The Watergate break-ins and the Howard Hughes connection

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[PDF file]: […] to dig up dirt for defending against a $50 million lawsuit filed by Maheu against Hughes for wrongful dismissal and libel. See James Phelan, Howard Hughes: The Hidden Years (London: Fontana, 1977) p. 104; Davenport and Eddy (see note 50) p. 215; Maheu and Hack (see note 21) p. 252. Intertel was owned by […]

Volodymyr Zelensky and the breadbasket-case of Europe: The deep politics of a hybrid regime

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[PDF file]: […] 2019. In March that year, the Poroshenko-aligned People’s Deputy Volodymyr Ariev published a statement asserting that Zelensky and his colleagues had a total of 41 million USD hidden in tax havens. Some of this money had originated from accounts held by Ukraine’s PrivatBank, the financial institution that had almost collapsed in 2016 due to […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

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[…] 2019. In March that year, the Poroshenko-aligned People’s Deputy Volodymyr Ariev published a statement asserting that Zelensky and his colleagues had a total of 41 million USD hidden in tax havens. Some of this money had originated from accounts held by Ukraine’s PrivatBank, the financial institution that had almost collapsed in 2016 due to […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

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[…] 2019. In March that year, the Poroshenko-aligned People’s Deputy Volodymyr Ariev published a statement asserting that Zelensky and his colleagues had a total of 41 million USD hidden in tax havens. Some of this money had originated from accounts held by Ukraine’s PrivatBank, the financial institution that had almost collapsed in 2016 due to […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

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[…] 2019. In March that year, the Poroshenko-aligned People’s Deputy Volodymyr Ariev published a statement asserting that Zelensky and his colleagues had a total of 41 million USD hidden in tax havens. Some of this money had originated from accounts held by Ukraine’s PrivatBank, the financial institution that had almost collapsed in 2016 due to […]

The Russian Laundromat and Blackpool Football Club

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[PDF file]: […] is a 20 billion dollar offshore money laundering racket exposed last month by the Sarajevo-based Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP). Its deepest secrets are still hidden in the British Virgin Islands, where fewer than 25,000 residents of fifteen tropical islands host the registered offices of 800,000 offshore companies. Researchers in the multinational […]

A key for a Clockwork Orange

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[PDF file]: […] lure their intended readers into a maze of dead-ends and false connections. And what on earth would have been the reason for jumbling all this information together, hidden in the text of a popular novel, rather than relaying it via normal espionage routes? Unless Lewis’s intelligence contact was playing some obscure game for his […]

Impossible Knowledge: Conspiracy Theories, Power, and Truth by Todor Hristov and The Stigmatization of Conspiracy Theory since the 1950s “A Plot to Make us Look Foolish”by Katharina Thalmann

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[PDF file]: […] I struggled through to page 12 where I was stopped by these paragraphs. ‘Conspiracy theorists solve or dissolve the paradox of belonging without inclusion by representing the hidden order as a totality (Jameson 2009, 603, 1992, 3, 1991, 38). Indeed, the totality of a multiplicity of elements belongs to the multiplicity without being included […]

Secrecy in Britain

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[PDF file]: […] Collections” ’? Secrecy in Britain Jonathan Bloch D istinguished guests it is a great honour to give this keynote speech. I will use the 600,000 Foreign Office hidden files as a launching pad to examine the history of secrecy in Britain, why it is so persistent and pervasive, attempts to change it and what […]

Misc reviews

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[…] NATO set up underground armies of resistance, ‘stay behind’ groups, to fight the red invaders – a secret paramilitary structure, co-ordinated through NATO HQ, which was kept hidden from most of Europe’s politicians and all of Europe’s citizens. This was Gladio. After the Soviet bloc disintegrated in the early 1990s these ‘secret armies’ were […]

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