When is a Conspiracy not a Theory? When it's Watergate!
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Everyone knows something about Watergate, whether it was some guys breaking into someplace, or it's the reason why Nixon resigned, but the whole story can not be expressed better than by the investigators themselves. This type of investigative journalism has no match in the modern era. The press is now a shill of the American Government. The Fourth Arm of the Checks and Balances that maintain a public eye on our public servants no longer act with the tenacity and intelligence that Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward did. As always you can not generalize about a who genre of anything, with people like Jim Tucker, from American Free Press, still searching for the true elite of the World. This book makes you feel like you are running with Carl and Bob through their adventures and conversations obtaining the stories that indicated a cover-up that went all the way to the President of the United States of America. A reporters role was made more significant through the efforts of hard investigating mimicking the intelligence of the FBI. This book is a great spotlight on a brief period of history that has openly tarnished the Office of the Presidency, even though many after Nixon are adding their own coat of Tarnish. Great Book, Great Read.
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This book is investigative reporting at its finest as it details the crime and coverup that brought down the Nixon presidency. Reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein doggedly stay on the trail of leads as they methodically piece together the puzzle that became Watergate. The film version of the same title was also a huge success and Washington Post publisher Ben Bradlee's faith in his reporters was richly rewarded. Actor Richard Poe showcases his talents in the audiobook with a nifty retelling of this landmark incident in American history.
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An excellent and eye-opening book, although the author refers to the disproven and fraudulent Russiagate Conspiracy Theory, which was put forth by yet another network, sometimes called the "Deep State." But to be fair, the book was written before the lie was exposed by such sources as "The Nation" magazine, Veteran Intelligence Professionsals for Sanity, and the Nunes Memo. Let us hope the next edition ameliorates the Russiagate Conspiracy Theory.
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In an age when "Academics" with overwhelming motivation to hide the truth are seeking to make top dollar, historical accuracy can often be compromised for the sake of an acceptable story. "Acceptable History", as some call it, surely makes for a comfortable read if the reader is willing to accept conventional wisdom as fact; yet these stories often offer up a few pieces short of the whole puzzle.
There is irrefutable proof that the Imperial Treasure fleet was real, that it traveled around the Indian and Pacific Oceans, and that it was disassembled around the year 1421. These facts, in combination with what is proof of a Chinese presence in the Americans, lead to several fascinating revelations. This is not revisionist history, as those vested in the status quo would have us believe.  Menzies successfully discredits the claim that Columbus's "discovery" was original.  Menzies's book does everything but follow along with current trends of thinking.  BRAVO! To be sure, Eastern, rather than Western, discovery of the "new world" would have little effect on most things Americans have learned in high school about American history. Questioning, exciting, revealing, challenging!
Menzies tells a great historically accurate story! He was able to convince me of the soundness of his argument!
1697124
The truth of what is portrayed is truthfully stranger than fiction an IS probably more truth than fiction and more truthful than we want to believe. Beware of our so-called democracy.

Jw78749@yahoo.com
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Having lived through Watergate, Iran/Contra, the S&L crashes, and the Whitewater fiasco I must say that I am not the most trusting of elected officials.  Mr. Dean does an excellant job of explaining why this is not a bad thing.  And he does it from the perspective of someone who has lived through it.

The central thessi of the book, that the current administration is worse than the Watergate Era administration, is carfully charted from start to finish.  Dean puts the Bush administration under the Watergate filter and it is all pretty clear.

My only problem with this book is that Mr. Dean seems to pull some punches and throws others wildly.  He avoids overtly critisizing Dick Chenney and his "Shadow Government" but points it out as an impropriety.

This is a must read. . .for everyone.  You cannot get around the facts (Executive order doing curtailing Freedom of Information documents, sandbagging answers, smearing campaign opponents, leaking CIA operatives ID's) that this Administration has some serious problems.
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This is a vote for "The FBI Pyramid" to be re-printed.
At the moment, let's see......ONE original copy available, $1995.00  --  No, I don't think so.  :-)

There is much that we can look for in this book. Besides possible clues about Mr. Felt's motivation for being "Deep Throat" and perhaps even unconscious hints that it was he, we will get a close view of the nature and structure of the FBI and of what he valued about it. I would look particularly for what he said about possible kinds of threats to the authority and functioning of the agency;  it then may not be hard to read between the lines for hints of the threats that Mr. Felt had seen and sensed from the Nixon administration.

But this is all speculation until we get the book ourselves. Please re-print it, and help this postscript of the Watergate story to unfold.
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Conspiracy theory from the get go! Very interesting take on follow the money.
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To me, this book represented everything that's wrong with conspiracy theory. And don't get me wrong, I consider myself pretty open-minded to conspiracy theory. I'm actually a bit of a mini-expert, having read almost all major books on the subject as well as some more obscure volumes, such as this one. Sometimes these little 'underground' conspiracy theory books are just a little wacky, and at first, make you squinch up your face and go "No, get outta here!" but then the more you read, the more they start to make sense. If not true, then definitely feasible. Now, the book at hand. The 'elite' in the author's eyes are the Rothschilds, described as direct descendants of the tribes of Israel. These men -(and women)- are allegedly responsible for all the major wars and conflicts in modern history, extending back to medieval Europe, and beyond... Well, a few chapters into this book, and the constant referrences to this family of Jews whole supposedly control all the world's money and who also largely control global policy, and specifically U.S. foreign policy. Although, in consideration of their

-(alleged)- larger, global schemes to control the world, these assassinations seem downright small potatoes. Anyway, to me, it reminded me of "the Protocols of the Elders of Zion." If you haven't researched this book and read at least a few books on the story of the "Protocols," I'm going to go ahead and say it : "Read More Conspiracy Theory!" The story goes like this -(I'll try to keep it terse <~amazon word, like that?)- The Russian secret police, in Czarist Russia came up with the Protocols to drum up Anti-Semitism and achieved great success toward that goal. "The Protocols" were an outline for world domination, a Jewish secret council that secretly meets to plot to take over the world. This of course is Fascist baloney and to further prove the baloney-osity of the whole ordeal, it was proven to be plagiarised from a book entitled "the Dialogues in Hell Between Montesquieu and Machiavelli" by Maurice Joly, an anti-imperialist work of satire. I'm not saying "The Elitet is a bad book, an I'm definitely not saying there is not some interesting and valid history in there, but on the whole it smacked of thinly-veiled anti-semitism, and I cannot abide Fascism. For more info on the Protocols, I would STRONGLY recommend "the Plot" by comics legend Will Eisner, in which he chronicles the long, interesting history of the false document that refuses to be killed, despite it's obviously insane origins and underlying motives. Oh, and I do think people should read "The Elite Serial Killers" because it is very well written and I always like to read different perspectives, no matter my own personal views.
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The thesis of this intriguing investigation of Watergate is that the break in was actually meant to cover up embarrassing information about John Dean's wife, that Dean and Haig ill served the President because of their own private cover ups (Haig was hiding a spy operation by the Joint Chiefs aimed at the White House) and that Haig was Deep Throat.  The authors provide enough documentation and their scenario makes sufficient sense, that I, for one, am willing to believe that there is a substantial element of truth here.  If nothing else, the reader will look at the Woodward/Bernstein version of Watergate with a much more jaundiced eye and will view Dean with the contempt he so richly deserves.
But, after all is said and done, Richard Nixon was still our worst president ever.  Having decided to get out of Vietnam, he inexcusably dragged the war out for several more years.  Detente with the Russians nearly lost the Cold War for us and his expansion of the Social Welfare State nearly bankrupted us and was a betrayal of Republican principles.  Regardless of his level of personal involvement in the events surrounding Watergate, he created and tolerated an atmosphere of lawless paranoia in the White House, which virtually guaranteed that such incidents would occur.  And the White House tapes reveal a man whose temperament was ill-suited to being the leader of the Western world--his easy anti-Semitism and contempt for virtually everyone had no place in the Oval Office.  That he might have been victimized by disloyal staffers does not excuse his abysmal performance as President, nor his flagrant disregard for the civil liberties of his enemies, supposed or real.
This book is an enjoyably iconoclastic challenge to the received wisdom about Watergate, but even if every word in it is true, none of it matters that much; the coup was a good thing.
GRADE: C+
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In Nixon's Web, by the late L. Patrick Gray III, with Ed Gray (his son), is another memoir by a Watergate Era figure. I hesitate to call Gray (all uses of that name will refer to the elder) a "participant," as he was never convicted of any wrongdoing. Of course, neither was Nixon..

Many of the major figures in Watergate have written memoirs, including G. Gordon Liddy, John Dean, Jeb Magruder, Bob Haldeman, John Erlichman, Maurice Stans, Nixon himself, and quite a few others. And there are plenty of books by journalists, experts, hacks, et al. Gray has come off poorly in most accounts and set out to `set the record straight' (the name of Judge John J. Sirica's book on Watergate).

To summarize, Gray was a successful naval man, actually commanding a submarine. He went to work for Nixon, was on a successful path at the Department of Justice and was selected by the President as acting director of the FBI upon the death of J. Edgar Hoover in 1972. It did not turn out to be the career move that he hoped for.

It's no surprise to find that Gray was viewed as an outsider. Several inside the Bureau hoped to take over: especially Mark Felt. Gray relied heavily upon Felt and refused to believe White House accusations that the career FBI man was actually `Deep Throat,' Woodward and Bernstein's secret informant. In fact, Felt's revelation that he was Deep Throat came only a few weeks before Gray's death from pancreatic cancer. The book offers "proof" that Felt could not have been the source, which is worth looking at, but not conclusive.

I believe that Felt quite likely was providing information to Woodward, and that information that the reporter received from other sources was included under the Deep Throat moniker, in addition to Felt's stuff. Which would address Gray's objection.

Presidential Counsel John Dean gave two files to Gray, in front of John Erlichman in the latter's office. The files were from E. Watergate burglar's E. Howard Hunt's White House office safe and Dean told Gray that they contained national security information, had nothing to do with Watergate and should "never see the light of day." Gray kept them for several months and then burned them. He felt that he had been ordered to do so with the President's tacit approval, via Erlichman's presence.

Gray also provided FBI files on the Watergate investigation to Dean, which he felt obligated to do since the FBI was an executive office. Dean was "the desk manager" for the cover up. Uh oh.

Unlike many of the memoirs I've read, Gray comes across as a man of integrity. Like other Watergate figures, he was used and tossed aside by Nixon. He was under extreme fire during his Senate Confirmation hearings to become permanent FBI director. While being told to his face that the White House supported him, behind the scenes they were stabbing him in the back. Erlichman was speaking of Gray when he said, "Well, I think we ought to let him hang there. Let him twist slowly, slowly in the wind. " In typical Nixon fashion, one of his people would be sacrificed for the White House's own purposes.

Gray was an outsider at the FBI, dealing with the after-effects of Hoover's reign of intimidation. And he was an outsider among Nixon's Palace Guard, sacrificed for self-preservation. Both the Watergate Special Prosecution Force and the Department of Justice investigated Gray, but all charges were dropped and he was exonerated of any wrongdoing. But Gray's legacy is tarnished by the accusations of John Dean and Woodward and Bernstein. He did destroy the Hunt files, which certainly appears nave, if not an obstruction of justice. But I would believe Gray's account of events before that of just about any other Watergate figure.
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When Watergate was actually unfolding in the news, G. Gordon Liddy was a mysterious entity because he would not talk. He was the only one (or at least the most famous) of those involved in the actual conspiracies to remain silent. He gained an exotic fearsomeness because he remained true to his beliefs in the face of overwhelming social and judicial disapproval and was willing to receive more severe punishment rather than bend and tell what he knew (compare Liddy to John Dean since they were both involved in the same plots and you can easily see the difference).  There were also rumors of his behavior from prison that made him out to be a very tough hombre, but I certainly didn't know much about him as a person.
This is his very frank autobiography. He begins by admitting that he was a frail child and takes us through his growing up and his obsession with controlling his own fear. At times this becomes a very strange story. For example, not many of us would feel the need to catch, kill, and eat a rat to prove to ourselves that we were no longer afraid of rats.
When we get to the Watergate stuff it is surprising how open and frank Liddy is especially when you consider how silent he was at the time. The whole of Watergate seems strange from the vantage point of today. I don't want to argue or debate any of the various faiths that have grown up around those events. You almost certainly have your own views and hold them strongly. Liddy certainly does. What is compelling is that this telling is from someone who was deep inside the events even if outside the Oval Office.  John Dean, with whom Liddy worked closely, certainly comes across differently than his media image.
This well written and engaging book ends when Liddy leaves prison after serving longer than anyone else related to Watergate. Liddy has had a very interesting career since then including, and this may be the strangest part, going on a debate tour with Timothy Leary. When Liddy was with the FBI he was involved in a raid on Leary's home which turned up nothing but is described in vivid and humorous terms in the book. Today, Liddy is a successful host of a radio talk show and has another best selling book entitled, "When I Was a Kid, This Was a Free Country".
This book is a worthwhile read on its own merits. When you add the interesting insights you can get about the events and people involved in Watergate, there is even more reason to read it.
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A good read for anyone but especially for this who are "conspiracy theory" minded.  I didn't look to see when the book was written but it could be from recent news stories.  Good plot, good characters and paved well.
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It has been 50 years since the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated. Conspiracy theories have always been conjectured about what really happened. I am not at all surprised to see many books coming out revolving around those conspiracy's. In this one, it was Jackie Kennedy who was murdered in Dallas on that fateful day.

It is 2013 and the world is not what you would call in a happy state--it was a mess!! When two scientists figure out time travel they decide to travel back in time and attempt to stop this heinous crime which caused JFK to effectively put policies into place which were unconscionable. Real names were used throughout this fictional novel--but those people were not in the positions they actually hold or held.

They meet up with 6 other misfits of the times and time travel back to try and change history. Some if not most of their escapades are mad cap, since not one of them truly knows what they are doing. Enter the KGB and J. Edgar Hoover and things really start to get complicated.

Do they make it back to 2013, do they stop the murder of Jackie K and do they ultimately make the world a better place then what it was? Read the book to find out!
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I'm a Freemason, a military veteran, a college graduate, and (I'd like to think) a pretty open-minded guy.  Lately, however, I've had that question floating around in my mind:

"Am I being duped?  Am I really just a sucker being fleeced?"

So, I picked up Mark Dice's 'The Illuminati: Facts & Fiction' to do a little research.

THE PROs:
1. Touches on a broad range of topics (9/11, Bohemian Grove, Masons, etc)...but not so deeply that you get totally bored.
2. Provides sources, albeit some are questionable.  Allowed me to delve further into topics that I wasn't totally sold on by Mr. Dice's explanations.
3. Doesn't spend half the book attacking Christianity or Judaism, or pushing a particular political social agenda.  He is equally critical of all, which lends credence to his attempts to get at the truth behind the veil.

THE CONs:
1. Relies heavily on Alex Jones.  Ok, I like listening to the guy once in a while, but he jumps to conclusions ALOT, and it is hard for me to take him seriously.  Personally, I do not find him (or his network of information gatherers) extremely credible.
2. Attacks on the Freemasons are based on outsider views.  Ok, as I stated above, I am a Freemason for about 12 years now.  I'm a 32nd Degree Scottish Rite Mason, and have been involved in a number of EXCELLENT philanthropic endeavors through this organization.  It is very hard for me to believe that the guys I spend time with are somehow plotting to take over the world (or even currently control it).  I know..."you're not in the upper echelons!!!"  However, I am doing my research to make sure I'm not being totally duped, but unless I see some hard evidence to the contrary, I think the attacks on Freemasonry are unfounded.
3. You show me an expert supporting theory A, I'll show you 10 supporting theory B.  This is the age-old problem for Conspiracy writers (and biblical scholars, and anyone else dealing without solid, empirical evidence)...there's so much out there contesting what is said.  That doesn't make Mr. Dice wrong, it just makes it hard to completely agree.  That's not a mark against his book, however, but about the whole genre of writing.

CONCLUSION

If you are like me, and trying to find out more about what may be going on in the world behind closed doors...and if you feel that maybe...JUST MAYBE....someone is hiding something from the public at large, I'd definitely recommend this book.  If you are an 'old hand' at Conspiracy Theory, this book may be a good refresher for you, or present some interesting talking points for further discussion.

All in all, I'm satisfied with my purchase, and will look into other books by Mr. Dice.
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Took great liberties with fact. Another load of conspiracy theory. I wonder if these people are mentally ill or just blatant racists. Maybe a little of both lots of conjecture and no truth. Let us not forget Goehrmet  told us from Congress the other day " the only way to know the truth was to only listen to Trump"  What adult with a rational mind says something like that.
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I just wonder what was supposed to happen on the United 553 Watergate flight.  It seems clear the US Government has been corrupt for over 50 years.