The Communists Take China (1941-49)

Russia, as early as 1920, was conspiring against China. Shortly after the Bolshevik revolution ended in 1918, the Communists announced: "We are marching to free ... the people of China." In 1921, a Russian agent was sent to Peking, then to Shanghai, to make plans for the First Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, which would become the world's largest. They began to infiltrate the government in 1922, and by 1924, the Chinese armed forces were reorganized along the same lines as the Soviet army. Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975) was the Commandant, and Chou En-lai was in charge of Political Affairs.

With the use of Soviet troops commanded by Gen. Michael Borodin, Chiang Kai-shek attacked Shanghai, robbing the Rothschild-affiliated Soong Bank. President Coolidge refused to send U.S. troops against the Chinese forces, and T.V. Soong negotiated with Chiang, offering him $3 million, his sister May-ling as a wife (even though Chiang had a wife and family), and the presidency of China for life, if he would change sides. He agreed, and began to rule China as a British ally. In December, 1927, he married the sister of Soong. Seeing the Russians as a threat to his country he had them ejected and had many communist advisors arrested.

Mao Tse-tung fled and hid out in the northern provinces where he began training rebels for a future insurrection.

In 1937, Japan attacked Shanghai, and coupled with the growing Communist insurgency, created a two-front war. China needed help, and sent the following telegram to Roosevelt on December 8, 1941: "To our new common battle, we offer all we are and all we have to stand with you until the Pacific and the world are freed from the curse of brute force and endless perfidy."

China's plea was brushed off and they were the last country to get military aid which came in the form of a $250 million loan in gold [approved by Congress] to stabilize their economy. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Harry Dexter White, the Soviet spy, was in charge of making sure China got the money and over a period of 3 years he only sent them $27 million. In 1945, Congress voted a second loan of $500 million, and White made sure they didn't get any of that which resulted in the collapse of their economy.

After World War II, special envoys Gen. George C. Marshall (Army Chief of Staff and CFR member(?), who served as Secretary of State 1947-49 and Secretary of Defense 1950-51; who had knowledge of the impending attack on Pearl Harbor, but didn't inform the commanders in the Pacific) and Patrick J. Hurley were sent to China to meet with Chiang Kai-shek. They urged him to give the Communists representation in the Chinese Government and for the Nationalists (Kuomintang) to have a coalition government, since they felt that the Russians weren't influencing the Chinese Communists.

However, Chiang Kai-shek would not accept any kind of Communist influence in his government, so Marshall recommended that all American aid be stopped, and an embargo enforced. There was no fuel for Chinese tanks and planes, or ammunition for weapons. Russia gave the Chinese Communists military supplies they had captured from Japan, and also diverted some of the American Lend-Lease material to them. Soon, Mao Tse-tung began making his final preparations to take over the government.

High level State Department officials, such as Harry Dexter White and Owen Lattimore who were members of the Institute of Pacific Relations (IPR), besides planning the destruction of the Chinese economy also falsified documents to indicate that the Chinese Communists were actually farmers who were pushing for agricultural reform. Thus, from 1943-49 magazines like the Saturday Evening Post (which ran over 60 articles) and Colliers advocated and promoted the Communist movement. While Mao Tse-tung was made to appear as an "agrarian reformer," Chiang was blasted for being a corrupt dictator. In 1945, Lattimore sent President Truman a memorandum suggesting a coalition government between the Communists and the National Government. John Carter Vincent of the IPR elaborated upon that memo and it became the basis upon which Truman based his China policy which was announced on December 15, 1945.

It was alleged by some researchers that Russia sent China a telegram saying that if they didn't surrender they would be destroyed. They were requested to send ten technicians to see the bomb that would be used and when they went they saw an atomic bomb with the capability of destroying a large city. As the story goes, Chiang sent a telegram to President Truman, asking for help. Truman refused.

In 1948, Congress voted to send China $125 million in military aid, but again the money was held up until Chiang was defeated. In October, 1949, 450 million people were turned over to the Communist movement. Chiang fled to the island of Taiwan [Formosa], 110 miles off the east coast of China where he governed that country under a democracy. [After suppressing the native Formosans. --ed].

Chairman Mao and the World Revolution

Mao Tse-tung, who announced in 1921 that he was a Marxist after reading the Communist Manifesto took over as China's leader, and Peking was established as the new capital. On February 14, 1950 a thirty-year treaty of friendship was signed with Russia.

In March, 1953, Mao proposed to the Soviet Union a plan for world conquest in which every country except the United States would be communist-controlled by 1973. It was called a "Memorandum on a New Program for World Revolution" and was taken to Moscow by the Chinese Foreign Minister, Chou En-lai. The first phase was to be completed by 1960, and called for Korea, Formosa, and Indochina to be under Chinese control.

On July 15, 1971, Chairman Mao appealed to the world to, "unite and defeat the U.S. aggressors and all their running dogs."

While campaigning in 1968, Richard Nixon said: "I would not recognize Red China now, and I would not agree to admitting it to the United Nations." In his book Six Crises, he said that

"...admitting Red China to the United Nations would be a mockery of the provision of the Charter which limits its membership to 'peace-loving nations'. And what was most disturbing, was that it would give respectability to the Communist regime which would immediately increase its power and prestige in Asia, and probably irreparably weaken the non-Communist governments in that area."

Yet it was Richard Nixon who opened the dialogue with China and in 1971, Communist China was seated as a member country of the United Nations while the Republic of China (Taiwan) was thrown out. With the visits to China by Nixon and Kissinger in 1971 on up to Reagan in 1984, relations between the two countries were almost as good as they were when they were allies in 1937.

In 1978, President Carter approved the sending of U.S. technology to China, and the American government recognized the Communists as the official government of China. On January 1, 1979, Carter severed diplomatic ties with Taiwan, saying that "there is but one China, and Taiwan is part of China."

The Communists Take North Korea and Attack the South (1945-53)

From 1910 until 1945, Korea was part of the Japanese empire. The victorious World War II allies agreed that Korea should be made an independent country, but until negotiations could take place the U.S. took charge of the area south of the 38th parallel while the Soviets occupied the northern half. Plans to establish a unified Korean government failed, and in 1948 rival governments were established: the Communist government of Kim Il Sung in the North, and the pro-Western government under Syngman Rhee in the South.

An officers training school and a small arms plant were set up by the United States. They gave the country $100,000,000 worth of military hardware to arm the 96,000 soldiers of the South Korean armed forces.

On July 17, 1949, Owen Lattimore said: "The thing to do is let South Korea fall, but not to let it look as if we pushed it." In a memo to the State Department, he wrote: "The United States should disembarrass itself as quickly as possible from its entanglements in South Korea." In 1949, the American troops were withdrawn from South Korea, and in a January 12, 1950 speech, U.S. Secretary of State Dean G. Acheson publicly stated that South Korea was "outside of (the U.S.) defense perimeter."

The North Koreans, heavily equipped by the Russians, considered Acheson's statement an invitation to attack in order to unify the country under Communism. Gen. Douglas MacArthur had received military intelligence reports from Gen. Charles A. Willoughby that North Korea was preparing for an invasion. John Foster Dulles of the State Department went to 'investigate' and covered up the activity he viewed at the 38th parallel.

On June 24, 1950, the North Koreans swarmed across the 38th parallel and proceeded to overrun the country. Rhee appealed to the United States and the United Nations for help as the communists closed in on the South Korean capital of Seoul.

Truman called for an immediate meeting of the United Nations Security Council which convened the next day and called the attack a "breach of the peace", ordering the North Koreans to withdraw to the border. Two days later, the Security Council called upon the U.N. members to furnish assistance. Immediately the U.S. sent in ground troops and began air strikes. On July 7, the Security Council urged 15 [other] countries to put their troops at the disposal of the United States under the U.N. command of Gen. Douglas MacArthur.

With the U.N. being involved in the war, all U.S. battle plans had to be submitted for approval in advance to the Under Secretary for Political and Security Council Affairs. Due to a secret agreement made by Secretary of State Edward Stettinius in 1945, this position was to always be filled by a Communist from an eastern European country. During the war, it was filled by Russia's General Constantine Zinchenko. It was later revealed that Russian military advisors were actually directing the North Korean war effort and one of those advisors, Lt. Gen. Alexandre Vasiliev, actually gave the order to attack.

Vasiliev was the Chairman of the U.N. Military Staff Committee, who along with the Under Secretary for Political and Security Council Affairs, was responsible for all U.N. military action. Vasliliev had to take a leave of absence from his position, to command the communist troops. So, what it boiled down to, was that the Communists were controlling both sides of the war and Russia was able to receive vital information concerning all troop movements within the U.N. forces in Korea, which was passed on to the North Koreans and Chinese.

General MacArthur realized what was happening and planned one of the most daring military assaults in the history of modern warfare. To execute the engagement he hand-picked a group of trusted and loyal officers so the initial stages would be kept a secret. MacArthur did not submit the strategy to General Zinchenko. The resulting amphibious assault on September 15, 1950 at Inchon Bay turned the tide of the war by enabling U.N. forces to recapture Seoul, destroy large supply dumps, and began to push the North Koreans back across the border. In October, they captured the North Korean capital of Pyongyang and many communists retreated into Manchuria and Russia.

The Taiwan government was planning to move against China, and Truman warned Chiang Kai-shek not to make an attempt to recapture his homeland. Truman ordered the American Seventh Fleet into the Strait of Formosa to prevent any type of invasion. This freed the Red Chinese army to enter the Korean War. The Chinese, with the excuse that they were protecting the security of their country stormed across the border on November 26, 1950, and stopped the U.N. army at the Yalu River. Chiang then offered to send an advance force of 33,000 troops into North Korea but the State Department refused. [Taiwan was] a member of the U.N. yet the United States would not let them fight.

The Korean War (or Korean Conflict, or Police Action, as it is sometimes called) developed into a stalemate of broken cease-fire agreements and MacArthur made plans for a massive retaliation against China. He wanted to bomb the ammunition and fuel dumps, the supply bases, and communication lines to China (bridges across the Yalu River), and to post a blockade around the Chinese coast. However, on December 5, 1950, Truman and other Administration officials decided that this sort of action would bring Russia into the conflict and possibly initiate World War III.

MacArthur was ordered not to proceed with any of his plans. The Joint Chiefs of Staff said: "We felt the action urged by Gen. MacArthur would hazard this safety (of the U.S.) without promising any certain proportionate gain." A letter written to a Congressman by MacArthur was read on the floor of the House, giving them the full story of how much the Red Chinese were involved. Still, nothing was done. Gen. Lin Piao, the Red Chinese commander, said later:

"I would never have made the attack and risked my men and military reputation if I had not been assured that Washington would restrain General MacArthur from taking adequate retaliatory measures against my lines of supply and communication."

With MacArthur insisting that there was no substitute for victory and that the war against Communism would be either won or lost in Korea, he was relieved of his command on April 11, 1951, by Gen. Matthew B. Ridgeway, a member of the CFR.

Air Force Commander, Gen. George Stratemeyer said:

"We had sufficient air bombardment, fighters, reconnaissance so that I could have taken out all those supplies, those airdromes on the other side of the Yalu; I could have bombed the devils between there and Mukden, stopped the railroad operating and the people of China that were fighting could not have been supplied ... But we weren't permitted to do it. As a result, a lot of American blood was spilled over there in Korea."

Gen. Stratemeyer testified before the Congress: "You get in war to win it. You do not get in war to stand still and lose it and we were required to lose it. We were not permitted to win." Gen. Matt Clark told them: "I was not allowed to bomb the numerous bridges across the Yalu River over which the enemy constantly poured his trucks, and his munitions, and his killers."

MacArthur would later write:

"I was ... worried by a series of directives from Washington which were greatly decreasing the potential of my air force. First I was forbidden 'hot' pursuit of enemy planes that attacked our own. Manchuria and Siberia were sanctuaries of inviolate protection for all enemy forces and for all enemy purposes, no matter what depredations or assaults might come from there.

Then I was denied the right to bomb the hydroelectric plants along the Yalu River. This order was broadened to include every plant in North Korea which was capable of furnishing electric power to Manchuria and Siberia ... Most incomprehensible of all was the refusal to let me bomb the important supply center at Racin, which was not in Manchuria or Siberia, but many miles from the border ... (where) the Soviet Union forwarded supplies from Vladivostok for the North Korean Army. I felt that step-by-step my weapons were being taken away from me...

"That there was some leak in intelligence was evident to everyone. (Brig. Gen. Walton) Walker continually complained to me that operations were known to the enemy in advance through sources in Washington ... information must have been relayed to them assuring that the Yalu River bridges would continue to enjoy sanctuary and that their bases would be left intact. They knew they could swarm down across the Yalu River without having to worry about bombers hitting their Manchurian supply lines ... I realized for the first time that I had actually been denied the use of my full military power to safeguard the lives of my soldiers and the safety of my army."

Gen. MacArthur also said:

"I am concerned for the security of our great nation, not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within."

Over 33,000 American lives were lost in a war that they were not allowed to win. Instead, a truce was signed on July 27, 1953.

However, the Communists weren't giving up on Korea. With North Korea being supported by China, Russia and the Eastern Europe communist bloc countries, they built up their military strength and made enormous economic gains. During the late 1960's, they began a dialogue for the reunification of Korea and bilateral talks were held in 1972 which further improved their relations as the Communists attempted to take over with diplomacy. A nonaggression pact was signed in December, 1991 and in 2000 a summit meeting was held to explore the possibility of a reconciliation.

Eisenhower Talks Tough

As information about Communist agents occupying high [U.S.] cabinet posts surfaced, the American people took out their frustrations at the polls. Eisenhower's slogan was: "Let's clean up the mess in Washington." He had promised "peace with honor" in Korea; however, the truce allowed 400 [American] soldiers to remain in communist prisons. Even though the 1952 Republican Platform called the Truman Plan "ignominious bartering with our enemies" in reality, Eisenhower's plan made even more concessions.

Eisenhower's tough rhetoric on Communism ushered in a renewed patriotism in America. People behind the Iron Curtain were inspired, and in the fall of 1956 Hungarian freedom fighters forced the Russians to leave their homeland [briefly] ending Soviet occupation. So what did the United States do? According to the Congressional Record of August 31, 1960, the U.S. State Department sent the Soviet Union a telegram which read: "The Government of the United States does not look with favor upon governments unfriendly to the Soviet Union on the borders of the Soviet Union." Hours after receiving the telegram on November 4, 1956, Khrushchev sent Russian troops back into Hungary to retake the country.

Soon Eisenhower initiated foreign aid programs to the communist governments in Poland and Yugoslavia, who by 1961 received almost $3 billion in food, industrial machinery, jets, and other military equipment.

In June, 1956, John Foster Dulles said that if the U.S. discontinued their aid to Marshal Tito, Yugoslavia would be driven into the Soviet fold. However, two weeks before, Tito had said: "In peace as in war, Yugoslavia must march shoulder to shoulder with the Soviet Union." On September 17, Tito announced his full support of the Soviet foreign policy. Meanwhile, U.S. aid continued even after 1961 when Yugoslavia began their own foreign aid programs to spread Communism among the world's underdeveloped nations.

When Eisenhower's two terms came to an end, the amount of economic and military aid to communist and 'neutralist' countries came to $7 billion. In the February 25, 1961 edition of People's World and the March 10, 1961 issue of Time, Robert Welch, founder of the anti-communist John Birch Society, charged that the Eisenhower Administration was a tool of the Communists.

(Note that both Dulles and Eisenhower were CFR members --ed)

The "Split" Between the Russian and Chinese Communists (1961)

At the meeting of the 22nd Party Congress in the fall of 1961, the rivalry between Russia and China came out in the open. It centered around two issues: the place of Stalin in communist history, and relations with the country of Albania.

Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971), the Soviet premier from 1958-64, made verbal attacks on Stalin constantly and even had his body removed from the mausoleum on Red Square. Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Communists went out of their way to proclaim their loyalty to the dead leader. When Enver Hoxha, the Communist ruler of Albania refused to follow Khrushchev's lead in condemning Stalin, Russia canceled all economic and technical aid, and recalled all Soviet personnel. China then sent in their own advisors, praising Albania for their stand.

China was [also] upset because Russia failed to support them during a recent military action and was suspicious of Khrushchev's policy of 'peaceful coexistence' with the United States. Since 1961, world communists have split into either pro-Soviet or pro-China factions. [As a result] China began advocating Maoism, rather than Marxist-Leninism.

Stalin had said: "The object of Soviet Communism is victory of Communism throughout the world ... by peace or war." Russia boasted that within a generation, the whole world would be communist. Meanwhile, China also insisted that war was inevitable. Chou En-lai, the Chinese premier from 1949-76, said publicly:

"The white race constitutes about one-tenth of the world's population. Let us completely annihilate the white man. Then we shall be free of him once and for all."

Because China had their own thoughts of world domination, a major rift developed between the two communist giants. China became angry over Russia's refusal to give them nuclear weapons, so after 14 years, Russia ceased all aid to China. [In recent years, Russia and China have resumed military and economic cooperation. --ed]

The Communists Take Vietnam (1954-75)

As the communists moved forward with their plan for world domination, Southeast Asia was to be the next target. In July, 1954, Indo-China fell. William Zane Foster, Chairman of the U.S. Communist Party, said in February, 1956 that they "constitute the beginning of a new socialist world."

They moved on to Vietnam, where the U.S. was pulled into a conflict which was to become the longest in U.S. history. American intervention actually began in 1954 with economic and technical assistance after the Geneva Accords ended the Indo-Chinese War.

Kennedy increased the military budget, and escalated the War just for the purposes of impressing the Russians after being embarrassed and humiliated by the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. Later, Kennedy planned to begin scaling back.

In 1964, with a possibility that ultra-conservative Barry Goldwater might win the presidency, a coalition of liberal forces under the guidance of Illuminati advisors worked for the election of former Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson who had taken over after Kennedy's assassination in 1963. Johnson was urged to pursue "peace at any price" but the Illuminati didn't want peace and Johnson further escalated the War. At the height of the war [by 1969] there were about 543,000 American soldiers in Vietnam.

On July 25, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson told an American television audience that the military build-up was to administer "death and desolation" to the Communists. Yet, he made agreements to provide the Soviet Union and her communist satellite countries with millions of dollars worth of food, computers, industrial plants, oil refinery equipment, jet engines, military rifles, and machine tools for an $800 million automobile production facility.

At the same time, our Supreme Court ruled that communists could teach in our schools, and work in our defense plants; and the Senate and State Department allowed them to open diplomatic offices in major American cities even though FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover warned that their embassies were part of an espionage network.

In 1966, after [Wall Street banker] Averell Harriman had made a 22-day, 12 nation peace tour for Johnson, he was asked by a television reporter how the Russians felt about the Vietnam War, and Harriman said they were "embarrassed by the war. They don't like it and they would like to see it stopped." A brilliant piece of propaganda, considering the fact that the Russians were shipping guns, ammunition, missiles, and MiG fighters to the North Vietnamese.

In 1968, the Congress increased 'foreign aid' of war materials to communist bloc countries by over 80% from the previous year, and this 'aid' was then redirected by railroad, to North Vietnam, who used it to manufacture military equipment. Johnson's war policies severely damaged his chances for re-election, and he was forced to drop out of the 1968 primary race.

[Nixon won in 1968 and again in 1972. Members of his administration, including Henry Kissinger, finally concluded the drawn-out Paris peace talks with the North. --ed]

A peace treaty was signed on January 23, 1973, by the U.S., North and South Vietnam, and the Vietcong (National Liberation Front, later referred to as the Provisional Revolutionary Government). The treaty specified that the Vietcong was to have equal recognition with the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon. Thieu agreed to sign after Nixon and Kissinger promised that the U.S. would "respond vigorously" to any Communist violations of the agreement.

The cease-fire didn't hold and after the American pullout [in 1975] which left over $5 billion worth of military equipment, the Communists were given a free hand in Southeast Asia. On April 30, 1975, the government of South Vietnam fell to the communist regime, and on July 2, 1976, the country of Vietnam was officially unified as a Communist state.

It is estimated that 57,000 Americans died during the Vietnam conflict.