Meyssan is president of the
Voltaire Network, which had been a respected independent
think tank prior to the publication of 9/11: The Big Lie. His reputation helped raise his
conspiracy theory to prominence.[2]
Meyssan has been noted as using cross-citations of other conspiracy theorists' works in order to lend the appearance of credibility to his ideas. Regarding the events of
9/11, Meyssan cited
Webster Tarpley; Tarpley cited
David Ray Griffin; and Griffin cited Meyssan.[3]
Publication of The Big Lie
In 2002, he published a book on the September 11 terrorist attacks, with the English translation titled 9/11: The Big Lie. Meyssan argued that the attacks were organized by a faction of the US
military–industrial complex in order to impose a non-democratic regime in the United States and to extend US imperialism.[4] It is one of "the first wave of book-length conspiracy speculations" in France and Germany about 9/11.[5]
A follow-up to his first book titled L’effroyable Imposture II (The Big Lie 2) accused
Israel of carrying out the
assassination of Rafic Hariri.
Response
French media quickly dismissed the contents of the book, and a
Pentagon spokesperson also deprecated the book.[2]
Terrorisme en soutane : Jean-Paul II contre l'IVG par le Réseau Voltaire pour la liberté d'expression, L'Esprit frappeur (Paris), 2000,
ISBN2-84405-141-3.
9/11 The Big Lie, Carnot Publishing (London), 2002,
ISBN1-59209-026-5.
L'Effroyable imposture 1 & Le Pentagate, Nouvelle édition annotée, Demi-lune (Paris), 2007,
ISBN978-2-9525571-6-0.
Resistere alla menzogna in Zero, Perché la versione ufficiale sull'11/9 è un falso (avec
Giulietto Chiesa), Piemme (Milan), 2007,
ISBN978-88-384-6838-4.