Conspiracy Book List

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 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.

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]

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

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. 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

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

BANK - Banking conspiracies, money laundering, etc.

CIA drugs - the CIA, drug smuggling by the CIA

COM - Communist Conspiracies

JFK - the JFK assassination

LINC - the Lincoln assassination

MISC hist - Miscellaneous 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 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.