Nancy was stabbed once in the abdomen and it took her around three hours to pass out and bleed to death … The murder weapon, the Jaguar K11 hunting knife is left on top of an open suitcase next to the door wiped clean of any fingerprints and traces of blood. ibid.
01.02.79: Sid Vicious dead. ibid.
Tonight: America’s love of conspiracy theories. And how they are being recognised by Donald Trump. But his critics say he’s fuelling irrational beliefs among Americans, leaving the United States battling for the truth. Tonight: Trump and the Truth: America’s Conspiracy Wars, ITV 2018
He weaponsed the birther movement: the pernicious lie that Barack Obama was not born in America. ibid.
History tells us one thing: but could that be wrong? Some believe it is, and that the real events have been covered up … Did World War II really mark the end of Hitler’s reign of terror? ... Could Hitler, history’s worst mass murderer, have got away with it? Conspiracy s1e1: Hitler’s Death, Channel 5 2015
A suspicion shared at the highest levels: Stalin refused to believe that Hitler had died. The same is true of Eisenhower. ibid.
2009: An American pathologist ran DNA tests on a piece of the skull fragment held by the Russians ... Since then, the Russians have refused to allow anyone else access to the captured remains. ibid.
A year after the U-boats turned up in Argentina, Washington ordered the battle-fleet to the South Pole. ibid.
How deep does that ruthless streak run? Conspiracy s1e2: The Nazi King, Channel 5 2015, re Royal Family
Edward passed on critical military intelligence to the Germans. ibid.
Mrs Simpson was a suspected Nazi sympathiser ... It was claimed she was having an affair with a key Nazi. ibid.
Just like his older brother Edward, the Duke of Kent saw Germany as a natural ally ... It’s believed he was in regular contact with the Nazis. ibid.
A shocking theory: that the Cold War was down to the lies of a Nazi trying to stay out of jail. We ask whether a Soviet submarine tried to start World War III. And whether the United States was behind the brutal murder of Italy’s most popular prime minister. Conspiracy s1e3: The Cold War Files
For half of the 20th century the world was on the brink of destruction as America and the Soviet Union built more and more deadly nuclear weapons. ibid.
Some of the biggest war criminals of World War II simply reinvented themselves with the help and money of their former enemy the Allies. ibid.
What Reinhard Gehlan: he single-handedly created the threat of the Cold War. ibid.
Many believe that the CIA continued to meddle in Italian elections for decades, making sure Italy was always governed by a right of centre government. But some historians claim that wasn’t the end of interference in Italian politics. They claim that after three decades of anti-communist parties in Italy, the US along with Nato went far further, brutally murdering Italy’s popular prime minister Aldo Moro. ibid.
In 1947 one Western country in particular popped on the anti-communist radar: Italy ... The CIA continued to meddle in Italian elections for decades ... The US along with NATO went far further: brutally murdering Italy’s most popular prime minister – Aldo Moro … ibid.
Gladio was so secret that their existence was only revealed as a result of a judicial enquiry in 1990. ibid.
In the basement of 46 Lower Belgrave Street 29-year-old Sandra Rivett was bludgeoned to death. The perpetrator of the crime was her employer – an upper class gambler by the name of Richard John Bingham, the 7th Earl of Lucan. Conspiracy s1e4: Lord Lucan Dossier
‘Ultimately, Lucky had to pay the price.’ ibid. John Pearson
But along with the glitz and the glamour many claim Tinsel Town has a far darker side, one of dirty tricks, cover-ups and even murder. Conspiracy s1e5: Hollywood Files
Bruce Lee ... According to one conspiracy theory ... he was killed by the Chinese Mafia, the Triads ... Brandon Lee was shot … ibid.
For over fifty years the world has been enthralled by strange tales of alien encounters. Some believe that extraterrestrial visitors are fact not fiction. And they claim that a secret government conspiracy is hiding this truth from the public. Conspiracy s1e6: Alien Cover Up
Rendlesham Forest: But the sceptics also doubt both Penniston’s close encounter with the craft and the drug-fuelled cover-up because these key revelations were only reported by Penniston years after the event. ibid.
‘The best way to kill a story is to make sure no-one has a picture.’ ibid. Nick Pope
Was President Kennedy’s brother Robert killed by the CIA so they could continue the war in Vietnam? Conspiracy s1e7: The Kennedy Killing: The CIA Conspiracy
‘13 gunshots: there may have been more.’ ibid. sound engineering expert
We examine the claims of shocking scandals and brutal murders surrounding the Roman Catholic church. Was the church guilty of murdering its own Pope – John Paul I? Was the Vatican in league with the Americans to help war criminals guilty of genocide escape justice? And was the Vatican involved with the murder of the man known as God’s banker? Conspiracy s1e8: Murder at the Vatican
Mehmet Ali Agca: He was the only man prosecuted for this crime but many questioned his motives from the very beginning. But if Ali Agca was a hired gun, he wasn’t saying who paid him. ibid.
In the early 1980s one name was synonymous with corporate corruption on a global scale: Roberto Calvi. As one of Italy’s top bankers it’s claimed he was profiting from vast sums of money laundered by the Mafia and the Vatican. A plot that some say led to his death in London and a murder enquiry which is still open today. Calvi was nicknamed God’s banker. ibid.
Before he could make any changes, 33 days into his new role, he was found dead. Officially, it was said to be a heart attack. But there are many who claim he was murdered by his fellow priests and the Vatican got away with it. ibid.
Were the moon landings the most elaborate hoax in human history? Conspiracy s1e9: Faking the Moon Landings: Conspiracy
Plus, was there a secret Soviet conspiracy to hide the deaths of cosmonauts in space? ibid.
Whether or not there really was a Plan B – Nasa prepared for their first test launch in the moonship Apollo 1 at breakneck pace. But many people on the team, chief among them lead astronaut Gush Grisssam, felt the programme was being pushed through too quickly. ibid.
‘We’ve got a fire in the cockpit! Reporting a bad fire! I’m burning up! It’s baaaddd!’ ibid. report of capsule fire
They [dissenters] believe we never went to the moon. ibid.
What went wrong? Many say the Soviet space programme was not nearly as advanced as it led the world to believe. ibid.
Did Thatcher abandon several hundred British Airways passengers to a murderous dictator? Were the thousand of American soldiers killed at Pearl Harbor sacrificed by their own president? Did our secret services allow Northern Ireland’s deadliest single bomb attack to go ahead to protect their secret agent? And did the American government poison an entire French town to test a new LSD super-weapon? Conspiracy s1e10: Pearl Harbor Cover-Up
BA Flight 149 landed in the middle of a war. The Iraqis took the passengers and crew hostage. ibid.
August 15th 1998: a five-hundred-pound car bomb exploded in the centre of the small Northern Irish town of Omagh – it killed 29 men, women and children … no-one has been convicted for it. ibid.
‘They wanted to protect sources.’ ibid.
For some it [Pearl Harbor] was masterminded by none other than the president of the United States – Franklin D Roosevelt. ibid.
Point-Saint-Esprit: In 1951 it witnessed a bizarre and terrifying event. With no warning 250 of its inhabitants were hit by an outbreak of madness. ibid.
One such weapon being considered was LSD. ibid.
Some of the craziest conspiracy theories have come from the music world where drugs, rock, punk and death collide and anything can happen. In drugs, punk, pop and death was there a cover-up over the real cause of the death of Doors’ rockgod Jim Morrison? Were the Rolling Stones such a danger that the FBI tried to get them thrown into jail? Was the establishment so frightened of the Sex Pistols that they tried to silence them? And did Led Zeppelin start Jimmy Page use black magic to destroy a rival band? Conspiracy s1e11: Drugs, Punks & Death