Saint Fletcher the Obscure

[Jan Klimkowski]

Re: Iron Mountain.

I've just dug out my copy of JFK: The CIA, Vietnam and the Plot to Assassinate John F Kennedy.
On pages 4-5, Prouty writes:

From this point of view, warfare, and the preparation for war, is an absolute necessity for the welfare of the state and for control of population masses, as has been so ably documented in that remarkable novel by Leonard Lewin, Report From Iron Mountain on the Possibility and Desirability of Peace, and attributed by Lewin to 'the Special Study Group in 1966', an organization whose existence was so highly classified that there is no record of them to this day, of who the men in the group were or with what sectors of the government or private life they were connected.

This report, as presented in the novel, avers that war is necessary to sustain society, the nation, and national sovereignty, a view that has existed for millenia.

So, Prouty twice in this one passage describes "Iron Mountain" as a novel, but is clearly interested in the arguments articulated in the report contained within the novel and attributed by Lewin to "the Special Study Group in 1966".

It is possible that he viewed some of the arguments put forward in that "report" as similar to those he believed his "High Cabal" to hold.