William James Guy Carr (R.D. Commander R.C.N. (R)) (2 June 1895 – 2 October 1959) was an English-born Canadian naval officer, author and conspiracy theorist.
Though he first came to notice with books about his military experiences as a submariner, Carr later turned to writing about a vast conspiracy, which he alleged to have uncovered. He was described as "the most influential source in creating the American Illuminati demonology", according to the American folklorist Bill Ellis.Bill Ellis, Raising the Devil: Satanism, New Religions, and the Media. University Press of Kentucky, 2000, . p. 128
In the 1950s, he was the leader of the anticommunist National Federation of Christian Laymen of Toronto, Ontario. He was also one of the directors of the Naval Club of Toronto.
Early life Born in Formby (Lancashire, England),W. Stewart Wallace (ed), The Macmillan Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Toronto-London, Macmillan, revised ed. 1963, p. 116. Carr was educated in Scotland and went to sea at the age of 14.W. Stewart Wallace (ed), The Macmillan Dictionary of Canadian Biography, op. cit., p. 116.
Government career Navy He served as navigating officer of His Majesty's Ship Submarines during World War I.
In World War II, he was naval control officer for the St. Lawrence, staff officer operations at Shelburne, Nova Scotia, and then senior naval officer at Goose Bay, Labrador.Carr, William Guy (1944). Checkmate in the North: The Axis Planned to Invade America. Toronto: Macmillan Army Museum Collection. p. xiii (Dedication).
As an officer on the staff of Commodore Reginald W. Brock, he organized the 7th Victory Loan for the 22 Royal Canadian Naval Training Divisions.Carr, William Guy (1993). Pawns in the Game. Palmdale, Calif.: Omni/Christian Book Club. (Editor's preface).Carr, William Guy (1997). Satan, Prince of this World, Palmdale, Calif.: Omni Publications. (Editor's preface).
Intelligence Carr also worked for the Canadian Intelligence Service during World War II, and in 1944 he published Checkmate in the North, a book about an invasion by the Axis forces to take place in the area of the CFB Goose Bay.Carr, William Guy (1944). Checkmate in the North: The Axis Planned to Invade America. Toronto: Macmillan Army Museum Collection.
Political activism In 1931, he started giving conferences in different Canadian clubs on the topic of "International conspiracy," which was subdivided in two main subjects: "International communism" and "International capitalism," stating that both were being controlled by the Illuminati and what he called the "international bankers." The last, according to Carr, are represented mainly by the Rothschild and the Rockefeller families. Pierre-André Taguieff, La Foire aux illuminés : Ésotérisme, théorie du complot, extrémisme ("The Illuminati fair: Esotericism, Plot Theory, Extremism"), Paris, Mille et une nuits, 2005, p. 431
In the 1950s, after he retired from the Navy, Carr's writings turned essentially to conspiracy themes from a firmly Protestant standpoint. Pierre-André Taguieff, op. cit., p. 25
According to Political Research Associates, a group studying right-wing extremism:
Carr promoted the anti-Semitic variant on conspiracism with books such as Pawns in the Game and Red Fog over America. Carr believes that an age-old Jewish Illuminati banking conspiracy used radio-transmitted mind control on behalf of Lucifer to construct a one world government. The secret nexus of the plot was supposedly the international Bilderberger meetings on banking policy. The anti-Semitic Noontide Press distributed Pawns in the Game for many years. "Dances with Devils: Satan, the Devil, and the Antichrist, Freemasons Jews and the Forged Protocols Variations on Conspiracist Themes," The Website of the Political Associates, same opinion in Pierre-André Taguieff, op. cit.
Carr's works were influenced by the writings of Nesta Webster and the French hoaxer Léo Taxil (see Taxil hoax). He also referred to the theories of Augustin Barruel and John Robison, who both explained the French Revolution as a plot by Freemasonry and linked to the German Illuminati of Adam Weishaupt, who is frequently associated to the conspiracy theory of the New World Order. According to the French philosopher and historian Pierre-André Taguieff, Carr's works, especially Pawns in the Game, "largely contributed to popularise the themes of anti-Masonic conspiracism in the United States and in Canada; first, it reached the Christian fundamentalist milieu (mainly concerned with his 'Luciferian' conspiracies), then the whole far-right movement and the new generations of conspiracy theorists."Pierre-André Tagieff, op. cit., p. 71. Personal translation, User:Eristik
Dan Brown, although he probably had his information from a different source, includes in his novel Angels & Demons an interpretation of the Illuminati by a US$1 bill and repeats the main arguments of Carr in Pawns in the Game. Pierre-André Tagieff, op. cit., p. 71
Most of the first editions of Carr's book were published by the Federation of Christian Laymen (Toronto) of which he actually was the president. He directed the monthly anti-masonic newsletter of the association: News Behind the News (Willowdale, Toronto, Vol. 1, # 1, 1956-) in which he published numerous articles discussing the power of the Illuminati in US and world affairs.William Guy Carr (dir.), News Behind The News, Vol. 1, #8, June–July 1957, p. 6. In that paper, Carr defended the strong anticommunism of Joseph McCarthy, a Wisconsin senator.
The political ideas of the Christian association were close to those of John Horne Blackmore, the first leader of the Social Credit Party of Canada, See "John Horn Blackmore fonds", on the Genbow Museum site and Ron Gostick, another important member of that party. Carr's Federation was closely linked with the Californian Council of Christian Laymen (1949–1964), especially with Alfred Kohlberg, Edward Geary Lansdale, and Stan Steiner. see Online archive of California
In the 1950s, both organisations fought communism and were involved in a campaign against water fluoridation. Online archive of California, documents on the Anti-Fluoridation Campaign; also studied in Daniel Pipes's, Conspiracy, 1997 (bibliography)
Death Carr died in 1959 at the age of 64.
Main observations Three world wars One of Carr's most-lasting contributions to modern conspiracy theories was his discussion of an alleged plan for three world wars, often referred as the 3WW, which he believed was developed by a Confederate general and Masonic scholar, Albert Pike.
In Pawns in the Game, Carr claimed that World War I had been fought to enable the Illuminati to overthrow the powers of the Russian tsar and to turn Russia into the stronghold of atheistic communism. The differences stirred up by the agents of the Illuminati between the British and the German Empires were used to foment the war. After the war ended, communism was bolstered to destroy other governments and weaken religions.
Later, he claimed that World War II had been fomented by using the differences between fascism and political Zionism and fought so that Nazism would be destroyed, the power of political Zionism increased, and the sovereign state of Israel could then be established in Palestine. During the war, international communism was built up until its strength equaled that of united Christendom. Then, it was contained and kept in check until required for the final social cataclysm.
Moving into the future, Carr claimed that a report came into his possession through the Canadian Intelligence Service of an alleged speech in 1952 by Rabbi Emanuel Rabinovich in which it was made known that the Secret Powers wished to precipitate World War III within five years. Small nations would ally with either Russia or the United States, with Israel remaining neutral. Rabinovich was quoted as saying that there would be no more white race and no more religions.William Guy Carr, Pawns in the Game, Emissary Publications, Clackamas, OR, p. 104-106 Toward the end of the book, Carr states that "people who wish to remain free can follow only one plan of action. They must support Christianity against all forms of atheism and secularism."William Guy Carr, Pawns in the Game, Emissary Publications, Clackamas, OR, p. 178
Confusion has arisen as to the precise source of Carr's three world wars scenario. As is the case with many of his claims, Carr did not provide a source for that scenario, but he mentions a letter written by Pike and addressed to Italian revolutionary leader Giuseppe Mazzini, which outlined a plan for unleashing "Nihilists and Atheists" after the end of World War III. The confusion increased when Michael Haupt launched his website threeworldwars.com, which mistakenly assumed that Carr also attributed the World War Three scenario to the Pike letter. In fact, the authenticity of that letter is disputed.
Carr stated that he learned about the letter from the anti-Mason, Cardinal José María Caro Rodríguez of Santiago, Chile, the author of The Mystery of Freemasonry Unveiled (Hawthorne, California, Christian Book Club of America, 1971). However, Carr's later book, Satan, Prince of This World (written in 1959), included the following footnote: "The Keeper of manuscripts recently informed the author that this letter is NOT cataloged in the British Museum Library. It seems strange that a man of Cardinal Rodriguez's knowledge should have said that it WAS in 1925."William Guy Carr, Satan, Prince of This World, Emissary Publications, Clackamas, Oreg., p. 39 More recently, the British Museum confirmed in writing to researcher Michael HauptMichael Haupt that such a document has never been in their possession. Pierre-André Taguieff states that Carr gave an ultimate and synthetic account of the "legend," which links together the Illuminati, Mazzini and Pike in a satanic plot for world domination. Pierre-André Tagieff, op. cit., p. 341, note 71
Conspiracy of Synagogue of Satan Carr's books often discuss a Luciferian conspiracy by what he called the "World Revolutionary Movement," but he later attributed the conspiracy more specifically to the "Synagogue of Satan." The term was not a reference to Judaism, Carr wrote: "I wish to make it clearly and emphatically known that I do not believe the Synagogue of Satan (S.O.S.) is Jewish, but, as Christ told us for a definite purpose, it is 'I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.' (Rev. 2:9 and 3:9)"William Guy Carr, Satan, Prince of This World, Emissary Publications, Clackamas, Oreg., p. 6
The quote is taken from Satan, Prince of this World, the book that Carr was working on at the time of his death and which was edited by his elder son, W.J. Carr, Jr., and presented as the "last manuscript [of the author] exposing the Luciferian Conspiracy, Satanism, secret societies and the Synagogue of Satan as driving forces behind the World Revolutionary Movement."William Guy Carr, Satan, prince of this World, Palmdale, CA, Omni Publications, 1997, Editorial review, back cover Carr's son also mentioned he did not publish some parts of the manuscript because many references were missing.
One of the most interesting things to note about Carr's Luciferian conspiracies is that he believed that they were already at work during Christ's time. As Taguieff points out, there is a transhistorical scheme in Carr's idea of world conspiracy. In that kind of philosophy of history anticipating a final "World Government," the Illuminati are part of a satanic historical force that contributes to the evil original plot. According to that point of view, Carr believed that there are "natural born" conspiracists, which is nothing more for Taguieff than myth and paranoia that was invented from a delirious worldview.Pierre-André Tagieff, op. cit., p. 99-101