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Authors: Jesse Walker
Edmonds, Chris, 203
Eiger Sanction, The
(film), 176
Eisenhower, Dwight, 75, 77
Electric Light Orchestra, 203
11:11ers, 149–50
Elliott, Mama Cass, 169
Ellison, James, 209
Ellsberg, Daniel, 163, 228
Enemy Above, 16, 201
corporate puppeteers, 124, 129, 131, 295
Freemasons, 121–23, 205
government, 32, 114, 120–21, 123–26, 157–78, 237, 267, 277, 294, 303–7
in
Illuminatus!,
243–44
and Internet, 276
Iron Mountain, 229–30
and 9/11, 300, 303–7, 335
as octopus, 123–26,
126
police agencies, 277, 279, 286, 303–6
and slavery, 126–31
and social hierarchy, 54, 131
Enemy Below, 16, 201, 277
in
Illuminatus!,
243–44
Molly Maguires, 102–3
racial unrest, 104–8
slave insurgencies, 83–96, 98–99, 101, 121, 132
and social hierarchy, 54
Tramp Scare, 101–2
zombies, 99, 100
Enemy Outside, 16, 201
abolitionists, 95–96, 98, 99, 101
aliens, 54, 59, 69–71, 77–79, 144–45
Catholics, 34–35, 56, 61, 62, 88, 91, 92, 103, 205
characteristics of, 35
and globalization, 277
in
Illuminatus!,
243–44
immigrants, 44, 57, 102, 103, 318–19
Indians, 24–32, 34–40, 267, 270, 272–73
Jesuits, 56–57
and race riots, 107–8, 130–31
terrorists, 45, 334–35
wartime enemies, 40–44, 268
Enemy Within, 16, 201
advertising, 72–73, 77
body snatchers, 67–69, 78–79, 82
Brown Scare, 76, 142, 173, 310
child abuse, 211–13
conformist collectives, 71–72
fascism, 72, 76, 143–44
fear as, 69
homosexuals, 79–82
in
Illuminatus!,
243–44
and mass culture, 72, 76–77, 79, 293–96
militias, 277–78
Mormons, 59–67
Shakers, 55–56, 58–59, 61, 62
witch hunts, 49–55
England,
see
Britain
Erbe, Bonnie, 308
Eringer, Robert, 168–69,, 382
Erisian Liberation Front, 243
Espionage Act, 44
E.T.
(film), 384
Excluded Middle, The
, 283
Executive Action
(film), 175, 176
eXistenZ
(film), 322
Exorcist, The
(film), 149, 215, 392
extraterrestrials,
see
aliens
Face in the Crowd, A
(film), 72–73
Fagan, Myron Coureval, 200, 201
Faludi, Susan,
Stiffed,
266
“Fama fraternitas,” 136
fascism, 72, 76, 136, 143–44
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 12, 13, 72, 76, 104, 108, 157–64, 165, 166–67, 210, 213, 216, 239, 270, 315, 347, 410
Federal Communications Commission (FCC), 14
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), 15, 306–7, 317
Federalists, 112–13, 116, 117, 118, 120–21, 197, 201, 316, 369
Felt, Mark, 166–67, 381
Ferguson, Marilyn,
The Aquarian Conspiracy,
142
Fifth Column, 144
50 Cent, 329–30
Finkel, Barney, 200
Finney, Jack,
The Body Snatchers,
71, 358
Firesign Theatre, 255, 401
First Amendment, 305, 308
Flatland,
283–84
Fleming, Ian, 241
Fletcher, Bob, 280, 284, 286
Food and Drug Administration (FDA), 129, 236–37
Ford, Gerald R., 183
Ford, John, 272
Fort, Charles, 222–23
Forteans, 222–27, 234, 420
Foster, Jodie, 405
Foster, Vince, 10
Foul Play
(film), 178
France, suspicion of, 116–17, 120
Frank, Thomas, 261–62
Frankenheimer, John, 172–73
Frankenstein movies, 266, 271
Franklin, Benjamin, 134, 151
Freed, Donald, 383
Freemasonry, 117, 118, 121–23, 137, 151, 186, 205, 275, 290, 329, 331, 356, 371, 389, 420
French Revolution, 118, 120, 197, 198
Freud, Sigmund, 336
Friedan, Betty,
The Feminine Mystique
, 179–80
Fritz, Charles, 360
Fromm, Erich,
Escape from Freedom,
76–77
Frost, Gavin, 195
Frum, David, 14–15
Fry, Gladys-Marie, 127, 128
Frye, Marquette, 105
funnel theory, 292
Gabriel’s Rebellion (1800), 93
Gadsden flag, 304
Gadsden Militia, Alabama, 290
Gallant, Sandi, 214
Gallup polls, 10, 164
Gadianton robbers, 59-60
Garrison, Jim, 229, 240, 241, 257–58
Gasland
(film), 304–5
Gemstone File, 168–69, 381-82
Geneva Club, 83–84, 90–91
Genovese, Eugene, 364
Georgia Skeptics, 284, 327
Germany, in World War I, 40–44
Geronimo, Apache chief, 36, 45
Ghost Dance, 36-40, 357
Giffords, Gabrielle, 320
Gingrich, Newt, 292
Ginsberg, Allen, 238, 396
Glinka, Yuliana, 141
Godfrey, Neil, 301–2
Goffman, Ken, 297
Goldman, Emma, 198
Goldstein, Robert, 44
Goldwater, Barry M., 14, 19, 165, 200, 293
Goode, Erich, 11
Good Guys Wear Black
(film), 261, 267–68, 403
Good O’ Boy Roundup, 290
Good Times
(TV), 181–83
Goodwin, Rev. William, 6
Gookin, Daniel, 30
Gore, Al, 206
Gore, Tipper, 206–7
government:
cynicism about, 261–62, 267–68
distrust of, 164, 171, 196, 236, 270–71, 277, 280, 291–92, 319
invisible, 169
Liberty vs. Power, 113–15, 121, 125
One World, 251–52, 277
paranoia within, 209–11
police powers, 277, 279, 286, 303–6
shutdown of, 292
see also
Enemy Above
Gowen, Franklin B., 103
Grady, James, 175
Graeber, David, 15
Graham, Billy, 108
Grant, Ulysses S., 8
Gray, Patrick, 167
Great Depression, 143, 199
Great Seal, 328, 329
Great White Brotherhood, 138, 139, 140–41, 142
Grey, Zane,
Riders of the Purple Sage,
65–67, 179
Griffin, G. Edward, 199, 200
Griffis, Dale, 214
Griffith, D. W., 100
Gritz, Bo, 269–70, 279
Group Research Incorporated, 14
Guardian, The,
320–21
Guardian Angels, 142
guerrilla ontology, 234, 240
Gurdjieff, G. I., 281
Hackman, Gene, 176-77
Haiti, voodoo legend, 99
Haitian Revolution (1791–1804), 92–93, 118
Hale, Rev. John, 51, 54
Hall, Manly Palmer:
The Secret Destiny of America,
139–40, 141, 143, 151–52, 389
America’s Assignment with Destiny
, 375
Halperin, Victor, 99
Hamilton, Alexander, 111
Hampton, Fred, 162
Hancock, John, 151
Hansen, Chadwick, 52, 355
Harpers Ferry, 96
Harris, Kevin, 210
Harrison, Benjamin, 40
Harrison, William Henry, 4, 5, 6–7
Harsh Realm
(TV), 322, 417
Hasford, Gustav, 267, 269
hate crimes, 315–17,
316
Hawks, Howard, 358
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, “Young Goodman Brown,” 47–50, 51–53, 55, 57, 66
Healy, Gene,
The Cult of the Presidency,
319
Heindel, Max, 139
Heinlein, Robert, 377
The Puppet Masters,
71, 358
Heller, Joseph,
Catch-22,
220
Helmick, Eli A., 198–99
Hendrix, Jimi, 129, 383
Herbert, Bob, 308
Herbert, Nick, 145, 150
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, 139
Hertenstein, Mike, 204
Hickman, William “Wild Bill,” 63
Hicks, Darryl, 193, 196, 201, 205, 207
Hidden Masters, 138–39, 150
Hilder, Anthony J., 200, 201, 275, 285–89
Hill, Greg, 231–33, 259
Hill, Marc Lamont, 288
Hillenkoetter, Roscoe, 80
Hinckley, John, 405
hippies, 159, 220, 276
Hiss, Alger, 17
Hitler, Adolf, 104, 141, 216
Hoffa, Jimmy, 165, 169
Hoffer, Peter, 93, 95
Hoffman, Abbie, 257, 284, 401
Hoffman, Michael A., II, 420
Hofstadter, Richard, “The Paranoid Style in American Politics,” 9–10, 12–13, 14, 19, 22, 44, 117, 205, 222
Holocaust, deniers of, 281, 283, 420
Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C., 307–8
Homeland Security Department, U.S., 303–6, 309–11
Homintern, 79-80, 82
homosexuals, 79–82, 229
Hoover, J. Edgar, 158, 161, 166, 167
Horowitz, Mitch, 152
Horsmanden, Daniel, 86, 89, 92, 362
House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC), 76, 107, 144, 310
House Divided speech, 8, 345
House Select Committee on Assassinations, 167
Howard, Robert E., 192
Hubbard, William, 28
Hubbell, Webster, 10
Hughes, Howard, 73, 168
Hughson, John, 84, 86, 90, 91, 92, 95
Human Events,
80
Hume, David, 333
Hunt, E. Howard, 165, 168
Hunt, Henry T., 44
Hurricane Katrina, 285, 306–7
Huston, Tom Charles, 161, 167
Hutaree, 314–15
Hutchinson, Thomas, 116
hypnosis, 58, 61–62, 258
I AM Activity, 142–44
Icke, David, 322
I Led 3 Lives
(TV), 73–74
Illuminati, 117–19, 141, 187, 197–201, 288, 289, 290, 325, 328, 369-70, 375, 389, 391, 419
Alumbrados,
28, 117
anti-Illuminati panic, 291
Bavarian, 117, 137, 199, 240, 248, 329
Berkeley, 242, 398
and Discordians, 240–43
and Freemasonry, 117, 118, 121–23, 329
games, 248–49, 252, 328, 419
and Great Seal, 328, 329
Illuminatus!,
234, 243–44, 248–49, 329
Illuminés
, 117
and Internet, 329–30
Julia and the Illuminated Baron,
119
and mass culture, 329–31
and 9/11, 328
Roshaniyya
, 117
and Weishaupt, 117, 242
and witchcraft, 187–89, 190, 196, 218
Illuminati
(game), 248-49
Illuminati: New World Order
(game), 248-49, 419
I Married a Monster from Outer Space
(film), 71
immigrants, 44, 57, 102–3, 318–19
improvisational millenialism, 276
Indians:
converts to Christianity, 30–31
creation myths of, 28
on Deer Island, 30, 42
as Enemy Outside, 24–32, 34–40, 267, 270, 272–73
and Ghost Dance, 36, 37–38, 40
imagined conspiracies of, 29–30, 269, 300
as lost tribes of Israel, 28, 59
and religion, 32, 34
as Satan’s disciples, 23–32
superchiefs, 29, 36, 45
and witch hunts, 51, 52
Inner Government of the World, 138
Innovator,
239, 241
Institute for Historical Review, 281
Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 14, 163, 164, 311–12
International Legion of Vigilantes, 141
Internet:
and ARGs, 325–27
and conspiracy subculture, 276, 284–85, 320, 329–30
and Illuminati, 329–30
and terrorism fears, 302–3
warrantless surveillance on, 303
Web, 324–25, 331–32
Invaders from Mars
(film), 70
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
(1956 film), 47, 67–69, 70–71, 73–74, 178–80
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
(1978 film), 178
“Investigation, The” (TV), 181–83
Invisible College, 151
INWO: SubGenius
(game), 252
Iran-Contra, 166, 216, 268, 269, 270
Iraq occupation, 271
Irish-American workers, 102–3
Iron Mountain, 229–30, 254
Islam, Afrika, 276, 286, 329
Islamist movement, 45, 286, 287, 335
It Came from Outer Space
(film), 69, 70, 78
It Conquered the World
(film), 71
Jackson, Andrew, 3–4,
6
, 122, 123–25, 131–32, 418
Jackson, Steve, 248–49, 252, 328
Jacobs, Harriet, 94, 363
Jameson, Fredric, 174
Jarriel, Tom, 212, 213–15
Jaws
(film), 178
Jay-Z, 329–30
Jefferson, Thomas, 110–11, 115, 118, 120–21, 151
Jenkins, Philip, 377-78
Jesuits, 56–58, 117, 140
Jesus Movement, 202, 204
Jewish Defense League, 288
Jewish Right, 200
Jews, 197–200, 208–9, 287–91, 327, 288
JFK
(film), 400
John Birch Society, 13, 14, 17, 105, 107, 117, 199, 200, 203, 240, 249, 250, 258, 287, 293, 366, 388
Johns, Stephen Tyrone, 307, 308
Johnson, Andrew, 7
Johnson, Daryl, 309–10, 412-13, 415
Johnson, David K., 80, 81, 82, 229
Johnson, Ithamar, 59
Johnson, James, 289
Johnson, K. Paul, 138
Johnson, Lyndon B., 108, 165, 166, 228, 250
Johnson, William, 93
Jones, Alex, 329
Jones, Rev. Jim, 170, 171
Jones, Tasha, 330
Jonestown, 170–72, 255
Joseph, Peter, 321
“Jose Chung’s
From Outer Space
” (TV), 295-96
Judge, John, 169
Justified Ancients of Mummu, 243
Kameny, Frank, 81
Kane, Jamie, 325, 326, 327
Karl, Jonathan, 289
Katzenjammer Kids, The
(comic), 40,
41
Keel, John, 223–27, 252, 393, 398, 408-9