MORE ROBERT RICHARDSON HOAXES

Richardson's opinions are based upon fantasies

Robert Richardson, in a response over 1,300 words long to The Robert Richardson Hoax has failed to produce any evidence to substantiate the claims he made in a recent online article how he believed Pierre Plantard was a mere pawn being manipulated by others more advanced than him in the world of politics and esoterica.

Furthermore, Robert Richardson failed to mention anyone else who promoted the same arguments about Pierre Plantard as himself – and he only mentioned Paul Smith's name as an example of someone who believed that Plantard operated as a Lone Maverick – he ignored mentioning those who investigated Plantard and produced File Ga P7; Monsieur Claude Charlot of the Paris Prefecture of Police; and the author and researcher Jean-Luc Chaumeil, who once knew Plantard personally – all of whom argued that Plantard operated alone.

Yet Robert Richardson makes statements like "providing sources to counterbalance the gross and deliberate disinformation intentionally created to mislead the public" – as well as making reference to my making available "obscure documents which are available in the public domain and on private correspondence relating to the individuals most prominently engaged in originating this fraud". If Robert Richardson were only to take a closer look at the material he had just described he would see that it contains crucial evidence that contradicted his own claims about Pierre Plantard – that his opinions were not based on facts but on errors of judgment.

Robert Richardson keeps describing Pierre Plantard as a 17 year old in his article – when in fact during the time when he was organising his Alpha Galates fabrications he was in his early twenties. Furthermore, when Plantard claimed to have distributed "thousands of leaflets" it is more than obvious that this figure was generated from the claim in the pages of Vaincre that the membership of the Alpha Galates "ran into thousands" (the same principle applies to the earlier Renovation Nationale Française) – this is all plainly a laughing stock which Richardson is prepared to take quite seriously. Plantard also claimed to have had the copies of Vaincre printed by Poirer Murat – except that the same print and typeset can be noticed in the later issues of Circuit (1960/61) as well as in the later Priory Documents themselves: strongly suggesting that this was all done on a Private Printing Press that was most probably located in Plantard's house.

Pierre Plantard as Dagobert II

Another one of Robert Richardson's non-sequiturs is his claim that Plantard began imagining himself as the descendant of Dagobert II during the 1950s. Here Richardson is quite wrong and his belief is based upon a claim made by someone's 'hazy memory' – from a letter dating from the 1980s following the publication of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail in 1982. This account can only be treated as hearsay and the story of Plantard sharing the same company as priests from St Sulpice just does not seem to have any credibility at all!

Pierre Plantard's source for claiming himself to be descended from Dagobert II has been pin-pointed to an article written by Louis Saurel in a French History magazine dating from 1960 entitled ‘Les Rois et Les Gouvernements de la France: des origins à nos jours’ – the substance and format of which was copied in a 1964 Priory Document ascribed to "Anne Lea Hisler" entitled 'Rois et Gouvernants de la France' – and this same format was also copied by Louis Vazart when he wrote ‘Abrégé de l'Histoire des Francs, Les Gouvernants et Rois de Francs' in 1978.

Rennes-le-Château

Robert Richardson still seems to believe in the existence of a "mystery" in connection with Rennes-le-Château and writes in relation to the church there: "If the crypt is ever explored and the tomb, which Abbé Saunière notes in his journal as having found, is reopened, we will find that Rennes-le-Château is an ancient Celtic religious site."

Here Robert Richardson needs to be informed that the crypt beneath the church at Rennes-le-Château was excavated during the late 1950s/early 60s by Jacques Cholet from Paris, who reported in 1967 that he had found nothing. Saunière's replacement of the church main altar was made in 1887 and not in 1891 – so Saunière's account of the "discovery of a tomb" made in his diary in 1891 cannot refer to that – just what Saunière was referring to here cannot be ascertained because the account is devoid of any detailed description.

Robert Richardson's opinion that the village of Rennes-le-Château is "an ancient Celtic religious site" is not based on any historical documents that we are aware of. Perhaps he can offer some sort of historical reference to support his claim.

Robert Richardson claims to be objective and to be a debunker of the Priory of Sion Hoax – but his arguments for a substantial existence of the Alpha Galates of which Plantard was only a Pawn who was manipulated by others far more powerful than himself (contrary to what documents and other researchers have demonstrated); and for the village of Rennes-le-Château having been an "ancient Celtic religious site" only demonstrates that he is promoting hoaxes of his own in relation to both Pierre Plantard and to the Abbé Bérenger Saunière....

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