

The Conspiracy Book List v1.1

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.

A Proposal for a Rating System

I'm unwilling to stamp any particular persons rating on these books.

However, I have a useful proindividual 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 lowercase twolevel key
assigned to their name. Each book will have a possible rating of 09.

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.

FAQ?

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.

Books in alphabetical order by author.

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]

Coverup: the politics of Pearl Harbor, 19411946 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 coverup 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 ShawJim 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, rentacops, and the policeindustrial
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 Coverup: the CIA, the Mafia, and the DallasWatergate
connection Peter Dale Scott [JFK]

The IranContra Connection Peter Dale Scott [OCT]

CoverUp: 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 [OC T]

Conspiracy Anthony Summers [JFK]

Six Seconds in Dallas: a microstudy 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]

Frameup: 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]

PostMortem: suppressed Kennedy autopsy Harold Weisberg [JFK]

PostMortem III: secrets of the Kennedy autopsy Harold Weisberg

Whitewash IV: top secret JFK assassination transcript Harold Weisberg

Authored by Organizations Warren Commission Report & Evidence Warren
Commission

HSCA Report & Evidence House Select Committee on Assassinations

Works not Found

Operation Mind Control Walter Bowart

The Nazi Connection to the John F. Kennedy Assassination Mae Brussell

Forgive My Grief (Vols. 14) Penn Jones

Judge for Yourself John Judge

The Politics of Cocaine???? (Similar to another title) Peter Dale
Scott

The Taking of America 123 Richard Sprague

Nomenclature of an Assassination Cabal William Torbitt

Fiction (gentle reading, novels, etc.)

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

Abbreviations of Subjects of Books Abrv. Category

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

Book Reviewed

From Jim Burnes

By Way of Deception Claire Hoy and Victor Ostravesky.

This is a great book about an exIsraeli 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 paystubs 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


>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, wouldbe 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'mtoughasnails 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
standalone 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, firstperson narrative of Lifton's twentyyear 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 subtheories throughout th e 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 clearlyvisible
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 8page 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 microstudy 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 Jackieendorsed kid gloves account of the
fateful weekend. Brian Holtz


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