Antony Sutton was an Englishman who went to America where he became an economist and historian. The results of his research prove that the people who ran the Soviet Union or USSR had close relationships with those running America. Other historians find it easier to ignore his work than claim that he is wrong. And yes, America did supply the Russians with high tech devices that they needed. The Bush family were guilty as Hell. They still are. Professor Sutton's interview is below.
2020 ADDENDUM Yes, Skull and Bones was influential; Yes it was malign but it qualifies as the one time power behind the throne that was the WASP establishment. The Wikipedia's List of Skull and Bones Members indicates that their power is declining. Bill Clinton is not one of theirs, nor is Obama, the Jews' nominee.
A few extracts from the book are below at #Skull and Bones
America's Secret Establishment - An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones
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Antony Sutton in writing "America's Secret Establishment" two decades ago set in motion the analytical wherewithal for tracing its activities beyond his death. Sutton may be dead, but the important questions he raised about Skull and Bones and this secret society's impact on U.S. and world political and economic policies become more paramount with each passing year.The 2004 presidential election was the first in history to pit two members of Yale University's super secretive Skull and Bones society against each other. In this case the word "against" may well prove to be a figure of speech. To quote the legendary British author Lewis Carroll, the 2004 race may well be proven historically to be, despite its feints and dodges in an effort to attain legitimacy, "a battle between Tweedledum and Tweedledee."..........
Follow Sutton's line of reasoning and fill in the blanks. It makes the seemingly politically incomprehensible emerge as highly plausible and chillingly prescient.
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Doctor Sutton's views do not fit with public claims so main stream historians prefer to ignore him but he is a real historian and he knows that the evidence leads to the truth. Let the dice fall where they may.The text of his book is at AMERICA'S SECRET ESTABLISHMENT and the source http://www.scribd.com/doc/9707/Americas-Secret-Establishment-An-Introduction-to-Skull-and-Bones-by-Antony-Sutton. So you can read for yourself, think for yourself and decide for yourself.
An Introduction To The Order Of Skull And Bones
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Is There a Conspiracy Explanation for Recent History?
During the past one hundred years any theory of history or historical evidence that falls outside a pattern established by the American Historical Association and the major foundations with their grant-making power has been attacked or rejected -- not on the basis of any evidence presented, but on the basis of acceptability of the argument to the so-called Eastern Liberal Establishment and its official historical line.
There is an Establishment history, an official history, which dominates history textbooks, trade publishing, the media and library shelves. The official line always assumes that events such as wars, revolutions, scandals, assassinations, are more or less random unconnected events. By definition, events can NEVER be the result of a conspiracy, they can never result from premeditated planned group action.
We are going to argue and present detailed precise evidence (including names, dates and places) that the only reasonable explanation for recent history in the United States is that there exists a conspiracy to use political power for ends which are inconsistent with the Constitution... If there can be a conspiracy in the market place, then why not in the political arena?
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Antony Sutton did the research. Antony Sutton get the results. Here they are.
Skull and Bones
The Wikipedia presents its version of the truth and skates round the bits that matter.
From: Watch Unto Prayer
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http://watch.pair.com/pray.html
Date: July 6, 1999
Antony Sutton, author of America's Secret Establishment, has pioneered research and exposure of the internationally powerful Order of Skull & Bones. The following interview of Mr. Sutton was conducted by Kris Millegan, whose web site also carries extensive information on the Skull & Bones secret society. Another worthwhile source of information regarding Antony Sutton and Skull & Bones promises to be John Bryant's interview of conspiracy research scholar, Eric Samuelson. To hear this two hour live interview, tune in tomorrow -- Wednesday, July 7 -- to Truth Radio Network:
http://www.truthradio.com/index2.html
Liberty Forum with John Bryant can be heard via Internet at 4:00-6:00 p.m. Pacific Time, 6:00-8:00 p.m. Central Time and 7:00-9:00 Eastern Time. (For instructions on downloading RealPlayer Radio, click on the "Listen!" icon at the top of the Truth Radio Network Home Page.) The Truth Liberty Forum is also available on Satellite C Band Spacenet 4, Channel 19, Audio 7.58 and on FM stations in Fresno, Calif. and Monroe, La. (See Radio Broadcasting list on the Truth Radio Network web site.).
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By Kris Millegan
Conspiracy Theorist Research,
Radical and Singer-Songwriter (and author of best Bones piece on the Net)
http://site034145.primehost.com/articles/0997/skullbones.htm
July 1, 1999
Little Red Hen (ALL RIGHTS RESERVED)
Well, now, ain't life grand here in these United States. Now, I don't know but I do believe I am being told, by our corporate media, that George 'W' Bush is gonna be the next president and there ain't nothing us peons can do about it. 'W' has already got the cash and all the 'friends' a guy could want. Billy-boy has shown that personal peccadilloes don't matter. And, gee whiz, 'W's were just youthful indiscretions anyway.
The Mighty "Wurlitzer" is playing loud and strong; Project Mockingbird has come home to roost and it looks as though a foreign secret society will for the third time put their 'juvenile' in the White House. The latest 'spin' has 'W' just being a president of his ol' college frat house, DKE, who maybe did some strange initiation rituals--yeah, right,--ya wanna buy a bridge . .?
George 'W' Bush is a member of a 167-year old secret society at Yale University, Skull and Bones. Skull and Bones, has been shown to be founded as a chapter of a secret society based in Germany. Some say it is just a college club; other say much more and point to 'W's grandfather's filching of Geronimo's remains; of the financing of Nazis and Communism; of drug smuggling; of eugenics; of manipulation of our social and political arenas through the Hegelian method of thesis, antithesis--resulting towards the desired synthesis--a "New World Order";--and more . . .
But then this is not just a story about 'W', or Skull and Bones, but also the story of a courageous man, his dutiful journey and consequent battles with the "powers-that-be".
Antony C. Sutton, 74, has been persecuted but never prosecuted for his research and subsequent publishing of his findings. His mainstream career was shattered by his devotion towards uncovering the truth. In 1968, his Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development was published by The Hoover Institute at Stanford University. Sutton showed how the Soviet state's technological and manufacturing base, which was then engaged in supplying the North Vietnamese the armaments and supplies to kill and wound American soldiers, was built by US firms and mostly paid for by the US taxpayers. From their largest steel and iron plant, to automobile manufacturing equipment, to precision ball-bearings and computers, basically the majority of the Soviet's large industrial enterprises had been built with the United States help or technical assistance.
Professor Richard Pipes, of Harvard, said in his book, Survival Is Not Enough: Soviet Realities and America's Future (Simon & Schuster;1984): "In his three-volume detailed account of Soviet Purchases of Western Equipment and Technology . . . [Antony] Sutton comes to conclusions that are uncomfortable for many businessmen and economists. For this reason his work tends to be either dismissed out of hand as 'extreme' or, more often, simply ignored."
The report was too much and Sutton's career as a well-paid member of the academic establishment was under attack and he was told that he "would not survive".
His work led him to more questions than answers. "Why had the US built-up it's enemy? Why did the US build-up the Soviet Union, while we also transferred technology to Hitler's Germany? Why does Washington want to conceal these facts?"
Sutton, following his leads, proceeded to research and write his three outstanding books on Wall Street: and FDR; and the Rise of Hitler; and The Bolshevik Revolution.
Then, someone sent Antony a membership list of Skull and Bones and--"a picture jumped out". And what a picture! A multigenerational foreign-based secret society with fingers in all kinds of pies and roots going back to 'Illuminati' influences in 1830's Germany.
And what a list of members, accomplishments and . . . skullduggery!
For the full story, check-out Sutton's book America's Secret Establishment, in print for 14 years and available from Liberty House Press, 1-800-343-6180.
My short essay on The Order of Skull and Bones is available at http://www.parascope.com/articles/0997/skullbones.htm
Here, in a recent e-mail interview, are Antony Sutton's own reflections and answers to questions from myself and other researchers.
Pre-interview note from Antony Sutton:
Remember all my papers on this are in deep storage 1000 miles away and cannot be accessed and I've not even thought about S&B for 15 years. I had no idea that any interest had been aroused out there. I know the book is a steady seller from the royalty reports; but that is all.
For the last 10 years I have been in complete seclusion working on future technology...I'm more engineer than historian. The only visitors I've had or meetings have been with three-letter agency people, who arrive on the doorstep unannounced and complain I am hard to find. Big Brother has the ability apparently to find anyone.
Nothing mysterious about this, I just dislike publicity and social interaction. . . . You will see from the Dutch TV episode that my work still upsets the "powers that be" so these are merely reasonable precautions.
KM - Can you tell the story of how you learned of Skull & Bones? And how you felt?
AS - I knew nothing of S&B until I received a letter in the early 80's asking if I would like to look at a genuine membership list. For no real reason I said yes. It was agreed to send the package by Federal Express and I could keep it for 24 hours, it had to be returned to the safe. It was a "black bag" job by a family member disgusted with their activities.
For the benefit of any S&B members who may read and doubt the statement; the membership list is in two volumes, black leather bound. Living members and deceased members in separate volumes. Very handsome books.
I spent all night in Kinko's, Santa Cruz , copied the entire volumes and returned within the 24 hour period.
I have never released any copies or identified the source. I figured each copy could be coded and enable S&B to trace the leak.
How did I feel? I felt then (as I do now} that these "prominent" men are really immature juveniles at heart. The horrible reality is that these little boys have been dominant in their influence in world affairs. No wonder we have wars and violence. Skull and Bones is the symbol of terrorist violence, pirates, the SS Deaths Head Division in WW Two, labels on poison bottles and so on.
I kept the stack of xerox sheets for quite a while before I looked at them--when I did look--a picture jumped out, THIS was a significant part of the so called establishment. No wonder the world has problems!
KM - What is the percentage of active members?
AS - I haven't checked for 15 years...it used to be about one quarter. With the rise of the Bush dynasty it will increase somewhat, as they climb on the bankwagon. The Demos had their turn with Harriman in the 40's and 50's.
KM - How many active members are there?
AS - Usually about 600 alive at any one time . . . recently more active.
KM- What is your take on the grandfather clock that each member allegedly receives?
AS - They do get a clock I've had that confirmed and you will see it in the photos in ASE (AMERICA'S SECRET ESTABLISHMENT).
Might be symbolic, perhaps to state their organization goes on timelessly.
KM - Has Skull and Bones lost its clout?
AS - Well look at the recent fundraiser for George Bush...Republicans are stuffing money into his pockets...I suggest members recently got behind one of their own and decided to push George all out for president--and Democrats can't do a thing because Democrat Bones are not going to allow the Party to use the ultimate weapon--George's membership in a foreign secret society.
KM - What do you know of George ' W.' Bush?
AS - He is a third generation Bonesman. My personal impression is that he doesn't have the drive of his father or the skills of his grandfather....--but I could be very wrong. He can beat anyone hands down--EXCEPT VENTURA.
If Bush handlers allow a face to face debate between Bush and Ventura, Ventura will win. Remember Ventura has admitted to his so-called "sins". Bush has a closet full waiting to emerge. People are getting bored with cover ups and spin.
2000 may see the end of the Bones influence or--reality that these Bones people are powerful.
KM - Is the 'name' of the German group known?
AS - Almost certainly Illuminati.
KM - Some people say that there are other 'cells'; what do you think?
AS - There are many other secret societies. I've only looked at S&B. Unfortunately no historian will keep his job if he tries to explore conspiracy...this is taboo for the American Historical Association. Sooner or later outsiders will take a look. I've long thought that S&B fits the legal definition of a conspiracy and needs to be officially investigated.
Yes there should be other cells. No secret society worth anything is going to keep its inner actions written down on paper. If the gigantic electronic monitoring apparatus is for national security purposes; then it should be monitoring these people 24 hours a day.
KM - What are your thoughts on Wolf's Head? Scroll & Key? And the other Senior societies at Yale?
AS - Wolfs Head, Scroll and Key seem to be pale imitations of S&B, but they have the same objective of deliberately building discrimination into a society. I listened to Jesse Ventura last night and he made the point that the Founding Fathers intended for CITIZENS to represent the people. I agree, a trucker, a farmer, a teacher--represents the people not a bunch of professional pols or a secret society like S&B. All these societies place their own members ahead of the pack and give preference to their own members--this is discrimination par excellence.
KM - Have you read Cathy O'Brian's book Tranceformation Of America? What do think of it?
AS - The book does not contain one piece of hard physical evidence.. I think Cathy O'Brien BELIEVES SHE IS TELLING THE TRUTH . . . but remember that Mark Phillips is a skilled neuro-linguistic-programmer.
Another point that really concerns me is this...where did this story originate? It originated in Communist Chinese Intelligence and Mark Phillip had a contractual relationship with the ChiComs. This could be an attempt to destabilize the US.
No doubt these Washington pols are fully capable of these weird practices, just look at Bohemian Grove but that doesn't mean that the book is an accurate portrayal. If the book is credible I would think the police would have raided Bohemian Grove long ago.
My best guess is that the Chinese picked up whispers of Washington scandals and blew them out of proportion for their own purposes. This is a GUESS...I don't know.
One thing that puzzled me, with all these sexual shenanigans how do Washington politicians find time to do anything else? According to the book this is a full time occupation for Senator Byrd and others.
KM - What did your study of elites, economics, secrecy and technology do for your career?
Depends what you mean by "career"?
By conventional standards I am an abject failure. I've been thrown out of two major Universities (UCLA and Stanford), denied tenure at Cal State Los Angeles. Every time I write something, it appears to offend someone in the Establishment and they throw me to the wolves.
On the other hand I've written 26 books, published a couple of newsletters and so on...even more important I've never compromised on the truth And I don't quit.
In material terms...hopeless failure. In terms of discovery...I think I've been successful. Judge a man by his enemies. William Buckley called me a "jerk". Glenn Campbell, former Director of the Hoover Institution, Stanford called me "a problem".
KM - Do you believe that there has been suppression of technology? Has it been major or minor?
AS - Yes there has been suppression but its going to be impossible to suppress the new emerging paradigm.
KM - The Federal Reserve, the House of Morgan, House of Rothschild and Skull and Bones are they related?
AS - Best source for this is a book by me THE FEDERAL RESERVE CONSPIRACY, 1995 CPA, PO Box 596, Boring OR 97007.
KM- On Skull and Bone's influencing John Dewey and Horace Mann; are there good source materials to follow that story?
AS - Depends what you want to find. You could explore the 10(?) volume works of Dewey... outrageous Hegelianism, the state is supreme, the individual merely a pawn to be trained. This is the basis of our 'educational system"...or you could go and explore the members of S&B who brought the system to the US.
This trained "sausage mind" outlook has thoroughly permeated our universities--that's why we have the peer review system...we are all supposed to think alike and find the same answers. This political correctness garbage is another step to total thought control.
AH - Did any of Hitler's economic policies threaten the interests of the international bankers, and if so did that play a role in his downfall?
AS - Hitler's economic policies were OK'd by the bankers right through the war...ITT, Chase, Texaco and others were operating in Nazi-held France as late as 1945. In fact Chase in Paris was trying to get Nazi accounts as late as 1944. When we got to Germany in May 1945, I remember seeing a (bombed-out) Woolworth store in Hamburg and thinking, "What's Woolworth doing in Nazi Germany?" While we were bombed and shelled it was "business as usual" for Big Business. Try the Alien Custodian Papers.
See my BEST ENEMY MONEY CAN BUY for more.
Union Banking is very important. I made a documentary for Dutch National TV some years ago. It got all the way through the production process to the Dutch TV Guide...at the last minute it was pulled and another film substituted. This documentary has proof of Bush financing Hitler-- documents. Maybe my Dutch friends will still get it viewed, but the apparatus reaches into Holland.
KM - What is the story that was going to be told on Dutch TV? And what is the story of it's censorship?
Couple of years back, a Dutch TV production company from Amsterdam--under contract to Dutch National TV--came to US to make documentary on S&B. They went to the Bones Temple and other places and interviewed people on East Coast. On West Coast, they interviewed myself and one other person.
I saw extracts from the original and it is a good professional job. They had documents linking Bush family and other S&B members to financing Hitler through Union Banking of New York and its Dutch correspondent bank. More than I have in WALL STREET AND THE RISE OF HITLER.
The first version was later upgraded into a two part documentary and scheduled for showing this last March. It was pulled at last minute and has never been shown.
AH - Who has been financing Milosevic, and what role has the international banking community played in the Balkans?
AS - I haven't looked at this one. Of course the notorious Black Hand society is located in the Balkans. See WW One.
DG - What is the importance of your work on Skull and Bones?
AS - The potential is extraordinary. IF we find that secret societies are indeed significant the entire history of the last two centuries will have to be re-written.
At this point in 1999, the potential has not been explored by others and I've moved back to my original interest--technology. Apparently people see some merit in the work. It is never advertised. It is an underground word of mouth distribution but has sold steadily from 1986 to date. Every month I get a royalty check, so I know it is selling. But my original enthusiastic statement has not been fulfilled.
KM - What do you see for the future?
AS - Chaos, confusion and ultimately a battle between the individual and the State.
The individual is the stronger; and will win. The state is a fiction sanctified by Hegel and his followers to CONTROL the individual.
Sooner or later people will wake up. First we have to dump the trap of right and left, this is a Hegelian trap to divide and control. The battle is not between right and left; it is between us and them.
The message is getting through. ASE has sold for 15 years, small but steady.
No advertising. Its an underground work. But the breadth of interest is amazing. From Black Africa, to Russia (12,000 copies), right, left...it cuts across all ethnic, political, social lines..
The spirit of God is within us as individuals. Skull & Bones represents death. It has no life spirit and pretends that the State "is the march of God on earth".
The thinking of immature juveniles, deadly and destructive and has almost totally infected Washington.
What to do? Find yourself and then go to work.....tell your friends and put out the message.
The answer is within you.
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Antony Sutton, is the author of 26 books, many of which can be purchased on-line at Amazon or Barnes & Noble. Liberty House Press at 1-800-343-6180 has copies of America's Secret Establishment and Best Enemy Money Can Buy for sale.
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Kris Millegan, is a radical; a singer-songwriter; and conspiracy theory researcher who may be reached at RoadsEnd@aol.com.
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New York Editors . . .
In talking to a magazine in New York that is working on a feature story on George ' W ' Bush and was thinking of doing a piece on S&B. I asked how about a sidebar on Antony Sutton? After getting responses peppered with phrases such as;
"Someone is claiming he's a John Bircher"
and;
"Here is what one editor (who shall remain nameless) had to say about Sutton:
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Liberty House was/is a right wing publishing company located in Billings, Montana.
Anthony Sutton was a research fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution.
Among many other claims, Sutton's book accuses Skull and Bones of funding and encouraging "the Maxist/Leftist '60s revolution"....and diverting attention by drawing students into disarmament and/or environmental groups and issues.
Although there seems to be some real info in his book, it reads like a classic text of right-wing propaganda, filled with hyperbole and unsourced allegations"
Antony Sutton's response:
What's wrong with these editors?
I was thrown out of the Hoover Institution by the CIA types....I am definitely persona non-grata. Director Glenn Campbell actually threatened me "you will not survive"
Some right winger!!
I've never been a member of the Birch Society or any society come to that.
I'd like to have that Editor say that to my face. They're sick!
Get his comments on the above...and have him come up with some proof
What's the legal definition of slander...it has to be untrue and malicious.
Do they have any money?
When it comes right down to it the NY people didn't even read my book...else they would know that I see the right-left approach as a Hegelian trap...as for lack of evidence Ill leave that to the readers. On second thought they probably never heard of Hegel.
When Lenin referred to 'useful idiots" he must have had these people in mind.
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Kris
Name Roster of the Secret Establishment
There were so many "Yalies" in the OSS that Yale's drinking tune, the "Whiffenpoof
Song", became an "unofficial" song of the OSS. Many in the OSS were "Bonesmen"
or belonged to the other Yale senior societies.
Robert Lovett ('18), Harriman's childhood friend, had been tapped into Skull &
Bones by Prescott Bush's cell of '17 and was a director at Brown Brothers,
Harriman.
Again, from "George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography":
"On October 22, 1945, Secretary of War Robert Patterson created the Lovett
Committee, chaired by Robert A. Lovett, to advise the government on the
post-World War II organization of U.S. intelligence activities.... The new
agency would 'consult' with the armed forces, but it must be the sole collecting
agency in the field of foreign espionage and counterespionage. The new agency
should have an independent budget, and its appropriations should be granted by
Congress without public hearings. Lovett appeared before the Secretaries of
State, War, and Navy on November 14, 1945.... Lovett pressed for a virtual
resumption of the wartime Office of Strategic Services (OSS).... The CIA was
established in 1947 according to the prescription of Robert Lovett, of Jupiter
Island."
Gaddis Smith, a history professor at Yale, said, "Yale has influenced the
Central Intelligence Agency more than any other university, giving the CIA the
atmosphere of a class reunion." And "Bonesman" have been foremost among the
"spooks" building the CIA's "haunted house."
F. Trubee Davison ('18) was Director of Personnel at the CIA in the early years.
Some of the other "Bonesmen" connected with the intelligence community are:
Ever since Nixon re-established America's political relationship with China, many of our ambassadors to that country have been Bonesmen, including George Bush, the first Chief U. S. Liaison Officer to the Peoples Republic of China.
Yale, Professor of History, Gaddis Smith, said, "Yale has influenced the Central Intelligence Agency more than any other university, giving the CIA the atmosphere of a class reunion." And "Bonesman" have been foremost among the "spooks", virtually building the CIA into a "haunted house."
F. Trubee Davison (Skull and Bones '18), was Director of Personnel at the CIA in the early years. Some of the other Bonesmen connected with the "intelligence community" are:
William Sloane
Coffin, Jr. ('49);
V. Van Dine ('49);
James Buckley ('44);
Bill Buckley ('50);
Hugh Cunnigham ('34);
Hugh Wilson;
Reuben Holden;
Charles R. Walker; "Yale's unofficial Secretary of War,"
Robert D. French ('10);
Archibald MacLiesh ('15);
Dino Pionzio ('50), CIA Deptuy Chief of Station during Allende overthrow;
William and McGeorge Bundy;
Richard A. Moore ('3?);
Senator David Boren ('63);
Senator John Kerry;
and of course George Bush. Bush "tapped" Coffin, who, tapped Buckley.
Henry Luce ('20), Time-Life;
John Thomas Daniels, founder Archer Daniels Midland;
Gifford Pinchot ('89);
President Theodore Roosevelt's chief forester, Frederick E. Weyerhaeuser ('96);
Harold Stanley ('08),
founder Morgan Stanley, investment banker;
Alfred Cowles ('13), Cowles Communication,
Henry P. Davison ('20), senior partner Morgan Guaranty Trust;
Thomas Cochran ('04)
Morgan partner;
Senator John Heinz;
Pierre Jay ('92), first chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York;
George Herbert Walker, Jr. ('27), financier and co-founder of the NY Mets;
Artemus Gates ('18), President of New York Trust Company, Union Pacific, TIME,
Boeing Company;
William Draper III, the Defense Department, UN and Import-Export Bank;
Dean Witter, Jr., investment banker;
Senator Jonathan Bingham;
Potter Stewart ('36), Supreme Court Justice;
Senator John Chaffe;
Harry Payne Whitney ('94), married Gertrude Vanderbilt, investment banker;
Russell W. Davenport ('23), editor Fortune Magazine, created Fortune 500 list;
van G. Galbraith, Ambassador to France and Managing Director of Morgan Stanley;
Judge John Steadman, the Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia;
Richard Gow ('55), president Zapata Oil (George Bush's company);
Amory Howe Bradford ('34), married Carol Warburg Rothschild and was general
manager for the New York Times ;
C. E. Lord ('49), Comptroller of the Currency;
Winston Lord ('59), Chairman of CFR, Ambassador to China and a Clinton assistant
Secretary of State;
John Lilley, ambassador to China.
LINKS:
A VERY COMPLETE DISCUSSION OF SKULL AND BONES: http://www.parascope.com/articles/0997/whitepaper.htm
HOME PAGE OF A VERY GOOD SOURCE: http://www.parascope.com/articles/0997/skullbonesintro.htm
READING LIST: http://www.iahushua.com/WOI/skullbone3.html
RESEARCH SOURCES: http://www.constitution.org/piml/96061908.txt
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I. THE ORDER PUSHES FOR ASSISTANCE TO THE SOVIET ARMY Fortunately we have a copy of the memorandum written by a member of The Order, summarizing intentions for the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. The memorandum was written by Thomas D. Thacher (The Order'04), a partner in the Wall Street law firm of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett. Thacher's address was 120 Broadway. Today this law firm, now in Battery Plaza, has the largest billing on Wall Street and has former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance (Scroll & Key) as a partner. In 1917 Thacher was in Russia with William Boyce Thompson's Red Cross Mission. After consultations in New York, Thacher was then sent to London to confer with Lord Northcliffe about the Bolshevik Revolution and then to Paris for similar talks with the French Government. The Thacher memorandum not only urges recognition of the barely surviving Soviet Government, which in early 1918 controlled only a very small portion of Russia, but also military assistance for the Soviet Army and intervention to keep the Japanese out of Siberia until the Bolsheviks could take over. FIRMS WITH LINKS TO THE ORDER AT, OR NEAR, 120 BROADWAY IN 1917 120 Broadway Edward H. Harriman (before his death) 59 Broadway W.A. Harriman Company 120 Broadway 23 Wall 120 Broadway 120 Broadway 120 Broadway 14 Wall 120 Broadway 15 Broad 120 Broadway 110 W. 60 Broadway 120 Broadway 120 Broadway 120 Broadway 120 Broadway 140 Broadway 233 Broadway American International Corporation J.P. Morgan firm Federal Reserve Bank of New York Bankers Club (top floor) Thomas D. Thacher (of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett) William Boyce Thompson Guggenheim Exploration Stetson, Jennings & Russell C.A.K. Martens of Weinberg & Posner (the first Soviet "ambassador") 40th Street Soviet Bureau Amos Pinchot's office Stone & Webster General Electric Sinclair Gulf Corp. Guaranty Securities Guaranty Trust Company Anglo-Russian Chamber of Commerce INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS OF THE ORDER AT 120 Broadway: George Webster Adams (The Order '04) Allen Wallace Ames (The Order '18) Philip Lyndon Dodge (The Order '07) Here are the main sections from the Thacher memorandum: "First of all ... the Allies should discourage Japanese intervention in Siberia. In the second place, the fullest assistance should be given to the Soviet Government in its efforts to organize a volunteer revolutionary army. Thirdly, the Allied Governments should give their moral support to the Russian people in their efforts to work out their own political systems free from the domination of any foreign power ... Fourthly, until the time when open conflict shall result between the German Government and the Soviet Government of Russia there will be opportunity for peaceful commercial penetration by German agencies in Russia. So long as there is no open break, it will probably be impossible to entirely prevent such commerce. Steps should therefore be taken to impede, so far as possible, the transport of grain and raw materials to Germany from Russia." 1 The reader should note in particular paragraph two: "In the second place, the fullest assistance should be given to the Soviet Government in its efforts to organize a volunteer revolutionary army." This assistance has been recorded in my National Suicide: Military Aid To The Soviet Union. It was in fact the hidden policy adopted at the highest levels, in absolute secrecy, by the United States and to some extent by The Group (especially Milner) in Great Britain. Thacher apparently did not have too much success with the French Government. When President Woodrow Wilson sent U.S. troops to hold the Trans-Siberian railroad, secret instructions were given by Woodrow Wilson in person to General William S. Graves. We have not yet located these instructions (although we k'now they exist), but a close reading of the available files shows that American intervention had little to do with anti-Bolshevik activity, as the Soviets, George Kennan and other writers maintain. So grateful were the Soviets for American assistance in the Revolution that in 1920 - when the last American troops left Vladivostok - the Bolsheviks gave them a friendly farewell. Reported the New York Times (February 15, 1920 7:4): 1 The full document is in U.S. State Department Decimal File Microcopy 316, Roll 13, Frame 698. Note in particular the sentence: . . . calling the Americans real friends, who at a critical time saves this present movement." Normally reports inconsistent with the Establishment line are choked, either by the wire services or by the rewrite desks at larger newspapers (small papers unfortunately follow New York Times). This is one report that got through intact. In fact, the United States took over and held the Siberian Railroad until the Soviets gained sufficient power to take it over. Both British and French military missions in Siberia recorded the extraordinary actions of the United States Army, but neither mission made much headway with its own government. So far as aiding the Soviet Army is concerned, there are State Department records that show guns and ammunition were shipped to the Bolsheviks. And in 1919, while Trotsky was making anti-American speeches in public, he was also asking Ambassador Francis for American military inspection teams to train the new Soviet Army. l 1 See Antony C Sutton, Notional Suicide (Arlington House, New York, 1974) and Wall Street And The Bolshevik Revolution (Arlington House, New York. 1974) "
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II. THE ORDER PUSHES FOR THE SOVIETS IN THE UNITED STATES However, it was in
Washington and London that The Order really aided the Soviets. The Order
succeeded not only in preventing military actions against the Bolsheviks, but to
so-muddy the policy waters that much needed vital raw materials and goods,
ultimately even loans, were able to flow from the United States to the Soviets,
in spite of a legal ban. The following documents illustrate how members of The
Order were able to encourage Soviet ambitions in the United States. While the
Department of Justice was deporting so-called "Reds" to Russia, a much more
potent force was at work WITHIN the U.S. Government to keep the fledgling Soviet
Union intact. Publisher's Note: To assist readers with the very poor
reproductions of the following two letters we print our reading from the copies
that we have. 211 Hon. William Kent, Washington, D.C. Dear Billy: May 29, 1919
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