[…] everybody was impressed or won over by Baker’s arguments,(14) he did receive ‘…a standing ovation and nearly two minutes of solid applause.’ BBC2’s Dr David Kelly: the conspiracy files(16) included an interview with Norman Baker. Also featured in the programme was outspoken barrister Michael Shrimpton, whose flamboyant behaviour may not have won over many […]
[…] (Back in the 1970s the US porno mags were virtually the only major media to publish what we now call parapolitics.) Pearson’s article became a 1978 book, Conspiracy of Silence, which I lent and lost, a few copies of which are available at the amazing second-hand book site < www.abebooks.com/ >. The story has […]
[…] Consulate. The successive changes mirror the shift in the Mexico City CIA Station’s view of Oswald, from a ‘phase-one’ position (Oswald was part of a Cuban Communist conspiracy) to a more standard ‘phase-two’ position (Oswald was a lone nut). From other sources we learn that the DFS itself, as well as the CIA Station, […]
[…] on the streets of Wellington somehow got into the hands of Conservative leader Muldoon. There was the “Think tank’ affair, in which the newspaper Truth concocted a conspiracy fantasy in which Labour was going to nationalise all the financial institutions of the country. There was the Freeman-Jays affair, in which Rohan Jays, a supposed […]
Get Gough! The loans affair conspiracy Dennis Freney (Dennis Freney, PO Box A716, Sydney, New South Wales 2000, Australia – £4.50 airmail, £3.75 seamail: international money orders only) In Lobster 11 (p31) we referred to CIA operations in Australia in the middle 1970s. Since then we have received Freney’s Get Gough!, the most detailed […]
[…] politics were exposed (Searchlight, June 1989.) James Gibb-Stewart — Author of two Western Goals (UK) ‘Viewpoint Papers’ in 1990, The Finance Factor, about the alleged international financial conspiracy, and The Mandela Myth. The latter was reprinted in Candour. Gibbs is the author of three books, Money Bomb, The Mind Benders and Lemming Folk, the […]
[…] work well, on domestic as well as foreign policy issues (some discussed in a just-issued revised edition of Manufacturing Consent). I have even discussed its application to conspiracy theories, some the media treating as legitimate (the alleged KGB plot to murder the Pope in 1981), others dismissed as mere ‘conspiracy theories’ (the assassination of […]
[…] reacted strongly when this book was published in the summer of 1980. He contacted top executives in newspapers and television, making himself available to counter passages in Conspiracy concerning him. As a result, I took part in discussions with Phillips on prominent television programs. In the course of these approaches to the press, Phillips […]
[…] Delphine Roberts, told the writer Henry Hurt that Oswald had often come in to see Bannister, and this has been confirmed elsewhere. (For example, in Anthony Summers’ Conspiracy.) Further, she said that Bannister was well aware of Oswald keeping the FPCC placards and leaflets in the room he rented, and that Bannister was only […]
[PDF file]: Cryptoscatology Conspiracy Theory as Art Form Robert Guffey Walterville (OR): Trine Day, 2012, $19.95 (USA), p/b This is collection of the author’s essays on secret societies, the Masons and other esoterica, and various ways in which conspiracy theories are interacting with popular American culture. The book’s title is meaningless, as far as I can […]
