Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    63 Documents the Government Doesn't Want You to Read
    63 Documents the Government Doesn't Want You to Read
    63 Documents the Government Doesn't Want You to Read
    Audiobook12 hours

    63 Documents the Government Doesn't Want You to Read

    Written by Dick Russell and Jesse Ventura

    Narrated by George K Wilson

    3.5/5

    ()

    Switch to ebook

    About this audiobook

    There's the Freedom of Information Act, and then there's Ventura's way.

    The official spin on numerous government programs is flat-out bull, according to Jesse Ventura. In this incredible collection of actual government documents, Ventura, the ultimate nonpartisan truth-seeker, proves it beyond any doubt. He and Dick Russell walk listeners through sixty-three of the most incriminating programs to reveal what really happens behind the closed doors. In addition to providing original government data, Ventura discusses what it really means and how regular Americans can stop criminal behavior at the top levels of government and in the media. Among the cases discussed:

    -The CIA's top-secret program to control human behavior

    -Operation Northwoods: the military plan to hijack airplanes and blame it on Cuban terrorists

    -The discovery of a secret Afghan archive, information that never left the boardroom

    -Potentially deadly healthcare cover-ups, including a dengue fever outbreak

    -What the Department of Defense knows about our food supply but is keeping mum

    Although these documents are now in the public domain, the powers that be would just as soon they stay under wraps. Ventura's research and commentary sheds new light on what they're not telling you-and why it matters.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateMar 31, 2011
    ISBN9781452671116
    Author

    Dick Russell

    Dick Russell has written for such varied publications as Time, Sports Illustrated, and the Village Voice.His books include The Man Who Knew Too Much, Black Genius, and On the Trail of the JFK Assassins. He is also the coauthor of several New York Times bestsellers, including American Conspiracies, 63 Documents the Government Doesn't Want You to Read, and They Killed Our President.

    More audiobooks from Dick Russell

    Related to 63 Documents the Government Doesn't Want You to Read

    Related audiobooks

    International Relations For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      ‘Pale Horse Rider’ Examines the Life of William Cooper, Where Conspiracy Blurs with Fact

      Aug 29, 2018

      You’ve seen home videos like it: family scurrying in a kitchen while preparing a holiday meal. A father carrying a turkey to the counter to be carved; a mother washing dishes. Young daughters, anxious, watching the whole mess. Hours of recorded foota

      4 min read

    • Article

      Epstein's Death Reflects Our New Age Of Conspiracy Theories

      Aug 14, 2019

      Anyone who's watched a courtroom TV drama has heard the phrase "Hard cases make bad law." It's a legal maxim that says really extreme -- i.e., rare or weird -- cases are not only hard to generalize from, they're also a bad foundation for new legislat

      3 min read

    • Article

      Trump's War Against Leakers Shows Why We Need A Federal 'Shield Law'

      Jun 13, 2018

      Imagine for a moment that you have received a very official looking letter. It turns out to be a notice from the U.S. Justice Department to let you know that -- Surprise! -- you are being searched. Years of your telephone and email records have been

      3 min read

    • Article

      In Praise of Leaks

      Jan 22, 2018

      TO WATCH STEVEN SPIELBERG’S THE POST IS TO SEE HOW much has changed since the Supreme Court allowed publication of the Pentagon Papers in 1971. Back then, the court’s liberal majority espoused the right to publish leaks, especially those in the publi

      5 min read

    • Article

      Conspiracy Theories Rising In US Politics: Why Now?

      Oct 29, 2019

      Why are conspiracy theories so prevalent? When the other side is deemed a villain, conspiracy theories are easier to accept.

      7 min read

    • Article

      QAnon And On: Why The Fight Against Extremist Conspiracies Is Far From Over

      Jun 20, 2021

      On 7 January this year, a day after the mob stormed the Capitol in Washington DC, a curious exchange occurred in the netherworld of global conspiracy. Alex Jones, the rasp-voiced mouthpiece of fake news for the past decade, was in conversation with t

      11 min read

    • Article

      Security Breakdown

      Feb 5, 2021

      Security Breakdown
      7 min read

    • Article

      A Confederacy of Grift

      Feb 10, 2019

      A Confederacy of Grift
      7 min read

    • Article

      Bigly Brother

      Feb 1, 2017

      Donald Trump has inherited a ready-made surveillance state. Will he use it to impose absolute power?

      4 min read

    • Article

      What You Need To Know About The Flynn, Biden And 'Unmasking' Story

      May 14, 2020

      The story is complicated, and the complexity starts with the underlying practice at issue in the Michael Flynn saga: "unmasking."

      4 min read

    • Article

      How 9/11 Created A Spy State

      Sep 10, 2021

      How 9/11 Created A Spy State
      8 min read

    • Article

      The Massive Case Of Collective Amnesia: The FBI Has Been Political From The Start

      Jan 26, 2018

      The fact is — controversy about the FBI is anything but new. And political goals of one kind or another have been part of the reason for the agency since its inception.

      5 min read

    • Article

      Paranoia Strikes Deep In Trump's Politics

      Jan 31, 2018

      My fellow Americans, the state of our union is (Drumroll, please) paranoid. The complex of mysteries known as "the Russia investigation" has become tangled up in conspiracy theories voiced by President Donald Trump's Republican allies and his friends

      3 min read

    • Article

      The Real FISA Scandal

      Feb 4, 2018

      The Real FISA Scandal
      4 min read

    • Article

      Who Is A Journalist? Don't Let The Government Decide

      Jun 4, 2019

      WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's indictment under the Espionage Act is so controversial that at least two of his prosecutors argued against the decision to indict. Significantly, we know this because it was leaked to news media. Leaks to the media

      3 min read

    • Article

      Questioning Intelligence

      Jul 19, 2018

      Did President Trump bungle the moment in Helsinki by casting doubt on American intelligence findings that Russian agents "meddled" in the 2016 election? His critics, including some Republicans, say so -- and on Tuesday, Trump said he had misspoken wh

      3 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for 63 Documents the Government Doesn't Want You to Read

    3.5/5

    35 ratings6 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 5/5
      Ventura could have no doubt listed more (likely many, many more) than just the 63 documents within this book.

      Amazing the evilness behind closed doors in Washington: be it the Pentagon or the White House.

      Rumsfeld, Cheney, and Baby Bush have made billions of dollars for themselves and their friends and I feel they knew about 9/11 before it occurred. The most horrible documents are the tale of massive Stock purchasing that went on in the days leading up to the Twin Tower impacts. The 9/11 investigation didn't bother following through on this, nor how Building #7 just fell on its own and that (strangely enough?) the offices of one of those current Stock transactions had to do with a particular company located there (besides branch locations of both Secret Service and the CIA). Overall somebody made 16 Billion and it was never truly investigated and that the key investigators were told to drop the searching for further information! Smacks of a coverup to the greatest degree and a vast majority of the public swallowed it hook, line, and sinker. In fact, they swallowed the whole boat.

      The Government is the most dangerous on things they cannot control. And knowledge is a dangerous thing when the public obtains it outside what the Government wants them to know.
    • 2/5
      More a compilation of government documents than anything else. Some interesting, but nothing that shocking if you regularly read the news.
    • 2/5
      Audiobook. Interesting, but this is not a scholarly work of investigative journalism. Feels tossed off to make money. De-classified documents introduced very briefly by the author. If you haven't read American Conspiracy, read that instead. It is much better.
    • 2/5
      Jesse provides some interesting information. He provides significant portions of the source documents, which verifies much of the accuracy of the concerns associated with the issues. I must admit that although some of it was interesting, other information was not. It is not surprising to me that over the US government's history that a number of dishonorable to illegal activities have occurred. Consider our beginnings by pushing out the rightful inhabitants of North America.
    • 3/5
      Unlike in his previous book, American Conspiracies, this time around Ventura actually provides documentation in support of his conspiracy theories. Unfortunately, in most cases his conclusions simply don't follow from the documents he presents, and in some cases are outright contradicted by them.Also, some of the documents that he seems to think are the most shocking and to which he devotes a lot of space are really pretty tame, unless you're incredibly naive I guess...for instance, he includes a lengthy transcript of a senate committee hearing with an army doctor about the U.S. military's use of biological and chemical agents (including defoliants) during the Vietnam war---and about the worst thing that actually comes out in the interview is that the army accidentally killed a few sheep in Utah (for which they compensated the owners).He also includes some things that hardly qualify as "documents the government doesn't want you to read"...for instance, the schedule of a conference of free-market advocates, the only really scary thing about which is that Glenn Beck was one of the speakers.Ventura is also rather inconsistent at times. For instance, in American Conspiracies he argued that we should have state-run healthcare---pointing to, as his shining example, the VA system. "If it's good enough for veterans, it should be good enough for the rest of us," he writes...and yet here, after Obamacare was rammed through the Senate, he provides actual documentation of how inefficient and ineffective the VA really is to show what a raw deal the veterans are getting (the document he provides concludes that "the VA is killing veterans slowly through bureaucratic processes," even driving some to suicide...this is what we have to look forward to under Obamacare, folks!). Nice work, Jesse! You can't have it both ways.Despite these and other flaws and shortcomings, however, many of the documents presented here are interesting, and some outrageous, in their own right. For that reason, this book is much better than his previous one, and perhaps worth a read.
    • 3/5
      This book was a really good book in revealing government activity that takes away liberty from the people. I think that we need more books like this, and it is a good reference for specific ways in which our government is getting overgrown. The reason why I only gave this book a three-star rating is because I feel like some of the documents included in the book were not that impressive. There is a lot of evidence out there that shows that the government is infringing on its people, but many of these documents were sometimes poor indicators of that. In other words, there could have been stronger documents included, but for the most part they were good documents.Concept of the book is amazing, but lacking a little on the details.