Kenn Thomas

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Kenn Thomas is a writer, university library archivist, and editor & publisher of Steamshovel Press, a parapolitical conspiracy magazine. He has written books on the Inslaw affair, co-authoring The Octopus with the late Jim Keith, and on Fred Crisman and the Maury Island Incident.

Thomas has authored over a dozen books on various conspiracy topics, including NASA, Nazis & JFK; Maury Island UFO, about possible John F. Kennedy assassination-connected personality Fred Crisman; and The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro, about the Inslaw affair. In 2004, Feral House published a new edition of The Octopus, extending its connections to the post 9/11 world and al Qaeda. Thomas calls his research interest “parapolitics,” the study of conspiracies of all colors -- from alien abductions and the Illuminati, to the John F. Kennedy assassination and the September 11, 2001 attacks (parapolitics). The New Yorker called his work “on the cutting edge” of conspiracy. His work has become proverbial enough that Baseball Prospectus 2002 by Joseph S. Sheehan and Chris Kahrl described conspiratorial activity in that sport as having "enough fishy behavior to keep Kenn Thomas swarming for years."

[edit] Bibliography

• ACID: A New Secret History of LSD by David Black, introduction by Kenn Thomas (Vision, UK, 2003, paperback ISBN 1-901250-30-X)

• The Arch Conspirator by Len Bracken, introduction by Kenn Thomas (AUP, US, 1999, paperback ISBN 0-932813-72-0)

• Christ Conspiracy by Acharya S, introduction by Kenn Thomas (AUP, US, 1999, paperback ISBN 0-932813-74-7)

• CYBERCULTURE COUNTERCONSPIRACY: A Steamshovel Web Reader by Kenn Thomas (Book Tree, US, 2000 ISBN 1-58509-126-X) (Two volumes)

• Inside the Gemstone File by Kenn Thomas and David Childress (AUP, US, 1999, ISBN 0-932813-66-6)

• THE LITTLE BOOK OF CONSPIRACIES: A Paranoiac's Pocket Guide by Joel Levy, introduction by Kenn Thomas (Thunder's Mouth, US, 2005, paperback, ISBN 1-56025-723-7)

• MAURY ISLAND UFO: The Crisman Conspiracy by Kenn Thomas (IllumiNet, US, 1999, paperback ISBN 1-881532-19-4)

• Mind Control, Oswald & JFK by Kenn Thomas (AUP, US, 1997, paperback ISBN 0-932813-46-1)

• NASA, NAZIS & JFK: The Torbitt Document & the Kennedy Assassination by Kenn Thomas (AUP, US, 1996 paperback ISBN 0-932813-39-9)

• THE OCTOPUS: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro by Kenn Thomas and Jim Keith (Feral House, US, 2005, paperback ISBN 0-922915-91-1)

• PARAPOLITICS: Conspiracy in Contemporary America by Kenn Thomas (AUP, US, 2006, paperback ISBN 1-931882-55-X)

• POPULAR ALIENATION: A Steamshovel Press Reader by Kenn Thomas (IllumiNet, US, 1995, paperback ISBN 1-881532-07-0)

• POPULAR PARANOIA: A Steamshovel Press Anthology by Kenn Thomas (AUP, US, November 2002, paperback ISBN 1-931882-06-1)

• Saucers of the Illuminati by Jim Keith, introduction by Kenn Thomas (AUP, US, 2004, paperback ISBN 1-931882-24-X)

• SHADOW GOVERNMENT: 9/11 and State Terror by Len Bracken, introduction by Kenn Thomas (AUP, US, 2002, paperback ISBN 1-931882-05-3)

• WILLIAM COOPER: Death Of A Conspiracy Salesman by various, with contribution from Kenn Thomas (Inner Light, US, 2001, paperback ISBN 1-892062-30-5)

[edit] External link

• Steamshovel Press (official site)