Kenn Thomas (June 12, 1958 – September 22, 2023)[1][2] was a conspiracy writer, archivist, and editor and publisher of Steamshovel Press, a parapolitical
conspiracy magazine.[3]
Thomas, who was born in
St. Louis, Missouri, has written over a dozen books on various conspiracy topics. These include NASA, Nazis & JFK; Maury Island UFO, about the possibility that
Fred Crisman was connected to the assassination of
John F. Kennedy; and The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro, about the
Inslaw affair. In 2004,
Feral House published a new edition of The Octopus, extending the suggestion of connections to the post-
September 11 attacks world and
al-Qaeda. A new edition of Maury Island UFO was published by
Feral House in 2011 as JFK & UFO: Military-Industrial Conspiracy and Cover-Up from Maury Island to Dallas.[4]
Thomas calls his research interest "parapolitics", the study of conspiracies of all colors—from alien abductions and the
Illuminati, to the
John F. Kennedy assassination and the
September 11, 2001 attacks. The New Yorker called his work "on the cutting edge" of conspiracy.[citation needed] His name has become a by-word for a conspiracy theorist; enough so that baseball was described in print as involving "enough fishy behavior to keep Kenn Thomas swarming for years."[5]
The Little Book of Conspiracies: A Paranoiac's Pocket Guide, Joel Levy (introduction by Kenn Thomas), Thunder's Mouth, US, 2005, paperback,
ISBN1-56025-723-7
Maury Island UFO: The Crisman Conspiracy, IllumiNet, US, 1999, paperback
ISBN1-881532-19-4
Mind Control, Oswald & JFK, AUP, US, 1997, paperback
ISBN0-932813-46-1
NASA, Nazis & JFK: The Torbitt Document & the Kennedy Assassination, Adventures Unlimited Press, US, 1996 paperback,
ISBN0-932813-39-9