Kross - The secret history of the United States : conspiracies, cobwebs and lies

Books by Peter Kross:

JFK: The French Connection
The Secret History of the United States
Spies, Traitors and Moles
The Encyclopedia of World War II Spies
Oswald, the CIA and the Warren Commission

The Secret History of the United States

by Peter Kross

Copyright 2013

ISBN 13: 978-1-939149-05-3

All Rights Reserved

Published by:
Adventures Unlimited Press
One Adventure Place
Kempton, Illinois 60946 USA

www.adventuresunlimitedpress.com

The man who can keep a secret may be wise,
but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
Edgar Watson Howe

INTRODUCTION

Everyone likes a good mystery, be it fact or fiction. It is even better if it involves history, where the reader can put his own interpretation on the events being written about. The teaching of history in the public schools today, unfortunately, involves the copious use of dates, facts, and little else. It is not until the serious student of history picks a major in college that a good teacher will delve into a subject that makes one want to learn more about what is being taught.

There is more to the story of American history than is taught at the middle school, high school, and even college level. One can learn more from watching such networks as the History Channel, and the Military Channel and other cable shows where a much more detailed description of events is shown than on regular television.

The purpose of this book is to explain the underside of American history, one that was never taught in school, giving the reader information about events that he or she never knew existed. The scope of this book is divided into three, interconnected areas: unexplained events in American history, little known stories of the American drama, as well as conspiracy theories, not exclusive to just our own country. The material covered in the book begins with the story of the heritage of Christopher Columbus, delves into certain little known events of our war of independence, the Civil War, including certain aspects of the Lincoln assassination, the inter-war years before the attack on Pearl Harbor, numerous tales of the Cold War, the assassinations of the 1960s, and the set of circumstances that led up to the Iraq war and the events of 9-11. It is a tale of treachery, lies, and deceits, conducted by men who thought they knew more about what was good for the American people who elected them in the first place. If, after youve read this book, you come away with the thought, I never knew that happened, Ive succeeded in telling the tale.

Peter Kross
North Brunswick, NJ

Chapter 1

Was Columbus Jewish?

So much has been written about the life and voyages of Christopher Columbus in the five hundred plus years since the Admiral of the Ocean Sea, as he was called, first discovered America (there is circumstantial evidence to the contrary, however that he was not the first one to discover America) and yet, there are few primary source documents left by him that tell the story of his life.

There is another side in the life of Columbus that has only recently come to the attention of scholars and historians that may profoundly alter the way the world looks at the great explorerthe possibility that Colombus was Jewish.

Columbuss father, Domenico Colombo, lived in Genoa at the time of his sons birth. Domenico was a wool weaver, not the explorer that his distinguished son would later become. His son was named Cristoforo, and was the first child born to Domenico and Susanna. A brother named Giovanni Bartolomeo died at a young age. He had another brother called Bartolomeo, who aided Christopher when he undertook his seafaring voyages. Another brother, named Giacomo, was born seventeen years after Christopher, and was called Diego by the Spaniards whom he came in contact with.

During his lifetime, Colombus went by various names, and he did all he could to hide his origins. He once said that, I am not the first Admiral of my family. Let them call me, then, by what name they will, for after all, David that wisest of kings, tended sheep and was later made King of Jerusalem, and I am the servant of Him Who raised David to that high estate. The David Colombus was referring to was King David of the Old Testament. Here Colombus, who was ostensibly Catholic, references a notable Jew of the Old Testament. Was this because he was actually Jewish?

The names he used during his lifetime were Cristoforo Colombo (possibly his baptismal name), his son Fernando called him Colonus, but nearly always Admiral. He was referred to by the Spaniards as Cristobal Colon, and his descendants went by that name. The Portugese called him Cristovao Colom, but he is known throughout American history as Christopher Columbus. When he set out on his voyages of discovery, Columbus called himself a representative of Christ, who would bring Christianity to the heathens whom he met on his voyages.

The author, Kirkpatrick Sale, who wrote a book called The Conquest of Paradise (written in 1990) wrote of Columbuss origins that, For the trail that Colon left behind is so confused and incomplete, from his birthplace on, as to suggest more than mere carelessness, about fact and fiction on his part... The darkness there suggests rather that he was a man truly without a past that he could define, without a home, or roots, or family, without ever a sense, or love, of place. His early years are dark because, in a sense, they are empty. The city of Genoa that young Christopher Columbus grew up in was a bustling, mercantile place, where the sea trade dominated all else. The docks were full of ships loading and off loading their cargos, where bankers financed lucrative deals with ship captains who gathered crews and set sail for places, known and unknown, in search of riches and undiscovered lands.

Christophers father was well off, but by no means rich. Christopher went to a guild school where he learned Latin, geography, and math. At some point in his education, Christopher began to be proficient in the art of cartography (the drawing of maps), learned to navigate by the stars, and became a good seaman.

In 1476, he joined a crew of a ship that was sailing from the Mediterranean for the Atlantic Ocean. The ship sailed under the watchful eye of the Genovese merchants and Columbus served on the Bechalla. Their route took them past the Strait of Gibraltar and then to Cape St. Vincent which was located at the southwestern tip of Portugal. There, they encountered a pirate flotilla and he got his first taste of combat.