Fritz Springmeier

Springmeier's father, James E. Schoof, worked for the United States Agency for International Development{{Citation

|last = Schoof

|first = James E.

|title = Balochistan Area Development Project : Final Report

|publisher = The United States Agency for International Development

|location = NY, NY

|date = December 1991

|url = http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PDABL036.pdf

|access-date = March 10, 2014

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131126113834/http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PDABL036.pdf

|archive-date = November 26, 2013

|url-status = dead

}} as an international agriculturist, with a primary focus on developing the Balochistan area of Pakistan.

Springmeier received a Masters in English from the University of Kansas.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}

Springmeier, formerly a resident of Corbett, Oregon, has written and self-published a number of books based on the subject of the family lineage bloodlines of the Illuminati and their use of mind control. He has also endorsed the existence of Project Monarch, an alleged CIA mind control project, based partially on the assertions of author Cathy O'Brien.{{Cite book | last = Barkun | first = Michael | authorlink = Michael Barkun | title = A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America | publisher = University of California Press | year = 2006 | location = Berkeley, California | page = 76 | isbn = 0-520-24812-0 }}{{Cite book | last = Parfrey | first = Adam | authorlink = Adam Parfrey | title = Cult Rapture | publisher = Feral Press | year = 1995 | location = Portland, Oregon | page = 241 | isbn = 0-922915-22-9}}

Springmeier's early work, The Watchtower & the Masons, focuses on the relationship between Jehovah's Witnesses and Freemasonry. In this book he describes a relationship between Charles Taze Russell and the so-called "Eastern Establishment". Springmeier followed these links into Masonry and did a further examination of the Eastern establishment.{{citation needed|date=November 2010}}

On January 31, 2002, Springmeier was indicted in the United States District Court in Portland, Oregon in connection with an armed robbery. On February 12, 2003, he was found guilty of one count of armed bank robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2113(a) and (d) and one count of aiding and abetting in the use of a semi-automatic rifle during the commission of a felony in violation of 18 U.S.C § 924(c)(1).{{cite web |title=United States v. Springmeier, 254 F. Supp. 2d 1192 (D. Ore. 2003) |url=https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?q=%22Fritz+Artz+Springmeier%22&hl=en&as_sdt=3,44&case=17290688063678630470&scilh=0}} In November 2003, he was sentenced to 51 months in prison on the armed robbery charge and 60 months on the aiding and abetting charge, fined $7,500, ordered to pay $6,488 in restitution, and assessed an additional $200. Springmeier's conviction was affirmed by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.United States v. Springmeier'', docket no. 03-30534, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (October 14, 2004). He was imprisoned, and was released from federal prison on March 25, 2011.{{cite web|url=http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=NameSearch&needingMoreList=false&FirstName=Fritz&Middle=&LastName=Springmeier&Race=U&Sex=U&Age=&x=69&y=10|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120722103528/http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=NameSearch&needingMoreList=false&FirstName=Fritz&Middle=&LastName=Springmeier&Race=U&Sex=U&Age=&x=69&y=10|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 22, 2012|title=Inmate Locator|work=bop.gov}}{{Cite web | last1 = Blejwas | first1 = Andrew | last2 = Griggs | first2 = Anthony | last3 = Potok | first3 = Mark | title = Almost 60 Terrorist Plots Uncovered in the U.S. | publisher = Southern Poverty Law Center | date =Summer 2005 | url = http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2005/summer/terror-from-the-right-0?page=0,7 | accessdate = November 22, 2010 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101124214338/http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2005/summer/terror-from-the-right-0?page=0,7 | archive-date = November 24, 2010 | url-status = live }}

Fritz Springmeier is married to Patricia Springmeier.[https://web.archive.org/web/20120116173128/http://www.parapolitics.info/KATUrebutt/rebuttal.htm "Rebuttal to the KATU News Report Regarding My Husband, Fritz Springmeier", January 16, 2012]

• Bloodlines of the Illuminati, Fritz Springmeier, Ambassador House, 1998, {{ISBN|0-9663533-2-3}}
• Deeper Insights into the Illuminati Formula, Wheeler, Fritz Springmeier, CreateSpace, 2010, {{ISBN|1-4515-0269-9}}
• The Illuminati Formula Used to Create an Undetectable Total Mind Controlled Slave, Cisco Wheeler, Fritz Springmeier, On Demand Publishing, 1996, ASIN B0006QXVU4, {{ISBN|1-4404-9022-8}}

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