In this series so far, we have learned how the text of a speech from a Hungarian rabbi ended up in the hands of the CIA, who sent it to the CIA, who published the tract the sender sent, and who the publisher received the text from in the first place.
It all takes us back to one Eustace Mullins.
Mullins first published the speech in the May 1952 issue of Women’s Voice under the title “Abominable, Yet True”. He published it in several other publications as well. His story about receiving the text goes like this (from the August 1, 1952 issue of Common Sense):
This transcription of Rabinovich’s speech was given me by a former Bulgarian diplomat who broke with the Communist regime and reached Budapest, Hungary, where he hid out with anti-Communist friends until March. While there, he obtained a copy of this speech, and was then smuggled to Hamburg, Germany, finally making his way to this country. A gentleman in Hamburg gave him my name, and he met me and urged me to distribute this speech at once. I sincerely hope that it will give the American people a better picture of the force arrayed against them.
Eustus Mullins
That’s a whopper of a tale. It would be fascinating were it true, but Mullins was a known fraudster.
A similar hoax perpetuated by Mullins was a paper called A Racial Program for the Twentieth Century, written by Israel Cohen. Cohen was nothing more than a figment of Mullins’s imagination. In August, 1958, New York’s Congressman Abraham J. Multer read into the Congressional Record comments on this hoax. In those remarks, Multer said of Mullins, “[He] has, apparently, a marked propensity for phony claims and counterfeit creations. Some of his counterfeits include a speech by a non-existent Hungarian rabbi” – a direct reference to Rabinovich and the speech as a hoax.
Others have also specifically pointed out that it was a hoax. Ultimately, the most damning bit of evidence came from famed researcher Ernie Lazar.
Ernie Lazar was a private individual who, over the course of his lifetime, assembled a massive database of government documents from FOIA requests. In Lazar’s database, there was an internal FBI memo, never intended for public eyes, that was sent to director J. Edgar Hoover in which Mullins was described as “depraved, warped degenerate”, and that it would be “inconceivable that any rational person would consider seriously Mullins’ demented allegations and outrageous distortions we have previously considered it unwise to dignify his work with any kind of response”.
That is some series shade being cast on Mullins’s credibility.
But Lazar had more information on Mullins. Lazar had spoken directly with Dr. John George, the author of two books calling Mullins’s Rabbi a hoax, Nazis, Communists, Klansmen, and Others on the Fringe and They Never Said It. George had interviewed H. Keith Thompson, another person involved with James Madole’s National Renaissance Party and had worked with Mullins on several projects.
While in his books, George never indicated where he had obtained the information that both the speech and the rabbi were a hoax, he did give that information to Ernie Lazar. George specifically identified Thompson as his source, with the caveat that Lazar not go public with the information until Thompson died.
Keith Thompson, an inside man with Madole’s NRP, who worked closely with Eustace Mullins, specifically told John George that Mullins had concocted the entire thing – the speech, the rabbi, everything.
Oddly enough, this has been described and discussed as a hoax for nearly seventy-five years and the evidence of it being a hoax is incredibly strong, right up to an inside man involved with the writer having given that information. Yet there are still people today who are claiming that the CIA acknowledges this as fact.
If you think that the CIA having a copy of this speech is an acknowledgement of its authenticity, then you need to go back to the beginning of this series and read how they came to be in possession of it in the first place. They acknowledged nothing other than having received it from the sender.
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