Comments on: British conspiracy theories: The Jews pulled off the Entebbe hijacking

By: David Charlap

David Charlap — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 23:41:33 +0000

It wouldn’t surprise me in the least if the CIA had a file on every crackpot 9/11 conspiracy theory. And on the JFK assasination theories, etc.

They have to open a file, investigate, prove the claim false, and then archive the results. This way, when someone else makes the claim in the future (when the people directly involved are retired, deceased or otherwise unavailable), they will have an official file to consult for the facts. Without that file, they’d have to investigate all over again.

They can’t just dismiss a report out of hand, no matter what it says. They can’t take the chance that the crackpot theory might be true – the results of dismissing such a theory could be disastrous.

By: Cynic

Cynic — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 13:45:52 +0000

Joanne said: “All the file was saying was that some informant (probably a dubious character) told the British diplomat this story.”

Read Biased BBC for some interesting commentary:
“… but that’s nothing compared to the BBC losing a whole Euro-Arab Parliamentarian. ……… ”
http://biased-bbc.blogspot.com/2007/06/hot-off-press-bbc-reports-that.html

By: Cynic

Cynic — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 12:57:06 +0000

Sabba, so then I must take it that the British Govt., has filed away somewhere the recipe for matza that they got from a Russian operative?
If they filed the PFLP/Mossad thing then it is because they wanted to believe it.

“File anything he says under satire”

Will bobbe meises do?

By: Sabba Hillel

Sabba Hillel — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 11:31:20 +0000

Cynic, I think that I can tell you that yes, all governments are required to file everything. The BBC probably left off the last sentence.

This is a totally ridiculous nutjob. File anything he says under satire

By: Cynic

Cynic — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 20:53:39 +0000

So tell me, the US Admin files all the conspiracy theories about 9/11 just in case?
Do the Intelligence agencies have no capable analists available to wade through the chaff?
The Mossad would set up an operation with the PFLP which had been responsible for just about all the hi-jackings and terrorist attacks against Israel, including the Lod Airport massacre of passengers just to screw Arafat and his PLO?
So basically the Israelis would partner the rejectionist front which was even more extreme than the PLO and sacrifice Jewish lives just to make Arafat look bad in the eyes of the Arabs?

By: Joanne

Joanne — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 00:17:01 +0000

Now that I’ve read the other comments, I can see their point.

All the file was saying was that some informant (probably a dubious character) told the British diplomat this story. It says nothing about the British Government believing it. The diplomat was probably obliged to report the incident, and so the incident was reported and the report was filed away. That’s all.

False alarm.

By: Joanne

Joanne — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 00:11:49 +0000

The Israelis working with the PFLP? That goes under the category of when pigs fly.

By: Ed Hausman

Ed Hausman — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 22:20:38 +0000

Boycott the Shin Bet!
Boycott the official British files!
Boycott the boycotts!

So someone released an inherently inane file … and the British government hasn’t gotten around to providing the context that might identify it as speculative or worthless.

They’d rather keep us guessing while they feed the conspiracy theorists.

By: Sabba Hillel

Sabba Hillel — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 18:24:39 +0000

I should also point out that the file could have been a memo with a header

Look what thos conspiracy nuts at the PLO are claiming

It would be similar to someone in the US government sending an email saying that some nut thinks that the US government has a magic computer (named the 666 monitoring every phone call being made in the world. Or an Air Force Intelligence person filing a report that saucer nuts think that their is a top secret facility in Roswell New Mexico where flying saucers are kept. If those are found and released, the you could see those headlines "quoting" the documents as if they were serious admissions by the government.

By: chairwoman

chairwoman — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 15:13:25 +0000

Meryl, every 6 month the British government releases documents from its files. That makes them official government documents. They are frequently full of rumour, rubbish and innuendo, but because they were written on government paper, to another civil servant or to an MP, they are official government documents.

I don’t often back our government, but in this case, I must point out that being an official government document does not make it official government policy.

At the time there was much praise (and envy) for the way the rescue mission was carried out.

David Charlap is on the money with his comment about someone with an agenda leaking it to someone with another agenda at the BBC.