Treason in America: From Aaron Burr to Averell Harriman

335 Pages·1984·27.7 MB·English

by  Anton Chaitkin

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To the memory ofmyfather, jacob Chaitkin, and to those
ofhis generation whofought the Nazis.
Treason inAmerica
FromAaron Burrto Avereil Harriman
© 1984, 1985by New Benjamin Franklin House
© 1998byExecutiveIntelligence Review
SECOND EDITION
FirstPrinting: December 1985
Second printing:]anuary 1999
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ISBN ()..943235-0()..6 (previouslyISBN()"933488-32-7)
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Contents
Author's Preface xiii
Introduction: Up McGeorge Bundy's FamilyTree xix
I. The British-Swiss Secret Service 1
in North America
1 Benedict Arnold Re-Examined 3
2 The British Surrender, but the War 18
Continues
3 Burr and Gallatin Drive for Power 35
4 'The Whole Continent of America Will 53
Become English'
5 The Murderer Marches West 66
6 Preparing America's Surrender 81
11. The True Story of the Civil War 93
7 How Boston's Brahmins Sought to 95
Destroy the United States
8 Those Lovable Boston Brahmins 109
9 The Organization of Dope, Inc. 124
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10 Benjamin Franklin's Freemasons versus
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Boston's Scottish Rite
11 'Operation South Carolina' and the
163
Career of Caleb Cushing
List of Tables and Charts
12 How the Eastern Establishment Ran
213
Southern Secession
111. The Reform of America by Her Enemies
261
13 FlOm the British East India Company to
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Emerson, Carlyle, and Marx
14 'Currency Reform'
305 New York State in 1792: Land Owned by Burr's 31
15 The Pot and the Kettle
337 Clients
16 Anthropologists Against Indians 387 Aaron Burr's Relationship to the British Military 36
17 The Spooks and Secret Service in North America
426
18 How Environmentalism Killed the The Small World of the British-Swiss Secret ·91
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American Frontier Service
19 The Partnership of Harriman and Dulles Boston's "First Families": Essex Junto and Opium 132
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Bibliography Syndicate
575
Index The "Northern" Origins of the Confederate 222
589
Gestapo-"Knights of the Golden Circ1e"
About the Author
609
Southern Secession Was No PopularMovement 243
The Decision Process in the SlaveStates
Some American Members of the British Cobden 315
Club
The Lamar Family 353
Teddy Roosevelt's Family Tree: At War Against 483
the USA
Wholesale Price Index for All Commodities 500
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Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments and thanks to:
Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., who gave this book its title, and
thus its scope, and who is leading the fight for a happy ending:
exit the oligarchs.
Pamela Lowry, who explained the essential difference be
tween the "northshore" and the "southshore" around Boston.
Roger Maduro, for his enthusiasm in identifying the "key
traitors."
Paul Kreingold, for helping to make apparent the dynamics
ofcooperationbetweenNorthemandSoutheminsurrectionists.
Herbert Eby, for catching the Tucker Family.
Paul Glumaz, for pioneering work on Lewis Henry Morgan.
Fred Henderson, for digging out the story of New York in
the Boss Tweed era.
Peter Catalano, for bringing WilliamJames and the psychic
researchers back to life.
MauraSmithies, foraidintheindictrnentofJohnFosterDulles.
Lewis duPont Smith, for patient research in reconstructing
the sources.
Janice Chaitkin, for editing and perfect judgment throughout
the creation ofthis book.
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Author's Preface
Treason inAmerica:FromAaronBurrtoAverellHarri
man firstcirculated as afeature seriesin New Solidarity,
the newspaper of the Lyndon LaRouche political move
ment, beginningJan. 17, 1983. In March 1984, Chapters
1-13ofthe Treason seriesweregatheredtogetherin the
317-page first edition ofthis book.
Chapters 14-19 appeared in New Solidarityfrom April
1984throughJuly1985.Thecompleted,607-pagesecond
edition, with footnotes, index, and bibiliography, was
released in December 1985.
Acertainsteadydemandhavingcontinuedforthebook
while it has long been out of print, this second printing
of the second edition is now issued. No changes have
been made, except for the substitution of this preface
for those ofthe previous printings, and the updating of
the author's biography.
The historical method employed in this book arose
from the author's associationwith Lyndon H. LaRouche,
Jr., since 1966, in a political war against the power elite
of the London-New York financial axis. That conflict
reached a c1imactic intensity in the period the Treason
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series first appeared. LaRouche's fight for a just eco
s's 1977 essay, "Uncovering the Treason School of
nomie order and Third WorId industrialization rallied ~erican
History," in her The Political Ec?nomy 0/the
nationalistleaderseverywhere,andledtoMexic~n Presi
AmericanRevolution,rebuttingtheAnglophIleandMa~­
dent lose Lopez Portillo's 1982 call for a debt morato
isthistorians' burialoftheuniversalvaluesoftheAmen
rium. LaRouche aides wrote a keypartofU.S. President
can Founding Fathers; and byW. Allen Salisbury's 1978
Ronald Reagan's March 23, 1983, national address an
book The Civil WarandtheAmerican System:America's
nouncing the Strategie Defense Initiative, the beam Battl~
with Britain, 1860-1876, with its rediscovery of
weapons defense program developed and fought for by
Abraham Lincoln's economic adviser Henry C. Carey,
LaRouche over the preceding several years.
restoring the Lincoln-Carey nationalismto the center of
Such initiat.ives,.designed to breakWestern policyout
U.S. history, as was understood by all educated men of
of the paradIgm Imposed by British and Anglophile
that era.
"globalists," brought responses of fearful fury from
The Treason inAmerica storywas conceived as akind
~Rouche's
opponents. Over many years, an arena of
offamilybiographyoftheAnglophileU.S.E~stern Es!ab
thIS?lobalscopeand atthislevelgaveto the participants
lishment, seen in their conflict with repubhcan patnots
aumquelyelevatedvantage pointfrom whieh to appreci
from the American Revolution into the present era. The
a~e t~e realities of politieal combat. For example, the
bad repute of"conspiracytheories" in polite societywas
dIsgUlSed use ofsundryvarieties ofpolitical radieals, or
nodeterrencetosuchastudy,norwasKarlMarx'sattack
ofsupposedlyneutral pressoutlets, asfronts for assaults
on the pro-American System economist Friedrich List:
by the oligarchy and its controlled police agencies be
"Since his own work conceals a secret aim, he suspects
came increasingly easy to anticipate and unmask. lJIti
secret aims everywhere.... Herr List, instead of study
mately, massive judicial and otherforce was used in the
ingrealhistory,looksforthesecret,badaimsofindividu
unsuccessful attempt to shut this movement down.
als, and, owing to his cunning, he is very well able to
Su~h acad~my
a real-life affords the studentofhistory
discovertbem ...making [hisenemy] an objectofsuspi
specIal advantages. Bemg an active participant in an in
cion.... Herr List casts aspersions on the English and
tense conte~tfor some~olicy,allows oneunusualfacility
French economists and retails gossip about them."
IYI~g
to det:ct concernmg such a policy in the popular
Using mainly primary sources, so as to go beyond
press,mpartIcularwheneventsaredescribedasacciden
mere gossip, an attempt has been made in this work to
tal and not the outcome of a bitter fight between two
reconstructthe pivotalpoliticalwarsin U.S. historyfrom
sides. Itwas quite natural to apply such observations to
the 1780s to the mid-20th century. This is a confidential
original study ofthe struggles ofone's predecessors in
exposition ofthe employment record, so to speak-not
the republiean tradition, from Plato through the Renais
only the "secret, bad aims"-ofBenedictArnold, Aaron
sance into the Ameriean Revolution and the modern
Burr, Albert Gallatin, the blue-blood dope pushers, the
world,oncethistradition hadbeenidentifiedandrevived
Free Traders, the secessionists, the backers of Hitler,
by Lyndon LaRouche.
and the Anglo-American forerunners of the recent de
Treason in America was preceded by Nancy Span-
cades'NewAgers.Itisbelievedthatthisworkisthefirst
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nds on its own merits as an original into
seriouschronicleofthe anti-nationalistsideofAmerican ~:ntity cam~
of the oligarchs who to Wleld.power m
history yet written. . . t America's revolutionary hentage.
Amenca, agams
But, a complete picture requires the other side ofthe
story,athorough-goingaccountofthe republicannation October 1998
alists. H. GrahamLowry's1987HowtheNation Was Won: Leesburg, Virginia
America'sUntoldStory, Volume1,1630-1754,andseveral
articles since 1988 by the present author, have docu
mented the tradition of Benjamin Franklin, George
Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John QuincyAdams,
HenryClay, Lincoln, Careyand their allies, who created
modern times and spread civilization despite the British
Empire-centered enemy.
Afterthislaterworkwasdone, itbecameapparentthat
a particular section of Treason in America was in error,
namely, thetreatmentofthe earlyyearsoftheSmithson
ianInstitution.ThatpartofChapter 16,"Anthropologists
Against Indians," contains a fallacy of composition, in
the omission of the truth about scientistJoseph Henry,
the first leader ofthe Smithsonian. Alater studyofHen
ry's career revealed hirn to be a close collaborator of
AlexanderDallasBacheandhiscircleofpatrioticnation
alists of the Franklin-to-Carey tradition. The account in
Treason inAmericausefullydescribesthe contrarytradi
tion atthe Smithsonian, the cultists, psychical research
ers, and enemies ofWestern states' development; but it
wrongly (ifvaguely) implicatesJoseph Henrywith those
who were in reality his opponents. The account of the
Swiss educational reformer Johann Pestalozzi, in the
same chapter, suffers a similar failure in historical
method.
Theseerrorshave beenleftuncorrectedinthe current
edition. Also, later research work, on such Treason in
America figures as Albert Pike, and on Harriman's part
ners, the family of George Herbert Walker Bush, has
notbeenincluded. Itisbelieved thatthe presentvolume
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INTRODUCTION
Up McGeorge Bundy's Family Tree
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
According to the celebrated Harvard economist, lohn Kenneth
Galbraith, McGeorge Bundy was secretly elected "the head of
the [O.S.] Establishment,"backin1965. Bundyhadrichlyeamed
theappointrnent; asheadofthe NationalSecurityCouncilunder
Presidents Kennedy and lohnson, he had done about as much
todestroytheUnitedStatesasanymaninthatpostconceivably
could, and was therefore candidate for a much higher position
ofpowerandresponsibility, asheadofthepowerfulFordFoun
dation.
Since spring 1968, Bundy has never liked this writer very
much. Byhislights, he hashadreasonsforthisgrowingemnity.
A handful of the writer's associates made a fair mess of an
insurrectionary project Bundy had afoot at that time, and tater
did damage to Bundy's funding of an effort to detonate anti
Semitic race-riots in New York City. Since then, the two ofus
have come afoul of one another more or less constantly, a
circumstance efficiently calculated to foster mutual dislike. Ad
mittedly, since Henry A. Kissinger unleashed the first of bis
international covert operations against me during 1975, it is
Kissinger's personal vendetta against me and my friends-in
cludingafew who have died afteraKissinger threat was deliv
ered-which has been off and on in the headlines around the
world. Inthis matter, and othernotable affairs, Bundy is vastly
more important in rank and capacity for sheer meanness than
the unhappy Mr. Kissinger.
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