[…] by the Defense Secretary. In other words, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld had to personally approve any action. (7) These items alone make the case of the 9-11 conspiracy theorists look plausible. On the World Socialist Web site, Patrick Martin concludes that the evidence suggests that the Bush administration was expecting al Qaeda to hijack […]
[…] ‘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, […]
[…] a cartoon strip ‘The Skeleton Key to the Gemstone File’, written by Stephanie Caruana (based on a much longer work by Bruce Roberts). It was the first conspiracy theory I had ever read and I was very struck by it. So I went into Hull University library and began checking its central claims. They […]
[…] and beliefs of reporters and pundits mirrors that of the political and military establishment. The crucial propaganda function of the press was achieved not through any mass conspiracy to deceive the public but through ‘an ideology of news reporting that incorporates a set of routines, constraint, expectations – and myths.’ (p.200) Let a journalist […]
[…] clearly the 80 pro-Israel groups in the US, of which the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is the biggest and best organised. This is not a conspiracy (it doesn’t have to be under the US constitution) and is openly influential. AIPAC and its allies allocate campaign funding for candidates at all levels of […]
[…] report on the police use of computers, published by the GLC. For details see Publications. RR 007 Murray Sayles’ long apologia for the official version – “a conspiracy of circumstances” – in the Sunday Times (May 20th and 27th 1984). More interesting is the Defence Attache (June) piece by the pseudonymous P.Q. Mann, which […]
[…] democracy, that a 1999 investigation by the Home Office’s chief historian found that in the case of the Zinoviev letter affair there was ‘no evidence of a conspiracy in the institutional sense.’ That is to say, MI6 as an organisation hadn’t perverted the course of the election – a coterie of like-minded MI6 officers […]
[…] contractor to the United States government in numerous projects.’ Even though Halliburton settled out of court, Cheney’s spokeswoman Juleanna Weiss saw it as a different kind of conspiracy altogether, saying, ‘The voters are bound to question the timing of this investigation. The timing is suspicious, given the Clinton-Gore administration’s proclivity to manipulate the Justice […]
[…] research papers in 1941/1942. Bergstresser later worked in the OSS. There is an interesting chapter on the life and work of Puharich in the otherwise unfathomable Stargate Conspiracy by Picknett & Prince (London, 1999). Bouverie (née Astor) was the daughter of William Waldorf Astor, the owner of the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York […]
[…] claimed to be based on personal experience,2 about covert ops, remote viewing and corruption in US intelligence and the Bush administration, which are being widely quoted on conspiracy theory sites.3 These stories are entertaining but highly improbable in places. A third Arrigo sister, Dr. Linda Gail Arrigo, says that Dr. Sue Arrigo is a […]
