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THEORY I: TOTAL HOAX. Clifford Irving invented the entire autobiography. To do so, however, Irving would have to be a near genius of a writer. He would also have had to forge a body of documents, among them the Hughes letter to Irving acknowledging receipt of his book Fake!; four handwritten letters, including the nine-page letter to the McGraw-Hill president; and checks-made out to Hughes for $700,000 as payment for the book, endorsed by Hughes and cleared through a Zurich banking house called Credit Suisse. Irving would also have had to forge Hughes' handwriting...
When Philip Fecteau picked up the phone last week, he was sure it was another hoax. Someone on the other end who said he was Henry Kissinger told him that his son Richard would be released from a Chinese prison the next day. Philip hung up without giving the call much thought. Still, the man had a German accent. Was it possible? It was indeed. The following day the Chinese freed Richard Fecteau after 19 years in prison; they also released a girl from Palo Alto, Calif., named Mary Ann Harbert, who was thought to have drowned off the coast...
...March, and McGraw-Hill will publish the 230,000 word volume a few weeks later. Characteristically, the taping sessions for the book were shrouded in such Hughesian secrecy that a spokesman for the Hughes Tool Co. and Hughes' own public relations firm insist that it must be a hoax...
...Jackson's escape attempt was a hoax set up by prison authorities so they could murder him, what about the other five dead people? Did authorities kill the three guards and two prisoners to add authenticity to the hoax? Or did the five men sacrifice themselves in order to help "get Jackson...
...plan had been to keep the judges locked up overnight, but after they tumbled to the hoax, they were released on their own recognizance. They still had to appear in court the next day for a "trial." To their amused dismay, their assailant turned state's evidence, but the judges were still found not guilty. After it was all over, said former Judge Laurance Hyde Jr., dean of the college, "the only objections were by those who didn't participate. They all asked why they didn...