G. Edward Griffin - The Fearful Master - PDF Archive

Subversion in Government Departments. 19 It adds up to a clear pattern of deliberate
Communist penetration into key positions within our own government and the use of these
positions to generate a Communist-inspired United States foreign policy. The major
feature of this policy has centered around getting the United States to gradually give up its
independence to the authority and control of the United Nations, which was created by the
Communists for just this purpose. As security officer J. Anthony Panuch summarized it:
It was World War II which gave the Soviet plan its impetus. During this
period, a massive infiltration of sensitive agencies of the government
took place. Pro-Communist and personnel of subversive and
revolutionary tendencies were able to establish themselves in strategic
slots . . . to shift the center of gravity in the process of U.S. foreign
policy from a national to an international orientation via the supranational
UN organization. Furthermore, if working control of the U.S.
foreign policy were focalized in the UN organization, the role of
Congress in our foreign affairs could be bypassed. 20
Postwar foreign policy planning and the San Francisco conference of 1945 seem so far in
the past that it is difficult for many to find a correlation between then and now. Yet events
in Katanga were shaped as much by these now forgotten hands as they were by the
O'Brien's and the Hammarskjold's of more recent memory. Needless to say, however,
1945 was just the beginning. When it came time to begin the actual hiring of the UN
administrative staff, secret American Communists were among the first in line.
Trygve Lie, the United Nations' first secretary-general, said that in the first year members
of the Secretariat had to be recruited very rapidly; about three thousand were hired
between March and December of 1946 and hundreds more were hired in 1947. Lie was
well aware of the possibility of their being secret Communists among the American job
applicants, but this caused him little concern. As he put it: "Nothing in the Charter or in the
staff regulations bars a Communist from being a member of the UN Secretariat; nor could
there be in an organization that embraces both Communist and non-Communist
members." 21
This is, of course, one of the reasons why the United Nations can never work to promote
freedom, justice or anything else the Communists wish to suppress. But that is another
subject and one with which we shall deal at some length further along. For now, the
important point is that the immediate demand for thousands of people to fill out the United
Nations' original staff provided a golden opportunity for the agents of Communism to get in
on the ground floor and to swarm into the key positions. The record shows that this is
precisely what they did.
Since the new world-government organization needed men and women with skills and
experience similar to those acquired in the service of national government agencies, it
was only natural that most of the original applicants were people who had been working
for the United States Government in one capacity or another. It was natural, too, that
these people should have the approval or recommendation of their former employer.
There are two kinds of recommendations, however: official and unofficial. An official
recommendation would naturally be entered into the record and might contain, among
other things, a security check. An unofficial recommendation would have no such
drawbacks; a simple telephone call from an influential person in the State Department is
all that would be required.