Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies: The Straight Scoop on Freemasons, The Illuminati, Skull and Bones, Black Helicopters,

Did you know? Freemasonrys first American lodge included a young Benjamin Franklin among its members. The Knights Templarbegan as impoverished warrior monks then evolved into bankers. Groom Lake, Dreamland, Homey Airport, Paradise Ranch, The Farm, Watertown Strip, Red Square, The Box, are all names for Area 51.An indispensable guide, Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies connects the dots and sets the record straight on a host of greedy gurus and murderous messiahs, crepuscular cabals and suspicious coincidences. Some topics are familiarthe Kennedy assassinations, the Bilderberg Group, the Illuminati, the Peoples Temple and Heavens Gateand some surprising, like Oulipo, a select group of intellectuals who created wild formulas for creating literary masterpieces, and the Chauffeurs, an eighteenthcentury society of French home invaders, who set fire to their victims feet.