Fritz Springmeier
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Fritz Artz Springmeier is an American
United States
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 conspiracy
Conspiracy theory
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 theorist and religious right wing author, formerly a resident of Corbett, Oregon
Corbett, Oregon
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, who has written a number of books claiming that satan
Satan
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ic forces are behind a move toward world domination by various families and organizations. He has described his goal as "exposing the New World Order agenda."

In 2003 he was imprisoned for his involvement in a robbery in Damascus, Oregon
Damascus, Oregon
Damascus is a city in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States. Incorporated in 2004, the city is located east of Happy Valley and Interstate 205 and west of Boring. The area that later became the city had a population of 9,022 in 2000...

 in 1997, in which he set a bomb at an adult video store as an accomplice of another right-wing militant. He was released in October 2010.

Conspiracy theories

Springmeier has written and self-published a number of books based on the ideology of what's been described as an "ultra-right-wing group" called the Christian Patriot Association; this group was shut down in 2002 after convictions for tax fraud and tax evasion
Tax evasion
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.
He has endorsed the plausibility of Project Monarch, a purported Central Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency
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 mind control
Mind control
Mind control refers to a process in which a group or individual "systematically uses unethically manipulative methods to persuade others to conform to the wishes of the manipulator, often to the detriment of the person being manipulated"...

 project whose conjectured existence is based only on the testimony of Cathy O'Brien
Cathy O'Brien
Cathleen Ann O'Brien is an American who claims to be a victim of Project Monarch, an offshoot of Project MKULTRA, a program funded by the Central Intelligence Agency to research the use of drugs for intelligence purposes...

 under hypnosis.

Springmeier's early work, The Watchtower & the Masons, focuses on the relationship between Jehovah's Witnesses
Jehovah's Witnesses
Jehovah's Witnesses is a millenarian restorationist Christian denomination with nontrinitarian beliefs distinct from mainstream Christianity. The religion reports worldwide membership of over 7 million adherents involved in evangelism, convention attendance of over 12 million, and annual...

 and Freemasonry
Freemasonry
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. In this book he describes a relationship between Charles Taze Russell
Charles Taze Russell
Charles Taze Russell , or Pastor Russell, was a prominent early 20th century Christian restorationist minister from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, and founder of what is now known as the Bible Student movement, from which Jehovah's Witnesses and numerous independent Bible Student groups emerged...

and the so-called "Eastern Establishment". Springmeier followed these links into Masonry and did a further examination of the Eastern establishment.

Selected bibliography

  • The Illuminati Formula Used to Create an Undetectable Total Mind Controlled Slave, Cisco Wheeler, Fritz Springmeier, On Demand Publishing, ASIN B0006QXVU4, ISBN 1440490228
  • Deeper Insights into the Illuminati Formula, Wheeler, Fritz Springmeier, CreateSpace, 2010, ISBN 1451502699
  • Bloodlines of the Illuminati, Fritz Springmeier, Ambassador House (November 1998), ISBN 0966353323

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