Did the CIA sabotage their own 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in the hope of trapping President Kennedy into a full-scale war? Was President Kennedy killed because he wanted to withdraw from Vietnam? What is one to make of Prof. Noam Chomsky's rejection of this thesis and his "false debate" with Prof. John Newman? The author analyzes his extensive correspondence with Chomsky on this issue. Was Nixon's Watergate downfall an inside job? Was the "abortive" coup against Gorbachev that led to the disintegration of the Soviet Union a KGB-CIA hoax? Was Alfred Herrhausen, chairman of the Deutsche Bank, murdered by his fellow bankers because of his progressive approach to Third-World debt? Is AIDS man-made - for the purpose of combating global overpopulation? This is the story of one American's attempt to grapple with the underbelly of recent history - a story which is very relevant to questions today such as the truth behind 9/11.