Yellowstone’s deadly secret: deep reservoirs of molten rock or magma … One of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world … Is a supervolcano about to blow in Yellowstone? Conspiracies Decoded s1e8
Can new DNA technology solve a cold-case murder? … In 2009 a woman’s mutilated body is found in Louisiana … ‘He was a cruel and manipulative killer who evaded the law for eight years’: Blake Russell. ibid.
The world’s pandemic … Its origins remain a mystery. Is Covid-19 a biological weapon leaked from a Chinese lab? Or a natural pathogen that made the leap form bats to humans? ibid.
A US nuclear sub goes missing. Is the Cold War about to get hot? … The USS Scorpion, a nuclear submarine deployed to spy on Soviet manoeuvres goes missing. Conspiracies Decoded s1e9: Secrets of the Scorpion
White-out: is the Earth on a collision course with disaster? … For years these doomsday scenarios involving a mysterious Planet X have been ignored by mainstream science. ibid.
The Havana Syndrome: Are American diplomats being taken out by high-tech weaponry? … American and Canadian diplomats stationed in Cuba begin to experience mysterious symptoms. Conspiracies Decoded s1e10
Milan: The massacres … where Italy lost its innocence … The start of what would become known as the Years of Lead. Years of Lead: An Italian Conspiracy, Youtube 52.11, 2022
Friday, December 12th 1969: At 4.37 p.m. a bomb devastated the central hall of the National Agrarian Bank, the Piazza Fontana. ibid.
Then within the hour four further bombs went off in Milan and Rome. ibid.
The result of a conspiracy and the template for the wave of terrorist attacks to come. ibid.
The ‘black lead’ was the one that led to the far right. ibid.
Gladio, the double-edge sword: one of the best kept secrets of the post-war period. The codename for the secret army intended to lead the resistance against any potential Soviet invasion. ibid.
July 1970: A bomb on a train in Calabria. 6 dead, 50 injured. ibid.
May 1973: A grenade outside the Milan Prefecture. 4 dead, 52 injured. ibid.
1974: A bomb on the Italicus train between Rome and Brennero. 12 dead, 44 injured. ibid.
Secret protection ensured the impunity of the true perpetrators of this terrorist plot: a small fascist group called Ordine Nuovo (New Order), a veritable nerve centre of black terrorism. ibid.
‘A hidden structure linked to the Italian and American secret services.’ ibid. convicted bomber
Bologna railway station, Saturday August 2nd 1980: 85 dead, more than 200 injured. ibid.
If the instigators of the massacre were never discovered, it is undoubtedly thanks to the manoeuvres of this man, Licio Gelli … the venerable master of a Masonic lodge known as Propaganda Due, or P2. ibid.
Gelli emerged from the shadows in 1981 during investigations into the collapse of a bank, implicating the Mafia, the Vatican’s banker and P2. ibid.
‘We have been purposely manipulated … This isn’t something new.’ The Cult of Conspiracy: QAnon, Channel 4 2021
‘What if everything we’ve been taught is wrong?’ ibid.
We live in a time where for some truth no longer exists. Conspiracy theories, fake news, claims of rigged elections, and unmitigated use of social media … In every corner of the world people are protesting.’ ibid.
To unmask the figures taking conspiracy to the heart of our political systems. To meet the digital soldiers fighting for a supposed government insider called Q. ibid.
‘All these paedophilias, and all these trafficking rings, and all this structure in the government of all this evilness …’ ibid.
In October 2017 a figure called Q Clearance Patriot appeared on the website 4chan. They claimed to be a government insider. Q started spreading wild conspiracies. ibid.
Q stopped posting forever on December 8th 2020. Millions of manipulated and radicalised people around the world were left without a leader. So who’s filling that void now?
Q’s followers are still meeting up … A home for people to be heard. ibid.
The Condor has given its name to a new weapon of mass terror – a missile being developed by Argentina in a secret hilltop bunker. But the Condor will fly not only in South American skies but over the deserts of the Middle East where Egypt and Iraq are Argentina’s collaborators in the project. Panorama: The Condor Conspiracy, BBC 1989
Westminster: the heart of London. For a thousand years it’s been the centre of power. It was here on a November morning four-hundred years ago that a group of Catholic rebels planned to blow up parliament and change the country for ever. It would become one of the most famous events in British history, for ever known as the Gunpowder Plot. The Gunpowder Plot: Countdown to Treason aka Gunpowder, Treason & Plot, Tracy Borman & Xand van Tulleken, Channel 5 2023
4th November 1605: King James is now on the throne. While London sleeps, one man lies in wait in a cellar beneath parliament surrounded by barrels of gunpowder. His name is Guy Fawkes. If all goes to plan, in nine hours he will ignite thirty-six barrels of explosive and blow up the House of Lords, killing hundreds of people including the King and the entire government. It is the culmination of eighteen months of meticulous planning. And the success of it all lies in Guy Fawkes’ hands. ibid.
Catesby and his fellow plotters were convinced that it was the only way to stop the persecution of Catholics. ibid.
They needed the time. Digging the tunnel would take months. ibid.
Thousands of people would have been killed or injured. ibid.
With ten days to go someone tipped off the authorities. ibid.
Fear and paranoia were spreading through the gang. ibid.
Fawkes had been caught redhanded. ibid.
The interrogation was carried out by two of the king’s most senior ministers. ibid.
Seven of the plotters including Thomas Percy and mastermind Robert Catesby were also fearing for their lives. Holed up in a Staffordshire manor house they knew they were being hunted. ibid.
By 10th November the entire plot had been exposed. ibid.
I want to talk to you about your time as an investigator on the Octopus murders. American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders I: The End, investigator to journalist, Netflix 2024
You’re going to get yourself killed. ibid. journalist to investigator
Christian told me this story about this journalist [Danny Casolaro] who died under mysterious circumstances in the early ’90s. ibid. investigator
Danny had stumbled upon a computer software scandal that led him to a series of high-profile crimes that he said would rewrite US history … Danny called this conspiracy The Octopus. ibid.
Inslaw case: The complex and confusing still-developing case that involves improper conduct by high level Justice Department officials. ibid. Dan Rather
Inslaw … makes software for law enforcement agencies. ibid. commentary
Firm’s Owners Tell Of Ordeal At Hands of Justice Dept. ibid. newspaper article
Thousands of pages of research materials … International crimes starting with the Inslaw case. ibid. investigator
A federal judge could lose his job because he made a ruling against the government. ibid. original footage
Why did the Department of Justice do this? ibid. investigator
That started a process of Bill [Hamilton of Inslaw] and Danny talking every day [investigator] … One of the things about Bill, he used to work at the NSA. ibid.
He starts looking into these powerful people connected to the Reagan administration. ibid.
They are clearly covering something up. What is it? ibid.
Some of the same people kept appearing: Earl Brian. ibid.
If I have an accident, don’t believe it. ibid. brother reports Danny’s warning
Authorities report they found no papers in his room or in his car. ibid.
Was a reporter killed for investigating the government? ibid. TV news
Danny was this suburban dad and all of a sudden he is in this international intrigue. American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders II: The Trap Door, family
Michael told Danny that the PROMIS scandal actually started with Ronald Regan stealing the 1980s election, the so-called October Surprise. ibid. investigator
The hostages from the American Embassy were released hours after he [Reagan] was sworn in. ibid.
Earl Brian made the election happen and he wanted his payoff. There was some kind of deal made in the Justice Department. And the source code for PROMIS was awarded to Earl Brian. ibid.
A backdoor into the software … They wanted to sell PROMIS to other governments and spy on what they were tracking. ibid.
Danger Man told me that the promised software modification was just one tentacle of a larger Intelligence operation in southern California. Here at the Cabazon Indian Reservation a team of gun runners, gamblers, and covert Intelligence operatives would find sanctuary from all state laws. ibid.
Dr John Philip Nichols and the crew that hung about the Reservation … There were only about 26 members of the Cabazon tribe. ibid.
The Wackenhut Corporation has been the shadow CIA for many years. ibid. man in the know on TV
There was also two Contra generals from Nicaragua. They had automatic weapons, machine-guns, semi-automatic weapons and night goggles … Why there? ibid.