Robert W. Lee, A Summary Of Key Books On Conspiracy, (Nov-1981)

A Summary Of Key Books

CONSPIRAC Robert W. Lee is a graduate of the University of Utah and a former corporation president. He is a Contributing Editor for The Review Of The News, where his "From The Hopper" and "A Capital Report" columns appear regularly. • INCREASING numbers of Americans are seriously concerned about the growth of government and its intrusions into nearly every aspect of their lives, the withering of traditional standards of morality, the disturbing state of the economy, and allied domestic problems. In international affairs they have witnessed the fall of one country after another into NOVEMBER, 1981

Communist hands, grown angry at U.S. involvement in no-win wars, and viewed with alarm the evolution of a U.S. foreign policy which for decades has surrendered our nation's interests while bolstering unfriendly regimes, undermining friendly ones, and promoting the designs of such overtly anti-American agencies as the United Nations.

While recognizing and lamenting these and other danger signs, many Americans remain confused about the extent to which our national and international ills are the result of mere chance. They wonder if all of these disasters are really the consequences of bad judgment and mistakes by well-intentioned people, or whether they result from the willful actions of clever conspirators determined to bring us to our knees. There may have been a time, in the not-too-distant past, when the scarcity of reliable information supporting the "conspiracy theory" made the "accident theory" seem plausible. In recent years, however, the evidence pointing to conspiracy as a major factor contributing to many of our problems has become so abundant, and so readily available to any willing to seek it out, that the scales have tipped in favor of the conspiracy analysts. Our purpose here is briefly to review twentyfive of the books which present that evidence, and to offer on page thirtynine a bibliography of one hundred volumes that those investigating conspiracy theory should find useful. Professor John Robison's Proofs Of A Conspiracy, first published in 1798, is a major source of information about the Order of the Illuminati, the secret combination founded on May 1, 1776, in Bavaria by Ingolstadt University professor Adam Weishaupt. Relying heavily on the Order's own documents (which were confiscated and made public by government officials during the 1780s), Professor Robison confirms the Order's ultimate goal to have been the destruction of all national sovereignty in favor of a New World Order. To achieve that end, Weishaupt and his followers sought to abolish all positive religion (and especially the Christian religion and its moral pre2

cepts), abolish private property, destroy patriotic sentiment, and otherwise remove whatever hurdles might stand in the way of their One World objective. Any means, fair or foul, were to be condoned, so long as they effectively promoted the Order's goals. Education was to be captured ("We must win the common people in every corner. This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools."); the communications media were to be controlled ("If a writer publishes any thing that attracts notice, and is in itself just, but does not accord with our plan, we must endeavour to win him over, or decry him."); and, the ruling authorities were to be surrounded by the Order's agents ("it is . . . our duty to surround them with its [the Order's] members, so that the profane may have no access to them .... We must do our utmost to procure the advancement of IIluminati into all important civil offices."). The parallels between the goals, methods, and organization of the IIluminati, and those of sundry revolutionary movements in existence today are remarkable. Though supposedly suppressed and disbanded in the 1780s, the spirit of the Weishaupt Order remains alive. James H. Billington's Fire In The Minds Of Men: Origins Of The Revolutionary Faith covers in scholarly detail scores of the secret organizations (and the revolutionaries who joined them) which sprouted "from the waning of the French Revolution in the late eighteenth century to the beginnings of the Russian Revolution in the early twentieth." Included, naturally, is a description of the Illuminati, which Professor Billington concedes had more influence following its exposure and "suppression" than before. AMERICAN OPINION

Many Americans have been wondering if our serious national and international crises are really the consequences of honest mistakes or whether they result from the willful actions of clever conspirators. In recent years the evidence pointing to the latter has tipped the scales in favor of conspiracy analysts. And there are fascinating accounts of the surprisingly important role which such factors as music, language (including filthy speech), geometric symbols (especially circles and triangles), numbers, dress codes, etc., have played in revolutionary movements. Professor Billington confirms many claims made by "conspiracy theorists" over the years. Yet he is himself closely associated with elements of the "Liberal" Establishment. For example, he is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, directs the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, received his doctorate as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, has taught at both Harvard and Princeton, and was Chairman of the Board of Foreign Scholarship which runs the worldwide Fulbright Scholarship Program. Fire In The Minds Of Men is a very important work in its own right, but is especially so considering the credentials of its author. Dr. Billington is not the only scholar with Establishment ties to contribute dramatic support for the conspiracy theory. In 1966, Professor Carroll Quigley of Georgetown University completed his 1,300-page study, Tragedy And Hope: A History Of The World In Our Time, a portion of which is devoted to a deNOVEMBER, 1981

scription of the secret maneuvers of a network of international banking families striving to control the finances and affairs of governments, including our own. Dr. Quigley writes: "I know of the operations of this network because I have studied it for twenty years and was permitted for two years, in the early 1960's, to examine its papers and secret records. I have no aversion to it or to most of its aims and have, for much of my life, been close to it and to many of its instruments. I have objected, both in the past and recently, to a few of its policies . . . but in general my chief difference of opinion is that it wishes to remain unknown, and I believe its role in history is significant enough to be known." Professor Quigley describes a secret society established in 1891 by Cecil Rhodes (of Rhodes Scholarship fame). Its purpose was to unite the English-speaking peoples, then bring the remaining habitable parts of the planet under their control. After the death of Rhodes, the activities of that secret society were carried on by his successors, who established semisecret "Round Table" groups in the chief British dependencies and the United States. The Round Tables, in turn, founded the Royal Institute of International Affairs. An American 3

counterpart (the American Institute for International Affairs) was launched in the United States and subsequently incorporated in 1921 as the Council on Foreign Relations. For those unable to locate Tragedy And Hope in bookstores or their local libraries, there is W. Cleon Skousen's book-length review of the Quigley text entitled The Naked Capitalist. Those pages of Tragedy And Hope which deal with the conspiratorial apparatus are quoted and analyzed by Dr. Skousen. They are supplemented by additional commentary on the revolutionary activities of allied taxexempt foundations, the subversion of public education, the drive by Leftists to discredit the late antiCommunist U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, the campaign to undermine G.O.P. candidate Barry Goldwater's 1964 bid for the Presidency, etc. Of special interest is an incident with which Dr. Skousen begins his review. Former Communist Party, U.S.A., official Dr. Bella Dodd told Skousen: "I think the Communist conspiracy is merely a branch of a much bigger conspiracy!" Dr. Dodd explained (as summarized by Skousen) that "she first became aware of some mysterious superleadership right after World War II when the U.S. Communist Party had difficulty getting instructions from Moscow on several vital matters requiring immediate attention. The American Communist hierarchy was told that any time they had an emergency of this kind they should contact any one of three designated persons at the Waldorf Towers. Dr. Dodd noted that whenever the Party obtained instructions from any of these three men, Moscow always ratified them. What puzzled Dr. Dodd was the fact that not one of these three contacts was a Russian. Nor were any of them Communists. In fact, all three 4

were extremely wealthy American capitalists!" Fascinating! Another book on this important theme is Gary Alien's None Dare Call It Conspiracy. Alien suggests that his readers think of the conspiratorial network as a hand with fingers labelled International Banking, Foundations, Fabian Socialism, Communism, and so forth. (It is a many-fingered hand!) He describes the workings of the international bankers (including their financing of the Bolshevik Revolution) and traces the steps which led to the founding of the Council on Foreign Relations. (It is worth noting that, according to Alien, the American Institute for International Affairs was re-labelled the C.F.R. because "it had to be made to appear that the C.F.R. in America and the R.I.I.A. in Britain were really independent bodies, lest the American public become aware the C.F.R. was in fact a subsidiary of the Round Table Group and react in patriotic fury.") None Dare Call It Conspiracy also analyzes the efforts of such "super-rich" capitalists as the Rockefellers, and others associated with the C.F.R., to strengthen the Soviet empire. The Council on Foreign Relations has become one of the most important and influential organizations in the world. This despite a membership which has never exceeded twentyfive hundred. One of the first (and still one of the best) exposes of the Council's remarkable record is Dan Smoot's The Invisible Government. As related by Smoot, "The purpose of the Council . . . was to create (and condition the American people to accept) what [Colonel Edward M.] House [President Wilson's closest advisor] called a 'positive' foreign policy for America — to replace the traAMERICAN OPINION

ditional 'negative' foreign policy which had kept America out of the endless turmoil of old-world politics and had permitted the American people to develop their great nation in freedom and independence from the rest of the world." The Council's progress was slow at first, but beginning in 1927 funds began to pour in from the big foundations (Rockefeller, Carnegie, Ford), and in 1939 the Council moved to plant its members throughout the State Department. Council members eventually dominated the Advisory Committee on Postwar Foreign Policy and, at the San Francisco Conference which founded the United Nations in 1945, over forty members of the U.S. delegation were, had been, or would become Council members. Since that time, members of the Council have filled key posts in every Administration, whether Republican or Democrat — including the Reagan Administration. Dan Smoot traces the C.F.R.'s interlocking connections with many other organizations, from the Foreign Policy Association and Business Advisory Council to the Committee for Economic Development and the Advertising Council. He emphasizes its domination of the major communications media, large foundations, and numerous other key areas of American life. In 1973, C.F.R. Board Chairman David Rockefeller founded the Trilateral Commission, allegedly to promote increased dialogue and economic ties between the "trilateral" nations of North America, Western Europe, and Japan. The Commission has achieved notoriety in recent years, primarily due to the decisive role it played in assisting Trilateralist Jimmy Carter to win the Presidency in 1976. The background and goals of the NOVEMBER, 1981

Trilateral Commission are presented in a two-volume study, Trilaterals Over Washington, by Antony Sutton and Patrick Wood. Volume I describes the founding of the Commission, the make-up of its membership (including persons of powerful influence in such fields as the media, trade unions, the legal profession, and government), its sources of income, and its policies as stated in periodic position papers and the quarterly Trialogue magazine. Volume II continues the analysis and includes examples of the Commission's influence within the Reagan Administration. Sutton and Wood predict: "A Reagan-Bush administration will result in further progress for Trilaterals toward their New Economic World Order." George Bush was a member of the Commission prior to his 1980 campaign for the Presidency. He was also a Director of the C.F.R. Older conspiratorial groups have already wrecked whole empires. The World Book Encyclopedia (1961 Edition) tells us about the Fabian Society, for instance, which "was named for Quintus Fabius Maximus, a Roman general who avoided defeat by refusing to fight any decisive battles against Hannibal. The Fabians teach that socialism can be achieved gradually, through a series of reforms. They differ from the Communists, who believe that the people can gain ownership of the means of production only through revolution." In other words, Fabian goals match those of the Reds, but their tactics differ. The most thoroughly detailed and documented analysis of the Fabian movement is Rose L. Martin's Fabian Freeway: High Road To Socialism In The U.S.A., 1884-1966. This important text "tells how the Fabian Socialist movement, which exists un5

War has clearly served the interests of the One World conspirators. Evidence shows the Wilson team conspired in a series of tragedies to get us into World War I. And President Roosevelt knew in advance when Pearl Harbor was to be the target for a Japanese attack but did not warn the American Fleet Commander. der many names in many places, began and grew in Britain; and how, under the guise of an innocent-looking reform movement, it became a ruling force in the United States as well." In England, the Fabian Society has never exceeded five thousand "official" members, yet — like the C.F.R. within the United States — that small handful has "succeeded in penetrating and permeating organizations, social movements, political parties, until today its influence pervades the whole fabric of daily life." Mrs. Martin describes the process whereby Fabianism was transplanted to the United States. She reports that, beginning in 1905 with the founding of the Intercollegiate Socialist Society (which in 1929 changed its name to the League for Industrial Democracy), it gradually progressed through the efforts of such organizations as the Rand School of Social Science, the American Civil Liberties Union, the American Student Union, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Congress of Racial Equality, the Urban League, and Americans for Democratic Action. Secular Humanism is another of these movements (actually, a religion) predicated on atheism, situation ethics, and the right of men to 6

establish their own standards of right and wrong without interference from a Divine Creator or His Commandments. It is described and analyzed in The SIECUS Circle: A Humanist Revolution by Claire Chambers. Using as a focal point the Sex Information and Education Council of the United States (perhaps the nation's most aggressive advocate of Humanistic sex education for American schools), The SIECUS Circle traces the influence of Humanism in dozens of Establishment organizations, including the National Education Association, the National Council of Churches, and Planned Parenthood. Included as appendices are the complete texts of the shocking Humanist Manifestos I and II (published in 1933 and 1973, respectively). While concentrating almost exclusively on Humanism (due to its relevance to promotion of sex education, pornography, homosexuality, drugs, abortion, etc.), Mrs. Chambers nevertheless makes it clear that Secular Humanism ("which breeds atheism and labors to produce the desired stage of moral anarchy") is merely one element of a much larger conspiratorial apparatus which encompasses "the Council on Foreign Relations, whose central purpose is to merge the United States into a oneworld government; many tax-exempt AMERICAN OPINION

foundations, whose grants support the revolution; and theosophy and many other obscure factions of the occult, whose secret, anti-Christian doctrines make them appropriate satellites of the world movement toward a new secular world order." Change Agents In The Schools by Barbara M. Morris also evaluates Secular Humanism, with emphasis on the destructive impact the movement has had on our government school system. Defining "change agent" as "a person, organization, or institution that changes or helps to change the beliefs, values, attitudes or behavior of people without their knowledge or consent," Mrs. Morris outlines the various ways in which the attitudes and beliefs of publicschool children are subtly nudged into conformity with Humanist tenets. Change Agents In The Schools provides substantial evidence to support the contention that the so-called "generation gap" is a contrived result of the conflict between the values young people are taught at home, and those they are confronted with in school, via such techniques as role playing, sensitivity training, values education, and other attempts to modify their moral underpinnings. The Messianic Character Of American Education by Dr. Rousas J. Rushdoony is perhaps the most important book now in print explaining how our government education system reached its present sorry state. While describing the process whereby responsibility for the education of children has been transferred almost entirely from parents to the state, Dr. Rushdoony profiles the philosophy and influence of some twenty key figures (ranging from Horace Mann and John Dewey to Harold 0. Rugg and George S. Counts) who have played important roles in the subversion of American education. NOVEMBER, 1981

Toward the close of his study, Dr. Rushdoony quotes this perceptive observation of A. A. Hodge: "It is capable of exact demonstration that if every party in the State has the right of excluding from the public schools whatever he does not believe to be true, then he that believes most must give way to him that believes least, and then he that believes least must give way to him that believes absolutely nothing, no matter how small a minority the atheists or the agnostics may be. It is self-evident that on this scheme, if it is consistently and persistently carried out in all parts of the country, the United States system of national popular education will be the most efficient and wide instrument for the propagation of Atheism which the world has ever seen." That was in 1887, seventy-five years in advance of a Supreme Court which would, at the urging of a revolutionary atheist, ban prayer from our public schools. There are a number of references above to the role which some of the large, tax-free foundations have played in promoting collectivism within the United States. While acknowledging the good that these foundations have done in such areas as medical research, author William H. McIlhany II catalogues in his new book, The Tax-Free Foundations, many disturbing instances in which foundations have financed activities of a Leftist, revolutionary, and destructive nature. Included in The Tax-Free Foundations is a chapter reporting a lengthy interview conducted by the author with Norman Dodd, who had been research director of the Reece Committee, assigned by Congress to investigate the giant foundations. Despite outrageous tactics used by friends of the foundations to hinder its work, the Committee confirmed

during a 1954 investigation that certain powerful members of the foundation Establishment had spent many millions promoting socialism and World Government at taxpayers' expense. During the interview, Norman Dodd recalled a visit he had had with Rowan Gaither, then president of the Ford Foundation, in December of 1953. At one point, Gaither told Dodd: "Of course, you know that we at the executive level here were, at one time or another active in either the OSS, the State Department, or the European Economic Administration. During those times, and without exception, we operated under directives issued by the White House. We are continuing to be guided by just such directives." Gaither then asked if Dodd would like to know what those toplevel directives were. When Mr. Dodd said that he would, Gaither continued: "The substance was to the effect that we should make every effort to so alter life in the United States as to make possible a comfortable merger with the Soviet Union." A substantial body of evidence presented in The Tax-Free Foundations indicates the extent to which that directive, or something very much like it, has been followed by the giant foundations to the present time. War has clearly served the advocates of this merging into a New World Order. Consider now the case of the ocean liner Lusitania, sailing from New York to Liverpool, torpedoed and sunk off the coast of Ireland by a German submarine on May 7, 1915. Some 1,201 lives were lost, including 128 Americans. It was the most dramatic of the events which led to U.S. entry into World War I. According to the war propagan8

dists the Lusitania was a neutral, unarmed vessel merely transporting innocent civilians. If so, the German attack was indeed a blatant and inhumane violation of international law. An "official" account of the Lusitania tragedy, based on information in the archives of the British and American governments, was published in booklet form in October of 1915. It concluded that the German attack on the liner was "the foulest act of willful murder ever committed on the high* seas." German claims that the Lusitania was not only armed but transporting war materiel (and therefore fair game) were, the booklet contended, "proved to be totally unfounded .... Another German lie exposed!" Only years later was it learned that the Lusitania had indeed been loaded with ammunition, explosives, and other implements of war. Also uncovered was evidence pointing to a shameful plot instigated by the British and our own top government leaders to dangle the Lusitania as bait within range of a German submarine in expectation that the liner would indeed be attacked and antiGerman sentiment aroused in America. It is an amazing story, the precise facts and details of which are related in Colin Simpson's book The Lusitania.* Author Simpson describes how he was able to obtain a copy of the liner's original manifest. He discovered that it differed markedly from manifests on file in British and American archives, so he launched an investigation into what really happened and why. His findings represent yet another part of the historical record confirming conspiracy theory. *The Lusitania was condensed as a "Book Section" of the Reader's Digest for November 1973.

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The conspiracies operating out of such Establishment organizations as the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission are thoroughly documented. So is the fact that funding for the major collectivist campaigns comes from the Establishment's leading tax-free foundations. The pattern is clear. A Lusitania-like plot was also exposed years later in events surrounding the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Blame for the attack was initially heaped on our military commanders at Pearl Harbor and wartime secrecy prevented the truth from being told until the end of the war. But it has now been conclusively established that President Roosevelt and his top advisors knew in advance that Pearl Harbor was the target for a December seventh Japanese attack and could have warned the Fleet Commander in time for steps to be taken to render the attack impossible. Public opinion in America strongly opposed entry into the war, but Pearl Harbor changed all of that. A number of books have related the infamous scenario, including The Final Secret Of Pearl Harbor by Robert A. Theobald. In the words of Admiral Theobald, "by holding a weak Pacific Fleet in Hawaii as an invitation to a surprise attack, and by denying the Commander of that Fleet the information which might cause him to render that attack impossible, President Roosevelt brought war to the United States on December 7, 1941." Yet another example of the strategy of provoking an attack on one's own forces as a means of maneuvering us into war resulted from a NOVEMBER, 1981

Navy Department announcement on September 4, 1941, that a submarine of undetermined nationality had attacked the U.S. destroyer Greer on its way to Iceland. President Roosevelt promptly claimed that the Greer had been attacked by a German submarine while on a legitimate mission (carrying mail to Iceland) in full daylight. As described in 'Twas A Famous Victory by Benjamin Colby, the President said to the nation: "I tell you the blunt fact that the German submarine fired first upon this American destroyer without warning and with deliberate design to sink her." But, as Colby further reports, "when the Senate Committee on Naval Affairs finally elicited the true story ... it found that the Greer had been trailing the submarine for three hours, reporting its position to a British plane which attacked with depth charges. The submarine had fired at the Greer only after the plane departed for its base to refuel and the Greer had actively continued the hunt alone. This information was not made public until late in October" — which was of course too late to blunt the anti-German emotion which F.D.R.'s version of the incident had stirred. By year's end, we were at war. 'Twas A Famous Victory, in its author's words, "describes some of

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the deception, secrecy, propaganda and falsehood employed to promote trust in Russia and hatred of Germany in a war which brought unconditional military victory and disastrous political defeat." Colby describes the steps taken by the Roosevelt Administration to provoke war with Germany, after which every possible effort was made to erase the Soviet record of perfidy and convince the American people of the fiction that our new and benign Russian ally desired only peace and freedom. Benjamin Colby also describes how the justified hatred of the Nazis was gradually converted into an emotional campaign of hatred toward all Germans. And he further evaluates the harsh "unconditional surrender" position of the Allies which prolonged the war until the Soviets could occupy much of Western Europe; the desire of some American officials to turn Germany into a virtual goat pasture (via the so-called "Morgenthau Plan"); the hideous Allied bombing of Dresden, during which more innocent and defenseless civilians were killed than later fell victim to the atomic bombs we dropped on Japan; and, the attempt to cover up Soviet responsibility for the slaughter of thousands of Polish officers in the Katyn Forest near Smolensk, Russia, by falsely blaming the Germans for the atrocity. Once the war had ended, the Soviets emerged as a bloated Communist colossus astride much of Europe, including Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Romania, Albania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Czecho-Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, and half of Germany. 'Twas A Famous Victory bolsters the position of those Americans who felt that the United States and the West would have been far better off simply to have let the Nazis and Communists fight it out until they either 10

destroyed each other or collapsed from fatigue and we could dictate the peace. Our decision to side with the Soviets, Colby demonstrates, was the greatest disaster in the history of the West. Internationalists disappointed by the failure of the U.S. to join the League of Nations after World War I were more than compensated when we joined the United Nations in 1945. It was seen as a crucial stepping-stone on the way to an eventual World Government, and the manner in which it was brought about (largely through the efforts of members of the Council on Foreign Relations) is described in your correspondent's new book, The United Nations Conspiracy. There he details instance after instance of deception and subterfuge used to hide from the American people the real nature and purposes of the U.N., including attempts by influential American globalists to make it appear that the Communists oppose the U.N., that our Constitution and Bill of Rights are similar in philosophy to the U.N. Charter, that the Soviets opposed the U.N.'s intervention in Korea, that the U.N. has been a force for peace in the world, and similar nonsense. The book also documents the extent to which the U.N. consistently violates its own Charter; the role it is intended to play in the drive for World Government; the phony "humanitarianism" of its specialized agencies; how "Model U.N." assemblies are used to indoctrinate our young people with proU.N. propaganda, etc. We were asked by the Managing Editor of AMERICAN OPINION to include The United Nations Conspiracy in this discussion of conspiracy-oriented books. And, frankly, we are convinced that it makes an important contribution to a proper understanding of how the American people have AMERICAN OPINION

been misled to support an international monstrosity which has undermined our national sovereignty, hamstrung our foreign policy, and bled us of billions. Over the past seventeen years the most important and informative book about the United Nations has been G. Edward Griffin's The Fearful Master: A Second Look At The United Nations. After detailing the U.N.'s atrocious war against the antiCommunist Congolese province of Katanga in the early Sixties (an event which by itself was more than sufficient to justify our immediate withdrawal from the world body), Griffin methodically takes the U.N. apart, piece by piece, for close inspection. His concluding chapter offers an especially useful collection of appropriate rebuttals to such United Nations cliches as: "It is our last best hope for peace" and "At least while we're talking we're not shooting" and "With what would we replace the U.N.?" and "We must support the U.N. because it is working to eliminate the roots of war — ignorance, poverty, hunger, and disease" — and others. It is not mere coincidence that the precipitous decline in the U.N.'s popularity in recent years, as reflected in national polls, has paralleled the widespread distribution of The Fearful Master. Another vital book which has stood the test of time is While You Slept by John T. Flynn. For three decades it has remained in print as a valuable guide to the steps which led to the Communist takeover of China and our involvement in Korea. The Stanford-educated author Gary Alien, whose best-selling book None Dare Call It Conspiracy was mentioned earlier, was at one time both a "Liberal" and an advocate of the "accident theory of history." But, says NOVEMBER, 1981

Alien, While You Slept "did more to make a Rightwing Extremist of me than any other single volume." The reason was that "Flynn exposed not only the Korean fiasco but documented American treason which had led to the enormous expansion of the Soviet Union and the sellout of China to the Communists. He demonstrated that the rising tide of Soviet imperialism had been constantly supported by the American Left and noted that while World War II had dethroned one set of criminal murderers it had enthroned an even more diabolical group." When Gary Alien visited the library to see what the reviewers had to say about Flynn's book, he discovered that most simply ignored it, while the rest resorted to personal attacks against the author. None even attempted to refute the terrifying evidence in the book. Of special interest is Flynn's detailed analysis of the impact which books, book reviews, magazine articles, movies, and the electronic media had in misleading the American people regarding what was really going on in China. He discovered, for instance, that books on the general political situation in China published between 1943 and 1949 numbered twenty-nine, with twenty-two favoring the pro-Communist position while only seven took the side of the anti-Communists. How were those books handled by the reviewers? Flynn reports: "Every one of the 22 pro-Communist books, where reviewed, received glowing approval in the literary reviews I have named — that is, in the New York Times, the Herald Tribune, The Nation, the New Republic, and the Saturday Review of Literature. And every one of the anti-Communist books was either roundly condemned or ignored in these same reviews." Indeed, he further discovered that the authors 11

American participation in the United Nations was seen by the conspirators as an essential step on the way to World Government. The American people were misled by an identifiable conspiracy to support this radical adventure which has undermined our sovereignty, hamstrung our foreign policy, and bled us of billions. of the various pro-Red books were allowed to puff each other up by writing reviews of each others' books! For instance, the authors of twelve of the pro-Communist books wrote a total of forty-three reviews of other books on Flynn's pro-Communist list. And, on other occasions, these same authors were assigned to review — and denigrate — the handful of anti-Communist books. Flynn concludes: "Never in history has a nation of free people had brought to bear upon its mind so vast a war of propaganda by engines of propaganda so powerful as those which shaped the opinions of Americans toward supporting the program that has ended by delivering almost all of Europe and Asia into the hands of Russian communism." That same propaganda machine went to work a few years later to vilify Senator Joseph McCarthy when the Senator had the courage to speak out strongly against the internal Communist threat. McCarthy stands to this day as contemporary history's chief example of what happens when one begins effectively to oppose and expose those in high places who are working to undermine the Republic. Some observers believe it was planned that way to make of McCarthy an example which would threaten future opposition. NOVEMBER, 1981

Dr. Medford Evans, in The Assassination Of Joe McCarthy, summarizes the Senator's career (and the unusual circumstances surrounding his physical death), clearly demonstrating that McCarthy was not attacked because he smeared innocent people, but rather because he told the truth about guilty people with powerful friends who did not want the truth told. Amidst the evidence rallied in McCarthy's behalf by Dr. Evans is an account of the notorious Annie Lee Moss affair. Mrs. Moss, a black woman employed by the Army as a clerk, was accused of having been a Communist in testimony before the Senate Government Operations Committee (which McCarthy chaired). The witness, herself a former Communist, testified under oath that Mrs. Moss had been in the Communist Party until at least 1945, at which time she had dropped her open membership and moved underground to get a government job. On March 11, 1954, Mrs. Moss testified before the McCarthy Committee and denied everything. Senator Stuart Symington (D.-Missouri), an anti-McCarthy leader on the Committee, declared: "I believe you are telling the truth," and offered to find Mrs. Moss a job should the Army not take her back. A packed 13

audience applauded, and the "Liberal" press jumped on the story to portray the Senator as a vicious ogre out to destroy the reputation of a poor, black, female, government worker. The incident was used seriously to tarnish McCarthy's image and helped to turn many against him. But wait. In September of 1958 — many months after McCarthy's death on May 2, 1957 — the federal Subversive Activities Control Board published, with supporting documentation, records of the Communist Party itself which showed that Annie Lee Moss had indeed been a member of the Party as testified. For what it was worth at that late date, McCarthy was vindicated. So we see in the case of Senator Joe McCarthy what can happen to those who do more than merely shadow box with the collectivists. And what of those whose work consistently promotes the collectivist goals of the Establishment? An example is the career of former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, as profiled in Robert Welch's devastating critique entitled The Politician. Begun in 1954 as a personal letter to a friend concerning the Eisenhower record, Robert Welch set out to show that Dwight Eisenhower was far from being the "Conservative anti-Communist" most Americans thought him to be.* As Welch continued his research, The Politician eventually grew to book length. Prior to its formal publication in *In an article published in Reader's Digest for April, 1969, Dwight Eisenhower wrote that when he was President he "yearned in every fiber of my being" to "smash" Senator Joseph McCarthy. In contrast, during a nationally televised C.B.S. interview with Walter Cronkite on February 15, 1962, Ike declared: "Now, I don't think that Mr. Khrushchev [the Soviet dictator] is himself a cruel man .... I'm sure he loves children .... Oh, he's very, very much of a family man that way . . . ."

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1963, this explosive indictment of a popular former President and military leader was used unmercifully to smear Robert Welch and the Conservative John Birch Society he had founded in 1958. Once it became available in book form to anyone sufficiently interested to read it, however, a blanket of silence descended over The Politician. Indeed, to this very date, not a single one of the major news media which attacked the "letter" and its author prior to 1963 has dared to review it. One reason is that Welch included more than seventy pages of footnotes thoroughly documenting his assertions about Eisenhower, thereby compelling reviewers either to acknowledge the book's basic accuracy or ignore it. They chose to ignore it. Due to the book's controversial nature, simply knowing it was available would have led thousands of Americans to purchase and read it. Despite the blackout, hundreds of thousands of copies of The Politician have been distributed, and it has played a major role in waking up many otherwise confused Americans to what is happening to our country, why it is happening, and who is making it happen. As a former editor of the international edition of the New York Times put it after reading The Politician a dozen years ago, "It is hard for a professional newspaper man to confess that so many things, which he thought were just happening, were actually being made to happen by sinister and conspiratorial forces. But in all honesty the confession must be made. The Politician was a real eye-opener, which caused all kinds of mysterious pieces, of a puzzle that still bewildered me, to fall rapidly into place. I recommend the book emphatically to every patriotic American who wants to understand not only what is AMERICAN OPINION

now taking place all around him, but also why. This book is the product of historical research of the first order." Indeed it is. But read it and judge it for yourself. Finally in our survey, there is the matter of the extent to which the West in general, and the United States in particular, have been responsible for building up the economic and military might of the Communist enemy we are also spending billions to defend against. The most important source of information on this subject is Antony Sutton's exhaustively documented threevolume series, Western Technology And Soviet Economic Development. Described by one reviewer as "possibly the most important book since the Bible," its 1,264 pages (covering the years 1917 to 1965) include overwhelming evidence confirming that whatever industry the Soviet Union has today, or ever has had, is almost entirely the result of transfusions of Western capital and know-how. Volume I, covering the period 1917 to 1930, tells us of a "1930 Ford Motor Company agreement to build a completely new integrated plant for mass production of the Model A, the 2.5 Ford truck, and buses using Ford patents, specifications, and manufacturing methods. The plant was erected by Albert Kahn, the builder of River Rouge, and so enabled the Soviets to duplicate the immense advances of American automobile engineering within a few years of inception in the United States." Volume II describes dozens of Soviet industries built up by the West from 1930 to 1946, including irrigation construction; non-ferrous metals; iron and steel; fuel; chemicals; coke-oven, synthetic rubber, cement, alcohol, and wood distillation; machine-building and allied industries; NOVEMBER, 1981

electrical equipment manufacture and power-station construction; automobiles and tractors; railroads; shipbuilding; aircraft and aircraft engines; military materiel (tanks, guns, explosives); planning and construction, etc., etc., etc. Sutton writes: "In June 1944, W. Averell Harriman, reporting to the State Department on a discussion between Eric Johnston and Stalin, made the following significant statement: 'Stalin paid tribute to the assistance rendered by the United States to Soviet industry before and during the war. He said that about two-thirds of all the large industrial enterprises in the Soviet Union had been built with United States help or technical assistance.' " And finally, in Volume III, Professor Sutton informs us: "In the immediate postwar period the Soviets transferred a large proportion of German industry to the Soviet Union — at least two-thirds of the German aircraft industry, the major part of the rocket production industry, probably two-thirds of the electrical industry, several automobile plants, several hundred large ships, and specialized plants to produce instruments, military equipment, armaments, and weapons systems. The stripping of East Germany was supplemented by a U.S. program (Operation RAP) to give the Soviets dismantled plants in the U.S. Zone. By the end of 1946 about 95 percent of dismantling in the U.S. Zone was for the U.S.S.R. (including the aircraft plants of Daimler-Benz, ball bearings facilities, and several munitions plants)." Professor Sutton followed up publication of the final volume in his trilogy with a less technical book describing the military assistance rendered the Soviet Union by the United States. Entitled National Suicide: Military Aid To The Soviet 15

Union, its chapter sub-headings imply the extent of the problem: "U.S. Assistance for the Skoda Armaments Plant," "American Ball Bearings for Soviet Missiles," "Light Tanks from the American-built Kharkov Tractor' Plant," "State Department Approval for the Soviet Vessels That Carried Missiles to Cuba," etc. Included is a brief discussion of "The War Potential of the Kama Truck Plant," the world's biggest truck factory which was largely constructed with American technology and financial assistance from the Export-Import Bank and David Rockefeller's Chase Manhattan Bank. Sutton writes (in 1973): "... the Kama plant will have military potential. Not only that, but according to a [Commerce] department spokesman, military capability was taken into account when the export licenses were issued." Following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in late December 1979, a confidential Commerce Department memorandum (dated December 31, 1979) reported that vehicles produced at the Kama River plant had carried Soviet forces and their equipment into Afghanistan. *** A point to keep in mind regarding the "conspiracy theory" is that it offers far more hope for the future than does the "accident" alternative. After all, if our major problems have reached their present crisis due to mere chance and/or well-intentioned mistakes in judgment by honorable men, the outlook for the future is indeed bleak, for we have little or no control over the situation. On the other hand, if these problems are largely (or even partially) the re-

sult of (or are being inflamed by) the willful actions of a relatively small clique of conspirators, there is hope that sufficient exposure can eventually rout the troublemakers and neutralize their influence. A United States Senator once expressed to former Secretary of Defense James Forrestal his opinion that our foreign policy advisors must be incompetent. The Secretary replied: "... those men are not incompetent or stupid. They are crafty and brilliant. Consistency has never been a mark of stupidity. If they were merely stupid, they would*make a mistake in our favor at least once in a while." It is an interesting point. One may flip a coin three times, have it come up heads each time, and still conclude that nothing is wrong with the coin. But by the time it comes up heads fifty times in a row — or even forty-five of fifty times — it becomes reasonable to conclude that something is amiss. As Thomas Jefferson once observed, "Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematical plan of reducing us to slavery." In somewhat less elegant language, former Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes observed: "Even a dog can distinguish between being stumbled over and being kicked." As a nation, we're not being stumbled over; we're being kicked. You now know where to look to find out who is doing it, and how to stop them. • •

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THE CONSPIRACY LIST One Hundred Books Supporting Conspiracy Theory Building The Communists

* Herman Dinsmore: The Bleeding Of America (Boston; Western Islands, 1977) George Racey Jordan: from Major Jordan's Diaries (Boston; Western Islands, 1965) Werner Keller: East Minus West — Zero: Russia's Debt To The Western World, 862 — 7962 (New York; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1962) Antony C. Sutton: National Suicide: Military Aid To The Soviet Union (Westport, Connecticut; Arlington House, 1973) Antony C. Sutton: Western Technology And Soviet Economic Development: 1917 To 1930 (Stanford, California; Hoover Institution On War, Revolution And Peace, 1968) Antony C. Sutton: Western Technology And Soviet Economic Development: 1930 To 1945 (Sianford, California; Hoover Institution Press, 1971) Antony C. Sutton: Western Technology And Soviet Economic Development: 1945 To 1965 (Stanford, California; Hoover Institution Press, 1973)

Civil Rights

* Aian Stang: It's Very Simple; The True Story Of Civil Rights (Boston,- Western Islands, 1965)

Conspiratorial Roots

*James H. Billington: Fire In The Minds Of Men: Origins Of The Revolutionary Faith (New York; Basic Books, 1980) Arkon Daraul: A History Of Secret Societies (New York; Citadel Press, 1962) * Clarence Kelly: Conspiracy Against God And Man (Boston; Western Islands, 1974) Gary North: Marx's Religion Of Revolution: The Doctrine Of Creative Destruction (Nutley, New Jersey; The Craig Press, 1968) *John Robison: Proofs Of A Conspiracy (Boston; Western Islands, 1967) Otto J. Scott: Robespierre: The Voice Of Virtue (New York; Mason & Lipscomb, 1974) Otto J. Scott: The Secref Six: John Brown And The Abolitionist Movement (New York; Times Books, 1979)

Foreign Policy

John T. Fiynn: Wh//e You Slept: Our Tragedy In Asia And Who Made It (Boston; Western Islands, 1965) Arthur Bliss Lane: / Saw Poland Betrayed: An American Ambassador Reports To The American People (Boston; Western Islands, 1965) Earl E.T. Smith: The Fourth Floor: An Account Of The Castro Communist Revolution (New York; Random House, 1962) * Anastasio Somoza: Nicaragua Betrayed (Boston; Western Islands, 1980)

Education

* Samuel Blumenfeld: Is Public Education Necessary? (Old Greenwich, Connecticut; Devin-Adair, 1980) E. Merrill Root: Collectivism On The Campus: The Battle For The Mind In American Colleges (Old Greenwich, Connecticut; Devin-Adair, 1955) Augustin Rudd: Bending The Twig: The Revolution In Education And Its Effect On Our Children (Chicago; Heritage Foundation, 1957)

*Rousas J. Rushdoony: The Messianic Character Of American Education: Studies In The History Of The Philosophy Of Education (Nutley, New Jersey; Craig Press, 1968)

The Establishment

* Gary Allen: None Dare Call It Conspiracy (Seal Beach, California; Concord Press, 1971) Thomas R. Dye: Who's Running America? The Carter Years (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey; Prentice-Hall, 1979) Barry Goldwater: With No Apologies: The Personal And Political Memoirs Of A U.S. Senator (New York; Berkley Publishers, 1979) * Carrol! Quigley: Tragedy And Hope: A History Of The World In Our Time (Hollywood, California; Angriff Press, 1975) * W. Cleon Skousen: The Naked Capitalist: A Review And Commentary On Dr, Carroll Quigley's Book: Tragedy And Hope — A History Of The World In Our Time (Salt Lake City, Utah; Published privately by reviewer, 1970) * Dan Smoot: The invisible Government (Boston; Western Islands, 1977) * Antony C. Sutton and Patrick M. Wood: Trilateral Over Washington (Scottsdale, Arizona; The August Corporation, Volume I, 1978) * Antony C. Sutton and Patrick M. Wood: Trilateral Over Washington (Scottsdale, Arizona; The August Corporation, Volume II, 1981)

Fabian Socialism

Philip M. Crane: The Democrats Dilemma (Chicago; Regnery, 1964) *Rose L. Martin: Fabian Freeway: High Road To Socialism In The U.S.A., 1884-1966 (Boston; Western Islands, 1966)

Foundations

* William H. Mclihany II: The Tax-Exempt Foundations (Westport, Connecticut; Arlington House, 1980) * Rene Wormser: Foundations: Their Power And Influence (Hollywood, California; Angriff Press, 1977)

Internal Subversion

* John Barron: KGB: The Secret Work Of Soviet Secret Agents (New York; Reader's Digest Press, 1974) James Burnham: The Web Of Subversion (Boston; Western Islands, 1965) Whittaker Chambers: Witness (New York; Random House, 1952) *Benjamin Gitlow: The Whole Of Their Lives (Boston; Western Islands, 1965) Maurice L Malkin: Return To My Father's House (Westport, Connecticut; Arlington House, 1972) Eugene H. Methvin: The Riot Makers (Westport, Connecticut; Arlington House, 1970) Frank S. Meyer: The Moulding Of Communists: The Training Of The Communist Cadre (New York; Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1961) Robert Morris: No Wonder We Are Losing (New York; The Bookmailer, 1958) Robert E. Stripling: The Red Plot Against America (Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania; Bell Publishing Company, 1949) Allen Weinstein: Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case (New York; Alfred A. Knopf, 1979)

Key People

* Gary Alien: The Rockefeller File (Seal Beach, California; 76 Press, 1976) * Roy Cohn: McCarthy: The Answer To "Tail Gunner Joe" (New York; Manor Books, 1977) * Medford Evans: The Assassination Of Joe McCarthy (Boston; Western Islands, 1970) Joseph R. McCarthy: America's Retreat From Victory: The Story Of George Catlett Marshall (Boston; Western Islands, 1965) Joseph R. McCarthy: McCarthyism: The Fight For America (Old Greenwich, Connecticut; Devin-Adair, 1952) Phyllis Schlafly and Chester Ward: Kissinger On The Couch (Westport, Connecticut; Arlington House, 1975) Cornell Simpson: The Death Of James Forrestal (Boston; Western Islands, 1966) Alan Stang: The Actor: The True Story Of John Foster Dulles, Secretary Of State, 1953 To 1959 (Boston; Western Islands, 1968) * Robert Welch: The Politician (Boston; Belmont Publishing Company, 1963)

The Mass Media

Herman H. Dinsmore: All The News That Fits: A Critical Analysis Of The News And Editorial Contents Of The New York Times (Westport, Connecticut; Arlington House, 1969) Edith Efron: The News Twisters (New York; Manor Books, 1972) Fred Friendly: The Good Guys, The Bad Guys, And The First Amendment: Free Speech Vs. Fairness In Broadcasting (New York; Random House, 1976) Joseph Keeley: The Left-Leaning Antenna: Political Bias In Television (Westport, Connecticut; Arlington House, 1971) Lionel Lokos: Hysteria 1964: The Fear Campaign Against Barry Goldwater (Westport, Connecticut; Arlington House, 1967)

Miscellaneous

M. Stanton Evans: The Liberal Establishment (Old Greenwich, Connecticut; Devin-Adair, 1965) * M. Stanton Evans: The Politics Of Surrender (Old Greenwich, Connecticut; Devin-Adair, 1966) * G. Edward Griffin: World Without Cancer (Thousand Oaks, California; American Media, 1974) * Edward Mandell House: Philip Dru: Administrator (Reprint: Hollywood, California; Angriff Press) Howard S. Katz: The Warmongers (New York; Books In Focus, 1979) Douglas MacArthur: Reminiscences (New York; McGraw-Hill, 1964) William H. McIlhany II: The A.C.L.U. On Trial (Westport, Connecticut; Arlington House, 1976) Lloyd Mallan: Russia And The Big Red Lie (Greenwich, Connecticut; Fawcett, 1959) Lloyd Mallan: Russia's Space Hoax (New York; Science & Mechanics Publishing, 1966) Rose L. Martin: The Last Great Nation On Earth (Wake Village, Texas; Fidelis Publishers, 1978) Rose L. Martin: The Selling Of America (Santa Monica, California; Fidelis Publishers, 1973) John A. Stormer: None Dare Call It Treason (Florissant, Missouri; Liberty Bel! Press, 1964) * Antony C. Sutton: Wall Street And The Bolshevik Revolution (Westport, Connecticut; Arlington House, 1974) Antony C. Sutton: Wall Street And F.D.R. (Westport, Connecticut; Arlington House, 1975) * Antony C. Sutton: Wall Street And The Rise Of Hitler (Seal Beach, California; 76 Press, 1976)

* Robert Welch: Again, May God Forgive Us (Boston; Belmont Publishing Company, 1971) * Robert Welch: The New Americanism (Boston; Western Islands, 1966)

Music

* David A. Noebel: The Marxist Minstrels: A Handbook On Communist Subversion Of Music (Tulsa, Oklahoma; American Christian College Press, 1974)

The Occult

Gary North: None Dare Call It Witchcraft (Westport, Connecticut; Arlington House, 1976)

Panama Canal

Philip M, Crane: Surrender In Panama: The Case Against The Treaty (Ottawa, Illinois; Green Hill, 1978)

Secular Humanism

* Claire Chambers: The SIECUS Circle: A Humanist Revolution (Boston: Western Islands, 1977) Tim LaHaye: The Battle For The Mind (Old Tappan, New Jersey; Fleming H. Revell Company, 1980) * Barbara M. Morris: Change Agents In The Schools (Upland, California; The Barbara M. Morris Report, 1979)

Supreme Court

Rosalie M. Gordon: Nine Men Against America: The Supreme Court And Its Attack On American Liberties (Boston: Western Islands, 1965) G. Edward Griffin: The Great Prison Break: The Supreme Court Leads The Way (Boston; Western Islands, 1968)

United Nations

* G. Edward Griffin: The Fearful Master: A Second Look At The United Nations (Boston; Western Islands, 1964) * Robert W. Lee: The United Notions Conspiracy (Boston; Western Islands, 1981) Chesly Manly: The UN Record: Ten Fateful Years For America (Chicago; Regnery, 1955)

World War

Elizabeth Churchill Brown: The Enemy At His Back (New York; The Bookmailer, 1956) Wiiiiam Henry Chamberlin: America's Second Crusade (Chicago; Regnery, 1950) Benjamin Colby: 'Twas A Famous Victory (Westport, Connecticut; Arlington House, 1974) * Julius Epstein: Operation Keelhaul: The Story Of Forced Repatriation From 1944 To The Present (Old Greenwich, Connecticut; Devin-Adair, 1973) Russell Grenfell: Unconditional Hatred (Old Greenwich, Connecticut; Devin-Adair, 1954) * Sisley Huddleston: France, The Tragic Years (Boston, Western Islands, 1965) Anthony Kubek: How The Far East Was Lost: American Policy And The Creation Of Communist China, 1941-1949 (Chicago; Regnery, 1963) George Morgenstern: Pearl Harbor: The Story Of The Secret War (Old Greenwich, Connecticut; Devin-Adair, 1947) Colin Simpson: The Lusitania (Boston; Little, Brown & Company, 1972) * Robert A. Theobald: The Final Secret Of Pearl Harbor: The Washington Contribution To The Japanese Attack (Old Greenwich, Connecticut; Devin-Adair, 1954) Albert C. Wedemeyer: Wedemeyer Reports! (New York; Henry Holt & Company, 1958) Charles Willoughby: Shanghai Conspiracy (Boston; Western Islands, 1965) Felix Wittmer: The Yalta Betrayal (Caldwell, Idaho; Caxton Printers, 1961)

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