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The Man Behind the Curtain:

Inside the Secret Network of George Soros

2022 by Matt Palumbo

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Table of Contents

The International Influence of George Soros:
Europe

The International Influence of George Soros:
Asia, Africa, South America, and the Middle East

Appendix:
Notable Organizations Funded Directly by George Soros

What initially began as a single chapter expanding on George Soros influence in Ukraine as outlined in Dan Bonginos book Follow the Money quickly ended up becoming an overview of every sphere of influence that Soros boasts. I had two goals when writing this book; to provide a biography of Soros that documents his lifetime of political meddling, and also to provide a reference guide to help anyone immediately identify Soros-backed organizations wherever they pop up.

First and foremost, Im grateful to Dan for choosing me to write this book as the first for his new imprint. And as always, thanks to Post Hill Press Anthony Ziccardi for always being immensely supportive of my writing projects.

As is the case with any book I have written recently, none of this wouldve been possible without help.

The Post Millennials Mia Cathell was enormously helpful in reading and extensively editing early drafts of this book. Beth Baumann provided a good deal of help in assembling the books appendix, which gives a comprehensive list of every significant organization Soros has ever touched. And lastly, thanks to my highly regarded friend Samuel Gautsch for accommodating some mild laziness and helping with formatting my footnotes.

My goal is to become the conscience of the world
George Soros

T here is quite simply no man in politics more influential than George Soros in terms of his wealth, his direct global sphere of influence, and his indirect influence from the political infrastructure hes built over his lifetime.

He boasts a net worth of $8.6 billionwhich is whats left over after he donated more than $32 billion during his lifetime to his Open Society Foundations (OSF), the vehicle he uses to fuel his political influence. (Of note, when I make references to Soros funding anything, its through his OSF.) No other billionaire has donated such a large percentage of their net worth according to Forbes , though such donations are largely for his own ideological benefit.

Without even knowing a single thing about Soros, a surface-level understanding of his circle can be gleaned simply by reading the list of guests at his third wedding ceremony back in 2013. They included World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, Estonian President Toomas Hendrick Ilves, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde, California Governor Gavin Newsom, and Nancy Pelosi, among others. Even Bono made an appearanceand thats not mentioning the other five hundred guests.

Although most of the politically inclined are aware of Soros and his activities, he is at times Schrodingers meddler, denying his influence to some and boasting about it to others. One such case comes regarding Soros facilitating coups in the name of democratization. In a 1995 profile in the New Yorker , Soros admits to the subversive mission of his network, and that it has required him to wear a variety of masks. I would say one thing in one country and another thing in another country, he said, laughing.

When Georgias President Eduard Shevardnadze was toppled Soros denied having anything to do with it, telling reporters on March 31, 2004: Everything in Georgia was done by its people, not by me. I had nothing to do with it. Hed later tell the Los Angeles Times in July that Im delighted by what happened in Georgia, and I take great pride in having contributed to it.

Elsewhere, its common to see publications (especially those that have received funding from Soros) simply deny any accusations of Soros influence and claim theyre examples of anti-Semitism without paying any attention to whether the allegations against him are true (because they are).

Whether he wants us to know about it or not, his massive influence and seemingly omnipotent nature of Soros is something that took him a lifetime to achieve. Here is his story.

Early Life

An ethnic Jew, Soros was born in Budapest in 1930 and survived the Nazi occupation of Hungary before moving to the U.K. in 1947. The Nazi occupation of Hungary began on March 19, 1944, forcing Soros into hiding until being liberated by the Russians on January 12, 1945.

In spring 1944, the Nazis ordered the creation of the Central Council of Hungarian Jews, which was tasked with communicating the wishes of the Nazis and local collaborating authorities to the Jewish community. The council included Jews who were aware of the Nazis atrocities but believed that they would be exempted from them. And they were exempted from persecutioninitially.

Soros was part of the Council before assuming a new identity. He recalled the experience in an interview with the New Yorker : This was a profoundly important experience for me. My father said, You should go ahead and deliver [the summonses], but tell the people that if they report they will be deported. The reply from one man was I am a law-abiding citizen. They cant do anything to me. I told my father, and that was an occasion for a lecture that there are times when you have laws that are immoral, and if you obey them you perish.

Georges father Tivadar recalled that after Georges second day on the job, he returned home with a summons, to which Tivadar asked if George knew what it meant. George replied, I can guess. Theyll be interned. Tivadar then told him the Jewish Council has no right to give people orders like that, recalling in his memoir:

I tried to tell the people I called on not to obey he [George] said, clearly disappointed that I wouldnt let him work anymore. He was beginning to enjoy his career as a courier: it was all a big adventure.

Soros biographer echoed similar sentiments, noting that George had liked the excitement of being a courier but he obeyed his father without complaint. Soros would later cite this experience as a reason for disliking fellow Jews (for being collaborators), while exempting himself.

During the Nazi occupation, Tivadar obtained papers giving his immediate family Christian identities. He decided to split up the family so that if one of them were outed as Jewish, the rest of the family had a chance of surviving.

After the family was split up for their own safety, Soros went to live as Sandor Kiss with a man named Baumbach, as arranged by his father. Baumbach was a friend of Tivadar, an official at the Ministry of Agriculture, and a Nazi collaborator. Baumbach played the role of Soros godfather. Soros would never acknowledge the role that Baumbach played in likely saving his life, and he died anonymously in 1999. His identity was later revealed in 2018 as Mikls Prohszka.