However, in this brief work there will be only too many things which are, alas, easy to understand. As long as certain pages are interpolated here and there, the overall meaning may appear just as secret clauses have very often been added to whatever treaties may openly stipulate just as some chemical agents only reveal their hidden properties when they are combined with others. Readers will encounter certain decoys, like the very hallmark of the era.

Some elements will be intentionally omitted and the plan will have to remain rather unclear. Our unfortunate times thus compel me, once again, to write in a new way. Above all, I must take care not to give too much information to just anybody. Having, then, to take account of readers who are both attentive and diversely influential, I obviously cannot speak with complete freedom. It must also be borne in mind that a good half of this interested elite will consist of people who devote themselves to maintaining the spectacular system of domination, and the other half of people who persist in doing quite the opposite. But then, of course, in some circles I am considered to be an authority. These comments are sure to be welcomed by fifty or sixty people a large number given the times in which we live and the gravity of the matters under discussion. In memory of Gerard Lebovici, ambushed and murdered in Paris on 5 March 1984 by persons still unknown

When surprised, take the enemy itself by surprise.' Sun Tzu, The Art of War. When without resources, depend on resourcefulness. When surrounded by dangers, fear none of them. When there is everything to fear, be unafraid. However desperate the situation and circumstances, do not despair.

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