The public arrival of the Rockefellers and other large-money types into the UFO arena has opened a new and fascinating chapter in the saga of the unidentified flying object, whatever that is. For too long the importance of money, and those who have it, has been overlooked in considering the UFO. But I think it is safe to say that that era is now ending.
Behind all of our institutions, behind even the government itself, are those who possess immense wealth. It has always been so, from the days of Rome to the British Crown to the 1770s when fifty-five men of wealth created this government. The foundation of American power is inheritance, mentioned nowhere in the Constitution and thus above the law. The family is the American vehicle for the acquisition, conservation and transferance of power -- from this generation to the next, theoretically forever.
This was the vision of the men who wrote the Constitution, as I will show later in this series. It is still the vision today.
The arrival of "others" from off-planet, another dimension or wherever it might be would be of tremendous importance to the immensely wealthy. You see, these people and those who work directly for them are "humanity" for all practical purposes. That is, it is they, and only they in the long run, who have the resources to actually DO something about whatever it is that the UFO represents. The rest of us have to make a living, go on about our business, and that goes for scientists, military officers and even Directors Of Central Intelligence. All of these are in the final analysis employees. But who can fire the recipients of the interest from enormous family trust funds? No one. No one at all. This is so because the rest of us, all of us, work for them -- whether we like it or not.
Now, this is a tough thing to say, I know, and a much tougher one to believe. So, let me present some evidence, from a source above reproach, Princeton University. The following is from the book "Foundations Of National Power" by Harold and Margaret Sprout of Princeton, 1945, revised in 1951. Later on I will be using sources that some may feel are less reliable than two Princeton professors but I think that my readers will see that the tone and content have a certain continuity that, when taken together, create an almmost seamless whole and lead but to one conclusion. But more on that later.
Foundations Of National Power is about the world created by our victory in World War II. It was written and revised when the United States was at the very height of its power, unchallenged by any other nation on Earth. As such it has a certain candid nature that is missing from many political science treatises today, as I think all of my readers will soon appreciate.
When political scientists talk about the United States today there are certain taboos that are always in force. For example, the relationship of the Harriman family to Bill Clinton is just off-limits for the academics. They just are not going to get into how the immensely wealthy Harrimans might have lifted Bill Clinton from obscurity in Arkansas to the highest office in the land. This is just not going to be mentioned in semi- official information carried in the academic realm.
But, when these same folks talk about another country all bets are off. The sleazy relationship between big money and the running of the nation (another nation) are fair game. So, let us quote the Sprouts at length on Japan, circa 1950, and see what kind of economy they have, who is in charge and what it means for the average Japanese. It is most enlightening:
"The all-pervasive industrial combines called Zaibatsu illustrate the process. Zaibatsu is a slang term that means "the money crowd"; and in Occidental context it acquires unwanted dignity. Briefly, a Zaibatsu is a feudal duchy based on factories, mines, communications, finance, and commerce instead of on land. The peasant-serfs are replaced by factory hands who sometimes work behind barbed-wire fences or concrete walls topped by broken glass. The samurai warriors have been transmuted into financial and sales agents. The executive group retains the old name of banto which denoted those who performed administrative functions.
A family-clan owns the industrial empire as their feudal counterpart owned a landed duchy. Each family-clan binds its members to obey a secret or partly secret code of family law. These codes concede the supremacy of the emperor by stating that the national law shall prevail over any conflicting provision of the house law -- but state also that the basic spirit and purpose of the house law shall not be superseded.
"Of the zaibatsu perhaps the greatest is the Imperial Household. Japanese reverence for that sacred institution has protected the emperor's family from being dubbed a Zaibatsu. Next comes the house of Mitsui; that that of Iwasaki, whose far-flung enterprises are known byt he trademark Mitsubishi; then the lesser duchies of Sumitomo, Yasuda, et. al. The companies controlled by Mitsui, for example, require several pages for a full listing; they cover the range of heavy industry, banking, insurance, colonial exploitation, paper, textiles, chemicals, mining, food warehousing and merchandising, shipping, and foreign trade. Viewed through Western eyes, the picture calls to mind a European or AMERICAN FAMILY-OWNED TRUST.
"The secret conclaves of the Mitsui family -- and of other Zaibatsu family-clans -- determine the destiny of millions of big and little people in all walks of life. They initiate and revoke the policies of the political parties and even of the proud bureaucrats of the civil service. Nor are they as innocent of army and navy influence as they sometimes assert. Always there are sons, sons-in-law, and cousins in both groups, while the bureaucracy also includes its quota of Zaibatsu personnel and their henchmen. All of this motivates many an internal struggle in the army, navy or bureaucracy which passes the understanding of the foreigner.
"Zaibatsu policies, determined in secret family councils, are effected as circumstances dictate -- now openly, again subtly and invisibly. Individuals die but the councils of the great family- clans continue. Should the times require a "liberal" front, a suave graduate of Harvard, Yale or Princeton is available as window dressing. When a militaristic or even a religious "front" suits the clan purposes, that also is forthcoming.
"These dominant family-clans and their dependents in a thousand public and private positions exercise power far beyond that wielded by their feudal prototypes. This continues true despite the relative independence of many of the corporations that are controlled indirectly. The patterns of organization, however, from the humblest factory hand to the family council, remain closely akin to those that maintained the old feudal estates."
It is of interest to this writer that John Foster Dulles, Ike's Secretary of State, had been the chairman of the Rockefeller Foundation in the 1940s. His brother Allen was, with Wild Bill Donovan, a founder of OSS [ed - Office of Strategic Services the predecessor to the CIA, Central Intelligence Agency]. Donovan, the Dulleses and (Gen.) Hoyt Vandenberg, were all boyhood friends in New York. The man who ordered a full-scale Air Force investigation of UFOs after the Fort Monmouth incident in 1951, Gen. Cabell, was later to be Dulles' deputy at CIA until fired by John Kennedy after the Bay of Pigs. This Air Force general had a brother who happened to be the mayor of Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. There are all kinds of associations like this in and around any investigation of our government and the UFO. We'll look at some more later.