{"id":950156,"date":"2023-01-09T06:58:20","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T06:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=270781"},"modified":"2023-01-09T06:58:20","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T06:58:20","slug":"conspiracy-theorists-are-missing-the-real-scandal-of-abused-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/01\/09\/conspiracy-theorists-are-missing-the-real-scandal-of-abused-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Conspiracy Theorists are Missing the Real Scandal of Abused Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 1 October 1963, the CIA station in Mexico City intercepted a phone call to the Soviet Embassy. Speaking in broken Russian, the caller said his name was Oswald and asked if there was any reply to his request for a Soviet visa made in person a few days earlier. After consulting a colleague, the  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/01\/09\/conspiracy-theorists-are-missing-the-real-scandal-of-abused-power\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/01\/09\/conspiracy-theorists-are-missing-the-real-scandal-of-abused-power\/\">Conspiracy Theorists are Missing the Real Scandal of Abused Power<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/01\/09\/conspiracy-theorists-are-missing-the-real-scandal-of-abused-power\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 1 October 1963, the CIA station in Mexico City intercepted a phone call to the Soviet Embassy. Speaking in broken Russian, the caller said his name was Oswald and asked if there was any reply to his request for a Soviet visa made in person a few day&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,266],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":950157,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950156\/revisions\/950157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}