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Himmler, Heinrich

Hinckley, John

Hiss, Alger

Historian’s fallacy

Historical precedent

History: plots and; revisionist; study of; understanding of

Hitler, Adolf; and
Protocols
; and war on U.S.

Hofstadter, Richard

Hollywood; HUAC and; Iranian views

Holocaust:
Protocols
and; revisionists and

Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, The
(Baigent, Leigh, and Lincoln)

Honigsbaum, Mark

Hoover, J. Edgar;
Masters of Deceit

Houghton, Harris

Hounam, Peter,
Operation Cyanide

House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

Howe, Irving

Hufschmid, Eric

Hunt, Nicholas

Hurricane Katrina

Hussey, Marmaduke

Hutton Report

Hysteria, conspiracism as

Illuminati

Immigrants, populists and

Imperialism; populists and

Improbability

In Cold Blood
(Capote)

Inconvenient truths

Industrialists, and World War I,

Industrialization, Soviet; sabotage of

Infamy: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath
(Toland)

International Jew, The

Internet, and conspiracy theories

Interrogation methods, Soviet

Iran, and
Protocols

Ir an-contra affair

Iraq war

Irvine, Reed

Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

Islamists, terrorist attacks

Isolationism, U.S.

Israel; and
Liberty
bombing; and 9/11

It’s a Wonderful Life
(movie)

Ivashov, Leonid

James, Clive

Japan, and World War II,

Jarvis, Kevin

Jefferson, Thomas

Jehan-Préval (Rachkovsky)

Jenkins, Lindsay

Jesus; Schonfield and

Jewish Peril, The

Jews; Dieudonné, and; and 9/11; Russian; and World War II,

JFK
(movie)

Joannides, George

Joel, Moses

John, Elton

John Birch Society

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Johnson Act

Joly, Maurice

Jones, Alex

Jones, Everett LeRoi.
See
Baraka, Amiri

Jones, Nigel

Jones, Steven

Journalists; Flynn

Kaganovich, Lazar

Kaill, Derek

Kamenev, Lev; trial of

Kania, Hans

Karpf, Anne

Keep America Out of War Congress (KAOWC)

Kelly, David

Kelly, Grace

Kelly, Janice

Kennedy, A. L.

Kennedy, Edward

Kennedy, John F.; assassination

Kennedy, Robert F.; assassination

Kercher, Charles

Keyes, Alan

Keynes, John Maynard

Khan, Hasnat

Khrushchev, Nikita S.

Kincaid, Cliff

King, Jon

King, Martin Luther, Jr.

Kirov, Sergei

Klein, Naomi

Knight, Peter;
Conspiracy Culture

Knight, Philip

Knights Templar

Koestler, Arthur,
Darkness at Noon

Kollerstrom, Nick

Kopechne, Mary Jo

Korean War

Koresh, David

Kuibyshev. V.

Kulish, Nicholas

LaFosse, Michel

Lambelin, Roger

Lane, Mark;
Rush to Judgment

LaRouche, Lyndon

Larry, Richard M.

Last Empire, The
(Vidal)

Lattimer, John K.

Lattimore, Owen

Lauer, Matt

League of Nations, U.S. and

Lee, Spike

Leers, Johann von (Omar Amin);
The Criminal Nature of the Jews

Leigh, Richard

Lend-Lease Bill

Lenin, and Pyatakov

Levine, Lawrence

Levy, Richard S.

Lewinsky, Monica

Liberty
, USS, bombing of

Lichfield, John

Liebold, Ernest

Limbaugh, Rush

Lincoln, Henry

Lindbergh, Charles

Littlepage, John

Lombard, B. S.

London, bombings (2005)

Lone gunmen

Long, Huey

Loomis, Bob

Loose Change
(movie) ; British versions

Lopez, Ed

Losers, conspiracy theories

Loury, Glenn

Lynch, David

Lyons, Gene;
The Hunting of the President

MacDonald, Dwight

MacDonald, Ramsay

Machon, Annie

Madrid, train bombings

Maher, Bill

Mailer, Norman,
Oswald’s Tale

Main Center (Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Center) trial

Malcolm X,

Maly, Theodore

Mamet, David;
Three Uses of the Knife

Mangold, Tom

Mansfield, Michael

Marrs, Jim

Marsden, Victor

Marshall, George C.

Martin, Michel

Martin, Patrick

Marxism; historiography

Masanobu, Tsuji

Masks of Christ, The
(Picknett and Prince)

Massiter, Cathy

Masters of Deceit
(Hoover)

Maxwell, Robert

McCarthy, Joseph

McCrum, Robert

McVeigh, Timothy

Meacher, Michael

Media, and conspiracy theories ; and Baker; and Birther movement ; British, and Kelly affair; and Clinton; and Diana’s death; and extraterrestrialism; and Hancock; and
The Holy Blood
; and Hurricane Katrina; Lincoln and; Middle Eastern; and Murrell murder; and 9/11

Mein Kampf
(Hitler)

Melley, Timothy

Men, and conspiracy theories

Mensheviks

Merovingians

Messianic Legacy, The
(Baigent and Leigh)

Metzger, Richard

Meyer (Swiss judge)

Meyssan, Thierry

Middle East: conspiracy theories;
Protocols
and

Millstein, David

Mind the Gap
, Shayler

Miner, John

Mission to Moscow
(Davies)

Moldea, Dan

Molotov, Vyacheslav

Monbiot, George

Monroe, Marilyn

Montefiore, Hugh

Moon landing, faking of

Moore, Michael,
Fahrenheit 911
,

Moore, Sarah Jane

Morahan, Christopher

Morales, David

Morgan, M. Granger

Morgan-Grenville, Gerard

Morley, Jefferson

Morse, Samuel F. B.

Moscow Trials

Moser, John E.

Mosinee, Wisconsin

Mossad: Diana conspiracy theory and; and 9/11 attack

Motive, conspiracy theories

Movies, conspiracy theories in

Muckrakers

Mugabe, Robert

Mullin, Chris

Munitions Investigating Committee

Murrah Federal Building (Oklahoma City)

Murray, Craig

Murray, Eunice

Murray, Gary

Murrell, Hilda

Murrow, Edward R.

Namier, Lewis

Napoleon III,

Narrative, need for

Nasser, Gamal Abdel

Nation-states, plot to destroy

Naumov, Oleg V.

Nazi Party, and
Protocols

Neo-conservatism

Neuhaus, Richard

Neutrality; Butler and

New Deal, opposition to

New Pearl Harbor, The
(Griffin)

News reports, conspiracists and

Newsnight
(TV show)

Newspapers: and Obama’s birth; and
Protocols
.
See also
Media

Nicholas II, Tsar

Nichols, Terry

Nikolayev, Leonid (Kirov assassin)

Nilus, Sergei;
The Great in the Small

9/11 terrorist attacks;
Protocols
and

Nixon, Richard M.

NKVD (People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs), and Pyatakov

Noontide Press

Norris, Victor

Norton-Taylor, Richard

Novelists, and history

Nuclear issues: Murrell and; in 1984

Nye, Gerald Prentice

Oates, Joyce Carol,
Blonde

Obama, Barack, citizenship of

Obama Nation, The
(Corsi)

Oborne, Peter

Occam’s razor

O’Connor, Donald

Ogg, Robert

Oglesby, Carl

Olson, Ted

Ong, Betty

Operation Cyanide
(Hounam)

Operation Paget

Operation Pearl

Order of the Solar Temple

Ordzhonikidze, Sergei

Orlov, Alexander

Oshinsky, David M.; and McCarthy

O’Sullivan, Shane

Oswald, Lee Harvey

Oswald, Marina

Oswald’s Tale: An American Mystery
(Mailer)

Packard, Vance,
The Hidden Persuaders

Paine, Tom,
The Age of Reason

Painful Deceptions
(Hufschmid)

Parallel Center, Trotskyite

Paranoia, and conspiracism

Parks, Jane

Parks, Jerry

Parsimony, principle of

Passover Plot, The
(Schonfield)

Paul, Henri

Peachman, Barry

Pearl Harbor attack

Pease, Lisa

Pegler, Westbrook

Pentagon/11 attack

Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace
(Barnes)

Petras, James

Phillips, Melanie

Picknett, Lynn

Pipes, Daniel

Piskorski, Mateusz

Plain English
(Douglas)

Plantard de St. Clair, Pierre

Political causes, Murrell and

Political conspiracies

Political protests, Britain

Politics: American, muckrakers and; and conspiracism; of 9/11 Truth movement

Ponting, Clive

Popkin, Richard H.;
The Second Oswald

Popular Mechanics

Populism

Populists, and war

Pornography,
Protocols
and

Posey, Bill

Posner, Gerald,
Case Closed

Prange, Gordon W.,
At Dawn We Slept

Pravda
, and Pyatakov

Press: control of,
Protocols
and; Ford and; and Foster’s death; French, and
The Holy Blood
; and Hancock; Hawaiian, and Obama’s birth ; and
Protocols
; and
The Sion Revelation
.
See also
Journalists; Media

Press, British: and Diana; and
The Holy Blood
; and Kelly affair; and Murrell murder.
See also
Journalists; Media

Prince, Clive

Priory of Sion

Pritt, Dennis Nowell

Process theology

Protectionism, U.S.

Protocols of the Elders of Zion, The
; and
The Holy Blood

Pseudo-history, psychology of

Pseudo-scholars

Pyatakov, Georgy Leonidovich

Questions, disturbing

Raban, Jonathan

“Rabbi’s Speech,”

Rachkovsky, Piotr Ivanovich

Racism

Radek, Karl

Ramsay, Robin

Randall, Colin

Rantisi, Abdel-Aziz

Rassinier, Paul,
The Drama of the European Jew

Ray, James Earl

Reagan, Ronald

Reality
magazine

Red Scare

Rees-Jones, Trevor

Regionalism, as Eurocratic plot

Reichstag fire, Berlin

Reid, Stephen

Rein, Rafael Abramovich

Republican Party, and Pearl Harbor

Retcliffe, John.
See
Goedsche, Hermann

Return of the Gods
(von Däniken)

Reventlow, Ernst zu

Revisionism

Revolutions, Jews and

Reznikoff, John

Right-wing conspiracy, and Bill Clinton

Robinson, Tony

Rockwell, Lincoln

Roeser, Tom

Rolland, Romain

Roosevelt, Franklin D.; administration, communists in; and World War II,

Roosevelt, Theodore

Rose, Flemming

Rosenberg, Alfred

Rosenberg, Ethel and Julius

Rosenfeld, Lev.
See
Kamenev, Lev

Rough Guides series

Rowe, Korey

Ruby, Jack

Ruddy, Christopher

Ruling-class conspiracy

Russell, Bertrand

Russia, Communist conspiracy

Sacco-Vanzetti case

Sackville-West, Vita

Safire, William

Sagan, Carl

Saint-Prot, Charles

Salm-Horstman, Otto zu

Saunière, Bérenger

Sauvage, Leo,
The Oswald Affair

Scaife, Richard Mellon

Scargill, Arthur

Schlesinger, Arthur

Schoenman, Ralph

Scholars for 9/11 Truth (S9/11T)

Scholarship, conspiracists and; Diana’s death;
The Holy Blood
; and
Protocols

Schonfield, Hugh J.

Secret of Armageddon, The
(Iranian TV series)

Secret Life of Bill Clinton, The

Secret police, Soviet, interrogation methods

Secret societies

Sède, Gérard de,
The Accursed Treasure
;
L’Or de Rennes

Sedov, Leon

Segel, Binjamin

Seldes, George

Shaporina, Lyubov

Shayler, David

Sheen, Charlie

Sheeple

Shestov, A. A.

Show trials, Communist Party

Showalter, Elaine,
Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Culture

Shrimpton, Michael

Sign and the Seal, The
(Hancock)

Silkwood, Karen

Simpson, John

Simpson, O. J.

Sinclair, Larry

Sinclair, Upton

Sion Revelation, The
(Picknett and Prince)

Sirhan, Sirhan

Skepticism

Slatzer, Robert,
The Life and Curious Death of Marilyn Monroe

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