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Conspiracies Declassified

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by Brian Dunning


  Philips, T. “Unmasking the Face on Mars.” NASA Science. May 24, 2001. http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast24may_1.htm.

  Posner, G. “The Face Behind the Face on Mars: A Skeptical Look at Richard Hoagland.” Skeptical Inquirer 24, no. 6 (November 2000): 20.

  PART 7: URBAN LEGEND CONSPIRACY THEORIES

  Hearst and Hemp

  Bonnie, R., and C. Whitebread. “The Forbidden Fruit and the Tree of Knowledge: An Inquiry Into the Legal History of American Marijuana Prohibition.” Virginia Law Review 56, no. 6 (October 1970): 971–1,203.

  Swanberg, W. Citizen Hearst. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1961.

  Wishnia, S. “Debunking the Hemp Conspiracy Theory.” AlterNet. February 20, 2008. www.alternet.org/story/77339/debunking_the_hemp_conspiracy_theory.

  There Is No Finland

  Bestor, V., and T. Bestor. “Japan and the Sea.” Education about Asia 19, no. 2 (October 2014): 50–56.

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, s.v. “Trans-Siberian Railroad.” Updated May 9, 2017. www.britannica.com/topic/Trans-Siberian-Railroad.

  Lamoureux, M. “This Dude Accidentally Convinced the Internet That Finland Doesn’t Exist.” Vice. December 9, 2016. www.vice.com/sv/article/this-dude-accidentally-convinced-the-internet-that-finland-doesnt-exist.

  Men in Black

  Barker, G. They Knew Too Much about Flying Saucers. New York: University Books, 1956.

  Bender, A. Flying Saucers and the Three Men. Clarksburg: Saucerian Books, 1962.

  Sherwood, J. “Gray Barker: My Friend, the Myth-Maker.” Skeptical Inquirer 22, no. 3 (January 1998): 37–39.

  Polybius

  DeSpira, C. “Reinvestigating Polybius.” Retrocade 1, no. 2 (April 2012): 141–148.

  “Tummy Derails Asteroids Champ.” Eugene Register-Guard, November 29, 1981.

  “Video Games Gambling Count Admitted.” The Oregonian, December 9, 1981.

  HAARP

  Eastlund, B. “Method and Apparatus for Altering a Region in the Earth’s Atmosphere, Ionosphere, and/or Magnetosphere.” United States Patent and Trademark Office. August 11, 1987. http://tinyurl.com/328mdn4.

  Ratcliffe, J. An Introduction to the Ionosphere and Magnetosphere. London: Cambridge University Press, 1972.

  University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute. “HAARP FAQ.” January 9, 2010. www.gi.alaska.edu/haarp/faq.

  TWA Flight 800

  Barreveld, D. The Spark That Killed 230 People: The Scary Details of the NTSB’s Final Report of the Crash of TWA Flight 800. Lincoln, NE: iUniverse, 2002.

  Hall, J., J. Hammerschmidt, J. Goglia, G. Black, and C. Carmody. NTSB Abstract AAR-00/03. Washington, DC: National Transportation Safety Board, 2000.

  Wald, M. “T.W.A. Crash Investigators Ridicule a Missile Theory and Pin Hopes on Research.” The New York Times, March 14, 1997.

  Malaysian Airlines MH370

  Goodfellow, C. “A Startlingly Simple Theory about the Missing Malaysia Airlines Jet.” Wired. March 18, 2014. www.wired.com/2014/03/mh370-electrical-fire/.

  “MH370 Conspiracy Theories: The Truth Behind One of Aviation’s Greatest Mysteries.” The Week. January 18, 2018. www.theweek.co.uk/mh370/58037/mh370-conspiracy-theories-what-happened-to-the-missing-plane.

  USCDornsife Spatial Sciences Institute. “The Search for Malaysia Airlines Flight #MH370.” http://gis.usc.edu/blog/the-search-for-malaysia-airlines-flight-mh370/.

  PART 8: CONSPIRACY THEORIES THAT TURNED OUT TO BE . . . TRUE?

  Numbers Stations

  Nieves, G. “Lawyer: Accused Spy to Plead Guilty.” The Miami Herald, September 14, 2001.

  Pierce, L. Intercepting Numbers Stations. Dorset, England: Interproducts, 1994.

  Smolinski, C. “Spy Numbers Stations on Shortwave Radio.” Spy Numbers. August 11, 2015. www.spynumbers.com/.

  MKULTRA

  Central Intelligence Agency. Brainwashing from a Psychological Viewpoint. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1956.

  Gabbai, Lisbonne, and Pourquier. “Ergot Poisoning at Pont St. Esprit.” British Medical Journal 2, no. 4732 (September 1951): 650–651.

  Select Committee on Intelligence, and Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research of the Committee on Human Resources. Project MKULTRA: The CIA’s Program of Research in Behavioral Modification. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1977.

  COINTELPRO

  Blackstock, N. COINTELPRO: The FBI’s Secret War on Political Freedom. New York: Monad Press, 1975.

  Churchill, W., and J. Vander Wall. The COINTELPRO Papers: Documents from the FBI’s Secret Wars Against Domestic Dissent. Boston: South End Press, 1990.

  Medsger, B. The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI. New York: Vintage Books, 2014.

  The Gulf of Tonkin

  Ball, M. “Revisiting the Gulf of Tonkin Crisis: An Analysis of the Private Communication of President Johnson and His Advisers.” Discourse & Society 2, no. 3 (1991): 281–296.

  Hanyok, R. “Skunks, Bogies, Silent Hounds, and the Flying Fish: The Gulf of Tonkin Mystery, 2–4 August 1964.” Cryptologic Quarterly 19, no. 4/20, no. 1 (Winter 2000/Spring 2001): 1–55.

  Prados, J. “The Gulf of Tonkin Incident, 40 Years Later.” National Security Archive. August 4, 2004. https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB132/index.htm.

  Military Dolphins

  Chapple, S. “The Pentagon’s Deadly Pets.” Penthouse 8, no. 10 (June 1977): 48–54.

  Gasperini, W. “Uncle Sam’s Dolphins.” Smithsonian 34, no. 6 (September 2003): 28–30.

  Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command. “US Navy Marine Mammal Program.” May 21, 2011. www.public.navy.mil/spawar/Pacific/technology/Pages/mammals.aspx.

  CIA Drugs for Guns

  Kerry, J., B. Adams, and D. Moynihan. Drugs, Law Enforcement, and Policy: A Report Prepared by the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Operations. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1989.

  “The Contras, Cocaine, and Covert Operations.” The National Security Archive. January 10, 2018. https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu//NSAEBB/NSAEBB2/index.html.

  Webb, G. Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion. New York: Seven Stories Press, 1996.

  Index

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  9/11 attacks, 121–28

  Ackerman, Thomas, 116–20

  Alden, Ginger, 82

  Al-Fayed, Dodi, 92–94

  Al-Fayed, Mohamed, 93–94

  Ali, Muhammad, 224

  Alien civilizations, 130–31, 156–67, 190–94

  Alien reptilian culture, 37–40

  Allen, Carl, 115

  Allende, Carlos, 114–15

  Anderson, Orlando, 89

  Anslinger, Harry, 184–85

  Apollo program, 138, 172–76

  Area 51, 161, 164–67

  Aristotle, 135

  Barker, Gray, 192–94

  Beatles, 78–81

  Bedford Level Experiment, 137

  Begich, Nick, Jr., 200

  Bender, Albert K., 192–94

  Berlitz, Charles, 113

  Bernhard, Prince, 25

  Big Pharma, 42–45, 150–53

  Biggie (Notorious B.I.G.), 87–91

  Bilderberg Group, 24–28

  Bixby, Bill, 83–84

  Black Knight satellite, 156–59

  Bloch, Admiral Claude, 110

  Bohemian Club, 20–23

  Bolton, Darnell, 90

  Bowles, Camilla Parker, 93

  Branch Davidian assault, 59–62

  Brazel, Mac, 160–61

  Brewer-Giorgio, Gail, 83–86

  Bugliosi, Vincent, 76

  Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, 101

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p; Bush, George W., 57, 124

  Bush, H.W., 183

  Caesar, Julius, 216

  Carr, Daniel, 31

  Carroll, Michael, 52

  Cartlidge, Doug, 234

  Castro, Fidel, 26

  Charles, Prince, 92–94

  Charny, Geoffroi de, 15

  Chemtrails, 63–67

  Chirac, Jacques, 95

  “CIA drugs for guns,” 235–38

  Claes, Willy, 26–27

  Clapton, Eric, 79

  Clarke, Arthur C., 138, 169–70

  Clausen, Henry, 109

  Clinton, Bill, 60

  COINTELPRO, 222–26

  Columbus, Christopher, 136

  Combs, Sean, 88–90

  Concentration camps, 102–6

  Contra rebels, 235–38

  Contrails, 63–67

  Cooper, Gordon, 157, 159

  Counterintelligence Program, 222–26

  Death camps, 102–6

  Dennis, Glenn, 162–63

  Denver International Airport, 33–36

  Die Glocke, 98–101

  Dolphins, 231–34

  Donaldson, William, 204

  Drug cartels, 235–38

  Dugain, Marc, 208

  Dyson, Freeman, 120

  Earhart, Amelia, 70–73

  Eastlund, Bernard, 200

  Edison, Thomas, 141, 143

  Einstein, Albert, 114–15, 129

  Eisenhower, Dwight D., 106

  Elite illuminati

  Bilderberg Group, 24–28

  Bohemian Club, 20–23

  Denver International Airport, 33–36

  Knights Templar, 12–15

  North American Union, 29–32

  Reptoids, 37–40

  Rothschild family, 16–19

  Elites, 9, 11–40, 135, 138

  Ellis, Jimmy, 83

  Energy, free, 145–49

  Energy, limitless, 140

  Estulin, Daniel, 26

  Euclid, 135

  Face on Mars, 177–80

  Fanton, Lieutenant Eileen Mae, 163

  FEMA prison camps, 54–58

  Ferdinand, King, 136

  Ferraris, Galileo, 143

  Ferrell, Lee, 163

  Finland urban legend, 186–89

  Fitzgerald, Dr. James, 232–33

  Flat Earth theory, 135–39

  Fluoridation, 46–49

  Foster, Jodie, 77

  Fouse, Wardell, 90

  Franklin, Benjamin, 43

  Franklin, Francis, 43

  Frazier, Joe, 224

  Free energy, 145–49

  Friedman, Stanton, 161–62

  Fulgham, Captain Dan, 163

  Galilei, Galileo, 129, 136

  Gates, Bill, 27

  Germ warfare, 50–53

  Gibb, Russ, 79, 81

  Godfrey, Cinda, 84, 86

  Goerman, Robert, 115

  Golden, Sharitha, 88

  Gould, Jay, 84–86

  Government oppression

  Branch Davidian assault, 59–62

  chemtrails, 63–67

  FEMA prison camps, 54–58

  Plum Island, 50–53

  vaccines, 42–45

  water fluoridation, 46–49

  Greenleaf, Little Chief, 38–40

  Greenwood, Michael, 232–33

  Greer, Steven M., 147

  Grobman, Alex, 104

  Grubel, Herb, 30

  Gulf of Tonkin, 227–30

  Guns, drugs for, 235–38

  HAARP, 199–202

  Halley, Edmond, 131

  Hardy, Oliver, 22

  Harrison, George, 81

  Hearst, William Randolph, 182–85

  Helms, Richard, 219

  Hemp, 182–85

  Herer, Jack, 182, 184

  Herrick, John J., 228–30

  High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP), 199–202

  Hitchens, Christopher, 86, 100

  Hitler, Adolf, 103, 104

  Ho Chi Minh, 229

  Hoagland, Richard C., 169, 178–79

  Hollow Earth theory, 130–34

  Holocaust denial, 102–6

  Hoover, J. Edgar, 91, 222–25

  Hyams, Peter, 173

  Icke, David, 39

  Illuminati, 11–40, 57–58, 138

  Isabella, Queen, 136

  Jackson, Andrew, 131

  Jacobsen, Annie, 166

  Jessup, Morris, 113–15

  Jiménez, Luis, 36

  Johnson, Charles, 137–38

  Johnson, Kelly, 165

  Johnson, Lyndon B., 75–77, 227–30

  Johnson, Marjory, 137–38

  Jones, Alex, 22

  Kaysing, Bill, 173

  Keel, John, 193

  Kennedy, John F., 74–77

  Kimmel, Admiral Husband, 107, 109–11

  King, Martin Luther, Jr., 222, 225–26

  Knight, Suge, 88–90

  Knights Templar, 12–15

  Koller, Kurt, 198

  Koresh, David, 59–62

  Koreshan Unity, 132–33

  Kubrick, Stanley, 138

  LaBour, Fred, 80, 81

  Lawrence, Ernest, 23

  Lazar, Bob, 165–67

  Ley, Willy, 101

  Limitless energy, 140

  London, Jack, 21

  Long delayed echoes (LDEs), 156–59

  Lopez, Michael, 196–97

  Lovecraft, H.P., 101

  LSD experiments, 217–21

  Lucifer Project, 168–71

  Lunan, Duncan, 157–59

  Macklin, L., 38–40

  Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, 207–10

  Manhattan Project, 20–23, 99

  Marcel, Major Jesse, 160–61

  Marconi, Guglielmo, 141

  Marijuana, 182–85

  Marine Mammal Program, 232–33

  Mars face, 177–80

  Mauro, Brian, 196–97

  Maxxe, Robert, 197

  McAndrew, Lieutenant James, 162–63

  McCartney, Paul, 78–81

  McKay, Dr. Frederick, 47–49

  McKinney, Cynthia, 56

  McNamara, Robert, 227–30

  McVeigh, Timothy, 62

  Medsger, Betty, 224

  Men in Black, 190–94

  Military dolphins, 231–34

  Mind control, 217–21

  Mindszenty, Cardinal József, 217–18, 220

  Minh, Ho Chi, 229

  MKULTRA project, 217–21

  Molay, Jacques de, 15

  Montauk Monster, 53

  Moon landing, 172–76

  Moore, William, 113

  Morgan, J.P., 141

  Morrow, Ulysses Grant, 132–34

  Morse, Wayne, 228–30

  National Classified Test Facility, 164–67

  Naval Shipyard Experiment, 112–15

  Nazi Wunderwaffen, 98–101

  Nellis Air Force Base, 164–67

  New World Order, 33–36

  Nimitz, Admiral Chester, 111

  Nixon, Richard, 21, 36, 51

  Noonan, Fred, 70–73

  North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), 29–30

  North American Union (NAU), 29–32

  North Vietnamese, 227–30

  Notorious B.I.G. (Biggie), 87–91

  Nuclear war, 116–20

  Nuclear winter, 116–19

  Numbers stations, 212–16

  Olson, Dr. Frank, 219–21

  Operation Paget report, 94–95

  Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 23

  Oswald, Lee Harvey, 9, 74–77

  Parallax, 136–37

  Pareidolia, 180

  Paul, Henri, 92–95

  Pearl Harbor attack, 107–11

  Penner, Joyce, 117–18

  Pentagon missile, 125–28

  Pharmaceutical companies, 42–45, 150–53

  Philadelphia Experiment, 112–15

  Philip IV, King, 13–14

  Plum Island, 50–53


  Pollack, James, 116–20

  Polybius games, 195–98

  Presley, Elvis, 82–86

  Princess Diana, 92–95

  Prison camps, 30, 33, 54–58

  Project Mogul, 161–63

  Puff Daddy, 88–90

  Putin, Vladimir, 209

  Pythagoras, 135

  Radio broadcasts, 212–16

  Radio control technology, 142

  Radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs), 168–71

  Reagan, Ronald, 77, 117, 236

  Rees-Jones, Trevor, 92–94

  Reno, Janet, 59–60

  Reptoids, 37–40

  Retinger, Józef, 25

  Retroreflectors, 175

  Roosevelt, Franklin D., 55, 57, 109

  Roswell, 160–63

  Rothschild, Benjamin de, 19

  Rothschild, Jeff, 19

  Rothschild, Mayer Amschel, 16–17

  Rothschild family, 16–19

  Rowbotham, Samuel, 136–37

  Ruby, Jack, 75–76

  Rumsfeld, Donald, 124

  Sagan, Carl, 116–20, 178

  Sanders, James, 204

  Sandinistas, 235–38

  Satellite, Black Knight, 156–59

  Schiff, Steven, 162

  Schneider, Stephen, 118

  Science conspiracies

  Big Pharma, 150–53

  flat Earth, 135–39

  free energy, 145–49

  hollow Earth, 130–34

  Nikola Tesla, 140–44

  suppressed technology, 140–44

  Scott, Peter Dale, 56

  Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), 29–30

  September 11 attacks, 121–28

  Shah, Zaharie Ahmad, 208

  Shakur, Tupac, 87–91

  Shenton, Samuel, 136–38, 172

  Shermer, Michael, 104

  Sherwood, John, 193

  Shufelt, G. Warren, 38–40

  Silverstein, Larry, 123–24

  Skeptoid®, 9

  Space conspiracies

  Area 51, 161, 164–67

  Black Knight satellite, 156–59

  Lucifer Project, 168–71

  Mars face, 177–80

  Moon landing, 172–76

  Roswell, 160–63

  Spies, 165–67, 212–16, 225, 231–33

  Sporrenberg, Jakob, 100–101

  Stacey, Robert, 204

  Stinnett, Robert, 108

  Strada, Al, 84

  Suspicious deaths

  Amelia Earhart, 70–73

  Elvis Presley, 82–86

  John F. Kennedy, 74–77

  Notorious B.I.G., 87–91

  Paul McCartney, 78–81

  Princess Diana, 92–95

  Tupac Shakur, 87–91

  Symmes, John, 131

  Tanguma, Leo, 34

  Technology, suppressed, 140–44

  Teed, Cyrus, 131–32

  Teller, Dr. Edward, 23, 117

  Templars, 12–15

  Terrorist attacks, 121–28

  Tesla, Nikola, 129, 140–44, 156, 158

 

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