Douglas Cirignano - The American Conspiracies and Cover-ups: Interviews with Jim Marrs, Noam Chomsky, G. Edward Griffin, and Other Experts

Copyright 2019 by Douglas Cirignano

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CONTENTS

An interview with author, journalist, and WWII veteran Robert B. Stinnett

An interview with LBJ attorney Barr McClellan

An interview with author, attorney, and Martin Luther King Jr. associate Dr. William F. Pepper

An interview with former IRS agent and Tax Honesty movement leader Joe Banister

An interview with The Creature from Jekyll Island author G. Edward Griffin

An interview with author and AIDS researcher Dr. Alan C. Cantwell

An interview with author and cancer researcher Dr. Ralph Moss

An interview with election reform activist and Black Box Voting author Bev Harris

An interview with former Oklahoma State Legislature Republican whip Charles Key

An interview with MIT professor Noam Chomsky

An interview with New York Times bestselling author Jim Marrs

An interview with author and 9/11 Truth movement leader Professor David Ray Griffin

INTRODUCTION

I n todays world, the phrase conspiracy theory is pejorative and has a negative connotation.

To many people, a conspiracy theory is an irrational, over-imaginative idea endorsed by people looking for attention and not supported by the mainstream media or government. History shows, though, that there have been many times when governments or individuals have participated in conspiracies. It would be nave to think that intelligence agencies, militaries, government officials, and politicians dont sometimes cooperate in covert, secretive ways.

Following are five instances when its been proven that the government engaged in a conspiracy.

THE GULF OF TONKIN RESOLUTION

On August 4, 1964, Captain John J. Herrick, the commander of the USS Maddox , a US Navy vessel that was on an intelligence-gathering mission in the Gulf of Tonkin, reported to the White House and Pentagon that North Vietnamese patrol boats had fired torpedoes at his ship, and, so, the Maddox had fired back. Two days later, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara testified to the Congress that he was certain that the Maddox had been attacked. On August 7, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was passed, the Congressional act that allowed President Johnson free reign to commence war; Johnson immediately ordered air strikes on North Vietnam and the Vietnam Warwhich would eventually kill fifty-eight thousand Americans and two million Asianswas underway.

Since then, it has been shown and proven that no North Vietnamese boats ever fired on the Maddox , and that McNamara had been untruthful when he testified before Congress. According to the official publication of the Naval Institute,... once-classified documents and tapes released in the past several years, combined with previously uncovered facts, make clear that high government officials distorted facts and deceived the American public about events that led to full US involvement in the Vietnam War.

In the weeks prior to the Gulf of Tonkin incident, South Vietnamese ships had been attacking posts in North Vietnam in conjunction with the CIAs Operation 34A. According to many inside sources, the Johnson administration wanted a full scale war in Vietnam and through Operation 34A was trying to provoke North Vietnam into an attack that would give Johnson an excuse to go to war. But when McNamara was asked by the Congress on August 7 if these South Vietnam attacks had anything to do with the US military and CIA, McNamara lied and said no.

Within hours after reporting that the Maddox had been attacked, Captain Herrick was retracting his statements and reporting to the White House and Pentagon that in all likelihood an over-eager sonar man had been mistaken and that the sonar sounds and images that he originally thought were enemy torpedoes were actually just the beat of the Maddoxs own propellers. Herrick reported that there was a good probability that there had been no attack on the Maddox , and suggested complete reevaluation before any action is taken. McNamara saw these new, updated reports and discussed them with President Johnson early in the afternoon of August 4. Even though this was so, on the evening of August 4, President Johnson went on national television and announced to the American public that North Vietnam had engaged in unprovoked aggression and, so, the US military was retaliating. A few days after the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, Johnson remarked, Hell, those damn stupid sailors were just shooting at flying fish.

Recently, new documents related to the Gulf of Tonkin incident have been declassified and according to Robert Hanyok, a historian for the National Security Agency, these documents show that the NSA deliberately distorted intelligence and altered documents to make it appear that an attack had occurred on August 4.

When President Lyndon Johnson misrepresented to the American public and said he knew that North Vietnam had attacked a US ship, and when Defense Secretary Robert McNamara lied to the Congress and said he was sure that the Maddox had been attacked and that the CIA had nothing to do with South Vietnam aggression, and when NSA officials falsified information to make it appear that there had been an attack on the Maddox, that was a government conspiracy.

OPERATION NORTHWOODS

In 1962, the most powerful and highest ranking military officials of the US government, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, felt strongly that the communist leader Fidel Castro had to be removed from power and, so, came up with a plan to justify an American invasion of Cuba.

The plan, entitled Operations Northwoods, was presented to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara on March 13, 1962, and was signed by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Lyman L. Lemnitzer.

Operations Northwoods was a proposal for a false flag operation, a plan in which a military organizes an attack against its own country and then frames and blames the attack on another country for the purpose of initiating hostilities and declaring war on that country.

The proposal was originally labeled Top Secret but was made public on November 18, 1997, by the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board. The complete Operation Northwoods paper was published online by the National Security Archive on April 30, 2001, and this once-secret government document can now be read by anyone.