This is Monica Perez, and we are here with the afterward, the appendices, the conclusions, the backpedaling, the whitewashing, the sheep dipping of the report from Iron Mountain.

So we have been reading this short little

book, The Report from Iron Mountain on the possibility and desirability of peace. We've been reading from

the first edition, which was 1967, 68. There's a little dispute there. And even on that, stamped on the front cover,

like top secret style, it says suppressed. This report is subject to the highest security

classification and access to it or confirmation of its existence is limited to persons cleared by contingency

evaluation committee. This order is absolute up to and including the presidential level.

So they stamp that on this when they published this. So that already makes me feel like

a little something fishy going on there. But they claim in the book

that it was never top secret because they knew that if it got out, which they didn't expect

it to, nobody would really be able to do anything about it anyway. So I've always found this

really, really fascinating read. I hope you've

enjoyed it. But then in, and I only realized there was so much more to the second edition,

because I was looking so hard for the book review where the economists and historian, Herschel McLandrus is his nom de plume.

So Herschel McClandris was supposedly professor of psychiatric measurement at this school, at, I don't know, Harvard Medical School or

whatever. It's, oh, John Kenneth Goldberg. That's who it is. So he used to write book reviews

under this nom de plume, and then he goes and says, hey, they asked me to be in on it. So this is

totally valid. I don't know. I read you his, the book review where he says

it was totally valid in one of the previous episodes. So I don't think we're going to read that again.

We'll just read the rest of them. So this is in the second edition, which came out in the 90s.

And part of it was in response to the fact that, uh, 1996, that they said like extremist groups

were using it as like a rallying cry.

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