26446_ch00.i-x.qxd 6/27/05 11:28 AM Page iii Conspiracy Theories —-—-—-—-——-—-—— Edited by Kate Tuckett b BERKLEY BOOKS, NEW YORK THE BERKLEY PUBLISHING GROUP Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario M4P 2Y3, Canada (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) Penguin Books Ltd., 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Penguin Group Ireland, 25 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd.) Penguin Group (Australia), 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty. Ltd.) Penguin Books India Pvt. Ltd., 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi—110 017, India Penguin Group (NZ), Cnr. Airborne and Rosedale Roads, Albany, Auckland 1310, New Zealand (a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd.) Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty.) Ltd., 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa Penguin Books Ltd., Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England CONSPIRACY THEORIES A Berkley Book / published by arrangement with Summersdale Publishers Ltd. Previously published in Great Britain by Summersdale Publishers Ltd., 2004 Electronic edition / September 2005 Copyright © 2004 by Summersdale Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any printed or electronic form without permission. Please do not participate in or encourage piracy of copyrighted materials in violation of the author’s rights. Purchase only authorized editions. For information, address: The Berkley Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014. MSR ISBN: 0 7865 5951 9 AEB ISBN: 0 7865 5952 7 BERKLEY® Berkley Books are published by The Berkley Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014. BERKLEY is a registered trademark of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. The “B” design is a trademark belonging to Penguin Group (USA) Inc. Making or distributing electronic copies of this book constitutes copyright infringement and could subject the infringer to criminal and civil liability. www.penguin.com 26446_ch00.i-x.qxd 6/27/05 11:28 AM Page v Important note: The conspiracy theories contained in this book are just that: theories. The editor and the publishers make no claim that any of these theories have any basis in fact. They are merely theories that have at some point been expressed in the public domain. Such theories are reproduced herein for entertainment purposes only and are not intended to be taken literally. 26446_ch00.i-x.qxd 6/27/05 11:28 AM Page vii Contents Introduction . 1 9/11 . 3 Abraham Lincoln . 7 AIDS. 9 Aliens . 11 Anti-Black. 13 Area 51 . 15 Army Exercises . 18 Beast of Bodmin. 20 Big Brother Is Watching You . 22 Black Death . 25 Black Helicopters. 27 Bormann . 29 The British . 31 Bruce Lee . 32 Buns and Hot Dogs . 34 Cars . 35 Cartoons . 37 Chernobyl: Was It an Accident? . 39 Christian Persecutions . 41 Christopher Marlowe . 43 Clinton. 45 Coin Over Note. 46 David Kelly . 47 Diana 1: Dodi . 49 Diana 2: Closed Casket . 51 Diana 3: MI6 . 53 Diana 4: The Dodi Target . 55 Diana 5: The Egyptian Point of View . 56 Doctors . 58 Drugs . 60 Earthquakes . 62 Ebola . 65 Echelon . 66 26446_ch00.i-x.qxd 6/27/05 11:28 AM Page viii viii Contents Eiffel Tower . 69 Elvis. 70 Elvis Killed Kennedy . 71 Fluoride. 72 Franklin. 73 Grand Conspiracy . 75 Gulf War Cover-Up. 77 Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot . 80 Harry potter . 82 Hatshepsut . 84 Hitler Assassination Plots . 86 Hitler’s Staged Provocations . 88 Hollow Earth . 90 Income Tax and Donald Duck . 93 Irish Potato Famine . 95 Israeli Leader Assassination . 96 JFK 1: Lee Harvey Oswald . 98 JFK 2: Anti-Green . 100 JFK 3: Government Plot . 101 JFK 4: Fidel Castro . 102 JFK 5: Mafia . 104 JFK 6: CIA . 106 JFK 7: Military-Industrial Complex . 108 JFK 8: The KGB . 110 King James I of England. 111 Kursk Nuclear Submarine. 113 Kurt Cobain . 117 Lennon’s Assassination . 119 Lockerbie . 121 LSD Research . 123 Lunarians . 124 Malcolm X. 126 Man on the Moon . 128 Marilyn Monroe . 130 Mars. 132 Mars Life . 135 Martin Luther King, Jr. 136 Men in Black. 138 26446_ch00.i-x.qxd 6/27/05 11:28 AM Page ix Contents ix Microchip Implants: The Mark of the Beast?. 140 Mind Control . 142 Mozart’s Death . 144 Nazca Lines . 146 Nazi Gold Stored in Allied Banks . 148 The 1973 Oil Embargo. 150 Oklahoma City Bombing . 152 Oracle . 154 The Order of Skull and Bones. 156 Paul McCartney . 159 Paul Wellstone (U.S. Senator). 161 Pearl Harbor . 163 Piet Mondrian. 166 Pisa’s Leaning Tower . 168 Pope John Paul I . 170 Pope John Paul II . 173 Population Control . 175 Port Chicago Disaster . ..