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The Deep State: Funding America’s Enemies Since 1917In August 1972, an intrepid scholar journeyed from the West Coast to Miami Beach, Florida, on a mission of utmost importance to the survival of the United States and the free world. On August 15 at 2:30 p.m., he addressed the National Security Subcommittee of the Republican Party’s Platform Committee, which was readying the party’s platform for the Republican National Convention that would take place in Miami Beach on August 21-23. The scholar was Dr. Antony C. Sutton, an economics professor, and historian, and the author of a stunning, comprehensive investigation of the massive, decades-long transfers of crucial technologies from the United States and Western Europe to the Soviet Union. He had, by that time, published two volumes of his meticulously researched trilogy, Western Technology, and Soviet Economic Development. (The third volume of the series would be published in 1973.) Professor Sutton had been feverishly at work on this monumental study at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace since 1968. Published by the Hoover Institution, his extraordinarily documented work of over 1,000 pages indisputably proved that the Soviet military threat, which the United States was then spending $80 billion a year to defend against, had been almost totally built by America and her allies. He stated his thesis to the subcommittee: “In a few words: there is no such thing as Soviet technology. Almost all — perhaps 90-95 percent — came directly or indirectly from the United States and its allies. In effect, the United States and the NATO countries have built the Soviet Union. It's industrial and military capabilities. This massive construction job has taken 50 years. Since the Revolution in 1917. It has been carried out through trade and the sale of plants, equipment, and technical assistance.”Dr. Sutton had come to Miami to warn that the bipartisan treachery and folly had continued up to the present under President Richard Nixon, who was expected to be overwhelmingly renominated a few days hence as the GOP’s standard-bearer against the Democrats’ far-left George McGovern. Incredibly, Dr. Sutton was given only 15 minutes to address this momentous issue. Sutton denounced the ongoing Nixon administration policies — which continued the Johnson administration’s policies — of transferring technology to the Soviet Union. That same technology was then being transported by the Soviets to the North Vietnamese communists, to be used to kill American soldiers and our South Vietnamese allies. These treasonous transfers had continued, Sutton noted, “in the middle of a war that has killed 46,000 Americans (so far) and countless Vietnamese with Soviet weapons and supplies.”In the all-too-brief time he had, Dr. Sutton presented several striking examples (a tiny fraction of the avalanche of detailed cases presented in his trilogy) illustrating the fact that the Soviet Union’s formidable war machine — ships, submarines, tanks, artillery, airplanes, avionics, radar, anti-aircraft systems, jets, missiles, rockets, trucks, railway locomotives, and more — were largely of American design and was produced in factories built with the help of Western engineers and technicians (primarily American), and with Western (again, primarily American) technology. Professor Sutton proved all of this in his books in devastating detail from shipping manifests, State Department and Commerce Department documents, signed presidential waivers, congressional investigations, and press reports, as well as public statements of public officials and corporate executives participating in the transfers. Tragically, Dr. Sutton’s address was ignored by the Republican Party establishment. It was also completely spiked by the globalist-controlled media-industrial complex, even though he was a highly credentialed academic from a prestigious institution and copies of his startling testimony had been delivered to the Associated Press and United Press International. The blackout wasn’t complete, however; his statement to the GOP platform subcommittee was published in full by The Review of the News, the weekly predecessor of The New American. Undaunted, Dr. Sutton forged ahead, producing an updated synthesis of his work, a single volume aimed at the general public, entitled National Suicide: Military Aid to the Soviet Union, published in 1973 by Arlington House. For refusing to cave to political pressure to withdraw the book, Professor Sutton was “canceled” and his sterling academic career was destroyed. Undeterred, the following year he testified before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on International Trade, again underscoring the unconscionable policies that were responsible for building our enemies and threatening our national security. In 1986, he published The Best Enemy Money Can Buy, another smashing exposé in which he dared to label as “bi-partisan treason” the ongoing policies of the Deep State one-worlders who have taken control of our government. As the articles in this issue of The New American show, bipartisan treasonous transfers have also built Communist China into the global menace that it is today.