Talk:Pierre Salinger

Salinger and Pan Am 103
The article originally stated that "In 1991, two Libyans were indicted over the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988, but Salinger believed Libya had been set up. In a 1989 ABC Prime Time Live Special, he named the so-called "Kenyan Three" as the masterminds of the bombing. The program won an Emmy Award." This statement has been in the article since 2004. The 2004 edit added a lot of odd, sometimes derogatory material. For this statement, the chronology is scrambled, and the "Kenyan Three" is hapax legomenon, only appearing in websites that use this article. Salinger believed the claims of Syria-PFLP(GC) responsibility for Pan Am 103; this is verified in the letter by John Root now cited. There is an ad for this program in the NYT of Nov 30, 1989, which also verifies this. I have not been able to verify that this segment won an Emmy, and deleted this claim as well. Help, anyone who knows or can provide a source. There is other questionable material in the article as well. Rgr09 (talk) 10:29, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

Salinger and Amiic
Information has several times been added claiming that Salinger was involved with a company called Amiic which specialized in promoting real estate in Europe. The source is the Monetas database in Switzerland, but the webpage cited simply shows the company was dissolved in 1997 and says nothing about Salinger's involvement in the company. I have deleted this twice and will continue to delete unless you can provide a source that actually says Salinger was involved with the company AND you take the time to explain why this is notable. Salinger was a businessman as well as a reporter and writer and worked for many companies over the decades. If Salinger did give lectures for Amiic, why is this in any way noteworthy? The same holds true for the other people that also keep getting the same information inserted in their articles, based on the same inadequate source, including Jean-Pierre Thiollet, Paul-Loup Sulitzer, and François Spoerry. Rgr09 (talk) 00:50, 29 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your message. But really, it's rather easy to understand. In the 1980s, the Web didn't exist... So there is no reference on the Web. However, I confirm : that's a fact. Pierre Salinger was a lecturer and an important member of Amiic, an organization for thousands of real estate investors and developpers throughout the world. I think this fact is really notable for P. Salinger or for the others. Best regards. --86.73.64.212 (talk) 22:27, 29 May 2015 (UTC)


 * In the 1980s, Salinger's involvement in the company was regularly confirmed in numerous advertisements for Amiic. --86.73.64.212 (talk) 22:38, 29 May 2015 (UTC)


 * There should be sources of this. I know of his involvement in Gramco, but not in Amiic. Jan Arkesteijn (talk) 22:47, 29 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your response. Unfortunately, there has to be a source for information in the Salinger article. Monetas gives no information on Salinger so we need something else.  The internet is not the only source of information, there are books, such as Salinger's 1995 autobiography, P.S., which I will try to check in the next month or so.  There are also trade publications, magazine, newsletters by the ton for real estate.  Some of these get scanned and put on the internet, some are available at libraries and archives.  References to such materials are perfectly good for this article.  Another way to approach this is to work up an article on Amiic.  If Salinger's work for Amiic was notable, Amiic itself should be notable. Perhaps an article on the history of Amiic would be a better place to put the information on the work of Salinger, Thiollet, Spoerry, et al. 05:40, 30 May 2015 (UTC)

Salinger and TWA 800
Really? Only a brief mention is made in the introduction about his claims that a USN missile shotdown this airliner back in the 1990s. This pretty much trashed his reputation, yet is basically ignored in this "encyclopedic" article - imagine if he'd been a conservative media personality... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:801:4280:A710:588:E8E6:721D:AA5 (talk) 23:03, 13 April 2020 (UTC)


 * I wouldn't be so smug about this.


 * As written up in the TWA Flight 800 conspiracy theories page, six of the investigators who authored the initial NTSB report claiming internal explosion later recanted, as exposéd in some 2013 documentary film, though I had not been aware myself such a turn of events had occurred. --Kiyoweap (talk) 20:27, 1 October 2020 (UTC)