Jim Keith’s Black Helicopters Over America

I’d been planning to read Jim Keith’s Black Helicopters books for a while. The black helicopters conspiracy is a little dull in some ways, but it seems integral enough to conspiracy lore that I had to take a closer look. The general idea is that right wing militia types thought that unmarked black helicopters were swarming around America trying to suppress American patriots. These helicopters were piloted by emissaries of the New World Order, nameless/faceless individuals working for some shady, secretive division of the government focused on overthrowing the government.

Oh, by the way, I’ve cracked the code
I’ve figured out these shadow organizations
And the Illuminati know
That they’re finally primed for world domination

And soon you’ve got black helicopters comin’ cross the border
Puppet masters for the New World Order
Be aware: There’s always someone that’s watching you.

– “Weird Al” Yankovic

The first book gives a timeline of black helicopter sightings. The confusing thing here is that for the first 20 or so years of these sightings, they were linked, almost exclusively, with cattle mutilations. It was only after 1993 that the helicopters became linked with the idea of political oppression. This switch seems confusing at first, but it’s easily explained away. The globalists spent 20 years having their henchmen cut up some cows to throw people off their trail. It seems kind of mad when you think about it first, but look at the wacky shit they pumped into the Kennedy assassination narrative. That the American government would push ridiculous disinformation to cover their tracks is the least unlikely part of this conspiracy theory.

Much of the rest of the books is extremely boring and unconvincing. Both discuss FEMA camps (a discredited idea about giant underground prisons covered extensively in Bill Cooper’s book). There’s also a bizarre section in the second book on the “quadrant sign code”. This is a theory that claims that the stickers placed on the back of traffic signs across America were actually placed in such a manner that they provided directions to different mystery locations to mystery employees of secret groups within the government. The person writing about this theory had not cracked the code, and hence had no actual evidence of his claims, but this didn’t stop him from waffling on for 17 pages. Overall, the second book is considerably worse. The first book isn’t hugely entertaining, but the ideas it was discussing were novel enough for me to enjoy it for a few hours. Also, the first volume covers roughly 25 years of sightings over its 150 pages. The second book covers 3 years of new information over the course of 220 pages, so it’s a bit more drawn out and dull.

I’m sure many people who read these books in the 1990s probably rolled their eyes at many of the claims herein. I probably would have too. It’s very easy to be dismissive of conspiracy theories, and there’s always people out there who are crazier than you. I’ve seen writing from Jim Keith, the author of this book, dismissing the claims of Bill Cooper and David Icke. I’m clearly skeptical of some of the claims made by Keith, but I have the benefit of hindsight and the internet. Looking back at what these guys were afraid of now is bizarre. Some of their fears were misguided, but many of them fell far short of how bad things would actually get. Keith is afraid of microchipping and government control over the lives of private citizens. Now the majority of people in America are glued to a cellphone that includes a camera, a microphone and GPS tracking. We routinely and willingly tell these phones things we wouldn’t tell another human being. Mega-corporations like google and meta know more about us than our closest friends and family members. Social media is a more efficient control of mind control than 90s conspiracy theorists could have imagined. It’s not UN soldiers who are murdering American citizens, it’s their own law enforcement agencies, and it’s not the globalists who’ve taken over, but billionaire child-molesting, bloodthirsty creeps, insidious scumbags who went out of their way to convince people like Keith’s patriotic readers that they were right while simultaneously using their fears as a playbook on how to seize control. I sincerely wish Jim Keith had been right. The New World Order sounds a whole lot better than the mess we have today.

Freemasons Killed JFK as Sacrifice to Extraterrestrial Demons: Jim Keith’s Saucers of the Illuminati

After a decade of running this blog, I have encountered most of the leading figures and concepts in the realms of conspiracy theories, occultism and the UFO phenomenon. When I found this short book that seeks to organise all of these elements into a cohesive narrative, I started reading it immediately.

The alien abduction phenomena may well be a psyop perpetrated against the citizens of the world by a secret society that maintains control of many major government institutions. They are doing this as part of an occult ritual to maintain their control. They may possibly be doing so with the aid of actual extraterrestrials. It is also possible that the extraterrestrials that they are dealing with are actually demons. The Illuminati have had so much disinformation spread about this stuff that it’s basically impossible to know what is real and what isn’t. (Disney’s The Lion King is actually a movie about the coming Messiah.)

This book was ridiculous nonsense. I mean, that seems pretty obvious, and anyone expecting anything else from a book with this title would have to be buffoon. I didn’t expect to walk away convinced of anything when I started this, but I had hoped to be more entertained.

Jim Keith tries to synthesize ideas from the writings of Aleister Crowley, Kenneth Grant, Michael A. Hoffman II, Philip K. Dick, Robert K.G. Temple, the Holy Blood, Holy Grail guys and James Shelby Downard. The above authors are legitimately some of the loopiest nut jobs around, and while it’s fun to try to see similarities and connections in their work, the resulting narrative is so ridiculous that it’s barely worth reading. The freemasons killed JFK with mind-controlled assassins as a sacrifice to their Satanic alien accomplices. Parts of the proof of this idea are the ramblings of a science fiction author who was going through a nervous breakdown and the religious beliefs of a remote tribe in Africa.

This is the third book by Jim Keith that I’ve read in the last few months. He also compiled The Gemstone File and Secret and Suppressed, but he actually wrote Saucers of the Illuminati by himself. I get the impression that it’s the most out there of all of his books. There was some interesting ideas in here, and it gave me the names of a few other weird texts to find, but there’s too much going on in here for it to be even remotely convincing. I reckon I’ll give Keith’s other books a look at some point in the future.

Jim Keith’s Secret and Suppressed: Banned Ideas and Hidden History

This is a book of texts that the government and the mainstream media didn’t want you to see! I use the past tense there because the stuff in here is very dated. It’s a Feral House compilation job, similar in style to Apocalypse Culture. I’ve had copies of the Apocalypse Culture books for years, but I’ve never read through either from start to finish because I don’t want to read the paedo-stuff. (Both books contain essays from real creeps.) I only read Secret and Suppressed because it contains “Sorcery, Sex, Assassination and the Science of Symbolism”, an extended version of James Shelby Downard’s Kill King 33° essay which was originally published in the first edition of Apocalypse Culture. The second edition of Apocalypse Culture replaced Kill King 33° with “The Call to Chaos: From Adam to Atom by Way of the Jornada del Muerto”, another piece by Downard. The second volume of Apocalypse Culture contains an entirely separate essay by Downard called “America, The Possessed Corpse”.

While “Sorcery, Sex, Assassination and the Science of Symbolism” is a longer version of the “Kill King 33°” essay in Apocalypse Culture, it’s actually not quite as long as the document titled “Kill King 33°: Masonic Symbolism in the Assassination of John F. Kennedy”. This document was co-written by our old pal Michael A. Hoffman II. This contains a few more details than the version in Secret and Suppressed. These extra details deal with stuff from Downard’s autobiography.

Honestly, all versions of this essay are truly ridiculous nonsense. The main idea is that JFK was assassinated by the Freemasons. The proof for this lies in the spellings of certain words and how they might be translated, some numerological nonsense, and some not-so-coincidental coincidences. Apparently the three tramps, the ones photographed in the park after JFK was killed, represent 3 of the characters in Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett’s 1949 absurdist play. Godot, the character who never shows up in that play, is obviously JFK. This play was written 14 years before Kennedy’s assassination. I assume Samuel Beckett was a member of the Illuminati to have this kind of foreknowledge. Later on, Downard points out that the guy who killed Lee Harvey Oswald, JFK’s alleged assassin, was named Jack Ruby. RUBY! Ruby slippers! Ruby slippers send you home. Jack Ruby sent Lee Harvey Oswald home! This has been there the whole time, and we didn’t notice it! WAKE UP!!!

Honestly, I was planning on doing a more in depth post on the writing’s of James Shelby Downard, but this has been enough. He was either a very insane person or a CIA psyop to make conspiracists look crazy.

Here’s a recap of the other pieces in Secret and Suppressed:

Essay	Author	Notes
My Father Is a Clone	Gary Stollman	This was really cool. In 1987, a crazy man got into a TV studio, put a gun to the newsreader’s head and made him read out a diatribe about the CIA, aliens and his replacement father. Cool.
An Open Letter to the Swedish Prime Minster From a Survivor of Electromagnetic Terror	Robert Naeslund	This dude believed he was a victim of a mind control experiment. Boring.
Remote Mind Control Technology	Anna Keeler	Unreadable technical writing about mind control technology. Barely skimmed this one. Probably all true, but I’m not really interested.
Is Paranoia A Form of Awareness?	Kerry W. Thornley	The dude who knew Lee Harvey Oswald and created Discordianim reflects on conspiracy theories.
Sorcery, Sex, Assassination and the Science of Symbolism	James Shelby Downard	Discussed above.
Subliminal Images in Oliver Stone’s JFK	Dean Grace	A list of what the title describes. I haven’t seen that movie in years. I didn’t rewatch to check the list. Maybe I will when I am old and have more free time.
Terminator III	Associated Press	Newspaper articles about racist games that were available in the early 1990s. It’s surprising how naive people were about the insidious ways we would come to use technology.
The Masonic Ripper	Jim Keith	Jack the Ripper was a freemason. I came across this idea in Alan Moore’s From Hell. I assume it’s originally from another book.
The Erotic Freemasonry of Count Nicholas von Zinzendorf	Tim O’Neill	There once was a mason named Nick, He liked others to play with his…
Rumors, Myths and Urban Legends Surrounding the Death of Jim Morrison	Thomas Lyttle	I thought Jim Morrison was cool when I was 15. I become less interested in him as each year passes.
The Last Testament of Rev. Jim Jones	Jim Jones	This is a transcription of the Jonestown Death Tape. I had heard this recording before, but not since becoming a parent. I was able to read this, but I couldn’t listen to the recording of the babies screaming while their parents murdered them. Too much.
The Black Hole of Guyana	John Judge	This essay posits that the People’s Temple commune was a CIA experiment. I reckon it’s easier for some people to believe that a faceless government organisation would be capable of committing such an atrocity than any one specific person. Jim Jones was a real cunt.
Behold, A Pale Horse A Draft of Danny Casolaro’s Octopus Manuscript Proposal	Kenn Thomas	I am planning on reading Thomas’s book about the Octopus and Danny Casolaro soon.
Why Waco?	Ken Fawcett	The Waco tragedy was deliberate. Duh.
An Invitation to War	Ambassador April Glaspie & Saddam Hussein	American diplomat encouraging Saddam to start a war.
Inside the Irish Republican Army	Scott Smith	Scott Smith interviews an Irish freedom fighter. Brits out.
Recipes for Nonsurvival: The Anarchist Cookbook	Esperanze Godot	The Anarchist Cookbook is designed to kill the Anarchists who try to make its recipes. I remember getting a pdf of the anarchist’s cookbook when I was a kid. It was very disappointing. Never tried anything from it.
Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars		This is the document that somebody left in a photocopier than William Milton Cooper published in his Behold a Pale Horse
Secrets from the Vatican Library		This is a very long, boring document that claims that the bad jews kill children and drink their blood. There are good jews too, but it’s never discussed how to tell them apart.
AIDS: Act of God or the Pentagon?		When I was a kid, I was told that AIDS started when a man shagged a monkey. This story claims otherwise. I am not convinved.
“Clinton is the best guy for us”		Some American guy working for a pro-Israel organisation boasts about his political power.
Exposing the Nazi International		A neo nazi describes his relationship with Otto Skorzeny, a Nazi soldier who faked his own death. Boring and probably all bullshit.

Secret and Suppressed was a fairly interesting read. A lot of really fucked up things have happened since it was published though, and the paranoia that this book attempts to induce is widespread at this point. I think a lot of the claims made in this book are inaccurate, but I believe that things are just as bad as it makes them out to be.