The End of Appendix E: Behold a Pale Horse pp. 459-472

We continue to grind at the appendices, reading one of the people responsible for pushing the idea that FEMA was going to throw us in camps, take away our guns, and let the UN take over the United States (chapters 5, 6). Appendix E is supposed to be about the New World Order but the document on page 459 has nothing to do with it. This is a letter titled “S_T_A_T_E_M_E_N_T” (the letter was likely written on a typewriter, and this was the attempt at underlining). The author of the letter claims that between 1972-74, when Nixon was in trouble, a directive came through that messages from the White House were to be reported to the base commander. That’s it. This is the salient point in the signed letter [it looks like the person’s first name is either David or Daniel E. but I can’t be sure]. The writer refers to an article that he read saying, “I recall that reason this article was so interesting was that some of us were trying to determine whether we believed that President Nixon would resign rather than face possible impeachment.” We are not told what article is being referred to, why this is at all important, or whether this is even a substantial change in policy. I would think that messages to a military base from the White House were supposed to go to the commander.

That letter is followed by another dated 8 December 1989. This letter is another response to an article titled, “The Secret Government, the Origin, Identity, and Purpose of the (real) MJ-12.” This article isn’t included in the book, but it was easily found on my favorite resource for conspiracy books, the Internet Archive. Doing a brief skim, it’s a 24-page rant claiming the same sorts of things that we’ve been reading about. Truman started a fund to construct secret locations in case of nuclear war for himself and congress to hide, Nelson Rockefeller, JASON, etc. The author of the letter claims that it was all stuff he recognized as being “Top Secret.” He also refers to the Nixon story mentioned in the previous letter, although the claim here is that military personnel were supposed to ignore messages from “Top Hat” not the “White House.” No mention of the New World Order or anything else. I know from reading this book, that Cooper believes that Nixon’s possible impeachment was a coup attempt, and that may be what is driving this inclusion—however, I’m working really hard to make that link.

This is followed by another letter from a John Shemson, who is telling Cooper he’s sending along information when he finds it. Then we are shown a heavily copied letter dated 29 November 1963 from J. Edgar Hoover to the director of the Bureau of intelligence and Research. The letter is then transcribed in a legible fashion (which is the best thing that this appendix has done so far). Hoover’s concern is that some anti-Castro groups may attack Cuba in response to the assassination of the president. He argues that the assassination, which had nothing to do with Cuba, might be the impetus to a policy shift with regard to the nation. The fear comes from an informant in a pro-Castro Florida group which is worried that repressive measures will be taken against them. The message was also orally furnished to George HW Bush of the CIA and Captain William Edwards of the DIA. The last part is taken to be some kind of damning evidence. The implication is that this links Bush to the assassination of the president; in the conspiracy world this counts as evidence.

The next document is a snippet claiming that Bush provided information that someone named James Parrott talked about killing Kennedy if JFK came to Houston. The purpose of this is to pile on more information to link “Bush” with “Kennedy,” otherwise this is pointless.

The next document is titled “The Report.” It’s clearly copied from a larger document as there is a page number in the upper left-hand corner indicating that this page “62” and it begins mid-sentence, “though not yet expressly put forth, is the development of a long-range sequence of space-research projects with largely unattainable goals.”

Placing that sentence into a search found me “Report from Iron Mountain.” I’ve heard of this book before, but I’ve never read it. I assumed, that it was a book that placed itself midway between this book and something like “None Dare Call it Conspiracy” in that it was more concerned with political aims but was using conspiratorial framing to make its point. I was, however, completely wrong about that. The book is, in actuality, an anti-war satire that pretends to be a secret leaked document.

The problem for this work is Poe’s Law—one cannot satire a conspiracy theory such that there will not be someone that takes it seriously. Within the first paragraph of this excerpt it reads, “if colonization of the Moon proceeds on schedule, it could then become “necessary” to establish a beachhead on Mars or Jupiter, and so on.”

The Iron Mountain report is supposedly something that came from the Kennedy administration, meaning that before the US could reliably put a person in space, there was a working plan for Moon colonization that had a schedule. I don’t know if Cooper was a Moon-Landing denier, and this section doesn’t help us in either direction. We know he thinks that humans are capable of space flight because of his belief in the JASON project to blow up Jupiter; so, I wonder what his estimation of NASA actually is. The author of the report equates the space program as modern-day Pyramid building which is an appropriate reference given that the Pyramids are one of the first major projects you can undertake in Civilization and the space program one of the last. It’s achievement for achievement’s sake. The report continues with an observation that the US needs a threat to motivate it to do anything. When there are no enemies, the authors of the report conclude that some will have to be invented. They offer up pollution as one possible enemy, but this one is doubted, “Since there is considerable doubt, in our minds, that any viable political surrogate can be devised, we are reluctant to com-” and the document ends.

The next, and final document in Appendix E is from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace which is discussing “The Imperial Japanese Mission.” There is no date given for this and just like the previous document it begins mid-sentence. The document seems to be directed at Viscount Ishii who is an emissary from the Imperial Japanese Court. The second page of this document is dated at 1917 and there appears a length quote from Philosopher John Dewey. Cooper (or someone) has found this line which seems to be the point, “Some one remarked that the best way to unite all the nations on this globe would be an attack from some other planet. In the face of such an alien enemy, people would respond with a sense of their unity of interest and purpose;” then later in the same quotation, “…for the time being is nothing less than a world state, an immense cooperative action in behalf of civilization.”

Dewey is referring to the coming together of the world after WWI which included the nations of South America and the Japanese Empire (the Occident and Orient he says). I think that Cooper views this as proof of the coming one world government, but again, I’m only making an assumption. Dewey is a philosopher that I’m familiar with—and here he isn’t talking about the New World Order, but the prospect of peace that does not require an alien invasion to maintain. Dewey is going to be wrong, but the for the time it seemed to be at least possible. The Kaiser’s Germany seemed to be that outside force that the entire world stood up and united against (minus a couple of outliers).

And thus we close appendix E, having learned nothing. Not a single one of these documents even hinted at what Cooper claimed they were. This is just puffery designed to make the book look more legitimate than it is. Cooper should have included the article that our first letter referred to and then the document that the third letter was responding to. That would have been an appropriate use of this space.