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JOHN REED Faked both his Life and Death

John Reed was a journalist and alleged Communist activist in the period of WW1. He allegedly wrote Ten Days that Shook the World. #johnreed

Karl Marx was tied to the financiers of the middle 19th century, which should make anyone suspicious, and taken with all the other evidence, the best reading is that Marx was a mole and an agent.

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I will show you most of the same markers here with John Reed. The movie Reds also sent me scurrying to the bios and history books.

Warren Beatty plays John Reed in the film.

Let's start by going to Reed's Wikipedia page, which is very long and full-to-bursting with RED flags. As with Marx, we find Reed is from major wealth. He grew up in a mansion in Portland, Oregon, one staffed with Chinese servants.

His maternal grandfather was extremely wealthy, we are told, but we aren't given his name. That is always a red flag. But we know his last name was Green and that his daughter was Margaret, so we can dig him up. He is Henry D. Green, Portland “industrialist”.

So the grandfather has already gone from “leading Portland citizen” to “Portland industrialist”. He started Portland Gas&Light, controlled Portland Waterworks and was the director of the Oregon Ironworks (later Oregon Iron and Steel),one of the first smelters on the Pacific coast

He was also one of the first importers of sugar from Hawaii, being part of Leonard and Green which had a presence in Honolulu. So basically Henry Green incorporated and then owned Portland.

Curiously, his death is also a question mark. At age 60, in apparent perfect health, he took a trip to the East Coast and never came home. We are told he died before his family even knew he was sick— which is unlikely even for that time.

We also find the required and expected military links: one year after the alleged death of Henry Green, his other daughter Katherine married Edward Burr (1886). This Edward Burr went on to become a brigadier general. He was related to Aaron Burr and that lot.

It is also informative to go back even further than Henry Green. In the bios, they don't tell you how Green arrived in Oregon in 1850 with so much money to invest. I was only able to uncover partial answers to that, the best being that Green was somehow related to Joseph Gaston.

Gaston wrote a history of Portland that you can read parts of at Google Books, and he was more importantly an early railroad tycoon, being the first president of the Oregon Central Railroad. books.google.com/books?id=XvYUA…

The Gastons were an extremely prominent family, having a member who was the chief justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina and one who was governor of Massachusetts. It is also important that Joseph Gaston was editor of the Oregon Sentinel.

He was a ranking journalist, which, as we know, is another red flag in these events. We have all the connections here, including connections to the press. Without the press, it is difficult to sell these stories, you see.

Anyway, it is this Joseph Gaston who set up Henry Green and his brother John in business in Oregon. Gaston had known John Green in New York, where Green had worked at Pomeroy and Leonard. This H. C. Leonard was apparently the early money involved.

Besides being in dry goods with Pomeroy and Leonard, he was with Leonard, Sheldon & Foster Bank, Wall Street. Beyond backing Gaston's Oregon railroad, this bank also financed the Canada Southern Railway.

And here's a strange one to find this early on. H. C. Leonard was linked to the Columbia Trust Company, through his niece Sallie Leonard. She was the mother of Otho Leonard Ferris, who was one of three founders of the Columbia Trust Company—the first major bank of Portland.

Joseph Gaston admits in his book that Ferris was a 32nd degree Freemason, so we have that going on in this project as well. Patrick Joseph Kennedy would soon become a major stockholder in this Columbia Trust Company.

His son Joseph would be president of the Columbia Trust Company in 1914. This is the same Joseph Kennedy who would own RKO studios, scheme against Roosevelt, work with the mob, and become the father of the 35th President: John F. Kennedy.

Frances Stonor Saunders tells us one of the early trustees of the Museum of Modern Art in New York was Joseph Verner Reed.

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I thought: I bet he is related to John Reed. Is he? Well, they try to scrub it, but they made a mistake. They tell us John Reed's money came from his mother's side, the Greens, not the Reeds.

Turns out that is not true, since on Joseph Verner Reed, Jr.'s Wikipedia page, they admit he was descended from Edward Doty. If we go to John Reed's genealogy pages, we find his father was Charles Jerome Reed, son of Silas Walker Reed, son of Ezra Reed, son of Mary Doty.

So the two Reeds were fairly closely related. I also beg you to notice the name Walker. The Walkers were related to all the usual suspects, including the Morissons, the Strothers and the Wolfes. The Reeds were also related to the Kelloggs, the Bells, the Bishops, and the Cranes.

Which tells us why Mabel Dodge went to Europe with John Reed in 1913. She wasn't his lover, she was his cousin. Through the Whitneys she was related to all these same families.

They were both working for Metropolitan Magazine, remember? That was founded by a Walker, so the magazine was also in the family.

Anyway, John Reed had to have been from money on his father's side as well, since Joseph Verner Reed, Sr. was extremely wealthy. His son was Vice-President of Chase Manhattan Bank, where he was also Assistant to Chairman David Rockefeller.

The first Joseph Verner Reed is scrubbed from the internet, which is curious seeing he must have been a prominent person. He was a trustee of MOMA and a good friend of Prescott Bush. It is not surprising to see this link: remember George Herbert Walker Bush? Walker.

In searching for information about this Reed, I tripped across some other useful information. We find Bartletts connected to these Reeds. Which leads us to Charles L. Bartlett, a former ONI agent who became a journalist.

He allegedly introduced Jacqueline Bouvier to JFK. He was the son of wealthy Jupiter island resident Valentine Bartlett and Marie Frost, who were neighbors of the Reeds on Hobe Sound (Florida). His brother David Frost Bartlett married Gladys Pulitzer in 1949.

Joseph Verner Reed, Sr. was the son of Verner Zevola Reed, a billionaire mostly from Colorado, where he owned much of Colorado Springs.

He was involved in the Western Sugar Land Company, which ties him to many of the people we have looked at, including John Reed's grandfather Henry Green, who imported sugar from Hawaii, and Charlie Bluhdorn. He was also involved in the oil fields in Wyoming.

Colorado Springs links him to William Jackson Palmer. We have found Palmers in many hoaxes. Also think of Manly Palmer Hall. William Jackson Palmer founded Colorado Springs with William Abraham Bell in 1871, about two decades before Reed got there. Note the name Bell.

It is not clear how Palmer and Reed were connected, but one link is Oliver H. Shoup, who worked for both. Shoup became an industrialist and governor of Colorado. Shoup was a Case and a Bancroft on his mother's side. Also a Holcombe. Case is a variant of Chase.

Verner Reed's father is given as Hugh Fulton Reed but his mother is scrubbed at Findagrave. However, Googlebooks tells us the mother was Elizabeth Amanda Wolfe. We saw the Wolfes above, related to John Reed, which gives us another link between these Reeds. books.google.com/books?id=P-hYA…

As you see, John Reed had some extraordinary connections, and I have only shown you a small part of them so far.

Does this young man seem like the sort who would become a revolutionary? He's from a billionaire family, connected to all the old wealth in the country, so he doesn't seem like a likely candidate for a communist journalist, does he? You will soon think it even less likely.

Little Johnny was sent off to Morristown School in New Jersey. This prep school was started in 1898 with money from Henry Lee Higginson. Yes, that is the Higginson from Lee, Higginson Investment Bank of Boston, home of very old wealth and the Boston Brahmins, etc.

Morristown School has many famous alumni, being a spook school and feeder for Harvard—where John Reed ended up. Although we are told little Johnny had bad grades and failed his entrance exam, he was accepted to Harvard nonetheless. Typical.

He then joined the cheerleading squad and the drama team. Note that: drama. He became an actor, as we will see.
At Harvard, he was president of the Glee Club. Not a lot of revolutionaries come out of the Harvard Glee Club and cheerleading squad, it pretty much goes without saying

John Reed was in the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, which are of course famous for their cross-dressing burlesques. Again, not sounding much like a discontented intellectual, is he?

Finally, we get a link to Socialism when we are told Reed attended meetings of the Socialist Club at Harvard. Unfortunately, this club was presided over by Walter Lippmann, which is a big red flag

Lippmann was a notable author for the Council on Foreign Relations, perhaps the premier fascist organization in the US. At Wikipedia, we are told Lippmann “saw the purpose of journalism as 'intelligence work'”. Yes, I bet he did.

Wikipedia admits Lippmann was with military intelligence during WW1 (captain, AEF headquarters, France). Now declassified documents admit Lippmann was working with the BSC (the American arm of British Intelligence) as far back as the 1930s.

Sgt. Pepper was head of the BSC in the 1950's. No, really. He was actually a major, but his name was Pepper. “It was 20 years ago today, Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play.” In other words, British Intelligence taught the band to play. It taught a lot of bands to play.

Walter Lippmann also worked with both the OSS and CIA—as did all journalists of the time. He was an early and top recruit of what was later called Operation Mockingbird, which was simply Intelligence's takeover of the worldwide press.

Although Lippmann was later fashioned as a “lefty”, that did not mean he was ever red or even pink. It only meant his assignment was to mislead American democrats instead of American republicans.

Walter Lippmann is called the father of modern journalism, which is difficult to read as a commendation or recommendation. Since modern journalism might be defined as “lying all the time about everything,” we can assume Lippmann lied all the time about everything.

Lippmann founded New Republic magazine in 1913, just three years after his graduation from Harvard. The magazine has always been sold as liberal, but it never has been.

It was underwritten by Dorothy Payne Whitney, billionaire daughter of billionaire financier and Secretary of the Navy William Collins Whitney. Of course the New Republic was in favor of entering the war in 1917, with Lippmann as its premier hawk.

So progressive of them to take a stand like that. But what else would you expect of a magazine bankrolled by the daughter of the Secretary of the Navy? Would you expect the Secretary of the Navy to be liberal or progressive? I wouldn't.

Would you expect the Whitneys to bankroll a magazine started by a young guy who was—just three years earlier—promoting Socialism? I wouldn't. Or, I wouldn't expect them to do so unless they knew good and well his promotion of Socialism was just a pose. At Wikipedia, we are told

Wasn't that also the stance of the financiers? Curious that this “progressive” magazine always just happened to mirror the opinions of the ruling elite.

Interestingly, William Collins Whitney's sister married the president of the Knickerbocker Trust Company, another major bank of the time. So the “liberal” New Republic was linked directly to all sorts of old money.

As we see once again, the fascists have been controlling their opposition for a long time. In most cases, the same financiers that are bankrolling the right are also bankrolling the left.

As with the other faux-left magazines started by US Intelligence, the New Republic was owned from the beginning.

The long and short of it is that by the time Lippmann and Reed were pretending to be Socialists at Harvard in 1910, all the Socialist movements had long since been infiltrated and undermined by military intelligence.

What had started out decades earlier as workers' unions had by then morphed into Marxist organizations. These fake organizations had a dual purpose:
One, they undermined and bottled up the unions by creating internal strife and political bickering.

Rather than focusing on wages and workers' rights, these organizations pushed their members into fake international politics and armchair philosophies. These politics and philosophies were created on purpose to cause multiple splintering.

Two, by replacing the truly popular revolutions of the 1840s and 1850s with these manufactured revolutions of Marx, the financiers were able to misdirect any and all revolutionary spirit.

Leftists and progressives were pushed away from Republicanism [not the Republican party, but Republicanism as a form of anti-fascist government] and towards Marxism, moving them away from a viable form of government to one that was completely fanciful and unworkable.

After traveling through Europe after graduation from Harvard, Reed returned and immediately got published all over the place, including the Saturday Evening Post, Colliers, The Forum, and Century Magazine. One of his poems was set to music by Arthur Foote. What?

No real writer finds success that quickly. He was only 24! Like we saw with Ezra Pound in London, his bio makes no sense. Only rich kids who are promoted by Intelligence get published that widely that fast.

By 1913, Reed was writing for The Masses, another Intelligence front. Max Eastman, the first editor, is the one who sent Reed to Russia and published the serialized Ten Days that Shook the World.

Eastman's next magazine would be The Liberator, in which he published Ernest Hemingway, who cia gov admits he was an agent.

Much later, Eastman became a writer for the National Review and worked with agent William F. Buckley. He was a member of the ACCF, joining at the invitation of agent Sidney Hook.

By age 26, John Reed is supposed to be hanging out with Mabel Dodge Luhan and interviewing President Wilson about the Mexican Revolution.

Mabel Dodge was the daughter of billionaire banker Charles Ganson. She was connected to Gertrude Stein and her Paris salon. Stein was involved in the Armory Show of 1913, which I have shown was another joint project of British/American Intelligence.

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It was run by John Quinn, although Wikipedia has now scrubbed his name off their page on the Armory Show. Quinn was British Intelligence, and he bankrolled not only the Armory Show but the Paris Salon.

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Mabel Dodge later became a columnist for the Hearst newspapers, promoting Modern Art, bisexuality, free love, and the destruction of the family by many other means.

Mabel Dodge also promoted Emma Goldman, another fake leftist who was promoting the New World Order for her masters in Intelligence. Like Madame Blavatsky, Goldman was no more than another Russian spook, on loan to us to create worldwide disorder.

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This is how she avoided any real jail time. Notice that although we are told Goldman conspired to murder industrialist Henry Frick, and her lover Berkman was convicted and allegedly spent 14 years in prison, Goldman mysteriously skated. The whole story reads like an early fake.

Like Reed, Goldman's whole life looks like a fake—except that she kept it up a bit longer.

The same can be said of Louise Bryant, who, like Reed, was connected to both fantastic wealth and to ranking journalists. [She was played by Diane Keaton in the movie Reds.]

Her father was a journalist —probably also linked to Intelligence—and her step-grandfather, with whom she lived as a girl, was a very wealthy rancher and miner in Nevada. He also directed the overland stage station in that region.

He is probably the one who bankrolled and advised her early on. Right out of college, Bryant began working for the Oregonian (Joseph Gaston's paper, remember), as well as the Portland Spectator.

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This indicates she had probably already been recruited in college, or before. With that in mind, we can back up a few sentences in her bio and look at this strange quote:

Sounds suspicious, doesn't it?

So let's search on Jolon, CA. Guess who owned the town and surrounding ranches? William Randolph Hearst. The major sites tell us Hearst didn't buy the entire valley until 1920, but it turns out that isn't true.

Hearst Castle was some distance to the south in San Simeon, but by the time Louise Bryant was in Jolon in 1906, Hearst already owned much of the area around Jolon.

We are told it was owned by James Brown Cattle Company at that time, but with a bit more research we find that Hearst owned that Company. californiamilitaryhistory.org/FtHLiggett.html

So we see that Bryant was working for Hearst by 1906, when she was but 20. If you really believe she was just teaching young Mexicans on that ranch, I don't know what to say. You should consider the possibility the Milpitas ranch was a training center for Intelligence recruits.

To push you in that direction, remember that this ranch—along with others in the area—very soon went to the US military. This area became Fort Hunter Liggett in 1940.

Also of interest is that Fort Liggett was run from nearby Camp Roberts, which we are told is also used by the British Army. Why is the British Army using US bases? This a link in this paper to the BSC, which is MI6's US division.

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When John Reed finally got to Petrograd in 1915, we are told the Russians considered him to be a spy (which he was). He was kicked out of the country and he returned to the US in 1916 to have a fake surgery so that he could avoid conscription in 1917.

We are told he had a kidney removed, but I don't tend to believe it. Nephrectomy is a serious surgery, and was more serious in 1916. It is usually done to address cancer or other serious illnesses, none of which Reed seemed to have up to then.

My guess is he had a kidney stone removed and paid the doctor to fudge the report. He then had a scar and a piece of paper to show the army. Nephrectomy could keep you out of service, but not a removed kidney stone.

Right. Then as now, the State Department doesn't take legally sworn assurances like that. Such things would be worthless, as they know. If the magazines Reed had written for had been real, the State Department would never allow him to leave the country at such a time.

That he was allowed to leave is all the proof we need that the State Department knew very well who he was and what he was really up to.

Reed and Bryant arrived in Petrograd again just in time for the October Revolution, but it is never explained why they weren't considered spies this time. Why was Reed expelled in 1915 but not in 1917?

Could it be because the Bolsheviks were bankrolled by international financiers, and Reed was the son of one of these financiers?

After the taking of the Winter Palace, we are told Reed immediately went to work for the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs. This is completely unbelievable. The People's Commissariat was a high ranking committee chosen directly by the leaders of the Revolution.

If Reed and the Bolsheviks were who we are told they are, it makes no sense. Why would people like Lenin and his comrades immediately assign a rich young American to such a position?

As we have seen, Reed's Socialist background was short and highly suspicious, so why would anyone trust him in such a position? You are expected to believe no one in Russia could speak English, so they turned to the young American, but that is ridiculous.

Many of the Bolshevik leaders were wide travelers, and they spoke English as well as German, French, and other languages. So the position should have gone to a Russian.

If Reed were really there—and this isn't just a story made up from whole cloth—it of course indicates that Reed was a liaison from the Western financiers who were bankrolling the Russian Revolution. They wanted one of their own sons as eyes on the ground.

In support of that hypothesis, we can return to the whitewashed pages of Wikipedia, which is nice enough to tell us Reed was close to the inner circle of the new government. If that is true, you should ask how he managed that.

He was just 29 and had red flags all over him, so how could he be close to the inner circle? You should also ask when he had managed to create those relationships. In the previous paragraphs of his bio, we are not told of any meetings with Lenin, Trotsky, or others.

We are told John Reed met Lenin and Trotsky for the first time in January 1918. So how was Reed close to the inner circle, and why? What was his entrée into all this? We are told he just showed up in Petrograd in October and was immediately admitted to the inner sanctum.

After that, we are told “By December [1917] his funds were nearly exhausted.” What? He was the grandson of a billionaire. He couldn't have exhausted all his funds in 200 years. Besides, he had only been in Russia two months and there was nothing to buy there.

Then we get more absurd claims:

You have to be kidding me! Does that sound like a good thing to do in Russia in 1918? If it is true (which I doubt), we see that only the son of a financier could get away with such a thing.

And the absurdity continues:

An American rich boy joins a patrol of Red Guards! The shit they expect you to believe! This is the same John Reed who was in the Glee Club and the cheerleading squad at Harvard.

This is a guy who faked a kidney operation to avoid serving in the US military, but we are supposed to believe he is carrying a rifle to defend the Russian Foreign Office? C'mon.

And why would he be allowed to speak at, much less attend, the Third Congress of the Soviets? Was he a Soviet? Look at the title of the meeting. It is for Soviets, not rich American spies.

By April both Reed and Bryant were back in the US. Two trials for sedition were awaiting him, but both conveniently ended in hung juries. Within the month he was arrested for inciting a riot, but again was acquitted.

To me these all look like show trials, of the sort we saw later with Manson, Kaczynski, Patty Hearst, and O. J. Simpson. Or perhaps they most resembled the fake Chicago 8 trials. It is hard to say, there are so many fake trials to compare them to.

Reed then had more fake show hearings before Congress, which then as now was convened by Military Intelligence to blow smoke and do nothing.

Think of your Congressmen acting tough when they recently grilled the bankers who caused the financial meltdowns, and who then did precisely nothing about it (besides raise the debt ceiling so the bankers could steal more).

As was planned, in 1919 the Socialist/Communist parties in America used the Russian Revolution and Reed's fake grandstanding to splinter into many pieces. During this splintering, Reed was instructed to use the phrase “dictatorship of the proletariat” as often as humanly possible

This phrase was chosen to perfectly undercut any chance the underclasses ever had of rising.

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In short, would the middle classes ever support something called the “dictatorship of the proletariat”? Study the wording. It is meant to scare any sane magazine reader, since no one wants a dictatorship—of the proletariat or anything else.

Ask yourself this: if you were a real revolutionary trying to sell an uprising, would you call the fruits of that uprising a dictatorship? Of course not. This is all the indication we should ever have needed that Marxism was created by clever propagandists from the upper class.

It was at this time that some of the American Socialists and Communists began to see through Reed. Not all of them were hired agents. Many of them were nothing more than dupes in the long-running project.

Some of these dupes began to see through the curtains in 1919, and Reed then became known to many as “Jack the Liar”. Current historians try to write this off as partisan politics, but it was more than that.

Just as the real folkies eventually saw through Bob Dylan, the real progressives eventually saw through John Reed. This is what led to the early end of his career, not any of the phony prosecutions or other stories you are told.

This is when the story switches from “faking his life” to “faking his death.” Precisely because he had been outed in the US in 1919, Reed had to wrap up his part in the project. He was no longer useful in his role, and it was time to move him on.

We are told he fled back to Russia to avoid a further trial for sedition, but since it was to be another show trial, he had no fear of the court. In my opinion, it is doubtful anything we are told about his final year is true.

He is supposed to have skulked around with a fake passport, passing from Russia to Finland, where he was arrested. The story there is that he couldn't be tried for treason due to his silence. Who writes this stuff? Not lawyers, apparently.

One, Finland couldn't try him for treason since he wasn't a Finn. By the definition of “treason,” you can only be treasonous against your own country, and the US wasn't asking for extradition. Two, silence won't keep you for being tried for anything.

People get tried and convicted of things all the time while remaining silent. We are told the Finns convicted him for having 102 small diamonds in his luggage. But that isn't illegal.

He was a billionaire's son, and supposing he was actually traveling in Europe at the time (which is doubtful), this would be a perfect way to buy things when all the currencies were worthless.

Finland would have to prove the diamonds were stolen, but a billionaire's son doesn't need to steal diamonds. He can easily buy them, or borrow them from mommy.

We are then told Reed was illegally detained by Finland. Again, unlikely, considering he was the son of a billionaire and under the protection of US military intelligence.

This whole story is obviously made up to give you a reason for his upcoming death: they need him cold and starving in some prison somewhere, getting sick.

Finland is supposed to have fed him only dried fish in jail, causing him to acquire scurvy. Right. Because Finland is known for being such a monstrously unfair country, with hellish jails and no standards of humane conduct.

Reed allegedly returned to Moscow for the Second Comintern, but in the bios we aren't told what organization he was representing. We have to look at the delegate list, where we find him listed fourth for the Communist Labor Party.

This is curious for a couple of reasons. One, Reed had been AWOL from the party for almost a year. It is doubtful that after such a long absence they would elect him in absentia for this important post.

At that time he wouldn't have seemed a very good choice, or a very reliable delegate. Two, he wasn't at the first Comintern, though it would have been fairly easy for him to have stayed in Russia and attended in the summer of 1919.

He did nothing that year in the US but get arrested and go to trials. Supposing that there were any chance he might have been convicted, it seems foolish for him to have returned to the US at all.

Would you return to a country that was just waiting to arrest you and try you for sedition? Three, it is strange to find four delegates from the CLP in 1920 while the other US parties only have two delegates each.

Remember, at the first Comintern in 1919, before the US splintering, there had been only one American delegate (Boris Reinstein).

Since there were three parties invited from the US at the second Comintern, it is likely the Comintern committee would have requested each US party to send only three delegates.

Due to the difficulty in getting past the blockade and into Russia that year, the other two parties apparently could only manage two of their three allowed delegates. So how did the CLP get four? I suggest Reed's name was added to the list after-the-fact.

I don't believe he was really there. His speeches were inserted into the script later by Intelligence.

We have more indication of that by the absurdity of the next chapter of the story, when Reed is supposed to have been ordered by Radek and Zinoviev to travel to Baku for the Congress of the Peoples of the East. Again, was Reed a “person of the East”? No.

According to the survey of attendees, no Americans attended this Congress, as would be expected.

And the absurdity continues, as we are told Reed returned to Moscow after the Congress to meet Bryant. Wikipedia tells us, “he looked older and his clothes were in tatters.” Despite that they went to visit the ballet and the galleries. Right.

I hate to sound like a broken record, but this was the grandson of a billionaire. Why would his clothes be in tatters? Supposing his diamonds were stolen from him in Finland by the police, his family could send him more. International mail hadn't been stopped in 1919.

They hadn't closed all the banks in Russia. Reed could be sent whatever he needed in any number of ways; or he would have been issued credit by anyone, due to his family.

Remember, his family had connections to all the biggest banks in the US, which had connections to all the biggest banks in Europe.

This story is like the story you are told about Marx and his wife supposedly living close to the bone in France in England, despite both being from huge wealth. Only an idiot would believe it.

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And for the preposterous finale, we are told the story of his death. We are told he couldn't get medicine for typhus due to the Allied blockade of Russia. So we are expected to believe that Russia had no hospitals of its own, and no facilities for manufacturing drugs?

Despite having the largest army in Europe and Asia at the time, they had no medical facilities to care for these soldiers?

Even if we accept that there were shortages at the time, it is impossible to blockade a country the size of Russia. It has a border of over 12,000 miles—about half the circumference of the Earth. Do you really think the Allies could successfully block all supplies into Russia?

They couldn't even stop Communist delegates from entering from all directions for the Comintern and the Congress at Baku. They couldn't block Reed from getting in in the first place. But we are supposed to believe they blocked his typhus medicine?

Plus, this was John Reed, who—we were already told—was close to the inner circle of the Bolsheviks. He watched the storming of the Winter Palace with Lenin and Trotsky and was appointed to the Foreign Office.

But now we are expected to believe this privileged person can't get medicine? Besides, typhus is caused by rat fleas, and this was known prior to WW1. The son of a billionaire would be the least likely to come down with typhus, since, again, he was privileged.

Being close to the inner circle, he would not be sleeping in rat-infested quarters. People like Reed would have been assigned to the confiscated homes of the Russian aristocracy.

Anyway, Reed then allegedly died and was buried in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis. You should ask why Reed would be buried there. The Necropolis at that time was for Bolshevik soldiers. Was Reed a Bolshevik soldier killed in battle? No.

He was still a prominent American citizen, and as such his body should have been returned to his home country. We are supposed to believe that because he was a member of the Communist Party, US officials just gave his body up to Russian authorities to do with as they pleased.

But that is not how it works. If these events had been real, the US Government should have applied strong pressure for the return of the body, if only because they didn't wish Reed to become a symbol of successful conversion to Communism.

Basically, we are supposed to believe that the US just allowed the Bolsheviks to kidnap Reed's body without protest.

I for one do not believe it. Given what I have read and the multiple inconsistencies in the story, I believe Reed was never in Russia in 1920. Reed was an agent all along and his project unraveled in 1919.

Rather than face his complete outing in the US, he was swept out of the country and his death faked. This created a sort of closure and prevented most people from asking any more questions.

Non-Communists already weren't very interested in him, and once they were told he had been buried in the Kremlin Necropolis, these people would write him off completely as a traitor.

Many or most US Communists (who were not agents themselves) had become suspicious of him, and the story of his heroic funeral in Moscow might appease them somewhat. And for the rest—those who had become aware he was an agent—they could be further marginalized.

Denied places to publish, they could not get the truth out except by word of mouth. I assume the word on the streets in 1919-1920 was that Reed was an agent, and for those who knew this, the story of the final year was probably no more believable than it is to me.

But since they weren't writing the history books, their beliefs were lost. They have been buried with all other truths.

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