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The European Union always was a CIA project, as Brexiteers discover
AMBROSE EVANS-PRITCHARD
http://www.911forum.org.uk/board/viewtopic.php?p=172834#172834
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard 27 APRIL 2016 • 8:18PM
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/04/27/the-european-union-always-was-a-cia-project-as-brexiteers-discov/
EU creator Jean Monnet was Roosevelt's eyes and
ears in Europe. Some called him a US agent
Brexiteers should have been prepared for the
shattering intervention of the US. The European
Union always was an American project.
It was Washington that drove European integration
in the late 1940s, and funded it covertly under
the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations.
While irritated at times, the US has relied on
the EU ever since as the anchor to American regional interests alongside NATO.
There has never been a divide-and-rule strategy.
The eurosceptic camp has been strangely blind to
this, somehow supposing that powerful forces
across the Atlantic are egging on British
secession, and will hail them as liberators.
The anti-Brussels movement in France - and to a
lesser extent in Italy and Germany, and among the
Nordic Left - works from the opposite premise,
that the EU is essentially an instrument of
Anglo-Saxon power and 'capitalisme sauvage'.
France's Marine Le Pen is trenchantly
anti-American. She rails against dollar
supremacy. Her Front National relies on funding
from Russian banks linked to Vladimir Putin.
Like it or not, this is at least is strategically coherent.
The Schuman Declaration that set the tone of
Franco-German reconciliation - and would lead by
stages to the European Community - was cooked up
by the US Secretary of State Dean Acheson at a
meeting in Foggy Bottom. "It all began in
Washington," said Robert Schuman's chief of staff.
It was the Truman administration that browbeat
the French to reach a modus vivendi with Germany
in the early post-War years, even threatening to
cut off US Marshall aid at a furious meeting with
recalcitrant French leaders they resisted in September 1950.
Truman's motive was obvious. The Yalta settlement
with the Soviet Union was breaking down. He
wanted a united front to deter the Kremlin from
further aggrandizement after Stalin gobbled up
Czechoslovakia, doubly so after Communist North
Korea crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded the South.
For British eurosceptics, Jean Monnet looms large
in the federalist pantheon, the emminence grise
of supranational villainy. Few are aware that he
spent much of his life in America, and served as
war-time eyes and ears of Franklin Roosevelt.
General Charles de Gaulle thought him an American
agent, as indeed he was in a loose sense. Eric
Roussel's biography of Monnet reveals how he
worked hand in glove with successive administrations.
It is odd that this magisterial 1000-page study
has never been translated into English since it
is the best work ever written about the origins of the EU.
Nor are many aware of declassified documents from
the State Department archives showing that US
intelligence funded the European movement
secretly for decades, and worked aggressively
behind the scenes to push Britain into the project.
As this newspaper first reported when the
treasure became available, one memorandum dated
July 26, 1950, reveals a campaign to promote a
full-fledged European parliament. It is signed by
Gen William J Donovan, head of the American
wartime Office of Strategic Services, precursor
of the Central Inteligence Agency.
The key CIA front was the American Committee for
a United Europe (ACUE), chaired by Donovan.
Another document shows that it provided 53.5 per
cent of the European movement's funds in 1958.
The board included Walter Bedell Smith and Allen
Dulles, CIA directors in the Fifties, and a caste
of ex-OSS officials who moved in and out of the CIA.
Bill Donovan, legendary head of the war-time OSS,
was later in charge of orchestrating the EU project
Papers show that it treated some of the EU's
'founding fathers' as hired hands, and actively
prevented them finding alternative funding that
would have broken reliance on Washington.
There is nothing particularly wicked about this.
The US acted astutely in the context of the Cold
War. The political reconstruction of Europe was a roaring success.
There were horrible misjudgments along the way,
of course. A memo dated June 11, 1965, instructs
the vice-president of the European Community to
pursue monetary union by stealth, suppressing
debate until the "adoption of such proposals
would become virtually inescapable". This was too
clever by half, as we can see today from
debt-deflation traps and mass unemployment across southern Europe.
In a sense these papers are ancient history. What
they show is that the American 'deep state' was
in up to its neck. We can argue over whether
Boris Johnson crossed a line last week by
dredging up President Barack Obama's "part-Kenyan
ancestry", but the cardinal error was to suppose
that Mr Obama's trade threat had anything to do
with the ordeals of his grandfather in a Mau Mau
prison camp. It was American foreign policy boilerplate.
As it happens, Mr Obama might understandably feel
rancour after the abuses that have come to light
lately from the Mau Mau repression. It was a
shameful breakdown of colonial police discipline,
to the disgust of veteran officials who served in
other parts of Africa. But the message from his
extraordinary book - 'Dreams From My Father' - is
that he strives to rise above historic grudges.
Brexiteers take comfort that Republican hopeful
Ted Cruz wants a post-Brexit Britain to jump to
the "front of the line for a free trade deal”,
but he is merely making campaign hay. Mr Cruz
will conform to Washington's Palmerstonian
imperatives - whatever they may be at that moment
- if he ever enters the White House.
President Obama's grandfather was a prisoner
during the suppression of Kenya's Mau Mau revolt,
a shameful episode of British colonial history
It is true that America had second thoughts about
the EU once the ideological fanatics gained
ascendancy in the late 1980s, recasting the union
as a rival superpower with ambitions to challenge and surpass the US.
John Kornblum, the State Department's chief of
European affairs in the 1990s, says it was a
nightmare trying deal with Brussels. "I ended up
totally frustrated. In the areas of military,
security and defence, it is totally dysfunctional."
Mr Kornblum argues that the EU "left NATO
psychologically" when it tried to set up its own
military command structure, and did so with its
usual posturing and incompetence. "Both Britain
and the West would be in much better shape if
Britain was not in the EU," he said.
This is interesting but it is a minority view in
US policy circles. The frustration passed when
Poland and the first wave of East European states
joined the EU in 2004, bringing in a troupe of Atlanticist governments.
We know it is hardly a love-affair. A top US
official was caught two years ago on a telephone
intercept dismissing Brussels during the Ukraine
crisis with the lapidary words, "fuck the EU".
Yet the all-pervading view is that the Western
liberal order is under triple assault, and the EU
must be propped, much as Britain and France
propped up the tottering Ottoman Empire in the
19th - and wisely so given that its slow collapse
led directly to the First World War.
Today's combined threats comes from Jihadi terror
and a string of failed states across the Maghreb
and the Levant; from a highly-militarized pariah
regime in Moscow that will soon run out of money
but has a window of opportunity before Europe
rearms; and from an extremely dangerous crisis in
the South China Sea that is escalating by the day
as Beijing tests the US alliance structure.
The dangers from Russia and China are of course
interlinked. It is likely - pessimists say
certain - that Vladimir Putin would seize on a
serious blow-up on Pacific rim to try his luck in
Europe. In the eyes of Washington, Ottawa,
Canberra, and those capitals around the world
that broadly view Pax Americana as a plus, this
is not the time for Britain to lob a stick of
dynamite into Europe's rickety edifice.
The awful truth for the Leave campaign is that
the governing establishment of the entire Western
world views Brexit as strategic vandalism.
Whether fair or not, Brexiteers must answer this
reproach. A few such as Lord Owen grasp the scale
of the problem. Most seemed blithely unaware
until Mr Obama blew into town last week.
In my view, the Brexit camp should be laying out
plans to increase UK defence spending by half to
3pc of GDP, pledging to propel Britain into the
lead as the undisputed military power of Europe.
They should aim to bind this country closer to
France in an even more intimate security
alliance. These sorts of moves would at least
spike one of Project Fear's biggest guns.
The Brexiteers should squelch any suggestion that
EU withdrawal means resiling from global
responsibility, or tearing up the European
Convention (that British-drafted, non-EU, Magna
Carta of freedom), or turning our backs on the
COP21 climate accords, or any other of the febrile flirtations of the movement.
It is perhaps too much to expect a coherent plan
from a disparate group, thrown together
artificially by events. Yet many of us who are
sympathetic to the Brexit camp, who also want to
take back our sovereign self-government and
escape the bogus and usurped supremacy of the
European Court of Justice, have yet to hear how
Brexiteers think this extraction can occur
without colossal collateral damage and in a
manner consistent with the honour of this country.
You can quarrel with Europe, or you can quarrel
with the US, but it is courting fate to quarrel
with the whole democratic world at the same time.
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