I'd like to meet Eustace Mullins. For those who don't know who Eustace Mullins is, and I'm sure there are many people who don't, he is the author of a book entitled Secrets of the Federal Reserve. His book was originally published in 1952 by Kasper and Horton, New York, under the title Mullins on the Federal Reserve. His book was the first nationally circulated document chronicling how the Federal Reserve came to fruition, its true purposes, and how its existence has affected the last 93 years of America’s history. He wrote companion books that extended upon evidence already provided in Secrets of the Federal Reserve and has spent the remaining years of his life publishing additional information.
From Secrets of the Federal Reserve he explains:
In 1949, while I was visiting Ezra Pound who was a political prisoner at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, Washington, D.C. (a Federal institution for the insane), Dr. Pound asked me if I had ever heard of the Federal Reserve System. I replied that I had not, as of the age of 25. He then showed me a ten dollar bill marked "Federal Reserve Note" and asked me if I would do some research at the Library of Congress on the Federal Reserve System which had issued this bill. Pound was unable to go to the Library himself, as he was being held without trial as a political prisoner by the United States government. After he was denied broadcasting time in the U.S., Dr. Pound broadcast from Italy in an effort to persuade people of the United States not to enter World War II. Franklin D. Roosevelt had personally ordered Pound’s indictment, spurred by the demands of his three personal assistants, Harry Dexter White, Lauchlin Currie, and Alger Hiss, all of whom were subsequently identified as being connected with Communist espionage.
I had no interest in money or banking as a subject, because I was working on a novel. Pound offered to supplement my income by ten dollars a week for a few weeks. My initial research revealed evidence of an international banking group which had secretly planned the writing of the Federal Reserve Act and Congress’ enactment of the plan into law. These findings confirmed what Pound had long suspected. He said, "You must work on it as a detective story." I was fortunate in having my research at the Library of Congress directed by a prominent scholar, George Stimpson, founder of the National Press Club, who was described by The New York Times of September 28, 1952: "Beloved by Washington newspapermen as ‘our walking Library of Congress’, Mr. Stimpson was a highly regarded reference source in the Capitol. Government officials, Congressmen and reporters went to him for information on any subject."
I did research four hours each day at the Library of Congress, and went to St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in the afternoon. Pound and I went over the previous day’s notes. I then had dinner with George Stimpson at Scholl’s Cafeteria while he went over my material, and I then went back to my room to type up the corrected notes. Both Stimpson and Pound made many suggestions in guiding me in a field in which I had no previous experience. When Pound’s resources ran low, I applied to the Guggenheim Foundation, Huntington Hartford Foundation, and other foundations to complete my research on the Federal Reserve. Even though my foundation applications were sponsored by the three leading poets of America, Ezra Pound, E.E. Cummings, and Elizabeth Bishop, all of the foundations refused to sponsor this research. I then wrote up my findings to date, and in 1950 began efforts to market this manuscript in New York. Eighteen publishers turned it down without comment, but the nineteenth, Devin Garrity, president of the Devin Adair Publishing Company, gave me some friendly advice in his office. “I like your book, but we can’t print it,†he told me. “Neither can anybody else in New York. Why don’t you bring in a prospectus for your novel, and I think we can give you an advance. You may as well foreget about getting the Federal Reserve book published. I doubt if it could ever be printed.â€
This was devastating news, coming after two years of intensive work. I reported back to Pound, and we tried to find a publisher in other parts of the country. After two years of fruitless submissions, the book was published in a small edition in 1952 by two of Pound’s disciples, John Kasper and David Horton, using their private funds, under the title Mullins on the Federal Reserve. In 1954, a second edition, with unauthorized alterations, was published in New Jersey, as The Federal Reserve Conspiracy. In 1955, Guido Roeder brought out a German edition in Oberammergau, Germany. The book was seized and the entire edition of 10,000 copies burned by government agents led by Dr. Otto John.
The burning of the book was upheld April 21, 1961 by judge Israel Katz of the Bavarian Supreme Court. The U.S. Government refused to intervene, because U.S. High Commissioner to Germany, James B. Conant (president of Harvard University 1933 to 1953), had approved the initial book burning order. This is the only book which has been burned in Germany since World War II. In 1968 a pirated edition of this book appeared in California. Both the FBI and the U.S. Postal inspectors refused to act, despite numerous complaints from me during the next decade. In 1980 a new German edition appeared. Because the U.S. Government apparently no longer dictated the internal affairs of Germany, the identical book which had been burned in 1955 now circulates in Germany without interference.
I had collaborated on several books with Mr. H.L. Hunt and he suggested that I should continue my long-delayed research on the Federal Reserve and bring out a more definitive version of this book. I had just signed a contract to write the authorized biography of Ezra Pound, and the Federal Reserve book had to be postponed. Mr. Hunt passed away before I could get back to my research, and once again I faced the problem of financing research for the book.
My original book had traced and named the shadowy figures in the United States who planned the Federal Reserve Act. I now discovered that the men whom I exposed in 1952 as the shadowy figures behind the operation of the Federal Reserve System were themselves shadows, the American fronts for the unknown figures who became known as the "London Connection." I found that notwithstanding our successes in the Wars of Independence of 1812 against England, we remained an economic and financial colony of Great Britain. For the first time, we located the original stockholders of the Federal Reserve Banks and traced their parent companies to the London Connection.
This research is substantiated by citations and documentation from hundreds of newspapers, periodicals and books and charts showing blood, marriage, and business relationships. More than a thousand issues of The New York Times on microfilm have been checked not only for original information, but verification of statements from other sources.
It is a truism of the writing profession that a writer has only one book within him. This seems applicable in my case, because I am now in the fifth decade of continuous writing on a single subject, the inside story of the Federal Reserve System. This book was from its inception commissioned and guided by Ezra Pound. Four of his protégés have previously been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, William Butler Yeats for his later poetry, James Joyce for "Ulysses", Ernest Hemingway for "The Sun Also Rises", and T.S. Elliot for "The Waste Land". Pound played a major role in the inspiration and in the editing of these works--which leads us to believe that this present work, also inspired by Pound, represents an ongoing literary tradition.
Although this book in its inception was expected to be a tortuous work on economic and monetary techniques, it soon developed into a story of such universal and dramatic appeal that from the outset, Ezra Pound urged me to write it as a detective story, a genre which was invented by my fellow Virginian, Edgar Allan Poe. I believe that the continuous circulation of this book during the past forty years has not only exonerated Ezra Pound for his much condemned political and monetary statements, but also that it has been, and will continue to be, the ultimate weapon against the powerful conspirators who compelled him to serve thirteen and a half years without trial, as a political prisoner held in an insane asylum a la KGB. His earliest vindication came when the government agents who represented the conspirators refused to allow him to testify in his own defense; the second vindication came in 1958 when these same agents dropped all charges against him, and he walked out of St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, a free man once more. His third and final vindication is this work, which documents every aspect of his exposure of the ruthless international financiers to whom Ezra Pound became but one more victim, doomed to serve years as the Man in the Iron Mask, because he had dared to alert his fellow-Americans to their furtive acts of treason against all people of the United States.
In my lectures throughout this nation, and in my appearances on many radio and television programs, I have sounded the toxin that the Federal Reserve System is not Federal; it has no reserves; and it is not a system at all, but rather, a criminal syndicate. From November, 1910, when the conspirators met on Jekyll Island, Georgia, to the present time, the machinations of the Federal Reserve bankers have been shrouded in secrecy. Today, that secrecy has cost the American people a three trillion dollar debt, with annual interest payments to these bankers amounting to some three hundred billion dollars per year, sums which stagger the imagination, and which in themselves are ultimately unpayable. Officials of the Federal Reserve System routinely issue remonstrances to the public, much as the Hindu fakir pipes an insistent tune to the dazed cobra which sways its head before him, not to resolve the situation, but to prevent it from striking him. Such was the soothing letter written by Donald J. Winn, Assistant to the Board of Governors in response to an inquiry by a Congressman, the Honorable Norman D. Shumway, on March 10, 1983. Mr. Winn states that "The Federal Reserve System was established by an act of Congress in 1913 and is not a ‘private corporation’."
On the next page, Mr. Winn continues, "The stock of the Federal Reserve Banks is held entirely by commercial banks that are members of the Federal Reserve System." He offers no explanation as to why the government has never owned a single share of stock in any Federal Reserve Bank, or why the Federal Reserve System is not a "private corporation" when all of its stock is owned by "private corporations".
American history in the twentieth century has recorded the amazing achievements of the Federal Reserve bankers. First, the outbreak of World War I, which was made possible by the funds available from the new central bank of the United States. Second, the Agricultural Depression of 1920. Third, the Black Friday Crash on Wall Street of October, 1929 and the ensuing Great Depression. Fourth, World War II. Fifth, the conversion of the assets of the United States and its citizens from real property to paper assets from 1945 to the present, transforming a victorious America and foremost world power in 1945 to the world’s largest debtor nation in 1990. Today, this nation lies in economic ruins, devastated and destitute, in much the same dire straits in which Germany and Japan found themselves in 1945. Will Americans act to rebuild our nation, as Germany and Japan have done when they faced the identical conditions which we now face--or will we continue to be enslaved by the Babylonian debt money system which was set up by the Federal Reserve Act in 1913 to complete our total destruction? This is the only question which we have to answer, and we do not have much time left to answer it.
Because of the depth and the importance of the information which I had developed at the Library of Congress under the tutelage of Ezra Pound, this work became the happy hunting ground for many other would-be historians, who were unable to research this material for themselves. Over the past four decades, I have become accustomed to seeing this material appear in many other books, invariably attributed to other writers, with my name never mentioned. To add insult to injury, not only my material, but even my title has been appropriated, in a massive, if obtuse, work called "Secrets of the Temple--the Federal Reserve". This heavily advertised book received reviews ranging from incredulous to hilarious. Forbes Magazine advised its readers to read their review and save their money, pointing out that "a reader will discover no secrets" and that "This is one of those books whose fanfares far exceed their merit." This was not accidental, as this overblown whitewash of the Federal Reserve bankers was published by the most famous nonbook publisher in the world.
After my initial shock at discovering that the most influential literary personality of the twentieth century, Ezra Pound, was imprisoned in "the Hellhole" in Washington, I immediately wrote for assistance to a Wall Street financier at whose estate I had frequently been a guest. I reminded him that as a patron of the arts, he could not afford to allow Pound to remain in such inhuman captivity. His reply shocked me even more. He wrote back that "your friend can well stay where he is." It was some years before I was able to understand that, for this investment banker and his colleagues, Ezra Pound would always be "the enemy".
Eustace Mullins
Jackson Hole, Wyoming
1991
In his introduction to his book A Writ For Martyrs Mullins writes:
For many years, I doubted that I had an F.B.I. file, a compilation which the Federal Bureau of Investigation maintains at its Headquarters building in Washington, D.C. Such files are kept on habitual criminals, agents of foreign governments, and other persons whom the FBI is legally entitled to observe. I had made no inquiry to see if I had such a file, because I supposed that even if it could be obtained, it would contain little or nothing of any interest. I had never belonged to any political party. In some fifty years since my maturity, I had never been arrested or charged with any misdemeanour or felony. I had served honorably for thirty-eight months in the United States Army Air Force during World War II. I attended Washington and Lee University, where my classmates included many present day luminaries.
I was finally persuaded to request my files from the FBI in 1980, under the Freedom of Information Act. I was amazed to be informed that my file consisted of more than eight hundred pages. The FBI was willing to release about five hundred pages to me. The rest had to be withheld, because of “national securityâ€. I found this difficult to believe. As an employee of the Library of Congress, I had been cleared by the Office of Naval Intelligence to photograph Top Secret documents. I had also been employed at Ft. McNair, VA. as a federal employee of the U.S. Army. I had entrée to many offices on Capitol Hill. The Chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee, Hon. Wright Patman, had praised my history of the Federal Reserve System as “one of the few books that I have on my desk that I often refer to.†Despite this background, I was considered to be involved in matters affecting our national security.
Nearly two years went by before the five hundred pages of my FBI file was finally released to me. After many months of fruitless negotiations, I requested my college classmates, Senator John Warner, (R. VA.), to intervene on my behalf. He brought pressure to bear on the reluctant bureaucrats, and at last the file was delivered to me. I answered my doorbell one dark night in December, 1981; someone thrust a package into my hand a disappeared into the darkness. I came inside, unwrapped the package, and sat down to read some of the most incredible pages I had ever seen. Many of the pages, about fifty of the five hundred, had all of the information completely blacked out with heavy black marking pens. Nearly half of them had only a few legible sentences on each page. The rest of the page was blacked out. This was the FBI interpretation of “freedom of informationâ€.
In the ensuing weeks, I found in these pages the answers to many of the puzzling and heretofore unexplained disasters which had struck me and my family during the past three decades. On more than a dozen occasions, the Assistant Director of the FBI had described me as “a vicious, warped degenerateâ€. He referred to my “demented†writings, and claimed that I had a “suicidal†nature. These files not only were routinely sent out to other government agencies on request, but were made available to foreign officials, political candidates, and journalists, always without the knowledge of the subject of the files. Jack Anderson boasted for years that he could obtain access to any FBI file he wished to consult. Like everything else in Washington, the FBI files are for sale, but only to carefully chosen individuals.
The most startling portion of the file released to me contained memoranda detailing a conspiracy to have me committed to a mental institution in 1959. In had spent part of that summer in Michigan with Russell Kirk at his Lake Mecosta cottage. During that period, I completed the final draft of the biography of Ezra Pound, and then returned to Chicago. Russell frequently entertained visiting scholars, students, and various intellectuals at Mecosta, all of whom I met during that summer. Had any of them considered me insane, Russell would have managed to bring it up, in his wry way.
While I was in Michigan, FBI officials had made arrangements with an obliging Chicago judge to have me committed to a mental institution. When they went to my apartment to pick me up, I was not there. This resulted in a national alert being sent out to have me picked up. FBI agents went to major airports, train stations and bus stations, hoping to find me! This has been described in great detail, much of which I have reproduced in this volume.
I decided that in order to forestall any further such conspiracies, I must file suit against the responsible parties. The legal results were unbelievable. The defendants failed to answer in the allotted time. I then had the clerk of the U.S. District Court enter a $50,000,000.00 default judgment against them in the official records of the court.
These government documents prove that American citizens of my background, nativeborn, law-abiding, hardworking and patriotic Christians, are viewed with fear and loathing by the Washington bureaucrats, because we pose the greatest threat to their continued rape of the nation for their alien overlords. If you are a criminal, you will be treated with great consideration by the Marielitos in our halls of government. But – if you are an American who is seriously concerned about the tragic decline of our once great Republic, and if you have ever made this concern a public issue, as I have, you are in as great danger as I have been from these furtive conspirators. Their lives are dedicated to their foreign masters, as they steadily plot to increase their power over our daily lives. In recent years, a number of American citizens have been shot down by large groups of heavily armed terrorists, for such offenses as failing to file the proper income tax information, or for refusing to send their treasured children to dope-ridden, crime-terrorized public schools! Yet these are not listed as capitol offenses anywhere in the United States Code.
As you read the official documented record of the crimes committed against my person, you may feel sympathy for me. But I survived. Your reaction should be – Will you?
I have posted three different interviews with Eustace Mullins in my blog section of my myspace page.