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By Don Bohning



If newspapers write �a first rough draft� of history, as the publisher Philip Graham once put it, then the internet can be said to host a �worst draft� of history.

There are tens of thousands of reliable websites about historical topics, of course, and many provide the actual tools (instant access to primary documents) that enable readers to reach their own, independent conclusions. But many other sites are extraordinarily tendentious and shroud their advocacy behind a mask of false scholarship.

A case in point is a website, Spartacus Educational, established in 1997 by John Simkin, a British historian.[1] Spartacus is billed on Google as a �British online encyclopedia [that] focuses on historical topics . . . articles are geared toward students.� And the website, according to one description, is �one of the most established and popular history sites on the world wide web.�[2] In the late 1990s, apparently, Simkin was one of the very first history teachers to recognize the potential of the internet and take advantage of the new digital medium. As for Simkin, he presents himself as a history teacher and prolific author of books about a diverse number of subjects�which he is, although his short books are mostly self-published.[3]

http://www.washingtondecoded.com/site/2008/06/simkin.html

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It is not surprising that Bohning would write an article attempting to discredit Simkin. Bohning is, after all, as thoroughly described in my post about Operation Mockingbird: How the CIA Covers Up Its Role in the JFK Assassination, a CIA asset whose codename was AM Carbon-3 and who worked for many years at the Miami Herald including as Latin American editor. His career assignment, it would appear, is to supply misinformation to those seeking the truth about the JFK assassination.

�Top editors at the Herald were well aware and approved of my contacts with the CIA during the 1960�s.�