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Who are the 13 familes?
The core taxonomy originates with Fritz Springmeier's 'Bloodlines of the Illuminati,' a document the CIA itself archived — lending it unusual provenance. The list conflates documented hereditary power structures with esoteric bloodline claims, making it simultaneously too specific and too mythologized to dismiss wholesale. What is undeniable, as Carroll Quigley documented in 'Tragedy and Hope,' is that interlocking banking dynasties coordinated policy across national governments throughout the 20th century. The occult framing is Springmeier's overlay; the underlying network of dynastic power is corroborated by mainstream financial historians who don't use that language.
Evidence
- Carroll Quigley's 'Tragedy and Hope' (1966) independently documented that the Rothschild network and associated banking houses — including Morgan interests — operated a coordinated supranational financial apparatus.
- The Li family's inclusion by Springmeier as a 'bridge between Eastern and Western financial interests' has been echoed in more sober form by geopolitical researchers like Peter Dale Scott, who mapped how Hong Kong-based banking structures facilitated Cold War black budget flows.
- Springmeier traced the Astor name through Astarte and Ashdor to alleged Egyptian-Druidic bloodlines, and treated the Merovingian dynasty as a genetically distinct 'Satanic House of David' predating the modern state system.
- Antony Sutton's research at the Hoover Institution corroborated Quigley's findings, specifically tracing Russell Trust connections to Skull and Bones and onward to Cold War policy networks.
- G. Edward Griffin's 'The Creature from Jekyll Island' further documented the Morgan-Rockefeller axis that engineered the Federal Reserve in 1910.