Subject: The Conspiracy Book List v1.1
Date: 12 Mar 92 05:50:14 GMT
Article-I.D.: mnemosyn.1992Mar12.055014.23090
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The Conspiracy Book List v1.1 2
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I just happen to have the makings of
such a list residing on my hard
drive. I cleaned it up, and here it is.
This list
is a skeleton. Currently it is in alphabetical order by last
name of author. I’ll also make it
available in order by title, in order
by subject then title, and by subject then title - and
short
description.
I’ll add in information about year first published, &
number of pages.
(Publisher may or may not be so useful to put in; many books are
published by many publishers in their lifetime and current publishers
are easy to look up.)
Comments about useful fields to put in are solicited.
Thanks to Jim Burnes,
Steve Crocker, and Al Wesolowsky who mailed me
lists of more books to put in. Special thanks
to Jim Burnes for letting
me add his review of a book to the end of the list. (Which I
thought
might be a good feature to add.) And thanks to all the people on
alt.conspiracy
who have posted names of books in the past.
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A Proposal for a Rating System
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I’m unwilling to stamp any particular
persons rating on these books.
However, I have a useful pro-individual rating system I
am willing to
implement if the conspiracy newsgroups get a sponsor for an FTP site
where
this list, posted articles, excerpts, summaries of conspiracies,
papers, reviews, the JFK
Database as proposed by Mark Prado, etc., can
be placed.
I’ll create an ASCII
data file. Anyone that wants to submit their
ratings of books from this list can do so, up to
an absolute maximum of
676 people. Each reviewer will have a lower-case two-level key
assigned
to their name. Each book will have a possible rating of 0-9.
This allows
one to find reviewers with similar tastes, for instance by
finding a reviewer that rates some
books the same as you yourself would,
and then looking to see what other books he rates highly
that you
haven’t read. And it also allows you to ignore reviews from people whom
you
don’t agree with. For example, say Harin Boltz is consistently
obnoxious in your opinion. It
is easy, then, to ignore his rantings of
books if you wish, while others who may want Harin
Boltz ratings on
books can easily find them.
The idea behind the design of this
ASCII file is for it to be easily
usable by anyone with the ability to find text strings in a
file. All
other text that may be put in the file will be uppercase ASCII.
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FAQ?
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This could also be considered as
becoming a
FAQ for the conspiracy newsgroups.
"Frequently Authored
Questions."
Please mail me your books, comments, reviews,
money, etc.
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Books in alphabetical order by
author.
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Unholy Trinity: the
Vatican, the Nazis, and Soviet intelligence
Mark Aarons [NAZI]
None Dare Call it
Conspiracy
Gary Allen [COM]
Puzzle Palace: (National Security Agency)
James
Bamford [MISC]
Cover-up: the politics of Pearl Harbor, 1941-1946
Bruce R.
Bartlett [MISC]
The Plot to Kill the President
George Robert Blackey &
Richard Billings [JFK]
Silent Coup: the removal of Richard Nixon
Len Colodny and
Robert Gettlin [WaGa]
The Quiet Campaign to Rewrite the Constitution
Leon
Davidson [MISC]
Agency of Fear: opiates and political power in America
Edward Jay
Epstein [drugs]
Deception: the invisible war between the KGB and the CIA
Edward
Jay Epstein [CIA]
Inquest: the Warren Commision and the establishment of truth
Edward Jay Epstien [JFK]
Legend: the secret world of Lee Harvey Oswald
Edward Jay
Epstien [JFK]
Counterplot
Edward Jay Epstien [JFK]
Hot Money
Dick Francis [BANK]
Death in Washington: the muder of Orlando Letelier
Donald
Freed [MISC]
Executive action: assassination of a head of state
Donald Freed
& Mark Lane [JFK]
An Almanac of Jim Garrison’s investigation
Jim Garrison
[JFK]
A Heritage of Stone
Jim Garrison [JFK]
On the Trail of the
Assassins
Jim Garrison [JFK]
The Star Spangled Contract
Jim Garris
[MISC]
Double Cross
Sam Giancana [JFK]
A Nation Betrayed
Lt.
Colonel James "Bo" Gritz [drugs]
High Treason: the assassination of President
John F. Kennedy
Robert J. Groden & Harrison Edwared Livingstone [JFK]
High
Treason 2: the great cover-up
Robert J. Groden & Harrison Edwared Livingstone [JFK]
Farewell America
James Hepburn [JFK]
Reasonable Doubt: an investigation
into the assassination of JFK
Henry Hurt [JFK]
Shadrin, the spy who never came
back
Henry Hurt [MISC]
October Surprise
Barbara Honegger [OCT]
Who was Jack Ruby?
Seth Kantor [JFK]
American Grotesque: an account of the Clay
Shaw-Jim Garrison affair
James Kirkwood [JFK]
The Crimes of Patriots: a true tale
of dope, dirty money, and the CIA
Jonathan Kwitny [drugs]
Endless Enemies: the
making of an unfriendly world
Jonathan Kwitny [MISC]
The Fountain Pen
Conspiracy
Jonathan Kwitny [MISC]
The Mullendore Murder Case
Jonathan
Kwitny [MISC]
Arcadia
Mark Lane [MISC]
Chicago Eyewitness:
(Democratic National Convention in 1968)
Mark Lane [MISC]
A Citizen’s Dissent
Code Name "Zorro"
Mark Lane [MLK]
Conversations with Americans
Mark Lane [MISC]
Plausible Denial: was the CIA
involved in the assassination of JFK?
Mark Lane [BUSH]
Rush to Judgment: a
critique of the Warren Commission..
Mark Lane [JFK]
The Strongest Poison:
(Peoples Temple & Jim Jones)
Mark Lane [MISC]
Kennedy and Lincoln
Dr J
K Lattimer [JFK]
Best Evidence: disguise and deception in the assassination of JFK
The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence
Victor Marchetti
[CIA]
Zionist Watch
Victor Marchetti; editor [MISC]
The Search for
the "Manchurian candidate": the CIA and mind control
John D. Marks [CIA]
Jim Marrs [JFK]
The Politics of
Heroin: CIA complicity in the global drug trade
Alfred W. McCoy [drugs]
The
Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia
Alfred W. McCoy [drugs]
Accessories after
the fact: the Warren Commission, authorities, & report
Sylvia Meagher [JFK]
Master index to the J.F.K. assassination investigations
Sylvia Meagher [JFK]
The
Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
Philip H. Melanson [JFK]
The Martin Luther
King assassination
Philip H. Melanson [MLK]
Spy Saga: Lee Harvey Oswald and the
U.S. intelligence
Philip H. Melanson [JFK]
The Hoffa Wars: teamsters, rebels,
politicians, and the mob
Dan E. Moldea [MOB]
Interference: how organized crime
influences professional football
Dan E. Moldea [MOB]
Dark Victory: Ronald Reagan,
MCA, and the Mob
Dan E. Moldea [MOB]
Conspiracy of One: the definitive book on
the Kennedy assassination
Jim Moore [JFK]
Betrayal
Robert D. Morrow
[JFK]
The Senator must Die
Robert D. Morrow [RFK]
Hot Money and the
Politics of Debt
R.T. Naylor [BANK]
Who killed JFK?
Carl Ogelsby [JFK]
The Yankee and Cowboy War: conspiracies from Dallas to Watergate
Carl Ogelsby
[JFK]
The Assassination Tapes: an electronic probe into the murder of JFK
George
O’Toole [JFK]
An Agent on the Other Side
George O’Toole [MISC]
The
Cosgrove Report
George O’Toole [LINC]
The Encyclopedia of American Intelligence
and Espionage from the
Revolutionary war to the present
George O’Toole [hist]
action from
the American Revolution to the CIA
George O’Toole [hist]
Poor Richard’s Game: (on
Ben Franklin)
George O’Toole [hist]
The Private Sector: private spies,
rent-a-cops, and the police-industrial
complex
George O’Toole [MISC]
By Way
of Deception
Victor Ostravesky [MISC]
The Guns of Dallas
L. Fletcher Prouty
(Leroy) [JFK]
The Secret Team
L. Fletcher Prouty [CIA]
Presumed
Guilty: Lee Harvy Oswald in the assassination of President Kennedy
Howard Roffman [JFK]
The Assassinations: Dallas and Beyond
Peter Dale Scott [JFK]
Cocain
Politics: drugs, armies and the CIA in Central America
Peter Dale Scott [drugs]
Crime and Cover-up: the CIA, the Mafia, and the Dallas-Watergate connection
Peter Dale Scott
[JFK]
The Iran-Contra Connection
Peter Dale Scott [OCT]
Cover-Up:
the government conspiracy to conceal the facts about the public
execution of John Kennedy
The Politics of Escalation in Vietnam
Peter Dale Scott
[MISC]
All Fall Down: America’s tragic encounter with Iran
Gary Sick [OCT]
October Surprise: America’s hostages in Iran and the election of Reagan
Gary Sick
[OCT]
Conspiracy
Anthony Summers [JFK]
Six Seconds in Dallas: a
micro-study of the Kennedy assassination
Josiah Thompson [JFK]
Unnatural Death:
confessions of a medical examiner
(Dr. Michael T.???) Michael M. Baden
Coup
d’etat in America: the CIA and the assassination of John F. Kennedy
Michael Canfield and Alan
J. Weberman [JFK]
Frame-up: the Martin Luther King/James Earl Ray case
Harold
Weisberg [MLK]
The legal proceedings of Harold Weisberg v. GSA, FOIA of JFK
assassination
Harold Weisberg [JFK]
Oswald in New Orleans: case of conspiracy
with the CIA
Harold Weisberg [JFK]
Photographic Whitewash: suppressed Kennedy
assassination pictures
Harold Weisberg [JFK]
Post-Mortem: suppressed Kennedy
autopsy
Harold Weisberg [JFK]
Post-Mortem III: secrets of the Kennedy autopsy
Whitewash IV: top secret JFK assassination transcript
Harold
Weisberg
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Authored by
Organizations
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Warren Commission Report
& Evidence
Warren Commission
HSCA Report & Evidence
House Select
Committee on Assassinations
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Works
not Found
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Operation Mind
Control
Walter Bowart
The Nazi Connection to the John F. Kennedy Assassination
Forgive My Grief (Vols. 1-4)
Penn Jones
Judge for
Yourself
John Judge
The Politics of Cocaine???? (Similar to another title)
Peter Dale Scott
The Taking of America 1-2-3
Richard Sprague
Nomenclature of an Assassination Cabal
William Torbitt
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Fiction (gentle reading, novels, etc.)
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The Case of the Murdered President:
Sherlock Holmes in Dallas
Edmund S. Ions [JFK] Edmund Aubrey??
Last Man at
Arlington
Joseph DiMona [JFK]
The Spymaster
Fred Donald
22
Fires
Jerome Agel & Eugene Boe
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Abbreviations of Subjects of Books
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Abrv. Category
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BANK Banking conspiracies, money laundering, etc.
CIA the CIA
drugs drug
smuggling by the CIA
COM Communist Conspiracies
JFK the JFK
assassination
LINC the Lincoln assassination
MISC Miscellaneous
hist
historic conspiracies
MLK the MLK assassination
MOB Mafia conspiracies
NAZI Nazi conspiracies
OCT October Surprise
RFK the RFK
assassination
WaGa Watergate
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Book Reviewed
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From Jim Burnes
By Way of
Deception
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Claire Hoy and Victor Ostravesky.
This is a
great book about an ex-Israeli Mossad Agent, Victor
Ostravskey. It’s the one the Israeli
government tried to ban in the US.
Some good hearted judge had the audacity to tell the
Israelis to stuff
it. This was America and we don’t ban books here. For those of you
who
read Yiddish (I guess) they reproduce his Mossad pay-stubs in the
book so you can read them.
Other interesting diagrams include and
entire organizational chart of the Mossad.
It details quite a few racist attitudes within the Mossad and talks
about a number of
operatives quite candidly as well as the Mossad’s
general opinion and testing of the WC report
on the assassination of
JFK.
Victor also details his personal interaction with
Mike "Little Freddy"
Harari. Harari is/was probably the most deadly of the Mossad
assassins
and seems to have been operating the US/Israeli drug smuggling
operation for
quite some time. He was Manuel Noriega’s right hand man
and also present at the site of all
the assassinations of the American
Colonels who were checking into his Operation WatchTower.
(For example
Colonels Cutolo and Rowe) The Cutolo affidavit details the illegal
covert
drug shipments out of South America. Colonel Rowe wrote in to
60 minutes about the whole
affair, but 60 minutes declined to do
anything about it. About a year to 6 months later they
were both dead.
It’s interesting to note that during the invasion of Panama Harari was
captured as being Noriega’s right hand man. He was later released
without being charged. Just
a little too valuable to the secret team
for that probably.
Harari was also
called in to take out a lead Palestinian. The PLO
threw him on a wild goose chase and his
shooter team eventually ended
up taking out a Danish waiter who was walking down a street in
Denmark
with his pregnant wife. He had nothing whatsoever to do with the PLO.
The Mossad
got caught with its pants down on this one so bad that the
director of the Mossad wanted
absolute control over terminations.
(Makes you wonder who had control before)
BTW: I think it’s Denmark, but it might have been Holland or Norway.
One of
Ostravskey’s first training missions was to establish contact
with Mike Harari. Ostravskey,
not knowing what Harari did on the side
to make the big money, posed as a Canadian businessman
wanting to do
business in Panama. He knew Harari had a lot of business contacts
there.
Harari mistakenly assumed Ostravskey wanted to run drugs out
of Panama and said that one could
buy just about whatever one wanted
from Panama (with the right contacts). Ostravskey’s cover
was blown
when Harari asked for his passport. Ostraveskey, being a novice,
flubbed and
said he left it in his room. Apparently no foreigner
would ever leave something like that in
his room.
When Harari found out that Ostravskey was just a junior agent and that
he had been had, he mercilessly tried to get Victor drummed out of the
Mossad. Harari called
Ostravskey’s trainer and lied about the
encounter.. saying nasty things about Victor and what
he was trying to
do. Fortunately for Victor he taped the entire interlude…so it was
Harari who was caught lying. Too bad that tape recording is not
available today.
The Mossads think Americans are pretty damn gullible if they believe
the WC report. The
Mossad’s best assassins tried to do the 3 shots in
six seconds trick and they all failed.
This is an interesting revelation in and of itself. The rest of their
theory is
somewhat questionable. They thought that it was actually
and attempt by the Mob on Conally’s
life. The Mob at the time was
attempting to gain control of Texas oil interests. Conally
was
against it. They thought that if they nailed Conally, people would
think they were
gunning for the president. If they missed and got the
president, that would have been OK
too.
Who knows…but lots of other information would tend to go against the
grain
of their theory.
Jim Burns
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From: holtz@tooltalk.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian
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Subject: Re: The Conspiracy Book
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mkennedy@isis.cs.du.edu (Max
Kennedy) writes:
>For example, say Harin Boltz is consistently
>obnoxious
in your opinion. It is easy, then, to ignore his rantings of
>books if you wish, while
others who may want Harin Boltz ratings on
>books can easily find them.
Hmm,
looks like somebody’s been staying up nights playing with his
anagram generator…. 
>Silent Coup: the removal of Richard Nixon
> Len Colodny and Robert Gettlin
[WaGa]
Gave this as a Christmas present. Apparently, the authors think Haig
and
Woodward accelerated Nixon’s fall in order to keep some obscure
wiretapping scandal from
becoming public.
>Legend: the secret world of Lee Harvey Oswald
> Edward
Jay Epstien [JFK]
Pretty thorough book on Oswald. Surprisingly little detail on the
>On the Trail of the Assassins
>
Jim Garrison [JFK]
I’ve got a copy, but I haven’t had the stomach to look at it too
closely.
>High Treason: the assassination of President John F. Kennedy
>
Robert J. Groden & Harrison Edwared Livingstone [JFK]
Breathless, angry, would-be
expose of the plot by "the Secret Team" to
kill JFK. Groden and Livingstone hurt
their case by making no
pretense of a balanced examination of the evidence. Lots of
interesting photographs, including jacket photos of the two sneering,
I’m-tough-as-nails
authors, and a diagram of Dealey Plaza showing six
"known and suspected firing
points".
>Reasonable Doubt: an investigation into the assassination of JFK
A thorough summary of what is known and not known. Some
uninteresting
photographs, but an thoroughly indexed and footnoted. Marred by a
stand-alone chapter based on the confessions of somebody that even
Hurt concedes is a
crackpot. If you read only one book on the case,
read this one.
>Plausible
Denial: was the CIA involved in the assassination of JFK?
> Mark Lane [BUSH]
Mainly a narrative of Howard Hunt’s losing libel suit.
>Kennedy and Lincoln
> Dr J K Lattimer [JFK]
I wish I had a copy of this.
>Best Evidence:
disguise and deception in the assassination of JFK
> David S. Lifton [JFK]
A
rambling, first-person narrative of Lifton’s twenty-year obsession
with the JFK case.
Pitifully indexed. At no point does Lifton lay
out what he thinks he can prove at the end of
his investigative
odyssey; he entertains and embellishes some sub-theories throughout
the book, only to completely discard them near the end when new
evidence surfaces. Lifton
spends over 700 pages telling us about all
the investigating he did, but never bothers to
spend 100 solid pages
telling us what he thinks in the end he knows. Many shocking, glossy
(E.g., "a dark area
… widely interpreted as smoke by critics in
1966" — but no longer so interpreted. Or
seeing "what appears to be
a surgical clip" in the head wound, but claiming that
the
clearly-visible rear entry wound "is not discernable".) That this
manuscript survived professional editing and became a bestseller is
prima facie evidence of a
conspiracy in its own right.
>Crossfire: the plot that killed Kennedy
> Jim
Marrs [JFK]
The authoritative catalog of paranoia on the Kennedy case. Decent
footnotes, but a very poor index, and few photographs. The lack of a
good index is partly
compensated for by excellent organization built
around a detailed table of contents. Includes
an 8-page list of
people connected to the case who have died. The first sentence says
"Do not trust this book", but unfortunately Oliver Stone believed
every sentence in
the book *except* for that one.
>Master index to the J.F.K. assassination
investigations
> Sylvia Meagher [JFK]
From what I understand, an invaluable
index to the Warren Commission
volues.
>Six Seconds in Dallas: a micro-study
of the Kennedy assassination
> Josiah Thompson [JFK]
A balanced study of the
physical evidence available in 1966. Includes
a nice table of all the earwitnesses,
summarizing their testimony.
Lots of interesting photographs, and lots of good drawings of
Zapruder
frames.
>Warren Commission Report & Evidence
> Warren
Commission
If you read only two books on the case, read _Reasonable Doubt_ and
the Warren Report.
>HSCA Report & Evidence
> House Select Committee on
Assassinations
Authoritative treatment of many of the open issues in the case. Makes
conspiracy conclusion on
acoustic evidence later shown to be faulty.
You can add:
Mafia Kingfish
and Contract On America, two books that claim it was a
mob hit.
The Death Of A
President, the Jackie-endorsed kid gloves account of
the fateful weekend.
–
Brian
Holtz
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