The Iron Curtain Over America

by John Owen Beaty, Paul Bondarovski (Editor)

This book is unique in that it not only discusses the internal decay and the external disasters which threaten the life of American people (in fact, of ALL the people), but diagnoses the growing cancer of which they are merely the symptoms. Going behind the iron curtain of propaganda, censorship and deception, the author, former Colonel of the Military Intelligence Service, gives to the reader the first comprehensive documented account of the origin, the scope, and the intentions of the “insidious forces working from within,” which are seeking to destroy Western civilization. “An honest and courageous dispeller of the fog of propaganda in which most minds seem to dwell.” – Lt. General P. A. Del Valle, USMC (ret.) “I think it ought to be compulsory reading in every public school in America.” – Senator William A. Langer, former Chairman, Judiciary Committee “This book is a magnificent contribution to those who would preserve our American ideals.” – Lt. Gen. Edward M. Almond, USA (ret.)

Genres: History, Politics, American, Nonfiction, Conspiracy Theories

324 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1980

About the author

Scholar of English literature and an anti-communist researcher.

He was the author of fourteen books. His most famous work, The Iron Curtain Over America, documented the Jewish attempt to takeover the country through Communist subversion.

Beaty was one of the first to popularize the theory that today’s Jews are descended from the Turkish Khazar tribe.

He was a military intelligence officer during World War II and served in the Office of War Information in Washington DC. He was rose to the rank of Colonel in the United States Army and served in the army reserves until 1950. During the war he was Chief of the Interview Section. From 1943 to 1946 he interviewed over two thousand individuals including military personnel, diplomatic officials, congressmen, missionaries, explorers, businessmen, refugees, and journalists. One of John Beaty’s colleagues was military intelligence officer Truman Smith who was a close personal friend to Charles Lindbergh.

Reviews

[Gee · Rating 5 out of 5]

Highly recommended to see a clear eyed account and snapshot in time right as America descended into the morass of the post WW2 Zionist consensus.

[Edward]

Ron Unz today posted a compilation mega-review of 12 books he regards as the most neglected-though-crucial examinations of WWII. This title was his first. (I’ll try to add excerpts from his comments on the other books later to their respective book pages.)

Let us summarize all these different considerations.

As a Columbia Ph.D., Beaty spent decades as a well-regarded academic, with his books used at many hundreds of colleges all across America.

During World War II, he served at the absolute center of our Military Intelligence apparatus, producing the daily intelligence briefs that informed the White House and our other top leaders of new developments, probably giving him an understanding of that conflict matched by few if any other Americans.

Soon after returning to civilian life and resuming his academic career, he began years of work on an exceptionally candid and heavily-documented account of the war, drawing upon his unrivaled knowledge of its true circumstances, and eventually published it independently, free from the editorial control that might have restricted its contents. After its 1951 release, his book was strongly endorsed by a long list of our top military leaders and became a huge conservative bestseller.

Given this combination of important factors, Beaty’s account of World War II and its origins should certainly constitute one of our central texts of that war, found in every bibliography. Yet instead it has been totally forgotten, so much so that I doubt whether even one American historian in a hundred has ever heard of it, let alone read it.

A West Virginian born in 1890, Beaty earned his B.A. and M.A. at the University of Virginia, then completed his doctorate in Philosophy at Columbia University in 1921. Beginning in 1919 he spent his entire academic career teaching English at Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, becoming a full professor in 1922 and finally retiring in 1957. For much of that time, he served as department chairman, and was a successful novelist and scholar, being the author or co-author of a dozen books, eventually used at over 700 American colleges and universities. During that long career, he enjoyed a number of academic honors and distinctions, even serving as president of the Conference of College Teachers of English, and prior to 1951 seems to have never attracted any significant controversy.

But Beaty was a patriotic individual who held a commission in the military reserves and as America moved towards involvement in World War II, his status was activated in 1941 and he joined our Military Intelligence as a captain, serving until 1947 when he left the army with the rank of full colonel and resumed his academic teaching career. During those war years, his government role had been an important one, serving as Chief of the Historical Section while also being responsible for summarizing all available American intelligence and producing the daily briefing report distributed to the White House and all of our other top political and military leaders. Later in the war, he was also required to interview and debrief thousands of our returning military servicemen, including very senior ones, summarizing their information and experiences for government files. Given such crucial activities, there were probably few Americans more familiar with nearly all aspects of our wartime information than Beaty when he returned to civilian life in 1947.

…in the postwar years, he became outraged over the total contrast between the true facts of the conflict that he had discovered from his central role in Military Intelligence and the extremely distorted and dishonest portrayal of those events provided by most of the mainstream media to our severely misinformed citizenry.

Many world developments greatly alarmed him. Stalin’s Soviet Union had seized half of Europe, while his subservient Communist parties held enormous influence in much of the rest, including France, Italy, and Greece. Beaty regarded the 1949 Communist victory in China as a gigantic strategic defeat for the West, and the sudden outbreak of the Korean War the following year had now drawn American forces into direct military conflict, with our inexperienced and under-equipped troops suffering serious early defeats at the hands of a large Chinese army.


During these years Beaty had been working on a book aimed at describing the root causes of our recent disasters and providing a candid account of the world war against Germany that we had recently fought. He believed that unless the American people learned these facts and mobilized themselves politically, they might both lose their traditional freedoms and be driven into a ruinous third world war against the powerful Communist bloc. So in December 1951 he published The Iron Curtain Over America.

Although Beaty had an illustrious academic career and stellar wartime credentials, he was a strong conservative Christian and a committed anti-Communist, and his fairly short but heavily documented book crossed every sort of impermissible red line in American publishing, especially with its focus upon what he regarded as the enormously pernicious role of organized Jewish groups in American politics. He was scathing towards the policies of Democratic Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, but equally hostile towards many of their leading opponents such as Gov. Thomas Dewey, the Republican Presidential candidate in both 1944 and 1948. Given such sentiments, it was hardly surprising that his book was only released by a small Dallas publisher, with the author himself having to cover the costs of the initial print-run.

[Mollie Osborne]

If only our ancestors had listened....

[John Geddes]

Found in the Bibliography of A.K. Chesterton's New Unhappy Lords under Section A where he "recommends" the books to "the reader who wishes to extend his study [of the International Conspiracy]". https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

[Karen · Rating 2 out of 5]

Book revealed the fake Khazars in Israel but did not reveal that the true Israelites were the negroes whom are scattered to the four corners of the earth on slave ships as described in Deuteronomy 28

[Natali · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a terrifying artifact that serves as a reminder that we've been warned for over 50 years about following communist leaders into foreign wars. Holy shit is this scary and a lot of what he says holds up.

I can see why someone would call it antisemitism but I think that is throwing the baby out with the bath water. His warnings are about communist Russian Zionists who penetrated US government in order to drag America into wars. They were never semites at all so it has nothing to do with antisemitism or Judaism for that matter. In fact, the Torah forbids a government and an army so clearly the Zionists cannot claim antisemitism for opposition to their government agenda. This author's warnings come from a long military and diplomatic career and he warns that the Democrats are the furtive party of war with the influence of foreign actors. Sixty years later and that is still happening. Will we learn before it's too late?

He warns that the U.S. is being influenced to kill innocent people abroad based on lies about war and that indiscriminate killing is against the values of a Christian nation. He warns that supporting the Zionists would disrupt a century of peace with the Arabs and lead to World War III. And here we are.

I learned a lot of jaw dropping things from this book. Did you know that Germany tried to hold peace talks with the U.S. twice before World War II but the U.S. refused? Why would they do that!? Did you know that the Roosevelt promised that no U.S. soldier would ever fight for the Zionists against the Palestinians but that was kept from the public too? Did you know that the U.S. knew about Pearl Harbor in advance of it happening but moved ships into the harbor anyway? Why would our leaders be influenced so badly to drag innocents into these wars?? Why are we not given the truth about these things?

The weightiest part of the book is his warning about censorship. Did you know that during World War II the government mandated that templates for books older than 4 years old be melted down? They used an excuse that it was for armor but it had nothing to do with that. The censorship during World War II was nearly as bad as it is today around the Russia and Gaza wars and there is a reason for that. It's spooky to read that we haven't learned our lesson and that this only got worse.

He also warns that the United Nations will serve to take away national sovereignty. Check! And he warns that a massive influx of immigration from any one place will serve to divide American society and create a problem. That could have been written in 2024.

Not everything holds up though. It is very uncomfortable that the author is so afraid of Jewish immigrants. That smacks of racism to the modern mind and does not hold up well but if you read closely his intent, his warning is more about an influx of any one group as a cultural assimilation problem. That same discussion needs to be had today but we seem unable to have it without screaming about prejudice. He talks about how the U.S. government tried to solve this by limiting immigration to 4% of any one place in a given year back in the 1950s!

There is so much here that challenges everything we were taught in school that it blew my mind. It was so disrupting that the book honestly felt dangerous in my hands. Like, "Am I allowed to know this!?" That is a sad sign of the times.

[Paul · Rating 1 out of 5]

I mean, sure, it's horrifically anti-Semitic and filled with far-fetched conspiracy theories about communist control of American society, but hey, at least it's also insufferably dry and tedious to get through!

[Victor · Rating 1 out of 5]

Put the book down at 50%.

Found it to be very dry. In defense, there are a few interesting facts.