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

[Magda Hassan]

John - reading your posts #9 and #141, my sense is that you use "Manchurian Candidate" primarily to describe an aspiring White Russian fascist fuhrer and secondly as a possible "colloquial" description of kamikaze pilots.

This is very different from the standard meaning of "Manchurian Candidate" as, effectively, a programmed assassin.

Jan, this is not what Richard Condon intended or indicated. And Condon is THE authority on the novel ManCand and THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE from Manchuoko, Anastase Vonsiatsky. Even John Marks titled his book, The Search for The Manchurian Candidate" not CANDIDATES. Everyone stands corrected here. Marks and Condon are the experts here plus anyone else dressed up in a Top Hat and a Walrus Moustache in order to look like Warburg. Oh, I get it both Warbucks and Warburg start with "Warb" so that makes a man about 5'9" tall the paradigm for Draper as Big Daddy Warbucks. No cigar. Maybe Warburg was 6'5" tall INCLUDING HIS TOP HAT. LOL. Now I get it. But toss the stache and add the glasses and give him 8" of height and he STILL does not look like Big Daddy Warbucks, but Wickliffe Draper does.

From Wikipedia on 'The Manchurian Candidate' book.

It is revealed that the Communists have been using Raymond Shaw as a sleeper agent, a guiltless assassin subconsciously activated by seeing the “Queen of Diamonds” playing card while playing solitaire. As such, he obeys orders, which he then forgets. Raymond Shaw’s Soviet secret service controller is his domineering mother, Eleanor, a ruthless power broker working with the Communists to execute a "palace coup d’état" and quietly overthrow the U.S. Government with the "Manchurian Candidate": her husband, McCarthy-esque Senator Johnny Iselin.