Serge Monast (1945 – December 5, 1996) was a

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ist and

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. He is known to English-speaking readers mainly for the originating the conspiracy theory Project Blue Beam, which concerns an alleged plot to facilitate a totalitarian

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by destroying traditional religions and replacing them with a

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belief system using

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technology.Concentration Camps in America
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, ''Power of Prophecy'', December 2002

Biography

In the 1970s and 1980s, Monast was a journalist, poet and essayist. He was an active member of the

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. In the early 1990s, he started writing on the theme of the

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and conspiracies hatched by

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, being particularly inspired by the works of

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. He founded the International Free Press Agency (AIPL, ''l' Agence Internationale de Presse libre''), where he published most of his work on these themes, achieving some prominence with an interview on esotericist and

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Richard Glenn's TV show ''Ésotérisme Expérimental'', in which he repeatedly warned his audience about the dangers of a World Government.Serge Monast
(Ésotérisme Expérimental) He was interviewed by Glenn a number of times up to 1996. In 1994, he published ''Project Blue Beam (NASA)'', in which he detailed his claim that

, with the help of the

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, was attempting to implement a

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with the

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at its head and start a New World Order, via a technologically simulated

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. He also gave talks on this topic. Other conspiracy theorists have noted the similarity of Project Blue Beam to the plots of

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's unreleased 1975 ''

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'' and the 1991 '' Star Trek: The Next Generation'' episode '' Devil's Due''. In 1995, he published his most detailed work, ''Les Protocoles de Toronto (6.6.6)'', modelled upon ''

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'', wherein he said a

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group called "6.6.6" had, for twenty years, been gathering the world's powerful to establish the New World Order and control the minds of individuals. By 1995 and 1996, Monast said he was being hunted by the police and authorities for involvement in "networks of prohibited information." He had

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his two children, who were then taken away and made wards of the state in September 1996 so that they would receive a public education. He died of a heart attack in his home in December 1996, at age 51, the day after being arrested and spending a night in jail. His followers claim his death was suspicious, suggesting he was assassinated by "psychotronic weapons" to keep from continuing his investigations, and that Jerry Fletcher, the

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character in the 1997 film '' Conspiracy Theory'', was modelled on him. Copies of his works still circulate on the Internet, and have influenced such later conspiracy theorists as American

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. Some of his later works have been reissued by French publisher and conspiracy theorist

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, along with others writing on the themes of Monast's conspiracy related work.Serge Monast
(Éditions Delacroix)

Publications

* ''Testament contre hier et demain. Manifeste de l'amour d'ici'', self-published, 1973. * ''Jean Hébert'', Chartierville, self-published, 1974. * ''Jos Violon: Essai d'investigation littéraire sur le comportement du Québécois'', self-published, 1975, 1977. * (with Colette Carisse, Aimé Lebeau and Lise Parent) ''La famille: mythe et réalité québécoise'', "Rapport présenté au Conseil des affaires sociales et de la famille", vol. 1, Conseil des affaires sociales et de la famille, 1974, 1976. * ''L'Habitant'', Éditions de l'Aube, 1979. * ''L'Aube des brasiers nocturnes. Essai sur l'amour'', Éditions de l'Aube, 1980. * ''Cris intimes: poésie'', Éditions de l'Aube, 1980. * ''La Création irrécupérable: essai'', Éditions de l'Aube, 1981. * ''Méditations sur les dix commandements de Dieu'', Éditions de l'Aube, 1983. * ''La médaille de saint Benoît ou La croix de saint Benoît'', Courrier de Saint Joseph, 1984?. * ''Il est minuit moins quinze secondes à Ottawa: de l'impossible dualité canadienne à l'éclatement d'une Guerre civile, dossier d'enquête journalistique'', La Presse Libre Nord-Américaine, 1992. * "Présentation" de René Bergeron, ''Le corps mystique de l'antéchrist, Montréal,'' Presse libre nord-américaine'', "Dossiers chocs", 1993 (reprint of 1941 book) * ''Le gouvernement mondial de l'Antéchrist, journalisme d'enquête international'', "La conspiration mondiale des Illuminatis", vol. 1, Éditions de la Presse libre, 1994. Reissued by Delacroix.
(Editions Delacroix) * ''The United Nations concentration camps program in America'', "Coup d'État and war preparations in America", book 1, Presse libre nord-américaine, 1994. * ''Vaccins, médecine militaire expérimentale, cristaux liquide, dossier d'enquête journalistique - CIA'', Presse libre nord-américaine, 1994. * ''Project Blue Beam (NASA)'', Presse libre nord-américaine

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* ''Le Protocole de Toronto (6.6.6.). Québec année zéro'', International free press agency, 1995. * ''Le Contrôle total 666'', ''Cahier d'Ouranos hors série'', coll. "Enquêtes-Études-Réflexions" by Commission d'Études Ouranos. Reissued by Delacroix. * ''Dévoilement du complot relatif au plan du chaos et de marquage de l´Humanité'', Éditions Delacroix. * ''Le Complot des Nations Unies contre la Chrétienté'', Éditions Rinf, 1995.

Sources

Pierre-André Taguieff Pierre-André Taguieff (born 4 August 1946) is a French philosopher who has specialised in the study of racism and antisemitism. He is the director of research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research in an Institut d'Etudes Politiqu ...

, ''La Foire aux illuminés : Ésotérisme, théorie du complot, extrémisme'', Paris, Mille et une nuits, 2005. * Pierre-André Taguieff, ''L'imaginaire du complot mondial : Aspects d'un mythe moderne'', Paris, Mille et une nuits, 2006.

Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Monast, Serge 1945 births 1996 deaths Canadian anti-communists Canadian poets in French Canadian male poets Writers from Montreal Journalists from Montreal Anti-Masonry Canadian conspiracy theorists Christian conspiracy theorists 20th-century Canadian male writers 20th-century Canadian poets Date of birth missing Place of birth missing