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Something New From The Prolific Jim Marrs

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            Shortly after this interview with Jim Marrs about his new book “The Rise Of The Fourth Reich” was conducted, the ever-prolific author published another new volume of facts and educated speculation on conspiracy theory called “Above Top Secret: Uncover the Mysteries of the Digital  Age.”

            “Above Top Secret” is written in combination with a website of the same name, which had the humblest of beginnings in 1997 when it was created by a British teenager named Simon Gray. The site has since expanded to almost 1.8 million pages of content and receives nearly 2 million visits each month. Those numbers are further testimony to the fact that conspiracy theory is growing ever closer to more familiar mainstream schools of thought.

            Marrs’ newest book is skillfully formatted for easy understanding and perusal. Each chapter begins with a breakdown of the material according to the patterns young reporters are taught in the early portion of journalism school, the Who, What, When, Where and Why of a story. Each chapter also lists an address on the AboveTopSecret.com website for the reader to visit for more information on a given topic. The book and website go hand-in-hand quite neatly and taken together are user-friendly and extremely informative.

            It is the availability of information that is crucial to a general public only slowly awaking to the discovery that all is not as the government and straight media would have us believe.

            “Contrary to an old adage,” Marrs writes in his introduction to “Above Top Secret,” “what you don’t know CAN harm you. One may be the most highly intelligent person in the world, but if he or she is operating on erroneous or incomplete information, a truthful and correct conclusion on any issue is impossible.”

            Marrs, who served in Vietnam as an intelligence officer, among his other credits,  continues by saying that he has done the legwork involved in searching through old books and surfing the Net and thus has spared the reader from doing all that himself. At the same time, the research process has made him one of the country’s top experts on just what it is that is lurking beneath the surface of our everyday reality—an egregious iceberg of secrecy and oppression that has yet to come out in the cold light of day and make its authority felt undeniably and unequivocally, though it seems to be threatening to do so more all the time.

            Some of the subjects covered in “Above Top Secret” are conspiracy theories surrounding the 911 terrorist attacks, the Air Force’s clumsy handling of the aftermath of the 2008 UFO sightings in Stephenville, Texas, the JFK assassination, the mysterious chemtrails reported throughout the country, and the possibility of a secret base located somewhere in Antarctica that was constructed while World War Two raged on and has since housed escaped Nazis and served as a base of operations for them.

In other words, a smorgasbord of paranoia and genuine intrigue that many readers will find fascinating. 

–Sean Casteel