[…] recently, is the Israel connection. I came across the so-called Shea Memorandum, a long report written by a corporate lawyer, Gerald Shea (Yale, class of ’64).25 No conspiracy buff, Mr Shea! His 2004 document was titled ‘Israeli Surveillance of the Future Hijackers and FBI Suspects in the September 11 Attacks and Their Failure to […]
[…] the parliamentary system. David Aaronovitch I was contacted by BBC’s ‘The Daily Politics’: would I like to appear with David Aaronovitch? Why me? I would be defending conspiracy theories, the researcher suggested. Ahhah. I said, ‘No thanks: I do not want to appear with Aaronovitch. He doesn’t deserve the attention he gets.’ The researcher […]
[PDF file]: […] November 22, 1963 remain unknown. 26 10 Still . . . On The Atlantic site there is an essay by Brian Klass on the current popularity of conspiracy theories in America, ‘Conspiracism Is Hurting Democracy’.27 It is illustrated with this image. Kennedy assassination research next to Jewish space lasers . . . It is […]
[…] place as any to start. However, neither Armstrong nor Unz mention Chauncey Holt in their accounts. Holt’s role – as unwitting CIA technical support in the assassination conspiracy – means that the story must include both LBJ and the Agency. The only Agency figure to have talked of that was E. Howard Hunt, just […]
[PDF file]: […] company to be audited understand what the ‘deal’ is without anything being said: you get the fees, we get the clean bill of financial health. However, outright conspiracy between the auditor and the audited to suppress the true financial state of the company must happen reasonably frequently because apart from those instances which result […]
[…] place as any to start. However, neither Armstrong nor Unz mention Chauncey Holt in their accounts. Holt’s role – as unwitting CIA technical support in the assassination conspiracy – means that the story must include both LBJ and the Agency. The only Agency figure to have talked of that was E. Howard Hunt, just […]
[PDF file]: […] chairman of the Treasury Select Committee.3 Though Sir Desmond de Silva’s review into the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane4 found no evidence of an ‘overarching state conspiracy’, he did find plenty of evidence of ‘shocking state collusion’. Quite where ‘collusion’ shades into ‘overarching conspiracy’ was not specified, but enough was revealed about the […]
[PDF file]: […] there isn’t enough evidence to believe or disbelieve much of it; but let us consider it. The most complete account in English by Estes of the assassination conspiracy is in his 2005 book, Billie Sol Estes: a Texas Legend.3 This book appeared after a French book about Estes, Le Dernier Temoin (The Last Witness) […]
[PDF file]: […] Heathfield’s then wife, the late Betty Heathfield, had been a member of the CPGB; it wasn’t hard for the secret state to present this as a communist conspiracy. In charge of MI5’s operation against the NUM, then the head of its F2 branch, Stella Rimington, wrote later: ‘The 1984 miners’ strike was supported by […]
[…] recently, is the Israel connection. I came across the so-called Shea Memorandum, a long report written by a corporate lawyer, Gerald Shea (Yale, class of ’64).13 No conspiracy buff, Mr Shea! His 2004 document was titled ‘Israeli Surveillance of the Future Hijackers and FBI Suspects in the September 11 Attacks and Their Failure to […]
