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Some of you will recall William Milton Cooper who came onto the UFO scene about 15 years ago and soon made himself one of the most unscrupulous conspiracy theorists in the UFO field.
After several years he was being invited to give lectures for considerable pay. He talked about the UFO/Kennedy/you-name-it conspiracy. Anyone who didn't agree with him... even when he changed his story... which he did (as it grew and grew)... was_against_ him and part of the Conspiracy! He put it all into his book, 'Behold A Pale Horse'... which more accurately should be entitled 'Behind The Pale Horse'.
Before his violent death in November, 2001, lecturer and self-proclaimed military insider William Cooper helped popularize a number of malignant myths centered on the notion of secret U.S. contact with aliens. Cooper believed extraterrestrials were involved in a quiet takeover of the world, and claimed to have seen briefing documents and photos of aliens while serving in the military. He famously attacked noted UFO personalities such as Whitley Strieber, Linda Moulton Howe and Stanton Friedman as being CIA operatives bent on keeping the truth from public knowledge. Later in his career, Cooper's world view became increasingly oppressive and paranoid.
I saw Cooper speak at Hollywood High School in Los Angeles in 1989.
Two highlights. One of them was his claim that aliens influenced the US to intervene militarily on the Communist side during the Russian revolution. There are two small problems with that. First, the US intervened on the anti-communist side (to be precise, this was in the civil war that followed the revolution). Second, Cooper himself said at another point in his talk that the aliens arrived here in 1947. The Russian revolution and the succeeding civil war were much earlier than that (1918 to 1921, I believe).
Second highlight: During the question period, someone rose from the audience to announce that the government was spying on the lecture! He pointed to video cameras set up onstage. Cooper -- for once seeming utterly baffled -- replied that those were his own cameras. A case of conspiracy thinking getting too crazy even for Cooper. Cooper got an ovation when he said the aliens were responsible for gun control. It was quite an evening.
Originally posted by UnaChispa
reply to post by ReallyNiceGuy
Did you actually read the book --------->or are you just looking up Anti-BillCooper people (who I've never even heard of)?
Cooper was the scariest man I've ever encountered in my long years in this field, representing the sickest end of the anti- gummint paranoia which so afflicted American politics over the past two decades, and which now, happily, is receding.
When I pointed out in an article that some of Cooper's UFO conspiracy theories had their roots in anti-Semitic literature, he took to threatening me from various public forums. His followers were frightening, too. Ten years ago, while lecturing in Sydney, Australia, on the Dark Side fantasies for which Cooper was largely responsible, I had my speech interrupted by an enraged audience member who started shouting at me. It was his view, as I understood it, that I was a CIA member; after all, only a CIA member would charge that Cooper's stuff was 100%
horseradish.
I'm sorry that when he left this world, Cooper may have taken a deputy sheriff with him. I hope the man recovers and is able to resume his life without ever meeting a Cooper equivalent again. Cooper, a true sociopath, did damage to just about anybody who crossed his path. He will not be missed. Jerome Clark is the former editor of the UFO magazine Fate and former vice-president and current board member of the J. Allen Hyneck Center for UFO Studies
Originally posted by ReallyNiceGuy
Originally posted by UnaChispa
reply to post by ReallyNiceGuy
Did you actually read the book --------->or are you just looking up Anti-BillCooper people (who I've never even heard of)?
Yes.
---------> Never heard of Bruce Maccabee? Best ye get your ejication on!
Or check here and follow some of the links... Bill Cooper destroyed by Don Ecker
Linda Moulton Howe and Stanton Friedman as being CIA operatives bent on keeping the truth from public knowledge. Later in his career, Cooper's world view became increasingly oppressive and paranoid.