This is a list of political conspiracies. In a political context, a
conspiracy refers to a group of people united in the goal of damaging, usurping, or overthrowing an established political power. Typically, the final goal is to gain power through a revolutionary
coup d'état or through
assassination. A conspiracy can also be used for infiltration of the governing system.
1973 -
Chilean coup d'état -a group of military officers led by General
Augusto Pinochet and backed by the
CIA seized power from democratically-elected leftist President
Salvador Allende, ending civilian rule and establishing a U.S.-backed dictatorship
1981 -
23F - An attempted
coup d'état or
putsch in Spain by the military where politicians in the
Congress of Deputies were held hostage for 18 hours. King
Juan Carlos I denounced the coup in a televised address. This caused the coup to eventually collapse.
2021- After losing to
Joe Biden in the 2020 Presidential Election, President
Donald Trump, along with many of his
staffers, appointed officials, and Republican elected officials, conspired to have the legitimate electors from a number of swing states withdrawn and supplanted with electors of the Administration's choosing, culminating in the
January 6th, 2021 attempted insurrection at the United States Capitol by
right-wing domestic terrorists, in a bid to stop the counting of the electoral vote.
1938 - Presumed
Hitler Youth Conspiracy,
NKVD case in
Moscow involving some 70 arrests and 40 executions of teenagers and adults, later found to be baseless[44]
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^Stephen F. Jones, "Russian imperial administration and the Georgian nobility: the Georgian conspiracy of 1832." Slavonic and East European Review 65.1 (1987): 53-76.
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Dean, Jodi. Aliens in America: Conspiracy Culture from Outerspace to Cyberspace (Cornell University Press, 1998).
Knight, Peter, ed. Conspiracy Theories in American History: An Encyclopedia (2003)
Lewis, Jon E. The Mammoth Book of Cover-Ups: The 100 Most Terrifying Conspiracies of All Time (2008)
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Newton, Michael, ed. Famous Assassinations in World History: An Encyclopedia (2 vol ABC-CLIO, 2014), covers 266 assassinations and attempted assassinations of world political leaders from 465 BCE to 2012.
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Wood, Gordon. “Conspiracy and the Paranoid Style: Causality and Deceit in the Eighteenth Century.” William and Mary Quarterly 39 (1982): 401–41.
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