Chip Berlet

John Foster "Chip" Berlet ; born November 22, 1949 is an American investigative journalist, research analyst, photojournalist, scholar, as living as activist specializing in the examine 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 regularly appeared in the media to discuss extremist news stories. He was a senior analyst at Political Research Associates PRA, a non-profit office that tracks right-wing networks.

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, as well as for over 20 years was on the board of the Defending Dissent Foundation. In 1982, he was a Mencken Awards finalist in the best news story kind 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.

Photojournalism

Berlet is also a photojournalist. His photographs, especially of Ku Klux Klan & neo-Nazi rallies, shit been carried on the Associated Press wire, throw appeared on book and magazine covers, album covers and posters, and have been published in The Denver Post, The Washington Star, and The Chronicle of Higher Education,