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items. This meant, of c o u r s e — a s it did in the case of L e n d L e a s e — t h a t the A m e r i c a n t a x p a y e r h a d to m a k e up the difference.

The Soviets w e r e not e v e n required to h a v e the m o n e y to b u y these goods. A m e r i c a n financial institutions, the federal g o v e r n m e n t , a n d international agencies w h i c h are largely funded by the federal g o v e r n m e n t , such as the International M o n e t a r y F u n d a n d the W o r l d Bank— lent the m o n e y to them. Furthermore, the interest rates on these loans also are below the m a r k e t requiring still additional subsidy by A m e r i c a n citizens. A n d that is not all. A l m o s t all of these loans have been gu aran te e d by the United States g o v e r n m e n t , w h i c h m e a n s that if—no, m a k e that when—these countries default in their p a y m e n t s , the gullible A m e r i c a n public is o n c e again called u p o n to m a k e t h e m g o o d . In other w o r d s , the n e w mechanism, innocently a n d deceptively referred to as ' t r a d e , '

is little m o r e than a thinly disguised m e a n s by which m e m b e r s of the R o u n d Table w h o direct o u r national policies h a v e bled billions of dollars f r o m A m e r i c a n citizens for an ongoing e c o n o m i c transfusion into the Soviet b l o c — a n d continue to do so n o w that the w o r d Soviet has been c h a n g e d to the less offensive Democratic Socialism.

This enables those regimes to enter into contracts w i t h A m e r i c a n businessmen to p r o v i d e essential services. A n d the circle is c o m -

plete: From the American taxpayer to the American government to the

'socialist' regime to the American businessman and, ultimately, to the American financier who funded the project and provided the political influence to make it all possible.

1. Anthony C. Sutton, National Suicide: Military Aid to the Soviet Union (New Rochelle. New York: Arlington House, 1973), p. 24.

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This is the key to understanding the transfusion mechanism.

Many Americans have looked at this process and have jumped to the conclusion that there must be a nest of Communist agents within our government. In an exam on reality politics, they would receive half credit for that answer. Yes, there undoubtedly have been, and continue to be, Red agents and sympathizers burrowed deep into our government woodwork, and they are all too happy to help the process along. But the main motive force has always come from the non-Communist, non-Democratic Socialist, non-American, non - anything members of the Round Table network who, as Lenin said, in the pursuit of profit are laboring for the preparation of their own suicide.

These men are incapable of genuine patriotism. They think of themselves, not as citizens of any particular country, but as citizens of the world. They can do business just as easily with bloodthirsty dictatorships as with any other government—especially since they are assured by the transfer mechanism that the American taxpayer is going to make good on the deal.

When David Rockefeller was asked about the propriety of

providing funding for Marxist and Communist countries which are openly hostile to the United States, he responded: 'I don't think an international bank such as ours ought to try to set itself as a judge about what kind of government a country wishes to have.'

Wishes to have? He was talking about Angola where the

Marxist dictatorship was forced upon the people with Cuban soldiers and Soviet weapons!

Thomas Theobald, Vice President of Citicorp, was asked in 1981

about his bank's loans to Poland. Was he embarrassed by making loans to a Communist country, especially following the regime's brutal repression of free-trade unions? Not at all. 'Who knows which political system works?' he replied. 'The only test we care about is, can they pay their bills.' What he meant, of course, was can the American taxpayer pay Poland's bills.

ITEM: The following item, taken directly from the Los Angeles Times just a few months after Theobald's statement, tells the story: WASHINGTON—For months, the Reagan Administration has

been using federal funds to repay Polish loans owed to U.S. banks, and the bill for this fiscal year may amount to $400 million, Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Richard E. Lyng said Monday.... 'They (the Polish authorities) have not been making payments for at least the last 298 THE CREATURE FROM JEKYLL ISLAND

half of the last year,' Lyng said. 'When they don't make a payment, the U.S. Department of Agriculture makes a payment.'...

Lyng said the U.S. Government paid $60 million to $70 million a month on guaranteed Polish loans in October, November, December, and January—and 'we will continue to pay them.'1

This, remember, was precisely at the time the Polish government had declared martial law and was using military force to crush workers' demonstrations for political reform. The Polish default on this $1.6 billion loan was by no means an isolated event.

Communist Rumania and a multitude of Latin American countries were soon to follow.

The hard fact is that American taxpayers unknowingly have been making monthly bank payments on behalf of Communist, socialist, and so-called Third-World countries for many years. And, with the more recent staging of