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- From: rburns@key.COM (Randy Burns)
- Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy
- Subject: Re: Conspiracies, Cover-ups and Crimes
- Message-ID: <3883@key.COM>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 07:29:09 GMT
- References: <21NOV199216062304@acad3.alaska.edu>
- Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Advanced Systems, Fremont CA
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- In article <21NOV199216062304@acad3.alaska.edu>, ksjwr@acad3.alaska.edu (REDELSS JOHN W) writes:
- > To readers of alt.conspiracy newsgroup:
- >
- > Is anyone out there familiar with the book entitled CONSPIRACIES,
- > COVER-UPS AND CRIMES by Jonathan Vankin?
- >
- I read it. 90% of the material could have been pulled from the radio show
- Dave Emory has been working on in the bay area for years. In Emory's opinion
- and my own, Vankin just wrote down pretty much what he heard on the radio
- and verified the sources. Emory goes into this in detail in some tapes
- available from Archives on Audio in San Francisco, CA.
-
- I've met Emory a few times and we have some friends in common-though we
- never exactly hit it off. I do consider the pieces on Emory in the book
- to be unfair and insulting. Vankin assured Emory that he wouldn't be writing
- a hit piece, which is what I saw the book as being. Vankin also indicated
- he would give Emory credit for the areas where he did original reasearch or
- brought together a variety of sources into one place-it was on this
- pretense that Emory spent as much time with him as he did. In my opinion Vankin
- failed to keep his word.
-
- > How reliable is the information in this book? Is the bibliography any
- > good? What essential titles are missing from it? Is there anything in the
- > book that you think is particularly misleading?
-
- Well, keep in mind that the book is published by a company controlled by
- Rev. Moon. Moon is one of the _major_ figures in neo-fascism in America,
- IMHO(some of his major funding comes from the wonderful folks that brought
- you Pearl Harbor-quite literally some of the same folks that funded the
- rise of Japanese militarism).
-
- The omission of Moon from the book must have been a ploy to get published
- and to get national distribution. If you like Rev. Moon and his cause,
- go ahead and buy the book-but I suggest you research this character a little
- first. Vankin knew who he was dealing with(i.e. a friend of mine talked to
- him about it)-it didn't matter to him. Vankin is, IMHO, an opportunist and
- a writer with too little creativity to get his own matterial an too much
- vanity to give full credit when he borrows ideas.
-