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The United States of Paranoia

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by Jesse Walker


  agenticity, 337–38, 421

  Agnew, Spiro, 169

  A.I. (film), 325

  Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, U.S. Bureau of (ATF), 209–10, 270

  aliens, 54, 59, 144–45, 223–26

  and angels, 146, 149

  films about, 69–71, 77–79, 178–80, 252–54, 296–97

  Alien Registration Act (1940), 76

  Al-Ikhlas, Rasul, 286

  Allen, Gary, 105–8, 130, 200, 203, 240, 289, 366, 390

  Allende, Salvador, 254

  All the President’s Men (film), 174

  Al Qaeda, 45, 300–301, 410

  alternate reality games (ARGs), 325–28, 331–32

  alternate universes, 324–25

  Altman, Robert, 383

  Alumbrados, 28, 117

  American Revolution, 113–14, 116

  Anderson, Jack, 163

  Andros, Edmund, 32, 351

  angels, 133–36, 145–50

  Angels & Demons (film), 330

  Anson, Robert Sam, They’ve Killed the President, 246

  Antelman, Rabbi Marvin S., To Eliminate the Opiate, 200

  anti-Catholicism, 34–35, 56, 61, 91, 205, 372

  anti-Communism, 141, 205, 317

  Anti-Defamation League, 278

  Anti-Federalists, 112–13, 316

  Anti-Masonic Party, 122–23, 205, 291, 356, 371

  anti-Semitism, 140–41, 144, 197–200, 208–9, 287–91, 308, 377, 388, 396, 420

  antiterrorism, 297, 299–307

  apocalypse, 202–7, 209–11, 302

  apophenia, 335–36

  Aquarian Conspiracy, 142, 376

  Aqua Teen Hunger Force (TV), 302

  Árbenz, Jacobo, 253

  Archer, Anne, 267, 403

  Arise! (video), 252

  Arlington Road (film), 293–94

  Armageddon, 202–3

  Articles of Confederation, 111–12, 116

  Aryan Nations, 278, 289

  Ascended Masters, 138–39, 140, 141, 142, 145, 146, 149

  Ashley, James Mitchell, 7

  Associated Press, 230, 333

  Astley, Rick, 332

  Atlanta, child murders, 128, 211

  Baca, George, 93–94, 95

  Bacon, Francis, 151, 376

  The New Atlantis, 134, 140

  Bahrdt, Charles Frederick, 369

  Bailey, Alice, 139

  Bailyn, Bernard, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, 113–14, 116

  Baldwin, Chuck, 304

  Baldwin, Craig, 252–54

  Ballard, Guy, 142, 144

  Unveiled Mysteries, 143

  Bambaataa, Afrika, 286

  bankers, conspiracy of, 12, 123–25, 131, 140, 141, 187, 197, 199, 241, 242, 244, 321, 335, 387, 398

  Banner, Bob, 281–83, 406

  Banner, James, 121

  Barbados, slave rebellions in, 87

  Barker, Gray, 225–27, 394, 398

  They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers, 225, 227

  Barker, William, 53

  Barkun, Michael, 199, 276, 300–301

  Barlow, John Perry, 136

  Barr, Bob, 304

  Barruel, Augustin, Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism, 118, 197

  Baum, L. Frank, 39–40, 70, 138

  The Sea Fairies, 125

  BBC, 326–27

  Beard, Charles, 369

  Beast, The (game), 325–26, 327, 417

  Beatles, 203, 204, 346

  Beck, Glenn, 14–15, 308, 318

  Beecher, Rev. Henry Ward, 7

  Being John Malkovich (film), 323

  Being There (film), 178

  Beirich, Heidi, 320

  Bell, Arthur L., 141, 142, 377

  Benevolent Conspiracy, 16, 335

  angels, 133–36, 145–50

  Ascended Masters, 138–39, 146, 149

  Great White Brotherhood, 138, 139, 140–41, 142

  in Illuminatus!, 244

  in Theosophy, 137–39, 140–41

  Rosicrucians, 136–40, 150–51

  Bennett, John C., 62

  Berne, Eric, 327

  Berry, Rev. Tom, 191, 207

  Best, Joel, 301

  Best, Stewart, 230–31

  Biafra, Jello, 211

  Billington, James H., 369–70

  bin Laden, Osama, 45, 300–301, 332

  birthers, 317–20

  Birth of a Nation, The (film), 100

  Black Dragon Society, 104

  Black Hills War, 35–36

  Black Mass, 55, 242

  Black Muslims, 287

  Black Panthers, 130, 159, 162, 239, 383

  Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna, 137–39, 140, 142, 144, 389

  Boing Boing, 326–27

  Bonaparte, Napoleon, 120

  Bond, James, 161, 175, 241, 300

  Bonewits, Isaac, 195

  Book of Revelation, 255

  Boston Gazette, 115

  Boyer, Paul, Salem Possessed, 52

  Brady, Mildred Edie, 237, 396

  Brain Eaters, The (film), 71

  brainwashing, 21–22, 74–75, 165, 170–71, 284, 359

  Branch Davidians, 210–11, 213, 270, 276, 277, 279, 285, 286

  Britain:

  and colonies, 109–15, 120

  Glorious Revolution (1688), 109

  rockers and mods in, 11

  at war with Spain, 89, 92

  witch hunts in, 51

  Brooks, Elbridge Streeter, 36

  Brown, Charles Brockden, 370

  Brown, Dan, 330–31

  Angels & Demons, 330

  Da Vinci Code, The, 330–31

  Brown, John, 95–96, 104

  Brown, Rebecca, 205

  Brown, Tony, 289, 407–8

  Brown Scare (anti-Mexican), 360

  Brown Scare (anti-Right), 76, 142, 173, 294, 310

  Brunn, James Wenneker von, 307–8

  Brussell, Mae, 169–70, 171–72, 184, 196, 229, 245, 256

  Bryan, Gerald, Psychic Dictatorship in America, 143–44

  Bryan, William Jennings, 12

  Buchanan, James, 4–5, 18

  Buckley, William, Jr., 240

  Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV), 330

  Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George, 138

  Burke, Edmund, 109

  Burnham, Sophy, 152

  A Book of Angels, 146–48

  Burroughs, Rev. George, 52

  Burroughs, William, 71, 75, 360

  Burton, Mary, 88, 89

  Bush, George H. W., 277

  Bush, George W., 300, 316, 317, 346, 410

  Butler, Richard, 289

  Byrne, David, 252

  Caesar (slave), 88

  Calhoun, John, 4

  Campbell, John W., Jr., Who Goes There?, 70

  Campbell, W. Joseph, 21

  Canfield, Michael, Coup d’Etat in America, 168, 258

  Cantor, Paul, 295

  Cantril, Hadley, 20

  Capricorn One (film), 178

  Carlsson, Carole, 202

  Carmichael, Stokely, 131

  Carpenter, John, 358

  Carter, Chris, 417

  Carter, Jimmy, 167

  as antichrist, 191

  as zombified robot, 283

  Carr, William Guy, 198, 199, 201, 408

  Catawba Meeting House, Virginia, 94

  Catholics, as Enemy Outside, 34–35, 56, 61, 62, 88, 91, 92, 103, 205

  Cell, The (film), 323

  Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 17, 80, 125, 161, 164–65, 166, 170, 246, 248, 253–54, 331

  chaos:

  patterns in, 337

  worship of, 222, 231–44

  Chapman, Allan, 241

  Chartier, Gary, 189

  Cheepie, 35

  Chermak, Steven, 278

  Chess, Caron, 306–7

  Chick, Jack T., 188, 190, 196, 201, 205, 206, 250, 386, 389, 392

  child abuse, 211–16

  Chomsky, Noam, 165–66, 167

  Christian Anti-Commun
ist Crusade, 240, 254

  Christian Crusade, 14

  Christian Identity movement, 208, 278

  Church, Frank, 164, 165

  Churchill, Robert, 278–79, 290, 314

  Churchill, Winston, 197–98

  Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, see Mormons

  Church of the SubGenius, 249–52, 255, 284, 400

  Church’s Chicken, 129

  Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI, 162

  Civilian Material Assistance, 270

  Civil War, U.S., 132, 136

  Clark, Mark, 162

  Clark, Ramsey, 108

  Clarke, Lee, 306–7

  Clay, Henry, 122, 131–32

  Clinton, Bill, 10, 292–93, 319, 408

  Clinton, Hillary, 318

  Close Encounters of the Third Kind (film), 384

  Coakley, Martha, 302

  Cody, Buffalo Bill, 36

  Cohen, Stanley, 10–12

  COINTELPRO, 158–62, 164, 166, 167, 169, 171, 239

  Cokely, Steve, 288

  Cold War, 14, 71, 80, 277, 297

  Colton, Rev. Calvin, Protestant Jesuitism, 56–58

  Columbus, Christopher, 134, 140

  Comintern, 79, 201

  Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, 166

  Committee on Public Information, 42–44, 43

  Communism:

  anti-Communism, 141, 205, 317

  films about, 73–75

  and homosexuals, 80

  and Illuminati, 201, 248

  and liberals, 293

  and race riots, 105–8

  Red Scares, 13, 23, 73, 75, 76, 103–5, 162, 237, 293

  Condon, Richard, 296

  The Manchurian Candidate, 74–75

  Winter Kills, 176

  Congress, U.S., threats against members of, 312–13

  Conspiracy (game), 400

  Conspiracy Dessert Club, 401

  Conspiracy Digest, 221, 244–46, 283

  “Conspiracy Fandom,” 283–85

  Conspiracy for the Day, 284–85, 329

  Conspiracy Nation, 285

  conspiracy theories, 8–9, 161, 216

  defectors spreading tales of, 205

  in economic downturns, 14–15, 93–94

  fanzines, 221, 283–85

  fear of insurrection, 95, 108

  as folklore, 15, 16–17, 221

  and Internet, 276, 284–85, 320, 329–30

  primal myths of, 16

  secret societies, 199

  in wartime, 27, 89

  conspiracy thriller movies, 1970s, 172–78

  Constitution, U.S., 112–13, 115–16, 120

  constitutionalists, 290, 314

  Continental Congress, 111

  Conversation, The (film), 176

  Coode, John, 32, 351

  Coogan, Gertrude, 199

  Cooper, William (ufologist), 288–89

  Behold a Pale Horse, 284, 288

  Cooper, William (rapper), 289

  Cooter, Amy, 314

  Coppola, Francis Ford, 176, 177

  Corman, Roger, 387

  Cosby, William, 89

  Cosmatos, George, 266, 403

  Council of 13, 187, 201

  Council of 33, 187, 201

  Council of 500, 187

  Council on Foreign Relations, 187, 200, 335

  Counter Terrorism Operations Center, 303

  Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord, The (CSA), 208–10

  Cover-Up Lowdown (comic), 246–48, 247

  Critique, 281, 282–83

  Crowley, Aleister, 376

  Crowley, John, vii

  Cuffee (slave), 85, 89, 90

  Cumbey, Constance, 142

  Cunningham, David, 158

  Curry, James, 229

  Custer, George Armstrong, 36

  Dabney, Charles W., 12

  Dalí, Salvador, 336

  Daly, Michael, 320

  Daniel, Clifton, 183–84

  Danites, 63, 65

  Dark City (film), 322

  Davidson, Gustav, A Dictionary of Angels, 146

  Da Vinci Code, The (film), 330

  Davis, David Brion, 61, 62

  Day of the Dead, The (film), 364

  Dean, John, 163

  Declaration of Independence, 111, 120, 135, 140, 151, 367, 370

  Dee, John, 145–46, 151, 378

  Deep Throat, 166–67

  Dees, Morris, 278

  Demiurge cycle, 323–24

  De Niro, Robert, 405

  Dennehy, Brian, 263

  DePugh, Robert, 14

  Dery, Mark, 221

  Destroying Angels, 63–64

  Dick, Philip K., 322, 323–24

  VALIS, 417

  Dies, Martin, 104, 237

  Dirks, Nicholas, 166

  Disch, Thomas M., 221, 393

  Discordians, 221, 231–33, 239–43, 248, 249, 252, 257

  Dobbs, J. R. “Bob”, 249–50, 252, 255

  Dobbs, Lou, 318–19

  Doherty, Thomas, 73–4

  Dollins, Stephen, 328, 418

  Domino Principle, The (film), 176–78

  Donahue, Phil, 192, 387

  Donnelly, Ignatius, 376

  Donnie Darko (film), 322

  Dorson, Richard, 35

  Douglas, Stephen, 7

  Dowdy, John, 81

  Downard, James Shelby, 420

  Downs, Hugh, 213, 215

  Doyle, Arthur Conan, A Study in Scarlet, 65

  Drake, James David, 26, 29

  Drummond, Philo (pseud.), 250

  Duffield, Rev. George, 6

  Dulles, Allen, 254

  Dungeons & Dragons, 206, 216

  Dunsany, Reginald (pseud.), 229

  Dwight, Timothy, 118

  Dye, John Smith, 4–7, 18, 196, 344

  The Adder’s Den, 5–6

  Dylan, Bob, 168

  East Village Other (EVO), 219–22, 241, 220

  Eastwood, Clint, 176

  Eckartshausen, Karl von, 137

  Edmonds, Chris, 203

  Eiger Sanction, The (film), 176

  Eisenhower, Dwight, 75, 77

  Electric Light Orchestra, 203

  11:11ers, 149–50

  Elliott, Mama Cass, 169

  Ellison, James, 209

  Ellsberg, Daniel, 163, 228

  Enemy Above, 16, 201

  corporate puppeteers, 124, 129, 131, 295

  Freemasons, 121–23, 205

  government, 32, 114, 120–21, 123–26, 157–78, 237, 267, 277, 294, 303–7

  in Illuminatus!, 243–44

  and Internet, 276

  Iron Mountain, 229–30

  and 9/11, 300, 303–7, 335

  as octopus, 123–26, 126

  police agencies, 277, 279, 286, 303–6

  and slavery, 126–31

  and social hierarchy, 54, 131

  Enemy Below, 16, 201, 277

  in Illuminatus!, 243–44

  Molly Maguires, 102–3

  racial unrest, 104–8

  slave insurgencies, 83–96, 98–99, 101, 121, 132

  and social hierarchy, 54

  Tramp Scare, 101–2

  zombies, 99, 100

  Enemy Outside, 16, 201

  abolitionists, 95–96, 98, 99, 101

  aliens, 54, 59, 69–71, 77–79, 144–45

  Catholics, 34–35, 56, 61, 62, 88, 91, 92, 103, 205

  characteristics of, 35

  and globalization, 277

  in Illuminatus!, 243–44

  immigrants, 44, 57, 102, 103, 318–19

  Indians, 24–32, 34–40, 267, 270, 272–73

  Jesuits, 56–57

  and race riots, 107–8, 130–31

  terrorists, 45, 334–35

  wartime enemies, 40–44, 268

  Enemy Within, 16, 201

  advertising, 72–73, 77

  body snatchers, 67–69, 78–79, 82

  Brown Scare, 76, 142, 173, 310

  child abu
se, 211–13

  conformist collectives, 71–72

  fascism, 72, 76, 143–44

  fear as, 69

  homosexuals, 79–82

  in Illuminatus!, 243–44

  and mass culture, 72, 76–77, 79, 293–96

  militias, 277–78

  Mormons, 59–67

  Shakers, 55–56, 58–59, 61, 62

  witch hunts, 49–55

  England, see Britain

  Erbe, Bonnie, 308

  Eringer, Robert, 168–69,, 382

  Erisian Liberation Front, 243

  Espionage Act, 44

  E.T. (film), 384

  Excluded Middle, The, 283

  Executive Action (film), 175, 176

  eXistenZ (film), 322

  Exorcist, The (film), 149, 215, 392

  extraterrestrials, see aliens

  Face in the Crowd, A (film), 72–73

  Fagan, Myron Coureval, 200, 201

  Faludi, Susan, Stiffed, 266

  “Fama fraternitas,” 136

  fascism, 72, 76, 136, 143–44

  Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 12, 13, 72, 76, 104, 108, 157–64, 165, 166–67, 210, 213, 216, 239, 270, 315, 347, 410

  Federal Communications Commission (FCC), 14

  Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), 15, 306–7, 317

  Federalists, 112–13, 116, 117, 118, 120–21, 197, 201, 316, 369

  Felt, Mark, 166–67, 381

  Ferguson, Marilyn, The Aquarian Conspiracy, 142

  Fifth Column, 144

  50 Cent, 329–30

  Finkel, Barney, 200

  Finney, Jack, The Body Snatchers, 71, 358

  Firesign Theatre, 255, 401

  First Amendment, 305, 308

  Flatland, 283–84

  Fleming, Ian, 241

  Fletcher, Bob, 280, 284, 286

  Food and Drug Administration (FDA), 129, 236–37

  Ford, Gerald R., 183

  Ford, John, 272

  Fort, Charles, 222–23

  Forteans, 222–27, 234, 420

  Foster, Jodie, 405

  Foster, Vince, 10

  Foul Play (film), 178

  France, suspicion of, 116–17, 120

  Frank, Thomas, 261–62

  Frankenheimer, John, 172–73

  Frankenstein movies, 266, 271

  Franklin, Benjamin, 134, 151

  Freed, Donald, 383

  Freemasonry, 117, 118, 121–23, 137, 151, 186, 205, 275, 290, 329, 331, 356, 371, 389, 420

  French Revolution, 118, 120, 197, 198

  Freud, Sigmund, 336

  Friedan, Betty, The Feminine Mystique, 179–80

  Fritz, Charles, 360

  Fromm, Erich, Escape from Freedom, 76–77

  Frost, Gavin, 195

  Frum, David, 14–15

  Fry, Gladys-Marie, 127, 128

  Frye, Marquette, 105

  funnel theory, 292

  Gabriel’s Rebellion (1800), 93

  Gadsden flag, 304

  Gadsden Militia, Alabama, 290

  Gallant, Sandi, 214

  Gallup polls, 10, 164

  Gadianton robbers, 59-60

  Garrison, Jim, 229, 240, 241, 257–58

  Gasland (film), 304–5

  Gemstone File, 168–69, 381-82

 

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