Antony C . Sutton Antony Cyril Sutton ( February 14 , 1925 – June 17 , 2002 ) was a British and American economist , historian , and writer . Biography . Sutton studied at the universities of London , Göttingen , and California , and received his D . Sc . from the University of Southampton . He was an economics professor at California State University , Los Angeles and a research fellow at Stanford University ' s Hoover Institution from 1968 to 1973 . During his time at the Hoover Institution , he wrote the major study " Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development " ( in three volumes ) , arguing that the West played a major role in developing the Soviet Union from its very beginnings up until the present time ( 1970 ) . Sutton argued that the Soviet Union ' s technological and manufacturing base — which was then engaged in supplying the Viet Cong — was built by United States corporations and largely funded by US taxpayers . Steel and iron plants , the GAZ automobile factory — a Ford subsidiary , located in eastern Russia — and many other Soviet industrial enterprises were built with the help or technical assistance of the United States or US corporations . He argued further that the Soviet Union ' s acquisition of MIRV technology was made possible by receiving ( from US sources ) machining equipment for the manufacture of precision ball bearings , necessary to mass - produce MIRV - enabled missiles . In 1973 , Sutton published a popularized , condensed version of the three volumes called " National Suicide : Military Aid to the Soviet Union " and was thereby forced out of the Hoover Institution . His conclusion from his research on the issue was that the conflicts of the Cold War were " not fought to restrain communism " , since the United States , through financing the Soviet Union " directly or indirectly armed both sides in at least Korea and Vietnam " ; rather , these wars were organised in order " to generate multibillion - dollar armaments contracts " . The update to this text , " The Best Enemy Money Can Buy " , looked at the role of technology transfers up to the 1980s . Appendix B of that text contained the text of his 1972 testimony before Subcommittee VII of the Platform Committee of the Republican Party where he summarized the essential aspects of his overall research : Sutton ' s next three major published books — " Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution " , " Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler " and " Wall Street and FDR " — detailed Wall Street ' s involvement in the Bolshevik Revolution ( in order to destroy Russia as an economic competitor and turn it into " a captive market and a technical colony to be exploited by a few high - powered American financiers and the corporations under their control " ) as well as its decisive contributions to the rise of Adolf Hitler and Franklin Delano Roosevelt , whose policies he assessed as being essentially the same , namely " corporate socialism " planned by the big corporations . Sutton concluded that this was all part of the economic power elite s ' " long - range program of nurturing collectivism " and fostering " corporate socialism " in order to ensure " monopoly acquisition of wealth " , because it " would fade away if it were exposed to the activity of a free market " . In his view , the only solution to prevent such abuse in the future was that " a majority of individuals declares or acts as if it wants nothing from government , declares it will look after its own welfare and interests " , or specifically that " a majority finds the moral courage and the internal fortitude to reject the something - for - nothing con game and replace it by voluntary associations , voluntary communes , or local rule and decentralized societies " . In Sutton ' s own words he was " persecuted but never prosecuted " for his research and subsequent publication of his findings . In the early 1980s , Sutton used a combination of public - domain information on Skull and Bones ( such as Yale yearbooks ) and previously unreleased documents sent to him by Charlotte Iserbyt , whose father was a Skull and Bones member , to speculate that it had played an important role in coordinating the political and economic relationships underlying the historical events he ( Sutton ) wrote of in his previous works . He published his speculations as " America ' s Secret Establishment : An Introduction to the Order of Skull and Bones " — which , according to Sutton , was his most important work . In his book " Between Two Ages : America ' s Role in the Technetronic Era " ( New York : Viking Press ; 1970 ) , Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote : Professor Richard Pipes , of Harvard , said in his book , " Survival Is Not Enough : Soviet Realities and America ' s Future " ( Simon & Schuster ; 1984 ) : Education . D . Sc . degree , University of Southampton , England