Archibald Roberts

{{Short description|American Army officer (1915–2006)}}

{{Infobox military person

|name= Archibald Edward Roberts

|birth_date= {{Birth date|1915|3|21}}{{cite web|last1=Roberts|first1=Archibald Edward|title=United States Public Records, 1970–2009|url=https://familysearch.org|publisher=familysearch|accessdate=31 July 2014}}

|death_date= {{Death date|2006|07|28}}{{cite web|title=LTC Archibald Edward Roberts - FindAGrave|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49130449/archibald_edward-roberts|accessdate=21 Jan 2025}}

|birth_place= Cheboygan, Michigan

|death_place=Fort Collins, Colorado

|placeofburial=Fort Collins, Colorado

|placeofburial_label=Grandview Cemetery

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|caption= Lieutenant Colonel Archibald E. Roberts

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|allegiance={{flag|United States of America}}

|branch=File:United States Department of the Army Seal.svg United States Army

|serviceyears=1939–1965

|rank=35px Lieutenant Colonel

|commands=

|unit=11th Airborne Division, 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, 3rd Infantry Division, 24th Infantry Division

|battles= World War II
Korean War

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Lieutenant Colonel Archibald E. Roberts (1915–2006) was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Army on 19 December 1942 and served as a paratrooper in the 11th Airborne Division. In 1959 he served as the information officer for Major General Edwin Walker who was the commander of the 24th Infantry Division in Germany.{{cite book | last = Schoenwald | first = Jonathan M. | title = A Time for Choosing: Extremism and the Rise of Modern American Conservatism, 1957–1972 | publisher = Oxford University Press | year = 2001 | pages = 100, 105–6 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=uPZXEkMA0qQC&q=%22edwin+walker%22+%22pro+blue%22+%22john+birch%22&pg=PA100 | isbn = 0-19-513473-7 | accessdate = 2009-01-23 }} Roberts wrote and directed the program "Pro Blue" troop information program in 1959.{{Cite web|url=http://www.supremelaw.org/sls/email/box118/msg11850.htm|title = Supreme Law School : E-mail : Box 118 : MSG 11850}} It was named after the color of some Army maps.[https://books.google.com/books?id=gpCgZ5Syxn8C Political indoctrination in the U.S. Army from World War II to the Vietnam War By Christopher S. DeRosa] General Walker was relieved of command in 1961 after the accusation that he and LTC Roberts had distributed John Birch Society literature to troops under them in that program.{{Cn|date=May 2022}}

Roberts was forced out of the Army after 18 years of service because he made a political speech to the Daughters of the American Revolution. This prevented him from collecting his retirement pay. He successfully sued the Army for reinstatement.[http://vlex.com/vid/archibald-roberts-cyrus-vance-army-36710799 Archibald E. Roberts, Appellant, v. Cyrus R. Vance, Secretary of the Army, Et Al., Appellees., 343 F.2d 236 (D.C. Cir. 1964)] Colonel Roberts remained active in right wing political activities for many years after his retirement.{{Cite web |url=http://www.westword.com/1996-07-04/news/still-crazy-after-all-these-years |title=Still Crazy After All These Years |access-date=2011-05-07 |archive-date=2010-01-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100131160036/http://www.westword.com/1996-07-04/news/still-crazy-after-all-these-years/ |url-status=dead }} This includes many appearances on Denver area talk radio shows. He is the author of The Most Secret Science. This book claims that there is ancient science of control of large populations by a small ruling class.