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"This Radical Right fairy tale, which is now an accepted folk myth in many groups in America, pictured the recent history of the United States as a well-organized plot of extreme Left-wing elements, operating from the White House [1] itself and controlling all the chief avenues of publicity in the United States. This plot, if we are to believe the myth, worked through such avenues as the New York Times, Herald Tribute, Christian Science Monitor, Washington Post, Atlantic Monthly, and Harper's Magazine and had at its core the wild-eyed and bushy-haired theoreticians of Socialist Harvard [2] and the London School of Economics. It was determined to bring the U.S. into World War II on the side of England (Roosevelt's first love) and Soviet Russia (his second love) [3] and, as part of this consciously planned scheme, invited Japan to attack Pearl Harbor [4] all the while undermining America's real strength by excessive spending and unbalanced budgets.

"This myth, like all fables, does in fact have a modicum of truth.

Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time (1966), p. 949-950. ISBN 0-945001-10-X

Notes

^1 Hayden Peake [5], Naval War College Review The Venona Progeny, Volume LIII, No. 3, Sequence 371, Summer 2000; "VENONA makes absolutely clear that they had active agents in the U.S. State Department, Treasury Department, Justice Department, Senate committee staffs, the military services, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the Manhattan Project, and the White House, as well as wartime agencies. No modern government was more thoroughly penetrated."

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Priscilla Fanslor Hobson Hiss (b. 1904?- d. October 1984)

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