Overflight, 77

There has been a continuing, albeit concealed, alliance between international political capitalists and international revolutionary socialists — to their mutual benefit. This alliance has gone unobserved largely because historians — with a few notable exceptions — have an unconscious Marxian bias and are thus locked into the impossibility of any such alliance existing. The open−minded reader should bear two clues in mind: monopoly capitalists are the bitter enemies of laissez−faire entrepreneurs; and, given the weaknesses of socialist central planning, the totalitarian socialist state is a perfect captive market for monopoly capitalists, if an alliance can be made with the socialist powerbrokers. … Would not this be the logical twentieth−century internationalist extension of the Morgan railroad monopolies and the Rockefeller petroleum trust of the late nineteenth century?
… We have … a continuing working relationship between Bolshevik banker Olof Aschberg and the Morgan−controlled Guaranty Trust Company in New York before, during, and after the Russian Revolution. In tsarist times Aschberg was the Morgan agent in Russia and negotiator for Russian loans in the United States; during 1917 Aschberg was financial intermediary for the revolutionaries; and after the revolution Aschberg became head of Ruskombank, the first Soviet international bank, while Max May, a vice president of the Morgan−controlled Guaranty Trust, became director and chief of the Ruskombank foreign department …
and the Ruskombank promptly appointed Guaranty Trust Company its U.S. agent.
… Moreover, there is evidence of transfers of funds from Wall Street bankers to international revolutionary activities. For example, there is the statement … by William Boyce Thompson — a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, a large stockholder in the Rockefeller−controlled Chase Bank, and a financial associate of the Guggenheims and the Morgans — that he (Thompson) contributed $1 million to the Bolshevik Revolution for propaganda purposes. …