[…] 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 […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] 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. […]
[…] of the picture of the Israeli services which has appeared in various books. At one point (March extracts) the report confirms the claims made in Anthony Pearson’s Conspiracy of Silence (see below) that the Israelis had ‘cooked’ – ie intercepted, falsified and rebroadcast – communications between Jordan and Egypt during the 1967 war. Imam […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] ‘missionary’ are in Philip H. Melanson’s important study, Spy Saga: Lee Harvey Oswald and US Intelligence (New York: Praeger, 1990), pp. 94-5, and Anthony Summers’ The Kennedy Conspiracy (London: Sphere Books, 1992), pp. 343-4. Oddly, John Newman came across no references to Osborne/Bowen when researching Oswald and the CIA (New York: Carroll and Graf, […]
[…] the Assassins, (Ali Agca, run by the KGB, shot the Pope), and The Terror Network (KGB running world terrorism), which did much to propound and legitimise the conspiracy theories of the right-wing of the US foreign policy world in the 1980s. She has frequently been alleged to be CIA but no evidence has surfaced […]
