usenet@ucbvax.ARPA (USENET News Administration) (10/06/85)
Here is the latest conspiracy theory I heard: That the failure of the mission to rescue the hostages in Iran was the result of a plot to make Carter look bad, so as to help Reagan to get elected. Here is one I made up myself: That the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior was part of a right-wing plot to make Mitterand look bad.
andrew@grkermi.UUCP (Andrew W. Rogers) (10/07/85)
In article <10559@ucbvax.ARPA> tedrick@ucbernie.UUCP (Tom Tedrick) writes: >Here is the latest conspiracy theory I heard: > >That the failure of the mission to rescue the hostages >in Iran was the result of a plot to make Carter look bad, >so as to help Reagan to get elected. I don't know about the April, 1980 rescue attempt... but noted truther Sy Hirsch claims that a Reagan mole in the Pentagon sabotaged a second rescue mission (planned for October, 1980) by leaking it to the press. AWR
goddard@rochester.UUCP (Nigel Goddard) (10/07/85)
Talking of conspiracy theories.... try this one for credibility (I did see
it seriously espoused in print):
The bombing at the Conservative Party Conference in Brighton,
England, was a law-and-order faction plot to enable the police
to justify using heavy weaponry and increased harrassment....
They should be so smart!!
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Rochester, NY 14627peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva) (10/09/85)
> The bombing at the Conservative Party Conference in Brighton, > England, was a law-and-order faction plot to enable the police > to justify using heavy weaponry and increased harrassment.... I've heard that the shooting down of KAL007 was a plot by the John Birch to create another martyr. Makes as much sense.
zben@umcp-cs.UUCP (Ben Cranston) (10/11/85)
I read in one of the papers a suggestion that the four Russians recently kidnapped in Lebanon (one killed so far) were "expendable", and might have been "expended" to take the pressure off Gorbachev re: state-sponsored terrorism on the eve of the French visit and our upcoming summit here. Must have been in the Times - only they would publish such twaddle. -- Ben Cranston ...seismo!umcp-cs!zben zben@umd2.ARPA