Editing Behold a Pale Horse (book) (section)

==Background==
Milton William Cooper, a former United States [[Naval Intelligence]] Briefing Team member, wrote the book to share what he claimed were suppressed truths hidden in top-secret government files. According to Cooper, this information had been classified since the 1940s. The book discusses topics such as the [[Assassination of John F. Kennedy|assassination of John F. Kennedy]], the [[War on Drugs|war on drugs]], secret government activities, [[UFOs]], and the [[Illuminati]].<ref name=Gilroy>{{cite book|last=Gilroy|first=Paul|title=Against Race: Imagining Political Culture Beyond the Color Line|year=2000|publisher=[[Harvard University Press]]|location=Cambridge, MA|isbn=978-0674000964|pages=352–353|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wWpt-Js7JPEC|author-link=Paul Gilroy|access-date=January 17, 2013|chapter=Planetary Humanism|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wWpt-Js7JPEC&pg=PA352}}</ref> Cooper claimed his predictions, including the lowering of the [[Iron Curtain]], the fall of the [[Berlin Wall]], and the invasion of [[Panama]], were based on plans he encountered during his time in naval intelligence and over 17 years of research.<ref name=Amazon>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Behold-Horse-Milton-William-Cooper/dp/0929385225|title=Behold a Pale Horse|publisher=Amazon|access-date=November 27, 2024}}</ref>