"Shedding light onto sometimes sinister and coercive groups, Secret Societies: The Complete Guide to Histories, Rites and Rituals is packed with details on nearly 200 organizations, religions and cults, government plots, and personalities, including their histories, beliefs, intentions, and impact. This important book uncovers and examines the hidden, overlooked, and buried history of some of the most notorious groups, including the Illuminati, the Freemasons, the Bilderberg Group, MKUltra, Skull and Bones, Ordo Templi Orientis, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the Knights Templar, the Ku Klux Klan, La Cosa Nostra, the Rosicrucian Order Crotona Fellowship, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Montauk Project, to name just a few." -- Back cover.