Richard B. Spence - Wall Street and the Russian Revolution: 1905-1925

Wall Street

and the

Russian Revolution

1905-1925

Richard B. Spence

Wall Street and the Russian Revolution, 1905-1925

Copyright 2017 Richard B. Spence

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Spence, Richard B.

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Epud (ISBN-13) 978-1-63424-124-3

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1. United States -- Foreign economic relations -- Russia. 2. United States -- Foreign economic relations -- Soviet Union. 3. Russia -- History -- Revolution, 1905-1917. 4. Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1925. 5. International economic relations. 6. Investments, American. I. Spence, Richard B. II. Title

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Table of Contents

To: Antony Cyril Sutton
1925-2002

Publishers Foreword

Who Cares?

Who cares, who cares?
My head is full of snot, snot, snot, snot

Watts Acid Test, 2/12/66

Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear,
Thy dial how thy precious minutes waste;
The vacant leaves thy minds imprint will bear,
And of this book, this learning mayst thou taste.
The wrinkles which thy glass will truly show
Of mouthed graves will give thee memory;
Thou by thy dials shady stealth mayst know
Times thievish progress to eternity.

William Shakespeare, Sonnet L LXXVII

One day in the late 1990s an email from Antony Sutton flashed on my computer screen. First, I wondered if it was a hoax, but no it was really him. It was exciting. I had tried to reach him many years before, even writing to his publisher in Montana. Nothing. And now he was writing to me. Wow!

I had written an article on the Order of Skull & Bones that had been picked up by Parascope, an early AOL attempt to foster content providers on the Internet. The article spread far and wide and was always in the top position in search engines, including the number one Google pick for George W. Bush. The listing helped to raise the question of whether Ws membership in Bones would hold him back in 2000?

Time and tide soon buried the article, but Antony had contacted me! I wrote him back, we talked on the phone, communicated and had fun. I asked to visit, he said no, and the only people that he had seen in years were folks from three-letter agencies. He had dropped political research, in favor of his first love, technology. He had become tired of going to banquets and being sandwiched in between UFOs and the John Birch Society. The Internet and events, it seemed, were drawing him back in.

It took some time before Antony allowed a personal visit. It was wonderful. After all, this was the man, who had authored the book, Americas Secret Establishment in 1986 that I read in 1988, and helped me understand what my recalcitrant ex-CIA father had told me in 1969. Tony also informed me his publisher was going out of business.

When he had first published his four pamphlets on the Order, which were later combined into Americas Secret Establishment, Tony printed them in Australia, because he could not find anybody here. Many of these pamphlets were stolen off the docks, and interestingly, at this time, George HW Bush was denying any involvement with a secret society. In these pre-Internet days Tony had a newsletter. One of his subscribers, a mom and pop print shop in Montana, became his publisher and produced his book for many years. They were retiring and moving to Arizona.

Tony, that cant happen, I said. Your book has never been in hard cover, and is rarely found in libraries.

So, I borrowed $5,000 and started TrineDay. Our first book being Tonys Americas Secret Establishment. But tragically, three weeks after the printing, Tony fell dead in his kitchen. Yes, it was suspicious, but all the county coroner would tell us was natural causes.

A great and wonderful researcher was lost that day. Tony knew how, and what to ask for. His years in academia had honed his skills. You want first person sources and documents, Tony supplied them.

Tonys Wall Street books were prompted by his experience at the Hoover Institute at Standford. He had been contracted to write Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development. He had finished his writing in 1970, but the powers-that-be wouldnt publish the last book of the three volume series. It seemed that Antony had stumbled on a deeply hidden secret conspiracy: American interests were supplying some of the armaments being send by the USSR to North Vietnam to be used against Americans. Tony protested, they said, Dont break your rice bowl. Tony persisted, eventually taking his research and publishing, National Suicide: Military Aid to the Soviet Union (1973) thereby forcing the Hoover Institue to publish their final volume. Tony was let go, and real history was buried.

Tony looked around to find out who was responsible. This led to Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution (1974), Wall Street and FDR (1975), Wall Street and Hitler (1976). A relative of a member of the secret society Skull & Bones then sent Tony a membership list, which led to his magnum opus Americas Secret Establishment: An Introduction to The Order of Skull & Bones.

Tony would love Richard Spences new well-researched book, Wall Street and the Russian Revolution, another author that knows how to find first person sources and documents that tell an interesting story.

Onward,

Peace,

RA Kris Millegan

Publisher

TrineDay

May 1, 2017

Acknowledgments

Many people, knowingly or unknowingly, assisted me in the writing of this book. First and foremost, I should thank Bina Tiferet whose curiosity, constant questioning and encouragement finally got me to commit to this project. Elena Chavchavadze and the Russian Cultural Foundation were also of invaluable assistance. I also want to extend heartfelt thanks, in no special order, to Abbie Venner of the Long Lake, NY, Historical Society, Harry and Marjorie Mahoney, Stan Vaughan, Jeff Spencer, Yuri Totrov, Svetlana Chervonnaya, Phil Tomaselli, Ron Basich and the Hoover Institution Archive, the staffs of the Bakhmetev Archive, Columbia University and Sterling Library, Yale University. Last, but by no means least, thanks to Kris Millegan and Trine Day Press. If I have forgotten anyone, I humbly beg your pardon.

Abbreviations Used In Footnotes

BABakhmetev Archive, Columbia University.

BIU.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Investigation (precursor to the FBI), U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), M1085.

CACChurchill Archive, Cambridge

CSAChief Special Agent files, U.S. Department of State, NARA.

FOForeign Office, UK.

GARFState Archive of the Russian Federation, Moscow

HIAHoover Institution Archive, Stanford University.

MIDMilitary Intelligence Division, U.S. Army, NARA.