Antony C. Sutton

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Antony Cyril Sutton (February 14, 1925 - June 17, 2002) was a British-born economist, historian, and writer. He studied at the universities of London, Goettingen and California and received his D.Sc. degree from University of Southampton, England. He was an economics professor at California State University Los Angeles and a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution from 1968 to 1973. During his time at the Hoover Institute he wrote the major study Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development (in three volumes), detailing how the West played a major role in developing Soviet Union from its very beginnings up until the present time (1970). He was forced out of the Hoover Institute after publishing National Suicide: Military Aid to the Soviet Union in 1973.

Sutton's next three major published books Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution, Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler and Wall Street and FDR detailed Wall Street's involvement in the Russian Revolution as well as its decisive contributions to the rise of Adolf Hitler and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. His books became classics in the study of covert politics and economics in the twentieth century. In Sutton's own words he was "persecuted but never prosecuted" for his research and subsequent publication of his findings.

In 1968, Sutton wrote Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development, which was first published by the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Sutton alleged that the Soviet Union's technological and manufacturing base -- which was then engaged in supplying the Viet Cong -- was built by United States corporations and largely funded by US taxpayers. Steel and iron plants, the GAZ automobile factory, and many other Soviet industrial enterprises were, according to Sutton, built with the help or technical assistance of the United States or U.S. corporations. He alleged further that the Soviet Union's acquisition of MIRV technology was made possible by receiving (from U.S. sources) machining equipment for the manufacture of precision ball bearings, necessary to mass-produce MIRV-enabled missiles.

In the early 1980s, using membership lists revealing the historical membership of Yale's Skull and Bones society (which in fact is also available in the Yale Library), dating from 1832 -- which Sutton said he received from an anonymous source -- he speculated about political and economic relationships underlying significant historical events, from which he extrapolated the apparent purpose of these relationships. He published these conclusions as America's Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull and Bones -- which, according to Sutton, was his most important work.

In his book, Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era (New York: Viking Press;1970), Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote:

"For impressive evidence of Western participation in the early phase of Soviet economic growth, see Antony C. Sutton's Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development: 1917-1930, which argues that 'Soviet economic development for 1917-1930 was essentially dependent on Western technological aid' (p.283), and that 'at least 95 per cent of the industrial structure received this assistance.' (p. 348)."

Professor Richard Pipes, of Harvard, said in his book, Survival Is Not Enough: Soviet Realities and America's Future (Simon & Schuster;1984):

"In his three-volume detailed account of Soviet Purchases of Western Equipment and Technology ..." Sutton comes to conclusions that are uncomfortable for many businessmen and economists. For this reason his work tends to be either dismissed out of hand as 'extreme' or, more often, simply ignored."

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  • Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development: 1917-1930 (1968)
  • Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development: 1930-1945 (1971)
  • Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development: 1945-1965 (1973)
  • National Suicide: Military Aid to the Soviet Union (1973)
  • What Is Libertarianism? (1973)
  • Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution (1974, 1999)
  • Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler (1976, 1999)
  • Wall Street and FDR (1976, 1999)
  • The War on Gold: How to Profit from the Gold Crisis (1977)
  • Energy: The Created Crisis (1979)
  • The Diamond Connection: A manual for investors (1979)
  • Trilaterals Over Washington - Volume I (1979; with Patrick M. Wood)
  • Trilaterals Over Washington - Volume II (1980; with Patrick M. Wood)
  • Gold vs Paper: A cartoon history of inflation (1981)
  • Investing in Platinum Metals (1982)
  • Technological Treason: A catalog of U.S. firms with Soviet contracts, 1917-1982 (1982)
  • America's Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones (1983, 1986, 2002)
  • How the Order Creates War and Revolution (1985)
  • How the Order Controls Education (1985)
  • The Best Enemy Money Can Buy (1986)
  • The Two Faces of George Bush (1988)
  • The Federal Reserve Conspiracy (1995)
  • Trilaterals Over America (1995)
  • Cold Fusion: Secret Energy Revolution (1997)
  • Gold For Survival (1999)

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