[pepsi_junkie]

Well, In the 1990s Pierre Plantard admitted it was a fraud he made up the 1950s, and never spoke of it again. Or perhaps he just wants us to think it was a lie... :)

[goldstategop]

To some, whole thing smacks of Barry Chamish's obssession with UFOs and the Trilateral guys who rule the world from their ultra-secret heaquarters in Washington, D.C.

[KC Burke]

The authors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail have admitted that the information they used about "The Priory of Sion" was from Plantard.

After a stint in prison for fraud that ended in 1953, in '54 Plantard and some friends set up a promotion for low-cost housing in France called the Priory of Sion. It ended after amounting to nothing, but Plantard kept the name and used it as central to a giant fabricated conspiracy scheme.

In '93 a scandel in government called into question a number of people. One Roger-Patrice Pelat had been named a Grand Master of the, fictional Priory by Plantard in his documentation for his fictional conspiracy. Plantard was called into court and admitted, under oath that he had made up the whole Priory Scheme. Documents he had fabricated that were found in his home culminated with supposed evidence that he, Plantard, was the true King of France and was also descended from Mary of Magdelene.

Claptrap is everywhere. Avoid it.