the best enemy money can buy

[...]... taxpayers' expense However, the point at issue is not the wisdom of publication, but the wisdom of concealment The public is not told because the public might protest In other words, the public cannot be trusted to see things in the same light as the policymakers, and the policymakers are unwilling to defend their positions Further, what would have been the domestic political consequences if it had been... back to the deaf mute blindmen, and their associates in political Washington Who are the deaf mute blindmen? The Russian revolutionary Vladimir Ilych (Ulyanov) Lenin coined the phrase, and whatever we think of Lenin's revolutionary philosophy, we cannot deny his genius in the analysis of capitalists and their motivations Here is Lenin on the "deaf mute blindmen." The Capitalists of the world and their... we cannot trust the present personnel of the Department to apply our agreements in the nation's interest any more than we can trust it to give us the full facts about our treaties and other international commitments Breathtakingly inaccurate are the only words that can describe State Department claims regarding our military assistance to the Soviet Union The general State Department line is that the. .. February 23, 1961, the Department of Defense went on record against shipment of the transfer lines on the grounds that "the technology contained in these Transfermatic machines produced in the United States is the most advanced in the world," and that "so far as this department knows, the USSR has not installed this type of machinery The receipt of this equipment by the USSR will contribute to the Soviet military... State issued papers to the effect that the Soviets had only self-generated technology Even today State and Commerce appear barely conversant with the extent of Soviet "reverse engineering." Fortunately, Department of Defense is more attuned to technology and among all government departments is alone aware of the magnitude of the problem to be described in The Best Enemy Money Can Buy The deaf mute blindmen... more than the Ford-built Gorki plant, which up to 1968 had been the largest auto plant in the USSR Although Volgograd is described in Western literature as the "Togliatti plant" or the "FiatSoviet auto plant," and does indeed produce a version of the Fiat-124 sedan, the core of the technology is American Three-quarters of the equipment, including the key transfer lines and automatics, came from the United... information about our export to the Soviet Union is, of course, the American firms and individuals prominently associated with such exports, i.e., the deaf mute blindmen themselves In general, the American public has a basic right to know what is being shipped and who is shipping it, if the Soviets are using the material against us The public also has a right to know about the personal interests of presidential... trade with the USSR Until recently, the firms involved could publicly claim ignorance of the use to which the Soviets put imported Western technology It is not a good claim, but it was made From the 1970's on, ignorance of end-use is not a valid claim The evidence is clear, overwhelming, and readily available: the Soviets have used American technology to kill Americans and their allies The claim that... addition, the ZIL-151 truck was used as a prime mover for the 82millimeter gun In 1953 the ZIL-151 truck was adapted for several other weapons, including the BM-24, 240-millimeter, 12-tube rocket-launcher; the RM-131-millimeter, 32-tube rocket-launcher; the BM-14, 140-millimeter, 16-tube rocket-launcher, and the 200-millimeter, 4-tube rocketlauncher In the 1960s the ZIL-157 truck became a mount for the GOA-SA-2... conquest of the Soviet market, will close their eyes to the indicated higher reality and thus will turn into deaf mute blindmen They will extend credits, which will strengthen for us the Communist Party in their countries and giving us the materials and technology we lack, they will restore our military industry, indispensable for our future victorious attacks on our suppliers In other words, they will . of the magnitude of the problem to be described in The Best Enemy Money Can Buy. The deaf mute blindmen — to quote from Lenin — are those multinational businessmen who see no further than the. classification because the Soviets know what they are buying. So does the United States government. So do U.S. firms. So do the deaf mute blindmen. The group left out in the cold is the American taxpayer-voter their plunder. And the man who loans money to governments, so called, for the purpose of enabling the latter to rob, enslave and murder their people, are among the greatest villains that the