walter bowart

I am really impressed by all of Walter Bowart's work that I've been able to find so far. I would love to find a copy of Bowart's book Operation: Mind Control, however it tends to sell for $100+ on alibris, amazon, etc. It was first released in 1978, and then totally revised, expanded and re-released in the early '90s. Most of the used copies for sale on the web are the original 1978 version. The newer edition contained information on Brice Taylor and Cathy O'Brien before their books came out (aliases were used), and apparenty lots of top-notch research. It seems that it was expanded into a CD-ROM around 1995, it is unclear whether this was ever available for sale to the public. I really wish someone would have bought it and turned it into a website.

Walter Bowart established the Freedom Of Thought Foundation, whose website has been long-gone from the web but can be found archived here:
http://web.archive.org/web/200409302049 … /~freetht/

I found his incredible bibliography for O:MC, cleaned it up and posted it on my web page at:
http://www.truesoundhealing.com/bibliogr.html

Largest collection of Walter Bowart material I've come across online:
http://www.whale.to/b/bowart.html

Walter Bowart also has a profile on a writer's website, which gives an address to send a MO for $100 to receive a copy of O:MC. *However*, I emailed the address given at the site and a month later have received no response, so I suspect it too may be out of date and defunct:
http://www.writesight.com/writers/maxriddle/

A review on Amazon posted by one of the researchers referenced in his book had this to say:
"As one of the researchers mentioned in Operation Mind Control (Jim Moore - pp 262-264, orig. edition), I followed this book and its author with great interest. The book disappeared because, according to what I learned, the CIA did not want the public to know the extent and details of its mind control programs. I believe even Walter Bowart himself once described how the entire warehouse supply was bought up by the CIA. The book also began vanishing from libraries across the nation, and virtually every copy available in bookstores was suddenly bought up and disappeared into a black hole. Very few copies survived this draconian purge. Those that remain are quire rare and expensive and should be must-reading for all Americans concerned about the future of our country and how our thought processes are manipulated by the political-intelligence "experts". especially in the wake of what is being revealed about 9-11, Iraq and the NSA spying.
At one point, even photocopies were going for as much as $75-100. The book itself (1st edition) has sold for as high as $250. There was a second printing (with a different cover) that also quickly disappeared; whether it was an authorized printing or not, I don't know.
Walter Bowart reportedly wrote a follow-up, but suddenly stopped and virtually vanished. The rumor mill has it that he was threatened with "termination with extreme prejudice" - a phrase for assassination that is now outdated.
To my knowledge, he is still alive but living his life in a very low profile. From my own experiences over the years, I can't say I blame him."
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/044016 … 31?ie=UTF8

Bowart did some excellent, really fascinating radio interviews in the mid-90s that were floating around on the net for a while, posted on ConspiracyCentral.net. Maybe I could post them on a fileserver somewhere..
Tim