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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (14522)	9/17/1999 9:26:00 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

And this should lower it: Clement Leibovitz was born in Egypt in 1923 into a Jewish family and educated in French-language schools.... Dr Clement Leibovitz is not just another soured Jewish babyboomer for whom the whole WWII was his parents' tragedy. In 1940, at the outbreak of war, he was 17 years old --hence he's lived through WWII in the flesh, as a first-hand witness. Therefore, I'm confident we can trust such a respectable individual who, 40 years later, as a mellowed and knowledgeable historian, has taken on bringing the truth out of a still controversial --and censored-- period of Western history. Did you know, for instance, that the 1993(?) trial of Klaus Barbie, in Lyon, France, was videotaped in full? Yet, French authorities have classified the whole proceedings for the NEXT 20 YEARS!! Who, in France and abroad, has still interest --50 years after WWII-- in concealing the truth?

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (14522)	9/18/1999 7:25:00 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

The New Statesman Essay - History isn't always a cock up Frank McLynn argues that conspiracy theories sometimes happen to be right Recently I was discussing with a friend the events of 1978, "the year of the three popes". I happened to mention casually that the death of John Paul I, the so-called "smiling pope", after only 33 days in office, was clearly a case of murder. "Ah," my friend replied, "so you're a conspiracy theorist." In vain I tried to draw the distinction between a conspiracy theorist, who is presumably someone who believes that significant events in history happen as a result of conspiracy by hidden, unseen forces, and the honest historian who is sometimes forced to the conclusion that undetected conspiracies have occurred. But the encounter, and others like it, have left me with a firm conclusion. Anglo-Saxon culture, justifiably suspicious of conspiracy theory, has parlayed reasonable scepticism into the dogmatic assertion that conspiracies never take place. [...] Full Essay: newstatesman.co.uk As I said: conspiracy-bashers are just as conspirational as the alleged 'yarn-freaks' they used to slam --call'em the boob tube's yesmen....