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    SHADOW OF THE SWASTIKA:

    The Real Reason the Government Won't Debate Medical Cannabis and
    Industrial Hemp Re-legalization

    An Open Letter to All Americans By R. William Davis

    Documented Evidence of a Secret Business and Political Alliance
    Between the U.S. "Establishment" and the Nazis - Before, During and
    After World War II - up to the Present.



    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

    1.American Political Tradition, Hofstadter, p. 109. (As reprinted
    in The Irony of Democracy, Thomas R. Dye and L. Harmon Zeigler, p.
    72) 2.American Political Tradition, p. 113. (As reprinted in The
    Irony of Democracy, p. 72) 3.Irony of Democracy, p. 73 4.Ibid., p.
    74 5.Ibid., p. 75 6.Ibid., p. 76 7.Ibid., p. 82 8.Ibid., p. 62 9.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.

    WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST

    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)

    ANDREW MELLON

    "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

    1.Facts and Fascism, George Seldes, p. 122 Trading with the Enemy,
    Charles Higham, p. 167 2.Even the Gods Can't Change History, Seldes,
    pp. 140-144 3.Facts and Fascism, p. 68 4.Ibid., p. 262 5.Trading
    with the Enemy, pp. 162-165 6.Ibid., p. 166 7.Power, Inc., Morton
    and Mintz, pp. 497-499 8.Trading with the Enemy, pp. 163-165 9.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) 10.Trading with the Enemy, pp.
    167-168 11.Facts and Fascism, pp. 68-70 12.Trading with the Enemy,
    pp. 45-46 13.Power, Inc, pp. 499-500 14.The Secret War Against The
    Jews, Aarons and Loftus, pp. 44-65 15.Trading with the Enemy, pp.
    61-62 16.Ibid., pp. 49-52 17.Ibid., p. 176 18.The Emperor Wears No
    Clothes, Jack Herer, pp. 127-130 19.One Thousand Americans, Seldes,
    pp. 142-143 20.Trading with the Enemy, pp. 154-156 21.Ain't Nobody's
    Business If You Do, p. 734 22.Popular Mechanics Magazine, Vol. 76,
    No. 6, Dec. 1941 (The Emperor Wears No Clothes, 1995 edition, p.
    199) 23.A History of the Hemp Industry in Kentucky, Professor James
    F. Hopkins, University of Kentucky Press, 1951 24.Trading with the
    Enemy, p. 99 25.Spooks, Jim Hougan, pp. 423-424 26.The Sovereign
    State of ITT, Anthony Sampson, p. 47 (Power, Inc., pp. 500-501)
    27.GM and the Nazis, by Bradford C. Snell, Ramparts Magazine, June
    1974, pp. 14-16 (Democracy for the Few, Michael Parenti, pp. 91-92)
    28.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

    1.One Thousand Americans, George Seldes, p. 5-6 2.The Secret War
    Against the Jews, Loftus and Aarons, p. 71 3.Ibid., pp. 73-74
    4.Ibid., pp. 75-76 5.Ibid., p. 77 6.Ibid., p. 78 7.Ibid., pp. 79-80
    8.Ibid., pp. 82-83 9.Ibid., pp. 84-85 10.Ibid., pp. 85-86 11.Tragedy
    and Hope, Prof. Carrol Quigley, p. 827 12.Secret War Against the
    Jews, pp. 100-102 13.The American Establishment, Leonard and Mark
    Silk, p. 249 14.The New Germany and the Old Nazis, T.H. Tetens, pp.
    99-102 15.Blowback: America's recruitment of Nazis and its effects
    on the Cold War, Christopher Simpson, pp. 191-192 16.The New Germany
    and the Old Nazis, p. 103 17.Ibid., pp. 112-113 18.Blowback, pp. 40-
    41 19.The New Germany and the Old Nazis, pp. 42-43 20.Blowback, pp.
    54-55 21.Unholy Trinity, Mark Aarons and John Loftus, pp. 151-152
    22.The Secret War Against the Jews, pp. 135-136 23.Ibid., pp. 151-
    152 24.Blowback, p. 159 25.Ibid., pp. 187-189 26.Ibid., pp. 192-193 27.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

    1.The Secret War Against the Jews, p. 221 2.Ibid., pp. 221-222
    3.Ibid., pp. 222-223 4.Ibid., pp. 122-123 5.Ibid., pp. 224-225
    6.Ibid., pp. 297-298 7.Ibid., pp. 298-299 8.High Treason, Robert J.
    Groden and Harrison Edward Livingstone, pp. 417-418 9.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 themselve 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

    1.The Secret War Against the Jews, pp. 357-361 2.Ibid., pp. 362-364
    3.Ibid., pp. 365-371 4.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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    Democracy for the Few - By Michael Parenti - Fourth Edition - St.
    Martin's Press, NY. 1983

    THE NEW WORLD (DIS)ORDER

    Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time - By Carroll
    Quigley, Second Printing - Wm. Morrison, NY. 1974

    The American Establishment - By Leonard Silk & Mark Silk, First
    Discus Printing - Avon Books (by arrangement with Basic Books), NY.
    1981

    The New Germany and the Old Nazis - By T.H. Tetens - Random House,
    NY. 1961

    Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazi's and Its Effect on the
    Cold War - By Christopher Simpson - Weidenfeld & Nicolson, NY. 1988

    Unholy Trinity: The Vatican, the Nazis, and Soviet Intelligence -
    By Mark Aarons & John Loftus, First U.S. Edition - St. Martin's
    Press, NY. 1992

    Conspiracies, Cover-Ups and Crimes: From JFK to the CIA Terrorist
    Connection - By Jonathan Vankin - Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing
    Group, Inc., NY. 1992

    RICHARD MILHOUSE NIXON

    High Treason: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy and
    the New Evidence of Conspiracy - By Robert J. Groden and Harrison
    Edward Livingstone, Berkley Edition - Berkley Books, NY. 1990

    GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH

    Censored: The News That Didn't Make the News - And Why - By Carl
    Jensen - Shelburne Press, Inc., NY. 1993

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