http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf1q2n983n No online items A Register of the John K. Cooley papers, 1952-2008 Processed by Brad Bauer. Hoover Institution Archives Stanford University Stanford, California 94305-6010 Phone: (650) 723-3563 Fax: (650) 725-3445 Email: [email protected] © 2009 Hoover Institution Archives. All rights reserved. A Register of the John K. Cooley 63001 1 papers, 1952-2008 A Register of the John K. Cooley papers, 1952-2008 Hoover Institution Archives Stanford University Stanford, California Processed by: Brad Bauer Date Completed: 2009 Encoded by: Machine-readable finding aid derived from Microsoft Word and MARC record by Samira Bozorgi. © 2009 Hoover Institution Archives. All rights reserved. Collection Summary Title: John K. Cooley papers Dates: 1952-2008 Collection Number: 63001 Creator: Cooley, John K., 1927-2008 Collection Size: 15 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box (6.3 linear feet) Repository: Hoover Institution Archives Stanford, California 94305-6010 Abstract: Papers contain memoirs, other writings, notes, correspondence, memoranda, printed matter, and photographs, relating to the Middle East in international affairs; international terrorism, especially in relation to Libya; the Algerian war for independence; the Organisation Armée secrète; and international counterfeiting. Papers document in part the career of Cooley, an American journalist; Christian Science Monitor Middle East correspondent, 1965-1978; and ABC News Middle East correspondent, 1981-1999. Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives Languages: English French Access Collection is open for research. The Hoover Institution Archives only allows access to copiesof audiovisual items. To listen to sound recordings or to view videos or films during your visit, please contact the Archives at least two working days before your arrival. We will then advise you of the accessibility of the material you wish to see or hear. Please note that not all audiovisual material is immediately accessible. Publication Rights For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives. Preferred Citation [Identification of item], John K. Cooley papers, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives. Acquisition Information Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1963. Accruals Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find the collection in Stanford University's online catalog Socrates at http://library.stanford.edu/webcat . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in Socrates is larger than the number of boxes listed in this finding aid. 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Cooley 63001 2 papers, 1952-2008 1927, November Born, New York City 25 Graduated, Dartmouth College 1946-1947, Military and U.S. government service, Vienna 1951-1953 1954 Editorial writer, New York Herald Tribune 1957-1964 Free lance journalist in North Africa 1965 Published Baal, Christ and Muhammed: Religion and Revolution in Africa(New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston) 1965-1978 Middle East staff correspondent, Christian Science Monitor 1966 Published East Wind Over Africa(New York: Walker and Co.) 1973 Published, Green March, Black September: The Story of Palestinian Arabs(London: Frank Cass) 1978-1981 Pentagon correspondent, Christian Science Monitor 1981-1998 Staff correspondent, London and the Middle East, ABC News 1981 Published, Libyan Sandstorm: The Story of Qaddafi's Revolution (New York: New Republic Books) 1992 Published, Payback: America's Long War in the Middle East (Brassey's) 1995 Received George Polk Memorial Career Award for Distinguished Reporting, Long Island University 1999 Published, Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America, and International Terrorism(London: Pluto Press, updated editions in 2001, 2002) 2002 Published, An Alliance Against Babylon: America, Israel and Iraq 2008 Published, Currency Wars 2008, Died, Athens, Greece August 6 Scope and Content of Collection The John K. Cooley papers at the Hoover Institution Archives began as a collection of miscellaneous documents created and acquired by Cooley while reporting as a journalist from Algeria during that country's war for independence in the early 1960s. This material was donated by Cooley to the Hoover Institution Archives in 1963, and includes propaganda leaflets, interview transcripts, transcripts of Cooley's news dispatches and radio broadcasts, and other printed matter, especially material relating to the French military revolt led by the Organisation Armée Secrète in Algiers in 1961. The remaining papers in this collection were donated by Cooley's family shortly after his death in 2008, and chiefly document his activities as a journalist and author from the 1970s onward, while he worked for the Christian Science Monitoras well as ABC News, based alternately in Lebanon, Cyprus, and Greece. Although Cooley had maintained an extensive personal archive throughout his career as a journalist in North Africa and the Middle East, much of it was lost in 1975, when he was forced to flee his home in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War. The papers in his extant collection are divided in series by writings and speeches, research projects for ABC News, photographs, personal papers, and collected miscellany. The writings contain material related to some of his earlier books, but the bulk consists of typescript drafts and background materials for his last two books, An Alliance against Babylon (2005) and Currency Wars(2008). In addition, reprints of published articles and newspaper stories, as well as drafts of stories, texts of speeches and conference papers, and proposed projects are also included. Many of the speeches and unpublished conference papers contain autobiographical material about Cooley and his career as a journalist, and chapter drafts of his unfinished memoirs are also included in this series. A separate series is provided for research material related to stories he was assigned with ABC News. Of note in this series is the research he conducted while working on an Emmy Award-winning ABC News Primetime television special on the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988. In addition to his work on the ABC project, Cooley also planned to write a book about the bombing, and material on that can be found in the series on proposed projects. Rounding out the collection are assorted photographs Cooley took or collected while on assignment in Algeria, Yemen, Western Sahara, Morocco, and Lebanon; as well as reporters' notebooks containing notes from interviews and for stories he planned to write. Arrangement The collection is organized into 8 series, by format of material and then chronologically within the series and subseries. Indexing Terms The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog. Middle East--Foreign relations. Middle East--Politics and government. Terrorism. A Register of the John K. Cooley 63001 3 papers, 1952-2008 Counterfeits and counterfeiting. Organisation Armée secrète. Algeria--History--Revolution, 1954-1962. France--History--1958- Libya--History--1969- Journalism--United States. Journalism. Box: 1-2 Collected Algerian Materials, 1960-1962 Scope and Content Note Brochures, press releases, broadcast transcripts, interview transcripts, notes, reports, and memoranda concerning the Algerian war for independence and the coup staged by the Organisation Armée Secrète in 1961. Includes inventory by John K. Cooley of this 1963 accession. Box/Folder: 1 : 1 Inventory by John K. Cooley (1963 accession) Box/Folder: 1 Algiers military coup, April 19-27, 1961 Box/Folder: 1 : 2 Dispatch to Christian Science Monitor, containing background information on the Organisation Armée Secrète, April 18 Box/Folder: 1 : 3 Eyewitness account of Challe take-over, cabled to Radio Press International, London, and Christian Science Monitor, but blocked by censorship, April 22 Box/Folder: 1 : 4 Scripts of news broadcasts from Cooley to Radio Press International, London, transmitted from "Radio France" (name which insurgents gave to Algiers radio), April 22 Scope and Content Note Includes changes made at request of Colonel Gardes, who censored outgoing broadcasts Box/Folder: 1 : 5 Broadcasts from Cooley to CBC, London, on "Radio France," April 23 Box/Folder: 1 : 6 Carbon copy of diplomatic report, concerning Saharan petroleum, gas and other resources being surveyed at that time, due to possibility of extended blockade by the French government forces, April 20 Box/Folder: 1 : 7 Notes taken on breakdown of loyalist and insurgent officers, including list of those imprisoned by junta, April 22 Box/Folder: 1 : 8 Dispatch to Christian Science Monitor, read on "Radio France," April 24 Box/Folder: 1 : 9 Radio broadcasts to Radio Press International and CBC, concerning the possibility of paratroop landing in France, and statements by Challe and Salan (censored), April 24 Box/Folder: 1 : 10 Uncensored dispatch prepared for Christian Science Monitor, intended to be smuggled out but never sent, April 24 Box/Folder: 1 : 11 Handwritten memoranda of conversations with two clandestine pro-government officer informants concerning military situation, undated Box/Folder: 1 : 12