Conspiracy: A Biblical View, by Gary North - EntreWave

COURT HISTORIANSpublish it.That, of course, is what Antony Sutton did. But why not? He wasalready unemployable in high-level academia. He was a judicious andremarkable scholar who wrote himself out of an academic career,despite (possibly because of) the erudition of his performance inWestern Technology and Soviet Economic Development (3 volumes,Hoover Institution Press), which shows that 95% of all Soviettechnology had been imported from, or stolen from, the West,1917-1967. Because of what he discovered when writing thisacademic study, he concluded that the Soviet Union must havepurchased most of its military technology from the West, too.He then made the mistake of publishing this conclusion, along withthe evidence, in a popular form through a conservative publishinghouse: National Suicide (Arlington House, 1973). He demonstratedbeyond any shadow of a doubt that profit-seeking U.S. firms havegotten rich by selling the Soviet Union the military technology thatalone made it a credible threat to the West. One doesn't voice suchembarrassing conclusions to "the conservative rabble" if one is on thestaff of the Hoover Institution, a respectable conservativeEstablishment think-tank. So he got fired. (Amazingly, HarvardUniversity's distinguished historian and Sovietologist, Richard Pipes,acknowledged in his book, Survival Is Not Enough, that Sutton'sthesis regarding the Western origins of Soviet technology isessentially correct, and he also admitted in a footnote that theacademic world has deliberately ignored Sutton's three-volume workbecause his conclusions embarrassed them. This admission cameabout a dozen years too late for Sutton's academic career.) 3Well, then, why not blow the whole career deal? Once blown, Suttonreally took the plunge: with a book on "The Order," which Suttonbelieves (though has not yet proved) is an international conspiracy. 4Its one visible manifestation in the U.S. (as far as the evidence nowindicates) is Skull and Bones, Yale's ancient secret society, whichPresident George Bush (Council on Foreign Relations — resigned)and William E Buckley, Jr. (C.F.R.) belong to. This thesis was toomuch even for Gary Allen. "I find it hard to believe," Allen told me,"that the conspiracy's control over America is ultimately determinedby the Registrar at Yale University." Sutton got a newsletterpublisher, Research Publications, to publish the initial versions of thehttp://freebooks.commentary.net/freebooks/docs/html/gnco/html/5.htm (7 of 15) [5/26/2000 1:48:13 PM]