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Now dismissed
as a big bunch of crap, the Gemstone File, by some account more
than 1,000 pages long, is the most notorious rant in conspiracy history.
Written by American gemologist Bruce Roberts over a period of years beginning
in the 1960s until 1975, the Gemstone File details dark secrets of the
CIA, FBI, and the Mafia in addition to JFK, LBJ, Ted Kennedy, Richard Nixon,
the Washington Post, Mayor Joe Alioto, Howard Hughes, Martin Luther King
Jr., the Watergate conspirators, and many others. The Gemstone File links
all of these people and a host of historical and political events into
one huge conspiracy! The wide ranging account was drafted by Roberts in
part at this location, 895 Bush Street, then known as the Drift Inn. Roberts,
who invented the synthetic ruby used in laser technology, regaled visitors
at the Drift Inn with his stories of political intrigue. He claimed that
the Watergate burglary was conceived by G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt
at the Drift Inn early in 1972. Roberts died of lung cancer in 1976 but
not before his Gemstone File had been circulated all over the globe. A
year before Roberts' death, a Skeleton Key to the Gemstone File was published
that sorted its many stories in chronological order. Among Gemstone claims:
Aristotle Onassis had Howard Hughes kidnapped and drugged for at least
a decade. The alleged kidnapping put the aerospace industry under the control
of the international Mafia, which led to the assassination of JFK. Roberts'
theories have been well investigated. Published editions of the Gemstone
File that contain commentary by various researchers are now available online
and in bookstores.
Stephanie Caruana, the freelance
writer who authored the Skeleton Key to Roberts' stories, wrote to Mister
SF to say she took umbrage to the above reference to the Gemstone as "a
big bunch of crap." She says that published criticism of the Gemstone over
the years is based on her condensed version, not on the entire dossier
and that when the complete Gemstone File comes to light Roberts will be
recognized as one of San Francisco's greatest writers. Caruana has been
hard at work on a new website, CD ROM, and published editions of Bruce
Roberts' Gemstone File. She says they include information witheld until
now by Mae Brussell and John Judge. Brussell is the Carmel Valley conspiracy
theorist who died from cancer in 1988, leaving Judge in charge of her controversial
library. Brussell was widely known as a writer, radio commentator, lecturer
and researcher who believed that the U.S. is secretly controlled by ruthless
cabals of high powered conspirators. Caruana says the revised Gemstone
file makes for "fascinating information about how our country is run, and
by whom." Caruana offered to send Mister SF a review copy of the new CD
ROM, but later changed her mind after reading his "Heart of the City" interview
with Angela Alioto. Caruana
says Mayor Joe is a "major villain" in the Gemstone story. |
