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76 = NEXUS & REVIEWS THE FRANKLIN CONSPIRACY ships just before it sank.) It seems that the Hopsicker reveals Barry Seal's notorious by Jeffrey Blair Latta various search parties over the following 15 career, which started in 1955 as a 16-year- Hounslow/Dundurn Press, Canada, 2001 years had a dual purpose: to retrieve and old when he attended a two-week Civil Air ISBN 0-88882-234-0 (320pp tpb) keep secret any records of the Franklin Patrol camp run by pedophile CIA agent Price: C$22.99 + p&h; £11.99; expedition's progress. The plot thickens,as_ David Ferrie, and where he met fellow cadet NLG 64,90 anthropological studies of three crewmen Lee Harvey Oswald—both famous names in Distributors: Canada—University of exhumed in the 1980s have revealed signs of _ the JFK assassination eight years later. At Toronto Press, tel (416) 667 7791, (800) bizarre autopsy. 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His piloting Dundurn Distribution o/- Lavis Marketing duced a tantalising narrative that encourages __ skills, combined with his black ops connec- tel 01865 767575: Netherlands—NEXUS ’ readers to ask more questions. tions, had him delivering guns to Castro in . the late 1950s, participating in the Bay of He Btich Adria oc elles ine BARRY & THE BOYS": The CIA, the Pigs fiasco, taking a mystery plane out of : . ica’ i Dallas the day JFK was shot, making his navies of Canada and the United States Mob and ences Secret History mark in pao around the Watergate break- may have some astounding secrets locked by Daniel Hopsicker in, as well as being party to the Mena drus- away as a result of expeditions sent to chart Mad Cow Press, USA, 2001 smuselin: sandal ond ran-Contra fraud. a Northwest Passage from Europe, across ISBN 0-9706591-0-5 (516pp he) : Seat was an integral part of the recent the Arctic and down to China in the first half Price: US$29.95 + s&h; NLGf92,90 secret histor of the USA The FBI thought of the 19th century. These secrets, particu- _ Distributors: USA—Mad Cow Press, PO $0. too, for Ne agents removed files in Secl's larly those connected with the Franklin Box 2687, Eugene, OR 97402, tel +1 (541) car at the wtime scone ‘ust after his murder. expedition, have been an obsession for 935 6276, fax +1 (425) 955 7888, website ‘As for who eave the eller Ho sicker leaves Jeffrey Blair Latta, a freelance screenwriter www.barryandtheboys.com; amazon.com; cin no doubt as to who did Ps : and science writer based in Ontario, Canada. Netherlands—NEXUS Europe Office " : : He's not the first one to try to fathom the lhe biggest drug smuggler in US history mystery surrounding two state-of-the-art was pilot Barry Seal, whose name is best British Royal Navy ships, the prophetically known in connection with CIA-sponsored named Erebus and Terror, that set out in drugs-and-guns-running into and out of 1845 with 129 men, led by explorer Sir John Mena Airport, Arkansas, in the early to mid- Franklin, never to return. (Their mutilated 1980s. In 1986, having been exposed and remains were found on King William Island _ cloistered in a halfway house, and threaten- in 1929.) However, in The Franklin ing to spill the beans on covert operations Conspiracy, Latta takes more of a bigger- and mob connections that ran right up to the picture approach than others. Vice President, he was assassinated. Blair's methodical research has led him to But how did he get where he got? Well, believe the British Royal Navy had (and still _ it's a long, very murky story, one that TV EP has) a hidden agenda to do with investigat- Daniel Hopsicker was warned off investigat- ing Arctic anomalies, from mirages of ing for a documentary to be broadcast on mountain ranges and alleged polar openings = NBC stations. But knowing this to be a to sightings of tropical birdlife and giants. story that had to be told, Hopsicker turned (The Inuit have their stories, too, and are his research into a book, and a mind-blow- said to have seen a giant aboard one of the ing read it is. In Barry & 'The Boys’, BAMIEL HOPSICKER ships just before it sank.) It seems that the Hopsicker reveals Barry Seal's notorious various search parties over the following 15 _ career, which started in 1955 as a 16-year- years had a dual purpose: to retrieve and old when he attended a two-week Civil Air keep secret any records of the Franklin Patrol camp run by pedophile CIA agent expedition's progress. The plot thickens,as_ David Ferrie, and where he met fellow cadet anthropological studies of three crewmen Lee Harvey Oswald—both famous names in exhumed in the 1980s have revealed signs of _ the JFK assassination eight years later. At bizarre autopsy. This is a mystery that may _17, Seal was already running drugs for the never be solved; nevertheless, Latta has pro- CIA and owned two planes. His piloting duced a tantalising narrative that encourages __ skills, combined with his black ops connec- readers to ask more questions. tions, had him delivering guns to Castro in the late 1950s, participating in the Bay of BARRY & 'THE BOYS’: The CIA, the Pigs fiasco, taking a mystery plane out of Mob and America's Secret History Dallas the day JFK was shot, making his by Daniel Hopsicker mark in events around the Watergate break- Mad Cow Press, USA, 2001 in, as well as being party to the Mena drug- ISBN 0-9706591 0-5 (61 6pp hc) smuggling scandal and Iran-Contra fraud. Price: US$29.95 + s&h; NLGf92,90 Seal was an integral part of the recent ‘tri : _ secret history of the USA. The FBI thought Bae ‘s, US ones ress, "oat so, too, for its agents removed files in Seal's 935 6276, fad (425) 955 7888. website carat the crime scene, just after his murder. www barryandtheboys com: amazon com: As for who gave the order, Hopsicker leaves Netherlands—NEXUS Europe Office. |=“ in ne doubt. as to who did. www.nexusmagazine.com AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2001