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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
    Mark Lane [MISC]

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
    David S. Lifton [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]

Crossfire: the plot that killed Kennedy
    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]

Honorable Treachery: a history of U.S. intelligence, espionage, & covert
    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
    Gary J. Shaw [JFK]

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
    Harold Weisberg

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
    Mae Brussell

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
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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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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
events of the fateful weekend, though.

>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
>    Henry Hurt [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
photos, unfortunately accompanied by baldly disingenous captions.
(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
a convincing case that the single bullet theory is true, but bases
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