MAKING EVEN MORE SENSE OF EUSTACE MULLINS AND EZRA POUND

Secrets of The Federal Reserve by Eustace Mullins is considered to be one of the classics in conspiracy theory literature, describing how international bankers took control of America. I believed in it for years, but always had this little niggle in the back of my mind that something was not right about it. Its general flow, its narrative had something to it; it sounded, felt, seemed right...but then again not quite.

In the last month or so I have been driven to find out what that little niggle in the back of my mind was. And I believe I have found the problem.

To start, Mullins says that Ezra Pound paid him to write about The Federal Reserve. At the time Pound was locked up in a psychiatric hospital waiting to be tried for treason after ranting against FDR and Jews from fascist Italy during WW2. Pound was a strong supporter of Martin van Buren and Andrew Jackson. The recent works of Anton Chaitkin and Michael Kirsch destroy the image of van Buren and Jackson as heroes waging war on the international bankers.

So what were Pound's sources? Here is a small list of Ezra Pound's sources. This is beginning to make more sense. Pound's view of van Buren and thus Jackson is due to van Buren himself! To be more specific van Buren's autobiography.

Ezra Pound

In the 1930s, when Martin Van Buren was mostly forgotten as a national figure, an unlikely champion of the eighth president emerged: the poet Ezra Pound. Embittered by the awesome destruction of World War I, Pound settled in Italy in the 1930s and embraced fascism and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about Jewish financiers. Against the backdrop of Europe in tumult he produced one of his most famous works, The Cantos, his epic-length poem divided into 120 sections. Pound cites hundreds of figures in his unwieldy polemic on society, culture and government. He had special admiration for the Jeffersonians he saw as enemies of the Bank of the United States, particularly Andrew Jackson and Van Buren. In Cantos XXXVII (1934), Pound opens, “‘Thou shalt not,’ said Martin Van Buren, ‘jail ‘em for debt.’ ” He quotes parts from Van Buren’s Autobiography in the poem: “From the real committee of Bank’s directors the government’s directors have been excluded … Bank president controlling government’s funds to the betrayal of the nation … government funds obstructing the government … and has sequestered the said funds of the government … acting in illegal secret, pouring oil on the press, giving nominal loans on inexistent security … on precedent that Mr. Hamilton has never hesitated to jeopard the general for advance of particular interests.”

The Cantos is not the only time Pound praised Van Buren. In a letter to the poet Harriet Monroe, Pound called him a “a national hero,” whose story was one of the “few clean and decent pages” in American history. Pound’s history is faulty. He saw Van Buren as a resolute foe of banks when he was merely critical of their excesses—a liberal but hardly radical view in his time. Van Buren was clear in his positions and his letters that he was no enemy of state banks. To be fair to Pound, he did not have the scholarship we have today to work with. He noted that his sources for Van Buren included Edward M. Shephard’s 1888 biography, George Bancroft’s Martin Van Buren to the End of His Public Career (1889) and, of course, the Autobiography. All of these books are highly flawed and unreliable when it comes to Van Buren’s position on the banks and the Democratic Party. Pound’s admiration for Van Buren shows that the current right-wing love affair with Van Buren has its antecedents.

[source : Ezra Pound, American Talleyrand, From http://americantalleyrand.com/?p=246, accessed 10th February 2013]

Yesterday I hinted that maybe while in hospital something happened to Pound. Well get this. His doctor was apparently working for what would become the MK Ultra program! This devastating information comes from a Beatrice Mott who claims to have been a friend of Mullins towards the end of his life.

Here is Mott describing Pound's time in hospital.

And here is where the story goes sour. Pound was a feared political prisoner incarcerated because of what he said in Italy about America’s involvement with the international bankers and warmongering. Pound was watched twenty four hours a day and was under the supervision of Dr. Winfred Overholser, the superintendent of the hospital.

Overholser was employed by the Office of Strategic Services (the CIA’s forerunner) to test drugs for the personality-profiling program, what would be called MK-ULTRA. (See John Marks’ The Search for “the Manchurian Candidate”: The CIA and Mind-Control.) Personality profiling was St. Elizabeth’s bread and butter: The asylum was a natural ally to the agency.

Overholser was also a distinguished professor in the Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Department of George Washington University. This department provided students as test patients for the Frankfurt Schools’ personality profiling work, which the CIA was very interested in. Prophets of Deceit, first written by Leo Löwenthal and Norbert Guterman in 1948, reads like a clumsy smear against Pound.

[source : This Difficult Individual Eustace Mullins — and the Remarkable Ezra Pound, The Occidental Observer, http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/authors/Mott-Mullins.html, 20th March 2010]

Mott also hints that perhaps Mullins' research and referencing skills could have been better, giving examples of when she asked Mullins for specific references to back up statements in the book Mullins would evade giving the reference, and would often simply reply that it is all in The Library of Congress. However, Mott also hints that maybe there was more to Mullins.

It does seem odd that a nationalist student [Mullins] would be allowed to continue the work of the dangerously brilliant Pound right under Winny’s nose. The story gets even stranger, as Mr. Mullins describes his stay in Washington during this time. He was housed at the Library of Congress — apparently he lived in one of the disused rooms in the Jefferson building and became good friends with Elizabeth Bishop.

Bishop was the Library of Congress’ “Consultant in Poetry” — quite a plum position. She was also identified by Frances Stonor Saunders as working with Nicolas Nabokov in Rio de Janeiro. Nabokov was paid by the CIA to handle South American-focused anti-Stalinist writers. (See The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters.) If what Saunders says is true, then it puts Eustace in strange company at that time of his life.

According to the CIA’s in-house historians, the Library was also a central focus for intelligence gathering after the war, so it is doubly unlikely that just anybody would be allowed to poke around there after hours.

Whatever the motivation for letting Mullins in to see Pound was, the result has been that confusion, misinformation and unverifiable literature have clouded Pound’s message about the financial industry’s role in war. Fortunately Pound did plenty of his own writing.

Pound's war time radio rants were compiled by Leonard Doob and published as Ezra Pound Speaking. Pound is very close to the truth, except for his love of van Buren and Jackson. It would make sense for the NWO to get at Pound, incarcerate him for years in a hospital that was linked to the CIA with a doctor linked to the CIA and then allow an unknown 'writer' to befriend him to write lots of anti-Semitic books that are poorly referenced. I mean, do we have any proof that Pound paid Mullins? Any receipts? If Pound did not pay Mullins then how did Mullins finance himself while allegedly spending day after day after day reading virtually everything in The Library of Congress?

As with all disinformation, there is a lot of true fact but this is obscured by bad untrue information. The Second Bank of The United States was a good bank. It was rapidly creating a United States that threatened the British Empire. So according to the British it had to be destroyed. Van Buren and Jackson did this as agents of The British Empire. And Van Buren would not declare this in his autobiography, now would he? Van Buren would portray himself and his allies as heroes. Such a bank as The Second Bank of The United States must be made to appear bad so that nobody would ever dare suggest creating such a bank again. Hence Secrets of The Federal Reserve? Because that is the source that is cited by many as providing the definitive history of banking in the USA. Documentaries have been based on the work of Mullins. Books too. However, Mullins stated that Henry Clews stated several facts about The Bank of England and the Rothschilds. But when you read Clews' book Clews does not make those statements. If anything Clews blames Jackson for screwing up the economy!

This is making much more sense of Eustace Mullins and Ezra Pound and the little unsourced factoids in Mullins' books. The one little unsourced factoid that I have as yet been unable to source has been the claim that Biddle was an agent of the Rothschilds. I am prepared to believe that for whatever reason Mullins made that one up!

For who would challenge an author, the oracle, who allegedly spent years reading nearly everything in The Library of Congress?