Following the failed hit, Maheu became Howard Hughes’s Director of Operations and began buying up Las Vegas hotel/casinos, with Hughes ultimately becoming the largest property owner in Nevada. In 1968, Hughes attempted to buy his seventh Ho…Many other political crimes in which involvement by high officials is suspected have gone uninvestigated or unpunished. Examples of suspected SCADs include fabricated attacks on U.S. ships in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964 (Ellsberg, 2002, pp. …
Daniel Ellsberg
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Daniel Ellsberg appears only in passing as a cited source on the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin fabrication, where his work documents suspected state crimes against democracy (SCADs). The reading uses his scholarship to support the argument that high-level political crimes—particularly false-flag operations that justify military escalation—have evaded investigation and accountability. His relevance here concerns how institutional deception intersects with systems of power, a theme central to understanding how cybernetic control and information asymmetry operate in state governance.
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