by Anton Chaitkin
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Du Plessis comes to America
We shall now review the career of South African David du Plessis (1905-87), the 1930s head of the imperial cult-master Apostolic Faith Mission denomination, who came to America and supervised the creation of Pentecostalism, and who managed the body-snatchers working on Gen. Ralph Haines.
With his British passport clearing him to reside as an alien in the United States, British subject David du Plessis came north in the late 1940s. By the early 1950s, du Plessis was a consultant to the International Missionary Council, a group formed by the British authorities who had spun off from it the World Council of Churches. Du Plessis strategized on the British rule in Tanganyika, Nyasaland, and Rhodesia with the Missionary Council’s chairman, Briton John A. Mackay, who had earlier moved to America to head the Princeton Theological Seminary. Mackay, du Plessis’s prime public sponsor, had been for many years a close collaborator of the Anglophile political-religious strategist John Foster Dulles, in Britain and at Princeton.
Simultaneously, du Plessis was employed on two other 1950s projects, in the world of covert intelligence:
- Du Plessis was a paid agent of the Far East Broadcasting Company, a religious cover for the official intelligence agencies operating in Asia (based in the Philippines) and Europe (based in Greece). This arrangement was especially cozy beginning in 1953, when John Foster Dulles became Secretary of State and his brother Allen became Director of Central Intelligence.
- Du Plessis was the master chef cooking up the Full Gospel Businessmen’s Fellowship International, with Oral Roberts, Gordon Lindsay, front man Demos Shakarian, and later, Harald Bredesen. The FGBFI has penetrated Central and South America, Asia, and the Middle East as an occult intelligence agency, working in aggressive insurrectionary politics since its 1952-54 founding.
During the 1950s, du Plessis was adopted by the executive apparatus of the World Council of Churches, to ram Pentecostalism down the throats of Christians in America, and to “charismatize” the Catholic Church through agents at the Vatican. This was accomplished through the instrumentality of the Church of England.
The ‘High Church’ Gathers Its Forces
The British spread religious irrationalism to subdue and destroy that dangerous, typically American concept that man is created in God’s image, dignified and self-governing. We will see this strategy, unadorned, by briefly inspecting the actions and words of du Plessis’s employers.
The World Council of Churches was founded in England in 1937, under the direction of Anglican Church missionary leader J.H. Oldham, based on a plan developed by Lord Lothian and other members of the Round Table group.
World Council co-founder John Mackay (later du Plessis’s sponsor) published a book, The Universal Church and the World of Nations, expressing the new World Council’s desire for the reordering of global political affairs under a world government. The lead article was written by Lord Lothian, entitled “The Demonic Influence of National Sovereignty”; another article was written by Mackay’s crony John Foster Dulles, who represented the Presbyterian Church at the World Council founding. Lothian and Dulles argued that national sovereignty, such as the political and juridical independence of the United States, causes wars.
The Round Table group had been organized by South Africa’s British governor, Lord Alfred Milner, to fulfill the strategy of British South Africa leader Cecil Rhodes for a new-style white racialist world empire, in which the annoying independence of the republican United States, in particular, was to be extinguished. The core of the Round Table group was assembled from among the aides to Lord Milner in South Africa. Lord Lothian was the first editor of the Round Table quarterly, and was the chief executive of the Rhodes Trust, administering the Rhodes Scholarships to bring Americans and other “colonial” students to Oxford University.
John Foster Dulles and his brother Allen met the principal Round Table members after World War|I, and were informally inducted. In a letter to Round Table founder Lionel Curtis, Lord Lothian expressed the racial views which the British Round Table shared with the Dulles brothers, in opposition to the viewpoint of American nationalists:
“The real problem is going to arise from the treatment which must be accorded to politically backward peoples…. There is a fundamentally different concept … between Great Britain and South Africa on the one side and the United States … on the other…. The inhabitants of Africa and parts of Asia have proved unable to govern themselves … because they were quite unable to withstand the demoralizing influences [i.e., the desire for modernization] to which they were subjected in some civilised countries, so that the intervention of a European power is necessary in order to protect them from those influences…. The American view … is quite different.”
How They Got Away with ‘Charismatic Renewal’
In May 1960, an English-born Episcopal priest, Dennis Bennett, told his Van Nuys, California parishioners that he had begun speaking in tongues after baptism in the Holy Spirit. This was the beginning of present-day Pentecostalism. The controversy over Bennett’s announcement spread quickly, with coverage in Time and Newsweek magazines. The publicity, interpretation, and proselytizing for the new movement within the American church community and worldwide, was handled personally by David du Plessis.
Both Protestants and Catholics, who had earlier looked upon Pentecostalism as a freak show, or a Satanic influence, placidly accepted what was termed “charismatic renewal,” as a respectable, non-threatening addition to Christendom. This succeeded because the British authorities and the World Council of Churches put their stamp of approval on David du Plessis, as the designated–by them–world representative of the new, “improved” Pentecostalism.
Between 1952 and 1954, John Mackay and World Council of Churches General Secretary Willem Visser ‘t Hooft introduced du Plessis to scores of the highest level Protestant and Eastern Orthodox church officials. The World Council executive shopped du Plessis around to the Ivy League U.S. colleges and seminaries, to speak of the religion of the future. Through Cardinal Augustin Bea and Cardinal Jan Willebrands, the World Council got du Plessis invited to the Vatican II council, and set up an official, global, “Catholic-Pentecostal Dialogue,” which consisted of du Plessis talking to Vatican officials. Vatican officials did so despite the fact that when the World Council of Churches invited du Plessis to take part in its 1954 global meeting, he represented no Pentecostal religious body whatsoever; he was merely a British political agent. (The previously established Pentecostal churches were hostile toward the World Council and the Catholics.)
In England, Anglican Churchmen Michael Harper and other partners of du Plessis cemented the ties of Catholics around the world to the new movement.
Following Bennett’s Episcopal Church outbreak of 1960, du Plessis, aided by Bennett, published Trinity newsletter. This was circulated in the United States and England as the spur for the new charismatic movement. Trinity was edited by Jean Stone, a wealthy American Anglican loyalist who mediated between du Plessis and the high-society bankrollers of the Episcopal Church. The organization publishing Trinity was chaired by Harald Bredesen, by then a well-established British intelligence operative.
Du Plessis instructed clergymen and parishioners who were pulled into the babble-boom, to follow the Bennett example, and
“stay in your church, do not form a new church denomination.”
Many charismatics followed the advice of du Plessis, who was publicized as “Mr. Pentecostalism”; so, the regular church denominations were decimated by those who stayed, as well as those who left their fold for wilder, newer sects.
General Haines, who had been “zapped” in 1971, resigned from active duty on Jan. 31, 1973. Two weeks later, Haines, du Plessis, and Bennett were the star speakers at the Dallas founding meeting of the Episcopal Charismatic Fellowship. By that time, Episcopals were the driving force for the spread of Pentecostalism. According to Haines, 20% of Episcopalians were then already speaking in tongues.
Haines says that when he led the American delegation to the 1978 Canterbury Cathedral meeting, launching the Anglicans’ worldwide drive for charismatic renewal, he was struck by the spectacle of dancing around the altar led by the representative (white) South African Anglican bishop.
Haines went on to commission Ammerman’s Full Gospel Chaplaincy, on whose board Haines sits today, and whose serving chaplains Haines addresses. Public statements promoting armed conflict between citizens and the government, Haines leaves to Colonel Ammerman to make.
The Security Problem, Defined
The danger involved in this British initiative is not a matter of wrong or heretical religious beliefs. At issue is the buildup of a hostile, irrational, foreign-directed network within our military and civilian political life.
The political intelligence group known as the Mount Rushmore Foundation, mentioned above, illustrates the problem. Ammerman is the political adviser and “chaplain” to the group. Manager Douglas Towne says the foundation “studies the Patriot movement,” and “participates in it.” Towne’s longtime political partner, Rushmore Foundation board member Gen. Benton Partin, U.S. Air Force (ret.), is an expert in high-explosive devices, including nuclear weapons. Partin has received extensive news media coverage for his critical analysis of the Oklahoma City bombing; he has made an apparently reasonable case, that it would have been technically impossible for Timothy McVeigh to have done it acting alone.
Less well known is General Partin’s sponsorship of an ongoing, catastrophic shooting war in Africa, which lends a more sinister character to his hatred of the United States government. Partin is a founder and board member of the Front Line Fellowship, a group of commando-missionaries taking active part in the war against Sudan and other African states viewed as enemies of the British Crown. The Fellowship members are former “scouts” of the South African Army. Partin describes his partner, Fellowship leader Peter Hammond, as a “former South African army and government officer.”
That General Partin’s “Christian” organization is at heart merely the British military irregulars, who are generally incinerating Africa to recolonize it, may be judged from the Fellowship’s book, Faith Under Fire in Sudan. Chapter Three is a celebration of Charles “Chinese” Gordon, who led British regulars in a war in China against the uprising of a British-organized pseudo-Protestant cult. After 20 million Chinese died in this game, Gordon was sent to try to subdue Sudan as Britain’s governor, but he died, defeated at the hands of Sudanese nationalist forces. Chinese Gordon was not a drunken homosexual pederast, Partin’s group says, but Britain’s Christian model for us to follow into war.
The British have never forgiven Sudan, or the United States, for the American Revolution. To the Ammerman circle, the U.S. government is “communist.” General Partin says that even Abraham Lincoln was put into the Presidency by the creators of international communism. Partin has received from London, since the 1940s, the intelligence reports published by Kenneth Hugh de Courcy, geopolitician of the British Israel movement.
Observe the Pat Robertson empire. Robertson writes that his family’s aristocratic lineage, linking it to the British Churchill family, gave his mother, Gladys Churchill Robertson, confidence that Pat would succeed. His father, Sen. A. Willis Robertson, was London’s and Wall Street’s chairman of the Senate Finance Committee.
Originally a playboy, Pat began speaking in tongues, and exchanging prophecies in a circle like ouijah board players, under the guidance of master spook Harald Bredesen. The ghost-written Bredesen autobiography, Yes, Lord, explains that Robertson’s mentor was himself trained by the International Christian Leadership group. Bredesen proved himself to the group by speaking in tongues, in ancient Arabic, to an Egyptian heiress. This feat by their trainee was observed and attested to by the president of the Leadership group’s British branch, Ernest Williams, who was simultaneously “a member of the directing staff of the British Admiralty,” and “a member of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Commission on Evangelism.”
International Christian Leadership was designed specifically to capture wealthy or influential leaders of society, into a network controlled by the group’s patrons. It was initiated during World War II by Col. Sir Vivian Gabriel, a British Air Commission attache in Washington, and leaders of the Episcopal Church. The Netherlands royal family became the group’s prime sponsor and center of world operations in the 1950s. Bredesen wrote that his personal trainer, Abraham Vereide, claimed to have “won [Netherlands] Prince Bernhard for Christ.” A strange Christ it must have been, because the former Nazi SS officer Bernhard was just then busy launching the globalist Bilderberg Group’s conferences and creating the World Wildlife Fund, with Britain’s Prince Philip.
Pat Robertson started off as assistant pastor to Bredesen, the operative of the Anglo-Dutch monarchies’ Leadership group. Then, David du Plessis’s Full Gospel Businessmen raised the money to expand Robertson’s and Bredesen’s Virginia-based Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) toward global power status.
In a Feb. 1, 1997 column in Virginia’s Richmond Times-Dispatch, Robertson told critics why he had used “Operation Blessing” aircraft to transport supplies for his own personal diamond-mining venture in Zaire, rather than for Christian charity, as expected by CBN viewer-contributors. Robertson claimed that he really went into Zaire at President George Bush’s request, to pressure the government to give up all Zaire’s mines to foreign owners. Later, when British mining companies paid for the invasion that killed hundreds of thousands of people, Robertson invited the bloody Laurent Kabila to be his guest in America; and, he put Britain’s Africa slaughter-coordinator, Baroness Caroline Cox, on his television network.
In this regard, consider U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.), a member of the international board of referents of Baroness Cox’s blood-smeared British intelligence front, Christian Solidarity International (CSI). Wolf has made the Toronto Airport church his own spiritual stopping point, where the participants fall in heaps, jerk about on the floor, and bark.
Lady Cox is the Anglican high priestess of the Pentecostals. An August 1997 Charisma magazine story, headlined “Just Call Her Saint Caroline,” explains,
“Baroness Caroline Cox–a member of London’s House of Lords–is spending lots of her time in war zones these days. She’s dodging bullets to help the world’s persecuted Christians…. She attends mainline Anglican churches but says she also enjoys `the sort of robust and very expressive forms of worship’ found in charismatic fellowships…. Many CSI board members and supporters are from the more evangelical and charismatic end of the church spectrum, she notes.”
Finally, consider the Promise Keepers, who train their men to be worms, to be broken, to die mentally. Promise Keepers national spokesman Mark DeMoss is a professional at preparing fanatics for Armageddon warfare. As chief of staff to Jerry Falwell, DeMoss was the administrator of the self-proclaimed “Christian Embassy” in Jerusalem. The embassy serves as a bridge between End Times Christians, lunatic freemasons, and right-wing Israeli Zionists. This is a pivotal component of the Temple Mount initiative to foment a religious war over the holy sites in Jerusalem, to “fulfill Scripture.” This covert network is engaged in the most dangerous terrorist provocation, which may yet bring on End Times unless it is handcuffed.
At Fort Bliss, Texas, DeMoss’s Promise Keepers were engaged to train the nation’s highest-ranking non-commissioned officers. Earlier this year, the United States Army Sergeants Major Academy advertised “training with `Promise Keepers'” as a “spiritual fitness program,” on the Army unit’s official Internet web site.
It is time for Christians and patriots to clean their house, before Her Majesty’s legions blow it up.
[This article was originally published in Executive Intelligence Review, August 22, 1997. Much of the intelligence provided to the author came from Christians and patriots alarmed at the prospect of agencies manipulating people into counterproductive activity.]
The author requests all questions, comments or further intelligence leads be sent to Anton Chaitkin c/o info@antonchaitkin.com