AltFringe

In the first part of this series, I told you about how scouring the fringes of conspiracy theory, one is bound to come across the text of the speech Our Race Will Rule Undisputed Over The World, and began the fascinating account of how the CIA came to be in possession of a tract of that supposed speech.

In the second part of the story, we looked at the background of the state of McCarthyism in 1952 and how Director of Central Intelligence General Walter Bedell Smith had announced his belief that communists had infiltrated the US government. We learned that RNC chairman Arthur Summerfield called this a “shocking revelation”, and that the mystery sender of our note must be in New Zealand.

Now in part 3, the story will begin to trace the sending of the note and what was included with it.

Alerting the CIA

Our mystery note sender has in their possession a copy of one of Einar Åberg’s tracts. The tract is supposedly a speech given by a Hungarian Rabbi outlining a Jewish plot for world domination. This is “shocking” – every bit as shocking as the infiltration of communists in the US government.

Our mystery sender must do their part and alert the director of the CIA who has just made this announcement. The fate of the free world could be at stake, as this secret meeting must be part of the same communist plot that is infiltrating the US government.

The mystery sender immediately pens off a quick note to Smith (and evidently John Foster Dulles, who would become Secretary of State under Eisenhower, General Omar Bradley, and others) to alert them. The evening of September 30 when Summerfield made his “shocking revelation” announcement, it was already October 1 in New Zealand, behind the International Date Line.

Into the mail it goes, and (looking at the stamp on the note), it was received October 9 – certainly a reasonable amount of time to reach Washington, DC from Aukland by airmail in the 1950s. What’s the price of an airmail stamp when the fate of the free world is at stake?

A Tract Received

Now direct your attention the text of the speech. Do you notice anything about it?

This is a two-page tract (front and back). At the time, activists (and others) sent out these types of mailings to promote their positions.

Kindly direct your attention to the bottom of the second page of the tract and you’ll see it is stamped with the following text:

Published by:
Einar Åberg
Noorviken, Sweden

Who is Einar Åberg?

Einar Åberg was one of the first people in Europe to begin what is now known as “Holocaust Denial”. He was widely regarded as an antisemite and served multiple prison sentences in Sweden for distribution of material that the Swedish government deemed to be antisemitic.

Åberg was an international distributor of tracts promoting all manner of conspiracy theories. Clearly, our mystery person received one of these, likely in New Zealand (see part 2 for why I believe that, or stay tuned in future updates for how I confirmed it).

OK, But That’s Not Proof that it’s Fake

While that little story is not of itself “proof” of a forgery, it puts to bed the mystery of what you’re looking at – a random patriot somewhere mailing in a copy of a tract they received in hopes of saving the world from the scourge of communism in 1952. And Åberg’s connections to the content of this tract will be explored.

Note and enclosure received.

Requested acknowledgment of receipt sent.

Rubber stamp. File. Done.

Nothing more, nothing less.

There is more to the story of the fake speech, the fake rabbi, and our mystery sender, but that will have to be covered in another installment. Coming up next, who sent this tract to the CIA and why.