The Mammoth Book of Cover-Ups

Freemasons and Jews in plot to destroy Islamic holy sites on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount: ALERT LEVEL 3

Further Reading

Thom Burnett, Conspiracy Encyclopedia: The Encyclopedia of Conspiracy Theories, 2005

Texe Marrs, «Masonic Jews Plot to Control World», www.exemarrs.com/042003/masonic_jews_plot_world_control.htm

Titanic

On 10 April, 1912, RMS Titanic left Southampton for New York under the command of Captain Edward J. Smith. Aboard the ship, then the largest in the world at 852 feet (260m) long, were 2,224 passengers and crew. Four days later, just before midnight on 14 April, the Titanic hit an iceberg 400 miles (650km) south of Newfoundland, which ruptured five bulkheads on the starboard side. At 2.20 a.m. the ship slipped below the surface of the black Atlantic with the loss of 1,503 lives.

For over 70 years people agreed the Titanic disaster was a concantenation of fate (the iceberg) and folly (she was governed by maritime legislation which required her to carry lifeboats for only 1,178 people), but then Oxford plasterer Robin Gardiner published «Titanic»: The Ship that Never Sank? (1998). Gardiner’s thesis — elucidated also in his books The Riddle of the Titanic (1997) and The Titanic Conspiracy (1998; with Dan Van der Vat) — is that the Titanic disaster was, well, a titanic insurance fraud. According to Gardiner it was not the Titanic which left Southampton on 10 April but her older sister ship, the Olympic. This had been damaged by a Royal Navy ship, rendering her worthless. The cash-strapped White Star Line, owner of both ships, faced bankruptcy … until someone hit on the idea of switching the Olympic for the Titanic, then sinking the «Titanic» in mid-Atlantic and claiming oodles of insurance money. To pass off the Olympic as the Titanic was easy, since they were near-identical. All that was required was a week in a Belfast dry dock for a paint job that included a change of name.

The fraudsters, however, weren’t heartless: they arranged for the SS Californian and other rescue ships to be nearby in the middle of the Atlantic when the sea cocks of the false Titanic were opened … but the plan went awry when the Titanic hit a rescue vessel placed on station by White Star and sank sooner than expected, with the loss of many lives.

Gardiner picks up some oddities in the official Titanic saga, chiefly the suspicious behaviour of the Californian, which lurked 20 miles (32km) from the Titanic’s death-site on the fatal night. Owned by financier J. P. Morgan, the Californian was carrying an unusual cargo: 3,000 woollen blankets and jumpers. Morgan was a co-owner of White Star. He had been booked to travel on the Titanic but had cried off at the last minute.

In Olympic and Titanic Steve Hall and Bruce Beveridge sought to sink Gardiner’s insurance-con theory by referencing the Titanic debris found on the Atlantic seabed by Professor Robert Ballard. A propeller numbered 401 (the Titanic’s number) and the straight-faced wheelhouse both definitely identify the debris as belonging to the Titanic.

Unless the propeller and wheelhouse were among the cosmetic changes made to the Olympia in dry dock …

RMS Titanic was replaced by sister ship in insurance fraud: ALERT LEVEL 3

Further Reading

Robin Gardiner, «Titanic»: The Ship That Never Sank? 1998

Steve Hall and Bruce Beveridge, Olympic and Titanic: The Truth Behind the Conspiracy, 2004

Trilateral Commission

The Trilateral Commission was founded in 1973 by banking titan David Rockefeller as an invitation-only think-tank. Rockefeller had the bucks, the organizational skills and the contacts, but the Trilateral Commission’s philosophy was provided by Columbia university professor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, author of Between Two Ages: America’s Role in the Technetronic Era (1970). This was a prophetic look at a future «shaped culturally, psychologically, socially, and economically by the impact of technology and electronics — particularly in the area of computers and communication». Explaining that «National sovereignty is no longer a viable concept», Brzezinski foresaw «movement toward a larger community by the developing nations» funded by «a global taxation system». However, since this end-goal of «world government» was some way off, an initial «attainable» step should be closer trilateral co-operation between the nations of America, Europe and Asia, in the latter instance specifically Japan.