W i t h the termination of the Lend-Lease p r o g r a m , it w a s necessary to invent n e w m e c h a n i s m s for the s u p p o r t of Soviet Russiaa n d h e r satellites. O n e of these was the sale of m u c h - n e e d e dc o m m o d i t i e s at prices below the w o r l d m a r k e t and, in fact, belowthe prices that A m e r i c a n s themselves h a d to p a y for the s a m eitems. This meant, of c o u r s e — a s it did in the case of L e n dL e a s e — t h a t the A m e r i c a n t a x p a y e r h a d to m a k e up the difference.
The Soviets w e r e not e v e n required to h a v e the m o n e y to b u y thesegoods. A m e r i c a n financial institutions, the federal g o v e r n m e n t , a n dinternational agencies w h i c h are largely funded by the federalg o v e r n m e n t , such as the International M o n e t a r y F u n d a n d theW o r l d Bank—lent the m o n e y to them. Furthermore, the interestrates on these loans also are below the m a r k e t requiring stilladditional subsidy by A m e r i c a n citizens. A n d that is not all. A l m o s tall of these loans have been gu aran te e d by the United Statesg o v e r n m e n t , w h i c h m e a n s that if—no, m a k e that when—thesecountries default in their p a y m e n t s , the gullible A m e r i c a n public iso n c e again called u p o n to m a k e t h e m g o o d . In other w o r d s , then e w mechanism, innocently a n d deceptively referred to as " t r a d e , "
is little m o r e than a thinly disguised m e a n s by which m e m b e r s ofthe R o u n d Table w h o direct o u r national policies h a v e bled billionsof dollars f r o m A m e r i c a n citizens for an ongoing e c o n o m i c transfusion into the Soviet b l o c — a n d continue to do so n o w that the w o r dSoviet has been c h a n g e d to the less offensive Democratic Socialism.
This enables those regimes to enter into contracts w i t h A m e r i c a nbusinessmen to p r o v i d e essential services. A n d the circle is c o m -
plete: From the American taxpayer to the American government to the
"socialist" regime to the American businessman and, ultimately, to theAmerican financier who funded the project and provided the politicalinfluence to make it all possible.
1. Anthony C. Sutton, National Suicide: Military Aid to the Soviet Union (New Rochelle. New York: Arlington House, 1973), p. 24.
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This is the key to understanding the transfusion mechanism.
