Cover-Ups & Secrets: The Complete Guide to Government Conspiracies, Manipulations & Deceptions

Aside from a few glaring errors &/or obvious typos, I enjoyed this book. The info in many of the chapters I was already familiar with, though the majority was new to me. (Nick, please get another proofreader! On pg 128, the late Steven Schiff is referred to as a congressman from New Mexico; however, 2 pgs later, he's referred to as congressman from Arizona.)

I look forward every year to Nick Redfern's new releases, and this one doesn't disappoint. He introduces new conspiracy theories, and throws in some old favorites. My only criticism of his works is that he sometimes quoted Paul Erlich and the Population Bomb. A theory that has been discredited and should be just forgotten. The same with peak oil. Otherwise this book is highly recommended.

This book has so many interesting materials that I have not heard some of them.bits well written and pleasant to read.

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Loved the whole book.

I think all people interested in conspiracies should listen to this book.

Very interesting.

The complete guide covers a lot of ground.

The subtitle of this book is "The Complete Guide to Government Conspiracies, Manipulations & Deceptions". But that’s obviously a hyperbolic description, because it’s doubtful whether any one book could be a "complete" guide to such things. But Redfern manages to cover a lot of ground, ranging from well-known cases (e.g. the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963) to ones that many readers will probably have never heard of before. However, the material he presents – much of it very speculative – doesn’t all relate to government-instigated shenanigans. For example, regarding the murder, in February 1945, of a 74-year-old man called Charles Walton in rural Warwickshire, England, Redfern alludes to rumours that he may have been a member of a secret witchcraft cult and that he perhaps paid the “ultimate price” after falling out with the group (pp. 333-4).Although I found much of the book interesting, there were passages that I found opaque or confusing. For example, in connection with the Kennedy assassination, Redfern mentions a building in New Orleans that “was the location of an anti-Castro organization”. But he goes on to say that: “It was determined by the Warren Commission, which investigated the assassination of JFK, that Lee Harvey Oswald used the […] address for the pro-Castro Fair Play for Cuba Committee” (pp. 182-3).In places, Redfern uses lengthy quotations. At points, I found myself unsure whether the passages I was reading were quoted material or Redfern’s own words. If these lengthy quoted sections had been rendered in a smaller font, it would have been easier to make the distinction.I generally find Redfern’s writing fairly lucid, but there are sentences in this book that don’t really make sense. For example, he refers to three American students who, in early June 1969, came across a strangely-decorated piece of cloth in a cemetery near Loch Ness in Scotland. “It was”, Redfern states, “roughly four feet by five feet and was wrapped a large sea snail shell” (p. 335).A recurrent error in the book, and one that I’ve seen in other books by Redfern, is the misuse of “definitive”’ or “definitively” in contexts where “definite” or “definitely” would be the correct word. For example, on p. 23, he refers to a “definitive time slip”. On p. 76, there’s mention of “devolved humans”, which doesn’t sound right. The caption for an illustration on p. 110 describes the German V-1 flying bomb of World War II as a “rocket”, which is incorrect – the V-1 was propelled by what’s known as a pulse-jet engine.On p. 226, Redfern refers to "The Jeremiah Project", but without saying what it is. On pp. 262-3, he refers to rumours that the late John Lennon may have donated money to the Irish Republican Army (IRA). But that's ambiguous, because following a split in December 1969, there were TWO IRAs: the Marxist-leaning Official IRA and the Provisional IRA. On p. 341, Redfern uses the initials "IWB", but without explaining what they refer to. In the middle of p. 353, he mentions a “professor”, but it’s not clear who he’s referring to.Helpfully, the book has an index. There’s an extensive list of print and Internet sources at the back of the book ("Further Reading", pp. 411-6), but the items in the main text aren’t all clearly referenced. For instance, in respect of the murder of Charles Walton in 1945 (see above), there’s mention of the BBC, but there’s no superscript number or other link directing the reader to specific source material.

Another great book I really enjoyed the chapter "Who really runs the world".Especially pleased with it since it mentions a story of a "wolfman" being shot in Devon (and a subsequent cover up) which is where my mother is originally from. I told her about it and she told me that while growing up near Dawlish Warren and Teignmouth there was a family of "wolfmen" (people with hypertrichosis) that lived in the area in her youth. She said that they were a very shy and secretive family (possibly exacerbated by their conditions) and to stop her or any of her siblings from pointing or staring, her parents normalized it as best they could by erroneously saying that "All men and women grow beards". My mother mentioned that she stopped seeing that family in public by the time she was 15 or 16 and naturally assumed they had moved away.

This book by Nick Redfern, does through a number of conspiracies and deceptions. A number of them I knew and read about, but some new material that I really appreciated!