There is something about Alternative 3 that has the ring of truth. And this is what bothers Keith. It bothers him enough that he spends the bulk of his book trying to find out what it is. They are concerned with overpopulation and eugenics. There does exist advanced technology of which we are only dimly aware.
People do disappear and others die in mysterious circumstances.
And in government laboratories around the world fiendish techniques of mind-control are perfected using drugs, surgery, and radiation. In drawing out these parallels Keith comes into his own. These individuals and organizations are the ruling elite. But forget the Nazis and their death camps, forget the atom bomb, forget the planned genocides in North and South America and the starving millions of the Third World. Let's bring it on home.