Celebrity Secrets: Official Government Files on the Rich and Famous »

Nick Redfern began his writing career in the 1980s on Zero — a British-based magazine devoted to music, fashion, and the world of entertainment. He has written eight books, including Body Snatchers in the Desert: The Horrible Truth at the Heart of the Roswell Story, and has contributed articles to numerous publications, including the London Daily Express, Eye Spy magazine, and Military Illustrated. He lives in Dallas, Texas.

SEXUAL DEVIANTS, NAZI SPIES, DANGEROUS LONERS, COMMUNISTS, DRUG ADDICTS, TRAITORS, AND MOBSTERS.

THIS IS HOLLYWOOD. DECLASSIFIED.

It's tough being rich and famous -- stalked, photographed, hounded, and dissected. But obsessive celebrity watching has a lurid history that began long before tabloid shutterbugs took their first shot. Here for the first time are the recently declassified celebrity files of the FBI, the CIA, and the military, giving the private dirt on the most "suspect, dangerous and immoral" public figures in the world -- from George Burns to Andy Warhol.

EXPOSED! The panty parties and massive porn stash of comedian Lou Costello.
EXPOSED! Ernest Hemingway enlisted as a spy on behalf of the American Embassy.
EXPOSED! The sexual drives of our youth aroused beyond normalcy by Elvis Presley.
EXPOSED! Hollywood honey Marilyn Monroe had shocking ties to Soviet Russia.
EXPOSED! Mysterious death of Princess Di a threat to national security.

What were the motivating factors behind the spying, the suspicions, and the accusations? What did those motivations actually reveal about the military, the CIA, the FBI, and the mood of the country? The answers make for a startling, insightful, astonishing, outrageous, sometimes shocking, and always controversial peek into the most secret of lives.

The New York Times - Dave Itzkoff

In small doses, these factoids are good for a laugh. But Redfern's book paints a progressively damning portrait of a government obsessed with pop culture's power and paranoid about controlling its message, as unnerved by the possibility of a riot breaking out at a Beatles concert as it is by the thought of Rock Hudson portraying an F.B.I. agent in a motion picture.

Introduction

1 Abbott and Costello

2 Jack Kerouac

3 Errol Flynn

4 Ernest Hemingway

5 Billie Holiday

6 John Wayne

7 Audie Murphy

8 Frank Sinatra

9 The Kingsmen

10 Elvis Presley

11 Marilyn Monroe

12 Rudolf Nureyev

13 Andy Warhol

14 Jimi Hendrix

15 Rowan and Martin

16 Rock Hudson

17 Sonny Bono

18 John Lennon and the Beatles

19 John Denver

20 Princess Diana

21 An A-to-Z of Celebrity Secrets

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