Mae Brussell
Mind Control Researcher and Journalist
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For more than 25 years, Mae Brussell was America's foremost researcher into the hidden history of war, political assassinations, covert operations and espionage, terrorism and mind control, secret societies, banking and organized crime, and the origins of international fascism.
She published many articles including "Why Was Martha Mitchell Kidnaped?" and "The Senate Select Committee is part of the cover up" about Watergate, and "Why was Patty Hearst Kidnaped?" and about the SLA and the CIA, in The Realist during the 1970's, and "The Nazi Connection to the John F. Kennedy Assassination" in Rebel.
Mae's weekly radio show World Watchers International ran for 851 weeks on stations KLRB-FM, Carmel California and KAZU-FM, Pacific Grove, California a total of 17 years of radio newscasting. She also appeared on numerous radio and television talk shows and interview programs, including station WBAI-FM in New York, and KGO-AM in San Francisco.
She held the George Seldes Award for 1987 from the Society of Journalists, and was listed in The International Who's Who of Intellectuals in 1983. Mae died quite suddenly from cancer on October 3, 1988.
Tapes of Mae's Radio Broadcasts are available at $5.95 each. Two for $11.00, orders of 25 or more $5.00 each . California Residents must add 6.5% Sales tax. A catalog outlining the contents of each radio broadcast is available by writing:
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Conspiracy Theorist Mae Brussell Dies
SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS
Copyright 1988, San Jose Mercury NewsDATE: Wednesday, October 5, 1988
EDITION: Morning Final
SECTION: Local
PAGE: 1B
LENGTH: 29 in. Long
ILLUSTRATION: Photo
SOURCE: By ANN W. O'NEILL, Mercury News Staff Writer
Pioneer conspiracy theorist Mae Brussell, whose weekly radio show "World Watchers International" inspired a devoted following and occasional death threats during its 17 years on the air, has died in Carmel of cancer.
Ms. Brussell, 66, died Monday, about three weeks after she entered the Carmel Convalescent Center. She lived in Carmel Valley for 23 years.
She was born in Beverly Hills, a fourth-generation Californian, and grew up in a family of privilege and influence. Her father was powerful Los Angeles Rabbi Edgar Magnin and her great-grandfather, Isaac Magnin, founded the I. Magnin clothing stores.
Ms. Brussell majored in philosophy at Stanford University but left school weeks before graduation to marry the first of her two husbands. She later told an interviewer that until the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963, she was "just a housewife interested in tennis courts and dance lessons and orthodontia for my children."
Televised coverage of the assassination and shooting death of Lee Harvey Oswald -- along with glaring inconsistencies she saw in the news reports -- had a profound effect on Ms. Brussell.
John Judge, a longtime friend and fellow conspiracy researcher, told a story about how Ms. Brussell, surrounded by her children, watched the televised assassination coverage:
Her daughter Bonnie saw Oswald in the hallway and he had obviously been beaten and Bonnie felt sorry for him. She wrapped up her teddy bear to send to him, then she saw him shot. Mae began to fear what kind of world her children would grow up in.
In 1964, Ms. Brussell paid $86 for a copy of the voluminous Warren Commission report of the Kennedy assassination and began a cross index of its facts and findings. That launched 25 years of daily investigation into political murders, Nazis, mind control, the Vatican, secret societies, espionage, organized crime, terrorism and hidden governments.
During her career, Ms. Brussell contended that the United States was secretly controlled by an elite group of 5,000 powerful men who would stop at nothing to maintain that control.
On her radio show, which was broadcast on Monday evenings for 11 years on Carmel's KLRB and six years on listener- supported KAZU in Pacific Grove, Ms. Brussell named names and spouted facts in rapid-fire style. Then, in her gravelly monotone, she urged listeners to ponder the links.
The program was syndicated to a half-dozen stations around the country and hundreds of followers also subscribed to her tapes and bibliographies.
"The irony is that if she were alive today, I'm sure she would find a conspiracy behind her own death," said Paul Krassner, editor and publisher of the Realist and co-founder of the Yippie movement. The Realist, now a satirical newsletter, was the first magazine to publish Ms. Brussell.
"I thought she was an American hero," Krassner said. "We should look upon her as a role model for not accepting things that are spoon-fed to us, not accepting it automatically as the truth."
Ms. Brussell left the air in March after receiving a death threat she took seriously. She told police an anonymous caller said he would "see you're never going to be on the radio again," and vowed to come fully armed to her home "to blow your head off."
Later, someone did break into the house. "Somebody left a message that let her know they had been there. They left a piece of a puzzle next to her telephone," said KAZU program director Benny Thompson.
At the time, he said, Ms. Brussell was investigating followers of satanic cults in the military.
In the 1970s, Ms. Brussell taught an accredited course in conspiracy -- the first in the country -- at Monterey Peninsula Community College. She also lectured extensively and wrote for publications including the Realist, People's Almanac, the Berkeley Barb, Penthouse and Hustler. She was named in the Who's Who of Intellectuals in 1983.
Ms. Brussell contended that the Kennedy assassinations, Martin Luther King's assassination, the Manson family murders, the Chappaquiddick affair and the Patricia Hearst kidnapping were all set into motion by the far right, the CIA, the FBI and the Mafia under a massive conspiracy to discredit the left and establish a fascist state.
Ms. Brussell supported her theories with documents culled from an extensive home library. She read 15 newspapers each day and subscribed to more than 150 periodicals, collecting 80,000 pages of research materials -- enough to fill 39 file cabinets, said Judge, who has taken over her library to establish the Mae Brussell Research Center in Santa Cruz.
She told an interviewer in 1976: "I've never really pushed any of my ideas. I've just gone about my research slowly and steadily, but after Watergate I found a lot more people were
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