[…] the IHT version is longer and more detailed, and are trailers for Bower’s forthcoming Barbie: Butcher of Lyon. The Barbie episode has created considerable excitement in some conspiracy research circles in the US, where evidence of an enormous invisible Nazi sub-structure has long been sought. On that this writer is sceptical. There is no […]
[…] former CIA officer who led the break-in team into the Watergate. In a series of odd ‘newsletters’, written after Watergate (and virtually uncirculated), McCord put forward a conspiracy theory suggesting that the Rockefeller family was lunging for complete control over the government’s critical national security functions, using the Council on Foreign Relations and Henry […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] places Oswald on the 6th floor, the confession of Loy Factor in The Men on the Sixth Floor.(4) Factor also places Ruby and Oswald together in the conspiracy. Factor claimed to have been a member of the conspiracy, recruited as a marksman by a man he called ‘Wallace’. He identified his ‘Wallace’ as Malcolm […]
[…] yet?’ The Sunday Herald, 30 November 2003. 13 Jefferson Morley , ‘The Good spy: how the quashing of an honest investigator led to 40 years of JFK conspiracy theories’, Washington Monthly, 35 (12) (December 2003), pp. 40-59. On-line at The Whitten/’Scelso’ testimony can be found at 14 Jefferson Morley, ‘Revelation 1963: for nearly four […]
[…] should aim for. See Robert Hewison, In Anger: British Culture in the Cold War, Oxford University Press/New York, 1981, pp. 60 – 62; Peter Coleman, The Liberal Conspiracy: The Congress for Cultural Freedom and the Struggle for the Mind of Postwar Europe, Free Press/New York, 1989, p. 77. For 1959 the subsidy for Encounter […]
[…] come off, neither as a thriller, nor as a roman a clef about the Kennedy assassination. But there is material of interest here for the student of conspiracy theories. For this, to my knowledge, is the first book which has included within it the basic thesis from The Gemstone File, an American samizdat which […]
[…] of the Rhodesian Central Intelligence Organisation (CI0). Stiff reveals, among other things, his involvement in a campaign of bombing and assassination in Zambia and in an abortive conspiracy to assassinate Robert Mugabe during the Lancaster House talks in London. After Aden, Stiff went on to help train the police in Kenya. (‘In spite of […]
[…] As to why, there are two basic reasons. The first and most important was our refusal to be bullied by Wolf, Ray, and Schaap into publishing whacko- conspiracy theories and articles that served their agenda but failed to distinguish between facts and political fairy tales. ……Among those championed by one or another of the […]
[…] an IRA ‘alliance with the London based Black Liberation Front.‘ (p22) (Special Forces is edited by a former British Army officer, Peter Harclerode.) The themes of insidious conspiracy and subversion within have always been a part of the British Right’s ideological package, but in the past few years they have become much more explicit. […]
