Good day at the thrift store

lightningBugout · Post by **lightningBugout** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 2:51 am

I went into a thrift store today looking for mason jars and spent $3 walking out with:

1) Kenneth Walker -- A study of Gurdjieff's Teachings (1957)

2) Stanton A. Coblentz -- From Arrow to Atom Bomb: a psychological history of war (1967)

3) Victor Marchetti and John D. Marks -- The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence (1974)

4) David Wise and Thomas B. Ross -- The Invisible Government (1964)

only vaguely familiar with each -- anyone have thoughts on the two on the CIA? (3,4)

where's the manatee when you need him? in fact, where is he in general?

lightningBugout · Post by **lightningBugout** » Mon Jun 29, 2009 10:12 pm

When I think about Hugh, I bump myself.

RomanyX · Post by **RomanyX** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 3:39 am

Hugh Manatee Wins · Post by **Hugh Manatee Wins** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 3:46 am

3) Victor Marchetti and John D. Marks -- The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence (1974)

4) David Wise and Thomas B. Ross -- The Invisible Government (1964)

Wow. That's a good shopping day!

I learned lots from both of those books and I found mine for almost nothing used, too.

The 1964 Wise and Ross book spent months on the bestseller lists and inspired lots of decoy television shows to create competing associations with the CIA disasters mentioned.

Marchetti gives us a nice insight into the CIA's use of books and what's in it for the authors.

lightningBugout · Post by **lightningBugout** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 2:22 pm

Thanks man, a, tee.

stefano · Post by **stefano** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 9:30 am

BTW Hugh I got Fletcher Prouty's The Secret Team on your recommendation and just started reading it now over lunch. Thanks, it looks brilliant so far.

monster · Post by **monster** » Thu Jul 09, 2009 1:47 am

Found this awesome old-school Jordan T-shirt in a thrift store the other day:

It is so 1993, I love it.

It's in great condition, and the text next to Jordan says "Slamma Jamma".

Thrift store = Time machine.