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. …9 Legrady, Miklos. Did Marcel Duchamp Pave the Way For Donald Trump? New Art Examiner, September, 2021. https://newartexaminer.net/did-duchamp-pave-the-way-for-donald-trump/
10 Asher, Betty M. Oral History Interview, 1980 June 30 and 1980 …
Lance deHaven-Smith
political scientist · 3 mentions across 1 reading
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deHaven-Smith appears to be a theorist of state crimes and political conspiracy, invoked here through the concept of "SCADs" (state crimes against democracy)—a framework for analyzing suspected high-level governmental malfeasance like the Gulf of Tonkin incident that remains officially uninvestigated. His work enables the course readings to systematically examine how institutional power operates through plausible deniability and the strategic non-investigation of political crimes, a concern that bridges questions of governance, information control, and the machinery of state power that undergird contemporary algorithmic and surveillance systems.
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