If the New World Order is a unified field conspiracy theory, then Milton William Cooper was its Einstein. Published in 1991, Cooper's bookBehold the pale horse" is both a bible and a Talmud for conspirators, a 500-page compendium of documents collected during Cooper's alleged career as a naval intelligence officer. with instructions on how to interpret his revelations (for example, replace the wordJews vProtocols of the Elders of Zion on theIlluminati ).
Cooper later refuted his claim that the US government conspired with space aliens to assassinate John F. Kennedy—among other crimes—finally deciding that the flying saucers he saw destroying villages in Vietnam were built by humans to distract " sheep" from what was actually going on. Which, of course, was the consolidation of power through the UN into a world socialist government. This alarming popularity of the right-wing theory dominated Cooper's later teachings, as outlined in his radio show The Hour of Time. This program helped Timothy McVeigh commit the Oklahoma massacre (Cooper believed it was an inside job) and prompted the Clinton administration to name him America's most dangerous radio personality. (He was killed in a shootout with the Arizona police,
As he acknowledged in the opening note of his best-selling book, "It is possible that one or more of the conclusions may be wrong."
