From: wmartin@STL-06SIMA.ARMY.MIL (Will Martin)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: New WWCR program
Date: 8 Sep 92 15:11:54 GMT

Based on an announcement/mention of this program in SIGNALS, I made an effort
to listen to it, or at least tape it for later listening, over the past
couple weeks. I append below a message describing this program which I sent
to the ParaNet paranormal (UFOs, stuff like that) discussion group. I sent
it there because the program host, William Cooper, is often mentioned there
and is rather notorious in those circles. I thought I'd let the SWL list
see these comments, also. As I say below, I think the program name is
"The Hour of the Time". I also think I may be wrong on that. Anybody
catch the exact name, and the name of Cooper's "organization"?

Will

>Date:     Tue, 8 Sep 92 9:04:21 CDT
>From:     Will Martin  <wmartin@stl-06sima.army.mil>
>To:       infopara%scicom.alphacdc.com@uunet.uu.net
>Subject:  William Cooper Radio Program

Hi!

I've been greatly backlogged on reading ParaNet in recent months, so
before I posted this, I scanned thru my files of back traffic for the
string "Cooper" and hope I caught all the references. I do believe that
the person I will mention is the same "Bill Cooper" or "Milton W. Cooper"
frequently referred to in this forum. It is sometimes confusing when
people have relatively common names...

Anyway, I thought people in this group would be interested to hear that
William Cooper has his own radio show on a shortwave station that can be
tuned in by just about anyone in North America and many other areas.
Unfortunately, the vagaries of shortwave propagation and some annoying
interference on the frequency this station uses have made it somewhat
difficult for me to be precise about some of the terminology.

The station is WWCR (WorldWide Christian Radio, a broadcaster that rents
time to a lot of different religious and political programs). The
frequency is 7435 kHz, and the time is 0500 UTC Monday, which is 1 AM Monday
morning Eastern Daylight Time, 12 midnight Central Daylight, etc.

I believe the program title is "The Hour of the Time" (or "Times"), but
I might be somewhat off on that. The first broadcast was 31 August, and
all it was was a reading of the Constitution. The second broadcast on
7 Sept was devoted to the seige of the cabin in Idaho in which several
people were killed. I wasn't up to listen to this, and just taped the
first 45 minutes on one side of a C-90 cassette, so I didn't hear the
end. During the part I taped, which was a bit difficult to understand
due to interference, Mr. Cooper identified himself as the author of
the book "Behold A Pale Horse". One of the ParaNet documents also refer
to that book as being by the William Cooper of UFO/MJ-12/JFK fame, so 
I believe this is the same person. In this broadcast, he solicits $25
"memberships" in an organization whose exact name I forget, but which
has the word "Intelligence" in the title, such as a private intelligence
group or agency, to support these broadcasts. The contributions are
supposed to go via a mailing address at the Becker Satellite Network (in
Kansas, I think).

There was no mention of UFOs or Paranormal topics in the program I
heard. Perhaps Cooper is aiming this at a totally different audience,
or perhaps he will draw in these topics in later broadcasts. One
interesting side note is the way he referred to "Bo" Gritz, the Populist
presidential candidate, who acted as a negotiator in this Idaho
cabin-siege standoff situation. Cooper would not refer to Gritz by name
but instead made some slighting references to Gritz' actions in this case 
being politically motivated, and said he did not like him, and would 
discuss him in a later broadcast. [Anyone who remembers the way the national
news media covered this Idaho incident might note that some networks
referred to Gritz by name and to his presidential candidacy, while
others (CBS in particular) just said "a former Green Beret" was acting
as a negotiator.  Odd...]

I realize that Mr. Cooper is held in contempt by most people who
contribute to this forum. I don't know anything about him except what
I've read here. I just thought you-all might be interested in knowing
about this. When I first heard a reference to this program, it was in
the context of a discussion of an unlicensed-radio broadcaster who is
challenging the FCC's authority over him on Constitutional grounds, so
I suppose that topic would be discussed in a soon-upcoming program. I
had been confused at first as to just what "Cooper" was referred to;
there is a "Bob Cooper" who started the home TVRO industry using surplus
equipment back some decades ago, and I at first thought that was the
person cited, since the context was radio-related. I was a bit surprised
to find the UFO/MJ-12 "Bill Cooper" appearing in this context.

Regards, Will
wmartin@st-louis-emh2.army.mil OR wmartin@stl-06sima.army.mil