Gary Allen

This article is about the journalist. For the recording artist, see Gary Allan.

Gary Allen (August 2, 1936 – November 29, 1986) was an American conservative journalist.^[1]

Background

As a student, Allen was majoring in history at Stanford University^[2] and studied at California State University, Long Beach.^[3] He was a prominent member of the John Birch Society, of which he was a spokesman. He contributed to magazines such as Conservative Digest^[1] and American Opinion since 1964.^[4] He also was the speech writer for George Wallace during the Alabama Governor Presidential campaigns and was adviser to the conservative Texas millionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt.^[1]

Allen was the father of four children, including Mike Allen, the political news journalist who, as a Politico reporter, writes in a less editorialised manner than his father .^[5]

Allen died in 1986, at the age of 50 of a liver ailment.^[6]

Writing

In 1972, Allen wrote with Larry Abraham None Dare Call It Conspiracy (prefaced by John G. Schmitz),^[7] a best seller. It is said to have sold over five million copies worldwide during the United States presidential election.^{[citation needed]} An investigator of US financial, industrial, and political elites, he wrote other books about the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission, claiming that the term "New World Order" was used by a secretive elite dedicated to the destruction of all national sovereignties.^[8] 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 known as producerism.^[9]

Works

• Communist Revolution in the Streets, Western Islands, 1967
• Nixon's Palace Guard, Western Islands, Western Islands, 1971
• Richard Nixon: The Man Behind the Mask, Western Islands, 1971
• None Dare Call It Conspiracy, Concord Press, 1972
• Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Carter, '76 Press, 1976
• Kissinger: The Secret Side of the Secretary of State, 76 Press, 1976
• The Rockefeller File, '76 Press, 1976
• Tax Target, Washington, '76 Press, 1978
• Ted Kennedy: In Over His Head, '76 Press, 1981
• Say "No!" to the New World Order, Concord Press, 1987

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} anonymous; "Gary Allen, 50, Dies in West; Spread Conservatives' View", Associated Press, published in The New York Times on December 2, 1986.
2. ^ Ronald Lora, William Henry Longton, The Conservative Press in Twentieth-Century America, Greenwood Press, 1999, p.507
3. ^ None Dare Call It Conspiracy, 1971
4. ^ Willie Maartens, Mapping Reality A Critical Perspective on Science and Religion, iUniverse, 2006, p. 272
5. ^ Leibovich, Mark; "The Man The White House Wakes Up To", New York Times Magazine; 19 April 2010.
6. ^ The New York Times. December 2, 1986.
7. ^ In this book, Allen states that the present political/economic systems in most developed nations are a result of a conspiracy which started in the early 1900s. It was, or is, a 3 part system. (1) Establish an income tax system as a means of extorting money from the common man; (2) establish a central bank, deceptively named so that people will think it is part of the government; (3) have this bank be the holder of the National Debt. There was a fourth part, to run the National Debt, and the interest thereon, sky high through wars (or any sort of deficit spending), starting with World War I. Michael Billig and Jovan Byford, "The emergence of antisemitic conspiracy theories in Yugoslavia during the war with NATO", Patterns of Prejudice, October 2001
8. ^ Martin Durham, "Preparing for Armageddon: Citizen Militias, the Patriot Movement and the Oklahoma City Bombing", Terrorism and Political Violence, Spring 1996
9. ^ Berlet, Chip (Fall 1998, revised 4/15/99). Dances with Devils: How Apocalyptic and Millennialist Themes Influence Right Wing Scapegoating and Conspiracism. http://www.publiceye.org/apocalyptic/Dances_with_Devils_1-02.html#P318_101984. Retrieved 2009-07-23. 

External links

• Bibliomania: Gary Allen
• Internet Archive Community Books: None Dare Call It Conspiracy (1972)
• Open Library: Gary Allen

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Name	Allen, Gary
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Date of birth	August 2, 1936
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Date of death	November 29, 1986
Place of death	Los Angeles, CA