Cleon Skousen
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Willard Cleon Skousen (January 20, 1913 - January 9, 2006) was a conservative author, political commentator, and academic. He also was employed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and served as Chief of Police for the Salt Lake City Police Department.
Skousen authored The Naked Communist and was the source of the publication "1963 Communist Goals"[1] list. He later wrote a follow-up, The Naked Capitalist, based on Carroll Quigley's assertions made in the books Tragedy and Hope and The Anglo-American Establishment, which claimed that top Western merchant bankers, industrialists and related institutions were behind the rise of Communism and Fascism around the world.
The Naked Capitalist has been cited by many, including Cleon Skousen's nephew Joel Skousen, as proof of a "New World Order" strategy to create a One World Government.
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[edit] Biography
Skousen was born in Raymond, Alberta, Canada, and moved with his family to both Mexico and California as a youth. At the age of 17 he accepted a religious assignment in Great Britain as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS).
Skousen married Jewel Pitcher of San Bernardino, California, in August 1936. They raised eight children which experience, combined with his later life work with the FBI in juvenile delinquency, inspired one of his first books So You Want to Raise a Boy. In its era, the book was considered by some to be the antitheses of the more fashionable child rearing books by Dr. Benjamin Spock.[citation needed]
In June 1935, immediately after graduating from San Bernardino Valley Jr. College, where he served as Student Body President, Skousen began working for the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. This led into a career with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) the following year, which lasted until 1951.
Skousen attended George Washington University Law School, graduating with an LL.B. in June 1940. He had already passed the Washington, D.C., Bar Exam. In 1972, recognizing the sufficiency of his law school studies more than 30 years earlier, his law degree was upgraded to Juris Doctor (J.D.).
From 1951 to 1955, he taught at Brigham Young University, after which he served as the police chief of Salt Lake City, Utah until 1955. For the next fifteen years, he edited the police journal, "Law and Order". He returned to Brigham Young University as a professor of religion in 1967, retiring in 1978.
After the American election of 1980, Skousen was appointed to the Council for National Policy, a think tank of influential politicians, scholars and academics that lent support and advice to President Ronald Reagan’s administration. Among the many solutions Skousen proposed included suggested programs to convert the Social Security system to private retirement accounts and a plan to completely wipe out the national debt. Skousen was never a tax protestor but campaigned for several proposals to eliminate the federal income tax, including the famous Liberty Amendment, which among other things, would return federally owned land to the states and preclude the federal government from being involved in any activities that competed with private enterprise.
Skousen founded a non-profit educational foundation, "The Freemen Institute," which is now known as the National Center for Constitutional Studies and became known as a political lecturer.[2]
His nephews include Joel Skousen, a survivalist/economist author, Royal Skousen, a linguist, and Mark Skousen, a libertarian author.
[edit] World view
Skousen spoke against the socialist-communist conspiracy,[3] and against David Rockefeller. He linked super-capitalists to their supposed enemies, the world communist leaders.[4]
Skousen claimed that treason had occurred in the U.S. State Department with respect to what he argued was the betrayal of China after World War II. In the 1970s, he gave a speech to an LDS group aboard a cruise ship returning from Israel. In this excerpt,[5] he speaks of the sham of elections in the United States. He claimed that for ten elections, the United States had not had a legitimate election where there was truly a choice. He also referred to what he argued was Chiang Kai-shek's betrayal.
Skousen spoke of David Rockefeller as being one of the most powerful men in the world. Rockefeller had praised Mao Zedong in a New York Times article in 1973, stating that the communist leader was one of the greatest leaders of the 20th century. Skousen blasted this notion and asked who would write or say such a thing, then responded that it was David Rockefeller.[citation needed]
[edit] Books
Skousen's writings generally present a conservative viewpoint of either political or religious topics. Works include:
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[edit] References
- ^ Communist Goals - 1963 Congressional Record
- ^ National Center for Constitutional Studies - NCCS
- ^ Cleon W. Skousen, The Naked Communist (Ensign Publishing Co., 1958).
- ^ See, e.g., Cleon W. Skousen, The Naked Capitalist (Ensign Publishing Co., 1970).
- ^ W. Cleon Skousen: US Betrayal of China after WWII, Elections, shams
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