{"id":326022,"date":"2010-02-16T00:06:04","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T05:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=22346"},"modified":"2010-02-16T00:06:04","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T05:06:04","slug":"philip-k-dick-contacted-fbi-to-warn-of-secret-neo-nazi-plot-to-start-world-war-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/326022","title":{"rendered":"Philip K. Dick Contacted FBI to Warn of Secret Neo-Nazi Plot to Start World War III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a great story for PKD fans and others alike. Read Nick Redfern&#8217;s &#8220;The Strange Tale of Solarcon-6&#8221; in the current issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forteantimes.com\/features\/articles\/2860\/the_strange_tale_of_solarcon6.html\">Fortean Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Undoubtedly, one of the prime reasons why Dick attracted attention from the FBI was a series of bizarre letters he penned to the Bureau in the early 1970s, in which he described his personal knowledge of an alleged underground Nazi cabal that was attempting to covertly manipulate science fiction writers to further advance its hidden cause.<\/p>\n<p>And the nature of that cause was even more bizarre: to initiate a Third World War by infecting the American population with syphilis. On 28 October 1972, Dick wrote to the FBI and outlined his distinctly odd beliefs:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0679740678\/disinformation\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 20px;margin-bottom: 10px\" src=\"http:\/\/disinfo.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/ManInTheHighCastle.jpg\" alt=\"The Man In The High Castle\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-22341\" height=\"277\" width=\"180\" \/><\/a>\u201cI am a well-known author of science fiction novels, one of which dealt with Nazi Germany (called MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, it described an \u2018alternate world\u2019 in which the Germans and Japanese won World War Two and jointly occupied the United States).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis novel, published in 1962 by Putnam and Co., won the Hugo Award for Best Novel of the Year and hence was widely read both here and abroad; for example, a Japanese edition printed in Tokyo ran into several editions. I bring this to your attention because several months ago I was approached by an individual who I have reason to believe belonged to a covert organization involved in politics, illegal weapons, etc., who put great pressure on me to place coded information in future novels \u2018to be read by the right people here and there\u2019, as he phrased it. I refused to do this.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a great story for PKD fans and others alike. Read Nick Redfern&#8217;s &#8220;The Strange Tale of Solarcon-6&#8221; in the current issue of Fortean Times: Undoubtedly, one of the prime reasons why Dick attracted attention from the FBI was a series of bizarre letters he penned to the Bureau in the early 1970s, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}