Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars (document)
Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars: An Introduction Programming Manual (often shortened to Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars or simply Silent Weapons) is an alleged clandestine document that first surfaced in the mid-1980s and purports to outline strategies of global social engineering using a "weapon" of continuous institutional manipulation by "those in positions of power." It is widely regarded as a conspiracy theory text. The work does not offer an author instead only remarking that "This publication marks the 25th Anniversary of the Third World War, called the 'Quiet War,' being conducted using subjective biological warfare, fought with 'silent weapons.'" The document supports anti-American activities stating: The objective of such studies is to acquire the know-how to set the public economy into a predictable state of motion or change, even a controlled self-destructive state of motion which will convince the public that certain 'expert' people should take control of the money system and reestablish security (rather than liberty and justice) for all. When the subject citizens are rendered unable to control their financial affairs, they, of course, become totally enslaved, a source of cheap labor." Although it gained notoriety through radio host Milton William Cooper's 1991 book Behold a Pale Horse, credit for its compilation is attributed to Lyle Hartford Van Dyke Jr., who emerged years later claiming to be the principal author of it.
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