[…] 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 […]
[…] Menzies before the war, but was frozen out by Churchill, who saw him as an appeaser and Germanophile, also claimed that he was the victim of a conspiracy and had been framed by covert supporters of the Cambridge Comintern, supporters who had, by the time of his trial and conviction for fraud in 1963, […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] media plays a role as the primary informer of the citizen. The ongoing Di show The report of Operation Paget, the Metropolitan Police’s investigation of the Di conspiracy theories, available on the Net in PDF form (see Terry Hanstock’s ‘Re :’ in this issue), is worth looking at. For the student of the British […]
[…] intentions and consequences that the state’s legal-rational precepts attempt to inscribe. The outputs that emerge are not always those envisaged by policy-makers. This is not necessarily a conspiracy agenda or intention behind the uses and abuses of political power. Nor are they the inevitable outcome of Britain’s particular constitutional arrangements. Thus the secret state […]
[…] editor. For contact details click here. Books by Robin Ramsay Politics and Paranoia (Hove: Picnic Publishing, 2008) Who Shot JFK? (2002) The Rise of New Labour (2002) Conspiracy Theories: Almost Everything You Need to Know in One Essential Guide (2000) Smear! Wilson and the Secret State (1991) by Stephen Dorrill and Robin Ramsay Interviews […]
[…] kidnapped and killed by the IRA, was involved in Green’s death, but the allegations were never confirmed. It was, as with the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, a conspiracy theory that was never proved’ (emphasis added). Fred Holroyd is those ‘rumours and allegations’.(1) Precisely what Nairac was doing we still don’t know. It is clear […]
[…] 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. […]
[…] senses the difference between good and bad parapolitical research hinges on this question. At its worst all the links are perceived as causal and you have vulgar conspiracy theories: ‘Its all the fault of…’. The rest of us fall somewhere short of that, and for the most part Bellant’s attribution of causality is restrained. […]
[…] to Chomsky, Cockburn and Hitchens – very much the critical insider. In keeping with this stance, however, Hersh has an almost visceral aversion to anything suggesting ‘ conspiracy’ – as evinced in his take on KAL 007 – and it is this bias which leads to an ultimately flawed, if highly readable work. Like […]
