The Deep State: Funding America’s Enemies Since 1917
In August 1972, an intrepid scholar journeyed from the West Coast to Miami Beach, Florida, on a mission of utmost importance to the survival of the United States and the free world. On August 15 at 2:30 p.m., he addressed the National Security Subcommittee of the Republican Party’s Platform Committee, which was readying the party’s platform for the Republican National Convention that would take place in Miami Beach on August 21-23. The scholar was Dr. Antony C. Sutton, an economics professor and historian, and the author of a stunning, comprehensive investigation of the massive, decades-long transfers of crucial technologies from the United States and Western Europe to the Soviet Union. He had, by that time, published two volumes of his meticulously researched trilogy, Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development. (The third volume of the series would be published in 1973.)
Professor Sutton had been feverishly at work on this monumental study at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace since 1968. Published by the Hoover Institution, his extraordinarily documented work of over 1,000 pages indisputably proved that the Soviet military threat, which the United States was then spending $80 billion a year to defend against, had been almost totally built by America and her allies. He stated his thesis to the subcommittee: “In a few words: there is no such thing as Soviet technology. Almost all — perhaps 90-95 percent — came directly or indirectly from the United States and its allies. In effect the United States and the NATO countries have built the Soviet Union. Its industrial and its military capabilities. This massive construction job has taken 50 years. Since the Revolution in 1917. It has been carried out through trade and the sale of plants, equipment and technical assistance.”
Dr. Sutton had come to Miami to warn that the bipartisan treachery and folly had continued up to the present under President Richard Nixon, who was expected to be overwhelmingly renominated a few days hence as the GOP’s standard-bearer against the Democrats’ far-left George McGovern. Incredibly, Dr. Sutton was given only 15 minutes to address this momentous issue. Sutton denounced the ongoing Nixon administration policies — which continued the Johnson administration’s policies — of transferring technology to the Soviet Union. That same technology was then being transported by the Soviets to the North Vietnamese communists, to be used to kill American soldiers and our South Vietnamese allies. These treasonous transfers had continued, Sutton noted, “in the middle of a war that has killed 46,000 Americans (so far) and countless Vietnamese with Soviet weapons and supplies.”
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