Dr. Peter Beter, Jimmy Carter, The Wanderers, and the Rise of the Organic Robotoids

Now that President Jimmy Carter (1924-2024) has passed away at the age of 100, the staff at Cryptoscatology.com would be remiss if we did not take this opportunity to remind our readers about the peculiar theories of the late Dr. Peter Beter (1921-1987), who infamously claimed that Carter and many other American politicians had been assassinated by the Soviet Union and replaced with "organic robotoids." Beter first proposed this theory in Audio Letter #46 on May 28, 1979, an excerpt of which can be heard below...

Dr. Peter Beter: The Discovery of Robotoids and the Replacement of Jimmy Carter:

You can listen to all 80 of Peter Beter's Audio Letters (produced between 1975 and 1982) at Archive.org.

Beter's outlandish Audio Letters inspired one of my favorite punk albums of all time, ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE by Stiv Bators & The Wanderers, a concept album from 1981 that pivoted around Beter's chimerical theories about geopolitical events. You can hear the entire album below:

The Wanderers - Only Lovers Left Alive 1981 (full album):

Over ten years ago, I wrote about Beter & Bators in a January 2013 CryptoPost, which you can read right HERE.