The Rothschilds - The British Empire and the Fifth Man

Regular readers of this blog may recall that I have previously written about the Rothschilds, an international banking family whose wealth is said to be measured in the trillions of dollars. Intrigued by what I had discovered about this powerful dynasty, I investigated further and discovered that Lord Victor Rothschild was thought to be the unidentified fifth member of the Cambridge Spy known by the KGB as the 'magnificent five'.

Whilst writing his book The Fifth Man, Roland Perry interviewed scientists, politicians, businessmen and intelligence agents from the CIA, the KGB and British Intelligence.

Extracts from The Fifth Man:

According to two MI5 sources, in 1942 Victor Rothschild became MI5's security inspector, which allowed him into every major research centre. He knew in detail about all British (and often US) weapons developments. Under the guise of the inspector who was checking facilities to see if they were vulnerable to Nazi spying, the Fifth Man became the espionage agent.

British scientific heads of facilities were apprehensive when the respected young lord - the Government's security man - would ring at short notice and make an appointment to check on a laboratory. His imperious demeanour, high intelligence and diligent determination to understand every development in detail, put all who came under his scrutiny in awe and admiration of him. On occasions he actually stole equipment, examined it and sent it back by special messenger to the research centre concerned, with a warning that security should be tightened. Sir Mark Oliphant, one of the great scientists of the era, told me in an interview in January 1994 he experienced this late in 1942 when Rothschild secretly removed a piece of radar equipment from his Birmingham University laboratory.

Each project director lived in fear that MI5's inspector would put in a bad report and that this would lead to a sacking or a budget cut. The thought that he might be spying on them could not have been further from the minds of the scientists with whom he was in contact. (As far as is known Rothschild never reported any one. He simply sent written warnings and reported in general that security was slack.)

Again Colonel 'F' and Colonel 'B' said that late in 1942 or early in 1943, the KGB received radar technology. They claimed that this information from the Fifth was assembled in the form of photos, diagrams and written explanations by him and Blunt...The clarity and visually descriptive nature of the technical data supplied by the Fifth was a trademark of his. By comparison, Rothschild demonstrated in his book, Meditations of a Broomstick, how he took great pride in all areas of his work for MI5 in supplying exact illustrations.

(...)

Rothschild, acting as the security man once more, made several visits in 1943 to Professor G.P. Thompson's laboratory at London's Imperial College. He absorbed the then new alternative method of making the bomb - using plutonium as fuel rather than trying to collect the rare U-235 element of uranium.

Rothschild was again the only person suspected of being the Fifth Man, who had knowledge about this breakthrough area and fitted the other criteria concerning the double agent.

(...)

There was never any attempt by KGB interviewees to conceal Rothschild's links to these scientists or that he was on a short list of ten for recruitment. They were all well aware of him, and those who had been stationed in London, such as Modin, admitted to having known him personally.

(...)

In 1940, Blunt and Burgess were living in Rothschild's leased three-storey maisonette as was his assistant at MI5, Tess Mayor, whom he later married, and Patricia Parry...both left-wing Cambridge graduates. Blunt was important here. Apart from his direct espionage work for the Soviets, he became a key middle-man in passing on data from the Fifth Man and sub-agents, such as Leo Long, to their Soviet Controls.

[The Fifth Man; Roland Perry; pp. xxii-xxv; Prologue]

As you can see, the book makes a compelling case against Lord Victor Rothschild, whom I believe was never formally uncovered because of his family's massive wealth and influence. Having read the book however, one is left with little doubt that Rothschild was the Fifth Man. He was held in such high esteem in fact, that Churchill entrusted him with testing all his food before it was consumed! Thus he was privy to all sorts of information that was simply unaccessible to other potential spies.

You may be wondering what it is I am postulating, and I shall indeed attempt to explain. In my previous article on the Rothschilds, I quoted from a story published in a British newspaper which asserted that the family had financed both Britain and France during the latter stages of the Napoleonic Wars. The same piece also quoted Nathan Rothschild thus:

"I care not what puppet is placed upon the throne of England to rule the Empire on which the sun never sets. The man who controls Britain's money supply controls the British Empire, and I control the British money supply."

The Independent; The Rothschild story: A golden era ends for a secretive dynasty; Friday, 16 April 2004

Indeed, Victor's great-grandfather, Lionel de Rothschild, lent £4,000,000 to Disraeli's government in order to buy a stake in the Suez Canal Company, in 1875. In fact it made Britain the controlling shareholder. This led in turn to Britain and France (a partner) to effectively colonise Egypt, taking control of the country's finances, which led to an uprising:

In 1881, Arabi Pasha who inspired the Egyptian middle classes, led the nationalist rebellion. Gladstone's Liberals had long been against what they believed to be the many wrongs of colonialism. They really wanted nothing to do with expansionism in the Middle East. But Gladstone did not rule the Empire. The money market ruled and the banks wanted immediate action to protect their investments. In 1882, the army under Sir Garnet Wolseley defeated Arabi Pasha's national Islamic uprising at Tel-el-Kebir.

[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/empire/episodes/episode_63.shtml]

In other words, the bankers (Rothschilds) wanted a British military presence in Egypt, one which would ultimately prove very useful in defeating the Ottomans and taking Palestine under British control, when the former threatened Britain's communications with India in 1915.

With Britain looking increasingly likely to secure possession of Palestine, it paved the way for the Balfour Declaration of 1917, a letter addressed to Victor's uncle, Lionel Walter Rothschild, which promised that His Majesty's government would do their utmost to establish 'a national home for the Jewish people' in Palestine. It was a 'declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations', and ultimately led to the creation of Israel. Today Balfour Day is celebrated there on November 2nd.

Arthur Koestler described the Balfour Declaration as a letter in which "one nation solemnly promised to a second nation the country of a third." Many people believe that the territory was part of a deal in which the Rothschilds, in return, used their influence to bring the United States into the Great War, though of course that is conjecture.

Given the information I have produced thus far, I think it is fair to surmise that the Rothschilds' allegiance was not to Britain, but rather to furthering their own interests, and the Zionist cause. The latter is certainly something Victor did, at least according to Roland Perry:

Since late 1947, Rothschild had also helped persuade the Soviets to sell arms to Israel and was able to specify sources, particularly in Czechoslovakia where he had discovered the abandoned supplies at the end of the war.

The cost to the Jewish military was low. It was a buyer's market with war surplus material cached in about twenty countries. Until Rothschild interceded, the only buyers not allowed into the market were Zionists. Czech rifles, machine-guns and ammunition were bought and smuggled into Palestine in March by merchant ships despite a naval blockade.

[The Fifth Man; Roland Perry; pp 177-178]

Perry goes on to assert that Victor was instrumental in getting Israel the bomb:

The dream of an Israeli bomb was ambitious indeed, but it spurred Rothschild to keep abreast of all things nuclear so he could pass on the data to the Weizmann Institute, which was planning a nuclear reactor at Dimona in the Negev Desert.

Rothschild was not a technician...He could not create the weaponry for Israel. But he could inform its Intelligence leaders (with whom he was very close as an important, secret member of Mossad) which scientists might be helpful, where the available technology might be and how it might be obtained and funded.

[The Fifth Man; Roland Perry; pp 222-223]

The author goes on to allege Israel acquired the necessary knowledge and materials to build a bomb from France, in payment for their help in the 1956 Suez Canal crisis.

Having read this, it may surprise you to learn that I am not anti-Zionist. I believe that ideally every people on Earth should have their own homeland, a place where they can dwell in harmony and practice their customs and values in peace. That's what ethno-nationalism is about, and despite Israel's conception, it is now a Jewish homeland.

However, I also believe that the Rothschilds, who have demonstrably used their wealth and power, with great cunning and guile, to achieve their Zionist objectives, are also using it for other purposes. The fact that we have invaded Iraq under a false pretext and are seemingly poised to invade Iran, suggests to me that the same forces are at work.

Have you ever wondered why most people when polled are opposed to mass-immigration, multiculturalism and the European Union, yet all three of our mainstream parties are exponents of them all? Borders and nations are simply an inconvenience to these people.

The nineteenth century prime minister Benjamin Disraeli wrote several novels. One, Coningsby, who unsurprisingly is the protagonist, contains a character called Sidonia, who is described thus:

He was a man without affections. it would be harsh to say he had no heart, for he was susceptible of deep emotions, but not for individuals...Woman was to him a toy, man a machine.

(...)

There was not an adventurer in Europe with whom he was not familiar. No minister of state had such communications with secret agents and political spies as Sidonia...His extensive travels, his knowledge of languages, his daring and adventurous disposition, and his unlimited means, had given him opportunities of becoming acquainted with these characters...To these sources he owed that knowledge of strange and hidden things which often startled those who listened to him. Nor was it easy, scarcely possible, to deceive him. Information reached him from so many, and such contrary quarters...The secret history of the world was his pastime. His great pleasure was to contrast the hidden motive, with the public pretext, of transactions.

pp Coningsby; Benjamin Disraeli; Nonsuch Classics; pp. 208-210

It is often alleged, that the financier, Sidonia's character was based upon Nathan Mayer Rothschild. One would expect him to have been cold, calculating and slightly sinister - I shall ignore the implied esoteric knowledge. Two descriptions from Wikipedia (both sourced as: Morton, Frederic. (1962). The Rothschilds: A Family Portrait. London: Secker & Warburg. pp 69–70) describe him thus:

"he leaned against the 'Rothschild Pillar' [...], hung his heavy hands into his pockets, and began to release silent, motionless, implacable cunning"

and

"Eyes are usually called the windows of the soul. But in Rothschild's case you would conclude that the windows are false ones, or that there was no soul to look out of them. There comes not one pencil of light from the interior, neither is there one gleam of that which comes from without reflected in any direction. The whole puts you in mind of an empty skin, and you wonder why it stands upright without at least something in it. By and by another figure comes up to it. It then steps two paces aside, and the most inquisitive glance that you ever saw, and more inquisitive than you would ever have thought of, is drawn out of those fixed and leaden eyes, as if one were drawing a sword from a scabbard. The visiting figure, which has the appearance of coming by accident and not by design, stops just a second or two, in the course of which looks are exchanged which, though you cannot translate, you feel must be of most important meaning. After this, the eyes are sheathed up again, and the figure resumes its stony posture. During the morning, numbers of visitors come, all of whom meet with a similar reception and vanish in a similar manner. Last of all the figure itself vanishes, leaving you utterly at a loss..."

So was Disraeli's novel intended purely as a work of fiction? Well his dedication would suggest otherwise:

In these pages I have endeavoured to...scatter some suggestions that may tend to elevate the tone of public life, ascertain the the true character of political parties, and induce us for the future more carefully to distinguish between facts, phrases, realities and phantoms...

The most chilling and well known quote of all from the book?

"So you see, my Dear Coningsby, that the world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes."