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.
Did Thatcher abandon several hundred British Airways passengers to a murderous dictator? Were the thousands 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 s1e4: Pearl Harbor Cover-Up, History 2019
For some it [Pearl Harbor] was masterminded by none other than the president of the United States – Franklin D Roosevelt. ibid.
Did the Nazis burn down their own parliament so they could seize power in Germany? Conspiracy s1e5: The Lockerbie Plot, History 2019
The Nazis blamed the communists for the fire, but many believe the Nazis started it themselves to demonise the communists and terrify the German people into accepting Nazi rule. ibid.
Did national governments conspire to hide who really bombed Pam Am flight 103 over Lockerbie? ibid.
December 1988: A bomb exploded on board a Pan Am 747 as it was flying over the Scottish town of Lockerbie. In total 270 people died. It remains Britain’s deadliest terrorist attack. 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 s1e6: 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.
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 s1e7: UFOs
Did aliens attack a man in a Scottish forest? ibid.
For over seventy years we’ve been gripped by eye-witness accounts of strange sightings and close encounters with what are claimed to be space ships and extraterrestrials from beyond our world. ibid.
Rendlesham Forest: ‘It’s coming this way! It’s definitely coming this way!’ … It was the night of the 26th December 1980. At 3 am base security at Woodbridge Air Force Base saw a strange light in the sky falling towards Rendelsham Forest. ibid.
Two nights later the lights were seen again. This time a larger force was sent to investigate: led by deputy base commander Lt Col Holt. At the site of Penniston’s encounter, Holt’s team recorded strange indentations in the ground, and detected abnormal radiation readings. Then they too saw the lights. Col Holt recorded everything that happened. ibid.
By what did UFOs choose to land in Rendlesham forest? And why would the military cover it up? ibid.
From preachers to presidents, from celebrities to spies, the shadows of conspiracy are everywhere, especially when it comes to assassinations. Conspiracy s1e8: Assassinations
Was national treasure Jill Dando the victim of a revenge attack? … ‘Jill Dando was shot in the back of the head on a quiet London street.’ ibid. Frank Fisher, journalist
On 18 July 2003 the body of a middle-aged man was found in woods near Harrowdown Hill in Oxfordshire. It was that of Dr David Kelly, one of Britain’s top scientists and a government spy … The theory that Dr Kelly was killed by the very people he was working for … ibid.
The idea that this cluster of cancers is evidence of a CIA plot is not accepted by many mainstream historians. ibid.
Relative: … They don’t want us to know the Earth is flat.
Eve: Ha! Ha-ha-ha! You’re serious?
Relative: … There is a secret organisation that make influence on every government in the world …
Relative #2: And you know what they are? Lizards.
Relative #3: This man in England – David Icke – you know David Icke? Very smart … Killing Eve s3e5: Are You from Pinner?
We don’t live in a democracy but we do live in a police state. What we’re gonna see is the unveiling of this grey state foisted upon America. A Gray State, Netflix 2017
They’re prepping for mega-death. Once the red carpet gets rolled out for this New World Order programme, everything is free game. The bastard of it all is you’ve heard of everything. ibid.
‘David Crowley was a voice for a movement that believed that a government shutdown was imminent.’ ibid. Jason Allen, fan
‘Then I noticed there was a little body that looked like it was almost in the second body’s arms.’ ibid. neighbour discovers murder of Crowley’s wife and baby
‘How do you explain three deaths, you know, a husband and a wife and their little girl?’ ibid. Cory Zurowski, journalist
‘Did the government want to silence him and his film?’ ibid. WHDT television report
After David Crowley’s return from Afghanistan in 2009, he enrols in film-school. While Komel works a full-time job as a dietitian, Crowley and his creative partner Danny Mason embark on the Grey State problem. ibid. caption
Police agencies are being trained to watch veterans. ibid.
Some very shocking documents that I saw in the Library of Congress two weeks ago on August 9th and had to do with the Hearings from the McCormack/Dickstein Committee of November 1934 show that Prescott Bush and the DuPont family, the Remington family and J P Morgan tried to overthrow the US government – assassinate FDR – and put a Hitler-style Fascist state in place. John Buchanan
In the 1930s there was an attempted coup against the democratically elected government of the US – Franklin Roosevelt – and was put a stop to by General Smedley Butler of the Marine Corp who just put his foot down and said, ‘We’re not having a coup against the elected government.’ And they kept it quiet. As soon as they’d squashed the coup, Roosevelt’s view was let’s not frighten people by telling people what really happened here. Martin Summer, On the Edge with Theo Chalmers & Tony Gosling
Since 2000, more than 500,000 Americans have died of opioid overdoses. Millions of Americans have become addicted. Every 25 minutes a baby is born with opioid withdrawal. The US government estimates that the cost of opioid abuse is over $1 trillion. We call this ‘the opioid crisis’. But a crisis is something that just ‘happens’. What if we discovered that the opioid crisis was caused by businesses seeking to profit from pain? What if behind the crisis there was a spectacular crime? Alex Gibney, The Crime of the Century I ***** Sky Documentaries 2021
No American family has profited more from controlled substances, from Valium and Oxycotin, than the Sacklers. ibid.
In the 1960s Sackler became incredibly rich by expanding the market for addictive tranquillizers. ibid.
Controlled-release Oxycodone, or Oxycotin, would be the drug that triggered what we call the ‘opioid crisis.’ ibid.
Johnson & Johnson also genetically altered the nature of the plant to create a super-poppy … Soon 74,000 acres of Tasmania were devoted to opium. ibid.
Blinn was taking the equivalent of 200 hits of heroin a day. He kept the prescription bottle for 20 years because he felt something was not right. ibid.
A nationwide criminal conspiracy that included Fraud, Pills Mills, doctors trading drugs for sex, false statements to Congress, and attempts to target key officials of the Bush administration … The FDA was used to falsely and fraudulently market Oxycontin. ibid.
None of them would spend a day in prison. ibid.