Jim Marrs is a cottage industry when it comes to conspiracy writings.

He has dealt with the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He has explored the behind-the-scenes histories and tinkerings of secret societies in their collective bid to control the fate of the planet. He has even given one fine comprehensive examination to the entire UFO phenomenon that will probably go unmatched in the history of UFO books.

In PSI SPIES, he deals with exposing the United States government's covert use of psychic powers (largely remote viewing) in the exploration of handling foreign affairs. While it's not a truly great book (I thought it lacked some of the depth of his other tomes, and that's largely due to the scraps of true facts and research available on the subject), it is still one fine piece of investigative journalism.

It's an important read if for no other reason for the reader to understand -- through the eyes of one of the book's principals -- to what extend a government is willing to reach ... and then attempt everything possible to cover it up in the end.

Incidentally, the book probably would've been far more in depth had the US Government not gone to attempting to keep it unpublished. Marrs has a way of tilting the scales in the direction of truth, so much so that he disturbs those secretly in power, and his books do rattle you to the bones in several places.

A must-read for conspiracy fans. A must-read for fans of the occult, in fact. And, a must-read for any person seriously interested in knowing the tentacles which clandestine operations try to grasp control of our very lives.

Psi Spies is a short and get-to-the-point book introducing the reader to the topic of remote-viewing. The author's approach is to first prepare the reader with the history of the development of scientific studies of psychic ability in Russia and the U.S., and to show that there is much validity in "psi". From there, he shows how the government, particularly the military, became interested in the use of psychic ability through the technique of remote viewing for use in spying.

The importance of Marrs' book is that he covers all this territory with an extensive array of peoples' names, dates, agency names, and places. He is very thorough in this investigation which, in a subject such as this, is necessary to overcome the reader's skepticism. Having read "Alien Agenda" by Marrs, and having heard him speak several times in radio interviews, I highly respect his intelligence and his analysis of enigmatic topics, and this book is no exception.

In this book, Marrs does not present many examples of what the remote viewers, or psi spies, "saw" in their journeys into the psi dimension, his is a more analytical approach to the topic. For first-hand accounts by psi spies themselves, I highly recommend these two fascinating books: Mind Trek, by Joseph McMoneagle, and Psychic Warrior, by David Morehouse. If Marrs has convinced you that remote reviewing is "real", what those two remote viewers have "seen" will blow you away.

If you have ever had any doubts about the U.S. Government's use, and continued use, of intelligence gathering techniques that are officially discredited and disparaged, then read this book.

Good read but Nothing New except excelleent writing and organization of material by the Author. Had I not read every other book in this genre, I would have liked this book a lot better. If you haven't bought a general review of UFOs, Alien Contact, and Secret Government Conspiracy, then I'd say buy it. However, Dr. Paul Hill's Unconvential Flying Objects has lenghty details about the crafts and sightings that will please both the novice and scientist. Brad Steiger's Alien Rapture is in a category all by itself in combining an exciting novel with newly released documents and detailed description of the flying triangle as well as why the government(s) have kept the secret and what is at stake. I've read all three of these selections from Amazon and read all the reviews before buying. For the first timer, this is an excellent general guide to read.

Excellent reading with some really new information. The research, writing and organization of material by the Author is way above average. If you haven't bought a general review of UFOs, Alien Contact, and Secret Government Conspiracy, then I'd say this is a 'must read.' Also, Dr. Paul Hill's Unconvential Flying Objects has lenghty details about the crafts and sightings that will please both the novice and scientist.

And of course Brad Steiger's Alien Rapture is in a category all by itself in combining an exciting novel with newly released documents and detailed description of the flying triangle as well as why the government(s) have kept the secret and what is at stake. I've read all three of these selections from Amazon and I suggest you read all the reviews before buying. For the first timer, this is an excellent general guide to read.

I highly recommend you check out all of Jim Marrs books on Amazon. This is just one example of his amazing writing and research.

This book by far exceeds others in clarity, honesty, and breath. The book lays its position on the line to let us know just where it stands, namely, skeptical of official, establishment answers to the ufo dilemma. Yet the book does not present a hardcore conspiracy theory. It's commentary is historically informed, smart, and subtle. Time and again, when you think all has been said about crop-circles, cattle mutilation, Billy Miers, etc., this book goes beyond simple, black-and-white analysis to reveal the true complexity of the ufo matter. What this all means, of course, is that as Marrs says toward the end of the book, ufologically speaking things have come to a head. Indeed, this is the one shortcoming of this type of book: there would seem to be no way forward after ufos have subsumed so many mysteries from bridges on the moon to animal multilations in Montana. What's left to the agenda? The book doesn't ask this question explicitly but unlike so many other ufo books, it brings us to the edge where this question must now be asked.

Jim Marrs presents one of the best books available on the assasination of JFK. This book is the perfect companion for Jim Garrison's great book "On The Trail Of The Assasins". Marrs and Garrison's books were the basis for the Oliver Stone movie "JFK". This book contains a ton of facts and evidence which points to Oswald being the "patsy" and that there was a definate conspiracy. From start to finish, Marrs keeps you on the edge of your seat and provides information that will have you thinking non stop throughout the book. I suggest you read this book, and then also check out Jim Garrison's "On The Trail Of The Assasins" for the COMPLETE story of what really happened that fateful day in Dallas. Also for more on Marrs and Garrison, check out the video "The JFK Assasination: The Jim Garrison Tapes" where Garrison and Marrs, along with Mark Lane and others present facts and information that leave no doubt about a conspiracy. This book is a MUST READ!

this is one of the most comprihensive and one of the best assassination books ever!!! you want the real truth to who killed Kennedy and why? read this. don't go fantasizing about how Oswald fired 1 shot which did 7 wounds and came out in prestitne condidition, ala Gerald Posner, read the facts! Marrs book was so good that along with Jim Garrisson's book, the movie JFK was born, which in turn created such a fire storm, that the American Government had to pass the Assassinations Freedom Act!!!!! what other book has ever done that? not gerald posners.

this book covers everything. it talks about oswald, ruby, the cia, the mafia, the cover-up, garrisson, dallas, new orleans, the warren commission, the house assassinations committee, and even talks about both lyndon and hoover's role in the assassination. this book is a bit long, and at times, you do get bored, but this book consisits of facts, unlike Posner who uses fantasy to make it look like Oswald and only Oswald killed Kennedy.

my favorite part of this book is when Marrs compares the whole Kennedy assassination to Julis Cesar. like Brutus says, "it's not that i didn't like Cesar, but i like Rome more". the same applys for LBJ, except he hated Kennedy and knew if he didn't do something, that is his childhood dream of becoming President would die. if hoover didn't do something, he knew he would be retired as FBI director. if the CIA didn't do something, there power would dwindle, just like JFK had said. the Mafia needed to get revenge. like Jim Garrisson once said, everything about the Kennedy assassination points towards 2 things: the Bay of Pigs, and the CIA.

what's not as important is who fired from what window, it's about who killed Kennedy, who had the benefited, and who had the power to cover it up. figure this out, and you've got the truth to who killed Kennedy.

E'tu Lyndon?

I first read this book over a year ago and recently bought my own copy. The wealth of detail, the multitude of witnesses who saw something but were not questioned or were intimidated by the questioners, the endless connections and cross connections of the FBI, CIA, the Mob, military intelligence and the so, so obvious questions that should have been asked by investigators and the Warren commission that not only were not asked, but they turned away those who had answers.... all these and more make it so obvious that there was a conspiracy and a coverup! Mr Marrs does an excellent job of presenting a tremendous amount of information. If this subject intrigues you at all, I promise you.... you won't be disappointed in it's content. You will alternately be amazed, angry and frightened as well at the inescapable conclusions you can not avoid about our government, leaders and our national security... as well as our own personal security. It is chilling! I remember the events! of those days and nothing in this book contradicts any thing which I heard and observed at the time and it corroborates a number of things which I was sure I remembered noticing during the aftermath of the asassination. I believe this book to be factual and accurate as much as any could be written by someone was not a part of the conspiracy. Only the conspiritors and those who did the coverup can know more!

Well where to begin with this one? In my quest for a conspiracy book that would stand up, against even common sense logic, Marrs, one of the giants of conspiracy theory, falls flat on his face. I bought the book on the assumption that maybe Marrs would come up with a workable definition of "conspiracy" or even "secret society" and then rigourously subject his examples to scientific rigour and logic. Maybe he would end up with a barely believable and thought provoking book.

Unfortunately this book will only appeal to those people who already have a paranoia that needs proving.

It is not even a particularly good read. Marrs seemingly starts with rough premise eg. Is the Trilateral Commission a secret society? He then produces a series of facts stating such banal things that this international organisation is made up of powerful people... who are international specialists. Well surpise on that one --- that is precisely why and what the organisation was founded for -- to study international society in order to stimulate cooperation and agreement across a number of levels.

The above example betrays a few traits of the muddle-headed thinking of conspiracy theorists:

1) Basic lack of any notion of political theory. Marrs had better read a few text books on International Relations. There the central question of IR is how does one resolve conflict in the era of sovereign states? One of the way to do this --- and it has been around since Hobbes and Kant --- is to discuss overarching levels of government to enhance cooperation and integration. The EEU and other international organisations are examples of this. Indeed it is one of constants of history that states emerge from county and regional entities. At some point with higher development of states it is stupid to think that one nation can 100% control its own destiny, it must cooperate and concede authority in certain areas to overarching political institutions (the UN, NATO, Red Cross, etc.) -- that is also one of the central issues of US and world foreign policy --- how does the the US deals with this challenge. This is a subject for political science and economics to work out --- it has nothing to do with conspiracy theories.

2) Marrs is not just a TERRIBLE historian, he has no idea of the discipline whatsoever (no adequate footnotes, a bibliography that includes ONLY secondary sources of his fellow conspiracy theorists, no first sources, and, what is worst, he has not cited a single authoritative reference for any historical event he decsribes --- you will find no authoritative sources on WWI, WWII, Vietnam or the Korean War.... or any other historical event he describes). His understanding of both international organisations and the events that spawned them is not just facile, it is plain puerile. Marr's Cook's tour of every historical event and organisation may sound interesting (I would never say convincing, because I would like to believe that the average reader is smarter than Marrs would have us believe); eg, His idea that Woodrow Wilson was a member of secret society that tried to foist the League of Nations on the US is plainly, forgive me, retarded in the extreme --- read some books on this era Mr. Marrs! WWI assailed the conscience of Mankind. It changed the way people thought necessarily, and forced them to look at the only real way of avoiding or dampening conflict --- a world body with the authority to censure members --- the League of Nations. It was before its time, but it is function of political and historical analysis, not secret societies.

3) Marrs obviously has no idea what constitutes science. He has not been taught to reason from a basic premise and subject his thoughts to scrutiny and empirical analysis. His ideas are all over the place. He can cite some facts, such as that the people on the trilateral commission are important and influential --- but not a shred of evidence that these people are engaged in a conspiracy.

Such is a real waste of paper. Everyone knows that politcally motivated people join groups: I can predict that the National Republican Committee is filled with influential people --- I cannot prove that it is a conspiratorial organisation. And Marrs has not a single shred of proof that these organisations are conspiratorial in the sense that they "engage in the secret planning for the detriment of the nation."

Marrs' logic is very contradictory: he calls upon us to be open-minded and consider all examples "however crazy." In the next paragraph he then states that his task is not to consider groups like Heavens Gate or other such societies since they are cleary inconsequential and local. I cannot think of a more whacked out group than Heaven's Gate, so why not analyse them? He then ends up by the end of the book throwing in every mythical, mystical group or concept ever invented since Shirley Maclaine went on an bad acid trip. Atlantis, UFOs etc. The only thing missing is the land of Mu and the tooth fairy.

4) Unlike books like "Holy Blood, Holy Grail," which have a somewhat interesting idea and analysis of a group that is developed with somewhat interesting historical detail --- you can learn something from reading Holy Blood! --- You can learn nothing from Marrs except how to think poorly about the world around you.

Once again a real good antidote for this book would be some popular science by Carl Sagan, a good read of any International Relations textbook, a good read of some history in general and a few editions of the Skeptical Inquirer.

As is so often the case with mystics and the crooked thinkers, Marrs thinks that a cursory look at a subject will reveal true knowledge and understanding. He is in fact treading on not just swampy logic but appears to lack even rudimentary knowledge of science, history or any other proper education that would innoculate him against the plague of gross mistaken thinking that he so admirably displays in this book.

I would challenge him to try to refute the above. My email is above.

Anyone who tells you anything negative about this book....just run and hide....and run a long way before you hide. For they are not true Americans. Jim Marrs finally puts all the pieces together for every man, woman and child to read.....the reality of the control of our lives. Remember now, Mr. Marrs comes with massive amounts of Military Intelligence-investigative journalist hours tacked on his back that few persons have ever endured. Every American citizen should study every single paragraph of this book and understand it no matter how long it takes. My wife thinks it should replace the Bible. I'm not quite that drastic. RULE BY SECRECY should be required reading. Place your Bible on top of it. Thank you Jim Marrs. I knew you would do it.

I bought this book after reading some of it first at a local store. I thoroughly enjoyed Jim Marr's book on the JFK assasination but I have always balked at the idea of a vast global conspiracy dominated by the most rich and powerful in the world...until I read this book. Jim Marrs has taken on the most controversial subjects like the JFK assassination, the alien phenomena, and now global secret societies and does it in the most professional and factual manner. His bibliography is almost as long as the book itself and he takes care to document all of his amazing findings in his books. Now in Rule By Secrecy, he shows how our world is being dominated and controlled by the most rich and powerful men in government and in banking; how wars are being manipulated; and how we are being duped by a media in cahoots. He takes what, at one time, seemed impossible and shows you that it makes perfect sense. He asks the questions about the Trilateral Commission, the Federal Reserve, the Council of Foreign Relations, and the Bilderberger Meetings that no one in our main stream media will ask. For example, How does our president, along with hundreds of heads of state, CEO's of major multi-national corporations, heads of media, and bankers meet secretly every year funded by tax payer money and we never hear about it or what is discussed in these meetings? Read the book to find out and I guarantee you will never trust what you hear on the evening news again.

While the author does include many interesting and well-documented UFO experiences, his research was far too sloppy. A case in point is a reference to a well-known fraud and author of occult books who poses as a Tibetan lama. Apparently, Mr. Marrs was too busy to uncover this fact while writing his tome. Lapses of this kind weaken his claim to legitimacy in the UFO field.