Re: [CTRL] Fwd: The Early Days of the John Birch Society, Part 3
I must comment on this part of Alex Constantine's essays on the John Birch Society. Having read, corresponded and having met Mr. Sutton, I do beg to differ with my colleague and friend Alex about his characterization of Mr. Sutton, his motivations and body of work. Presented below are Mr. Sutton's answers to Alex's story. Om K Comments from Antony Sutton: Gross distortion. . EXAMPLES "The government, Sutton confides, UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF INTERNATIONAL BANKERS have kept the lid on machines that produce free energy and "acoustical levitation"" a) I have never mentioned "international bankers" in FTIR. Give me a direct quote b) acoustical levitation is worked on by US Gov and a great deal of their work is open. I have some reports right HERE. There is no "lid",JUST USUAL CLASSIFICATION c) the free energy developments I discuss are CHEMICAL processes. Use of the word "machines" suggest the writer is totally UNINFORMED of the ongoing work. Further we have the following "Sutton...contends that "possible advanced alien technology" has been reverse engineered and is squandered by the Feds" The four words in quotes are correct, the rest is not. I emphasize that Colonel Corso has not proven his case about alien tech. It i s Corso that states it has been reverse engineered., not me I did publish a document that suggests back engineering but remain skeptical Again give me a direct quote on "is squandered by the Feds" Never wrote that = Kris No problem! Unfortunately [the] facts [aren't] right . . . l. I have NEVER published in NEW AMERICAN. DONT EVEN KNOW WHO THEY ARE. 2. 76 press went out of business maybe 30 years ago. They published ONE of my books 3. I dont know and have never met WCleon Skousen, Schaffley, Chester Ward, Dan Smoot, and have never been a member of Birch society. I did meet Robert Welch once, and frankly I was not too impressed. 4. I was thrown out of Hoover Institution because I would NOT go along with their fascist views. How many people does Alex know who would accept ejection rather than go along? 5. Gary North I meet maybe 35 years ago, once.Bosom ally?? And so on. Alex should know I spent four years of my life in the Army,,landed in Normandy in June 1944 and saw the worst of Nazism including Belsen and starving kids in Holland.. You think I have the slightest sympathy for Nazism, or fascism, or communism or any other "isms" you are nuts. I am just a simple libertarian who sees the state as the source of our problems Kris if you want to circulate this, its OK. But I really havnt time to reply to this nonsense... All best wishes and take a look at Hegel. Tony = Kris... for distribution if you wish For some years now Ive noted a weird almost psychedelic approach to research. I first met in when FTIR subscribers sent me stuff from a Boston outfit which stated I was a known anti-semitic etc etc. They could not of course quote any proof.So I went to Bnai Brith and asked them to check their records please. They came back and said nothing in our files,, not even a hint of anti semitism Other Jewish sources said the same. In fact the Council on Soviet Jewry saw me as an ally. I went back to this Boston outfit and asked them to retract. They gave a half hearted retraction then added another piece of nonsense ie that libertarianism is really concealed fascism. At that point I was tempted to ask what he was smoking but decided that this absurdity could go on for ever if I kept taking the bait... There is a school of politics out there that does not READ an author, they look at a publishers name, or an institution and assume whatever they want to assume, juvenile antics. . . . Nothing about my content. [The] comments are accusatory and based on nothing.. My guess is that this nonsense has its origins in Gramsci, the Italian Marxist. But I dont know. . . . Irritating thats all Im tempted to say to these people "get a life". TONY SUTTON = This is absolute nonsense. This man has a fervent imagination and little else Here are some totally erroneous quotes. "to this day he publishes in the New American" I have NEVER published in NEW AMERICAN. Dont even know what it is. "turned out books for 76 press" I think Gary Allen picked up the rights from my agent for ONE BOOK "WALL STREET AND THE RISE OF HITLER"A critique of the very people that Constantine says I approve of!! "approved separation of races in South Africa" Absolute lie., I went to SA because of my work on Gold and diamonds. [TS] = Dont know if I told you this, When I was working with the Hoover editors on the final versions of my 3 volumes I noted they were insistent that any mention of US military help to the Soviets had to be eliminated. This came from "upstairs", from Possony, Staar, Campbell etc. The CIA TYPES.. I dId not fight this on tactical grounds, I wanted to get the 3 volumes in print first.. Quietly, I told no
[CTRL] Fwd: The Early Days of the John Birch Society, Part 3
The Early Days of the John Birch Society: Fasist Templars of the Corporate State Part 3 The John Birch Solon "There must be two Americas ..." Mark Twain JB Society leader Thomas Anderson, a hardened advocate of racial segregation, gave the game away when he griped in Straight Talk: "Invariably, hiding behind the sanctimonious cries of 'freedom of the press,' and 'academic freedom' are defenders of Alger Hiss, Fifth Amendment addicts, attackers of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, people who urged barring Mein Kampf from distribution. In short, the enemies are: Criminals, Socialists and Communists" Mein Kampf? Of critical importance to the anti-communist wars of the Birch Society was Welch's relationship with the Dr. J.B. Matthews, the former chief investigator for the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). When Joseph McCarthy announced that he held a list of Soviet agents "in my hands," he referred to one of Matthew's compilations. When McCarthy fell into disrepute, J.B. decamped, taking his files on known "communist subversives" with him, moved on to become Robert Welch's aide-de-camp. "My opinion of various characters," Welch wrote in his Blue Book of the Birch Society, "formed entirely independently, has [proven] to coincide with the opinion of J.B. Matthews." Welch boasted that he had "a fairly sensitive and accurate nose" for rooting out assets of the communist underground. Dr, Matthews pushed the number of "agents," "subversives" and "travellers" among the nation's clergymen in Birch Society files from 1,000 to 7,000. The country's parishes evidently swarmed with spies and dupes bent on destroying democracy. In July 1961, the Birch Society Bulletin claimed that there were no less than "300,000 to 500,000 Communists in the United States" (Newberry, p. 89). Welch and Matthews dreamed of collecting files of all of them. The American Opinion reading room was the place to learn about the conspiracy, an alternate universe of extreme right-wing briefings. Medford Evans, former editor of the National Review and the Birch Society's Texas coordinator, published a Hitlerian tour-de-force in Human Events magazine (January 26, 1957): "Why I Am an Anti-Intellectual." Evans once served under Admiral Lewis Strauss at the Atomic Energy Commission. The dossiers of J. Robert Oppenheimer and Edward Teller were cleared by the AEC's "anti-intellectual" chief of security (Newberry, p. 138). In its halcyon period, the John Birch Society was allied with William Regnery, whose name appears on American Security Council (ASC) incorporation papers. The ASC was a domestic covert operations arm of the military-industrial complex, closely aligned with the JBS, Libery Lobby and other sons of the anti-communist revolution. Regnery and a pair of pre-war America First isolationists began the Human Events radio program and the Regnery publishing house in the mid-1950s. The first two books published by Regnery were critical of the Nuremberg Trials and the third found fault with allied bombing campaigns against the Nazis. In 1954, Regnery put out a couple of tracts for the John Birch Society. The nascent publishing concern also printed up William F. Buckley¹s God and Man at Yale, subtitled, The Superstitions of Academic Freedom. "In light of the publishing of the pro-Nazi books," SpritOne Information Services comments, "it is interesting to note that Regnery Publishing was subsidized by the CIA, according to Howard Hunt. The reader is reminded to remember [the] point ... concerning the CIA and its involvement with Nazi war criminals. Henry Regnery, along with Bunker Hunt, funded Western Goals." A reminder: Western Goals was a creation of the John Birch Society. In 1986, President Ronald Reagan "appointed Alfred Regnery to help dismantle the Justice Department¹s Office of Juvenile Justice. In the 1990s, [Regnery] has been the publisher of numerous venomous smears (I would use the word 'books' but that would be a lie by any measure) attacking President Clinton. [A] direct linkage between the past pro-Nazi groups of the 1930s and today¹s right wing has been fully established" (http://www.spiritone.com/~gdy52150/1930s.htm). Gary Allen, one of the foremost propagandists in the Bircher pantheon, was the author of None Dare Call It Conspiracy, a "'76 Press" productm, a Birch Society bible and a stunning success that has sold over four million copies, according to a publisher's blurb. Picture, if you will, the nation's corporate elite driving for a "Great Merger" with the Soviet bloc, and poisoning the entire world with Communism. This is among the central themes of The Rockefeller File (1976), Allen's critique of the most powerful family in the world, the dreaded CFR and the United World Federalists. At first glance, Allen's books may seem a confused clot of political fantasies. He claims that the Carnegie and Rockefeller money
