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My concern driven question is.....what if you're engaged in the only venue and process THEY have relegated you and the other actors who believe in and operate in that arena ....out of THEIR way unless/until you and your process are useful to them, like yesterday, in the FISA fight that wasnlt? Who gained....the PTB, with their penchant for intelligence gathering and control...or the people? You're right about the indifference related ignorance of the people, but somebody has to fill the role I am trying to fill. It used to be filled sometimes in the congress....it took depression as the catalyst, but in the 30's, Dickstein McCormack, Gerald Nye, and TNEC rattled the PTB's cages. No one in congress continues to question the PTB, or even it's errand boys...the sitting and past presidents. I think the PTB had already become too international in scope, in the decade before WWI, for what you advocate doing now, and for what Nye and TNEC tried to raise awareness obout...to have an effect....a transfer of appreciable power away from the PTB, for it to be worth your effort/devotion. From what I am seeing, the German Dye Trust's relationships of neccessity....the intellectual property related arrangements, made the PTB 's allegiance, extranational:
(Consider that all of Time's reporting was mocking of efforts to investigate and uncover the secrets of the PTB, if inquiry was undertaken by elected officials....)
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from: http://www.archive.org/stream/treaso...eger00ambrrich
Treason's Peace
Howard Watson Armbruster©1947
A Crossroads Press Book
Beechurst Press
New York, NY
438 pps. -- First/Only Edition -- Out-of Print
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DEDICATED TO
CAPTAIN WATSON AMBRUSTER II, U.S.A. AIR FORCE
AND TO HIS CHILDREN,
WATSON III AND MARGARET URSULA,
FOR WHOSE FUTURE SECURITY, WITH
THOSE OF THEIR GENERATION, THIS STORY
HAS BEEN WRITTEN.
PREFACE
The Pattern of Farben
THE HUGE INTERNATIONAL chemical combine and cartel leader that is known
today as I. G. Farben had its beginning some seventy-five years ago, with the
founding in Germany of six small coal-tar dye companies. By 1939 these six
companies had grown into the ominous-sounding INTERESSEN GEMEINSCHAFT
FARBENINDUSTRIE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, of FRANKFORT am MAIN, which translated
literally, means "community of interests of the dye manufacturing companies."
I. G. Farben is usually discussed as a huge German cartel which controls
chemical industries throughout the world and from which profits flow back to
the headquarters in Frankfort. Farben, however, is no mere industrial
enterprise conducted by Germans for the extraction of profits at home and
abroad. Rather, it is and must be recognized as a cabalistic organization
which, through foreign subsidiaries and by secret tie-ups, operates a
far-flung and highly efficient espionage machine—he ultimate purpose being
world conquest—and a world super-state directed by Farben.
Perhaps the chief distinguishing characteristic of this vast
organ-ization is the definite pattern to which it holds. From its beginning
the Farben pattern-based upon intensive research wedded to ap-plied science,
plus a cynical disbelief in the existence of social, eco-nomic, or political
morality-has never varied; its rhythm appears changeless.
This book is the story of the Farben pattern—as it has appeared in the United
States, and a glimpse of its extent in Latin America. It is a story of the
shadowy designs that repeatedly have come up through the fabric of our
industrial, social, and political life.
Viewed over a long period of years it appears as an interlocking design of
propaganda, espionage, sabotage, and corruption......
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http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,795457,00.html
Monday, Jul. 28, 1941
Who Owns Aniline?
The $62,000,000 General Aniline & Film Co., whose Swiss owners want to sell it, was understood to have found a bidder last week. The would-be buyer was not named. When and if the sale is made, a medal—whether for bravery, ingenuity or at the very least dope-upsetting—will be in order for the buyer.
General Aniline is a desirable property. It is the second largest U.S. manufacturer of photographic equipment (after Eastman), and is tied for third place with American Cyanamid (after Allied Chemical and Du Pont) in the making of dye-stuffs. Its earnings—$4,106,000 last year —are bolstered with defense business; among other things it is the largest U.S. producer of khaki dyes.
But it was formed under the auspices of I. G. Farbenindustrie, the great German dye trust, and it has prospered with the help of Farben skills and patents. Two years ago General Aniline—until then known as American I. G. Chemical Corp. —reorganized, and has since denied or minimized any Nazi affiliations. But it cannot seem to convince the U.S. Government that its ownership is in trustworthy hands.
More than 90% of General Aniline's stock is owned "of record" by the I. G. Chemie of Switzerland, but nobody has said who the "beneficial" (real) owners are. I. G. Chemie is a holding company, set up by and once on intimate terms with I. G. Farben. The intimacy was ostensibly terminated a year ago; I. G. Chemie paid I. G. Farben 25,000,000 Swiss francs, and the Farben's interest in I. G. Chemie seemed almost to vanish. But General Aniline's outward characteristics remained not Swiss but German. Its president, Dietrich A. Schmitz, is a brother of the chairman of the board of I. G. Farben, Hermann Schmitz. Walter H. vom Rath, Aniline's secretary, is the son of a Schmitz predecessor as chairman of the Farben. General Aniline had some distinguished American directors when the Germans set it up in '27. But Walter Clark Teagle, chairman of Standard Oil of N.J. (with which the Farben used to share patents) resigned from the Aniline board last year, and Edgar M. Clark (a Standard Oil man) and Edsel Ford followed suit early this month. As the U.S. got less & less neutral, the Nazi cloud over Aniline looked thicker every day.
Few months ago a remarkable new character appeared on the stage. Blond, blue-eyed, young (32) Dr. Werner Karl Gabler is a Zurich-born Swiss who is also a New Dealer. He has been in the U.S. about five years, taken out his first papers, once served as ghost writer to the late philanthropic Edward A. Filene, became well known in Washington as economist-lobbyist for the liberal American Retail Federation. Suddenly, at the suggestion of the Swiss Minister (whose wife is Henry Wallace's sister), Gabler was offered a new retainer: the I. G. Chemie. His assignment: to negotiate the sale of Chemie's 90% interest in General Aniline to Americans, thus get Aniline out from under its Nazi cloud.
Economist-Negotiator Gabler, a pronounced anti-Nazi, went about his task with great circumspection. He carefully described his mission to people in the Treasury, State and Justice Departments, FBI and SEC. He says he never phoned Basel without first telling FBI and State. Furthermore, his relations with General Aniline were correctly stormy. Messrs. Schmitz, Vom Rath and other directors, he says, threatened to resign in a body when he proposed a voting trust to control Aniline, on which a U.S. Government and a Chemie nominee should have equal voice. They seemed to fear any arrangement that would lessen their managerial domination of Aniline. Dr. Gabler does not like them.
His job was tough enough without their opposition. Dr. Gabler's wares have three deterrents to purchasers:
1) General Aniline (with other chemical companies) is under investigation by Thurman Arnold and a grand jury is now-sitting on the evidence. The Department makes its now-familiar allegation that international patent agreements with I. G. Farben led to current shortages of vital materials in the U.S. Any purchaser of Aniline would buy into a possible indictment.
2) Some of Aniline's voting stock, though physically in a U.S. bank, was owned "of record" by Dutch interests until 1939, and was caught by the U.S. freezing order before its recorded ownership could be fully transferred to I. G. Chemie. Since Dutch assets in the U.S. are frozen much solider than Swiss. I. G. Chemie might have a hard time delivering those shares.
3) If the Swiss sell General Aniline, they will want to be paid. But U.S. funds cannot be paid to Swiss nationals unless the Swiss Government can convince the Treasury that the recipient is un-Nazi. Whether I. G. Chemie is un-Nazi is the question around which the whole sale revolves.
I. G. Chemie is on the British blacklist. The Department of Justice (in its recent magnesium suit) implied that it was Nazi-controlled. Important individuals in State, Treasury and SEC believe it to be Nazi-controlled. The whole Swiss economy is under Nazi pressure, since German coal and iron are essential to it. (Last week the two nations signed a new trade agreement.)
Since General Aniline is a technologically important company, its sale to U.S. interests would seem an obvious boon to U.S. defense. But if Washington believes the seller is Nazi-controlled, Washington will look doubly hard at any buyer. Some of Dr. Gabler's fellow New Dealers, though no more anti-Nazi than he, believe he was hired because he had an "in" with the New Deal. If that was a Nazi plan, it could be an example of the super-ingenuity of Nazi infiltration tactics. Now that the U.S. has declared open economic war (see p. 63), a sale of General Aniline is not necessary to keep its skills and money in the country.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...851454,00.html
Monday, Nov. 10, 1941
Judge John E. Mack, a Dutchess County lawyer who nominated Franklin D. Roosevelt for his first political job (New York State Senator in 1910), who went on to nominate him for President in 1932 and in 1936, got a new job last week. He became president of General Aniline & Film Corp. (originally formed by the German Dye Trust), whose real owners' nationality is still beclouded (TIME, July 28).
Franklin Roosevelt's "old friend and neighbor" did not look like the operating' head of a big dyestuffs and camera com pany at first blush. His most famous previous jobs: 1) defense counsel (successful) of Mrs. Anne Urquhart Stillman in the scandalous 1921 divorce suit brought against her by her husband, the late New York Banker James A. Stillman; 2) representing Edward ("Daddy") Browning in the "Peaches" Browning 1926 separation action; 3) defense counsel (un successful) for U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Martin T. Manton against bribery charges in 1939.
But Aniline does not need chemists or executives as much as it needs friends. Judge Mack replaces D. A. Schmitz (brother of the German Dye Trust's Hermann Schmitz) who disappeared last month in an offhand Aniline announcement that he was "not now . . . president." Mack's election, the Aniline board evidently believes, will help uncloud the company. But the solution of the Aniline problem is not so simple as that.
Next month (or maybe sooner) the chairman of Aniline's parent I. G. Chemie, Felix Iselin, will arrive from Switzerland to see about selling Chemie's large interest in Aniline stock. He will confront a tangled lineup of interested parties. The Treasury, which must unfreeze the stock if any money is to change hands, has already vetoed one would-be purchaser and may veto others. The Department of Justice is investigating Aniline's relationship both to Chemie and to the German Dye Trust. Several Wall Street groups, which admire the company more than its present management, are trying to buy control from the Swiss. But the present management wants the management control left where it is now. Mack-for-Schmitz is their opening gambit.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...777659,00.html
Monday, Apr. 06, 1942
Man of Promise. For months Trust-Buster Arnold has tried to break up a patents cartel formed in 1929 by Jersey Standard and Germany's Hydra-headed I. G. Farbenindustrie. Last week Standard signed a consent decree, released 2,000 patents royalty-free, took a $50,000 fine. In return, Thurman Arnold agreed to withdraw the most sinister conclusion in his complaint: that Standard had held up the U.S. synthetic rubber program.
Arnold was faithful, in his fashion; that statement was kept out of court. But next day he appeared before the Truman Committee and the whole story came out. The committee had heard him before on the same subject, in a kind of rehearsal behind closed doors. Now, for the public, his horrific charges were aired again:
Under the cartel, Germany got the benefit of U.S. technical developments; the U.S. did not get Germany's.
Standard's ruddy-faced, Texas-drawling President William S. Farish replied for the company: the cartel began when Standard paid I. G. Farben $30,000,000 for patents on a German-invested hydrogenation process. The process, used in Germany to make synthetic oil from coal, was used in the U.S., by Standard and its licensees, to create the world's greatest supply of 100-octane aviation gas. A variation of the same process is now used by Humble Oil in a new plant which makes 30,000,000 gallons of synthetic toluol a year for TNT. The cartel also gave the U.S. its buna knowledge, except the process for making rubber from coal, a Nazi Government-sponsored program.
http://www.prorev.com/bush2.htm
In 1980, when George H.W. Bush was elected vice president, he placed his father's family inherence in a blind trust. The trust was managed by his old friend and quail hunting partner, William "Stamps" Farish III. Bush's choice of Farish to manage the family wealth is quite revealing in that it demonstrates that the former president might know exactly where some of his inheritance originated. Farish's grandfather, William Farish Jr., on March 25th, 1942, pleaded "no contest" to conspiring with Nazi Germany while president of Standard Oil in New Jersey. He was described by Senator Harry Truman in public of approaching "treason" for profiting off the Nazi war machine. Standard Oil, invested millions in IG Farben, who opened a gasoline factory within Auschwitz in 1940. The billions "Stamps" inherited had more blood on it then Bush, so the paper trail of UBC stock would be safe during his 12 years in presidential politics.
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....Thus was launched an expose of commercial corruption that is without parallel
in the history of legitimate business in the United States. But that raid was
the first of a long series of ineffectual blows at the German-controlled
chemical cartels that for seventy-five years have operated within our
borders-ineffectual because they have not yet destroyed the corrupt influence
and power of these monopolies, whose purpose, since their inception, has been
to stifle our military effectiveness and to strengthen the resources of the
Fatherland.
The leading German chemical companies before the first World War were known
throughout the world as the Big Six. Direct predecessors of the gigantic I.
G. Farbenindustrie, in which they were later merged, these six companies were:
1. Badische Anilin und Sodafabrik. (known as Badische)
2. Farbenfabriken vorm. Friedr. Bayer & Co. (known as Bayer or Elberfeld)
3. Aktiengesellschaft fur Anilinfabrikation. (known as the Berlin Company)
4. Farbwerke vorm. Meister Lucius und Bruning. (known as the Hoechst Co.)
5. Leopold Cassella G. m. b. H. in Frankfurt. (known as Cassella)
6. Kalle & Company. (known as Kalle)
All of these companies made dyestuffs and the intermediates from which
coal-tar dyes are produced; several of them also produced pharmaceutical
products from coal-tar intermediates and other chemical bases.
There were numerous other smaller German dyestuff producers but these six
concerns, with several hundred million dollars in assets, united early in the
century in two cartels, dominated the coal-tar industry in Germany, and
controlled the world's markets for dye stuffs.
In America, where business was a strictly private affair, and all attempts at
government supervision were fought tooth and nail by our rugged
individualists, the Big Six found fertile ground for their "peaceful
penetration." Here in America with the cooperation of the German government,
they established their agencies, and pursued a ruthless policy of economic
strangulation, with the result that upon our entry Into World War I,
America's organic chemical industry, the very lifeblood of modem warfare,
consisted of little more than a series of small assembly plants.
The completeness with which we failed to develop this militarily strategic
industry attests the determination of purpose and the typical German
thoroughness with which the representatives of Kultur carried out, within our
borders, their coordination of industry with the forces of war.
The early history of these six German companies takes in the birth of the
commercial development of dyes made from coal tar. Three generations ago
these dyes began to replace many of the natural or vegetable dyes. However,
it was not a German, but a young English chemist, William H. Perkin, who
discovered in 1856 that a usable purple, or mauve color, could be produced
from aniline, the oil-like product distilled from coal tar, which had been
produced originally in 1826.
History records that young Perkin was not attempting to make a dyestuff at
the time, but was experimenting, unsuccessfully, with the aniline in an
attempt to produce synthetic quinine. Some 70 years later, one of Farben's
chemists succeeded in doing what Perkin had set out to do and produced the
coal-tar derivative known as Atabrine which today, as a substitute for
quinine, occupies such a vital place in our control of malaria.
It was the Germans, however, who most industriously followed up Perkin's
discovery of an aniline dye. Intensive research was encouraged at German
universities, and by subsidies from the German government. The late
Congressman Nicholas Longworth told of a conversation he had with a
distinguished American chemist who had graduated from the University of
Heidelberg many years before, and who told Longworth that when he said
goodbye to his head professor he asked why it was that so much of the German
research work in chemistry was in the development of coaltar dyes. The
professors so engaged were receiving higher salaries than their colleagues,
and the industries were receiving government bonuses. The German professor
replied, "Young man, some day this work will save the Fatherland." In light
of more recent events, that professor can hardly be considered a good
prophet, but his remark indicated the early German vision of world supremacy
in science-out of which the Farben pattern of world conquest was to emerge.
The objectives of the original German dye cartels in the United States
were by no means confined to obstructing our development of the dye industry.
It was of utmost importance to forestall the establishment of any primary
phase of the coal-tar industry which might make this country independent of
Germany for coal-tar intermediates, and for other chemical products used in
making dyes during peace, or explosives and munitions during war. In the
early development of the dye industry in Germany, the high cost of individual
dyes was due to the large quantities of certain byproducts which had no value
but which had to be extracted from the coal tar in order to produce the dyes.
And the great variety of colors was due largely to the continuous research
devoted to the profitable utilization of these by-products. Despite this
research, however, the stock piles reached enormous size. Then, early in this
century the Germans realized the military significance of the coaltar
product, trinitrotoluol (TNT) which could readily be made from the
by-products. Thereupon, research to produce certain new colors suddenly
ceased, and the stock piles were allowed to accumulate for the war that was
to come.
The two Big Six cartels appeared perfectly willing that the few American
manufacturers who were trying to make dyes should continue their struggle to
do so, providing they secured the bulk, of their intermediates from Germany.
They laughed at this competition, but they were systematic in their price
cutting and utterly ruthless in their determination that a coal-tar industry
which could quickly be turned from dyes to munitions should not exist in the
United States.
Throughout this period, while our coal-tar industries languished or were
still-born whenever attempts were made to start them, it is estimated that we
were letting a billion dollars worth of coal gas go to waste annually through
the chimneys of the old-fashioned beehive ovens in which substantially all of
our coke was then made. The gas went to waste because we had no coal-tar dye
industry to make it profitable.
At one time, when a group of three of the largest American manufacturers of
heavy chemicals decided to start the production of aniline oil so that our
feeble dye industry would not be totally at the mercy of the Germans, a
special emissary of the Big Six came to the United States with the impudent
demand that production of the oil he stopped, and made the equally impudent
offer that the cartels would repay the Americans for such expenditures as had
been incurred.
To protect the domestic producers from the price slashing on aniline that
followed the refusal of the Americans to shut up shop, Congress placed a 10
percent duty on aniline oil. The Big Six, however, retaliated by dropping the
price on aniline far below any possible cost of production in the United
States.
Originally the German dyes were exported to the United States through houses
which handled a variety of imported products. Later, exclusive selling
agencies or branch houses were established here by each of the Big Six. These
branches and agencies had their main office in New York City, and maintained
branches in New England, Philadelphia and other centers where dyes were
consumed in quantities by textile, leather, paper and printing ink
manufacturers.....
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The background is that, as early as in 1908, Northeastern US arms manufacturers were "gearing up" production for war. The record shows that US government officials neither requested nor encouraged this private "enterprise"..... Marcellus Dodge borrowed/invested $62 million in 1914, 3 years before US involvment in WWI, to turn Remington Arms and United Metal Cartridge into a huge armament manufacturing powerhouse, raising employment in a year, from 5000 to 50,000. By 1916, the bankers took control of Remington/UMC, under the management of it's VP and director, Samuel Pryor. Pryor bought Jupiter Island in Hobe Sound, Fl, about 1930. His daughter Permelia and Brown Bros. Harriman partner husband, Joseph Reed, decided who could buy property on the island.
In 1933, Walter S. Carpenter, head of the Du Pont Corp. finance committee, and by 1940, first outside the Du Pont family president and later chairman of the company, negotiated the sale of Reminton/UMC to Du Pont. Walter Carpenter was permitted to buy property on Jupiter Island. Du Pont bros. attorney during Sen. Nye's investigations of the WWI armament and explosives indiustry (took place in 1934...) was Col. Wild Bill Donovan, WWII director of OSS. Jupiter Island homeowner, Paul Mellon, son of Treas, Sect'y Andrew.... had a daughter, Ailsa who was married to the head of OSS in London, David Bruce. When his by then, ex-wife and Mellon daughter died in 1969, she was the wealthiest woman in the US.
Even in 1968, only 153 people in the US, were worth over $150 million, according to Fortune Mag.... and I posted in another thread that Jupiter resident and Yale bonesman, Robert Lovett headed the committee that dersigned the CIA....as asst. secretary of war, under Roosevelt's successor, Truman, Lovett always had been a proponent of massive bombing of civilian urban centers....what do you think his advice to Truman was, as far as using the A-Bomb, developed by his Jupiter Island neigbor, Walter Carpenter's company, Du Pont?
Call me crazy, but I think the PTB only permitted Nye's investigation because they were worried about revolution at the depths of the 30's depression, and investigations were permitted as safety valves....to let off steam.....
The point.....the PTB may simply have you in an elaborate "day care center", where they feed you "crumbs", and you view it as "consensus building pragmatism"....."progress" which they dangle in front of you, but, you will never have....as the way this FISA "op" went down...since June 20th, clearly shows....the PTB deciding to flex it's muscles....and shit in all of our little peon, faces!
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