H.P. Albarelli has passed away.

[Peter Lemkin]

Albarelli's daughter is active on Facebook, and grieving. It's crossed my mind to contact in a few months and mention the research community greatly admired her fathers writing, will his last book come out, there is interest etc.

Peter Dale Scott's THE ROAD TO 9/11 spent a year with legal before being released as normal, and if Skyhorse has a legal dept then a round trip through them would be part of the normal process. Did Albarelli state it was delayed because of the legal dept, or unusually and purposefully delayed because of the legal department, as there's a difference between both statements. I wouldn't expect a legal department of a publisher to finish vetting a book in a single afternoon. Equally, if the book was with legal it does imply the manuscript was near finished.

I do remember HPA mentioning in passing his daughter to me in email exchanges. She has every reason in the World to be grieving now. I don't use Facebook - so can't do anything, but please Anthony, when you feel it appropriate [and I don't see why it could not be now or soon] contact her with your condolences and mention that you feel the book was to be of great importance and if she would know that, at minimum, the MS is secure in his computer the family would now have control of. I believe one can contact privately, as well as publicly on Facebook, no? Perhaps that part should be private -about the book. Her reply, if there is one, should let you know if she will be willing to actively work toward the book coming out or not and or if the family has his final MS. Her loss can not be undone, but seeing something that her father was working on see the light of day would have to lend some comfort in her/their grief.

OK, I stand corrected on PDS having been forced to remove a name. Interesting it was a Saudi, but not surprising. The fact that 'Another Nineteen' was published proves that one can sometimes name a LOT of 'heavy' names and get into print! The larger publishing houses would have legal teams that are generally more conservative and also less aware of the kind of things we might know or suspect - even if they would have more money to fight a lawsuit. They also sometimes have Mockingbird agents among them, and the legal dept. would be a key place to put someone like that. Of course the person or persons that make decisions on what books get published is another key position. But, if a book is really a problem for the Deep State, better to catch and kill (or weaken) than to pass it up and let someone else publish it.

There is also a Facebook page for the book here https://www.facebook.com/CoupInDallas/ that gives some hints of what was to be inside.... surprised no one has posted about his death on it.