Celebrity Secrets: Official Government Files on the Rich & Famous

by Nick Redfern

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.

Genres: Nonfiction

272 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Nick Redfern is a British best-selling author, Ufologist and Cryptozoologist who has been an active advocate of official disclosure, and has worked to uncover thousands of pages of previously-classified Royal Air Force, Air Ministry and Ministry of Defence files on UFOs dating from the Second World War from the Public Record Office.

He has has appeared on a variety of television programmes in the UK and works on the lecture circuit, both in the UK and overseas, and has appeared in internationally syndicated shows discussing the UFO phenomenon. He is also a regular on the History Channel programs Monster Quest and UFO Hunters as well as National Geographic Channels's Paranormal and the SyFY channel's Proof Positive.

Redfern now lives in Texas and is currently working as a full-time author and journalist specializing in a wide range of unsolved mysteries, including Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, UFO sightings, government conspiracies, alien abductions and paranormal phenomena, and also works as a feature writer and contributing editor for Phenomena magazine and writes regularly for other magazines and websites.

In 2007 Universal Studios bought the rights to Redfern's book: "Three Men Seeking Monsters: Six Weeks in Pursuit of Werewolves, Lake Monster, Giant Cats, Ghostly Devil Dogs and Ape-Men" in the hopes of making a movie from it.

Reviews

[Alina Galavan · Rating 2 out of 5]

O carte interesanta, insa m-am asteptat sa aflu ceva mai multe informatii despre celebritati. Unele celebritati sunt in dosarele FBI doar pentru ca aveau prieteni ce cochetau cu ideea de regim comunist iar altele pentru ca erau suspecte ca ar fi consumat substante ilegale.

[Mick Meyers · Rating 3 out of 5]

Average book on the usual suspects,nothing new,the author hiving his own interpretation to the fbi files.

[Liam Ostermann · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is rubbish but also fun in the same way that pictures of the sacred heart or dayglo last supper images are, it is something to read when you are bored, but not to be taken seriously. Shelving it as waste-of-time is probably unfair but to take it seriously would be a waste-of-time.

If a library hadn't stocked the book I would never have even glanced at a copy - which would have been a pity because it was, like some heart attack inducing junk food, enjoyable, for a very little time. In the days when there were bookstores it was the sort of book you read in them, unless you read it in the loo of some friend's house.

[Terri Palermo · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was expecting a fluffy, guilty pleasure type of read. What I found instead was a well-researched book containing actual declassified files from the FBI and CIA and other similar agencies.
The book was well laid out so I could read about the people I wanted to peek into...that's why I just skimmed this book. Should be treasured by those of the conspiracy theory bent. :)

[Aubrey · Rating 2 out of 5]

Parts of the book were decent while others were kind of dry. I don't really know anything about over half of the people talked about within the text due to the fact that I was not born until 1995. The book does not seem to be organized in any way either. It is just sort of all over the place and parts of it are hard to follow.

[Beverly Hollandbeck · Rating 2 out of 5]

I can't believe I read a book entitled Celebrity Secrets. I can't believe I'm admitting it.

[Victoria Frow · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good. Enjoyed reading the theories about well known celebrities but had to consider that it was just theories and that there is more to their stories. Interesting tho and well worth a read.