Synopsis
Karl Marx: Master of Fraud was written by legendary American intelligence officer Commander Sergius Martin Riis (1883-1963) and it was an important psychological stimuli psywar book on many battlefronts in the Cold War. It was published the year before the author's death, and Edited by his Personal Secretary, Jon P. Speller, who succeeded Commander Riis in performing his special operations in the Cold War. A protege of Admiral Newton A. McCully, U.S. Navy, Commander Riis performed important intelligence duties in Revolutionary Russia, for which he received the Navy Cross, and served as Acting U.S. Naval Attache in Russia in Archangelsk during the Russian Civil War. He later served in the Baltic States, China, and Poland, among many other countries, as well as on the staff at Versailles of Admiral Newton A. McCully, Naval Adviser at the Paris Peace Conference to President Woodrow Wilson. In 1935 he published his first book, Yankee Komisar, a sanitized roman a clef written with "Burke MacArthur," the pseudonym of Lt. Col.Arthur J. Burks, U.S. Marine Corps. Commander Riis and Jon P. Speller sanitized many insightful Memoranda sent by Commander Riis to U.S. Presidents from Truman through Kennedy, and they are a very important and invaluable part of Karl Marx: Master of Fraud. In his Introduction to the book, Brigadier General Frank L. Howley, US Army, Commandant of Berlin during the Berlin Blockade and later Vice President of New York University, wrote: "I can vouch for the accuracy of the conclusions drawn in this book concerning the international scene." Among the published comments of personal friends of Commander Riis about this book are, from Pulitzer Prize Winning author James A. Michener: "I think everyone interested in American government could profit from the facts here presented"; from Governor Charles Edison, son of inventor Thomas Alva Edison and former Secretary of the Navy: "Victory over Communism not only can, but shall be ours...Commander Riis qualifies as a competent architect as well as a sage adviser on the international scene"; from Harry J. Anslinger, Commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Narcotics (predecessor of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA): "After reading this interesting book: I would like to epitomize it with these words: 'Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals'"; Father John H. Ryder, S.J. of the Russian Center of Fordham University: "A Navy man's sound advice about Communism - Piracy must be attacked under whatever flag it flies;" and, from, among other V.I.P.'s, Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid, U.S. Navy: "An interesting book by one who has been a student of Communism for long years and has had the opportunity to collect his material at first hand." Among press comments, The Portland Oregonian said of Karl Marx:Master of Fraud: "A vigorous analysis of the purposes and perversions of international communism." Commander Sergius M. Riis was instrumental in tilting many policies during his long career, e.g. recognition of the independence of the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania after World War I and maintaining U.S. recognition of the sovereignty and independence of the Baltic States after the Soviet occupation of them in 1940. His sources, systems, and methods have been continued by his last Personal Secretary, Jon P. Speller, from 1963 on. Among his societies, Commander Riis was an Active Life Member of the Explorers Club, a Member of the Legion of Valor, of The American Society of Naval Engineers, the U.S. Naval Institute, and an Honorary Member of the Senior United Service Club in London, England where he had many close friends and colleagues. No one can understand the depth and extent of the Cold War, and its successful conclusion in the peaceful implosion of the Soviet Union and the discrediting of the Marxist ideology.
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