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 was a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution from 1968 to 1973. He was a former economics professor at California State University Los Angeles. He was educated at the universities of London, Goettingen and California with a D.Sc. degree from University of Southampton, England.

Sutton published many books. Several have become classics in the study of covert politics and economics in the twentieth century; including Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler, Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development (in three volumes), and The Best Enemy Money Can Buy and was (in Sutton's own words) "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 purportedly revealing the historical membership of Yale's Skull and Bones society, 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) (Online version) (Online Russian version)
  • Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler (1976, 1999) (Online version)
  • Wall Street and FDR (1976, 1999) (Online version)
  • 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) (Online version)
  • How the Order Creates War and Revolution (1985) (Online Russian version)
  • How the Order Controls Education (1985)
  • The Best Enemy Money Can Buy (1986) (Online version)
  • The Two Faces of George Bush (1988)
  • The Federal Reserve Conspiracy (1995) (Online Russian version (as Vlast' dollara))
  • Trilaterals Over America (1995) (Online version) (Online Russian version)
  • Cold Fusion: Secret Energy Revolution (1997)
  • Gold For Survival (1999)

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