Worried that the world is run by a sinister cabal operating at the very highest level of government? You could be right. Bringing together evidence on topics ranging from the Sphinx to JFK, Chernobyl to men in black and life on Mars to Roswell, this book has a cover-up for every occasion. Laid out in a handy A-Z format, Conspiracy Theories makes it easy to find out about all the major conspiracy theories in the world today. The archetypal conspiracy theory might go something like this: there is a clandestine secret society in our midst … they are alien to all we believe in and are about to seize control of the world … they are everywhere … they are ruthless and powerful … they are sexually corrupt … they perform the most heinous crimes known to mankind. Belief in conspiracy theories is more than just the belief in an occasional underhand plot. It is a belief system that asserts that world events are being governed in secret by a group of ultra-powerful puppeteers behind the scenes. While little may be done about this sorry state of affairs, at least we can have the satisfaction of having worked out what is going on. Of course, one can argue that obsession with conspiracy theories serves only to demonstrate the lunatic paranoia running rife in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Much talk about conspiracies is dismissed as paranoia and much of it is paranoia. But in reality, history has proved all too well that politicians lie, presidents lie and bureaucrats lie. If we continue to be gullible and believe everything that is presented to us, the truth will never come out. It becomes not only interesting and revealing but an absolute priority to question authority and, more specifically, the authoritarians. Why is it that we can accept that Tony Blair’s smile is as broad as it appears? Or that the American CIA assassinated the president of Chile, but we cannot believe that they would assassinate their own? Why is that we can accept that governments would experiment on their citizens with plutonium, syphilis and nerve gas, but don’t consider that they would use the AIDS virus? Why did the German populace accept in the first place that Hitler was trustworthy? Conspiracy theories are not new. It is believed that Nero concocted an elaborate tale to shift the blame to the Christians for the burning of Rome. Hitler was a master of such deceipt. And, undoubtedly, when conspiracies fail to accurately predict world events, this only serves to prove their credibility. Double bluff is refined to an art form. It cannot be denied that controversy has often accompanied many of the pivotal turning points of Western civilization. Many major events, for better or for worse, have occurred as the result of people behind the scenes who have held the keys to the actions of the world. Startling discoveries, often stretching far back into history, can affect the very way our Western thought processes and behaviour patterns are conducted. And that is not to mention such terrifying revelations as the Elvis Killed Kennedy conspiracy or the real reason for Santa’s oversized hat. Read on …

The archetypal conspiracy theory might go something like this: there is a clandestine secret society in our midst … they are alien to all we believe in and are about to seize control of the world … they are everywhere … they are ruthless and powerful … they are sexually corrupt … they perform the most heinous crimes known to mankind. Belief in conspiracy theories is more than just the belief in an occasional underhand plot. It is a belief system that asserts that world events are being governed in secret by a group of ultra-powerful puppeteers behind the scenes. While little may be done about this sorry state of affairs, at least we can have the satisfaction of having worked out what is going on. Of course, one can argue that obsession with conspiracy theories serves only to demonstrate the lunatic paranoia running rife in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Much talk about conspiracies is dismissed as paranoia and much of it is paranoia. But in reality, history has proved all too well that politicians lie, presidents lie and bureaucrats lie. If we continue to be gullible and believe everything that is presented to us, the truth will never come out. It becomes not only interesting and revealing but an absolute priority to question authority and, more specifically, the authoritarians. Why is it that we can accept that Tony Blair’s smile is as broad as it appears? Or that the American CIA assassinated the president of Chile, but we cannot believe that they would assassinate their own? Why is that we can accept that governments would experiment on their citizens with plutonium, syphilis and nerve gas, but don’t consider that they would use the AIDS virus? Why did the German populace accept in the first place that Hitler was trustworthy? Conspiracy theories are not new. It is believed that Nero concocted an elaborate tale to shift the blame to the Christians for the burning of Rome. Hitler was a master of such deceipt. And, undoubtedly, when conspiracies fail to accurately predict world events, this only serves to prove their credibility. Double bluff is refined to an art form. It cannot be denied that controversy has often accompanied many of the pivotal turning points of Western civilization. Many major events, for better or for worse, have occurred as the result of people behind the scenes who have held the keys to the actions of the world. Startling discoveries, often stretching far back into history, can affect the very way our Western thought processes and behaviour patterns are conducted. And that is not to mention such terrifying revelations as the Elvis Killed Kennedy conspiracy or the real reason for Santa’s oversized hat. Read on …

 

The ‘War On Terror’ is said to have begun on 11 September 2001. But is it possible that the war began before this date? Some people point to US government complicity in the events of 9/11, either by not doing enough to prevent it, or – more ominously – by actively planning for it. Whatever the truth may be, there is plenty of conjecture that what happened on that day doesn’t add up to the popular version of the events. What is not in dispute is that public support for the ‘War On Terror’ was far greater after these attacks than it would have been on 10 September 2001. Could it be that the attacks were allowed to happen to create public clamour for a war which would otherwise have been inconceivable? Many people have pointed to the possibility that 9/11 was a clone of Pearl Harbor, an attack on the US that was deliberately allowed to take place in order to further the war aims of a president. But a more sinister comparison has been made by those sceptical of the motives of the Bush administration. They claim that what happened was more akin to Adolf Hitler’s burning of the Reichstag, the German Republic’s parliament, on 27 February 1933. Hitler blamed the fire on Communists plotting against the state. But historians widely accept the view that a member of the Prussian interior ministry set fire to the building deliberately, on Hitler’s orders. Immediately after the fire Hitler announced an emergency decree which suspended the normal civilian rights and liberties of citizens and gave the government enormous authority to impose order. This was the beginning of the end for democratic values and the rise of Nazi dictatorship. On 3 October 2001 Congress approved Bush’s PATRIOT Act, a similar bill which reduced the civil liberties of Americans and allowed the detention without trial of anyone the government potentially deemed a ‘security threat’. Furthermore, the public and political pressure for retaliation for the attacks was intense, and neatly tied into the agenda of the ‘Project for a New American Century’. This was a strategic document put forward by a group of neo-conservatives in September 2000 outlining a new strategy for American global dominance in the twenty-first century. This think tank included Dick Cheney, the vice-president; Donald Rumsfeld, secretary of defense; Paul Wolfowitz, his deputy; Jeb Bush, brother of George and governor of Florida; and Lewis Libby, the leader of Bush’s 2000 election campaign team now working in the White House. The most intriguing part of the document concerns the readjustment of American forces across the globe. The report states that only an incremental approach can be taken to this radical restructuring owing to political and public constraints, unless there was ‘some catastrophic and catalyzing event like a new Pearl Harbor’. Despite all this, however, there is still the question of how such an elaborate attack could have been prepared and executed by the government and its agencies without the media becoming deeply suspicious. The most likely explanation is that the attacks were planned by Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda but that US intelligence agencies did not act upon the information they received to adequately prevent them. Evidence of their failure, whether deliberate or through incompetence, has been widespread following Congressional investigations but without any ‘smoking gun’. Furthermore, the CIA and New York City counter-terrorism offices were based in Building 7 of the World Trade Center and were therefore destroyed, along with any potentially incriminating evidence.

 

One theorist has commented how significant it was that Mother Theresa lay in state in a big glass coffin compared to the closed casket of Princess Di. Dodi’s casket has never even been seen, let alone open at a funeral. The story goes that their faces were too badly damaged for open casket viewing but then, we’re also told that Diana was uttering some final words. Naturally, the bounds of taste would dictate that it might not be entirely appropriate to have the public hordes ogling Diana’s corpse, but has anyone seen any dead bodies? Is there really a religious reason for Dodi to have been buried straight away? One piece of evidence supporting this theory is that bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones is still alive, despite claims from Mercedes experts that it would have been well nigh impossible for anyone to have survived a crash in a car going at 121 mph. Maybe, as Henri Paul’s lawyers claim, the car was not going that fast. Maybe the crash was in fact faked by Rees-Jones who had previously deposited Diana and Dodi elsewhere? More and more bizarrely, Dodi’s usual driver was not used. The mystery of Henri Paul, the security officer who only agreed to drive the vehicle at the last minute, is still unsolved. His identity was kept undercover for several days after the crash. According to colleagues at the Ritz Hotel, he had been something of a loner and did not socialise with them. Such little personal information seems to exist on Paul that one version of the story would have it that Henri Paul simply did not exist, another that he was whisked away from the hospital after being pronounced dead by doctors working with the Al-Fayed family. Perhaps most suspiciously of all, Di let it slip to the Daily Mail just six hours before she died that she was going to withdraw completely from public life. Well, she certainly did that. Whether the crash was an impressive ‘death’ scene from which she retreated into blissful privacy, or whether it was an attempt at a faked death that went horribly wrong, we don’t know. Plastic surgery permitting, it might be worth looking out for a stunningly attractive ‘nanny’ coming to visit Diana’s children.

 

Worried that the world is run by a sinister cabal operating at the very highest level of government? You could be right. Bringing together evidence on topics ranging from the Sphinx to JFK, Chernobyl to men in black and life on Mars to Roswell, this book has a cover-up for every occasion. Laid out in a handy A-Z format, Conspiracy Theories makes it easy to find out about all the major conspiracy theories in the world today.

INTRODUCTION 9/11 ABRAHAM LINCOLN AIDS ALIENS ANTI-BLACK AREA 51 ARMY EXERCISES BEAST OF BODMIN BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU BLACK DEATH BLACK HELICOPTERS BORMANN THE BRITISH BRUCE LEE BUNS AND HOT DOGS CARS CARTOONS CHERNOBYL: WAS IT AN ACCIDENT? CHRISTIAN PERSECUTIONS CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE CLINTON COIN OVER NOTE DAVID KELLY DIANA 1 … DODI DIANA 2 … CLOSED CASKET DIANA 3 … MI6 DIANA 4 … THE DODI TARGET DIANA 5 … THE EGYPTIAN POINT OF VIEW DOCTORS DRUGS EARTHQUAKES EBOLA ECHELON EIFFEL TOWER ELVIS ELVIS KILLED KENNEDY FLUORIDE FRANKLIN GRAND CONSPIRACY GULF WAR COVER-UP GUY FAWKES AND THE GUNPOWDER PLOT HARRY POTTER HATSHEPSUT HITLER ASSASSINATION PLOTS HITLER’S STAGED PROVOCATIONS HOLLOW EARTH INCOME TAX AND DONALD DUCK IRISH POTATO FAMINE ISRAELI LEADER ASSASSINATION JFK 1 … LEE HARVEY OSWALD JFK 2 … ANTI-GREEN JFK 3 … GOVERNMENT PLOT JFK 4 … FIDEL CASTRO JFK 5 … MAFIA JFK 6 … CIA JFK 7 … MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX JFK 8 … THE KGB KING JAMES I OF ENGLAND KURSK NUCLEAR SUBMARINE KURT COBAIN LENNON’S ASSASSINATION LOCKERBIE LSD RESEARCH LUNARIANS MALCOLM X MAN ON THE MOON MARILYN MONROE MARS MARS LIFE MARTIN LUTHER KING MEN IN BLACK MICROCHIP IMPLANTS … THE MARK OF THE BEAST? MIND CONTROL MOZART’S DEATH NAZCA LINES NAZI GOLD STORED IN ALLIED BANKS THE 1973 OIL EMBARGO OKLAHOMA ORACLE THE ORDER OF SKULL AND BONES PAUL McCARTNEY PAUL WELLSTONE (US SENATOR) PEARL HARBOR PIET MONDRIAN PISA’S LEANING TOWER POPE JOHN PAUL I POPE JOHN PAUL II POPULATION CONTROL PORT CHICAGO DISASTER QUEEN ELIZABETH I RENNES-LE-CHATEAU RENNES-LE-CHATEAU 2 … THE CHURCH ROBERT MAXWELL ROSWELL RUDOLF HESS SANTA SCHOOL DINNERS SHERGAR’S MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE SMUGGLING SMURFS SPACE SHUTTLE COLUMBIA SPAM SPHINX AND THE GREAT PYRAMIDS SQUIRRELS STALIN STARGATE SUBLIMINAL ADVERTISING TELEVISION TITANIC TRAILER PARKS TUPAC SHAKUR TURIN SHROUD TURIN SHROUD VIRTUAL CONSPIRACY WACO WHO WILL TAKE OVER THE WORLD WHORE OF BABYLON ZEBRAS

Some of these may strike a chord with you, others will merely be scoffed at, but whatever your level of mistrust/paranoia or just piqued interest then this pocket edition should provide plenty of stimuli for you.

 

Kate Tuckett has a degree in modern languages and has worked in academic and lifestyle publishing. She lives in London and her interests are music, cooking, philosophy and paranoia.

 

Conspiracy Theories by Kate Tuckett
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