PREFACE
Before
the Gatewood Galbraith for Governor Campaign in 1991, few Kentuckians knew that
the plant that the federal government had demonized for over 50 years as "Marijuana
- Assassin of Youth," was, in fact, Cannabis Hemp, the most traded commodity in
the world until the mid-1800s, and our state's number one crop, industry, and
most important source of revenue, for over 150 years.
Today,
thanks to the efforts of pioneer hemp researchers and public advocates such as
Galbraith, Jack Fraizer, Jack Herer, Chris Conrad, Ed Rosenthal, Don Wirtshafter
and others, the federal government's unjustifiable suppression of our state's
right to develop our most valuable and versatile natural resource, is facing increasing
opposition from an informed public. Hemp is now recognized as the number one agriculturally
renewable raw material in the world, and perhaps the only crop / industry which
can guarantee us industrial and economic independence from the trans-national
corporations.
"Shadow
of the Swastika" is a follow-up to my earlier work, "Cannabis Hemp: the Invisible
Prohibition Revealed," which I wrote and published in support of the Galbraith
Campaign. Since publication of that booklet, there has been growing public acceptance
of the evidence that Marijuana Prohibition was created in 1937, not to protect
society from the "evils of the drug Marijuana," as the Federal government claimed,
but as an act of deliberate economic and industrial sabotage against the re-emerging
Industrial Hemp Industry.
Previous
investigations by hemp researchers have been limited to the suppression of free-market
competition from the hemp industry, and focused on the activities of three prominent
members of America's corporate, industrial and banking establishment during the
mid- to late-1930s:
WILLIAM
RANDOLPH HEARST, the newspaper and magazine tycoon.
The
expected rebirth of cannabis hemp as a less expensive source of pulp for paper
meant his millions of acres of prime timberland, and investment in wood pulp papermaking
equipment, would soon be worth much less. In the 1920s, about the same time as
the equipment was developed to economically mass-produce raw hemp into pulp and
fiber for paper, he began the "Reefer Madness" hoax in his newspaper and magazine
publications.
ANDREW
MELLON, founder of the Gulf Oil Corporation.
He
knew that cannabis hemp was an alternative industrial raw material for the production
of thousands of products, including fuel and plastics, which, if allowed to compete
in the free-market, would threaten the future profits of the oil companies. As
Secretary of the Treasury he created the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, and appointed
his own future nephew-in-law, Harry Anslinger, as director. Anslinger would later
use the sensational, and totally fabricated, articles published by Hearst, to
push the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 through Congress, which successfully destroyed
the rebirth of the cannabis hemp industry.
A
prominent member of one Congressional subcommittee who voted in favor of this
bill was Joseph Guffey of Pennsylvania, an oil tycoon and former business partner
of Andrew Mellon in the Spindletop oil fields in Texas.
THE
DU PONT CHEMICAL CORPORATION,
which
owned the patents on synthetic petrochemicals and industrial processes that promised
billions of dollars in future profits from the sale of wood pulp paper, lead additives
for gasoline, synthetic fibers and plastics, if hemp could be suppressed. At the
time, du Pont family influence in both government and the private sector was unmatched,
according to historians and journalists.
This
publication, however, reveals documented historical evidence that the suppression
of the hemp industry was only one key part of a much larger conspiracy in the
1930s, not only by the three corporate interests named above, but by many others,
as well.
Congressional
records, FBI reports and investigations by the Justice Department, during the
1930s and 1940s, have already documented evidence of this wider plot. A list of
the corporations named include Du Pont, Standard Oil, and General Motors, all
of which were proven to be conspiring with Nazi industrial cartels to eliminate
competition world-wide and divide among themselves the Earth's industrial resources
and commercial markets, for profitable exploitation.
This
conspiracy succeeded. It is now obvious that this lack of serious competition
in the industrial raw materials market caused our present - and totally contrived
- addiction to petrochemicals. Its success is directly responsible for the most
troubling problems we now face in the 1990s; serious damage to our environment,
concentration of economic and political power into fewer and fewer hands, and
the weakening of the rights of individuals and states to determine their own futures.
It
is more and more evident that, given the historical record, the structure of the
New World Order is being built upon the Foundation of Marijuana Prohibition, and
only the relegalization of free-market hemp competition can save us.
R. William
Davis
July 4, 1996
Louisville, Kentucky
INTRODUCTION
To clearly
understand the circumstances which existed during the 1930s and 1940s, and are
the subject of this booklet, it would be helpful to first put the hemp / petrochemical
conflict into historical perspective. The events which took place in the years
leading up to World War II were a continuation of a struggle between agricultural
and industrial interests that began before the American Revolution, a struggle
which has yet to be decided, even today.
AGRICULTURE
VS. INDUSTRY
The
historical record, at least as it has been presented to us in the public school
system, is that the Civil War was fought to end slavery. This is not the whole
story. The truth of the matter is that it was also a clash between Northern industrialists
and Southern agriculturists, over control of the expansion into the newly opened
West.
In
1845, Abraham Lincoln wrote, "I hold it a paramount duty of us in the free states
due to the union of the states, and perhaps to liberty itself, to let the slavery
of other states alone." (1)
Concerning
the Western territories, he said "The whole Nation is interested that the best
use shall be made of these territories. We want them for homes and free white
people. This they cannot be, to any considerable extent, if slavery be planted
within them." (2)
Lincoln
was caught in the middle between the Northern industrialists and the Southern
agriculturists, who both wanted to dominate Western expansion because of the wealth
it offered. The industrialists knew that the agriculturists depended on slavery
because cotton, upon which Southern wealth was based, was very labor intensive
and required the inexpensive labor that slavery provided. They knew that if the
Western lands were declared "free states" then the Southern agriculturists would
be unable to compete, and would be forced to leave Western expansion, and its
potential profits, to the Northern industrialists.
Quoting
"The Irony of Democracy," by Thomas R. Dye and T. Harmon Zeigler,
"The
importance of the Civil War for America's elite structure was the commanding position
that the new industrial capitalists won during the course of the struggle. . .
. The economic transformation of the United States from an agricultural to an
industrial nation reached the crescendo of a revolution in the second half of
the nineteenth century.
"Civil
War profits compounded the capital of the industrialists and placed them in a
position to dominate the economic life of the nation. Moreover, when the Southern
planters were removed from the national scene, the government in Washington became
the exclusive domain of the new industrial leaders." (3)
The
Northern industrialists used this increased capital to build the system of transcontinental
railways, linking the Northeast with both the South and West. The labor for this
undertaking was from the Northeastern Establishment's own source of cheap labor
- recently freed slaves and poor immigrants from Europe and China - who suffered
under living conditions which were often little better than those which existed
under the Slave System just a few years before.
It
was during the years between the Civil War and the beginning of the Twentieth
Century that the Northern industrialists altered the role of the American government.
Originally established by the Revolution to protect and preserve the lives, property
and freedoms of all Americans from repressive government, it was transformed into
an agency to protect the economic future of Northern industrialists.
"[T]he
industrial elites," according to Dye and Zeigler, "saw no objection to legislation
if it furthered their success in business. Unrestricted competition might prove
who was the fittest, but as an added precaution to insure that the industrial
capitalists themselves emerged as the fittest, these new elites also insisted
upon government subsidies, patents, tariffs, loans, and massive giveaways of land
and other natural resources." (4)
The
struggle between Western farmers and the railroads owned by the Northern industrialists
is a good example. To protect their interests, citizens created "the Grange,"
an organization which helped to enact state laws regulating the "ruthless aggression"
of the railroads. In 1877, these laws were upheld by the Supreme Court in the
Munn v. Illinois decision. But, a few years later, Justice Stephen A. Field changed
the role, and the very definition, of the corporation. He gave a new interpretation
to the Fourteenth Amendment that actually gave corporations legal status as citizens
. . . as artificial persons. (5)
It
was not long after this change in the interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment
that John D. Rockefeller, the father of the modern-day corporation, created the
great Standard Oil Corporation which, by the late 1880s, gained control over 90%
of all the oil refineries in America. (6)
The
roots of 20th Century American politics can best be illustrated by the 1896 Presidential
Election, won by Republican William McKinley by a landslide. The McKinley campaign
was directed by Marcus Alonzo Hanna of Standard Oil and raised a $16,000,000 campaign
fund from wealthy fellow industrialists, (an amount that was unmatched in Presidential
campaigns until the 1960s). The major theme of the campaign, and one that would
echo far into the future, was "what's good for business is good for the country."
(7)
This
emerging political and judicial misuse of power in America was feared by Thomas
Jefferson who, in 1787, wrote, "I think our governments will remain virtuous for
many centuries; as long as they remain chiefly agricultural; and this will be
as long as there shall be vacant lands in any part of America. When they get piled
upon one another in large cities as in Europe they will become corrupt as in Europe."
(8)
It
is important to remember that the American Revolution was a clash between the
agriculturists in the colonies, and the British industrialists who controlled
the government in England. Almost 100 years later the Civil War was fought as
a continuation of the same basic struggle, but with the victory going back to
the industrialists. This began the erosion of the American government "of the
people, for the people and by the people." The buying of the 1896 Presidential
Election, by Hanna of Standard Oil and the Northern industrial interests, was
the next important step on the long road to the American government "of the corporation,
for the corporation and by the corporation."
A
few years later, World War I would forge an even closer relationship between corporations
and government in the United States, as well as around the world. Anthony Sampson,
in his book "The Arms Bazaar," notes that "the American companies, led by US Steel
and du Pont, were transformed by war orders. US Steel, which had absorbed Carnegie's
old steel company, had made average annual profits in the four pre-war years of
$105 million, while in the four war years they were $240 million; and du Pont's
average profit went up from $6 million to $58 million. . . .
"Certainly
the arms companies had become much richer through the war, and there were widespread
suspicions that they were actually trying to prolong it." (9)
The
bottom line is, of course, victory or profit, and in what proportions? To what
lengths would this nation's top industrial leaders go to secure their share of
the profits before and during the next "war to end all war?"
NOTES:
INTRODUCTION
American
Political Tradition, Hofstadter, p. 109. (As reprinted in The Irony of Democracy,
Thomas R. Dye and L. Harmon Zeigler, p. 72)
American
Political Tradition, p. 113. (As reprinted in The Irony of Democracy, p. 72)
Irony
of Democracy, p. 73
Ibid.,
p. 74
Ibid.,
p. 75
Ibid.,
p. 76
Ibid.,
p. 82
Ibid.,
p. 62
The
Arms Bazaar, Anthony Sampson, p. 65
U.S.
CORPORATIONS AND THE NAZIS
"A
clique of U.S. industrialists is hell-bent to bring a fascist state to supplant
our democratic government and is working closely with the fascist regime in Germany
and Italy. I have had plenty of opportunity in my post in Berlin to witness how
close some of our American ruling families are to the Nazi regime. . . .
"Certain
American industrialists had a great deal to do with bringing fascist regimes into
being in both Germany and Italy. They extended aid to help Fascism occupy the
seat of power, and they are helping to keep it there." - William E. Dodd,
U.S. Ambassador to Germany, 1937.(1)
A
large volume of documentary evidence exists that reveals that many of the richest,
most powerful men in the United States, and the giant corporations they controlled,
were secretly allied with the Nazis, both before and during World War II, even
after war was declared between Germany and America. This alliance began with U.S.
corporate investment during the reconstruction of post-World War I Germany in
the 1920s and, years later, included financial, industrial and military aid to
the Nazis.
On
the pages which follow we will review which prominent Americans and corporations
were involved, what aid and comfort they gave our nation's enemies - treasonable
offenses during time of war, and investigations into these matters which produced
evidence of a US/Nazi corporate conspiracy to bring a fascist state to America,
and eliminate competition in the industrial raw materials market in order to force
world-wide dependance on oil-based petrochemicals.
Hearst,
who was so concerned about the American public's health and safety on the matter
of marijuana use, apparently had no such fears when it came to Hitler and the
Nazis. According to journalist George Seldes:
".
. . Hitler had the support of the most widely circulated magazine in history,
'Readers Digest,' as well as nineteen big-city newspapers and one of the three
great American news agencies, the $220-million Hearst press empire.
".
. . William Randolph Hearst, Sr., . . . was the lord of all the press lords in
the United States. The millions who read the Hearst newspapers and magazines and
saw Hearst newsreels in the nation's moviehouses had their minds poisoned by Hitler
propaganda.
"It
was . . . disclosed first to President Roosevelt [by Ambassador Dodd] almost on
the day it happened, in September 1934, and it is detailed in the book 'Ambassador
Dodd's Diary,' published in 1941, and again in libel-proof documents on file in
the courts of the state of New York. William E. Dodd, professor of history [at
the University of Chicago], told me about the Hearst sell-out . . .
"According
to Ambassador Dodd, Hearst came to take the waters at Bad Nauheim in September
1934, and Dodd somehow learned immediately that Hitler had sent two of his most
trusted Nazi propagandists, Hanfstangel and Rosenberg, to ask Hearst how Nazism
could present a better image in the United States. When Hearst went to Berlin
later in the month, he was taken to see Hitler."
Seldes
reports that a $400,000 a year deal was struck between Hearst and Hitler, and
signed by Doctor Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda minister. "Hearst," continues
Seldes, "completely changed the editorial policy of his nineteen daily newspapers
the same month he got the money."
In
the court documents filed on behalf of Dan Gillmor, publisher of a magazine named
"Friday," in response to a lawsuit by Hearst, under item 61, he states: "Promptly
after this said visit with Adolf Hitler and the making of said arrangements. .
. said plaintiff, William Randolph Hearst, instructed all Hearst press correspondents
in Germany, including those of INS [Hearst's International News Service] to report
happenings in Germany only in a friendly' manner. All of such correspondents reporting
happenings in Germany accurately and without friendliness, sympathy and bias for
the actions of the then German government, were transferred elsewhere, discharged,
or forced to resign. . . ."
In
the late 1930s, Seldes recounts, when "several sedition indictments [were brought
by] the Department of Justice . . . against a score or two of Americans, the defendants
included an unusually large minority of newspaper men and women, most of them
Hearst employees." (2)
"Thurman
Arnold, as assistant district attorney of the United States, his assistant, Norman
Littell, and several Congressional investigations, have produced incontrovertible
evidence that some of our biggest monopolies entered into secret agreements with
the Nazi cartels and divided the world up among them," states Seldes in his book,
"Facts and Fascism," published in 1943. "Most notorious of all was Alcoa, the
Mellon-Davis-Duke monopoly which is largely responsible for the fact America did
not have the aluminum with which to build airplanes before and after Pearl Harbor,
while Germany had an unlimited supply." (3)
Alcoa
sabotage of American war production had already cost the U.S. "10,000 fighters
or 1,665 bombers," according to Congressman Pierce of Oregon speaking in May 1941,
because of "the effort to protect Alcoa's monopolistic position. . ."
"If
America loses this war," said Secretary of the Interior [Harold] Ickes, June 26,
1941, "it can thank the Aluminum Corporation of America."
"By
its cartel agreement with I.G. Farben, controlled by Hitler," writes Seldes, "Alcoa
sabotaged the aluminum program of the U.S. air force. The Truman Committee [on
National Defense, chaired by then-Senator Harry S. Truman in 1942] heard testimony
that Alcoa's representative, A.H. Bunker, $1-a-year head of the aluminum section
of O.P.M., prevented work on our $600,000,000 aluminum expansion program." (4)
| DU
PONT AND GENERAL MOTORS | |
General
Motors is included here because, by 1929, the Du Pont corporation had acquired
controlling interest in, and had interlocking directorships with, General Motors.
Irenee
du Pont, "the most imposing and powerful member of the clan," according to biographer
and historian Charles Higham, "was obsessed with Hitler's principles." "He keenly
followed the career of the future Fuhrer in the 1920s, and on September 7, 1926,
in a speech to the American Chemical Society, he advocated a race of supermen,
to be achieved by injecting special drugs into them in boyhood to make their characters
to order." Higham's book on this subject, "Trading with the Enemy: An Expose of
the Nazi-American Money Plot 1933-1949," is highly recommended.
Du
Pont's anti-Semitism "matched that of Hitler" and, in 1933, the Du Ponts "began
financing native fascist groups in America . . ." one of which Higham identifies
as the American Liberty League: "a Nazi organization whipping up hatred of blacks
and Jews," and the "love of Hitler.
"Financed
. . . to the tune of $500,000 the first year, the Liberty League had a lavish
thirty-one-room office in New York, branches in twenty-six colleges, and fifteen
subsidiary organizations nationwide that distributed fifty million copies of its
Nazi pamphlets. . . .
"The
Du Ponts' fascistic behavior was seen in 1936, when Irenee du Pont used General
Motors money to finance the notorious Black Legion. This terrorist organization
had as its purpose the prevention of automobile workers from unionizing. The members
wore hoods and black robes, with skulls and crossbones. They fire-bombed union
meetings, murdered union organizers, often by beating them to death, and dedicated
their lives to destroying Jews and communists. They linked to the Ku Klux Klan.
. . . It was brought out that at least fifty people, many of them blacks, had
been butchered by the Legion." (5)
Du
Pont support of Hitler extended into the very heart of the Nazi war machine as
well, according to Higham, and several other researchers: "General Motors, under
the control of the Du Pont family of Delaware, played a part in collaboration"
with the Nazis.
"Between
1932 and 1939, bosses of General Motors poured $30 million into I.G. Farben plants
. . ." Further, Higham informs us that by "the mid-1930s, General Motors was committed
to full-scale production of trucks, armored cars, and tanks in Nazi Germany."
(6)
Researchers
Morton Mintz and Jerry S. Cohen, in their book, "Power Inc.," describe the Du
Pont-GM-Nazi relationship in these terms:
".
. . In 1929, [Du Pont-controlled] GM acquired the largest automobile company in
Germany, Adam Opel, A.G. This predestined the subsidiary to become important to
the Nazi war effort. In a heavily documented study presented to the Senate Subcommittee
on Antitrust and Monopoly in February 1974, Bradford C. Snell, an assistant subcommittee
counsel, wrote:
"'GM's
participation in Germany's preparation for war began in 1935. That year its Opel
subsidiary cooperated with the Reich in locating a new heavy truck facility at
Brandenburg, which military officials advised would be less vulnerable to enemy
air attacks. During the succeeding years, GM supplied the Wehrmact with Opel "Blitz"
trucks from the Brandenburg complex. For these and other contributions to [the
Nazis] wartime preparations, GM's chief executive for overseas operations [James
Mooney] was awarded the Order of the German Eagle (first class) by Adolf Hitler.'"
Du
Pont-GM Nazi collaboration, according to Snell, included the participation of
Standard Oil of New Jersey [now Exxon] in one, very important arrangement. GM
and Standard Oil of New Jersey formed a joint subsidiary with the giant Nazi chemical
cartel, I.G. Farben, named Ethyl G.m.b.H. [now Ethyl, Inc.] which, according to
Snell: "provided the mechanized German armies with synthetic tetraethyl fuel [leaded
gas]. During 1936-39, at the urgent request of Nazi officials who realized that
Germany's scarce petroleum reserves would not satisfy war demands, GM and Exxon
joined with German chemical interests in the erection of the lead-tetraethyl plants.
According to captured German records, these facilities contributed substantially
to the German war effort: 'The fact that since the beginning of the war we could
produce lead-tetraethyl is entirely due to the circumstances that, shortly before,
the Americans [Du Pont, GM and Standard Oil] had presented us with the production
plants complete with experimental knowledge. Without lead-tetraethyl the present
method of warfare would be unthinkable.'" (7)
At
about the same time the Du Ponts were serving the Nazi cause in Germany, they
were involved in a Fascist plot to overthrow the United States government.
"Along
with friends of the Morgan Bank and General Motors," in early 1934, writes Higham,
"certain Du Pont backers financed a coup d'etat that would overthrow the President
with the aid of a $3 million-funded army of terrorists . . ." The object was to
force Roosevelt "to take orders from businessmen as part of a fascist government
or face the alternative of imprisonment and execution . . ."
Higham
reports that "Du Pont men allegedly held an urgent series of meetings with the
Morgans," to choose who would lead this "bizarre conspiracy." "They finally settled
on one of the most popular soldiers in America, General Smedly Butler of Pennsylvania."
Butler was approached by "fascist attorney" Gerald MacGuire (an official of the
American Legion), who attempted to recruit Butler into the role of an American
Hitler.
"Butler
was horrified," but played along with MacGuire until, a short time later, he notified
the White House of the plot. Roosevelt considered having "the leaders of the houses
of Morgan and Du Pont" arrested, but feared that "it would create an unthinkable
national crisis in the midst of a depression and perhaps another Wall Street crash."
Roosevelt decided the best way to defuse the plot was to expose it, and leaked
the story to the press.
"The
newspapers ran the story of the attempted coup on the front page, but generally
ridiculed it as absurd and preposterous." But an investigation by the Congressional
Committee on Un-American Activities - 74th Congress, first session, House of Representatives,
Investigation of Nazi and other propaganda - was begun later that same year.
"It
was four years," continues Higham, "before the committee dared to publish its
report in a white paper that was marked for 'restricted circulation.' They were
forced to admit that 'certain persons made an attempt to establish a fascist organization
in this country . . . [The] committee was able to verify all the pertinent statements
made by General Butler.' This admission that the entire plan was deadly in intent
was not accompanied by the imprisonment of anybody. Further investigations disclosed
that over a million people had been guaranteed to join the scheme and that the
arms and munitions necessary would have been supplied by Remington, a Du Pont
subsidiary." (8)
The
names of important individuals and groups involved in the conspiracy were suppressed
by the committee, but later revealed by Seldes, Philadelphia Record reporter Paul
French, and Jules Archer, author of the book, "The Plot to Seize the White House."
Included were John W. Davis (attorney for the J.P. Morgan banking group), Robert
Sterling Clark (Wall Street broker and heir to the Singer sewing machine fortune),
William Doyle (American Legion official), and the American Liberty League (backed
by executives from J.P. Morgan and Co., Rockefeller interests, E.F. Hutton, and
Du Pont-controlled General Motors). (9)
THE
US/NAZI CARTEL AGREEMENT
"On
November 23, 1937," states Higham, "representatives of General Motors held a secret
meeting in Boston with Baron Manfred von Killinger, who was . . . in charge of
West Coast espionage [for the Nazis], and Baron von Tipplekirsch, Nazi consul
general and Gestapo leader in Boston. This group signed a joint agreement showing
total commitment to the Nazi cause for the indefinite future. . . ." (10)
Seldes
describes the plotters as "the great owners and rulers of America who planned
world domination through political and military Fascism" including "several leading
American industrialists, members of the Congress of the United States, and representatives
of large business and political organizations . . ."
He
obtained the text of the agreement, and published it in his newsletter, "In Fact,"
on July 13, 1942. The plan "goes much further than the mere cartel conspiracies
of Big Business of both countries," writes Seldes, "because it has political clauses
and points to a bigger conspiracy of money and politicians such as helped betray
Norway and France and other lands to the Nazi machine. The most powerful fortress
in America is the production monopolies, but its betrayal would involve, as it
did in France, the participation of some of the most powerful figures of the political
as well as the industrial world." (11)
STANDARD
OIL OF NEW JERSEY (Now Exxon)
"On
February 27, 1942," according to Higham, "Arnold, with documents stuffed under
his arms, . . . strode into the lion's den of Standard at 30 Rockefeller Plaza.
Just behind him were Secretary of the Navy Franklin Knox and Secretary of the
Army Henry L. Stimson." They confronted Standard official William Farish and "Arnold
sharply laid down his charges" that "by continuing to favor Hitler in rubber deal
and patent arrangements," Standard Oil "had acted against the interests of the
American government . . . suggested a fine of $1.5 million and a consent decree
whereby Standard would turn over for the duration all the patents" in question.
"Farish
rejected the proposal on the spot. He pointed out that Standard" was also selling
the U.S. a "high percentage" of the fuel being used by the Army, Navy, and Air
Force "making it possible for America to win the war. Where would America be without
it?"
Blackmail?
Yes, says Higham. And effective. Arnold was finally reduced to asking the oil
company official "to what Standard Oil would agree. After all, there had to be
at least token punishment. . . . Arnold, Stimson, and Knox soon realized they
had no power to compare with that of Standard."
The
price Standard Oil "agreed" to pay for its crime? A modest fine of a few thousand
dollars divided up among ten defendants. "Farish paid $1,000, or a quarter of
one week's salary, for having betrayed America."
In
New Jersey, charges of "criminal conspiracy with the enemy" were filed against
Standard, then "dropped in return for Standard releasing its patents and paying
the modest fine." But Arnold, and his ally, Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes,
weren't finished with Standard Oil just yet. They approached Senator Truman, chairman
of the Senate Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program. "With
great enthusiasm Give 'em Hell Harry embarked on a series of hearings in March
1942, in order to disclose the truth about Standard."
Between
the 26th and the 28th of March, 1942, Arnold "produced documents showing that
Standard and Farben in Germany had literally carved up the world markets, with
oil and chemical monopolies all over the map," according to Higham. (12)
Mintz
and Cohen describe the confrontation:
"Four
months after the United States entered World War II, the Justice Department obtained
an indictment of Exxon and its principal officers for having made arrangements,
starting in the late 1920s with I.G. Farben involving patent sharing and division
of world markets. Jersey Standard agreed not to develop processes for the manufacture
of synthetic rubber; in exchange, Farben agreed not to compete in the American
petroleum market. After war broke out in Europe, but before the attack on Pearl
Harbor, executives of Standard Oil and Farben, at a meeting in Holland, established
a 'modus vivendi' for continuing the arrangements in event of war between the
United States and Germany - although the arrangements interfered with the ability
of the United States to make synthetic rubber desperately needed after it entered
the war in December 1941. Rather than face a criminal trial, Exxon and the indicted
executives entered no-contest pleas - the legal equivalent of guilty pleas - and
were fined the minor sums which were the maximum amounts permitted by law. A few
days later, on March 26, 1942, the Senate Special Committee Investigating the
National Defense Program held a hearing at which Thurman Arnold, chief of the
Antitrust Division, put into the record documents on which the [criminal] indictment
had been based, including a memo from a Standard Oil official on the 'modus vivendi'
agreed to in Holland. After the hearing, the committee chairman, Harry S. Truman,
characterized the arrangements as treasonable." (13)
Another
source book on this subject of US / Nazi corporate activities is "The Secret War
Against the Jews," by Mark Aarons and John Loftus. Here is their version of the
events:
"Before
the war Standard of New Jersey had forged a synthetic oil and rubber cartel with
the Nazi-controlled I.G. Farben," which "worked well until the United States joined
the war in 1941. . . . Next to the Rockefellers, I.G. Farben owned the largest
share of stock in Standard Oil of New Jersey. Among other things, Standard had
provided Farben with its synthetic rubber patents and technical knowledge, while
Farben had kept its patents to itself, under strict instructions from the Nazi
government."
Evidence
which Thurman Arnold turned over to the Truman Committee, which Truman would declare
"treasonous," included "Standard's 1939 letter renewing its agreement, which made
it clear that the Rockefellers' company was prepared to work with the Nazis whether
their own government was at war with the Third Reich or not. Truman's Senate Committee
on the National Defense was outraged and began to probe into the whole scandalous
arrangement, much to the discomfort of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Suddenly, however,
the whole matter was dropped.
"There
was a reason for Rockefeller's escape: blackmail. According to the former intelligence
officers we interviewed on this point, the blackmail was simple and powerful:
The Dulles brothers [John Foster, later Secretary of State, and Allen, later director
of the CIA] had one of their clients threaten to interrupt the U.S. oil supply
during wartime."
When
confronted by Arnold on the Standard - Farben arrangement "Standard executives
made it clear that the entire U.S. war effort was fueled by their oil and it could
be stopped. . . . The American government had no choice but to go along if it
wanted to win the war." (14)
July
13, 1944, Ralph W. Gallagher, attorney for Standard Oil, filed a lawsuit against
the U.S. government's seizure of the contested patents. "On November 7, 1945,
Judge Charles E. Wyzanski gave his verdict," according to Higham. "He decided
that the government had been entitled to seize the patents. Gallagher appealed.
On September 22, 1947, Judge Charles Clark delivered the final word on the subject.
He said, 'Standard Oil can be considered an enemy national in view of its relationships
with I.G. Farben after the United States and Germany had become active enemies.'
The appeal was denied." (15)
One
aspect of this Standard - I.G. Farben relationship, revealed in testimony during
the Patents Committee hearings, chaired by Senator Homer T. Bone in May 1942,
is of interest to those who seek direct evidence of a conspiracy by big oil companies
to suppress development of synthetic substitutes to petrochemical products such
as industrial chemicals, aircraft lubricants and fuel, all of which can be made
from hemp:
"On
May 6th, John R. Jacobs, Jr., of the Attorney General's department, testified
that Standard had interfered with the American explosives industry by blocking
the use of a method of producing synthetic ammonia. As a result of its deals with
Farben, the United States had been unable to get the use of this vital process
even after Pearl Harbor. Also, the United States had been restricted in techniques
of producing hydrogen from natural gas and from obtaining paraflow, a product
used for airplane lubrication at high altitudes. . . ."
On
August 7th, "Texas oil operator C.R. Starnes appeared to testify that Standard
had blocked him at every turn in his efforts to produce synthetic rubber after
Pearl Harbor. . . ."
On
August 12th, "John R. Jacobs reappeared in an Army private's uniform (he had been
inducted the day before) to bring up another disagreeable matter: Standard had
also, in league with Farben, restricted production of methanol, a wood alcohol
that was sometimes used as motor fuel." (16)
The
restriction against methanol production apparently did not apply to the Nazis,
however. "As late as April 1943," Higham reveals, "General Motors in Stockholm
[Sweden] was reported as trading with the enemy. . . . Further documents show
that, as with Ford, repairs on German army trucks and conversion from gasoline
to wood-gasoline production were being handled by GM in Switzerland." (17)
The
use of hemp as a source of methanol was known to the Nazis, revealed in the pamphlet
"The Humorous Hemp Primer," published in Berlin, also in 1943. This document,
recently re-published in the 1995 edition of "Hemp and the Marijuana Conspiracy:
The Emperor Wears No Clothes," by veteran hemp conspiracy researcher Jack Herer,
states that:
"Crops
should not only provide food in large quantities, they can provide raw materials
for industry. . . . Among such raw materials of especially high value is hemp
. . .
"The
woody part of this large plant is not to be thrown out, since it can easily be
used for surface coatings for the finest floors. It also provides paper and cardboard,
building materials and wall paneling. Further processing will even produce wood
sugar and wood gas. . . .
"Anyone
who grows hemp today need not fear a lack of a market, because hemp, as useful
as it is, will be purchased in unlimited amounts." (18)
The
Nazis obviously considered hemp a vital war material that could be used to produce
methanol, or "wood gas," at the same time, in 1943, that Du Pont-controlled General
Motors in Switzerland was "converting from gasoline to wood-gasoline production."
This, taken into consideration along with the earlier statement that Standard
Oil-I.G. Farben had "restricted production of methanol" and the GM-Standard Oil-I.G.
Farben joint venture, Ethyl, Inc., whose profitability depended on the production
of lead-tetraethyl for oil-based petrochemical gasoline - in direct competition
with the alternative methanol, or "wood gas," certainly opens new avenues of investigation
into the existence of a conspiracy against hemp as an alternative, and competing,
industrial raw material, by these very same corporations which sold America out
to the Nazis for profit and control of world resources and markets.
"Just
after Pearl Harbor," writes Seldes, "the Assistant Attorney General, Mr. Thurman
Arnold, issued a sensational report of the sabotage of the national [war production]
program, the first report naming the practices which were later to be referred
to as the treason of big business in wartime. Said Mr. Arnold:
"Looking
back over 10 months of defense effort we can now see how much it has been hampered
by the attitude of powerful basic industries who have feared to expand their production
because expansion would endanger their future control of industry.
"Anti-trust
investigations during the past year have shown that there is not an organized
basic industry in the United States which has not been restricting production
by some device or other in order to avoid what they call 'ruinous overproduction
after the war'." (19)
By
"ruinous overproduction," of course, they meant free-market competition. So, to
question the existence of an industrial conspiracy against competition, during
the 1930s and 1940s, is pointless. It has long been totally documented by volumes
of evidence, available in the public record. And among this list of convicted
corporate conspirators are murderers, racists, pro-Nazi collaborators, blackmailers
and American Fascists who plotted at least one armed take-over of the U.S. government.
And the list is not yet complete.
THE
FORD MOTOR COMPANY
Henry
Ford, writes Higham, "admired Hitler from the beginning, when the future Fuhrer
was a struggling and obscure fanatic. He shared with Hitler a fanatical hatred
of Jews."
"Ford's
book 'The International Jew' was issued in 1927. A virulent anti-Semitic tract,
it was still being distributed in Latin America and the Arab countries as late
as 1945. Hitler admired the book and it influenced him deeply. Visitors to Hitler's
headquarters at the Brown House in Munich noticed a large photograph of Henry
Ford hanging in his office. Stacked high on the table outside were copies of Ford's
book. As early as 1923," when Hitler heard that Ford was planning to run for President,
he "told an interviewer from the 'Chicago-Tribune,' 'I wish that I could send
some of my shock troops to Chicago and other big American cities to help'."
As
late as 1940, Ford Motor Company "refused to build aircraft engines for England
and instead built supplies of the 5-ton military trucks that were the backbone
of German army transportation." (20)
The
Ford Motor Company was also aware of the potential of hemp as an alternative industrial
resource, devoting many years research to the subject.
In
a 1989 ABC Radio broadcast, Hugh Downs reported that in the 1930s, "the Ford Motor
Company also saw a future in biomass fuels. Ford operated a successful biomass
conversion plant that included hemp at their Iron Mountain facility in Michigan.
Ford engineers extracted methanol, charcoal fuel, tar, pitch, ethyl acetate, and
creosote - all fundamental ingredients for modern industry, and now supplied by
oil-related industries. . . . Henry Ford's experiments with methanol promised
cheap, readily-available fuel." (21)
As
reported in "Popular Mechanics" in December, 1941, Ford's research represented
"an industrial revolution in progress . . . a revolution in materials that will
affect every home." (22)
So,
it is possible, even likely, that Ford and General Motors conversion "from gasoline
to wood-gasoline production" for Nazi Germany, as earlier reported by Higham,
involved at least some consideration of hemp as a resource, if not actual production
of "wood-gas" from hemp. After all, Ford had already committed several years and
significant research dollars to the subject.
The
implication of methanol fuel patents, hemp industry research and production facilities,
all in the hands of this cabal of Nazi-allied American corporations, during a
proven period of anti-competition conspiracies, and wartime blackmail against
the U.S. government, should provide additional support for the hemp conspiracy
theories. The fact is that Nazi Germany recognized hemp as a vital war material
- one which, just before America's entrance into World War II, was positioned
to compete in the free-market against the products controlled by the Pro-Nazi
American corporations. Unrestricted expansion of United States industrial hemp
production threatened not only the profits of these treasonous corporations, but
the degree of their control over America's production of vital war materials.
This
view of hemp, not as a "dangerous drug" but as a vital war material, was acknowledged
by the Kentucky Legislature a little over 100 years before the Japanese sneak
attack on Pearl Harbor. In 1841, according to Professor James F. Hopkins, author
of "A History of the Hemp Industry in Kentucky," published by the University of
Kentucky Press in 1951:
"When
the farmers of Woodford County [KY] assembled in October, 1841, to consider a
program of hemp production for the navy, they only went as far as to express an
opinion that the government should employ a rope spinner in Kentucky for the purpose
of converting the fiber into yarns, which could be transported much more cheaply
and safely than the bulky raw material. The Committee on Agriculture of the Kentucky
House of Representatives inquired into the matter early in 1842 . . .
"Both
houses of the General Assembly sent to the Senators and Congressmen from Kentucky
a request that they use their 'best exertions' to have established in the state
one or more agencies for the inspection and manufacture of hemp for the navy.
A select committee of Congress, appointed to consider the resolutions from Kentucky,
reported three resolutions of its own: that the navy be directed to construct
a factory at Louisville 'for the purpose of depositing and manufacturing . . .
such hempen fabrics of domestic water-rotted hemp as the public service may require';
that inspectors be appointed to test the fiber that might be offered for sale;
and that, after due notice to the public, purchase of the necessary amount of
fiber be made at the factory. The Committee contended that its plan would build
up during peacetime a source of hemp which would be vitally important in case
of war, encourage American agriculture and manufactures, and decrease the unfavorable
balance of trade." (23)
| [NOTE:
For many years we Kentuckians have had a good deal of our heritage and history
buried beneath a thick layer of propaganda from a source of power and control
in this country which knows neither honor nor justice. Now, we are learning the
truth. Our history as a state built upon the foundation of a long- and dishonestly-
outlawed industry endures.] | |
INTERNATIONAL
TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH
Even
after Pearl Harbor, ITT was working for the Nazis, reports Higham: ". . . the
German army, navy, and air force contracted with ITT for the manufacture of switchboards,
telephones, alarm gongs, buoys, air raid warning devices, radar equipment, and
thirty thousand fuses per month for artillery shells used to kill British and
American troops."
ITT
also "supplied ingredients for the rocket bombs that fell on London," and other
devices as well, without which "it would have been impossible for the German air
force to kill American and British troops, for the German army to fight the Allies
in Africa, Italy, France, and Germany, for England to have been bombed, or for
Allied ships to have been attacked at sea." (24)
In
1938, "following a series of meetings with Luftwaffe chief Herman Goring, [ITT
founder and chairman Sosthenes] Behn encouraged ITT's Lorenz subsidiary to purchase
28 percent of the Focke-Wulf firm, manufacturer of the bombers that were to sink
so many Allied ships during the war," according to researcher and author Jim Hougan.
(25)
Anthony
Sampson, in "The Sovereign State of ITT," reports on what is perhaps the most
bizarre aspect of the US/Nazi corporate partnership, war reparations:
". . . ITT
now presents itself as the innocent victim of the Second World War, and has been
handsomely recompensed for its injuries. In 1967, nearly thirty years after the
events, ITT actually managed to obtain $27 million in compensation from the American
government, for war damage to Focke-Wulf plants - on the basis that they were
American property bombed by Allied bombers." (26)
The
Foreign Claims Settlement Commission was responsible for this payment to ITT,
and other U.S. corporations as well.
Bradford
Snell reports that "After the cessation of hostilities, GM and Ford demanded reparations
from the U.S. Government for wartime damages sustained by their Axis facilities
as a result of Allied bombing. By 1967 GM had collected more than $33 million
in reparations and Federal tax benefits for damages to its warplane and motor
vehicle properties in formerly Axis territories . . . Ford received a little less
than $1 million, primarily as a result of damages sustained by its military truck
complex at Cologne." (27)
ALLEN
DULLES: ARCHITECT OF THE US-NAZI NETWORK
Contemporary
history records Allen Dulles as one of America's top spymasters, from his early
days in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in World War II, to his position
as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the 1950s and early 1960s
(until President John F. Kennedy fired him over the Bay of Pigs disaster in 1961),
and finally to his membership on the controversial Warren Commission, which investigated
President Kennedy's assassination. Until recently, his pivotal role in promoting
a U.S. corporate relationship with the Nazis was little known. Loftus and Aarons
describe the post-World War I role of Allen, and his brother, John Foster, in
the following terms:
"We
first turn to Dulles's creation of international finance networks for the benefit
of the Nazis. In the beginning, moving money into the Third Reich was quite legal.
Lawyers saw to that. And Allen and his brother John Foster were not just any lawyers.
They were international finance specialists for the powerful Wall Street law firm
of Sullivan & Cromwell. . . .
"The
Dulles brothers were the ones who convinced American businessmen to avoid U.S.
government regulation by investing in Germany. It began with the Versailles Treaty,
in which they played no small role. After World War I the defeated German government
promised to pay war reparations to the Allies in gold, but Germany had no gold.
It had to borrow the gold from Sullivan & Cromwell's clients in the United
States. Nearly 70 percent of the money that flowed into Germany during the 1930s
came from investors in the United States, many of them Sullivan & Cromwell
clients. . .
"Foster
Dulles, as a member of the board of I.G. Farben, seems to have had little difficulty
in getting along with whoever was in charge. Some of our sources insist that both
Dulles brothers made substantial but indirect contributions to the Nazi party
as the price of continued influence inside the new German order. . . ." (28)
NOTES:
U.S. CORPORATIONS AND THE NAZIS
Facts
and Fascism, George Seldes, p. 122
Trading with the Enemy, Charles Higham,
p. 167
Even
the Gods Can't Change History, Seldes, pp. 140-144
Facts
and Fascism, p. 68
Ibid.,
p. 262
Trading
with the Enemy, pp. 162-165
Ibid.,
p. 166
Power,
Inc., Morton and Mintz, pp. 497-499
Trading
with the Enemy, pp. 163-165
The
Plot to Seize the White House, Jules Archer, Hawthorn Books, 1973 (Quoted from
It's A Conspiracy, National Insecurity Council, EarthWorks Press, 1992, pp. 179-184)
Trading
with the Enemy, pp. 167-168
Facts
and Fascism, pp. 68-70
Trading
with the Enemy, pp. 45-46
Power,
Inc, pp. 499-500
The
Secret War Against The Jews, Aarons and Loftus, pp. 44-65
Trading
with the Enemy, pp. 61-62
Ibid.,
pp. 49-52
Ibid.,
p. 176
The
Emperor Wears No Clothes, Jack Herer, pp. 127-130
One
Thousand Americans, Seldes, pp. 142-143
Trading
with the Enemy, pp. 154-156
Ain't
Nobody's Business If You Do, p. 734
Popular
Mechanics Magazine, Vol. 76, No. 6, Dec. 1941
(The Emperor Wears No Clothes,
1995 edition, p. 199)
A
History of the Hemp Industry in Kentucky, Professor James F. Hopkins,
University
of Kentucky Press, 1951
Trading
with the Enemy, p. 99
Spooks,
Jim Hougan, pp. 423-424
The
Sovereign State of ITT, Anthony Sampson, p. 47
(Power, Inc., pp. 500-501)
GM
and the Nazis, by Bradford C. Snell, Ramparts Magazine, June 1974, pp. 14-16 (Democracy
for the Few, Michael Parenti, pp. 91-92)
The
Secret War Against the Jews, pp. 55-60
THE
NEW WORLD (DIS)ORDER
"The
first truth is that the 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. That, in essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual,
by a group, or by any other controlling power.
"Among
us today a concentration of private power without equal in history is growing."
- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1)
As
mentioned earlier, the secret U.S./Nazi corporate alliance during World War II
was the result of substantial American investment in post-World War I Germany.
In order to protect these investments, and the accumulating profits, the U.S.
multinational corporations remained an important part of the Nazi war machine
until the final defeat of Germany in 1945. What effect did the end of World War
II have on this faction of American Nazi collaborators?
In
this section we will review the evidence, much of it from recently de-classified
documents, that this pro-Nazi faction, rather than facing charges of high treason,
became an integral part of the United States national security apparatus, extending
its fascist influence in both foreign and domestic policies and, in effect, creating
what has been referred to as America's "Invisible Government." The excuse, of
course, was Communism.
THE
BUGGING OF WALL STREET
Aarons
and Loftus' research, which documents the Dulles brothers' pro-Nazi activities,
did not go unnoticed. "Before his death, former Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg
granted one of the authors an interview. Justice Goldberg had served in U.S. intelligence
during World War II. Although he said little in public, he had collected information
on the Dulles boys' activities over the years. His verdict was blunt. 'The Dulles
brothers were traitors.' They had betrayed their country, by giving aid and comfort
to the enemy in time of war." (2)
Much
of what is now known about the activities of the Dulles brothers and other American
Nazi collaborators in banking and industry came as a result of a top-secret joint
U.S.-British intelligence program known as the Ultra Project. "Prior to the United
States' entry into the war," write Loftus and Aarons, "Roosevelt permitted British
intelligence to wiretap American targets.
"According
to our sources in the intelligence community, the area of coverage included a
good bit of the New York financial district, several floors of Rockefeller Plaza,
part of the RCA Building, two prominent clubs, and various shipping firms. . .
.
"The
wiretap unit reported to Sir William Stephenson, a Canadian electronics genius
better known by his code name, 'Intrepid.' From his headquarters in the Rockefeller
building, Stephenson's job was to identify U.S. companies that were aiding the
Nazis." (3)
"Several
months before the United States declared war," continue Loftus and Aarons, "Bill
Donovan invited Allen Dulles to head up the New York branch of the Office of the
Coordinator of Information (COI), President Roosevelt's new intelligence agency
and the precursor to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). Its primary mission
was to collect information against the Nazis and their collaborators. In other
words, Dulles was asked to inform on his own clients in New York. . . ."
"Roosevelt
had approved his selection as head of the COI Manhattan branch because he wanted
Dulles where the British wiretappers could keep an eye on him. . . .
"One
floor below Dulles was Stephenson's wiretap shop. Inside Dulles's operation was
one of Roosevelt's spies, Arthur Goldberg . . ." who, "confirmed . . . that Dulles's
appointment was a setup. . . .
"Roosevelt
was giving Dulles enough rope to hang himself. From Stephenson's Manhattan wiretaps,
it is known that Dulles was continuing to work with his German business clients,
who wanted to remove Hitler and install a puppet of their own who would make peace
with the West while forging an alliance against Stalin. It was to be a kinder,
gentler Third Reich, favorably disposed to American financial interests. . . .
(4)
"The
wiretap evidence against Dulles originally was collected by a special section
of Operation Safehaven, the U.S. Treasury Department's effort to trace the movement
of stolen Nazi booty towards the end of the war. Roosevelt and Treasury Secretary
Henry Morganthau had set up Dulles by giving him the one assignment - intelligence
chief in Switzerland - where he would be most tempted to aid his German clients
with their money laundering."
Roosevelt
had one thing in mind: "The sudden release of the Safehaven intercepts would force
a public outcry to bring treason charges against those British and American businessmen
who aided the enemy in time of war." Among the targets were Allen Dulles, Henry
Ford, and other U.S. industrialists. (5)
The
plan failed, however, due to Dulles being "tipped off . . . that he was under
surveillance" in time to cover his tracks. One possible source of the leak was
Vice President Henry Wallace, "who constantly shared information with his brother-in-law,
the Swiss minister in Washington during the war."
"Wallace,"
the authors reveal, "gave many details of his secret meetings with Roosevelt to
the Swiss diplomat." The problem was that, at the time, the Nazis "had recruited
the head of the Swiss secret service."
It
is, perhaps, no coincidence that Roosevelt dropped Wallace during the 1944 election,
choosing instead Senator Harry S. Truman as his new running mate. (6)
THE
ENEMY OF MY ENEMY
"After
the Nazis' 1943 defeat at Stalingrad," write Loftus and Aarons, "various Nazi
businessmen realized they were on the losing side and made plans to evacuate their
wealth. The Peron government in Argentina was receiving the Nazi flight capital
with open arms, and Dulles helped it hide the money. . . .
"The
Guinness Book of Records lists the missing Reichsbank treasure [estimated at $2.5
billion dollars] as the greatest unsolved bank robbery in history. Where did it
go? . . . .
"According
to our source, the bulk of the treasure was simply shipped a very short distance
across Austria and through the Brenner Pass into Italy. Dulles's contacts were
waiting at the Vatican. The German-Vatican connection was how Allen Dulles and
the Nazi industrialists planned to get away with it. . . ." (7)
The
effort was successful, according to the authors, who state that the "vast bulk
of the wealth of the Nazi empire" which "disappeared before the end of World War
II" reappeared "within a decade in the hands of the same men who financed Hitler's
war against the Jews. Allen Dulles's clients were not defeated, only inconvenienced."
The authors identify two of Dulles's accomplices as James Jesus Angleton and his
father, Hugh Angleton. The Angletons were members of X-2, the OSS counterintelligence
branch in Italy, in 1943.
Like
Dulles, Hugh Angleton was financially involved with Axis powers. He was the European
representative for National Cash Register in Italy before the war and business
associate of Dulles. When World War II broke out, the authors write,
".
. . Angleton was crushed financially as all his investments were in enemy hands.
"Like
Dulles's clients, he wanted his money back. Like Dulles, Hugh offered his services
to the OSS." With high-placed contacts in Mussolini's Interior Ministry, Hugh
was accepted and "promoted rapidly in U.S. intelligence. He became second in command
to Colonel Clifton Carter, the OSS commander in Italy at the end of World War
II." (8)
Perhaps
the most controversial information which is now emerging with the release of recently
declassified documents concerning World War II, is the role of the Vatican, both
in its pre-war German investments, and its role in helping Nazi war criminals
escape justice after the war. Concerning the Vatican-German investments, Loftus
and Aarons are quite clear:
"That
the Vatican encouraged such investments and even donated money to Hitler himself
cannot be denied. A German nun, Sister Pascalina, was present at its creation.
In the early 1920s she was the housekeeper for Archbishop of the Vatican-Nazi
connection . . . Eugenio Pacelli, then the papal nuncio in Munich. Sister Pascalina
vividly recalls receiving Adolf Hitler late one night and watching the archbishop
give Hitler a large amount of Church money."
In
addition, Eugenio Pacelli
"later
convinced the Vatican to invest millions of dollars in the rising German economy,
money from the Vatican's land settlement that ended the Pope's claim of sovereignty
over territory outside the walls of Vatican City. It was Pacelli who negotiated
the Concordat with Germany and then had to deal with the consequences of his own
mistakes when he became pope on the eve of World War II.
"The
Vatican and the Dulles brothers had the same problem. Once their money was in
Hitler's hands, how would they get it back?"
The
authors interviewed "a former colonel in U.S. Military Intelligence who specialized
in tracing enemy assets. He claimed that only a tiny portion of the Reichbank's
gold ingots actually reached the Vatican Bank, while the rest was held in cooperative
banks in Belgium, Liechtenstein, and especially Switzerland." It was only necessary
to transfer the paperwork on the gold, not the gold itself. Since, by that time,
Dulles knew his telegraph communications were being monitored by the British wiretap
operation in New York, he instead used couriers to "ensure absolute secrecy in
moving the foreign currency and the ownership documents out of Switzerland . .
. special agents of the Vatican who had diplomatic immunity to move back and forth
across both Nazi and Allied lines. . . ." (9)
".
. . . The Vatican's eminence grise for Balkan intelligence, the Bosnian-Croat
priest Krunoslav Draganovic, was involved in transporting large quantities of
Nazi booty, especially gold bullion, from Austria to the safety of the Holy See
with the help of the Dulles-Angleton clique in Rome. Some of the booty was transported
in truck convoys run by British troops. Other shipments were carried in U.S. Army
jeeps provided to Father Draganovic so that he could conduct pastoral visits'
on behalf of the Vatican.
"Another
ardent Nazi propagandist and agent, Slovenian bishop Gregory Rozman, was sent
to Bern with the help of Dulles's friends in U.S. intelligence. Declassified U.S.
intelligence files confirm that Bishop Rozman was suspected of trying to arrange
the transfer of huge quantities of Nazi-controlled gold and Western currency that
had been discreetly secreted in Swiss banks during the war. For a few months the
Allies prevented Rozman from gaining access to this treasure, but then the way
was mysteriously cleared. In fact, the Dulles-Vatican connection had fixed it,
and before too long the bishop obtained the loot for his Nazi friends, who were
hiding in Argentina.
"Such
instances turned out to be only the tip of the iceberg. It has long been acknowledged
that it was Allen Dulles who tipped off General Patton about the buried German
treasure that lay in the path of the U.S. Third Army. Patton explicitly urged
General Eisenhower to conceal as much of the gold as possible, but his advice
was refused.
"Our
sources claim that Dulles and his colleagues exerted a great deal of influence
to ensure that Western investments in Nazi Germany were not seized by the Allies
as reparations for the Jews. After all, much of 'Hitler's Gold' had originally
belonged to the bankers in London and New York. The . . . captured Nazi loot went
underground. . . .
"In
the cause of anticommunism, and to retrieve its own investments in Germany, the
Vatican agreed to become part of Dulles's smuggling window, through which the
Nazis and their treasure could be moved to safety." (10)
On
April 12th, 1945, Roosevelt died, and Truman became President. May 7th, Nazi Germany
surrendered after the suicide of Adolf Hitler. September 2nd, Japan surrendered.
World
War II finally ended, but at the cost of more than 35,000,000 lives, over half
that amount civilians. The death toll for the United States was 294,000. (11)
A
PLEDGE BETRAYED
"Dulles
and some of his friends volunteered for postwar service with the government not
out of patriotism but of necessity," according to Loftus and Aarons. "They had
to be in positions of power to suppress the evidence of their own dealings with
the Nazis. The Safehaven investigation was quickly stripped from Treasury . .
. and turned over to the State Department. There Dulles's friends shredded the
index to the interlocking corporations and blocked further investigations.
"Dulles
had this goal in mind: Not a single American businessman was ever going to be
convicted of treason for helping the Nazis. None ever was, despite the evidence.
According to one of our sources in the intelligence community, the U.S. Army Counter
Intelligence Corps had two large 'Civilian Internment Centers' in Occupied Germany,
code named 'Ashcan' and 'Dustbin.' The CIC had identified and captured a large
number of U.S. citizens who had stayed in Germany and aided the Third Reich all
through World War II. The evidence of their treason was overwhelming. The captured
German records were horribly incriminating.
"Yet
Victor Wohreheide, the young Justice Department attorney responsible for preparing
the treason trials, suddenly ordered the prisoners' release. All of the Nazi collaborators
were allowed to return to the United States and reclaim their citizenship. At
the same time, another Justice Department attorney, O. John Rogge, who dared to
make a speech about Nazi collaborators in the United States was quickly fired.
However, the attorney who buried the treason cases was later promoted to special
assistant attorney general.
"Dulles
and his clients had won. The proof is in the bottom line. Forty years after World
War II, Fortune magazine published a list of the hundred richest men in the world.
There were no Jews on the list. The great fortunes of the Rothschilds and Warburgs
had been diminished to insignificance by the Depression, the Nazis, and World
War II.
"Near
the top of the list were several multibillionaires who had been prominent members
of Hitler's inner circle. A few even had served time in Allied prisons as Nazi
war criminals, but they were all released quickly. The bottom line is that the
Nazi businessmen survived the war with their fortunes intact and rebuilt their
industrial empires to become the richest men in the world. Dulles's clients got
away with it. President Roosevelt's dream of putting the Nazis' moneymen on trial
died with him."
England
also failed to see justice done, according to the authors: "The British authorities
in Germany ordered the U.S. Army to release all of the VIP British Nazis and hand
over the evidence against them. Even before Roosevelt's death, Churchill had already
begun to withdraw from his commitment to prosecute Nazis." The reason?" Too many
British industries might be seized as Nazi fronts. Too many upper-class collaborators
might have to be prosecuted. The Germans were defeated, and the Soviets were now
the enemy.
"Funding
for British war crimes investigations suddenly dried up. Nazi bankers such as
Herman Abs were released from prison to work as economic advisers in the British
zone of Germany. The history of British 'efforts' to punish Nazis after the war
is aptly summarized in Tom Bower's book, 'The Pledge betrayed'. . . .
"The
pattern was repeated all over the remnants of the Third Reich. Despite direct
orders from President Truman and General Eisenhower, I.G. Farben, the citadel
of the Nazi industrialists, was never dismantled. Dulles's clients demanded, and
received, Allied compensation for bomb damage to their factories in Germany. Only
a few of the top Nazis were executed. Most of the rest were released from prison
within a few years. Others, . . . would go virtually unpunished. No one ever investigated
the Nazi sympathizers in Western intelligence who had made it all possible." (12)
As
we have seen, the American industrialists who did business with the Nazis were
in no way inconvenienced by war crimes trials, and even received compensation
for damages to their Nazi war plants. Some Nazi industrialists were charged and
convicted by the Nuremberg war crimes trials but, in their book, "The American
Establishment," authors Leonard and Mark Silk observe that in the late 1940s "the
United States and its leaders faced an agonizing moral problem in coming to terms
with those German industrialists who had willingly done business with the Nazis
and who were now just as willing to do business with the Americans in the reconstruction
of Germany. The problem was dramatized when those German industrialists who had
been convicted of war crimes at Nuremberg were all released from Landsberg prison
in early 1951, their sentences commuted by the American High Commissioner [of
German Occupation], John J. McCloy.
".
. . . Whatever the motivation," the authors continue, "the blanket release of
the convicted industrialists was taken within Germany - and by them - as a sign
that businessmen were not to be seriously blamed for their involvement in matters
for which others were hanged or suffered long imprisonment." (13)
The
motivation for the mass release of imprisoned Nazi war criminals is described
in the book, "The New Germany and the Old Nazis," by T.H. Tetens, an expert in
German affairs.
Tetens
observes that in "1950, when Washington showed its eagerness to create a new German
army of 500,000 men, the SS [at that time reorganized into a neo-Nazi front group
called HIAG, which stands for 'mutual assistance,' a so-called veterans organization],
together with the old Wehrmacht officers, started an all-out campaign for the
immediate release of all war criminals. It was a superbly organized blackmail
action, enjoying wide support from the public, from all parties, and carried toward
success by Dr. Adenauer's astute maneuverings.
"The
Chancellor suggested an inconspicuous way to solve the problem with 'parole,'
'sick leave,' and other roundabout methods. The more the U.S. High Commission
in Germany showed leniency, however, the stronger the pressure became: either
'all so-called war criminals are released or there will be no German army.' American
diplomats followed Dr. Adenauer's plan to feed the nationalistic monster piecemeal.
Every few days we quietly released one or two more from prison - the Krupps, the
I.G. Farben directors, and dozens of former Wehrmacht Generals. On friendly advice
from Washington, the British and the French, extremely reluctant, had to follow
suit. When the supply dried up, there remained behind bars only the SS, the mass
murderers from Dachau, Belsen, and Buchenwald, and the toughs from the Waffen
SS who had massacred American, British, and Canadian prisoners of war. This put
High Commissioner John McCloy in a most embarrassing position. . . ."
Tetens
explains how Chancellor Adenauer helped High Commissioner McCloy and the U.S.
State Department avoid this embarrassment: Adenauer "suggested the formation of
a review board, with three German members sitting in and having equal voice in
making recommendations. The whole procedure was to be shrouded in secrecy, and
it was decided that the names of those released should not be revealed to the
public. In this way the last few hundred 'poor devils,' those SS mass killers
and sadists, were quietly set free within two or three years." (14)
Christopher
Simpson, in his extensively documented book on the subject of U.S. recruitment
of Nazis, "Blowback," goes into more detail of the backgrounds of those released:
"The
beneficiaries of this act included, for example, all of the convicted concentration
camp doctors; all of the top judges who had administered the Nazis' 'special courts'"
and dozens of similar cases. In addition, "McCloy's clemency decisions for the
Landsberg inmates set in motion a much broader process that eventually freed hundreds
of other convicted Nazi war criminals over the next five years. . . . By the winter
of 1950-1951 the most senior levels of the U.S. government had decided to abrogate
their wartime pledge to bring Nazi war criminals to justice. . . . in the interests
of preserving West German military support for American leadership in the cold
war. While nazism and Hitler's inner circle continued to be publicly condemned
throughout the West, the actual investigation and prosecution of specific Nazi
crimes came to a standstill." (15)
One
case merits special attention: Sepp Dietrich, "the organizer of the Fuehrer's
bodyguard. Dietrich carried out Hitler's personal murder assignments" and, Tetens
continues, "was in charge of the liquidation of the Jewish population in the city
of Kharkov. During the Battle of the Bulge his troops committed the Malmedy massacre,
killing more than 600 military and civilian prisoners, among them 115 American
G.I.s. He was sentenced to death, and the sentence was later commuted to life
imprisonment. In 1955 he was one of the last poor devils' quietly released from
prison and greeted by the Bonn government with the homecoming pay of 6,000 marks."
(16)
In
a "New York Times" article published February 1, 1951, one prominent American
expressed support for the reduction of sentences for those responsible for the
mass murder of the 600 unarmed prisoners of war at Malmedy, describing the decision
as "extremely wise." The American was Senator Joseph McCarthy, Republican from
Wisconsin.
Tetens
observes that, despite the wide-spread fear by "the French, the British, and the
smaller European countries" of a re-militarized Germany, "the outbreak of the
Korean War (June 1950) brought a total change. The provisions which banned all
military and veterans' organizations lost all their meaning and were no longer
enforced. Western Germany was allowed by the Allies to set up its own General
Staff, camouflaged under the name Blank Office. Supported by Bonn and tolerated
by the United States, a nation-wide network was created to reactivate the experienced
officers and the man power of the old Wehrmacht. The short period of 1950-51 must
be marked as the time when Hitler's old officers, SS leaders, and [Nazi] party
functionaries returned to power and influence." (17)
Tetens'
comment that the Nazi's return to power in Germany was "tolerated by the United
States" was a historical understatement. By the time Tetens' book was published
in 1961, hundreds of convicted Nazi war criminals had already been smuggled out
of Germany to avoid prosecution at the war crimes trials at Nuremberg, recruited
by, and on the payroll of several U.S. government agencies, including the Army
CIC, the OSS, and the Office of Policy Coordination within the State Department.
Over
the past fifty years, it is now documented, these Americanized fugitive Nazi war
criminals have been involved in, and in many cases in charge of, many U.S. government
covert operations -- international weapons smuggling, drug cartels, Central American
death squads, right wing anti-communist dictatorships, LSD mind control experiments
-- the Republican National Committee's Ethnic Heritage Councils, and the Presidential
campaigns of Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George Bush.
THE
GEHLEN ORGANIZATION
Probably
the most influential Nazi to come to work for the United States intelligence agencies
during the Cold War was named Gehlen.
"Reinhard
Gehlen," writes author Christopher Simpson, "Hitler's most senior military intelligence
officer on the eastern front, had begun planning his surrender to the United States
at least as early as the fall of 1944." Of "several hundred" high-ranking Nazi
officers who switched sides at the end of World War II, Gehlen "proved to be the
most important of them all.
"In
early March 1945 Gehlen and a small group of his most senior officers carefully
microfilmed the vast holdings on the USSR in the . . . military intelligence section
of the German army's general staff. They packed the film in watertight steel drums
and secretly buried it in remote mountain meadows scattered through the Austrian
Alps. Then, on May 22, 1945, Gehlen and his top aides surrendered to an American
Counter-intelligence Corps [CIC] team." (18)
According
to Tetens: ". . . [Gehlen] immediately asked for an interview with the commanding
officer . . ." and offered the United States "his intelligence staff, spy apparatus,
and the priceless files for future service."
Gehlen
was sent to Washington and his offer was taken. "The Pentagon-Gehlen agreement,"
states Tetens, "in practice guaranteed the continuation of the all-important Abwehr
division of the German General Staff. Hundreds of German army and SS officers
were quietly released from internment camps and joined Gehlen's headquarters in
the Spessart Mountains in central Germany. When the staff had grown to three thousand
men, the Bureau Gehlen opened a closely guarded twenty-five-acre compound near
Pullach, south of Munich, operating under the innocent name of the South German
Industrial Development Organization. . . .
"Within
a few years the Gehlen apparatus had grown by leaps and bounds. In the early fifties
it was estimated that the organization employed up to 4,000 intelligence specialists
in Germany, mainly former army and SS officers, and that more than 4,000 V-men
(undercover agents) were active throughout the Soviet-bloc countries. Gehlen's
spy network stretches from Korea to Cairo, from Siberia to Santiago de Chile.
. . . When the Federal Republic [of West Germany] became a sovereign state in
1955, the Bureau Gehlen was openly recognized as the official intelligence arm
of the Bonn government." (19)
How
important was the Gehlen Org, as it became known, to the history of the Cold War?
Simpson's research documents that it was perhaps the most significant element
of all:
".
. . . The Org became the most important eyes and ears for U.S. intelligence inside
the closed societies of the Soviet bloc. 'In 1946 [U.S.] intelligence files on
the Soviet Union were virtually empty,' says Harry Rositzke, the CIA's former
chief of espionage inside the Soviet Union. '. . . . Rositzke worked closely with
Gehlen during the formative years of the CIA and credits Gehlen's organization
with playing a "primary role" in filling the empty file folders during that period.
. . .'
"'Gehlen
had to make his money by creating a threat that we were afraid of,' says Victor
Marchetti, formerly the CIA's chief analyst of Soviet strategic war plans and
capabilities, 'so we would give him more money to tell us about it.' He continues:
'In my opinion, the Gehlen Organization provided nothing worthwhile for the understanding
or estimating Soviet military or political capabilities in Eastern Europe or anywhere
else.' Employing Gehlen was 'a waste of time, money, and effort, except that maybe
he had some CI [counter- intelligence] value, because practically everybody in
his organization was sucking off both tits.'" (20)
By
'sucking off both tits' Marchetti is referring to the fact that Gehlen's elaborate
operation was penetrated by Soviet spies at the very time it was our most important
source of intelligence upon which the Cold War was based. In fact, the Communists
had infiltrated Nazi intelligence long before Gehlen switched sides.
TRIPLE
CROSS
"In
each generation," write Aarons and Loftus,"Soviet intelligence created 'anti-Communist'
emigre front groups, ostensibly to foment revolution and topple Bolshevism. The
front groups attracted support from the West. Considerable financial assistance
was supplied and close ties forged with various Western intelligence services.
This enabled the Communist double agents running the front groups to co-opt the
legitimate emigre opposition, splinter their leadership and provoke them into
premature and poorly organized rebellions which were easily defeated. More importantly,
the false front groups were a vehicle for long-term Soviet penetration of Western
society. . . ."
The
authors identify one of these groups as the Narodny Trudovoi Soyuz (NTS), or the
People's Labour Alliance. The NTS represented itself as a group of anti-communist
"moles" inside the Kremlin and, in the 1920s, recruited a Communist agent named
Prince Anton Vasilevich Turkel. Turkel, who actually worked for Soviet Military
intelligence (GRU), went on to penetrate French, Japanese, Italian, British, German,
and even the Vatican intelligence services before the end of World War II.
"After
World War II, Turkel worked for West German intelligence (the Gehlen Org), collaborated
with many of the spy services of NATO, including the American Military Intelligence
Service (MIS - for offensive intelligence), the US Army Counter Intelligence Corps
(CIC - for defensive purposes), the ultra-secret State Department Office of Policy
Co-ordination and the Central Intelligence Agency. . ." (21)
"Just
before World War II began," according to the authors, "an Austrian Jew named Richard
Kauder created a secret intelligence network, code named MAX." Kauder, using the
name of [Max] Klatt - Turkel's intelligence chief ["Unholy Trinity," Aarons and
Loftus, p. 166] - "worked exclusively for Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, the German
spy chief who collaborated with the Vatican and the British to topple Hitler during
the war [the group known as the Black Orchestra]."
The
Nazis thought the Max network was made up of "so-called Fascist Jews" who "were
willing to spy against the Soviet Union, not for the glory of the Third Reich
but to save themselves and their families from the concentration camps." The Max
network was supposed to have had "the only communication link to a secret network
of 'White' Russian Fascists inside the Kremlin [Turkel's NTS], who had supposedly
infiltrated Stalin's military headquarters prior to World War II." But, the authors
continue, "the Max network was not made up of Fascist Jews. They were, in fact,
Communist Jews who risked their lives inside the heart of the Third Reich's intelligence
service."
The
Max network actually misled the Nazis, feeding them false intelligence on the
capabilities and intentions of the Soviet Union, leading "the Nazi divisions into
a series of death traps on the Eastern front." The Max double-agents were responsible
for the Nazis defeats at Stalingrad, "the giant battle of Kursk where Hitler's
tank divisions were slaughtered. The final sting," continue the authors, "was
to mislead Germany into believing that the Red army was on the verge of collapse
in 1944, when in fact the Soviets were preparing for the most massive onslaught
of the war.
"It
would not be an exaggeration to say that the 'Fascist Jews' of the Max network
did more to defeat the German army than all the Western intelligence services
combined. Seventy percent of all Hitler's divisions were destroyed on the Eastern
front, largely as a result of the misleading intelligence supplied by Max." (22)
When
Gehlen was recruited by the United States, Allen Dulles ordered the ex-Nazi spymaster
to "revive the Max network." Gehlen already had plans to do just that, intending
"to make Turkel's Max network the centerpiece of his new West German intelligence
agency. As soon as a Republican president was elected in the United States, Dulles
intended to take over the CIA and make Gehlen and Turkel the heart of his anti-Soviet
network. The Soviets, of course, were delighted as they watched Dulles and Gehlen
attempt to plant a Communist spy ring in the heart of Western intelligence. .
. .
".
. . [E]ventually, in 1956, the Allies decided that the whole thing had been a
giant Soviet-controlled operation. Dozens of operations, hundreds of agents, thousands
of innocent civilians had been betrayed. . . .
".
. . [T]hree years after Dulles became head of CIA in 1953, his pet 'Fascist,'
Turkel, broadcast the CIA codes to start the Hungarian uprising prematurely. Thousands
of innocent Hungarians rushed on to the streets of Budapest to start the revolution.
Instead of American paratroopers dropping supplies, they found Soviet tanks waiting
in the suburbs."
By
1959, the collapse of Dulles's spy network was almost total: "U.S. Military Intelligence
admitted to the National Security Council that it did not have a single network
of couriers or safe houses left in Communist territory, apart from East Germany.
Dulles's Nazi 'freedom fighters' had sold him out." (23)
COLD
WARRIORS
It
was Harry Rositze who best described the attitude of the United States military-intelligence
establishment after the end of World War II: "Any bastard as long as he was anti-Communist."
Rositze, the "former head of secret operations inside the USSR" for the CIA, was
correct. (24)
We
have seen that many Nazis - including those who committed atrocities - returned
to positions of power and influence inside Germany after the war. Unknown until
fairly recently was the extent of Nazi recruitment by U.S. intelligence agencies
and political organizations, in the 1940s and 1950s.
Perhaps
the most publicized program of Nazi recruitment is that of Project Paperclip,
which involved the collection of Nazi rocket scientists and facilities, all of
which were later incorporated into the U.S. Space Program. Klaus Barbie's employment
by the U.S. State Department in the 1940s is another well-known incident. Barbie,
head of the Gestapo in Lyons, France, was known as the "Butcher of Lyons" and
was sought by the French Government for atrocities committed against French Resistance
fighters captured by the Nazis. Barbie was recruited as a U.S. intelligence "asset"
in 1947 by one branch of the State Department's Counter-intelligence Corps (CIC),
while another branch, the Operation Selection Board, a joint U.S./British project,
was trying to put him in prison for war crimes.
Eventually,
according to Aarons and Loftus, "Barbie's employment (and protection) by the Americans
began to reach French newspapers and politicians at least as early as 1948. They,
in turn brought increasing pressure on the U.S. government through publicity and
eventually through official notes requesting Barbie's extradition from Germany.
That, in the final analysis, is why the CIC chose to provide Barbie with a new
identity and safe passage to Argentina in 1951, while thousands of other ex-Nazis
who had been 'of interest' to the CIC at one time or another have simply lived
out their lives in Germany. If the CIC had dumped Barbie when the French government
began requesting his extradition, he would have had plenty of compromising things
to say about the CIC. . ." (25)
But
when Barbie was eventually captured by Bolivian authorities in the early 1980s,
and returned to France to face charges of war crimes, the U.S. government was
forced to conduct an investigation into the Barbie affair. The official position?
". . . [T]his investigation concluded that the United States had indeed protected
Barbie in Europe and engineered his escape but that Barbie was the only such Nazi
who had been assisted in this fashion." (26)
As
documented previously, this statement was false. Hundreds, perhaps thousands,
of Nazis were employed by the several U.S. agencies, from the CIC to the CIA,
and used in covert operations overseas, as our first line of defense against Communism.
Others, equally as guilty of wartime atrocities, were brought into the United
States for domestic political purposes. This aspect of the U.S.-Nazi connection
is well-documented, and deserves closer attention by the mainstream press.
One
of the first researchers to reveal the connections between the U.S. government
and the Nazis, was a lady named Mae Brussell of Carmel, California. Her career
as a conspiracy researcher and host of the weekly radio program "World Watchers
International" began with the Kennedy assassination. "In ferreting out every morsel
from the Warren Report," writes Jonathan Vankin, author of the book "Conspiracies,
Cover-ups and Crimes," "supplementing her research with untold amounts of reading
from the 'New York Times' to 'Soldier of Fortune,' Brussell discovered not merely
a conspiracy of a few renegade CIA agents, Mafiosi, and Castro haters behind Kennedy's
death, but a vast, invisible institutional structure layered into the very fabric
of the U.S. political system.
"Comprising
the government within a government were not just spies, gangsters, and Cubans,
but Nazis. Mae found that many of the commission witnesses -- whose testimony
established Oswald as a lone nut' -- had never even spoken to Oswald, or knew
him only slightly. The bulk of them were White Russian emigres living in Dallas.
Extreme in their anti-Communism, they were often affiliated with groups set up
by the SS in World War II -- Eastern European ethnic armies used by the Nazis
to carry out their dirtiest work.
"Brussell
also discovered an episode from history rarely reported in the media, and not
often taught in universities. Those same collaborationist groups were absorbed
by United States intelligence agencies. They hooked up with the spy net of German
General Reinhard Gehlen, Hitler's Eastern Front espionage chief."
"'This
is a story of how key Nazis . . . anticipated military disaster and laid plans
to transplant nazism, intact but disguised, in havens in the West,' wrote Mae
Brussell in 1983. She didn't author too many articles, but this one, 'The Nazi
Connection to the John F. Kennedy Assassination' (in 'The Rebel,' a short-lived
political magazine published by 'Hustler' impresario Larry Flynt), was definitive,
albeit convoluted.
"'It
is a story that climaxes in Dallas on November 22, 1963, when John Kennedy was
struck down,' Brussell's article continued. 'And it is a story with an aftermath
-- America's slide to the brink of Fascism.'"
Mae
Brussell quit broadcasting her radio show in Spring of 1988, after receiving a
death threat from a "man who is said to have identified himself as 'a fascist
and proud of it.'"
The
last project she worked on, before her death from cancer on October 3, 1988, writes
the author, "was a study of Satanic cults -- within the U.S. military. The hidden
fascist oligarchy had progressed far beyond the need for patsies like Oswald.
They were now able, Brussell asserted, to hypnotically program assassins.
"Satanic
cults are the state of the art in brainwashing. With drugs, sex, and violence,
they strip any semblance of moral thought. They are perfect for use in creating
killers. The United States military, Brussell found, was using them." (27)
NOTES:
THE NEW WORLD (DIS)ORDER
One
Thousand Americans, George Seldes, p. 5-6
The
Secret War Against the Jews, Loftus and Aarons, p. 71
Ibid.,
pp. 73-74
Ibid.,
pp. 75-76
Ibid.,
p. 77
Ibid.,
p. 78
Ibid.,
pp. 79-80
Ibid.,
pp. 82-83
Ibid.,
pp. 84-85
Ibid.,
pp. 85-86
Tragedy
and Hope, Prof. Carrol Quigley, p. 827
Secret
War Against the Jews, pp. 100-102
The
American Establishment, Leonard and Mark Silk, p. 249
The
New Germany and the Old Nazis, T.H. Tetens, pp. 99-102
Blowback:
America's recruitment of Nazis and its effects on the Cold War, Christopher Simpson,
pp. 191-192
The
New Germany and the Old Nazis, p. 103
Ibid.,
pp. 112-113
Blowback,
pp. 40-41
The
New Germany and the Old Nazis, pp. 42-43
Blowback,
pp. 54-55
Unholy
Trinity, Mark Aarons and John Loftus, pp. 151-152
The
Secret War Against the Jews, pp. 135-136
Ibid.,
pp. 151-152
Blowback,
p. 159
Ibid.,
pp. 187-189
Ibid.,
pp. 192-193
Conspiracies,
Cover-ups and Crimes, Jonathan Vankin, pp. 101-104
RICHARD
MILHOUSE NIXON
In
this section we will explore the Nazi connections of Richard Nixon. To do so we
must return to the years just after the end of World War II and, of course, a
man named Dulles.
The
irony of Nixon's political career ending with a cover-up can only be appreciated
with the knowledge that this turbulent career also began with one. Loftus and
Aarons state that:
"According
to several of our sources among the 'old spies,' Richard Nixon's political career
began in 1945, when he was the navy officer temporarily assigned to review . .
. captured Nazi documents." The documents in question revealed the wartime record
of Karl Blessing, "former Reichsbank officer and then head of the Nazi oil cartel,
Kontinentale Ol A.G. 'Konti' was in partnership with Dulles's principal Nazi client,
I.G. Farben. Both companies had despicable records regarding their treatment of
Jews during the Holocaust. After the war Dulles not only 'lost' Blessings Nazi
party records, but he helped peddle a false biography in the ever-gullible 'New
York Times.'"
The
authors' sources reveal that not only did Dulles help cover up his Nazi client's
record, he "personally vouched for Blessing as an anti-Nazi in order to protect
continued control of German oil interests in the Middle East. Blessing's Konti
was the Nazi link to Iben Saud [King of Saudi Arabia] and Aramco [the Arabian-
American Oil Company]. If Blessing went down, he could have taken a lot of people
with him, including Allen Dulles. The cover-up worked, except that U.S. Naval
Intelligence scrutinized a set of the captured Konti records."
According
to the "old spies," Allen Dulles made a deal with the young navy officer who was
reviewing the Konti files - Richard Nixon. Nixon would help Dulles bury the Konti
files. In return, Allen Dulles "arranged to finance [Nixon's] first congressional
campaign against Jerry Voorhis." (1)
Dulles's
support for Nixon paid off in 1947 when, as the freshman congressman from California,
he "saved John Foster Dulles considerable embarrassment by privately pointing
out that confidential government files showed that one of Foster's foundation
employees, Alger Hiss, was allegedly a Communist. The Dulles brothers took Nixon
under their wing and escorted him on a tour of Fascist 'freedom fighter' operations
in Germany, apparently in anticipation that the young congressman would be useful
after Dewey became president." [He would be useful anyway, despite the fact that
incumbent President Truman won reelection in 1948, defeating Dewey.] (2)
After
Truman's victory, write the authors, "Nixon became Allen Dulles's mouthpiece in
Congress. Both he and Senator Joseph McCarthy received volumes of classified information
to support the charge that the Truman administration was filled with 'pinkos.'
When McCarthy went too far in his Communist investigations, it was Nixon who worked
with his next-door neighbor, CIA director Bedell Smith, to steer the investigations
away from the intelligence community.
"The
CIA was grateful for Nixon's assistance, but did not know the reason for it. Dulles
had been recruiting Nazis under the cover of the State Department's Office of
Policy Coordination, whose chief, Frank Wisner, had systematically recruited the
Eastern European emigre networks that had worked first for the SS, then the British,
and finally Dulles.
"The
CIA did not know it, but Dulles was bringing them to the United States less for
intelligence purposes than for political advantage. The Nazis' job quickly became
to get out the vote for the Republicans. One Israeli intelligence officer joked
that when Dulles used the phrase 'Never Again,' he was not talking about the Holocaust
but about Dewey's narrow loss to Truman. In the eyes of the Israelis, Allen Dulles
was the demon who infected Western intelligence with Nazi recruits.
"In
preparation for the 1952 Eisenhower-Nixon campaign, the Republicans formed an
Ethnic Division, which, to put it bluntly, recruited the 'displaced Fascists'
who arrived in the United States after World War II. Like similar migrant organizations
in several Western countries, the Ethnic Division attracted a significant number
of Central and Eastern European Nazis, who had been recruited by the SS as political
and police leaders during the Holocaust. These Fascist emigres supported the Eisenhower-Nixon
'liberation' policy as the quickest means of getting back into power in their
former homelands and made a significant contribution 'in its first operation (1951/1952).'"
The
authors point out that "over the years the Democrats had acquired one or two Nazis
of their own, such as Tscherim Soobzokov, a former member of the Caucasian SS
who worked as a party boss in New Jersey. But in 90 percent of the cases, the
members of Hitler's political organization went to the Republicans. In fact, from
the very beginning, the word had been put around among Eastern European Nazis
that Dulles and Nixon were the men to see, especially if you were a rich Fascist
. . ." (3)
This
relationship between Richard Nixon and the Nazis developed because both he and
Allen Dulles "blamed Governor Dewey's razor-thin loss to Truman in the 1948 presidential
election on the Jewish vote. When [Nixon] became Eisenhower's vice president in
1952, Nixon was determined to build his own ethnic base.
"Vice President
Nixon's secret political war of Nazis against Jews in American politics was never
investigated at the time. The foreign language-speaking Croatian and other Fascist
emigre groups had a ready-made network for contacting and mobilizing the Eastern
European ethnic bloc. There is a very high correlation between CIA domestic subsidies
to Fascist 'freedom fighters' during the 1950s and the leadership of the Republican
party's ethnic campaign groups. The motive for under-the-table financing was clear:
Nixon used Nazis to offset the Jewish vote for the Democrats.
"In
1952 Nixon had formed an Ethnic Division within the Republican National Committee.
'Displaced Fascists, hoping to be returned to power by an Eisenhower-Nixon "liberation"
policy signed on' with the committee. In 1953, when Republicans were in office,
the immigration laws were changed to admit Nazis, even members of the SS. They
flooded into the country. Nixon himself oversaw the new immigration program. As
vice president, he even received Eastern European Fascists in the White House.
After a long, long journey, the Croatian Nazis had found a new home in the United
States, where they reestablished their networks.
"In
1968 Nixon promised that if he won the presidential election, he would create
a permanent ethnic council within the Republican party. Previously the Ethnic
Division was allowed to surface only during presidential campaigns. Nixon's promise
was carried out after the 1972 election, during [George] Bush's tenure as chairman
of the Republican National Committee. The Croatian Ustashis became an integral
part of the campaign structure of Republican politics, along with several other
Fascist organizations." (4)
The
authors describe Nixon's pro-Nazi activities in no uncertain terms: "Nixon himself
personally recruited ex-Nazis for his 1968 presidential campaign. Moreover, Vice
President Nixon became the point man for the Eisenhower administration on covert
operations and personally supervised Allen Dulles's projects while Ike was ill
in 1956 and 1957." (5)
One
of the Nazis recruited by candidate Nixon was Laszlo Pasztor, described by Aarons
and Loftus as "the founding chair of Nixon's Republican Heritage Groups council"
who, "during World War II . . . was a diplomat in Berlin representing the Arrow
Cross government of Nazi Hungary, which supervised the extermination of the Jewish
population.
"[A]fter
Nixon won [the 1968 Presidential Election], he approved Pasztor's appointment
as chief organizer of the ethnic council. Not surprisingly, Pasztor's 'choices
for filling emigre slots as the council was being formed included various Nazi
collaborationist organizations.' The former Fascists were coming out of the closet
in droves.
"The
policy of the Nixon White House was an 'open door' for emigre Fascists, and through
the door came such guests as Ivan Docheff, head of the Bulgarian National Front
and chairman of the American Friends of the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations (ABN).
. . . an organization dominated by war criminals and fugitive Fascists. Yet Nixon
welcomed them with open arms and even had Docheff to breakfast for a prayer meeting
to celebrate Captive Nations Week." (6)
"During
Nixon's 'Four More Years' campaign in 1971-1972, Laszlo Pasztor again played a
key role in marshaling the ethnic vote. No longer a marginal player on the fringes,
now he held a key position as the Republican National Committee's nationalities
director. . . .
"The
Republican leadership cannot claim ignorance as a defense. [Syndicated Columnist
Jack] Anderson's famous expose of Nixon's Nazis appeared in 'The Washington Post'
at the same time as the November 1971 convention. Among those mentioned was Laszlo
Pasztor, 'the industrious head of the GOP ethnic groups, [who] was never asked
about his wartime activities in Hungary by the four GOP officials who interviewed
him for his job.' It was too embarrassing for Nixon to admit that Pasztor had
been a ranking member of a Fascist government at war with the United States.
".
. . . It is one thing to promote obscure Eastern European Fascist movements in
the Republican party. It is quite another to let the German Nazis have a major
influence. After 1953, the Republican administration changed the rules, and even
members of the Waffen SS could immigrate to the United States as long as they
claimed only to have fought the Communists on the Eastern Front." (7)
The
Republican/Nixon attraction to Nazism was also observed by Robert J. Groden and
Harrison Edward Livingstone, authors of the book, "High Treason," dealing with
the Kennedy Assassination. Groden and Livingstone write: "Nixon surrounded himself
with what was known as the Berlin Wall, a long succession of advisors with Germanic
names: We recall at the top of his 'German General Staff' as it was also known,
Haldeman, Erlichman, Krogh, Kliendienst, Kissinger (the Rockefellers' emissary)
and many others.
"The
selection of German names was no accident. Many of the brighter staff people close
to Nixon came to him from the University of Southern California, and the University
of California at Los Angeles, where there were fraternities that kept alive the
vision of a new Reich. America has for a long time harbored this dark side of
its character, one of violence and the Valhalla of Wagner and Hitler.
"But
Gordon Liddy was the one in whose mind 'Triumph of the Will' was the most alive.
Some of these men would watch the great Nazi propaganda films in the basement
of the White House until all hours of the night, and drink, in fact, get drunk
with their power, with blind ambition, as one of them wrote." (8)
"According
to several of our sources in the intelligence community who were in a position
to know," continue Loftus and Aarons, "the secret rosters of the Republican party's
Nationalities Council read like a Who's Who of Fascist fugitives. The Republican's
Nazi connection is the darkest secret of the Republican leadership. The rosters
will never be disclosed to the public. As will be seen in Chapter 16 dealing with
George Bush, the Fascist connection is too widespread for damage control.
"According
to a 1988 study by Russ Bellant of Political Research Associates, virtually all
of the Fascist organizations of World War II opened up a Republican party front
group during the Nixon administration. The caliber of the Republican ethnic leaders
can be gauged by one New Jersey man, Emanuel Jasiuk, a notorious mass murderer
from what is today called the independent nation of Belarus, formerly part of
the Soviet Union. But not all American ethnic communities are represented in the
GOP's ethnic section; there are no black or Jewish heritage groups. . . .
"The
truth is that the Nazi immigrants were 'tar babies' that no one knew how to get
rid of. Dulles had brought in a handful of the top emigre politicians in the late
1940s. They in turn sponsored their friends in the 1950s. By the 1960s ex-Nazis
who had originally fled to Argentina were moving to the United States. . . ."
(9)
It
is clear that, even before the break-in at the Democratic Party Headquarters on
June 17, 1972, the Republicans were on the brink of having their pro-Nazi activities
over the past four decades become a matter of mass-media attention. After the
Watergate Break-in, as the Congressional Hearings began to reveal the slush-funds,
money-laundering, illegal corporate campaign contributions, the political sabotage
of the 1972 Presidential election process, the involvement of ITT and the Nixon
Administration into the assassination of Salvador Allende, the democratically
elected president of Chile, and many other aspects of Nixonism, the floodgates
of truth were about to open. Only one thing averted this wholesale learning of
the truth by the American people: Nixon's resignation and subsequent pardoning
by his hand-picked successor, Gerald Ford.
NOTES:
RICHARD MILHOUSE NIXON
The
Secret War Against the Jews, p. 221
Ibid.,
pp. 221-222
Ibid.,
pp. 222-223
Ibid.,
pp. 122-123
Ibid.,
pp. 224-225
Ibid.,
pp. 297-298
Ibid.,
pp. 298-299
High
Treason, Robert J. Groden and Harrison Edward Livingstone, pp. 417-418
The
Secret War Against the Jews, pp. 300-301
GEORGE
HERBERT WALKER BUSH
Like
Richard Nixon, George Bush was a strong anti-marijuana/hemp president, escalating
the so-called "war on drugs" begun by Nixon. And, like Nixon, George Bush was
deeply involved with supporting the Nazis in the Republican's closet. In fact,
support for the Nazis was a Bush family tradition which goes back more than six
decades and, once again, to Allen Dulles.
Loftus
and Aarons write: "The real story of George Bush starts well before he launched
his own career. It goes back to the 1920s, when the Dulles brothers and the other
pirates of Wall Street were making their deals with the Nazis. . . ."
THE
BUSH-DULLES-NAZI CONNECTION
"George
Bush's problems were inherited from his namesake and maternal grandfather, George
Herbert 'Bert' Walker, a native of St. Louis, who founded the banking and investment
firm of G. H. Walker and Company in 1900. Later the company shifted from St. Louis
to the prestigious address of 1 Wall Street. . . .
"Walker
was one of Hitler's most powerful financial supporters in the United States. The
relationship went all the way back to 1924, when Fritz Thyssen, the German industrialist,
was financing Hitler's infant Nazi party. As mentioned in earlier chapters, there
were American contributors as well.
"Some
Americans were just bigots and made their connections to Germany through Allen
Dulles's firm of Sullivan and Cromwell because they supported Fascism. The Dulles
brothers, who were in it for profit more than ideology, arranged American investments
in Nazi Germany in the 1930s to ensure that their clients did well out of the
German economic recovery. . . .
"Sullivan
& Cromwell was not the only firm engaged in funding Germany. According to
'The Splendid Blond Beast,' Christopher Simpson's seminal history of the politics
of genocide and profit, Brown Brothers, Harriman was another bank that specialized
in investments in Germany. The key figure was Averill Harriman, a dominating figure
in the American establishment. . . .
"The
firm originally was known as W. A. Harriman & Company. The link between Harriman
& Company's American investors and Thyssen started in the 1920s, through the
Union Banking Corporation, which began trading in 1924. In just one three-year
period, the Harriman firm sold more than $50 million of German bonds to American
investors. 'Bert' Walker was Union Banking's president, and the firm was located
in the offices of Averill Harriman's company at 39 Broadway in New York.
"In
1926 Bert Walker did a favor for his new son-in-law, Prescott Bush. It was the
sort of favor families do to help their children make a start in life, but Prescott
came to regret it bitterly. Walker made Prescott vice president of W. A. Harriman.
The problem was that Walker's specialty was companies that traded with Germany.
As Thyssen and the other German industrialists consolidated Hitler's political
power in the 1930s, an American financial connection was needed. According to
our sources, Union Banking became an out-and-out Nazi money-laundering machine.
. . .
"In
[1931], Harriman & Company merged with a British-American investment company
to become Brown Brothers, Harriman. Prescott Bush became one of the senior partners
of the new company, which relocated to 59 Broadway, while Union Banking remained
at 39 Broadway. But in 1934 Walker arranged to put his son-in-law on the board
of directors of Union Banking.
"Walker
also set up a deal to take over the North American operations of the Hamburg-Amerika
Line, a cover for I.G. Farben's Nazi espionage unit in the United States. The
shipping line smuggled in German agents, propaganda, and money for bribing American
politicians to see things Hitler's way. The holding company was Walker's American
Shipping & Commerce, which shared the offices at 39 Broadway with Union Banking.
In an elaborate corporate paper trail, Harriman's stock in American Shipping &
Commerce was controlled by yet another holding company, the Harriman Fifteen Corporation,
run out of Walker's office. The directors of this company were Averill Harriman,
Bert Walker, and Prescott Bush. . . .
".
. . In a November 1935 article in Common Sense, retired marine general Smedley
D. Butler blamed Brown Brothers, Harriman for having the U.S. marines act like
'racketeers' and 'gangsters' in order to exploit financially the peasants of Nicaragua.
. . .
".
. . A 1934 congressional investigation alleged that Walker's 'Hamburg-Amerika
Line subsidized a wide range of pro-Nazi propaganda efforts both in Germany and
the United States.' Walker did not know it, but one of his American employees,
Dan Harkins, had blown the whistle on the spy apparatus to Congress. Harkins,
one of our best sources, became Roosevelt's first double agent . . . [and] kept
up the pretense of being an ardent Nazi sympathizer, while reporting to Naval
Intelligence on the shipping company's deals with Nazi intelligence.
"Instead
of divesting the Nazi money," continue the authors, "Bush hired a lawyer to hide
the assets. The lawyer he hired had considerable expertise in such underhanded
schemes. It was Allen Dulles. According to Dulles's client list at Sullivan &
Cromwell, his first relationship with Brown Brothers, Harriman was on June 18,
1936. In January 1937 Dulles listed his work for the firm as 'Disposal of Stan
[Standard Oil] Investing stock.'
"As
discussed in Chapter 3, Standard Oil of New Jersey had completed a major stock
transaction with Dulles's Nazi client, I.G. Farben. By the end of January 1937
Dulles had merged all his cloaking activities into one client account: 'Brown
Brothers Harriman-Schroeder Rock.' Schroeder, of course, was the Nazi bank on
whose board Dulles sat. The 'Rock' were the Rockefellers of Standard Oil, who
were already coming under scrutiny for their Nazi deals. By May 1939 Dulles handled
another problem for Brown Brothers, Harriman, their 'Securities Custodian Accounts.'
"If
Dulles was trying to conceal how many Nazi holding companies Brown Brothers, Harriman
was connected with, he did not do a very good job. Shortly after Pearl Harbor,
word leaked from Washington that affiliates of Prescott Bush's company were under
investigation for aiding the Nazis in time of war. . . .
".
. . The government investigation against Prescott Bush continued. Just before
the storm broke, his son, George, abandoned his plans to enter Yale and enlisted
in the U.S. Army. It was, say our sources among the former intelligence officers,
a valiant attempt by an eighteen-year-old boy to save the family's honor.
"Young
George was in flight school in October 1942, when the U.S. government charged
his father with running Nazi front groups in the United States. Under the Trading
with the Enemy Act, all the shares of the Union Banking Corporation were seized,
including those held by Prescott Bush as being in effect held for enemy nationals.
Union Banking, of course, was an affiliate of Brown Brothers, Harriman, and Bush
handled the Harrimans' investments as well.
"Once
the government had its hands on Bush's books, the whole story of the intricate
web of Nazi front corporations began to unravel. A few days later two of Union
Banking's subsidiaries -- the Holland American Trading Corporation and the Seamless
Steel Equipment Corporation -- also were seized. Then the government went after
the Harriman Fifteen Holding Company, which Bush shared with his father-in-law,
Bert Walker, the Hamburg-Amerika Line, and the Silesian-American Corporation.
The U.S. government found that huge sections of Prescott Bush's empire had been
operated on behalf of Nazi Germany and had greatly assisted the German war effort."
(1)
EDWIN
PAULEY
"Try
as he did," continue the authors, "George Bush could not get away from Dulles's
crooked corporate network, which his grandfather and father had joined in the
1920s. Wherever he turned, George found that the influence of the Dulles brothers
was already there. Even when he fled to Texas to become a successful businessman
on his own, he ran into the pirates of Wall Street.
"One
of Allen Dulles's secret spies inside the Democratic party later became George
Bush's partner in the Mexican oil business. Edwin Pauley, a California oil man,
was . . . one of Dulles's covert agents in the Roosevelt and Truman administrations
. . . a 'big business' Democrat. . . ."
Among
the key posts held by Pauley were: treasurer of the Democratic National Committee,
director of the Democratic convention in 1944 and, after Truman's election, Truman
appointed him the "Petroleum Coordinator of Lend-Lease Supplies for the Soviet
Union and Britain."
Just
after the end of World War II, "in April 1945 Truman appointed Pauley as the U.S.
representative to the Allied Reparations Committee, with the rank of ambassador,"
as well as "industrial and commercial advisor to the Potsdam Conference, 'where
his chief task was to renegotiate the reparations agreements formulated at Yalta.'
As one historian noted, the 'oil industry has always watched reparations activities
carefully.' There was a lot of money involved, and much of it belonged to the
Dulles brothers' clients."
At
the same time, report Loftus and Aarons,
"the
Dulles brothers were still shifting Nazi assets out of Europe for their clients
as well as for their own profit. They didn't want the Soviets to get their hands
on these assets or even know that they existed. Pauley played a significant role
in solving this problem for the Dulles brothers. The major part of Nazi Germany's
industrial assets was located in the zones occupied by the West's forces. As Washington's
man on the ground, Pauley managed to deceive the Soviets for long enough to allow
Allen Dulles to spirit much of the remaining Nazi assets out to safety. . . .
"Pauley,
a key player in the plan to hide the Dulles brothers' Nazi assets, then moved
into another post where he could help them further. After successfully keeping
German assets in Fascist hands, Pauley was given the job of 'surveying Japan's
assets and determining the amount of its war debt.' Again, it was another job
that was crucial to the Dulles clique's secret financial and intelligence operations."
(2)
After
Pauley retired from government work he went back to being an independent oil man.
Loftus and Aarons state that: "In 1958 he founded Pauley Petroleum which: . .
. teamed up with Howard Hughes to expand oil production in the Gulf of Mexico.
"Pauley
Petroleum discovered a highly productive offshore petroleum reserve and in 1959
became involved in a dispute with the Mexican Government, which considered the
royalties from the wells to be too low.
"According
to our sources in the intelligence community, the oil dispute was really a shakedown
of the CIA by Mexican politicians. Hughes and Pauley were working for the CIA
from time to time, while advancing their own financial interests in the lucrative
Mexican oil fields. Pauley, say several of our sources, was the man who invented
an intelligence money-laundering system in Mexico, which was later refined in
the 1970s as part of Nixon's Watergate scandal. At one point CIA agents used Pemex,
the Mexican government's oil monopoly, as a business cover at the same time Pemex
was being used as a money laundry for Pauley's campaign contributions. As we shall
see, the Mexican-CIA connection played an important part in the development of
George Bush's political and intelligence career. . . .
"Pauley,
say the 'old spies,' was the man who brought all the threads of the Mexican connection
together. He was Bush's business associate, a front man for Dulles's CIA [Allen
Dulles was CIA director then], and originator of the use of Mexican oil fronts
to create a slush fund for Richard Nixon's various campaigns. . . .
"Although
it is not widely known, Pauley, in fact, had been a committed, if 'secret,' Nixon
supporter since 1960. It should be recalled that Nixon tried to conceal his Mexican
slush fund during the Watergate affair by pressuring the CIA into a 'national
security' cover-up. The CIA, to its credit, declined to participate. Unfortunately,
others were so enmeshed in Pauley's work for Nixon that they could never extricate
themselves. According to a number of our intelligence sources, the deals Bush
cut with Pauley in Mexico catapulted him into political life. In 1960 Bush became
a protege of Richard Nixon, who was then running for president of the United States.
. . .
"The
most intriguing of Bush's early connections was to Richard Nixon, who as vice
president had supervised Allen Dulles's covert planning for the Bay of Pigs [invasion].
For years it has been rumored that Dulles's client, George Bush's father, was
one of the Republican leaders who recruited Nixon to run for Congress and later
convinced Eisenhower to take him on as vice president. There is no doubt that
the two families were close. George Bush described Nixon as his 'mentor.' Nixon
was a Bush supporter in his very first tilt at politics, during his unsuccessful
run for the Senate in 1964, and turned out again when he entered the House two
years later.
"After
Nixon's landslide victory in 1972, he ordered a general house cleaning on the
basis of loyalty. 'Eliminate everyone,' he told John Ehrlichman about reappointments,
'except George Bush. Bush will do anything for our cause.' . . . According to
Bush's account, the president told him that 'the place I really need you is over
at the National Committee running things.' So, in 1972, Nixon appointed George
Bush as head of the Republican National Committee.
"It
was Bush who fulfilled Nixon's promise to make the 'ethnic' emigres a permanent
part of Republican politics. In 1972 Nixon's State Department spokesman confirmed
to his Australian counterpart that the ethnic groups were very useful to get out
the vote in several key states. Bush's tenure as head of the Republican National
Committee exactly coincided with Laszlo Pasztor's 1972 drive to transform the
Heritage Groups Council into the party's official ethnic arm. The groups Pasztor
chose as Bush's campaign allies were the emigre Fascists whom Dulles had brought
to the United States. . . .
".
. . Nearly twenty years later, and after expose's in several respectable newspapers,
Bush continued to recruit most of the same ethnic Fascists, including Pasztor,
for his own 1988 ethnic outreach program when he first ran for president.
"According
to our sources in the intelligence community," state the authors, "it was Bush
who told Nixon that the Watergate investigations might start uncovering the Fascist
skeletons in the Republican party's closet. Bush himself acknowledges that he
wrote Nixon a letter asking him to step down. The day after Bush did so, Nixon
resigned.
"Bush
had hoped to become Gerald Ford's vice president upon Nixon's resignation, but
he was appointed U.S. ambassador to the UN. Nelson Rockefeller became vice president
and chief damage controller. He formed a special commission in an attempt to preempt
the Senate's investigation of the intelligence community. The Rockefeller Commission
into CIA abuses was filled with old OPC [Dulles's Office of Policy Coordination]
hands like Ronald Reagan, who had been the front man back in the 1950s for the
money-laundering organization, the Crusade for Freedom, which was part of Dulles's
Fascist 'freedom fighters' program." (3)
In
1988, Project Censored, a news media censorship research organization, awarded
the honor of "Top Censored story" to the subject of George Bush. The article revealed
"how the major mass media ignored, overlooked or undercovered at least ten critical
stories reported in America's alternative press that raised serious questions
about the Republican candidate, George Bush, dating from his reported role as
a CIA 'asset' in 1963 to his Presidential campaign's connection with a network
of anti-Semites with Nazi and fascist affiliations in 1988." (4)
NOTES:
GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH
The
Secret War Against the Jews, pp. 357-361
Ibid.,
pp. 362-364
Ibid.,
pp. 365-371
The
1993 Project Censored Yearbook: The News That Didn't Make The News - And Why,
Project Censored; Dr. Carl Jensen, Director., pp. 230.
CONCLUSION
If,
before you finished reading this publication, you ever wondered why the U.S. federal
government refuses to consider the medicinal and industrial value of cannabis
hemp, despite widespread and growing support from the public, medical experts,
industry leaders, and a growing number of state legislators across this nation
. . . you now have the answer.
For
the past several generations, Americans have been systematically deceived about
the true nature of cannabis hemp. Many Americans have died - victims of political
murders. Millions have been imprisoned, their children and their property taken
away, their futures destroyed. The history of my own state - Kentucky - and others
as well, have been "sanitized," rewritten, our heritage deleted, our citizens
defrauded and impoverished to bury the truth.
And
if, before you finished reading this publication, you ever wondered why the U.S.
federal government would train and finance Central American death squads; or why,
while waging the so-called "war on drugs," the U.S. federal government would operate
cocaine and heroin smuggling operations around the world, bringing in tons of
drugs to places like Mena, Arkansas; or why the U.S. federal government would
"spread democracy" throughout the world by assassinating democratically elected
politicians - both at home and abroad - replacing them with right-wing dictators
and training their secret police in the latest techniques of torture, terrorism,
and mind control; or why the U.S. federal government would conduct deadly medical
and radiation experiments on unsuspecting citizens - including pregnant women,
the mentally impaired, and children . . . you now have the answer.
The
last question is "what are we going to do about it?"
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GEORGE
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