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63 Documents the Government Doesn't Want You to Read
Written by Dick Russell and Jesse Ventura
Narrated by George K Wilson
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There's the Freedom of Information Act, and then there's Ventura's way.
The official spin on numerous government programs is flat-out bull, according to Jesse Ventura. In this incredible collection of actual government documents, Ventura, the ultimate nonpartisan truth-seeker, proves it beyond any doubt. He and Dick Russell walk listeners through sixty-three of the most incriminating programs to reveal what really happens behind the closed doors. In addition to providing original government data, Ventura discusses what it really means and how regular Americans can stop criminal behavior at the top levels of government and in the media. Among the cases discussed:
-The CIA's top-secret program to control human behavior
-Operation Northwoods: the military plan to hijack airplanes and blame it on Cuban terrorists
-The discovery of a secret Afghan archive, information that never left the boardroom
-Potentially deadly healthcare cover-ups, including a dengue fever outbreak
-What the Department of Defense knows about our food supply but is keeping mum
Although these documents are now in the public domain, the powers that be would just as soon they stay under wraps. Ventura's research and commentary sheds new light on what they're not telling you-and why it matters.
The official spin on numerous government programs is flat-out bull, according to Jesse Ventura. In this incredible collection of actual government documents, Ventura, the ultimate nonpartisan truth-seeker, proves it beyond any doubt. He and Dick Russell walk listeners through sixty-three of the most incriminating programs to reveal what really happens behind the closed doors. In addition to providing original government data, Ventura discusses what it really means and how regular Americans can stop criminal behavior at the top levels of government and in the media. Among the cases discussed:
-The CIA's top-secret program to control human behavior
-Operation Northwoods: the military plan to hijack airplanes and blame it on Cuban terrorists
-The discovery of a secret Afghan archive, information that never left the boardroom
-Potentially deadly healthcare cover-ups, including a dengue fever outbreak
-What the Department of Defense knows about our food supply but is keeping mum
Although these documents are now in the public domain, the powers that be would just as soon they stay under wraps. Ventura's research and commentary sheds new light on what they're not telling you-and why it matters.
Author
Dick Russell
Dick Russell has written for such varied publications as Time, Sports Illustrated, and the Village Voice.His books include The Man Who Knew Too Much, Black Genius, and On the Trail of the JFK Assassins. He is also the coauthor of several New York Times bestsellers, including American Conspiracies, 63 Documents the Government Doesn't Want You to Read, and They Killed Our President.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Ventura could have no doubt listed more (likely many, many more) than just the 63 documents within this book.
Amazing the evilness behind closed doors in Washington: be it the Pentagon or the White House.
Rumsfeld, Cheney, and Baby Bush have made billions of dollars for themselves and their friends and I feel they knew about 9/11 before it occurred. The most horrible documents are the tale of massive Stock purchasing that went on in the days leading up to the Twin Tower impacts. The 9/11 investigation didn't bother following through on this, nor how Building #7 just fell on its own and that (strangely enough?) the offices of one of those current Stock transactions had to do with a particular company located there (besides branch locations of both Secret Service and the CIA). Overall somebody made 16 Billion and it was never truly investigated and that the key investigators were told to drop the searching for further information! Smacks of a coverup to the greatest degree and a vast majority of the public swallowed it hook, line, and sinker. In fact, they swallowed the whole boat.
The Government is the most dangerous on things they cannot control. And knowledge is a dangerous thing when the public obtains it outside what the Government wants them to know. - Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5More a compilation of government documents than anything else. Some interesting, but nothing that shocking if you regularly read the news.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Audiobook. Interesting, but this is not a scholarly work of investigative journalism. Feels tossed off to make money. De-classified documents introduced very briefly by the author. If you haven't read American Conspiracy, read that instead. It is much better.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Jesse provides some interesting information. He provides significant portions of the source documents, which verifies much of the accuracy of the concerns associated with the issues. I must admit that although some of it was interesting, other information was not. It is not surprising to me that over the US government's history that a number of dishonorable to illegal activities have occurred. Consider our beginnings by pushing out the rightful inhabitants of North America.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Unlike in his previous book, American Conspiracies, this time around Ventura actually provides documentation in support of his conspiracy theories. Unfortunately, in most cases his conclusions simply don't follow from the documents he presents, and in some cases are outright contradicted by them.Also, some of the documents that he seems to think are the most shocking and to which he devotes a lot of space are really pretty tame, unless you're incredibly naive I guess...for instance, he includes a lengthy transcript of a senate committee hearing with an army doctor about the U.S. military's use of biological and chemical agents (including defoliants) during the Vietnam war---and about the worst thing that actually comes out in the interview is that the army accidentally killed a few sheep in Utah (for which they compensated the owners).He also includes some things that hardly qualify as "documents the government doesn't want you to read"...for instance, the schedule of a conference of free-market advocates, the only really scary thing about which is that Glenn Beck was one of the speakers.Ventura is also rather inconsistent at times. For instance, in American Conspiracies he argued that we should have state-run healthcare---pointing to, as his shining example, the VA system. "If it's good enough for veterans, it should be good enough for the rest of us," he writes...and yet here, after Obamacare was rammed through the Senate, he provides actual documentation of how inefficient and ineffective the VA really is to show what a raw deal the veterans are getting (the document he provides concludes that "the VA is killing veterans slowly through bureaucratic processes," even driving some to suicide...this is what we have to look forward to under Obamacare, folks!). Nice work, Jesse! You can't have it both ways.Despite these and other flaws and shortcomings, however, many of the documents presented here are interesting, and some outrageous, in their own right. For that reason, this book is much better than his previous one, and perhaps worth a read.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This book was a really good book in revealing government activity that takes away liberty from the people. I think that we need more books like this, and it is a good reference for specific ways in which our government is getting overgrown. The reason why I only gave this book a three-star rating is because I feel like some of the documents included in the book were not that impressive. There is a lot of evidence out there that shows that the government is infringing on its people, but many of these documents were sometimes poor indicators of that. In other words, there could have been stronger documents included, but for the most part they were good documents.Concept of the book is amazing, but lacking a little on the details.