ABy July 14, 1972 Fischer is reported to declare that some individuals are “conspiring” against him… “conspiracy” … after review of the facts, there's evidence to confirm they certainly “conspired” with these news reports, moving between Reykjavik, Iceland and the United States to carefully cover up these following facts:
Golombek reports the disruptive camera man was located on the roof, but Schonberg of the NY Times reports “…Fischer objected to a television crew working from an aperture at the side of the stage. He said that the movements of one of the cameramen distracted him…” and yet, this reporter adds, it was a camera operator 150 feet away disrupting Fischer's concentration…” another report claims, “…disturbed by the sound and sight of a television” camera MAN “…at the back hall of the stage” …among other accounts which indicate these disruptive camera men were located at all angles … Fischer was swarmed by MANY disruptive camera men. These reporters *assumed* perhaps, it was only the camera man in closest proximity to them, which they saw and heard making a commotion near where they were seated. But Fischer reports observing ALL camera men (plural), making so much disruptive noise and commotion that it was disrupting his concentration, and quite possibly threw the game in favor of the Soviet Union, enabling the Soviet to score a win in the first match.
Numerous attempts are made, as if orchestrated, to deflect attention away from the fact that “Camera MEN” were responsible, reports engage in attempt to deceive readers of U.S. newspapers, by claiming cameras, in one report, goes so far as claiming it was a “tiny camera” but no mention are made of the MAN holding the camera). Hidden cameras? “…hidden behind cloth-covered scaffolding above the stage where the players will sit, would distract him (Fischer).” But if that were actually true, how then could the lens of the camera possibly film anything if it were covered in cloth? So the cameras were not hidden, nor were the men operating them. Golombek reports a MAN was creating a disruption on the roof with a camera, “Fischer observed that a cameraman was training a camera on him from the roof. He protested and said he would not resume play until the camera was removed.”
This meddling and irksome circus is the only way the Soviet Union could declare itself victorious? By manipulating a win against Fischer, using disruptive camera men, off-the-board? Such a display of poor sportsmanship!
Isolating the match in an Anti-American haven of Racist intolerance, Iceland, that lacked modern satellite communications, to attempt to achieve censoring the match, burying coverage, and reporting to Americans thousands of miles away, who have been virtually cut off from access, a media blackout, that Fischer was “hallucinating” “camera noise” Major media outlet reports are strangely absent of the fact “CAMERA MEN” … (Soviet-Sympathetic) Camera Operators, are making a lot of unnecessary noise and commotion. Those camera men are the culprit behind Fischer's grievances. Those disruptive camera crew men are the sole reason, absolutely, for Fischer's boycott of the Second Match… This handful of biased, no account Soviet-sympathizers working in western media were hand-selected by the Soviet Union to “cover” the match for American papers and dismally fail to report what's really happening behind the pleats of the Iron Curtain.
I hope Americans wake up to recognize how Soviet-Russians have, for far too long, too much overreach in American media (starting with Walter Duranty of the New York Times who brushed the Holodomor under the rug and won a Pulitzer prize for his fiction), attempting to STEAL the World Chess Title right out from under the nose of Americans! What is occurring in Reykjavik, Iceland is NOT an example of any sort of “Constitutionally protected, guaranteed ‘Free Press’”.
“I was more disappointed than anybody that this thing wasn't televised because, you know, there was a lot of publicity and a lot of money involved and I wanted the people to see me in action. Let's face it. But they had these characters there, who instead of having, some kind of video tape film that didn't make any noise, just, nobody around to operate them, just sort of stationless and they just had guys there with film cameras that were worrying, and they were all around me. Making a racket. A nuisance. Too much noise, and visually you could see them moving around.” - Robert J. Fischer, November 1972
Soviet Lies in News Report 13 Jul 1972, Thu The Bee (Danville, Virginia) Newspapers.com
