Anton Chaitkin

Biographical sketch

Anton Chaitkin is an historian and investigative reporter. Since 1966 he has collaborated
with Lyndon LaRouche in the development of the LaRouche political movement.
Chaitkin has written hundreds of articles on economic and political history and current
affairs for Executive Intelligence Review (EIR), The New Federalist and its
predecessor New Solidarity. His 1985 book Treason in America: from Aaron Burr to
Averell Harriman, documented from "blue-blood" family archives the takeover of U.S.
policymaking by agents and allies of the British empire. Mr. Chaitkin was born in 1943
in New York City. During the 1930's Chaitkin's father, a New York attorney and Jewish
political activist, designed and carried out a legal fight to break up the financial
arrangements through which Wall Street and London financiers were propping up the
dictatorship of Adolf Hitler in Germany. Many of the suits brought by Chaitkin's father
were against international Nazi interests managed by Prescott Bush, the father of later
U.S. President George Bush.

Anton Chaitkin grew up in Pasadena, California and attended Reed College in Portland,
Oregon. He now lives in Virginia with his wife Janice, with whom he recently celebrated
a 30th wedding anniversary.