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John Foster "Chip" Berlet (born November 22, 1949) is an American investigative journalist,〔http://www.hipatiapress.com/hpjournals/index.php/rimcis/article/view/954/886〕 research analyst, photojournalist, scholar, and activist specializing in the study of extreme right-wing movements in the United States.〔〔 He also studies the spread of conspiracy theories. Since the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, Berlet has often appeared in the media to discuss extremist news stories.〔 He was a senior analyst at Political Research Associates (PRA), a non-profit group that tracks right-wing networks,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=About PRA )〕 Berlet, a paralegal, was a vice-president of the National Lawyers Guild. He has served on the advisory board of the Center for Millennial Studies at Boston University, and currently sits on the advisory board of the Defending Dissent Foundation. In 1982, he was a Mencken Awards finalist in the best news story category for "War on Drugs: The Strange Story of Lyndon LaRouche," which was published in ''High Times''. He served on the advisory board of the Campaign to Defend the Constitution. == Background == Berlet attended the University of Denver for three years, where he majored in sociology with a minor in journalism. A member of the 1960s student left, he dropped out of the university in 1971 to work as an alternative journalist without completing his degree. In the mid-1970s, he went on to co-edit a series of books on student activism for the National Student Association and National Student Educational Fund. He also became an active shop steward with the National Lawyers' Guild. During the late 1970s, he became the Washington, D.C., bureau chief of ''High Times'' magazine, and in 1979, he helped to organize citizens' hearings on FBI surveillance practices. From then until 1982, he worked as a paralegal investigator at the Better Government Association in Chicago, conducting research for an American Civil Liberties Union case, involving police surveillance by the Chicago police (which became known as the "Chicago Red Squad" case).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bibliography: Chicago Police Department's Red Squad's Involvement In Social Protest )〕 He also worked on cases filed against the FBI or police on behalf of the Spanish Action Committee of Chicago (S.A.C.C.), the National Lawyers Guild, the American Indian Movement, Socialist Workers Party, the Christic Institute, and the American Friends Service Committee (a Quaker group). He was a founder member of the Chicago Area Friends of Albania, leaving the organization when he relocated to Boston in 1987.〔 Berlet along with journalist Russ Bellant, has written about Lyndon LaRouche's National Caucus of Labor Committees, calling it anti-Jewish and neo-Nazi, and urging an investigation of alleged illegal activities.〔〔(LaRouche Cult Continues to Grow ) By Russ Bellant, Chip Berlet, & Dennis King, Political Research Associates, December 16, 1981〕 In 1982, Berlet joined Political Research Associates, and in 1985, he founded the Public Eye BBS, the first computer bulletin board aimed at challenging the spread of white-supremacist and neo-Nazi material through electronic media, and the first to provide an online application kit for requesting information under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act.〔(【引用サイトリンク】last=Berlet )〕 He was one of the first researchers to have drawn attention to the efforts by white supremacist and antisemitic groups to recruit farmers in the Midwestern United States in the 1970s and 1980s. Berlet was originally on the board of advisers of Public Information Research, founded by Daniel Brandt. Between 1990 and 1992, three members of Brandt's PIR advisory board, including Berlet, resigned over issues concerning another board member, L. Fletcher Prouty and Prouty's book ''The Secret Team''.〔Chip Berlet, "(Right Woos Left: Populist Party, LaRouchite, and Other Neo-fascist Overtures To Progressives, And Why They Must Be Rejected )," Cambridge, MA: Political Research Associates, 1991.〕 In 1996, he acted as an adviser on the Public Broadcasting Service documentary mini-series ''With God on Our Side: The Rise of the Religious Right in America'', which was later published as a book by William Martin. Berlet criticized Ralph Nader and his associates for a close working relationship with Republican textile magnate Roger Milliken, erstwhile major backer of the 1996 presidential campaign of Pat Buchanan, and anti-unionization stalwart.〔''Right-Wing Populism in America'' by Chip Berlet, pp. 338–344〕 Berlet has provided research assistance to a campaign run by the mother of Jeremiah Duggan〔http://www.publiceye.org/press/releases/2007/3/27/Berlet_LaRouche.html〕 to reopen the investigation into his death. The British student died in disputed circumstances near Wiesbaden, Germany. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chip Berlet」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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