Future Calling 3
Future Calling 3
COLONEL HOUSE
As we re-activate our time machine, we find ourselves in the presence of one of the
most colorful and mysterious figures of history. His name is Colonel Edward Mandell
House. House was never in the military. The title of Colonel was honorary, granted by the
Governor of Texas in appreciation for political services. He was one of the most powerful
men in American politics and, yet, virtually unknown to most Americans today. He was the
personal advisor to Presidents Wilson and Roosevelt. He was close to the Morgan banking
dynasty and also to the powerful banking families of Europe. He attended school in England
and surrounded himself with Fabians. His father, Thomas, was an exporter in the Southern
states and also a lending agent for London banks, which preferred to remain anonymous. It
was widely believed that he represented the Rothschild consortium. Thomas House was one
of the few in the South who emerged from the War Between the States with a great fortune.
Colonel House was what they called a “king maker” in Texas politics. He personally
chose Woodrow Wilson, the most unlikely of all political candidates, and secured his
nomination for President on the Democratic ticket in 1912. It was House who convinced the
Morgan group, and others with power in politics and media, to throw their support to
Wilson, which is what enabled him to win the election and become the 28th President of the
United States. House was certainly a member of the Round Table and possibly a member of
its inner circle. He was a founder of the CFR.
In 1912 he wrote a novel, entitled Philip Dru Administrator. It was intended to
popularize the Fabian blueprint for converting America to collectivism using the Fabian
strategy of working slowly as a turtle and secretly as a wolf in sheep’s clothing. The hero of
his story is Philip Dru, who is a fictionalized version the author, himself: a quiet,
unassuming intellectual, working behind the scenes advising and controlling politicians who
are easily purchased and just as easily discarded. Speaking through Dru, House describes his
political ideal as: “socialism as dreamed of by Karl Marx.”1 Dru’s socialism, of course, was
the Fabian version. It was to have gentle and humane qualities to soften its impact and set it
apart from the Leninist version called Communism.
Like all collectivists, House spoke eloquently about defending the poor and the
downtrodden, but in reality, he had great disdain for the masses. In his view, they are too
stupid and lazy to take an interest in their own government, so it’s up to the professionals to
do that for them. Speaking through the fictional character of Senator Selwyn, House says:
The average American citizen refuses to pay attention to civic affairs,
contenting himself with a general growl at the tax rate, and the character and
inefficiency of public officials. He seldom takes the trouble necessary to form the
Government to suit his views. The truth is he has no cohesive or well-digested views,
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The only way of maintaining our present preeminent trade position and averting a
panic is by declaring war on Germany.1
Money was not the only motivator for bringing the United States into war. We must
not forget that the Ameican players in this drama dreamed of world government based on
the model of collectivism, and they saw war as a great motivator to move society in that
direction. They looked forward to the creation of the League of Nations when the fighting
was over and knew that the only way for the United States to play a dominant role in
shaping that world body was to be a combatant. The only ones who divide the spoils of war
are the victors who fight the war, and it was that reality that fired the imaginations of House,
Wilson, and even J.P. Morgan.
THE STRATEGY TO GET THE U.S. INTO WAR
And so, there were different motivations and different agendas for pushing the
United States into war. Colonel House became the coordinator for all of them. He went back
and forth across the Atlantic and consulted with the Round Tables in both England and
America. He arranged a secret treaty on behalf of President Wilson to bring the United
States into the War. The reason for secrecy was that the Senate would never have approved
it. There was still strong public opposition to war and, had it been revealed that Wilson was
engaging in a secret – and unconstitutional – treaty to get the U.S. into war, it would have
been politically disastrous to his Administration.
George Viereck, in his book, The Strangest Friendship in History – Woodrow Wilson
and Colonel House, said this:
Ten months before the election, which returned Wilson to the White House
because he ‘kept us out of war,’ Colonel House negotiated a secret agreement with
England and France on behalf of Wilson, which pledged the United States to
intervene on behalf of the Allies. If an inkling of the conversation between Colonel
House and the leaders of England and France had reached the American people
before the election, it might have caused incalculable reverberations in public
opinion.2
How did they do it? How did these wolves in sheep’s clothing maneuver the United
States into war? It was not easy, and it came about only after extensive planning. The first
plan was to offer the United State as a negotiator between both sides of the conflict. They
would position the U.S. as the great peacemaker. But the goal was just the opposite of
peace. They would make an offer to both sides that they knew would not be acceptable to
Germany. Then, when the Germans rejected the offer, they would be portrayed in the press
as the bad guys, the ones who wanted to continue the war. This is how the plan was
described by Ambassador Page in his memoirs. He said:
Colonel House arrived … full of the idea of American intervention. First his
plan was that he and I and a group of the British cabinet … should at once work out a
minimum programme of peace—the least that the Allies would accept, which he
1Burton J. Hendrick, The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page &
Co., 1923), p. 11 (Internet edition), http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/memoir/Page/Page
14.htm.
2 Viereck, pp. 106–108. This matter is discussed in The Memoirs of William Jennings Bryan Vol. II.
pp. 404–406.
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assumed would be unacceptable to the Germans; and that the President would take
this programme and present it to both sides; the side that declined would be
responsible for continuing the war…. Of course the fatal moral weakness of the
foregoing scheme is that we should plunge into the War, not on the merits of the
cause, but by a carefully sprung trick.1
AGGRAVATE, INSULATE, FACILITATE
The trick eventually evolved into something far more dramatic than peace
negotiations. It called for three strategies in one. They were: aggravate, insulate, and
facilitate.
The first stage was to aggravate the Germans into an attack, literally to goad them
until they had no choice but to strike back. Much of this was implemented from the British
side. Churchill established the policy of ramming German submarines. Prior to that, there
was a code of naval warfare called the Cruiser Rules requiring that, when a warship
challenged an unarmed merchant ship, it would fire a shot across its bow. The merchant ship
would be expected to stop its engines and it would be given time for the crew to get into
lifeboats before the ship was sunk. It was a small humanitarian gesture in the middle of
warfare. That is the way it was done until Churchill, as Lord of the Admiralty, ordered all
merchant ships, regardless of circumstances, to steam full speed directly toward German
submarines in an attempt to ram and sink them. This eliminated the distinction between
merchant ships and war ships. From then on, all merchant ships had to be considered as war
ships, and Germany abandoned the policy of firing warning shots.
When that happened, those seeking to bring the United States in the war had a
heyday. Editorializing through the British and American press, they said: “See how evil
these Germans are? They sink unarmed ships and don’t even give the crews a chance to get
off! It is our moral duty to fight against such evil.”
Churchill ordered British ships to remove their names from the hulls and to fly the
flags of neutral nations, especially the American flag, so the submarine captains couldn’t tell
what nationality the ships really were. He wanted Germans to torpedo American ships by
accident. It was his strategy to do whatever possible to bring the United States into war, and
the sinking of an American ship would be an excellent way of doing so.2
There was plenty of goading from the America side as well. The United States
government consistently violated its own neutrality laws by allowing war materials to be
sent to Britain and France. Munitions and all kinds of military-related supplies were
blatantly shipped on a regular basis. In fact, the Lusitania, on the day it was sunk, was
loaded with military arsenal. The Germans knew all along that this was going on. The
people in Washington knew it as well. By openly violating their own neutrality laws, they
were doing everything possible to aggravate Germany into an attack.
1 Robert E. Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins (New York: Bantam Books, 1948, 1950), Vol.1,
1 G.M. Gilbert, Nuremberg Diary (New York: Farrar, Straus and Co., 1947), pp. 278, 279.
2 Sherwood, Vol. 1, p. 461.
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In an effort to provoke an attack from Germany, FDR sent U.S. Naval ships to escort
British convoys carrying war supplies, knowing that they would be targets for German
submarine attack. When Germany refused to take the bait, he ordered U.S. ships to actually
get into the middle of sea battles between British and German war ships. The strategy was
simple. If you walk into the middle of a barroom brawl, the chances of getting slugged are
pretty good.1
On October 17, 1941, an American destroyer, the USS Kearny, rushed to assist a
British convoy near Iceland that was under attack by German submarines. It took a torpedo
hit and was badly damaged. Ten days later, FDR delivered his annual Navy Day speech in
Washington and said:
We have wished to avoid shooting, but the shooting has started, and history
has recorded who has fired the first shot. In the long run, however, all that will matter
is who fired the last shot. America has been attacked. The U.S.S. Kearny is not just a
Navy ship. She belongs to every man, woman, and child in this nation…. Hitler’s
torpedo was directed at every American.2
When it became known that the Kearny had aggressively sought combat, the public
lost interest, and FDR dropped the rhetoric. It was time to involve Japan, and it was clear
that the drama had to involve more than one ship.
MANEUVERING THE JAPANESE INTO FIRING THE FIRST SHOT
The Secretary of War at that time was Henry Stimson, a member of the CFR. In his
diaries he said:
In spite of the risk involved, however, in letting the Japanese fire the first shot,
we realized that, in order to have the full support of the American people, it was
desirable to make sure that the Japanese be the ones to do this so that there could be
no doubt in anyone’s mind as to who were the aggressors…. The question was, how
we should maneuver them into firing the first shot without allowing too much
damage to ourselves. It was a difficult proposition. 3
How was it done? It was accomplished exactly as in World War I: aggravate,
facilitate, insulate. Aggravate the enemy into an attack. Facilitate his attack to make it easy
with no opposition. Insulate the victims from any knowledge that would allow them to
escape their fate.
For many years, the government denied any knowledge of the impending Japanese
attack. But, gradually, the pieces of the puzzle began to bubble up out of the mire of secrecy
and, one by one, they have been assembled into a clear picture of the most monstrous cover-
up one can possibly imagine. The smoking gun was discovered in 1995. Author Robert
Stinnett found a memo in the Navy Archives written by Lt. Commander Arthur McCollum,
who was assigned to Naval Intelligence. The memo was dated October 7, 1940. It was
1T.R. Fehrenbach, F.D.R.’s Undeclared War 1939 to 1941 (New York: David McKay Company,
1967), pp. 252–259.
2 Charles Callan Tansill, Back Door to War (Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., 1952), p. 613
3 Hearings before the Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack, Congress of
the United States, Seventy-Ninth Congress (Washington, D.C., 1946), Part 11. p. 5421, as cited by
Prang. The reference is Part 11, p. 5433, as quoted by Kimmel, p. 1. Also quoted by Stinnett but
with no reference, p. 179.
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directed to two of FDR’s top naval advisors: Captain Dudley Knox and Capt. Walter
Anderson, who was head of Naval Intelligence. This memo was approved by both men and
forwarded to FDR for action. The full text is now public information, and a photo of it
appears in Stinnett’s book, Day of Deceit; The Truth about FDR and Peal Harbor.1
The McCollum memorandum contained an eight-point plan of action to implement a
two-point strategy. The two points were: (1) Aggravate Japan into a military strike as a
matter of economic necessity and national honor on her part; and (2) Facilitate the attack by
not interfering with Japan’s preparations and by making the target as vulnerable as possible.
At the conclusion of the last point of strategy, the memorandum said: “If by these means
Japan could be led to commit an overt act of war, so much the better.”2
The necessity to insulate the victims from any foreknowledge of the attack was not
mentioned in the memorandum, but it was not necessary to do so. Obviously, this plan could
not succeed if the targeted victims were warned in advance. So, once again, there was the
familiar strategy: aggravate, facilitate, and insulate.
Was Japan aggravated into an attack? Consider these facts. The sale of critical goods
from the United States to Japan was suddenly embargoed; commerce was brought to a
standstill; Japan’s access to oil from the Dutch East Indies was crippled by U.S. diplomatic
pressure on the Dutch government; the U.S. closed off the Panama Canal to Japanese ships;
and Japan’s major assets in the United States were seized by the government. In other
words, the strategy advanced by Lt. Commander McCollum was followed in every detail.
There was a deliberate assault against Japan’s economy and an insult to her national honor.
A military response was predictable. The only question was when.
This is not to suggest that the Japanese imperial government was blameless in this
matter or that it was an innocent victim of circumstances. It was, after all, in Asia and the
Pacific, engaged in a massive, regional war of aggression and territorial expansion. This was
the logical consequence of its ideology of barbarism in which might makes right. However,
we must not lose sight of the role played by American leaders embracing the ideology of
collectivism. It was a case of one totalitarian ideology goading another totalitarian ideology
into a war that supposedly would lead to the greater good of the greater number.
MAKING PEARL HARBOR AN EASY TARGET
Was Japan facilitated in the attack? There is massive evidence to support that
conclusion, but we have time here for only a few examples. A Japanese spy by the name of
Tadashi Morimura was sent to Pearl Harbor under the cover of a phony political assignment
at the Japanese embassy. The FBI knew that his real name was Takeo Yoshikawa and that
he had been trained as a military officer. He had no political experience, so they knew his
assignment to a political post was a cover. They photographed him as he came off the ship.
They tracked him everywhere he went. They bugged his telephone. They knew what he was
doing every minute of the day. Often he would take a car to the top of a hill overlooking the
harbor and photograph the location of ships. Then he would use a clandestine radio to send
coded messages to Japan giving the exact grid locations for all the ships, the times of their
movements, how many soldiers and sailors were on duty, what time they reported, and what
1Robert B. Stinnett, Day of Deceit; The Truth about FDR and Peal Harbor (New York:
Touchstone/Simon and Schuster, 2000). The McCollum memorandum is on pp. 272–277.
2 Stinnett, p. 275.
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time they left the base. All of this information was clearly of military importance and
pointed to the possibility of a surprise attack. The FBI wanted to arrest Yoshikawa and send
him home, but the Office of Naval Intelligence intervened, with White House approval,
saying: Leave this guy alone. He is our responsibility. We’ll handle it. J. Edgar Hoover, who
was head of the FBI at that time, objected strongly, and it almost erupted into a contest of
inter-agency authority between the FBI and Naval Intelligence. In the end, Naval
Intelligence had its way, and Yoshikawa was allowed to continue his mission without even
knowing he was being watched.1
Just four days before the attack, U.S. Navy Intelligence intercepted this message
from Yoshikawa: “NO CHANGE OBSERVED BY AFTERNOON OF 2 DECEMBER. SO
FAR THEY DO NOT SEEM TO HAVE BEEN ALERTED. SHORE LEAVE AS
USUAL.” On December 6, just one day before the attack, this message was intercepted:
“THERE ARE NO BARRAGE BALLOONS AT THESE PLACES – AND
CONSIDERABLE OPPORTUNITY IS LEFT FOR A SURPRISE ATTACK.”2
It was bizarre. Here was an enemy agent gathering strategic information in
preparation for a surprise attack on American forces, and people at the highest levels of the
United States government were protecting him. They deliberately allowed the flow of
information to continue so the Japanese would be successful in their mission.
VACANT SEAS POLICY
Another example of facilitating the attack on Pearl Harbor is what was called the
Vacant Seas Policy. For many months, the Navy had known from what direction the
Japanese were likely to approach, what sea corridor they would use to launch their attack.
They even had conducted maneuvers simulating it themselves. One was called Exercise 191
and the other OPORD1. Because of weather patterns, sea currents, location of commercial
ship lanes, demand on fuel supplies, and other factors, they knew that the Japanese would
approach from the North Pacific Ocean in an operational area between 157 and 158 degrees
west longitude.3
This presented a special challenge. If the crew of any ship had seen a Japanese
armada steaming toward Hawaii, they undoubtedly would have used the radio to send word
ahead. They would have said: “Hey, there’s something going on here. There’s a fleet of
aircraft carriers and destroyers heading your way.” That, of course, would have spoiled
everything. Also, if the Japanese knew that their approach had been detected, they would
have lost the advantage of surprise and might have aborted their plan.
American intelligence was well aware of every stage of Japanese preparations. It was
already known that Admiral Nagumo was outfitting his carrier strike force at Hitokappu Bay
on the Japanese island of Etorofu. His progress was monitored closely, and daily reports
were sent to Washington. His ships departed from Japan and headed for Pearl Harbor on
November 25.4 Within hours, Navy headquarters in Washington initiated the Vacant Seas
directive that all military and commercial ships must now stay out of the North Pacific
1For the complete story, see Stinnett, pp. 83–118. Also John Toland, Infamy (New York:
Doubleday & Co., 1982), pp. 59, 60.
2 Stinnett, pp. 85, 109. Also Toland, p. 300.
3 Stinnett, p. 146.
4 Stinnett, pp.43–59.
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corridor. They were diverted hundreds of miles on a trans-Pacific route through the Torres
Straits so there would be no encounter that might alert the intended victims or cause the
Japanese to abort their mission.1
The next stage in the strategy was to bring the ships of the 7th Fleet home from sea
duty and bottle them up inside Pearl Harbor. That would make them easy targets because
they couldn’t maneuver. To accomplish this over the strong objection of Admiral Kimmel,
who was in charge of the Fleet, his superiors in Washington cut back on deliveries of fuel.
Without fuel, Kimmel had no choice. He had to curtail training exercises at sea and bring his
ships back into port. In his memoirs, published in 1955, he said:
Shortly after I organized the Fleet in three major task forces, I attempted to
keep two of the three forces at sea and only one at Peal Harbor. I quickly found that
fuel deliveries were falling behind consumption. The reserves were being depleted at
a time when it was imperative to increase them. It was this fact, and this alone, which
made it necessary to have two task forces simultaneously in Pearl Harbor.2
A Congressional investigation in 1946 revealed that, just a few days before the
attack, Navy headquarters in Washington ordered twenty-one of the most modern ships in
the 7th Fleet to leave Pearl Harbor and deploy at Wake and Midway Islands. The aircraft
carriers, Lexington and Enterprise were among those ships. This not only left the remaining
Fleet with drastically reduced protection, it also meant that the ships anchored in the harbor
were primarily old relics from World War I, many of which were already slated to be
scrapped. As Secretary of War Stimson had stated in his diaries: “The question was, how we
should maneuver them into firing the first shot without allowing too much damage to
ourselves.” Sacrificing only the old and marginally useful ships was the solution to that
problem.3
INTERCEPTED CODED MESSAGES
Were the victims at Pear Harbor insulated from information that might have allowed
them to protect themselves? Could those thousands of Americans who lost their lives been
alerted in time to take defensive action? Or were they deliberately sacrificed because their
deaths were needed to create the emotional drama to justify going to war? The answer to
that question is not a pleasant one.
Throughout this time, the Japanese were using a combination of military and
diplomatic codes. U.S. intelligence agencies had cracked all of them.4 According to Homer
Kisner, who was Chief of the Pacific Fleet’s Radio-Intercept team, his men intercepted and
decoded more than a million of those messages.5 For three months prior to the allegedly
surprise attack, Navy Intelligence knew everything in minute detail. Yet, not one of those
1 There was a serious disagreement between Admiral Richard Turner and his staff over this very
issue. When Captain Alan Kirk, Chief of Naval Intelligence, objected to withholding the intercepted
messages from Kimmel and Short, he was relieved of his command. See Toland, pp. 57–60.
2 Kimmel, pp. 2,3.
3The man who personally delivered the final message to FDR in the White House was Captain
Beardall, the President’s Naval Attaché. According to Beardall, FDR read the intercept and, in
spite of the 1 P.M. deadline, showed no alarm. (See Hearings on Pearl Harbor Attack, Part 11, p.
5287 ff. as cited by Stinnett, p. 233.) This was a foretaste of President Bush’s lack of alarm when
he received information that the second plane had crashed into the Twin Towers on 9/11.
4 Stinnett, pp. 225–237. Also Toland, pp. 10, 11.
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of our British and French brethren.1 It took great courage and wisdom, they say, for
Roosevelt to foresee this and confront totalitarianism before it became stronger. The
American people were too stupid to realize how important it was. They were too ignorant to
understand. They were too isolationist in their thinking to realize they must accept a
leadership role in the affairs of the world. So, what is a collectivist to do? You can’t leave it
to the ignorant voters to decide such important matters. There was no choice but to lie, to
deceive the American people, and ruin the careers of loyal military officers by making them
scapegoats. We had to violate our Constitution and our laws.2 It was statesmanship to kill
thousands of Americans in order to bring the stupid voters to the correct point of view.
Don’t you see? The only way to stop totalitarianism in Europe was to establish
totalitarianism in America.
Even Robert Stinnett, the man who found the McCollum memorandum, succumbed
to this insane argument. In the preface of his book, he wrote: “As a veteran of the Pacific
War, I felt a sense of outrage as I uncovered secrets that had been hidden from Americans
for more than fifty years. But I understood the agonizing dilemma faced by President
Roosevelt. He was forced to find circuitous means to persuade an isolationist America to
join in a fight for freedom.”3
One of the men who made sure that Admiral Kimmel and General Short never knew
about the decoded Japanese messages was Lieutenant Commander Joseph Rochefort, head
of the Navy’s Mid-Pacific Radio Intelligence Network. Rochefort got right to the point. He
said: “It was a pretty cheap price to pay for unifying the country.”4
Listen well, Ladies and Gentlemen. That is the voice of collectivism: 2,388 people
killed, another 1,178 wounded5 – mostly Americans –and it’s a pretty cheap price to pay for
1 That part is true, but it was an individual moral obligation, not a group obligation. In other
words, anyone who felt deeply about this was perfectly free to go to Europe and volunteer for the
British or French armies or to organize a volunteer American brigade, but no one had the right to
use force of law to conscript others into the American armed services and send them into battle
for that purpose. It is important to note that none of the master planners of this infamy ever felt a
moral obligation to put themselves into combat. That honor was reserved for others.
2 Unfortunately, it is sometimes necessary to ignore laws in time of war, especially in the heat of
battle, but the purpose of these deeds was not to win a war, it was to get into a war. The difference
is as night unto day.
3 Stinnett, p. xiii. It is undoubtedly because of this message that Stinnett’s book was accepted for
publication by Simon and Schuster and given wide distribution. Readers of the author’s book, The
Creature from Jekyll Island; A Second Look at the Federal Reserve, will recall a parallel situation in
which Simon and Schuster published Secrets of the Temple, by William Greider. Greider did an
excellent job of critiquing the Federal Reserve but, when it came to offering a solution, his
message basically was to relax and forget about it. The Fed, he said, had made plenty of mistakes
in the past, but no sweeping reforms are needed. All we need, he said, are wiser men to run it. It
makes no difference if you expose a corrupt monetary system if your solution is to do nothing
about it. And it makes no difference if you expose the infamy at Pearl Harbor if your conclusion is
that it was an act of statesmanship. Collectivists do not care about how much the public knows if
they have no realistic plan of action to bring about change. That is why they offer false leaders
(including authors) who will point with alarm at the problems of collectivism but then lead exactly
nowhere.
4The Reminiscences of Captain Joseph J. Rochefort (US Naval Institute Oral History Division,
1970), p. 163, as quoted by Stennett, p. 203.
5 Determining the Facts, Chart 1: December 7, 1941 losses,
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/18arizona/18charts1.htm.
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unifying the country. Anything can be justified merely by claiming that it is the greater good
for the greater number.1
As it was in WWI, the American leaders in World War II were focused far beyond
the war itself. Even before Pearl Harbor, Fabians and Leninists were drafting the structure
for a world government. It was to be called the United Nations; and, at the end of the
conflict, it would be offered to a war-weary world as “our last best hope for peace.” Most of
this work was done in the State Department Post-War Foreign Policy Planning Division,
under the direction of Alger Hiss, who actually was in both camps at the same time. Not
only was he an advisor to FDR and a former President of the Carnegie Endowment Fund
(which puts him squarely in the Fabian camp), he also was an undercover agent for the
Soviets. Hiss was the man who personally delivered the newly drafted UN Charter to the
founding meeting of the United Nations in San Francisco, and he became the first Secretary
General of that organization. If you are wondering about the significance of these facts, it is
this: After smashing the world to bits in world war for the second time, the UN became the
collectivist blueprint for remolding it to the heart’s desire.
A surface view of World War II is that it was a struggle for freedom against
totalitarianism. A deeper and more realistic view is that it was a war between three branches
of collectivism fighting for global dominance. The Fabians and Leninists teamed up against
the Fascists (with the Japanese Imperialists as a tactical secondary target). The Fascist
branch of collectivism was defeated. Ever since then, the world has been in the grip of a
struggle between the two remaining branches. It is not a battle for freedom against
totalitarianism. It is a contest to see which branch of collectivism will rule the world. While
that may have been difficult to see in the early stages of conflict, it is painfully obvious
today.
OPERATION MONGOOSE
In a moment, our time machine will deliver us to the year 2002 and the War on
Terrorism; but along the way, we must make a short stop at the year 1962. The exact date is
August 8. It is sixteen months after the Kennedy Administration had been embarrassed by a
botched invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. We find ourselves now at the Pentagon, in the
offices of General Lyman Lemnitzer who is the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. We
are watching as the general signs a top-secret document destined for the Secretary of
Defense who, at this time is Robert McNamara, a member of the CFR. The most important
1 A significant portion of the financial support for Nazi industry, including military production,
came from Wall Street investment houses controlled by CFR members and others who shared
their collectivist mindset. For this part of the history, see the author’s World without Cancer; The
Story of Vitamin B17, Part II (available from www.realityzone.com). When it is realized how those
collectivists in the United States who were beating the war drums against Hitler were also heavily
investing in the Nazi war machine, it becomes even more clear that the war was not about
stopping Hitler. It was about smashing the world to bits so it could be remolded to the heart’s
desire. It is sad to realize that hundreds of thousands of Americans gave their lives in this war
thinking they were fighting for freedom; but they were betrayed by their leaders. The purpose of
the war had nothing to do with freedom. It was a contest to determine which group of collectivists
would dominate the world. Soldiers were pawns on the global chessboard. Their patriotism was
used against them. They eagerly rushed into battle to defeat Nazism and Fascism, never
suspecting they were fighting on the side of Fabianism and Leninism, forces that are essentially
the same as those they fought.
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part of this document is contained in the Appendix to Enclosure A, and the subject line of
that section reads: Justification for US Military Intervention in Cuba.
In the eight pages that follow, there is a detailed proposal for a covert military action
called “Operation Mongoose.” Its purpose is to create an acceptable justification for the
United States to invade Cuba. The preferred scenario is to convince the Cuban government
that it is about to be attacked and, thereby, goad it into some kind of military action, which
then could be pointed to as aggression against the U.S. It is the old, familiar strategy to
AGGRAVATE an opponent into a first strike. If that should fail, the secondary scenario is
to stage phony attacks against the American base in Guantanamo and against civilian
commercial aircraft, making it look like the work of the Cuban military. The strategy also
calls for a U.S. fighter pilot to fake being attacked by Cuban MIGs and to radio that he has
been hit and is going down. Then he is to fly to a secret installation where the tail number of
his plane will be changed so the plane genuinely will be missing from the roster.
Meanwhile, a U.S. submarine is to disperse aircraft parts and a parachute into the waters
near Cuba where they will eventually be found by search and rescue teams.
In addition to these phony attacks, covert agents are to launch real terrorist attacks
against civilians in Miami and Washington DC – with genuine casualties. The plan is to
make the U.S. appear to be a victim of unprovoked attacks by a ruthless enemy, and this will
prepare world opinion to accept an all-out invasion of Cuba as justified retaliation.
As we stand here listening to the details of this plan, we would find it impossible to
believe that such treachery is actually being contemplated by high-ranking U.S. military
officers – were it not for the fact that we are looking at the document with our own eyes. By
the way, Operation Mongoose has since been de-classified as a result of the Freedom-of-
Information Act and, if you want to read it for yourself, it can be downloaded from the
National Archives web site. 1 Here are a few excerpts taken from that document:
This plan … should be developed to focus all efforts on a specific ultimate
objective which would provide adequate justification for US military intervention.
Such a plan would enable a logical build-up of incidents to be combined with other
seemingly unrelated events to camouflage the ultimate objective and create the
necessary impression of Cuban rashness and irresponsibility on a large scale, directed
at other countries as well as the United States…. The desired resultant from the
execution of this plan would be to place the United States in the apparent position of
suffering defensible grievances from a rash and irresponsible government of Cuba
and to develop an international image of a Cuban threat to peace in the Western
Hemisphere….
1. Since it would seem desirable to use legitimate provocation as the basis for
US military intervention in Cuba, a cover and deception plan … could be executed as
an initial effort to provoke Cuban reactions. Harassment plus deceptive actions to
convince the Cubans of imminent invasion would be emphasized….
– End of Part 3 –
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