[PDF file]: […] and mock the thinking processes of those who advocate them. But in doing so academics and journalists are contaminating the good theories with the bad, lumping together secret state research 7 See 8 See . John Naughton, one of the three directors of the project, tweeted: ‘The minute you get into the JFK stuff […]
[PDF file]: […] in the White House. Rich’s Wikipedia entry tells some of the story of Duncan’s former employer . 6 A recommended account is The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich by Daniel Ammann (London: St Martin’s Press, 2009.) The description of Rich’s recruitment criteria given to Ammann seems to fit the young […]
[PDF file]: […] rebels. He was ‘an unrivalled expert in oppression’ and had ‘imbibed the racism of empire’ from an early age. The report Morton produced was kept a close secret and forty years later, when Miller requested a copy from MI5, his request was acknowledged and then ignored. Miller goes on: ‘The Foreign Office had a […]
[…] A Threat of the First Magnitude: FBI Counterintelligence & Infiltration From the Communist Party to the Revolutionary Union 1962-1974 (Repeater Books, 2018) and Heavy Radicals: The FBI’s Secret War on America’s Maoists 1968-1980 (Zero Books, 2022). 1 1 There was a dramatic move from the Old Left to a more disparate New Left. The […]
[PDF file]: […] to do in a radiation emergency’ or 5 or 6 or 7 4 Corsham, near Bath must remain a possible refuge even though the existence of this secret underground alternative government HQ has long been known.8 That site could accommodate 4,000 people. It might still be of some use, given the central role MoD […]
[PDF file]: […] current Guardian.5 In that he referred to the paper’s pro-American stance and noted of its 1956-75 editor, Alastair Hetherington: Richard Webster RIP Richard Webster, author of The Secret of Bryn Estyn (reviewed in Lobster 52) and most recently Casa Pia: The making of a modern European witch hunt (reviewed in Lobster 61) has died.8 […]
[PDF file]: […] Pakistan not only assisted the Taliban, but also provided sanctuary for Osama bin Laden. Indeed, in retaliation for the US forces killing of bin Laden, the Pakistani secret state, the ISI, sponsored a series of attacks on US and international targets inside Afghanistan by the Haqqani network (a Taliban affiliate known to be close […]
[PDF file]: […] The true bit is that the basic structure of the major conspiracy theories in the Anglo-American world – the ‘existing narratives’ – has always been that some secret group/individual is really running things behind the facade of democracy. Over time the identity of the master manipulator changes: the Illuminati, the Jews, the communists, the […]
[…] as conspiracy theorists was a triumph: more than half a century later it is still working. The small one concerns the revelation late last year by former Secret Service officer Paul Landis that he found the ‘magic bullet’ in the presidential limousine behind JFK’s body, and thus the Warren Commission verdict must be wrong. […]
