External Quote:
"During the
Red Scare of 1947–1957, agitators of the American secular and
Christian right, influenced by the work of Canadian conspiracy theorist
William Guy Carr, increasingly embraced and spread unfounded fears of
Freemasons,
Illuminati and
Jews being the driving force behind an "
international communist conspiracy". The threat of "Godless communism", in the form of a
state atheistic and
bureaucratic collectivist world government,
demonized as the "Red Menace", therefore became the main focus of
apocalyptic millenarian conspiracism. The Red Scare came to shape one of the core ideas of the political right in the United States, which is that
liberals and
progressives, with their
welfare-state policies and international cooperation programs such as
foreign aid, supposedly contribute to a gradual process of
collectivism that will inevitably lead to nations being replaced with a
communist one-world government.
[14]"
............Is this the Communist topic of concern JFK is referencing?
I don't believe JFK would add extra unnecessary words such as secret oaths, secret societies etc.. to construct a line to simply state, "people don't like secrets". Did the "international communist conspiracy" have secret societies in America with secret oaths? I do know of other secret societies that had secret oaths during the JFK presidency. I do see Communism as part of the "sobering" topic of concern, however it is strange that he mentions their (ruthless monolithic conspiracy) reliance on covert means, so why does he not say Communism? Why keep it's means covert? This along with other points lead me to believe it is not only Communism, in addition something greater than Communism.
Janet, those were not "extra unnecessary words" given the context of that speech. Did you read/listen to the entire speech Mick posted? I don't think anyone listening to it AT THE TIME IT WAS DELIVERED had the slightest question that JFK was referring to the global Communist threat. He didn't specifically mention "Communism" because it was so patently obvious. However, since we no longer live in those "cold war" times, it's very easy to lose focus. But everything must be interpreted by context or it can be manipulated to mean anything one wants. And that's exactly what people are doing.
To suggest that JFK was referring to Skull and Bones, the Trilateral Commission, the Bilderbergers, a cabal of international bankers or any such "secret group" (that actually operate in plain view) is ignoring the times in which JFK spoke. JFK was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR),
he was a globalist and he believed in wealth redistribution.
70 of his appointees were from the CFR. So how can people promote, with any degree of credibility, that JFK was the man who opposed the organizations he was integrally a part of?
Some time ago I wrote a
blog on this topic and every single email respondent over the age of 50 said the speech concerned communism. Those in their mid 30s and younger, even after listening to the entire speech, insisted that JFK was warning of the impending NWO.
A 70 year told wrote:
"Chuck, I heard the original speech when JFK gave it, and I knew EXACTLY what he was talking about, and I wager, so did the rest of America. We had a real enemy, and we knew it was Communism. I well remember the day that Castro took over Cuba - the people cheered, but I felt that they really didn't know what they were getting in that evil man."
One reviewer of the speech posted at the archive of presidential recordings, wrote the following:
External Quote:
"This speech was given 10 days after the bay of pigs. Kennedy is talking about communism and the cold war. He is discussing the balance between our freedoms of speech and the responsibility of newspapers to not publish information that might compromise national security (similar to the WWII "Loose ships sink ships" slogan). He is making an appeal (not a decree) to the newspapers to be more discreet with the information they publish."
Janet, click the link for
Soviet Espionage in the United States. This is one example among thousands. Whether one agrees or disagrees with the content politically, it's clear that there was at least the overwhelming perception of a Soviet infiltration at every level of society.
External Quote:
"Since the late 1920s, the
Soviet Union, through its
GRU,
OGPU and
NKVD intelligence services, used
Russian Jews and foreign-born nationals as well as
Communist, and people of American origin to perform
espionage activities in the
United States. These various espionage networks had contact with various U.S. government agencies, transmitting to
Moscow information that would have been deemed confidential.
"
External Quote:
"One chief aim was the infiltration, placement, and subversion of American political life at all levels of society.
External Quote:
Earl Browder, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA), served as an agent recruiter himself on behalf of Soviet intelligence."
External Quote:
"One early Soviet spy ring was headed by
Jacob Golos. Jake Golos (birth name Jacob Golosenko, Tasin, Rasin or Raisen) was a
Ukrainian-born
Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet
secret police (NKVD) operative in the USSR. He was also a longtime senior official of the CPUSA involved in covert work and cooperation with Soviet intelligence agencies. He took over an existing network of agents and intelligence sources from Earl Browder. Golos' controller was the head of the NKVD's American desk,
Gaik Ovakimian, also known as "The Puppetmaster", who would later serve a key role in the
assassination of
Leon Trotsky.Golos was the "main pillar" of the NKVD intelligence network. He had worked with Soviet intelligence from the mid-1930s, and probably earlier. He was not merely a CPUSA official assisting the NKVD (an agent or "probationer" in Soviet intelligence parlance) but held official rank in the NKVD, and claimed to be an oldtime
Chekist."
People have attempted to use JFK as their credible front-man to peddle their various conspiracy theories. The fact is, he's not their man.
