Tom Secker

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Items mentioned / relevant to the interview

• ClandesTime 092 : Conspiracy Theories - The False Flag Exercise Hypothesis [including podcast transcript and embedded video examples]

• Operation Northwoods

• TMR 097 : Dr. Daniele Ganser : NATO's Secret Armies - GLADIO & The Strategy of Tension

• TMR 057 : Tom Secker : 7/7 - The London Bombings

• Keelan Balderson, "What Is The Evidence For A Drill At The Boston Marathon? Alastair Stevenson’s Testimony", WideShut.co.uk (18 April 2013)

• COMPACT programme (Comparative Analysis of Conspiracy Theories) of COST (European Co-operation in Science and Technology)

• Conspiracy & Democracy project at CRASSH (Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, Cambridge University)

• The Power of Unreason : Conspiracy Theories, Extremism and Counter-Terrorism, Demos (August 2010)

• "Mass shooting at Orlando gay nightclub: Wounded evacuated from deadly attack scene", Russia Today (RT/RUPTLY) YouTube Channel (12 June 2016)

  • An example of what someone made of it: "100% PROOF Orlando Shooting Was a STAGED HOAX...This Is All You Need To See", Peekay Truth YouTube channel (14 June 2016)

    • [In the footage broadcast by RT, I notice that the police turn up to assist. Some might argue that lends weight to the view that this was staged by the authorities, but aren't the police trained to respond to any apparent need?]

• History Commons : Complete 9/11 Timeline : Training Exercises on 9/11

  • Hans M. Kristensen, "Taking the Pulse of the US Nuclear Arsenal : War Planning", British American Security Information Council (October 1998)

  • Space Observer, 45.12 (23 March 2001) [external PDF]

    • [According to Kristensen, the Global Guardian exercises normally take place in October or November each year. According to the 23 March edition of Space Observer 2001, they were scheduled for October that year. In the event they took place in September.]

  • "9/11 Live: The NORAD Tapes", Vanity Fair (17 October 2006) [Personnel at NEADS (NORAD's Northeast Air Defense Sector) apparently confused on 9/11: "I think this is a damn input, to be honest."]

  • John J. Lumpkin, "Agency planned exercise on Sept. 11 built around a plane crashing into a building", Associated Press 2002

Update

• Steve Watson, "Peter Power Reveals More Details of 7/7 Terrorist Bombing Drills", InfoWars (06 April 2009) [JC: This article reproduces what InfoWars believes—and which I have no good reason to doubt either—are the words of Peter Power which he posted as a comment on a blog to explain what he was involved in that day. (The original blog comment seems no longer to be visible, but I think I once read the original myself.) Although the InfoWars article still finds Mr. Power's crisis management exercise highly suspicious, I remain unconvinced (although I'm open to persuasion). Power claims that "the test was planned as a table-top walk through for about six people (the CM team) in a lecture room with all injects simulated. Everything was on MS PowerPoint." Moreover, I still think that, if the exercise was part of a false-flag event, why would he publicise its existence on radio, or (if he wasn't aware of its role) why would he be allowed to? But, as we always have to say, I may be wrong.]

Previous interviews with Tom

• TMR 125 : Tom Secker : Operation Snowden?

• TMR 057 : Tom Secker : 7/7 - The London Bombings

Acknowledgements

Theme music: Chillout Me by Antony Raijekov from his Jazz U compilation (CC BY-NC 2.5)

Slide show image: US Joint Chiefs of Staff involved with Operation Northwoods 1962 via Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain); cropped, sharpened

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