Influence
Whatever the source of the alleged plan for Three World Wars, it has become a topic for discussion among fringe conspiracy believers, and is cited in seminal "conspiracy" books such as Des Griffin's Fourth Reich of the Rich (1976) who published the fourth edition of Pawns in the Game and a cassette tape of one of Carr's speech in Chicago in his own publishing house, Emissary Publications (Colton, Oregon).
William Guy Carr also inspired Dan Smoot (The Invisible Government, 1962), Gary Allen (The Rockefeller File, 1976), Phoebe Courtney, (Beware Metro and Regional Government, 1973), Richard T. Osborne (The Great International Conspiracy, 1974 ; and lately The Coming of World War III, 2006), Myron C. Fagan, (Audio Document (LP) : The Illuminati and The Council on Foreign Relations, recorded in the 1967-1968, ed. by a group calling themselves the Sons of Liberty. Fagan outlines the Illuminati world elite plans of global conspiracy for the New World Order and world domination), David Icke (The Biggest Secret, 1999), Jan van Helsing, and the French Canadian Social Credit Party member Serge Monast (1945–1996) who pretended being Carr's disciple. All these plot theorists argue for the continuing influence of the Illuminati as Carr suggested it in his two main works.
The works of Carr and his influence among conspiracy theorists has been studied by the American historian Daniel Pipes (1997) and the folklorist Bill Ellis (2000). The French philosopher and historian Pierre-André Taguieff recently wrote La Foire aux illuminés : Ésotérisme, théorie du complot, extrémisme (2005) ("The Illuminati fair: Esotericism, Plot Theory, Extremism") where he makes an analysis of Pawns in the game. He shows that Carr belongs to a tradition of conspiracy theorists that goes far back to l'abbé Augustin Barruel and is represented by the Protocols of the Elders of Zion (frequently quoted in Carr's work) in the twentieth century. Taguieff also studied Carr's theories in L'imaginaire du complot mondial: Aspects d'un mythe moderne ("The World plot imaginary: about a modern myth"), 2006).
Since 1998, Carr's most famous books (Pawns in the Game, The Conspiracy to destroy all existing Governments and Religions and Satan, Prince of this World) were translated in French. His French editor Jacques Delacroix is also a conspiracy theorist who counts himself as one of Carr's successors.
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