American Conspiracies - Jesse Ventura [122]
WATERGATE REVISITED
The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixon, by Anthony Summers with Robbyn Swan, Viking, 2000
Secret Agenda: Watergate, Deep Throat and the CIA, by Jim Hougan, Random House, 1984
JONESTOWN AND CIA MIND CONTROL
Was Jonestown a CIA Medical Experiment?: A Review of the Evidence, by Michael Meiers, Studies in American Religion, Vol. 35
The Search for the “Manchurian Candidate”: The CIA and Mind Control, by John Marks, Norton PB, N.Y., 1991
1980 ELECTION
October Surprise, by Barbara Honegger, Tudor Publishing, N.Y. & L.A., 1989 October Surprise: America’s Hostages in Iran and the Election of Ronald Reagan, by Gary Sick, Crown Publishers, 1991
GOVERNMENT AND DRUG DEALING
Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras and the Crack Cocaine Explosion, by Gary Webb, Seven Stories Press, 2003 (second edition)
Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies and the CIA in Central America, by Peter Dale Scott and Jonathan Marshall, University of California Press, 1998
Drugs, Oil and War: The United States in Afghanistan, Colombia, and Indochina, by Peter Dale Scott, Rauman and Littlefield, 2003
Powderburns: Cocaine, Contras and the Drug War, by Celerino Castillo and Dave Harmon, Sundial, 1994
The Big White Lie: The Deep Cover Operation That Exposed the CIA Sabotage of the Drug War: An Undercover Odyssey, by Michael Levine, Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1994
BUSH AND STOLEN ELECTIONS
Loser Take All: Election Fraud and the Subversion of Democracy, 2000-2008, Edited by Mark Crispin Miller, Ig Publishing, Brooklyn, N.Y., 2008 Fooled Again: The Real Case for Electoral Reform, by Mark Crispin Miller, Basic Books, 2007 paperback
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, by Greg Palast, Plume Book, 2003 revised American edition
SEPTEMBER 11
The New Pearl Harbor Revisited: 9/11, the Cover-Up and the Exposé, by David Ray Griffin, Olive Branch Press, Northampton, MA., 2008 9/11 Contradictions: An Open Letter to Congress and the Press, by David Ray Griffin, Olive Branch Press, 2008
The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America, by Peter Dale Scott, University of California Press, 2007 (Includes material related to Continuity of Government plans)
THE WALL STREET CONSPIRACY
The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve, by G. Edward Griffin, American Media Fourth Edition, 2002
Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country, by William Greider, Simon & Schuster, 1989
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, by Naomi Klein, Metropolitan Books, 2007
The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008, by Paul Krugman, Norton, paperback 2009
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World, by Niall Ferguson, Penguin, 2008
THE SECRET PLANS TO END AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces that Put it in the White House, and What Their Influence Means for America, by Russ Baker, Bloomsbury Press, 2009
American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush, by Kevin Phillips, Viking, 2004
Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army, by Jeremy Scahill Nation Books, 2008 revised and updated edition
The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot, by Naomi Wolf, Chelsea Green Publishing, 2007 paperback edition
NOTES
Chapter One
1 Lincoln attending Marble Heart: Lincoln and Booth, by H. Donald Winkler, Cumberland House: Nashville, Tennessee, 2003, p. 38.
2 Plot in Baltimore: Blood on the Moon, by Edward Steers Jr., University Press of Kentucky, 2005 paperback edition, pp. 17-18.
3 Biological warfare plot: Ibid., pp. 47-48.
4 Dahlgren papers: Ibid., p. 45.
5 Booth and Knights: Winkler, p. 44.
6 Early plots: Ibid., pp. 50-53.
7 No more kidnapping: Steers.
8 Booth meeting conspirators: Steers, pp. 110-112; Winkler, p. 99.
9 Drunk customer to Booth: Winkler, p. 102.
10 “highest sources in Washington”: Ibid., p. 95.
11 Booth and assassination: Ibid., pp. 112- 114.
12 Carter, Reagan, and Mudd: Ibid., p. 127.
13 Mudd responsible