[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] to The Focus is the Nazi apologist David Irving, who adds little to the story, omits much that was known, and bends the rest to fit his conspiracy theory that the Second World War was the work of an International Jewish Conspiracy. (19) Notes Members of The Focus, including Churchill, continued to be secretive […]
[…] which exonerated the Contras from involvement in drug-trafficking.(2) My researches into U.S. government involvement with drug-traffickers date back to 1970 when I wrote a book, The War Conspiracy, about the origins of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. I returned to this topic yet again in 1986, when I noticed that certain Cuban exiles […]
[…] get the name of the former D-G of MI5 wrong, calling him Maurice Hanley! If the Healey faction of the WRP have any evidence on the alleged conspiracy to destabilize the WRP it is not here. Some years ago I spent an entertaining couple of hours with one of those named in this book […]
[…] In the last few days of preparing this issue for the printer I was contacted by someone who claimed that he was the victim of a vast conspiracy – led, apparently by MI5 – which involved, inter alia, TV newsreaders watching and commenting on his life while he watched the news. He had gone […]
[…] intellectual incompetents, cranks, charlatans and the commercially motivated, there is something real going on. The important term to me in Van Wynberghe’s ‘occult irrationalism’ is irrational. The conspiracy theories described by Van Wynsberghe are to be rejected because their proponents disregard, or are ignorant of, the standard rules of inference and evidence. But the […]
[…] unconvincing Where does this leave us? If the book cannot establish that Parsons is quite the scientific figure claimed, or that he was a victim of any conspiracy, what Carter does show is that all the ingredients of contemporary ‘New Age’ culture can be found in the US west coast in the 1940s: interest […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] a period of time, became the means whereby the loyalist paramilitaries were brought to play their part in the British counter-insurgency strategy. There was, Davies argues, a conspiracy between Military Intelligence and the Ulster Defence Association which carried the battle on the streets to the very heart of the Republican movement; and the campaign […]
