Disinformation campaigns.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the Editor)

Your issue on conspiracy theories (THE NEW AMERICAN, May 2, 2005) was both intriguing and impressive. Indeed, many conspiracy theories are so ludicrous as to boggle the mind, such as the one you were able to dismiss about the substitution of a missile for an airliner in the attack on the Pentagon on 9/11. You correctly caution that one must be careful to separate the wheat from the chaff and that there is much disinformation about. I couldn't agree more.

Nevertheless, as a so-called JFK assassination buff, I will adamantly defend those who patiently, over the years, have assembled an impressive array of facts that totally discredit the Warren Report.

There was a monstrous disinformation effort on the part of the U.S. government to discredit the critics of the Warren Report. Such an effort has recently come to light in a book published in 2002, Regicide, by Gregory Douglas (Monte Sante Media). It was the deliberate policy of the CIA to establish a disinformation campaign, to swamp the press with many reports and books on the subject so that ...