Dictatorial Insights

The 20th Cen gave birth to many new & lasting concepts, the internet, girl power, psychoanalysis, but few have left such an indelible mark on the human psyche as the dreaded dictator. Nearly every nations populace during the last century toiled at some point with the possibility that their beloved land might be taken over, legitimately, by some previously obscure maniac in a military uniform, flailing his arms around as if possessed by a demon. What were the conditions that created so many of them? If we listen to mainstream historians or political analysts the answer would probably be unstable financial markets compounded by the spread of socialist states, creating political 'vacuum's' or something of that nature, lies in other words. If so, what evidence do we have to support our contention that they were created intentionally? Tracing the origins of some of these mens careers is not so easy, much of the information regarding their backgrounds is on the whole somewhat obscure, however, when we measure what circumstantial evidence there is against the body of irrefutable proof concerning the ones we do know about, then I think it's fair to state that they can indeed be all traced to a common denominator, the genesis of which may be found here;
- https://www.britannica.com/event/Entente-Cordiale

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Eamonn de Valera

Not generally thought of as being a dictator outside of Ireland, but I thought I'd better include him being of Irish stock. de Valera presided over the socialising of the Irish  'Free State', causing millions of Irish to emigrate to Britain, the Americas & elsewhere because of the intolerable conditions it created. 
de Valera ​was member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, who were reformed in London under the auspices of Karl Marx' socialist 'International' in 1865. de Valera was the main protagonist in the schism of the I.R.A. that led to the Irish Civil War (1922-23). When the plenipotentiaries sent (by him) to London to negotiate the terms of the British withdrawal from Ireland returned with an agreement, de Valera rejected the terms of the treaty as woefully inadequate & ensured hostilities arose by withdrawing support for the Irish parliament. The British warned Michael Collins (leader of the pro-Anglo-Irish treaty forces) that if he didn't intervene militarily against the anti-treaty forces then Ireland would be invaded, Collins was killed in the ensuing war, de Valera formed his own political party 'Fianna Fáil' in 1926 & eventually assumed power as prime Minister in 1932 & retired from the Presidency in 1973;
'At the launch of the Cumann na n Gaedheal campaign in the Mansion House, Dublin, on 29 January, [William] Cosgrave emphasised his party’s tough stance on law & order. Fianna Fail was portrayed as pro-IRA & socialist. Cosgrave referred to ‘the conspiracy solemnly condemned by the hierarchy.’  Such propaganda tapped into the ‘red scare’ mood of the times. Election posters implied that Fianna Fáil was under the control of subversives. The Fianna Fáil campaign focused on the problems of unemployment & emigration. The party emphasised its agricultural policies'.
- The Eucharistic Documents (1932)
(See also; Nesta Webster, 'Secret Societies & Subversive Movements' 1924)
'Fr. Edward Cahill SJ was part of a Jesuit Constitution Committee which gave advice to Eamon de Valera on the drafting of the Irish Constitution [1937]. The Irish Jesuit Archives provided correspondence between Cahill & de Valera for the new publication.' 
 - www.jesuitarchives.ie
de Valera became a member of the London based, Rosicrucian founded 'Royal Society' in 1968
(See my; 'How The East Was Won'
blog for it's role in the slave trade).
​For further reading about de Valera see; 
'England's Greatest Spy' (2009)
​by John Turi.

- Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili
(Stalin)

In his book 'Wall St & the Bolshevik Revolution',
Prof Anthony C Sutton provides all the documentation proving that the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution was fully backed by American & British financiers, as was the proceeding tenure of Stalins genocidal term of office, from 1922-53. 
Moreover, Lenin had lived in London for years, as had Trotsky in 1902 & Lenin, Trotsky & Stalin all convened in London for these historical meetings from April 30–May 19 (May 13–June 1), 1907.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1907/may/19.htm
https://www.voltairenet.org/IMG/pdf/Sutton_Wall_Street_and_the_bolshevik_revolution-5.pdf

Benito Mussolini

'Archived documents have revealed that Mussolini, who ruled his country with fear & forged a disastrous alliance with Nazi Germany, got his start in politics in 1917 with the help of a £100 weekly wage from MI5.....Mussolini's payments were authorised by Sir Samuel Hoare, an MP & MI5's man in Rome, who ran a staff of 100 British intelligence officers in Italy at the time. Cambridge historian Peter Martland, who discovered details of the deal struck with the future dictator, told the Guardian: "Britain's least reliable ally in the war at the time was Italy after revolutionary Russia's pull out from the conflict.'
- telegraph.co.uk
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Adolf Hitler

'To come back to Aleister Crowley, what you told me reminds me of the story that turned up in 1931 (I believe at least that was the exact date): while he was in Portugal, he suddenly disappeared. They found his clothes on the border of the sea, something that made them believe he had drowned. But it was only a simulated death, since they were no longer concerned about him & did not try to find out where he had gone. Actually, he went to Berlin to play the role of secret adviser to Hitler' - Rene Gunon
'Hitler Living in Liverpool This is a text only version of the main interactive Hitler Living in Liverpool page. Adolf Hitler had a half-brother Alois. Like Adolf, Alois had a bad reputation & was imprisoned several times for theft. On leaving prison in 1909 he moved to Ireland where he met his future wife Bridget Dowling. Like many people from Ireland, Alois & Bridget moved to Liverpool. They lived at 102 Upper Stanhope Street in Toxteth.
Alois worked in Liverpool as a waiter. German waiters were common in Britain at this time, so much so that British soldiers shouted “Waiter” over the trenches at Germans during World War One.
The 1911 Census shows Alois was referred to as Anton Hitler & he had a son (written as ‘sohn’ on the census), suggesting that Alois wrote this himself. The census also shows he worked at the Jewish-owned Lyons Café in Toxteth.
This leads us to wonder if Alois shared the same chilling views of Jewish people as his half-brother Adolf would later adopt?
In November 1912 Alois invited some of his family from Austria over to visit him in Liverpool & this is when half-brother Adolf arrived.
Adolf was thought to be escaping Austria because, ironically, he didn’t want to be drafted into the Austrian army. An out-of work painter, Adolf decided to live with them. He may have been aware that Liverpool had a reputation for artists & art schools. Adolf Hitler was rejected from Art schools across Austria, which supports the idea
that he travelled to Liverpool to study. He spoke little English & spent most nights wandering the streets of Liverpool alone.
It is thought that Bridget not only advised Adolf to shave off the sides of his moustache, but that she also introduced him to Astrology which he later became fascinated with. Lots of Hitler’s later war decisions would be based on astrology & fortune readings.
Adolf is thought to have lived in Liverpool until April 1913 when he returned to Austria, his half-brother Alois was sick of living with him & bought him the ticket to leave!
Soon after, Alois left his wife Bridget & returned to Germany. She took their scouse son William Hitler & went to live in America.'
- http://historyofliverpool.com/hitler-living-liverpool/

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General Franco

1936 Jul 11 At 07.15 on the morning Pollard left Croydon airport, London, in a de Havilland Dragon Rapide aircraft, piloted by his friend Cecil Bebb, & two female companions. 
The flight log records that the aircraft was bound for the Canary Islands. The purpose of the flight was to collect General Franco from the Canaries & fly him to Tetuán in Morocco, at that time a Spanish colony, where the Spanish African Army was garrisoned. The Madrid government recognized that Franco was a danger to the Spanish Republic, & had sent him to the Canaries in order to keep him away from political intrigue. Had a Spanish plane flown to the islands, the authorities would likely have been alerted, but the British aircraft attracted little or no attention. Pollard, Bebb & Franco arrived in Tetuan on July 19 & the General quickly set about organising Spanish Moroccan troops to participate in the coming coup.
It is possible that British security services may have been complicit in the flight, which was planned over lunch at Simpsons-in-the-Strand, where Douglas Jerrold, the extreme right-wing Editor of the Catholic English Review (& also a British intelligence officer), met with the journalist Luis Bolín, London correspondent of the ABC Newspaper & later Franco's senior press advisor. Jerrold then persuaded Pollard to join the enterprise, & Pollard in turn recruited Cecil Bebb as pilot, plus his daughter Diana, & a friend, as "cover"
However it is not clear how much the British government knew or indeed cared about the activities of the secret services in aiding Franco, if they were in fact responsible. Britain remained officially neutral throughout the duration of the Spanish Civil War.
Pollard's personal SOE file has recently been released, revealing him to have been an experienced British intelligence officer. He was also a skilled linguist & an expert in firearms, & had a good deal of personal experience of wars & revolutions, such as those in Mexico & Morocco......1940, once Franco had seized power, Pollard became the MI6 station chief in Madrid.'
- https://www.cairogang.com/other-people/castle-propaganda/police/pollard-hbc/pollard-hbc.html

Chairman Mao

This ones a little tricky & somewhat tenuous. However, when we bear in mind; 'Whatever the price of the Chinese revolution, it has obviously succeeded, not only in producing more efficient & dedicated administration, but also in fostering a high morale & community propose. The social experiment in China under Chairman Mao's leadership is one of the most important & successful in human history.' 
– David Rockefeller, New York Times (1973)
The British held the Chinese port of Hong Kong until 1997. 19th Cen China was the place Britain imposed a series of wars known to history as 'The Opium Wars', in which Britain compelled the Chinese to cultivate the poppy for opium distribution round the world using Hong Kong as it's main port. 'During the last century, British finance protected by British guns controlled the worlds narcotics traffic. The names of the families & institutions are known to the history student: Matheson, Keswick, Swire Dent, Baring & Rothschild: Jardine Matheson, the Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank, the Chartered Bank, the Peninsular & Steam Navigation Company. Britains array of intelligence fronts ran a worldwide assassination bureau, operating through occult secret societies: in the Jerusalem Foundation, Mazzini's Mafia, the Triads, or Societies of Heaven in China.' - 'Dope Inc' (From the editors of the Executive Intelligence Review). 
The only thing on Mao I have, apart from him espousing a political doctrine founded & based in London.....communism, is that he worked as caretaker at Peking university where a train of western socialists had began to teach in the 1920's, including English socialist, aristocrat & philosopher Lord Bertrand Russell, US socialist reformer John Dewey & French crypto Marxist Henri Bergson;
'Russell & Dora duly arrived in China whilst this huge country was in the midst of great changes & seeking direction. Science & democracy were high on Russell’s list of personal priorities; democracy in the workplace figured centrally in Russell’s quest for creative impulses as described in Principles of Social Reconstruction, written in 1915.....‘Mr John Dewey has promised to lecture here [Peking university] for another year, & Mr Henri Bergson will come in two years’ time. The former has been lecturing on the three great philosophers of our day, “James, Bergson & Russell”
- http://www.sacu.org/russell.html 

​'Democracy is indispensable to socialism' - Lenin.

Ho Chi Min

'Before playing a key role in Vietnamese history, driving out forces from Japan, France & the United States, Ho Chi Min spent part of his youth in London, cleaning up after diners in West Ealing.'
- BBC News

Incidentally, what was the perception of the Vietnam War in the eyes of the public? I would suspect it was one of Fundamentalist Christian bully nation attacks primitive, poor communist nation. & the upshot? The underdog communist won.
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Pol Pot

'1969 U.S. bombs Cambodia for the first time........U.S. B-52 bombers are diverted from their targets in South Vietnam to attack suspected communist base camps & supply areas in Cambodia for the first time in the war. President Nixon approved the mission–formally designated Operation Breakfast–at a meeting of the National Security Council on March 15. This mission & subsequent B-52 strikes inside Cambodia became known as the “Menu” bombings. A total of 3,630 flights over Cambodia dropped 110,000 tons of bombs during a 14-month period through April 1970. This bombing of Cambodia & all follow up “Menu” operations were kept secret from the American public & the U.S. Congress because Cambodia was ostensibly neutral.' 
- history.com
'Duch, the first of five Pol Pot cadres to face trial for the 1975-79 reign of terror in which 1.7 million Cambodians died, said the Khmer Rouge would have faded if the U.S. had not got involved in Cambodia. “Mr Richard Nixon & Kissinger allowed the Khmer Rouge to grasp golden opportunities,” the 66-year-old former jailer said at the start of the second week of his trial by the joint U.N.-Cambodian tribunal. Duch, whose real name is Kaing Guek Eav, was chief of the notorious S-21 prison where more than 14,000 enemies of the revolution were tortured & killed. 
Last week, he apologized & begged forgiveness for his crimes. Duch faces life in prison if convicted on charges of crimes against humanity, war crimes, torture & homicide. When asked by a judge to explain how he joined the Khmer Rouge, Duch gave a long, rambling answer that included references to former U.S. President Richard Nixon & ex-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.' - Reuters
'As I read about the "capture" of Pol Pot this week, I thought back to one day in 1969 in Cambodia when I had presented Prince Norodom Sihanouk with a question that turned out to be far more important than any of us knew at the time.
"What are you going to do about the Cambodian students going to France?" I asked the Cambodian leader, who had employed every ancient & modern Khmer ruse possible to keep the Vietnam War out of his beautiful land.
The quintessentially voluble Sihanouk looked very serious for a moment. Then he spoke slowly. "They are learning a strange kind of French Marxism, which they are mixing with our ancient Khmer mysticism," he said. A pause. "I have now forbidden our young people from going to France to study."
Still another pause. Then he looked me straight in the face, with a sad look that is etched in my memory, & added, "But it may be too late."
It was too late. The toxic Soviet European Marxist genie had been let out of the bottle to poison what had been a peaceful & prosperous Southeast Asian land. All the beautiful traditions of Cambodia's national life soon gave way to the horrors committed by those students who went to France.
Assigned then in Saigon as a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Daily News, I often went over to Phnom Penh--for relaxation. Compared to war-torn Vietnam, Cambodia was a divine place, with lovely hotels & restaurants you liked to linger at. In those years I drove virtually all over Cambodia & I saw hardly any poverty. It was a land of large wooden farmhouses set on stilts above the fields, of legendary Khmer temples & of graceful small cities.
Then, in 1975, came the Khmer Rouge.
Under Pol Pot's coldly fanatical, French Marxist-trained eye, his guerrillas mercilessly drove masses of Cambodians out of the cities. In that once-prosperous countryside I had known, upward of 1 million Cambodians were savagely put to death on ideologically correct collective farms. Officials, intellectuals, even people who merely wore glasses, were killed, usually by blows of hoes to the back of their head. - chicagotribune.com

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Idi Amin

'Idi Amin Dada was born c. 1925 in Koboko, in northwestern Uganda, to a Kakwa father & Lugbara mother, who separated shortly afterwards. In 1946, after receiving only a rudimentary education, Amin joined the King’s African Rifles (KAR), a regiment of the British colonial army, & quickly rose through the ranks. He was deployed to Somalia in 1949 to fight the Shifta rebels & later fought with the British during the suppression of the Mau Mau Rebellion in Kenya (1952-56). In 1959 he attained the rank of effendi—the highest position for a black African soldier within the KAR—&, by 1966, he had been appointed commander of the armed forces.........After more than 70 years under British rule, Uganda gained its independence on October 9, 1962' - history.com
Just as it was in countless other British colonial operations, the British treatment of the Kenyan Mau Mau tribe was to be genocidal;
'Officially the number of Mau Mau & other rebels killed was 11,000, including 1,090 convicts hanged by the British administration. Just 32 white settlers were killed in the eight years of emergency.
However, unofficial figures suggest a much larger number were killed in the counter-insurgency campaign. The Kenya Human Rights Commission has said 90,000 Kenyans were executed, tortured or maimed during the crackdown, & 160,000 were detained in appalling conditions.
They also detained some 100,000 Kikuyu without trial, often for periods of between three & seven years. London law firm Leigh Day & Co lodged a claim in mid-2009 on behalf of five elderly Kenyans. One has died since the case was lodged.
The firm says its clients suffered terribly in detention camps or at the hands of British-led soldiers.
Solicitor Martyn Day told the BBC: "They were put in camps where they were subject to severe torture, malnutrition, beatings. The women were sexually assaulted. Two of the men were castrated. The most severe gruesome torture you could imagine.
"A lot of the officers involved were white, they were controlling the violence against these Mau Mau. It wasn't just isolated individual officers. It was systematic. The whole purpose was to break the Mau Mau."
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12997138

Saddam Hussein

'Revealed: how the West set Saddam on the bloody road to power [1997]
The botched CIA attempt to oust the Iraqi despot last June, in which hundreds died, was not the first intervention by the US agency to have disastrous consequences. Patrick Cockburn tells of the coup it backed in 1963 that paved the way for the rise of Saddam.....It was the height of the Cold War. The CIA had just tried & failed to orchestrate the overthrow of Fidel Castro in Cuba by a rebel invasion force. America was increasing its involvement in Vietnam, where it similarly backed the elimination of 20,000 communists & anti-government sympathisers by assassination squads under the CIA's Phoenix programme. A similar CIA- backed purge was about to be carried out in Indonesia. The foreign base for the Iraqi coup was Kuwait, something Saddam Hussein may have remembered when he invaded the emirate in 1990. King Hussein of Jordan, who had close relations with the CIA, says that during the planning phase of the coup "many meetings were held between the Ba'ath party & American intelligence - the most critical ones in Kuwait."
King Hussein told the Egyptian writer Mohammed Heikal that on the day of the coup, 8 February, a secret radio broadcast was made from Kuwait "that relayed to those carrying out the coup the names & addresses of communists there, so they could be seized & executed." Not surprisingly Iraq's claim to Kuwait was dropped after the coup & only resurrected in 1990. In the middle of the Cold War the CIA took Iraq very seriously. In 1959 Allen Dulles, the Director of the CIA, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: "Iraq today is the most dangerous spot on earth." More specifically the danger to western interests came from an intense, unmarried army officer with a thin voice called General Abdel Karim Kassem, who had just overthrown the Hashemite monarchy installed by Britain to rule Iraq at the end of the First World War. As soon as he took power in 1958 Gen Kassem began to offend Britain & the US.....The CIA decided to use the Ba'ath party, a nationalist grouping with just 850 members but with strong links to the army. In 1959 a party member named Saddam Hussein al-Tikriti, aged 22, had tried to assassinate Gen Kassem in Baghdad, but had been wounded in the leg.'
- independent.co.uk 
''In the summer of 1919, 94 years before the devastating strike in Syria, Churchill planned & executed a sustained chemical attack on northern Russia. The British were no strangers to the use of chemical weapons. During the third battle of Gaza in 1917, General Edmund Allenby had fired 10,000 cans of asphyxiating gas at enemy positions'
- theguardian.com
'Iraq is the product of a lying empire. The British carved it duplicitously from ancient history, thwarted Arab hopes, Ottoman loss, the dunes of Mesopotamia & the mountains of Kurdistan at the end of the first world war. Unsurprisingly, anarchy & insurrection were there from the start. 
The British responded with gas attacks by the army in the south, bombing by the fledgling RAF in both north & south. When Iraqi tribes stood up for themselves, we unleashed the flying dogs of war to "police" them. Terror bombing, night bombing, heavy bombers, delayed action bombs (particularly lethal against children) were all developed during raids on mud, stone & reed villages during Britain's League of Nations' mandate. The mandate ended in 1932; the semi-colonial monarchy in 1958. But during the period of direct British rule, Iraq proved a useful testing ground for newly forged weapons of both limited & mass destruction, as well as new techniques for controlling imperial outposts & vassal states.'
- theguardian.com
'Churchill has been criticised for advocating the use of chemical weapons - primarily against [Iraqi] Kurds & Afghans. "I cannot understand this squeamishness about the use of gas," he wrote in a memo during his role as minister for war & air in 1919. "I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes," he continued.'
- bbc.co.uk
'​Tony Blair convinced himself with unjustified certainty that Iraq’s President, Saddam Hussein, had weapons of mass destruction, when intelligence reports had not established "beyond doubt" that they existed, the long awaited Chilcot report has damningly concluded. The Prime Minister was so convinced that of the presence of the non-existent WMDs that he sent British troops into Iraq when diplomacy might still have resolved the crisis. But the secret intelligence reports he had been shown "did not justify" his certainty, Sir John Chilcot concluded. Sir John Chilcot's damning report into the Iraq War also revealed that Blair & US President George W. Bush were made fully aware that Iraq could descend into sectarian chaos after the invasion – directly contrary to what Mr Blair told the inquiry.'
- independent.co.uk
'The US has spent more than 13 years in Iraq under the guise of fighting terrorism. However, a recent survey shows that nearly one-third of Iraqis believe the US supports terrorism or Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL). The Office of Inspector General found that nearly “40 percent of Iraqis believe that the United States is working to destabilize Iraq & control its natural resources,” with 30 percent believing the US supports terrorism or Islamic State. This belief may partly be perpetuated by reports of videos purporting to show US forces delivering some form of support to IS fighters. In 2015, Iraq’s Parliamentary Commission on Security & Defense claimed to have revealed documents & photographs showing aircrafts belonging to the international coalition delivering weapons & supplies to IS, the Iraqi News reported.
“We have been receiving this information continuously from many sources, documented in photos & reports to prove that the planes did land at some airports in Mosul, Tal Afar, Al Kiara,” Committee Chairman MP Hakim Zamili said in a press conference.'
- rt.com
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 Colonel Gaddafi

'Forty-five years ago Lieutenant Muammar Gaddafi was photographed walking down Piccadilly on his only visit to Britain. It was April 1966 & Gaddafi, then aged 23, had come over to be trained by the British Army. "I put on my Al-Jird [Arab robes] & went to Piccadilly," Gaddafi said later. "I was prompted by a feeling of challenge & a desire to assert myself."
- standpointmag.co.uk/
'Most analyses of the Green Book [1975] emphasize [Colonel] Qaddafi’s many digressions & penchant for stating the obvious, like his proclamation that “woman is a female & man is a male.” Because it is muddled, the book is often dismissed as simply a hodgepodge of aphorisms, the ramblings of a mad dictator. & in fact, the slim 21,000-word treatise does not present a coherent worldview. But the Green Book does have its own peculiar logic: a mixture of utopian socialism, Arab nationalism & the Third World revolutionary ideology that was in vogue at the time it was written'
- nytimes.com
,https://archive.org/details/TheGreenBook_848
'That brings us to south Manchester. It has long been a centre of Libyan politics in the UK, if not Europe. It's where the British government gave refuge to many of those Gaddafi opponents - Birmingham & London being the other locations. Some of the Libyans in the UK, & in particular from Manchester, were later suspected by the security services of being aligned to al-Qaeda.
I (Dominic Casciani) have spoken to some of these men down the years. They say their jihad was against Gaddafi alone. They wanted him overthrown. & overthrow him they eventually did - with the help of the British & Americans.'
- BBC (24 May 2017)
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As stated, the only one of the 20th Cens most notorious 'despots' that can't be traced directly to London Paris or Washington is Chairman Mao, although, whilst the British may have ruled de facto over other nations for a time, Iraq, Uganda etc, Mao's China was the only state mentioned that harboured a permanent British Territory; Hong Kong, & as we can see, it wasn't used to export Fish & Chip shops exclusively. What's also interesting is that on closer inspection, some of these men were less fearsome than their reputation suggests, Ho Chi Min being the obvious example.

"To acquire influence & wealth, then to intrigue, & at need to fight, to establish the Johannite or Gnostic & Kabalistic dogma, were the object & means proposed to the initiated Brethren. The Papacy & the rival monarchies, they said to them, are sold & bought in these days, become corrupt, & to-morrow, perhaps, will destroy each other. All that will become the heritage of the Temple: the World will soon come to us for its Sovereigns & Pontiffs. We shall constitute the equilibrium of the Universe, & be rulers over the Masters of the World.'
- Albert Pike (Morals & Dogma)

'In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.'
- Franklin D. Roosevelt 

'In her book titled THIS ONE MAD ACT, John Wilkes Booth’s granddaughter, Iola Forrester Booth, reveals that her grandfather had belonged to the Knights of the Golden Circle & had not been killed in Baltimore as reported in history, but rather had escaped capture through the aid of fraternal brothers. The Supreme Headquarters for the Knights of the Golden Circle was 814 Fatherland Drive in Nashville, Tennessee. This was the home of Dr. Sylvester Frank James, older brother of Jesse James & high-ranking member of the KGC. Years later it became the Dixie Tabernacle, the original home of the Grand Olde Opry.'
- KNIGHTS OF THE GOLDEN CIRCLE By Bret Burquest
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I forgot about Fidel Castro,
​& me a fidel player too! Hope this suffices;
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'He began school with the De la Salle (Christian) Brothers, a French order. "At that time I studied religion just as I studied the history of Cuba. We accepted all those things about the beginning of the world, as natural facts. They didn't make us reason this out, & I was more concerned about sports, the beach, nature, & studying the different school subjects, that kind of thing."
He was about 12 when he started to attend a Jesuit secondary school in Santiago de Cuba, before going on to an elite Jesuit high school in Havana.'
- https://www.irishtimes.com/news/castro-confesses-to-jesuit-ethics-while-eschewing-religious-belief-1.126168

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