[…] him from talking about the link. A September 16, 1986 affidavit by Paul R.Grand, attorney for former Khashoggi counsel Samuel Evans in a New York arms sales conspiracy case related to Irangate, contends that the 1981 Hashemi shipments had been secretly approved by the Carter Administration (Washington Times, 12/17/87). This, however, is extremely unlikely. […]
[…] Laos. ‘Yet the US military, using personnel from Collins Radio as a civilian cover, proceeded to build the communications infrastructure for a generalised Indochina war.’ (The Dallas Conspiracy by Peter Dale Scott, unpublished manuscript, Ch 11, p3) In late August 1963 Collins won an important sub contract from General Dynamics to install high-fidelity radio […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] assassin who worked with the Wolves right up to the shooting in St. Peter’s Square on May 13 1981. This still leaves the question of a larger conspiracy. The Wolves had strong links with the Italian and German far-right. In the early 1980s the Munich Beerfest and the Bologna Station massacre were just two […]
[…] Graduate Theological Union, 1980). Minna, Rosario — ‘Il Terrorismo di Destra’, in Della Porta (ed.). Mintz, Frank P. — The Liberty Lobby and the American Right: Race, Conspiracy and Culture, (Westport CT, Greenwood, 1985). Moos, Felix — ‘Leadership and Organization in the Olive Tree Movement’, in TRASKB 43 (1967). Morris, Ivan I. — Nationalism […]
[…] detail by Hugh Thomas and reiterated (though with an intriguing twist) by Frank Kippax. (1) Then there are the speculations by those who accept an element of conspiracy, both in Germany and Britain, in 1941 and 1987, but who reject the idea that the man in Spandau was an imposter. The recent work of […]
[…] deliciously telling acronym ‘CREEP’ (Committee To ReElect The President). To accept that Nixon’s negative reputation was solely an image problem, one must also dismiss much history as conspiracy paranoia. Greenberg sees Nixon’s worst excesses as justifiable reactions to equally ruthless enemies, like the effete liberals of the 40s and 50s or the student radicals […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] discreet charm of the right-winger when he commented that: ‘Al Gore seems intent on shattering whatever minuscule credibility he has left with baseless, mean-spirited personal attacks and conspiracy theories.’ Florida again Since we’ve already invoked the spirit of Florida 2000, let’s start with what happened there. Florida excelled itself, this time getting into the […]
[…] 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 […]
