For the Bible student that is aware that "something is rotten in the state of Denmark", I recommend the minimum reads...
1. Tragedy and Hope by Georgetown history professor Carrol Quigley (Bill Clinton's history professor that Bill endorsed in his Presidential inaugural speech):
Quigley wrote it in the 1960's but his publisher stopped printing it after a while, and Quigley had to sue his publisher to find out why. The publisher destroyed the printing plates. Quigley then stated that his book must have said something "the establishment" did not want known.
Quigley covers the British Round Table group from Britain establishing an American branch in the early 1900's as the Council On Foreign Relations think tank made up of a list of who's-who in American from every important field, from the military, Senate, Congress, media, education, finance, and even U.S. Presidents. Quigley revealed this group often works with the Communists and has no problem doing so. His only disagreement is that they wish to remain secret, he said. In this book you will read an 'insider' "establishment" look at Western history, things not revealed to the general public that have been kept secret.
2. Proofs Of A Conspiracy, by John Robison (1798):
Robison was a British naturalist (scientist) and a British Mason. He covers the exposed documents of Weishaupt's Bavarian Illuminati order discovered on one of their dead agents found in Bavaria. The discovery of those secret papers and letters of the order thus warned the governments and monarchs of Europe about the Illuminati's plan to overthrow the governments of Europe, and destroy Christianity.
Robison claimed the Masonry on the European continent branched off from Britain, which British Masonry originally involved only 3 degrees. But the lodges on the European continent with the Illuminati order having infiltrated them, had added new degrees, creating a secret higher structure in Masonry that did not originally exist. Robison reveals some of the initiations and names of these higher degrees and their secret functions. One of the degrees was a Christian degree, and Weishaupt, the head of the Illuminati, had bragged in a letter to another higher member that his Christian degree had duped a certain Christian divine (bishop) into thinking he had come to the great secrets of true Christianity. Adam Weishaupt was an orthodox Jew and professor of law at Ingolstadt University.
3. The Naked Communist, by Cleon Skousen (1958):
Cleon Skousen was an FBI agent for 16 years, having served during the Lend-Lease program at the end of World War II, and thereafter, and was one that debriefed the U.S. statesman Whittaker Chambers that was caught as a Soviet spy. Skousen listed 45 Soviet strategic points for takeover of the West which were developed by the Soviet Communists in 1958. Many of those strategic points have been fulfilled, while others on the list one can see literally are in the works today in America. Those 45 points were entered into the U.S. Congressional Record in 1963.
4. New Lies For Old, by Anatoliy Golitsyn (1984):
Golitsyn was a Russian KGB Colonel that defected to the U.S. in the 1960's. He tried to warn the U.S. State department that the Soviet Communists had developed a disinformation strategy against the West, and if it was time for their 3rd phase of the plan, they might consider allowing the Berlin Wall to come down (it came down in 1989-1990, 4 years after Golitsyn wrote his book).
Golitsyn showed the Soviet's 'democratization' strategy of admitting failure of Communism, and opening up Russia to the West was part of the Soviet long-range 1958 plan of disinformation. Their plan for world Communism is not dead. Golitsyn reveals how the KGB would mask their future operations under new names, and allow trade unions and churches more freedom in order to pull off the disinformation scheme.
In final, Golitsyn said the plan was to close the scissors upon the West. By that is meant both the Soviets and Red China each representing one blade of the scissors, together will invade the West.
A second book by Golitsyn, The Perestroika Deception, written after the Berlin Wall came down, further covers disinformation operations by the Soviet Communists.
While some of these books can be found free online, one should prefer an early edition copy in book form. Online books like a PDF can easily be changed.