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In January 1988, Irving travelled to Toronto, Canada to assist Douglas Christie, the defence lawyer for Ernst Zündel at his second trial for denying the Holocaust.

Working closely with Robert Faurisson, who was also assisting the defence, Irving contacted Warden Bill Armontrout of the Missouri State Penitentiary who recommended that Irving and Faurisson get into touch with Fred A. Leuchter, a self-described execution expert living in Boston.

Irving and Faurission then flew to Boston to meet with Leuchter, who agreed to lend his alleged technical expertise on the behalf of Zündel's defence.

Irving argued that an alleged expert on gassings like Leuchter could prove that the Holocaust was a " myth ".

After work on the second Zündel trial, Irving declared based on his exposure to Zündel's and Leuchter's theories that he was now conducting a " one-man intifada " against the idea that there had been a Holocaust.

Subsequently, Irving claimed to the American journalist D. D.

Guttenplan in a 1999 interview that Zündel had convinced him that the Holocaust had not occurred.