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<xml><p>Article 15189 of alt.activism:
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From: covici@ccs.covici.com (<ent type='PERSON'>John Covici</ent>)
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Subject: Part 1: Unauthorized Biography Of <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent>
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<info type="Message-ID"> 1RokeB1w164w@ccs.covici.com</info>
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Date: 15 Jan 92 03:55:59 GMT
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<p><ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent>: The Unauthorized Biography</p>
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<p>by <ent type='PERSON'>Webster Griffin Tarpley</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'>Anton</ent> Chaitkin</p>
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<p>With this issue of <ent type='ORG'>the New Federalist</ent>, Vol. V, No. 39, we begin
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to serialize the book, {<ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent>: The Unauthorized Biography,}
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by <ent type='PERSON'>Webster Griffin Tarpley</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'>Anton</ent> Chaitkin. This book will
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soon be published by {<ent type='ORG'>Executive Intelligence Review</ent>}.</p>
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<p> At the heart of any effort at biography is the attempt to
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discover the essence of the subject as a human personality. The
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essential character of the subject is what the biographer must
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strive to capture, since this is theindispensable ingredient
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that will provide coherence to the entire story whose unity must
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be provided by the course of a single human life.</p>
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<p> During the preparation of the present work, there was one
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historical moment which more than any other delineated the
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character of <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent>. The scene was the <ent type='PERSON'>Nixon</ent> <ent type='ORG'>White House</ent>
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during the final days of the <ent type='EVENT'>Watergate</ent> debacle. <ent type='ORG'>White House</ent>
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officials, including <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent>, had spent the morning of that
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Monday, August 5, 1974 absorbing the impact of <ent type='PERSON'>Nixon</ent>'s notorious
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"smoking gun" tape, the recorded conversation between <ent type='PERSON'>Nixon</ent> and
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his chief of staff, H.R. Haldemann, shortly after the original
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<ent type='EVENT'>Watergate</ent> break-in, which could now no longer be withheld from
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the public. In that exchange of June 23, 1972, <ent type='PERSON'>Nixon</ent> ordered
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that the <ent type='ORG'>CIA</ent> stop the <ent type='ORG'>FBI</ent> from further investigating how various
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sums of money found their way from <ent type='GPE'>Texas</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>Minnesota</ent> via <ent type='GPE'>Mexico</ent>
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City to the coffers of <ent type='ORG'>the Committee</ent> to Re-Elect thePresident
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(CREEP) and thence into the pockets of the "Plumbers" arrested
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in the <ent type='ORG'>Democratic Party</ent> headquarters in the <ent type='EVENT'>Watergate</ent>building.
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These revelations were widely interpreted as establishing a
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{prima facie} case of obstruction of justice against <ent type='PERSON'>Nixon</ent>. That
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was fine with <ent type='PERSON'>George</ent>, who sincerely wanted his patron and
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benefactor <ent type='PERSON'>Nixon</ent> to resign. <ent type='PERSON'>George</ent>'s great concern was that the
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smoking gun tape called attention to a money-laundering mechanism
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which he, together with <ent type='PERSON'>Bill Liedtke</ent> of <ent type='ORG'>Pennzoil</ent>, and <ent type='PERSON'>Robert</ent>
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<ent type='PERSON'>Mosbacher</ent>, had helped to set up at <ent type='PERSON'>Nixon</ent>'s request. When <ent type='PERSON'>Nixon</ent>,
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in the "smoking gun" tape, talked about "the <ent type='NORP'>Texans</ent>" and
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"some <ent type='GPE'>Texas</ent> people," <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>, <ent type='PERSON'>Liedtke</ent>, and <ent type='PERSON'>Mosbacher</ent> were among
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the most prominent of those referred to. The threat to <ent type='PERSON'>George</ent>'s
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political ambitions was great.</p>
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<p> The <ent type='ORG'>White House</ent> that morning was gripped by panic. <ent type='PERSON'>Nixon</ent>
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would be gonebeforethe end of the week. In the midst of the
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furor, <ent type='ORG'>White House</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Congress</ent>ional liaison <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>William</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Timmons</ent></ent> wanted
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to know if everyone who needed to be informed had been briefed
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about the smoking gun transcript. In a roomful of officials,
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some of whom were already sipping <ent type='NORP'>Scotch</ent> to steady their nerves,
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<ent type='PERSON'>Timmons</ent> asked <ent type='PERSON'>Dean Burch</ent>,</p>
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<p>"Dean, does <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> know about the transcript yet?"
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"Yes," responded <ent type='PERSON'>Burch</ent>.
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"Well, what did he do?" inquired <ent type='PERSON'>Timmons</ent>.
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"He broke out into assholes and shit himself to death,"
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replied <ent type='PERSON'>Burch</ent>.
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Inthis exchange, which is recordedin <ent type='PERSON'>Woodward</ent> and
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<ent type='PERSON'>Bernstein</ent>'s {The Final Days,} we grasp the essential <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent>,
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in a crisis, and for all seasons.</p>
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<p>Introduction</p>
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<p> The thesis of this book is simple: if <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent> were to be
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re-elected in November 1992 for a second term as the President of
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<ent type='GPE'>the United States</ent>, this country and the rest of the world would
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face a catastrophe of gigantic proportions.</p>
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<p> The necessity of writing this book became overwhelming in the
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minds of the authors in the wake of the ghastly slaughter of the
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<ent type='GPE'>Iraq</ent> war of January-February 1991. That war was an act of savage
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and premeditated genocide on the part of <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>, undertaken in
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connivance with a clique in <ent type='GPE'>London</ent> which has, in its historical
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continuity, represented boththe worst enemy of the long-term
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interests of the <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> people, and the most implacable
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adversary of the progress of the human species.</p>
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<p> <ent type='ORG'>Theauthors</ent> observed <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent> as the <ent type='LOC'>Gulf</ent> crisis and the
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war unfolded, and had no doubt that his enraged publicoutbursts
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constituted real psychotic episodes, indicative of a deranged
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mental state that was full of ominous portent for humanity. The
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authors were also horrified by the degree to which their fellow
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citizens willfully ignored the shocking reality of these public
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fits. A majority of the <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> people proved more than willing
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to lend its support to a despicable enterprise of killing.</p>
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<p> By their role-call votes of January 12, 1991, the <ent type='ORG'>Senate</ent> and
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the <ent type='ORG'>House</ent> ofRepresentatives authorized <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s planned war
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measures to restore the Emir of <ent type='GPE'>Kuwait</ent>, who owns and holds
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chattel slaves. That vote was a crime against God's justice.</p>
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<p> This book is part of an attempt to help the <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> people to
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survive this terrible crime, both for the sake of the world and
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for their ownsake. It is intended as a contribution to a
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process of education that might help to save the <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> people
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from the awesome destruction of a second <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> presidency. It is
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further intended as a warning to all citizens that if they fail
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to deny <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> a second term, they will deserve what they get after
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1993.</p>
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<p> As this book goes to press, public awareness of the long-term
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depression of the <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> economy is rapidly growing. If <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>
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were re-elected, he would view himself as beyond the reach of the
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<ent type='NORP'>American</ent> electorate; with the federal deficit rising over a
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billion dollars a day, a second <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> administration would dictate
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such crushing austerity as to bring the country to thebrink of
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civil war. Some examples of this point are described in the last
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chapter of this book.</p>
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<p> <ent type='ORG'>Ourgoal</ent> has been to assemble as much of the truth about <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>
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as possible within thetime constraints imposed bythe 1992
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election. <ent type='ORG'>Time</ent> and resources have not permitted us meticulous
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attention to certain matters of detail; we can say, nevertheless,
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that both our commitment to the truth and our final product are
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betterthan anythinganyoneelse has been able to muster,
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including news organizationsand intelligence agencies with
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capabilities that far surpass our own.</p>
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<p> Why do we fight the <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> power cartel with a mere book? We
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have no illusions of easy success, but we were encouraged in our
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work by the hope that a biography might stimulate opposition to
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<ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> and his policies.It will certainly pose a new set of
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problems for those seeking to get <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> re-elected. For although
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<ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> is now what journalists call a world leader, no accurate
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account of his actual career exists in the public domain.</p>
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<p> Thevolumewhich we submit to the court of world public
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opinion is, to the best of our knowledge, the first book-length,
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unauthorized biography of<ent type='PERSON'>George</ent><ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>. It is the first
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approximation of the truth about his life. This is the first
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biography worthy of the name, a fact that says a great deal about
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the sinister and obsessive secrecy of this personage. None of
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the other biographies (including <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s campaign autobiography)
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can be takenseriously; each of these books is a pastiche of
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lies, distortions and banalities that run the gamut from campaign
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panegyric, to the <ent type='PERSON'>Goebbels</ent> Big Lie, to fake but edifying stories
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for credulous children. Almost without exception, the available
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<ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> literature is worthless as a portrait of the subject.</p>
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<p> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s family pedigree establishes him as a networkasset of
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<ent type='ORG'>Brown Brothers</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>, one of the most powerful political
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forces in <ent type='GPE'>the United States</ent> during much of the twentieth century,
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and for many years the largest private bank inthe world. It
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suffices in this context to think of <ent type='PERSON'>Averell</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> negotiating
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during<ent type='EVENT'>World War</ent> IIin the name of <ent type='GPE'>the United States</ent> with
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<ent type='ORG'>Churchill</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'>Stalin</ent>, or of the role of <ent type='ORG'>Brown Brothers</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>
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partner <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>Robert</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Lovett</ent></ent> in guiding <ent type='PERSON'>John</ent> F. <ent type='PERSON'>Kennedy</ent>'s choice of his
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cabinet, to begin to see the implications of Senator <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent>
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<ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s post as managing partner of this bank. <ent type='ORG'>Brown Brothers</ent>
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<ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> networks pervade government and the mass media. Again
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and again in the course of the following pages wewill see
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stories embarrassing to <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent> refused publication,
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documents embarrassing to <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> suspiciously disappear, and
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witnesses inculpatoryto <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> be overtaken by mysterious and
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conveniently timed deaths. The few relevant facts which have
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found their way into the public domain have necessarily been
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filtered by this gigantic apparatus. This <ent type='GPE'>problemhas</ent> been
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compounded by thecorruption and servility of authors,
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journalists, news executives and publishers who have functioned
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more and more as kept advocates for a governmental regime of
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which <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> has been a prominent part for a quarter-century.</p>
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<p>The <ent type='ORG'>Red Studebaker</ent> Myth</p>
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<p> <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent> wants key aspects of his life to remain covert.
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At the same time, he senses thathis need for coverup is a
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vulnerability.The need to protect this weak flank accounts for
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the steady stream of fake biographical material concerning
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<ent type='PERSON'>George</ent>, as well as the spin given to many studies that may never
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mention <ent type='PERSON'>George</ent>directly. Over the past several months, we have
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seen a new book about <ent type='EVENT'>Watergate</ent> that pretends to tell the public
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something newby fingering <ent type='PERSON'>Al Haig</ent> as <ent type='PERSON'>Deep Throat</ent>, but ignoring
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the central role of <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent> and his business partners in the
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<ent type='EVENT'>Watergate</ent> affair. We have a new book by Lt. Col. <ent type='PERSON'>Oliver</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>North</ent>
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which alleges that <ent type='PERSON'>Reagan</ent> knew everything about the <ent type='GPE'>Iran</ent>-Contra
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affair, but that <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent> was not part of <ent type='PERSON'>North</ent>'s chain of
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command. The latter point merely paraphrases<ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'sown lame
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excusethat he was "out of the loop" during all those illegal
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transactions. During the hearings on the nomination of <ent type='PERSON'>Robert</ent>
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Gates to become director of <ent type='ORG'>Central Intelligence</ent>, nobody had
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anything new to add about the role of <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent>, the boss of
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<ent type='ORG'>the National Security Council</ent>'s Special Situation Group crisis
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staff that was a command center for the whole affair. These
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charades are <ent type='ORG'>peddledto</ent> a very credulous public by operatives
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whose task goes beyond mere damage control to mind control--the
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"MK" in the government's MK-Ultra operation.</p>
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<p> Part of the free ride enjoyed by <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent> during the 1988
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elections is reflected in the fact that at no point in the
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campaign was there any serious effort <ent type='PERSON'>byany</ent> of the news
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organizations to provide the public with an accurate and complete
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account of his political career. At least two biographies of
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<ent type='PERSON'>Dukakis</ent> appeared which, although hardly critical,were not
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uniformly laudatory either. But in the case of <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>, all the
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public could turn to was <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s old 1980 campaign biography and a
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newer campaign autobiography, both of them a tissue of lies.</p>
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<p> Early in the course of our research for the present volume it
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became apparent that all books and most longerarticles dealing
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with the life of <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent> had been generated from a single
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print-out of thoroughly approved "facts" about <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> and his
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family. We learned that during 1979-80, <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> aide <ent type='PERSON'>Pete Roussel</ent>
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attempted to recruit biographers to prepare a life of <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> based
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on a collection of press releases, news summaries, and similar
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pre-digested material. Most biographical writing about <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>
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consists merely of the points from this printout, strung out
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chronologically and made into anarrative through the
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interpretation of comments, anecdotes, embellishments, or special
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stylistic devices.</p>
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<p> Thecanonical <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>-approved printout is readily identified.
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One dead giveaway is the inevitability with which the hacks out
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to cover up the substance of <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s life refer to a 1947 red
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<ent type='ORG'>Studebaker</ent> which <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent> allegedly drove into <ent type='GPE'>Odessa</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Texas</ent>
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in 1948. This is the sort of detail which has been introduced
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into <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s real life in a deliberate and deceptive attempt to
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humanize his image.It has been our experience that any text
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that features a reference to <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s red <ent type='ORG'>Studebaker</ent> has probably
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been derived from <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s list of approved facts, and is therefore
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practically worthless for serious research into <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s life. We
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therefore assign such texts to the "red <ent type='ORG'>Studebaker</ent> school" of
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coverup and falsification.</p>
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<p> Some examples? This is from <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s campaign autobiography,
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{Looking Forward,} ghost-written by his aide <ent type='PERSON'>Vic Gold</ent>:"Heading
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into <ent type='GPE'>Texas</ent> in my <ent type='ORG'>Studebaker</ent>, all I knewabout the state's
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landscape was what I'd seen from the cockpit of a <ent type='ORG'>Vultee Vibrator</ent>
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during my training days in the <ent type='ORG'>Navy</ent>."s1
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Here is the same moment as recaptured by <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s crony Fitzhugh
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Green, a friend of the <ent type='NORP'>Malthusian</ent> financier <ent type='PERSON'>Russell Train</ent>, in his
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{<ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent>: An Intimate Portrait,} published after <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> had won
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the presidency: "He (<ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>) gassed up his1948 <ent type='ORG'>Studebaker</ent>,
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arranged for his wife and son to follow, and headed for <ent type='GPE'>Odessa</ent>,
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<ent type='GPE'>Texas</ent>."s2</p>
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<p> <ent type='PERSON'>Harry Hurt III</ent> wrote the followinglines in a 1983 <ent type='GPE'>Texas</ent>
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magazine article that was even decorated with a drawing of what
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apparently is supposed to be a <ent type='ORG'>Studebaker</ent>, but whichdoes not
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look like a <ent type='ORG'>Studebaker</ent> of that vintage at all: "When <ent type='PERSON'>George</ent>
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<ent type='PERSON'>Herbert</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Walker</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> drove his battered red <ent type='ORG'>Studebaker</ent> into <ent type='GPE'>Odessa</ent>
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in the summer of 1948, the town's population, though constantly
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increasing with newly-arrived oil field hands, was still under
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30000."s3</p>
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<p> We see that <ent type='PERSON'>Harry Hurt</ent> has more imagination than many <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>
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biographers, and <ent type='PERSON'>hisarticle</ent> does provide a few useful facts.
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More degraded is the version offered by <ent type='PERSON'>Richard Ben Kramer</ent>, whose
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biography of <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> is expected to be published during 1992. <ent type='PERSON'>Cramer</ent>
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was given the unenviable task of breathing life once more into
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the same tired old printout. But the very fact that the <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>
|
||
|
team feels that it requires another biography indicates that it
|
||
|
still feels that it has a potential vulnerability here. <ent type='PERSON'>Cramer</ent>
|
||
|
has attempted to solve his problem byrecasting thesame old
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||
|
garbage into a frenetic and hyperkinetic, we would almost say
|
||
|
{hyperthyroid} style. The following is from an excerpt of this
|
||
|
forthcoming book that was published in {Esquire} in June 1991:
|
||
|
"In June, after <ent type='ORG'>the College World Series</ent> and graduation day in
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>New Haven</ent>, Poppy packed up his new red <ent type='ORG'>Studebaker</ent> (a graduation
|
||
|
gift from Pres), and started driving south."s4</p>
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||
|
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||
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<p> Was that <ent type='ORG'>Studebaker</ent>shiny and new, or old andbattered?
|
||
|
Perhaps the printout is not specific on this point; in any case,
|
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|
as we see, our authorities diverge.</p>
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||
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<p> <ent type='PERSON'>Joe Hyams</ent>'s 1991 romance of <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> at war, the {Flight of the
|
||
|
Avenger,}s5 does notinclude the obligatory "red <ent type='ORG'>Studebaker</ent>"
|
||
|
reference, but this is more than compensated for bythe most
|
||
|
elaborate fawning over other details of our hero's war service.
|
||
|
The publication of {Flight of the Avenger,} which concentrates on
|
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|
an heroic retelling of <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s war record,and ignores all
|
||
|
evidence <ent type='NORP'>thatmight</ent> tend to puncture this myth, was timed to
|
||
|
coincide with <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s war with <ent type='GPE'>Iraq</ent>. This is a vile tract written
|
||
|
with the open assistance of <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>, <ent type='PERSON'>Barbara</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>, and the White
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>House</ent> staff. {Flight of the Avenger} recallsthe practice of
|
||
|
totalitarian states according to which a war waged by the regime
|
||
|
should be accompanied by propaganda which depicts the regime's
|
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|
strong man ina martial posture. In any case, this book deals
|
||
|
with <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s life up to the end of <ent type='EVENT'>World War</ent> II; we never reach
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>Odessa</ent>.</p>
|
||
|
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||
|
<p> Only one of the full-length accounts produced by the <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>
|
||
|
propaganda machine neglects the red <ent type='ORG'>Studebaker</ent> story. This is
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Nicholas King</ent>'s {<ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent>: A Biography,} the first book-length
|
||
|
version of <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s life, produced as a result of <ent type='PERSON'>Pete Roussel</ent>'s
|
||
|
efforts for the 1980 campaign. <ent type='PERSON'>Nicholas King</ent> had served as
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'sspokesman when he was U.S.Ambassador to the United
|
||
|
Nations. King admits in his preface that he can be impugned for
|
||
|
writing a work of the most transparent apologetics: "In
|
||
|
retrospect," he says , "this book may seem open to the charge
|
||
|
of puffery, for theview of its <ent type='NORP'>subjectis</ent> favorable all
|
||
|
around."s6 Indeed.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> Books about <ent type='PERSON'>Barbara</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> slavishly rehearse the same details
|
||
|
from the sameprintout. Here is the relevant excerpt from the
|
||
|
warmly admiring {Simply <ent type='PERSON'>Barbara</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>: A Portrait of<ent type='GPE'>America</ent>'s
|
||
|
CandidFirst Lady,} writtenby <ent type='PERSON'>Donnie Radcliffe</ent> and published
|
||
|
after <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s 1988 election victory: "With $3000 left over after
|
||
|
he graduated in June, 1948, he headed for <ent type='GPE'>Texas</ent> in the1947 red
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Studebaker</ent> his father had given him for graduation after <ent type='PERSON'>George</ent>'s
|
||
|
car died on the highway."s7</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> Even foreign journalists attempting to inform their publics
|
||
|
about conditions in <ent type='GPE'>the United States</ent> have fallen victim to the
|
||
|
same old <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>printout. The <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> author and reporter Rainer
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Bonhorst</ent>, the former <ent type='PERSON'>Washingtoncorrespondentof</ent> the
|
||
|
{<ent type='ORG'>Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung</ent>,} in his 1988 book {<ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent>:
|
||
|
The New Man in the <ent type='ORG'>White House</ent>,} named a chapter of this <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>
|
||
|
political biography "To <ent type='GPE'>Texas</ent> in the <ent type='ORG'>Red Studebaker</ent>." <ent type='ORG'>Bonhorst</ent>
|
||
|
writesas follows: "Then there was still the matter of the red
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Studebaker</ent>. It plays--rightafter the world wareffort--a
|
||
|
central role in thelife history of <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent>. It is the
|
||
|
history of his rebellion. The step which made a careless <ent type='NORP'>Texan</ent>
|
||
|
out of a stiff New<ent type='GPE'>England</ent>er, a self-made man out <ent type='ORG'>ofa</ent>
|
||
|
patrician's son, born into wealth.... Thus, <ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'>Barbara</ent>
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>, 24 and23 years old, he having just finished with his
|
||
|
studies, she having prematurely withdrawn from her university and
|
||
|
become a mother a few months earlier, packed their baby and their
|
||
|
suitcases and loaded them into their glaring red <ent type='ORG'>Studebaker</ent>
|
||
|
coupe.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> "Asupermodern, smart car, certainly somewhat loud for the
|
||
|
<ent type='LOC'>New England</ent> taste,' the <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>es later recalled. But finally it
|
||
|
departed towards <ent type='GPE'>Texas</ent>."s8
|
||
|
We see that <ent type='ORG'>Bonhorst</ent> isacutely awareof the symbolic
|
||
|
importance assumed by the red <ent type='ORG'>Studebaker</ent> in these hagiographic
|
||
|
accounts of <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s life.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> What is finally the truth of the matter? There is good reason
|
||
|
to believe that <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent> did not first come to <ent type='GPE'>Odessa</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Texas</ent>,
|
||
|
in a red <ent type='ORG'>Studebaker</ent>. One knowledgeable source is the well-known
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>Texas</ent> oil man and <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> campaign contributor <ent type='PERSON'>Oscar Wyatt</ent> of
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>Houston</ent>. In arecentletterto the {<ent type='GPE'>Texas</ent> Monthly,} <ent type='PERSON'>Wyatt</ent>
|
||
|
specifies that "when people speak of Mr. <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s humble
|
||
|
beginnings in the oil industry, it should be noted that he rode
|
||
|
down to <ent type='GPE'>Texas</ent> on <ent type='PERSON'>Dresser</ent>'s private aircraft. He was accompanied
|
||
|
by his father, who at that time was one of the directors of
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Dresser</ent> Industries.... I hate it when people make statements
|
||
|
about Mr. <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s humble beginnings in the oil industry. It just
|
||
|
didn'thappenthat way," writes Mr. <ent type='PERSON'>Wyatt</ent>.s9 <ent type='PERSON'>Dresser</ent> was a
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> company, and <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> got his start working for one of its
|
||
|
subsidiaries.One history of <ent type='PERSON'>Dresser</ent> Industries contains a
|
||
|
photograph of <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent> with his parents, wife, and infant son
|
||
|
"in front of a <ent type='PERSON'>Dresser</ent> company airplane in West <ent type='GPE'>Texas</ent>."s1s0 Can
|
||
|
this be a photo of <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s arrival in <ent type='GPE'>Odessa</ent> during the summer of
|
||
|
1948? In <ent type='ORG'>anycase</ent>, this most cherished myth ofthe <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>
|
||
|
biographers is very much open to doubt.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p><ent type='ORG'>The <ent type='NORP'>Roman</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Propaganda</ent></ent> Machine</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> Fawning biographies of bloodthirsty tyrants are nothing new in
|
||
|
world literature. The red <ent type='ORG'>Studebaker</ent> school goes back a long
|
||
|
way; these writers of today can be usefullycompared witha
|
||
|
certain Gaius <ent type='PERSON'>Velleius Paterculus</ent>, who lived in <ent type='GPE'>the Roman Empire</ent>
|
||
|
under the emperors <ent type='PERSON'>Augustus</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'>Tiberius</ent>, and who was thus an
|
||
|
approximate contemporary of Jesus Christ. <ent type='PERSON'>Velleius Paterculus</ent> was
|
||
|
an historian and biographer who is known today, if at all, for
|
||
|
his biographical notes on the Emperor <ent type='PERSON'>Tiberius</ent>, which are
|
||
|
contained within <ent type='PERSON'>Paterculus</ent>'s history of <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent>.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> <ent type='PERSON'>Paterculus</ent>,writing under<ent type='PERSON'>Tiberius</ent>, gave a very favorable
|
||
|
treatment of <ent type='PERSON'>Julius Caesar</ent>, and became fulsome when he came to
|
||
|
write of <ent type='PERSON'>Augustus</ent>. But the worst excesses of flattery came in
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Velleius Paterculus</ent>'s treatment of <ent type='PERSON'>Tiberius</ent> himself. Here is
|
||
|
part of what he writes about that tyrannical ruler:</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> "Of the transactions of the last sixteen years, which have
|
||
|
passed in the view, and are fresh in the memory of all, who shall
|
||
|
presume to give a full account? ... credit has been restored to
|
||
|
mercantile affairs, seditionhas been banished from the forum,
|
||
|
corruption from the <ent type='ORG'>Campus Martius</ent>, and discord from the
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>senate</ent>-house; justice, equity and industry, which had long lain
|
||
|
buried in neglect, have been revived in the state; authority has
|
||
|
been given to the magistrates, majesty to the <ent type='ORG'>senate</ent>, and
|
||
|
solemnity to the courts of justice; the bloody riots in the
|
||
|
theatre have been suppressed, and all men have had either a
|
||
|
desire excited in them, or a necessity imposed on them, of acting
|
||
|
with integrity. Virtuous actsare honored, wicked deeds are
|
||
|
punished. The humble respects the powerful, without dreading
|
||
|
him; the powerful takes precedenceof the humble without
|
||
|
condemning him. When were provisions more moderate in price?
|
||
|
When were the blessings of peace more abundant? <ent type='GPE'>Augustan</ent> peace,
|
||
|
diffused overall the regions of the east and the west, and all
|
||
|
that lies between the south and the north, preserves every corner
|
||
|
of the world free from all dread of predatory molestation.
|
||
|
Fortuitous losses, not only of individuals, but of cities, the
|
||
|
munificence of the prince is ready to relieve. The cities of
|
||
|
<ent type='LOC'>Asia</ent> have been repaired; the provinces have been secured from the
|
||
|
oppression of their governors. Honor promptly rewards the
|
||
|
deserving, and the punishment of the guilty, ifslow, is
|
||
|
certain. Interest gives place to justice, solicitation to
|
||
|
merit.For the best of princes teaches his countrymen to act
|
||
|
rightly by his own practice; and while he is the greatest in
|
||
|
power, he is still greater in example.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> "Having exhibited a general view of the administration of
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Tiberius</ent> Caesar, let us now enumerate a few particulars
|
||
|
respecting it.... How formidable a war, excited by the <ent type='NORP'>Gallic</ent>
|
||
|
chief <ent type='NORP'>Sacrovir</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'>Julius Florius</ent>, did he suppress, and with such
|
||
|
amazing expedition and energy, that the <ent type='NORP'>Roman</ent> people learned that
|
||
|
they were conquerors, before they knew that they were at war, and
|
||
|
the news of the victory outstripped the news of the danger! The
|
||
|
<ent type='NORP'>African</ent> war too, perilous as it was, and daily increasing in
|
||
|
strength, was quickly terminatedunder his auspices and
|
||
|
direction...."s1s1</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> All of this was written in praise of the regime that crucified
|
||
|
Jesus Christ, and one of the worst genocidal tyrannies in the
|
||
|
history of the world.<ent type='PERSON'>Paterculus</ent>, we must sadly conclude, was a
|
||
|
sycophant of the <ent type='PERSON'>Tiberius</ent> administration. Some of his themes are
|
||
|
close parallels to the propaganda of today's <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> machine.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> In addition to feeding the personality cult of<ent type='PERSON'>Tiberius</ent>,
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Paterculus</ent> also lavished praise on <ent type='PERSON'>Lucius Aelius Sejanus</ent>, the
|
||
|
Prefect of <ent type='ORG'>the Praetorian Guard</ent> and for manyyears <ent type='PERSON'>Tiberius</ent>'s
|
||
|
number one favorite, second in command, and likely successor. In
|
||
|
many respects<ent type='NORP'>Sejanus</ent> was not unlike <ent type='PERSON'>James Baker III</ent> under the
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> regime. While <ent type='PERSON'>Tiberius</ent> spent all of his time inseclusion
|
||
|
on his island of <ent type='GPE'>Capri</ent> near <ent type='GPE'>Naples</ent>, <ent type='NORP'>Sejanus</ent> assumed day to day
|
||
|
control of the vastempireand its 100 millionsubjects.
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Paterculus</ent> wrote of <ent type='ORG'>Sejanusthat</ent> he was "a most excellent
|
||
|
coadjutor in all the toils of government ... aman of pleasing
|
||
|
gravity, and of unaffected cheerfulness ... assuming nothing to
|
||
|
himself." That was the voice of the red <ent type='ORG'>Studebaker</ent> school in
|
||
|
about 30 A.D. <ent type='PERSON'>Paterculus</ent> should have limited his fawning to
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Tiberius</ent> himself; somewhat later, the emperor, suspecting a coup
|
||
|
plot, condemned <ent type='NORP'>Sejanus</ent> andhad him <ent type='ORG'>tornlimb</ent> from limb in
|
||
|
gruesome retribution.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> But why bring up <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent>? Some readers may be scandalized by the
|
||
|
things that truth obliges us to record about a sittingpresident
|
||
|
of <ent type='GPE'>the United States</ent>. Are we not disrespectful to this high
|
||
|
office? No. One of the reasons for glancing back at Imperial
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent> is to remind ourselves that in times of moral and cultural
|
||
|
degradation like our own, rulers of great evil haveinflicted
|
||
|
incalculable <ent type='PERSON'>sufferingon</ent> humanity.In our modern time of war
|
||
|
and depression, this is once again the case.If <ent type='PERSON'>Caligula</ent> was
|
||
|
possible then, who could claim that the <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> of <ent type='EVENT'>the New World</ent>
|
||
|
Order should be exempt? Let us therefore tarry for a moment with
|
||
|
these old <ent type='NORP'>Roman</ent>s, because they can show us much about ourselves.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> In order to find <ent type='NORP'>Roman</ent> writers who tell us anything reliable
|
||
|
about the first dozen emperors, we must wait until the infamous
|
||
|
Julio-Claudian dynastyof <ent type='PERSON'>Julius Caesar</ent>, <ent type='PERSON'>Augustus</ent>,<ent type='PERSON'>Tiberius</ent>,
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Caligula</ent>, Claudius, <ent type='PERSON'>Nero</ent>, and the rest had entirely passed from
|
||
|
the scene, to be supplanted by new ruling houses. <ent type='PERSON'>Tiberius</ent>
|
||
|
reigned from 14 to 37 A.D.; <ent type='PERSON'>Caligula</ent>, his designated successor,
|
||
|
from 37 to 41 A.D.; and <ent type='PERSON'>Nero</ent> from 54 to 68 A.D. But the first
|
||
|
accurate account of the crimes of some of these emperors comes
|
||
|
from <ent type='ORG'>Publius Cornelius Tacitus</ent> in about 115-17 A.D., late in the
|
||
|
reign of the emperor <ent type='PERSON'>Trajan</ent>. It was feasible for <ent type='ORG'>Tacitus</ent> to write
|
||
|
and publish a more realistic account of the Julio-Claudian
|
||
|
emperors because oneof the constant themes of <ent type='PERSON'>Trajan</ent>'s
|
||
|
propaganda was to glorify himself as an enlightened emperor
|
||
|
through comparison with the earlier series of bloody tyrants.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> <ent type='ORG'>Tacitus</ent> manages to convey how the destructivenessof these
|
||
|
emperors in their personal lives correlated with their mass
|
||
|
executions and their genocidal economic policies. <ent type='ORG'>Tacitus</ent> was
|
||
|
familiar withthe machinery of <ent type='NORP'>Roman</ent> Imperial power: he was of
|
||
|
senatorial rank, served as consul in <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent> in 97 A.D., and was
|
||
|
the governor of theimportant province of western <ent type='GPE'>Anatolia</ent>
|
||
|
(today's <ent type='GPE'>Turkey</ent>) which the <ent type='NORP'>Roman</ent>s referred <ent type='ORG'>tosimplyas</ent> <ent type='LOC'>Asia</ent>.
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Tacitus</ent> writes of <ent type='PERSON'>Tiberius</ent>: "... his criminal lusts shamed him.
|
||
|
Their uncontrollable activity was worthy of anoriental tyrant.
|
||
|
Free-born children were his victims. He was fascinated by
|
||
|
beauty, youthful innocence, and aristocratic birth. New names
|
||
|
for types of perversions were invented. Slaves were charged to
|
||
|
locate and procure his requirements.... It was like the sack of
|
||
|
a captured city."</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> <ent type='PERSON'>Tiberius</ent> was ableto dominate the legislative branch of his
|
||
|
government, the <ent type='ORG'>senate</ent>, by subversion and terror: "It was,
|
||
|
indeed, a horrible feature of this period that leading senators
|
||
|
became informers evenon trivial matters--some openly, many
|
||
|
secretly. Friends and relatives were as suspect as strangers,
|
||
|
old stories as damaging as new. Inthe Main Square, ata
|
||
|
dinner-party, a remark on any subject might mean prosecution.
|
||
|
Everyone competed forpriority in marking down the victim.
|
||
|
Sometimes this was self-defense, but mostly it was a sort of
|
||
|
contagion, like an epidemic.... I realize that many writers omit
|
||
|
numerous trials and condemnations, bored by repetition or afraid
|
||
|
that catalogues they themselves have found over-long and dismal
|
||
|
may equally depress their readers.But numerous unrecorded
|
||
|
incidents, which have come to my attention, ought to be known.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> "... Even women were in danger.They could not be charged
|
||
|
with aiming at <ent type='ORG'>supreme power</ent>. So they were charged with weeping:
|
||
|
one old lady was executed for lamenting her son's death. The
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>senate</ent> decidedthis case.... In the same year the high price of
|
||
|
corn nearly caused riots....</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> "<ent type='ORG'>Frenzied</ent> with bloodshed, (<ent type='PERSON'>Tiberius</ent>) now ordered the
|
||
|
execution of all those arrested for complicity with <ent type='NORP'>Sejanus</ent>. It
|
||
|
was a massacre. Without discrimination of sex or age, eminence
|
||
|
or obscurity, therethey lay, strewn about--or in heaps.
|
||
|
Relatives and friends were forbidden to stand by or lament them,
|
||
|
or even gaze for long. Guards surrounded them, spying on their
|
||
|
sorrow, and escorted the rotting bodies until, dragged to the
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Tiber</ent>,they floated away or grounded--with none to cremate or
|
||
|
touch them. Terror had paralyzed human sympathy. The rising
|
||
|
surge of brutality drove compassion away."s1s2</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> This is the same<ent type='PERSON'>Tiberius</ent> administration so extravagantly
|
||
|
praised by <ent type='PERSON'>Velleius Paterculus</ent>.
|
||
|
Because of lacunae in the manuscripts of <ent type='ORG'>Tacitus</ent>'s work that
|
||
|
have come down to us, much of what we know of the rule of
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Caligula</ent> (<ent type='PERSON'>Gaius Caesar</ent>, in power from 37 to 41 A.D.) derives from
|
||
|
{The Lives of the Twelve Caesars,} a book by Gaius<ent type='PERSON'>Suetonius</ent>
|
||
|
Tranquillus. The character and administration of <ent type='PERSON'>Caligula</ent> present
|
||
|
some striking parallels with the subject of the present book.</p>
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|
<p> <ent type='PERSON'>Asa</ent> stoic, <ent type='PERSON'>Caligula</ent> was a great admirer of his own
|
||
|
"immovable rigor." His motto was "Remember that Ihave the
|
||
|
right to do anything to anybody." He made no secret of his
|
||
|
bloodthirsty vindictiveness. <ent type='PERSON'>Caligula</ent> was a fan of the green
|
||
|
team in the <ent type='NORP'>Roman</ent> arena, and when the crowd <ent type='ORG'>applaudeda</ent>
|
||
|
charioteer who wore a different color, <ent type='PERSON'>Caligula</ent> criedout, "I
|
||
|
wish the <ent type='NORP'>Roman</ent> people had but a single neck." At one of his
|
||
|
state dinners<ent type='PERSON'>Caligula</ent> burst into a fit of uncontrollable
|
||
|
laughter, andwhen a consul askedhim what was so funny, he
|
||
|
replied that it was the thought that as emperor <ent type='PERSON'>Caligula</ent> had the
|
||
|
power to have the throats of the top officials cut at any time he
|
||
|
chose. <ent type='PERSON'>Caligula</ent> carried this same attitude into his personal
|
||
|
life: whenever he kissed or caressed the neck of his wife or one
|
||
|
of his mistresses, he liked to remark: "Off comes this beautiful
|
||
|
head whenever I give the word."</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> Above all, <ent type='PERSON'>Caligula</ent> was vindictive. After his death, two
|
||
|
notebooks were found among his personal papers, one labelled
|
||
|
"The Sword"and the other labelled "The Dagger." These were
|
||
|
lists of the persons he had proscribed and liquidated,and were
|
||
|
the forerunners of the enemies lists and discrediting committee
|
||
|
of today. <ent type='PERSON'>Suetonius</ent> frankly calls <ent type='PERSON'>Caligula</ent> "a monster," and
|
||
|
speculates on thepyschologicalrootsof his criminal
|
||
|
disposition: "I think I may attributeto mental weakness the
|
||
|
existence of two exactly opposite faults in the same person,
|
||
|
extreme assurance and, on theotherhand,excessive
|
||
|
timorousness." <ent type='PERSON'>Caligula</ent> was"full of threats" against "the
|
||
|
barbarians," but at the same time prone to precipitous retreats
|
||
|
and flights of panic. <ent type='PERSON'>Caligula</ent> worked on his "body language"
|
||
|
by "practicing all kinds of terrible and fearsome expressions
|
||
|
before a mirror."</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> <ent type='PERSON'>Caligula</ent> built an extension of his palace to connect with the
|
||
|
Temple of Castor and Pollux, and often went there to exhibit
|
||
|
himself as an object of public worship, delighting in being
|
||
|
hailed as "<ent type='ORG'>Jupiter Latiaris</ent>" by the populace. Later <ent type='PERSON'>Caligula</ent>
|
||
|
would officially opentemples in his own name. <ent type='PERSON'>Caligula</ent> was
|
||
|
brutal in his intimidation of the <ent type='ORG'>senate</ent>, whose members he
|
||
|
subjected to open humiliations and covert attacks; many senators
|
||
|
were "secretly put to death." "He often inveighed against all
|
||
|
the Senators alike.... He treated the other orders with like
|
||
|
insolence and cruelty." <ent type='PERSON'>Suetonius</ent> recites whole catalogues of
|
||
|
"special instances of his innate brutality" toward persons of
|
||
|
all walks of life. He enjoyed inflicting torture, and revelled
|
||
|
in liquidating political opponents or those who had insulted or
|
||
|
snubbed him in some way. He had a taste for capital executions
|
||
|
as theperfect backdrop for parties and banquets. <ent type='PERSON'>Caligula</ent> also
|
||
|
did everything he could to denigrate the memory of the great men
|
||
|
of past epochs, so that their fame could not eclipse his own:
|
||
|
"He assailed mankind of almost every epoch with no less envy and
|
||
|
malice than insolence and cruelty. He threw down the statues of
|
||
|
famous men" and tried to destroy all the texts of Homer.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> <ent type='PERSON'>Caligula</ent> "respected neither his own chastity nor that of any
|
||
|
one else." He was reckless in his extravagance, and soon emptied
|
||
|
out the imperial treasury of all the funds that old <ent type='PERSON'>Tiberius</ent> had
|
||
|
squirreled away there. After that, <ent type='PERSON'>Caligula</ent> tried to replenish
|
||
|
his coffers through a system of spies, false accusations,
|
||
|
property seizures, and public auctions. He also "levied new and
|
||
|
unheard-of taxes," to the point that "no class of commodities
|
||
|
was exempt from some kind of tax or other." <ent type='PERSON'>Caligula</ent> taxed all
|
||
|
foodstuffs, took a fortiethof the award in any lawsuit, an
|
||
|
eighth of the daily wages of the porters, and demandedthat the
|
||
|
prostitutes pay him a daily fee equal to the average price
|
||
|
charged to each individual customer. (It is rumored that this
|
||
|
part of <ent type='PERSON'>Caligula</ent>'s career is under study by those planning <ent type='PERSON'>George</ent>
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s second term.) <ent type='PERSON'>Caligula</ent> also opened a brothel in his palace
|
||
|
as anadditional source of income, which may prefigure today's
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>White House</ent> staff. Among <ent type='PERSON'>Caligula</ent>'s moresingular hobbies
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Suetonius</ent> includes his love of rolling and wallowing in piles of
|
||
|
gold coins.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> <ent type='PERSON'>Caligula</ent> kept his wife, <ent type='GPE'>Caesonia</ent> (describedby <ent type='PERSON'>Suetonius</ent> as
|
||
|
"neither beautiful nor young") with him until the very end.
|
||
|
But his greatest devotion was to his horse, whom he made consul
|
||
|
of the<ent type='NORP'>Roman</ent> state. Ultimately <ent type='PERSON'>Caligula</ent> fell victim to a
|
||
|
conspiracy of <ent type='ORG'>the Praetorian Guard</ent>, led by the tribune Gaius
|
||
|
Chaerea, a man whom<ent type='PERSON'>Caligula</ent> had taken special delight in
|
||
|
humiliating.s1s3</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> The authors of the present study are convinced that these
|
||
|
references tothe depravityof the <ent type='NORP'>Roman</ent> emperors, and to the
|
||
|
records of that depravity provided by such authors as <ent type='ORG'>Tacitus</ent> and
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Suetonius</ent>, are directly germane to our present task offollowing
|
||
|
the career of a member of the senatorial class of the
|
||
|
Anglo-<ent type='NORP'>American</ent> elite through the various stages of hisformation
|
||
|
and ultimate ascent to imperial power. The <ent type='NORP'>Roman</ent> Imperial model
|
||
|
is germane because the <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> rulingelite of today is far
|
||
|
closerto the world of <ent type='PERSON'>Tiberius</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'>Caligula</ent> than it is to the
|
||
|
world of the <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> Revolution or the Constitutional Convention
|
||
|
of 1789. The leitmotif of modern <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> presidential politics
|
||
|
is unquestionably an imperial theme, most blatantly expressed by
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> in his slogan for 1990, "The NewWorld Order," and for
|
||
|
1991, the "pax universalis." The central project of the <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>
|
||
|
presidency isthe creation and consolidation of a single,
|
||
|
universal Anglo-<ent type='NORP'>American</ent> (orAnglo-<ent type='NORP'>Saxon</ent>) empire very directly
|
||
|
modelled on the various phases of <ent type='GPE'>the Roman Empire</ent>.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>The Olympian Delusion</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> There is one other aspect of the biographical-historical
|
||
|
methodof the <ent type='ORG'>Graeco</ent>-<ent type='NORP'>Roman</ent> world which we have sought to borrow.
|
||
|
Ever since Thucydides composed hismonumental work on the
|
||
|
PeloponnesianWar, those who have sought to imitate his
|
||
|
style--with the <ent type='NORP'>Roman</ent> historian <ent type='PERSON'>Titus Livius</ent> prominent among
|
||
|
them--have employed the device of attributing long speeches to
|
||
|
historical personages, even when it appears very unlikely that
|
||
|
such lengthy orations could have been made by the protagonists at
|
||
|
the time. This has nothing to do with the synthetic dialogue of
|
||
|
current <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> political writing, which attempts to present
|
||
|
historical events asa series of trivial and banal soap-opera
|
||
|
exchanges, which carry on for such interminable lengths as to
|
||
|
suggest that the authors are getting paid by the word. Our idea
|
||
|
of <ent type='ORG'>fidelity</ent> to the classical style has simply been to let <ent type='PERSON'>George</ent>
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> speak for himself wherever possible, through direct
|
||
|
quotation. We are convinced that by letting <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> express himself
|
||
|
directly in this way, we afford the reader a more faithful--and
|
||
|
damning--account of <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s actions.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent> might agreethat "history is biography,"
|
||
|
although we suspect that he would not agree with any of our other
|
||
|
conclusions. There may be a few peculiarities of the present
|
||
|
work as biography that are worthy of explanation at the outset.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> <ent type='PERSON'>Oneof</ent> our basic theses is that <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent> is, and considers
|
||
|
himself to be, an oligarch. The notion of oligarchy includes
|
||
|
first of all the idea of a patrician and wealthy family capable
|
||
|
of introducing its offspring into such elite institutions as
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>Andover</ent>, <ent type='ORG'>Yale</ent>,and <ent type='ORG'>Skull</ent> and Bones. Oligarchy also subsumes the
|
||
|
self-conception of the oligarch as belonging to a special,
|
||
|
exalted breed of mankind, one that is superior to the common run
|
||
|
of mankind as a matter of hereditary genetic superiority. This
|
||
|
mentality generallygoes togetherwith a fascination for
|
||
|
eugenics, race science and just plain racism as <ent type='NORP'>ameans</ent> of
|
||
|
building a case that one's own family tree and racial stock are
|
||
|
indeed superior. These notions of "breeding" are a constant in
|
||
|
the history of the titled feudal aristocracy of <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent>,
|
||
|
especially <ent type='GPE'>Britain</ent>, towards inclusion in which an individual like
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> must necessarily strive.At the very least, oligarchs like
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> see themselves as demigods occupying a middle ground between
|
||
|
the immortals above and the {hoi polloi} below. The culmination
|
||
|
of this insane delusion, which <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> has demonstrably long since
|
||
|
attained, is the obsessive belief that the principal families of
|
||
|
the Anglo-<ent type='NORP'>American</ent> elite, assembled in their <ent type='ORG'>freemasonic</ent> orders,
|
||
|
by themselves directly constitute an Olympian Pantheon of living
|
||
|
deities who have the capability of abrogating and disregarding
|
||
|
the laws of the universe according to their own irrational
|
||
|
caprice. If we do not take into account this element of fatal
|
||
|
and megalomaniac hubris, the lunatic Anglo-<ent type='NORP'>American</ent> policies in
|
||
|
regardto the <ent type='LOC'>Gulf</ent> War, international finance, or the AIDS
|
||
|
epidemic must defy all comprehension.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> Part of the ethos of oligarchism as practiced by <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent>
|
||
|
is theemphasis on one's own family pedigree.This accounts for
|
||
|
the attention we dedicate in the opening chapters of this book to
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s family tree, reaching back to the nineteenth century and
|
||
|
beyond. It is impossible to gain insight into <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s mentality
|
||
|
unless we realize that it is important for him to be considered a
|
||
|
cousin, however distant, of Queen <ent type='PERSON'>Elizabeth II</ent> of the<ent type='ORG'>House</ent> of
|
||
|
Mountbatten-Windsor and for his wife <ent type='PERSON'>Barbara</ent> to be viewed in some
|
||
|
sense a descendant of President <ent type='PERSON'>Franklin Pierce</ent>.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>The Family Firm</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> Forrelated reasons, it is our special duty to illustrate the
|
||
|
role played in the formation of <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent> as a personality by
|
||
|
his maternal grandfather and uncle, <ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Herbert</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Walker</ent> and
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Herbert</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Walker</ent>, Jr., and by <ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> H.W. <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s father, the
|
||
|
late Senator <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>. In the course of this task, we must
|
||
|
speak at length about the institution to which <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent> owes
|
||
|
the most, the Wall Street international investment bank of <ent type='PERSON'>Brown</ent>
|
||
|
Brothers <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>, the political and financial powerhouse
|
||
|
mentioned above. For <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent>, <ent type='ORG'>Brown Brothers</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> was
|
||
|
and remains the family firm in the deepest sense. The formidable
|
||
|
power of this bank and its ubiquitous network, wielded by Senator
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> up through the time of his death in 1972, and still
|
||
|
activeon <ent type='PERSON'>George</ent>'s behalf down to the present day, is the single
|
||
|
most important key to every step of <ent type='PERSON'>George</ent>'sbusiness, covert
|
||
|
operations, and political career.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> In the case of <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent>, as many who have known him
|
||
|
personally have noted, the <ent type='ORG'>networklooms</ent> much larger than
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>George</ent>'s own character and will. The reader will search in vain
|
||
|
for strong principled commitments in <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent>'s personality;
|
||
|
the most that will be found is a series of characteristic
|
||
|
obsessions, of which the most durable are race, vanity, personal
|
||
|
ambition, and settling scores with adversaries. What emerges by
|
||
|
contrast is the decisive importance of <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s network of
|
||
|
connections. His response to the <ent type='LOC'>Gulf</ent> crisis of 1991 will be
|
||
|
largely predetermined, not by any great flashes of geopolitical
|
||
|
insight, but rather by his connections to the <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> oligarchy,
|
||
|
to <ent type='PERSON'>Kissinger</ent>, to <ent type='NORP'>Israeli</ent> and <ent type='NORP'>Zionist</ent> circles, to <ent type='GPE'>Texas</ent> oilmen in
|
||
|
his fundraising base, to the <ent type='NORP'>Saudi Arabian</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>Kuwait</ent>i royal
|
||
|
houses. If the question is one of finance, then the opinions of
|
||
|
J. Hugh <ent type='PERSON'>Liedtke</ent>, <ent type='PERSON'>Henry Kravis</ent>, <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>Robert</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Mosbacher</ent></ent>,T. Boone
|
||
|
Pickens, <ent type='PERSON'>Nicholas Brady</ent>, <ent type='PERSON'>James Baker III</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>the City</ent> of <ent type='GPE'>London</ent>
|
||
|
will be decisive. If covert operations and dirty tricks are on
|
||
|
the agenda, then there is a whole stable of <ent type='ORG'>CIA</ent> old boys with
|
||
|
whom he will consult, and so on down the line. During much of
|
||
|
1989, despite his control over the presidency, <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> appeared as a
|
||
|
weak and passive executive, waiting for his networks to show him
|
||
|
what it was he was supposed to do. When <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> reunification and
|
||
|
the <ent type='ORG'>crumblingof</ent> the <ent type='NORP'>Soviet</ent> empire spurred those--primarily
|
||
|
<ent type='NORP'>British</ent>--networks intoaction, <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> was suddenly capable of
|
||
|
violent and daring adventures. As his battle for a second term
|
||
|
approaches, <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> may be showing increasing signs of a rage-driven
|
||
|
self-starter capability, especially when it comes to starting new
|
||
|
wars designed to secure his re-election.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p><ent type='GPE'>The United States</ent> in Decline</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> Biography has <ent type='GPE'>itsown</ent> inherent discipline: <ent type='GPE'>Itmust</ent> be
|
||
|
concerned with the life of its protagonist, and cannot stray too
|
||
|
far away. In no way has it been our intention tooffer an
|
||
|
account of <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> history during the lifetime of <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent>.
|
||
|
The present study neverthelessreflects manyaspects of that
|
||
|
recent <ent type='PERSON'>historyof</ent> U.S. decline. It will be noted that <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> has
|
||
|
succeeded in proportion as the country has failed,and that
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s advancement has proceeded {paripassu}with the
|
||
|
degradation of the national stage upon which he has operated and
|
||
|
which he has come to dominate. At various phases in his career,
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> has come into conflict with persons who were intellectually
|
||
|
and morally superior to him. Onesuch was Senator Ralph
|
||
|
Yarborough, and another was Senator <ent type='PERSON'>Frank Church</ent>. Our study will
|
||
|
be found to catalogue the constant decline in the qualities of
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s adversaries as human types until the 1980s, by which time
|
||
|
his opponents, as in the case of <ent type='PERSON'>Al Haig</ent>, are no better than <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>
|
||
|
himself.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> Theexception to this trend is <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s long-standing personal
|
||
|
vendetta against <ent type='PERSON'>Lyndon LaRouche</ent>, his most consistent and capable
|
||
|
adversary. <ent type='PERSON'>LaRouche</ent> was jailed seven days after <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s
|
||
|
inauguration in the most infamous political frameup of recent
|
||
|
U.S. history. As our study will document, at critical moments in
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s career, <ent type='PERSON'>LaRouche</ent>'s political interventions have frustrated
|
||
|
some of <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s best-laid political plans: A very clear example is
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>LaRouche</ent>'s role in defeating <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s 1980 presidential bid in the
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>New Hampshire</ent> primary. Over the intervening years, <ent type='PERSON'>LaRouche</ent> has
|
||
|
become <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent>'s "man in the iron mask," the principled
|
||
|
political adversary whom <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> seeks to jail and silence at all
|
||
|
costs.The restoration of justice in this country must include
|
||
|
the freeing of <ent type='PERSON'>Lyndon LaRouche</ent>, <ent type='PERSON'>LaRouche</ent>'s political associates,
|
||
|
and all the other political prisoners of the <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> regime.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> As for the political relevance of our project, we think that
|
||
|
it is very real. During the <ent type='LOC'>Gulf</ent> crisis, it would have been
|
||
|
important for the public to know more about <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s business
|
||
|
dealings withthe <ent type='ORG'>Royal Family</ent> of<ent type='GPE'>Kuwait</ent>. During the 1992
|
||
|
presidential campaign, as Wall Street's recent crop ofjunk-bond
|
||
|
assisted leveraged buyouts line up at the entrance to bankruptcy
|
||
|
court, and state workers all across <ent type='GPE'>the United States</ent> are
|
||
|
informed that the retirement pensions they had been promised will
|
||
|
never be paid, the relations between <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent> and <ent type='PERSON'>Henry Kravis</ent>
|
||
|
will surely constitute an explosive political issue. Similarly,
|
||
|
once <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'>Kissinger</ent>ian pedigree is recognized, the
|
||
|
methods he is likely to pursue in regard to situations such as
|
||
|
the planned <ent type='NORP'>Roman</ent>ian-style overthrow of the <ent type='PERSON'>Castro</ent> regime in
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>Cuba</ent>, or theprovocation of a splendid little nuclear war
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involving <ent type='PERSON'>North</ent> <ent type='GPE'>Korea</ent>, or of a new Indo-Pakistani war, will
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hardly be mysterious.</p>
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<p> <ent type='ORG'>Theauthors</ent> have been at some pains to makethis work
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intelligible to readers around the world. We offer this book to
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those who share our aversion to the imperialist-colonialist New
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World Order, and our profound horror at the concept <ent type='ORG'>ofa</ent> return
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to a single, worldwide <ent type='NORP'>Roman</ent> Empire as suggested by <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s "pax
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universalis" slogan. This work is tangible evidence that there
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is anopposition to <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> inside <ent type='GPE'>the United States</ent>, and that the
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new <ent type='PERSON'>Caligula</ent> is very vulnerable indeed on the level of the
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exposure of his own misdeeds.</p>
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<p> It will be argued that this book should have been published
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before the 1988 election, when a <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> presidency might have been
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avoided. That is certainly true, but it is an objection which
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should also be directed to many institutions and agencies whose
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resources far surpassour modest capabilities. We can only
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remind our fellow citizens that when he asks for their votes for
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his re-election, <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent> also enters that court of public
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opinion in which he is obliged to answer their questions. They
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shouldnot waste this opportunity to grill him on all aspects of
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his career and future intentions, since it is <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> who comes
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forward appealing for their support. To aid in this process, we
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have provided a list of TwentyQuestions forCandidate <ent type='PERSON'>George</ent>
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<ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> on the campaign trail, and this will be found in the
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appendix.</p>
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<p> We do not delude ourselves that we have said the last word
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about <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent>. But we have for the first time sketched out at
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least some of the most salient features and gathered them into a
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comprehensible whole. We encourage an aroused citizenry, as well
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as specialized researchers, to improve upon what we have been
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able to accomplish.In sodoing, we recall the words of the
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<ent type='PERSON'>Florentine Giovanni Boccaccio</ent> when he reluctantly accepted the
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order of a powerful king to produce an account of the old <ent type='NORP'>Roman</ent>
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Pantheon: "If I don't succeed completely in this exposition, at
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least I will provide a stimulus for the better work of others who
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are wiser."--<ent type='PERSON'>Boccaccio</ent>, {Genealogy of the National Gods}
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{To be continued.}</p>
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<p> Notes</p>
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<p> 1. <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent> and<ent type='PERSON'>Vic Gold</ent>, {Looking Forward,} (<ent type='GPE'>New York</ent>:
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<ent type='ORG'>Doubleday</ent>, 1987), p. 47.</p>
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<p>2.
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<ent type='PERSON'>Fitzhugh Green</ent>, {Looking Forward,} (<ent type='GPE'>New York</ent>: Hippocrene, 1989),
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p. 53.</p>
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<p>3. <ent type='PERSON'>Harry Hurt III</ent>, "<ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent>, <ent type='ORG'>Plucky Lad</ent>," {<ent type='GPE'>Texas</ent>Monthly,}
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June, 1983, p.142.</p>
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<p>4. Richard Ben <ent type='PERSON'>Cramer</ent>, "How He Got Here," {Esquire,} June,
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1991, p. 84.</p>
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<p>5. <ent type='PERSON'>Joe Hyams</ent>, {Flight of the Avenger} (<ent type='GPE'>New York</ent>, 1991).</p>
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<p>6.
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<ent type='PERSON'>Nicholas King</ent>, {<ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent>: A Biography} (<ent type='GPE'>New York</ent>, Dodd, Mead,
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1980), p. xi.</p>
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<p>7. <ent type='PERSON'>Donnie Radcliffe</ent>, {Simply <ent type='PERSON'>Barbara</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>,} (<ent type='GPE'>New York</ent>: <ent type='ORG'>Warner</ent>,
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1989), p. 103.</p>
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<p>8. <ent type='PERSON'>Rainer Bonhorst</ent>, {<ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent>, Der Neue <ent type='PERSON'>Mann</ent> im <ent type='PERSON'>Weissen Haus</ent>,}
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(<ent type='ORG'>Bergisch Gladbach</ent>: <ent type='PERSON'>Gustav Luebbe</ent> Verlag, 1988), pp. 80-81.</p>
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<p>9. See "TheRoar of the Crowd," {<ent type='GPE'>Texas</ent> Monthly,} November,
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1991. See also <ent type='PERSON'>Jan Jarboe</ent>, "Meaner Than a Junkyard Dog," {<ent type='GPE'>Texas</ent>
|
||
|
Monthly,} April 1991, p. 122 ff. Here <ent type='PERSON'>Wyatt</ent> observes: "I knew
|
||
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from the beginning <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent> came to <ent type='GPE'>Texas</ent> only because he was
|
||
|
politically ambitious.He flew out here on an airplane owned by
|
||
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<ent type='PERSON'>Dresser</ent> Industries. His daddy <ent type='PERSON'>wasa</ent> member of the board of
|
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<ent type='PERSON'>Dresser</ent>."</p>
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<p>10. <ent type='PERSON'>Darwin Payne</ent>, {Initiative in Energy} (NewYork: <ent type='PERSON'>Simon</ent> and
|
||
|
Shuster, 1979), p. 233.</p>
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<p>11. <ent type='PERSON'>John Selby Watson</ent> (translator), {Sallust, Florus, and
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Velleius Paterculus</ent>} (<ent type='GPE'>London</ent>: <ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> Bell andSon, 1879), pp.
|
||
|
542-46.</p>
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<p>12. Cornelius<ent type='ORG'>Tacitus</ent>, {<ent type='ORG'>The Annals</ent> of Imperial <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent>} (Penguin,
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||
|
1962), pp. 193-221.</p>
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<p>13. Gaius <ent type='PERSON'>Suetonius</ent> Tranquillus, {The Lives of the Twelve
|
||
|
Caesars} (<ent type='GPE'>New York</ent>: <ent type='ORG'>Modern Library</ent>,1931),pp. 165-204, {
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passim.</p>
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<p>Any comments, please send by email, as I get very far behind on
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this group.</p>
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<p>Thanks.</p>
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<p> <ent type='PERSON'>John Covici</ent></p>
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<p>coviciccs.covici.com</p>
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<p>Article 15244 of alt.activism:
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From: covici@ccs.covici.com (<ent type='PERSON'>John Covici</ent>)
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<ent type='GPE'>Newsgroups</ent>: alt.activism
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Subject: Part 2: <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent> Unauthorized Biography
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<info type="Message-ID"> mV3LeB1w164w@ccs.covici.com</info>
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Date: 15 Jan 92 21:58:09 GMT
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Organization: Covici Computer Systems
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Lines: 1495</p>
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<p>The followingis from <ent type='ORG'>the New Federalist</ent> serialization of a
|
||
|
forthcoming book concerning <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent>.</p>
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<p>For further information or to subscribe to <ent type='ORG'>New Federalist</ent>, please
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contact me by e-mail.</p>
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<p>CHAPTER 2 THE HITLER PROJECT</p>
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<p>1. <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> Property Seized--Trading with the Enemy</p>
|
||
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|
||
|
<p>In October 1942, ten months after entering <ent type='EVENT'>World War</ent> II, <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>
|
||
|
was preparingits first assault against <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> military forces.
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> was managing partner of <ent type='ORG'>Brown Brothers</ent><ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>.
|
||
|
His 18-year-old son <ent type='PERSON'>George</ent>, the future U.S. President, had just
|
||
|
begun training to become a naval pilot.</p>
|
||
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|
||
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<p> On October 20, 1942, the U.S. government ordered the seizure
|
||
|
of <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> banking operations in <ent type='GPE'>New York</ent> City which were
|
||
|
being conducted by <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>.</p>
|
||
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|
||
|
<p> Under the {Trading with the Enemy Act}, the government took
|
||
|
over the {<ent type='ORG'>Union Banking Corporation</ent>,} in which <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> was a
|
||
|
director. The U.S. Alien Property Custodian seized Union Banking
|
||
|
Corp.'s stock shares, all of which were owned by <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>,
|
||
|
E. <ent type='PERSON'>Roland</ent> "<ent type='PERSON'>Bunny</ent>" <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>, three <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> executives, and two
|
||
|
other associates of <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>.s1</p>
|
||
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|
||
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<p> The order seizing the bank "vest[ed] [seized] all of the
|
||
|
capital stock of <ent type='ORG'>Union Banking Corporation</ent>, a<ent type='GPE'>New York</ent>
|
||
|
corporation," and named the holders of its shares as:</p>
|
||
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|
||
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<p> sb|"E. <ent type='PERSON'>Roland</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>--3991 shares." <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> was chairman
|
||
|
and director of <ent type='ORG'>Union Banking Corp</ent>. (<ent type='ORG'>UBC</ent>); this is"<ent type='PERSON'>Bunny</ent>"
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>, described by <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> as a place holder who didn't
|
||
|
get much into banking affairs; <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> managed his personal
|
||
|
investments.</p>
|
||
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|
||
|
<p> sb|"Cornelis <ent type='PERSON'>Lievense</ent>--4 shares." <ent type='PERSON'>Lievense</ent> was president and
|
||
|
director of <ent type='ORG'>UBC</ent>, and a <ent type='GPE'>New York</ent> resident banking functionary for
|
||
|
the <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent>s.</p>
|
||
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|
||
|
<p> sb|"Harold D. <ent type='ORG'>Pennington</ent>--1 share." <ent type='ORG'>Pennington</ent> was treasurer
|
||
|
and director of <ent type='ORG'>UBC</ent>, and an office manager employed by <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> at
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Brown Brothers</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>.</p>
|
||
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|
||
|
<p> sb|"<ent type='PERSON'>Ray Morris</ent>--1 share." <ent type='PERSON'>Morris</ent> was director of <ent type='ORG'>UBC</ent>, anda
|
||
|
partner of <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> and the <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>s.</p>
|
||
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|
||
|
<p> sb|"<ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> S. <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>--1 share." <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> was director of <ent type='ORG'>UBC</ent>,
|
||
|
which was co-founded and sponsored by his father-in-law <ent type='PERSON'>George</ent>
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Walker</ent>; he was senior managing partner for E. <ent type='PERSON'>Roland</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> and
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Averell</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>.</p>
|
||
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|
||
|
<p> sb|"H.J. <ent type='PERSON'>Kouwenhoven</ent>--1 share" <ent type='PERSON'>Kouwenhoven</ent> was director of
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>UBC</ent>; he organized <ent type='ORG'>UBC</ent>as the emissary of <ent type='PERSON'>Fritz Thyssen</ent> in
|
||
|
negotiations with <ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Walker</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'>Averell</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>; he was also
|
||
|
managing director of<ent type='ORG'>UBC</ent>'s <ent type='GPE'>Netherlands</ent> affiliate under <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent>
|
||
|
occ<ent type='PERSON'>upa</ent>tion; industrial executive in<ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y,and also
|
||
|
director and chief foreign financial executive of the <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Steel Trust</ent>.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> sb|"Johann G. Groeninger--1 share." Groeninger was director
|
||
|
of <ent type='ORG'>UBC</ent> and of its <ent type='GPE'>Netherlands</ent> affiliate; he was an industrial
|
||
|
executive in <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> The order also specified: "all of which shares areheld for
|
||
|
the benefit of ... membersof the <ent type='ORG'>Thyssen</ent> family, [and] is
|
||
|
property of nationals ... of a designated enemy country...."</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> By October 26, 1942, U.S. troops were underway for <ent type='PERSON'>North</ent>
|
||
|
<ent type='LOC'>Africa</ent>. On October 28, the government issued orders seizing two
|
||
|
<ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> front organizations run by the<ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>-<ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> bank: the
|
||
|
{<ent type='GPE'>Holland</ent>-<ent type='NORP'>American</ent> Trading Corporation} and the {Seamless Steel
|
||
|
Equipment Corporation.}s2</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> U.S. forces landed under fire nearAlgiers on November 8,
|
||
|
1942; heavy combat raged throughout November. <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> interests in
|
||
|
the {<ent type='GPE'>Silesia</ent>n-<ent type='NORP'>American</ent> Corporation,} long managed by <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent>
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> and his father-in-law <ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Herbert</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Walker</ent>, were seized
|
||
|
under the Trading with the Enemy Act on November 171942. In
|
||
|
this action, the government announced that it was seizing only
|
||
|
the <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> interests, leaving the <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent>s' U.S. partners to carry on
|
||
|
the business.s3</p>
|
||
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|
||
|
<p> These and other actions taken by the U.S. government in
|
||
|
wartime were, tragically, too little and too late.President
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'sfamily had already played a central role in financing and
|
||
|
arming <ent type='PERSON'>Adolf Hitler</ent> for his takeover of <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y; in financing and
|
||
|
managing the buildup of <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> war industries for the conquest of
|
||
|
<ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent> and war against the U.S.A.; and in the development of <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent>
|
||
|
genocide theories and racial propaganda, with their well-known
|
||
|
results.</p>
|
||
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|
||
|
<p> The facts presented here must be known, and their implications
|
||
|
reflected upon, for a proper understanding ofPresident <ent type='PERSON'>George</ent>
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Herbert</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Walker</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> and ofthe danger to mankind that he
|
||
|
represents. The President's family fortune was largely a result
|
||
|
of the<ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent>project. The powerful Anglo-<ent type='NORP'>American</ent> family
|
||
|
associations, which later boosted him into the Central
|
||
|
Intelligence <ent type='ORG'>Agency</ent> and up to the <ent type='ORG'>White House</ent>, were his father's
|
||
|
partners in the <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> project.</p>
|
||
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|
||
|
<p> President <ent type='PERSON'>Franklin Roosevelt</ent>'s Alien Property Custodian, Leo
|
||
|
T. <ent type='PERSON'>Crowley</ent>, signed Vesting Order Number 248 seizing the property
|
||
|
of <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> under the Trading with Enemy Act. The order,
|
||
|
published in obscure government record books and kept out of the
|
||
|
news,s4 explained nothing about the <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent>s involved; only that the
|
||
|
Union BankingCorporation was run for the "<ent type='ORG'>Thyssen</ent> family" of
|
||
|
"<ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y and/or <ent type='GPE'>Hungary</ent>"--"nationals ... of a designated enemy
|
||
|
country."</p>
|
||
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|
||
|
<p> By deciding that <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> and the other directors of the
|
||
|
Union BankingCorp. were legally {front men for the <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent>s}, the
|
||
|
government avoided the more important historical issue: In what
|
||
|
way {were <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent>'s <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent>s themselves hired, armed, and instructed
|
||
|
by} the <ent type='GPE'>New York</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>London</ent> clique of which <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> was an
|
||
|
executive manager? Let us examinethe <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>-<ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent>
|
||
|
project from the 1920s until it was partially broken up, to seek
|
||
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an answer for that question.</p>
|
||
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|
||
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<p>2. Origin and Extent of the Project</p>
|
||
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|
||
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<p> <ent type='PERSON'>Fritz Thyssen</ent> andhis business partners are universally
|
||
|
recognized as the most important <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> financiersof Adolf
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent>'s takeover of<ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y. At the time of the order seizing
|
||
|
the <ent type='ORG'>Thyssen</ent> family's <ent type='ORG'>Union Banking Corp</ent>., Mr. <ent type='PERSON'>Fritz Thyssen</ent> had
|
||
|
already published his famous book, {I Paid <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent>},s5 admitting
|
||
|
that he had financed <ent type='PERSON'>Adolf Hitler</ent> and the <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> movement since
|
||
|
October 1923.<ent type='ORG'>Thyssen</ent>'s role as the leading early backer of
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent>'s grab for power in <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y had been noted by U.S.
|
||
|
diplomats in <ent type='GPE'>Berlin</ent> in 1932.s6 The order seizing the <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>-<ent type='ORG'>Thyssen</ent>
|
||
|
bank was curiously quiet and modest about the identity of the
|
||
|
perpetrators who had been nailed.</p>
|
||
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|
||
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<p> Buttwo weeks before the official order, government
|
||
|
investigators had reported secretly that "W. <ent type='PERSON'>Averell</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>
|
||
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was in <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent> sometime prior to 1924 and at that time became
|
||
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acquainted with <ent type='PERSON'>Fritz Thyssen</ent>, the <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> industrialist."
|
||
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<ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> and <ent type='ORG'>Thyssen</ent> agreed to set up a bank for <ent type='ORG'>Thyssen</ent> in New
|
||
|
York. "[C]ertain of[<ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>'s] associates would serve as
|
||
|
directors...." <ent type='ORG'>Thyssen</ent> agent "H.J. <ent type='PERSON'>Kouwenhoven</ent> ... came to the
|
||
|
United <ent type='ORG'>State</ent>s ... prior to 1924 for conferences with the <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>
|
||
|
Company in this connection...."s7</p>
|
||
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||
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<p> When exactly was "<ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> in <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent> sometimeprior to
|
||
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1924"? In fact, he was in <ent type='GPE'>Berlin</ent> in 1922 to set up the <ent type='GPE'>Berlin</ent>
|
||
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branch of W.A. <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> & Co. under <ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Walker</ent>'s presidency.</p>
|
||
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<p> The <ent type='ORG'>Union Banking Corporation</ent> wasestablished formally in
|
||
|
1924, as a unit in the <ent type='GPE'>Manhattan</ent> offices of W.A. <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> & Co.,
|
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|
interlocking with the <ent type='ORG'>Thyssen</ent>-owned {<ent type='ORG'>Bank voor Handel</ent> en
|
||
|
Scheepvaart} (<ent type='ORG'>BHS</ent>) inthe <ent type='GPE'>Netherlands</ent>. The investigators
|
||
|
concluded that "theUnion BankingCorporation has since its
|
||
|
inception handled funds chiefly supplied to it through the <ent type='NORP'>Dutch</ent>
|
||
|
bank by the <ent type='ORG'>Thyssen</ent> interests for <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> investment."</p>
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||
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<p> Thus by personal agreement between <ent type='PERSON'>Averell</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> and Fritz
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Thyssen</ent> in 1922, W.A. <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> & Co. (alias Union Banking
|
||
|
Corporation) would be transferring funds back and forth between
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>New York</ent> and the "<ent type='ORG'>Thyssen</ent> interests" in <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y. By putting up
|
||
|
about $400000, the <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> organization would be joint owner
|
||
|
and manager of <ent type='ORG'>Thyssen</ent>'s banking operations outside of <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y.</p>
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||
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||
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<p> {How important was the <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent>enterprise for whichPresident
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s father was the <ent type='GPE'>New York</ent> banker?}</p>
|
||
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||
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<p> The 1942 U.S. government investigative report said that <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s
|
||
|
<ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent>-front bank was an interlocking concern with the Vereinigte
|
||
|
Stahlwerke (<ent type='ORG'>United Steel Works Corporation</ent> or {<ent type='NORP'>German</ent> Steel
|
||
|
Trust}) led by Fritz<ent type='ORG'>Thyssen</ent> and his two brothers.After the
|
||
|
war, congressional investigators probed the <ent type='ORG'>Thyssen</ent> interests,
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Union Banking Corp</ent>. and related <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> units.The investigation
|
||
|
showed that <ent type='ORG'>the Vereinigte Stahlwerke</ent> had produced thefollowing
|
||
|
approximate proportions of total <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> national output: "50.8%
|
||
|
of <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y's pig iron; 41.4% of <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y'suniversal
|
||
|
plate;36.0% of <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y's heavy plate; 38.5% of <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent>
|
||
|
<ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y's galvanized sheet; 45.5% of <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y's pipes and
|
||
|
tubes;22.1% of <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y's wire; 35.0% of <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y's
|
||
|
explosives."s8</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> This accounts for many, many <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> submarines, bombs, rifles,
|
||
|
gas chambers, etc.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> became vice president of W.A. <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> & Co. in
|
||
|
1926. That same year, a friend of <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> set <ent type='PERSON'>upa</ent>
|
||
|
giant new organization for their client <ent type='PERSON'>Fritz Thyssen</ent>, prime
|
||
|
sponsor of politician <ent type='PERSON'>Adolf Hitler</ent>. The new {<ent type='NORP'>German</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Steel Trust</ent>,}
|
||
|
<ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y's largest industrial corporation, was organized in 1926
|
||
|
by Wall Street banker <ent type='PERSON'>Clarence Dillon</ent>. <ent type='PERSON'>Dillon</ent> was the old comrade
|
||
|
of <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s father Sam <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> from the "Merchants of
|
||
|
Death" bureau in <ent type='EVENT'>World War</ent> I.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> In return for putting up $70 millionto create his
|
||
|
organization, majority owner <ent type='ORG'>Thyssen</ent> gave the <ent type='ORG'>Dillon Read</ent> company
|
||
|
two or more representativeson the boardof the new Steel
|
||
|
Trust.s9</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> Thus there is a division of labor: <ent type='ORG'>Thyssen</ent>'s own confidential
|
||
|
accounts, forpolitical and related purposes, were run through
|
||
|
the <ent type='PERSON'>Walker</ent>-<ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> organization; the <ent type='ORG'>Steel Trust</ent> did itscorporate
|
||
|
banking through <ent type='ORG'>Dillon Read</ent>.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> The<ent type='PERSON'>Walker</ent>-<ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> firm's banking activities werenot just
|
||
|
politically neutral money-making ventures which happened to
|
||
|
coincide withthe aims of <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent>s. All of the firm's
|
||
|
<ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent>an business in those days was organized around
|
||
|
anti-democratic political forces.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> In 1927, criticism of their support for totalitarianism drew
|
||
|
this retort from Bert<ent type='PERSON'>Walker</ent>, written fromKennebunkport to
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Averell</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>: "It seems to me that the suggestion in
|
||
|
connection with Lord <ent type='PERSON'>Bearsted</ent>'s views that we withdraw from
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent> smacks somewhat of the impertinent.... I think that we
|
||
|
have drawn our line and should hew to it."s1s0</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> <ent type='PERSON'>Averell</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> met with <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent>'s fascistdictator, Benito
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent>. A representative of the firm subsequently telegraphed
|
||
|
good news back to his chief executive <ent type='PERSON'>Bert Walker</ent>: "... During
|
||
|
these last days ... <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> ... has examined and approved our
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>c[o]ntract</ent> 15 June."s1s1</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> <ent type='GPE'>Thegreat</ent> financial collapse of1929-31 shook <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>,
|
||
|
<ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y, and <ent type='GPE'>Britain</ent>,weakening all governments. It also made
|
||
|
the hard-pressed <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> even more willing to do whatever
|
||
|
was necessary to retain his new place in the world.It was in
|
||
|
this crisis that certain Anglo-<ent type='NORP'>American</ent>s determined on the
|
||
|
installation of a <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> regime in <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> W.A. <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> & Co., well-positioned for this enterprise and
|
||
|
rich in assets from their <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent>nbusiness, merged
|
||
|
with the <ent type='NORP'>British</ent>-<ent type='NORP'>American</ent> investment house, <ent type='ORG'>Brown Brothers</ent>, on
|
||
|
January 1, 1931. <ent type='PERSON'>Bert Walker</ent> retired to his own G.H.<ent type='PERSON'>Walker</ent>&
|
||
|
Co. This left the <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> brothers, <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>, and <ent type='PERSON'>Thatcher</ent>
|
||
|
M. <ent type='PERSON'>Brown</ent> as the senior partners ofthe new <ent type='ORG'>Brown Brothers</ent>
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> firm. (The <ent type='GPE'>London</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>England</ent> branch of the <ent type='PERSON'>Brown</ent> family
|
||
|
firm continued operating under its historic name--<ent type='PERSON'>Brown</ent>,
|
||
|
Shipley.)</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> <ent type='PERSON'>Robert</ent> A. <ent type='PERSON'>Lovett</ent> also came over as a partner from <ent type='PERSON'>Brown</ent>
|
||
|
Brothers. His father, E.H. <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>'s lawyer and railroad chief,
|
||
|
had been on <ent type='ORG'>the War Industries Board</ent> with <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent>'s father.
|
||
|
Though he remained a partner in <ent type='ORG'>Brown Brothers</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>, the
|
||
|
junior<ent type='PERSON'>Lovett</ent>soon replacedhis father as chief exexcutive of
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Union Pacific Railroad</ent>.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> <ent type='ORG'>Brown Brothers</ent> had a racial tradition that fitted it well for
|
||
|
the <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> project. <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> patriots had cursed its name back
|
||
|
in <ent type='EVENT'>Civil War days</ent>. <ent type='ORG'>Brown Brothers</ent>, with offices in the U.S.A.
|
||
|
and in <ent type='GPE'>England</ent>, had carried on their ships fully 75 percent of
|
||
|
the slave cotton from the <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> South overto <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> mill
|
||
|
owners; through their usurious credit they controlled and
|
||
|
manipulated the slave-owners.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> Now, in 1931, the virtual dictator of world finance, Bank of
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>England</ent> Governor <ent type='PERSON'>Montagu Collet</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Norman</ent>, was a former <ent type='PERSON'>Brown</ent>
|
||
|
Brothers partner, whose grandfather had been bossof <ent type='PERSON'>Brown</ent>
|
||
|
Brothers during the U.S. Civil War. Montagu <ent type='PERSON'>Norman</ent> was known as
|
||
|
the most avidof <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent>'s supporters within <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> ruling
|
||
|
circles, and <ent type='PERSON'>Norman</ent>'s intimacy with this firm was essential to
|
||
|
his management of the <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> project.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> In 1931, while <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> ran the <ent type='GPE'>New York</ent> office of <ent type='PERSON'>Brown</ent>
|
||
|
Brothers <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>, <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent>'s partner wasMontagu <ent type='PERSON'>Norman</ent>'s
|
||
|
intimate friend <ent type='PERSON'>Thatcher</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Brown</ent>. <ent type='ORG'>The Bank</ent> of <ent type='GPE'>England</ent> chief always
|
||
|
stayedat the home of <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent>'s partner on his hush-hush trips
|
||
|
to <ent type='GPE'>New York</ent>. <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> concentrated on the firm's <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>
|
||
|
actitivites, and <ent type='PERSON'>Thatcher</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Brown</ent> saw to their business in old
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>England</ent>, under the guidance of his mentor Montagu <ent type='PERSON'>Norman</ent>.s1s2</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>3. <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent>'s Ladder to Power</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> <ent type='PERSON'>Adolf Hitler</ent> became Chancellor of <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y January 30, 1933,
|
||
|
and absolute dictator in March 1933, after two years of expensive
|
||
|
and violent lobbying and electioneering. Two affiliates of the
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>-<ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> organization played great parts in this criminal
|
||
|
undertaking:<ent type='ORG'>Thyssen</ent>'s <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Steel Trust</ent>;and the
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>Hamburg</ent>-<ent type='ORG'>Amerika Line</ent> and several of its executives.s1s3</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> <ent type='ORG'>Letus</ent> look moreclosely at the <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>family's <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>
|
||
|
partners.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> {<ent type='PERSON'>Fritz Thyssen</ent>} told <ent type='ORG'>Allied</ent> interrogators after the war about
|
||
|
some of his financial support for the <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> Party: "In 1930 or
|
||
|
1931 ... I told [<ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent>'s deputy <ent type='PERSON'>Rudolph</ent>]Hess ... I would
|
||
|
arrange a credit for him with a <ent type='NORP'>Dutch</ent> bank in <ent type='GPE'>Rotterdam</ent>, <ent type='ORG'>the Bank</ent>
|
||
|
fuaur Handel und Schiff [i.e. <ent type='ORG'>Bank voor Handel</ent> en Scheepvaart
|
||
|
(<ent type='ORG'>BHS</ent>), the <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>-<ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> affiliate].I arranged the credit ...
|
||
|
he would pay it back in three years.... I chose a <ent type='NORP'>Dutch</ent> bank
|
||
|
because I did not want to be mixed up with <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> banks in my
|
||
|
position, and because I thought it was better to do business with
|
||
|
a <ent type='NORP'>Dutch</ent> bank, and I thought I would have the <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent>s a little more
|
||
|
in my hands....</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> "The credit was about 250-300000 [gold] marks--about the sum
|
||
|
I had given before. The loan has been repaid in part to the
|
||
|
<ent type='NORP'>Dutch</ent> bank, but I think some money is still owing on it...."s1s4</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> The overall total of <ent type='ORG'>Thyssen</ent>'s political donations and loans
|
||
|
to the <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent>s was well over a million dollars, including funds he
|
||
|
raised from others--in a period of terrible money-shortage in
|
||
|
<ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> {<ent type='PERSON'>Friedrich Flick</ent>} was the major co-owner of the <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> Steel
|
||
|
Trust with <ent type='PERSON'>Fritz Thyssen</ent>, <ent type='ORG'>Thyssen</ent>'s longtimecollaborator and
|
||
|
sometime competitor. In preparation for the war crimes tribunal
|
||
|
at <ent type='GPE'>Nuremberg</ent>, the U.S.government said that <ent type='PERSON'>Flick</ent> was"one of
|
||
|
leading financiers and industrialists who from 1932 contributed
|
||
|
large sums to the <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> Party ... member of '<ent type='ORG'>Circle</ent> of Friends' of
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Himmler</ent> who contributed large sums to the SS."s1s5</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> <ent type='PERSON'>Flick</ent>, like <ent type='ORG'>Thyssen</ent>, financed the <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent>s to maintain their
|
||
|
private armies called <ent type='ORG'>Schutzstaffel</ent> (S.S. or <ent type='ORG'>Black Shirts</ent>) and
|
||
|
Sturmabteilung (S.A., storm troops or <ent type='PERSON'>Brown</ent> Shirts).</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> The <ent type='PERSON'>Flick</ent>-<ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> partnership was directly supervised by
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>, President <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s father, and by <ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Walker</ent>,
|
||
|
President <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s grandfather.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> The <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>-<ent type='PERSON'>Walker</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Union Banking Corp</ent>. arrangements for the
|
||
|
<ent type='NORP'>German</ent><ent type='ORG'>Steel Trust</ent> had made them bankers for <ent type='PERSON'>Flick</ent> and his vast
|
||
|
operations in <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y by no later than 1926.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> The {<ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Fifteen Corporation</ent>} (<ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Walker</ent>, president,
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>and <ent type='PERSON'>Averell</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>, sole directors) held a
|
||
|
substantial stake in <ent type='ORG'>the Silesian Holding</ent> Co. at the time of the
|
||
|
merger with <ent type='ORG'>Brown Brothers</ent>, January1, 1931. This holding
|
||
|
correlated to <ent type='PERSON'>Averell</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>'s <ent type='GPE'>chairmanshipof</ent> the
|
||
|
{<ent type='ORG'>Consolidated Silesian</ent> SteelCorporation,} the <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> group
|
||
|
owning one-third of a complex of steelmaking, coal-mining and
|
||
|
zinc-mining activities in <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y and <ent type='GPE'>Poland</ent>, in which Friedrich
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Flick</ent> owned two-thirds.s1s6</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> The <ent type='GPE'>Nuremberg</ent> prosecutor characterized <ent type='PERSON'>Flick</ent> as follows:</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> "Proprietor and head <ent type='ORG'>ofa</ent> large group of industrial
|
||
|
enterprises (coal and iron mines, steel producing and fabricating
|
||
|
plants) ... '<ent type='PERSON'>Wehrwirtschaftsfuehrer</ent>,' 1938[title awarded to
|
||
|
prominent industrialists for merit in armaments drive--'Military
|
||
|
Economy Leader']...."s1s7</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> Forthis buildup of the <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> war machine with coal, steel,
|
||
|
and arms production, using slave laborers, the <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Flick</ent> was
|
||
|
condemned to seven years in prison at the <ent type='GPE'>Nuremberg</ent> trials; he
|
||
|
served three years. With friends in <ent type='GPE'>New York</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>London</ent>,
|
||
|
however, <ent type='PERSON'>Flick</ent> lived into the 1970s and died a billionaire.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> On March 19, 1934, <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>--then director of the <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Steel Trust</ent>'s <ent type='ORG'>Union Banking Corporation</ent>--initiated analert to
|
||
|
the absent <ent type='PERSON'>Averell</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> about a problem which had developed
|
||
|
in the <ent type='PERSON'>Flick</ent> partnership.s1s8 <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> sent <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> a clipping from
|
||
|
the {<ent type='GPE'>New York</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Time</ent>s} of that day, which reported that the <ent type='NORP'>Polish</ent>
|
||
|
government was fighting back against <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> and <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>
|
||
|
stockholders who controlled "<ent type='GPE'>Poland</ent>'s largest industrial unit,
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>the Upper Silesian Coal and Steel Company</ent>...."</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> The {<ent type='ORG'>Time</ent>s} article continued: "The company has long been
|
||
|
accused of mismanagement,excessive borrowing, fictitious
|
||
|
bookkeeping and gambling in securities. Warrants were issued in
|
||
|
December for several directors accused of tax evasions. They
|
||
|
were <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> citizens and they fled. They were replaced by <ent type='NORP'>Poles</ent>.
|
||
|
Herr <ent type='PERSON'>Flick</ent>, regarding this as an attempt to make thecompany's
|
||
|
board entirely <ent type='NORP'>Polish</ent>, retaliated by restricting credits until
|
||
|
the new <ent type='NORP'>Polish</ent> directors were unable to pay the workmen
|
||
|
regularly."</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> The{<ent type='ORG'>Time</ent>s} noted that the company's mines and mills "employ
|
||
|
25000 men and account for 45 percent of <ent type='GPE'>Poland</ent>'s total steel
|
||
|
output and 12 percent of her coal production.Two-thirds of the
|
||
|
company's stock is owned by <ent type='PERSON'>Friedrich Flick</ent>, a leading <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>
|
||
|
steel industrialist, and the remainder is owned by interests in
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>the United States</ent>."</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> In view of the fact that a great deal of <ent type='NORP'>Polish</ent> output was
|
||
|
being exported to <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent>'s <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y under depression conditions,
|
||
|
the <ent type='NORP'>Polish</ent> government thought that <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>, <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>, and their <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent>
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|
partners should at least pay fulltaxes on their <ent type='NORP'>Polish</ent>
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holdings. The U.S. and <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> owners responded with a lockout.
|
||
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The letter to <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> in <ent type='GPE'>Washington</ent> reported a cable from their
|
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<ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent>an representative: "Have undertaken new steps <ent type='GPE'>London</ent>
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<ent type='GPE'>Berlin</ent>... please establishfriendly relations with <ent type='NORP'>Polish</ent>
|
||
|
Ambassador [in <ent type='GPE'>Washington</ent>]."</p>
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<p> A 1935 <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Fifteen Corporation</ent> memo from <ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Walker</ent>
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||
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announced an agreement had been made "in <ent type='GPE'>Berlin</ent>" to sell an
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8000 block of their shares in <ent type='ORG'>Consolidated Silesian</ent> Steel.s1s9
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But the dispute with <ent type='GPE'>Poland</ent> did not deter the <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> family from
|
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continuing its partnership with <ent type='PERSON'>Flick</ent>.</p>
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<p> <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> tanksand bombs "settled" this dispute in September,
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||
|
1939 with the invasion of <ent type='GPE'>Poland</ent>, beginning <ent type='EVENT'>World War</ent> II. The
|
||
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<ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> army had been equipped by <ent type='PERSON'>Flick</ent>, <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>, <ent type='PERSON'>Walker</ent>, and <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>,
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with materials essentially stolen from <ent type='GPE'>Poland</ent>.</p>
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<p> There were probably fewpeopleat the time who could
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appreciate the irony, that when the <ent type='NORP'>Soviet</ent>s also attacked and
|
||
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invaded <ent type='GPE'>Poland</ent> from the <ent type='LOC'>East</ent>, their vehicles were fueled by oil
|
||
|
pumpedfrom <ent type='GPE'>Baku</ent> wells revived bythe <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>/<ent type='PERSON'>Walker</ent>/<ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>
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enterprise.</p>
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<p> Three years later, nearly a year after the <ent type='NORP'>Japanese</ent> attack on
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Pearl Harbor, the U.S. government ordered the seizure of the
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<ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent>s'share in the<ent type='GPE'>Silesia</ent>n-<ent type='NORP'>American</ent> Corporationunder the
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||
|
Trading with the Enemy Act. Enemy nationals were said to own 49
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||
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percent of the common stock and 41.67 percent of the preferred
|
||
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stock of the company.</p>
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||
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<p> The order characterized the company as a "business enterprise
|
||
|
within <ent type='GPE'>the United States</ent>, owned by [a front company in] <ent type='GPE'>Zurich</ent>,
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>Switzerland</ent>, and held for the benefit of Bergwerksgesell<ent type='ORG'>schaft</ent>
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> von Giesche's <ent type='PERSON'>Erben</ent>, a <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> corporation...."s2s0</p>
|
||
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||
|
<p> <ent type='PERSON'>Bert Walker</ent> was still the senior directorof the company,
|
||
|
which he hadfounded back in 1926 simultaneously with the
|
||
|
creation of the <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Steel Trust</ent>. <ent type='PERSON'>Ray Morris</ent>, <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent>'s
|
||
|
partner from <ent type='ORG'>Union Banking Corp</ent>. and <ent type='ORG'>Brown Brothers</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>, was
|
||
|
also a director.</p>
|
||
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|
||
|
<p> Theinvestigative report prior to the government crackdown
|
||
|
explained the "NATURE OF BUSINESS: The subject corporation is an
|
||
|
<ent type='NORP'>American</ent> holding company for <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> and <ent type='NORP'>Polish</ent> subsidiaries,
|
||
|
which own large andvaluable coal and zinc mines in <ent type='GPE'>Silesia</ent>,
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>Poland</ent> and <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y. Since September 1939, these properties have
|
||
|
been in the possession of and have been operated by the <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>
|
||
|
government and have undoubtedly been of considerable assistance
|
||
|
to that country in its war effort."s2s1</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> Thereportnoted that the <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> stockholders hoped to
|
||
|
regain control of the <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent>an properties after the war.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>4. Control of <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Commerce</ent></p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> <ent type='PERSON'>Bert Walker</ent> had arranged the credits <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> needed to take
|
||
|
control of the <ent type='GPE'>Hamburg</ent>-<ent type='ORG'>Amerika Line</ent> back in 1920. <ent type='PERSON'>Walker</ent> had
|
||
|
organized the {<ent type='NORP'>American</ent> Ship and <ent type='ORG'>Commerce</ent> Corp.} as a unit of the
|
||
|
W.A.<ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> & Co., with contractual power over
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>Hamburg</ent>-<ent type='NORP'>Amerika</ent>'s affairs.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> As the <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> project went into high gear, <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>-<ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>
|
||
|
shares in <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> Ship and <ent type='ORG'>Commerce</ent> Corp. were held by the
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> Fifteen Corp., run by <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'>Bert Walker</ent>.s2s2</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> It was a convenient stroll for the well-tanned, athletic,
|
||
|
handsome <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>. From the <ent type='ORG'>Brown Brothers</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>
|
||
|
skyscraper at59 Wall Street--where he was senior managing
|
||
|
partner, confidential investments manager and advisor to <ent type='PERSON'>Averell</ent>
|
||
|
and his brother "<ent type='PERSON'>Bunny</ent>"--he walked across to the <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Fifteen Corporation</ent> at One Wall Street, otherwise known as G.H.
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Walker</ent>& Co.--and around the corner to his subsidiary offices at
|
||
|
39 Broadway, former home of the old W.A. <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> &Co., and
|
||
|
still the offices for <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> Ship and <ent type='ORG'>Commerce</ent>, and of the
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Union Banking Corporation</ent>.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> In many ways, <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s <ent type='GPE'>Hamburg</ent>-<ent type='ORG'>Amerika Line</ent> was the pivot for
|
||
|
the entire <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> project.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> <ent type='PERSON'>Averell</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'>Bert Walker</ent> had gained control over the
|
||
|
steamship company in 1920 in negotiations with its post-<ent type='EVENT'>World War</ent>
|
||
|
I chief executive, {<ent type='PERSON'>Wilhelm Cuno</ent>}, and with the line's bankers,
|
||
|
M.M. <ent type='GPE'>Warburg</ent>.<ent type='PERSON'>Cuno</ent> was thereafter completely dependent on the
|
||
|
Anglo-<ent type='NORP'>American</ent>s, and became a member of the Anglo-<ent type='NORP'>German</ent>
|
||
|
Friendship <ent type='ORG'>Society</ent>.In the 1930-32 drive fora <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent>
|
||
|
dictatorship, <ent type='PERSON'>Wilhelm Cuno</ent> contributed important sums to the <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent>
|
||
|
Party.s2s3</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> {<ent type='PERSON'>Albert Voegler</ent>} was chiefexecutive of the <ent type='ORG'>Thyssen</ent>-<ent type='PERSON'>Flick</ent>
|
||
|
<ent type='NORP'>German</ent><ent type='ORG'>Steel Trust</ent> for which <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s <ent type='ORG'>Union Banking Corp</ent>. was the
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>New York</ent> office. He was a director of the <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>-affiliate <ent type='ORG'>BHS</ent>
|
||
|
Bank in <ent type='GPE'>Rotterdam</ent>, and a director of the <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>-<ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>Hamburg</ent>-<ent type='ORG'>Amerika Line</ent>. <ent type='PERSON'>Voegler</ent> joined <ent type='ORG'>Thyssen</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'>Flick</ent>in their
|
||
|
heavy 1930-33<ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> contributions, and helped organize the final
|
||
|
<ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> leap into <ent type='ORG'>national power</ent>.s2s4</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> The {<ent type='PERSON'>Schroeder</ent>} family of bankers was a linchpin for the <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent>
|
||
|
activities of<ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>, closely tied to their
|
||
|
lawyers <ent type='PERSON'>Allen</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>John</ent> Foster <ent type='GPE'>Dulles</ent></ent>.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> <ent type='PERSON'>Baron Kurt von Schroeder</ent> was co-director of the massive
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Thyssen</ent>-Huettefoundry alongwith <ent type='PERSON'>Johann Groeninger</ent>, <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent>
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s <ent type='GPE'>New York</ent> bank partner. <ent type='PERSON'>Kurt von Schroeder</ent> wastreasurer
|
||
|
of the support organization for the <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> Party's private armies,
|
||
|
to which <ent type='PERSON'>Friedrich Flick</ent> contributed.<ent type='PERSON'>Kurt von Schroeder</ent> and
|
||
|
Montagu <ent type='PERSON'>Norman</ent>'s proteaageaa<ent type='PERSON'>Hjalmar Schacht</ent> together made the
|
||
|
final arrangments for <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> to enter the government.s2s5</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> Baron <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>Rudolph</ent> von <ent type='PERSON'>Schroeder</ent></ent> was vice president and director of
|
||
|
the <ent type='GPE'>Hamburg</ent>-<ent type='ORG'>Amerika Line</ent>. Long an intimate contact of <ent type='PERSON'>Averell</ent>
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>'s in<ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y, Baron <ent type='PERSON'>Rudolph</ent> sent his grandson Baron
|
||
|
Johann <ent type='PERSON'>Rudolph</ent> for a tour of<ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s <ent type='ORG'>Brown Brothers</ent>
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> offices in <ent type='GPE'>New York</ent> City in December 1932--on the eve of
|
||
|
their <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent>-triumph.s2s6</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> Certain actions taken directly by the <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>-<ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> shipping
|
||
|
line in 1932 must be ranked among the gravest acts of treason in
|
||
|
this century.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> TheU.S. Embassy in <ent type='GPE'>Berlin</ent> reported back to <ent type='GPE'>Washington</ent> that
|
||
|
the "costly election campaigns" and "the cost of maintaining a
|
||
|
private army of 300000 to 400000 men" had raised questions as
|
||
|
to the<ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent>s'financial backers. The constitutional government
|
||
|
of the <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> republic <ent type='GPE'>movedto</ent> defend national freedom by
|
||
|
ordering the <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> Party private armies disbanded. The U.S.
|
||
|
Embassy reported that the {<ent type='GPE'>Hamburg</ent>-<ent type='ORG'>Amerika Line</ent> was purchasing
|
||
|
and distributing propaganda attacks against the <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>
|
||
|
government, for attempting this last-minute crackdown on <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent>'s
|
||
|
forces.}s2s7</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> Thousands of <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> opponents of<ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent>ism were shot or
|
||
|
intimidated by privately armed <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Brown</ent>Shirts. In this
|
||
|
connection, we note that the original "Merchant of Death,"
|
||
|
Samuel<ent type='PERSON'>Pryor</ent>,was a founding director of both <ent type='ORG'>the Union</ent> Banking
|
||
|
Corp. and the <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> Ship and <ent type='ORG'>Commerce</ent> Corp.Since Mr. <ent type='PERSON'>Pryor</ent>
|
||
|
was executive committee chairman of <ent type='ORG'>Remington Arms</ent> and a central
|
||
|
figure in the world's private arms traffic, his use to the <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent>
|
||
|
project was enhanced as the <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> family's partner in <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> Party
|
||
|
banking and trans-<ent type='LOC'>Atlantic</ent> shipping.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> TheU.S. <ent type='ORG'>Senate</ent> arms-traffic investigators probed <ent type='ORG'>Remington</ent>
|
||
|
after it was joined in a cartel agreement on explosives to the
|
||
|
<ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> firm I.G. <ent type='ORG'>Farben</ent>. Looking at the period leading up to
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent>'s seizure of power, the senators found that "<ent type='NORP'>German</ent>
|
||
|
political associations, like the <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> and others, are nearly all
|
||
|
armed with <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> ... guns.... Arms of all kinds coming from
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>America</ent> are transshipped in the <ent type='GPE'>Scheldt</ent> to river barges before
|
||
|
the vessels arrive in <ent type='GPE'>Antwerp</ent>. They then can be carried through
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>Holland</ent> without police inspectionor interference. The
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent>ists and <ent type='NORP'>Communists</ent> arepresumed to get arms in this
|
||
|
manner. The principal armscomingfrom <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> are <ent type='ORG'>Thompson</ent>
|
||
|
submachine guns and revolvers.The number is great."s2s8</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> The beginning of the <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> regime brought some bizarre
|
||
|
changes to the <ent type='GPE'>Hamburg</ent>-<ent type='ORG'>Amerika Line</ent>--and more betrayals.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> Ship and <ent type='ORG'>Commerce</ent> Corp. notified <ent type='PERSON'>Max</ent>
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>Warburg</ent> of <ent type='GPE'>Hamburg</ent>, <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y, on March 7, 1933, that <ent type='GPE'>Warburg</ent> was
|
||
|
to bethe corporation's official, designated representative on
|
||
|
the board of <ent type='GPE'>Hamburg</ent>-<ent type='NORP'>Amerika</ent>.s2s9</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>Max</ent> <ent type='GPE'>Warburg</ent></ent> replied on March 27, 1933, assuring his <ent type='NORP'>American</ent>
|
||
|
sponsors thatthe <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> government was good for <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y: "For
|
||
|
the last few years business was considerably better than we had
|
||
|
anticipated, but a reactionis making itself felt for some
|
||
|
months. We are actually suffering also underthe very active
|
||
|
propaganda against <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y, caused bysome unpleasant
|
||
|
circumstances.These occurrences were the natural consequence of
|
||
|
the very excited election campaign, but were extraordinarily
|
||
|
exaggerated inthe foreign press.The Government is firmly
|
||
|
resolved to maintain public peace and order in <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y, andI
|
||
|
feel perfectly convinced in this respect that there is no cause
|
||
|
for any alarm whatsoever."s3s0</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> This seal of approval for <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent>, coming from a famous <ent type='NORP'>Jew</ent>,
|
||
|
was just what <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> required, for they anticipated
|
||
|
rather serious "alarm" inside the U.S.A. against their <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent>
|
||
|
operations.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> On March 29, 1933, two days after <ent type='PERSON'>Max</ent>'s letter to <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>,
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Max</ent>'s son <ent type='PERSON'>Erich</ent> sent a cable to his cousin <ent type='ORG'>Frederick</ent> M. <ent type='GPE'>Warburg</ent>,
|
||
|
a director ofthe <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> railroad system. He asked <ent type='ORG'>Frederick</ent>
|
||
|
to "use all your influence" to stop all anti-<ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> activity in
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>America</ent>, including "atrocity news and unfriendly propaganda in
|
||
|
foreign press, mass meetings, etc." <ent type='ORG'>Frederick</ent> cabled back to
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Erich</ent>: "No responsible groups here [are] urging [a] boycott [of]
|
||
|
<ent type='NORP'>German</ent>goods[,] merely excited individuals." Two days after
|
||
|
that, On March 31, 1933, the {<ent type='NORP'>American</ent>-<ent type='NORP'>Jew</ent>ish <ent type='ORG'>Committee</ent>,}
|
||
|
controlled bythe <ent type='GPE'>Warburg</ent>s,and the {B'nai B'rith,} heavily
|
||
|
influenced by the <ent type='PERSON'>Sulzbergers</ent>' ({NewYork <ent type='ORG'>Time</ent>s}),issueda
|
||
|
formal, official joint statement of the two organizations,
|
||
|
counselling "that no <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> boycott against <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y be
|
||
|
encouraged, [and advising] ... that no further mass meetings be
|
||
|
held or similar forms of agitation be employed."s3s1</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> The <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Jew</ent>ish <ent type='ORG'>Committee</ent> and the B'nai B'rith (mother of
|
||
|
the "Anti-DefamationLeague") continued with this hardline,
|
||
|
no-attack-on-<ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> stance all through the 1930s, blunting the
|
||
|
fight mounted by many <ent type='NORP'>Jew</ent>s and other anti-fascists.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> Thus the decisive interchange reproduced above, taking place
|
||
|
entirely within the orbit of the <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>/<ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> firm, may explain
|
||
|
something of the relationship of <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent> to <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Jew</ent>ish
|
||
|
and <ent type='NORP'>Zionist</ent> leaders. Some of them, in close cooperation with his
|
||
|
family, played an ugly part in the drama of <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent>ism. Is this why
|
||
|
"professional <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent>-hunters" have never discovered how the <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>
|
||
|
family made its money?</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> The executive board of the {<ent type='GPE'>Hamburg</ent><ent type='ORG'>Amerika Line</ent>}{(<ent type='ORG'>Hapag</ent>)}
|
||
|
met jointly with the <ent type='PERSON'>North</ent> <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> Lloyd company board in <ent type='GPE'>Hamburg</ent>
|
||
|
on September 5, 1933. Under official <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> supervision, the two
|
||
|
firms were merged. <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> Ship and <ent type='ORG'>Commerce</ent>
|
||
|
Corp.installed <ent type='NORP'>Christian</ent> J. <ent type='ORG'>Beck</ent>, a longtime <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>
|
||
|
executive, as manager of freight and operations in <ent type='PERSON'>North</ent> <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>
|
||
|
for the new joint <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> shipping lines {(<ent type='ORG'>Hapag</ent>-Lloyd)}) on
|
||
|
November 4, 1933.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> According to testimony of officials of the companies before
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Congress</ent> in 1934, a supervisor from the {<ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> Labor Front} rode
|
||
|
with every ship of the <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>-<ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> line; employees of <ent type='EVENT'>the New</ent>
|
||
|
York offices were directly organized into the <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> Labor Front
|
||
|
organization; <ent type='GPE'>Hamburg</ent>-<ent type='NORP'>Amerika</ent> provided free passage to
|
||
|
individuals going abroad for <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> propaganda purposes; and the
|
||
|
line subsidized pro-<ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> newspapers in the U.S.A., as it had done
|
||
|
in <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y against the constitutional <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> government.s3s2</p>
|
||
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||
|
<p> In mid-1936, <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> Ship and <ent type='ORG'>Commerce</ent> Corp.
|
||
|
cabled M.M. <ent type='GPE'>Warburg</ent>, asking <ent type='GPE'>Warburg</ent> torepresent thecompany's
|
||
|
heavyshareinterest atthe forthcoming <ent type='GPE'>Hamburg</ent>-<ent type='NORP'>Amerika</ent>
|
||
|
stockholders meeting. The <ent type='GPE'>Warburg</ent> office repliedwith the
|
||
|
information that "we represented you" at the stockholders
|
||
|
meeting and "exercised on your behalf your voting power for Rm
|
||
|
[gold marks] 3509600 <ent type='ORG'>Hapag</ent> stock deposited with us."</p>
|
||
|
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||
|
<p> The <ent type='GPE'>Warburg</ent>s transmitted a letter received from Emil
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Helfferich</ent>, <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> chief executive of both <ent type='ORG'>Hapag</ent>-Lloyd and of the
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Standard Oil</ent> subsidiary in <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y: "It is the intention to
|
||
|
continue the relations with Mr. <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> on the samebasis as
|
||
|
heretofore...." In a colorful gesture, <ent type='ORG'>Hapag</ent>'s <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> chairman
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Helfferich</ent> sent the line's president across the <ent type='LOC'>Atlantic</ent> ona
|
||
|
Zeppelin to confer with their <ent type='GPE'>New York</ent> string-pullers.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> After the meeting with theZeppelin passenger, the
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>-<ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> office replied: "I am glad to learnthat Mr.
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Hellferich</ent> [sic] hasstated that relations between the <ent type='GPE'>Hamburg</ent>
|
||
|
<ent type='NORP'>American</ent> Line and ourselves will be continued on the same basis
|
||
|
as heretofore."s3s3</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> <ent type='PERSON'>Twomonthsbefore</ent> moving against <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s <ent type='ORG'>Union Banking Corp</ent>.,
|
||
|
the U.S. government ordered the seizure of all property of the
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>Hamburg</ent>-<ent type='ORG'>Amerika Line</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'>North</ent> <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> Lloyd, under the Trading
|
||
|
with the Enemy Act. The investigators noted in the pre-seizure
|
||
|
reportthat <ent type='NORP'>Christian</ent> J. <ent type='ORG'>Beck</ent> was still acting as an attorney
|
||
|
representing the <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> firm.s3s4</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> In May 1933, just after the <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> regime was consolidated, an
|
||
|
agreement was reached in <ent type='GPE'>Berlin</ent> for the coordination of all <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent>
|
||
|
commerce with the U.S.A. The {<ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> International Co.,} led by
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Averell</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>'s first cousin <ent type='PERSON'>Oliver</ent>, was to head a syndicate
|
||
|
of 150 firms and individuals, to conduct {all exports from
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent>'s <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y to <ent type='GPE'>the United States</ent>}.s3s5</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> This pact had been negotiated in <ent type='GPE'>Berlin</ent> between <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent>'s
|
||
|
economics minister, <ent type='PERSON'>Hjalmar Schacht</ent>, and <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>John</ent> Foster <ent type='GPE'>Dulles</ent></ent>,
|
||
|
international attorney for dozens of <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> enterprises, with the
|
||
|
counsel of <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>Max</ent> <ent type='GPE'>Warburg</ent></ent> and <ent type='PERSON'>Kurt von Schroeder</ent>.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>John</ent> Foster <ent type='GPE'>Dulles</ent></ent> would later be U.S. Secretary of <ent type='ORG'>State</ent>, and
|
||
|
the great power in <ent type='ORG'>the Republican Party</ent> of the 1950s. Foster's
|
||
|
friendship and that of his brother <ent type='PERSON'>Allen</ent> (head of the Central
|
||
|
Intelligence <ent type='ORG'>Agency</ent>), greatly aided <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> to become the
|
||
|
<ent type='NORP'>Republican</ent> U.S. senator from <ent type='GPE'>Connecticut</ent>. And it was to be of
|
||
|
inestimable value to <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent>, in his ascent to the heights of
|
||
|
"covert action government," that both of these <ent type='GPE'>Dulles</ent> brothers
|
||
|
were the lawyers for the <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> family's far-flung enterprise.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> <ent type='GPE'>Throughoutthe</ent> 1930s, <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>John</ent> Foster <ent type='GPE'>Dulles</ent></ent> arranged debt
|
||
|
restructuring for <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> firms under a series of decrees issued
|
||
|
by <ent type='PERSON'>Adolf Hitler</ent>. In these deals, <ent type='GPE'>Dulles</ent> struck a balance between
|
||
|
the interest owed to selected, larger investors, and the needs of
|
||
|
the growing <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> warmaking apparatus for producing tanks, poison
|
||
|
gas, etc.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> <ent type='GPE'>Dulles</ent> wrote to <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent><ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> in 1937 concerning one such
|
||
|
arrangement. The <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>-<ent type='LOC'>Atlantic</ent> Cable Company, owning <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent>
|
||
|
<ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y's only telegraph channel to <ent type='GPE'>the United States</ent>, had made
|
||
|
debt and management agreements with the <ent type='PERSON'>Walker</ent>-<ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> bank
|
||
|
during the 1920s. A new decree would now void those agreements,
|
||
|
which had originallybeen reached with non-<ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent>corporate
|
||
|
officials. <ent type='GPE'>Dulles</ent> asked <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>, whomanaged these affairs for
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Averell</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>, to get <ent type='PERSON'>Averell</ent>'s signature on a letter to <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent>
|
||
|
officials, agreeing to the changes. <ent type='GPE'>Dulles</ent> wrote:</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>"Sept. 22, 1937
|
||
|
"Mr. <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> S. <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>
|
||
|
"59 Wall Street, New
|
||
|
York, N.Y.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> "Dear <ent type='ORG'>Press</ent>,
|
||
|
"I have looked over the letter of the <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>-<ent type='NORP'>American</ent> [sic]
|
||
|
Cable Companyto <ent type='PERSON'>Averell</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>.... It would appear that the
|
||
|
only rights in the matter are those which inure in the bankers
|
||
|
and that no legal embarrassment would result, so far as the
|
||
|
bondholders are concerned, by your acquiescence in the
|
||
|
modification of the bankers' agreement.
|
||
|
"Sincerely yours,
|
||
|
"<ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>John</ent> Foster <ent type='GPE'>Dulles</ent></ent>"</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> <ent type='GPE'>Dulles</ent> enclosed aproposed draft reply, <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> got <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>'s
|
||
|
signature, and the changes went through.s3s6</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> In conjunction with these arrangements, the <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> <ent type='LOC'>Atlantic</ent>
|
||
|
Cable Companyattempted to stop payment on its debts to smaller
|
||
|
<ent type='NORP'>American</ent> bondholders. The money was to be used instead for
|
||
|
arming the <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> state, under a decree of the <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> government.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> Despite the busy efforts of <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>Dulles</ent>, a <ent type='GPE'>New York</ent> court
|
||
|
decided that this particular <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> "law" was invalid in the
|
||
|
United<ent type='ORG'>State</ent>s; smallbondholders, not parties to deals between
|
||
|
the bankers and the <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent>s, were entitled to get paid.s3s7</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> In <ent type='PERSON'>this anda fewother</ent> of theattempted swindles, the
|
||
|
intended victims <ent type='PERSON'>cameout</ent> with their money. But the <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent>
|
||
|
financial and political reorganization went ahead to its tragic
|
||
|
climax.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> Forhis part in the <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> revolution, <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> was paid
|
||
|
a fortune.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> This is the legacy he left to his son, President <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent>.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>Notes</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>1. Office of Alien Property Custodian, Vesting Order Number 248.
|
||
|
<ent type='NORP'>Signedby</ent> Leo T. <ent type='PERSON'>Crowley</ent>, Alien Property Custodian, executed
|
||
|
October 20, 1942; F.R. Doc. 42-11568; Filed, November 6, 1942. 7
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Fed</ent>. Reg. 9097 (November 7, 1942).
|
||
|
The {<ent type='GPE'>New York</ent> City Directory of Directors}, 1930s-40s, list
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>as a director of <ent type='ORG'>Union Banking Corp</ent>. from 1934
|
||
|
through 1943.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>2.
|
||
|
Alien Property Custodian Vesting Order No. 259: Seamless Steel
|
||
|
Equipment Corporation; Vesting Order Number 261: <ent type='GPE'>Holland</ent>-<ent type='NORP'>American</ent>
|
||
|
Trading Corp.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>3. Alien Property Custodian Vesting Order No. 370:
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>Silesia</ent>n-<ent type='NORP'>American</ent> Corp.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>4. {<ent type='GPE'>New York</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Time</ent>s,} December 16, 1944, ran a five-paragraph page
|
||
|
25 article on actions of the <ent type='GPE'>New York</ent> <ent type='ORG'>State</ent> Banking Department.
|
||
|
Only the last sentence refers to the <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> bank, as follows: "The
|
||
|
Union BankingCorporation, 39 Broadway, <ent type='GPE'>New York</ent>, has received
|
||
|
authority to change its principal place ofbusiness to 120
|
||
|
Broadway."
|
||
|
The {<ent type='ORG'>Time</ent>s} omitted the factthat <ent type='ORG'>the Union</ent> Banking
|
||
|
Corporation had been seized by the government for trading with
|
||
|
the enemy, and the fact that 120 Broadway was the address of the
|
||
|
government's Alien Property Custodian.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>5.
|
||
|
Fritz<ent type='ORG'>Thyssen</ent>, {I Paid <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent>}, 1941, reprintedin (Port
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>Washington</ent>, N.Y.: Kennikat <ent type='ORG'>Press</ent>, 1972), p. 133. <ent type='ORG'>Thyssen</ent> says
|
||
|
his contributions began with 100000 marks given in October 1923,
|
||
|
for <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent>'s attempted "putsch" against the constitutional
|
||
|
government.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>6. Confidential memorandum from U.S. Embassy, <ent type='GPE'>Berlin</ent>, to the
|
||
|
U.S. Secretary of <ent type='ORG'>State</ent>, April 20, 1932,on microfilm in
|
||
|
{<ent type='ORG'>Confidential Reportsof</ent> U.S. <ent type='ORG'>State</ent> Dept., 1930s, <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y,} at
|
||
|
major U.S. libraries.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>7. October 5, 1942, Memorandum to <ent type='ORG'>the Executive Committee</ent> of the
|
||
|
Officeof Alien Property Custodian, stamped CONFIDENTIAL, from
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>the Division</ent> of Investigation and Research, <ent type='PERSON'>Homer Jones</ent>, Chief.
|
||
|
Now declassified in United <ent type='ORG'>State</ent>s National Archives, Suitland,
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>Maryland</ent> annex. <ent type='ORG'>See Record Group</ent> 131, Alien Property Custodian,
|
||
|
investigative reports, in file boxrelating to Vesting Order
|
||
|
Number 248.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>8. {Elimination of <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> Resources for War}: HearingsBeforea
|
||
|
Subcommittee of <ent type='ORG'>the Committee</ent> on Military Affairs, United <ent type='ORG'>State</ent>s
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Senate</ent>, Seventy-Ninth <ent type='ORG'>Congress</ent>; Part 5, Testimony of [the United
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>State</ent>s] <ent type='ORG'>Treasury Department</ent>,July 2, 1945. Page 507: Table of
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Vereinigte Stahlwerke</ent> output, figures are percent of <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> total
|
||
|
as of1938; <ent type='ORG'>Thyssen</ent>organization including Union Banking
|
||
|
Corporation pp. 727-731.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>9. <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>Robert</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Sobel</ent></ent>, {The Life and <ent type='ORG'>Time</ent>s of <ent type='ORG'>Dillon Read</ent>} (<ent type='GPE'>New York</ent>:
|
||
|
Dutton-Penguin, 1991),pp. 92-111.The <ent type='ORG'>Dillon Read</ent> firm
|
||
|
cooperated in the development of <ent type='ORG'>Sobel</ent>'s book.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>10. <ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Walker</ent> to <ent type='PERSON'>Averell</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>, August 11, 1927, in W.
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Averell</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> papers, <ent type='ORG'>Library</ent> of <ent type='ORG'>Congress</ent>(hereafter "WAH
|
||
|
papers").</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>11. "<ent type='NORP'>Iaccarino</ent>" to G. H. <ent type='PERSON'>Walker</ent>, RCA Radiogram Sept. 12, 1927.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>12. Andrew Boyle, {Montagu <ent type='PERSON'>Norman</ent>} (<ent type='GPE'>London</ent>: Cassell, 1967).
|
||
|
Sir <ent type='PERSON'>Henry Clay</ent>, {Lord <ent type='PERSON'>Norman</ent>} (<ent type='GPE'>London</ent>, MacMillan & Co., 1957),
|
||
|
pp. 18, 57, 70-71.
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>John</ent> A. Kouwenhouven, {Partners in Banking ... <ent type='ORG'>Brown Brothers</ent>
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>} (<ent type='GPE'>Garden City</ent>: <ent type='ORG'>Doubleday</ent> & Co., 1969).</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>13.
|
||
|
Coordination of much of the <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> project took place ata
|
||
|
single <ent type='GPE'>New York</ent> address. The <ent type='ORG'>Union Banking Corporation</ent> had been
|
||
|
set up by <ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Walker</ent> at 39 Broadway. Management of the
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>Hamburg</ent>-<ent type='ORG'>Amerika Line</ent>,carried out through <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>'s <ent type='NORP'>American</ent>
|
||
|
Ship and <ent type='ORG'>Commerce</ent> Corp., was also set up by <ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Walker</ent> at 39
|
||
|
Broadway.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>14. Interrogation of <ent type='PERSON'>Fritz Thyssen</ent>, EF/Me/1 of Sept. 4, 1945 in
|
||
|
U.S. <ent type='ORG'>Control Council</ent> records, photostat on page 167 in Anthony
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Sutton</ent>, {An Introduction to The Order} (Billings, Mt.: Liberty
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>House</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Press</ent>, 1986).</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>15. {<ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> Conspiracy and Aggression, Supplement B}, by <ent type='ORG'>the Office</ent>
|
||
|
of United <ent type='ORG'>State</ent>s Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis
|
||
|
Criminality, U. S. Government Printing Office, (<ent type='GPE'>Washington</ent>, D.C.,
|
||
|
1948), pp. 1597, 1686.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>16. "<ent type='ORG'>Consolidated Silesian</ent> Steel Corporation - [minutes of the]
|
||
|
Meeting of <ent type='ORG'>Board</ent> of Directors," October 31, 1930 (WAH papers),
|
||
|
shows <ent type='PERSON'>Averell</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> as Chairman of the <ent type='ORG'>Board</ent>.
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> to W.A. <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>, Memorandum December 19, 1930
|
||
|
on their <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> Fifteen Corp.
|
||
|
<ent type='EVENT'>Annual Report</ent> of <ent type='PERSON'>United Konigs</ent> and <ent type='ORG'>Laura Steel</ent> and <ent type='ORG'>Iron Works</ent>
|
||
|
for the year1930 (WAH papers) lists "Dr. <ent type='PERSON'>Friedrich Flick</ent> ...
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>Berlin</ent>" and "<ent type='PERSON'>William</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Averell</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> ... <ent type='GPE'>New York</ent>" on the
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Board</ent> of Directors.
|
||
|
"<ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>Fifteen Coporation Securities Position February
|
||
|
28, 1931," WAH papers. This report shows<ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> Fifteen
|
||
|
Corporation holding 32576 shares in <ent type='GPE'>Silesia</ent>n Holding Co. V.T.C.
|
||
|
worth (in scarce depression dollars) $1628800, just over half
|
||
|
the value of the <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Fifteen Corporation</ent>'s total holdings.
|
||
|
The {<ent type='GPE'>New York</ent> City Directory of Directors}volumes for the
|
||
|
1930s (available at <ent type='ORG'>the Library</ent> of <ent type='ORG'>Congress</ent>) show <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent>
|
||
|
Sheldon <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> and W.<ent type='PERSON'>Averell</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> as the directors of
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> Fifteen Corp.
|
||
|
"Appointments," (three typed pages) marked "Noted May 18
|
||
|
1931 W.A.H.," (among the papers from <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent><ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s<ent type='GPE'>New York</ent>
|
||
|
Officeof <ent type='ORG'>Brown Brothers</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>, WAH papers), lists a meeting
|
||
|
between <ent type='PERSON'>Averell</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'>Friedrich Flick</ent> in <ent type='GPE'>Berlin</ent> at 4:00
|
||
|
P.M., Wednesday April 22, 1931. This was followed immediately by
|
||
|
a meeting with <ent type='PERSON'>Wilhelm Cuno</ent>, chief executive of the
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>Hamburg</ent>-<ent type='ORG'>Amerika Line</ent>.
|
||
|
The "Report To the Stockholders of the<ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> Fifteen
|
||
|
Corporation," October19, 1933 (WAH papers) names G.H. <ent type='PERSON'>Walker</ent>
|
||
|
as president of the corporation. It shows the<ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> Fifteen
|
||
|
Corp.'s address as 1 Wall Street--the location of G.H. <ent type='PERSON'>Walker</ent> and
|
||
|
Co.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>17. {<ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> Conspiracy and Aggression, Supplement B}, {op. cit.,}
|
||
|
p. 1686.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>18. <ent type='PERSON'>Jim Flaherty</ent> (a <ent type='ORG'>BBH</ent> manager, <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s employee), March
|
||
|
19, 1934 to W.A. <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>.
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|
"Dear <ent type='PERSON'>Averell</ent>:
|
||
|
"In <ent type='PERSON'>Roland</ent>'s absence <ent type='ORG'>Pres[cott</ent>] thought it adviseable for me
|
||
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to let you know that we received the following cable from [our
|
||
|
<ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent>an representative] Rossidated March 17th [relating to
|
||
|
conflict with the <ent type='NORP'>Polish</ent> government]...."</p>
|
||
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||
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<p>19. <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Fifteen Corporation</ent> notice to stockholders January
|
||
|
7, 1935, under the name of <ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Walker</ent>, President.</p>
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<p>20. Order No. 370: <ent type='GPE'>Silesia</ent>n-<ent type='NORP'>American</ent> Corp. Executed November 17,
|
||
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1942. Signed by Leo T. <ent type='PERSON'>Crowley</ent>, Alien Prop. Custodian.F.R. Doc.
|
||
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42-14183; Filed, December 31, 1942; 8 <ent type='ORG'>Fed</ent>. Reg. 33 (Jan. 1,
|
||
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1943).
|
||
|
The order confiscated the <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent>s' holdings of 98000 shares of
|
||
|
common and 50000 shares of preferred stock in <ent type='GPE'>Silesia</ent>n-<ent type='NORP'>American</ent>.
|
||
|
The<ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> parent company in <ent type='GPE'>Breslau</ent>, <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y wrote to <ent type='PERSON'>Averell</ent>
|
||
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<ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> at 59 Wall St. on Aug. 5, 1940, with "an invitation to
|
||
|
take part in the regular meetingof the members of the
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Bergwerksgesellsc[h]aft Georgvon Giesche</ent>'s<ent type='PERSON'>Erben</ent>...." WAH
|
||
|
papers.</p>
|
||
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||
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<p>21. Sept. 25, 1942, Memorandum To <ent type='ORG'>the Executive Committee</ent> of the
|
||
|
Office of Alien Property Custodian, stamped CONFIDENTIAL, from
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>the Division</ent> of Investigation and Research, <ent type='PERSON'>Homer Jones</ent>, Chief.
|
||
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Now declassified in United <ent type='ORG'>State</ent>s National Archives,Suitland,
|
||
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<ent type='GPE'>Maryland</ent> annex. <ent type='ORG'>See Record Group</ent> 131, Alien Property Custodian,
|
||
|
investigative reports, in filebox relating to Vesting Order
|
||
|
Number 370.</p>
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||
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||
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<p>22. <ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Walker</ent> was a director of <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> Ship and <ent type='ORG'>Commerce</ent>
|
||
|
from its organizationthrough 1928.Consult {<ent type='GPE'>New York</ent> City
|
||
|
Directory of Directors}.
|
||
|
"<ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> FifteenCorporation Securities Position February
|
||
|
28, 1931," {op. cit.} The report lists 46861 shares in the
|
||
|
<ent type='NORP'>American</ent> Ship & <ent type='ORG'>Commerce</ent> Corp.
|
||
|
See"Message from Mr. Bullfin," August 30, 1934 (<ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>
|
||
|
Fifteen section, WAH papers) for the joint supervision of <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>
|
||
|
and <ent type='PERSON'>Walker</ent>,respectively director and president of the
|
||
|
corporation.</p>
|
||
|
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||
|
<p>23. <ent type='PERSON'>Cuno</ent> was later exposed by <ent type='PERSON'>Walter Funk</ent>, <ent type='ORG'><ent type='ORG'>Third Reich</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Press</ent></ent>
|
||
|
Chief and Under Secretary of <ent type='ORG'>Propaganda</ent>, in <ent type='ORG'>Funk</ent>'s postwar jail
|
||
|
cell at <ent type='GPE'>Nuremberg</ent>; but <ent type='PERSON'>Cuno</ent> had died just as <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> was taking
|
||
|
power. <ent type='PERSON'>William</ent> L. Shirer, L., {The Rise and Fall of the Third
|
||
|
Reich} (<ent type='GPE'>New York</ent>: <ent type='PERSON'>Simon</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'>Schuster</ent>, 1960), p. 144. {<ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent>
|
||
|
Conspiracy and Aggression, Supplement B}, {op. cit.,} p. 1688.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>24. See "Elimination of <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> Resources for War," {op. cit.,}
|
||
|
pages 881-882 on <ent type='PERSON'>Voegler</ent>.
|
||
|
SeeAnnualReport of the
|
||
|
(<ent type='GPE'>Hamburg</ent>-<ent type='NORP'>Amerika</ent>nische-Packetfahrt-Aktien-Gesel <ent type='ORG'>schaft</ent> (<ent type='ORG'>Hapag</ent> or
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>Hamburg</ent>-<ent type='ORG'>Amerika Line</ent>), March 1931, for the board of directors.A
|
||
|
copy is in the <ent type='GPE'>New York</ent> Public<ent type='ORG'>Library</ent> Annexat 11th Avenue,
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>Manhattan</ent>.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>25. {<ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> Conspiracy and Aggression--Supplement B,} {op. cit.,}
|
||
|
pp. 1178, 1453-1454, 1597, 1599.
|
||
|
See "Elimination of <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> Resources for War," {op. cit.,}
|
||
|
pp. 870-72 on <ent type='PERSON'>Schroeder</ent>; p. 730 on Groeninger.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>26. <ent type='EVENT'>Annual Report</ent> of <ent type='GPE'>Hamburg</ent>-<ent type='NORP'>Amerika</ent>, {op. cit.}
|
||
|
Baron <ent type='PERSON'>Rudolph</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Schroeder</ent>, Sr. to <ent type='PERSON'>Averell</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>, November 14,
|
||
|
1932. K[night] W[ooley] handwritten note and draft reply letter,
|
||
|
December 9, 1932.
|
||
|
In his letter, Baron <ent type='PERSON'>Rudolph</ent> refers to the family's <ent type='NORP'>American</ent>
|
||
|
affiliate, J. Henry Schroder [name anglicized], of which <ent type='PERSON'>Allen</ent>
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>Dulles</ent> was a director, and his brother <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>John</ent> Foster <ent type='GPE'>Dulles</ent></ent> was the
|
||
|
principal attorney.
|
||
|
Baron <ent type='PERSON'>Bruno Schroder</ent> of the <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> branch was adviser to Bank
|
||
|
of <ent type='GPE'>England</ent> Governor Montagu<ent type='PERSON'>Norman</ent>, and Baron <ent type='PERSON'>Bruno</ent>'s partner
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Frank Cyril Tiarks</ent> was <ent type='PERSON'>Norman</ent>'s co-director of <ent type='ORG'>the Bank</ent> of
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>England</ent> throughout <ent type='PERSON'>Norman</ent>'s career. <ent type='PERSON'>Kurt von Schroeder</ent> was
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Hjalmar Schacht</ent>'s delegate to <ent type='ORG'>the Bank</ent> for International
|
||
|
Settlements in <ent type='GPE'>Geneva</ent>, where many of the financial arrangements
|
||
|
for the <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> regime were made by Montagu <ent type='PERSON'>Norman</ent>, Schacht and the
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Schroeder</ent>s for several years of the <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> regime right up to the
|
||
|
outbreak of <ent type='EVENT'>World War</ent> II.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>27.
|
||
|
Confidential memorandum from U.S. Embassy, <ent type='GPE'>Berlin</ent>, {op. cit.}</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>28. U.S. <ent type='ORG'>Senate</ent> "<ent type='ORG'>Nye Committee</ent>" hearings, Sept. 14, 1934, pp.
|
||
|
1197-1198, extracts from letters of Col. <ent type='PERSON'>William</ent> N. <ent type='PERSON'>Taylor</ent>, dated
|
||
|
June 27, 1932 and January 9, 1933.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>29. <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> Ship and <ent type='ORG'>Commerce</ent> Corporation to Dr. <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>Max</ent> <ent type='GPE'>Warburg</ent></ent>,
|
||
|
March 7, 1933.
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Max</ent><ent type='GPE'>Warburg</ent> had brokeredthe sale of <ent type='GPE'>Hamburg</ent>-<ent type='NORP'>Amerika</ent> to
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'>Walker</ent> in 1920. <ent type='PERSON'>Max</ent>'s brothers controlledthe Kuhn
|
||
|
Loeb investment banking house in <ent type='GPE'>New York</ent>, the firm which had
|
||
|
staked old E.H. <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> to his 1890s buyout of the giant Union
|
||
|
<ent type='LOC'>Pacific</ent> Railroad.
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>Max</ent> <ent type='GPE'>Warburg</ent></ent> had long worked with Lord <ent type='PERSON'>Milner</ent> and others of the
|
||
|
racialist <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> Round Table concerning joint projects in <ent type='LOC'>Africa</ent>
|
||
|
and <ent type='LOC'>East</ent>ern <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent>.He was an advisor to <ent type='PERSON'>Hjalmar Schacht</ent> for
|
||
|
several decades and was a top executive of <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent>'s <ent type='ORG'>Reichsbank</ent>.
|
||
|
The reader may consult <ent type='PERSON'>David Farrer</ent>, {The <ent type='GPE'>Warburg</ent>s: The Story of
|
||
|
A Family} (<ent type='GPE'>New York</ent>: Stein and Day, 1975).</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>30. <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>Max</ent> <ent type='GPE'>Warburg</ent></ent>, at M.M. <ent type='GPE'>Warburg</ent> and Co., <ent type='GPE'>Hamburg</ent>, to <ent type='PERSON'>Averill</ent>
|
||
|
[sic] <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>, c/o Messrs.<ent type='ORG'>Brown Brothers</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> & Co., 59
|
||
|
Wall Street, <ent type='GPE'>New York</ent>, N.Y., March 27, 1933.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>31. This correspondence, and the joint statement of the <ent type='NORP'>Jew</ent>ish
|
||
|
organizations,are reproduced in <ent type='GPE'>Moshe</ent> R. Gottlieb, {<ent type='NORP'>American</ent>
|
||
|
Anti-<ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> Resistance, 1933-41: An Historical Analysis} (<ent type='GPE'>New York</ent>:
|
||
|
Ktav Publishing <ent type='ORG'>House</ent>, 1982).</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>32. {Investigation of <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Propaganda</ent>Activities and
|
||
|
Investigation of Certain Other <ent type='ORG'>Propaganda</ent> Activities}: Public
|
||
|
Hearings before A Subcommittee of the Special <ent type='ORG'>Committee</ent> on
|
||
|
Un-<ent type='NORP'>American</ent> Activities, United <ent type='ORG'>State</ent>s <ent type='ORG'>House</ent> of Representatives,
|
||
|
Seventy Third <ent type='ORG'>Congress</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>New York</ent> City, July 9-12, 1934--Hearings
|
||
|
No. 73-NY-7 (<ent type='GPE'>Washington</ent>, D.C., U.S. Govt. Printing Office, 1934).
|
||
|
See testimony of Capt. <ent type='ORG'>Frederick</ent> C. <ent type='ORG'>Mensing</ent>, <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>John</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Schroeder</ent></ent>, <ent type='PERSON'>Paul</ent>
|
||
|
von Lilienfeld-Toal, and summaries by <ent type='ORG'>Committee</ent> members.
|
||
|
See {<ent type='GPE'>New York</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Time</ent>s,} July 16, 1933, p. 12, for organizing of
|
||
|
<ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> Labor Front at <ent type='PERSON'>North</ent> <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> Lloyd, leading to
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>Hamburg</ent>-<ent type='NORP'>Amerika</ent> after merger.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>33. <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> Ship and <ent type='ORG'>Commerce</ent> Corporation telegram to <ent type='PERSON'>Rudolph</ent>
|
||
|
Brinckmann at M.M. <ent type='GPE'>Warburg</ent>, June 12, 1936.
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Rudolph</ent> Brinckmannto <ent type='PERSON'>Averell</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> at 59 Wall St., June
|
||
|
20, 1936, with enclosed note transmitting <ent type='PERSON'>Helferrich</ent>'s letter.
|
||
|
Reply to Dr. <ent type='PERSON'>Rudolph</ent> Brinkmann c/o M.M. <ent type='GPE'>Warburg</ent> andCo, July
|
||
|
6, 1936, WAH papers. The file copy of this letter carries no
|
||
|
signature, but is presumably from <ent type='PERSON'>Averell</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>34. Office of Alien Property Custodian, Vesting Order Number 126.
|
||
|
Signed by Leo T. <ent type='PERSON'>Crowley</ent>, Alien Property Custodian, executed
|
||
|
August 28, 1942. F.R. Doc.42-8774; Filed September 4, 1942,
|
||
|
10:55 A.M.; 7 F.R. 7061 (Number 176, Sept. 5, 1942.)
|
||
|
July 18, 1942, Memorandum To <ent type='ORG'>the Executive Committee</ent> of the
|
||
|
Officeof Alien Property Custodian, stamped CONFIDENTIAL, from
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>the Division</ent> of Investigation and Research, <ent type='PERSON'>Homer Jones</ent>, Chief.
|
||
|
Now declassified in United <ent type='ORG'>State</ent>s National Archives, Suitland,
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>Maryland</ent> annex. <ent type='ORG'>See Record Group</ent> 131, Alien Property Custodian,
|
||
|
investigative reports, in file boxrelating to Vesting Order
|
||
|
Number 126.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>35. {<ent type='GPE'>New York</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Time</ent>s,} May 20, 1933. Leading up to this agreement
|
||
|
is a telegramwhich somehowescaped the shredder. It is
|
||
|
addressed to <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> official HjalmarSchacht at the Mayflower
|
||
|
Hotel, <ent type='GPE'>Washington</ent>, dated May 11, 1933: "Much disappointed to
|
||
|
have missed seeing you Tueday afternoon....I hope to see you
|
||
|
either in <ent type='GPE'>Washington</ent> or <ent type='GPE'>New York</ent> before you sail.
|
||
|
with my regards W.A. <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>" (WAH papers).</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>36. <ent type='GPE'>Dulles</ent> to <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>, letter and draft reply in WAH papers.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>37. {<ent type='GPE'>New York</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Time</ent>s,} Jan. 19, 1938.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>Any comments, please send by email, as I get very far behind on
|
||
|
this group.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>Thanks.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> <ent type='PERSON'>John Covici</ent></p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>coviciccs.covici.com</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>Article 15394 of alt.activism:
|
||
|
From: covici@ccs.covici.com (<ent type='PERSON'>John Covici</ent>)
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>Newsgroups</ent>: alt.activism
|
||
|
Subject: Part 3: <ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> bush Unauthorized Biography
|
||
|
<info type="Message-ID"> 1VVReB1w164w@ccs.covici.com</info>
|
||
|
Date: 19 Jan 92 01:12:47 GMT
|
||
|
Organization: Covici Computer Systems
|
||
|
Lines: 1544</p>
|
||
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|
||
|
<p>The following is part 3 of an unauthorized biography of <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent>
|
||
|
-- a forthcoming book serialized in <ent type='ORG'>New Federalist</ent>. This article is
|
||
|
from Issue 1 V6.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>For further information, or to subscribe, please contact me by
|
||
|
e-mail.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>Chapter 3 RACE HYGIENE: Three <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> Family Alliances "The
|
||
|
[government] must put the most modern medical means in the
|
||
|
service of this knowledge.... Those who are physically and
|
||
|
mentally unhealthy and unworthy must not perpetuate their
|
||
|
suffering in the body of their children....The prevention of
|
||
|
the faculty and opportunity toprocreate on the part of the
|
||
|
physically degenerateand mentally sick, over a period of only
|
||
|
600 years, would ... free humanity froman immeasurable
|
||
|
misfortune."s1</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> "The per capita income gap between the developed and the
|
||
|
developing countries is increasing, in large part the result of
|
||
|
higher birth rates in the poorer countries.... Famine in <ent type='GPE'>India</ent>,
|
||
|
unwanted babies in <ent type='GPE'>the United States</ent>, poverty that seemed to form
|
||
|
an unbreakable chain for millions of people--how should we tackle
|
||
|
these problems?.... It is quite clearthat one of the major
|
||
|
challenges ofthe 1970s ... will be to curb the world's
|
||
|
fertility."</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>These two quotations are alike in their mock show of concern for
|
||
|
human suffering, and in their cynical remedy for it: <ent type='ORG'>Big Brother</ent>
|
||
|
must prevent the "unworthy" or "unwanted" people from
|
||
|
living.
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Letus</ent> now further inquire into the family background of our
|
||
|
President, so as to help illustrate how the second quoted author,
|
||
|
{<ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent>}s1 came to share the outlook of the first, {Adolf
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent>}.s2
|
||
|
We shall examine here the alliance of the <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> family with
|
||
|
three other families: {<ent type='PERSON'>Farish</ent>, <ent type='ORG'>Draper</ent>} and {<ent type='ORG'>Gray</ent>.}
|
||
|
The private associations among these families have led to the
|
||
|
President's relationship tohis closest, most confidential
|
||
|
advisers. These alliances were forged in the earlier <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent>
|
||
|
project and its immediate aftermath. Understanding them will
|
||
|
help us to explain <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent>'s obsession with the supposed
|
||
|
overpopulation of the world's non-Anglo-<ent type='NORP'>Saxon</ent>s, and the dangerous
|
||
|
means he has adopted to deal with this "problem."</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p><ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'>Farish</ent></p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> When <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent> was elected vice president in 1980, <ent type='GPE'>Texas</ent>
|
||
|
mystery man <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>William</ent> Stamps <ent type='PERSON'>Farish</ent> III</ent> took over management of all
|
||
|
of <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent>'s personal wealth in a "blind trust."Known as
|
||
|
one of the richest men in <ent type='GPE'>Texas</ent>, <ent type='PERSON'>Will Farish</ent> keeps his business
|
||
|
affairs under the most intense secrecy. Only the source of his
|
||
|
immense wealth is known, not its employment.s3
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Will Farish</ent> has long been <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s closest friend and
|
||
|
confidante. He is also the unique private host to<ent type='GPE'>Britain</ent>'s
|
||
|
Queen <ent type='PERSON'>Elizabeth</ent>: <ent type='PERSON'>Farish</ent> owns and boards the studs which mate with
|
||
|
the Queen's mares. That is her public rationale when she comes
|
||
|
to <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> and stays in <ent type='PERSON'>Farish</ent>'s house. It is a vital link in
|
||
|
the mind of our <ent type='NORP'>Anglophile</ent> President.
|
||
|
President <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> can count on <ent type='PERSON'>Farish</ent> not to betray the violent
|
||
|
secrets surrounding the <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> family money. For <ent type='PERSON'>Farish</ent>'s own
|
||
|
familyfortune was made inthe same <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> project, in a
|
||
|
nightmarish partnership with <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent>'s father.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> On March 25, 1942, U.S. Assistant Attorney General Thurman
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Arnold</ent>announced that <ent type='PERSON'>William</ent> Stamps <ent type='PERSON'>Farish</ent> (grandfather of the
|
||
|
President's money manager) had pleaded "no contest" to charges
|
||
|
of criminal conspiracy with the <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent>s. <ent type='PERSON'>Farish</ent> was the principal
|
||
|
manager of a worldwide cartel between <ent type='ORG'>Standard</ent>Oil Co. of New
|
||
|
Jersey and the I.G. <ent type='ORG'>Farben</ent> concern.The merged enterprise had
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opened the <ent type='ORG'>Auschwitz</ent> slave labor camp on June 141940, to
|
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|
produce artificial rubber and gasoline from coal. The <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent>
|
||
|
government supplied political opponents and <ent type='NORP'>Jew</ent>s as the slaves,
|
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|
who were worked to near death and then murdered.
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Arnold</ent> disclosed that <ent type='ORG'>Standard Oil</ent> of <ent type='GPE'>New Jersey</ent> (later known
|
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|
as <ent type='ORG'>Exxon</ent>), of which <ent type='PERSON'>Farish</ent> was president and chief executive, had
|
||
|
agreedto stop hiding from<ent type='GPE'>the United States</ent> patents for
|
||
|
artificial rubber which the company had provided to the <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent>s.s4
|
||
|
A <ent type='ORG'>Senate</ent> investigating committeeunder Senator (later U.S.
|
||
|
President) <ent type='PERSON'>Harry Truman</ent> of <ent type='GPE'>Missouri</ent> had called <ent type='PERSON'>Arnold</ent> to testify
|
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|
at hearings on corporations' collaboration with the <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent>s. The
|
||
|
Senators expressed outrage at the cynicalway <ent type='PERSON'>Farish</ent> was
|
||
|
continuing an alliance with the <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> regime that had begun back
|
||
|
in 1933, when <ent type='PERSON'>Farish</ent> became chief of <ent type='ORG'>Jersey Standard</ent>. Didn't he
|
||
|
know there was a war on?
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>The Justice Department</ent> laid before the committee a letter,
|
||
|
written to <ent type='ORG'>Standard</ent> president <ent type='PERSON'>Farish</ent> by his vice president,
|
||
|
shortly after the beginning of <ent type='EVENT'>World War</ent> II (September1, 1939)
|
||
|
in <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent>. The letter concerned <ent type='GPE'>arenewal</ent> of their earlier
|
||
|
agreements with the <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent>s:</p>
|
||
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||
|
<p>Report on <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent>an Trip Oct. 12, 1939 Mr. W.S. <ent type='PERSON'>Farish</ent> 30
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Rockefeller</ent> Plaza</p>
|
||
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||
|
<p> Dear Mr. <ent type='PERSON'>Farish</ent>:
|
||
|
... I stayed in <ent type='GPE'>France</ent> until Sept. 17th.... In <ent type='GPE'>England</ent> I met
|
||
|
by appointment the Royal <ent type='NORP'>Dutch</ent> [<ent type='ORG'>Shell Oil</ent> Co.] gentlemen from
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>Holland</ent>, and ... a general agreement was reached on the necessary
|
||
|
changes in our relations with the I.G. [<ent type='ORG'>Farben</ent>], in view of the
|
||
|
state of war.... [T]he Royal <ent type='NORP'>Dutch</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Shell</ent> group is essentially
|
||
|
<ent type='NORP'>British</ent>.... <ent type='ORG'>Ialso</ent> had several meetings with ... the [<ent type='NORP'>British</ent>]
|
||
|
Air Ministry....
|
||
|
I required help to obtain the necessary permission to go to
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>Holland</ent>.... After discussions with the [<ent type='NORP'>American</ent>] Ambassador
|
||
|
[<ent type='PERSON'>Joseph</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Kennedy</ent>] the situation was cleared completely.... The
|
||
|
gentlemen in <ent type='ORG'>the Air Ministry</ent> ... very kindly offered to assist
|
||
|
me [later] in reentering <ent type='GPE'>England</ent>....
|
||
|
Pursuant to thesearrangements, I was able to keep my
|
||
|
appointments in <ent type='GPE'>Holland</ent> [having flown there on a <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> Royal
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Air Force</ent> bomber], where I had three days of discussion with the
|
||
|
representatives of I.G. They delivered to me assignments of some
|
||
|
2000 foreign patents and {we did our best to work out complete
|
||
|
plans for a modus <ent type='ORG'>vivendi</ent> which could operate through the term of
|
||
|
the war, whether or not the U.S. came in....} [emphasis added]
|
||
|
Very truly yours, <ent type='ORG'>F[rank</ent>] A. Howards5</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> Here are some cold realities behind the tragedy of <ent type='EVENT'>World War</ent>
|
||
|
II, which help explain the <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>-<ent type='PERSON'>Farish</ent> family alliance--and their
|
||
|
peculiar closeness to the Queen of <ent type='GPE'>England</ent>:
|
||
|
sb|<ent type='ORG'>Shell Oil</ent> is principally owned by the <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> Royal
|
||
|
family. <ent type='ORG'>Shell</ent>'s chairman, Sir <ent type='PERSON'>Henri Deterding</ent>, helped sponsor
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent>'s rise to power,s6 by arrangement with the <ent type='ORG'>Royal Family</ent>'s
|
||
|
Bank of <ent type='GPE'>England</ent> Governor, Montagu <ent type='PERSON'>Norman</ent>. Their ally, <ent type='ORG'>Standard</ent>
|
||
|
Oil, would take part in the <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> project right up to the
|
||
|
bloody, gruesome end.
|
||
|
sb|When grandfather <ent type='PERSON'>Farish</ent> signed <ent type='ORG'>the Justice Department</ent>'s
|
||
|
consent decree in March 1942, the government had already started
|
||
|
picking its way through the tangled web of world-monopoly oil and
|
||
|
chemical agreements between <ent type='ORG'>Standard Oil</ent> and the <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent>s. Many
|
||
|
patents and other <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent>-owned aspects of the partnership had been
|
||
|
seized by the U.S. Alien Property Custodian.
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Uncle Sam</ent> would not seize <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s Union Banking
|
||
|
Corporation for another seven months.
|
||
|
The <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>-<ent type='PERSON'>Farish</ent> axis had begun back in 1929. In that year, the
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> bank bought <ent type='PERSON'>Dresser</ent> Industries, supplier of oil-pipeline
|
||
|
couplers to <ent type='ORG'>Standard</ent> and other companies. <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> became a
|
||
|
director and financialczar of <ent type='PERSON'>Dresser</ent>, installinghis <ent type='ORG'>Yale</ent>
|
||
|
classmate <ent type='PERSON'>Neil Mallon</ent> as chairman.s7 <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent> would later name
|
||
|
one of his sons after the <ent type='PERSON'>Dresser</ent> executive.
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>William</ent> S. <ent type='PERSON'>Farish</ent> was the main organizer of <ent type='ORG'>the Humble Oil</ent> Co.
|
||
|
of <ent type='GPE'>Texas</ent>, which <ent type='PERSON'>Farish</ent> merged into the <ent type='ORG'>Standard Oil</ent> Company of
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>New Jersey</ent>. <ent type='PERSON'>Farish</ent> built up the Humble-<ent type='ORG'>Standard</ent> empire of
|
||
|
pipelines and refineries in <ent type='GPE'>Texas</ent>.s8
|
||
|
Thestock market crashed just after the <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> family got into
|
||
|
the oil business. The world financial crisis led to the merger
|
||
|
of the <ent type='PERSON'>Walker</ent>-<ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> bank with <ent type='ORG'>Brown Brothers</ent> in 1931. Former
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Brown</ent> partner Montagu <ent type='PERSON'>Norman</ent> and his protege <ent type='PERSON'>Hjalmar Schacht</ent>, who
|
||
|
was to become <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent>'s economics minister, paid frantic visits to
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>New York</ent> that year and the next, preparing the new <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> regime
|
||
|
for <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>The <ent type='ORG'>Congress</ent> on Eugenics</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> The mostimportant <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> political <ent type='PERSON'>eventin</ent> those
|
||
|
preparations for <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> was the infamous Third International
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Congress</ent> on Eugenics, held at NewYork's <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> Museum of
|
||
|
Natural History August 21-23, 1932, supervised by the
|
||
|
International <ent type='ORG'>Fed</ent>eration of Eugenics Societies.s9 This meeting
|
||
|
took up the stubborn persistence of <ent type='NORP'>African</ent>-<ent type='NORP'>American</ent>s and other
|
||
|
allegedly "inferior" and "socially inadequate"groups in
|
||
|
reproducing, expanding their numbers, and "amalgamating" with
|
||
|
others. It was recommendedthat these "dangers" to the
|
||
|
"better" ethnic groups and to the "well-born," could be dealt
|
||
|
with by sterilization or "cutting off the bad stock" of the
|
||
|
"unfit."
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent>'s fascist government sent an official representative.
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Averell</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>'s sister <ent type='PERSON'>Mary</ent>, director of "entertainment" for
|
||
|
the <ent type='ORG'>Congress</ent>, lived down in <ent type='GPE'>Virginia</ent> fox-hunting country; her
|
||
|
state supplied the speaker on "racial purity," W.A. <ent type='ORG'>Plecker</ent>,
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>Virginia</ent> commissioner of vital statistics. <ent type='ORG'>Plecker</ent> reportedly
|
||
|
held the delegates spellbound with his account of the struggle to
|
||
|
stop race-mixing and interracial sex in <ent type='GPE'>Virginia</ent>.
|
||
|
The<ent type='ORG'>Congress</ent> proceedings were dedicated to <ent type='PERSON'>Averell</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>'s
|
||
|
mother; she had paidfor the founding ofthe race-science
|
||
|
movement in <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> back in 1910, building the Eugenics Record
|
||
|
Office as a branch of <ent type='ORG'>the Galton National Laboratory</ent> in <ent type='GPE'>London</ent>.
|
||
|
She and other <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>s were usually escorted to the horse races
|
||
|
by old <ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Herbert</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Walker</ent>--they shared with the <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>es and the
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Farish</ent>es a fascination with "breeding thoroughbreds" among
|
||
|
horses and humans.s1s0
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Averell</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> personally arranged with the <ent type='PERSON'>Walker</ent>/<ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>Hamburg</ent>-<ent type='ORG'>Amerika Line</ent> to transport <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> ideologues from <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y to
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>New York</ent> for this meeting.s1s1 The most famous among those
|
||
|
transported was Dr. <ent type='PERSON'>Ernst Rudin</ent>, psychiatrist at the Kaiser
|
||
|
Wilhelm Institute for Genealogy and Demography in <ent type='GPE'>Berlin</ent>, where
|
||
|
the <ent type='ORG'>Rockefeller</ent> family paid for Dr.<ent type='PERSON'>Rudin</ent> to occupy an entire
|
||
|
floor with his eugenics "research." Dr. <ent type='PERSON'>Rudin</ent> had addressed the
|
||
|
International <ent type='ORG'>Fed</ent>eration's 1928 <ent type='GPE'>Munich</ent> meeting, speaking on
|
||
|
"<ent type='ORG'>Mental Aberration and Race Hygiene</ent>," while others (<ent type='NORP'>German</ent>s and
|
||
|
<ent type='NORP'>American</ent>s) spoke on race-mixing and sterilization of the unfit.
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Rudin</ent> had led the <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> delegation to the 1930 Mental Hygiene
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Congress</ent> in <ent type='GPE'>Washington</ent>, D.C.
|
||
|
At the <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>s' 1932 <ent type='GPE'>New York</ent> Eugenics <ent type='ORG'>Congress</ent>, <ent type='PERSON'>Ernst Rudin</ent>
|
||
|
was unanimously elected President of the International <ent type='ORG'>Fed</ent>eration
|
||
|
of Eugenics Societies. This was recognition of <ent type='PERSON'>Rudin</ent> as founder
|
||
|
of the <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Society</ent> for Race Hygiene, with his co-founder,
|
||
|
Eugenics <ent type='ORG'>Fed</ent>eration vice president <ent type='PERSON'>Alfred Ploetz</ent>.
|
||
|
As depression-maddened financiersschemed in <ent type='GPE'>Berlin</ent> and New
|
||
|
York, <ent type='PERSON'>Rudin</ent> was now official leader of the world eugenics
|
||
|
movement. <ent type='PERSON'>Componentsof</ent> his movement included groups with
|
||
|
overlapping leadership, dedicated to:
|
||
|
sb|sterilization of mental patients ("mental hygiene
|
||
|
societies");
|
||
|
sb|execution of the insane, criminals and the terminally ill
|
||
|
("euthanasia societies"); and
|
||
|
sb|eugenical race-purification by prevention of births to
|
||
|
parents from inferior blood stocks ("birth control
|
||
|
societies").</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> Before the <ent type='ORG'>Auschwitz</ent> death camp became a household word, these
|
||
|
<ent type='NORP'>British</ent>-<ent type='NORP'>American</ent>-<ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent>an groups called openly for the
|
||
|
elimination of the "unfit" by means including force and
|
||
|
violence.s1s2
|
||
|
Ten months later, in June 1933, <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent>'s interior minister
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Wilhelm Frick</ent> spoke to a eugenics meeting in the new <ent type='ORG'>Third Reich</ent>.
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Frick</ent> called the <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>s a"degenerate"race, denouncing
|
||
|
one-fifth of <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y's parentsfor producing"feeble-minded"
|
||
|
and "defective" children. The following month, on a commission
|
||
|
by <ent type='PERSON'>Frick</ent>, Dr. <ent type='PERSON'>Ernst Rudin</ent> wrote the "Law for the Prevention of
|
||
|
Hereditary Diseases in Posterity," the sterilization law modeled
|
||
|
on previous U.S. statutes in <ent type='GPE'>Virginia</ent> and other states.
|
||
|
Special courts were soon established for the sterilization of
|
||
|
<ent type='NORP'>German</ent> mental patients, the blind, the deaf, and alcoholics.A
|
||
|
quarter million people in these categorieswere sterilized.
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Rudin</ent>, <ent type='ORG'>Ploetz</ent>, and their colleagues trained a whole generation of
|
||
|
physicians and psychiatrists--as sterilizers and as killers.
|
||
|
When <ent type='NORP'>thewar</ent> started, the eugenicists, doctors, and
|
||
|
psychiatrists staffed the new "T4" agency, which planned and
|
||
|
supervised the mass killings: first at "euthanasia centers,"
|
||
|
where the same categories which had firstbeen subject to
|
||
|
sterilization were now to be murdered, their brains sent in lots
|
||
|
of 200 to experimental psychiatrists; then at slave camps such as
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Auschwitz</ent>; and finally, for <ent type='NORP'>Jew</ent>s andother race victims, at
|
||
|
straight extermination <ent type='ORG'>campsin</ent> <ent type='GPE'>Poland</ent>, such as <ent type='PERSON'>Treblinka</ent> and
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Belsen</ent>.s1s3
|
||
|
In 1933, as what <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> called his"New Order"appeared,
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>John</ent> D. <ent type='ORG'>Rockefeller</ent>,Jr. appointed<ent type='PERSON'>William</ent> S. <ent type='PERSON'>Farish</ent> the
|
||
|
chairman of <ent type='ORG'>Standard Oil</ent> Co. of <ent type='GPE'>New Jersey</ent> (in 1937 he was made
|
||
|
president and chief executive). <ent type='PERSON'>Farish</ent> moved his offices to
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Rockefeller</ent> Center, <ent type='GPE'>New York</ent>, where he spent a good deal of time
|
||
|
with <ent type='PERSON'>Hermann Schmitz</ent>, chairman of I.G. <ent type='ORG'>Farben</ent>; his company paid a
|
||
|
publicity man,Ivy <ent type='PERSON'>Lee</ent>, to write pro-I.G. <ent type='ORG'>Farben</ent> and pro-<ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent>
|
||
|
propaganda and get it into the U.S. press.
|
||
|
Now that he was outside of <ent type='GPE'>Texas</ent>, <ent type='PERSON'>Farish</ent> found himself in the
|
||
|
shipping business--like the <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> family. He hired <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>
|
||
|
crews for <ent type='ORG'>Standard Oil</ent> tankers. And he hired {<ent type='PERSON'>Emil Helfferich</ent>,}
|
||
|
chairman of the <ent type='PERSON'>Walker</ent>/<ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>/<ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> <ent type='GPE'>Hamburg</ent>-<ent type='ORG'>Amerika Line</ent>, as
|
||
|
chairman also of the <ent type='ORG'>Standard Oil</ent> Company subsidiary in <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y.
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Karl Lindemann</ent>, board member of <ent type='GPE'>Hamburg</ent>-<ent type='NORP'>Amerika</ent>, also became a
|
||
|
top <ent type='PERSON'>Farish</ent>-<ent type='ORG'>Standard</ent> executive in <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y.s1s4
|
||
|
This interlock between their <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> operations put <ent type='PERSON'>Farish</ent>
|
||
|
together with <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> ina small, select group of men
|
||
|
operating from abroad through <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent>'s "revolution," and
|
||
|
calculating that they would never be punished.
|
||
|
In 1939, <ent type='PERSON'>Farish</ent>'s daughter <ent type='PERSON'>Martha</ent> married <ent type='PERSON'>Averell</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>'s
|
||
|
nephew, Edward <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Gerry</ent>, and <ent type='PERSON'>Farish</ent> in-laws became <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent>
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s partners at 59 Broadway.s1s5
|
||
|
Both <ent type='PERSON'>Emil Helfferich</ent> and<ent type='PERSON'>Karl Lindemann</ent> were authorized to
|
||
|
write checks to Heinrich <ent type='PERSON'>Himmler</ent>, chief of the <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> SS, ona
|
||
|
special <ent type='ORG'>Standard Oil</ent> account. This account was managed by the
|
||
|
<ent type='NORP'>German</ent>-<ent type='NORP'>British</ent>-<ent type='NORP'>American</ent> banker, <ent type='PERSON'>Kurt von Schroeder</ent>. According to
|
||
|
U.S. intelligence documents reviewed by author <ent type='PERSON'>Anthony Sutton</ent>,
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Helfferich</ent> continued his payments to the SS into 1944,when the
|
||
|
SS was supervising the mass murder at the <ent type='ORG'>Standard</ent>-I.G. <ent type='ORG'>Farben</ent>
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Auschwitz</ent> and other death camps. <ent type='PERSON'>Helfferich</ent> told <ent type='ORG'>Allied</ent>
|
||
|
interrogators after the warthat these were not his personal
|
||
|
contributions--they were corporate <ent type='ORG'>Standard Oil</ent> funds.s1s6
|
||
|
After pleading "no contest" to charges of criminal
|
||
|
conspiracy with the <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent>s, <ent type='PERSON'>William</ent>Stamps<ent type='PERSON'>Farish</ent>was fined
|
||
|
$5000. (Similar fines were levied against <ent type='ORG'>Standard Oil</ent>--$5000
|
||
|
each for the parent company and for several subsidiaries.) This
|
||
|
of course did not interfere with the millionsof dollars that
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Farish</ent>had acquired in conjunction with <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent>'s New Order, as a
|
||
|
large stockholder, chairman, and president of <ent type='ORG'>Standard</ent>Oil. All
|
||
|
the government sought was the use of patents which his company
|
||
|
had given to the <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent>s--the <ent type='ORG'>Auschwitz</ent> patents--but had withheld
|
||
|
from the U.S. military and industry.
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Buta</ent> warwas on, and if young men were to be asked to die
|
||
|
fighting <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> something more was needed. <ent type='PERSON'>Farish</ent> was hauled
|
||
|
beforethe <ent type='ORG'>Senate</ent> committee investigating the national defense
|
||
|
program. The committee chairman, Senator <ent type='PERSON'>Harry Truman</ent>, told
|
||
|
newsmen before <ent type='PERSON'>Farish</ent> testified: "I think this approaches
|
||
|
treason."s1s7
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Farish</ent> began breaking apart at these hearings. He shouted his
|
||
|
"indignation" at the senators, and claimed <ent type='PERSON'>hewas</ent> not
|
||
|
"disloyal."
|
||
|
After the March-April hearings ended, more dirt came gushing
|
||
|
out of <ent type='ORG'>the Justice Department</ent> and the<ent type='ORG'>Congress</ent> on <ent type='PERSON'>Farish</ent> and
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Standard Oil</ent>.<ent type='PERSON'>Farish</ent>had deceived the U.S. <ent type='ORG'>Navy</ent> to prevent the
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Navy</ent> from acquiring certain patents, while supplying them to the
|
||
|
<ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> war machine; meanwhile, he was supplying gasoline and
|
||
|
tetraethyl lead to <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y's submarines and air force.
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Communications between <ent type='ORG'>Standard</ent> and I.G. <ent type='ORG'>Farben</ent> from the outbreak
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of <ent type='EVENT'>World War</ent>II were released tothe <ent type='ORG'>Senate</ent>, showing that
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<ent type='PERSON'>Farish</ent>'s organization had arranged to deceive the U.S. government
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into passing over <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent>-owned assets: They would nominally buy
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I.G.'sshare in certain patents because "in the event of war
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between ourselves and <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y ... it would certainly be very
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undesireable to havethis 20 percent <ent type='ORG'>Standard</ent>-I.G. pass to an
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alien property custodian of the U.S. who might sell it to an
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unfriendly interest."s1s8
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<ent type='PERSON'>John</ent> D. <ent type='ORG'>Rockefeller</ent>, Jr. (father of <ent type='PERSON'>David</ent>, Nelson, and <ent type='PERSON'>John</ent>
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D. <ent type='ORG'>Rockefeller</ent> III), the controlling owner of <ent type='ORG'>Standard Oil</ent>, told
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the <ent type='PERSON'>Rooseveltadministrationthat</ent> he knewnothing of the
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day-to-day affairs of his company, that all these matters were
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handled by <ent type='PERSON'>Farish</ent> and other executives.s1s9
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In August, <ent type='PERSON'>Farish</ent> was brought back for more testimony. He was
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now frequently accused of lying. <ent type='PERSON'>Farish</ent> was crushed under the
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intense, public grilling; he became morose, ashen. While
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<ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> escaped publicity when the government seized his
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<ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> banking organization in October, <ent type='PERSON'>Farish</ent> had been nailed. He
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collapsed and died of a heart attack on November 29, 1942.
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The <ent type='PERSON'>Farish</ent> family was devastated by the exposure. <ent type='PERSON'>Son William</ent>
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Stamps<ent type='PERSON'>Farish</ent>, Jr., a lieutenant in <ent type='ORG'>the <ent type='ORG'>Army</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Air Force</ent></ent>, was
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humiliated by the public knowledge that his father was fueling
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the enemy's aircraft; he died in a training accident in <ent type='GPE'>Texas</ent> six
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months later.s2s0
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With this double death, the fortune comprising much of
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<ent type='ORG'>Standard Oil</ent>'s profits from <ent type='GPE'>Texas</ent> and <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y was now to be
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settled upon the little four-year-old grandson, <ent type='PERSON'>William</ent>
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("Will") Stamps <ent type='PERSON'>Farish</ent> III. <ent type='PERSON'>Will Farish</ent> grew up a recluse, the
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most secretive multimillionaire in <ent type='GPE'>Texas</ent>, with investments of
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"that money" in a multitude of foreign countries, and a host of
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exoticcontacts overlapping the intelligence andfinancial
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worlds--particularly in <ent type='GPE'>Britain</ent>.
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The <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>-<ent type='PERSON'>Farish</ent> axis started <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent>'s career.After his
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||
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1948 graduation from <ent type='ORG'>Yale</ent> (and the<ent type='ORG'>Skull</ent> and Bones secret
|
||
|
society), <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent> flew down to <ent type='GPE'>Texas</ent> on a corporate jet and
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was employed by his father's <ent type='PERSON'>Dresser</ent> Industries. In a couple of
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years he <ent type='PERSON'>gothelp</ent> from his uncle, <ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Walker</ent>, Jr., and
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<ent type='PERSON'>Farish</ent>'s <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> banker friends, to set him up in the oil
|
||
|
property speculation business. Soon thereafter, <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent>
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founded the <ent type='PERSON'>Zapata</ent> Oil Company, which put oil drilling rigs into
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certain locations of great strategic interest to the
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||
|
Anglo-<ent type='NORP'>American</ent> intelligence community.
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Twenty-five-year-old <ent type='PERSON'>Will Farish</ent> was personal aide to <ent type='PERSON'>Zapata</ent>
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||
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chairman <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent>in <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s unsuccessful 1964 campaign for
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Senate</ent>. <ent type='PERSON'>Farish</ent> used "that <ent type='ORG'>Auschwitz</ent> money" to back <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent>
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||
|
financially, investing in <ent type='PERSON'>Zapata</ent>. When <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> was elected to
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Congress</ent> in 1966, <ent type='PERSON'>Farish</ent> joined the <ent type='PERSON'>Zapata</ent> board.s2s1
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||
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When <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent> became U.S. vicepresident in 1980, the
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||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Farish</ent>and <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> family fortunes were again completely, secretly
|
||
|
commingled. As we shall see, the old projects were now being
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||
|
revived on a breathtaking scale.</p>
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||
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||
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<p><ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> and <ent type='ORG'>Draper</ent></p>
|
||
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||
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<p> Twenty years before he was U.S. President, <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent>
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||
|
brought two "race-science" professors in front of the
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||
|
<ent type='NORP'>Republican</ent> Task Force on Earth Resources and Population. As
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||
|
chairman of <ent type='ORG'>the Task Force</ent>, then-<ent type='ORG'>Congress</ent>man <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> invited
|
||
|
Professors <ent type='PERSON'>William</ent> Shockley and <ent type='PERSON'>Arthur Jensen</ent> to explain to the
|
||
|
committee how allegedly runaway birth-rates for <ent type='NORP'>African</ent>-<ent type='NORP'>American</ent>s
|
||
|
were "down-breeding" the <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> population.
|
||
|
Afterwards, <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> personally summed up for the <ent type='ORG'>Congress</ent> the
|
||
|
testimony his black-inferiority advocates had given to the Task
|
||
|
Force.s2s2 <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent> held his hearings on the threatposed by
|
||
|
black babies on August 5, 1969, while much of the world was in a
|
||
|
better frame of mind--celebrating mankind's progressfrom the
|
||
|
first moon landing 16 days earlier. <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s obsessive thinking on
|
||
|
this subject was guided by his family's friend, Gen. <ent type='PERSON'>William</ent> H.
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Draper</ent>, Jr., the founder and chairman of the Population Crisis
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Committee</ent>, and vice chairman of the <ent type='ORG'>Planned Parenthood</ent>
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Fed</ent>eration. <ent type='ORG'>Draper</ent> had long been steering U.S. public discussion
|
||
|
about the so-called "population bomb" in the non-white areas of
|
||
|
the world.
|
||
|
If <ent type='ORG'>Congress</ent>man <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> had explained to his colleagues {how his
|
||
|
family had come to know General <ent type='ORG'>Draper</ent>,} they would perhaps have
|
||
|
felt some alarm, or even panic, and paid more healthy attention
|
||
|
to <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s presentation. Unfortunately,the <ent type='ORG'>Draper</ent>-<ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>
|
||
|
population doctrine is now official U.S. foreign policy.
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>William</ent> H. <ent type='ORG'>Draper</ent>, Jr. had joined the <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> team in 1927, when
|
||
|
he was hired by <ent type='ORG'>Dillon Read</ent> & Co., <ent type='GPE'>New York</ent> investment bankers.
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Draper</ent>was put intoa new job slot at the firm: handling the
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Thyssen</ent> account.
|
||
|
We recall that in 1924, <ent type='PERSON'>Fritz Thyssen</ent> set up his Union Banking
|
||
|
Corporation in <ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Herbert</ent><ent type='PERSON'>Walker</ent>'s bankat 39Broadway,
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>Manhattan</ent>. <ent type='ORG'>Dillon Read</ent> & Co.'s boss, <ent type='PERSON'>Clarence Dillon</ent>, had begun
|
||
|
working with <ent type='PERSON'>Fritz Thyssen</ent> some time after <ent type='PERSON'>Averell</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> first
|
||
|
met with <ent type='ORG'>Thyssen</ent>--at about the time <ent type='ORG'>Thyssen</ent> began financing Adolf
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent>'s political career.
|
||
|
In January 1926, <ent type='ORG'>Dillon Read</ent> created the {<ent type='NORP'>German</ent> Credit and
|
||
|
Investment Corporation} in <ent type='GPE'>Newark</ent>,<ent type='GPE'>New Jersey</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>Berlin</ent>,
|
||
|
<ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y, as <ent type='ORG'>Thyssen</ent>'s short-term banker. That same year, <ent type='PERSON'>Dillon</ent>
|
||
|
Read created the {<ent type='PERSON'>Vereinigte Stahlwerke</ent>} (<ent type='NORP'>German</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Steel Trust</ent>),
|
||
|
incorporating the <ent type='ORG'>Thyssen</ent> family interests under the direction of
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>New York</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>London</ent> finance.s2s3
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>William</ent> H. <ent type='ORG'>Draper</ent>, Jr. was made director, vice president, and
|
||
|
assistant treasurer of the <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> Credit and Investment Corp. His
|
||
|
business was short-term loans and financial management tricks for
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Thyssen</ent> and the <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Steel Trust</ent>. <ent type='ORG'>Draper</ent>'s clients sponsored
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent>'s terroristic takeover; his clients led the buildup of the
|
||
|
<ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> war industry; his clients madewar against the United
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>State</ent>s. The <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent>s were <ent type='ORG'>Draper</ent>'s direct partners in <ent type='GPE'>Berlin</ent> and New
|
||
|
Jersey: <ent type='PERSON'>Alexander Kreuter</ent>, residingin <ent type='GPE'>Berlin</ent>, was president;
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Frederic Brandi</ent>, whose father was a top coal executive in the
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||
|
<ent type='NORP'>German</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Steel Trust</ent>, moved to <ent type='GPE'>the United States</ent> in 1926 and served
|
||
|
as <ent type='ORG'>Draper</ent>'s co-director in <ent type='GPE'>Newark</ent>.
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Draper</ent>'s role wascrucial for <ent type='ORG'>Dillon Read</ent> & Co., for whom
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Draper</ent> was a partner and eventually vice president. The <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>
|
||
|
Creditand Investment Corp.(<ent type='ORG'>GCI</ent>) was a "front" for <ent type='PERSON'>Dillon</ent>
|
||
|
Read: It had the same <ent type='GPE'>New Jersey</ent> address as U.S. & International
|
||
|
Securities Corp. (<ent type='ORG'>USIS</ent>), and the same man served as treasurer of
|
||
|
both firms.s2s4
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Clarence Dillon</ent> and his son C. Douglas <ent type='PERSON'>Dillon</ent> weredirectors
|
||
|
of <ent type='ORG'>USIS</ent>, which was spotlighted when <ent type='PERSON'>Clarence Dillon</ent> was hauled
|
||
|
before the <ent type='ORG'>Senate</ent> Banking <ent type='ORG'>Committee</ent>'s famous "<ent type='ORG'>Pecora</ent>" hearings
|
||
|
in 1933. <ent type='ORG'>USIS</ent> was shown to be one of the great speculative
|
||
|
pyramid schemes which had swindled stockholders of hundreds of
|
||
|
millions of dollars. These investment policies had rotted the
|
||
|
U.S. economy to the core, and led to <ent type='EVENT'>the Great Depression</ent> of the
|
||
|
1930s.
|
||
|
But <ent type='PERSON'>William</ent> H.<ent type='ORG'>Draper</ent>, Jr.'s <ent type='ORG'>GCI</ent> "front" was not
|
||
|
{apparently} affiliated with the <ent type='ORG'>USIS</ent> "front" or with <ent type='PERSON'>Dillon</ent>,
|
||
|
and the <ent type='ORG'>GCI</ent> escaped the congressmen's limited scrutiny. This
|
||
|
oversight was to prove most unfortunate, particularly to the 50
|
||
|
million people who subsequently died in <ent type='EVENT'>World War</ent> II.
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Dillon Read</ent> hiredpublicrelations man Ivy <ent type='PERSON'>Lee</ent> to prepare
|
||
|
their executives for their testimony and to confuse and further
|
||
|
bafflethe congressmen.s2s5 <ent type='PERSON'>Lee</ent> apparently took enough time out
|
||
|
from his duties as image-maker for <ent type='PERSON'>William</ent> S. <ent type='PERSON'>Farish</ent> and the <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent>
|
||
|
I.G. <ent type='ORG'>Farben</ent> Co.; he managed the congressional thinking so that
|
||
|
the congressmen did not disturb the <ent type='ORG'>Draper</ent> operation in
|
||
|
<ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y--and did not meddle with <ent type='ORG'>Thyssen</ent>, or interfere with
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent>'s U.S. moneymen.
|
||
|
Thus, in 1932, <ent type='GPE'>Willam</ent> H. <ent type='ORG'>Draper</ent>, Jr. was free to finance the
|
||
|
International Eugenics <ent type='ORG'>Congress</ent> as a "Supporting Member."s2s6
|
||
|
Was heusing his own income as a <ent type='ORG'>Thyssen</ent> trust banker? Or did
|
||
|
the funds come from <ent type='ORG'>Dillon Read</ent> corporate accounts, perhaps to be
|
||
|
written off income tax as "expenses for <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> project: race
|
||
|
purification"? <ent type='ORG'>Draper</ent> helped select <ent type='PERSON'>Ernst Rudin</ent> as chief of the
|
||
|
world eugenics movement, who used his office to promote what he
|
||
|
called <ent type='PERSON'>Adolf Hitler</ent>'s "holy, national and international racial
|
||
|
hygienic mission."s2s7
|
||
|
W.S. <ent type='PERSON'>Farish</ent> was publiclyexposed in 1942, humiliated and
|
||
|
destroyed. Just before <ent type='PERSON'>Farish</ent> died, <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> banking
|
||
|
office was quietly seized and shut down. But<ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent>'s close
|
||
|
friendand partner in the <ent type='ORG'>Thyssen</ent>-<ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> business, <ent type='PERSON'>William</ent> H.
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Draper</ent>, Jr., {neither died normoved out of<ent type='NORP'>German</ent>affairs.}
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Draper</ent>listedhimself as adirector of the <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> Credit and
|
||
|
Investment Corp. through 1942, and the firm was not liquidated
|
||
|
until November1943.s2s8 <ent type='PERSON'>Buta</ent> war was on.<ent type='ORG'>Draper</ent>, a colonel
|
||
|
from previous military service, went off to the <ent type='LOC'>Pacific</ent> theater
|
||
|
and became a general.
|
||
|
General <ent type='ORG'>Draper</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>apparentlyhad ahobby</ent>:magic--illusions,
|
||
|
sleight of hand, etc.--and he was a member of <ent type='ORG'>the Society</ent> of
|
||
|
<ent type='NORP'>American</ent> Magicians. This isnot irrelevant to his subsequent
|
||
|
career.
|
||
|
The <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> regime surrendered in May 1945. In July 1945, General
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Draper</ent> was called to <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent> by the <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> military government
|
||
|
authorities in <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y. <ent type='ORG'>Draper</ent> was appointed head of the
|
||
|
Economics Division of the U.S. Control Commission. He was
|
||
|
assigned to take apart the <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> corporate cartels. There is an
|
||
|
astonishing but perfectly logical rationale to this--<ent type='ORG'>Draper</ent> knew
|
||
|
a lot about the subject! General <ent type='ORG'>Draper</ent>, who had spent about 15
|
||
|
years financing and managing the dirtiest of the <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent>
|
||
|
enterprises, was now authorized to decide {who was exposed, who
|
||
|
lost and who kept his business, and in practical effect, who was
|
||
|
prosecuted for war crimes.}s2s9
|
||
|
(<ent type='ORG'>Draper</ent> was not unique within the postwar occ<ent type='PERSON'>upa</ent>tion
|
||
|
government. Consider the case of <ent type='PERSON'>John</ent> J. McCloy, U.S. Military
|
||
|
Governor and High Commissioner of <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y, 1949-1952. Under
|
||
|
instructions from his Wall Street law firm, McCloy had lived for
|
||
|
a year in <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent>, serving as an adviser to the fascist government
|
||
|
of <ent type='PERSON'>Benito Mussolini</ent>. An intimate collaborator of the
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>/<ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> bank, McCloy had sat in <ent type='PERSON'>Adolf Hitler</ent>'s box at the
|
||
|
1936 <ent type='EVENT'>Olympic</ent> games in <ent type='GPE'>Berlin</ent>, at the invitationof <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent>
|
||
|
chieftains <ent type='PERSON'>Rudolf Hess</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'>Hermann Goering</ent>.)s3s0</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> <ent type='PERSON'>William</ent> H. <ent type='ORG'>Draper</ent>, Jr., as a "conservative," was paired with
|
||
|
the "liberal" U.S.<ent type='ORG'>Treasury</ent> Secretary <ent type='PERSON'>Henry Morgenthau</ent> in a
|
||
|
vicious game. <ent type='PERSON'>Morgenthau</ent> demanded that <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y be utterly
|
||
|
destroyed as a nation, that its industry be dismantled and it be
|
||
|
reduced to a purely rural country. As the economic boss in 1945
|
||
|
and 1946, <ent type='ORG'>Draper</ent> "protected" <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y from the <ent type='PERSON'>Morgenthau</ent> Plan
|
||
|
... but at a price.
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Draper</ent> and his colleagues demanded that <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y and the world
|
||
|
acceptthe {collective guilt of the <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> people} as {the
|
||
|
}explanation for the rise of <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent>'s New Order, and the <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> war
|
||
|
crimes. This, of course, was rather convenient for General
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Draper</ent> himself, as it was for the<ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> family. It is still
|
||
|
convenient decades later, allowing <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent>'s son,President
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>, to lecture <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y on the danger of <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent>ism. <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>s are
|
||
|
too slow, it seems, to accept his <ent type='EVENT'>New World</ent> Order.
|
||
|
After several years of government service (often working
|
||
|
directly for <ent type='PERSON'>Averell</ent><ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> in the <ent type='PERSON'>North</ent> <ent type='LOC'>Atlantic</ent> Alliance),
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Draper</ent> was appointed in 1958 chairman of a committee which was to
|
||
|
advise President <ent type='PERSON'>Dwight Eisenhower</ent> on the proper course for U.S.
|
||
|
military aid to other countries. At that time, <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> was
|
||
|
a U.S. senator from <ent type='GPE'>Connecticut</ent>, a confidential friend and golf
|
||
|
partner with <ent type='ORG'>National Security</ent> Director <ent type='PERSON'>Gordon</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Gray</ent>, and an
|
||
|
important golf partner with <ent type='PERSON'>Dwight Eisenhower</ent>as well.
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent>'s old lawyer from the <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> days, <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>John</ent> Foster <ent type='GPE'>Dulles</ent></ent>, was
|
||
|
Secretary of <ent type='ORG'>State</ent>, and his brother <ent type='PERSON'>Allen</ent> <ent type='GPE'>Dulles</ent>, formerly of the
|
||
|
Schroder bank, was head of the <ent type='ORG'>CIA</ent>.
|
||
|
This friendly environment emboldened our General <ent type='ORG'>Draper</ent> to
|
||
|
pull off a stunt with his military aid advisery committee. He
|
||
|
changed the subject under study. The following year, the <ent type='ORG'>Draper</ent>
|
||
|
committee recommended that the U.S. government react to the
|
||
|
supposed threat of the "population explosion" by formulating
|
||
|
plans to depopulate the poorer countries.The growth of the
|
||
|
world's non-white population, he proposed, should be regarded as
|
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dangerous to the national security of <ent type='GPE'>the United States</ent>!s3s1
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President <ent type='PERSON'>Eisenhower</ent> rejected the recommendation. But in the
|
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|
next decade, General <ent type='ORG'>Draper</ent> foundedthe "Population Crisis
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|
<ent type='ORG'>Committee</ent>" and the "<ent type='ORG'>Draper</ent> Fund," joining with the <ent type='ORG'>Rockefeller</ent>
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|
and DuPont families to promote eugenics as "population
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||
|
control." The administration of PresidentLyndon <ent type='PERSON'>John</ent>son,
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|
advised by <ent type='ORG'>Draper</ent> on the subject, began financing birth control
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|
in the tropical countries through the <ent type='ORG'>Agency</ent> for International
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||
|
Development.
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General <ent type='PERSON'>William</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Draper</ent> was <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent>'s guru on the
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population question.s3s2 But there was also <ent type='ORG'>Draper</ent>'s money--from
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that uniquelyhorrible source--and <ent type='ORG'>Draper</ent>'s connections on Wall
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Street and abroad. <ent type='ORG'>Draper</ent>'s son and heir, <ent type='PERSON'>William</ent> H. <ent type='ORG'>Draper</ent> III,
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|
was co-chairman for finance(chiefof fundraising) of the
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<ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>-for-President national campaign organization in 1980. With
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<ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent> in the <ent type='ORG'>White House</ent>, the younger <ent type='ORG'>Draper</ent> heads up the
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|
depopulation activities of the <ent type='ORG'>United Nations</ent> throughout the
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|
world.
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<ent type='ORG'>Draper</ent> was vice president of <ent type='ORG'>Dillon Read</ent> until 1953. During
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the 1950s and 1960s, the chief executive there was Frederic
|
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Brandi, the <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> who was <ent type='ORG'>Draper</ent>'s co-director forthe <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent>
|
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|
investments and his personal contact man with the <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> Steel
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Trust.<ent type='PERSON'>Nicholas Brady</ent> was Brandi'spartner from 1954, and
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replaced him as the firm's chief executive in 1971. Nicholas
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Brady, who knows where all the bodies are buried, was chairman of
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his friend <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent>'s 1980 election campaign in <ent type='GPE'>New Jersey</ent>,
|
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|
and has been United <ent type='ORG'>State</ent>s <ent type='ORG'>Treasury</ent> Secretary throughout <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s
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|
presidency.s3s3</p>
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<p><ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> and Grey</p>
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<p> The U.S. <ent type='ORG'>Agency</ent> for<ent type='ORG'>International Development</ent> (<ent type='ORG'>USAID</ent>) says
|
||
|
that surgical sterilization is the <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> administration's "first
|
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|
choice" method of population reduction in <ent type='EVENT'>the Third World</ent>.s3s4
|
||
|
The <ent type='ORG'>United Nations</ent> Population Fund claims that 37 percent of
|
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|
contraception users in Ibero-<ent type='GPE'>America</ent> and the <ent type='LOC'>Caribbean</ent> have
|
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|
already been surgically sterilized. In a 1991 report, <ent type='PERSON'>William</ent> H.
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<ent type='ORG'>Draper</ent> III's U.N. agency asserts that 254 million couples will be
|
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|
surgically sterilized over the course of the 1990s; and that if
|
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|
present trends continue, 80 percent of the women in <ent type='GPE'>Puerto Rico</ent>
|
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|
and <ent type='GPE'>Panama</ent> will be surgically sterilized.s3s5
|
||
|
The U.S. government pays directly for these sterilizations.
|
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|
<ent type='GPE'>Mexico</ent> is first among targeted nations, on a list which was
|
||
|
drawn up in July 1991, at a <ent type='ORG'>USAID</ent> strategy session.<ent type='GPE'>India</ent> and
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>Brazil</ent> are second and third priorities, respectively.
|
||
|
On contract with the <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> administration, U.S. personnel are
|
||
|
working from bases in <ent type='GPE'>Mexico</ent> to perform surgery on millions of
|
||
|
<ent type='NORP'>Mexican</ent> men and women.The acknowledged strategy in this program
|
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|
is to sterilize those young adults who have not already completed
|
||
|
their families.
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent> has a rather deep-seated personal feeling about
|
||
|
this project, in particular as it pits him against Pope <ent type='PERSON'>John</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Paul</ent>
|
||
|
II in <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> countries such as <ent type='GPE'>Mexico</ent>. (See Chapter 4 below, on
|
||
|
the origin of a <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>-family grudge in this regard.)
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Thespending</ent> for birth control in the non-white countries is
|
||
|
one ofthe few items that is headed upwards inthe <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>
|
||
|
administration budget. As its 1992 budget was being set, <ent type='ORG'>USAID</ent>
|
||
|
said its <ent type='ORG'>Population Account</ent> would receive $300 million, a 20
|
||
|
percent increase over the previous year. Within this project, a
|
||
|
significant sum is spent on political and psychological
|
||
|
manipulations of target nations, and rather blatant subversion of
|
||
|
their religions and governments.s3s6
|
||
|
These activities might be expected to cause serious objections
|
||
|
from the victimized nationalities, or fromU.S. taxpayers,
|
||
|
especially if the program is somehow given widespread publicity.
|
||
|
Quite aside from moral considerations, {legal} questions would
|
||
|
naturally arise, which could be summed up: {How does <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent>
|
||
|
think he can get away with this?}
|
||
|
In this matter the President has expert advice. Mr.
|
||
|
(Clayland) Boyden <ent type='ORG'>Gray</ent> has been counsel to <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent> since the
|
||
|
1980 election.As chief legal officer in the <ent type='ORG'>White House</ent>, Boyden
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Gray</ent> can walk the President through the dangers and complexities
|
||
|
of waging such unusual warfare against Third World populations.
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Gray</ent> knows how these things are done.
|
||
|
When Boyden <ent type='ORG'>Gray</ent> was four and five years old, his father
|
||
|
organized thepilotproject forthe presentworldwide
|
||
|
sterilization program, from the <ent type='ORG'>Gray</ent> family household in <ent type='PERSON'>North</ent>
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>Carolina</ent>.
|
||
|
It started in 1946. The eugenics movement was looking fora
|
||
|
way to begin again in <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>.
|
||
|
<ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> <ent type='ORG'>deathcamps</ent> such as <ent type='ORG'>Auschwitz</ent> had just then seared the
|
||
|
conscience of the world. <ent type='ORG'>The Sterilization League</ent> of <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>,
|
||
|
which had changed its nameduringthe war to "Birthright,
|
||
|
Inc.," wanted to start up again. First theyhad to overcome
|
||
|
public nervousness about crackpots proposing toeliminate
|
||
|
"inferior" and "defective"people. TheLeaguetried to
|
||
|
surface in <ent type='GPE'>Iowa</ent>, but had to backoff because of negative
|
||
|
publicity: a little boy had recently been sterilized there and
|
||
|
had died from the operation.
|
||
|
They decided on <ent type='PERSON'>North</ent> <ent type='GPE'>Carolina</ent>, where the <ent type='ORG'>Gray</ent> family could
|
||
|
play the perfect host.s3s7 Through <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> imperialcontacts,
|
||
|
Boyden<ent type='ORG'>Gray</ent>'s grandfather Bowman <ent type='ORG'>Gray</ent> had become principal owner
|
||
|
of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Boyden's father, <ent type='PERSON'>Gordon</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Gray</ent>,
|
||
|
had recently founded the Bowman <ent type='ORG'>Gray</ent> (memorial) <ent type='ORG'>Medical School</ent> in
|
||
|
Winston-Salem, using his inherited cigarette stock shares. The
|
||
|
medical school was already a eugenics center.
|
||
|
As the experiment began, <ent type='PERSON'>Gordon</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Gray</ent>'s great aunt, Alice
|
||
|
Shelton <ent type='ORG'>Gray</ent>,who had raised him from childhood, was living in
|
||
|
his household.Aunt Alice hadfounded the "Human Betterment
|
||
|
League," the<ent type='PERSON'>North</ent> <ent type='GPE'>Carolina</ent> branch of the national eugenical
|
||
|
sterilization movement.
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Aunt Alicewas</ent> the official supervisorof the 1946-47
|
||
|
experiment. <ent type='ORG'>Working</ent> under Miss <ent type='ORG'>Gray</ent> was Dr. <ent type='PERSON'>Claude Nash Herndon</ent>,
|
||
|
whom <ent type='PERSON'>Gordon</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Gray</ent> had made assistant professor of "medical
|
||
|
genetics" at Bowman <ent type='ORG'>Gray</ent> medical school.
|
||
|
Dr. <ent type='PERSON'>Clarence Gamble</ent>, heir to the <ent type='ORG'>Proctorand Gamble</ent> soap
|
||
|
fortune, was the sterilizers' national field operations chief.
|
||
|
The experiment worked as follows.{All children enrolled in
|
||
|
the school district of Winston-Salem, N.C., were given a special
|
||
|
"intelligencetest." Those children who scored below a certain
|
||
|
arbitrary low mark were then cut open and surgically sterilized.}
|
||
|
We quote now from the official story of the project: "In
|
||
|
Winston-Salem and in [nearby] <ent type='GPE'>Orange County</ent>, <ent type='PERSON'>North</ent> <ent type='GPE'>Carolina</ent>, the
|
||
|
[<ent type='ORG'>Sterilization League</ent>'s] field committee had participated in
|
||
|
testing projects to identify school age children who should be
|
||
|
considered for sterilization. The project in <ent type='GPE'>Orange County</ent> was
|
||
|
conducted by <ent type='ORG'>the University</ent> of <ent type='PERSON'>North</ent> <ent type='GPE'>Carolina</ent> and was financed by
|
||
|
a 'Mr. <ent type='PERSON'>Hanes</ent>,' a friend of <ent type='PERSON'>Clarence Gamble</ent> and supporter of the
|
||
|
field work project in <ent type='PERSON'>North</ent> <ent type='GPE'>Carolina</ent>. The Winston-Salem project
|
||
|
was also financed by <ent type='PERSON'>Hanes</ent>. ["<ent type='PERSON'>Hanes</ent>" was underwear mogul James
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Gordon</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Hanes</ent>, a trustee of Bowman <ent type='ORG'>Gray</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Medical School</ent> and
|
||
|
treasurer of Alice <ent type='ORG'>Gray</ent>'s group]....
|
||
|
"The medical school hada long history of interest in
|
||
|
eugenics and had compiled extensive histories of families
|
||
|
carrying inheritable disease. In 1946, Dr. C. Nash <ent type='PERSON'>Herndon</ent> ...
|
||
|
made a statement to the press on the use ofsterilization to
|
||
|
prevent the spread of inheritable diseases....
|
||
|
"The first step after giving the mental tests to grade school
|
||
|
children was to interpret and make public the results.In Orange
|
||
|
County the results indicated that three percent of the school age
|
||
|
children were either insane or feebleminded.... [Then] the field
|
||
|
committee hired a social worker to review each case ... and to
|
||
|
present any cases in which sterilization was indicated to the
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>State</ent> Eugenics <ent type='ORG'>Board</ent>, whichunder <ent type='PERSON'>North</ent> <ent type='GPE'>Carolina</ent> law had the
|
||
|
authority to order sterilization...."
|
||
|
Race science experimenter Dr. Claude Nash<ent type='PERSON'>Herndon</ent> provided
|
||
|
more details in an interview in 1990:s3s8
|
||
|
"Alice <ent type='ORG'>Gray</ent> was the general supervisor of the project. She
|
||
|
and <ent type='PERSON'>Hanes</ent> sent out <ent type='PERSON'>letterspromoting theprogram</ent> to the
|
||
|
commissioners of all 100 counties in <ent type='PERSON'>North</ent> <ent type='GPE'>Carolina</ent>.... What did
|
||
|
I do? Nothing besides riding herd onthe whole thing! The
|
||
|
social workers operated out of my office. I was at the time also
|
||
|
director of outpatient services at <ent type='PERSON'>North</ent><ent type='GPE'>Carolina</ent> Baptist
|
||
|
Hospital. We would see the [targeted] parents and children
|
||
|
there.... I.Q. tests wererun on all the children in the
|
||
|
Winston-Salem public school system. Only theones who scored
|
||
|
reallylow [were targeted for sterilization], the real bottom of
|
||
|
the barrel, like below 70.
|
||
|
"Did we do sterilizations on young children? Yes. This was a
|
||
|
relatively minor operation....It was usually not until the
|
||
|
child was eight or ten years old. For the boys, you just make an
|
||
|
incision and tie thetube.... <ent type='PERSON'>Wemore</ent> often performed the
|
||
|
operation on girls than with boys. Of course, you have to cut
|
||
|
open the abdomen, but again, it is relatively minor."
|
||
|
Dr.<ent type='PERSON'>Herndon</ent> remarked coolly that "we had a very good
|
||
|
relationship with the press" for <ent type='PERSON'>theproject</ent>. This is not
|
||
|
surprising, since <ent type='PERSON'>Gordon</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Gray</ent> owned the {Winston-Salem Journal,}
|
||
|
the {<ent type='GPE'>Twin City Sentinel</ent>,} and radio station WSJS.
|
||
|
In 1950 and 1951, <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>John</ent> Foster <ent type='GPE'>Dulles</ent></ent>, <ent type='PERSON'>thenchairman</ent> of the
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Rockefeller</ent> Foundation, led <ent type='PERSON'>John</ent> D. <ent type='ORG'>Rockefeller</ent> III on a series
|
||
|
of world tours, focusing on the need to stop the expansion of the
|
||
|
non-white populations.In November 1952, <ent type='GPE'>Dulles</ent> and <ent type='ORG'>Rockefeller</ent>
|
||
|
set up the <ent type='ORG'>Population Council</ent>, with tens of millions of dollars
|
||
|
from the <ent type='ORG'>Rockefeller</ent> family.
|
||
|
At that point, the <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> Eugenics <ent type='ORG'>Society</ent>, still cautious
|
||
|
from the recent badpublicity vis-a-vis <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent>, left its old
|
||
|
headquarters at <ent type='ORG'>Yale</ent>University. The <ent type='ORG'>Society</ent> moved its
|
||
|
headquarters into the office of the <ent type='ORG'>Population Council</ent>, and the
|
||
|
two groups melded together. The long-time secretary of the
|
||
|
Eugenics <ent type='ORG'>Society</ent>, <ent type='ORG'>Frederick</ent> Osborne, became the first president
|
||
|
of the <ent type='ORG'>Population Council</ent>. The <ent type='ORG'>Gray</ent> family'schild-sterilizer,
|
||
|
Dr. C. Nash <ent type='PERSON'>Herndon</ent>, became president of the <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> Eugenics
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Society</ent> in 1953, <ent type='ORG'>asits</ent> work expanded under <ent type='ORG'>Rockefeller</ent>
|
||
|
patronage.
|
||
|
Meanwhile, the International <ent type='ORG'>Planned Parenthood</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Fed</ent>eration was
|
||
|
founded in <ent type='GPE'>London</ent>, in the officesof the <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> Eugenics
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Society</ent>.
|
||
|
The undead enemy from <ent type='EVENT'>World War</ent> II, renamed "Population
|
||
|
Control," had now been revived.
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent> was U.S. ambassador to the <ent type='ORG'>United Nations</ent> in 1972,
|
||
|
when with prodding from <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> and his friends, <ent type='GPE'>the United States</ent>
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Agency</ent> for <ent type='ORG'>International Developmentfirst</ent> made an official
|
||
|
contract with the old <ent type='ORG'>Sterilization League</ent> of <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>. The league
|
||
|
had changed its name twiceagain,and was now called the
|
||
|
"Association for Voluntary Surgical Contraception."The U.S.
|
||
|
government began paying <ent type='ORG'>theold</ent> fascist group to sterilize
|
||
|
non-whites in foreign countries.
|
||
|
The <ent type='ORG'>Gray</ent> family experiment had succeeded.
|
||
|
In 1988, the U.S. <ent type='ORG'>Agency</ent> for <ent type='ORG'>International Development</ent> signed
|
||
|
its latest contract with the old <ent type='ORG'>Sterilization League</ent> (a.k.a.
|
||
|
"Association for Voluntary Sterilization"), committing the
|
||
|
U.S. government to spend $80 million over five years.
|
||
|
Having gotten away with sterilizing several hundred <ent type='PERSON'>North</ent>
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>Carolina</ent> school children, "not usually less than eight to ten
|
||
|
years old," the identical group is now authorized by President
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> to do it to 58 countries in <ent type='LOC'>Asia</ent>, <ent type='LOC'>Africa</ent>, and Ibero-<ent type='GPE'>America</ent>.
|
||
|
The group modestly claims it has directly sterilized only2
|
||
|
million people, with87 percent of the bill paid by U.S.
|
||
|
taxpayers.
|
||
|
Meanwhile, Dr. <ent type='PERSON'>Clarence Gamble</ent>, Boyden <ent type='ORG'>Gray</ent>'s favorite soap
|
||
|
manufacturer, formed his own "<ent type='ORG'>Pathfinder Fund</ent>" as a split-off
|
||
|
from the Sterlization League.Gamble's <ent type='ORG'>Pathfinder Fund</ent>, with
|
||
|
additional millions from <ent type='ORG'>USAID</ent>, concentrates on penetration of
|
||
|
local social groups in the non-white countries, to break down
|
||
|
psychological resistance to the surgical sterilization teams.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>Notes</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>1. <ent type='PERSON'>Phyllis Tilson</ent> Piotrow, {World Population Crisis: The United
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>State</ent>sResponse} (<ent type='GPE'>New York</ent>: Praeger Publishers, 1973),
|
||
|
"Forward" by <ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> H.W. <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>, pp. vii-viii.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>2.
|
||
|
Adolf<ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent>, {MeinKampf} (<ent type='GPE'>Boston</ent>, Houghton Mifflin Company,
|
||
|
1971), p. 404.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>3. "<ent type='ORG'>The Ten Richest People</ent> in <ent type='GPE'>Houston</ent>," in {<ent type='GPE'>Houston</ent> Post
|
||
|
Magazine,} March 11, 1984. "$150 milion to $250 million from ...
|
||
|
inheritance, plus <ent type='ORG'>subsequentinvestments</ent> ... chief heir to a
|
||
|
family fortune in oil stock.... As to his financial interests,
|
||
|
he is ... coy. He once described one of his businesses as a
|
||
|
company that 'invests in and oversees a lot of smallercompanies
|
||
|
... in a lot of foreign countries.'|"</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>4. The announcementswere made in testimony before a Special
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Committee</ent> of the U.S. <ent type='ORG'>Senate</ent> Investigating theNational Defense
|
||
|
Program. The hearings on <ent type='ORG'>Standard Oil</ent> were held March 5, 24, 26,
|
||
|
27, 31, and April 1, 2, 3 and 7, 1942. Available on microfiche,
|
||
|
law section, <ent type='ORG'>Library</ent>of <ent type='ORG'>Congress</ent>. See also {<ent type='GPE'>New York</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Time</ent>s,}
|
||
|
March 26 and March 27, 1942, and {<ent type='GPE'>Washington</ent> Evening Star,} March
|
||
|
26 and March 27, 1942.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>5. {<ent type='PERSON'>Ibid</ent>.,} Exhibit No. 368, printed on pp. 4584-87 of the
|
||
|
hearing record. Seealso Charles Higham,{Trading With The
|
||
|
Enemy} (<ent type='GPE'>New York</ent>: <ent type='ORG'>Delacorte Press</ent>, 1983), p. 36.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>6. Confidential memorandum from U.S. Embassy, <ent type='GPE'>Berlin</ent>, {op.
|
||
|
cit.,} chapter2. Sir <ent type='PERSON'>Henri Deterding</ent> was among the most
|
||
|
notorious pro-<ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent>s of the early war period.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>7. See sections on <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> in <ent type='PERSON'>Darwin Payne</ent>, {Initiative in
|
||
|
Energy: <ent type='PERSON'>Dresser</ent> Industries, Inc.} (<ent type='GPE'>New York</ent>: Distributed by <ent type='PERSON'>Simon</ent>
|
||
|
and <ent type='PERSON'>Schuster</ent>, 1979) (published by the <ent type='PERSON'>Dresser</ent> Company).</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>8. <ent type='PERSON'>William</ent> Stamps <ent type='PERSON'>Farish</ent> obituary, {<ent type='GPE'>New York</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Time</ent>s,} Nov. 30,
|
||
|
1942.</p>
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<p>9. {A Decade of Progress in Eugenics: Scientific Papers of the
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Third International <ent type='ORG'>Congress</ent> of Eugenics held at <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> Museum
|
||
|
of Natural History <ent type='GPE'>New York</ent>, August 21-23, 1932.} (<ent type='GPE'>Baltimore</ent>:
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>William</ent>s & Wilkins Company, September, 1934).
|
||
|
Theterm "eugenics" <ent type='GPE'>istaken</ent> from the <ent type='NORP'>Greek</ent> to signify
|
||
|
"good birth" or "well-born," as <ent type='ORG'>inaristocrat</ent>. Its basic
|
||
|
assumption isthat those who are not "well-born" should not
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||
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exist.</p>
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<p>10.
|
||
|
See among other such letters, <ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Herbert</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Walker</ent>, 39
|
||
|
Broadway, N.Y., to W. A. <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>London</ent>, February 21, 1925, in
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||
|
W.A. <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> papers.</p>
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<p>11.
|
||
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<ent type='PERSON'>Averell</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> to Dr. Charles B. <ent type='PERSON'>Davenport</ent>, President, The
|
||
|
International <ent type='ORG'>Congress</ent> of Eugenics,Cold Spring Harbor, L.I.,
|
||
|
N.Y.:</p>
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||
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|
||
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<p> January 21, 1932
|
||
|
Dear Dr. <ent type='PERSON'>Davenport</ent>:
|
||
|
I will be only too glad to putyou in touchwith the
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>Hamburg</ent>-<ent type='NORP'>American</ent> Linethey may be able to co-operate in making
|
||
|
suggestions which will keep the expenses to a minimum. I have
|
||
|
referred your letter to Mr. <ent type='PERSON'>Emil Lederer</ent> [of the <ent type='GPE'>Hamburg</ent>-<ent type='NORP'>Amerika</ent>
|
||
|
executive board in <ent type='GPE'>New York</ent>] with the request that he communicate
|
||
|
with you.</p>
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||
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|
||
|
<p> <ent type='PERSON'>Davenport</ent> to Mr. W.A. <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>, 59Wall Street, <ent type='GPE'>New York</ent>,
|
||
|
N.Y.</p>
|
||
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|
||
|
<p> January 23, 1932
|
||
|
Dear Mr. <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>:
|
||
|
Thank you very much for your kind letter of January 21st and
|
||
|
the action you took which has resulted at once in a letter from
|
||
|
Mr. <ent type='PERSON'>Emil Lederer</ent>. This letter will serve as a starting point for
|
||
|
correspondence, which I hope will enable more of our <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>
|
||
|
colleagues tocome to <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> on the occasion of the congresses
|
||
|
of eugenics and genetics, than otherwise.</p>
|
||
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|
||
|
<p> <ent type='ORG'>Congress</ent>ional hearingsin 1934 established that
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>Hamburg</ent>-<ent type='NORP'>Amerika</ent> routinely provided free transatlantic passage for
|
||
|
those carrying out <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> propaganda chores. See {Investigation of
|
||
|
<ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Propaganda</ent> Activities and Investigation of Certain Other
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Propaganda</ent> Activities,} {op. cit.,} chapter 2.</p>
|
||
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|
||
|
<p>12.
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Alexis Carrel</ent>, {Man the Unknown} (<ent type='GPE'>New York</ent>: Halcyon <ent type='ORG'>House</ent>,
|
||
|
published by arrangement with Harper & Brothers, 1935), pp.
|
||
|
318-19.
|
||
|
The battle cry of <ent type='EVENT'>the New</ent> Order was sounded in 1935with the
|
||
|
publication of {Man the Unknown,} by Dr. <ent type='PERSON'>Alexis Carrel</ent> of the
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Rockefeller</ent> Institute in <ent type='GPE'>New York</ent>. This Nobel Prize-winner said
|
||
|
"enormous sums are now required to maintain prisons and insane
|
||
|
asylums.... Why do we preserve these useless and harmful
|
||
|
beings? This fact must be squarely faced. Why should society
|
||
|
not dispose of the criminals and the insane in a more economical
|
||
|
manner? ... The community must be protected against troublesome
|
||
|
and dangerouselements.... Perhaps prisons should be
|
||
|
abolished....The conditioning of the petty criminal with the
|
||
|
whip, or some more scientific procedure, followed by a short stay
|
||
|
in hospital, would probably suffice to insure order. [Criminals,
|
||
|
including those] who have ... misled the public onimportant
|
||
|
matters, should be humanely and economically disposed of in small
|
||
|
euthanasic institutions supplied with proper gases.A similar
|
||
|
treatment could be advantageously applied to the insane, guilty
|
||
|
of criminal acts."
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Carrel</ent> claimed tohave transplanted the head of a dog to
|
||
|
another dog and kept it alive for quite some time.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>13.
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Bernhard Schreiber</ent>, {The Men Behind <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent>: A <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> Warning to
|
||
|
the World,} <ent type='GPE'>France</ent>: La Hay-Mureaux, ca. 1975), English language
|
||
|
edition supplied by H.& P. Tadeusz, 369 Edgewere Road, <ent type='GPE'>London</ent>
|
||
|
W2. Acopy of this book is now held by <ent type='ORG'>Union College Library</ent>,
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>Syracuse</ent>, N.Y.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>14.
|
||
|
Higham, {op. cit.,} p. 35.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>15.
|
||
|
Engagement announced Feb. 10, 1939, {<ent type='GPE'>New York</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Time</ent>s,}p. 20.
|
||
|
See also {Directory of Directors} for <ent type='GPE'>New York</ent> City, 1930s and
|
||
|
1940s.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>16.
|
||
|
Higham, {op. cit.,} pp. 20, 22 and other references to
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Schroeder</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'>Lindemann</ent>.
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Anthony Sutton</ent>, {Wall Street and the Rise of <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent>} (Seal
|
||
|
Beach: '76 <ent type='ORG'>Press</ent>, 1976). <ent type='PERSON'>Sutton</ent> is also a good source on the
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>s.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>17.
|
||
|
{<ent type='GPE'>Washington</ent> Evening Star,} March 27, 1942, p.1.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>18. Higham, {op. cit.} p. 50.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>19.
|
||
|
{<ent type='PERSON'>Ibid</ent>.,} p. 48.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>20.
|
||
|
{<ent type='GPE'>Washington</ent> Post,} April 29, 1990, p. F4. Higham, {op. cit.,}
|
||
|
pp. 52-53.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>21.
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Zapata</ent> annual reports, 1950s-1960s, <ent type='ORG'>Library</ent> of <ent type='ORG'>Congress</ent>
|
||
|
microforms.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>22.
|
||
|
See {<ent type='ORG'>Congress</ent>ional Record} for <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> speech in the <ent type='ORG'>House</ent> of
|
||
|
Representatives, Sept. 4, 1969. <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> inserted in the record the
|
||
|
testimony given before his Task Force on August 5, 1969.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>23. <ent type='ORG'>Sobel</ent>, {op. cit.,} pp. 92-111. See also Boyle, {op. cit.,}
|
||
|
chapter 1, concerning the <ent type='PERSON'>Morgan</ent>-led Dawes <ent type='ORG'>Committee</ent> of <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y's
|
||
|
foreign creditors.
|
||
|
Like <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>, <ent type='PERSON'>Dillon</ent> used the <ent type='PERSON'>Schroeder</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>Warburg</ent> banks to
|
||
|
strike his <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> bargains. All <ent type='ORG'>Dillon Read</ent> & Co. affairs in
|
||
|
<ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y were supervised by J.P. <ent type='PERSON'>Morgan</ent> & Co. partner Thomas
|
||
|
Lamont, and were authorized by Bank of <ent type='GPE'>England</ent> Governor Montagu
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Norman</ent>.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>24. See {Poor's Register of Directors and Executives,} (<ent type='GPE'>New York</ent>:
|
||
|
Poor's Publishing Company, late 1920s, '30s and '40s).See also
|
||
|
{<ent type='ORG'>Standard</ent> Corporation Records} (<ent type='GPE'>New York</ent>: <ent type='ORG'>Standard</ent> & Poor), 1935
|
||
|
edition pp. 2571-25,and 1938 edition pp. 7436-38, for
|
||
|
description and history of the <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> Credit and Investment
|
||
|
Corporation. For <ent type='PERSON'>Frederic Brandi</ent>, See also <ent type='ORG'>Sobel</ent>, {op. cit.,} p.
|
||
|
213-214.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>25. <ent type='ORG'>Sobel</ent>, {op. cit.,} pp. 180, 186.Ivy <ent type='PERSON'>Lee</ent> had been hired to
|
||
|
improve the <ent type='ORG'>Rockefeller</ent> family image, particularlydifficult
|
||
|
after their 1914 massacre of striking miners and pregnant women
|
||
|
in <ent type='GPE'>Ludlow</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Colorado</ent>. <ent type='PERSON'>Lee</ent> got old <ent type='PERSON'>John</ent> D. <ent type='ORG'>Rockefeller</ent> to pass out
|
||
|
dimes to poor people lined up at his porch.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>26.
|
||
|
ThirdInternational Eugenics <ent type='ORG'>Congress</ent> papers {op. cit.,}
|
||
|
footnote 7, p.512, "Supporting Members."</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>27.
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Schreiber</ent>, {op. cit.,} p. 160. The Third Int. Eugenics <ent type='ORG'>Congress</ent>
|
||
|
papers, p. 526, lists the officers of the International
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Fed</ent>eration as of publication date in September, 1934.<ent type='PERSON'>Rudin</ent> is
|
||
|
listed as president--a year after <ent type='PERSON'>hehas</ent> written the
|
||
|
sterilization law for <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent>.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>28.
|
||
|
{Directory of Directors for <ent type='GPE'>New York</ent> City,} 1942. Interview with
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Nancy Bowles</ent>, librarian of <ent type='ORG'>Dillon Read</ent> & Co.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>29.
|
||
|
Higham, {op. cit.,} p. 129, 212-15, 219-23.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>30.
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Walter Isaacson</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'>Evan Thomas</ent>, {The Wise Men: Six Friends and
|
||
|
the World They Made--<ent type='PERSON'>Acheson</ent>, Bohlen, <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>, Kennan, <ent type='PERSON'>Lovett</ent>,
|
||
|
McCloy} (<ent type='GPE'>New York</ent>: <ent type='PERSON'>Simon</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'>Schuster</ent>, 1986), pp. 122, 305.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>31.
|
||
|
Piotrow, {op. cit.,} pp. 36-42.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>32.
|
||
|
{<ent type='PERSON'>Ibid</ent>.,} p. viii. "As chairman of the special <ent type='NORP'>Republican</ent> Task
|
||
|
Force on Population and Earth Resources, I was impressed by the
|
||
|
arguments of <ent type='PERSON'>William</ent> H. <ent type='ORG'>Draper</ent>, Jr.... General <ent type='ORG'>Draper</ent> continues
|
||
|
to lead through his tireless work for the U.N. Population Fund."</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>33.
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Sobel</ent>, {op. cit.,} pp. 298, 354.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>34.
|
||
|
Interview July 16, 1991, with <ent type='PERSON'>Joanne Grossi</ent>, an official with
|
||
|
the <ent type='ORG'>USAID</ent>'s Population Office.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>35. Dr. <ent type='PERSON'>Nafis Sadik</ent>, "The <ent type='ORG'>State</ent> of World Population," 1991, New
|
||
|
York, <ent type='ORG'>United Nations</ent> Population Fund.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>36.
|
||
|
See {User's Guide to <ent type='ORG'>the Office</ent> of Population,} 1991, Office of
|
||
|
Population, Bureau forScience and Technology, United <ent type='ORG'>State</ent>s
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Agency</ent>for <ent type='ORG'>International Development</ent>. Available from S&T/POP,
|
||
|
Room 811 SA-18, <ent type='ORG'>USAID</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Washington</ent> D.C. 20523-1819.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>37. "History of the Association for Voluntary Sterilization
|
||
|
[formerly <ent type='ORG'>Sterilization League</ent> of <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>], 1935-64," thesis
|
||
|
submitted to the faculty of the graduate school of <ent type='ORG'>the University</ent>
|
||
|
of <ent type='GPE'>Minnesota</ent> by <ent type='PERSON'>William</ent> Ray Van Essendelft, March, 1978,
|
||
|
available on microfilm, <ent type='ORG'>Library</ent> of <ent type='ORG'>Congress</ent>. This is the official
|
||
|
history, written with full cooperation ofthe Sterilization
|
||
|
League.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>38.
|
||
|
Interview with Dr. C. Nash <ent type='PERSON'>Herndon</ent>, June 20, 1990.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>Any comments, please send by email, as I get very far behind on
|
||
|
this group.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>Thanks.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> <ent type='PERSON'>John Covici</ent></p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>coviciccs.covici.com</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>Article 15412 of alt.activism:
|
||
|
From: covici@ccs.covici.com (<ent type='PERSON'>John Covici</ent>)
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>Newsgroups</ent>: alt.activism
|
||
|
Subject: Part 4: <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent> Unauthorized Biography
|
||
|
<info type="Message-ID"> uNcTeB1w164w@ccs.covici.com</info>
|
||
|
Date: 19 Jan 92 20:12:41 GMT
|
||
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Organization: Covici Computer Systems
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||
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Lines: 1271</p>
|
||
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|
||
|
<p>The following is part of a not yet published book being serialized in
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>New Federalist</ent>. For further information, or to subscribe, please
|
||
|
contact me by e-mail.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>CHAPTER 4: "THE CENTER OFPOWER IS IN <ent type='GPE'>WASHINGTON</ent>" <ent type='PERSON'>Brown</ent>
|
||
|
Brothers <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> & Co. 59 Wall Street, <ent type='GPE'>New York</ent> Cable Address
|
||
|
"Shipley-<ent type='GPE'>New York</ent>" Business Established 1818
|
||
|
Private Bankers</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>September 5, 1944</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>The Honorable W. A. <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> Ambassador to the U.S.S.R.
|
||
|
<ent type='NORP'>American</ent> Embassy, <ent type='GPE'>Moscow</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent></p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>Dear <ent type='PERSON'>Averell</ent>:</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> Thinking that possibly <ent type='ORG'>Bullitt</ent>'s article in the recent issue
|
||
|
of "LIFE" may not have come to your attention, I have clipped
|
||
|
it and am sending it to you, feeling that it will interest you.
|
||
|
At present writing all is well here.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>With warm regards, I am, Sincerely yours,</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> Pres</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> 'At present writing all is well here." Thus the ambassador to
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent> was reassured by themanaging partner of his firm,
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>. Only 22 anda half months before, the U.S.
|
||
|
government had seized and shut down <ent type='ORG'>the Union</ent> Banking
|
||
|
Corporation, which had been operated on behalf of <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y by
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> and the<ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>s. But that was behind them now, and they
|
||
|
were safe. There would be nopublicity on the <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>-<ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>
|
||
|
sponsorship of <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent>ism.
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent>'s son <ent type='PERSON'>George</ent>, the future U.S. President, was also
|
||
|
safe. Three days before this note to <ent type='GPE'>Moscow</ent> was written, <ent type='PERSON'>George</ent>
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> had parachuted from a <ent type='ORG'>Navy</ent> bomber airplane over the <ent type='LOC'>Pacific</ent>
|
||
|
Ocean, killing his two crew members when the unpiloted plane
|
||
|
crashed.
|
||
|
Five months later, in February 1945, <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent>'s boss <ent type='PERSON'>Averell</ent>
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> escorted President <ent type='PERSON'>Franklin Roosevelt</ent> to the fateful
|
||
|
summit meetingwith <ent type='NORP'>Soviet</ent> leader <ent type='PERSON'>Joseph</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Stalin</ent> at <ent type='GPE'>Yalta</ent>. In
|
||
|
April <ent type='PERSON'>Roosevelt</ent> died. The agreement reached at <ent type='GPE'>Yalta</ent>, calling
|
||
|
for free elections in <ent type='GPE'>Poland</ent> oncethe war ended, was never
|
||
|
enforced.
|
||
|
Over the next eight years (1945 through 1952), <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>
|
||
|
was <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>'sanchorin the <ent type='GPE'>New York</ent> financial world. The
|
||
|
increasingly powerful Mr. <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> and his allies gave <ent type='LOC'>East</ent>ern
|
||
|
<ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent> over to <ent type='NORP'>Soviet</ent> dictatorship. A <ent type='PERSON'>Cold Warwas</ent> then
|
||
|
undertaken, to "counterbalance" the <ent type='NORP'>Soviet</ent>s.
|
||
|
This <ent type='NORP'>British</ent>-inspired strategy paid several nightmarish
|
||
|
dividends. <ent type='LOC'>East</ent>ern <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent> was to remain enslaved. <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y was
|
||
|
"permanently" divided. Anglo-<ent type='NORP'>American</ent> power was jointly
|
||
|
exercised over the non-<ent type='NORP'>Soviet</ent> "Free World." The confidential
|
||
|
functions of the <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> and <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> governments were merged.
|
||
|
The <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> clique took possession of the U.S. national security
|
||
|
apparatus, and in doing so, they opened the gate and let the <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>
|
||
|
family in.
|
||
|
- * * * -</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> Following his services to <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y's <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> Party, <ent type='PERSON'>Averell</ent>
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> spentseveral yearsmediating between the <ent type='NORP'>British</ent>,
|
||
|
<ent type='NORP'>American</ent>, and <ent type='NORP'>Soviet</ent> governments in the war to stop the <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent>s. He
|
||
|
was ambassador to <ent type='GPE'>Moscow</ent> from 1943 to 1946.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> President <ent type='PERSON'>Harry Truman</ent>, whom <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> and his friends held in
|
||
|
amused contempt, appointed <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> U.S. ambassador to <ent type='GPE'>Britain</ent>
|
||
|
in 1946.
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> was at lunch with former <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> Prime Minister
|
||
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Winston <ent type='ORG'>Churchill</ent> oneday in 1946,when <ent type='PERSON'>Truman</ent> telephoned.
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<ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> asked <ent type='ORG'>Churchill</ent> if he should accept <ent type='PERSON'>Truman</ent>'s offer to
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come back to the U.S. as Secretary of <ent type='ORG'>Commerce</ent>. According to
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<ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>'s account, <ent type='ORG'>Churchill</ent> told him: "Absolutely. The center
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|
of power is in <ent type='GPE'>Washington</ent>."s1</p>
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<p> <ent type='LOC'>Jupiter</ent> Island</p>
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<p> The reorganization of the <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> government after <ent type='EVENT'>World War</ent>
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|
II--the creation of the U.S. <ent type='ORG'>Central Intelligence</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Agency</ent> along
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<ent type='NORP'>British</ent> lines, for example--had devastating consequences. We are
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|
concerned here with only certain aspects of that overall
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|
transformation, thosematters of policy and family which gave
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shape to the life and mind of <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent>, and gave him access to
|
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|
power.
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It was in these postwar years that <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent> attended <ent type='ORG'>Yale</ent>
|
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|
University, and was inducted into the <ent type='ORG'>Skull</ent> and Bones society.
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|
The <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> family's home at that time was in <ent type='GPE'>Greenwich</ent>,
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|
<ent type='GPE'>Connecticut</ent>. But it was just then that <ent type='PERSON'>George</ent>'s parents, <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent>
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|
and <ent type='PERSON'>Dorothy</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Walker</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>, were wintering in a peculiar spot in
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|
<ent type='GPE'>Florida</ent>, a place that is excluded from mention in literature
|
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|
originating from <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> circles.
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Certain national news accounts early in 1991 featured the
|
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|
observations on President <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s childhood by his elderly mother
|
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<ent type='PERSON'>Dorothy</ent>. She was said to be a resident of <ent type='LOC'>Hobe Sound</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Florida</ent>.
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|
More precisely, the President's mother lived in a hyper-security
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arrangement created a half-century earlier by <ent type='PERSON'>Averell</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>,
|
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|
adjacent to <ent type='LOC'>Hobe Sound</ent>. Its correct name is <ent type='LOC'>Jupiter</ent> Island.
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|
During his political career, <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent> has claimed many
|
||
|
different "home" states, including <ent type='GPE'>Texas</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Maine</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Massachusetts</ent>,
|
||
|
and <ent type='GPE'>Connecticut</ent>. <ent type='PERSON'>Ithas</ent> not been expedient for him to claim
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>Florida</ent>, though that state has a vital link to his role in the
|
||
|
world, as we shall see. And <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent>'s home base in <ent type='GPE'>Florida</ent>,
|
||
|
throughout his adult life, has been <ent type='LOC'>Jupiter</ent> Island.
|
||
|
The unique, bizarre setup on <ent type='LOC'>Jupiter</ent> Island <ent type='GPE'>beganin</ent> 1931,
|
||
|
following <ent type='GPE'>themergerof</ent> W.A. <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> and Co.with the
|
||
|
<ent type='NORP'>British</ent>-<ent type='NORP'>American</ent> firm <ent type='ORG'>Brown Brothers</ent>.
|
||
|
The reader will recall Mr. Samuel <ent type='PERSON'>Pryor</ent>, the "Merchant of
|
||
|
Death." A partner with the <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>s, <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>, <ent type='PERSON'>George</ent>
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Walker</ent>, and <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> boss <ent type='PERSON'>Fritz Thyssen</ent> in banking and shipping
|
||
|
enterprises, Sam <ent type='PERSON'>Pryor</ent> remained executive committee chairman of
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Remington Arms</ent>. In this period, the <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> private armies (SA and
|
||
|
SS) were supplied with <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> arms--most likely by <ent type='PERSON'>Pryor</ent> and
|
||
|
his company--as they moved tooverthrow the<ent type='NORP'>German</ent>republic.
|
||
|
Such gun-running as an instrument of national policy would later
|
||
|
become notorious in the "<ent type='GPE'>Iran</ent>-Contra" affair.
|
||
|
Sam <ent type='PERSON'>Pryor</ent>'s daughter <ent type='PERSON'>Permelia</ent> married <ent type='ORG'>Yale</ent> graduate <ent type='PERSON'>Joseph</ent> V.
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Reed</ent> on the last day of 1927. <ent type='PERSON'>Reed</ent> immediately went to work for
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Walker</ent>, as an apprentice at W.A.
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> and Co.
|
||
|
During <ent type='EVENT'>World War</ent> II, <ent type='PERSON'>Joseph</ent> V. <ent type='PERSON'>Reed</ent> had served in the
|
||
|
"special services" section of the U.S. <ent type='ORG'>Army</ent>SignalCorps.A
|
||
|
specialist insecurity, codes and espionage, <ent type='PERSON'>Reed</ent> later wrote a
|
||
|
book entitled {Fun with Cryptograms}.s2</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> Sam <ent type='PERSON'>Pryor</ent> had had property around <ent type='LOC'>Hobe Sound</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Florida</ent>, for
|
||
|
some time. In 1931, <ent type='PERSON'>Joseph</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'>Permelia</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Pryor</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Reed</ent> bought the
|
||
|
entirety of <ent type='LOC'>Jupiter</ent> Island.
|
||
|
This is atypically beautiful <ent type='LOC'>Atlantic</ent>coast"barrier
|
||
|
island," a half-milewide and nine miles long. The middle of
|
||
|
<ent type='LOC'>Jupiter</ent> Islandlies just off <ent type='LOC'>Hobe Sound</ent>. The south bridge
|
||
|
connects the island with the town of <ent type='LOC'>Jupiter</ent>, to the north of
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>Palm Beach</ent>. It is about 90 minutes by auto from <ent type='GPE'>Miami</ent>--today,a
|
||
|
few minutes by helicopter.
|
||
|
Early in 1991, a newspaper reporter asked a friend of the <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>
|
||
|
family about security arrangements on <ent type='LOC'>Jupiter</ent> Island. He
|
||
|
responded, "If you called up the <ent type='ORG'>White House</ent>,would they tell
|
||
|
you how many security people they had? It's not that <ent type='LOC'>Jupiter</ent>
|
||
|
Island is the <ent type='ORG'>White House</ent>, although he [<ent type='PERSON'>George</ent><ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>] does come
|
||
|
down frequently."
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Butfor</ent> several decades before <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> was President, <ent type='LOC'>Jupiter</ent>
|
||
|
Islandhad an ordinance requiring the registration and
|
||
|
fingerprinting of all housekeepers, gardeners, and other
|
||
|
non-residents working on the island. The <ent type='LOC'>Jupiter</ent> Island police
|
||
|
department says that there are sensors in the two main roads that
|
||
|
can track every automobile on the island. If a car stops in the
|
||
|
street, the police will be there within oneor two minutes.
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Surveillance</ent> is a duty of all employees of the Town of <ent type='LOC'>Jupiter</ent>
|
||
|
Island. News reporters are to be prevented from visiting the
|
||
|
island.s3
|
||
|
To create this astonishing private club, <ent type='PERSON'>Joseph</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'>Permelia</ent>
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Pryor</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Reed</ent> sold land only to those who would fit in. <ent type='PERSON'>Permelia</ent>
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Reed</ent> was still the grande dame of the island when <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent> was
|
||
|
inaugurated <ent type='ORG'>Presidentin</ent> 1989. In recognition of the fact that
|
||
|
the <ent type='PERSON'>Reed</ent>s know where {all} the bodies are buried, President <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>
|
||
|
appointed <ent type='PERSON'>Permelia</ent>'s son, <ent type='PERSON'>Joseph</ent> V. <ent type='PERSON'>Reed</ent>, Jr., chief of protocol
|
||
|
for the U.S. <ent type='ORG'>State</ent> Dept., in charge of private arrangements with
|
||
|
foreign dignitaries.
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Averell</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> made <ent type='LOC'>Jupiter</ent> Island a staging ground for his
|
||
|
1940s takeover of the U.S. national security apparatus. It was
|
||
|
in that connection that the island became possibly the most
|
||
|
secretive private place in <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>.
|
||
|
Let us briefly survey the neighborhood, back then in 1946-48,
|
||
|
to see some of theuses various of the residents had for the
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> clique.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> Residence on <ent type='LOC'>Jupiter</ent> Island</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> sb|<ent type='LOC'>Jupiter</ent> Islander {<ent type='PERSON'>Robert</ent>A. <ent type='PERSON'>Lovett</ent>,}s4, <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s
|
||
|
partner at <ent type='ORG'>Brown Brothers</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>, had been Assistant Secretary
|
||
|
of War for Air from 1941 to 1945. <ent type='PERSON'>Lovett</ent> was the leading <ent type='NORP'>American</ent>
|
||
|
advocate of the policy of terror-bombing of civilians. He
|
||
|
organized theStrategic Bombing Survey, carried out for the
|
||
|
<ent type='NORP'>American</ent> and <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> governments by the staff of the <ent type='ORG'>Prudential</ent>
|
||
|
Insurance Company, guided by <ent type='GPE'>London</ent>'s Tavistock Psychiatric
|
||
|
Clinic.
|
||
|
In the postwar period, <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> was associated with
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Prudential Insurance</ent>,one of <ent type='PERSON'>Lovett</ent>'s intelligence channels to
|
||
|
the <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> secret services. <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> was listed by <ent type='ORG'>Prudential</ent>
|
||
|
as a director of the company for about two years in the early
|
||
|
1950s.
|
||
|
Their Strategic Bombing Survey failed to demonstrate any real
|
||
|
military advantage accruing from suchoutrages as the
|
||
|
fire-bombing of <ent type='GPE'>Dresden</ent>, <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y. But the <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>ites
|
||
|
nevertheless persisted in the advocacy of terror from the air.
|
||
|
They glorified this as "psychological warfare," a part of the
|
||
|
utopian military doctrine opposed to the views of military
|
||
|
traditionalists such as Gen. Douglas MacArthur.
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>Robert</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Lovett</ent></ent> later advised President Lyndon <ent type='PERSON'>John</ent>son to
|
||
|
terror-bomb <ent type='GPE'>Vietnam</ent>. President <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent> revived the doctrine
|
||
|
with the bombing of civilian areas in <ent type='GPE'>Panama</ent>, and the destruction
|
||
|
of <ent type='GPE'>Baghdad</ent>.
|
||
|
On October 22, 1945, Secretary of <ent type='PERSON'>War Robert Patterson</ent> created
|
||
|
the <ent type='PERSON'>Lovett</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Committee</ent>, chaired by <ent type='PERSON'>Robert</ent> A. <ent type='PERSON'>Lovett</ent>, to advise the
|
||
|
government on the post-<ent type='EVENT'>World War</ent> II organization of U.S.
|
||
|
intelligence activities. The existence of this committee was
|
||
|
unknown to the public until an official <ent type='ORG'>CIA</ent> history was released
|
||
|
from secrecy in 1989. But the <ent type='ORG'>CIA</ent>'s author (who wasPresident
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'sprep school history teacher; see chapter 5) gives no real
|
||
|
details of the <ent type='PERSON'>Lovett</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Committee</ent>'s functioning, claiming: "The
|
||
|
recordof the testimony of the <ent type='PERSON'>Lovett</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Committee</ent>, unfortunately,
|
||
|
was not in the archives of the agency when this account was
|
||
|
written."s5
|
||
|
The<ent type='ORG'>CIA</ent>'s self-history does inform us of the advice that
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Lovett</ent> provided to the <ent type='PERSON'>Truman</ent> cabinet, as the official War
|
||
|
Department intelligence proposal.
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Lovett</ent> decided that there should be aseparate Central
|
||
|
Intelligence <ent type='ORG'>Agency</ent>. The new agency would "consult"with the
|
||
|
armed forces,but it must be the sole collecting agency in the
|
||
|
field of foreign espionage and counterespionage. The new agency
|
||
|
shouldhave an independent budget, and its appropriations should
|
||
|
be granted by <ent type='ORG'>Congress</ent> without public hearings.
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Lovett</ent> appeared before the Secretaries of <ent type='ORG'>State</ent>, War, and <ent type='ORG'>Navy</ent>
|
||
|
on November 14, 1945. He spoke highly of the <ent type='ORG'>FBI</ent>'s work because
|
||
|
it had "thebest personality file in the world." <ent type='PERSON'>Lovett</ent> said
|
||
|
the <ent type='ORG'>FBI</ent> was expert at producing false documents, an art "which
|
||
|
we developed so successfully during the war and at which we
|
||
|
be<ent type='PERSON'>cameout</ent>standingly adept." <ent type='PERSON'>Lovett</ent> pressed for a virtual
|
||
|
resumption of the wartime Office of Strategic Services (<ent type='ORG'>OSS</ent>) in a
|
||
|
new <ent type='ORG'>CIA</ent>.
|
||
|
U.S. military traditionalists centered around Gen. Douglas
|
||
|
MacArthur opposed <ent type='PERSON'>Lovett</ent>'s proposal. The continuation of the <ent type='ORG'>OSS</ent>
|
||
|
had been attacked at the end of the war on the groundsthat the
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>OSS</ent> was entirely under <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> control, and that it would
|
||
|
constitute an <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> Gestapo.s6 But the <ent type='ORG'>CIA</ent> was established in
|
||
|
1947 according to the prescription of <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>Robert</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Lovett</ent></ent>, of <ent type='LOC'>Jupiter</ent>
|
||
|
Island.
|
||
|
sb|{<ent type='PERSON'>Charles Payson</ent>} and his wife, {<ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>Joan</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Whitney</ent> Payson</ent>,} were
|
||
|
extended family members of <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>'s and business associates of
|
||
|
the <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> family.
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Joan</ent>'s aunt, <ent type='PERSON'>Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney</ent>, was a relative of
|
||
|
the <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>s. Gertrude's son, <ent type='PERSON'>Cornelius Vanderbilt</ent> ("<ent type='PERSON'>Sonny</ent>")
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Whitney</ent>, long-time chairman of Pan <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> Airways (<ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> was
|
||
|
a Pan Am director), became assistant secretary of theU.S. Air
|
||
|
Force in 1947. <ent type='PERSON'>Sonny</ent>'s wife <ent type='PERSON'>Marie</ent> had divorced him and married
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Averell</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> in 1930. <ent type='PERSON'>Joan</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'>Sonny</ent>'s uncle, Air Marshal Sir
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Thomas Elmhirst</ent>, was director of intelligence for the <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> Air
|
||
|
Force from 1945 to 1947.
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Joan</ent>'s brother, <ent type='PERSON'>John</ent> Hay("Jock") <ent type='ORG'>Whitney</ent>, was to be
|
||
|
ambassador toGreat <ent type='GPE'>Britain</ent> from 1955 to 1961 ... when it would
|
||
|
be vital for <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent> to have such a friend.
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Joan</ent>'sfather, grandfather, and uncle were members of the <ent type='ORG'>Skull</ent>
|
||
|
and Bones secret society.
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Charles Payson</ent> organized a uranium refinery in 1948. Later, he
|
||
|
was chairman of <ent type='ORG'>Vitro Corporation</ent>,makers of parts for
|
||
|
submarine-launched ballistic missiles, equipment for frequency
|
||
|
surveillance and torpedo guidance, and other subsurface
|
||
|
weaponry.
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>Naval</ent> warfare <ent type='GPE'>haslong</ent> been a preocc<ent type='PERSON'>upa</ent>tion of the <ent type='NORP'>British</ent>
|
||
|
Empire. <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> penetration of theU.S. <ent type='GPE'>Naval</ent> Intelligence
|
||
|
service has been particularly heavy since the tenure of <ent type='PERSON'>Joan</ent>'s
|
||
|
<ent type='NORP'>Anglophile</ent> grandfather, <ent type='PERSON'>William</ent> C. <ent type='ORG'>Whitney</ent>, as secretary of the
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Navy</ent> for President <ent type='PERSON'>Grover Cleveland</ent>. This traditional covert
|
||
|
<ent type='NORP'>British</ent> orientation in the U.S. <ent type='ORG'>Navy</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Naval</ent> Intelligence and the
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Navy</ent>'sincluded service, the <ent type='ORG'>Marine Corps</ent>, forms a backdrop to
|
||
|
the career of <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent>--and to the whole neighborhood on
|
||
|
<ent type='LOC'>Jupiter</ent> Island. <ent type='GPE'>Naval</ent> Intelligence maintained direct relations
|
||
|
with gangster boss <ent type='PERSON'>Meyer Lansky</ent> forAnglo-<ent type='NORP'>American</ent>political
|
||
|
operations in <ent type='GPE'>Cuba</ent> during <ent type='EVENT'>World War</ent> II,well before the
|
||
|
establishment of the <ent type='ORG'>CIA</ent>. <ent type='PERSON'>Lansky</ent> officially moved to <ent type='GPE'>Florida</ent> in
|
||
|
1953.s7
|
||
|
sb|{<ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Herbert</ent><ent type='PERSON'>Walker</ent>, Jr.} (<ent type='ORG'>Skull</ent> and Bones, 1927), was
|
||
|
extremely close to his nephew <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent>, helping to sponsor his
|
||
|
entry into the oil business in the 1950s. "Uncle <ent type='PERSON'>Herbie</ent>" was
|
||
|
also a partner of <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>Joan</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Whitney</ent> Payson</ent> when they co-founded the
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>New York</ent> Mets baseball team in 1960. His son, G.H. <ent type='PERSON'>Walker</ent> III,
|
||
|
was a<ent type='ORG'>Yale</ent> classmate of {<ent type='PERSON'>Nicholas Brady</ent>} and <ent type='PERSON'>Moreau</ent> D. <ent type='PERSON'>Brown</ent>
|
||
|
(<ent type='PERSON'>Thatcher</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Brown</ent>'s grandson), forming what was called the "<ent type='ORG'>Yale</ent>
|
||
|
Mafia" on Wall Street.
|
||
|
sb|{Walter S. <ent type='PERSON'>Carpenter</ent>, Jr.} had been chairman of the finance
|
||
|
committee ofthe Du Pont Corporation (1930-40).In 1933,
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Carpenter</ent> oversaw Du Pont's purchase of <ent type='ORG'>Remington Arms</ent>from Sam
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Pryor</ent> and the <ent type='ORG'>Rockefeller</ent>s, and led Du Pont into partnership with
|
||
|
the <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> I.G. <ent type='ORG'>Farben</ent> company for the manufacture of explosives.
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Carpenter</ent> became Du Pont's president in 1940. His cartel with the
|
||
|
<ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent>s was broken up bythe U.S. government. Nevertheless,
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Carpenter</ent> remained Du Pont's president, as thecompany's
|
||
|
technicians participated massively in the <ent type='GPE'>Manhattan</ent> Project to
|
||
|
produce the first atomic bomb. He was chairman of Du Pont from
|
||
|
1948 to 1962, retaining high-level access toU.S.strategic
|
||
|
activities.
|
||
|
Walter <ent type='PERSON'>Carpenter</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> were fellow activists in
|
||
|
the Mental Hygiene <ent type='ORG'>Society</ent>. Originating at <ent type='ORG'>Yale</ent> University in
|
||
|
1908, the movement had been organized into the World <ent type='ORG'>Fed</ent>eration
|
||
|
of Mental Health by Montague <ent type='PERSON'>Norman</ent>, himself a frequent mental
|
||
|
patient, former <ent type='ORG'>Brown Brothers</ent> partner and Bank of <ent type='GPE'>England</ent>
|
||
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Governor. <ent type='PERSON'>Norman</ent> had appointed as the federation'<ent type='ORG'>schairman</ent>,
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Brigadier <ent type='PERSON'>John</ent> Rawlings Rees, director of the <ent type='ORG'>Tavistock Clinic</ent>,
|
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chief psychiatrist and psychologicalwarfare expert for the
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|
<ent type='NORP'>British</ent> intelligence services. <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> was a director of the
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||
|
society in <ent type='GPE'>Connecticut</ent>; <ent type='PERSON'>Carpenter</ent> was a director in <ent type='GPE'>Delaware</ent>.
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sb|{<ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>Paul</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Mellon</ent></ent>} was the leading heir to the <ent type='ORG'>Mellon</ent> fortune,
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|
and along-time neighbor of <ent type='PERSON'>Averell</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>'s in <ent type='GPE'>Middleburg</ent>,
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<ent type='GPE'>Virginia</ent>, as well as <ent type='LOC'>Jupiter</ent> Island,<ent type='GPE'>Florida</ent>. <ent type='PERSON'>Paul</ent>'s father,
|
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|
Andrew<ent type='ORG'>Mellon</ent>, U.S. treasury secretary 1921-32, had approved the
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||
|
transactions of <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>, <ent type='PERSON'>Pryor</ent>, and <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> with the <ent type='GPE'>Warburg</ent>s and
|
||
|
the <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent>s. <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>Paul</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Mellon</ent></ent>'s son-in-law, {<ent type='PERSON'>David</ent> K.E. Bruce,} worked
|
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|
in <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s W.A. <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> & Co. during the late 1920s;
|
||
|
was head of the <ent type='GPE'>London</ent> branch of U.S. intelligence during World
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||
|
War II; and was <ent type='PERSON'>Averell</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>'s Assistant Secretary of
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Commerce</ent> in 1947-48. <ent type='ORG'>Mellon</ent> family money and participation would
|
||
|
be instrumental in many domestic U.S. projects of the new Central
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||
|
Intelligence <ent type='ORG'>Agency</ent>.
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sb|{<ent type='PERSON'>Carll Tucker</ent>} manufactured electronic guidanceequipment
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||
|
for the <ent type='ORG'>Navy</ent>. With the <ent type='ORG'>Mellon</ent>s, <ent type='PERSON'>Tucker</ent> was an owner of South
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||
|
<ent type='NORP'>American</ent> oil properties. Mrs. <ent type='PERSON'>Tucker</ent> was the great-aunt of
|
||
|
{<ent type='PERSON'>Nicholas Brady</ent>,} later <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent>'s <ent type='GPE'>Iran</ent>-Contra partner and
|
||
|
U.S. treasury secretary. Their son <ent type='PERSON'>Carll Tucker</ent>, Jr. (<ent type='ORG'>Skull</ent> and
|
||
|
Bones,1947), was among the 15 Bonesmen who selected <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent>
|
||
|
for induction in the class of 1948.
|
||
|
sb|{C. Douglas <ent type='PERSON'>Dillon</ent>} was the boss of <ent type='PERSON'>William</ent> H. <ent type='ORG'>Draper</ent>,
|
||
|
Jr. in the <ent type='ORG'>Draper</ent>-<ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent><ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>-<ent type='PERSON'>Fritz Thyssen</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> banking
|
||
|
scheme of the 1930s and 40s. His father, <ent type='PERSON'>Clarence Dillon</ent>, created
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>the Vereinigte Stahlwerke</ent> (<ent type='ORG'>Thyssen</ent>'s <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Steel Trust</ent>) in 1926.
|
||
|
C. Douglas <ent type='PERSON'>Dillon</ent> made{<ent type='PERSON'>Nicholas Brady</ent>} thechairman of the
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Dillon Read</ent> firm in 1971 and himself continued as chairman of the
|
||
|
Executive <ent type='ORG'>Committee</ent>. C. Douglas <ent type='PERSON'>Dillon</ent> would be a vital ally of
|
||
|
his neighbor <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> during the <ent type='PERSON'>Eisenhower</ent> administration.
|
||
|
sb|{Publisher Nelson <ent type='ORG'>Doubleday</ent>} headed his family's publishing
|
||
|
firm, founded under the auspices of J.P. <ent type='PERSON'>Morgan</ent> and other <ent type='NORP'>British</ent>
|
||
|
Empire representatives. When<ent type='PERSON'>George</ent><ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s"Uncle <ent type='PERSON'>Herbie</ent>"
|
||
|
died, <ent type='ORG'>Doubleday</ent> took over as majority owner and chief executive
|
||
|
of the <ent type='GPE'>New York</ent> Mets baseball team.
|
||
|
Some other specialized corporate owners had theirplace in
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>'s strange club.
|
||
|
sb|{<ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> W. <ent type='ORG'>Merck</ent>,} chairman of <ent type='ORG'>Merck</ent> & Co., drug and
|
||
|
chemical manufacturers, was director of <ent type='ORG'>the War Research Service</ent>:
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Merck</ent> was the official chief of all U.S. research into biological
|
||
|
warfare from 1942 until at least the end of <ent type='EVENT'>World War</ent> II. After
|
||
|
1944, <ent type='ORG'>Merck</ent>'sorganization was placed under the U.S. Chemical
|
||
|
Warfare Service. His family firm in <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y and <ent type='GPE'>the United States</ent>
|
||
|
was famous for its manufacture of morphine.
|
||
|
sb|{James H. McGraw, Jr.,} chairman of McGraw Hill Publishing
|
||
|
Company, was a member of the advisory board to the U.S. Chemical
|
||
|
Warfare Service and a member of <ent type='ORG'>the Army Ordnance</ent> Association
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Committee</ent> on Endowment.
|
||
|
sb|{Fred H. Haggerson,} chairmanof <ent type='ORG'>Union Carbide Corp</ent>.,
|
||
|
produced munitions, chemicals, and firearms.
|
||
|
sb|{A.L. Cole} was useful to the <ent type='LOC'>Jupiter</ent>Islanders as an
|
||
|
executive of {<ent type='ORG'>Readers Digest</ent>.} In 1965, just after performing a
|
||
|
rather dirty favor for <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent> [which will be discussed ina
|
||
|
comingchapter--ed.],Cole became chairmanof the executive
|
||
|
committee of the {<ent type='ORG'>Digest</ent>,} the world's largest-circulation
|
||
|
periodical.
|
||
|
From the late 1940s, <ent type='LOC'>Jupiter</ent> Island has served as a center for
|
||
|
the direction of covert action by the U.S. government and,
|
||
|
indeed, for the covert management of the government. <ent type='LOC'>Jupiter</ent>
|
||
|
Islandwill reappear later on, in our account of <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent> in
|
||
|
the <ent type='GPE'>Iran</ent>-Contra affair.</p>
|
||
|
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||
|
<p> <ent type='ORG'>Target</ent>: <ent type='GPE'>Washington</ent></p>
|
||
|
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||
|
<p> <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent> graduated from <ent type='ORG'>Yale</ent> in 1948. He soon entered the
|
||
|
family's <ent type='PERSON'>Dresser</ent> oilsupplyconcern in <ent type='GPE'>Texas</ent>. We shall now
|
||
|
briefly describe the forces that descended on<ent type='GPE'>Washington</ent>, D.C.
|
||
|
duringthose years when <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>, with the assistance of family and
|
||
|
powerful friends, was becoming "established in business on his
|
||
|
own."
|
||
|
From 1948 to 1950, <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s boss <ent type='PERSON'>Averell</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> was
|
||
|
U.S. "ambassador-at-large" to <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent>. He was a non-military
|
||
|
"<ent type='ORG'>Theater Commander</ent>," the administratorof the
|
||
|
multi-billion-dollar <ent type='PERSON'>Marshall Plan</ent>, participating in all
|
||
|
military/strategic decision-makingby the Anglo-<ent type='NORP'>American</ent>
|
||
|
alliance.
|
||
|
The U.S. secretary of defense, <ent type='PERSON'>James Forrestal</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>hadbecomea</ent>
|
||
|
problem to the <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>ites. <ent type='PERSON'>Forrestal</ent> had long been an executive
|
||
|
at <ent type='ORG'>Dillon Read</ent> on Wall Street. But in recent years he had gone
|
||
|
astray. As secretary of the navy in 1944, <ent type='PERSON'>Forrestal</ent> proposed the
|
||
|
racial integration of the <ent type='ORG'>Navy</ent>. As defense secretary, he pressed
|
||
|
for integration in the armed forces and this eventually became
|
||
|
the U.S. policy.
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Forrestal</ent> opposed the utopians' strategy of appeasement
|
||
|
coupled with brinkmanship. He was simply opposed to communism.
|
||
|
On March 28, 1949, <ent type='PERSON'>Forrestal</ent> was forced out of office and flown
|
||
|
on an <ent type='ORG'>Air Force</ent> plane to <ent type='GPE'>Florida</ent>. He was taken to "<ent type='LOC'>Hobe Sound</ent>"
|
||
|
(<ent type='LOC'>Jupiter</ent> Island), where <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>Robert</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Lovett</ent></ent> and an army psychiatrist
|
||
|
dealt with him.s8
|
||
|
He was flown back to <ent type='GPE'>Washington</ent>, locked in Walter <ent type='PERSON'>Reed</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Army</ent>
|
||
|
Hospital and given insulin shock treatments for alleged "mental
|
||
|
exhaustion." He wasdeniedall visitors except his estranged
|
||
|
wife and children--his son had been <ent type='PERSON'>Averell</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>'s aide in
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>Moscow</ent>. On May 22, <ent type='PERSON'>Forrestal</ent>'s body was found, his bathrobe cord
|
||
|
tied tightly around his neck, afterhe had plunged froma
|
||
|
sixteenth-story hospital window. The chief psychiatrist called
|
||
|
the death a suicide even before any investigation was started.
|
||
|
The results of the <ent type='ORG'>Army</ent>'s inquest were kept secret. <ent type='PERSON'>Forrestal</ent>'s
|
||
|
diaries were published, 80 percent deleted, after a year of
|
||
|
direct government censorship and rewriting.
|
||
|
- * * * -
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>North</ent> <ent type='GPE'>Korea</ent>n troops invaded <ent type='GPE'>South Korea</ent> in June 1950, after
|
||
|
U.S. Secretary of <ent type='ORG'>State</ent> Dean<ent type='PERSON'>Acheson</ent> (<ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>'s very close
|
||
|
friend) publicly specified that <ent type='GPE'>Korea</ent> would not be defended.
|
||
|
With a new war on, <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> came back to serve asPresident
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Truman</ent>'s adviser, to "oversee national security affairs."
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> replaced <ent type='PERSON'>Clark Clifford</ent>, who had been special counsel
|
||
|
to <ent type='PERSON'>Truman</ent>. <ent type='PERSON'>Clifford</ent>, however, remained close to <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> and his
|
||
|
partners as they gained more and more power. <ent type='PERSON'>Clifford</ent> later
|
||
|
wrote about his cordial relations with <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>:
|
||
|
"<ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> ... had become <ent type='PERSON'>oneof myfrequent golfing</ent>
|
||
|
partners in the fifties, and I had both liked and respected
|
||
|
him.... <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> had a splendid singingvoice,and particularly
|
||
|
loved quartet singing. In the fifties, he organized a quartet
|
||
|
that <ent type='GPE'>includedmy</ent> daughter <ent type='PERSON'>Joyce</ent>.... Theywouldsing in
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>Washington</ent>, and, on occasion, he invited the group to <ent type='LOC'>Hobe Sound</ent>
|
||
|
in <ent type='GPE'>Florida</ent> to perform. His son [<ent type='PERSON'>George</ent>], though, had never
|
||
|
struck me as a strong or forceful person. In 1988, he presented
|
||
|
himself successfully to the voters as an outsider--no small trick
|
||
|
for a man whose roots wound through <ent type='GPE'>Connecticut</ent>, <ent type='ORG'>Yale</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Texas</ent> oil,
|
||
|
the <ent type='ORG'>CIA</ent>, a patrician background, wealth, and the Vice
|
||
|
Presidency."s9</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> With <ent type='PERSON'>Forrestal</ent> out of the way,<ent type='PERSON'>Averell</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> and Dean
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Acheson</ent> drove to <ent type='PERSON'>Lee</ent>sburg, <ent type='GPE'>Virginia</ent>, on July 1, 1950, to hire the
|
||
|
<ent type='NORP'>British</ent>-backed U.S. Gen. <ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> C. <ent type='ORG'>Marshallas</ent> secretary of
|
||
|
defense. At the same time, <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent>'s partner, <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>Robert</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Lovett</ent></ent>,
|
||
|
himself became assistant secretary of defense.
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Lovett</ent>, Marshall, <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>, and <ent type='PERSON'>Acheson</ent> went to work to
|
||
|
unhorse Gen. DouglasMacArthur, commander of U.S.forces in
|
||
|
<ent type='LOC'>Asia</ent>. MacArthur kept Wall Street's intelligence agencies away
|
||
|
from his command, and favored real independence for the non-white
|
||
|
nations. <ent type='PERSON'>Lovett</ent> called for MacArthur's firing on March 23, 1951,
|
||
|
citingMacArthur's insistence on defeating the <ent type='NORP'>Communist</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Chinese</ent>
|
||
|
invaders in <ent type='GPE'>Korea</ent>. MacArthur's famous message, that there was
|
||
|
"no substitute for victory," was read in <ent type='ORG'>Congress</ent> on April 5;
|
||
|
MacArthur was fired on April 10, 1951.
|
||
|
That September, <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>Robert</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Lovett</ent></ent> replaced <ent type='PERSON'>Marshall assecretary</ent>
|
||
|
of defense. Meanwhile, <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> was named director of the Mutual
|
||
|
Security <ent type='ORG'>Agency</ent>, making him the U.S. chief of the Anglo-<ent type='NORP'>American</ent>
|
||
|
military alliance. By now,<ent type='PERSON'>Brown</ent>Brothers <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> was
|
||
|
everything but commander-in-chief.
|
||
|
- * * * -
|
||
|
These were, of course, exciting times for the <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> family,
|
||
|
whose wagon was hitched to the financial gods of <ent type='ORG'>Olympus</ent>--to
|
||
|
<ent type='LOC'>Jupiter</ent>, that is.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p><ent type='ORG'>Brown Brothers</ent><ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> & Co. 59 Wall Street, <ent type='GPE'>New York</ent> 5, N.Y.
|
||
|
Business Established 1818 Cable Address "Shipley-<ent type='GPE'>New York</ent>"
|
||
|
Private Bankers
|
||
|
April 2, 1951</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>The Honorable W.A. <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>, The <ent type='ORG'>White House</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Washington</ent>, D.C.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>Dear <ent type='PERSON'>Averell</ent>:
|
||
|
I was sorry to miss you in<ent type='GPE'>Washington</ent> but appreciate your
|
||
|
cordial note. I shall hope for better luck another time.
|
||
|
I hope you had a good rest at <ent type='LOC'>Hobe Sound</ent>.
|
||
|
With affectionate regard, I am,
|
||
|
Sincerely yours,</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> Pres [signed]
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> S. <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> A central focus of the <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> security regime in <ent type='GPE'>Washington</ent>
|
||
|
(1950-53) wasthe organization of covertoperations, and
|
||
|
"psychological warfare." <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>,together with his lawyers
|
||
|
and business partners, <ent type='PERSON'>Allen</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>John</ent> Foster <ent type='GPE'>Dulles</ent></ent>, wanted the
|
||
|
government's secret <ent type='PERSON'>servicesto</ent> conduct extensive propaganda
|
||
|
campaigns and mass-psychology experiments within the U.S.A., and
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>paramilitary campaignsabroad</ent>. This would supposedly ensure a
|
||
|
stableworld-wide environment favorable to Anglo-<ent type='NORP'>American</ent>
|
||
|
financial and political interests.
|
||
|
The <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> security regime created the Psychological
|
||
|
Strategy <ent type='ORG'>Board</ent> (<ent type='ORG'>PSB</ent>) in 1951. The man appointed director of the
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>PSB</ent>, <ent type='PERSON'>Gordon</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Gray</ent>, is familiar to the reader as the sponsor of the
|
||
|
child sterilization experiments, carried out by the <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>ite
|
||
|
eugenics movement in <ent type='PERSON'>North</ent> <ent type='GPE'>Carolina</ent> following <ent type='EVENT'>World War</ent> II.
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Gordon</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Gray</ent> was an avid <ent type='NORP'>Anglophile</ent>, whose father had gotten
|
||
|
controlling ownership of theR.J.Reynolds Tobacco Company
|
||
|
through alliance with the <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> Imperial tobacco cartel's U.S.
|
||
|
representatives, the <ent type='PERSON'>Duke</ent> family of<ent type='PERSON'>North</ent> <ent type='GPE'>Carolina</ent>. <ent type='PERSON'>Gordon</ent>'s
|
||
|
brother, R.J. Reynolds chairman Bowman <ent type='ORG'>Gray</ent> Jr., was also a naval
|
||
|
intelligence officer, known around <ent type='GPE'>Washington</ent> as the "founder of
|
||
|
operational intelligence." <ent type='PERSON'>Gordon</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Gray</ent> became a close friend and
|
||
|
political ally of <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>; and <ent type='ORG'>Gray</ent>'s son became for
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent>'s son, <ent type='PERSON'>George</ent>, his lawyer and the shield of his covert
|
||
|
policy.
|
||
|
ButPresident <ent type='PERSON'>Harry Truman</ent>, as malleable ashe was,
|
||
|
constituted anobstacle to the covert warriors. An insular
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>Missouri</ent> politician vaguely favorable to the U.S. Constitution,
|
||
|
he remained skeptical aboutsecretservice activities that
|
||
|
reminded him of the <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> Gestapo.
|
||
|
So, "covert operations" could not fully take off withouta
|
||
|
change of the <ent type='GPE'>Washington</ent> regime. And it was with the <ent type='NORP'>Republican</ent>
|
||
|
Party that <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> was to get his turn.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> Runs for <ent type='ORG'>Senate</ent></p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> had made his first attempt to enter national politics
|
||
|
in 1950, as his partners took control of the levers of
|
||
|
governmental power. Remaining in charge of <ent type='ORG'>Brown Brothers</ent>
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>, he ran against <ent type='GPE'>Connecticut</ent>'s<ent type='PERSON'>William</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Benton</ent> for his
|
||
|
seat in the U.S. <ent type='ORG'>Senate</ent>. (The race was actually for a two-year
|
||
|
unexpired term, leftempty by <ent type='PERSON'>thedeath</ent> of the previous
|
||
|
senator).
|
||
|
In those days, <ent type='GPE'>Wisconsin</ent>'s drunken Senator <ent type='PERSON'>Joseph</ent> R. <ent type='PERSON'>McCarthy</ent>
|
||
|
was making a circus-like crusade against communist influence in
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>Washington</ent>. <ent type='PERSON'>McCarthy</ent>attacked liberals and leftists, <ent type='ORG'>State</ent>
|
||
|
Department personnel, politicians, andHollywood figures. He
|
||
|
generally left unscathed the Wall Street and <ent type='GPE'>London</ent> strategists
|
||
|
who donated<ent type='LOC'>East</ent>ern <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>China</ent> tocommunist
|
||
|
dictatorship--like <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent>, their geopolitics was beyond left
|
||
|
and right.
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> <ent type='GPE'>hadno</ent> public ties to the notorious Joe
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>McCarthy</ent>, and appeared to be neutral about his crusade. But the
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>Wisconsin</ent> senator had his uses.Joe <ent type='PERSON'>McCarthy</ent> came into
|
||
|
<ent type='GPE'>Connecticut</ent> three times that year to campaign for<ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> and
|
||
|
against the <ent type='NORP'>Democrats</ent>. <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>himself made charges of "<ent type='GPE'>Korea</ent>,
|
||
|
Communism and Corruption" into a slick campaign phrase against
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Benton</ent>, which then turned up as a national <ent type='NORP'>Republican</ent> slogan.
|
||
|
The response was disappointing. Only small crowds turned out
|
||
|
to hear Joe <ent type='PERSON'>McCarthy</ent>, and <ent type='PERSON'>Benton</ent> was not hurt. <ent type='PERSON'>McCarthy</ent>'s
|
||
|
pro-<ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> rally in <ent type='GPE'>New Haven</ent>, in a hall that seated 6000, drew
|
||
|
only 376 people. <ent type='PERSON'>Benton</ent> joked on the radio that "200 of them
|
||
|
were my spies."
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> resigned from the <ent type='ORG'>Yale</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Board</ent> of Fellows for his
|
||
|
campaign, and the board published a statement to the effect that
|
||
|
the "<ent type='ORG'>Yale</ent> vote" should support <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>--despite the fact that
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Benton</ent> was a <ent type='ORG'>Yale</ent> man, and in many ways identical in outlook to
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>. <ent type='ORG'>Yale</ent>'s Whiffenpoofsingers appeared regularly for
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent>'s campaign. None of this was particularly effective,
|
||
|
however, with the voting population.s1s0
|
||
|
Then Papa <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> ran into a completely unexpected problem. At
|
||
|
that time, the old <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> eugenics movementwas centered at
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Yale</ent> University. <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> was a <ent type='ORG'>Yale</ent> trustee, and his former
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Brown Brothers</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> partner, <ent type='PERSON'>Lawrence Tighe</ent>, was <ent type='ORG'>Yale</ent>'s
|
||
|
treasurer. In that connection, a slight glimmer of the truth
|
||
|
about the <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>-<ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> firm's <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> activities now made its way
|
||
|
into the campaign.
|
||
|
Notonly was the <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> Eugenics <ent type='ORG'>Society</ent> itself
|
||
|
headquartered at <ent type='ORG'>Yale</ent>, but all parts of this undead fascist
|
||
|
movement had a busy home at <ent type='ORG'>Yale</ent>. Thecoercive psychiatry and
|
||
|
sterilization advocates had made the <ent type='ORG'>Yale</ent>/<ent type='GPE'>New Haven</ent> Hospital and
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Yale</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Medical School</ent> their laboratories for hands-on practice in
|
||
|
brain surgery and psychological experimentation. And the Birth
|
||
|
Control League was there, which had long trumpeted theneed for
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||
|
eugenical births--fewer births for parentswith "inferior"
|
||
|
bloodlines. <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent>'s partner <ent type='PERSON'>Tighe</ent> was a <ent type='GPE'>Connecticut</ent> director
|
||
|
of the league, and the <ent type='GPE'>Connecticut</ent> league's medical advisor was
|
||
|
the eugenics advocate, Dr. <ent type='ORG'>Winternitz</ent> of <ent type='ORG'>Yale</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Medical School</ent>.
|
||
|
Now in 1950, people who knew something about <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>
|
||
|
knew that <ent type='PERSON'>hehad</ent> very unsavory roots in the eugenics movement.
|
||
|
There were then, just afterthe anti-<ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> war,few open
|
||
|
advocates ofsterilization of "unfit" or "unnecessary"
|
||
|
people. (That would be revived later, with the help of General
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Draper</ent>and his friend <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent>.) But <ent type='ORG'>the Birth Control League</ent>
|
||
|
was public--just about then itwas changing its name to the
|
||
|
euphemistic "<ent type='ORG'>Planned Parenthood</ent>."
|
||
|
Then, very late in the 1950 senatorial campaign, <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>
|
||
|
was publicly exposed for being an activist in that section of the
|
||
|
old fascist eugenics movement. <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> lost the election
|
||
|
by about 1000 out of 862000 votes. He and his family blamed
|
||
|
the defeat onthe exposeaa. The defeat was burned into the
|
||
|
family's memory, leaving a bitterness and perhaps a desire for
|
||
|
revenge.
|
||
|
In his foreword to a population control propaganda book,
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent></ent> wrote about that1950 election: "My own first
|
||
|
awareness of birth control as a public policy issue came with a
|
||
|
jolt in 1950 when my father was running for United <ent type='ORG'>State</ent>s <ent type='ORG'>Senate</ent>
|
||
|
in <ent type='GPE'>Connecticut</ent>. <ent type='PERSON'>Drew Pearson</ent>, on the Sunday before Election day,
|
||
|
'revealed' that my father wasinvolved with Planned
|
||
|
Parenthod.... Many political observers felt a sufficient number
|
||
|
of voters were swayed by his alleged contacts with the birth
|
||
|
controllers to cost him the election...."s1s1
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> gave a graphic description ofthese events in
|
||
|
his "oral history" interview at <ent type='ORG'>Columbia University</ent>: "In the
|
||
|
1950 campaign, when I ran against <ent type='PERSON'>Benton</ent>, thevery last week,
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Drew Pearson</ent>,famouscolumnist, was running a radio program at
|
||
|
that time.... In this particular broadcast, just at the end of
|
||
|
our campaign [<ent type='ORG'>Pearson</ent> said]: "I predict that <ent type='PERSON'>Benton</ent> will retain
|
||
|
his seat in <ent type='GPE'>the United States</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Senate</ent>, because it has just been
|
||
|
made known that <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>, his opponent, is president of the
|
||
|
Birth Control <ent type='ORG'>Society</ent>" or chairman, member of theboard of
|
||
|
directors, or something, "of the Birth Control <ent type='ORG'>Society</ent>. In this
|
||
|
country, and of course with <ent type='GPE'>Connecticut</ent>'s heavy <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>
|
||
|
population, and its laws against birth control ... this is going
|
||
|
to be too much for <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> to rise above.<ent type='PERSON'>Benton</ent> will be elected.
|
||
|
I predict."
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Thenext</ent> Sunday, they handed out, at these <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> Churches
|
||
|
in <ent type='GPE'>Waterbury</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>Torrington</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>Bridgeport</ent>, handbills, quoting
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Drew Pearson</ent>'s statement on the radio about <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>, you
|
||
|
see--I predict. Well, my telephone started ringing that Sunday
|
||
|
at home, and when I'd answer, or <ent type='PERSON'>Dotty</ent> [<ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent>'s wife, <ent type='PERSON'>George</ent>'s
|
||
|
mother] wouldanswer--"Is this true, what they say about
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>?This can't be true. Is it true?"
|
||
|
She'd say, "No, it isn't true." Of course, it wasn't true.
|
||
|
But you never catchup with a thing like this--the election's
|
||
|
just day after tomorrow, you see? So there's no doubt, in the
|
||
|
estimate of our political leaders, that this one thing cost me
|
||
|
many thousand votes--whether it was 1, 3, 5 or 10 thousand we
|
||
|
don't know, we can't possibly tell, but it was enough. To have
|
||
|
overcome that thousand vote, it would only have had to be 600
|
||
|
switch [sic].
|
||
|
[Mrs. <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>then corrected the timing in <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s
|
||
|
recollections.]
|
||
|
"I'd forgotten the exact sequence, but that was it.... The
|
||
|
state then--and I think still is--probably about 55 percent
|
||
|
<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> population, with all the <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent> derivation people
|
||
|
[sic],and <ent type='NORP'>Polish</ent> is very heavy, and the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> church is very
|
||
|
dominant here, and the archbishop was death on this birth control
|
||
|
thing. They fought repeal every time itcame up in the
|
||
|
legislature, and {we never did get rid of that prohibition until
|
||
|
just a year or two ago,} as I recall it [emphasis added].s1s2</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> wasdefeated, while the other <ent type='NORP'>Republican</ent>
|
||
|
candidates fared well in <ent type='GPE'>Connecticut</ent>. He attributed his loss to
|
||
|
the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> Church. After all, he had dependable friends in the
|
||
|
news media. The {<ent type='GPE'>New York</ent><ent type='ORG'>Time</ent>s}loved him for his bland
|
||
|
pleasantness. He just about owned <ent type='ORG'>CBS</ent>. Twenty years earlier,
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>had personally organized the credit to allow
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>William</ent> S. Paley to buy the <ent type='ORG'>CBS</ent> (radio, later television) network
|
||
|
outright. In return, <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> was made a director and the
|
||
|
financial leader of <ent type='ORG'>CBS</ent>; Paley himself became a devoted follower
|
||
|
and servitor of <ent type='PERSON'>Averell</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>.
|
||
|
Well, when he tried again, <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> would not leave the
|
||
|
outcome to the blind whims of the public.
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> moved into action in 1952 as a national leader
|
||
|
of the push to give the <ent type='NORP'>Republican</ent> presidential nomination to
|
||
|
Gen. Dwight D. ("<ent type='PERSON'>Ike</ent>") <ent type='PERSON'>Eisenhower</ent>. Among the other team members
|
||
|
were <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent>-era lawyer <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>John</ent> Foster <ent type='GPE'>Dulles</ent></ent>, and <ent type='LOC'>Jupiter</ent>
|
||
|
Islander C. Douglas <ent type='PERSON'>Dillon</ent>.
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Dillon</ent> and his father were the pivots as the <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>-<ent type='GPE'>Dulles</ent>
|
||
|
combination readied <ent type='PERSON'>Ike</ent> for the presidency. As a friend put it:
|
||
|
"When the <ent type='PERSON'>Dillon</ent>s ... invited [<ent type='PERSON'>Eisenhower</ent>] to dinner it was to
|
||
|
introduce him to Wall Street bankers and lawyers."s1s3
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Ike</ent>'s higher level backers believed, correctly, that <ent type='PERSON'>Ike</ent> would
|
||
|
not interferewith even the dirtiest of their covert action
|
||
|
programs. The bland, pleasant <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> was <ent type='PERSON'>infrom</ent> the
|
||
|
beginning: a friend to <ent type='PERSON'>Ike</ent>, and an original backer of his
|
||
|
presidency.
|
||
|
On July 28, 1952, as the election approached, <ent type='GPE'>Connecticut</ent>'s
|
||
|
senior U.S. senator, James O'Brien McMahon, died at the age of
|
||
|
48. (McMahon had been Assistant U.S. Attorney General, in charge
|
||
|
of the <ent type='ORG'>Criminal Division</ent>, from 1935 to 1939. Was there a chance
|
||
|
he might someday speak out about the unpunished <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent>-era crimes
|
||
|
of the wealthy and powerful?)
|
||
|
This was {extremely} convenient for <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent>. He got the
|
||
|
<ent type='NORP'>Republican</ent> nomination for U.S. senatorat a specialdelegated
|
||
|
meeting, with backing bythe <ent type='ORG'>Yale</ent>-dominated state party
|
||
|
leadership. Now he would run in a special election for the
|
||
|
suddenly vacant <ent type='ORG'>Senate</ent> seat. He could expect to be swept into
|
||
|
office, since he would be on the same electoral ticket as the
|
||
|
popular war hero, General <ent type='PERSON'>Ike</ent>. Bya technicality, he would
|
||
|
instantly become <ent type='GPE'>Connecticut</ent>'s senior senator, with extra power
|
||
|
in <ent type='ORG'>Congress</ent>. And the next regularly scheduled senatorial race
|
||
|
would be in 1956 (whenMcMahon's term wouldhave ended), so
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> could run again in that presidential election year ...
|
||
|
once again on <ent type='PERSON'>Ike</ent>'s coattails!</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> With this arrangement, things worked out very smoothly. In
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Eisenhower</ent>'s 1952 election victory,<ent type='PERSON'>Ike</ent> won <ent type='GPE'>Connecticut</ent> by a
|
||
|
margin of 129507 votes out of 1092471. <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> came in
|
||
|
last among the statewide <ent type='NORP'>Republican</ent>s, butmanaged to win by
|
||
|
30373out of 1088799, his margin nearly 100000 behind
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Eisenhower</ent>. He took the traditionally <ent type='NORP'>Republican</ent> towns.
|
||
|
In <ent type='PERSON'>Eisenhower</ent>'s 1956 re-election, <ent type='PERSON'>Ike</ent> won <ent type='GPE'>Connecticut</ent> by
|
||
|
303036 out of 1114954 votes, the largest presidential margin
|
||
|
in <ent type='GPE'>Connecticut</ent>'s history. <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> managed to win again, by
|
||
|
129544 votesout of 1085206--his margin this time 290082
|
||
|
smaller than <ent type='PERSON'>Eisenhower</ent>'s.s1s4
|
||
|
In January 1963, when this electoral strategy had been played
|
||
|
out and his second term expired, <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> retired from
|
||
|
government and returned to <ent type='ORG'>Brown Brothers</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>.
|
||
|
The 1952 <ent type='PERSON'>Eisenhower</ent> victory made <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>John</ent> Foster <ent type='GPE'>Dulles</ent></ent>Secretary
|
||
|
of <ent type='ORG'>State</ent>, and his brother <ent type='PERSON'>Allen</ent> <ent type='GPE'>Dulles</ent> head of the <ent type='ORG'>CIA</ent>. The
|
||
|
reigning <ent type='GPE'>Dulles</ent> brothers were the "<ent type='NORP'>Republican</ent>" replacements for
|
||
|
their client and businesspartner, "<ent type='NORP'>Democrat</ent>" <ent type='PERSON'>Averell</ent>
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>. Occasionalpublicposturings aside, their strategic
|
||
|
commitments were identical to his.
|
||
|
Undoubtedly the most important work accomplished by <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent>
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> in the new regime was on the golf links.
|
||
|
Those who remember the <ent type='PERSON'>Eisenhower</ent> presidency know that <ent type='PERSON'>Ike</ent>
|
||
|
played ... quite a bit of golf! <ent type='NORP'>Democrats</ent> sneered at him for
|
||
|
mindlessness, <ent type='NORP'>Republican</ent>s defended him for taking this healthy
|
||
|
recreation. Golf was <ent type='PERSON'>Ike</ent>'s ruling passion. And there at his
|
||
|
side was the loyal, bland, pleasant Senator <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>, former
|
||
|
president of the U.S. Golf Association, son-in-law of the very
|
||
|
man who had reformulated the rules of the game.
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> was <ent type='PERSON'>Dwight Eisenhower</ent>'s favorite golf partner.
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> could reassure <ent type='PERSON'>Ike</ent>about his counselors, allay his
|
||
|
concerns, and monitor his moods. <ent type='PERSON'>Ike</ent> was very grateful to
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent>, who never revealed the President's scores.
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Thepublicimage</ent> of his relationship to the President may be
|
||
|
gleaned from a 1956 newspaper profile of <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>'s role in
|
||
|
the party. The {<ent type='GPE'>New York</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Time</ent>s,}which 11 years before had
|
||
|
consciously protected him from public exposure as a <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> banker,
|
||
|
fawned overhim in an article entitled, "HisPlatform:
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Eisenhower</ent>":"A tall, lean, well-dressed man who looks exactly
|
||
|
like what he is--a wealthy product of <ent type='ORG'>the Ivy League</ent>--is chairman
|
||
|
of the<ent type='NORP'>Republican</ent> Convention's platform committee. As such,
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Connecticut</ent>'s senior United <ent type='ORG'>State</ent>s Senator, <ent type='GPE'>hasa</ent>
|
||
|
difficult task: he has to take one word and expand it to about
|
||
|
5000.
|
||
|
"The one word, of course, is '<ent type='PERSON'>Ike</ent>'--but no party platform
|
||
|
could ever be so simple and direct....
|
||
|
"Thus it is that Senator <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>and his fellow committee
|
||
|
members ... find themselves confronted with the job of wrapping
|
||
|
aroundthe name <ent type='PERSON'>Eisenhower</ent> sufficient verbiage to persuade the
|
||
|
public that it is the principles of the party, and notthe grin
|
||
|
of the man at the head of it, which makes itworthy of
|
||
|
endorsement in [the] November [election].
|
||
|
"For this task <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>, a singularly practical and
|
||
|
direct conservative, may notbe entirely fitted. It is likely
|
||
|
that left to his own devices he would simply offer the country
|
||
|
the one word and let it go at that.
|
||
|
"He is ... convinced that this would be enough to do the
|
||
|
trick ... if only the game were played that way.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> "Since it is not, he can be expected to preside with dignity,
|
||
|
fairness and dispatch over the sessions that will prepare the
|
||
|
party credo for the 1956 campaign.
|
||
|
"If by chance there should beany conflicts within the
|
||
|
committee ... the Senator's past can offer a clue to his
|
||
|
conduct.
|
||
|
"Aformer<ent type='ORG'>Yale</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Glee Club</ent> and second bass in the All-<ent type='ORG'>Time</ent>
|
||
|
Whiffenpoofs Quartet,he is ...[called] 'the hottest
|
||
|
close-harmony man at <ent type='ORG'>Yale</ent> in a span of twenty-five years.'
|
||
|
"Close harmony being a <ent type='NORP'>Republican</ent> specialty under President
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Eisenhower</ent>, the hottest close-harmony man at <ent type='ORG'>Yale</ent> in twenty-five
|
||
|
years would seem to be an ideal choice for the convention job he
|
||
|
holds at <ent type='GPE'>San Francisco</ent>....
|
||
|
"[In addition to his business background,he] also played
|
||
|
golf, competing in a number of tournaments. For eight years he
|
||
|
was a member of the executive committee of <ent type='GPE'>the United States</ent> Golf
|
||
|
Association....
|
||
|
"As a Senator, <ent type='GPE'>Connecticut</ent>'s senior spokeman in the upper
|
||
|
house has followed conservative policies consistent with his
|
||
|
business background.
|
||
|
He resigned all his corporate directorships, took a leave from
|
||
|
<ent type='ORG'>Brown Brothers</ent>, <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>, and proceeded to go down theline for
|
||
|
the <ent type='PERSON'>Eisenhower</ent> program....
|
||
|
"Around the <ent type='ORG'>Senate</ent>, he is known as a man who does his
|
||
|
committee work faithfully, defends the <ent type='ORG'>Administration</ent> stoutly,
|
||
|
and fits well into theclublike atmosphere of Capitol
|
||
|
Hill...."s1s5
|
||
|
{To be continued.}</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p> Notes</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>1.
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Walter Isaacson</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'>Evan Thomas</ent>, {The Wise Men}: Six Friends and
|
||
|
the World They Made--<ent type='PERSON'>Acheson</ent>, Bohlen, <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent>, Kennan, <ent type='PERSON'>Lovett</ent>,
|
||
|
McCloy} (<ent type='GPE'>New York</ent>: <ent type='PERSON'>Simon</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'>Schuster</ent>, 1986), p. 377.</p>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<p>2.
|
||
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Reed</ent> was better known in high society as a minor diplomat, the
|
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founder of the Triton <ent type='ORG'>Press</ent> and the presidentof the <ent type='NORP'>American</ent>
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Shakespeare Theater.</p>
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<p>3.
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{<ent type='GPE'>Palm Beach</ent> Post,} January 13, 1991.</p>
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<p>4.
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For <ent type='PERSON'>Lovett</ent>'sresidency there see <ent type='PERSON'>Isaacson</ent> and Thomas, {op.
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cit.,} p. 417. Some <ent type='LOC'>Jupiter</ent> Island residencies were verified by
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their inclusion in the 1947 membership list of the <ent type='LOC'>Hobe Sound</ent>
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Yacht Club, in the <ent type='PERSON'>Harriman</ent> papers, <ent type='ORG'>Library</ent> of<ent type='ORG'>Congress</ent>; others
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were established from interviews with long-time <ent type='LOC'>Jupiter</ent>
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Islanders.</p>
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<p>5.
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<ent type='PERSON'>Arthur Burr Darling</ent>, {The CentralIntelligence <ent type='ORG'>Agency</ent>: An
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Instrument of Government,to 1950}, (College Station:
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<ent type='GPE'>Pennsylvania</ent> <ent type='ORG'>State</ent> University, 1990), p. 59.</p>
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<p>6. The {<ent type='ORG'>Chicago Tribune</ent>}, Feb 9, 1945,for example, warned of
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"Creation of an all-powerful intelligence service to spy on the
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postwar world and to pry into the lives of <ent type='GPE'>citizensat home</ent>.
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{Cf. Anthony Cave <ent type='PERSON'>Brown</ent>, {Wild <ent type='PERSON'>Bill Donovan</ent>: The Last Hero}, (New
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York: <ent type='ORG'>Time</ent>s Books, 1982), p.625, on warnings to <ent type='PERSON'>FDR</ent> about the
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<ent type='NORP'>British</ent> control of U.S. intelligence.</p>
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<p>7. <ent type='PERSON'>Dennis Eisenberg</ent>, <ent type='PERSON'>Uri Dan</ent>, <ent type='PERSON'>Eli Landau</ent>, {<ent type='PERSON'>Meyer Lansky</ent>: Mogul of
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the Mob} (<ent type='GPE'>New York</ent>: Paddington <ent type='ORG'>Press</ent>, 1979) pp. 227-28.</p>
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<p>8. See <ent type='PERSON'>John</ent> Ranelagh, {The <ent type='ORG'>Agency</ent>: The Rise and Decline of the
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<ent type='ORG'>CIA</ent>}, (<ent type='GPE'>New York</ent>: <ent type='PERSON'>Simon</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'>Schuster</ent>, 1987), pp. 131-32.</p>
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<p>9. <ent type='PERSON'>Clark Clifford</ent>, {Counsel to the President} (<ent type='GPE'>New York</ent>: Random
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<ent type='ORG'>House</ent>, 1991).</p>
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<p>10. <ent type='PERSON'>Sidney Hyman</ent>, {The Life of <ent type='PERSON'>William</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Benton</ent>} (<ent type='GPE'>Chicago</ent>: The
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University of <ent type='GPE'>Chicago</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Press</ent>, 1969), pp. 438-41.</p>
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<p>11. <ent type='PERSON'>Phyllis Tilson</ent> Piotrow, {World Population Crisis: The United
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<ent type='ORG'>State</ent>sResponse} (<ent type='GPE'>New York</ent>: Praeger Publishers, 1973),
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"Forward" by <ent type='PERSON'>George</ent> H.W. <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>, p. vii.</p>
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<p>12. Interviewwith <ent type='PERSON'>Prescott</ent><ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> in the Oral History Research
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Project conducted by ColumbiaUniversity in1966, <ent type='PERSON'>Eisenhower</ent>
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<ent type='ORG'>Administration</ent> Part II; pp. 62-4.</p>
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<p>13. <ent type='PERSON'>Herbert</ent> S. Parmet, {<ent type='PERSON'>Eisenhower</ent> and the <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> Crusades}
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(<ent type='GPE'>New York</ent>: <ent type='ORG'>The Macmillan Company</ent>, 1972), p. 14.</p>
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<p>14. {<ent type='GPE'>New York</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Time</ent>s}, Sept. 6, 1952, Nov. 5, 1952, Nov. 7, 1956.</p>
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<p>15. {<ent type='GPE'>New York</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Time</ent>s}, Aug. 21, 1956.</p>
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<p>Any comments, please send by email, as I get very far behind on
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this group.</p>
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<p>Thanks.</p>
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<p> <ent type='PERSON'>John Covici</ent>
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coviciccs.covici.com
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