From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 13:49:13 -0700 (PDT)
To: Rich Graves <llurch@networking.stanford.edu>
Subject: Re: [NOISE] The Iron Mountain Report
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At 09:33 PM 4/24/96 -0700, Rich Graves wrote:
>The author of the Iron Mountain Report was interviewed on PBS a few weeks
>ago. It was a really over-the-top parody published in 1967.

That's _Nationalized_ Public Radio; any conspiracy that couldn't get
somebody on their denying that they were the secret power behind the 
government is obviously not competent to be the _real_ secret power
behind the government.  The interview just shows how pervasive they are. :-)

Meanwhile, Robert Ludlum's got a new book out, doing another
"hidden Nazis-will-rise-again" conspiracy.  It's ok, though not
as good as his best work.  Among other events, the disinformation
leaked out by the Neo-Nazis frames many prominent people as Nazis,
a critical few of whom really are.  And there's a bad parody of a
fat talk-show host somewhat to the right of Attila the Hun
(Caller: "Double whippo, Arnie!") who gets framed on the air...


>Every once in a while, I get mail asking whether I really have contacts in
>Sendero Luminoso, since a bit of satire I wrote was quoted in the Web
>Review (which made no attempt to contact me before printing the satire as
>my position). 

Foo - even I've had contacts in the Sendero Luminoso, though they
all would have strictly denied it - they were just "good Socialist
college students" and "immigrant refugees" from Peru, which _does_ have
a fairly brutal and sleazy elected dictator.  Not everybody in the
anti-war business is pro-peace.

>Truth is far more fragile than fiction.
Sure, cause fiction's supposed to make sense.
#					Thanks;  Bill
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