Bill Cooper Told His Listeners Not to Believe Him

Orwell put the warning in a novel. Cooper put the documents on the radio and told his listeners to check him.

A man sits at a shortwave microphone in the high desert and tells his listeners a major attack is coming, and that the government will hand them Osama bin Laden to blame. The tape is dated June 28, 2001.

It was not a lucky guess. The man at the microphone had spent thirty years learning to take a government document apart from the inside. He had held the…