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Gary Allen
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Frederick Gary Allen[1] (August 2, 1936 – November 29, 1986) was an American conservative writer[2] and conspiracy theorist.[3][4] Allen promoted the notion that international banking and politics control domestic decisions, taking them out of elected officials' hands.[2]

Background
As a student, Allen majored in history at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California,[5] and studied as well at California State University in Long Beach.[6] He was a prominent member of Robert W. Welch, Jr.'s John Birch Society, of which he was a spokesman. He contributed to magazines such as Conservative Digest[7] and American Opinion magazine from 1964.[8] He also was the speech writer for George Wallace, the former governor of Alabama, during his segregationist third-party presidential bid in the 1968 U.S. presidential election against Richard M. Nixon and Hubert H. Humphrey. He was an advisor to the conservative Texas millionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt.[7]

Allen was the father of four children, including Michael Allen, a political news journalist.

Allen died as the result of a liver ailment in 1986 in Long Beach, California, at the age of 50.[2]

Writing
In 1971, Allen co-wrote a book titled None Dare Call It Conspiracy with Larry Abraham. It was prefaced by U.S. Representative John G. Schmitz of California's 35th congressional district, the nominee of the American Independent Party in the 1972 U.S. presidential election). It sold more than four million copies[9] during the 1972 presidential campaign opposing Richard Nixon and U.S. Senator George S. McGovern.[10]

In this book, Allen and Abraham assert that the modern political and economic systems in most developed nations are the result of a sweeping conspiracy by the Establishment's power elite, for which he also uses the term Insiders. According to the authors, these Insiders use elements of Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto to forward their socialist/communist agenda:

Establish an income tax system as a means of extorting money from the common man;
Establish a central bank, deceptively named so that people will think it is part of the government;
Have this bank be the holder of the national debt;
Run the national debt, and the interest thereon, sky high through wars (or any sort of deficit spending), starting with World War I.[11]
He quotes the Council on Foreign Relations as stating in its 1959 No. 7 study on behalf of the United States Senate: "The U.S. must strive to: A. Build a new international order."[12]

In February 1980, Allen began a working relationship with research assistant Sam Wells, whose work Allen's writings would depend upon until his death.[13] Wells continued his work after Allen's death, assisting his widow with the publication of his newsletter of political and economic analysis.[14]

Allen wrote other books about the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission, asserting that the term "New World Order" was used by a secretive elite working towards the destruction of national sovereignty. Allen's last book, Say "No!" to the new world order, was published posthumously in January 1987.

Investigative reporter Chip Berlet argues that Allen's work provides an example of a synthesis of right-wing populism and conspiracism, a blend of ideas known as producerism.[15]

Selected publications
Articles
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Books
Communist Revolution in the Streets. American Opinion Books (1967). ISBN 978-0882792125.
Nixon's Palace Guard. Western Islands (1971).
Richard Nixon: The Man Behind the Mask. Western Islands (1971).
None Dare Call It Conspiracy, with Larry H. Abraham. Seal Beach, Calif.: Concord Press (1972)
Reprinted: Buccaneer Books (1990). ISBN 0899666612.
Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Carter. Seal Beach, Calif.: '76 Press (1976). ISBN 0892450061.
Kissinger: The Secret Side of the Secretary of State. Seal Beach, Calif.: '76 Press (1976). ISBN 978-0892450022.
Reprinted: Buccaneer Books (1981). ISBN 978-0686313113.
The Rockefeller File. Seal Beach, Calif.: '76 Press (1976). ISBN 978-0892450015.
Reprinted: Buccaneer Books (1998). ISBN 978-1568493688.
Tax Target, Washington. Seal Beach, Calif.: '76 Press (1978). ISBN 978-0892450145.
Introduction by Howard Jarvis.
Ted Kennedy: In Over His Head. Seal Beach, Calif.: '76 Press (1981). ISBN 978-0892450206.
Say "No!" to the New World Order. Seal Beach, Calif.: Concord Press (1987).

Documentary filmstrips
The Great Pretense: How to Finance Communism While Ostensibly Opposing it. John Birch Society (1969).
"A Documentary Filmstrip on How the Free World Finances Communism."

Interviews
Rees, John H. "Popular Historian Gary Allen: An Exclusive Interview with the Leading Authority on Trilateralism." Review of the NEWS (February 27, 1980).
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Larry H. Abraham
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Larry Henry Abraham (October 29, 1937 – July 7, 2008)[2] was an American businessman and author. He was the co-founder of PanAmerica Capital Group, Inc.,[3] and a speaker on political, economic, and financial topics. He was a member of Robert W. Welch, Jr.'s John Birch Society. He was the co-author with Gary Allen of the 1971 best-seller None Dare Call It Conspiracy, which sold more than five million copies during the 1972 U.S. presidential election. His obituary says he spent most of his life in the conservative movement. [4]

Selected works
Books
None Dare Call It Conspiracy, with Gary Allen. Seal Beach, Calif.: Concord Press (1972). Introduction by Congressman John G. Schmitz.
Call It Conspiracy. Seattle, Wash.: Double A. Publications (1985). Prologue by Gary North, Ph.D. ISBN 978-0961555009.
Update to None Dare Call It Conspiracy.
The Greening: The Environmentalists' Drive for Global Power, with Franklin Sanders. Phoenix, Ariz.: Double A Publications (1993). ISBN 978-0962664625. OCLC 29025804.

Book contributions
Prologue to New Lies for Old: The Communist Strategy for Deception and Disinformation, by Anatoliy Golitsyn. New York: Dodd, Mead (1985), pp. iv-xvi. ISBN 978-0396081944.

Newsletters
The G.E.O. Report
Larry Abraham's Insider Report

Filmography
Countdown to the New World Order (1990).
Interview with Wallis W. Wood.
 
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