Antelman writes, "the Frankist elite consisted of a circle of very gifted intellectuals, theologians and men of letters, as well as a group of men of great financial means who were for the most part great merchant bankers .. who exerted tremendous influence to destroy religions, to indulge in radicalism and live cryptic two-faced lives sometimes posing as religious Jews, Catholics, or Protestants but indulging their revolutionary Zionist radicalism in secret." HenryMakow.