[PDF file]: […] danger of television companies employing convicted criminals as researchers.’ Raven was in prison when police used evidence from his spy cameras to help convict four people of conspiracy to counterfeit currency. A BBC News bulletin announced the screening of the corporation’s investigative programme Funny Money: Two years ago a BBC current affairs undercover team […]
[…] by addressing Ukraine via Facebook. Zelensky warned: ‘On Hallowe’en all the political demons show their faces, and you know who they are.’76 He denounced an imaginary ‘ conspiracy against the President and the country’ which supposedly involved ‘oligarchs and members of the old elite’.77 On 31 October, the Council of Europe’s Venice Commission, which […]
[PDF file]: […] nonsense Nesta Webster used to write in the early twentieth century – conspiratorial literature that saw the Russian Revolution as part of a longer history of Jewish conspiracy. Winston Churchill was reportedly a fan of this stuff. Indeed, while often presented in an off-hand or even slightly amused way, some of the historical asides […]
[PDF file]: […] now had two postal addresses in 10 Ironically, the FBI made this disclosure in an attempt to refute the claims of one of the first published JFK conspiracy theorists. See . 11 12 There is a rather furtive twist in his choice of apartment. 4905 Magazine Street is not a separate building, but a […]
[PDF file]: […] Rudolf Hess to Scotland in May 1941. Hess’ desperate and bizarre initiative, and his subsequent life incarceration in Spandau prison, have given rise to a host of conspiracy theories. The authors deserve credit for their stamina in going through both older and newer material with the proverbial fine-toothed comb. My only quibble is that […]
[PDF file]: […] the US Left cannot abandon the central theological foundation of the USA – an idea that it is sociopolitical salvation compared to Europe. When people write that conspiracy theories distract from greater political movement, this has the same cognitive and rhetorical function as the insistence even among radical clergy on the legitimacy of the […]
[PDF file]: […] was simply impossible to tell truth from fantasy, fact from fiction.’ (p. 200) On this account, IRD looks more significant that it has done previously. Its communist conspiracy idiocies of the 50s and 60s were not its only activity and the author presents accounts of IRD interfering in the local politics of British colonies, […]
[PDF file]: […] the pile in post-war America and how the Ray brothers became petty criminals, as far as I can see it contributes nothing to our understanding of the conspiracy which ensnared James Earl Ray and led him to becoming the patsy in Memphis. It may illustrate certain peripheral items, such as Ray’s experience of the […]
[PDF file]: […] Team and its multinational covert operations, to wit: This is the fundamental game of the Secret Team. (Emphases in the original.) Prouty was not offering a crude conspiracy theory about the ST. He writes: Thus, the Secret Team is not a clandestine super-planning-board or super-general staff. But even more damaging to the coherent conduct […]
[PDF file]: […] of counter-intelligence and deputy controller’. He tells us (p. 240) that Peter Wright’s book ‘gave credence to Wilson’s persistent claims that he was the target of a conspiracy against him by a cabal consisting of at least 30 extremist MI5 officers.’ Wilson didn’t claim that. The 30 figure came from Wright who said that […]
