
              Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 6  Num. 72
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THE UNITED STATES IN SEARCH OF ENEMIES
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A Selected "National Security" Reading List
Part I
 
Thanks to a CN reader who sent me the above. Glancing through it, 
it looks like an excellent bibliography. I hope to post excerpts 
from it over the next few weeks.
 
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*New Perspectives Quarterly*, Vol. 4 Num. 3 (published by The 
Institute for National Strategy, 11500 West Olympic Blvd., Suite 
302, Los Angeles, CA 90064).
 
(Note: this offering replaces *The Overburdened Economy*, by 
Lloyd Dumas, University of California Press, 1986, because it 
covers a bit more ground in a clear style, in just 56 pages. 
Obviously, Dr. Dumas' book goes into much greater detail.)
 
To pursue the arms race, the United States is allocating giant 
portions of available capital, scientific talent, and trade 
skills to the production of arms, thereby rendering itself non- 
competitive with Asian and European countries in the production 
of trade goods. This is highly profitable to the defense 
corporations but reduces the number of jobs available to the 
American people and is disastrous to the nation's long-term 
security. As a result, trade deficits have skyrocketed and the 
United States has become a debtor nation for the first time in 
seventy years, while social services are everywhere being 
slashed. More is at stake than merely a balanced checkbook. 
Through the blind pursuit of arms the qualities of life and 
education in the United States will suffer, presuming of course 
that the weapons produced in this macabre race do not eventually 
render our planet uninhabitable to warm blooded life.
 
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*Inventing Reality*, by Michael Parenti, St. Martins, 1986.
 
The role of the media in forming our perceptions of the world, 
then fulfilling them with a flow of subtly tailored news is the 
glue in the web of the military-industrial complex that binds the 
people to the process and thereby perpetuates our socio-economic 
and political system. Any patriot will of course applaud -- until 
they understand the myths that result, the horror they spell for 
millions of people oversees and the threat they pose to our own 
freedoms, to our economy, and to the fate of the earth.
 
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*Trading With The Enemy*, by Charles Higham, Dell, 1983.
 
A friend of mine, when he read *Trading With The Enemy*, went 
into a rage from which he may never completely recover. Severely 
wounded during the landing at Normandy during World War II, he 
has endured constant pain for forty years and still walks with 
great difficulty. Now he learns that there were rich and powerful 
Americans who were collaborating with British and German 
counterparts to trade with Nazi Germany throughout the war. 
Charles Higham calls those supernational elitists "The 
Fraternity." His book is based on United States government 
documents that were declassified under the Freedom of Information 
Act. The information contained in his book is overwhelming:
 
As the winds of WWII blew across the world in 1930, financial 
leaders got together and formed a bank in Switzerland that would 
be inviolate, whatever the outcome. Nazi leaders were permitted 
to invest $378 million they had looted from conquered Europe and 
gold they had stripped from the corpses of murdered Jews for use 
after the war. Standard Oil, owned by the Rockefeller family, 
sold oil to the Germans at better prices than to the United 
States. ITT, an American corporation with German subsidiaries, 
built the Focke-Wulfes that bombed British and United States 
forces. The vice chairman of the United States War Production 
Board colluded with Goring's cousin to ship ball bearings to 
German allies. Neither Hitler nor Roosevelt could intervene: 
Walter Schellenberg, the Gestapo head of counterintelligence was 
a prominent director and shareholder of ITT, and the 
transnational financial elite controlled the American industrial 
machine on which President Roosevelt depended to fight the war.
 
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*Shattered Peace*, by Daniel Yergin, Houghton-Miflin, 1977.
 
In 1945-1947, when the Soviet threat was used to justify the 
creation of the CIA, the USSR was in fact on its knees from the 
destruction of World War II. The inference is that our system is 
dependent on the existence of enemies in order to flourish. If 
the Soviet Union collapsed today, we would quickly invent another 
enemy.
 
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*The Bound Volumes I And II of the Covert Action Information 
Bulletin*, Issues 1-12, 1968-1981 & Issues 13-25, 1981-1986.
 
Without question these two volumes contain more information about 
the complete scope of the national security complex, its myths, 
rationales, secret wars, media manipulations and abuses, than any 
other work.
 
Among these subjects, it provides excellent articles on the CIA's 
MKULTRA and other mind-control, drugs, disease and 
chemical/biological weaponry experimentation programs.
 
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*The Psychology Of Military Incompetence*, A.E. Dixon, Jonathan 
Cape, 1976 (London).
 
To understand how generals since the beginning of time have 
wasted the lives of millions of young men in pointless battles in 
mindless wars, while they nearly always lived and ate exceedingly 
well, and reaped rewards of surpassing glory and wealth, read 
this book.
 
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*Blessed Assurance*, by A.G. Mojtabai, Harper & Row, 1986.
 
Mojtabai, an East Coast professor/author, travels to Amarillo, 
Texas, to examine the rationales of the people who live and work 
in the shadow of the final assembly plant of all U.S. nuclear 
weapons. Many, she found, subscribe to the Late Great Planet 
Earth scenario (Hal Lindsay) -- God is coming soon to take his 
chosen away and will use the BOMB to create "Hell's fires on 
earth" for the *un*chosen. Mojtabai has a keen eye for 
ambiguities: the dozens of fireworks ordinances in the city that 
hosts the final assembly plant for all United States BOMBS; 52 
endangered species counted by environmentalists in the Panhandle, 
but *Homo Sapiens* ironically not included in their lists.
 
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*Nuclear Barons*, by Peter Pringle & James Speigelman. Pocket, 
1982.
 
At first we were in a desperate struggle to get the BOMB before 
Hitler did. Then, when we *knew* that neither Hitler nor imperial 
Japan nor Russia were developing the BOMB, we raced to finish 
ours *before* *the* *war* *would* *end*.
 
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*The Pentagon Catalogue*, by Cerf, Workman, 1986.
 
Do you have money to burn? Want to spend $258 for a little 
screwdriver others buy for $2.98 in any hardware store, or $1100 
for a little metal screw, or $2500 for plastic caps for the legs 
of your kitchen stool? This catalogue offers you these exclusive 
buys at the same outrageous cost the Pentagon pays for them (with 
your tax dollars).
 
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*Shootdown*, by R.W. Johnson, Viking, 1986.
 
Bookstores in New York were said to guarantee this book with each 
sale: if the reader was not convinced KAL 007 [Korean Airline 
civilian passenger plane shot down by the Soviets on September 1, 
1983] had been on some kind of spy mission, they would refund the 
purchase price. Johnson analyzes the details of the flight and 
the several theories of what happened.
 
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*The Iran/Contra Connection*, by Jane Hunter, Jonathan Marshall 
and Peter Dale Scott, South End Press, 1987.
 
Remarkable in its timeliness, this book weaves the Iran/Contra 
scandal into the fabric of the Reagan Revolution.
 
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