[PDF file]: […] lasted nearly two months and involved over 350 witnesses. For good measure, Mary Surratt, landlady of a Washington boarding-house, was also hanged. She had supposedly harboured the conspiracy while it was being hatched, and Booth had tried to recruit her son into it. The Lincoln plotters’ objective was to somehow overthrow the Union government […]
[PDF file]: […] with the story at . 37 or 38 15 You can see why the piece was written. In the current climate, awash as we are with stupid conspiracy theories, if you knew nothing about the Dallas events, it could seem a good wheeze to debunk conspiracy theories about the JFK killing. And so Danny […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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]: […] the truth. But, as history has shown all too often, the desires of mass audiences can be deflected and manipulated by powerful interests. Take, for example, the conspiracy theory which holds that the psychedelic counter-culture of the 1960s was engineered by the CIA as part of a plot by a secret, global elite bent […]
[PDF file]: […] to Intelligence Activities of the United States Senate. 94th Congress, 2nd Session, Book II (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1976), pp. 25-31; Kathryn S. Olmsted, Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War I to 9/11 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), p. 69; Victor Lasky, It Didn’t Start With Watergate (New York: […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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).9 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 […]
[…] a very odd – very odd – story about Chinese and US drones using ‘gravitic propulsion systems’.20 Reading that I was reminded of the first law of conspiracy: if you can imagine it, it’s been tried already.21 All together now . . . In this column in Lobster 87, apropos the then developing economic […]
