Cults Conspiracies and Secret Societies

Did you know? <p/>- Freemasonry's first American lodge included a young Benjamin Franklin among its members. <p/>- The Knights Templar<b> </b>began as impoverished warrior monks then evolved into bankers. <p/>- Groom Lake Dreamland Homey Airport Paradise Ranch The Farm Watertown Strip Red Square The Box are all names for Area 51. <p/>An indispensable guide <b>Cults Conspiracies and Secret Societies</b> 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 familiar--the Kennedy assassinations the Bilderberg Group the Illuminati the People's Temple and Heaven's Gate--and some surprising like Oulipo a select group of intellectuals who created wild formulas for creating literary masterpieces and the Chauffeurs an eighteenth-century society of French home invaders who set fire to their victims' feet.