A parapolitical joke How many Kennedy assassination conspiracy theorists does it take to screw in a light bulb? Answer: Fifteen. One to screw it in, five to say he acted alone, one to say […]
[…] stealth and lying. Young, of course, can’t quite bring himself to write of lying and he gives us a variety of euphemisms. ‘deceptive reassurance’ (p. 293) ‘ conspiracy of silence’ (p. 251) ‘near-duplicity’ (p. 249) ‘disguising’ (p. 248) ‘Ministers did not lie but they avoided telling the whole truth.'(p. 247) ‘Disguising’, for example, comes […]
[…] concrete evidence that Saudi royals sponsor terrorism, he repeats Posner’s claim. Unger also refers to Edward James Epstein’s website, but sadly doesn’t repeat my favourite Bush I conspiracy anecdote – the one about the FBI memo in which ‘Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency’ denounced a Republican (!) political rival, for JFK-assassination-related […]
[…] – not even for refutation – and the closest we get to him is the comment of the Round Table that ‘as an organization that shunned publicity, conspiracy theories abound….’ However, the authors go on to note that the Council on Foreign Relations and the Royal Institute for International Affairs (RIIA) ’emerged after the […]
