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This is a list of political conspiracies. In a political context, a conspiracy refers to a group of people united in the goal of damaging, usurping, or overthrowing an established political power. Typically, the final goal is for the conspiritories to gain power often through a revolutionary coup d'état or through assassination or to achieve a political objective. A conspiracy can also be used for infiltration of the governing system.

List

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Fabricated conspiracies

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False flag operations

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See also

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References

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  2. ^ Paul Cartledge, Sparta and Lakonia, A Regional History 1300–362 BC, London, Routledge, 1979 (originally published in 1979). ISBN 0-415-26276-3
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  8. ^ "The year of Lucretia d'Este, Duchess of Ferrara". mmdtkw.org.
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  22. ^ Lilly Lindwall (1917). Magdalena Rudenschöld. Stockholm: Förlag Åhlén & Åkerlund. (in Swedish)
  23. ^ Stephen F. Jones, "Russian imperial administration and the Georgian nobility: the Georgian conspiracy of 1832." Slavonic and East European Review 65.1 (1987): 53-76. Online
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  27. ^ Vladimir Dedijer, The road to Sarajevo (1966) pp 285-315.
  28. ^ Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2021 Wealthy Bankers and Businessmen Plotted to Overthrow FDR
  29. ^ The Guardian (UK) 11 Jan. 2022 "Why is so little known about the 1930s coup attempt against FDR?"
  30. ^ "The Valkyrie Conspiracy". valkyrie-plot.com.
  31. ^ "The 20 July bomb plot - a summary". historyinanhour.com. 20 July 2010. Archived from the original on 13 August 2015. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
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  33. ^ Roberts, Sam (2014-09-29). "Espionage Threatened the Manhattan Project, Declassified Report Says". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-04-14.
  34. ^ "Spies Who Spilled Atomic Bomb Secrets". Smithsonian. Retrieved 2019-04-14.
  35. ^ Hasan Zaheer, The times and trial of the Rawalpindi conspiracy 1951: the first coup attempt in Pakistan (1998)
  36. ^ Mark J. Gasiorowski, "The 1953 coup d'etat in Iran." International Journal of Middle East Studies 19.3 (1987): 261-286.
  37. ^ Short, Philip (2013-04-25). Pol Pot: The History of a Nightmare. John Murray Press. ISBN 978-1-4447-8030-7.
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  40. ^ "A strange but true tale of voter fraud and bioterrorism". theatlantic.com. 10 June 2014.
  41. ^ "The Iran Contra Affair 1986–1987". The Washington Post.
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  43. ^ "Chapter 1.1: 'We Have Some Planes': Inside the Four Flights" (PDF), 9/11 Commission Report, National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, 2004
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  45. ^ Heaven, Will (2013-10-08). "Top political conspiracy theories".
  46. ^ Hans Schafranek, Natalia Musienko, "The Fictitious 'Hiter-Jugend' of the Moscow NKVD" in: Barry McLoughlin, Kevin McDermott (Eds.), Stalin's Terror: High Politics and Mass Repression in the Soviet Union. Palgrave MacMillan (2003), p. 208ff. ISBN 1-4039-0119-8. Retrieved November 24, 2011
  47. ^ "Israel Military Intelligence: The Lavon Affair". jewishvirtuallibrary.org.

Further reading

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  • Burnett, Thom. Conspiracy Encyclopedia: The Encyclopedia of Conspiracy Theories (2006)
  • Critchlow, Donald T., John Korasick, Matthew C. Sherman, eds. Political Conspiracies in America: A Reader (2008) online
  • Coward, Barry, and Julian Swann. Conspiracies and conspiracy theory in early modern Europe: from the Waldensians to the French revolution (Routledge, 2017).
  • Dean, Jodi. Aliens in America: Conspiracy Culture from Outerspace to Cyberspace (Cornell University Press, 1998).
  • Knight, Peter, ed. Conspiracy Theories in American History: An Encyclopedia (2003)
  • Lewis, Jon E. The Mammoth Book of Cover-Ups: The 100 Most Terrifying Conspiracies of All Time (2008) excerpt
  • Newton, Michael, ed. Famous Assassinations in World History: An Encyclopedia (2 vol ABC-CLIO, 2014), covers 266 assassinations and attempted assassinations of world political leaders from 465 BCE to 2012.
  • Newton, Michael, ed. The Encyclopedia of Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories (2005)
  • Sifakis, Carl. Encyclopedia of Assassinations (Facts on File 2001),
  • Wood, Gordon. “Conspiracy and the Paranoid Style: Causality and Deceit in the Eighteenth Century.” William and Mary Quarterly 39 (1982): 401–41. online US history