Guido Preparata's website

[R.K. Locke]

Great links as usual R K. The Nazi Hydra is an excellent book in my opinion too.

When looking at Zaharoff the impression I come away with is that the guy was a snake. That also is the view I have of Allen Dulles. Two very crooked and amoral characters playing everyone against each other and pocketing wads of money along the way.

Very true, David. Zaharoff appears to have been an agent of the Rothschilds in much the same way that Dulles was an agent (primarily) of the Rockefellers. Accounts at the time often described him as one of the richest men in Europe, so we can only wonder as to the true wealth of his masters. Google Newspapers is a useful source for this kind of thing:

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2...8025&hl=en

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1...3694&hl=en

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1...8053&hl=en

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1...7144&hl=en


I think it's fair to say that the true history of this era is as yet unwritten. For example, here is a list of leaders/rulers assassinated in the 20 years before the outbreak of World War I:

Marie François Sadi Carnot - France - 1894 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sante_Geronimo_Caserio)
Stefan Stambolov - Bulgaria - 1895 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Stambolov#Death)
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar - Persia - 1896 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirza_Reza_Kermani)
Juan Idiarte Borda - Uruguay - 1897 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avelino_Arredondo)
Antonio Cánovas del Castillo - Spain - 1897 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Angiolillo)
José María Reina Barrios - Guatemala - 1898 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_...rios#Death)
Empress Elisabeth of Austria - 18989 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Lucheni)
Ulises Heureaux - Dominican Republic - 1899 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulises_Heureaux)
Umberto I of Italy - 1900 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaetano_Bresci)
William McKinley - US - 1901 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Czolgosz)
Alexander I of Serbia & Queen Draga - 1903 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_...assination)
Theodoros Deligiannis - Greece - 1905 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodoros_Deligiannis)
Dimitar Petkov - Bulgaria - 1907 * (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitar_Petkov)
Mirza Ali Asghar Khan Amin al-Soltan - Persia - 1907 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirza_Ali_..._al-Soltan)
Carlos I of Portugal - 1908 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_I_o...assination)
Boutros Ghali - Egypt - 1910 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boutros_Ghali#Death)
Pyotr Stolypin - Russia - 1911 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyotr_Stol...assination)
José Canalejas - Spain - 1912 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Pardi%C3%B1as)
Francisco I. Madero - Mexico - 1913 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_I._Madero#Death)
George I of Greece - 1913 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_I_o...assination)


That's without even mentioning significant statesmen like Jean Jaurès.

Of course, anyone who has read Conrad's The Secret Agent will be familiar with the old "anarchist assassin" routine that was so prevalent at the time...