1. See Robert Gaylon Ross Sr., Who’s Who of the Elite: Members of the Bilderbergs, Council on Foreign Relations, & Trilateral Commission, rev. ed. (RIE, 2000); Laurence Shoup and William Minter, Imperial Brain Trust: The Council on Foreign Relations and United States Foreign Policy (Authors Choice Press, 2004); Daniel Estulin, The True Story of the Bilderberg Group, 2nd ed. (Trine Day, 2009); Howard Wiarda, Conservative Brain Trust (Lexington Books, 2008); Leslie Sklair, The Transnational Capitalist Class (Blackwell, 2001); Armand Santilli, The Boys at Bohemian Grove (Xlibris Corporation, 2004).
2. See Ingo Muller, Hitler’s Justice (Harvard University Press, 1991), part 3, “The Aftermath.”
3. Jon Wiener, “Bringing Nazi Sympathizers to the US,” Nation, 6 March 1989.
4. Herbert Lottman, The Purge (William Morrow, 1986), 290.
5. Hugh Deane, “Korea, China, and the United States: A Look Back,” Monthly Review, February 1995. On the struggle for democracy in South Korea, see Georgy Katsiaficas and Na Kahn-chae, South Korean Democracy (Routledge, 2006).
6. Roy Palmer Domenico, Italian Fascists on Trial, 1943–1948 (University of North Carolina Press, 1991), passim.
7. La Repubblica, 9 April 1995; Corriere della Sera, 27 and 28 March 1995, 12 April 1995, and 29 May 1995; see also Jonathan Kwitney, “The CIA’s Secret Armies in Europe,” Nation, 6 April 1992.
8. H. Keith Melton and Robert Wallace, The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception (William Morrow, 2009); Trevor Paglen, Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon’s Secret World (Dutton, 2009); Javier Giraldo, S. J., Columbia: The Genocidal Democracy (Common Courage, 1996); Horacio Verbitsky, The Flight: Confessions of an Argentine Dirty Warrior (New Press, 1996); Peter Dale Scott, American War Machine (Rowman and Littlefield, 2010); David McGowan, Derailing Democracy (Common Courage, 2000); Daniel Estulin, Shadow Masters, 2nd ed. (Common Courage, 2008); John Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (Berrett-Koehler, 2004); Frances Stonor Saunders, The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters (New Press, 2001); Reed Brody, Contra Terror in Nicaragua (South End Press, 1985); Holly Sklar, Washington’s War on Nicaragua (South End Press, 1989).
9. See John Quigley, The Ruses for War: American Intervention Since World War II (Prometheus Books, 1992); and William Blum, Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II, updated (Common Courage, 2008).
10. Blum, Killing Hope, passim.
11. For a more detailed account on Iraq, see Chapter 9.
12. Quoted in Carl Oglesby, Ravens in the Storm (Scribner, 2008), 120.