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The CIA has always had its hands in some murky and strange business, hallucinogenic drugs,

ludicrous notions.

I mean, come on, trying to use house cats as secret agents during the Cold War?

Bizarre and sometimes terrible and deadly experiments on human beings.

The CIA has long gone far beyond the usual sorts of intrigues and

lies to be expected in an organization of spies. But this, this seems peculiar even for them.

Why did the CIA drop the hammer on a book written in the 1960s a book called the

Adam and Eve story and by drop the hammer I mean they classified it and kept it locked up tight

until the year 2013.

And even then, the CIA only permitted parts of the book to be declassified,

declassified, and sanitized.

To use the CIA's preferred terminology.

With a rumble so low as to be inaudible, growing, throbbing, then fuming into a thundering roar, the earth shakes, only it's not like any earthquake in recorded history. What had the

author of the book, Chan Thomas, revealed either accidentally or on purpose.

In California, the mountains shake like ferns in a breeze. The mighty Pacific rears back

and piles up into a mountain of water more than two miles high, then starts its race eastward.

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