Thanks to the Vinooram999 for making that cheesy youtube homage to Robert Ludlum's 2001 novel The Sigma Protocol.
The Sigma Protocol was the last novel to be written solely by Ludlum prior to his death, was released a couple months before September 11th 2001 tore up the False Flag rulebook, and was intended to be enjoyed merely as a piece of fiction and has no relation to political/corporate reality.
It's just that this entire excerpt from the book (pages 389 - 390) really bugs me with its ... oh, what's the truly horrific word ... plausibility?
CHARDIN REVEALS THE ORIGIN OF SIGMA SG:
For a long moment he was silent. And then he began to talk, slowly, mesmerizingly.
"The story begins before me. It will continue, no doubt, after me. But its origins lie in the closing months of the Second World War, when a consortium of some of the world's most powerful industrialists gathered in Zurich to determine the course of the postwar world."
Ben flashed on the steely-eyed men in the old photograph.
"They were angry men," Chardin went on, "who caught wind of what the ailing Franklin Roosevelt was planning to do - let Stalin know he would not stand in the way of a massive Soviet land grab. And, of course, it's what he did do before his death. In effect he was ceding half of Europe to the Communists! It was the grossest betrayal! These business leaders knew they would be unable to derail the disgraceful U.S.-Soviet bargain at Yalta. And so they formed a corporation that would be a beachhead, a means to channel vast sums of money into fighting communism, strengthening the will of the West. The next world war had begun."
Ben looked at Anna, then stared off into space, hypnotized and astonished by Chardin's words.
"These leaders of capitalism accurately foresaw that the people of Europe, embittered and sickened by fascism, would, in reaction, turn to the left. The soil had been scorched by the Nazis, these industrialists realized, and without the massive infusion of resources at key moments, socialism would begin to take root, first in Europe, then throughout the world. They saw their mission as preserving, fortifying, the industrial state. Which meant, as well, muffling the voices of dissent. Do these anxieties seem overstated? Not so. These industrialists knew how the pendulum of history worked. And if a fascist regime was followed by a socialist regime, Europe might be truly lost, as they saw it.
"It was seen as only prudent to enlist certain leading Nazi officials, who knew which way the wind was blowing and were also committed to combating Stalinism. And once the syndicate had established its political as well as financial foundations, it began manipulating world events, bankrolling political parties as if from behind a curtain. They were successful, astonishingly so! Their money, judiciously targeted, brought to life De Gaulle's Fourth Republic in France, preserved the rightist Franco regime in Spain. In later years, the generals were placed in power in Greece, bringing to an end the leftist regime that the people had elected. In Italy, Operation Gladio ensured that a continual campaign of low-level subversion would cripple the attempt of leftists to organize and influence national politics. Plans were drawn up for the paramilitary police, the cambinieri, to take over radio and television stations if necessary. We had extensive files on politicians, unionists, priests. Ultraright-wing parties everywhere were secretly bolstered from Zurich, so as to make the conservatives seem moderate by contrast. Elections were controlled, bribes paid, leftist political leaders assassinated and the strings were pulled by the puppet masters in Zurich, in conditions of absolute secrecy. Politicians such as Senator Joseph McCarthy in the U.S. were funded. Coups were financed throughout Europe and Africa and Asia. On the left, extremist groups were created, too, to serve as agents provocateur and guarantee popular revulsion toward their cause.
"This cabal of industrialists and bankers had seen to it that the world was made safe for capitalism. Your President Eisenhower, who warned about the rise of the military-industrial complex, saw only the tip of the iceberg. In truth, much of the entire history of the world in the last half century was scripted by these men in Zurich and their successors."
"Christ!" Ben interrupted. "You're talking about..."
"Yes," Chardin said, nodding his hideous faceless head. "Their cabal gave birth to the Cold War. They did. Or, as perhaps I should say, we did. Now do you begin to understand?"
Of course, it's just a ridiculous piece of fiction - you're totally convinced of that, right?
