[PDF file]: […] there isn’t enough evidence to believe or disbelieve much of it; but let us consider it. The most complete account in English by Estes of the assassination conspiracy is in his 2005 book, Billie Sol Estes: a Texas Legend.3 This book appeared after a French book about Estes, Le Dernier Temoin (The Last Witness) […]
[PDF file]: […] unbidden and the title wasn’t encouraging. ‘The global coup d’etat’ is unintelligible, since d’etat refers to a state. The Great Reset? – ah yes, a cluster of conspiracy theories which were generated during COVID about . . . well some kind of global conspiracy. (I didn’t pay much attention at the time.)1 So I […]
[…] recently, is the Israel connection. I came across the so-called Shea Memorandum, a long report written by a corporate lawyer, Gerald Shea (Yale, class of ’64).25 No conspiracy buff, Mr Shea! His 2004 document was titled ‘Israeli Surveillance of the Future Hijackers and FBI Suspects in the September 11 Attacks and Their Failure to […]
[PDF file]: […] both reinforces and appeals to the supercilious anti-populism of the comfortable classes. Slick, cultish, pseudo-left website Spiked exemplifies this attitude.3 The Spiked orthodoxy finds ‘moral panics’, ‘ conspiracy theories’ and ‘anti-science attitudes’ wherever criticism of the rich and powerful is voiced. Most of the claque of regular Spiked contributors have no credentials beyond the […]
[PDF file]: […] November 22, 1963 remain unknown. 26 10 Still . . . On The Atlantic site there is an essay by Brian Klass on the current popularity of conspiracy theories in America, ‘Conspiracism Is Hurting Democracy’.27 It is illustrated with this image. Kennedy assassination research next to Jewish space lasers . . . It is […]
[…] place as any to start. However, neither Armstrong nor Unz mention Chauncey Holt in their accounts. Holt’s role – as unwitting CIA technical support in the assassination conspiracy – means that the story must include both LBJ and the Agency. The only Agency figure to have talked of that was E. Howard Hunt, just […]
[…] place as any to start. However, neither Armstrong nor Unz mention Chauncey Holt in their accounts. Holt’s role – as unwitting CIA technical support in the assassination conspiracy – means that the story must include both LBJ and the Agency. The only Agency figure to have talked of that was E. Howard Hunt, just […]
[…] account of Oswald at . 3 material linking Oswald to US intelligence agencies; and it is possible that they dismiss all that kind of information as ‘ conspiracy theories’ not worth their attention and are simply unaware of it. Even if they are familiar with it, Shenon is a former New York Times journalist […]
[…] recently, is the Israel connection. I came across the so-called Shea Memorandum, a long report written by a corporate lawyer, Gerald Shea (Yale, class of ’64).13 No conspiracy buff, Mr Shea! His 2004 document was titled ‘Israeli Surveillance of the Future Hijackers and FBI Suspects in the September 11 Attacks and Their Failure to […]
[…] recently, is the Israel connection. I came across the so-called Shea Memorandum, a long report written by a corporate lawyer, Gerald Shea (Yale, class of ’64).9 No conspiracy buff, Mr Shea! His 2004 document was titled ‘Israeli Surveillance of the Future Hijackers and FBI Suspects in the September 11 Attacks and Their Failure to […]
