On Edwin Kaiser and Related Topics

[Lauren Johnson]

Scott Kaiser's book is out: Edwin Kaiser's Covert Life: And His Little Black Book Linking Cuba, Watergate & the JFK Assassination

From Michael Best
UPDATE: This is the TrineDay version. Scott's update is not out. I know Scott was very unhappy with what Trine Day did to his book

• Michael Best ‏@NatSecGeek 32m32 minutes ago
  Scott Kaiser admitted to plagiarizing @Wikipedia for his book. Do you think @Amazon should know? https://www.amazon.com/review/RMNAM7EPSMR35/ref=cm_cr_dp_title?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1937584453&channel=detail-glance&nodeID=283155&store=books …
  
  
  
  
  
• Michael Best ‏@NatSecGeek 1h1 hour ago
  I wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt, but his explanation was full of holes, lies and plagiarism admissions, so... *shrugs*
  
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• Michael Best ‏@NatSecGeek 1h1 hour ago
  I deleted initial tweets about Scott Kaiser b/c it briefly seemed like I might've misunderstood & he'd clear up. Then he admitted plagiarism
  
  

and MB's review on Amazon.

The original book was mostly copy and pasted from Wikipedia articles. The rest was based off of rumors and interviews and documents that Scott Kaiser said he would make public, but never did. The only person he seems to have actually shared them with is Roger Stone. Beyond that, he has tried to take credit for other people's FOIA releases as his own work - despite the clear documentation proving that the files were neither requested by him nor released to him. At the same time, he tried to claim ownership of public documents (government documents are public domain) as "[his] work." The files that he has posted publicly are incomplete, cherry picked versions of documents that leave out Edwin Kaiser's documented history of lying, his being kicked out of the military, and then impersonating a military officer in order to steal from the government.

Given that, it's hard to take the book's author seriously - or any his claims.