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EXCERPT<\/strong>: “I asked Jim Marrs<\/a>, the popular author and critic of various official versions of history, what he considered to be the origin of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153conspiracy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as a derogatory term and how it has been manipulated: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The term \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcconspiracy theory\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 was consciously submitted to assets of the CIA back in a document from the 1960s to be used to counter factual information that was continually being made public regarding the Kennedy assassination. From there, these assets, including media personalities, pundits, academics and government officials, expanded the term to become a pejorative for any statements not complying with the Establishment line,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Marrs said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153However, its repetitive overuse, plus the fact that the 9\/11 attacks obviously involved a conspiracy, today has lessened the impact of the term.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/rethinking-conspiracy-theories\/5414471\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

EXCERPT: “I asked Jim Marrs, the popular author and critic of various official versions of history, what he considered to be the origin of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153conspiracy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as a derogatory term and how it has been manipulated: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The term \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcconspiracy theory\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 was consciously submitted to assets of the CIA back in a document from the 1960s to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tQeJ-1Dh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5671,"url":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=5671","url_meta":{"origin":6279,"position":0},"title":"Rethinking Conspiracy","author":"Shawn Hamilton","date":"October 7, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"by Shawn Hamilton, Foreign Policy Journal The terms \u00e2\u20ac\u0153conspiracy theorist\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153conspiracy nut\u00e2\u20ac\u009d are used frequently to discredit a perceived adversary using emotional rather than logical appeals. 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