A Brief and Relevant History of Foreign Ops Allowed To Run On American Soil...
January 6th, X-Men, Chisrael vs AUKUS
The one and only time I met Stan Lee, of Marvel Comics fame, we were at a restaurant in Beverly Hills. (This was, of course, before it became known how the neocons and a Chisraeli billionaire and intelligence officer Ike Perlmutter had betrayed the grandfatherly Lee.)
I’m not one to go up to celebrities but my friend was not similarly inhibited. It was she and not I who had first spotted him. Before I could say anything about how I didn’t think it a good idea we were already exchanging pleasantries with Mr. Lee. It helps to have good looking friends, especially in Hollywood.
My friend who was with me said emphatically that while the Anglo-American Dark Knight was my favorite film “Charles is a big fan of the X-Men even though he’s a big Republican.” (This was in my misspent youth, mind you.)
My friend was of the view that the X-Men were really about civil rights and so naturally Republicans couldn’t love the mutant child soldiers and their covert war on behalf of harmony between mutant- and mankind. My view of the X-Men is a bit more Christian — that each of us has innate gifts, working toward peace and a common goal despite whatever accusations or hatred is hurled at us.
“Whose your favorite character?” Lee asked.
“Professor Charles Xavier,” I replied.
“Oh, you mean, FDR?” he said and then he winked. Before I could protest, his dining companion returned from the bathroom and we thanked him for his time and took our leave.
His comments stayed with me. Professor X — also confined to a wheelchair — allows a paramilitary group of youngsters to operate covertly on American soil for the good of the world.
And so, of course did FDR. Maybe I had misjudged America’s New Deal President. And maybe, just such a thing has gone on many times throughout our history. Maybe it’s going on right now.
*Wink*
The special relationship indeed.
There’s a rather great book called Desperate Deception: British Covert Operations in the United States, 1939-44 about the spying that took place during the Second World War.
Desperate Deception has all kinds of fascinating detail about how Britain, lacking manpower and money, worked, in the words of her half-American prime minister, Sir Winston Churchill, to “drag” the United States of America into the necessary conflict.
That they had help in America should go without saying. That they always seemingly have help in the United States should go without saying.
A review of Desperate Deception is worth looking at in detail.
To gain American allegiance, Britain launched a sizable propaganda campaign and a number of intelligence actions, many carried out or managed by William Stevenson (“Intrepid”), Britain's spy extraordinaire. Mahl asserts that British agents had willing accomplices in FDR's White House, filled with an anglophile elite that identified deeply with Britain. His research reveals that foreign money was poured into some congressional elections to defeat isolationist politicians, that British agents spent money freely to ease the passage of the Lend-Lease Act, that they planted pro-British articles in interventionist newspapers and magazines, and that some national opinion polls were rigged to reflect a deeper and stronger pro- British sentiment than existed. British agents set up Bill Donovan's Office of Strategic Services and helped run it, and they established or influenced a number of organizations pushing for American intervention. Their efforts were ingenious and effective. They were also either dubious or downright illegal, but Mahl argues that, given the desperate situation in Europe, Britain had little choice.
My favorite parts were the bits where the British funded the political campaigns of candidates that they wanted to see win. Foreign collusion? Perish the thought! That would never happen. Right? Right?
I also really liked how they rigged the Gallup polling to suggest that there was more support for American entry into the war than there actually was. As you know, all polling is always correct on all races, especially the most recent ones. Right? Nor would there be any efforts to take over the commanding heights of the U.S. economy by installing Brits within key companies. Right?
Desperate Deception is of a piece with the sort of derring do you might have come to expect with the recent Netflix film, Operation Mincemeat.
The British are terribly clever — if a touch too theatrical for my tastes. Seemingly everyone in Mi6 is a writer manqué that you almost forget that J. R. R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Roald Dahl, and Ian Fleming all did their part in the “secret war.”
What is British spy Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory but a morality tale about the dangers of being compromised through the Seven Deadly sins? And what, of course, is Reid Hoffman’s essay but a celebration of that kind of generational compromising? This is the height of GenExploitation of the millennials.
How far can you run a foreign intelligence operation on American soil if you have a witting White House? Or perhaps a witting Florida or Texas Governor?
Could, say, a President Trump, have allowed the Chisraeli agents to run amok during his time at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue so as to force America into a war with Iran?
Might these Chisraeli types even have targeted American congressmen like Congressman Matt Gaetz who steadfastly opposed such a war?
A new video certainly raises that provocative question.
I commend it to your attention.
So, too, is it worthy of your attention how there were a number of Israeli stingrays in Washington DC recording all the passersby. And then you have the pesky problem of Pegasus getting $5 million in DOJ funds.
It sure seems increasingly like the January 6th incident was a Chisraeli plot. And sure enough the first person interviewed was a Brit.
You might be forgiven, of course, for thinking that there might be helpful spying operations lurking around every corner. I would never countenance such a thing—or wish for its continued success as our real allies clean out the corrupt government officials or compromised tech companies.
Like Franklin, I know that the British may not love me nearly as much I love them but I am accustomed to loving things that can’t love me back and of having help in the revolutions I want to bring to American shores with British help.
I promise I’ll call the discoverer of DNA — Crick-Watson — because I think it’s true.
The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington by Jennet Conant is a great read. Even shows how he worked with Disney, seduced Congresswomen Luce etc.