[…] Keith Dovkants described the operation, as the sub-heading to his piece had it, as ‘a classic sting operation set up by MI5 who were alerted to the conspiracy by a paid informer’. This was apparently revealed to Dovkants by two Polish journalists who had been tipped off that all was not what it seemed. […]
[…] raises what Hancock calls ‘a very uncomfortable question…..Is there any possible way in which the vice-President of the United States could somehow have become influenced by a conspiracy?’ (p 308; emphases added). He thinks there is and tells the Bobby Baker story, pointing out that LBJ’s closest aide Baker and a lobbyist friend of […]
[…] 688/9. Smith p. 154. There is now a large literature on this. There is a discussion of that literature in Niall Ferguson’s recent review essay, ‘Bankers: Beyond Conspiracy Theory’, in Twentieth Century British History, vol 4, 1993. The exposition which first struck me was Frank Longstreth’s essay ‘The City, Industry and the State’, in […]
[…] could go on but mocking this delusional system of belief is too easy to be much fun. The LaRouche nonsense is only interesting to those who collect conspiracy theories. Since the John Birch Society’s reworking of Nesta Webster, there have been very few authentically modern conspiracy theories. LaRouche has produced one. Is it more […]
[…] coming World Government Nicholas Hagger New Alresford (Hampshire), John Hunt Publishing, 2004, pb, £11.99 Another massive reworking of the basic elements of the post-WW2 American-oriented global conspiracy theory: Rothschild, Quigley, Fabians, CFR, Bilderberg, Masons etc. Hagger makes much of Bilderberg (perhaps simply because there is so much material to use) and – his […]
l Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War 1 to 9/11 Kathryn S. Olmsted Oxford University Press, 2009, £12.99, p/b 1 1 If I was going to be generous I would say ‘Close but no cigar’ to professor Olmsted’s account. She has at any rate identified one of the central issues, expressed […]
[…] much more sinister, because concealed, Left — the Left of the sophisticated world government bureaucracy, with its tentacles of international finance and its highly matured machine of conspiracy and terror — a Left that is so adaptable in its guises that it can often look like the most Conservative and “patriotic” Right — to […]
[…] virtual network linking FOI movements globally and an ‘institutional memory’ for transparency and access to information rights throughout the world. Notes See for example: Justin Pope, ‘9/11 conspiracy theorists thriving’, Associated Press Online 7 August 2006; Richard Roeper, ‘Academics fill grassy knoll spot abandoned by Oliver Stone’, Chicago Sun Times 8 August 2006; Alexander […]
[…] the time of the alleged airline plot in August 2006 indicated that the US considered the UK to be a ‘weak link’ in the ‘war on terror’.() Conspiracy theorists might see the extremely swift briefings on this aspect as indicating some remarkable planning in the PR management of the case. Either the US had […]
[…] when the in-coming Know-nothing administration decided they would impose their childish notions about the world onto the Agency and get it to produce ‘intelligence’ to support their conspiracy theories about the ‘communist menace’. The very idea of attempting ‘the politics of the CIA’, let alone getting as close as Perry has done to actually […]
