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Just Coincidence? Or Is Century of "Leadership" of the PTB & It's 2 Bushes a Cancer?

This OP begins , a few weeks ago:

Obama's Rhetoric VS What Was Said to Our Great-Grandparents to Attract Their Votes..

..as an answer to loquitur's question:
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PTB? What's PTB?
PTB= "Powers that Be"... we are fortunate in that so many of them chose long ago to winter together on a tiny barrier Island in Hobe Sound, Fl, north of Palm beach. In the post linked above, I detailed how the Island (Jupiter) came to be owned by arms and ammunition tycoon, Samuel Pryor, a business partner of Bush grandfather, George Walker.

I have taken extra care to link to pages from government websites, the Truman Library, and to mainstream news media. In a just couple of instances, to compress multiple details, I've linked to wiki pages.

So small of a group...a few of the wealthiest Americans have grown even wealthier as they "minded" our federal government for us since early in the last century, designed agencies (CIA), set policy, and "gave" us at least two presidents from their small group, even as they further consolidated their own power and wealth, poisoned us with the products they made and sold to us, and kept us in a near constant state of war or war footing, advancing policies of unprecedented destruction on "enemy" civilian populations as they went along, seems unconscionable.

IMO, we have only ourselves to blame...but the problem is that they are still there, still controlling disproportionate wealth and power, and the white house itself.

Couldn't we have done better, been more aware, made better choices in our voting? I am going to highlight and footnote the point supported by each of the following quote boxes, by my "fav" so far, is the piece from the CIA website, intended to assure us that the influence of Yale, it's secret society "Skull and Bones", and the WASP, northeast Ivy League schools in general, at the CIA, "are just a myth".(1)

I find it amusing because Prescott Bush's Brown Bros. Harriman partner, spouse of the daughter of one of the Brown Bros., fellow resident of Jupiter Island and fellow Yale "Bonesman", Robert A. Lovett was revealed in 1989, in a "History of the CIA", published by the CIA after a 36 years delay, to have chaired the committee that designed the structure of the CIA. The author of the "history", admitted that he had not been permitted access to the minutes of the proceedings of Robert Lovett's committee ! (2)
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http://www.forbes.com/2004/10/18/cx_cd_1018how.html

Jupiter Island Xanadu

... Since the 1930s, the community known as Jupiter Island as been attracting some of the oldest and certainly some of the richest families in the U.S., if not the world. From Doubledays and Johnsons to Fords and Du Ponts, ....

....Forbes Fact
Over the years, Jupiter Island's illustrious residents include not only titans of industry but also prominent politicians and policy makers. Among the grandees who have wintered on Jupiter Island are former U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union W. Averill Harriman, President Truman's Secretary of Defense Robert A. Lovett, Secretary of the Treasury during the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations C. Douglas Dillon, and President George H.W. Bush, whose parents Senator Prescott and Dorothy Bush were among the island's earliest inhabitants.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Dillon
Clarence Dillon, (September 27, 1882 - April 14, 1979) born Clarence Lapowski (name legally changed 17 September 1901)

...His son, C. Douglas Dillon (later Secretary of the Treasury, 1961-65) was born in Geneva, Switzerland in 1909 while they were abroad.

Dillon met William A. Read, founder of the Wall Street bond broker William A. Read and Company, through introduction by Harvard classmate William A. Phillips in 1912 and Dillon joined Read’s Chicago office in that year. He moved to New York in 1914. Read died in 1916, and Dillon bought a majority interest in the firm. In 1920, William A. Read & Company name was changed to Dillon, Read & Co..

His righthand man at Dillon Read, James Forrestal, became Secretary of the Navy, later Secretary of Defense, and died under mysterious circumstances at a Federal hospital.

During World War I, Bernard Baruch, chairman of the War Industries Board, (known as the Czar of American industry) asked Dillon to be assistant chairman of the War Industries Board.

Dillon was director of American Foreign Securities Corporation, which he had set up in 1915 to finance the French Government’s purchases of munitions in the United States.

In 1957, Fortune Magazine listed Dillon as one of the richest men in the United States, with a fortune then estimated to be from $150 to $200 million.....
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http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag...pagewanted=all
COHORT OF THE AMERICAN CENTURY

By RONALD STEEL; A PROFESSOR OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND JOURNALISM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, IS THE AUTHOR OF ''WALTER LIPPMANN AND THE AMERICAN CENTURY.''
November 2, 1986

THE WISE MEN Six Friends and the World They Made: Acheson, Bohlen, Harriman, Kennan, Lovett, McCloy. By Walter Isaacson and

Evan Thomas. Illustrated. 853 pp. New York: Simon & Schuster.

THERE are two things America is not supposed to have: an empire and a ruling class. ''The Wise Men'' takes the former for granted as a simple fact of international life, and explains through the lives of six privileged and powerful men how the latter works. The way these lives intertwined - through private schools, corporate board rooms and social clubs - and the way the United States became the inheritor of the postwar world provide the material of a fascinating, informative and ultimately disquieting study.

The six men chosen by Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas, two young editors of Time and Newsweek respectively, were never elected to high national office, nor do any famous statues commemorate them. For the most part they operated just behind the scenes, advising Presidents, setting agendas and carrying out policy. But the decisions they made shaped the postwar world.

They were the architects of that exhilarating, and now receding, era known as the American Century. At a unique moment in history they had the power to shape the world, the energies to do so and the moral certitude to inspire their actions. Theirs is the story of the Marshall Plan and the H-Bomb, the Truman Doctrine and NATO, the Prague coup and the Berlin blockade,

Korea and the Bay of Pigs, and ultimately of Vietnam.

The six form a cohesive unit. Dean Acheson, Secretary of State from 1949 to 1953 during the Korean War, the forging of NATO and the decision to rearm West Germany, had also been Under Secretary of State from 1945 to 1947 when the wartime alliance with Russia turned to cold war enmity. It was Acheson who worked out the stillborn plan to share the atom with the Russians, then later sold the Truman Doctrine for the global containment of Communism to a skeptical Congress.

W. Averell Harriman, the inheritor of a great railway fortune, began his career as Presidential ''special envoy'' with Franklin D. Roosevelt. Tough but pragmatic toward the Russians, with whom he had had business dealings dating back to the 1920's, he was Ambassador to Moscow during World War II, and ultimately was chief United States negotiator at the ill-fated Paris peace talks on Vietnam in 1968.

George F. Kennan, Harriman's wartime counselor in Moscow, galvanized the Washington bureaucracy in 1946 with a long and alarmist analysis of Russia's expansionist ambitions. Later he turned against the ''containment'' doctrine he helped formulate and declared it had become excessively militaristic.

Charles Bohlen, Mr. Kennan's fellow Soviet expert in the Foreign Service, was with F.D.R. at Yalta and later, like Mr. Kennan, served as Ambassador to Moscow. Less creative than his scholarly colleague, he was a better team player and exerted a subtle role in moderating apocalyptic views of Soviet intentions.

Robert A. Lovett, a deputy to Secretary of War Henry A. Stimson during World War II, was a masterly administrator who helped build American wartime air power. Later, as Under Secretary of State after Acheson, he presided over the early stages of the cold war and then became Secretary of Defense. John J. McCloy worked with Lovett and Stimson during the war and was later criticized for the part he played in the decisions to intern Japanese-Americans in detention camps and not to bomb the Nazi death camps. An adroit tactician who won the confidence of men in high places, he later became President of the World Bank nd High Commissioner for Germany.

They all went to prep schools, even the impoverished McCloy, and two to prestigious Groton (Acheson and Harriman) and one to St. Paul's (Bohlen). They also attended the best colleges: Harriman, Acheson and Lovett were at Yale University, Bohlen at Harvard University, Mr. Kennan at Princeton University, and Mr. McCloy at Amherst College. They were even linked by the best undergraduate clubs: Lovett and Harriman were Skull and Bones, Acheson was Scroll and Key, and Bohlen was Porcellian.

While one could make too much of these social connections, the tendency in our avowedly egalitarian society is to make too little of them.....
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http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...821684,00.html
The General's Successor
Sep. 24, 1951

The Senate took exactly four minutes to confirm Robert Abercrombie Lovett as the new Secretary of Defense;... Langer made the vote unanimous.

Over the last eleven years. Defense's Bob Lovett has held down three important top policy-making jobs, just a short taxi ride across Washington from Capitol Hill. But Lovett, a tall, slender man with the poise and features of a balding Caesar, has nimbly sidestepped the publicity that might have made his name known even to Bill Langer. In a time of crisis, he is well content to work in the shadow of greater names.

Diplomatic Save. Lovett was one of many Wall Streeters (foremost: James Forrestal) who did outstanding work for Franklin Roosevelt during World War II. Wise old Henry Stimson, F.D.R.'s Republican Secretary of War, drafted Lovett as Assistant Secretary of War for Air in 1941. The smooth-working, selfless Stimson team, which included Lovett and Chief of Staff George Marshall, became a legend of administrative efficiency and warm mutual loyalty.

In Washington, Air Secretary Lovett took one look at U.S. defense nakedness, another at the tremendous lesson of Nazi air victories in Europe, and fought a campaign to get top priorities for a big U.S. bomber fleet. Then, holding down impulsive Air Chief "Hap" Arnold with a gentle hand, he skillfully got the air corps raised to the status of a semi-independent air force.
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http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/...954081,00.html
Goodbye to Berlin

Erich Mendelsohn designed some of the world's finest buildings - and helped destroy the German capital. By Jonathan Glancey

Monday May 12, 2003

Deep in a desiccated, Utah desert, surrounded by mountains and fringed with scorched sage and saltbush, stand the surreal remains of German Village. Out of bounds, out of place, out of time and 90 miles from Salt Lake City, it is surely the most bizarre feature of Dugway Proving Ground, a test site created by the Allied military during the second world war to develop weapons of mass destruction for use against civilian targets in Germany and Japan....

....Washington's war secretary Henry Stimson said he did not want "the United States to get the reputation of outdoing Hitler

in atrocities". His less diplomatic deputy, Robert Lovett, pleading the case for adopting anti-personnel bombs loaded with napalm and white phosphorous, said: "If we are going to have a total war, we might as well make it as horrible as possible."


Churchill trumped Lovett by calling on US president Franklin D Roosevelt to speed up production of a promised 500,000 top-secret "N-bombs" - filled with anthrax, developed at Dugway - to be dropped on Berlin and five other German cities....

...."Mendelsohn was the architect of some of the very best of these white, concrete dreams. Dugway, Davis argues, "led the way to the deaths of, say, two million Axis civilians", and German Village remains "a monument to the self-righteousness of punishing 'bad places' by bombing them".

There is no doubt that Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan had to be defeated; but did the Allies really need German Village, Japanese Village and the refined architectural efforts of Mendelsohn and Raymond? At the fiery dawn of the 20th century, beneath the civilised, enlightened facades of Britain and the US, as well as Germany and Japan, was a desire for expansion, destruction and terrible revenge. Sitting on the sun-deck of Mendelsohn's pavilion at Bexhill-on-Sea, this axis of modern evil seems so very far removed, as far away, in fact, as the sole surviving "rent barrack" of German Village, Utah.

· Dead Cities: A Natural History by Mike Davis, The New Press
When General Marshall was named Secretary of State in 1947, he urged Lovett to come back from Wall Street to be his Under Secretary. Although Lovett was still recuperating from a serious operation, he came, commenting: "There are only three people to whom I can never say no —my wife, Henry Stimson and George Catlett Marshall." Half the time Lovett ran the department while Marshall was away in Europe. In 1948 Lovett was quick to see the implications of the Russian blockade of Berlin, strongly backed the Berlin airlift as a counterchallenge. A few months later he saved Harry Truman from a major diplomatic blunder. The President was all ready to go on the air and announce that he was sending Chief Justice Vinson to Moscow to reason with Stalin. Lovett heard about the plan, telephoned General Marshall in Paris, and confronted Truman with a joint ultimatum that both of them would resign if the plan went through.

Bob Lovett was born in Texas, the son of Robert Scott Lovett, general counsel and then president of Union Pacific. Young Bob left Yale (Phi Beta Kappa, Skull & Bones) during his third year to go overseas with the Yale Unit in the naval air force. In France he flew the lumbering British Handley Pages on some of the first night glide-bombing attacks, made a careful study of dive-bombing tactics which amazed his friends and delighted the Navy brass. The unit's historian summed up Lieut. Lovett in three words: "Observation, reflection, deduction—and there you were!" ..

.. After the war he tried a year of law at Harvard, then switched to business administration. In 1919 he married Adele Brown, the daughter of Manhattan Financier James Brown. Father-in-law Brown gave Lovett the up-from-messenger treatment in Brown Brothers (later Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.), finally made him a full partner and sent him abroad to survey the world with a banker's cool eye. In the 1930s, the eye spotted trouble in Germany, and Lovett warned the firm to get its investments out. In early 1940, from Switzerland, he wrote a penetrating report of the phony war, and accurately predicted the fall of France.

A man with a long history of stomach trouble, Republican Bob Lovett has saved himself from total frustration in Democratic Washington by exercising a deft sense of humor. (Once, after a long pounding by a congressional committee, he told a friend: "It was like getting a shave and having your appendix out at the same time.") ...

....To his new job Bob Lovett brings a thoroughgoing realism much like that of his good friend and predecessor, Jim Forrestal. "This is a severe emergency," said he a year ago. "This is perhaps the last clear chance to get ourselves in shape for the unknown future . . . We tried peace through weakness for generations, with no profit in it, and it seems to me as a matter of conviction that peace through strength might be an enlightening experience."..
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https://www.cia.gov/library/center-f...-shepherd.html

The Good Shepherd
Intelligence in Recent Public Media

A movie directed by Robert DeNiro; screenplay by Eric Roth. Universal Pictures. 2006

Reviewed by David Robarge, Gary McCollim, Nicholas Dujmovic, Thomas G. Coffey...


...Another historical falsehood is that becoming a leader at CIA hinges on membership in Skull and Bones, the secret society at Yale. No senior figure of the time at CIA ever had anything to do with that organization.(1)

DR: In a sense, The Good Shepherd is a Godfather-type tale told through the imagined lens of the Eastern establishment elite. There are lots of problems with that approach: Angleton went to Yale, but he did not belong to Skull and Bones. Richard Bissell (Edward Wilson in the Bay of Pigs context)

rejected an invitation to join the society because he thought it was too weird. Allen Dulles (the Skull and Bones hierarch Philip Allen) went to Princeton. And Richard Helms (Richard Hayes in the movie), another supposed Skull and Bones guy, went to Williams College and was temperamentally unsuited for that kind of organization...

...Truth in Storytelling?...

,,,,ND: A film can take a strictly documentary approach in trying to take a photograph of history as it happened. If that's the standard, then anyone with historical sense is going to dislike the liberties The Good Shepherd takes. If one approaches the film as a work of art, one must still ask if there is truth in the story-telling. Does it convey the sense of the time: the atmosphere, the motivations, the tone, and the challenges? I think we all agree that the film fails that test as well.

It fails because it inserts themes we know from our studies of the period were not there: the overarching economic interest, the WASP mafia dominance, the cynicism, the dark perspective. In reality, the stakes were high during the Cold War; the Soviets were seen to be on the march and very dangerous. It was serious business, and there were many personal costs. And yet, most CIA people were enjoying their work at the same time, as any number of oral history interviews and memoirs will attest.,,,


Historical Document
Last Updated: Jun 26, 2008 07:15 AM
Last Reviewed: May 25, 2007 11:57 AM
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http://www.americanheritage.com/arti...1977_2_4.shtml
THE BIRTH OF THE CIA

When and how it got the green light to conduct “subversive operations abroad”
by Tom Braden

...Sixth, the new peacetime agency would conduct “subversive operations abroad.” Meaning: just that.

In summary, it was to be the wartime OSS taken from under the jealous eye of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and given the independent power to issue orders to G-2, ONI, the intelligence branch of the Department of State—and to the extent to which J. Edgar Hoover was collecting foreign intelligence in South America, to the FBI.

Trohan had not been far wrong in calling it “all-powerful,” though there was no basis in Donovan’s memorandum for the suggestion that it would conduct espionage at home, supersede the FBI, or enable its employees to live luxuriously.

Still, it was pretty strong stuff. Would Roosevelt have accepted the plan if he had lived? We know only that Donovan thought so. He was in Paris the day Roosevelt died. One of his deputies, Colonel Ned Buxton, talked to him that evening. “What will happen now to OSS?” Buxton asked. “Fm afraid it’s the end,” was Donovan’s reply.

He was, however, to make one more try. Shortly after V-J Day, Naval Commander John Shaheen walked into the general’s office to bid him good-by. “You’re not through yet,” said Donovan, and he ordered Shaheen to stay in uniform for sixty more days. Shaheen sat down in mild shock while Donovan related a story. There had been that sensationalized prewar investigation of the munitions industry, conducted by Senator Gerald Nye of North Dakota, in which Donovan had acted as counsel for the Du Pont Company, one of the firms most heavily attacked. “You remember that, John? You know, John, I had to argue, not just the merits but against the whole propaganda campaign and that campaign was Gerald Nye’s Merchants of Death. I tell you John, I learned something. Now let’s see if you can do as well for OSS as Nye did for the isolationists.”

Shaheen rose. “Could your secretary get me a list of writers in OSS who happen to be in Washington?”

For weeks, a series of sensational stories dominated the newspapers and magazines hailing the exploits of OSS’s secret war. As Shaheen and his assistants scoured the files, had the facts declassified, fed them to “writers in OSS who happened to be in Washington,” and as they fed them in turn to eager journalists, OSS parachutists returning from their hitherto secret war and expecting to hear the usual jibes about “Oh So Social” suddenly found themselves figures of glamor. But the new President, Harry Truman, was annoyed. On September 20, 1945, the publicity campaign was cut short. Truman signed Executive Order 9621, “Termination of the Office of Strategic Services and Disposition of Its Functions.”



While the pro-OSS publicity was at its height, Donovan had written a letter announcing his wish to return to private life. “Therefore, in considering the disposition to be made of the assets created by OSS, I speak as a private citizen concerned only with the security of my country.”

Thirty years later, it seems odd that this last plea for his old outfit should have been addressed not to the President of the United States but to Harold B. Smith, Director of the Bureau of the Budget.

But it was, at the time, not at all an odd thing to do.

As the war ended and the mind of Harry Truman turned to problems of demobilization and reorganization for peace, Harold B. Smith became for a few weeks a very powerful man. He was the one man to whom

Truman could turn who knew where everything was and where it had been before. Moreover, he had a tidy housekeeper’s view about what to do with it now. OSS appalled the neatminded Smith. Here was an agency which was part research, part spies, part propaganda, part paratroopers, part saboteurs and forgers, all mixed up together in such fashion that it was impossible to reduce it to a chart. Smith came at once to a solution:

Put the research professors and analysts under the State Department, he advised Truman; put the spies and propagandists and forgers under the War Department and let the paratroopers and saboteurs go home.

For the next four months, the Smith formula of separated functions of State and War became the United States intelligence establishment. Donovan, when he heard about the new formula, called it “absurd.”......
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/22/bo...=firstchapters

‘Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA’

July 22, 2007

..Colonel Park acknowledged that Donovan's men had conducted some successful sabotage missions and rescues of downed American pilots. He said the deskbound research and analysis branch of OSS had done "an outstanding job," and he concluded that the analysts might find a place at the State Department after the war. But the rest of the OSS would have to go. "The almost hopeless compromise of OSS personnel," he warned, "makes their use as a secret intelligence agency in the postwar world inconceivable."

After V-E Day, Donovan went back to Washington to try to save his spy service. A month of mourning for President Roosevelt was giving way to a mad scramble for power in Washington. In the Oval Office on May 14, Harry Truman listened for less than fifteen minutes as Donovan made his proposal to hold communism in check by undermining the Kremlin. The president summarily dismissed him.

All summer long, Donovan fought back in Congress and in the press. Finally, on August 25, he told Truman that he had to choose between knowledge and ignorance. The United States "does not now have a coordinated intelligence system," he warned. "The defects and the dangers of this situation have been generally recognized."

Donovan had hoped that he could sweet-talk Truman, a man he had always treated with cavalier disdain, into creating the CIA. But he had misread his own president. Truman had decided that Donovan's plan had the earmarks of a Gestapo. On September 20, 1945, six weeks after he dropped America's atomic bombs on Japan, the president of the United States fired Donovan and ordered the OSS to disband in ten days. America's spy service was abolished. ...

...."THE HOLY CAUSE OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE"

The message came from Donovan's deputy, Brigadier General John Magruder, a gentleman soldier who had been in the army since 1910. He adamantly believed that without an intelligence service, America's new supremacy in the world would be left to blind chance, or beholden to the British. On September 26, 1945, six days after President Truman signed away the OSS, General Magruder stalked down the endless corridors of the Pentagon. The moment was opportune: the secretary of war, Henry Stimson, had resigned that week, and Stimson had been dead-set against the idea of a CIA. "Seems to me most inadvisable," he had told Donovan a few months earlier. Now General Magruder seized the opening left by Stimson's departure.


....(Page 4 of 4)

He sat down with an old friend of Donovan's, the assistant secretary of war, John McCloy, one of the great movers and shakers of Washington. Together, the two men countermanded the president. Magruder walked out of the Pentagon that day with an order from McCloy that said, "the continuing operations of OSS must be performed in order to preserve them." That piece of paper kept the hope for a Central Intelligence Agency alive. The spies would stay on duty, under a new name, the Strategic Services Unit, the SSU. McCloy then asked his good friend Robert A. Lovett, the assistant secretary for air war and a future secretary of defense, to set up a secret commission to plot the course for American intelligence-and to tell Harry Truman what had to be done. Magruder confidently informed his men that "the holy cause of central intelligence" would prevail....
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http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag...52C1A96F948260
November 28, 1989

Long-Secret History of C.I.A. Sheds Light on Battles Over Authority
AP

LEAD: The State Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the military hampered the Central

Intelligence Agency in its infancy by bickering about authority, according to a long-secret history of the agency's early years.

The State Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the military hampered the Central Intelligence Agency in its infancy by bickering about authority, according to a long-secret history of the agency's early years.

The 1,000-page narrative, written in 1953 by the agency's first historian, Arthur B. Darling, is the first C.I.A. document to be declassified and transferred to the National Archives for release to the public under the agency's historical review program.

A copy of the history was delivered to President Bush last Wednesday by William H. Webster, the Director of Central Intelligence, and Don W. Wilson, Archivist of the United States.Mr. Webster said other agency records would be declassified and transferred to the Archives. Note

Cautions Readers

The declassified version of the history was accompanied by a note from the C.I.A.'s history staff cautioning readers that Mr. Darling, a former professor of history at Yale, had ''a definite and sometimes controversial point of view.''

''Darling blames the State Department, the F.B.I., and what he terms the military establishment - especially the heads of the military intelligence services - for much of the hardship which the early C.I.A. (and its predecessor, the Central Intelligence Group) endured,'' the note says.

The history staff also said that Allen Dulles, who became Director of Central Intelligence in 1953, reportedly ''did not concur with Darling's conclusions'' and restricted access to the history.

Mr. Darling was the agency's historian from 1952 to 1954. He died in 1971.
He wrote that sniping by the military departments began as soon as the Office of Strategic Services, forerunner of the C.I.A., was established by President Roosevelt in World War II.

Brig. Gen. John Magruder, deputy director of the O.S.S., told Mr. Darling that career military officers ''lowered their horns'' against the economists, geographers, historians and scientists recruited for the C.I.A. Mr. Darling conceded in his history that the military might have been justified in withholding information because the O.S.S. ''deserved part of its reputation for being a sieve.'' The Issue of Security

However, he quotes the O.S.S. chief, Gen. William J. Donovan, as saying that it was the military men who were the ''leaky boys.''

In any event, Mr. Darling wrote, ''They are reluctant to this moment in 1953 to give a central civilian agency intelligence which exposes their capabilities in war.''

''The result,'' he continued, ''has been interference with the flow of raw materials essential to the realistic estimates which should go to the makers of diplomatic policy and military strategy.''

On Nov. 18, 1944, with World War II less than a year from its end, General Donovan urged President Roosevelt to turn the O.S.S. into a permanent central intelligence system. But, Mr. Darling wrote, the F.B.I., the military, the State Department and other agencies were hostile to that idea.On Sept. 20, 1945, President Harry S. Truman disbanded the O.S.S. and ordered the State Department to develop a postwar intelligence network. On Jan. 24, 1946, Truman issued a directive creating the Central Intelligence Group, which was prohibited from interfering with ''internal security functions.''

In 1947 the Central Intelligence Group became the Central Intelligence Agency, as part of the same law that merged the War and Navy Departments into the new Department of Defense.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag...51C1A96F948260
December 27, 1989

To the Editor:

Your Nov. 28 report on the just-declassified 1,000-page history of the Central Intelligence Agency written in 1953 tells only a part of the story of how the State Department, Federal Bureau of Investigation and the military tried to restrict the growth of the C.I.A. when it was established in 1947.

Early in 1946 I was assigned the task of preparing a formal report on the activities of the World War II Office of Strategic Services, this country's first centralized national intelligence agency. The O.S.S. was terminated in September 1945, and senior officials in other departments of government resisted even the idea that a permanent record be made of a centralized intelligence service, which a number of them regarded as a maverick wartime expedient that should not continue in peacetime, at least not as an independent agency or under civilian control.

My job began as a virtually clandestine operation in the Strategic Services Unit, which was the liquidating agency for the operational parts of O.S.S. Finally, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, overruled the objections of the military chiefs and authorized the report under the auspices of the War Department (later the Defense Department).

Gen. William J. Donovan, who founded and ran the O.S.S., wanted personally to approve any report, as previous efforts he had begun during the war to record activities as they took place did not sound to him to be balanced or in perspective, being so close to the events they recorded.

With Kermit Roosevelt as editor, we completed the War Report on the O.S.S. in September 1947, and received Donovan's endorsement. I submitted the manuscript, consisting of two volumes, typed without erasures (one original and three carbon copies), to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. It was promptly marked ''Top Secret'' and not released for publication until 1976, 29 years later. Even then entire sections were blanked out.

We now see that it has taken 36 years for the 1,000-page history of the early days of the C.I.A. that was completed in 1953 to be released. Obviously, long life and persistence are prerequisites for historians in this field.

S. PETER KARLOW Atherton, Calif., Dec. 6, 1989


https://www.cia.gov/library/center-f...2a01p_0001.htm

APPROVED FOR RELEASE
CIA HISTORICAL REVIEW PROGRAM
22 SEPT 93

CONFIDENTIAL

Postwar interregnum as conflicting plans for central intelligence are shaken down into a presidential directive.

THE BIRTH OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE

Arthur B. Darling1

There was more than economy in mind as Director of the Budget Harold Smith corresponded with General Wm. J. Donovan in August 1945 about liquidating the Office of Strategic Services. On the same day Smith advised the General that agencies with no peacetime activities had to go, Donovan expounded once more in a letter to him the principles which should govern a centralized U.S. foreign intelligence system. Donovan believed those principles were already at work in the OSS. But since it was to be abandoned, another agency should be set up immediately to take over its valuable assets and aid the nation in "the organization and maintenance of the peace."

The newly unveiled atomic bomb naturally dominated the thinking of the time, and some argued that it made the need for a permanent system of national intelligence peremptory. Gregory Bateson, for example, writing to Donovan from OSS headquarters in the IndiaBurma theater, forecast that the bomb would shift the balance of warlike and peaceful methods of international pressure. It would be powerless, he said, against subversive practices, guerrilla tactics, social and economic manipulation, diplomatic forces, and propaganda either black or white. The nations would therefore resort to those indirect methods of warfare.


1 Adapted from a history of the CIA to 1950 completed by the author in 1953. For a preceding

portion, devoted principally to the OSS, see Studies VIII 3, p. 55 ff.

https://www.cia.gov/library/center-f...2a01p_0008.htm

... The secretaries agreed to form such a committee. At the close of the meeting Secretary Patterson inquired if anyone knew of a good man to be Director of Intelligence, and Lovett said the only name he had heard mentioned was Allen Dulles.

Compromise Effort

The working committee met on November 19. Its members for the State Department were Alfred McCormack and Donald S. Russell; for the Army, Robert A. Lovett and Brigadier General George Brownell; and for the Navy, Rear Admiral Sidney Souers and Major Matthias Correa, special adviser to Secretary Forrestal. ...

https://www.cia.gov/library/center-f...2a01p_0012.htm

...The Army's committee appointed on October 22 under the chairmanship of Assistant Secretary Lovett gathered testimony by means of a questionnaire and written reports within the War Department.

There were formal interviews with persons specially qualified: General Bissell; William H. Jackson, who had reported on the British system; Kingman Douglass, who bad represented the Army Air Forces at the Air Ministry in London; Lieutenant General Stanley D. Embick, member of the joint Strategic Survey Committee; David K. E. Bruce, who had been prominent in OSS; and Alfred McCormack from the State Department...

The opinions of most of these witnesses can be fairly surmised. Of particular interest, in view of his participation in the Intelligence Survey Group of the National Security Council in 1948 and his subsequent appointment as Deputy Director of Central Intelligence under General Walter B. Smith, are those held at this time by William H. Jackson.4


(2) 4 Taken from a memorandum of the following November 14 to Secretary Forrestal. The testimony proper before the Lovett Committee was not available to the author.

https://www.cia.gov/library/center-f...2a01p_0013.htm

....The finished report of the Lovett Committee noted, as Magruder had, that there was jealousy and mistrust among the departmental intelligence services, and also that the lack of experienced intelligence officers in both military services contributed to the unsatisfactory situation; no serious effort had been made to treat intelligence as a....

https://www.cia.gov/library/center-f...2a01p_0014.htm

CONFIDENTIAL

Central Intelligence

career. There must be a national intelligence organization, manned by permanent personnel of the highest caliber and trained as specialists in the components of modern intelligence. This could not be approached through the uncoordinated activity of the departmental units now engaged in "haphazard demobilization."...


..Lovett himself, appearing before Secretaries Byrnes, Patterson, and Forrestal in their meeting

on November 14, gave a summary of the report. He spoke particularly of its conception of a "reading panel," the proposed Intelligence Advisory Board in its capacity as an estimating body. The principal civilian agencies as well as the military intelligence services should be represented on it. The FBI,

in particular, had the "best personality file in the world" and incidentally was expert in producing false documents, an art "at which we became outstandingly adept" during the war. The advantage in this plan, Lovett emphasized, lay in the fact that conclusions would be reached not by one man but by a board; it would avoid "the danger of having a single slanted view guide our policies." Thus he joined William H. Jackson in advocating collective responsibility for national intelligence estimates....
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FORRESTAL KILLED IN 13-STORY LEAP; U. S. MOURNING SET; NATION IS ...
New York Times - May 23, 1949
... between his departure from the Cabinet and his collapse from nervous exhaustion Mr. Forrestal was at Hobe Sound, Fla., at the home of Robert A. Lovett, ...

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FORRESTAL DATA HELD UP; Report on His Death Promised but It Is Not Released

July 19, 1949, Tuesday

Page 31, 183 words

WASHINGTON, July 18 (AP) -- Considerable mystery surrounds a delay in releasing the report made by the special naval investigating board that inquired into the death of James V. Forrestal, former Secretary of Defense.

http://www.princeton.edu/~mudd/findi...illcutts/index
Admiral M.D. Willcutts Report on the Death of James V. Forrestal, 1949

This page links to two text files in Adobe PDF format containing the 1949 report by Admiral M.D. Willcutts, the Navy Department's chief investigator into the death of James V. Forrestal. The documents were procured by David Martin of Virginia via a Freedom of Information Act request in April 2004. Martin scanned the report and gave the PDF files to the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library in August 2004. Previous versions of this report made available to the public contained redactions; however this version is unexpurgated. Also included are scans of five photographs obtained and scanned by Martin.


First half of the Willcutts Report (15 MB)

Second half of the report (89 MB)

Photographs: Exhibit 2E, Exhibit 2F, Exhibit 2H Exhibit 2K Exhibit 2U
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Driven Patriot: The Life and Times of James Forrestal
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Gordon Gray Papers
Dates: 1946-1979.

Assistant Secretary of the Army, 1947-1949; Secretary of the Army, 1949-1950; Special Assistant to the President, 1950;

Director, Psychological Strategy Board, 1951.

During the Truman years, Gray was Assistant Secretary and later Secretary of the Army. He resigned in 1950 to accept the position of president of the University of North Carolina. However, he remained in Washington, D.C. to study United States foreign economic policies as a special assistant to the President. Also, during his tenure as president of the University of North Carolina, he was director of the Psychological Strategy Board. In the Eisenhower administration, Gray held positions on several committees and boards including the Atomic Energy Commission's Personnel Security Board.

The Psychological Strategy Board (PSB) was established by Presidential Directive of April 4, 1951 "to authorize and provide for the more effective planning, coordination, and conduct, within the framework of approved national policies, of psychological operations." The founding Presidential Directive instructed the PSB to report to the National Security Council "on the Board's activities and its evaluation of the national psychological operations, including implementation of approved objectives, policies, and programs by the departments and agencies concerned."

The Psychological Strategy Board succeeded the State-War-Navy Coordinating Committee, which had been established during World War II to coordinate the Government's psychological warfare efforts. During the Truman Presidency, the PSB, in addition to its inherited coordination role, conducted planning for psychological operations undertaken by its constituent agencies. It did not conduct operations of its own. After leaving the Psychological Strategy Board, Gray would serve on a number of committees during the Eisenhower administration.

In 1954, the Atomic Energy Commission created a special panel to hold secret hearings to decide if nuclear physicist Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer was a security risk. The Personnel Security Board of the Atomic Energy Commission, chaired by Gordon Gray, met from April 12 to May 6, 1954. The board investigated and later found Dr. Oppenheimer loyal to the United States, but did not grant him security clearance. ....


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Washington at Work; Turning Loyalty and Service to Bush Into Power as Presidential Counsel

By NEIL A. LEWIS, SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES
Published: December 12, 1990

Boyden Gray, White House counsel and personal favorite of President Bush, is a man who inspires people to come up with new and inventive ways to say "odd."

Consider his behavior at a meeting over the civil rights bill just before Congress adjourned. William Coleman Jr., a venerable black Republican who was negotiating for the major civil rights groups, pulled out a piece of paper with an Administration proposal that he said showed the White House wanted to scuttle the bill.

At that point, according to those present, Mr. Gray snatched the paper, saying it was "no longer operative," and ripped it into pieces, which fluttered to the floor as everyone else looked on in stunned silence.

'Wanted to Look Bold'

"Hey, it wasn't even his paper," said an Administration official familiar with the incident. "I think he wanted to look bold, but it was probably just awkward."

In the recent past, White House counsels were secondary figures who were primarily involved in giving legal advice. But at the age of 47, Clayland Boyden Gray has become an influential figure on a variety of issues, largely as a result of his special rapport and length of service with George Bush.

The principal theorist behind the President's veto of the civil rights bill, Mr. Gray is also a fierce proponent of the argument that the President need not do anything more than consult with Congress if he chooses that the United States go to war with Iraq. Backer of Presidential Powers

His stand is emblematic of a larger view of Presidential authority that is at the center of his role in the White House. In fact, if Mr. Gray is to make a mark for something other than his forays into an eclectic range of issues, it is his staunch commitment to protect and, if possible, expand Presidential prerogatives in the constitutional scheme.

Mr. Gray initially agreed to be interviewed for this article but later changed his mind, saying he believed the White House counsel should be a figure inconspicuous to the public....

...But their influence was a product of their intellectual heft and political worldliness while Mr. Gray's importance, several mutual friends agreed, is more a result of Mr. Bush's personal regard for him. Product of the Power Elite It is a relationship, those friends say, born of what Mr. Bush might call "the class thing."

A tall figure whose personality oscillates between brooding and genial, Mr. Gray is as indisputable a product of the nation's traditional power elite as is Mr. Bush. Mr. Gray's father, Gordon Gray, served as Secretary of the Army under President Harry S. Truman and was President Dwight D. Eisenhower's national security adviser. He later became president of the University of North Carolina and was an occasional golfing partner of both Senator Prescott Bush of Connecticut and his son George.

"The Bushes and the Grays seem to know an awful lot of people in common," said one White House official.

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Chapter 9
Death of a Prince
RJR is left looking for a leader at a critical time for tobacco; last-minute 'instructions' feed the Gray mystique

By Frank Tursi, Susan E. White and Steve McQuilkin

Winston-Salem Journal

...Bowman Gray had come a long way -- from the streets of Boston where he hawked cigarettes for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. in the 1930s to the chairman's office of the company his father had once run.

He had built an empire that dominated the tobacco industry and, as a response to the growing health threat, had begun to diversify into foods and other businesses.

The deal for Sea-Land Services Inc. in early 1969 would turn a home-grown tobacco company into a conglomerate. ..

...Gordon Gray, who had almost 20 years in Washington working for two presidents, suggested to his brother, Bowman, that he hire Chuck Ellington, who had been an assistant secretary of defense and assistant dean of the Harvard Business School....

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Sea-Land Service, Inc. (often referred to by a variety of variations on its name, including: Sea-Land Services, Sea-Land Corporation, or SeaLand) was a pioneering shipping and containerization company founded by American entrepreneur Malcom McLean in 1960, out of the operations of the Pan-Atlantic Steamship Company, which McLean acquired in 1955. It existed under various changes of ownership (passing from R. J. Reynolds to CSX Corporation, until it was acquired by, and formally incorporated into, the operations of the A. P. Moller-Maersk Group in November 1999.

Sea-Land become notable for its instrumental role in the U.S. military in the Vietnam conflict, delivering as many as 12,000 containers a month to the Indochina peninsula; total revenues from the U.S. Defense Department would amount to $450 million between 1967 and 1973.[1] Later, it drew attention for being the registrant of the ill-fated SS Mayagüez, whose seizure by Khmer Rouge forces on May 12, 1975 provoked the last armed confrontation of the Vietnam War.


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DEECY STEPHENS, AN INSURANCE AGENT, AND BURTON C. GRAY MARRY IN CAPITAL

November 6, 1988

....Mr. Gray, a stepson of Nancy Maguire Gray of Hobe Sound, Fla., is the vice chairman of the Summit Communications Group, a radio and cable television company in Atlanta. He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and Yale University and did graduate work in economics at the University of Chicago. His previous marriage ended in divorce.

The bridegroom's father was the Secretary of the Army in the Truman Administration, President Eisenhower's special assistant for national security, a president of the University of North Carolina and a chairman of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The bridegroom is a grandson of the late Bowman Gray, a president of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. ...

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Is this anything to do with the New American Century organization? Are you familiar with this?

I agree, the PTB certainly exist, in no uncertain terms.
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Is this anything to do with the New American Century organization? Are you familiar with this?

I agree, the PTB certainly exist, in no uncertain terms.
xepherys, I am concerned that what the little group of elite that inhabited Jupiter Isalnd, Fla, is still doing to us, is a much bigger matter than the PNAC you post about.....

Read the info at the following links.....it's about money, power, and weapons and war...it transcends borders and nationalistic priorities.....

Walter S. Carpenter, first modern, non-Du Pont family head of Du Pont Corps., represented Du Pont in it's 1933 buyout of Remington....he negotiated the sale with Samuel Pryor of Remington, and he was then "invited" to have a home on Jupiter Island:

http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstra...8ED85F468485F9

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_S._Carpenter%2C_Jr..

Who Owns Aniline? - TIME
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...795457,00.html


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Such a very few men, living on a small island....designing and profiting from all US wars since WWI.....Carpenter presided over Du Pont during the Du Pont led, A-Bomb and H-Bomb "projects....Robert Lovett designed the CIA and was Sect'y of defense during the Korean war, from 1951.

"Wild Bill" Donovan was counsel for the Du Pont's during the 1934 Senator NYe, "Merchants of Death" investigations, and Donovan was WWII director of OSS, the precursor to the CIA.....and also on Jupiter Island, the Dillons, Harrimans, Bushes...... and the friendships, as you can see in the last link,,,,endure through the generations....

Too....close....too few players, too "neat".....two recent presidents....

It all smells....like a stench!
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Ben Aris in Berlin and Duncan Campbell in Washington The Guardian, Saturday September 25, 2004 Article history

How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to powerRumours of a link between the US first family and the Nazi war machine have circulated for decades. Now the Guardian can reveal how repercussions of events that culminated in action under the Trading with the Enemy Act are still being felt by today's president....

Bush was also on the board of at least one of the companies that formed part of a multinational network of front companies to allow Thyssen to move assets around the world.

Thyssen owned the largest steel and coal company in Germany and grew rich from Hitler's efforts to re-arm between the two world wars. One of the pillars in Thyssen's international corporate web, UBC, worked exclusively for, and was owned by, a Thyssen-controlled bank in the Netherlands. More tantalising are Bush's links to the Consolidated Silesian Steel Company (CSSC), based in mineral rich Silesia on the German-Polish border. During the war, the company made use of Nazi slave labour from the concentration camps, including Auschwitz. The ownership of CSSC changed hands several times in the 1930s, but documents from the US National Archive declassified last year link Bush to CSSC, although it is not clear if he and UBC were still involved in the company when Thyssen's American assets were seized in 1942.

Three sets of archives spell out Prescott Bush's involvement. All three are readily available, thanks to the efficient US archive system and a helpful and dedicated staff at both the Library of Congress in Washington and the National Archives at the University of Maryland.

The first set of files, the Harriman papers in the Library of Congress, show that Prescott Bush was a director and shareholder of a number of companies involved with Thyssen.

The second set of papers, which are in the National Archives, are contained in vesting order number 248 which records the seizure of the company assets. What these files show is that on October 20 1942 the alien property custodian seized the assets of the UBC, of which Prescott Bush was a director. Having gone through the books of the bank, further seizures were made against two affiliates, the Holland-American Trading Corporation and the Seamless Steel Equipment Corporation. By November, the Silesian-American Company, another of Prescott Bush's ventures, had also been seized.

The third set of documents, also at the National Archives, are contained in the files on IG Farben, who was prosecuted for war crimes.

A report issued by the Office of Alien Property Custodian in 1942 stated of the companies that "since 1939, these (steel and mining) properties have been in possession of and have been operated by the German government and have undoubtedly been of considerable assistance to that country's war effort".

Prescott Bush, a 6ft 4in charmer with a rich singing voice, was the founder of the Bush political dynasty and was once considered a potential presidential candidate himself. Like his son, George, and grandson, George W, he went to Yale where he was, again like his descendants, a member of the secretive and influential Skull and Bones student society. He was an artillery captain in the first world war and married Dorothy Walker, the daughter of George Herbert Walker, in 1921.

In 1924, his father-in-law, a well-known St Louis investment banker, helped set him up in business in New York with Averill Harriman, the wealthy son of railroad magnate E H Harriman in New York, who had gone into banking.

One of the first jobs Walker gave Bush was to manage UBC. Bush was a founding member of the bank and the incorporation documents, which list him as one of seven directors, show he owned one share in UBC worth $125.

The bank was set up by Harriman and Bush's father-in-law to provide a US bank for the Thyssens, Germany's most powerful industrial family.

August Thyssen, the founder of the dynasty had been a major contributor to Germany's first world war effort and in the 1920s, he and his sons Fritz and Heinrich established a network of overseas banks and companies so their assets and money could be whisked offshore if threatened again.

By the time Fritz Thyssen inherited the business empire in 1926, Germany's economic recovery was faltering. After hearing Adolf Hitler speak, Thyssen became mesmerised by the young firebrand. He joined the Nazi party in December 1931 and admits backing Hitler in his autobiography, I Paid Hitler, when the National Socialists were still a radical fringe party. He stepped in several times to bail out the struggling party: in 1928 Thyssen had bought the Barlow Palace on Briennerstrasse, in Munich, which Hitler converted into the Brown House, the headquarters of the Nazi party. The money came from another Thyssen overseas institution, the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvarrt in Rotterdam.

By the late 1930s, Brown Brothers Harriman, which claimed to be the world's largest private investment bank, and UBC had bought and shipped millions of dollars of gold, fuel, steel, coal and US treasury bonds to Germany, both feeding and financing Hitler's build-up to war.

Between 1931 and 1933 UBC bought more than $8m worth of gold, of which $3m was shipped abroad. According to documents seen by the Guardian, after UBC was set up it transferred $2m to BBH accounts and between 1924 and 1940 the assets of UBC hovered around $3m, dropping to $1m only on a few occasions.

In 1941, Thyssen fled Germany after falling out with Hitler but he was captured in France and detained for the remainder of the war.

There was nothing illegal in doing business with the Thyssens throughout the 1930s and many of America's best-known business names invested heavily in the German economic recovery. However, everything changed after Germany invaded Poland in 1939. Even then it could be argued that BBH was within its rights continuing business relations with the Thyssens until the end of 1941 as the US was still technically neutral until the attack on Pearl Harbor. The trouble started on July 30 1942 when the New York Herald-Tribune ran an article entitled "Hitler's Angel Has $3m in US Bank". UBC's huge gold purchases had raised suspicions that the bank was in fact a "secret nest egg" hidden in New York for Thyssen and other Nazi bigwigs. The Alien Property Commission (APC) launched an investigation.

There is no dispute over the fact that the US government seized a string of assets controlled by BBH - including UBC and SAC - in the autumn of 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy act. What is in dispute is if Harriman, Walker and Bush did more than own these companies on paper.

Erwin May, a treasury attache and officer for the department of investigation in the APC, was assigned to look into UBC's business. The first fact to emerge was that Roland Harriman, Prescott Bush and the other directors didn't actually own their shares in UBC but merely held them on behalf of Bank voor Handel. Strangely, no one seemed to know who owned the Rotterdam-based bank, including UBC's president.

May wrote in his report of August 16 1941: "Union Banking Corporation, incorporated August 4 1924, is wholly owned by the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart N.V of Rotterdam, the Netherlands. My investigation has produced no evidence as to the ownership of the Dutch bank. Mr Cornelis [sic] Lievense, president of UBC, claims no knowledge as to the ownership of the Bank voor Handel but believes it possible that Baron Heinrich Thyssen, brother of Fritz Thyssen, may own a substantial interest."

May cleared the bank of holding a golden nest egg for the Nazi leaders but went on to describe a network of companies spreading out from UBC across Europe, America and Canada, and how money from voor Handel travelled to these companies through UBC.

By September May had traced the origins of the non-American board members and found that Dutchman HJ Kouwenhoven - who met with Harriman in 1924 to set up UBC - had several other jobs: in addition to being the managing director of voor Handel he was also the director of the August Thyssen bank in Berlin and a director of Fritz Thyssen's Union Steel Works, the holding company that controlled Thyssen's steel and coal mine empire in Germany.

Within a few weeks, Homer Jones, the chief of the APC investigation and research division sent a memo to the executive committee of APC recommending the US government vest UBC and its assets. Jones named the directors of the bank in the memo, including Prescott Bush's name, and wrote: "Said stock is held by the above named individuals, however, solely as nominees for the Bank voor Handel, Rotterdam, Holland, which is owned by one or more of the Thyssen family, nationals of Germany and Hungary. The 4,000 shares hereinbefore set out are therefore beneficially owned and help for the interests of enemy nationals, and are vestible by the APC," according to the memo from the National Archives seen by the Guardian.

Red-handed


Jones recommended that the assets be liquidated for the benefit of the government, but instead UBC was maintained intact and eventually returned to the American shareholders after the war. Some claim that Bush sold his share in UBC after the war for $1.5m - a huge amount of money at the time - but there is no documentary evidence to support this claim. No further action was ever taken nor was the investigation continued, despite the fact UBC was caught red-handed operating a American shell company for the Thyssen family eight months after America had entered the war and that this was the bank that had partly financed Hitler's rise to power.

The most tantalising part of the story remains shrouded in mystery: the connection, if any, between Prescott Bush, Thyssen, Consolidated Silesian Steel Company (CSSC) and Auschwitz.

Thyssen's partner in United Steel Works, which had coal mines and steel plants across the region, was Friedrich Flick, another steel magnate who also owned part of IG Farben, the powerful German chemical company.

Flick's plants in Poland made heavy use of slave labour from the concentration camps in Poland. According to a New York Times article published in March 18 1934 Flick owned two-thirds of CSSC while "American interests" held the rest.

The US National Archive documents show that BBH's involvement with CSSC was more than simply holding the shares in the mid-1930s. Bush's friend and fellow "bonesman" Knight Woolley, another partner at BBH, wrote to Averill Harriman in January 1933 warning of problems with CSSC after the Poles started their drive to nationalise the plant. "The Consolidated Silesian Steel Company situation has become increasingly complicated, and I have accordingly brought in Sullivan and Cromwell, in order to be sure that our interests are protected," wrote Knight. "After studying the situation Foster Dulles is insisting that their man in Berlin get into the picture and obtain the information which the directors here should have. You will recall that Foster is a director and he is particularly anxious to be certain that there is no liability attaching to the American directors."

But the ownership of the CSSC between 1939 when the Germans invaded Poland and 1942 when the US government vested UBC and SAC is not clear.

"SAC held coal mines and definitely owned CSSC between 1934 and 1935, but when SAC was vested there was no trace of CSSC. All concrete evidence of its ownership disappears after 1935 and there are only a few traces in 1938 and 1939," says Eva Schweitzer, the journalist and author whose book, America and the Holocaust, is published next month.

Silesia was quickly made part of the German Reich after the invasion, but while Polish factories were seized by the Nazis, those belonging to the still neutral Americans (and some other nationals) were treated more carefully as Hitler was still hoping to persuade the US to at least sit out the war as a neutral country. Schweitzer says American interests were dealt with on a case-by-case basis. The Nazis bought some out, but not others. ....
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at that time was in Greenwich, Connecticut. But it was just then that
George's parents, Prescott and Dorothy Walker Bush, were wintering in a
peculiar spot in Florida, a place that is excluded from mention in
literature originating from Bush circles.

Certain national news accounts early in 1991 featured the observations on
President Bush's childhood by his elderly mother Dorothy. She was said to
be a resident of Hobe Sound, Florida. More precisely, the President's
mother lived in a hyper-security arrangement created a half-century earlier
by Averell Harriman, adjacent to Hobe Sound. Its correct name is Jupiter
Island.

During his political career, George Bush has claimed many different "home"
states, including Texas, Maine, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. It has not
been expedient for him to claim Florida, though that state has a vital link
to his role in the world, as we shall see. And George Bush's home base in
Florida, throughout his adult life, has been Jupiter Island.

The unique, bizarre setup on Jupiter Island began in 1931, following the
merger of W.A. Harriman and Co. with the British-American firm Brown
Brothers.

The reader will recall Mr. Samuel Pryor, the "Merchant of Death." A partner
with the Harrimans, Prescott Bush, George Walker, and Nazi boss Fritz
Thyssen in banking and shipping enterprises, Sam Pryor remained executive
committee chairman of Remington Arms. In this period, the Nazi private
armies (SA and SS) were supplied with American arms -- most likely by Pryor
and his company -- as they moved to overthrow the German republic. Such
gun-running as an instrument of national policy would later become
notorious in the "Iran-Contra" affair.

Sam Pryor's daughter Permelia married Yale graduate Joseph V. Reed on the
last day of 1927. Reed immediately went to work for Prescott Bush and
George Walker, as an apprentice at W.A. Harriman and Co.

During World War II, Joseph V. Reed had served in the "special services"
section of the U.S. Army Signal Corps. A specialist in security, codes and
espionage, Reed later wrote a book entitled "Fun with Cryptograms". Note #2

Sam Pryor had had property around Hobe Sound, Florida, for some time. In
1931, Joseph and Permelia Pryor Reed bought the entirety of Jupiter Island.

This is a typically beautiful Atlantic coast "barrier island," a half-mile
wide and nine miles long. The middle of Jupiter Island lies just off Hobe
Sound. The south bridge connects the island with the town of Jupiter, to
the north of Palm Beach. It is about 90 minutes by auto from Miami --
today, a few minutes by helicopter.

Early in 1991, a newspaper reporter asked a friend of the Bush family about
security arrangements on Jupiter Island. He responded, "If you called up
the White House, would they tell you h ow many security people they had?
It's not that Jupiter Island is the White House, although he [George Bush]
does come down frequently."

But for several decades before Bush was President, Jupiter Island had an ord
inance requiring the registration and fingerprinting of all housekeepers,
gardeners, and other non-residents working on the island. The Jupiter
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 one or two minutes. Surveillance is
a duty of all employees of the Town of Jupiter Island. News reporters are
to be prevented from visiting the island. Note #3

To create this astonishing private club, Joseph and Permelia Pryor Reed
sold land only to those who would fit in. Permelia Reed was still the
grande dame of the island when George Bush was inaugurated President in
1989. In recognition of the fact that the Reeds know where "all" the bodies
are buried, President Bush appointed Permelia's son, Joseph V. Reed, Jr.,
chief of protocol for the U.S. State Dept., in charge of private
arrangements with foreign dignitaries.

Averell Harriman made Jupiter 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
America.

Let us briefly survey the neighborhood, back then in 1946-48, to see some
of the uses various of the residents had for the Harriman clique.


Residence on Jupiter Island

Note #b|Jupiter Islander "Robert A. Lovett," Note #4, Prescott Bush's
partner at Brown Brothers Harriman, had been Assistant Secretary of War for
Air from 1941 to 1945. Lovett was the leading American advocate of the
policy of terror-bombing of civilians. He organized the Strategic Bombing
Survey, carried out for the American and British governments by the staff
of the Prudential Insurance Company, guided by London's Tavistock
Psychiatric Clinic.

In the postwar period, Prescott Bush was associated with Prudential
Insurance, one of Lovett's intelligence channels to the British secret
services. Prescott was listed by Prudential 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 such outrages as the fire-bombing of Dresden,
Germany. But the Harrimanites 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.

Robert Lovett later advised President Lyndon Johnson to terror-bomb
Vietnam. President George Bush revived the doctrine with the bombing of
civilian areas in Panama, and the destruction of Baghdad.

On October 22, 1945, Secretary of War Robert Patterson created the Lovett
Committee, chaired by Robert A. Lovett, to advise the government on the
post-World War II organization of U.S. intelligence activities. The
existence of this committee was unknown to the public until an official CIA
history was released from secrecy in 1989. But the CIA's author (who was
President Bush's prep school history teacher; see chapter 5) gives no real
details of the Lovett Committee's functioning, claiming: "The record of the
testimony of the Lovett Committee, unfortunately, was not in the archives
of the agency when this account was written." Note #5

The CIA's self-history does inform us of the advice that Lovett provided to
the Truman cabinet, as the official War Department intelligence proposal.

Lovett decided that there should be a separate Central Intelligence Agency.
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 should have an independent budget, and its
appropriations should be granted by Congress without public hearings.

Lovett appeared before the Secretaries of State, War, and Navy on November
14, 1945. He spoke highly of the FBI's work because it had "the best
personality file in the world." Lovett said the FBI was expert at producing
false documents, an art "which we developed so successfully during the war
and at which we became outstandingly adept." Lovett pressed for a virtual
resumption of the wartime Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in a new CIA.

U.S. military traditionalists centered around Gen. Douglas MacArthur
opposed Lovett's proposal. The continuation of the OSS had been attacked at
the end of the war on the grounds that the OSS was entirely under British
control, and that it would constitute an American Gestapo. Note #6 But the
CIA was established in 1947 according to the prescription of Robert Lovett,
of Jupiter Island.

/ Note #b|"Charles Payson" and his wife, "Joan Whitney Payson," were
extended family members of Harriman's and business associates of the Bush
family.

Joan's aunt, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, was a relative of the Harrimans.
Gertrude's son, Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, long-time chairman
of Pan American Airways (Prescott was a Pan Am director), became assistant
secretary of the U.S. Air Force in 1947. Sonny's wife Marie had divorced
him and married Averell Harriman in 1930. Joan and Sonny's uncle, Air
Marshal Sir Thomas Elmhirst, was director of intelligence for the British
Air Force from 1945 to 1947.

Joan's brother, John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, was to be ambassador to Great
Britain from 1955 to 1961 ... when it would be vital for Prescott and
George Bush to have such a friend. Joan's father, grandfather, and uncle
were members of the Skull and Bones secret society.

Charles Payson organized a uranium refinery in 1948. Later, he was chairman
of Vitro Corporation, makers of parts for submarine-launched ballistic
missiles, equipment for frequency surveillance and torpedo guidance, and
other subsurface weaponry.

Naval warfare has long been a preoccupation of the British Empire. British
penetration of the U.S. Naval Intelligence service has been particularly
heavy since the tenure of Joan's Anglophile grandfather, William C.
Whitney, as secretary of the Navy for President Grover Cleveland. This
traditional covert British orientation in the U.S. Navy, Naval Intelligence
and the Navy's included service, the Marine Corps, forms a backdrop to the
career of George Bush -- and to the whole neighborhood on Jupiter Island.
Naval Intelligence maintained direct relations with gangster boss Meyer
Lansky for Anglo-American political operations in Cuba during World War II,
well before the establishment of the CIA. Lansky officially moved to
Florida in 1953. / Note #7

/ Note #b|"George Herbert Walker, Jr." (Skull and Bones, 1927), was
extremely close to his nephew George Bush, helping to sponsor his entry
into the oil business in the 1950s. "Uncle Herbie" was also a partner of
Joan Whitney Payson when they co-founded the New York Mets baseball team in
1960. His son, G.H. Walker III, was a Yale classmate of "Nicholas Brady"
and Moreau D. Brown (Thatcher Brown's grandson), forming what was called
the "Yale Mafia" on Wall Street.

/ Note #b|"Walter S. Carpenter, Jr." had been chairman of the finance
committee of the Du Pont Corporation (1930-40). In 1933, Carpenter oversaw
Du Pont's purchase of Remington Arms from Sam Pryor and the Rockefellers,
and led Du Pont into partnership with the Nazi I.G. Farben company for the
manufacture of explosives. Carpenter became Du Pont's president in 1940.
His cartel with the Nazis was broken up by the U.S. government.
Nevertheless, Carpenter remained Du Pont's president, as the company's
technicians participated massively in the Manhattan Project to produce the
first atomic bomb. He was chairman of Du Pont from 1948 to 1962, retaining
high-level access to U.S. strategic activities.

Walter Carpenter and Prescott Bush were fellow activists in the Mental
Hygiene Society. Originating at Yale University in 1908, the movement had
been organized into the World Federation of Mental Health by Montague
Norman, himself a frequen t mental patient, former Brown Brothers partner
and Bank of England Governor. Norman had appointed as the federation's
chairman, Brigadier John Rawlings Rees, director of the Tavistock Clinic,
chief psychiatrist and psychological warfare expert for the British
intelligence services. Prescott was a director of the society in
Connecticut; Carpenter was a director in Delaware.

/ Note #b|"Paul Mellon" was the leading heir to the Mellon fortune, and a
long-time neighbor of Averell Harriman's in Middleburg, Virginia, as well
as Jupiter Island, Florida. Paul's father, Andrew Mellon, U.S. treasury
secretary 1921-32, had approved the transactions of Harriman, Pryor, and
Bush with the Warburgs and the Nazis. Paul Mellon's son-in-law, "David K.E.
Bruce," worked in Prescott Bush's W.A. Harriman & Co. during the late
1920s; was head of the London branch of U.S. intelligence during World War
II; and was Averell Harriman's Assistant Secretary of Commerce in 1947-48.
Mellon family money and participation would be instrumental in many
domestic U.S. projects of the new Central Intelligence Agency.

/ Note #b|"Carll Tucker" manufactured electronic guidance equipment for
the Navy. With the Mellons, Tucker was an owner of South American oil
properties. Mrs. Tucker was the great-aunt of "Nicholas Brady," later
George Bush's Iran-Contra partner and U.S. treasury secretary. Their son
Carll Tucker, Jr. (Skull and Bones, 1947), was among the 15 Bonesmen who
selected George Bush for induction in the class of 1948.

/ Note #b|"C. Douglas Dillon" was the boss of William H. Draper, Jr. in
the Draper-Prescott Bush-Fritz Thyssen Nazi banking scheme of the 1930s and
40s. His father, Clarence Dillon, created the Vereinigte Stahlwerke
(Thyssen's German Steel Trust) in 1926. C. Douglas Dillon made "Nicholas
Brady" the chairman of the Dillon Read firm in 1971 and himself continued
as chairman of the Executive Committee. C. Douglas Dillon would be a vital
ally of his neighbor Prescott Bush during the Eisenhower administration....

....From the late 1940s, Jupiter 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. Jupiter Island will reappear later on, in our account of George Bush in the Iran-Contra affair.


http://www.padrak.com/alt/BUSHBOOK_2.html
This is an account of the "high water mark" of the struggle for power between "the people" and the PTB....it only took place because of the recent depression driven demands for investigations into the abuses of the wealthiest against everyone else, and because of the question of whether these greedy bastards put country first, instead of profits, in a war that they were instrumental in financing the armaments buildup that preceded it, in the first place. Ironically, the guilty were able to use the perceived "expediencies of war", to escape further scrutiny and horror, or horrors....possible accountability for their actions. Instead of jailing them, confiscating their ill gotten gains....condemning them and their reputations for their crimes, we instead permitted them to design the CIA, conduct the cold war, and voted for their two sons as our presidents !
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I. THE NEW DEAL AND ANTITRUST

ANTITRUST LEGACY OF THURMAN ARNOLD, THE

Waller, Spencer Weber

....As Robert Jackson commented in his memoir of the New Deal, "[FDR] knew that there were evils in the suppression of competition

and that there were evils in competition itself, and where the greater evils were he never fully decided."7

The entire history of the New Deal and competition was a contradiction.8 It had been preceded by the experience of war

mobilization during World War I, where industry cooperated with government and colluded under the direction of Bernard Baruch and

his War Industries Board. The era of associationalism followed in the 1920s, when the antitrust laws were sporadically enforced

and key government officials, up to and including President Hoover, preferred industry cooperation to the robust competition

mandated by the antitrust laws......


....III. THE TASK AHEAD

Arnold had a profoundly difficult task ahead of him. Throughout the 1920s, the antitrust laws were barely enforced, if at all.46 ....

IV. THE TEMPORAEY NATIONAL ECONOMIC COMMISSION

April 1938 brought the planning for Roosevelt's antimonopoly message to Congress, with which Arnold, Cummings, and Jackson

assisted, along with Donald Richberg, the head of the NRA, and Ben Cohen, the author of the Utility Holding Company Act. It was a

stark illustration of the balance of power between the planners and the advocates of competition. It was apparent to all that

Roosevelt finally intended to make a real attack on the problem of monopoly. Predictably, only Richberg dissented from the plan.77

The message itself was symbolically important but rather mild in actual content. The President decried the "concentration of

economic power" in the country and deplored the "concealed cartel system" and "the disappearance of price competition."78 The

President thundered: "[T]he liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where

it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself . . . ."79

....The TNEC met for the first time on July 1, 1938 and immediately was embroiled in battles over the scope of subpoenas, the site

of hearings and which industries to study. Finally, the Committee agreed it would work in teams of one legislator and one agency

official with hearings to begin in September, later postponed until after the November elections. The investigation meandered

through the insurance, banking, steel, oil, liquor, investment banking, and automobile industries and further examined the impact

of cartels, state fair trade laws, patents, and various other competitive practices.

Arnold was assigned to head the inquiry into patents. To facilitate the hearings, Arnold agreed on behalf of the Justice

Department that the TNEC's investigation would not be used to gather evidence for Antitrust Division prosecutions.89

Eventually, the TNEC produced thirty-seven volumes of testimony and forty-three monographs. In all, there were 20,000 pages of

testimony, 552 business witnesses, and over 230,000 copies of the hearings and monographs sold by the Government Printing

Office.90 The TNEC and the various agencies working with it spent virtually the entire budget allotted to them, returning a paltry

$8000 of more than $1,000,000 to the Treasury.91

The TNEC issued its final report on March 31, 1941. The report recommended: repealing the Miller-Tydings Act, which had authorized

state fair trade laws; prohibiting horizontal mergers in excess of $5 million unless approved by the FTC; prohibiting basing point

pricing; raising penalties for criminal antitrust violations to $50,000; creating federal regulation of trade associations;

requiring mandatory licensing of patents at fair prices; and establishing the national chartering of corporations.92

The TNEC produced detailed, thoughtful studies on the state of competition in various industries and the state of antitrust more

generally, and made reasonable recommendations for its time, but no new antitrust legislation emerged directly from the effort.

Senator O'Mahoney steered the TNEC to lay out the record about the state of competition in copious detail, but to leave the

drawing of conclusions to others. No one ever really made any conclusions and Arnold viewed the final work product of the TNEC

with the same degree of enthusiasm that he viewed the earlier empirical work of the legal realists-as ignored and unread. After

initially participating halfheartedly in the work of the TNEC, Arnold soon left the work to his subordinates and concentrated his

efforts on the nationwide enforcement of the antitrust laws.93

A few developments came out of the TNEC which made the exercise something more than the gigantic waste of time portrayed by

Arnold. It was essentially "an anti-monopoly document" with a nod toward Chairman O'Mahoney's long-standing interest in the

national chartering of corporations.94 Although the final report of the TNEC was mild stuff calling for no dramatic changes in

antitrust, the hearings included a vivid demonstration of how the Hartford-Empire Company had monopolized the glass container

market through the acquisition and misuse of patent rights and collusion with competitors who held patent rights for related

technologies.95 The Antitrust Division eventually charged Hartford-Empire in a separate monopolization case and ultimately

required the company to license its vast array of patents and forego damages from past infringements.96 The revelations also

prompted Congress to amend the patent laws consistent with some of the TNEC's recommendations. Moreover, the TNEC was the key

impetus leading to the eventual 1950 strengthening of the merger provisions of the clayton Act and a source of the eventual

adoption of mandatory pre-merger notification.97

In addition, the TNEC stabilized antitrust policy and made it a fundamental part of the government's law enforcement and economic

regulation policies. The decade that followed the TNEC produced a high point in both the reach of antitrust doctrine and antitrust

enforcement, neither of which would have been possible without the dual efforts of Arnold as head of the Antitrust Division and

the buttressing effect of the TNEC as state of the art economic research on the condition of the American economy......


....V. ENFOECING THE ANTITRUST LAWS

Arnold's first large case involved the automobile industry. The "big three" car companies had long coerced dealers to finance

customer purchases through finance companies owned by the manufacturers and to bar-as much as possible-the use of independent

finance companies. ....

....VII. THE PATENT caseS

The one type of investigation that cut across industry lines was Arnold's crusade against the misuse of patents. Arnold railed

against the misuse of patents every chance he could as a tool of price fixing, division of markets among competitors, and

monopolization.150 In a speech before the American Business Congress, broadcast nationwide over the Mutual Radio Network, Arnold

said, "Since 1926 the most effective instrument of monopoly control and restriction of production has been the abuse of the patent

privilege."151 In a letter to one of Roosevelt's top aides he argued, "[t]he real vice of the patent system does not lie in the

law itself but in the various schemes which have perverted it into an instrument for the monopoly control of corporations."152 He

instituted numerous investigations and cases alleging that competitors used patent and other licenses as a disguise for

traditional price fixing and cartel arrangements in international markets.153 He publicized how the control of a patent for a

lowly screw fastener became a vital bottleneck slowing down aircraft production and the war effort.154

Arnold also brought a landmark case against the Hartford-Empire Company for monopolizing the glass container industry through its

accumulation of patents and its licensing practices.155 He continued the earlier Ethyl Gasoline case and personally argued it in

the Supreme Court, winning a ruling that patents could not be used to set prices for resale or to impose restrictions on matters

outside the scope of the patent.156 Moreover, Arnold argued the Univis Lens case in the Supreme Court where the Court also

condemned the use of patent licenses as a device to control resale prices of the licensee to the public.157.....

.....X. ANTITRUST AND THE WINDS OF WAR

Perhaps the gravest challenge Arnold faced as head of the Antitrust Division was the wholesale repeal or practical nullification

of antitrust in the face of the war planning and production leading up to the United States entry into World War II. The planning

process, such as it was, and the war effort itself threatened to derail antitrust enforcement as effectively as the NRA had done

during his predecessors' tenure. As early as July 1940, Arnold saw the threat war preparation meant for antitrust.176

Arnold fought back both within the Administration and publicly by using antitrust laws to attack profiteering and other

impediments to preparedness during the early days of the war in Europe before Pearl Harbor-linking the attack on international

cartels to the defense needs of the nations, showing the links between the international cartels and the Nazi war machine, and

arguing against the return of a cartelized economy in the postwar era.177 In Bottlenecks, Arnold eloquently described how

anticompetitive agreements were injuring the national defense by:

Throttling American capacity to produce essential war materials by foreign ownership and control of patents;

Cartelization of certain industries with price and production control in foreign hands;

Transmission to foreign companies of American military secrets;

Division of markets, fixing and restricting of price of materials essential to military preparation;

Collusive bidding on contracts for the Army and Navy.178

Arnold demonstrated how agreements between American and German firms in the optical industry had jeopardized war preparedness and

how the very same firms had unsuccessfully tried to threaten the War Department with delays if the antitrust suit was not

dropped.179 In a nationwide radio address in 1942, Arnold cited to a list of 162 cartel agreements between the thoroughly Nazified

LG. Farben Company of Germany and various American firms.180

United States v. Standard oil Co. was the notable success of this effort.181 Standard oil and LG. Farben of Germany had agreed as

early as 1929 to divide world markets, with LG. Farben having exclusive rights to artificial rubber and Standard oil controlling

the world market for petroleum products. The companies exchanged technology with Farben receiving a great deal of important

Standard oil work in the artificial rubber area and giving relatively little in return. One of the consequences of the deal was

Standard oil's inability to reenter the artificial rubber market without LG. Farben's consent, a decision which had profound

consequences for war preparedness in the United States.

Arnold had the law and facts on his side and was prepared to criminally indict the companies through the grand jury process. If

the United States had not already been at war, this probably would have happened. Instead, Standard oil was able to exert its

influence with the War Department and Arnold was forced into accepting a consent decree which freed up some key patents, but

required only the payment of a $50,000 fine.182

Arnold "leaked" the real story to the press and Congressional hearings which laid the record of the case before the public.183 In

a series of appearances before the Senate National Defense Committee, chaired by Truman and the Patent Committee chaired by Homer

Bone, Arnold laid out what he had been prepared to prove in court.

As if the original cartel arrangement was not bad enough, the companies continued to try to keep their private deal together,

despite the war.
Even after World War II had begun in Europe, there was evidence that Standard oil had agreed with LG. Farben to

continue to suppress production of artificial rubber in the United States, even though the arrangement was increasingly one-sided

in favor of LG. Farben and the wishes of the Hitler regime. Arnold believed Standard oil attempted to keep its cartel going even

during the war and linked the company to near espionage in giving German companies vital technological information.184 Standard

oil limited its own development of artificial rubber and blocked its commercial development by others, leaving the United States

short of this vital commodity while production flourished in Germany thanks to LG. Farben's uncontested control of this commodity.

Although Arnold was always careful to attribute the cartel agreements to the desire to dominate world markets rather than lack of

patriotism, Senator Truman characterized Standard oil's conduct as approaching treason.185 Arnold demonstrated the existence of

similar agreements between Farben and other American companies for magnesium, titanium, and other products that had similar

effects and how the initial cartel agreements inevitably expanded to include other American and international firms until the

agreements encompassed all worldwide competitors in truly global cartels to the detriment of American consumers and the war

effort.186

Arnold himself was careful not to directly impugn the patriotism or loyalty of American companies as much as simply attribute

these actions as a regrettable, but understandable, attitude of greed that could only be cured through more antitrust enforcement

both during and after the coming victory against the Axis. For Arnold: "You cannot control prices unless you restrict production.


You cannot restrict production without depriving a nation of wealth in peace, and of strength in war."187

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No Worries?
Monday, Sep. 25, 1950

When U.S. industry mobilizes for war production, the antitrust laws are among the first casualties. Reason: industrywide

production allocations and patent pools, which are taboo in peacetime, are essential for the close integration of industries

needed for big-scale war production. Last week came the first sign that antitrust prosecutions would again be eased up—or perhaps

shelved completely—as they were during World War II. Lanky, eager Herbert Bergson, 44, the U.S.'s most vigorous trustbuster since

the early New Deal days of Thurman Arnold, resigned his job.

In two years as head of the Justice Department's antitrust division, Bergson had filed 135 suits, including those against Aluminum

Co. of America, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. and the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. (TIME, Sept. 26 et seq.). He has won 80 of

his cases, lost only seven. The rest, including the big ones, are still pending. But lately there have been hints that Bergson

would have less & less to do. One hint: When the Government decided to build the hydrogen bomb, it handed the big job to Du Pont.

Washington no longer seemed to be worried that Du Pont, which the trustbusters had said was too big, would have to grow much

bigger to build the bomb.
Despite these revelations, Arnold was losing the antitrust battle to defense preparation and the war effort on a daily basis. ...

In his seventies, Arnold summarized his philosophy:

The purpose of the antitrust laws is to ensure freedom of business opportunity. They are not designed to protect small business

from larger and efficient competitors. They are not designed to prevent the growth of nationwide business enterprises so long as

that growth is a product of industrial efficiency. Even if, through greater efficiency in operation and distribution, a

corporation achieved a monopoly, that in itself would not violate the Sherman Act. But this has never yet happened. Monopolies

have been built up by using financial strength to buy out competitors or force them out of business. It is this sort of growth and

only this sort that the antitrust laws are designed to penalize .... This process repeated in industry after industry during the

period between the first World War and the depression created a system of absentee ownership of local industries which made

industrial colonies out the West and South, prevented the accumulation of local capital and siphoned the consumers' dollars to a

few industrial centers like New York and Chicago.214....
The government of the US, and it's intelligence apparatus seems to be controlled by the descendants of a group of greedy, war fomenting, profiteers with no allegiance to country, principles, or morals....and we've voted three times to put this cabal's two sons into the white house. WTF?

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This is a followup to a post yesterday, on this thread:
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthr...=136670&page=5

This is an account of the "high water mark" of the struggle for power between "the people" and the PTB....it only took place because of the recent depression driven demands for investigations into the abuses of the wealthiest against everyone else, and because of the question of whether these greedy bastards put country first, instead of profits, in a war that they were instrumental in financing the armaments buildup that preceded it, in the first place. Ironically, the guilty were able to use the perceived "expediencies of war", to escape further scrutiny and horror, or horrors....possible accountability for their actions. Instead of jailing them, confiscating their ill gotten gains....condemning them and their reputations for their crimes, we instead permitted them to design the CIA, conduct the cold war, and voted for their two sons as our presidents !

The government of the US, and it's intelligence apparatus seems to be controlled by the descendants of a group of greedy, war fomenting, profiteers with no allegiance to country, principles, or morals....and we've voted three times to put this cabal's two sons into the white house. WTF?
How could we have voted for? PTB seems like futility to bother to do anything different. In fact you've got irrefutable proof right here.

Why vote this coming November? PTB will do as they please anyways.

reminds me of the Stephen Hawking quote:

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
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I'm trying to read this thread but it's pretty dense reading for me. but I was on U Tube last night and found these vids which I think relate ?
when I see these vids I just feel like...is this crazy talk ?...but it all seems pretty believable.



if I have the links screwed up and your interested in looking, search U Tube :
Zeitgeist - The Movie: Federal Reserve

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Why vote this coming November?
exactly what I wonder alot. this question is on my mind as I read TFP politics...I mean, talking about all the issues of the day is like critiquing the frosting on a cake made of dogshit if all this is true.
I wonder why is a thread like this in Paranoia ? I mean paranoia to me is an irrational fear like a monster under the bed. either this stuff is real or all this Alex Jones Inside Job Bohemian Grove stuff is a load of crap. I've been reading (err trying to) and watching this stuff on U Tube for a few years now. and btw. did anyone see the conference of 911 scholars on C-Span a while back ?

I mean, if all this kind of thing is true than arn't we just pretending we have a govenrment ?

there's some interesting vids with Aaron Russo (who btw is dead now)regarding Rockefeller to if you feel like looking. I have some dislexia so it's tough to read and retain alot of these (dense political threads), but the vids are easier for me to get a grip on. I realise it's real easy to pull a "fast one" with video so part of the reason I post is to see opinions of others.
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host, I'm sorry, but I don't quite see the uberhorror that you seem to here. So it's a bunch of stuffy, snobby, wealthy families that like to live on an island together and make more money. Who the fuck cares?

There are plenty of wealthy magnates and families of power that are not part of this crew. *shrug*
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