A Letter: Money and Conspiracy Part 2 — Conspiracy

A Letter: Money and Conspiracy

Part 2 — Conspiracy

Thomas Allen

[Editor’s note: The following is a letter written in 2004 responding to an article by Mr. Rittenouse in Countryside. This letter has been divided into two parts: Part 1 — Money and Part 2 — Conspiracy.]

    Mr. Rittenhouse pooh-poohs the thought that some cabal may be working to control governments and the world. Some high and mighty people disagree with him. Here is a sample of what some of these important people have said about this cabal. I dare say; these people had much more insider information than Mr. Rittenhouse.
    Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.: “We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as words and money.”
    Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, “the outstanding power behind the New Deal”: “The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.” At a dinner party, Frankfurter was asked who ran the United States; he replied, “The real rulers of a nation are undiscoverable.”
    John F. Hylan, mayor of New York: “The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy length over our city, state and nation. . . . At the head of this octopus are the Rockefeller-Standard Oil interests and a small group of powerful banking houses generally referred to as the international bankers [who] virtually run the U.S. government for their own selfish purposes.”
    After observing governmental leaders of the United States consistently making concessions to the Soviet Union, James Forrestal, the first Secretary of Defense, commented, “These 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 occasionally make a mistake in our favor.”
    President-elect Ronald Reagan: “I think there is an elite in this country and they are the very ones who run an elitist government. They want a government by a handful of people because they don’t believe the people themselves can run their lives. . . . Are we going to have an elitist government that makes decisions for people’s lives, or are we going to believe as we have for so many decades, that the people can make these decisions for themselves?”
    A few years after resigning as President, Richard Nixon wrote, “The nation’s immediate problem is that while the common man fights America’s wars, the intellectual elite sets its agenda. Today, whether the West lives or dies is in the hands of its new power elite: those who set the terms of public debate, who manipulate the symbols, who decide whether nations or leaders will be depicted on 100 million television sets as ‘good’ or ‘bad.’ This power elite sets the limits of the possible for President and Congress. It molds the impressions that move the nation, or that mire it.”
    Jim Kirk, who had been a member of the Students for a Democratic Society, Communist Party, and the Black Panthers, said about the control of radical left groups: “Young people have no conception of the conspiracy’s strategy of pressure from above and pressure from below. . . . They have no idea that they are playing into the hands of the Establishment they claim to hate. The radicals think they are fighting the forces of the super rich, like Rockefeller and Ford, and they don’t realize that it is precisely such forces which are behind their own revolution, financing it, and using it for their own purposes.”
    Nicholas M. Butler, president of Columbia University, said to the Union League of Philadelphia: “The old world order died with the setting of the day’s sun and a New World Order is being born while I speak.” Butler was “J.P. Morgan’s chief spokesman for ivied halls.”
    Edward Bernays, chief advisor to William Paley, founder of CBS: “Those who manipulate the organized habits and opinions of the masses constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of the country. . . . It remains a fact that in almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons. . . . It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind, who harness old social forces and contrive new ways to bind and guide the world. . . . As civilization has become more complex, and as the need for invisible government has been increasingly demonstrated, the technical means have been invented and developed by opinion may be regimented.”
    Manly P. Hall, 33rd degree Freemason and a member of its inner circle, and probably the greatest Freemason of the twentieth century: “There exists in the world today, and has existed for thousands of years, a body of enlightened humans united in what might be termed, an Order of the Quest. It is composed of those whose intellectual and spiritual perceptions have revealed to them that civilization has secret destiny. The outcome of this ‘secret destiny’ is a World Order ruled by a King with supernatural powers. This King was descended of a divine race; that is, he belonged to the Order of the Illumined for those who come to a state of wisdom then belong to a family of heroes-perfected human beings.” He also wrote, “. . . It is beyond question that the secret societies of all ages have exercised a considerable degree of political influence. . . .”
    Winston Churchill admitted the existence of conspiracy when he wrote in 1920, “From the days of Spartacus-Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx, to those of Trotsky, Bela Kun, Rosa Luxemburg, and Emma Goldman, this worldwide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization . . . has been steadily growing.”
    According to Lenin, the Communist Party could not survive without conspiracy. He wrote, “Conspiracy is so essential a condition of an organization of this kind that all other conditions . . . must be made to conform with it.”
    In a speech in 1931 before the Institute for the Study of International Affairs, the historian Arnold Toynbee said, “We are at the present working discreetly with all our might to wrest this mysterious force called sovereignty out of the clutches of the local nation states of the world. All the time we are denying with our lips what we are doing with our hands, because to impugn the sovereignty of the local national states of the world is still a heresy for which a statesman or publicists can perhaps not quite be burned at the stake but certainly be ostracized and discredited.”
    ABC commentator Cokie Roberts remarked, “Global bankers are really running the world.”
    James Warburg, son of Paul Warburg, the author of the Federal Reserve System: “We shall have world government whether or not you like it — by conquest or consent.”
    Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister of Great Britain: “The world is governed by very different personage from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.”
    Benjamin Disraeli: “The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments’ plans.”
    Franklinton Delano Roosevelt: “Nothing just happens in politics. If something happens you can be sure it was planned that way.”
    Franklin Delano Roosevelt: “The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson.”
    Elliot Roosevelt, son of Franklin Roosevelt: “There are within our world perhaps only a dozen organizations, which shape the course of our various destinies as rightly as the regularly constitutional government.”
    William Colby, CIA Director: “Sometimes, there are forces too powerful for us to whip them individually, in the time frame that we would like. . . . The best we might be able to do sometimes, is to point out the truth and then step aside.”
     Gary Allen, a historian of conspiracies: “. . . many of the major world events that are shaping destinies occur because somebody or somebodies have planned them that way. If we were merely dealing with the laws of average, half of the events affecting our nation’s well-being should be good for America. If we were dealing with mere incompetence, our leaders should occasionally make a mistake in our favor. . . . we are not really dealing with coincidence or stupidity, but with planning and brilliance.”
    Andre Baron: “Remember that the constant rule of the secret society is that the real authors never show themselves.”
    If these quotations do not suggest a conspiratorial cabal, then the origins of the Federal Reserve System should. The essence of what eventually became the act that established the Federal Reserve System was written by Paul Warburg of Kuhn, Loeb and Co. Assisting him were  Henry P. Davison, senior partner of J. P. Morgan and Co.; Charles D. Norton, president of (Morgan’s) First National Bank of New York; Frank A. Vanderlip, President of (William Rockefeller’s) National City Bank of New York; Benjamin Strong, vice-president of (Morgan’s) Bankers Trust Co.; A. Piatt Andrew, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; and Senator Nelson Aldrich, Morgan’s leading representative in Washington. This group met in secret in 1910 on Jekyll Island and drafted what eventually became the Federal Reserve System.
    The conspiratorial historians may be wrong, but the evidence strongly suggests that they are right.

Copyright © 2004, 2019 by Thomas Coley Allen.

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Soviet Union Part 2
Supporting the Communists After the Revolution
Thomas Allen

[Editor’s note: Footnotes in original are omitted.]

Once the Communists consolidated control of Russia, Illuminists of the West began building up the Soviet Union. Following the Bolsheviks capture of Russia, Western banks continued their financial aid. Western industrial magnates came forth to rebuild Russian industry.

To aid in the exploitation of Russia, the American League to Aid and Cooperative with Russia was established in 1918. Dr. Frank J. Goodnow (president of John Hopkins University) was its president. William Boyce Thompson, Oscar S. Straus, James Duncan, and Frederick C. Howe were vice-presidents. George P. Whalen (vice-president of Vacuum Oil Co.) was its treasurer. Representing Congress were Senators William Borah, William N. Calder, Robert L. Owen (chairman of the Banking and Currency Committee), and John S. Williams (Foreign Relations Committee) and Representatives Henry R. Cooper and Henry D. Flood (chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee). Representing business were Henry Ford (Ford Motor Co.), Charles A. Coffin (chairman of General Electric Co.), M.A. Oudin (foreign manager of General Electric Co.), and Daniel Willard (president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad). Mrs. Raymond Robins (involved with the Soviet Bureau), Henry L. Slobodin (a socialist), and Lincoln Steffens (a Communists) represented the revolutionary element.

The League approved:

a program that emphasized the establishment of an official Russian division in the U.S. government “directed by strong men.” This division would enlist the aid of universities, scientific organizations, and other institutions to study the “Russian question,” would coordinate and unite organizations within the United States “for the safeguarding of Russia,” would arrange for a “special intelligence committee for the investigation of the Russian matter,” and, generally, would itself study and investigate what was deemed to be the “Russian question.”[1]

It also endorsed President Wilson’s message to the Soviet congress in Moscow. The League lobbied the United States government to support the Bolshevik regime.

To keep the Bolsheviks in power, Chase National Bank established the American-Russia Chamber of Commerce in 1922. Reeve Schley, a vice-president of Chase National Bank, became its president. The Chamber worked to finance the Soviet Union export and import businesses.

The first American to receive a trading concession from the new Soviet Union was Armand Hammer, who has been called “the Godfather of American corporate corruption.”[2] He began rehabilitating the mines of the Soviet Union and exporting ore to the United States. In 1923 Allied American Corp. was organized to promote trade between the Soviet Union and the United States. Armand Hammer was the corporation’s secretary. His father, Julius Hammer, was its president, and his brother, Victor Hammer, was a director. It represented 38 American firms. The Soviet Union financed it, and its profits were divided equally between the Hammers and the Soviet government. Armand Hammer later acquired a monopoly over pencil and stationery manufacturing in the Soviet Union.

In 1925, Chase National Bank and Equitable Trust Co. worked out a deal with the Soviets to finance the Soviet Union’s raw material exports and its imports of cotton and machinery from the United States.

International Barnsdall Corp., Lucey Manufacturing Co., and others rebuilt the oil fields of the Caucasus in the 1920s. Barnsdall Corp. owned 75 percent of International Barnsdall Corp.; H. Mason Day owned the other 25 percent. Matthew C. Brush, a 32nd degree Freemason, was president of International Barnsdall Corp. W. A. Harriman; Lee, Higginson and Co.; and Guaranty Trust Co. owned Barnsdall Corp. Eugene W. Stetson, vice-president of Guaranty Trust Co., represented Guaranty Trust Co.’s interest. Frederick W. Allen, a member of the Skull and Bones, represented Lee, Higginson and Co.’s interest.

After the Soviets promised to give Standard Oil of New Jersey, a Rockefeller company, half the oil production of the Caucasus, Standard Oil built a refinery in 1927 in the Soviet Union. The Rockefellers also profited further from the Russian oil through Vacuum Oil, another Rockefeller company. Vacuum Oil had the contract to sell Russian oil in Europe. In 1935, when Stalin expropriated many foreign investments in Russia, he did not bother Standard Oil.

Harriman was also instrumental in rebuilding Russia’s manganese industry. For this purpose, he formed the Georgian Manganese Co. in 1923 with Brush as chairman. Later the Soviet government “expropriated” Harriman’s manganese operation and gave him Soviet bonds as compensation.

During the 1920s, Guaranty Trust Co., International Harvester Co., New York Life, and Vacuum Oil were the primary companies doing business with the Soviets. J. P. Morgan, Jr. and John D. Rockefeller had controlling interest in these firms.

In 1922, Herbert Hoover, as Secretary of Commerce and a Rothschild agent, worked with Guaranty Trust Co. to form a partnership with the State Bank in Moscow. The resulting partnership led to the formation of the first Soviet international bank, Ruskombank (Russian Commercial Bank) in 1922. Aschberg was its head. Max May, a vice-president of Guaranty Trust Co., became the head of its foreign department. (May, a close friend of Aschberg, was associated with the Bolshevik Revolution and German espionage during World War I.[3]) Making up its board of directors were representatives of American, German, and Swedish banks, plus Soviet officials and czarist private banks. The major source of capital for Ruskombank came from Great Britain. In return, the Soviet government granted the foreign banking consortium that backed Ruskombank extensive concessions in Russia. Ruskombank’s primary function was facilitating the Soviet Union’s foreign trade, securing loans in foreign countries for the Soviet Union, and bringing foreign capital into the Soviet Union. Guaranty Trust Co. was its representative in the United States. In 1924, Ruskombank became part of the Soviet foreign-trade commissariat, and Aschberg was dismissed.

Many other American companies helped to build and maintain the Soviet Union during the 1930s and 1940s. General Electric built a large turbine manufacturing plant. Universal Oil Products, Badger Corp., Lummus Co., and Kelly Co. built petroleum refineries. United Engineering and Foundry Co. built a steel rolling mill, and Tube Reducing Co. built a tube mill. Radio Corp. of America provided technology and equipment to update and expand radio communication. Ford Motor Co., A.J. Brandt Co., Austin Co., and General Electric built the Soviet truck manufacturing industry. Among the firms providing the Soviet Union machine tools were TRW, Inc. (steering linkages), U.S. Industries (presses), Gleason Works (gear-cutting and heat-treating equipment), New Britain Machine Co. (automatic lathes), Lake Erie Engineering Corp. (hydraulic presses to form metal aircraft sections), Birdsboro Steel Foundry and Machine Co. (hydraulic presses for aircraft manufacturing), and Wallace Supplies Manufacturing Co. (bending machines). Hercules Powder Co. provided technical assistance needed to produce the components of explosives. Nitrogen Engineering Corp. gave the Soviet Union synthetic nitrogen technology, which could be used to make fertilizer or explosives. Du Pont provided nitric acid plants (nitric acid is used in manufacturing munitions). Glenn L. Martin Co. designed a bomber for the Soviets. Seversky Aircraft Corp. furnished the technology and plants needed to build amphibian aircraft. This company also designed and sold the Soviet Union bombers that were superior to any existing at that time. Other aircraft companies involved in building up the Soviet air force in the 1930s were Vultee Aircraft Division of Aviation Manufacturing Corp., which built a fighter aircraft plant, and Douglas Aircraft Co., which provided the technology for the Soviet’s transport aircraft. Standard Oil of New York supplied the designs and technology needed to build a sulfuric acid alkylation plant, which is used as an octane booster in gasoline and in making aviation lubricating oils.

The Germans were also important actors in building up the Soviet Union. In the early 1920s and late 1930s, Germany provided the Soviet Union with both armaments and training. Germany built factories in the Soviet Union to produce aircraft, artillery, and other war materiel. (These factories would later produce weapons that the Soviets would use against the Germans during World War II until massive supplies began arriving from the United States.)

When Lenin died, most people expected Trotsky to succeed him. However, violent disagreement between Trotsky and Stalin erupted. Stalin wanted to make the Soviet Union a strong socialist country before exporting the communist revolutions abroad. Trotsky argued that the Bolshevik Revolution could only survive if it were immediately exported to other countries. Trotsky wanted “permanent revolution.” Stalin wanted “socialism in one country” first. Thus, occurred the struggle between two great communist strategies. “Trotsky the cosmopolitan, messianic, Jewish figure-head, set against Stalin, the Asiatic, the man of steel, the cold, implacable agent of Soviet imperialism.”[4] Stalin eventually prevailed. Trotsky fled Russia and was assassinated in 1940. Stalin went on to kill the remaining Bolsheviks of the old guard and to oppress Jews in the Soviet Union. (Thus, like most other people of the Soviet Union, Jews without influence were now worse off than they were under the Czars.)

In 1933, when the Soviet Union seemed to be on the verge of failing, Franklin Roosevelt gave it a major political victory by giving it diplomatic recognition. This diplomatic recognition brought greater access to money and credit.

The Communist remained in power in Soviet Union only because of continuous funds from Western banks and Western governments. Among the Western Banks financing the Soviet Union and Communism were Chase National Bank, Guaranty Trust Co., and Kuhn, Loeb and Co. Western banks financed Stalin’s Five Year Plans. The true headquarters of Communism was, and remains, in New York City.

The Soviet Union was a fiction established by the Illuminists, financed by their banks, built and maintained by their multinational corporations, and supported by the American taxpayer. Its purpose was to loot the Romanovs, the Russian people, and other nations of the Russian Empire. It also facilitated illuministic control of the West, especially the United States during the Cold War. Illuminism feeds on war. The Soviet Union served the vital purpose of instigating and supplying wars across the planet. (The United States usually supplied and controlled the other side to ensure that it would not defeat the Communists.) Thus, the people of the West were given a common enemy although the Illuminists controlled the governments of the West and the Soviet Union. Constant strife caused people in the West to live in fear of a conflict escalating into war. This psychological stress conditioned many to enslave themselves freely for world peace. Furthermore, the threat of war with the Soviet Union transferred enormous wealth to the Illuminists as the West continuously prepared for war with Communism and the Soviet Union. It led to pessimism, despair, and hopelessness, which led to a declining Aryan birthrate. (Now the Aryan birthrate is below the replacement rate; thus, the Aryan people are on their way to extinction—the ultimate goal of Illuminism.) The existence of the Soviet Union eased the movement of the West toward socialism and statism in the name of fighting Communism. People were tricked into surrendering their liberties to the state to defeat Communism. The Bolshevik revolution, Communism, and the Soviet Union were a charade to increase the power and wealth of the Illuminists.

Endnotes
1. Antony C. Sutton, Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution (Morley, Western Australia: Veritas Publishing Company Pty., Ltd., 1981), p. 155.

2. Dennis L. Cuddy, The Globalists: The Power Elite Exposed (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: Hearthstone Publishing, 2001), p. 254.

3. William P. Hoar, Architect of Conspiracy: An Intriguing History (Belmont, Massachusetts: Western Islands, 1984), p. 173.

4. Vicomte Leon de Poncins, Freemasonry and the Vatican: A Struggle for Recognition (Translator Timothy Tindal-Roberston. London, England: Briton Publishing Co., 1968), p. 102.

Copyright © 2009 by Thomas Coley Allen.

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Soviet Union Part 1
Thomas Allen

[Editor’s note: Footnotes in the original are omitted.]

Besides fomenting two world wars, Illuminists also incited numerous Communist revolutions during the twentieth century. Before the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, revolutions had occurred in Portugal, Mexico, and other countries. These revolutions provided an arena where various revolutionary tactics and strategies could be tested. They prepared the way for the Bolshevik Revolution, which was the most important revolution of the twentieth century. It was the revolution upon which the others that followed were built.

Bolshevik Revolution
At the end of World War I came the most important illuministic revolution of the twentieth century—the Bolshevik Revolution. The leader of this revolution was Vladimir Lenin. While in Switzerland, Lenin maintained close ties with the Freemasons and other Illuminists. He was a member of Ulianov Zederbaum, a secret lodge. Sir Alfred Milner, 33rd degree Mason, gave Lenin financial support.[1] Alexander Helphand (Israel Lazarevitch), arranged with the German General Staff for Lenin to travel across Germany from Switzerland to Russia. Max Warburg, head of the German secret police, also aided Lenin and his gang to cross Germany to Russia. Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg approved Lenin’s passage. (Not long afterwards, the Reichstag forced his resignation.) Accompanying Lenin were Karl Radek, an Austrian Jew deserter, and several other Jews.[2] (Of the 159 people accompanying Lenin, 128 were Jews.) Paul Warburg funneled large sums of money provided by German bankers to Lenin and Trotsky.[3]

Before Lenin arrived in Russia, a provisional government had been set up. The establishment of the provisional government and abdication of Nicholas II resulted from the February 1917 Revolution, which Freemasons had provoked and had directed from their lodges. (The Allies pressured Nicholas to abdicate.) Alfred Milner, who controlled the Rhodes Trust and Rhodes’ secret society, financed it.[4] The American Red Cross mission to Russia also gave money to the provisional government, primarily for propaganda purposes to urge Russians to stay in the war. Prince George Lvov headed the provisional government with Alexander Kerensky, who may have been a German agent, as his Minister of Justices. Following the Petrograd uprising, three months after Lenin’s arrival, Lvov resigned. Josef Sliozberg then selected Kerensky, a Jew, a 32nd degree Freemason, and democratic socialist, to head the provisional government. When Kerensky became Prime Minister, he appointed only Freemasons to his government. Kerensky’s mission was to keep the pro-Czarist forces and other factions under control until Lenin arrived and set up his Communist government. One of Kerensky’s first acts as Prime Minister was to give Communists and other revolutionists amnesty.[5] After the Bolshevik Revolution, Kerensky and most of his Masonic collaborators were allowed to flee peacefully to France. Kerensky later immigrated to the United States where he earned a living as a well-paid lecturer at leading universities.

Aiding Lenin was Leon Bronstein Trotsky, a Jew and probably a German agent. (Furthermore, he was probably a German and not a Russian.) Nevertheless, Trotsky was not pro-German. Nor was he pro-Allied or pro-Russian. He was an internationalist. World revolution for world dictatorship was his goal. (Internationalism is one of the powerful forces uniting the international financiers with the Communists. Both seek a powerful central global governing authority.) He was the bankers’ inside man in the Bolsheviks. (When Lenin started showing too much independents and claiming real power, Trotsky organized the left socialist-revolutionary putsch and then an assassination attempt against Lenin, which brought Lenin back into line.)

In 1917, President Wilson sent Trotsky to Russia with an American passport. Before leaving, he stated his purpose for going. It was to overthrow the provisional government and end the war with Germany, which would allow Germany to transfer its troops from the eastern front to the western front—where the Americans were fighting. Jacob Schiff, head of the Russian Section of the Jewish International World Government (Kahal),[6] gave a large sum of money to Trotsky. Trotsky also received money from the German government. Paul Warburg arranged the transportation for Trotsky and his entourage of Wall Street financiers, American Communists, Trotskyites, revolutionaries, and other interested parties. (Most of the entourage accompanying Trotsky to Russia were hoodlums, whom Lenin and he used to bring themselves to power.) With the assistance of Thomas D. Thacher, Trotsky organized the Red Army.

When the Bolshevik Revolution broke out, Wilson ordered no interference with it. House advised Wilson to suppress newspapers that viewed Bolshevik Russia as an enemy. William Franklin Sands, executive secretary of the American International Corp., urged the United States to recognize the Bolshevik as the Russian government. A few months later, Robe L. Owen, chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency and linked with Wall Street, urged Wilson to recognize Russia and to ship aid to the Bolsheviks. (He claimed such action was necessary to offset German influence in Russia.)

Wilson also provided Lenin financial aid at a critical moment during his revolution. He sent his personal emissary, Elihu Root, attorney for Kuhn, Loeb and Co., to Russian. Root brought Lenin with $20 million (1917 dollars or $269 million in 2000 dollars) from his Special War Fund.

Almost all the leaders of the Bolsheviks were Jews. Of the 50 key leaders, only eight were not Jews.[7] Nine of the 12 members of the Central Committee of the Bolshevik party and 17 of the 22 members of the Council of the People Commissars were Jews. About 90 percent of the members of the first communist government of Russia were Jews.[8] Among these Jewish leaders were Akselrode (later Commissar of the Press), Ganetzky (liaison between the Bolsheviks and the German General Staff) and Martov (leader of the Mensheviks). Lenin had a Jewish grandfather, who was a wealthy doctor and who eventually became part of the nobility and an owner of serfs.

When Bolsheviks gained control Russia, they proclaimed complete equality for Jews. Claiming Zionism to be pro-British and anti-Arab, the Bolsheviks also condemned Zionism. (Thus, the Illuminists gave Jews a false choice: Bolshevism or Zionism. In modern-day Israel these two have been essentially united.)

After achieving power, the Bolsheviks outlawed Freemasonry in 1922. Freemasonry had served the purpose of the Illuminists and was no longer needed. The Communist Party now took its place. Also, the Bolsheviks may have feared that if they left organized Freemasonry in place, Freemasons might eventually overthrow them as they had the Czar. However, the primary reason for outlawing Freemasonry was to create the illusion that Freemasonry had no connection with Communism and that animus existed between Freemasonry and Communism.

From behind the scene, Venetian Count Volpi diMisurata directed the operations that brought Lenin to power. DiMisurata had systematized the Balkan wars before the rise of the Bolsheviks. Later he brought Mussolini to power in Italy.

The Bolsheviks were well financed. Among their financial backers were Max Warburg and Co., William Boyce Thompson, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., the Disconto Gesellschaft, Olaf Aschberg (known as the “Bolshevik Banker”) of the Nya Banken of Stockholm, the Siberian Bank, Guaranty Trust Co., W. A. Harriman and Co., Jacob Schiff of Kuhn, Loeb and Co., the Rhine Westphalian Syndicate, and Alfred Milner. Sir George Buchanan and Lord Alfred Milner arranged loans for Trotsky. (Milner and Buchanan strongly influenced the success of the Bolshevik Revolution.) In Great Britain, Fabians provided Lenin and the Soviet Communists with financial and propagandistic aid. Furthermore, Illuminists organized the Bolshevik Revolution.

Big money—the very people the left hates and rails against—has always controlled the left. Commenting on this control, Oswald Spengler wrote:

There is no proletarian, not even a Communist, movement, that has not operated in the interest of money, in the direction indicated by money, and for the time being permitted by money—and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.[9]

The American International Corp. was formed in 1915 in New York. Coordination of aid, particularly financial assistance, to the Bolsheviks was its principal goal. It also raised funds for German espionage and covert operation in North America and South America.[10] J.P. Morgan, Jr., the Rockefellers, and National City Bank funded it. Its directors included Pierre du Pont, Otto Kahn (Kuhn, Loeb and Co.), John D. Ryan (director of copper-mining companies, National City Bank, and Mechanics and Metal Bank), Percy Rockefeller, James A. Stillman (president of National City Bank), Vanderlip (former president of National City Bank), Albert H. Wiggins (Chase National Bank), Beckman Winthrop, and William Woodward (director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Rockefeller-controlled Hanover National Bank). In 1917, 10 of 22 directors were from National City Bank. C.A. Stone, a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, was its president. The American International Corp., which had extensive holdings globally, worked closely with Guaranty Trust Co. to aid the Bolsheviks. Secretary of State Robert Lansing sought American International Corp.’s advice on developing the United State’s policy toward the Soviet Union. It urged recognition of the Bolshevik regime.

Another important source of funding for the Bolsheviks was the American Red Cross Mission to Russia, which had only a nominal relationship with the American Red Cross. Raymond Robins, a mining promoter, headed the Mission after William Boyce Thompson’s departure from Russia. Robins was an agent of J.P. Morgan, Jr., Thompson, and House. He had enormous influence over Lenin. He participated in Bolshevik Executive Committee meetings and was consulted on important decisions. Following Thompson’s plan, Robins instructed the Bolsheviks to spread communist propaganda across Europe. Many suspected Robins was a Bolshevik. For their work in aiding the Bolsheviks, General William V. Judson of the United States Army recommended that Robins and Thompson be awarded the Distinguish Service Metal.

A major fund raiser for the Red Cross Mission was Henry P. Davison, who represented J. P. Morgan at Jekyll Island and was chairman of the Red Cross War Council(he would later be a member of the Council on Foreign Relations). Vanderlip (the Rockefellers’ representative at Jekyll Island) and Thompson (a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and a major stockholder in Chase National Bank and International Harvester) also assisted in raising money, with Thompson paying most of the mission’s expenses. Davidson and Alexander Legge of International Harvester Co. developed the American Red Cross Mission to Russia. Frederick M. Corse represented National City Bank and Henry Crosby Emery represented Guaranty Trust Co.

Although the ostensible purpose of the American Red Cross Mission to Russia was to provide medical service, the majority (15 of 29) was lawyers, financiers, businessmen, and their assistants. It had only five doctors and three orderlies; the doctors and orderlies stayed only a month. Among the members of the Mission were James W. Andrews (treasurer of the Mission, auditor of Liggett and Myers Tobacco Co.), Robert I. Barr (vice-president of Chase Securities Co. and of Chase National Bank), Frederick M. Corse (National City Bank in Petrograd), Herbert B. Magnuson, William G. Nicholson (Swift and Co.) Harold H. Swift (Swift and Co.) Thomas Day Thacher (attorney with Simpson, Thacher and Bartlett), William B. Thompson, Alan Wardwell (secretary and chairman of the Mission, lawyer with Stetson, Jennings and Russell, and a director of Greenwich Savings Bank, Bank of New York and Trust Co., and the Georgian Manganese Co.) The real objective was to advance the cause of the Bolsheviks to gain control of Russian markets and resources for the international financiers and capitalists, especially those in the United States.

The Mission employed three Russian-English interpreters, all of whom were Bolsheviks: they were Ilovaisky (close friend of Robins), Boris Reinstein (later secretary to Lenin and head of the Bureau of International Revolutionary of Propaganda), and Alexander Gumberg (alias Berg, real name Michael Gruzenberg, chief Bolshevik agent in Scandinavia, later confidential assistant to Floyd Odlum of Atlas Corp. and adviser to Reeve Schley of Chase National Bank).

Thompson gave the Bolsheviks a large sum of money claiming that the Bolsheviks were “the greatest power against Pro-Germanism in Russia” although Germany aided in bringing the Bolsheviks to power as Thompson most likely knew. Thompson seemed to have feared German banking and industrial interest controlling Russia after the war. He strove to have American interests, especially Morgan’s interests, to gain control of Russia and exploit it. Thompson wanted the Bolsheviks to continue fighting the Germans; however, Lenin had no intentions of remaining in the war. According to Sutton:

Thompson was not a Bolshevik; he was not even pro-Bolshevik. Neither was he pro-Kerensky. Nor was he even pro-American. The overriding motivation was the capturing of the postwar Russian market. This was a commercial, not an ideological, objective.[11]

Nevertheless, Thompson and Lenin did have one thing in common—world domination. When Thompson left Russia in 1917, he went to London. Here he met with Thomas W. Lamont, who had arrived from Paris. They persuaded the British War Cabinet to end its hostilities toward the Bolshevik regime. Aiding Thompson and Lamont in persuading Lloyd George to change from being anti-Bolshevik to pro-Bolshevik was Milner. Another important person in the conversion of Lloyd George to being pro-Bolshevik was Basil Zaharoff, an international arms dealer who sold to both sides and whom the Allied leaders frequently consulted. He was a strong supporter of the Bolsheviks, and Lloyd George was indebted to him.

Herbert Hoover, a strong proponent of the League of Nations and later the thirtieth President of the United States, was also instrumental in aiding the Bolsheviks. He bolstered the Bolshevik regime with a program of large scale food shipments. Without the massive food shipments, the starving Russians may have rebelled and overthrown the Bolsheviks. Heading the food relief to Russia was William N. Haskell. (After Stalin rose to power, he arrested everyone in Russia who had worked for this relief program. He did not want the people to know that the Communists had depended on the capitalist West to survive.)

The official diplomats of the United States, Great Britain, and France in Russia strongly opposed the Bolsheviks. All three governments sent agents to Russia to bypass their own official diplomats. Raymond Robins represented the United States. Lloyd George and Milner sent Bruce Lockhart. France sent Jacques Sadoul, a friend of Trotsky.

The Bolshevik government set up a secret trust fund with part of the Czar’s holdings that it had seized. The Bolsheviks used this fund to control the Soviet government. Comprising the trust were Felix Dzerzhinsky (founder of the Cheka), Sidney Reilly (a British secret agent), and W. Averell Harriman.

At the close of World War I, the Allied army invaded Russia. Its purpose was not to defeat the Communists; it was to consolidate Communist control of Russia. The invasion served two purposes. First it diverted and betrayed the Counter Revolution of the White forces as they were defeating the Communists. Second it gave the Communists a rally cry—foreign troops were invading Russia. The invasion succeeded in delivering the Russian peasants to the Communists as they rallied behind the Communists to defend Russia from foreign invaders. (Proof that the British and American forces did not intend to defeat or even frustrate the Communists is that they were sent to Siberia, far away from the fighting. If the purpose had been to defeat the Communists, they would had invaded European Russia.)

The army had been sent, in part, at the urging of Thomas D. Thacher, a member of the Skull and Bones. In 1918, he was urging recognition of the barely surviving Soviet government. He also pressed for giving the Soviet army military assistance and sending an allied army to Siberia to keep the Japanese out until the Bolsheviks could control it.

The United States army did take and hold the Siberian Railroad until the Bolsheviks were strong enough to hold the railroad. Moreover, the United States shipped munitions to the Bolsheviks. While the American intervention army in Siberia was providing the Bolsheviks munitions, Great Britain promised the White Russian army munitions and other supplies. These supplies, however, were never delivered. Furthermore, British agents destroyed airplanes of the White Russians. A lack of munitions and supplies forced the White Russian army to withdraw from Russia.

The coup de grace came to the White Russian army when the French General Janin, commander-in-chief of the Allied armies, surrendered Admiral Aleksandr Kolchak, commander-in-chief of the White Russian army and head of the Russian government, to save himself. At least some justice eventually came out of this incident as the Bolsheviks killed Janin a few days later. The Allies also betrayed the remaining anti-Bolshevik forces in Russia.

After Lenin gave the international financiers the concessions that they wanted, they ceased funding the White Russians. Without money, Lenin’s opposition collapsed. (A major reason that Wall Street and the international financiers had supported the Bolsheviks was to gain the right to exploit Russia. Another major reason was ideological kinship.)

The final collapse came when Sidney Reilly, a British intelligence agent and an agent of the Cheka (the Bolshevik secret police), organized the remaining Tsarist loyalists and betrayed them to the Cheka. The day before the uprising, the Cheka began arresting and executing thousands of the loyalists. The war between the White Russians and the Red Russians (the Bolsheviks) cost the lives of 28 million Russians (as compared to 1.7 million lost during World War I).

Once the Communists gained undisputed control of Russia, they began a reign of terror and mass murder that claimed more than 83 million lives. The Bolshevik Revolution was merely a continuation of the French Revolution. Along with mass murder, Bolsheviks sought to destroy the family unit with free love, i.e., unions easily dissolved at the whim of either partner, and communal education of children where children were taught to spy on their parents. They also kept the wages of workers so low that both parents usually had to work. Like the French Revolutionists, the Bolsheviks sought to destroy the Church. They destroyed church buildings, torn down icons, and murdered many priests.

Most of Czar Nicholas’s wealth, which was about $30 billion (1913 dollars or $457 billion in 2000 dollars), fell into the hands of international bankers. Most of his one billion dollars in gold and jewels were shipped to Kuhn, Loeb and Co. in New York. (Jacob Schiff, the senior partner, had used $20 million of his own moneys to finance the Bolsheviks.[12]) Much of the gold shipped to Kuhn, Loeb and Co. was apparently transferred to Guaranty Trust Co., who in turn had the gold melted in United States mint bars. (The Treasury Department objected to paying Guaranty Trust Co. for this gold as it was suspected of being of Bolshevik origin.)

When Nicholas II was overthrown, he had $400 million in Chase National Bank, National City Bank, Guaranty Trust Co., J. P. Morgan and Co., and Hanover National Bank. Nicholas also had $25 million in Barclay’s, $30 million in Lloyd’s Bank, $35 to 50 million in the Bank of England, $80 million in Rothschild Freres in Paris, $100 million in the Bank of France, and $132 million in the Mendelssohn Bank in Berlin.[13] None of this money has ever been returned to the rightful heirs.

As powerful as he was, Lenin eventually learned that he did not really control the Soviet Union. He might govern it, but he did so as the viceroy of more powerful men. Before he died, he came to realize that Marxism was not a viable economic system. He came to realize the destructive consequences of his action and the lives to the Russians that had been and would be wasted because of them.

Why did the Illuminists select Russia to become a communist country? Was it because Russia was the only major European country without a central bank? Was it because Russia provided an excellent geographical homeland from which Communists could launch revolutions in other countries? Was it to create a great and fearful enemy to scare the peoples of the West to give their governments more power over their lives and to keep and expand the indebtedness of their countries (and to prevent them from reneging on that debt)? Was it to get control of the vast resources of Russia?

One thing is certain, the rich and powerful men of the United States, Great Britain, and other European countries who brought the Communist to power did not fear them. These men knew that they controlled the Communists and the Communist elite in the Soviet Union knew it. If they did not control the Communists, they would not have kept the Soviet Union alive for more than 70 years. The Soviet Union would have died within a few years without the continuous inflow of Western capital and technology.

Endnotes
1. Eustace Mullins, The Curse of Canaan: A Demonology of History (Staunton, Virginia: Revelation Book, 1987), p. 211.

2. Nesta H. Webster, World Revolution: The Plot Against Civilization (Editor Anthony Gittens, Seventh edition, Palmdale, California: Omni Publications, 1994), p. 276.

3. Eustace Mullins, The World Order: Our Secret Rulers (Second edition, Staunton, Virginia: Ezra Pound Institute of Civilization, 1992) p. 128.

4. Stanley Monteith, Brotherhood of Darkness (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: Hearthstone, 2000), p. 67.

5. Gary Allen, None Dare Call It Conspiracy (Seal Beach, California: Concord Press, n.d.), p. 67.

6. Lady Queenborough (Edith Starr Miller), Occult Theocracy (Two Volumes. Hawthorne, California: The Christian Book Club of America, 1933), p. 614.

7. The Cause of World Unrest (New York, New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1920), pp. 112-115.

8. Douglas Reed, Far and Wide. (1951), p. 278.

9. Allen, p. 59.

10. Antony C. Sutton, Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution (Morley, Western Australia: Veritas Publishing Company Pty., Ltd., 1981), pp. 64-67.

11. Ibid., p. 98.

12. Mullins, Curse of Canaan, p. 218.

13. Ibid., p. 219.
Copyright © 2009 by Thomas Coley Allen.

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