Many of the facts that Trump asserted were also completely untrue. But Trump didn’t care. He and his audience knew that much of what he said bore little relationship to reality. This meant that Trump defeated journalism … The liberals were outraged by Trump. ibid.
The version of reality that politics presented was no longer believable. That the stories politicians told their people about the world had stopped making sense. And in the face of that, you could play with reality. ibid.
An experiment that would make people see how absurd all conspiracy theories really were: he called it Operation Mindfuck: in 1969 … Operation Mindfuck by placing a false letter in the Playboy letters page; they put it between another letter asking if gun fanatics had small penises and one from a man asking about the physical danger to his testicles from heavy petting. Thornley’s fake letter asked if all the political assassinations in America were really being masterminded by a single secret society, and the society it named was the Illuminati. It said that the Illuminati was behind all the chaos and the fear that now was gripping America. Adam Curtis, Can’t Get You Out of My Head I: Bloodshed on Wolf Mountain, BBCiplayer 2021
It’s the one case that will not die. It is claimed that not only a UFO crashed, that there were dead alien bodies; it’s rumoured that perhaps one of those creatures on board did survive for a short period of time. Alien Autopsy: The Search for Answers, Philip Mantel reporting, History 2021
I think it was Stanton who coined the phrase The Cosmic Watergate. ibid.
‘My name is Ray Santilli. I’m the person responsible for marketing the alien autopsy footage.’ ibid.
‘There was almost a year or so before I was able to find the funding from a third party, who was prepared to take a punt.’ Alien Autopsy: The Search for Answers II, Santilli
There’s nothing you can pinpoint on that film that would disqualify it. The medical instruments looked real. ibid.
‘I think that over the years it’s probably done me more harm than good.’ ibid. Santilli
I knew the film was a fake but I just couldn’t prove it. ibid.
Kit Green [MD] says he was taken to the Pentagon and briefed and shown films that looked exactly the same as the Alien Autopsy film. Alien Autopsy: The Search for Answers III
Kevin [Randle] did a cold case review just recently of the evidence and the witnesses who claimed to have seen bodies at Roswell, and he has come to the conclusion that it is not as solid as we might have imagined. Alien Autopsy: The Search for Answers IV
I’m a born Catholic. But I would not like to be excluded from Heaven on a technicality. My name is Giovanni di Stefano. I’m a lawyer. Best known as the Devil’s advocate. I have defended the indefensible, from Saddam Hussein to Charles Manson. Devil’s Advocate: The Mostly True Story of Giovanni di Stefano, Sky Documentaries 2022
His client list runs as a Who’s Who for the criminal world. ibid. QC
The case of John Palmer. Goldfinger … ‘Giovanni got a £33 million confiscation order set aside for a notorious criminal.’ ibid.
R v Hoogstraten … ‘His conviction quashed.’ ibid.
‘His motivation was to stick two fingers up to the legal establishment.’ ibid.
MGM: I got away with $249 million. ibid. Giovanni
‘He said, I’m in Iraq. I’m representing Saddam Hussein.’ ibid. client
May 2006: ‘I was handed a file that contained an allegation brought against Giovanni di Stefano … of stealing the bail security.’ ibid.
Was he allowed to practise here? I don’t think he was legally allowed to practise law, was he, in this country? ibid. QC
A hornet’s nest of politics and espionage. ibid.
He didn’t appear to have done any work on my behalf. Devil’s Advocate: The Mostly True Story of Giovanni di Stefano II disgruntled client
He’d never registered with the Law Society. ibid. rozzer
My job is to deliver suitcases with counterfeit bills, fake dollars. They bring me the suitcase already packed, they call me up. Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller s1e3, Counterfeiters, National Geographic 2020
Lima, Peru: Every city has its secrets. Lima is no different. Over the last decade a new criminal enterprise has taken root, and a new breed of gangsta craftsman has emerged. ibid.
Incredibly, it’s estimated that 60% of all fake US bills are produced in Peru. ibid.
In 2008 John and Anne Darwin were sentenced to six years in prison for fraud. The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe: The Real Story, caption, ITV 2022
Pretending you’re dead is quite easy. Coming back to life is as everyone knows slightly more difficult. ibid. John Darwin
John was taken home by his sons, Mark and Anthony, while police began to investigate if any crime had been committed. ibid. caption
Five lifeboats, two coastguard units, a helicopter and a spotter plane searched for John Darwin for 36 hours. Only a wrecked canoe and a paddle were found on a nearly beach. ibid.
On April 10 2003 John Darwin was officially declared dead. Shortly after, Anne claimed £162,000 in life insurance policies. ibid.
After 2,082 days missing, John Darwin handed himself in at a London police station. ibid.
The day after John Darwin’s reappearance, a British tabloid reporter received a tip-off that Anne Darwin was living in Panama City. ibid.
With Anne and John Darwin in custody, the police investigation began to focus on when Anne Darwin became involved in her husband’s disappearance and her part in the fraud. ibid.
The means and goals of military deception are essentially the same. Secrets of War s1e9: Tools of Deception, History 1998
By the Second World War camouflage was an accepted facet of tactical planning … Both sides instituted massive civil camouflage programmes. ibid.
Perhaps the most widely and effectively used decoys were fake tanks. ibid.
The decoy itself evolved … inflatable decoys were quite convincing. ibid.
Fake airfields were fabricated. ibid.