A Skeleton Key to the Gemstone File: Summary of Bruce Roberts' Gemstone File Letters

by Stephanie Caruana

"We're all out here in the dark, out in the coldand denying our hostile surroundings when it comes to interpreting what's going on in this evermore deranged nation. Like the best conspiracy theories, the Skeleton Key to the Gemstone File slashed through the darkness like white light. We're not quite certain what we're looking at, but it sure is dazzling. --Jonathan Vankin Author "Early in 1983, while visiting a friend in London, I was given a copy of the Skeleton Key to the Gemstone File. Fascinated by its revelations, I devoured the document in one sitting, unable to put it down. A few years later, in Australia, I was given another copy. "Here, take this, make another photocopy, and pass it on," the person told me. I took their copy (of a copy of a copy) and passed it on to someone else. "Pass it on," I repeated, as many had said before. And now, many years after Bruce Roberts, author of the original Gemstone File, died in 1976, his manuscript has become legendary. The Skeleton Key to the Gemstone File, by Stephanie Caruana, is perhaps the world's best known circulated document, one that is mentioned in dozens of books on the Kennedy assassination and the role of the Mafia in the affairs of the United Staes and other countries throughout the 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's." --David Hatcher Childress Whirlwind powering the Ancient Aliens programs on H2; Author, Publisher, Adventures Unlimited Press; "Inside the Gemstone File." 1999. "Who knows the contents?.... Did Dean read it?" --Richard Nixon, President The White House Transcripts, 1973 "I gave [the 2 manila envelops in Howard Hunt's safe] to Gray; he burned them. --John Dean Nixon's White House Counsel The White House Transcripts, 1973 "I never heard of the Gemstone File.. Good luck with your project." --John Dean Author, "Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W.Bush" 2004 "Gemstoned again! --A 24-page rant that many believed deserved an early death on the conspiracy circuit, but one that shows a remarkable durability of interest." --Kenn Thomas Author, Publisher, Steamshovel Press Inside the Genmstone File, 1999

62 pages, Paperback

First published June 4, 2015

Reviews

[Lisa Shea · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the authentic original, written by Stephanie Caruana in 1975!

It's hard to even remember (or imagine, for youngsters) just how different the world of information sharing was back in 1975. There wasn't an easily available Internet. There weren't smartphones with email and text. If you had an explosive summary of information about Nixon, JFK, Onassis, Watergate, and other interrelated shenanigans, you couldn't just tweet about it. You had to find a Xerox machine or - go ahead and cringe now - a *mimeograph machine* - and get a fuzzy duplicate version of your original.

This is how Stephanie shared her original version of A Skeleton Key to the Gemstone File.

She Xeroxed copies of her words. She asked family to Xerox. She asked those friends to ask friends to Xerox it. In a day when self-publishing was an expensive Vanity Press hurdle, Stephanie found a way to get her words out.

Just what was Stephanie so intent on distributing that she went through all this effort?

A Skeleton Key to the Gemstone File are Stephanie's summaries and notes of a massive hoard of documents created by the famous Bruce Roberts. Bruce had numerous contacts in the intelligence community and was a rabid researcher. He had a world-wide network of contacts. He was a prolific letter writer, sharing his information with diplomats all around the globe. Much of what he looked into was the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the car crash of Teddy Kennedy which resulted in the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., the actions of Nixon, Watergate, and much, much more. There are well over 1,000 pages of files and letters created by Bruce Roberts. Because of the way they were dispersed and sent out, it's unlikely any one person has seen them all. As a group, those files are generally referred to as "The Gemstone Files."

Stephanie Caruana was fortunate to see several hundred of them.

Since, in 1975, distributing several hundred pages of content would be beyond impossible, Stephanie focused on getting her summary out into the hands of interested readers. That way people could understand the gist of what Roberts' research was all about. It would give them a starting point to do more research and investigation.

Nowadays, in 2017, self-publishing means that it's possible to print hundreds of pages of content without the enormous financial burden of the past. So Stephanie Caruana has now also released her massive tome "The Gemstone File: A Memoir" which has transcripts from many of Bruce Roberts' files. Anybody interested in those files should definitely get both books. This book here provides the foundation to then put the much larger book into context.

It's a testament to Stephanie's efforts that A Skeleton Key to the Gemstone File was so widely distributed back in 1975 and that it remains powerfully relevant all these decades later.

A must-read for anybody interested in the history of US Politics.

I purchased my copy of A Skeleton Key to the Gemstone File with my own funds. I am familiar with Stephanie as a person as a member of an organization we both belong to.