Meet the players who helped to perpetrate,
and prepetuate
this incredible political hoax...
Leonard C. Lewin- The author
of Report From Iron Mountain.
Victor Navasky- [Publisher & Editorial Director of
The Nation]- As the editor of Monocle, a magazine of satire
published in the 1960s, he came up with the idea of a "secret report"
about the dangers of "permanent peace."
Richard Lingeman- [Executive Editor of The
Nation]-Noted biographer of Theodore Dreiser; as Monocle's
Executive Editor, he helped create the hoax.
Marvin Kitman- [Television critic of
Newsday]-News managing editor at Monocle and the
publication's candidate for President in 1964, he also helped shape the
idea for the book.
E.L. Doctorow- [Novelist: Ragtime, The Book of
Daniel, The Waterworks, etc.]-Dial Press Editor-in-Chief at the time
of the book's original publication, he helped shape the book and colluded
in the hoax by concealing the book's satirical nature from his own sales
force.
John Kenneth Galbraith- [Economist] He perpetuated
the hoax by adopting the pseudonym Herschel McLandress ("a noted
psychometrist") and praising the book as authentic in a prominent review
that appeared in the Washington Post and Chicago
Tribune.
Colonel Fletcher Prouty- A national security aide in
the Kennedy Administration (and the model for the Donald Sutherland
character in Oliver Stone's JFK), he continues to believe the
report is authentic and cited it in his memoirs.
Willis Carto- White supremacist whose Noontide Press,
Liberty Lobby and Holocaust-denying Institute for Historical Review, were
named by author Lewin in a 1992 lawsuit for copyright infringement when
Carto allegedly published the now-discontinued, bootleg editions of the
book.
Mark Lane- Bestselling Kennedy assassination
conspiracist who served as Carto's lawyer, making the case that Report
From Iron Mountain was indeed a real government document and
therefore not subject to copyright laws. Lane enjoyed a 1992 New York
Times bestseller in his Plausible Denial.
The Right Wing Citizen Militias include Report From Iron
Mountain in their conspirational canon, along with such works as
The Turner Diaries and New World Order.
Lyndon B. Johnson- He couldn't be sure that his
predecessor hadn't commissioned Report From Iron Mountain.
According to U.S. News & World Report, he "hit the roof" upon
learning of it and ordered that the report be "bottled up for all
time."
Herman Kahn-Then head of the Hudson Institute think
tank, this now deceased "war gamer," was stung by the feeling that the
satire was aimed at him; he vociferously criticized the book.
Henry Kissinger- Also taking the satire personally,
he attacked the book as "sheer idiocy."
Oliver Stone- In a 1992 Preface to Proudy's memoirs,
Stone cited the "fabled" Report From Iron Mountain as raising "the
key questions of our time."
Tony Brown- The black commentator assailed Report
From Iron Mountain in his 1995 book as the "seminal work on social
triage, and...the precursor to The Bell Curve. He said both books
should incite "paranoia and alarm in the Black community."
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