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to the Liberty Lobby, the same group that Mark Lane defended in the lawsuit brought by
E. Howard Hunt. The Liberty Lobby has been accused of anti-Semitism. In his book,
Prouty wrote, “By the end of WWII the great financial powers of the Western world,
aided by their omnipotent Wall Street lawyers, had decided it was time to create a new
world power center of transnational corporations and, in the process, to destroy the Soviet
Union and socialism. To achieve this enormous objective they chose as their principle
driving force the covert power and might of the CIA and its invisible allies.” 722 This
nefarious power elite decides to conduct constant warfare, short of all-out nuclear war, to
make money and for Malthusian purposes to keep the population in check. The cabal
chooses Indochina as the main theater of this strategy.
In the film JFK, the character based on Prouty – “X” – expressed similar ideas.
During the Kennedy administration, Prouty served as a Pentagon liaison with the CIA. In
the movie, “X” called himself “one of those secret guys in the Pentagon that supplies the
military hardware – the planes, bullets, rifles – for what we call ‘black operations.’”
“X” said he “spent much of September ’63 working on the Kennedy plan for getting all
U.S. personnel out of Vietnam by the end of ’65.” 723 “X” described the many arms
contracts based on the Vietnam War, and exclaimed “No war, no money.” “X” also
describes “The authority of the state over its people resides in its war powers.” 724 This
last point was based on Prouty’s singular use of ideas from a novel, Leonard C. Lewin’s
Report from Iron Mountain. Prouty claimed that the ideas in the novel resembled
722 Prouty, 18.
723 Sklar and Stone, 106.
724 Sklar and Stone, 112.
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