American International Corporation

Soviet Russia was allowed to emerge from the destruction of World War II as one of the victors, solely because she was needed as the next “evil empire” against which the civilized West could launch a new Crusade. Because Russia was bankrupt, had lost 40 million of her population in the war, plus another 66 million murdered by the Bolsheviki since 1917, and was unable to feed herself, once again the World Order was obliged to step in with enormous subsidies of food and material from the U.S., in order to maintain an “enemy power”. The Belgian Relief Commission of 1916 became the Marshall Plan of 1948. Once again, the loads of supplies were shipped into Europe, ostensibly for our Allies, but destined to maintain the Soviet bloc.

Although Jacob Schiff’s personal agent, George Kennan, had regularly toured Russia during the latter part of the nineteenth century, bringing in money and arms for the Communist revolutionaries (his grandson said that Schiff had spent $20 million to bring about the Bolshevik Revolution) more concerted aid was called for to support an entire regime. Kennan also aided Schiff in financing the Japanese in the Russo-Japanese War of 1905; the Japanese decorated Kennan with the Gold War Medal and the Order of the Sacred Treasure.

In 1915, the American International Corporation was formed in New York. Its principal goal was the coordination of aid, particularly financial assistance, to the Bolsheviks which had previously been provided by Schiff and other bankers on an informal basis. The new firm was funded by J.P. Morgan, the Rockefellers, and the National City Bank. Chairman of the Board was Frank Vanderlip, former president of National City, and member of the Jekyll Island group which wrote the Federal Reserve Act in 1910; directors were

• Pierre DuPont,
• Otto Kahn of Kuhn, Loeb Co.,
• George Herbert Walker, grandfather of Vice President George H. Bush,
• William Woodward, director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York;
• Robert S. Lovett, righthand man of the Harriman-Kuhn, Loeb Union Pacific Railroad;
• Percy Rockefeller,
• John DiRyan,
• J.A. Stillman, son of James Stillman principal organizer of the National City Bank; A.H. Wiggin, and
• Beekman Winthrop.

The 1928 list of AIC directors included Percy Rockefeller, Pierre DuPont, Elisha Walker of Kuhn, Loeb Co., and Frank Altschul of Lazard Freres.

In their program of aiding the Communists, AIC worked closely with Guaranty Trust of New York (now Morgan Guaranty Trust). Guaranty Trust’s directors in 1903 included

• George F. Baker, founder of the First National Bank;
• August Belmont, representative of the Rothschilds;
• E.H. Harriman, founder of Union Pacific Railroad; former vice president of the U.S.,
• Levi Morton, who was a director of U.S. Steel and the Union Pacific;
• Henry H. Rogers, partner of John D. Rockefeller in Standard Oil, also a director of Union Pacific;
• H. McK. Twombly, who married the daughter of William Vanderbilt, and was now the director of fifty banks and industries;
• Frederick W. Vanderbilt, and
• Harry Payne Whitney.

No one would seriously believe that bankers of this magnitude would finance an “anti-capitalist” revolution for the Communists, yet this is exactly what happened. These same men financed Woodrow Wilson’s political campaigns, and it was these same men to whom Wilson referred in his opening address to the Paris Peace Conference, when he said,

“There is moreover a voice calling for these definitions of principles and purposes which is, it seems to me, more thrilling and more compelling than any of the moving voices with which the troubled air of the world is filled. It is the voice of the Russian people. There are men in the United States of the finest temper who are in sympathy with Bolshevism because it appears to them to offer that regime of opportunity to the individual which they desire to bring about.”

(Woodrow Wilson, quoted in The Great Conspiracy Against Russia, Seghers and Kahn.)