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Introduction ix Assassinations and downfalls 1 Tutankhamun and the curse of the pharaoh 4 Jesus of Nazareth and the case of the missing penis 6 The archduke and the Black Hand 8 Marilyn Monroe: something had to give 10 Exploding cigars: the CIA and Castro 14 JFK: who wasn’t involved? 17 Malcolm X: black powers 26 Martin Luther King: dreams and nightmares 29 Robert Kennedy: another brother lost 31 John Paul I: the smiling pope 35 John Lennon: dangerous pacifist 38 Paul McCartney is dead 39 God’s banker: Roberto Calvi 41 The princess and the tunnel 44 Inquests and investigations 48 David Kelly and the weapons of mass destruction 51 Alexander Litvinenko: radioactive spy 56 Decaying evidence: the death of Yasser Arafat 61 Death in a sunroof: Benazir Bhutto 63 Osama bin Laden: dead or alive? 68 Unlawful killing?g/vKhfVp81CmKKl5gJCYAKo= Muammar Gaddafi 73 Gaddafi, Lumumba, Hammarskjöld 75 Mega-conspiracies and master plans 77 Knights of the shadows: the Templars 81
v Freemasonry: centuries of conspiracy? 84 Sinister cities 92 Roosevelt’s trailer parks 93 The Illuminati 95 The Rosicrucians 97 Blood Libel: the longest-running conspiracy theory of all 99 Holocaust denial 102 Other genocides, other denials 106 The Protocols of the Elders of Zion 109 The British royal family 113 The Central Interference Agency 117 Venezuela: the two-day coup 118 The military-industrial complex 122 The military-entertainment complex 125 Men in Black 126 Currency codes: from Masonic dollars to ten-agora coins 128 Italy: land of conspiracy 132 Opus Dei: the Holy Mafia 136 The EU 140 Behind the scenes: the CFR, the Bilderbergers and the Trilateral Commission 142 The World Economic Forum 147 The New World Order 148 The banking crisis 149 The Chinese dimension 153 Nazi gold 156 Organized crime 158 Secret services 161 Echelon and the World Wide Web 164 Facebook and Google: someone to watch over us 166 Bar codes and RFIDs 168 The war against WikiLeaks: the strange case of Julian Assange 172
g/vKhfVp81CmKKl5gJCYAKo= The land of the free 179 The John Birch Society 182 Watergate: a third-rate burglary 185 Jonestown 190 vi Ronald Reagan and the “October Surprise” 195 Iran–Contra: no theory 196 October surprises 201 Satanic owls at Bohemian Grove 202 MK-ULTRA 206 Frank Olson 208 The White Alliance: the CIA, the Contras and cocaine 211 Did not snort: coca-Clinton and the “Mena” affair 212 The Clintongates: a vast right-wing conspiracy? 217 The Clinton body count 218 Waco 222 OKC: the Oklahoma City bombing 226 The elections of George W. Bush 230 The great election robbery of 1876 231 Barack Obama: conspiracy-orama 235
Real weapons of mass destruction 239 Chemical cover-ups 242 AIDS 245 SARS 248 A cure for cancer 249 Secret bases 255 HAARP 259 The origins of HAARP 260 Microwaves 265 Peak oil 266 Perpetual war on perpetual energy 271 Climate change: convenient untruths 276 Hurricane Katrina devastates the “Big Easy” 281
g/vKhfVp81CmKKl5gJCYAKo= Conspiracies of sea, sky and space 287 Titanic hubris 290 The Lusitania 292 Roswell and Majestic-12 295
vii Freemasonry: centuries of conspiracy? 84 Sinister cities 92 Roosevelt’s trailer parks 93 The Illuminati 95 The Rosicrucians 97 Blood Libel: the longest-running conspiracy theory of all 99 Holocaust denial 102 Other genocides, other denials 106 The Protocols of the Elders of Zion 109 The British royal family 113 The Central Interference Agency 117 Venezuela: the two-day coup 118 The military-industrial complex 122 The military-entertainment complex 125 Men in Black 126 Currency codes: from Masonic dollars to ten-agora coins 128 Italy: land of conspiracy 132 Opus Dei: the Holy Mafia 136 The EU 140 Behind the scenes: the CFR, the Bilderbergers and the Trilateral Commission 142 The World Economic Forum 147 The New World Order 148 The banking crisis 149 The Chinese dimension 153 Nazi gold 156 Organized crime 158 Secret services 161 Echelon and the World Wide Web 164 Facebook and Google: someone to watch over us 166 Bar codes and RFIDs 168 The war against WikiLeaks: the strange case of Julian Assange 172
g/vKhfVp81CmKKl5gJCYAKo= The land of the free 179 The John Birch Society 182 Watergate: a third-rate burglary 185 Jonestown 190 vi Alien abductions 298 The Apollo moon landing 300 Commie cosmonauts 302 Pan Am 103 to Lockerbie 304 TWA Flight 800 311 A massacre and two plane crashes 316 Warplay 317 The USS Maine and the Spanish–American War 321 Operation Northwoods 322 Pearl Harbor 323 The invasion of Poland 326 ODESSA and the Org 329 The Cold War conspiracy 332 The Gulf of Tonkin incident and the Vietnam War 336 The Rwandan genocide: who started it? 340 The Tutsi–Hima world-domination mega-plot 343 The Kremlin and the Chechen rebels 347 9/11: picking over the rubble 355 9/11 numerology 362 Iraq: the case for war 368 The First Gulf War 371 Iraq: the real reasons for war? 376 The Project for the New American Century 382 The Madrid train bombings 386 7/7: the London bombings 392 Extraordinary rendition 400 Arab Spring: Facebook friends and hidden hands 405 Archive 411 Books g/vKhfVp81CmKKl5gJCYAKo= 413 Films 419 Websites 424
Index 429 viii