1. A B OU TTHEA U T HOR S For five decades, award-winning
writer Brad Steiger has been devoted to exploring and examining
unusual, hid- den, secret, and otherwise strange occurrences. A
for- mer high school teacher and college instructor, Brad published
his first articles on the unexplained in 1956. Since then he has
written more than two thousand arti- cles with paranormal themes.
He is author or coauthor of more than 150 titles, including Real
Ghosts, Restless Spirits, and Haunted Places; The Werewolf Book;
Myster- ies of Time and Space; and Bizarre Crime. Brad is a veteran
of broadcast news magazinesranging from Nightline to the NBC
Nightly News and awide variety of cable programs. He is also a
regularradio guest on Jeff Renses Sightings, The Allan Handelman
Show, Rob McCon-nells X-Zone, and Coast to Coast with George Noory
and Art Bell. Brad has beeninterviewed and featured in numerous
newspapers and magazines, including theNew York Times, Los Angeles
Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and Chicago Tribune. Sherry Hansen
Steiger is an expert on health and healing, spirituality, andthe
paranormal. She has authored or coauthored more than forty books,
includ-ing the best-selling Miracles series. An ordained minister,
Sherry has servedas counselor to troubled youth, the homeless,
migrant workers, and families inneed of crisis intervention. With
her background in nursing and theology, Sherrybegan researching
alternative health issues and mysteries of the unknown inthe 1960s,
and she cofounded the Celebrate Life workshop. In the 1970s she
formed the Butterfly Center for Transformation, a nonprofitholistic
research and education school, and in the 1980s she served as
publicrelations director for astronomer Dr. J. Allen Hynek in the
Phoenix branch of theCenter for UFO Research. Between them, Sherry
and Brad have two sons, three daughters, and sixgrandchildren. They
have lectured nationally and internationally, and togetherhave
appeared on television programs and documentaries on topics as
variedas UFOs, giants, miracles, and supernatural happenings in
Hollywood. Informa-tion on their continuing research can be found
at www.bradandsherry.com.
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6. CONTENTSIntroduction [xi] Acknowledgments [xv]A
..............1AIDS/HIV Airship of 1897 Alchemy AlienAgency
Chalcedon Foundation Christian Identi-ty Church of Satan Church of
the Lamb of God Clinton Body Count COINTELPRO: The FBIsCovert War
against America Contrails and Chem-Abductions Alien Autopsy
Alliance Defense trails William Cooper Father Charles CoughlinFund
Al-Qaeda Alternative 3 American Family Council for National Policy
Creativity MovementAssociation American Nazi Party American Pro-
Crdit Mobilier Crop Circlestective Association American Vision
Anarchists Anthroposophy Antichrist Apocalyptic Millen-nialism Area
51 and Reverse Engineering Arkof the Covenant Army of God Aryan
Nations Asian Tsunami 2004 Atlantis Aum ShinrikyoD. . . . . . . . .
. . . . . 107The Da Vinci Code Dead Sea Scrolls Decided(Supreme
Truth) Ones of Jupiter Deists Department of theUnorthodox Diana,
Princess of Wales DominionB . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
45TheologyB-25 Ghost Bomber Louis Beam Art Bell Bible Code Big
Brother Bilderbergers Osamabin Laden Biochip Implants Black
Helicopters E . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121Ira Einhorn Eisenhower
and the ExtraterrestrialsBlack Madonna Black Sun Bohemian Grove
ELFRon Brown, Murder of Mae Brussell George H.W. Bush George W.
Bush and the Missing WMDsF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129C. . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 77Cathars Cattle Mutilations Central
IntelligenceFace on Mars Falun Gong, the Wheel of Law Federal
Emergency Management Agency Fluori-dation Henry Ford and His Great
Jewish Conspir-C O NS PI R AC I E S AND SECRET SOCIETIES [vii]
7. Contentsacy Vincent Foster: Murder or Suicide? Foun-tain of
the World Free and Accepted Order ofFreemasons M . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . 271 Macumba USS Maine Majestic-12 Malcolm X,
Assassination of The Manchurian Candidate G. . . . . . . . . . . .
. . 147Garduna James A. Garfield, Assassination of Manson Family
Mau Mau Men in Black (MIB) MKSEARCH MK-ULTRA Maria Monk Marilyn
Monroe Montauk Project Moon Mysteries Mothman Death List Mystery
Schools MysticalJim Garrison Germ and Biological Warfare Ghost
Dance Global Warming Gnosticism Societies and Altered States of
ConsciousnessGoths and Neo-Nazis Great Pyramid of Cheops Gun
Control N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313H . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . 171HAARP Hangar 18 Hashshashin Haymarket Nation of Islam
National Socialist Movement Nativism Nazi UFOs New Age Movement New
World Order/One World Government 9/11 Richard M. NixonThe
Conspiracy President Bombing Heavens Gate Hellfire Club Hollow
Noahs ArkEarth Holocaust Revisionists Holy Grail HolyVehm Howard
Hughes Hurricane Katrina Saddam Hussein and the al-Qaeda Connection
Hypnosis, False Memories, and the New WorldOrder O. . . . . . . . .
. . . . . 341 Oklahoma City Bombing Operation Big City Operation
Midnight Climax Operation Paperclip I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
203David IckeThe Reptilian Conspiracy Illuminati Operation
Resurrection Order of the Golden Dawn Order of the Solar
TempleInoculations Free of Charge: Help Depopulate thePlanet
Inquisition of the Middle Ages Inter-netA Tool of the New World
Order P . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353 Patriot Act/Homeland
Security Pearl Harbor and FDR Pentagon Papers Peoples Temple J. . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 217HRH Jack the Ripper Jacobinism Jeff Rense
Philadelphia Experiment William Pierce, The Turn- er Diaries, and
the National Alliance Posse Comi- tatus Project Monarch Project
Silverbug Pro- ject Spellbinder Protocols of the Learned
EldersProgram Jesuits: The Vaticans Chief Assassins of Zion
Psychedelics and the CIA Psychic Spies Jewish Defense League John
Birch Society PsywarK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227John F.
Kennedy, Assassination of John F. R . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
Ralians Ronald Reagan, Attempted Assassina-Kennedy Jr., Death of
Robert F. Kennedy, Assas-tion of Wilhelm Reich Restoration of the
Tensination of Kennedy Death List Martin Luther Commandments RICO
Act Rockefeller FamilysKing Jr., Assassination of Knights Templar
Alien Conspiracy Roman Catholic Churchs Sexu-Know-Nothing Movement
Koch Brothers Ku al Conspiracy of Silence Rosicrucians Roswell,Klux
KlanNew Mexico, UFO Crash Karl Rove Ruby RidgeL . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . 255Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. League of the South S . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . 411 Salem Witchcraft Trials Santera Satanic
CultsJohn Lennon, Assassination of Leopard Men Satellites and
Snooping Richard Mellon ScaifeLiberty Lobby Lightning from the East
Abraham Scientists Suspicious Deaths Scientology Lincoln,
Assassination of LusitaniaShroud of Turin Skinheads Skull and Bones
[viii] C O NS PI R AC I E S AND SECRET SOCIETIES
8. ContentsGeorge Soros Sphinx Spotlight Students fora
Democratic Society Subproject 94V. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
477Vodun/Voudou/Voodoo Vril SocietyT . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
439Temple of Set Nikola Tesla: The Genius and theAliens Theosophy
Thuggee Thule Society Tonkin Gulf Incident Traditional Values
CoalitionW . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483Waco Weather Control and
Manipulation Triads and Tongs Trilateral CommissionWeathermen Paul
Wellstone, Murder of Were-wolves for der Fhrer West Nile Virus
Wicca U. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457Witchcraft WoodpeckerUFO
Cover-ups by the Government UFOResearchers Mysterious Deaths
Unabomber andthe Harvard Drug Experiments Underground UFOBases
Undersea UFO Bases Unit 731 U.S.XYZ. . . 507The X-Files Y2K Francis
Parker Yockey ZionistGovernments Secret Experiments on Its Citizens
Occupation Government Resources to Assist in Conspiracy and Secret
Society Research [515] Index [523]C O NS PI R AC I E S AND SECRET
SOCIETIES [ix]
9. I N T RODUC T IO Nmerica has been a cradle for conspira-of
currency in the United States, is an incom-A cies and secret
societies from its earli-est beginnings. Christopher Columbus
heldplete pyramid with an eye floating in a glowingtriangle where
the capstone should be. Theapocalyptic beliefs and claimed to have
pyramid is the Great Pyramid of Cheops atreceived a vision that the
world would end in Giza, which for the Freemasons is emblemat-1650;
he considered it his divine mission toic of the legend that
Egyptian civilization wasfind a new land that would be the location
of founded by survivors from the lost continentthe new heaven and
new earth promised byof Atlantis. The all-seeing eye represents
theSaint John of the Apocalypse in the book of Great Architect of
the Universe that guidedRevelation. In the 1600s the master Freema-
the founding fathers to establish a nationson Sir Francis Bacon
predicted that Americathat might one day reveal itself as the heir
ofwas the New Atlantis and that it would bringthe fabled mysteries
of Atlantis. Above theforth a New World Order that would restore
alleye is the caption Annuit Coeptis, commonlyhumankind to the
earthly paradise that exist- translated as He has favored our
undertak-ed in the Golden Age of old.ing, and in a scroll beneath
is the slogan By the mid-1700s Freemasonry had estab-Novus Ordo
Seclorum, a new order of thelished its lodges throughout Europe and
had ages, a New World Order.crossed the ocean to the British
colonies in While the Freemasons remain today as aNew England.
George Washington, Benjaminbenign nondenominational fraternity,
manyFranklin, John Hancock, Paul Revere, andclergy members and
conspiracy theoristsmany others of the founding fathers wereinsist
that the organizations secret rites,openly proud of being Masons,
and Washing-passwords, initiations, and handshakes haveton, the
nations first president, donned histheir origins in the Roman
mystery religions,ceremonial Masonic apron to preside over
theEgyptian rituals, and Babylonian paganism.dedication of the U.S.
Capitol.These same critics claim that the Freema- Opposite the
Great Seal of the nation on sons are linked to the Illuminati and
otherthe back of the one-dollar bill, the basic unit secret
societies working to achieve a NewC O NS PI R AC I E S AND SECRET
SOCIETIES [xi]
10. IntroductionWorld Order and a One World Government.risen to
a clamor that easily rivals what fol-Together, conspiracists
insist, these sinister lowed the Kennedy assassination.groups
constitute powerful brotherhoods ofdarkness that have exerted their
influence onA Reassuring Sort of Paranoiaevery aspect of American
society and are Michael Barkun, a political scientist at
Syra-planning to take over the world. cuse University and the
author of A Culture of Petty conspiracies that circulate about
politi- Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporarycal or
business rivals are as old as the human America (2003), has
remarked that conspiracypsyche, Daniel Pipes reminds us in
FrontPage theories are one way to make sense of whatmagazine
(January 13, 2004); but fears about happened and regain a sense of
control. Suchgrand, global conspiracies, that the Illuminati
theories, he explains, are actually reassuringor Jews plan to take
over the world, are only because what they say is that everything
isnine hundred years old and have been opera- connected, nothing
happens by accident, andtional for just two centuries, since the
Frenchthat there is some kind of order in the world,Revolution.
While royal heads were beingeven if it is produced by evil forces.
In Barkunslopped off by Madame Guillotine, some citi-opinion,
conspiracy theories are psychological-zens were blaming the
revolution on the politi-ly consoling to a lot of people.cal
manipulations of the Bavarian IlluminatiThere seems little question
that since theand its hold on the Jacobins.end of the cold war and
the collapse of the Fear of such conspiracies and shadowy Soviet
Union in 1991, the American publicsocieties has made American
history repletehas tended to believe that their governmentwith
warnings of secret plots by the Freema- lies to them. Rick Ross,
whose Ross Institutesons, the Zionists, the Roman Catholics, the of
New Jersey investigates conspiracies, hasCommunists, the World
Bankers, the Secretobserved that more and more Americans
seeGovernment, the New Agers, and the Extra-manipulative forces
working behind theterrestrial Invaders. Charges of conspiracyscenes
of their own government. The enemyhave grown into self-perpetuating
histories of is the United States government, the enemysinister
cabals responsible for the assassina- is within, Ross said to Carol
Morello of thetions of Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield,Washington
Post (October 7, 2004). InsteadJohn F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy,
Martin of projecting theories out [they have] becomeLuther King
Jr., Malcolm X, and Princess Diana internalized.of Wales. Polls
indicate that increasing num- Conspiracy theorists in the United
Statesbers of Americans believe they have not been are quick to
respond that they have manytold the truth about Pearl Harbor, the
Gulf of good reasons to question the governmentsTonkin, the
Oklahoma City bombing, the fires behind-the-scenes dirty dealings.
The FBIsthat consumed the Branch Davidian com- COINTELPRO really
did have orders to defame,pound at Waco, or the destruction on
Septem- disgrace, and dispose of war protesters, radi-ber 11,
2001.cal political groups, and freedom marchers by The years
following 9/11 have seen what any means necessary. The CIAs
insidious,Mike Ward, writing in PopMatters (January 3, top-secret
MK-ULTRA really did conduct ghast-2003), termed probably the most
staggeringly brainwashing and mind-altering drug
experi-proliferation of conspiracy theories in Ameri- ments that
may have produced the perfectcan history. Angry speculationfocused
mainlyassassins, as well as the Unabomber.on government dirty
dealings, ulterior motives,For at least fifty years the Department
ofand potential complicity in the attackshasDefense has used
hundreds of thousands of[xii]C O NS PI R AC I E S AND SECRET
SOCIETIES
11. Introductionmilitary personnel and private citizens in
brain functioning and such phenomena asexperiments with mustard and
nerve gas, ion- atmospheric electromagnetic activity, air ion-izing
radiation, and hallucinogenic drugs. ization, and extremely low
frequency waves.Although there were individuals who volun-teered
for some of these experiments, the two Kernels of Truthhundred
black men who were diagnosed withSometimes, it seems, the paranoid
aresyphilis in the 1932 Tuskegee Study were onto something. When
such conspiracies asnever told of their illness and were used as
those just cited prove to be real, the asser-human guinea pigs in
order to better under- tion that there is a kernel of truth in even
thestand the symptoms of the disease. None of most far-fetched
conspiracy theory appearsthe men received any kind of treatment,
and also to be true. Conspiracies are oftenmore than half of them
died as a result. replete with internal paradoxes, and some In
1950, when nuclear weapons were stillare easily dismissed by
rational folks as com-in their infancy, the Department of
Defensepletely weird and crazy. Often the truth lies indetonated
nuclear devices in desert areas, the middle, and the task of the
seriousthen monitored unsuspecting civilians in researcher is to
make an intelligent discern-cities downwind from the blasts for
medicalment. To dismiss some conspiracy theoriesproblems and
mortality rates.as too wild to deserve attention may result in the
last laugh being enjoyed by those who In 1966 more than a million
civilians were seek to control and to manipulate others.exposed to
germ warfare when U.S. Army sci-entists dropped light bulbs filled
with bacteriaMichael Barkun has identified three prin-onto
ventilation grates throughout the New ciples he believes can be
found in every con-York City subway system. spiracy theory: Nothing
happens by accident. Nothing is as it seems. Everything is connect-
In 1977 U.S. Senate hearings revealed ed. The essence of conspiracy
beliefs, Barkunthat between 1949 and 1969, at least 239 says, lies
in attempts to delineate andhighly populated areas, including San
Francis- explain evil. He also states that contempo-co, Washington,
D.C., Minneapolis, St. Louis,rary conspiracy theories have taken on
aKey West, and Panama City, Florida, had been major new
development, often conjoining thecontaminated with biological
agents. occult, the heretical, and the unfashionable In 1995
evidence surfaced that the biologi- for example, in a combined
belief in spiritual-cal agents used during the Gulf War had been
ism, alchemy, and Theosophy.manufactured in Houston and Boca
RatonOn this point, we disagree. In our researchand tested on
prisoners in the Texas Depart- we have found that for centuries the
schools ofment of Corrections. hidden wisdom have coexisted with
rationalIn the August 26, 2005, issue of Executive and
materialistic progress in the WesternIntelligence Review, Jeffrey
Steinberg discuss-world. While science and technology havees a
document coauthored by Col. Paul E. Val-advanced in the European
and American cul-lely, commander of the Seventh Psychological
tures, there have always been conspiracy theo-Operations Group,
U.S. Army Reserve, en- ries that maintained a belief in
demonology,titled From PSYOP to MindWar: The Psycholo- forbidden
secrets, and a global plot by a satan-gy of Victory, and details
the occult and para- ic secret society to obtain world
domination.normal activities of Pentagon researchers Norio
Hayakawa, director of the Civilianregarding weapons that directly
attack theIntelligence Network, has defined conspiratol-targeted
populations nervous system and ogy as a comprehensive study of the
origins,C O NS PI R AC I E S AND SECRET SOCIETIES [xiii]
12. Introductionthe role, and the effects of conspiracy theo-
of the unusual and the unknown, we have triedries on society, in
order to determine why our best to approach this work on
conspiracyconspiracy theories are so deeply ingrainedtheories and
secret societies without any per-in the psyche of a segment of
human soci- sonal agendas. We do not subscribe to anyety. With the
advent of the Internet, anyone particular conspiracy theory, and we
do notcan become a conspiracy theorist and broad- belong to any
secret society.cast his or her unchecked, unquestioned,
andunchallenged claims of government corrup- For many years now, we
have studied andtion, racist propaganda, or alien reptilian
evaluated the enormous influence of conspira-abduction all over the
world. On Google cy theories on society and how peoples
beliefsalone, there are 222,000 Web sites devotedcan be manipulated
for good or for evil by theto conspiracy theories and 2,250,000
dedi-promulgation of certain ideas, theories, andcated to secret
societies. Sharing storiesbelief concepts. In conventional works of
histo-about conspiracies and secret societies isry, many historians
wish to leave a record ofvery much like spreading sinister gossip,
and how noble, wise, and compassionate ourone needs to develop a
sense of what is truespecies has become in its social, moral,
andand what is merely a reflection of someonepolitical evolution.
We present in this bookelses personal prejudices and beliefs. more
than 200 entries and nearly 100 pho-tographs and illustrations,
plus a list ofresources for further investigation and a com- No
Hidden Agenda Hereprehensive index for obsessive cross-checking:
Readers of our previous books will knowa dossier of the more
shadowy visages ofthat we believe in a Divine Plan, good
eventu-human history, the images that appear in theally triumphing
over evil, and the power of dark mirrors that reflect portraits of
chaos, con-everyone to be able to exercise his or her per- fusion,
and deceit. It remains for the readers tosonal responsibility to
resist the demons ofjudge which images of humankind are the
moreavarice and self-aggrandizement that inspireaccurateand it is
up to the readers to work topeople attracted to secret societies to
seek to build a future that more accurately reflects whatmanipulate
and exploit others. As researchers they hope humankind may
become.[xiv] C O NS PI R AC I E S AND SECRET SOCIETIES
13. A C K NOW L E D G M E N T S e wish to acknowledge the many
indi-evening news and who warn of groups plottingWviduals from a
greatly diverse cross-section of physicists, conspiracy
researchers, to steal tomorrow from future generations.journalists,
private investigators, clergyper-We wish to thank our always
supportivesons, psychologists, psychiatrists, medicalagent Agnes
Birnbaum, along with Marty Con-doctors, intelligence officers,
former special nors and Roger Jnecke of Visible Ink Press,ops
agents, military officers, sociologists, who urged us to do a book
on conspiraciespolice officers, professors, and writers who and
secret societies. We thank Roger Matuz,have joined us in our
paranoia night discus- who helped us develop an outline and
foundsions over the past thirty years. We also rec- some great
photos for the book; our editorognize our debt to those
conspiracyChrista Gainor, who was always a reassuringresearchers
who have contacted us through e- presence, quick to give counsel,
advice, andmails and letters and to those who havecomfort; our copy
editor, Gerry Anders, who,attended our lectures and workshops
andwith keen intellect and a great sense ofexpressed their theories
to us in person.humor, stood by us through the long hours ofThese
earnest and sincere researchers have tweaking a very large
manuscript; Anneshared evidence of conspiracies and shadow Janette
Johnson, who compiled the index;groups that have co-existed with
Establish-Robert Huffman, photo digitizer; and typeset-ment
government, religion, and social struc- ter Marco Di Vita of the
Graphix Group. Wetures since the days of ancient Egyptor asalso
extend our gratitude to marketing direc-some say, Atlantisand have
continued theirtor Mary Beth Perrot, who was always there tomission
of chaos, confusion, and deceit today. cheer us on, and to art
editor Mary ClaireAnd then there are the researchers who
haveKrzewinski for creating a highly readabletold us of
conspiracies as current as thedesign for the text and an
eye-catching cover.C O NS PI R AC I E S AND SECRET SOCIETIES
[xv]
14. Asome laboratory in the West for the purposeAIDS/HIVof mass
extermination. While one mightexpect such a response of the State
Depart-Conspiracy theorists argue that AIDS did notment, conspiracy
theorists are quick tocome out of Africa, but out of secret govern-
remind us that one of the prime objectives ofment laboratories that
created this and other the New World Order and its agents who
workterrible weapons of biological warfare. in the shadows behind
every government onthe planet is to decrease dramatically the he
Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai, theTfirst African woman to win
the NobelPeace Prize, took full advantage of the inter-earths
population. Credit for the discovery of the AIDS viruswas settled
by lawsuit in 1987 after Dr. Robertnational attention she received
to state herGallo of the National Cancer Institute and Lucclaim
that the AIDS virus was a deliberatelyMontagnier of the Pasteur
Institute in Pariscreated biological agent to be used in
warfare.both claimed to have isolated the virus some-She disputed
the theory that AIDSacquiredtime in 1984. The codiscoverers of the
virusimmunodeficiency syndromehad come fromhave never agreed about
the origin of HIV ormonkeys, pointing out that Africans have
beenthe birthplace of AIDS. Montagnier believedliving around
monkeys since time immemorial.that the origin of the virus remains
a mysteryBut, she added, there was no disputing theand that it was
important to distinguishsomber fact that 25 million out of the 38
mil-between its origins and the AIDS epidemic.lion infected with
AIDS across the world areGallo, the more influential of the two
scientists,Africans, and the great majority of infectedinsisted
that the virus could have stemmedAfricans are women.from a common
viral ancestor found in animals The U.S. State Department
congratulatedand that it was passed to humans by monkeys.Maathai on
winning the Peace Prize but dis- Gallo claimed that Ann Giudici
Fettner, a free-agreed with her claims that the human lance
journalist who had lived in Africa, told himimmunodeficiency virus
(HIV) believed toin 1983, a year before he discovered the
virus,cause AIDS was invented as a bioweapon in that AIDS came from
green monkeys in centralC O NS PI R AC I E S AND SECRET SOCIETIES
[1]
15. AIDS/HIV green monkey or chimp or goat explanation for the
origin of AIDS. In 1979 the first gay men began to come down with
immunodefi- ciency disease. For the first year of the epi- demic,
the victims were all young, predomi- nantly white, previously in
good health, well educated, promiscuousand they all lived in
Manhattan. By 1980 gay men in San Francis- co, Los Angeles, Denver,
St. Louis, and Chica- go had developed the disease. An official
AIDS epidemic was declared in June 1981. AIDS was unknown in Africa
before this time, and the epidemic did not begin there until late
in 1982. In 1984 Gallo discovered the green monkeys in Africa that
had been incubating the disease for centuries before the epidemic,
and he became world-famous for his work. But now a problem of
timing raises its puz- zling head. If the first recorded cases of
AIDS were reported to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in
1979, are we to believe that all those gay men in Manhattan who
contract- ed the illness had recently traveled to Africa and been
bitten by green monkeys? Or could there be a correlation between
government- sponsored hepatitis B experiments thatWangari Maathai
at a Live 8 event in Edinburgh,began with gay men in Manhattan in
NewScotland, in July 2005. The famed Kenyan ecologist York City in
1978, the year before the out-and 2004 Nobel Peace Prize recipient
contends thebreak of the HIV epidemic in 1979? Interest-AIDS virus
was a deliberately created biological ingly, similar hepatitis B
experiments wereagent to be used in warfare. Photograph by MJ Kim.
sponsored by the government in San Francis-Getty Images. co, Los
Angeles, Denver, St. Louis, and Chica- go in 1980. Word was that
the experimentalAfrica. However, in her book The Truth about
vaccine injected into all those gay men hadAIDS, Fettner never
refers to green monkeysbeen developed in chimpanzees.and emphasizes
her opinion that AIDS beganEarly in the 1970s rumors had begun
cir-as an American disease. In spite of the paucity culating about
secret government research inof scientific papers to substantiate
Gallos biowarfare and about scientists who weregreen monkey theory,
the explanation remained conducting experiments in
species-jumping,a favorite of the media and the public and circu-
mixing viruses and seeding them into animallated widely until the
late 1990s when another and human cell cultures. In 1971
Presidentgroup of American scientists claimed that they Richard
Nixon combined the U.S. Armyshad discovered the origin of the virus
in a biowarfare department at Fort Detrick, Mary-species of
chimpanzee. land, with the National Cancer Institute.A large number
of conspiracy theorists Although the combination was explained
tohave never bought the out of Africa andthe public as part of the
presidents War on[2]C O NS PI R AC I E S AND SECRET SOCIETIES
16. AIDS/HIVCancer, the program also united the armystute, who
in the early 1950s used aDNA and genetic engineering programs
withhastily brewed chimpanzee kidney cultureanticancer research and
molecular biologyto concoct a million doses of oral
vaccineprojects. In addition, cancer research pro-for a mass
experimental polio vaccina-grams conducted by private companies
weretion program in the Belgian Congo.blended into anticancer
research projects of Koprowskis urgency and haste in con-the CIA,
the CDC, and the World Health Orga- ducting the mass vaccination
was fos-nization. As research progressed, dozens oftered by the
pharmaceutical companysnew laboratory hybrids, recombinant
andputting pressure on him to beat Dr. Salkmutant viruses, were
engineered, and a few and Dr. Sabin to the market with the
firstscientists with social consciences began tocommercially
available polio vaccine.warn others that some of the newly designed
The World Health Organization, con-viruses could be extremely
dangerous if trolled by the New World Order, createdreleased from
the laboratory. Because of the the AIDS epidemic by deliberately
admin-efforts of a few whistle-blowers, word got out istering
contaminated vaccines to peo-that government scientists had
achieved a ple in third-world countries in the 1970s.synthetic
biological agent that did not exist Africa was targeted first, in a
smallpoxnaturally and for which no natural immunity eradication
program, so that a link couldcould be acquired. be subsequently
made that AIDS had Knowledge of what had been achieved originated
in Africa.spread rapidly to other government Sometime around 1977,
U.S. militaryresearchers throughout the world. In 1973 scientists
bioengineered HIV at Fort Det-the Danish pathologist Johannes
Clemmesen rick by splicing the Visna and HTLV virus-warned that the
transmissibility of such es. It was tested on prison inmates
whogenetically altered viral agents could cause a volunteered to be
injected with the virusworld epidemic of cancer if they ever left
the in exchange for an early release. Fromconfines of the
laboratory. Then, in 1979, his these released prisoners, the
virusdire prophecy began to come to pass with the spread to a wider
segment of the popu-outbreak of AIDS in Manhattan among the lation,
especially to the gay community.gay population. The Soviet KGB
created the viruses, Although most individuals are content with
then planted disinformation that the CIARobert Gallos explanation
that the AIDS epi- was behind the spread of the disease.demic is
the result of a primate virus jumpingspecies, conspiracy theorists
have developed AIDS was the product of biowarfarea number of their
own explanations for research conducted by the U.S.
govern-AIDS/HIV. Here are some of the most persis-ment for the
express purpose of elimi-tent theories: nating excess population
among blacks, homosexuals, and other social groups. Edward Hooper,
author of The River: A Journey to the Source of HIV-AIDS, Dr. Alan
Cantwell (AIDS and the Doctors advances the theory that HIV
evolvedof Death: An Inquiry into the Origin of the from SIV (simian
immunodeficiency AIDS Epidemic and Queer Blood: The virus), found
in the chimpanzee. Hooper Secret AIDS Genocide Plot) believes HIV
outlines a scenario that has as its villain is a genetically
modified virus that was Dr. Hilary Koprowski, a virologist
workingintroduced by U.S. government scien- for Philadelphias
Wistar Research Insti- tists into the gay and bisexual popula-C O
NS PI R AC I E S AND SECRET SOCIETIES [3]
17. Airship of 1897tion under the guise of hepatitis B
exper-Guyatt, David. Did the Pentagon Manufacture AIDS asiments
between 1978 and 1981 in Man- a Biological Weapon?
http://www.deepblacklies. co.uk/pentagon_aids.htm.hattan, Los
Angeles, St. Louis, Denver,Hooper, Edward. The River: A Journey to
the Source ofand Chicago. HIV-AIDS. Boston: Little, Brown, 1999.
Dr. Gary Glum (Full Disclosure) claims Nobel Peace Laureate Claims
HIV Deliberately Creat- he received top-secret intelligence thated.
ABC News, October 9, 2004. http://www.abc. the AIDS virus was
created at Coldnet.au/news/newsitems/200410/9/216687.htm. Spring
Harbor Laboratory in Cold Spring Harbor, New York. The World Health
Organization and the Red Cross are AIRSHIP OF 1897 complicit in the
conspiracy to spread AIDS, which was released in 1978 asIn 1897,
years before any known terrestrial part of the overall
population-control agency had accomplished heavier-than-air flight,
plan of the Illuminati and the New World members of a secret
society in contact with Order. Glum warns that the virus is
farextraterrestrials piloted a large airship, often more easily
transmitted than medical described as resembling a cone-shaped
steam- reports have stated and can be spreadboat, across the United
States and later through kissing, mosquito bites, and throughout
the world. casual contact. Dr. Glum also maintains that Upjohn
Pharmaceuticals has a n 1897 the world was poised confidently on
number of medical cures for AIDS, but distribution of the
substances has beenIthe brink of the twentieth century. In 1893Karl
Benz and Henry Ford had built their first suppressed by the
government.four-wheeled automobiles. In 1895 Auguste Louis
Farrakhans Nation of Islam andand Louis Lumire had invented the
cine- the New Black Panther Party have matograph, Guglielmo Marconi
had invented accused Jewish doctors of creating AIDSradio
telegraphy, and Konstantin Tsiolkovsky as a means of destroying
black peoplehad formulated the principle of rocket reac- throughout
the world.tion propulsion. Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz (Emerging
Virus-The Royal Automobile Club was founded in es: AIDS and
EbolaNature, Accident, orLondon in 1897, and cars on the ground
were Intentional? and Death in the Air: Global- going faster every
year. But there were no ism, Terrorism, and Toxic Warfare) theo-
heavier-than-air vehicles racing across the rizes that such U.S.
government defenseskiesand a good number of brilliant scien-
contractors as Litton Bionetics engi-tists declared that it was
aerodynamically neered AIDS to target Jews, blacks, andimpossible
to build such flying machines. Hispanics as the first to be
eliminated inAnd yet, on April 7, 1897, citizens of Wes- a massive
population-control program.ley, Iowa, sighted a cone-shaped airship
withbrightly illuminated windows in its side. TheSources witnesses
were unable to determine how itAIDS Conspiracy Theories. Wikipedia.
http://en. was propelled or what sustained it in the air.
wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS_conspiracy_theories. On April 15 the
airship landed two milesCantwell, Alan. AIDS and the Doctors of
Death: An Inquiry into the Origin of the AIDS Epidemic. Losnorth of
Springfield, Illinois. The crafts occu- Angeles: Aries Rising
Press, 1992. pants explained that they had landed toGlum, Gary.
Full Disclosure: The Truth about the AIDS repair their electrical
apparatus and search- Epidemic. Los Angeles: Silent Walker,
1994.light equipment.[4] C O NS PI R AC I E S AND SECRET
SOCIETIES
18. Airship of 1897 On April 17 the airship returned to Iowa
andels had such a restricted flying range thatset down outside of
Waterloo. One of the occu- great difficulties were encountered in
makingpants brandished a rifle to keep the curious sev-successful
flights from Germany to England.eral hundred yards from the
machine. Journal-In 1903 Orville and Wilbur Wright accom-ists
described the airship as being about fortyplished the first flight
with a heavier-than-airfeet long and constructed like a giant
cigar, with vehicle with a craft that managed to stay aloftwinglike
attachments on the sides and a steer- for twelve seconds and travel
120 feet. But ining apparatus in the rear. The machine was sur-1897
no terrestrial agency had constructedmounted by a cupola on its
roof. an aerial vehicle that could traverse the globe During April
21 and 22 the airship barn-with the speed and ease of the airship
pilotedstormed Arkansas and Texas. In Harrisburg, by the mysterious
inventors from Iowa or St.Arkansas, it awakened a former senator
after Louis. Because of this fact, many researchersmidnight.
Members of the flight crew believe that the builders of the 1897
airshipinformed him that the builder of the craft was belonged to a
secret society, perhaps onea brilliant inventor from St. Louis who
hadthat had been in touch with extraterrestrialdiscovered the
secret of suspending the laws intelligencesor their records and
artifactsof gravity. Nineteen years had been invested for thousands
of years.in building the airship, but because it was not Numerous
European occult groups havequite perfected, the crew preferred to
travelbeen molded around the belief that a secretat night. Once
they had accomplished a suc-society centuries ago achieved a high
level ofcessful voyage to the planet Mars, they wouldscientific
knowledge and has carefully guard-put the airship on public
exhibition.ed this dangerous learning from the rest of humanity
ever since. A common theme is On April 24 a prominent Texas farmer
was that certain men of genius in ancient Egyptawakened at midnight
by a strange whirring and Persia were given access to the
recordssound and the brilliant lights of what he of the advanced
technologies of the antedilu-assumed were angels in a celestial
vehicle. vian world. Many hundreds of years ago,The visitors
informed him that they came not these ancient masters learned to
duplicatefrom heaven, but from a small town in Iowa, many of the
feats of the Titans of Atlantiswhere five such airships had been
construct- and attracted the attention of extraterrestri-ed. The
craft were built of a newly discovered als who had been monitoring
Earth for signsmaterial that had the property of self-suste- of
advanced intelligence.nance in the air. The motive power was
ahighly condensed electricity. The decision to form a society
within a society may have reflected the members Throughout the
following weeks, landing highly developed moral sense and theirand
contact reports came from areas allrecognition of the awesome
responsibilityacross the United States. During the summerthat
possessing this ancient knowledgemonths of 1897, sightings were
reported from placed upon them. They may have decided toother parts
of the world as well. In July andkeep their own counsel until the
rest of theAugust mysterious aerial objects were seen world became
enlightened enough to dealover Sweden and Norway. On August 13
whatwisely with such a high degree of technicalappeared to be the
same aerial craft was accomplishment. Yet now and then thesighted
off the coast of Norway and over Van-secret society may conclude
that the time iscouver, British Columbia, on the same day.
propitious to make one of its discoveriesIn 1898 Count von Zeppelin
announced his known to the outside world. Such interven-achievement
of a dirigible, but the early mod- tion in the affairs of the great
mass ofC O NS PI R AC I E S AND SECRET SOCIETIES [5]
19. Alchemyhumanity is usually accomplished by
carefullySourcesfeeding certain fragments of research to Sachs,
Margaret. The UFO Encyclopedia. New York:outside scientists whose
work and attitudePerigee, 1980.have been adjudged particularly
deserving. Story, Ronald D., ed. The Encyclopedia of
Extraterrestri-al Encounters. New York: New American Library, On
the other hand, the secret societys2001.members may feel little or
no responsibility ofUFOs: The Great Airship of 1897.
http://ufos.about.any kind to those outside the group. They may
com/library/weekly/aa052797.htm.be merely biding their time until
they turnmost of humanity into their slaves. For hun-dreds of
years, certain scholars have worriedabout global conspiracies being
conducted byALCHEMYsecret societies waiting until the right moment
Some medieval alchemists summoned demonsto achieve complete world
domination. to assist them in their discoveries. Others mayThe
mysterious airship disappeared fromhave been contacted by
extraterrestrials. Thethe skies for twelve years. On March 24,
ancient demonic knowledge or alien science is1909, a police
constable in Peterborough,passed on by certain secret societies
today.England, reported having heard a sound simi-lar to a motorcar
overhead. Looking up, hehe essence of medieval alchemy lay
inspotted an airship shining a powerful light andtraveling as fast
as an express train. By July Tthe belief that certain incantations
and rituals could persuade or command angelicthe strange aerial
machine was sighted in thebeings to change base metals into
preciousskies over New Zealand, and it remainedones. The seven
principal angels whose favorthere for six weeks before it returned
to thethe alchemist sought were Michael, who sup-United States.
There was one reported over-posedly could transmute base metals
intoflight in the New England area in August, then gold and
dissolve any enmity directed towardthe airship disappeared until
the night of the alchemist; Gabriel, who fashioned silverDecember
12, when residents of Long Island and foresaw the future; Samuel,
who protect-heard a buzzing sound, resembling the rattle ed against
physical harm; and Raphael,and hum of a high-speed motor, coming
from Sachiel, Ansel, and Cassiel, who could createthe starlit skies
above them.various gems and guard the alchemist from The last
reported airship sighting came attack by negative entities.from
Memphis, Tennessee, on January 20, Members of the clergy were
skeptical that1910. A number of witnesses saw a craft fly- the
alchemists were truly calling upon angels,ing very high in the air
and at a high rate of rather than demons in disguise, and
theyspeed. It crossed the Mississippi River into recalled the words
of the church father Tertul-Arkansas, veered slightly to the south,
andlian (c. 160240), who confirmed earlierdisappeared. beliefs that
the sons of God referred to inPerhaps the secret society no longer
felt that Genesis were evil corrupters who bequeathedit was
necessary to inspire the outsiders to their wisdom to mortals with
the sole inten-pursue the science of aeronautics, for by 1910 tion
of seducing them to mundane pleasures.the first woman pilot had
obtained her license, Some students of the history of alchemyand
there had already been an international avi- have stated that
crumbling, yellowedation competition held in Rheims, France,
arecords of the alchemists remain in dustyflight from the deck of a
seagoing cruiser, and alibrariesmore than 100,000 ancient
vol-takeoff from water by a floatplane.umes written in a code that
has never been[6]C O NS PI R AC I E S AND SECRET SOCIETIES
20. AlchemyDepiction of an alchemist, c. 1660. Engraving by W.
Baillie after a painting by David Teniers the Younger. Hul-ton
Archive/Getty Images.sufficiently deciphered. Evidence
disinterredOn December 27, 1666, when Johannfrom the alchemists
libraries in Europe sug- Friedrich Schweitzer, called Helvetius,
wasgests that certain medieval and Renais- working in his study at
The Hague, a strangersance practitioners conducted experiments
attired all in black appeared and informedwith photography, radio
transmission, him that he would remove all Helvetiusphonography,
and aerial flight, as well as thedoubts about the existence of the
legendaryendless quest to transmute base metalsphilosophers stone
that could serve as theinto gold. If individuals of exceptional
intel- catalyst to change base metals into gold.lect, power, and
wealth actually did achieveThe stranger immediately drew from hisa
high degree of technical accomplishment pocket a small ivory box
containing threeseveral centuries ago, perhaps alien life pieces of
metal of the color of brimstoneforms established an alliance with
some ofand, for their size, extremely heavy. The manthem, deeming
them worthy of receiving theproclaimed that with those three bits
ofbenefits of extraterrestrial superscience.metal, he could make as
much as twentyPerhaps we have early instances in whichtons of
gold.the mysterious Men in Black (MIB) visited aHelvetius examined
the pieces of metal,select number of Earth scientists.taking
opportunity of a moments distractionC O NS PI R AC I E S AND SECRET
SOCIETIES [7]
21. Alchemyto scrape off a small portion with his
thumb-Principal among these secret societies,nail. Returning the
metal to his mysterious and the group most often named as the
con-visitor, he asked that he perform the process duit for alien
control of world governments, isof transmutation before him. The
stranger the Illuminati, founded in 1776 by a Germananswered firmly
that he was not allowed tolaw professor named Adam Weishaupt.
Per-do so. It was enough that he had verified the sistent
researchers claim to have traced theexistence of the metal to
Helvetius. It was history of the Illuminati back to the ancienthis
purpose only to offer encouragement toTemple of Wisdom in
Cairo.alchemical experiments. Albertus Magnus (c. 11931280),
bishopAfter the mans departure, Helvetius pro- of Ratisbon, is said
to have been anothercured a crucible and a portion of lead into
alchemist who achieved the transmutation ofwhich, when the metal
was in a molten state, he base metals into gold by means of
thethrew the stolen grain he had secretly scrapedphilosophers
stone. Magnus is also creditedfrom the strangers stone. The
alchemist waswith other extraordinary accomplishments,disappointed
when the grain evaporated andincluding the invention of the pistol
and theleft the lead in its original state.cannon. In addition, he
reportedly was able to Some weeks later, when he had almost
for-exert control over atmospheric conditions,gotten the incident,
Helvetius received anoth-once even transforming a cold winters
dayer visit from the stranger. This time the man into a pleasant
summers afternoon so hein black transmuted several ounces of
leadand his guests could dine comfortably out-into gold. Then he
permitted Helvetius to side. Tradition has it that Magnusrepeat the
process by himself, and thebequeathed the philosophers stone to
hisalchemist converted six ounces of lead into distinguished pupil
Saint Thomas Aquinas;very pure gold. but once the devout Aquinas
had it in hispossession, he destroyed it, fearful that the Later
Helvetius demonstrated the power ofaccusations of Magnus having
communedthe philosophers stone in the presence of thewith Satan
might be true.Duke of Orange and many other prestigiouswitnesses.
After repeated demands for such Many other alchemists, although
never wit-incredible demonstrations, Helvetius exhaust- nessing the
legendary philosophers stone,ed the small supply of catalytic
pieces that he achieved discoveries of lasting value tohad received
from the mysterious visitor. humanity. Ramon Llull (12351315)
wasSearch as he might, he could not find the man credited with the
discovery in about 1275 ofin all of north Holland or learn his
namenor ethoxythane (ether); Paracelsusdid the stranger ever again
visit him.(14931541) was the first to describe zincand various
chemical compounds to medi- An increasing number of UFO
investigatorscine; Blaise de Vigenre (152396) discov-firmly believe
that certain secret societiesered benzoic acid. Discoveries
increased dur-behind our terrestrial power structures haveing the
Renaissance, when such men asbeen communicating with alien
intelligenceBasil Valentine (fifteenth century) discoveredand
receiving guidance from them. Some the-sulphuric acid and Johann
Friedrich Boettich-orists go so far as to declare that every
majorer (16821719) became the first Europeanimprovement in our
culture, our science, ourto produce porcelain.technologyliterally
every major turnhumankind has taken throughout historyIf an ancient
secret society of alchemistsresulted from this behind-the-scenes
alienand alien superscientists developed a tech-manipulation.
nology that they have managed to keep hid-[8] C O NS PI R AC I E S
AND SECRET SOCIETIES
22. Alien Abductionsden from outsiders, the matter in perpetual
ined, and probed by aliens from anotherdebate is whether the Secret
Ones are world. On September 19, 1961, Betty, abenevolently guiding
us to a time when they social worker and supervisor of the Newcan
share their accomplishments more open-Hampshire Welfare Department,
and Barney,ly or are merely awaiting the appropriate a mail carrier
who was on the governor ofmoment to conquer the entire world. New
Hampshires Civil Rights Commission,were returning to their home in
New Hamp-Sources shire from a short Canadian vacation whenCaron,
M., and S. Hutin. The Alchemists. Trans. Helen they noticed a
bright object in the night sky R. Lane. New York: Grove Press,
1961.and stopped to investigate with a pair ofCavendish, Richard.
The Black Arts. New York: Capri-binoculars. Barney perceived what
appeared corn, 1968.to be windowsand strange beings lookingKelly,
Edward. The Stone of the Philosophers.back at him. The Hills got
back in their car Edmonds, WA: Holmes, 1990.and began to race down
the road. SuddenlySeligmann, Kurt. The History of Magic. New York:
Meridian, 1960.unable to control their movements, they weretaken
from the car and, in a trancelike condi-tion, led to the UFO by
humanoids. The Hills recalled the sensational details ALIEN
ABDUCTIONS of their story only under hypnosis, for thecouple had a
complete loss of memory con-Millions of men and women are being
abductedcerning the nearly two hours during whichby
extraterrestrials and forced to endure med-they were the chosen
guests of the UFO-ical examinations aboard spaceships in
ordernauts. When the Hills began weekly hypnosisto determine their
eligibility for alien-humansessions with Benjamin Simon, a Boston
psy-crossbreeding experiments. Preparatory to achiatrist, an
astonishing pastiche of bizarreglobal invasion of Earth, aliens are
creatingphysical and mental examinations washybrids to serve as a
fifth column within therevealed. Both told of being examined
byhuman population.aliens in much the same manner as
humanscientists might treat laboratory animals. stimates presented
at a conference heldEat the Massachusetts Institute of Tech-nology
in June 1982 suggested that fromAlthough they had been given
hypnotic sug-gestions that they would forget their experi-ence,
their induced amnesia had apparentlyseveral hundred thousand to
more than threeruptured in rehypnosis.million adults in the United
States alone havehad abduction experiences with UFO entities.Under
hypnosis in 1964 Betty, with little orno understanding of
astronomy, drew her David Webb, an Arlington, Massachusetts,
impressions of a star map that she had seena solar physicist and
cochairman of the Mutu- aboard the alien spaceship. The map wasal
UFO Network, has stated that space aliensinterpreted by Marjorie
Fish, an amateurhave abducted one out of every eight people
astronomer, member of Mensa, and Ohiowho have reported seeing UFOs.
In manyschoolteacher. Bettys map showed the loca-cases, Webb said,
the victims undergo sometion of two stars called Zeta 1 and Zeta
2kind of examination, but they usually remem-Reticuli, allegedly
the home base of theber nothing of the on-board experience. space
travelers, as well as several other The case of Betty and Barney
Hill, a couplestars in the same part of the sky. Interesting-then
in their forties, has become the arche-ly, the existence of two of
the stars on thetypal example of humans abducted, exam- map was not
confirmed by astronomers untilC O NS PI R AC I E S AND SECRET
SOCIETIES[9]
23. Alien Abductions1969 in the Gliese Catalogue of Nearby tors
of the incident, stated that the abductee,Stars, the standard
reference work.Antonio Villas Boas, was a twenty-three-year- old
farmer near the town of Francisco de During the night of January 6,
1976, three Sales in the state of Minas Gerais. On theLiberty,
Kentucky, women were abducted by night of October 15, 1957, Antonio
was plow-aliens and kept for more than an hour. When ing alone when
an egg-shaped aerial vehiclethey regained consciousness, Louise
Smith hovered over his tractor. A few minutes latercomplained that
her neck hurt. When Mona the object landed, and four
occupantsStafford examined it, she saw a strange red dressed in
tight-fitting coveralls made of amark like a burn that had not
blistered, thick, but soft, gray cloth emerged from it.about three
inches long and an inch wide. One of the beings grabbed Antonios
arms,Elaine Thomass neck had the same type of but he managed to
wrench himself free. (Themark on it. young, well-muscled farmer
said later that hisAlthough the peculiar burn marks disap-abductors
were about his heightfive feetpeared in about two days, the three
womenfourand strength.) He had not gone far, how-still could not
account for the missing timeever, when three other beings got hold
of hisnor could they recall more about that nightarms and legs and
lifted him off the ground.than having seen a UFO overhead and
LouiseSmith screaming that she could not controlInside the vehicle
the aliens brought Anto-her rapidly accelerating automobile. nio to
a brightly lighted room. He later said that their speech sounded to
him like a Later, under hypnosis sessions conductedseries of
doglike barks. The young farmerby Dr. R. Leo Sprinkle, Elaine
Thomas remem- was stripped naked and thoroughly exam-bered that she
had been placed on her back ined. When the beings had finished
theirin a long, narrow chamber. There were small, examination, he
was left alone to rest on adark figures perhaps four feet tall
standing couch. He had not lain there long before henear her. One
of them placed a blunt instru- became aware that gray smoke with a
dis-ment against her chest that caused her a agreeable, suffocating
odor had entered thegreat deal of pain.room. Antonio was forced to
relieve his nau-Louise Smith recalled the frighteningsea by
vomiting in a corner.appearance of the humanoids and the bizarre
After a few more minutes, the door to theenvironment in which she
found herself.room opened and a well-proportioned and Mona Stafford
remembered lying on a totally naked woman walked in to join
Antoniotable in what seemed to be some kind ofon the couch. The
alien seductress had largeoperating room. At one point she felt as
if herblue eyes that seemed to slant outward, aeyes were being
pulled out of her skull. Atstraight nose, high cheekbones, a nearly
lip-another time, her stomach was blown up likeless mouth, and a
sharply pointed chin. Ina balloon. She also reported that a number
spite of the stressful physical examinationof aliens pulled at her
feet, then bent them that he had just endured, Antonio found
him-backward and twisted.self responding to her frank sexual
advances. Later he told investigators that the beings There are
numerous accounts in circulation must somehow have dosed him with
anof human-alien sexual interaction during aphrodisiac.abduction
experiences. One of the earliestsuch reports came from Brazil and
was origi-After the sexual act had been consummat-nally published
in the magazine O Cruzeiro.ed, Antonios clothing was returned, and
anDr. Olvao Fontes, one of the original investiga- alien male
indicated that he should get[10] C O NS PI R AC I E S AND SECRET
SOCIETIES
24. Alien Abductionsdressed. It was clear that his abductors
werethey were scientists carrying out a directive tofinished with
him. The next day Antonioprovide early humankind with a genetic
boost.became ill. His eyes began to burn and aIn the apocryphal
book of Enoch (7:12), weseries of sores broke out on his arms and
legs. learn more of the nonterrestrial entities whoIn the center of
each of the sores was a little desire the daughters of men for
their ownlump that was very itchy. Two weeks later his interests:
It happened after the sons of menface became speckled with
yellowish spots. had multiplied in those days, that elegant, Ever
since the 1960s, alien abductionsbeautiful daughters were born to
them. Andhave been reported with alarming frequency.when the
angels, the sons of heaven, beheldMany researchers maintain that
the kidnap- them, they became enamored of them, sayingpings and
physical examinations are part ofto each other: Come, let us select
for our-an alien program of interbreeding. In numer- selves wives
from the progeny of men, andous instances, such as in the case of
Antoniolet us beget children.Boas, the aliens bring one of their
women,whose egg is ready to be fertilized, to anAbductees speaking
at the Mutual UFOearthman for insemination. Networks Washington,
D.C., conference in June 1987 reported frightening and disorient-
Some investigators argue that for pregnan-ing aspects of their
experiences. They told ofcy to occur during a sexual act, the male
andthe frustration of being partially paralyzedfemale must be of
the same species. Others and taken without their consent to
undergocounter that alien superscience might have medical
examinations. They said that theyevolved some remarkable method of
DNAoften remembered the events only in frag-manipulation or
cloning. Either thought is ments and flashes until they underwent
hyp-unsettling.notic regression. Many researchers say that if we
were to Whitley Strieber admitted that when heread the creation
story in Genesis from thefirst realized he had been abducted, he
washistorical perspective of our current aware- suicidal. Then he
began to investigate someness of genetic engineering, the
interaction UFO literature and discovered that others hadbetween
the sons of God and the fair endured similar experiences. He sought
outdaughters of men assumes a rather differentthe services of a
hypnotist, thinking perhapsinterpretation: And it came to pass,
when that would alleviate his ordeal, and he wrotemen began to
multiply on the face of the the book Communion hoping the
memoriesearth and daughters were born to them, thatand the feelings
would go away.the sons of God saw the daughters of menwere fair; so
they took them wives of all Strieber said he had received
thousandswhom they chose. There were giants on the of letters from
other abducteespeople whoearth in those days; and also after that,
fordo not welcome publicity, including entertain-the sons of God
came in unto the daughters ers, political leaders, and members of
theof men, and they bore children to them, andarmed forces in high
positions. All of thesethey became giants who in the olden days
abductees reported a basic progression ofwere men of renown (Gen.
6:14).emotions, moving from uneasy, fragmented recollections to a
clear memory accompanied If the fallen angels of Genesis were
actually by fear.extraterrestrials conducting experiments onfemale
members of the developing strain ofR. Leo Sprinkle, formerly on
staff at the Uni-primitive humans, then rather than decadentversity
of Wyoming in Laramie, has speculatedheavenly beings sinning with
Earths daughters,that hundreds of thousands of people mayC O NS PI
R AC I E S AND SECRET SOCIETIES [11]
25. Alien Autopsyhave undergone a UFO abduction experiencebut
were not aware of it at the time. Sprinkle ALIEN AUTOPSYlists
several characteristics common amongpeople who have had such
experiences: If this film of an alien autopsy being
secretlyperformed by U.S. government doctors is 1. An episode of
missing time. They know authentic, it is the most important footage
everthat something happened between made in the history of motion
pictures.two points of consciousness, but theycant fill in the
missing time.ondon-based film producer Ray Santilli 2. Disturbing
dreams about flying saucersand about being pursued and captured,L
claims that he had never heard any of thestories about the crash of
an extraterrestrialthen examined by doctors in white coats.vehicle
near Roswell, New Mexico, in June 3. Daytime flashbacks of UFO
experi- 1947, nor was he at all familiar with theences. While going
about their normal rumors of dead aliens strewn near the
wreck-daytime activities, abductees will flashage. He happened to
be in Cleveland, Ohio, inback to some kind of UFO image or UFO the
summer of 1993 in search of some rareentity. footage of Elvis
Presley, never imagining thathe would have an opportunity to
purchase 4. Strange compulsions, such as a strong some even rarer
film of a major cosmic event.wish to travel to a certain location
or tocomplete a certain task. According to Santilli, an elderly
freelancecameraman who had shot the footage of 5. A sudden interest
in UFOs. TheElvis for Universal News in the summer ofabductee may
suddenly want to read1955 sold him the three-minute sequence
ofabout UFOS, ancient history, or pyra- Presley, then offered to
sell some very differ-mids and crystals, without knowing why. ent
material that he had filmed during histime in the military. The
cameraman, now inSources his eighties, explained that the footage
cameBryant, Alice, and Linda Seebach. Healing Shattered from the
Roswell crash site and that it includ-Reality: Understanding
Contactee Trauma. Tigard,OR: Wild Flower Press, 1991.ed some
incredible images of the autopsy ofone or more aliens from the
flying saucer.Fuller, John G. The Interrupted Journey: Two Lost
HoursAboard a Flying Saucer. New York: Dial Press,Although ignorant
of the Roswell incident,1966.Santilli became interested in the
allegedHopkins, Budd. Missing Time. Rev. ed. New York: Bal-alien
autopsy. The cameraman didnt appearlantine, 1988.to be a nut or a
scam artist, so SantilliJacobs, David M. Secret Life: Firsthand
Accounts ofUFO Abductions. New York: Simon & Schuster, agreed
to view the film. When they arrived at1992. the mans home, the
veteran cameraman putKlass, Philip J. UFO Abductions: A Dangerous
Game.a reel on an old projector and projected theBuffalo, NY:
Prometheus, 1988.images directly on the wall.New Discoveries in
Betty Hills Star Map.http://www.kochkyborg.de/hill05.htm. What
Santilli witnessed in the old camera-mans home in Cleveland in 1993
is allegedlyRandle, Kevin D., Russ Estes, and William P Cone.
The.Abduction Enigma. New York: Forge, 1999.what millions saw on
their television screensStrieber, Whitley. Communion: A True Story.
Rev. ed.on the evening of August 28, 1995, on theNew York: Avon,
1988. Fox networks Alien Autopsy: Fact or Fic-The Zeta Reticuli
Incident. Astronomy, December tion? At first the images are hazy,
but then1974. the viewer sees, lying on an autopsy table,[12]C O NS
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26. Alien AutopsyDisplay showing an alien autopsy at a UFO
museum in Roswell, New Mexico. Peregrine Mendoza/Fortean Pic-ture
Library.what appears to be a smallish humanoid with and film
everything he could. Santilli camea swollen belly (with no navel),
huge darkaway with twenty-two reels of film, twenty-oneeyes, a
damaged right leg, a broken and safety prints, and one
negative.swollen left leg, a cut-off right hand, and aUFO
researchers were arguing about thebruise at the temple. Soon the
pathologists controversial film long before it was shownare cutting
the creature open and removingon Fox. Many condemned it outright as
abody organs that appear to be from an alien hoax because the alien
looked too human tospecies. The entity resembles a human being be
an extraterrestrial or in some way didnt fitin many ways, except
for its innardsand itstheir conception of how an alien
Roswelltwelve fingers and twelve toes. crash victim should look.
Others championed Santilli said later that he thought thethe
footage and believed that it would con-footage incredible and
offered immediately to vince millionsand most of all the
scientificbuy it. The cameraman told him that on June
establishmentthat UFOs from outer space2, 1947, he had received
direct orders from were visiting Earth. Some UFOlogists
arguedGeneral Clement McMullen informing him that that in their
opinion the alien in the autopsythere had been a crash in the White
Sands room could not have come from the Roswellarea and that he was
to go there immediatelycrash, but had been retrieved from an
earlierC O NS PI R AC I E S AND SECRET SOCIETIES [13]
27. Alien AutopsyUFO crash site near Socorro, New
Mexico.Turners syndrome affects about one inAnd then there were the
purists who were every 2,500 females, and a deceased victimoffended
by the very thought of commercially of the syndrome was named by
many physi-exploiting what could be the most importantcians as a
likely candidate for the alien onfilm of the century. the table.
The identifying characteristics of Turners syndrome are short
stature (a meanAn analysis of the film confirmed the elder- height
of four feet seven inches); lack of sec-ly cameramans claim that
the autopsy ondary sexual characteristics; medical prob-footage had
been shot on vintage 16mm film lems, such as ear, eye, and thyroid
difficul-and that it had likely been filmed with a Bell ties; and
secondary features such as low-set& Howell Filmo Camera,
favored by the U.S. ears, low hairline, webbed neck, and
puffymilitary in the 1940s. Samples cut from a hands and feet.
Because such characteris-number of leaders from the film and sent
for tics are evident in the alien body, manyanalysis to Kodak labs
in Hollywood, London, pathologists did not believe that they
wereand Copenhagen revealed identifying sym- seeing a dummy in the
autopsy footage.bols used by Kodak from 1947 to 1967. BobShell,
editor of Shutterbug magazine, was On the other hand, there were a
number ofgiven two segments of three frames each of pathologists
who did not believe that theythe autopsy room footage. Shell, a
photo were seeing either a dummy or a humantechnical consultant for
the FBI, confirmedbeing in the autopsy film. Professor Christo-the
snippets to be pre-1956 film.pher Milroy, Home Office pathologist,
Univer- sity of Sheffield, commented that although Concerning the
props used in the autopsythe close-up of the entitys brain was a
bit outfootage, every artifact appears to date from of focus, it
did not have the appearance of acirca 1947. The telephone is an
AT&T model human brain. Professor M. J. Mihatsch of thefrom
1946. The wall clock is a model popular University of Basel,
Switzerland, admittedsince 1938. The instruments utilized in
thethat he could not identify as human any ofautopsy itself were
confirmed as standard forthe organs the doctors in the footagethe
time period by Dr. Cyril Wecht, a highly removed from the alien.
Wecht, famous forrespected forensic scientist, ex-president ofhis
testimony in such trials as those of O. J.the American Academy of
Forensic Sciences. Simpson and Scott Peterson, said that heWhile
the props check out as accurate, could not place the organs in a
humanresearchers have many problems with theabdominal context and
could not associatealien corpse. In this time of remarkably realis-
them in any way with the human body as hetic special effects in
motion pictures, even the knew it. Professor Pierluigi Baima
Bollone,most earnest defender of the authenticity of University of
Turin, concluded that there wasthe footage has to concede that it
would benot one single organ that in any way resem-no problem for a
Hollywood makeup specialist bled any human organ. In general,
thereto create a realistic alien body. Is the badly seemed to be a
consensus among patholo-mutilated corpse on the autopsy table that
ofgists all over the world that the body on thean extraterrestrial
space traveler, a youngtable was not a dummy, but that of some
bio-female human with polydactylism (havinglogical being,
extraterrestrial or not.more than the normal number of fingers
andThe controversy over the alien autopsy filmtoes), a young
polydactylic female human who is not likely to fade away. Some
researchersdied of Turners syndrome, or a foam rubberconsider it
the most ingenious hoax of themodel of young female with
polydactylism,century; others laugh and wonder that anyTurners
syndrome, and other anomalies?UFO investigator could take the
footage seri-[14] C O NS PI R AC I E S AND SECRET SOCIETIES