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The following text was copied with no permission whatsoever from "Secret and
Supressed - Banned Ideas and Hidden History" copyright 1993 Feral House.
Article beginning on page 193.  The article contained herein should be required
reading for anyone under the age of 20 that thinks (s)he's some badass anarchist
cuz they downloaded the latest Jolly Roger Cookbook or whatever, which, by the
way, seems virtually unchanged since my Apple ][+ days eons ago.  Alot of it
still doesnt work, and still is unchanged.  Anything that i have added out of
the original context is contained in brackets [like this....duh!]


                           _Recipes_For_Nonsurvival_
                           "The Anarchist Cookbook"
                              by Esperanze Godot


   "The Anarchist Cookbook" by William Powell has been called "a manual of
terror" by Max Geltman, writing in the _National_Review_ (July 22, 1971).  I
find this phrase aptly descriptive, but not in the same sense Mr. Geltman would have us
beleive.

   This "cookbook" consists of three basic parts: an introduction by Professor
Bergman entitled "Anarchism Today"; and two much longer sections by William
Powell on drug and explosive manufacturing.

   If ever there were an example of Orwellian doublespeak, this is it!
"Anarchism Today" is basically an interpretation of the philosophic roots of
anarchism, awkwardly coupled with sketchy references to current events.
Almost all of the intellectuals discussed are from the nineteenth century;
and there is virtually no mention of writings from 1930 to present. This may
be expected from someone who appears to have briefly studied the topic ehile
at college during the 1920s, and thereafter relied only on superficial
newspaper accounts.  Bergman should have been aware of ALbert Jay Nock for
example, and anarchists today are certainly aware of Murry, Rothbard, Karl
Hess, etc.

   Berman considers Nihilism to be a form of Anarchism, and Anarchism a form of
radical revolustionism.  He interprets Marxism in an anarchistic light, and
correctly suggests that Communist governments today are feudal/reactionary.
However, his emphasis on the Marxist element in anarchist intellectual
tradition is clearly one-sided.  A more thorough and fair analysis can be found
in _Native_American_Anarchism_ (1932) by Eunice Minette Schuster.

   Bergmans's emphasis on the Nihilistic and destructive aspects of Anarchsim I
find disturbing.  This emphasis seems to arrive from the axiom that the State
is all, so to oppose the State is to oppose everything.  Anarchists do not have
to propose a concrete alternative because that would be authoritian.

   The rest of this book consists mainly of drug and explosive recipes relayed
to us by William Powell.  His motivation for doing so is supposedly to allow
the "silent majority" access to information which he claims only the radical
groups now possess.  The idea of a "silent majority" comes from classical Greek
literature and in that context referred to the dead who are the real majority.
If you follow the steps outlined in these recipes, you may join them!  [Note
from pending: He means you'll be a dead fukkar].  _The_Library_Journal_ (March
15, 1971) puts it this way:

   "Much of it is so sketchy as to be harmless, but there are a number of booby
traps still for the nitwit who wishes to try them.  There are drug making
recipes... that may make one very ill... There are also a number of stunts
which could backfire on the idiot who tries them."

   Let's get down to specifics:

   Ed Roseenthal told me that he had spent a lot of time trying to track down
rumors of pot growing in New York sewers.  Well, I just may have stumbled on
the origiin of the "New York White" rumors.  Despite what Powell may think,
plants are not as adaptable as alligators and need light to grow.  Another
choice quote "...strangely enough, insects ignore marijuana and do not hsrm
them."  Strange indeed.

   The DEA has a Precursor Control Program watch list.  This means that if you
buy large quantities of the common precursors to illegal chemicals, the Federal
government may take an interest in your activities.  Several of the chemicals
on this list are used in Mr. Powell's LSD recipe, such as Acetonitrile,
Trifluoroacetic Anhydride, Dimethylformamide, and Diethylamine.  Benzene is
also on the list, and may arouse the interest of the EPA because it is a known
cancer causing agent.  ['Nother note from pending:  Many chemicals on the
precursor list are available only in large amounts, and some which are sold
in small quantities are even reported.  A form of Benzene is used in Agent
Orange, the Viet Nam era defoliant.  Also works well as a hair dye and skin
softener.]

   Much the same can be said for many of his other recipes, and in some cases
the precursors are as hard to get as the final product.  For instance, his
recipe for DMT starts out with indole, which is quite hard to get.  Much better
methods using L. Tryptophane (available in health food stores) are covered in
_Synthesis_ (1973 - present).  [Note: Remember the scare a few years back about
health problems related to L. Tryptophane?]

   Powell suggests ground-up nutmeg for a psychedelic experience.  Nutmeg has
a poor dose/toxicirty ration!  However, the oil extract of nutmeg, containing
myristicin, can be used in the systhesis of MMDA - a better and mellower high
than MDA.  See the _Journal_of_Psychedlic_Drugs_ (Vol.8 #4, Oct-Dec. 1976).

   On page 58 of Powell's cookbook, Nalline is described as "...a freak - a
drug someone forgot to make illegal."  Perhaps they forgot because Nalorphine
is a powerful Narcotic antagonist, which tends to produce violent convulsive
reactions in morphine addicts.  (see the Merck Index).

   For more information on drus see "The Clandestine Drug Laboratory Situation
in the U.S.", _Journal_of_Forensic_Sciences_ (Jan. 1983 pp. 18-31).  The
article, obligingly written by the DEA chief, reports that none of the 17
labs busted the previous year were successful in producing what was intended
to be produced.  The busted chemists were relying on recipes from popular
"underground" drug manufacturing books.  It was noted that such books contain
errors which prevent the manufacture of the desired chemicals, while at the
same time drawing the atention of government authorities because of the
precursors recommended.

   Let's now examine his recommendations for manufacturing explosives:

  His methods for producing Mercury Fulminate is incomplete and dangerous
Between steps 2 and 3, the solution should be cooled.  Do not breathe the
fumes.  See _A_Dictionary_of_Applied+Chemistry_ by Sir Edward Thorpe.

   Powell's recipe entitled "How to Make TNT" is also quite dangerous and
incomplete.  In step 1, mixing sulfuric acid and nitric acid will likely result
in fulmination and red toxic fumes.  Also the crude method he describes does
not cover the removal of the Ortho Dinitro groups.  If this were not done, the
TNT would be extremely unstable.  However, they can be removed with great ease
by heating the crude material with aqueous sodium sulfite.  See "Chemistry of
Explosives" by George Wright, University of Toronto, in _Organic_Chemistry_ (p.
974).

   The description of Picric acid does not sufficiently emphasize its unstable
nature.  For example, storing it in a cracked glass container may cause it to
explode.  See Thorpe's.  However, on page 120 he describes two relatively safer
and easily obtainable chemicals (Patassium bichromate and potassium
permanganate) as very sensitive, unstable, and too hazardous to work with.

   He does have a couple of pages on general safety precaustions, but the
language suggests that they have been lifted from a military manual.  Also, he
uses the German spelling for some chemicals.  If you attempt to order chemicals
from an American company using German spelling, your order would likely be
looked at with suspicion.

   _The_Anarchist_Cookbook_ was originally published in 1971; the review by the
_Library_Journal_, which exposed these dangerous errors, came shortly
thereafter.  I wonder why it has gone through 28 printings without these erros
being corrected.  My theory is that Mr. Powell is not an anarchist, but is
spreading disinformation to potential enemies of the government.  At the time
of original, Mr. Powell was an unknown 21 year old college freshman.  Where did
he get access to this "information"?  He says, from radical friends on both the
left and the right.

   _The_Minuteman_Manual_ is listed in the bibliography.  The origianl
Minutemen were colonial American revolutionaries.  [Note: not to mention one
hell of a damned good band.]  In the 60's the radical right-wing sect called
the Minutemen have since been disbanded by the FBI.  It is not likely that the
1960's Minutemen would have handed out their manual to a long haired 21 year
old college freshman. Also, the Minutemen are opposed to the United Nations,
and Powell's father was a powerful bureaucrat in the UN propaganda ministry
(see _Newsweek_, April 12, 1971).  Things are getting curiouser and curiouser!

   This same WIlliam Powell has also written a book entitled
_Saudi_Arabia_and_its_Royal_Family_ (1982).  It consists of interviews with
members of the Saudi Royal family and other observations gathered while
teaching at the University of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.  It does not seem likely
that the Saudi Royal family would give such generous treatment to a real
anarchist.  Reading the Saudi book, I came across some interesting quotes (p.
17):

   "Were something or someone to cut the flow of oil from the Arabian Gulf, the
   result would be truly apocalyptic for the United States, Western Europe,
   Japan, and much of the developing world. ...In a worst-case scenario, all
   gasoline available would go to essential services such as the military, the
   polica and fire departments, and the transport of foodstuffs. Most
   nonessential businesses and industries would close.  Unemployment would
   skyrocket.

   "All major cities would, in probability, have to be placed under martial
   law. Curfews would be enforced at gunpoint. ...Inflation would
   metamorphose... into a lethal epidemic.  We would enter a wheelbarrow
   economy like that of Germany prior to Hitler's rise to power..."

   I could go on, but I think you get the idea.  While his pessimistic analysis
does not take full account of the market's ability to conserve and switch to
alternative fuels, I think a more important point is that Powell seems to
beleive the governemnt is as essential as the transportation of foodstuffs, and
that it can help solve the fuel crisis through the draconian methods he
describes.  If governments were to run out of gas tomorrow, anarchists would be
dancing in celebration.  (Mr. Powell's talk of martial law is not fantasy.
Executive Order #11490, signed by Richard Nixon in October 1969, allows the
President to assume dicatorial powers after declaring a "national emergency.")

   It just doesn't add up, unless an alternative theory is developed to explain
these anomalies.  My attempts to get the other side of the story from the
publisher were met with a stone wall of silence.  My suggestion is that much of
Powell's disinformation and influence may have dome from the Trilateral
Commission and/or the CIA.  A U.S. Air Force combat controllers group studying
guerillas warfare has arrived at a similar conclusion.  This theory would seem
to dovetail with the _National_Review)_ article which presented
_The_Anarchist_cookbook_ at face value and even included a patronizing
reference to "the boys at aHarvard".  It is well known that William F. Buckley,
the _National_Review_  editor is a Yale graduate and once served the CIA in
Mexico.  (E. Howard hunt, of Watergate fame, was CIA paymaster in Mexico City
at the same time Buckley served).   I would like to quote Mr. Powell from the
April 12, 1971 issue of _Newsweek_: "My book places power in the hands of the
individual, where it belongs.  The right call it communist, and the leftists
call it profiteering, the liberals call it Neo_Nazi."

   And this reviewer calls it bullshit!





OK folks, there ya have it.  Biased, but drawing good points nonetheless.
This text, as always....




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