Paul L. Williams

Paul L. Williams (born September 30, 1944) is an American academic, journalist, author, and former consultant to the FBI on matters of terrorism. in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He attended Central High School there. He received a BA degree from Wilkes College and a doctorate in medieval theology from Drew University in 1976. He was an adjunct professor at the University of Scranton. He was a consultant to the FBI on matters of terrorism and organized crime. He also wrote as a journalist for the National Review. The Vatican Exposed was published in 2003. In 2007 he published The Day of Islam: The Annihilation of America and the Western World (Prometheus Books, 2007). Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia, was published in 2014. His most recent work, Among the Ruins: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Catholic Church, was published in 2017.

In Williams' 2006 book Dunces of Doomsday, he claimed known or suspected terrorists had been seen around Hamilton, Ontario in 2005: Adnan Shukrijumah, Amer el-Maati, Jaber A. Elbaneh and Anas al-Liby. Williams also claimed Shukrijumah had been seen at McMaster University where he "wasted no time in gaining access to the nuclear reactor and stealing more than 180 pounds of nuclear material for the creation of radiological bombs". Williams was subsequently sued by the university for libel, with the lawyer representing the university in the case saying that, "Mr. Williams' allegations about McMaster [are] on a par with UFO reports and JFK conspiracy theories.... The notion that because there are people on faculty from Egypt that McMaster is then a haven for terrorism is not only logically offensive, it smacks of racism." Williams remained defiant saying, "I love them coming after us. At the end of the day these people are going to be bloodied because what I am saying is true. They are not going to walk away from this unscathed because I will proclaim what is going on at McMaster from the rooftops."

Books Criterion-Referenced Testing for the Social Studies (co-editor, 1980) Historicism and Faith: Proceedings of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars (editor, 1980) The Moral Philosophy of Peter Abelard (1980) Christian Faith in a Neo-pagan Society: Proceedings of the Third Convention of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars (editor, 1981) Christian Faith and Freedom: Proceedings of the Fourth Convention of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars (editor, 1982) Catholic Social Thought and the Teaching of John Paul II: Proceedings of the Fifth Convention (1982) of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, Chicago, Illinois, March 26-28, 1982 (editor, 1983) Everything You Wanted to know about the Catholic Church - Doubleday Books, (1989) The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Crusades, Penguin, (2001) The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Lives of the Saints, Penguin, (2001) The Life and Work of Mother Teresa, Alpha, (2001) Al Qaeda: Brotherhood of Terror - Alpha Books (2002) The Vatican Exposed. Money, Murder, and the Mafia - Prometheus Books (2003) Osama's Revenge: The Next 9/11: What the Media and the Government Haven't Told You, Prometheus Books, (2004) Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia, Prometheus Books, (2015) Among the Ruins: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Catholic Church (2017)