[…] and though involved in the CIA’s investigation of the assassination, has refused to comment on the Meyer episode. (See Washington Post February 23rd 1976. Bernard Fensterwald, Coincidence or Conspiracy (US 1977). Judith Exner had been introduced to JFK by friend Frank Sinatra, and had an affair with him through 1961 and ’62. She also knew […]
[…] is good, offering unlimited energy to mankind. Those who oppose nuclear power are luddites at best; at worst they herald the ‘new dark ages’. Everything is a conspiracy. Normal politics is entirely a sham; reality is faked for the moronic citizen-voters. (And, of course, only LaRouche has the key to unlock the mystery.) () […]
[…] Commons: The law is fully adequate to enable action to be taken against all really dangerous activities. If believers in Fascist doctrine engage either simply or in conspiracy in subversive activities, or disturb the peace, they can be, and will be, dealt with firmly as law breakers.(26) In a sense, Ede was correct. The […]
[…] in Chile, was expelled to the United States for questioning about the Letelier assassination. He subsequently turned state’s evidence and testified about his key role in the conspiracy. Townley’s significance is that he was one of DINA’s most important agents and many of the DINA operations described in Labyrinth are written from his point […]
[…] practice, as before, I publish what I have that interests me. This issue? The usual mixture: spies; history with parapolitics added; New Labour’s policies; state oppression; a conspiracy theory or two. The good old stuff. Or the same old same old? I can’t tell. I just hope it is an interesting read Pieces without […]
[…] in April. When the donations scandal erupted last year, in which the LFI was implicated, Temko wrote a defence of the lobby group in The Observer, dismissing conspiracy theories about the extent of its influence. Proceeding with inquiries? At this writing the promised party inquiry by former Labour Party and Blair minister Lord Whitty […]
[…] to our slowly increasing knowledge of IRD’s activities. One of the author’s major themes is IRD’s constant attempt to fit events on the ground into its Communist Conspiracy theory, regardless of the actual situation – just as they did in Northern Ireland in the 1970s. (The Information Policy Unit there looks increasingly like IRD’s […]
[…] fascinating. The book is also worth reading as a powerful moral indictment of American capitalism and foreign policy more generally. On ‘9/11’ it even hints at a conspiracy. (The administration may have known it was coming but let it happen to give them the excuse to attack Iraq. It was all part of the […]
[…] a conclusion that, even if SOG did spark the full-blown phase of the Vietnam War, such a result was not intended. Moreover, it now appears that any conspiracy theory cuts two ways. If SOG was riddled with untrustworthy, local employees right from the start, then Hanoi may have known what was coming in advance […]
[…] wrong horses. But there is slightly more to it than this, for Becker is creeping up on a position not so very dissimilar to the kinds of conspiracy theories popular during ‘roll-back’s’ hey-day, in the early 1950s: “Let us, for the sake of argument accept the explanations for our giving aid to Mozambique. Perhaps […]
