Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History (60 page)

10
Cook, 33.

11
Ibid., 10.

12
Ibid., 36.

13
Laurens Otter, cited ibid., 39.

14
Ibid., 45.

15
Andrew Brown,
Guardian
, April 13, 2002.

16
Ibid.

17
This and quotations in the following paragraph: Hansard (transcript of parliamentary debates), December 20, 1984.

18
Paul Keel and Richard Norton-Taylor,
Guardian
, December 21, 1984.

19
Cited in Cook, 112.

20
Ibid., 103.

21
Richard Norton-Taylor,
Guardian
, April 22, 1985.

22
Cook, 69.

23
Ibid., 73.

24
“Death of an English Rose,”
World in Action
, Granada television, March 4, 1985.

25
Cook, 183.

26
Ibid., 120.

27
Neil Mackay, “The Hate Machine,”
Sunday Herald
, July 2, 2002.

28
http://www.hildamurrell.org/home.htm
.

6. Holy Blood, Holy Grail, Holy Shit

1
Daily Telegraph
, October 3, 2004.

2
Financial Times
, April 8, 2006.

3
Observer
, February 26, 2006.

4
For this and what follows, see Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln,
The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail
, preface.

5
Time Shift
, “The Da Vinci Code—The Greatest Story Ever Told,” BBC4, May 2006.

6
Baigent et al.,
The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail
, preface.

7
Ibid., 12.

8
Ibid., 14.

9
Ibid., 379.

10
Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln,
The Messianic Legacy
, 311.

11
Henry Lincoln interviewed in
Da Vinci Code Decoded
, DVD, 2004.

12
Richard Barber,
The Holy Grail
, 17.

13
Paul Smith,
http://priory-of-sion.com/psp/id174.html
.

14
Ibid.

15
Smith,
http://priory-of-sion.com/psp/id174.html
.

16
Ibid.

17
Ibid.

18
Lincoln, interviewed in
Da Vinci Code Decoded.

19
. The Real Da Vinci Code
, Channel 4, 2005.

20
Baigent, et al.,
The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail
, 469.

21
Baigent, et al.,
The Messianic Legacy
, 294.

22
Interview with Jonathan Milne,
New Zealand Herald
, March 12, 2006.

23
Smith,
http://priory-of-sion/baigent.html
.

24
Spectator
, March 25, 2006.

25
Lincoln interviewed in
Da Vinci Code Decoded.

26
.
Norman Cohn,
Warrant for Genocide
, 34-35.

27
Baigent, et al.,
The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail
, 200.

28
Ibid., 199-203.

29
Immanuel Velikovsky,
Worlds in Collision
, viii.

30
Erich von Däniken,
In Search of Ancient Gods
, 197-98.

31
Erich von Däniken,
Chariots of the Gods
, 1.

32
http://www.grahamhancock.com/library/sats/default.htm
.

33
Graham Hancock, interviewed on
Horizon
, November 4, 1999.

34
http://www.grahamhancock.com/supernatural
.

35
http://luckymojo.com/hancocklecture.html
.

36
Hugh J. Schonfield,
The Passover Plot
, 125.

37
Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince,
The Sion Revelation
, 17.

38
Dan Burnstein,
Secrets of the Code
, introduction.

39
Ibid.

40
Umberto Eco,
Foucault’s Pendulum
, 261.

41
David Mamet,
Three Uses of the Knife
, 12.

7. A Few Clicks of a Mouse

1
Washington Post
, September 6, 2006.

2
“Click Here for Conspiracy,”
Vanity Fair
, August 2006.

3
Ibid.

4
Ibid.

5
The survey was conducted by telephone between July 6 and 24, 2006, at the Scripps Survey Research Center at the University of Ohio.

6
The Alex Jones Show
, GCN radio network, March 2006.

7
Wereldgasten
, VPRO television, December 3, 2006.

8
“Click Here for Conspiracy.”

9
Marco Thompson cited on
http://www.911myths.com/html
.

10
Bill Strauss, et al.,
http://www.spectrum.ieec.org/mar06/3069
.

11
http://www.serendipity.li/wot/operation_pearl.htm
.

12
David Ray Griffin,
The New Pearl Harbor
, foreword.

13
Ibid., xxiii.

14
Washington Post
, September 6, 2006.

15
“Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can’t Stand Up to the Facts,”
Popular Mechanics
, March 2005.

16
Griffin, 27.

17
Ibid., 30-31.

18
Ibid.

19
http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/conspiracy/q0265.shtml
.

20
Griffin, 40.

21
http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/conspiracy/q0274.shtml
.

22
Ibid.

23
Griffin, 28.

24
New Statesman
, September 11, 2006.

25
Jim Fetzer Radio Show
, Republic Broadcasting Network, June 29, 2006.

26
New York Times
, June 22, 2002.

27
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1907955.stm
.

28
http://www.periodico26.cu/english/opinion/ivashov011806.html
.

29
Ibid.

30
http://petras.lahaine.org/articulo.php?c=1&p=138/
.

31
James Petras and Robin Eastman-Abaya,
The Caricatures in Middle East Politics
,
http:/petras.lahaine.org/articulo.php?c=1¬e=1&p=9
.

32
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?read=83815
.

33
Le Journal du Dimanche
, February 8, 2004.

34
Ha’aretz
, January 19, 2006.

35
Ibid.

36
John Lichfield,
Independent on Sunday
, March 26, 2006.

37
http://www.amnistia.net/news/articles/voltaire/voltaire_552.html
.

38
http://www.erichufschmid.net/wingTV/BollynPickeringwingTV.html
.

39
http://www.erichufschmid.net/Hufschmid-Dylan-Korey-Jason.mp3
.

40
American Free Press
, April 10, 2005.

41
Der Spiegel
, September 8, 2003.

42
James Hollander,
CounterPunch
, March 11, 2004.

43
Guardian
, April 6, 2004.

44
New Statesman
, September 11, 2006.

45
Guardian
, June 27, 2006.

46
Griffin, 139.

47
Interview with Amy Goodman,
Democracy Now!
WBAI radio, May 26, 2004.

48
Griffin, 127.

49
David Hackett Fischer,
Historians’ Fallacies
, 209-11.

50
David Ray Griffin,
The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions
, 189.

51
Noam Chomsky, e-mail, November 17, 2002.

8. Mr. Pooter Forms a Theory

1
Matthew Parris on the BBC
Today
program, June 14, 2002.

2
Peter Oborne,
Daily Mail
, February 16, 2007.

3
http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm200607/cmhansrd/cm070115/text/70115w0018.html
.

4
http://www.martinfrost.ws/htmlfiles/sept2006/uncovering.html
.

5
http://beyondbelief.blogspot.com/
.

6
Norman Baker,
The Strange Death of David Kelly
, 196.

7
Ibid., 192.

8
http://www.bahai-library.com/introductory/suicide.html
.

9
Baker, 38.

10
Ibid., 36.

11
Ibid., 193.

12
Nadine Melhem et al., “Familial Pathways to Early-Onset Suicidal Behavior,”
American Journal of Psychiatry
, 164, September 2007, 1364-70.

13
Baker, 7.

14
Ibid.

15
Ibid., 197.

16
Ibid.

17
Ibid., 36.

18
Ibid., 38.

19
Ibid., 39.

20
Ibid., 37.

21
http://news.scotsman.com/huttoninquiry/Dr-Kellys-bitter-end.2445290.jp
.

22
Baker, 14.

23
Ibid., 19.

24
Ibid., 21.

25
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programs/conspiracy_files/6378681.stm
.

26
Baker, 368.

27
http://news.bbc.co.uk/nolpda/ifs_news/hi/newsid_6269000/6269157.stm
.