A New Challenger Appears! None Dare...page 46

The problem with researching conspiracy theories is that because they are mostly fiction, the authors can just assume a new layer of the conspiracy without any proof. So far, COMMUNISM is being introduced by some powerful wealthy people in the United States...but then, it's also in the UK as well. But, then, it's the Federal Reserve that controls both countries. Now, like a Final Fantasy IX, just when we think we've beaten the final boss a new boss arises. Why? Because Allen can't name concrete things without the facts making him realize that he's a liar. 

We are still talking about the Bolshevik revolution, funded mind you, by the wealthy elite in order to push SOCIALISM across the world. All of the sudden, apropos of nothing, he begins talking about the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). 

The problem is that he is claiming that Jacob Shiff, a wealthy banker who helped finance the American railroad expansion and Japan's war against Russia in 1904, and his partner helped establish the Federal Reserve System. Ok, fine, that's not really the case, but it's old ground. Then Allen writes, "Shiff's descendants are active in the Council on Foreign Relations today. [there's a picture of the CFR's headquarters on 68th st. in NYC] The admitted goal of the CFR is to abolish the Consitution and replace our ones (sic) independent Republic with a World Government. CFR members have controlled the last six administrations. Richard Nixon has been a member and has appointed at least 100 CFR members to high positions in his administration.

I know after reading that caption that I'm unlikely to be getting out of page 46 this week. 

Right away it's unclear whether Shiff worked with the CFR or not. His grandson, according to the book, claimed that he did. It doesn't matter either way, because the CFR is a boogeyman. 

Mentioning the CFR activates the same part of my brain that notices an obscure background character in an MCU movie. If someone fighting Daredevil drops their phone and the name on it says "Marc Spector" I know that MoonKnight is showing up soon. The same thing here: CFR is an in-joke. I didn't omit anything in the long quote above, Allen mentions the CFR as though that is supposed to do something for us. It's not, it's a reference to people in the John Birch Society, the 60s and 70s conspiracy theorists, and supporters of Barry Goldwater's presidential run (in case you thought that somehow today was different than the past). 

To these people, the CFR is the Illuminati, the Deep State, Antifa, or whatever else fictional organization they have created in their minds as the author of all of their pain. To the average person, mentioning the CFR isn't going to elicit a response other than "Who?" or "What?"; since everything else in the book appears to be sourced, the reader will just move on rather than looking it up (and in the 70s this was hard). 

The actual CFR is a think-tank. They publish a bi-monthly magazine, publish books, host speakers, and all of the other things that think tanks do. Carrol Quigley, mentions them alongside the other people he claimed were ruling elites. We should remember that Quigley believed that there was a group of bankers that operated beyond the law. This isn't untrue, but it's not similar to the conspiracy theory organizations that Allen believes in. In reality, it's more about the richest person in China and the US working together despite the tensions between the two countries. 

There is nothing to the CFR other than it being a non-profit that analyzes US foreign relations. It has no authority but that's just what they want us to think, isn't it? No, no it is not. 

What the CFR provides Allen and people who agree with him, is a location for their evil headquarters. So when, in Chapter 1, Allen claimed that the world was being run by bankers in New York, this is where he meant. It would have been nice if he gave us this fact then, but he can't. Allen still had to rile us up emotionally in that chapter so that we stop thinking about his claims. which we don't have to for very long because as quick as CFR is named, it is dropped almost entirely. 

We can only theorize on the manner in which Moscow is controlled from New York, London, and Paris...

This also means we can stop paying attention because any claim he makes, is covered under the "theorize" portion of his claim. Allen theorizes that the financial people would execute their control financially, a brilliant deduction but also there must be an enforcement arm...perhaps something like "SMERSH, the international communist murder organization described in testimony before Congressional Committees and by Ian Fleming in his James Bond books. For although the Bond novels were wildly imaginative, Fleming had been in British Navy Intelligence, maintained excellent intelligence contacts around the world and was reputedly a keen student of the international conspiracy." 

A good conspiracy theorist will do what just happened. Mix in true facts with their bullshit. This gets a bonus point for referencing a popular movie/book franchise at the time as well. SMERSH was a Russian counterintelligence organization during WWII. The name is a combination of two words that mean "Death to Spies." SMERSH was the antagonist in the first few Bond novels. In fact the whole plan in Casino Royale was to kidnap Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelson in the movie) because he lost SMERSH's money investing in brothels. SMERSH's original purpose was to assassinate Nazi spies in the Russian army, at the end of the Casino Royale SMERSH brands Bond's hand with a mark that would identify him as a spy. 

Stalin increased their mandate to that of hunting anyone subversive to the Communist party. Allen is using them because they are another boogeyman, but in this case, it's to anyone fearing actual Communism. It's all a distraction though because none of it can be linked to the CFR, London, or Paris. Allen is making it up, but referencing one of the most popular fictional characters in his time to make his case. David Icke did a shift in his conspiracy theory around the time the Matrix came out for the same reason--it sold. Allen's argument is that: Fleming was British Intelligence with the Navy, SMERSH is real, so therefore the conspiracy is real too. 

As far as the other claims? I have no idea about Fleming's life other than he was the author of the Bond books and liked S & M sex. The final sentence is just Allen making up shit. He was "reputedly" a student of the international conspiracy? Well, two things: first, no proof that the international conspiracy existed--it's real for Fleming's books because those are fiction. Secondly, "reputedly" means by reputation--and other than his reputation for creating an international conspiracy run by SMERSH (later by SPECTRE) no such reputation exists.