At last: Shickshinny Knights of Malta linked to the Draper/Vonsiatsky Condon ManCand crowds

[David Guyatt]

No offence taken, John. My Pavlovian respone to anyone hinting I might be an agent is to assume they are, but I'm suspending that programmed response because of the need for understanding, cross-subcultural communications and because what you're saying is fascinating. Please carry on!

Two side points:

1. What you mean by Regime Change might be something different from what I understand as Regime Change, but I would say chimpanzees invented it and Machiaveli just repackaged it.

2. G. Edward Griffin in The Creature from Jekyll Island has different ideas about the "true identity" of Big Daddy Warbucks, which is neither here nor there, and Griffin makes historical mistakes in that book about other things.

Here's the excerpt for consideration, page 18, Introduction:

THE REAL DADDY WARBUCKS

Paul Moritz Warburg was a leading member of the investment banking firm of M.M. Warburg & Company of Hamburg, Germany, and Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He had come to the United States only nine years previously. Soon after arrival, however, and with funding provided mostly by the Rothschild group, he and his brother, Felix, had been able to buy partnerships in the New York investment banking firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Company, while continuing as partners in Warburg of Hamburg. Within twenty years, Paul would become one of the wealthiest men in America with an unchallenged domination over the country's railroad system.
At this distance in history, it is difficult to appreciate the importance of this man. But some understanding may be had from the fact that the legendary character, Daddy Warbucks, in the comic strip Little Orphan Annie, was a contemporary commentary on the presumed benevolence of Paul Warburg, and the almost magic ability to accomplish good through the power of his unlimited wealth.
A third brother, Max Warburg, was the financial adviser of the Kaiser and became Director of the Reichsbank in Germany. This was, of course, a central bank, and it was one of the cartel models used in the construction of the Federal Reserve System. The Reichsbank, incidentally, a few years later would create the massive hyperinflation that occurred in Germany, wiping out the middle class and the entire German economy as well.
Paul Warburg soon became well known on Wall Street as a persuasive advocate for a central bank in America. Three years before the Jekyll Island meeting, he had published several pamphlets. One was entitled Defects and Needs of Our Banking System, and the other was A Plan for A Modified Central Bank. These attracted wide attention in both financial and academic circles and set the intellectual climate for all future discussions regarding banking legislation. In these treatises, Warburg complained that the American monetary system was crippled by its dependency on gold and government bonds, both of which were in limited supply. What America needed, he argued, was an elastic money supply that could be expanded and contracted to accommodate the fluctuating needs of commerce. The solution, he said, was to follow the German example whereby banks could create currency solely on the basis of "commercial paper," which is banker language for I.O.U.s from corporations.
Warburg was tireless in his efforts. He was a featured speaker before scores of influential audiences and wrote a steady stream of published articles on the subject. In March of that year, for example, The New York Times published an eleven-part series written by Warburg explaining and expounding what he called the Reserve Bank of the United States.

OSS was definitely up to something in China, all the veterans of the Chinese stuff figure prominently later in CIA, but non sum dignus, et arrectis auribus.

Speaking of Warburg's there is the curious little book published in 1933 by an author using the name of Sidney Warburg that went into considerable detail about how leading figures in the US financed Hitler's rise to power. The late Tony Sutton tackled the claims and counter-claims that the book was a forgery in his book "Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler". The Chapter dealing with this can be read here by anyone interested. The whole book is available online here. It's a real corker and well worth taking the time to read.