Thanks, X_H. :)

Our respected friend Christopher Story may have had a few blind spots. Back when he was regularly publishing, I found myself wondering who his sources were. Chris and I had a fairly cordial email correspondence, till one day he decided for some reason that RMN was a CIA operation. I've wondered who led him to believe that. Story also showed a particular fondness for the Queen, that some of us found rather odd given the depth and breadth of his geopolitical information and understanding.

Apparently he also had a perhaps mistaken impression of Admiral Canaris:

: The Nazi pledge. Some years ago, the ace investigative
: reporter Christopher Story, editor of the banking magazine
: 'Foreign Exchange Review', published a letter (The Madrid
: Circular) that had been circulated amongst Nazi's just
: after the war, and authored by Admiral Canaris, then the
: highest ranking Nazi who was not in prison. Incidentally,
: he was not hanged at the end of the war as history claims –

: another subterfuge to allow him to disappear – but he
: survived until at least the 1970's and probably much
: longer. The two core messages of the letter were designed
: to pull the remaining Nazi's together.

Given what Rayelan has had to say about Canaris, from the very start of Rumor Mill News, it appears Story may have been misinformed. Raye wrote:

During World War II a conspiracy to murder Adolph Hitler was being planned. The men who were behind the conspiracy were mainly of royal blood. While they supported Hitler in the beginning, they quickly came to believe that he had come under the control of outside forces. Some even suspected that the occult masters who taught him in his early years, had somehow gained control of him, possibly through hypnosis or some form of mind control programming.

The conspirators could see that international corporations, mostly owned by the same families who owned the Federal Reserve banks, were the ones who were gaining the most by the war. The conspirators sought the help of England and the United States. Neither country wanted to help these men kill Hitler and end the war. The conspirators realized that if the war continued, Germany, Austria and all of the countries that made up the Old Austro-Hungarian Empire, would be bombed back into the stone age and destroyed almost beyond repair. Because of this, the conspirators knew they had to act, no matter how slim their chances were, and no matter what cost they would have to pay if they failed.

The attempt to assassinate Hitler did fail, and the conspirators paid a price that most humans can never even imagine. Within a few weeks over 10,000 suspected conspirators had been rounded up and killed. The lucky ones were shot. The unfortunate were tortured unspeakably, then hung naked with piano wire.

The families of the men who were part of the conspiracy fared no better than the men. The wives, sisters, mothers, grandmothers, daughters, sons, fathers and other relatives were gathered up. If it was suspected that they were part of the conspiracy, they too were tortured. If they were found ignorant of the conspiracy, they were not killed, they were sent to concentration camps. At the camps, they were treated much worse than Jews. The German guards hated them more than they hated Jews. Many of these people were used in experiments. All were sent to the work camps. Many died and were burned along with the Jews.

The children of the conspirators were labeled Jews. Many of these children were shipped to Israel after the war. They were raised believing they were the children of Jews who had been killed by the Germans.

Many of the leading conspirators were able to fake their deaths and escape. A number of these men made their way into the United States where they were taken under the wing of Secretary of State Cordell Hull.

At the beginning of World War II, Hull had tried in vain to convince President Roosevelt to place the intelligence unit within the State Department. Instead, Roosevelt decided to create an independent intelligence agency which was called the Office of Strategic Services, the OSS. When Roosevelt created the OSS and put William Donovan in charge of it, Hull was not about to be left out of the intelligence gathering business.

Hull formed a super secret unit within the State Department. It was called Consular Operations. ConsOps exists today, but most people believe it is the CIA operating under the cover of State Department employees. This is not always the case. Consular Operations is still an active intelligence gathering and covert operations arm of the United States State Department.

After the conspirators failed to kill Hitler, they knew they had to flee Europe before Hitler tracked the plot back to them and killed them and put their families in concentration camps. Many of these men were high ranking officers in the Abwehr and Das Reich. Many of them were above and beyond suspicion. Still, many of them fled, mostly before the war ended.

The man who was behind the conspiracy was Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, who was the head of the Abwehr, German military intelligence.

There's quite a bit more to the story, Readers may want to read:

http://www.rumormillnews.com/doom1.htm

If we assume Rayelan's version of things is correct, I'd think it very unlikely that Canaris would write something to "pull the remaining Nazis together", or to do so with any nefarious intent.

--hobie

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