14-02-2020, 03:01 AM
Jim, with respect, you once expounded at length about how reading the index of a JFK assassination book was an accurate method of discerning its argument and its quality. Some here, including myself, raised the subject of Bugliosi’s RECLAIMING HISTORY index, which likely covers all sorts of subjects, but for some reason you didn’t bite and AFAIK still value indexes over things like chapters, text, information, accompanying footnotes and all the stuff that gets written before folks start to index things. This was a year or two back. But this is not atypical of your commentary on JFK matters.
Re calling Skyhorse, at the time of writing Skyhorse is indicating that they have a book coming out in 12 weeks on Amazon from Albarelli, and they are publishing it, and people can pre-order it on Amazon. My suggestion that you phone Skyhorse to ask if it’s still coming out possibly isn’t the same as phoning Langley to ask if they killed JFK, simply as Skyhorse says they are going to do the former, and the CIA says they didn’t do the latter. But - and you raised the subject of your own paranoia earlier - if you’re convinced they’re not going to bring the book out, ever, why are you still following the release dates in this thread? A few pages back you said you were looking forward to reading it. Now you say you don’t want to enquire with the publisher as to when you can read it, as this would be naive and similar to some guy phoning the front desk of Langley and asking for a confession. Go figure. This really doesn’t seem like the behaviour of someone who wants to read a book.
Who among JFK researchers - because that’s the field we’re discussing - has given the silent treatment to the Skorzeny and Walker books you cite? Both have been reviewed and discussed. ‘Silent treatment’ is a funny way of disposing of the fact that each book was reviewed here and there, and found to have faults by the reviewers, who then noted those faults in their reviews.
Reading back through your post, which wanders a bit, I’m still struck by the fact that you’ve spent pages hoping for a book to come out, and waiting for a book to come out, but you don’t want to enquire with the publisher of the book as to when it may be coming out, as you’re certain the book is never coming out, and you have no hope that you’ll ever be able to read it. Is Dick Russell part of the cover-up? Someone once gave him a copy, apparently.
Your book, which you’ve argued is among the closest to offer the truth about the JFK assassination, currently isn’t within the top million selling books on Amazon - which is fine, and I’m not asserting that sales equals quality. James DiEugenio’s recent book is at 781,939. Lisa Pease’s well received RFK book is at 206,982. COUP IN DALLAS is doing okay on Amazon with a steady number of pre-orders at 426996. Those numbers are decent but I’m not sure they warrant a worried CIA cover up operation. Ventura’s book on government documents continues to sell better than all of them, and he even went on THE VIEW to talk about it. Sadly the man in the street still doesn’t give a shit and most people still haven’t heard of Gladio, Northwoods, David Atlee Phillips, or possibly even Iran Contra. So I’m not sure if folks were running down corridors at the CIA to have worried meetings with their superiors when Albarelli was passing around book manuscripts for guys like John Newman and Dick Russell to read. There are a bunch of Albarelli videos on YouTube. The viewing audience for those videos ranges from the double digits, to the low hundreds, to at best a few thousand. YouTube has around 2 billion viewers monthly. How was Albarelli’s sales and book - and interviews if he was still alive - going to worry them again?
Speaking of which, since I’m up for a laugh, did the CIA ever make efforts to suppress your own book? I know that Trine Day published it, not Skyhorse, so you clearly dodged a bullet there. But twenty people buying the book and then contacting Amazon about it being a ‘faulty product’ would pretty quickly see it pulled from sale for Amazon to ‘investigate’, rinse and repeat. So I don’t see why they’re letting your volume chug along and accrue sales and be distributed to multiple continents, while they’re apparently so pissed off at Albarelli’s. You could just as easily write an addendum to your book saying that Skorzeny worked with Jack Crichton, and HP Albarelli found documents offering evidence, and then Skyhorse conducted a multi-year operation to bury those documents and hide the truth from the public. As unfortunate as it may be, the public would shrug and no one would give a shit. This is the sad state of affairs for conspiracy research, as you’ve probably noticed.
All that said, if the Ganis and Caulfield books were that revelatory, why didn’t the CIA suppress those, either by mass spamming negative reviews on Amazon, or blowing up the factory printing the book? I’m sure they have the bucks to do either, yet somehow they weren’t bothered. I thought they were on the case stopping JFK books from being printed.
The reality is, the CIA figured out how to ‘suppress’ JFK books in the modern era, some time ago. They deny them mainstream coverage, disparage them if they get airtime anywhere, and choke up the Amazon listings with corporate and self-published conspiracy crap that makes every legitimate volume seem like one out of a thousand, so good luck finding it. Putting agents on the case for a half decade, as you continue to assert, probably isn’t necessary.
Re calling Skyhorse, at the time of writing Skyhorse is indicating that they have a book coming out in 12 weeks on Amazon from Albarelli, and they are publishing it, and people can pre-order it on Amazon. My suggestion that you phone Skyhorse to ask if it’s still coming out possibly isn’t the same as phoning Langley to ask if they killed JFK, simply as Skyhorse says they are going to do the former, and the CIA says they didn’t do the latter. But - and you raised the subject of your own paranoia earlier - if you’re convinced they’re not going to bring the book out, ever, why are you still following the release dates in this thread? A few pages back you said you were looking forward to reading it. Now you say you don’t want to enquire with the publisher as to when you can read it, as this would be naive and similar to some guy phoning the front desk of Langley and asking for a confession. Go figure. This really doesn’t seem like the behaviour of someone who wants to read a book.
Who among JFK researchers - because that’s the field we’re discussing - has given the silent treatment to the Skorzeny and Walker books you cite? Both have been reviewed and discussed. ‘Silent treatment’ is a funny way of disposing of the fact that each book was reviewed here and there, and found to have faults by the reviewers, who then noted those faults in their reviews.
Reading back through your post, which wanders a bit, I’m still struck by the fact that you’ve spent pages hoping for a book to come out, and waiting for a book to come out, but you don’t want to enquire with the publisher of the book as to when it may be coming out, as you’re certain the book is never coming out, and you have no hope that you’ll ever be able to read it. Is Dick Russell part of the cover-up? Someone once gave him a copy, apparently.
Your book, which you’ve argued is among the closest to offer the truth about the JFK assassination, currently isn’t within the top million selling books on Amazon - which is fine, and I’m not asserting that sales equals quality. James DiEugenio’s recent book is at 781,939. Lisa Pease’s well received RFK book is at 206,982. COUP IN DALLAS is doing okay on Amazon with a steady number of pre-orders at 426996. Those numbers are decent but I’m not sure they warrant a worried CIA cover up operation. Ventura’s book on government documents continues to sell better than all of them, and he even went on THE VIEW to talk about it. Sadly the man in the street still doesn’t give a shit and most people still haven’t heard of Gladio, Northwoods, David Atlee Phillips, or possibly even Iran Contra. So I’m not sure if folks were running down corridors at the CIA to have worried meetings with their superiors when Albarelli was passing around book manuscripts for guys like John Newman and Dick Russell to read. There are a bunch of Albarelli videos on YouTube. The viewing audience for those videos ranges from the double digits, to the low hundreds, to at best a few thousand. YouTube has around 2 billion viewers monthly. How was Albarelli’s sales and book - and interviews if he was still alive - going to worry them again?
Speaking of which, since I’m up for a laugh, did the CIA ever make efforts to suppress your own book? I know that Trine Day published it, not Skyhorse, so you clearly dodged a bullet there. But twenty people buying the book and then contacting Amazon about it being a ‘faulty product’ would pretty quickly see it pulled from sale for Amazon to ‘investigate’, rinse and repeat. So I don’t see why they’re letting your volume chug along and accrue sales and be distributed to multiple continents, while they’re apparently so pissed off at Albarelli’s. You could just as easily write an addendum to your book saying that Skorzeny worked with Jack Crichton, and HP Albarelli found documents offering evidence, and then Skyhorse conducted a multi-year operation to bury those documents and hide the truth from the public. As unfortunate as it may be, the public would shrug and no one would give a shit. This is the sad state of affairs for conspiracy research, as you’ve probably noticed.
All that said, if the Ganis and Caulfield books were that revelatory, why didn’t the CIA suppress those, either by mass spamming negative reviews on Amazon, or blowing up the factory printing the book? I’m sure they have the bucks to do either, yet somehow they weren’t bothered. I thought they were on the case stopping JFK books from being printed.
The reality is, the CIA figured out how to ‘suppress’ JFK books in the modern era, some time ago. They deny them mainstream coverage, disparage them if they get airtime anywhere, and choke up the Amazon listings with corporate and self-published conspiracy crap that makes every legitimate volume seem like one out of a thousand, so good luck finding it. Putting agents on the case for a half decade, as you continue to assert, probably isn’t necessary.