The Red Cross mission in Russia was a cover for British and American Wall Street interests.
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The Pete Quiñones ShowOct 1, 2026
Multiple sources, all tracing to Antony Sutton's Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution, state that the 1917 American Red Cross Mission to Russia was financed by Wall Street figures (William Boyce Thompson of the New York Fed, with Guaranty Trust and National City Bank representatives attached) and used as a cover for financial and political maneuvering.
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… words, the party is the law, and it's important to note that they wanted to make believe that they were opposed by the Western world, and they knew very well, both Trotsky and Lenin knew very well, that they were financed by this same Western world, that the so-called Red Cross mission was a cover for the British and the American Wall Street types, and they knew that they weren't going to be called into account. They knew they were going to be covered for, and that they considered the profits eventually that they made in the USSR as their payback for supporting them. …
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Supports. The American Red Cross Mission to Russia was financed by William Boyce Thompson, director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, who offered to pay its entire expense.[3][4][5]
Supports. The Wall Street project in Russia in 1917 used the Red Cross Mission as its operational vehicle, with National City Bank and Guaranty Trust representatives attached to it.[3]
Supports. The mission's staff were mainly lawyers and financiers from the New York financial district, and it had only a nominal relationship with the American Red Cross.[5]
Supports. A Mises Institute article states the Red Cross mission to Russia was used by Wall Street monopolists as a cover for financial and political maneuvering with the revolutionaries.[6]
Context. The Columbia finding aid and FRUS documents confirm the 1917-18 American Red Cross Mission to Russia existed and was involved in relief and supply work, though they do not describe it as a cover for financial interests.[1][2]
Context. The 'cover' characterization comes from a single lineage of Sutton-derived secondary sources (Mises, Transcend, a Scribd review, and the Internet Archive text), so it rests on interpretation rather than documented fact.[3][4][5][6]
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6 sources: 2 primary, 4 not rated
- 1List of Papershistory.state.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 2collections of correspondence and manuscript documentscolumbia.edu · primary source · cited for: context
- 3WALL STREET - Internet Archiveia800406.us.archive.org · not rated · cited for: supports, context
- 4GLOBAL POWER AND GLOBAL GOVERNMENT (Part 2): ORIGINS OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE – REVOLUTION, WORLD WARS AND WORLD ORDERtranscend.org · not rated · cited for: supports, context
- 52017 01 PM Completo-639-660 | PDF | J.P. Morgan & Co. - Scribdscribd.com · not rated · cited for: supports, context
- 6The Crony Capitalists Who Financed the Bolshevik Revolutionmises.org · not rated · cited for: supports, context
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