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To: FreshPrince

“Conspiracy theory” was a term popularized by the CIA to attack those who thought the CIA was involved in the JFK assassination.

Don’t let the Deep State colonize your mind.


103 posted on 10/04/2022 5:20:19 AM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: cgbg

Well you know if maybe one of these “theories” actually was proven I would have a different opinion. Occams razor tends to destroy most of them.

Again, when you cant accept the facts, create a conspiracy.


106 posted on 10/04/2022 6:50:21 AM PDT by FreshPrince
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To: cgbg

From wiki

The term “conspiracy theory” is itself the subject of a conspiracy theory, which claims the term was popularized by the CIA in order to discredit conspiratorial believers, particularly critics of the Warren Commission, by making them a target of ridicule.[51] In his 2013 book Conspiracy Theory in America, political scientist Lance deHaven-Smith suggested that the term entered everyday language in the United States after 1964, the year in which the Warren Commission published its findings on the Kennedy assassination, with The New York Times running five stories that year using the term.[52] However, deHaven-Smith’s suggestion has been criticized by Michael Butter, a Professor of American Literary and Cultural History at the University of Tübingen, on the grounds that a CIA document which deHaven-Smith referenced, Concerning Criticism of the Warren Report, which was publicly released in 1976 after a Freedom of Information Act request, does not contain the phrase “conspiracy theory” in the singular, and only mentions “conspiracy theories” once, in the sentence “Conspiracy theories have frequently thrown suspicion on our organisation [sic], for example, by falsely alleging that Lee Harvey Oswald worked for us.”[53]


122 posted on 10/04/2022 1:05:11 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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