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The spying Scotsman who hunted the Nazis of New York
Daily Mail ^ | 29th December 2013 | Adam Lebor

Posted on 12/29/2013 7:59:25 AM PST by the scotsman

In the summer of 1940, as British pilots fought desperately for the skies of southern England, the battle was joined on a very different front, thousands of miles from the coast of Kent.

It was fought through the political salons of Washington DC, the boardrooms and the smoky nightclubs of New York.

The protagonists had no uniform save that of a well-tailored suit; their weapons were native cunning, a plausible manner, and, from time to time, a concealed revolver.

This was the secret battle for America, ordered by Winston Churchill himself, and the fate of the free world hung upon it.

Today, we can reveal the untold story of how British agents went to war on Wall Street, a story pieced together from a remarkable collection of secret intelligence reports lying untouched for decades.

Uncovered by the MoS, the documents show how British agents took on Nazi sympathisers in the US with a masterful campaign of dirty tricks and disinformation, how they outmanoeuvred Hitler’s network of American allies and how they, ultimately, destroyed the Third Reich’s powerful business and intelligence empire across the water.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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1 posted on 12/29/2013 7:59:25 AM PST by the scotsman
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wow- Never learned this in school...very interesting..


2 posted on 12/29/2013 8:23:08 AM PST by Engedi
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To: the scotsman

Churchill was wise enough to realize that the survival of Britain hinged on the backing of the USA. He did whatever he thought necessary to insure our involvement in the war on Britain’s side and as early as possible.


3 posted on 12/29/2013 8:29:59 AM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Don Corleone

Rockefellers always in the middle of everything from Communist Russia to Nazi Germany.


4 posted on 12/29/2013 8:35:43 AM PST by scooby321
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To: the scotsman

Very interesting. I haven’t heard about most of the story. Thanks for posting.


5 posted on 12/29/2013 8:36:19 AM PST by EEGator
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To: the scotsman
MacLaren’s masterstroke, though, was a publicity blitz against IG Farben that finally forced the US authorities to take action.
It was in spring 1942, that BSC launched a 70-page pamphlet called Sequel To The Apocalypse, a taut distillation of MacLaren and Merten’s investigation of IG Farben’s American networks. Booktab, a BSC front company, published 200,000 copies, on sale at 25 cents, the striking cover featuring the four horsemen of the Apocalypse, one holding a torch aloft, whose smoke spelled out ‘IG Farben’.

Breitbart/New Media ... modern day MacLaren's. Great article. Thanks for posting.

6 posted on 12/29/2013 8:50:33 AM PST by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs assist!)
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To: scooby321
Rockefellers always in the middle of everything from Communist Russia to Nazi Germany.

Yes....and the Ford's and Bush's seem to creep their way in, too.

7 posted on 12/29/2013 8:52:19 AM PST by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs assist!)
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To: the scotsman

Same needs to happen to Obama’s cash sows: big union, big green, big muslim, big gay...


8 posted on 12/29/2013 8:54:10 AM PST by JohnBovenmyer (Obama been Liberal. Hope Change!)
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To: the scotsman

No wonder “The Great ObamaNation” indignantly sent Churchill’s statue back, he spied on us and meddled in our business. “The Great ObamaNation” would never do such things. Period.


9 posted on 12/29/2013 9:58:04 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: the scotsman

We are seeing the equivalent here today. You have people with no souls from Wall street to the White House rushing us into a nuclear war with Iran.


10 posted on 12/29/2013 10:23:21 AM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: the scotsman

Wow! As my husband said, it now makes sense as to why we didn’t take the shiploads of Jewish refugees. Shame on us!


11 posted on 12/29/2013 11:03:28 AM PST by Shery (in APO Land)
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To: the scotsman

McLaren ran for a seat in the labor party in 1950? hmmmmm...


12 posted on 12/29/2013 12:33:21 PM PST by what's up
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Interesting article. I’m not sure that American Firsters were pro-Nazi. Isolationist, indeed. And Lindberg was a real fool as his wife eventually pointed out.

My Irish-American family have assured me that Father Coughlin was no Nazi. (I’ve never heard one of his broadcasts.) Unfortunately, Irish immigrants of my great grandfather’s generation (and his children) were very bitter towards England. So very bitter. Hard for me to understand.

On the other hand, my old neighborhood of Yorkville in New York City (centered around the east side at 86th Street) was a hotbed of Nazi activity. It’s been this decade that finally saw the end of the German restaurants and beer halls in that area.


13 posted on 12/29/2013 3:00:37 PM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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14 posted on 12/29/2013 3:06:08 PM PST by xp38
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To: miss marmelstein
My Grandfather and Many, Many WW1 vets did not want another repeat. The attack on Pearl Harbor changed their mind in one direction and Germany's declaration of War on us changed it in the other.

The first dictator would have had a rough time selling a German War if not for that. My family are Yankees and Westerners.

15 posted on 12/29/2013 3:11:12 PM PST by Little Bill (A)
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To: miss marmelstein
Sequel to the Apocalypse

Just downloaded this for $3. Used PayPal. It's 64 pages and an absolutely fascinating expository historical read!

I have an original copy of a pamphlet that was authored by Lindbergh for America First in 1941. It has nothing to do with promoting Nazism.

FReegards!

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16 posted on 12/29/2013 4:21:58 PM PST by Agamemnon (Darwinism is the glue that holds liberalism together)
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To: Nailbiter

bflr


17 posted on 12/29/2013 9:27:46 PM PST by Nailbiter
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To: Agamemnon
The problem is that Lindbergh accepted the Iron Cross from Hitler. His wife called it The Albatross.

I believe my family were American Firsters. They certainly were NOT Nazis or even had sympathies in that direction. When the time came, all the men fought honorably.

18 posted on 12/30/2013 5:11:51 AM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: miss marmelstein
Yes. Lindbergh himself flew 50 missions as a civilian in the Pacific (he formally renounced his Colonel rank when Roosevelt called him a "Copperhead").

Lindbergh made 3 trips to Germany prior to the out break of the war with the US (and with Britain). The US maintained diplomatic relations with Germany throughout the '30's and up to and until Germany declared war.

There were a number of American industrialists who were awarded the Iron Cross - Henry Ford being one of them, the Ambassador of France being another. The original Fokker Tri-Motor ran with Ford engines, in fact.

As a point of interest in my 78 RPM record collection I have a US-marketed (though European recorded) RCA pressing of Artur Schnabel performing Beethoven's 4th Piano Concerto in G minor, Op. 58. You may recall that each record at the time had a needle catcher which encircled the center label. A serial number for the album was typically embossed there with the pressing. The serial number on this album includes a swastika in the numbered embossment. US trade with Hitler's Nazi Germany proceeded apace in the 1930's

Lindbergh's father served in Congress during WWI and watched how America got swept into the conflict after Wilson ran in 1916 on the platform "He kept us out of war." Lindbergh saw no reason to do the "fool me once, fool me twice" when Europe was on the verge of finishing the war that the Armistice of 1918 had only postponed.

Lindbergh received the Iron Cross from Goering at a dinner held on October 18, 1938 in his honor. Lindbergh looked at it merely as an honorary recognition of his achievement, not as an endorsement or recognition of presumed sympathy with of Nazi philosophy.

Kristallnacht occurred a month later. It changed everything. Lindbergh cancelled what were his plans to move from France to Berlin as result.

If Lindbergh had a fault it was his Darwinian sense of "racial" superiorities, particularly perceived superiority of "Germanic" stock vs. "Asian" (read: Russian) stock. "Our civilization depends on a western wall of race and arms which can hold back…the infiltration of inferior blood."

As one who is of 1/2 Scandinavian descent (as was Lindbergh) and 1/2 Russian descent, naturally I am one who might be expected to take issue with his view~! Aside from that, however, his personal accomplishments for which his "Lone Eagle" moniker followed him throughout life has always been of personal inspiration to me.

I have an autographed 1st edition copy of his book, "We" signed only weeks before his son was kidnapped, and an accompanying letter archive of a well-wishing news publisher corresponding with Lindbergh and covering the time from when the kidnapping occurred, but still prior to Lindbergh's knowledge of his son's fate. A chilling exchange with an anxious father it is, indeed.

FReegards!

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19 posted on 12/30/2013 9:07:23 AM PST by Agamemnon (Darwinism is the glue that holds liberalism together)
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To: miss marmelstein

‘My Irish-American family have assured me that Father Coughlin was no Nazi. (I’ve never heard one of his broadcasts.)’

Just a pro-fascist anti-Semite then, lol.


20 posted on 12/30/2013 1:05:33 PM PST by the scotsman (i)
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