1. Webster Griffin Tarpley was born on September 1946 and is an American writer, political activist, and conspiracy theorist.
10 Facts About Webster Tarpley
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In 1971, Webster Tarpley was on the editorial board of The Campaigner, a National Caucus of Labor Committees' journal, according to its masthead.
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In 1986, Webster Tarpley attempted to run on Lyndon LaRouche's US Labor Party platform in the New York State Democratic Party primary for the US Senate, but was ruled off the ballot in August that year because of a defect in his nominating petitions.
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At one time, Webster Tarpley was a contributing editor to the Executive Intelligence Review, a LaRouche movement publication.
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Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Webster Tarpley claimed, had used a surreptitious message in a speech to demand the silencing of LaRouche because of supposed information in LaRouche's possession on Soviet involvement in the assassination of Olof Palme, the former Swedish prime minister.
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In 1992, Webster Tarpley co-authored with Anton Chaitkin George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography, published by LaRouche's EIR magazine.
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Since March 2006, Webster Tarpley has hosted a weekly online talk show called World Crisis Radio, broadcast by GCNLive.
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Webster Tarpley has said Edward Snowden is probably a triple agent ultimately being an agent for the CIA with the aim of weakening President Barack Obama and pushing him into intervening in Syria.
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On January 21,2015, Webster Tarpley was interviewed by Guns and Butter's Bonnie Faulkner about "geopolitical terrorism and the destabilization of governments and how others like Russia and Belarus are responding".
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Webster Tarpley has given lectures what he terms the "Versailles thesis", which claims that the British government attempted to create a new "world order" at the Treaty of Versailles.