The Gemstone File - A Memoir: Bibliography

The Gemstone File - A Memoir
20th century history for grown-ups
by Stephanie Caruana

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Alan, Richard. (pseudonym) The Gemstone File: Sixty Years of Corrupt Manipulation Within World Government; Detailing the Events Surrounding the Assassination of JFK, Columbus, Ohio, Crown Publishing Co., 1992.
Four hundred pages of documentation, consisting of reproduction of articles from major magazines and newspapers, from the '30's to the '90's. Compiled over many years by a man from Columbus Ohio who received a copy of the Skeleton Key to the Gemstone File from Larry Flynt personally in 1976, only a few days before Larry was shot in the back in Georgia to prevent him from investigating its allegations. Limited (2000 ppb copies), OOP, costly on secondhand market, (try Amazon.com), but the ultimate refutation of the "Caruana and Roberts are from outer space/undocumented/insane/disinformation/ etc." school of "thought."

Carroll, Gerald A. Project Seek: Onassis, Kennedy and the Gemstone Thesis, Carson City, Nevada, Bridger House, 1994.
Four hundred pages of excellent documentation and analysis by an expert professional journalist who received his copy from a Native American in 1976, and moved from disbelief to acceptance while doing this research. Good picture section as well.

Keith, Jim, Ed. The Gemstone File, Atlanta, IllumiNet, 1992.
A mixed-bag collection of articles which stirred, or re-stirred, public interest in the 1975-circulated Skeleton Key to the Gemstone File. Includes articles by Mae Brussell, Jonathan Vankin, Robert Anton Wilson, Kerry Thornley, Ben G. Price, and others, and an interview with me. Worth reading, even though the quality and accuracy of the articles is widely varied.

Renzo, Peter. Beyond the Gemstone File, New York, Vantage, 1976.
An early, brief book by a man who currently keeps tigers as pets somewhere in California or Nevada. This 96-page "gem" contained my Skeleton Key, plus a paper called The Philadelphia Experiment, plus a few pages of fantasizing on the part of Peter Renzo. Caveat emptor: Peter may have ordered a reissue from Vantage Press, circa 1990 (??), which is being sold for the highly inflated price of $250.00. This undoubtedly buys a lot of tiger chow, but the buyer is likely to be disappointed.

Thomas, Kenn, and David Hatcher Childress. Inside the Gemstone File, Kempton, Illinois, Adventures Unlimited, 1999.
Kenn Thomas, author, editor, and publisher of Steamshovel Press books, and Steamshovel (periodical) is at the center of a community of "conspiracy theory" writers. He has given many of us a much-needed "home" and a voice. Here he has provided information and items available nowhere else. David Childress has pointed out some of the similarities between Ian Fleming's "James Bond" novels, and the subsequent movies, and the "plot" and characters of the Gemstone File—particularly in the movie version of Diamonds Are Forever. No wonder; as an intelligent and aware British agent, during and after World War II, Ian Fleming would have certainly known a great deal about the hidden machinations of the power stealers. James Bond's arch enemy, the tyrant and super-villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld, is clearly based on the real tyrant and super-villain, Aristotle Onassis, with perhaps a bit of Stavros Niarchos thrown in. The Diamonds Are Forever movie contains clear references to the story of Howard Hughes's kidnap by Onassis, and Onassis's involvement with Las Vegas casinos.

Related Books and Other Media

This is a highly selective bibliography. There are literally hundreds of books available on the JFK assassination, the attempted cover-up, the deaths of witnesses, etc. Hundreds more deal with U.S. history and politics, its current state, and how it got that way. I decided that the most useful bibliography list I could provide would:

be relatively short, so that an interested reader would not be daunted, and might actually consider looking at least a few of the books mentioned;

deal with one (or more) aspect of the Gemstone reality in a realistic way. No aliens from one or another alternate universe will wrap their fingers around your throat! No pols or killers will turn out to be extra-terrestrial robots or quickly-grown and harvested surrogate doubles. Get to know the Mafs and the pols and the CEO's who run and ruin your lives by name, and by company name!

avoid fogland in general. This does not mean that any one of these books will tell you the entire story, or even most, or some, of the truth. Just that, in general, they occupy the same universe with the same or a somewhat or closely related cast of characters and issues as the Gemstone File.

Bartlett, Donald L., and James B. Steele. Empire: The Life, Legend and Madness of Howard Hughes, New York, Norton, 1979.
Bernstein, Carl, and Bob Woodward. All the President's Men, New York, Simon & Schuster, 1974.
--The Final Days, New York, Simon & Schuster, 1976.
Bishop, Jim. The Day Kennedy Was Shot: An Uncensored Minute-by-Minute Account of November 23. New York, Funk & Wagnalls, 1963.
Burns, James MacGregor. Edward Kennedy and the Camelot Legacy. New York, Norton, 1976.
Cafirakis, Christian. The Fabulous Onassis: His Life and Loves, New York, William Morrow, 1972.
Dallas Morning News. The Day JFK Died: Thirty Years Later: The Event that Changed a Generation, Kansas City, Missouri, Andrews & McMeel, 1993.
Damore, Leo. Senatorial Privilege: The Chappaquiddick Cover-up, Washington, D.C., Regnery Gateway, 1988.
Davis, Deborah. Katharine the Great: Katharine Graham and her Washington Post Empire, 1979-1991, New York, Sheridan Square Press, 1991.
Davis, John H. Mafia Kingfish: Carlos Marcello and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy, New York, Signet, 1989.
Demaris, Ovid. The Last Mafioso: "Jimmy the Weasel" Fratianno, New York, Times Books, 1981.
Dietrich, Noah. Howard: The Amazing Mr. Hughes, Greenwich, Connecticut, Fawcett, 1972.
Drosnin, Michael. Citizen Hughes: The Power, the Money, the Madness, New York, Bantam, 1986.
Evans, Peter. Ari: The Life and Times of Aristotle Onassis, New York, Simon & Schuster, 1986.
Fay, Stephen, Chester Lewis and Magnus Linklater. Hoax: The Inside Story of the Howard Hughes-Clifford Irving Affair, New York, Viking, 1972.
Fetzer, James H. Murder in Dealey Plaza: What We Know Now that We Didn't Know Then about the Death of JFK, Chicago, CatFeet Press, 2000.
Giancana, Sam, and Chuck Giancana. Double Cross: The Explosive Inside Story of the Mobster Who Controlled America, New York, Warner Books, 1992.
Graham, Katharine. Personal History, New York, Knopf, 1997.
Groden, Robert J. The Killing of a President: The Complete Photographic Record of the JFK Assassination, The Conspiracy, and the Cover-Up, New York, Viking, 1993.
Higham, Charles. Howard Hughes: The Secret Life, New York, Putnam's, 1993.
Judge, John. Judge for Yourself, Santa Barbara, Prevailing Winds Research, 1990.
Kelley, Kitty. His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra, New York, Bantam, 1986.
King, Stephen. The Stand, New York, Doubleday, 1990.
Liddy, G. Gordon. Will: The Autobiography of G. Gordon Liddy, New York, St. Martin's, 1990.
Marrs, Jim. Crossfire: The Plot that Killed Kennedy, New York, Carroll & Graf, 1989.
McCoy, Alfred W. The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia, New York, Harper & Row, 1972.
New York Times. The White House Transcripts: The Full Text of the Submission of Recorded Presidential Conversations to the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives by President Richard Nixon, New York, Bantam, 1974.
Russo, Gus. The Outfit: The Role of Chicago's Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America, New York, Bloomsbury, 2001.
Skolnick, Sherman. Ahead of the Parade: A Who's Who of Treason and High Crimes: Exclusive Details of Fraud and Corruption of the Monopoly Press, The Banks, The Bench and the Bar, and the Secret Political Police, Tempe, Arizona, Dandelion, 2003.
Strober, Deborah Hart, and Strober, Gerald S. The Nixon Presidency: An Oral History of the Era, Washington, D.C., Brassey's, 2003.
Summers, Anthony. Conspiracy, New York, McGraw-Hill, 1980.
Tackwood, Louis, and C.R.I.C. The Glass House Tapes, New York, Avon, 1973.
Thomas, Kenn, ed. Cyberculture Counterconspiracy: A Steamshovel Web Reader, Escondido, California, The Book Tree, 1999.
Thomas, Kenn, ed. Popular Alienation: A Steamshovel Press Reader, Lilburn, Georgia, Illuminet Press, 1995.
Warren Commission. The Assassination of President Kennedy, New York, McGraw-Hill, 1964.
Whalen, Richard. The Founding Father: The Story of Joseph P. Kennedy and the Family He Raised to Power, New York, Signet, 1964.
Wyden, Peter. Bay of Pigs: The Untold Story, New York, Simon & Schuster, 1979.
Zinn, Howard. A People's History of the United States, 1492 - Present (Perennial Classics). Harper Perennial, 2003.

Emerging Bibliography for the George W. Bush Administration, and
for "9/11": The New (and Worse Than) JFK Assassination

Chomsky, Noam. Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy, New York, Holt, 2006.
Citizens Commission on 9/11. Report: An updated non-partisan analysis of events before, during and after the attacks of Sept/ 11, 2001, and how the War on Terror is changing America. Spirit Lake, Idaho, Idaho Observer, 2006.
Dean, John W. Worse that Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush, New York, Little, Brown, 2004.
Goodman, Amy, and David Goodman. The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media that Love Them, New York, Hyperion, 2004.
Griffin, David Ray. The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11
—The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions. Northampton, MA, Olive Branch, 2005.
Hufschmid, Eric. Painful Questions: An Analysis of the September 11th Attack. Goleta, CA., Endpoint Software, 2002.
Kelley, Kitty. The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty, New York, Doubleday, 2004.
Kucinich, Dennis. A Prayer for America, New York, Thunder's Mouth, 2003.
Marrs, Jim. Inside Job: Unmasking the 9/11 Conspiracies, San Rafael, CA, Origin, 2004.
McCoy, Alfred W. A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror, New York, Holt, 2006.
Moore, Michael. Stupid White Men: and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation, New York, Penguin, 2002.
Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four, New York, Penguin, 2003.
Paul, John, and Hoffman, Jim. Waking Up from Our Nightmare: The 9/11/01 Crimes in New York City. San Francisco, 2004.
Rall, Ted. Generalissimo el Busho, New York, Nantier-Beal-Minoustchine, 2004.
Sands, Philippe. Lawless World: America and the Making and Breaking of Global Rules from FDR's Atlantic Charter to George W. Bush's Illegal War, New York Penguin, 2005.
Vidal, Gore. Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated, New York, Thunder's Mouth Press, 2002.
Vonnegut, Kurt. A Man Without a Country, New York, Seven Stories Press, 2005.
Some Post-9/11 VCR's and DVD's
Achbar, Mark, and Peter Wintonick. Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, Canada, Zeitgeist Video, 1992, DVD.
Achbar, Mark, and Jennifer Abbott. The Corporation, Canada, Zeitgeist Video, 2005, DVD.
Chomsky, Noam. Distorted Morality: America's War on Terror, Los Angeles, Plug Music, 2002, DVD.
Discovery Channel. Unsolved History: JFK: Beyond the Magic Bullet. Silver Spring, MD, 2003, DVD.
Moore, Michael. Fahrenheit 9/11, Culver City, CA, Lions Gate Films and IFC, 2004, DVD.
Hufschmid, Eric. Painful Deceptions: An Analysis of the September 11th Attack. 2002, DVD.
Noujaimi Films. Control Room, Santa Monica, Lions Gate, 2004. DVD.
Vonkleist, Dave. 911: in Plane Site: The Director's Cut, Versailles, MO, The Power Hour, 2004. VCR.

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