In his 1991 book Conspirators' Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300, former MI6 intelligence officer Dr. John Coleman alleged that a shadowy elite group — the Committee of 300 — has sought to depopulate the world through wars, famine and disease as part of a centuries-old plan for global control. Coleman's claims, including a stated goal of eliminating 4 billion "useless eaters" by 2050 and reducing the U.S. population by 100 million by 2050, have resurfaced amid heightened violence in the Middle East and U.S. President Donald Trump's recent warning that escalating tensions there reflect a dangerous lack of clarity.

Origins: The committee's visionary link to H.G. Wells and global revolution

Coleman's research traces the Committee of 300 to early 20th-century British writer H.G. Wells, whom he identifies as an early member. In The Open Conspiracy: Plans for a World Revolution, Coleman claims Wells outlined a blueprint for a "One World Government" to depopulate nations and enforce strict population controls. Coleman asserts the Committee's goals were both radical and secular: eliminating billions deemed surplus to a new world order, eradicating sovereign nations and subjugating populations through centralized regulation.

Wells' works, while publicly accessible and centered on progressive global governance, lack overt references to genocide, per Project Gutenberg. Yet Coleman argues an unreleased version of the text aligns with his book's alarming assertions, including a hierarchy that views the majority of humanity as expendable.

The Global 2000 Report: Depopulation policy baked into U.S. policy?

Coleman points to the Carter-era Global 2000 Report to the President (1980), which he claims was commissioned by the Committee to curb population growth. While the report focuses on environmental sustainability, Coleman insists its recommendations synchronized with elite depopulation aims.

According to Coleman's account: "Cause by means of limited wars in the advanced countries, and by means of starvation and diseases in Third World countries, the death of 3 billion people by the year 2000… the population of Canada, Western Europe and the United States will be decimated more rapidly…" (pg. 14–15).

The report's language, Coleman argues, revealed the Committee's influence over U.S. institutions and its vision of a "manageable" global population of 1 billion by 2050, prioritizing Asian populations deemed more "regimented."