[…] would be interested to be shown how and where. More recently I have been accused a couple of times of being a front for MI6 by American conspiracy theory nutters. But that’s about par for the course in these fields. The examples of Soviet disinformation offered by Gordievsky from the 1980s in his book […]
[…] 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 circumstances of the crash with a refreshing objectivity, calmly and methodically examining what may or may not have happened that night. Demolishing many of the wilder conspiracy theories, if Cohen has an accusatory finger to wag it would seem to be pointing in the direction of James Andanson, the celebrity photographer who also […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] is beyond the scope of this article, and may never be possible. Much of the activity of the anti-communist groups was clandestine: to fight the secret communist conspiracy — real or imaginary — they too operated in secret, set up cell structures. For example, there appears to be not a single academic article written […]
[…] the Inquisition. Yates gives evidence of links between such groups as the Rosicrucians and ‘ Scottish Rite’ Freemasonry. (3) Lincoln and co.’s selling of the idea of conspiracy to create a new world monarchy is so unconvincing that you get the impression that they are more interested in the cheap thrills market. Inextricably tied […]
[…] by the right – all those elite planning groups, for example – and the authors feel obliged to admonish the reader that this is not about a conspiracy. Or rather it’s about lots of them: ‘Yes, they plan and organise with each other, but there is no secret conspiracy operating behind the visible front. […]
[…] of fortune’ Gary Patrick Hemming, and headed by Cuban exile Anselmo Alliergro IV, who dealt with Latin American sales. In 1974 Werbell was involved in a “ conspiracy among the CIA, Robert Vesco (international fugitive and Nixon campaign contributor) and various corporations to finance clandestine guerilla activities in South America. Vesco wanted to purchase […]
[…] outcome was quite interesting. In the ‘Lombard’ column of the Financial Times, C. Gordon Tether wrote on May 6 1975: ‘If the Bilderberg Group is not a conspiracy of some sort, it is conducted in such a way as to give a remarkably good imitation of one.’ In a column written almost a year […]
[…] a new type of unaccountable elite. This is already, if slowly, becoming the dominant force at the centre of the European project. There is no single ‘ conspiracy’ as such, just a convergence of trends towards a new consensus on how Europe can and should be governed. This crisis of authority just happens to […]
