Irving Suspected Hoax Ties to Time Life Material
Irving and Suskind pursued Howard Hughes material across Texas California and Hollywood. They gathered clipped files at the Houston Chronicle and Post Dr David Hatfield at Northrup Institute shared stories while Noah Dietrich’s transcripts shaped the book’s tone. The Phelan material provided vivid anecdotes and a ready made Hughes persona via Dietrich.
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Irving
Maness
Time-Life Library
Irvin
Hughes
Time-Life
Frank McCulloch
Life
Suskind
Texas
Public Library
Houston Chronicle
The
Houston Post
Howard Hughes
Chronicle
Los Angeles
David Hatfield
Northrup Institute of Technology
Irving- Suskind
Hatfield
Charles Lafotte
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Hollywood
Clifford Irving
Robert Kirsch
Los Angeles Times
Kirsch
West Coast
Stanley Meyer
Phelan
Noah Dietrich
James Phelan
Dietrich
Irving Suspectly Craft Hughes Biography Hoax in Ibiza
In summer 1971 Clifford Irving and Richard Suskind forged an elaborate plan to publish an authenticated Hughes memoir. They created real sounding interviews, forged bank dealings, and staged transcripts to fool McGraw Hill Life editors, while Edith Irving moved money through Swiss banks and opened a phantom trust account.
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Noah Dietrich
Hughes
Clifford Irving
Howard Hughes
Noah
McGraw-Hill
Irving
Phelan
Suskind
Ibiza
Ibizan
Richard Suskind
Phelan-Dietrich
Dietrich
United States
Riepiyscelere Lebih
Ernest Hemingway
Albert Schweitzer
Lambarene
Ethiopia
Graves
Maness
Britannia Beach
Life
New York
H. R. Hughes
Elmyr de Hory
Edith
Swiss Credit Bank
Swiss Banking Corporation
Swiss Banking
Zurich
Edith Irving
Hanne Rosenkranz
Peter Veleff
America
Irvings
Nassau
Florida
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