Philips, T. “Unmasking the Face on Mars.” NASA Science. May 24, 2001. http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast24may_1.htm.
Posner, G. “The Face Behind the Face on Mars: A Skeptical Look at Richard Hoagland.” Skeptical Inquirer 24, no. 6 (November 2000): 20.
PART 7: URBAN LEGEND CONSPIRACY THEORIES
Hearst and Hemp
Bonnie, R., and C. Whitebread. “The Forbidden Fruit and the Tree of Knowledge: An Inquiry Into the Legal History of American Marijuana Prohibition.” Virginia Law Review 56, no. 6 (October 1970): 971–1,203.
Swanberg, W. Citizen Hearst. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1961.
Wishnia, S. “Debunking the Hemp Conspiracy Theory.” AlterNet. February 20, 2008. www.alternet.org/story/77339/debunking_the_hemp_conspiracy_theory.
There Is No Finland
Bestor, V., and T. Bestor. “Japan and the Sea.” Education about Asia 19, no. 2 (October 2014): 50–56.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, s.v. “Trans-Siberian Railroad.” Updated May 9, 2017. www.britannica.com/topic/Trans-Siberian-Railroad.
Lamoureux, M. “This Dude Accidentally Convinced the Internet That Finland Doesn’t Exist.” Vice. December 9, 2016. www.vice.com/sv/article/this-dude-accidentally-convinced-the-internet-that-finland-doesnt-exist.
Men in Black
Barker, G. They Knew Too Much about Flying Saucers. New York: University Books, 1956.
Bender, A. Flying Saucers and the Three Men. Clarksburg: Saucerian Books, 1962.
Sherwood, J. “Gray Barker: My Friend, the Myth-Maker.” Skeptical Inquirer 22, no. 3 (January 1998): 37–39.
Polybius
DeSpira, C. “Reinvestigating Polybius.” Retrocade 1, no. 2 (April 2012): 141–148.
“Tummy Derails Asteroids Champ.” Eugene Register-Guard, November 29, 1981.
“Video Games Gambling Count Admitted.” The Oregonian, December 9, 1981.
HAARP
Eastlund, B. “Method and Apparatus for Altering a Region in the Earth’s Atmosphere, Ionosphere, and/or Magnetosphere.” United States Patent and Trademark Office. August 11, 1987. http://tinyurl.com/328mdn4.
Ratcliffe, J. An Introduction to the Ionosphere and Magnetosphere. London: Cambridge University Press, 1972.
University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute. “HAARP FAQ.” January 9, 2010. www.gi.alaska.edu/haarp/faq.
TWA Flight 800
Barreveld, D. The Spark That Killed 230 People: The Scary Details of the NTSB’s Final Report of the Crash of TWA Flight 800. Lincoln, NE: iUniverse, 2002.
Hall, J., J. Hammerschmidt, J. Goglia, G. Black, and C. Carmody. NTSB Abstract AAR-00/03. Washington, DC: National Transportation Safety Board, 2000.
Wald, M. “T.W.A. Crash Investigators Ridicule a Missile Theory and Pin Hopes on Research.” The New York Times, March 14, 1997.
Malaysian Airlines MH370
Goodfellow, C. “A Startlingly Simple Theory about the Missing Malaysia Airlines Jet.” Wired. March 18, 2014. www.wired.com/2014/03/mh370-electrical-fire/.
“MH370 Conspiracy Theories: The Truth Behind One of Aviation’s Greatest Mysteries.” The Week. January 18, 2018. www.theweek.co.uk/mh370/58037/mh370-conspiracy-theories-what-happened-to-the-missing-plane.
USCDornsife Spatial Sciences Institute. “The Search for Malaysia Airlines Flight #MH370.” http://gis.usc.edu/blog/the-search-for-malaysia-airlines-flight-mh370/.
PART 8: CONSPIRACY THEORIES THAT TURNED OUT TO BE . . . TRUE?
Numbers Stations
Nieves, G. “Lawyer: Accused Spy to Plead Guilty.” The Miami Herald, September 14, 2001.
Pierce, L. Intercepting Numbers Stations. Dorset, England: Interproducts, 1994.
Smolinski, C. “Spy Numbers Stations on Shortwave Radio.” Spy Numbers. August 11, 2015. www.spynumbers.com/.
MKULTRA
Central Intelligence Agency. Brainwashing from a Psychological Viewpoint. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1956.
Gabbai, Lisbonne, and Pourquier. “Ergot Poisoning at Pont St. Esprit.” British Medical Journal 2, no. 4732 (September 1951): 650–651.
Select Committee on Intelligence, and Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research of the Committee on Human Resources. Project MKULTRA: The CIA’s Program of Research in Behavioral Modification. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1977.
COINTELPRO
Blackstock, N. COINTELPRO: The FBI’s Secret War on Political Freedom. New York: Monad Press, 1975.
Churchill, W., and J. Vander Wall. The COINTELPRO Papers: Documents from the FBI’s Secret Wars Against Domestic Dissent. Boston: South End Press, 1990.
Medsger, B. The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI. New York: Vintage Books, 2014.
The Gulf of Tonkin
Ball, M. “Revisiting the Gulf of Tonkin Crisis: An Analysis of the Private Communication of President Johnson and His Advisers.” Discourse & Society 2, no. 3 (1991): 281–296.
Hanyok, R. “Skunks, Bogies, Silent Hounds, and the Flying Fish: The Gulf of Tonkin Mystery, 2–4 August 1964.” Cryptologic Quarterly 19, no. 4/20, no. 1 (Winter 2000/Spring 2001): 1–55.
Prados, J. “The Gulf of Tonkin Incident, 40 Years Later.” National Security Archive. August 4, 2004. https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB132/index.htm.
Military Dolphins
Chapple, S. “The Pentagon’s Deadly Pets.” Penthouse 8, no. 10 (June 1977): 48–54.
Gasperini, W. “Uncle Sam’s Dolphins.” Smithsonian 34, no. 6 (September 2003): 28–30.
Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command. “US Navy Marine Mammal Program.” May 21, 2011. www.public.navy.mil/spawar/Pacific/technology/Pages/mammals.aspx.
CIA Drugs for Guns
Kerry, J., B. Adams, and D. Moynihan. Drugs, Law Enforcement, and Policy: A Report Prepared by the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Operations. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1989.
“The Contras, Cocaine, and Covert Operations.” The National Security Archive. January 10, 2018. https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu//NSAEBB/NSAEBB2/index.html.
Webb, G. Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion. New York: Seven Stories Press, 1996.
Index
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9/11 attacks, 121–28
Ackerman, Thomas, 116–20
Alden, Ginger, 82
Al-Fayed, Dodi, 92–94
Al-Fayed, Mohamed, 93–94
Ali, Muhammad, 224
Alien civilizations, 130–31, 156–67, 190–94
Alien reptilian culture, 37–40
Allen, Carl, 115
Allende, Carlos, 114–15
Anderson, Orlando, 89
Anslinger, Harry, 184–85
Apollo program, 138, 172–76
Area 51, 161, 164–67
Aristotle, 135
Barker, Gray, 192–94
Beatles, 78–81
Bedford Level Experiment, 137
Begich, Nick, Jr., 200
Bender, Albert K., 192–94
Berlitz, Charles, 113
Bernhard, Prince, 25
Big Pharma, 42–45, 150–53
Biggie (Notorious B.I.G.), 87–91
Bilderberg Group, 24–28
Bixby, Bill, 83–84
Black Knight satellite, 156–59
Bloch, Admiral Claude, 110
Bohemian Club, 20–23
Bolton, Darnell, 90
Bowles, Camilla Parker, 93
Branch Davidian assault, 59–62
Brazel, Mac, 160–61
Brewer-Giorgio, Gail, 83–86
Bugliosi, Vincent, 76
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, 101
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p; Bush, George W., 57, 124
Bush, H.W., 183
Caesar, Julius, 216
Carr, Daniel, 31
Carroll, Michael, 52
Cartlidge, Doug, 234
Castro, Fidel, 26
Charles, Prince, 92–94
Charny, Geoffroi de, 15
Chemtrails, 63–67
Chirac, Jacques, 95
“CIA drugs for guns,” 235–38
Claes, Willy, 26–27
Clapton, Eric, 79
Clarke, Arthur C., 138, 169–70
Clausen, Henry, 109
Clinton, Bill, 60
COINTELPRO, 222–26
Columbus, Christopher, 136
Combs, Sean, 88–90
Concentration camps, 102–6
Contra rebels, 235–38
Contrails, 63–67
Cooper, Gordon, 157, 159
Counterintelligence Program, 222–26
Death camps, 102–6
Dennis, Glenn, 162–63
Denver International Airport, 33–36
Die Glocke, 98–101
Dolphins, 231–34
Donaldson, William, 204
Drug cartels, 235–38
Dugain, Marc, 208
Dyson, Freeman, 120
Earhart, Amelia, 70–73
Eastlund, Bernard, 200
Edison, Thomas, 141, 143
Einstein, Albert, 114–15, 129
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 106
Elite illuminati
Bilderberg Group, 24–28
Bohemian Club, 20–23
Denver International Airport, 33–36
Knights Templar, 12–15
North American Union, 29–32
Reptoids, 37–40
Rothschild family, 16–19
Elites, 9, 11–40, 135, 138
Ellis, Jimmy, 83
Energy, free, 145–49
Energy, limitless, 140
Estulin, Daniel, 26
Euclid, 135
Face on Mars, 177–80
Fanton, Lieutenant Eileen Mae, 163
FEMA prison camps, 54–58
Ferdinand, King, 136
Ferraris, Galileo, 143
Ferrell, Lee, 163
Finland urban legend, 186–89
Fitzgerald, Dr. James, 232–33
Flat Earth theory, 135–39
Fluoridation, 46–49
Foster, Jodie, 77
Fouse, Wardell, 90
Franklin, Benjamin, 43
Franklin, Francis, 43
Frazier, Joe, 224
Free energy, 145–49
Friedman, Stanton, 161–62
Fulgham, Captain Dan, 163
Galilei, Galileo, 129, 136
Gates, Bill, 27
Germ warfare, 50–53
Gibb, Russ, 79, 81
Godfrey, Cinda, 84, 86
Goerman, Robert, 115
Golden, Sharitha, 88
Gould, Jay, 84–86
Government oppression
Branch Davidian assault, 59–62
chemtrails, 63–67
FEMA prison camps, 54–58
Plum Island, 50–53
vaccines, 42–45
water fluoridation, 46–49
Greenleaf, Little Chief, 38–40
Greenwood, Michael, 232–33
Greer, Steven M., 147
Grobman, Alex, 104
Grubel, Herb, 30
Gulf of Tonkin, 227–30
Guns, drugs for, 235–38
HAARP, 199–202
Halley, Edmond, 131
Hardy, Oliver, 22
Harrison, George, 81
Hearst, William Randolph, 182–85
Helms, Richard, 219
Hemp, 182–85
Herer, Jack, 182, 184
Herrick, John J., 228–30
High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP), 199–202
Hitchens, Christopher, 86, 100
Hitler, Adolf, 103, 104
Ho Chi Minh, 229
Hoagland, Richard C., 169, 178–79
Hollow Earth theory, 130–34
Holocaust denial, 102–6
Hoover, J. Edgar, 91, 222–25
Hyams, Peter, 173
Icke, David, 39
Illuminati, 11–40, 57–58, 138
Isabella, Queen, 136
Jackson, Andrew, 131
Jacobsen, Annie, 166
Jessup, Morris, 113–15
Jiménez, Luis, 36
Johnson, Charles, 137–38
Johnson, Kelly, 165
Johnson, Lyndon B., 75–77, 227–30
Johnson, Marjory, 137–38
Jones, Alex, 22
Kaysing, Bill, 173
Keel, John, 193
Kennedy, John F., 74–77
Kimmel, Admiral Husband, 107, 109–11
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 222, 225–26
Knight, Suge, 88–90
Knights Templar, 12–15
Koller, Kurt, 198
Koresh, David, 59–62
Koreshan Unity, 132–33
Kubrick, Stanley, 138
LaBour, Fred, 80, 81
Lawrence, Ernest, 23
Lazar, Bob, 165–67
Ley, Willy, 101
Limitless energy, 140
London, Jack, 21
Long delayed echoes (LDEs), 156–59
Lopez, Michael, 196–97
Lovecraft, H.P., 101
LSD experiments, 217–21
Lucifer Project, 168–71
Lunan, Duncan, 157–59
Macklin, L., 38–40
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, 207–10
Manhattan Project, 20–23, 99
Marcel, Major Jesse, 160–61
Marconi, Guglielmo, 141
Marijuana, 182–85
Marine Mammal Program, 232–33
Mars face, 177–80
Mauro, Brian, 196–97
Maxxe, Robert, 197
McAndrew, Lieutenant James, 162–63
McCartney, Paul, 78–81
McKay, Dr. Frederick, 47–49
McKinney, Cynthia, 56
McNamara, Robert, 227–30
McVeigh, Timothy, 62
Medsger, Betty, 224
Men in Black, 190–94
Military dolphins, 231–34
Mind control, 217–21
Mindszenty, Cardinal József, 217–18, 220
Minh, Ho Chi, 229
MKULTRA project, 217–21
Molay, Jacques de, 15
Montauk Monster, 53
Moon landing, 172–76
Moore, William, 113
Morgan, J.P., 141
Morrow, Ulysses Grant, 132–34
Morse, Wayne, 228–30
National Classified Test Facility, 164–67
Naval Shipyard Experiment, 112–15
Nazi Wunderwaffen, 98–101
Nellis Air Force Base, 164–67
New World Order, 33–36
Nimitz, Admiral Chester, 111
Nixon, Richard, 21, 36, 51
Noonan, Fred, 70–73
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), 29–30
North American Union (NAU), 29–32
North Vietnamese, 227–30
Notorious B.I.G. (Biggie), 87–91
Nuclear war, 116–20
Nuclear winter, 116–19
Numbers stations, 212–16
Olson, Dr. Frank, 219–21
Operation Paget report, 94–95
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 23
Oswald, Lee Harvey, 9, 74–77
Parallax, 136–37
Pareidolia, 180
Paul, Henri, 92–95
Pearl Harbor attack, 107–11
Penner, Joyce, 117–18
Pentagon missile, 125–28
Pharmaceutical companies, 42–45, 150–53
Philadelphia Experiment, 112–15
Philip IV, King, 13–14
Plum Island, 50–53
Pollack, James, 116–20
Polybius games, 195–98
Presley, Elvis, 82–86
Princess Diana, 92–95
Prison camps, 30, 33, 54–58
Project Mogul, 161–63
Puff Daddy, 88–90
Putin, Vladimir, 209
Pythagoras, 135
Radio broadcasts, 212–16
Radio control technology, 142
Radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs), 168–71
Reagan, Ronald, 77, 117, 236
Rees-Jones, Trevor, 92–94
Reno, Janet, 59–60
Reptoids, 37–40
Retinger, Józef, 25
Retroreflectors, 175
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 55, 57, 109
Roswell, 160–63
Rothschild, Benjamin de, 19
Rothschild, Jeff, 19
Rothschild, Mayer Amschel, 16–17
Rothschild family, 16–19
Rowbotham, Samuel, 136–37
Ruby, Jack, 75–76
Rumsfeld, Donald, 124
Sagan, Carl, 116–20, 178
Sanders, James, 204
Sandinistas, 235–38
Satellite, Black Knight, 156–59
Schiff, Steven, 162
Schneider, Stephen, 118
Science conspiracies
Big Pharma, 150–53
flat Earth, 135–39
free energy, 145–49
hollow Earth, 130–34
Nikola Tesla, 140–44
suppressed technology, 140–44
Scott, Peter Dale, 56
Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), 29–30
September 11 attacks, 121–28
Shah, Zaharie Ahmad, 208
Shakur, Tupac, 87–91
Shenton, Samuel, 136–38, 172
Shermer, Michael, 104
Sherwood, John, 193
Shufelt, G. Warren, 38–40
Silverstein, Larry, 123–24
Skeptoid®, 9
Space conspiracies
Area 51, 161, 164–67
Black Knight satellite, 156–59
Lucifer Project, 168–71
Mars face, 177–80
Moon landing, 172–76
Roswell, 160–63
Spies, 165–67, 212–16, 225, 231–33
Sporrenberg, Jakob, 100–101
Stacey, Robert, 204
Stinnett, Robert, 108
Strada, Al, 84
Suspicious deaths
Amelia Earhart, 70–73
Elvis Presley, 82–86
John F. Kennedy, 74–77
Notorious B.I.G., 87–91
Paul McCartney, 78–81
Princess Diana, 92–95
Tupac Shakur, 87–91
Symmes, John, 131
Tanguma, Leo, 34
Technology, suppressed, 140–44
Teed, Cyrus, 131–32
Teller, Dr. Edward, 23, 117
Templars, 12–15
Terrorist attacks, 121–28
Tesla, Nikola, 129, 140–44, 156, 158
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