Iron Mountain: Blueprint for Tyranny Narrated by Milton William Cooper (1993, restored)

"The Report from Iron Mountain" is a book published in 1967 during the Johnson Administration by Dial Press. It presents itself as the report of a government panel, specifically a Special Study Group of fifteen men whose identities were to remain secret. The book was not intended to be made public.

The report details the analyses of a government panel which concludes that war, or a credible substitute for war, is necessary if governments are to maintain power. The book was a New York Times bestseller and has been translated into fifteen languages.

There is controversy over whether the book was a satiric hoax about think-tank logic and writing style or the product of a secret government panel. Conspiracy theorists, in particular, reject the statement made in 1972 by satirist Leonard Lewin that the book was a spoof and that he was its author.

The book was first published in 1967 by Dial Press and went out of print in 1980. E. L. Doctorow, then an editor at Dial, and Dial president Richard Baron agreed with Lewin and Victor Navasky to list the book as nonfiction and to turn aside questions about its authenticity by citing the footnotes.

According to the report, a 15-member panel, called the Special Study Group, was set up in 1963 to examine what problems would occur if the United States entered a state of lasting peace. They met at an underground nuclear bunker called Iron Mountain (as well as other, worldwide locations) and worked over the next two years. A member of the panel, one "John Doe", a professor at a college in the Midwest, decided to release the report to the public.

The report is divided into several sections, including the scope of the study, disarmament and the economy, disarmament scenarios, war and peace as social systems, the functions of war, substitutes for the functions of war, summary and conclusions, and recommendations.

Read the report here: https://archive.org/details/pdfy-A5uQx1ByqfwWuHma