AltFringe

Scouring the fringes of conspiracy theory, one is bound to come across the text of a speech commonly titled Our Race Will Rule Undisputed Over The World.

This text is regarded by some as proof of a Jewish conspiracy bent on world domination.

In actuality, the speech and the rabbi who gave it are made up – a hoax – figments of the imagination. But that does not mean the story is not at all interesting. In fact, the reality of what this document is leads into some very interesting places in the McCarthyism-fueled conspiracies of the 1950s.

The “Proof”

The “proof” that the believers often give as the authenticity of the speech is a little-known document publicly released by the CIA in 2003. The document includes a copy of a hand-written note sent to Director of Central Intelligence General Walter Bedell Smith, the text of the speech in the form of a tract, and a reply to the sender acknowledging the receipt of the letter and its enclosure.

Let me be blunt: that is in no way “proof” that this speech ever happened.

What the CIA Document Is

When you look at the CIA file, the first thing to note is that this is receipt of a note written to the Director of Central Intelligence at the time, General Walter Bedell Smith. That’s all it is – an acknowledgement of receipt. No comment on anything else.

That is SOP (standard operating procedure). Someone random mails something in, it gets stamped and filed. This note requested acknowledgment, and thus, acknowledgment was sent. That’s it. The end of the line. No open case file, no comment on the speech, no anything to suggest that this was something more.

Over the course of this article series, I will unfold a story about where this tract came from, and why it was mailed half way around the globe to Walter Bedell Smith.

Start with the Note

Begin with the handwritten note (last page of the CIA document). Some of the text is redacted, and some illegible, but it is fairly easy to discern 99% of the content, which amounts to the following:

We don’t know who sent it.

Well… actually, I do know who sent it, but that’s for a future installment of this series – and I’m giving a preview by adding New Zealand to the redacted content and address. While many people know about the redacted CIA document, I have exclusively uncovered the identity of the mystery sender. This adventure in history will take us to the other side of the globe, and I will let you know all of it in due time. But for now, you will have to wait to let the story unfold in its natural course.

Back to the story…

We do know that the acknowledgment of receipt was not specifically from General Smith. Actually, I don’t find that at all odd. Some rubber stamp staffer whipped off a note and passed it off to be signed.

What should be notable here is the acknowledgement is quite simply an acknowledgement of receipt of the note and enclosure. There is nothing to indicate it is anything more than that. The original note requested acknowledgement of receipt (“Please tell me when you receive this”), and that’s all this is.

Back to the Note

Getting back the contents of the note for just a moment. I have heard people suggest that this document “proves” the authenticity of the speech because evidently General Smith’s “startling statement” had “shocked and surprised” many complacent members of Congress, as if to say somehow this “unknown” startling statement had something to do with the speech.

That “startling statement” actually has nothing to do with the speech or the tract. It was not a statement that was part of the tract. Rather, it was an event that caused the mystery sender to mail a copy of the tract to General Smith at the CIA. This note was dated 1 October 1952. What was going on in September 1952, that would be “startling” enough to cause someone in New Zealand to send correspondence to the CIA?

That, my sleuthful friends, it going to be the topic of the next installment.