agenticity, 337–38, 421
Agnew, Spiro, 169
A.I. (film), 325
Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, U.S. Bureau of (ATF), 209–10, 270
aliens, 54, 59, 144–45, 223–26
and angels, 146, 149
films about, 69–71, 77–79, 178–80, 252–54, 296–97
Alien Registration Act (1940), 76
Al-Ikhlas, Rasul, 286
Allen, Gary, 105–8, 130, 200, 203, 240, 289, 366, 390
Allende, Salvador, 254
All the President’s Men (film), 174
Al Qaeda, 45, 300–301, 410
alternate reality games (ARGs), 325–28, 331–32
alternate universes, 324–25
Altman, Robert, 383
Alumbrados, 28, 117
American Revolution, 113–14, 116
Anderson, Jack, 163
Andros, Edmund, 32, 351
angels, 133–36, 145–50
Angels & Demons (film), 330
Anson, Robert Sam, They’ve Killed the President, 246
Antelman, Rabbi Marvin S., To Eliminate the Opiate, 200
anti-Catholicism, 34–35, 56, 61, 91, 205, 372
anti-Communism, 141, 205, 317
Anti-Defamation League, 278
Anti-Federalists, 112–13, 316
Anti-Masonic Party, 122–23, 205, 291, 356, 371
anti-Semitism, 140–41, 144, 197–200, 208–9, 287–91, 308, 377, 388, 396, 420
antiterrorism, 297, 299–307
apocalypse, 202–7, 209–11, 302
apophenia, 335–36
Aquarian Conspiracy, 142, 376
Aqua Teen Hunger Force (TV), 302
Árbenz, Jacobo, 253
Archer, Anne, 267, 403
Arise! (video), 252
Arlington Road (film), 293–94
Armageddon, 202–3
Articles of Confederation, 111–12, 116
Aryan Nations, 278, 289
Ascended Masters, 138–39, 140, 141, 142, 145, 146, 149
Ashley, James Mitchell, 7
Associated Press, 230, 333
Astley, Rick, 332
Atlanta, child murders, 128, 211
Baca, George, 93–94, 95
Bacon, Francis, 151, 376
The New Atlantis, 134, 140
Bahrdt, Charles Frederick, 369
Bailey, Alice, 139
Bailyn, Bernard, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, 113–14, 116
Baldwin, Chuck, 304
Baldwin, Craig, 252–54
Ballard, Guy, 142, 144
Unveiled Mysteries, 143
Bambaataa, Afrika, 286
bankers, conspiracy of, 12, 123–25, 131, 140, 141, 187, 197, 199, 241, 242, 244, 321, 335, 387, 398
Banner, Bob, 281–83, 406
Banner, James, 121
Barbados, slave rebellions in, 87
Barker, Gray, 225–27, 394, 398
They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers, 225, 227
Barker, William, 53
Barkun, Michael, 199, 276, 300–301
Barlow, John Perry, 136
Barr, Bob, 304
Barruel, Augustin, Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism, 118, 197
Baum, L. Frank, 39–40, 70, 138
The Sea Fairies, 125
BBC, 326–27
Beard, Charles, 369
Beast, The (game), 325–26, 327, 417
Beatles, 203, 204, 346
Beck, Glenn, 14–15, 308, 318
Beecher, Rev. Henry Ward, 7
Being John Malkovich (film), 323
Being There (film), 178
Beirich, Heidi, 320
Bell, Arthur L., 141, 142, 377
Benevolent Conspiracy, 16, 335
angels, 133–36, 145–50
Ascended Masters, 138–39, 146, 149
Great White Brotherhood, 138, 139, 140–41, 142
in Illuminatus!, 244
in Theosophy, 137–39, 140–41
Rosicrucians, 136–40, 150–51
Bennett, John C., 62
Berne, Eric, 327
Berry, Rev. Tom, 191, 207
Best, Joel, 301
Best, Stewart, 230–31
Biafra, Jello, 211
Billington, James H., 369–70
bin Laden, Osama, 45, 300–301, 332
birthers, 317–20
Birth of a Nation, The (film), 100
Black Dragon Society, 104
Black Hills War, 35–36
Black Mass, 55, 242
Black Muslims, 287
Black Panthers, 130, 159, 162, 239, 383
Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna, 137–39, 140, 142, 144, 389
Boing Boing, 326–27
Bonaparte, Napoleon, 120
Bond, James, 161, 175, 241, 300
Bonewits, Isaac, 195
Book of Revelation, 255
Boston Gazette, 115
Boyer, Paul, Salem Possessed, 52
Brady, Mildred Edie, 237, 396
Brain Eaters, The (film), 71
brainwashing, 21–22, 74–75, 165, 170–71, 284, 359
Branch Davidians, 210–11, 213, 270, 276, 277, 279, 285, 286
Britain:
and colonies, 109–15, 120
Glorious Revolution (1688), 109
rockers and mods in, 11
at war with Spain, 89, 92
witch hunts in, 51
Brooks, Elbridge Streeter, 36
Brown, Charles Brockden, 370
Brown, Dan, 330–31
Angels & Demons, 330
Da Vinci Code, The, 330–31
Brown, John, 95–96, 104
Brown, Rebecca, 205
Brown, Tony, 289, 407–8
Brown Scare (anti-Mexican), 360
Brown Scare (anti-Right), 76, 142, 173, 294, 310
Brunn, James Wenneker von, 307–8
Brussell, Mae, 169–70, 171–72, 184, 196, 229, 245, 256
Bryan, Gerald, Psychic Dictatorship in America, 143–44
Bryan, William Jennings, 12
Buchanan, James, 4–5, 18
Buckley, William, Jr., 240
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV), 330
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George, 138
Burke, Edmund, 109
Burnham, Sophy, 152
A Book of Angels, 146–48
Burroughs, Rev. George, 52
Burroughs, William, 71, 75, 360
Burton, Mary, 88, 89
Bush, George H. W., 277
Bush, George W., 300, 316, 317, 346, 410
Butler, Richard, 289
Byrne, David, 252
Caesar (slave), 88
Calhoun, John, 4
Campbell, John W., Jr., Who Goes There?, 70
Campbell, W. Joseph, 21
Canfield, Michael, Coup d’Etat in America, 168, 258
Cantor, Paul, 295
Cantril, Hadley, 20
Capricorn One (film), 178
Carlsson, Carole, 202
Carmichael, Stokely, 131
Carpenter, John, 358
Carter, Chris, 417
Carter, Jimmy, 167
as antichrist, 191
as zombified robot, 283
Carr, William Guy, 198, 199, 201, 408
Catawba Meeting House, Virginia, 94
Catholics, as Enemy Outside, 34–35, 56, 61, 62, 88, 91, 92, 103, 205
Cell, The (film), 323
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 17, 80, 125, 161, 164–65, 166, 170, 246, 248, 253–54, 331
chaos:
patterns in, 337
worship of, 222, 231–44
Chapman, Allan, 241
Chartier, Gary, 189
Cheepie, 35
Chermak, Steven, 278
Chess, Caron, 306–7
Chick, Jack T., 188, 190, 196, 201, 205, 206, 250, 386, 389, 392
child abuse, 211–16
Chomsky, Noam, 165–66, 167
Christian Anti-Commun
ist Crusade, 240, 254
Christian Crusade, 14
Christian Identity movement, 208, 278
Church, Frank, 164, 165
Churchill, Robert, 278–79, 290, 314
Churchill, Winston, 197–98
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, see Mormons
Church of the SubGenius, 249–52, 255, 284, 400
Church’s Chicken, 129
Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI, 162
Civilian Material Assistance, 270
Civil War, U.S., 132, 136
Clark, Mark, 162
Clark, Ramsey, 108
Clarke, Lee, 306–7
Clay, Henry, 122, 131–32
Clinton, Bill, 10, 292–93, 319, 408
Clinton, Hillary, 318
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (film), 384
Coakley, Martha, 302
Cody, Buffalo Bill, 36
Cohen, Stanley, 10–12
COINTELPRO, 158–62, 164, 166, 167, 169, 171, 239
Cokely, Steve, 288
Cold War, 14, 71, 80, 277, 297
Colton, Rev. Calvin, Protestant Jesuitism, 56–58
Columbus, Christopher, 134, 140
Comintern, 79, 201
Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, 166
Committee on Public Information, 42–44, 43
Communism:
anti-Communism, 141, 205, 317
films about, 73–75
and homosexuals, 80
and Illuminati, 201, 248
and liberals, 293
and race riots, 105–8
Red Scares, 13, 23, 73, 75, 76, 103–5, 162, 237, 293
Condon, Richard, 296
The Manchurian Candidate, 74–75
Winter Kills, 176
Congress, U.S., threats against members of, 312–13
Conspiracy (game), 400
Conspiracy Dessert Club, 401
Conspiracy Digest, 221, 244–46, 283
“Conspiracy Fandom,” 283–85
Conspiracy for the Day, 284–85, 329
Conspiracy Nation, 285
conspiracy theories, 8–9, 161, 216
defectors spreading tales of, 205
in economic downturns, 14–15, 93–94
fanzines, 221, 283–85
fear of insurrection, 95, 108
as folklore, 15, 16–17, 221
and Internet, 276, 284–85, 320, 329–30
primal myths of, 16
secret societies, 199
in wartime, 27, 89
conspiracy thriller movies, 1970s, 172–78
Constitution, U.S., 112–13, 115–16, 120
constitutionalists, 290, 314
Continental Congress, 111
Conversation, The (film), 176
Coode, John, 32, 351
Coogan, Gertrude, 199
Cooper, William (ufologist), 288–89
Behold a Pale Horse, 284, 288
Cooper, William (rapper), 289
Cooter, Amy, 314
Coppola, Francis Ford, 176, 177
Corman, Roger, 387
Cosby, William, 89
Cosmatos, George, 266, 403
Council of 13, 187, 201
Council of 33, 187, 201
Council of 500, 187
Council on Foreign Relations, 187, 200, 335
Counter Terrorism Operations Center, 303
Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord, The (CSA), 208–10
Cover-Up Lowdown (comic), 246–48, 247
Critique, 281, 282–83
Crowley, Aleister, 376
Crowley, John, vii
Cuffee (slave), 85, 89, 90
Cumbey, Constance, 142
Cunningham, David, 158
Curry, James, 229
Custer, George Armstrong, 36
Dabney, Charles W., 12
Dalí, Salvador, 336
Daly, Michael, 320
Daniel, Clifton, 183–84
Danites, 63, 65
Dark City (film), 322
Davidson, Gustav, A Dictionary of Angels, 146
Da Vinci Code, The (film), 330
Davis, David Brion, 61, 62
Day of the Dead, The (film), 364
Dean, John, 163
Declaration of Independence, 111, 120, 135, 140, 151, 367, 370
Dee, John, 145–46, 151, 378
Deep Throat, 166–67
Dees, Morris, 278
Demiurge cycle, 323–24
De Niro, Robert, 405
Dennehy, Brian, 263
DePugh, Robert, 14
Dery, Mark, 221
Destroying Angels, 63–64
Dick, Philip K., 322, 323–24
VALIS, 417
Dies, Martin, 104, 237
Dirks, Nicholas, 166
Disch, Thomas M., 221, 393
Discordians, 221, 231–33, 239–43, 248, 249, 252, 257
Dobbs, J. R. “Bob”, 249–50, 252, 255
Dobbs, Lou, 318–19
Doherty, Thomas, 73–4
Dollins, Stephen, 328, 418
Domino Principle, The (film), 176–78
Donahue, Phil, 192, 387
Donnelly, Ignatius, 376
Donnie Darko (film), 322
Dorson, Richard, 35
Douglas, Stephen, 7
Dowdy, John, 81
Downard, James Shelby, 420
Downs, Hugh, 213, 215
Doyle, Arthur Conan, A Study in Scarlet, 65
Drake, James David, 26, 29
Drummond, Philo (pseud.), 250
Duffield, Rev. George, 6
Dulles, Allen, 254
Dungeons & Dragons, 206, 216
Dunsany, Reginald (pseud.), 229
Dwight, Timothy, 118
Dye, John Smith, 4–7, 18, 196, 344
The Adder’s Den, 5–6
Dylan, Bob, 168
East Village Other (EVO), 219–22, 241, 220
Eastwood, Clint, 176
Eckartshausen, Karl von, 137
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
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 abu
se, 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