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The Secret Behind Jacques Soustelle: Benedictine Priests and 'Black' Princes Click here for Full Issue of EIR Volume 11, Number 44, November 13, 1984 The secret behind Jacques Soustelle: Benedictine priests and 'black' princes by Katherine Kanter At the end of October, it was announced in the Italian press and reactionary oligarchy, the circles around the Duke of that the Sicilian prince and relative of the English Queen, Lorraine, Otto Hapsburg, heir to the defunct Austro-Hungar­ Alessandro Vanni Calvello di San Vincenzo, one of the larg­ ian empire. est landowners in Italy, had gone into hiding after a warrant was sworn out for his arrest for narcotics trafficking, along A brief biography of Jacques Soustelle with a number of leading members of the mafia. This is one Jacques Soustelle was born in 1912, in Montpellier, a of several exemplary incidents giving a glimpse into the town in the south of France which was one of the strongholds control by Europe's oldest aristocratic families of the black­ of the Cathar cult during the Middle Ages and remains so to est networks of illegal drugs and terrorism, which have led this day. This point is of the utmost relevance to our case, us to the secret of Jacques Soustelle. and we shall return to it. Some months ago, the French collaborators of EIR were The minister is said to have come of modest origins, but sued for libel in the Civil Courts by Jacques Soustelle, former was earmarked for a brilliant career as a meticulous student minister of information of President Charles de Gaulle and with a photographic memory who reminded his study com­ one-time governor-general of Algeria. The minister objected panions of an entomologist studying the sex-life of the pray­ to his having been described in an article in Nouvelle Soli­ ing mantis: Such fanatical attention to unsavory details that darite by our collaborators as one of the main instigators of others would prefer to overlook was to stand him in good the assassination attempts on de Gaulle during the Algerian stead in his career as an anthropologist, and also 30 years War (1956-62), but took the most pained exception to the later, when his networks were accused of involvement in accusation that he was behind the creation of the terrorist several hit attempts on de Gaulle, where, as everyone knows, organization in Peru known as Shining Path (Sendero attention to detail is everything. Was it this same attention to Luminoso). detail that brought the life of the Italian state sector leader For readers who have never heard of Soustelle, we will Enrico Mattei to a sudden end in a never-explained plane summarize why the case is of utmost significance for com­ crash in Sicily in 1962, after Soustelle had publicly objected batting the Party of Treason in the United States today and to charges in the Mattei press that he was trying to kill de the subverting of the republican form of government in both Gaulle? Europe and Spanish America. The reader will also gain a Around 1930, young Soustelle was sent up to Paris to better understanding of why the categories of "left" and "right" study what was then a fairly new science: sociology, under wing, which the inquisition in the form of Sen. Joe McCarthy the nephew of sociology's "founding father" Emile Dur­ drummed into naive Americans, mean absolutely nothing. kheim, Marcel Mauss. Soustelle received a doctorate in so­ Soustelle embodies Europe's Party of Treason, the party ciology and then studied under Paul Rivet. of those who connived with Hitler's envoy Otto Abetz; who In Mexico in 1934, Soustelle attended the Anti-Imperi­ refused to wipe out the dictator when it was still feasible; alist Congress organized by the Soviet Communists, of which who opened France to the Nazi invasion; and who tried from he spoke in glowing terms in his autobiographical Me xique, 1944 on at the latest to kill General de Gaulle, the foe of the Terre Indienne (1936). A mere six months later, we find him Nazis and liberator of France. busily engaged in espionage with rabidly pro-Nazi Austro­ Soustelle began his political career as a perfervid Marx­ Hungarian and British elements like Count August von ist, of the Orthodox Soviet variety, under the tutoring of Prof. Schmelingen in Chiapas State on the Guatemalan border. Paul Rivet, who is generally described in U.S. intelligence Around 1937, Mr. Soustelle, along with Rivet, Albertini reports of the day as an "ardent communist." Professor Rivet (a writer who narrowly escaped execution as a Nazi collab­ (1876-1958), one of the most important occult figures in the orator after World War Two), and a radical later implicated 20th century, was the creature of Europe's most entrenched in the murder of Trotsky himself, Marceau "Souverain" Piv- 36 International EIR November 13, 1984 © 1984 EIR News Service Inc. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission strictly prohibited. ert,created a movement and a review called Spartakus. which Italian noblemen, Count Carlo Sforza and Prince Guido was ostensibly Trotskyist. Colonna. Almost every close associate of Soustelle, from Jose Vas­ Professor Rivet's next step, from his post as Director of concelos, the Mexican education minister, to Hermann the Anthropological Museum, was to create a radical pro­ Friedrich Erben, the Nazi naval espionage specialist and "an­ Soviet network, The Network of the Musee de L'homme, thropologist," to Diego Rivera, the "communist" painter who which was exterminated in the death camps almost down to boasted of cannibalism, to Georges Bidault, quondam pre­ a man upon the Nazi invasion, except, of course, for Rivet, mier of France and, in the I 960s , terrorist leader, to Otto and "saved" thanks to the intervention of both Marshal Petain, Paul Strasser, O. S.B., to Albert Giesecke and Luis Valcarcel the head of the Nazi puppet Vichy state, and the Rockefeller in Peru, has one precise trait in common: a chameleon-like Foundation, which used U. S. State Department channels in political career shifting from the extreme "left" to the extreme 1940 to rescue leading "intellectuals" who had paved the way "right," and vice versa. They all started out as communists for Nazism. Both Rivet and Soustelle consistently fled actual and turned Nazi, or as Nazis who turned communist, or as combat. ardent Catholics who turned Theosophist or atheistic Marx­ ist, and then back again. The case of anthropology-sociology When Jacques Soustelle began his sociology studies The key role of Paul Rivet around 1930, sociology had already garnered a poor reputa­ Soustelle's mentor and collaborator Paul Rivet occupied tion as an unscientificdiscipline, and there were unsuccessful a pivotal position in these evil circles. Throughout his life, moves to have the subject taken off the program of the Phi­ Rivet was in close correspondence with Count Richard Cou­ losophy Department at the University of Paris. What some denhove-Kalergi, the originator of a number of supranational of the unfortunate philosophy professors had grasped was "pan-European" organizations and a network of secret soci­ that the entire sociology-anthropology movement was noth­ eties of which the French "Synarchie" (Synarchy) was the ing but a tool of the one-world faction: highly specific disci­ expression. Synarchy was the umbrella-name for a small plines for profiling the ideologies of advanced (Sociology) hard-core of clerical fascists. over 90% of them from the old and savage (Anthropology) peoples to tum them into putty in aristocratic families of France, dedicated to the restoration of the hands of the oligarchical European families who created the Holy Roman Empire. Through this network, Rivet also these "academic subjects" in the first place, to be whipped extensively corresponded with Otto Hapsburg. up into murderous rage (Shining Path, the Manson cult, ETA, A tiny handful of old titled families. like the Pallavicinis etc.). Anyone who doubts this has only to go to the history in Mexico and Italy, run these societies. the more hardcore books and check out the names of the founders of anthropol­ forms of which may be called The Great White Brotherhood, ogy in the late 19th century: Prince Bibescu of Romania, the Empire International, the Thule Society of Sicily, and The Duke of Loubat, the Pitt-Rivers family which virtually owns Symposium of Vienna. They are extreme Gnostic societies, Oxford, and the Counts von Keyserling of Darmstadt-among given over to every fonn of degraded cult practice and func­ others. tion, in political terms, precisely as the Benedictine-led in­ Sociology-anthropology is in essence a modem form of quisition stimulated and used the Cathar heresy in the 14th the inquisition, a long-term project pre-dating the execution century as a pretext for seizing control of southern Europe. of the Hapsburg Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, but stepped Not by chance the Benedictines, who trained all of the French up to febrile intensity after that event showed that a patriotic Synarchists at their Pontigny retreat in France, dominate the republican movement could be mobilized to stop oligarchist operations of which Soustelle is a particularly nasty asset: attempts at ruling the Western hemisphere. Invasion alone The inquisition has moved to the Americas. had failed; now, the princes sought tirelessly, by the most Rivet's close links to Otto Hapsburg did not prevent him advanced means they could contrive, to overturnfrom within from becoming the backstage controller of the disastrous left the American republics. French Popular Front government of Leon Blum in the late Although the channels have not been fully traced, there 1930s-the governmentwhich, among other crimes, refused can be little doubt that orders arrivedfrom the old continent's to intervene to put a military end to the Civil War in Spain nobility to the parvenu rich American families,.
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