The Government has justified detentions without trial under the Internal Security Act on the basis of fears of a Marxist conspiracy.

Many political commentators, academics and even members of Singapore's ruling elite have expressed scepticism over the years that a Marxist conspiracy ever existed.

Renowned historian C.M. Turnbull wrote that "The alleged Marxist conspiracy and the Liberation Theology menace turned out to be myths".

There is evidence that the Prime Minister himself did not believe that those arrested were part of any Marxist conspiracy.

The novel was loosely based on Operation Spectrum, the case of the so-called Marxist conspiracy, a group of Catholic activists whom the Singapore government had declared to be Communists and subsequently arrested.

The Economic Review was punished because of a story on the arrest and detention, without trial, of 22 young men and women said by the Government to be part of a "Marxist conspiracy."

The Government of Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew detained for a year without trial today three more young Singaporeans accused of being involved in a Marxist conspiracy.

Stop being so paranoid- there's no Marxist conspiracy here, just ordinary people standing up for each other and trying to make the government listen.

The last of the 22 people detained in 1987 for their alleged involvement in a "Marxist conspiracy" to overthrow the Singapore government [see p. 35462]were conditionally released in June.

Vincent Cheng, a Roman Catholic lay worker and the alleged leader of the "Marxist conspiracy", was released on June 19 upon the expiry of his final 12 month detention order.