Martin Bormann postwar Nazi 4th Reich financial Mafia empire

[Whitehall_Bin_Men]

Who knows?
I do.
Codswallop.
Have you ever heard of disinformation?
Distraction techniques?

Bormann escaped, not Hitler.
Adolf was falling apart with his mad dream.
Physically sick.
The Russians filmed his dead body.
They also accused the British of harbouring Bormann.
The Hitler in Argentina drivel started after Op JB was published.
As a series of spoilers!

So please stop repeating psychological targeted lies Paul.

[TonyGosling]

Buy a slice of history in the Great British sell-off as infrastructure is snapped up by foreign firms
From railways to buses, airports to energy suppliers, water companies to ports, most of what we rely in for our everyday lives is now out of our control
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/buy-slice-history-great-british- 10111100
By Graham Hiscott Head Of Business
22:12, 27 MAR 2017

It's nearly 200 years since engineer George Stephenson created the world’s first passenger railway.

Part of the old Stockton-to-Darlington railway, opened in 1825, still operates to this day.

Only today it is run by German company Deutsche Bahn through its UK offshoot Arriva.

And yesterday it was announced a Hong Kong-based firm will part-run the South West Trains franchise. MTR, together with FirstGroup, snatched the lucrative seven-year licence from Scotland’s Stagecoach, which has operated the route for 20 years.


It marked the latest in a wave of British infrastructure assets snapped-up by overseas firms.

From railways to buses, airports to energy suppliers, water companies to ports, most of what we rely in for our everyday lives is now out of our control.

This free-for-all has proven to be rich pickings for overseas owners, who have often benefitted from regulated price rises to rake in a fortune.


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The Middle East state of Qatar yesterday became the latest to pile in, after pledging to pump £5billion into UK infrastructure projects. It has already invested £40billion here and owns the Milford Haven gas terminal, in South Wales, posh store Harrods and London skyscraper The Shard.

Here, we investigate the full scale of the foreign sell-off.

ENERGY

Margaret Thatcher also privatised Britain’s gas and electricity industry.

The best known sale, of British Gas in 1986, was soon followed by the 12 regional boards responsible for distributing electricity.


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Yet a move hoped to boost competition led to control concentrated in the big six.

Four of those are in foreign hands; from France’s EDF Energy and Spain controlled Scottish Power to German owned npower and E.ON.

And over the past 15 years along, household energy bills have risen 158%. Yet control over our gas and electricity needs extends even further.

EDF, part French owned, has an £18billion contract to run the new Hinkley Point station in Somerset. China is part-funding the project in return for building another nuclear plant in Essex.

AIRPORTS


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Heathrow is owned by a consortium that includes a Spanish infrastructure firm, Qatar, a Canadian fund manager and the Chinese state.

It is what left of the old British Airports Authority, after it was ordered to sell most of its
UK airports.

Many were snapped-up by foreign investors, including Edinburgh Airport, bought by a US fund, and Bristol, sold to Canadians.

TRANSPORT


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From Merseyrail to the Heathrow Express, countless local bus routes to London’s famous red buses, all are at least partly in foreign hands.

Of the 28 private rail contracts, 21 are partly or wholly owned by overseas states or railways, says the RMT union.

German, French and Dutch transport giants have cashed in on the rush to privatise the UK’s train and bus services, joined by mega-rich China and Singapore.

RMT ’s Mick Cash said: “The announcement the Chinese state will hold a major chunk of South West Trains means three-quarters of UK railways are now wholly or partly controlled by foreign states or foreign companies, with the profits shipped out of Britain. That is nothing short of a scandal.”

WATER


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Even much of the water we drink is foreign owned.

It was former Tory Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher who sold off our water suppliers.

Ten regional water authorities floated on the stock market in 1989. The Government kept a “golden share” to stop an individual or company taking full control.

But that was dropped in 1994, triggering a shopping spree by foreign buyers.

Of the 10 privatised water companies, just Severn Trent, South West Water and United Utilities are still listed on the London Stock Market.The rest are owned by mega rich individuals or part of offshore set-ups. Northumbrian Water is controlled by Asia’s richest man, Hong Kong based Li Ka Shing, who also owns the container port at Felixstowe.

Australian investment bank Macquarie was accused of loading Thames Water with debt, sucking out profits and paying virtually no tax.

Weak pound and Brexit means more to come warns Mirror Head of Businesss Graham Hiscott

From your Weetabix for breakfast to HP sauce with tea, and a flutter on the National Lottery – all have one thing in common: The firms behind them are partly or wholly owned by overseas companies.

Foreign investors own nearly £1trillion worth of UK companies.

Of course, there are good and bad examples. US giant Kraft’s 2009 takeover of chocolate-maker Cadbury rightly caused outrage. And Japan’s swoop on British technology heavyweight ARM Holdings led to new fears.

But foreign takeovers have also breathed life into tired businesses.

Jaguar Land Rover, for example, has thrived since being bought by India’s Tata Group.

Critics argue Britain is too willing to flog the family silver, though UK firms are also major investors abroad.

But, with Brexit looming, this foreign shopping spree – fuelled by the weak pound – will only make our best businesses more ripe for sell-offs.

[TonyGosling]

UK for sale: Uniquely in the world, Britain has sold more than half its companies to foreigners. And we are all paying the price
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2129507/Britain-sale-Uniquely -world-Britain-sold-half-companies-foreigners-And-paying-price.html

By ALEX BRUMMER FOR THE DAILY MAIL
PUBLISHED: 22:09, 13 April 2012 | UPDATED: 22:15, 13 April 2012

Just for a moment, imagine being a tourist in search of the full British experience. Where would you start? Well, you might take a sight-seeing trip around London on a red double-decker bus.

You’d possibly visit a quintessentially British store, such as Boots the chemist, Selfridges or Harrods, before having a proper English tea at the Savoy, Fortnum & Mason or the Dorchester.

You’d almost certainly go home, via a British airport, thinking you’d seen a slice of the real Britain. But, in one sense at least, you’d be totally wrong.

British icon? Most London buses are run by a Spanish company
British icon? Most London buses are run by a Spanish company

That bus you boarded at Trafalgar Square is run by a German company. Boots fell to the Italians in 2007. Selfridges, Fortnum & Mason and the Savoy are owned by Canadians; Harrods has been bought by a firm based in Qatar; the Dorchester by one based in Brunei. As for our airports, most of them are now run by a Spanish firm.

Maybe a tourist wouldn’t care all that much, even if he knew. But should we? After all, does it make any real difference if a British company has a foreign master?

For the past three decades, the UK has had a completely relaxed attitude about selling off its assets to companies based abroad. Indeed, most of the time, the swallowing up of yet another great British institution barely makes a headline.

Sell off: Boots is owned by Italians, and headquartered in Switzerland
Sell off: Boots is owned by Italians, and headquartered in Switzerland

We may be a nation of homeowners, but we’ve lost our taste for ownership of our own economy and public services — from once-great manufacturers such as ICI to most of the companies that deliver our electricity, water and gas.

Even this week, it became clear that the Government is happy to consider letting a Russian firm, the one behind the Chernobyl accident, run some of Britain’s next generation of nuclear power stations. In fact, to date, we’ve sold off more than half our assets to foreign owners.

And the pace is escalating. In the face of political indifference, foreign companies acquired £30billion worth of British enterprises in 2009. In 2010, that rose to a value of £54.5 billion.

Deregulation: Former Tory Chancellor Geoffrey Howe made it easier for foreigners to snap up British companies
Deregulation: Former Tory Chancellor Geoffrey Howe made it easier for foreigners to snap up British companies

Foreign corporations also currently control 39 per cent of UK patents. This is far more than the percentage of foreign-owned patents in the U.S. (11., Japan (3.7) or even the European Union as a whole (13.7).

At this rate, it’s been said, it won’t be long before we’re all working for foreign companies. So how did we become so attractive to overseas predators? The answer is that it happened in stages, starting with the removal of regulations on overseas investment by former Tory Chancellor Geoffrey Howe in 1979.

This was followed in 1986 by what’s known as the ‘Big Bang’, when a raft of restrictive old practices in the City of London were swept aside. Soon, foreign banks flooded into the City, gobbling up venerable British minnows such as SG Warburg, Robert Fleming and Schroders.

Then came Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, who were so keen to keep in with big business that they refused to block any deals — even when the Russians eyed up British Gas.

Indeed, anyone — like me — who dared question the great British sell-off was instantly labelled a xenophobe, out of touch with the reality of the modern globalised economy.

What tipped the balance towards foreign takeovers in the late Nineties and 2000s were three key factors: the cheap cost of borrowing; liberal takeover rules; and the presence of global investment banks in the City, with ready access to the world’s capital.

Throughout the boom years, these banks were allowed to write their own rules. What this meant, in essence, was that a bank which might once have considered it risky to lend ten times its share capital would now lend up to four times that amount.

The result? Foreign companies took full advantage of all this cheap and easy credit to snap up increasing numbers of great British brands.

Not only that, but our eccentric tax system actually made it more profitable for overseas owners to buy companies with borrowed money. For example, foreign firms who buy British companies using borrowed money are able to deduct the interest they have to pay on those loans from their tax bills.

Stripped: The private equity firms who bought Debenhams left the chain a shadow of its former self
Stripped: The private equity firms who bought Debenhams left the chain a shadow of its former self

And this had a direct effect on jobs in the UK. Weighed down with often massive debts, new owners were far less likely to invest in the future of the firm and were instead more likely to close down factories and plants, throwing thousands of Britons out of work.

Some foreign firms even adopted the practice of making a fast buck by buying a company, stripping its assets and then selling for a quick profit. A classic case was that of the once-great department store, Debenhams, bought in 2003 by two U.S.-based private equity firms. Within three years, they’d stripped the firm of investment, loaded it with debt and sold it on at a big profit. By then, Debenhams was in such an enfeebled condition that it has taken years to recover.

Worse still was what happened to the care homes provider Southern Cross, which came crashing down last spring. The company had been pieced together by a hard-headed U.S. equity firm called Blackstone, after it started buying up care homes across the country.



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Most of its income was guaranteed, as it came from local authorities. But Blackstone wasn’t prepared to be a long-term owner. Soon, it had hived off many of the freeholds of the buildings to another company, which then sold them off.

Then Blackstone made a quick profit by floating Southern Cross on the stock market, collecting £600 million for itself and its wealthy investors.

At the time, Blackstone said they believed that the care homes, with their guaranteed source of income, were capable of being self-financing. But the aftermath from the sale of Southern Cross was disastrous.

When new landlords started putting up rents, local authorities were unable to meet the extra cost. A lack of investment and poor management combined to bring Southern Cross to the brink last year, placing its 750 homes at serious risk.

Three thousand jobs had to be cut from the workforce, raising questions about the quality of care in the homes. Eventually, some of the landlords dropped their rents, some took over care homes themselves — and some have yet to come to an agreement with the company.

Shockingly, as it turned out, this high-stakes financial game had been played at the expense of 31,000 elderly and vulnerable residents. Meanwhile, elsewhere in Britain, one great company after another was being blithely auctioned off — including Jaguar Rover (to India), Asda (to the U.S.), MG Rover (to China), P&O Ports (to Dubai), the British Airports Authority (to Spain), Corus (formerly British Steel, to India), British Energy (to France), and lottery operator Camelot (to Canada).

It didn’t matter whether the buyer was a foreign company or a private-equity fund. If the price was good enough, shareholders and directors took the money and ran.

As firms fell like ninepins around them, canny chief executives demanded new clauses in their contracts that guaranteed the equivalent of lottery wins if their firms were taken over. They did this by insisting that their share options — usually paid out only after a number of years — could instantly be converted to cash.

Apathy: No-one seemed to notice - or care - when ICI was snapped up by the Dutch
Apathy: No-one seemed to notice - or care - when ICI was snapped up by the Dutch

Ah, argued defenders of this system, but surely all these deals also brought much-needed injections of cash into the economy?

And yes, of course, they did — in the short term.

But no one was thinking any further ahead. No one had bothered to work out that if it was hard enough to collect taxes from a UK-based multinational, it might be even harder to do so from one based in Munich, Lucerne or Washington DC.

Paying the price: ICI's subsequent breakup resulted in the loss of thousands of jobs
Paying the price: ICI's subsequent breakup resulted in the loss of thousands of jobs

If that sounds highly theoretical, then consider what happened after Boots the chemist (Alliance Boots) was sold to the Italian pharmacy king Stefano Pessina and private-equity barons KKR in 2007 for £12 billion.

Soon after the takeover, Boots — which had been based in Nottingham for 161 years — moved its headquarters to Zug in Switzerland. Why Zug? Well, certainly not for its climate.

Before the takeover, Boots had paid £89 million in British tax in its final year as a quoted company on the London stock market. Now that it pays its tax in Zug, that figure has shrunk to just £9 million.

So the financial rewards from all these foreign takeovers rarely swell government coffers for long. Hence, as more and more British companies vanish overseas, it’s the ordinary taxpayer who has to make up the difference — through higher VAT and other taxes.

As well as tax revenue, what is even more worrying is that we’re rapidly losing the crucial skills we need to compete with the rest of the world.

The real tragedy is that no one seems to care when a company like ICI, the great chemicals giant, disappears into the jaws of a foreign power — taking with it scientific and industrial expertise built up over many decades.

The truth is that the 2008 Dutch takeover of ICI was, arguably, far more significant than the sell-off of Cadbury, which caused deep public unease. Chocolate, it seems, will always stir more sentiment than paint and chemicals.

ICI was vulnerable to foreign interest for two reasons: the lack of Government interest in its possible future and the shareholders’ greed for cashing in — to the exclusion of other considerations. So no one gave much thought to what might happen next.

The ICI integration into Holland’s AkzoNobel was far from painless. Within days of the merger, they were jettisoning some of ICI’s assets — such as its adhesives and electronic materials activities, which were sold to a German competitor. Some 29 factories, including several in the UK, were closed, eliminating 3,500 jobs.

Sentimental value: Cadbury's treatment at the hands of Kraft caused public outrage
Sentimental value: Cadbury's treatment at the hands of Kraft caused public outrage

In early 2009, AkzoNobel revealed massive losses of £970 million, largely as a result of buying ICI. More job losses were projected, and a pay freeze was imposed on most of the company’s employees. In 2011, the group was still struggling.

How ICI itself has fared financially, within AkzoNobel, is now impossible to discern. But the most significant and worrying loss has been that of a guaranteed skills base.

For decades, ICI’s reputation — and its profits — was founded on its ability to develop new products. But once ownership moved abroad, all bets as to the future of such research facilities was off.

'Global economy': David Cameron refuses to erect 'trade barriers'
'Global economy': David Cameron refuses to erect 'trade barriers'

Indeed, if AkzoNobel sells off further parts of the company, the remaining research laboratories in Slough and Newcastle could well move abroad.

After all, no foreign company owes any particular allegiance to Britain. This was vividly illustrated when Kraft Foods took over Cadbury in 2009, after promising to keep open the Somerdale factory near Bristol that made Wispa and other chocolate bars.

Despite this pledge just one month after buying the confectioner, Kraft closed the factory — leading to the direct loss of 400 jobs, and the indirect loss of others in the supply chain.

In addition, 160 skilled employees at the company’s Uxbridge headquarters were made redundant, and a further 150 posts are due to go at Cadbury’s historic Bournville factory in Birmingham this year.

Surprising? Not really. When companies need to cut capacity, they tend to chop operations far from home first.

Yet the Labour government made little effort to block this unpopular takeover. As for the Tories, David Cameron said at the time: ‘We are an open, global economy. We cannot start creating ownership barriers, trade barriers and protectionist barriers.’

As the economy dipped, Kraft lost no time in squeezing as much income as it could out of its new acquisition in order to pay down debt and please its American shareholders. In March 2010, for instance, Cadbury staff were told that pay would be frozen for three years unless they agreed to opt out of the firm’s expensive final-salary pension scheme.

The arrogant American bosses of Kraft felt immune to criticism — even brushing off politicians’ criticism with disdain.

For example, when asked to appear before a Commons select committee to explain the company’s failure to honour its promises, Kraft chairman and CEO Irene Rosenfeld refused. ‘Appearing before the panel was not the best use of my personal time,’ she said.

Red lines: Former French President Jacques Chirac stood up for 'strategic' companies
Red lines: Former French President Jacques Chirac stood up for 'strategic' companies

Is this the price that all nations have to pay for an increasingly globalised world? Not at all — in fact, Britain is unique in having such a supine attitude to selling off its crown jewels.

Other countries adopt what’s come to be known as ‘economic patriotism,’ which involves putting tremendous obstacles in the path of foreign bids. Take France, for example, which argues that it’s in the national interest to prevent key technologies falling into foreign hands. Key technologies that extend all the way from nuclear power to yoghurt-making.

There was uproar when the U.S. drinks giant PepsiCo was poised to bid for the French food firm Danone in 2005. In the end, the then President Jacques Chirac declared that the French yoghurt-maker was considered a ‘strategic’ company, so couldn’t be sold to a foreign firm.

Similarly, Spain has worked hard to hold on to its energy companies — for example, thwarting a bid in 2006 by German energy group E.ON for Endesa. Yet a year later, because of less patriotic values in Britain, a Spanish company was easily able to buy our own Scottish Power.

In Japan, selling a company over the heads of management is unthinkable. And while India has bought UK enterprises such as Jaguar Rover, it won’t allow British firms to take full control of its own companies.

As for the U.S., the country which portrays itself as a ‘champion’ of free trade won’t permit foreigners to buy U.S. airlines or TV companies. Oil is also jealously guarded: China’s state-owned oil company, for instance, was prevented from purchasing struggling U.S. oil firm Unocal in 2005.

No one is proposing that all foreign takeovers should be blocked. But we could easily put our own measures into place to limit further damage. There’s nothing wrong, for instance, with having a vetting process for foreign deals that would take into account matters of public and national economic interest.

Or with making it illegal for foreign companies to break their promises about keeping jobs and research facilities in the UK. Or with forcing them to declare how much of their bid is based on debt. Directors of British companies could be banned from cashing in on a shares bonanza if a deal went through.

Upper hand: Barclays CEO Bob Diamond has threatened to move the bank's headquarters to New York
Upper hand: Barclays CEO Bob Diamond has threatened to move the bank's headquarters to New York

In other words, a board would be judging a takeover bid on the basis of its merits, not on how rich it would make individual directors.

Why, then, isn’t the Government considering any of this? Why do we cheerfully continue to auction off everything from nuclear power generators (to the French — and now possibly the Russians) to our most popular chocolate brand?

The chief reason lies in our continuing love affair with banking and financial services, which still provide a large slice of our tax revenues. From the late Eighties onwards, governments have viewed these banks — which arrange and finance all these overseas deals — as a sort of universal economic panacea.

At all costs, it seems, the banks need to be kept happy. And since much of their money comes from buying and selling companies to the rest of the world, the British sell-off seems destined to continue unabated.

The banks know their power, too. American Bob Diamond, who took over Barclays in 2011, let it be known that he’d consider moving the bank’s highly profitable investment banking arm from Britain to New York if it became, as he saw it, over-regulated or over-taxed. And he’s by no means the only banker making veiled threats behind the scenes.

As matters stand, trying to protect UK companies is like attempting to guard chickens in a coop to which foxes have been invited.

In the real world, away from the gilded environs of the City, the tragedy is that tens of thousands of jobs have gone. Crucial skills have been lost — probably for good. And the strategic heart of British manufacturing has been ripped out, which affects our ability to climb out of recession.

Still, the outlook isn’t all bleak: bankers and foreign shareholders are doing just fine.

Extracted from Britain For Sale: British Companies In Foreign Hands by Alex Brummer, to be published by Random House Business Books on April 26, £12.99.© 2012 Alex Brummer. To order a copy for £10.99 (incl p&p) call 0843 382 0000

[TonyGosling]

I'm afraid all Colonel Ian Bell was following was a Bormann 'lookalike' and a false trail laid specifically by Desmond Morton's little MI6 cell for him. That was why he was told not to apprehend and to keep his distance not knowing where the ship was next going to dock. If his mission was real he would be positively identifying and arresting this chap with a small battle group at his disposal once a probable Bormann had been identified.
I mean, this chap was a Colonel, a colonel and he's just got to sit and watch at Hitler's Treasurer disappears off over the horizon?
Come on please!

Martin Bormann's Escape

Link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDGdsS5D67w

Granada TV World In Action documentary filmed Mossad over in Paraguay and Argentina on the tail of and kidnapping members of the death cult. Bormann was creeping about with Adolf Eichmann and Klaus Barbie. Auschwitz 'Angel Of Death' Josef Mengele was his personal doctor. Watch it. They don't make 'em like that now the Bormann 4th Reich financial network runs the West. Former CBS Paul Manning spent two years writing all about it in Martin Bormann Nazi In Exile which you can get as a free pdf.

[TonyGosling]

Red Cross and Vatican helped thousands of Nazis to escape
Research shows how travel documents ended up in hands of the likes of Adolf Eichmann, Josef Mengele and Klaus Barbie in the postwar chaos
Dalya Alberge
Wed 25 May 2011 15.31 BST First published on Wed 25 May 2011 15.31 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/may/25/nazis-escaped-on-red-cro ss-documents

SS officers at Auschwitz in 1944. From left: Richard Baer, who became the commandant of Auschwitz in May 1944, Josef Mengele, commandant of Birkenau Josef Kramer, hidden, and the former commandant of Auschwitz Rudolf Höss, foreground; the man on the right is unidentified. Photograph: AP
The Red Cross and the Vatican both helped thousands of Nazi war criminals and collaborators to escape after the second world war, according to a book that pulls together evidence from unpublished documents.

The Red Cross has previously acknowledged that its efforts to help refugees were used by Nazis because administrators were overwhelmed, but the research suggests the numbers were much higher than thought.

Gerald Steinacher, a research fellow at Harvard University, was given access to thousands of internal documents in the archives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The documents include Red Cross travel documents issued mistakenly to Nazis in the postwar chaos.

They throw light on how and why mass murderers such as Adolf Eichmann, Josef Mengele and Klaus Barbie and thousands of others evaded capture by the allies.


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By comparing lists of wanted war criminals to travel documents, Steinacher says Britain and Canada alone inadvertently took in around 8,000 former Waffen-SS members in 1947, many on the basis of valid documents issued mistakenly.

The documents – which are discussed in Steinacher's book Nazis on the Run: How Hitler's henchmen fled justice – offer a significant insight into Vatican thinking, particularly, because its own archives beyond 1939 are still closed. The Vatican has consistently refused to comment.

Steinacher believes the Vatican's help was based on a hoped-for revival of European Christianity and dread of the Soviet Union. But through the Vatican Refugee Commission, war criminals were knowingly provided with false identities.

The Red Cross, overwhelmed by millions of refugees, relied substantially on Vatican references and the often cursory Allied military checks in issuing travel papers, known as 10.100s.

It believed it was primarily helping innocent refugees although correspondence between Red Cross delegations in Genoa, Rome and Geneva shows it was aware Nazis were getting through.

"Although the ICRC has publicly apologised, its action went well beyond helping a few people," said Steinacher.

Steinacher says the documents indicate that the Red Cross, mostly in Rome or Genoa, issued at least 120,000 of the 10.100s, and that 90% of ex-Nazis fled via Italy, mostly to Spain, and North and South America – notably Argentina.

Former SS members often mixed with genuine refugees and presented themselves as stateless ethnic Germans to gain transit papers. Jews trying to get to Palestine via Italy were sometimes smuggled over the border with escaping Nazis.

Steinacher says that individual Red Cross delegations issued war criminals with 10.100s "out of sympathy for individuals … political attitude, or simply because they were overburdened". Stolen documents were also used to whisk Nazis to safety. He said: "They were really in a dilemma. It was difficult. It wanted to get rid of the job. Nobody wanted to do it."

The Red Cross refused to comment directly on Steinacher's findings but the organisation says on its website: "The ICRC has previously deplored the fact that Eichmann and other Nazi criminals misused its travel documents to cover their tracks."

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Martin Bormann and the Future of Germany
New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/1973/03/03/archives/martin-bormann-and-the-fut ure-of-germany.html
Paul Manning - 3rd March 1973
https://www.nytimes.com/1973/03/03/archives/martin-bormann-and-the-fut ure-of-germany.html

Martin Bormann and the Future of Germany
By PAUL MANNING MARCH 3, 1973

The article as it originally appeared.


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When the true story of Martin Bormann is written it will reveal him to be the man largely responsible for West Germany's postwar recovery.

The blueprint for this economic resurgence was outlined at a secret meeting of German induatrialists in Strasbourg, France, on Aug. 10, 1944. A directive addressed to the meeting from Martin Bormann—the most powerful man in Germany next to Hitler—said the war was practically lost and that a postwar commercial campaign must take its place.

The secret, verbatim minutes of this conference where a new Germany was born promised that “the Govermnent would allocate large sums to industrialists so that each could establish a secure postwar foundations in foreign countries.” The minutes also noted that “after the defeat of Germany, the Nazi party recognizes that certain of its best known leaders will be condemned as war criminals. However, in cooperation with the industrialists it is arranging to place its less conspicuous but most important members in positions with various German factories as technical experts or members of its research and designing offices.”

But the main thrust of the Strasbourg gathering was deployment of Germany's economic reserves into neutral countries where they would be beyond reach of the wartime Allies.

When Martin Bormann informed these industrialists through his personal representative at the meeting that all Government controls over the export of wealth (money, patents, scientists and administrators) were to be relaxed immediately, the transfer of these national assets became an official policy of the Nazi state.

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A report by the U.S. Treasury Department in 1946 stated that 750 companies were set up all over the world by the German industrialists following the Aug. 10, 1944 meeting in Strasbourg. Their listing noted 112 in Spain, 58 in Portugal, 35 in Turkey, 98 in Argentina, 214 in Switzerland, 233 in various other countries.

In Berlin, Adolf Hitler had advised Bormann to “Bury everything, you will need it to return to power.” Bormann, the man designated as Reichsieiter (the leader) by Hitler with authority to carry on policies of the Fuehrer, interpreted the advice in the sophisticated fashion of a man who knew finance and how to distribute it most effectively to the neutral nations. It was, in fact, the policy he had been pursuing for two years before the fall of Berlin, sensing that defeat was possible and knowing that Germany would need all the economic strength it could muster for a commercial comeback in the postwar years.

While Hitler concerned himself with the mounting problems of the battlefields, Martin. Bormann was carefully planning the economic survival and future of Germany.

During 1942 and 1943, Bormann began transferring party and S.S. funds under his control from the Third Reich to South America. The transfers included currency, gold, diamonds and share‐holding certificates controlling numerous blue‐chip German and foreign corporations.

The master plan which Bormann put into motion for German industry had two aspects: removal of funds from the Third Reich and stepping up of German investments in neutral countries.

West Germany owes a debt for its revival to the American Marshall Plan, to the Swiss bankers who were first to channel investment money back into German industry after 1945, and to the dedication and hard work of the German people.

I. G. Farbenindustrie, A. G., the largest and most powerful chemical combine in the world during the twelve years of the Third Reich, controllecl—both admitted and concealed —over 500 firms in 92 countries. It was the largest single earner of foreign exchange for Germany, and its cartel agreements numbered over 2,000 and included such major industrial concerns as Standard Oil (New Jersey), the Aluminum Company of America, E. I. du Pont de Nemours, Ethyl Export Corporation, Imperial Chemical Industries (Great Britain), the Dow Chemical Company, Rohm & Haas, Etablissements Kuhlmann (France), and the Mitsui interests of Japan, When Martin Bormann switched on the green light for massive transfers of wealth, I. G. Farben moved into high gear.

Hermann Schmitz, I. G.'s, president of that era, reported to Martin Bormann: “Our measures of camouflage have proved to be very good during the war, and have even surpassed our expectations.” The measures he referred to was camouflage of the true ownership of Farben assets as a war and postwar device. The company cloaked its direct and indirect ownership and control of hundreds of its foreign subsidiaries by utilizing every conceivable device known to the legal mind. It was a razzle‐dazzle operation, with Bormann nodding approval and giving assistance every step of the way. Other major German firms pursued the same complicated and devious course.

A primary technique used generally for shifting control of Gerrnan property to avoid Allied seizure in the last year of the war was to use a cloaking device of ownership. The German owner would transfer his holdings to neutral national who acted as the nominal owner; made easy by the general European practice of using bear er shares as a token of ownership (bearer shares are negotiable by delivery, and it is exceedingly difficult to trace the chain of title of a particular share). Fees varied for this service, but the usual figure was 5 per cent of the deal.

But the man who conceived and made possible the transfer of German assets on a vast scale which made possible the establishment of bastions of economic strength outside Germany lives today in South America.

Martin Bormann, at 72, is the Reichsleiter in exile, a legally appointed head of state who does not consider himself to be a war criminal, according to spokesmen for him. Much has been written about Bormann in recent times; all of it incorrect except for the single fact he is alive and in South America.

If he is ever to come out into the open and live the life of a free man once again, he must refute the charges of. Nuremberg, where he was tried in absentia in 1945‐46 and found not guilty on the charge of crimes against peace, but guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

The indictment which the prosecution attorney hammered home in the emotion‐charged atmosphere of that period was that Bormann had been “extremely active in the persecution of the Jews not only in Germany but also in the absorbed or conquered countries.” As the crime of racial extermination was — realistically — what the first Nuremberg trial was all about, Bormann must produce incontrovertible evidence of his personal innocence on this critical point. In its decision, the International Military Tribunal left a loophole for Martin Borrnann if he ever wishes to reopen the case.

“If Bormann is not dead,” the tribunal stated, “and is later apprehended, the Control Council for Germany may, under Article 29 of the Charter, consider any facts in mitigation, and alter or reduce his sentence, if deemed proper.”

Will Martin Bormann, an unquestioned genius of finance and administration, take the gamble, or continue to be the most hunted man in history?
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The Dulles brothers were nephews of Wilson's Secretary of State Lansing.

But they only were invited to work at Versailles on the Peace Treaty by
their friend Bernard Baruch. Allan Dulles said he was on the committee that drew Czechoslovakia's borders. He said it would up looking like a
banana.

Also Ferdinand Lundberg told us in America's 60 Families that one reason America entered WW I so it could make the war last longer and bankrupt England and France so New York could become the world financial capitol.

You might Google this: "July 1,1916 worst day in British military history."

They had 58,000 casualties on that one day. If Wilson had never promised to
enter the war, it would likely have ended in 1915.

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He dreamt up Bond, but did Fleming also create the CIA?
Ben Macintyre
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/he-dreamt-up-bond-but-did-fleming-a lso-create-the-cia-l3nkg9blnmn

August 15 2008, 9:40pm, The Times

Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, liked to claim – only half in jest – that he had helped to create the CIA.

During the Second World War Fleming worked as personal assistant to John Godfrey, the hard-driving head of Naval Intelligence, who was Fleming’s model for M in the Bond series.

Part of Fleming’s job was to liaise with General William “Wild Bill” Donovan, head of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), America’s newly minted wartime answer to MI6. The two men got on extremely well, and when Donovan was preparing plans for a new American intelligence service in 1941, he asked Fleming to write him a blueprint.

Fleming’s 72-page memo on how a US service might look contains a description of the…

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Does Macintyre have the full 72 or 78-page memo?

Ben Macintyre
columnist, the times
@BenMacintyre1

Ben Macintyre is an associate editor, columnist and writer at large for The Times. He was the newspaper’s bureau chief in New York, Paris and Washington, before returning to the UK in 2001. He has written a weekly column since 1996. He is also the author of 12 books of non-fiction, including Agent Zigzag and The Spy and the Traitor.

[TonyGosling]

Martin Bormann - A New Body of Evidence?
Published on May 11, 2016
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/martin-bormann-new-body-evidence-lauren ce-de-mello/

By Laurence de Mello

When anyone mentions the name Martin Bormann, most baby-boomers will know who he was, they will also be quick to tell you that even though there was a wild goose chase across the globe to find him, he certainly died in 1945, proved they say, by the finding of his bones in Berlin in 1972.

On the publication of the 1998 Bormann DNA report, and statements given to the media by the West German prosecutor, London’s ‘Daily Express’ newspaper called the Bormann report a ‘’whitewash’’, perpetrated by the Brandt government.

If we now know, that leading war criminals such as Klaus Barbie (the butcher of Lyon) and Reinhard Gehlen were recruited and employed by the C.I.A post WWII, with total disregard to the heavy sentences served on the two at the Nuremberg Trials, why is it so hard to accept the possibility that Nazi Germany's pen-pushing 'Banker' escaped, possibly with the help of British intelligence?

After all, numerous Nazi officers who were participant in the brutal slavery of concentration camp prisoners were snapped up by the USA after the war, many of whom were made post WWII hero’s in the American scientific community. So why is it so repugnant to believe that the allies could rescue the man with the money?

Between 1945 and 1965 there were numerous sightings of Bormann. Bormann’s former personal chauffeur, Jakob Glas, said that he had seen Bormann months after May 1945 as did many others.

Paul Manning, author, former war correspondent and counter intelligence expert, claims along with others, that Bormann certainly escaped. But when Manning tried to publish his extensively researched 1981 book ‘Martin Bormann Nazi in Exile’ he received dire threats. After finally getting a renegade publisher to agree to publish his work, within two weeks, the publisher had his legs broken and Manning’s son was mysteriously murdered shortly after. The culprits were never found.

In fact, Manning’s story is very much in line with the former British Intel officer and author of OPJB. Christopher Creighton states that Bormann escaped, as does Former WWII British army captain and war crimes investigator, Ian Bell. Bell can be seen on YouTube telling us that he saw Bormann being taken to a ship in Bari and when he radioed back to his command, he was told to follow but ‘’do not apprehend’’.

Contrary to the survival story being told by those considered ‘’crazy’’ conspiracy theorists, there are many very qualified and well versed investigators and former intelligence agents that tell us; the story we teach our children at school is just that, a story.

Hugh Thomas, former surgeon and forensic expert of international repute and author of the 1995 book Doppelgängers , writes extensively about the forensics investigation that suggests Bormann died later than 1945. According to Jonathan Glancey of The Guardian, Thomas’s ’’scalpel-sharp eye for detail’’ and second investigative work which produced the book Hess: A Tale of Two Murders , ‘’precipitated a six-month Scotland Yard inquiry that saw its report immediately suppressed."

Thomas confirms that the original Bormann medical reports in 1972 released only some and not all the information found under the microscope. While it is true the dentistry of the skull found was identified as Bormann, they failed to reveal to the public that there was dentistry performed in the skull, which could only have been done in the 1950’s, due to the technology used. A man that died in 1945 is not going to go to the dentist in 1950.

Also, the skull ‘’found’’ in Berlin, was encased in a red clay type earth, exotic to Germany but local to a place in Paraguay, the very place that many investigators, including myself, have traced Bormann to in his last years. Those last year’s being possibly as late as 1969.

Reinhard Gehlen, former Nazi, Cold war spymaster and later a CIA recruit and head of the West German intelligence network, also claimed that Bormann escaped to South America and died in Paraguay.

But probably the most disturbing work comes from Ladislas Farago. In 1974, Farago, a brilliant military historian, WWII war correspondent and former civilian naval intelligence officer, published Aftermath: Martin Bormann and the Fourth Reich. Farago, after a long and painstaking investigation on the ground in South America, much of which was spent accessing classified Argentine intelligence documents, presented his evidence including copies of said documents in his book. Not only did Farago examine and get the classified documents he accessed authenticated, he called a team to join him in Buenos Aires, to witness and document the authentication of such.

The formidable 1972 Buenos Aires team included four highly distinguished international attorneys; Former intelligence operative and practicing new York attorney Joel Weinberg, Dr. Silvio Frondizi, the brother and former legal aid to Argentine President Arturo Frondizi, Dr. Guillermo Macia Ray and Dr. Horacio A. Perillo . They were also joined by Stewart Steven, who at the time was the highly respected Foreign Editor of London's Daily Express. Steven was not just there as a witness, but also a participant in the document analysis.

Farago and his team's unanimous conclusion, was that Martin Bormann certainly escaped Europe in 1945 with the help of the allies and went on to South America where he survived for many years, many of which in Argentina.

Even though Farago and his team were more than qualified to make an intelligent and thorough analysis and investigation on the authenticity of the documents made available to them, Farago’s publication was ignored and serious attempts were made to discredit him and the other members of the team.

A precedence had been set, when it came to stating or even suggesting Martin Bormann had survived post 1945, even experts like Farago, who was also the world’s leading expert on propaganda and clandestine psychological forms of espionage and warfare, was not safe from ridicule and criticism.

Respected British newspaper man Stewart Steven, who published the 1998 'Whitewash' article was part of Farago's team and was later sacked as Foreign Editor from London's 'Daily Express' for publishing the article suggesting the official 1998 investigation, which had been instigated by the West German prosecutor, was nothing more than a cover-up.

It can not be ignored that there were those, that were determined to keep the 1945 Bormann death myth in force. But not everyone ignored Farago’s book. The content and evidence produced by Farago was so compelling, that it attracted the attention of German born American Dr. Robert M. W. Kempner, a former Nuremburg trial attorney , who decided to reopen the Bormann investigation, based on Ladislas Farago’s documentary evidence of Martin Bormann's survival.

But the trail though cold, may not yet be completely dead in the water;

Recent research reveals that a classified Federal Police archive in Argentina has evidence that the FBI were sending agents to Argentina to follow the Bormann case and the money trails well into the 1980’s and courageous new witnesses have come forward since 2010, with evidence which cannot be ignored. This new evidence may very well lead to an undisputable revelation, that not only did Bormann escape, but he lived for many years in South America with the protection of the allies.

One important new witness is a former military ADC to Argentine General Juan Peron. Commissioner Generale Jorge Silvio Colotto.

This high ranking, internationally decorated, military and federal police commissioner, had been the ADC to 7 Argentine presidents, a close personal friend of Chilean President Pinochet and Eva peron and was the chief of the tough Argentine Federal secret police. He was also prominently involved in the dismantling of the Argentine narcotics trafficking in the 1990’s.

His taped testimony given to Goldeneye Films in 2010, (highly edited clips on YouTube) was on the premise that it could only be revealed after his death to protect his family and that he met Martin Bormann frequently in Buenos Aires in late 1952 and till the end of 1953. He also testifies that on the instructions of Peron, he organised the personal security for Bormann and escorted him to various meetings in Argentina.

Commissioner Colotto also stated that Martin Bormann had been installed in a famous luxury hotel in Buenos Aires throughout 1953, which was owned by Germans. The ADC testifies that he was sent on a weekly basis to collect the Bormann bill from the concierge, to take directly to Peron, who paid the bill from his personal accounts.

This man asked for nothing in exchange for his testimony, all he requested was that the truth be finally known. Commissioner Jorge Colotto died in 2012 and part of his testimony was shown on the A&E channel in the 'Hunting Hitler' tv series.

Another recent witness, with ties to the FBI and C.I.A, is a former Naval Captain who was in charge of the security for the port of Buenos Aires. He told us that not only was it common knowledge, but it is documented in the classified Federal police archives, that Bormann was in Argentina in the 50’s and that the CIA were in Argentina keeping tabs on Bormann as late as 1967.

The author of the 1996 book OPJB, Christopher Creighton, writes that he was instructed by Lord Louis Mountbatten and Winston Churchill to reveal the truth of all the ops in which he was participant, 25 years after the death of both. Documents have been seen which were written to Creighton aka John Ainsworth-Davis, from Lord Louis Mountbatten, which prove Creighton was certainly working for British Naval intelligence at the highest level, which puts in grave doubt spy writer Nigel West’s claims that Creighton is a ‘’charlatan’’.

There are also letters from James Bond author Ian Fleming to Creighton which testify to OPJB, the covert operation that removed Bormann from Berlin in may 1945, as being fact and that he based his James Bond Character on Creighton’s operations. How did Fleming know? Because according to verified letters from Fleming to Creighton, Fleming was part of the operation while he was a Royal Naval commander under the command of spymaster Desmond Morton, for the British secret service.

Potential New Leads
In 2007 a lady whose name cannot be revealed at this time, contacted us with a story that she had been born in a German clinic in Brazil. This five foot two, blonde, green eyed lady, was found to be a well balanced, well educated, a discreet and trustworthy member of her community - a far cry from a publicity-seeking, delusional, self-promoter.

Her deceased adoptive father had been a senior naval officer for the Dominican Republic dictator Rafael Trujillo. She claims her adoptive father was entrusted with her in 1952 the year of her birth, after he was in Brazil negotiating arms deals between the Dominican Republic government and the German arms factories in the Brazilian jungle.

In 1984 she contacted the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, after her adoptive father revealed on his death-bed that she was the daughter of ‘’one of Germany’s three greatest men’’. Extremely distressed at this death-bed revelation, she with her Jewish American attorney, approached the Simon Wiesenthal Centre for help. Within weeks her attorney was anonymously threatened with his life. He immediately dropped her representation after the SWC told him, more than just abruptly, that they were not able to help and would not investigate due to ‘’lack of funds’’. An unusual response from a wealthy organisation whose main objective has been to investigate the trails of and track down Nazi war criminals.

Even Simon Wiesenthal himself believed that Bormann escaped and was frequently outspoken against the official version. In 1966 he said "he is alive and living on the Chile Argentine border using the name Ricardo Bauer". It was only after the 1972 finding of the remains in Berlin, that Wiesenthal gave up the search. It is shocking and detrimental to Wiesenthal’s memory, that those that now head the very organisation founded in his name, ridicule others who believe what Wiesenthal believed, Bormann escaped.

If Bormann did escape, then the adopted woman may very well be the daughter of Martin Bormann, not only because of the mysterious dynamics surrounding her birth, but photos of her, the timing of her birth and the fact investigators believe Bormann was in Brazil with Dr Joseph Mengele in 1951 and 1952.

(It is well documented that Mengele spent many years in Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay, where he focused on genetics, supported by his formal qualifications as a gynaecologist and obstetrician.)

Recent photos of her son given to us show an uncanny similarity of her son with Martin Bormann’s eldest son Adolf. Access to the true DNA of Bormann children is now vital to make a comparison.

In 2010, I contacted the SWC to request access to the files held by them on Martin Bormann. We were stalled for many weeks until finally the SWC refused to help by giving access to any of the files. Rather like the famous Anna Anderson and Russian Grand Duchess Anastasia case, but not covered by the media in the same way, all efforts to access information to see if this adopted woman has Bormann DNA have so far failed.

Even if one did access the DNA in the Files held by the various agencies, who is to know whether the DNA profiles held in the public files are indeed that of Martin Bormann? If Bormann did indeed escape, those that covered it up, are certainly going to go to enormous lengths to hide any incriminating data. Genuine DNA profiles of Bormann would be the last thing they would leave hanging around.

I spoke to Dr. Katja Anslinger one of the doctors that was participant in the 1998 DNA investigation into the Bormann skeleton, which was carried out at the Dept of forensic Med, at the University of Munich. After inquiring as to the DNA profiles which were prepared from the bones she replied;

'' The mtDNA profile of Martin Bormann was published by us in 2001 ................ Further investigations weren't done.''

One would have thought that an institution with an opportunity to examine the Martin Bormann remains, would have taken every possible sample that could be used for scientific and historical purposes. But no, only a mitochondrial DNA profile was made. A mitochondrial DNA profile is useless to match a child to a father, as mtDNA is only passed down through the mother. This was a very strange route to take for the lab, as this meant the matching of the skeleton to confirm identity would have had to be through a maternal relation of Martin Bormann's, where the mtDNA could be met.

It seems an unusual step to not have carried out a full DNA profiling on the remains using Bormann's eldest son Adolf! was this a deliberate move by the intelligence services to prevent any DNA profiling on data bases which could potentially match up children of Bormann in the future? children that had been conceived post May 1945?

It is also interesting to note, that like the supposed corpse of Osama Bin Laden, after positively identifying Bormann in 1998, his remains were swiftly cremated and disposed of ''into the sea''.

The search is now on for genuine Martin Bormann maternal relatives, and children and/or grandchildren, to not only cross match DNA with the woman, but also to cross match the mtDNA, supposedly used to identify Bormann in 1998. If this woman does have Bormann DNA and being born in a German clinic in Brazil in 1953, it will once and for all put to bed the mystery and will vindicate all those that have sacrificed much to reveal what they believed to be the truth. Could that truth be that Martin Bormann escaped and went on to manage the vast funds accumulated by Nazi Germany with the help of Britain?
Conclusion:
Since 1972, historians and academics have spun their tales and told the world that Bormann certainly died near the Lehrter station Berlin, during the early hours of May 2 1945. This aural history is based on no more than unreliable witnesses, two of which were Nazi’s and a mtDNA match to a skeleton found in 1972.

DNA may prove that the remains are those of Bormann, but it does not prove he died in 1945, as there is more evidence to prove he was alive for at least 25 years after 1945. 25 years, in which he could have managed the vast Nazi wealth, including cash, gold, stocks, bonds, shares and priceless works of art. After all, it is rather surprising that with all the modern banking forensics available to date, not one single intelligence or government agency has declared that the vast booty has been found! Or has it? Yet it has been officially written, printed, signed sealed and delivered, even into our children's history lessons that Martin Bormann died in 1945 de-facto, the loot disappeared and anyone that tells you different is a ‘conspiracy theorist’.

Proving once and for all with new testimony, documentation and forensic science that Hitler’s handler, Martin Bormann survived, will redeem damaged reputations and will certainly bury the myth and cause many a red face in the high end academic ‘’history’’ community. But more importantly, it will open a very nasty can of worms and raise many more complicated and embarrassing questions to those agencies and governments that have knowingly perpetrated the Bormann death myth for the past 70 years.

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Martin Bormann and the Nazi gold timeline
https://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/martin-bormann-and-the-nazi-gol d/

Since 2012 Tony Gosling has been investigating evidence that from August 1944 Hitler’s treasurer Martin Bormann was secretly bargaining for the Allies to protect him after WWII, with the $1bn+ loot he controlled.

Soldiers and journalists such as Ladisas Farago, Harry Beckhough, Paul Manning, Dave Barnby, John Ainsworth-Davis, Laurence de Mello, Carter Hydrick, Dave Emory, Mike Sparks and Joseph Farrell have done much research and writing on what may be the ultimate WWII betrayal, masterminded by Winston Churchill’s private secretary Major Desmond Morton.

Tony has produced the following theoretical timeline of Bormann’s rise to power and subsequent rescue and protection by international organised crime, operating at the apex of the British state.

Did the Nazi party treasurer live in Reigate, Surrey from 1945 to 1956?

1920, 24 Feb – Formation of the Nazi party, NSDAP, in Munich, Germany by group including Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess, Ernst Rohm, Dietrich Eckart, Anton Drexler, Gottfried Feder, Hans Frank and the Nazi party’s ‘spiritual father’ Alfred Rosenberg.

18 September 1931 – Hitler’s niece, Geli Raubal ‘shoots herself’ after breaking off a sexual relationship with uncle Adolf. Nazi Martin Bormann said to have subsequently bribed detective Heinrich Muller who was investigating her death. As confidants of Herr Hitler both are to go on to achieve ‘great things’ in the Nazi party.

23 March 1933 – Adolf Hitler made dictator of Germany via democracy & violence

1938 – Using forced labour, Martin Bormann completes building of Hitler’s ‘Eagle’s Nest’ retreat complex at Berchtesgarten, Obersalzberg in the Bavarian/Austrian alps.

10 May 1941 –  Shortly before Germany’s 22 June ‘Operation Barbarossa’ invasion of the Soviet Union Rudolf Hess is persuaded to fly from Berlin to Britain on a bogus ‘peace mission’. On 12 May NSDAP membership number 60508, Martin Bormann, takes over Hess’ job running the Nazi party, controlling promotion/access to Fuhrer.

Thursday 10 August 1944 – Red House meeting in Strasbourg. Nazi industrialists’ flight capital programme initiated by party chief, Reichsleiter Bormann, who begins to countermand Hitler’s orders eg. scorched earth ‘Nero’ policy is quietly overturned.

1-11 May 1945 – Martin Bormann is smuggled out of Berlin by commandos via canals, and the Spree and Havel rivers, to Werben in the Allied sector, where Major Desmond Morton, CO of ‘M’ section, MI6, is waiting, thence to Britain. Training took place on the Chichester canal and at Birdham commando base, near HMS Northney in Hampshire. Described by Christopher Creighton in his 1996 book, Op JB.

May 1945 – after debriefing, possibly at Marjory Hall, Martin Bormann is given the identity William Robert Hornegold, D.O.B. 1906. Bormann is sole signatory to Nazi bank accounts, mostly in Switzerland, Spain and Argentina, which contain over a billion dollars worth of looted wealth from Nazi occupations in Europe and elsewhere.

4 August 1945 – Commodore Coastal Convoys & Commander, Special Boat Unit, training commandos at Birdham near Chichester and HMS Northney, Hampshire, Harold Goulding DSO dies mysteriously of subdural haematoma following meningitis under the care of Dr Norman Dodd in Bangour Hospital, Edinburgh, aged 41.

1 October 1946 – Nuremberg trials convict Martin Bormann of war crimes ‘in absentia’, he is sentenced to death by hanging.

1952 – Bormann allegedly changes name again to Peter Michael Broderick-Hartley

29 April 1956 – Soviet premiere Khrushchev is preparing to visit Britain with an unprecedented security entourage. Prime minister Anthony Eden orders a hidden Martin Bormann, however financially useful he is, out of the UK.

15 February 1958 – According to Paraguayan police papers released in 1998, Martin Bormann is said to have died of stomach cancer and been buried in an unmarked grave in Ita, near Asuncion, Paraguay.

8 September 1981 – Former CBS wartime radio journalist Paul Manning publishes ‘Martin Bormann, Nazi In Exile’ where he details Bormann’s activities in South America creating 750 ‘Fourth Reich business mafia’ companies into which laundered Nazi loot is injected. Former SS officers and international Nazi sympathisers are given seats on these boards. Unscrupulous members of the Zionist mafia are sought out for senior roles in these companies to camouflage their Nazi origins.

1989 – Major Desmond Morton’s replacement as commander of ‘M’ section MI6, Susan Kemp, tells John Ainsworth-Davis this is the year Bormann (or the doppelganger) died and is buried in Reigate cemetery.

December 1995 – Reports in News of the World and Mail on Sunday that Martin Bormann’s son may be living in Wray Common Road, Reigate. A diligent journalist has stood the story up with documentary evidence. Shortly after publication ‘Martin Bormann’s son’ is arrested on drugs charges. Whilst on remand he is reported to have committed suicide by hanging in his cell. Whether this ‘Bormann’s son’ really died and was buried, or there was a mock funeral and he got a new identity, is unknown.

1 September 1996 – Publication of ‘Op JB, The Last Great Secret Of The Second World War’ by John Ainsworth-Davis under the pen name Christopher Creighton because he is worried about being prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act. It details a top secret operation masterminded by Ian Fleming and Churchill’s private secretary Major Desmond Morton for commandos to rescue Bormann from Berlin, via canals, at the end of World War Two. The story is endorsed by letters from WWII Royal Navy intelligence commander turned author, Ian Fleming and Winston Churchill. Another endorsement later emerges by Lord Mountbatten of Burma.

Monday 4 May 1998 – German and Swiss scientists say DNA tests on a skull dug up in central Berlin is conclusive proof that Bormann died there in the final days of WWII. However the skull has eight dental fillings more than his WWII German records indicate and red clay on the skull is found in Ita, Paraguay but not Berlin.

2010 – Churchill research fellow, former deputy head of Reigate Priory primary school, Grace Filby, gives her ‘Churchill’s Secret Reigate’ presentations. They include the Bormann story and examine a secret WWII bunker under Reigate Hill. S.E. Regional Command was General Montgomery’s 21st Army Group headquarters for the defence of Britain in the event of a Nazi invasion. Grace also explains Winston Churchill was billeted at ‘Broadleaze’, and Montgomery at ‘Underbeeches’, Underhill Park Road, large old detached houses with access to the bunker complex. Grace believed the ‘Reigate Bormann’ was a ‘doppelganger’, to be produced if anyone accused the British government of hiding the real Bormann in the town.

18 March 2015 – Grace Filby attends Buckingham Palace and meets the queen. Grace dies in the winter of 2015/16, just three weeks after being diagnosed with cancer.

Comments, criticism or anything to add?

If you have anything to add do please call me, Tony Gosling, 07786 952037, 11:00 – 19:00 Mon to Thu or send me an SMS text, whenever suits. I also have further extracts/articles detailing this story which I will post to you for a £10.00, cheque/PO.

Email me at tony@cultureshop.org.uk or post at Tony Gosling, PRSC Arts Centre, 17-25 Jamaica Street, BRISTOL, BS2 8JP.I acknowledge receipt on request.

‘From South America, where payment must be made with subtlety, the Bormann organization has made a substantial contribution. It has drawn many of the brightest Jewish businessmen into a participatory role in the development of many of its corporations, and many of these Jews share their prosperity most generously with Israel. If their proposals are sound, they are even provided with a specially dispensed venture capital fund. I spoke with one Jewish businessmen in Hartford, Connecticut. He had arrived there quite unknown several years before our conversation, but with Bormann money as his leverage. Today he is more than a millionaire, a quiet leader in the community with a certain share of his profits earmarked as always for his venture capital benefactors. This has taken place in many other instances across America and demonstrates how Bormann's people operate in the contemporary commercial world, in contrast to the fanciful nonsense with which Nazis are described in so much 'literature.'

So much emphasis is placed on select Jewish participation in Bormann companies that when Adolf Eichmann was seized and taken to Tel Aviv to stand trial, it produced a shock wave in the Jewish and German communities of Buenos Aires. Jewish leaders informed the Israeli authorities in no uncertain terms that this must never happen again because a repetition would permanently rupture relations with the Germans of Latin America, as well as with the Bormann organization, and cut off the flow of Jewish money to Israel. It never happened again, and the pursuit of Bormann quieted down at the request of these Jewish leaders. He is residing in an Argentinian safe haven, protected by the most efficient German infrastructure in history as well as by all those whose prosperity depends on his well-being.’
http://spitfirelist.com/books/martin-bormann-nazi-in-exile/ 

[TonyGosling]

Martin Bormann – A New Body of Evidence
https://techfeatured.com/3575/martin-bormann-a-new-body-of-evidence

When anyone mentions the name Martin Bormann most baby-boomers will know who he was, they will also be quick to tell you that even though there was a wild goose chase across the globe to find him, he certainly died in 1945, proved they say, by the finding of his bones in Berlin in 1972. Martin Bormann Hitler’s right hand man and chancellor, the man that controlled all of the vast Nazi loot was tried in absentia in October 1946 at the Nuremberg trials. Found guilty of war crimes and sentenced to death by hanging, Bormann evaded the noose due to his mysterious disappearance.



Two Nazi witnesses at the Nuremberg trials testified to the fact that they had seen Bormann and fellow Nazi, Dr Ludwig Stumpfegger dead, only hours after fleeing the bunker where Hitler had supposedly put a bullet through his brain. One going as far as to say that he had even seen Bormann’s dead ”moonlit face”.

From 1945 the hunt for Martin Bormann was on. During the confusion of those early post war years, the West German government kept the heat up, but UKUSA’s ‘hunt’ was only, If anything, luke-warm. A concentrated search effort had been made in 1945 around the site of the supposed ‘moonlit’ scenario of Bormann and Stumpfegger, with who he was last seen alive. With the advantage of hordes of allied troops on the ground to co-ordinate a thorough search, no stone was left unturned. The same was done independently by a Russian recon group, after Lieutenant General Konstantin Telegin, of the Soviet 5th Shock Army was delivered of a diary said to be of Bormann’s, found near the same site.

In those early post war years, it was not yet a ‘cold case’, with memories still fresh and the ground still soft. Any such corpses although decomposed, would have certainly been on, or near the surface and easily identifiable with the minimum of forensics; but not as much as a scrap of flesh was found of either man. At least they had some disputable charred remains of Hitler, but the bodies of Bormann and Stumpfegger had literally vanished into thin air, along with the Nazi loot.

But after construction workers came across human remains near the Lehrter station in Berlin in 1972, the world’s press gathered to hear if this was indeed Bormann. Bormann’s Nazi dentist Dr Hugo Blaschke was called and he recalled from memory his former patient’s dental physiology and gave testimony that they were one and the same, the case was closed. It was not until 1998 that due to modern science the remains were subjected to a DNA forensic study by the West German prosecutor. The reason for this new 1998 investigation was that in 1996 Christopher Creighton, aka John Ainsworth-Davis a former British Naval Intelligence agent and member of the covert British group C.O.P.P (Combined Operations Pilotage Parties) had published a book, OPJB(Operation James Bond). In the book, Creighton using a pseudonym claims that along with Ian Fleming, he was instructed by Winston Churchill and Desmond Morton the head of Secret British intelligence section V to rescue Martin Bormann from a burning Berlin in May 1945. The book, passed off as a novel to protect Creighton from serious breach consequences of the Official Secrets Act unsettled the German government so much that a thorough forensics and DNA investigation was carried out on the remains. The forensic results came back after the legal medical team matched blood from a Bormann relative, the match was positive.

A confirmation of the remains being those of Bormann was released to the world’s press, along with the statement that Martin Bormann had certainly died in 1945 at the site his remains were found.

Due to the 1998 DNA confirmation of the Skeleton, Modern historians teach their students that stories of Bormann escaping to South America are false, nothing more than the rantings of conspiracy theorists and madmen. Investigative journalists and even former intelligence agents have been continually slandered after they have released information to the contrary, that there has been a cover up by the western allies, that not only did Bormann escape, but his escape was orchestrated by the British intelligence services with the support of the United States government.

Anyone that dares to raise any questions as to the true dynamics of Bormann’s disappearance and death, are discredited based only on the DNA match which confirm the remains as being Bormann. But why are there such conflicting stories between the official version and the version by those that have seriously investigated this strange case for decades? Bormann’s remains were found in 1972, but did he really die in 1945? And what exactly is at stake if the facts were proved that he died much later than we are led to believe? Even though his remains were found in 1972 in Berlin, it does not mean that his body had lain there since 1945 and there is no evidence to suggest such. In fact, there is more evidence to suggest foul play by the British and American intelligence services, that Bormann did escape and after his death in the late 1960’s his remains were carefully reburied in the place history likes to believe he fell.

On the publication of the 1998 Bormann DNA report, London’s Daily Expresscalled it a ‘whitewash’. Later the author of the article, Stewart Steven a very experienced foreign editor of the Daily Express, who was hands on involved with a thorough Bormann investigation was sacked 6 days later after he was accused of publishing a ‘hoax’.

If we now suspect, contrary to the official version that Kennedy was certainly not shot by a lone gunman, why is it so hard to swallow that Bormann escaped with the help of British intelligence. After all, numerous Nazi officers who were participant in the brutal slavery of concentration camp prisoners were snapped up by the USA after the war, many of whom were made post WWII heroes in the American scientific community. Notorious Nazi Klaus Barbie known as the ‘Butcher of Lyon’ was tried at Nuremberg and sentenced to death in absentia. Yet it is documented that Barbie was protected and formally employed in 1947 by the U.S Army Counterintelligence Corps (CIC) and later by the CIA to set up the Western Intelligence Network to keep tabs on communist threat. This was a major and shocking betrayal by the USA as to the allied Nuremberg trial sentencing of Barbie. When the French government discovered that the USA were protecting Barbie, they requested he be immediately handed over for execution under international law. The USA flatly refused and consequently gave Barbie a new identity and shipped him off to Bolivia. If the USA could blatantly fly in the face of the International Nuremberg trials death sentence which they were actively participant in by protecting a psychopathic killer such as Barbie, why is it so unacceptable to believe that the allies would rescue Martin Bormann, the man with access to the hidden Nazi funds?

Between 1945 and 1965 there were numerous sightings of Bormann. Bormann’s former personal chauffeur, Jakob Glas, said that he had seen Bormann in Munich months after May 1945 as did many others.

Paul Manning, author, intelligence expert and former war correspondent claimed along with others that Bormann escaped. When Manning tried to publish his extensively researched 1981 book ‘Martin Bormann Nazi in exile’, he was menacingly threatened. After finally getting a renegade publisher to agree to publish his work, within two weeks the publisher had his legs broken in a vicious and anonymous attack and shortly after Manning’s son was mysteriously murdered. In fact Manning’s story is very much in line with the former British Intel officer and author of OPJB. Christopher Creighton states that Bormann escaped, as does Former WWII British army General and war crimes investigator, Ian Bell. Bell can be seen on YouTube telling us that he saw Bormann being taken to a ship in Genoa and when he radioed back to his HQ command, he was told to follow but ”do not apprehend”.

Contrary to the survival story being told by those considered ”crazy conspiracy theorists”, there are many highly qualified and well versed investigators and former intelligence agents that tell us the story we teach our children at school is just that, a story.

Hugh Thomas, surgeon, international forensic expert and author of the 1995 book Doppelgängers wrote extensively about the Bormann forensics investigation that suggest Bormann died later than 1945. According to Jonathan Glancey of The Guardian, Thomas’s ”scalpel-sharp eye for detail” and second investigative work Hess: A Tale of Two Murders, ”precipitated a six-month Scotland Yard inquiry that saw its report immediately suppressed.” Thomas confirms that the original Bormann medical reports in 1972 released only some and not all the information found under the microscope. While it is true the dentistry of the skull found was identified as Bormann, the official report failed to reveal to the public that there was dentistry performed in the skull, which could only have been done in the 1950’s due to the technology used. A man that died in 1945 is certainly not going to go to the dentist in 1950. Also, the skull ”found” in Berlin was encased in a ‘red clay’ type earth, exotic to Germany but local to a place in Paraguay, the very place that many investigators have traced Bormann to in his last years. Those last year’s being as late as 1969. Reinhardt Gehlen former senior Nazi, Cold war spymaster and head of the West German intelligence network, also claimed that Bormann escaped to South America and died in Paraguay.

But probably some of the most disturbing work comes from Ladislas Farago. In 1974, Farago a brilliant military historian, WWII war correspondent and former civilian naval intelligence officer, published ‘Aftermath: Martin Bormann and the Fourth Reich.’ Farago, after a long and painstaking investigation on the ground in South America, much of which was spent accessing classified Argentine intelligence documents, presented his evidence including copies of said documents in his book. Not only did Farago examine and get the classified documents he accessed authenticated, he called in a team to join him on the ground in Buenos Aires to witness and document the authentication of such. The formidable 1972 Buenos Aires team with Farago included former intelligence operative and practicing new York attorney Joel Weinberg, Stewart Steven the Foreign Editor of the London Daily Express and four top Argentine attorneys; Dr. Guillermo Macia Ray, Dr. Jaime Joaquin Rodriguez, Dr. Silvio Frondizi the brother of the former President of Argentina and Horacio A. Perillo, the former legal aid to the Argentine President Frondizi. Farago and his teams conclusion were that Martin Bormann certainly escaped Europe in 1945 with the help of the allies and went on to South America where he survived for many years, many of which in Argentina. Even though Farago and his team were highly qualified to make an intelligent and thorough analysis and investigation on the documents made available to them, Farago’s publication was ignored and serious attempts were made to discredit him and the other members of the team. Precedence had been set, when it came to stating or even suggesting Bormann had survived, even experts like Farago, who was also the world’s leading expert on propaganda and clandestine psychological forms of espionage at the time, was not safe from character assassination, ridicule and criticism. It is blatant there were those that were determined to keep the 1945 Bormann death myth in force and such suppression of evidence continues to this day.

But not everyone ignored Farago’s book. The content and evidence produced by Farrago was so compelling that it attracted the attention of Dr. Robert M.W. Kempner, a former Nuremberg trial attorney who decided to reopen the Bormann investigation, based on Farago’s documentary evidence of survival.

Farago, Manning, Thomas and Kempner, are sadly long gone, but the Bormann investigation is far from a cold case, as a new generation of investigative journalists have reopened the dusty Bormann files and have enthusiastically picked up from where their predecessors departed. Recent research reveals that the Federal police archives in Argentina show that the FBI were sending agents to Argentina to follow the Bormann case and his financial trails well into the 1980’s. New elderly witnesses, who till recently refused to talk have also come forward in the past 3 years and startling new evidence has come to light that cannot be ignored and may very well lead to the undisputable discovery that Bormann did escape and lived for many years in South America with the protection of the allies.

One important witness is a former military ADC to Argentine General Juan Peron. This high ranking internationally decorated military officer had been the ADC to 7 Argentine presidents, a close personal friend of Chilean President Pinochet and was the sub chief of the tough Argentine Federal secret police and prominently involved in the dismantling of the Argentine narcotics traffic in the 1990’s. His taped testimony given in 2010 on the premise that it could only be revealed after his death to protect his family is that he met Martin Bormann frequently in Buenos Aires in late 1952 and till the end of 1953. He also testifies that on the instructions of Peron, he organised the personal security for Bormann and escorted him to various meetings in Argentina. This highly credible witness also tells us that Bormann had been installed in a famous luxury hotel in Buenos Aires throughout 1953 which was owned by Germans. The ADC also testifies that he was sent on a weekly basis to collect the Bormann bill from the hotel concierge which he was instructed to take directly to Peron, who paid the bill from his personal bank accounts. This man asked for nothing in exchange for his testimony, all he requested was that the truth be finally known after his death. The official died in 2012 and his testimony is now ready for publication.

Another recent elderly witness with ties to the FBI and CIA, is a former Naval Captain who was in charge of the security for the port of Buenos Aires. He tells us that not only was it common knowledge, but it is documented in the classified Federal police archives that Bormann was certainly living in Argentina in the 50’s and that the CIA were in Argentina keeping close tabs on Bormann’s South American movements as late as 1967.

The most controversy surrounds the author of the 1996 book OPJB. Christopher Creighton writes that he was instructed by Lord Louis Mountbatten and Winston Churchill to reveal the truth of all the ops in which he was participant, 25 years after the death of both. According to Creighton, OPJB is not only the title of the book, but the operational code name given to the plan to rescue Bormann from Berlin. Documents have been seen and recently photographed which were written to Creighton from Lord Louis Mountbatten in 1976 which prove Creighton was not only certainly working for British Naval intelligence at the very highest level, but that Creighton was Desmond Morton’s Godson. This new evidence puts in grave doubt spy writer Nigel West’s claims that Christopher Creighton is a ”charlatan”. There are also letters from James Bond author Ian Fleming to Creighton which testify to OPJB, the highly covert operation as being fact and that he based his James Bond Character on Creighton’s covert naval operations. How did Fleming know? Because according to verified letters from Fleming to Creighton, Fleming was not only part of the operation while he was a Royal Naval commander under the command of Desmond Morton for the British secret service, but he was the commander in charge of the rescue. A British factual film company, Christopher Robin Media Ltd, have in their possession an as yet unpublished 2013 interview of Creighton recorded only weeks before his death. The startling interview gives never before revealed details of various highly covert British Naval intelligence operations, including the assassination of French Admiral Francois Darlan and the operation to remove Martin Bormann from Berlin.

In 2007 a lady whose name cannot be revealed at this time, came forward to investigators with a story that she had been born in a German clinic in Brazil. This five foot two, blonde, green eyed lady was found to be a well balanced, well educated and discreet and trustworthy member of her community, a far cry from a publicity seeking delusional self promoter. Her adoptive father was a senior naval officer for the Santa Dominican republican dictator Trujillo. She claims her adoptive father was entrusted with her in 1953 the year of her birth, after he was in Brazil negotiating arms deals between the Santa Dominican Republic government and the German arms factories in the Brazilian jungle. In 1984 she contacted the Simon Wiesenthal centre after her adoptive father revealed on his death bed that she was the daughter of ”one of Germany’s three greatest men”. Extremely distressed at this death bed revelation and wondering who it could possibly be, she with her attorney approached the Simon Wiesenthal Centre for help. Within weeks her attorney was anonymously threatened with his life and he immediately dropped her representation after the SWC aggressively told him that they were not able to help and would not investigate due to ”lack of funds”. An unusual response from a wealthy organisation that’s main objective has been to track down Nazi war criminals. Even Simon Wiesenthal himself believed till his death in 2005, a full 7 years after the 1998 DNA analysis that Bormann escaped and was frequently outspoken against the official version. It is shocking and detrimental to Wiesenthal’s memory, that those that now head the very organisation founded in his name have obstructed investigations and ridicule others that believe what Wiesenthal believed, Bormann escaped.

Those currently investigating the story feel that if Bormann did escape, then the adopted woman may very well be the daughter of Martin Bormann, not only because of the mysterious dynamics surrounding her birth, but photos of her, the officials involved, the timing of her birth and the fact investigators believe Bormann was in Brazil with Dr Joseph Mengele in the 1952. Recent photos of her son show an uncanny similarity of her son with Martin Bormann’s eldest son Adolf. Access to the true DNA of Bormann is now vital to make a comparison.

The British investigator of this case contacted the SWC in 2010 to request access to the file held by them on Martin Bormann. The investigator was stalled and the SWC refused to help by giving her access to the files. Rather like the famous Anna Anderson and Russian Grand Duchess Anastasia case, all efforts to access information on official files to see if this adopted woman has Bormann DNA have failed. Even if one did access the DNA in the Files held by the various agencies, who is to know whether the DNA profiles held in the official files are indeed those of Martin Bormann? If Bormann did indeed escape, those that covered it up are going to go to enormous lengths to hide any incriminating evidence. Bonafide DNA profiles of Bormann would be the last thing they would leave hanging around. The investigator leading this case is are now seeking genuine close Martin Bormann blood relatives to come forward, to not only cross match with the woman, but also to cross match with the DNA profiles supposedly used to identify Bormann in 1998 and those held in official and public files. Of course if this woman does have Bormann DNA and being born in a German clinic in Brazil in 1953, it will once and for all put to bed the mystery and will vindicate all those that have sacrificed much to reveal what they believed to be the truth. Could that truth be that Martin Bormann escaped and went on to manage the vast funds accumulated by Nazi Germany with the help of Britain and the USA? And according to recent research, those vast funds were probably laundered through and invested into over 750 international companies with or without Bormann.

Since 1972, ‘official’ historians and academics have spun their tales and told the world that Bormann certainly died near the Lehrter station in the early hours of May 2 1945. This oral history is based on no more than unreliable witnesses, two of which were Nazi’s and a DNA match to a skeleton found in 1972. DNA may prove that the remains are those of Bormann, but there is more evidence to prove that he was alive for at least 25 years after 1945. 25 years, in which he could have managed the vast Nazi wealth, including cash, gold, stocks, bonds, shares and priceless works of art. After all, with all the modern banking forensics available to date, not one single intelligence agency or government claims that the vast, fat, booty has been found! Or has it? Yet it has been officially written, printed, signed sealed and delivered, even into our children’s history lessons. Martin Bormann died in 1945 de-facto, the loot disappeared and anyone that tells you different is a deluded ‘conspiracy theorist’.

Proving once and for all with new testimony, documentation and forensic science that Hitler’s handler, Martin Bormann survived, will redeem many damaged reputations and will certainly bury the myth and cause many a red face in the high end academic ”history” community. But more importantly, it will open a very nasty can of worms and raise many more complicated and embarrassing questions to those agencies and governments that will have knowingly perpetrated the Bormann death myth for the past 70 years.

[TonyGosling]

BORMANN

STEWART STEVEN

1941
Born in Hamburg to Jewish parents, Steven fled to England with his parents in 1941 as a refugee.

1958/60
Western Daily Press

1964
moved to Daily Express

1972
Working closely with Hungarian journalist Ladislas Farago tracking Eichmann, Mengele etc

Saturday 25 Nov 1972
Daily Express Exclusive
Martin Bormann Alive
You Are Bormann!
The Vatican and President Juan Peron are said to have been complicit in his escape

Monday 27 Nov 1972
interview

Friday 1 December 1972 - declared a HOAX! ???

1974 - Farago book - Aftermath - Martin Bormann and the Fourth Reich

1982-1992
Mail on Sunday Editor

1982
In 1982, he became editor of the Mail on Sunday, serving until 1992, when he became editor of the Evening Standard. In 1995, he printed a story critical of Tony Blair under the name of Bryan Gould, a former member of the Labour Party's shadow cabinet; in fact, Conservative Party Home Secretary Michael Howard's teenage son Nick had written the article

1998
On the publication of the 1998 Bormann DNA report, London’s Daily Express called it a ‘whitewash’. Later the author of the article, Stewart Steven a very experienced foreign editor of the Daily Express, who was hands on involved with a thorough Bormann investigation was sacked 6 days later after he was accused of publishing a ‘hoax’.

January 2004
died

[TonyGosling]

Martin Bormann Ran Hitler for the Illuminati
September 14, 2019
https://www.henrymakow.com/002026.html
(Bormann, with Hitler)

Nazi Party Secretary Martin Bormann was at the heart of the Nazi apparatus.

He signed Hitler's paycheck.

Louis Kilzer examined the wire traffic between the spy known

as "Werther" and Moscow and determined that only Bormann

had access to this information.

"The Soviets were able to ask very detailed questions about Nazi defenses and intentions.

The result was the decisive Nazis defeats at Stalingrad and Kursk.

Louis Kilzer writes, "Bormann had been as useful to Russia as fifty Red Army divisions."



(From June 2007)

By Henry Makow Ph.D.


The second most powerful man in Nazi Germany, Martin Bormann, was a "Soviet" (i.e. Illuminati) agent who ensured the destruction of both Germany and European Jewry.

Thus, he advanced two of the Illuminati's main goals: integrate Germany into a world government by annihilating its national, cultural and racial pretensions, and establish Israel as the Masonic banker's world capital by threatening European Jews with extermination.

The Illuminati are a loose alliance of Jewish finance and the British/America/European aristocracy joined by marriage, money, and belief in the occult (Freemasonry). Winston Churchill, a Freemason whose mother was Jewish, fits this description perfectly.

They own vast interlocking cartels (banking, oil, pharmaceuticals, war, chemicals, minerals, media, etc.) and control society and government through corporate and professional groups, the media, education, secret societies, think tanks, foundations and intelligence agencies. Their goal is "to absorb the world's wealth" (in Cecil Rhodes' words) and control its citizens using war, propaganda, "education" and social engineering.

Nations (Britain, US, Israel) movements (Zionism, Socialism, Nazism, Communism) and people (Americans, Germans, Jews) are their pawns to be sacrificed to their demented megalomaniac scheme for global dictatorship. Bormann's career illustrates how they plant sleeper agents and orchestrate wars to advance this long-term objective.



BORMANN



Martin Bormann (1900-?) was the organizer, treasurer and paymaster of the Nazi Party and controlled its powerful machine. He was the contact with Illuminati bankers and industrialists who financed the Nazi Party and donated millions to Hitler. As Deputy Fuhrer and Hitler's Secretary, Bormann signed Hitler's paycheck and managed his accounts. He determined whom and what Hitler saw, and acted in his name.

Goering said, "Bormann stayed with Hitler day and night and gradually brought him so much under his will that he ruled Hitler's whole existence." ("Martin Bormann" by James McGovern, p.160)

Hitler made Bormann the executor of his will. Bormann, not Hitler, owned the Berghof. "The entire complex on the Obersalzberg, consisting of 87 buildings and worth over one and a half million marks, was legally registered in Bormann's name." (McGovern, p.128)

smiling-hitler.jpg(Goebbels & Hitler, the joke's on you)

In 1972 Gen. Reinhard Gehlen (head of West German intelligence, the BND) revealed that Bormann had been a Soviet spy, a view shared by many top Nazi generals and officials including Gottlob Berger, a SS Lieutenant General who knew Bormann well. "Bormann did the greatest harm of anyone," Berger testified at Nuremberg. (McGovern, 181)

The implications are staggering. Remember what Winston Churchill said. "This war is not against Hitler or National Socialism but against the strength of the German people, which is to be smashed once and for all, regardless whether it is in the hands of Hitler or a Jesuit priest." (Emrys Hughes, Winston Churchill, His Career in War and Peace p. 145)

The Nazi Party was created, and the Second World War staged in order to lead the German people into a diabolical trap, after fatally compromising them morally.



In "The Bormann Brotherhood" (1972) William Stevenson says Bormann "gave the lowest priority to the fate of Germany...He was concerned instead with a future based on Nazi philosophy, financed by Nazi loot, supported by a personally loyal Brotherhood..." (62) Is this the Illuminati?


It is possible that the next world war also will be staged, this time to undermine the United States.

BORMANN

It is unlikely that Bormann perished in war-torn Berlin, as the Illuminati would like us to believe. A man who carefully prepared for the survival of the Reich by setting up 750 corporations in neutral countries would have provided for his own escape. There have been reports that the Russians rescued Bormann and set him up in Moscow. Other reports placed him in South America. Adolph Eichmann's eldest son, Horst claimed he had many conversations with him in Argentina. (McGovern, p.194)

Obviously, Bormann was working for both the Soviets and the Nazis, i.e. he was working for the Illuminati.

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Louis Kilzer makes the case that Bormann was a "Soviet" spy in his book "Hitler's Traitor" (2000). He examined the wire traffic between the spy known as "Werther" and Moscow and determined that only Bormann had access to this information. Bormann told Hitler he wanted a record for posterity and had stenographers transcribe Hitler's war conferences.

The Soviets were able to ask very detailed questions about Nazi defenses and intentions. The result was the decisive Nazis defeats at Stalingrad and Kursk. "Bormann had been as useful to Russia as fifty Red Army divisions," Kilzer writes. (61)

"His value to Stalin began early. In 1941, when Germany could have used millions of Ukrainian nationalists to defeat Soviet rule, Bormann decided that they deserved only, "enslavement and depopulation. ...Faced with ... genocide by the Germans or political domination by the Soviets, the Ukrainians chose to live and by so doing ruined German hopes for an easy conquest." (261)

Borman used the Nazi defeat at Stalingrad as an excuse to begin the extermination of Jews, the second Illuminati goal.

In the words of the Nuremberg prosecutor, Bormann was a "prime mover in the program of starvation, degradation, spoliation and extermination." He shielded Hitler from the grisly details, forbidding Himmler from discussing the subject with Hitler and filing Himmler's reports. (261)

"Bormann's role with the Ukrainians and the Jews was only part of his devastating effect on the Third Reich," Kilzer writes. He blocked Albert Speer's attempt to move the economy to a "total war" footing until it was too late. "Bormann's influence," Speer concluded, "was a national disaster." (263)

Kilzer goes into great detail about Bormann's contacts with the Soviet espionage system, profiling many of his handlers. Even one of Bormann's mistresses, Marie Rubach Spangenberg, was active in the German Communist underground. (264)

Bormann encouraged Hitler to ignore the threat of encirclement at Stalingrad. Hitler's decisions "ceased to have anything in common with the principles of strategy and operations," General Halder noted in his diary. (McGovern, 82)

Bormann won Hitler's total allegiance by pretending to be his ruthlessly efficient instrument. When Bormann was criticized, Hitler replied, "Everybody has failed me but Bormann...whoever is against Bormann is also against the State! I'll shoot the lot of them..."(McGovern, 101.) And, "Bormann's proposals are so exactly worked out that I need only say yes or no..." (9

Bormann subtly influenced Hitler to fire competent generals and did nothing to interfere with the gradual poisoning of the Fuhrer by his personal physician, Morrell.

In general, Bormann ensured that Germany did not make common cause with the Ukrainians and Russians suffering under the Bolshevik yolk. More than 3 million Russian POWS died in Nazi detention. They wanted to fight for the Nazis.

The question remains, "Was Hitler himself a traitor?" Did he also serve the Illuminati? Kilzer remarks that Hitler was surprisingly lenient to dissent within the ranks and cultivated a "culture of treason." (Kilzer, 6) Was Hitler aware of Bormann's role and played along? Hitler protected Bormann from suspicion. Hitler was an Illuminati agent. Nazism was a trap.


CONCLUSION

William Stevenson provides a suitable conclusion: "Bormann represented secret power; and in our disheveled human condition, we suspect that the trappings of democracy are more of a dangerous camouflage...that real power begins where secrecy begins. Martin Bormann ... possessed that secret power...to such a degree that he was able to escape the gallows." (9).

Bormann's example suggests that the Illuminati modus operandi is to empower someone who is predisposed or even brainwashed to do what they want. While he still has personal volition, they subtly manipulate him.

The lesson of this story is that the "news" upholds the "camouflage of democracy." Don't pay too much attention or invest your best energies. History is a play. The Illuminati control all the politicians who stand a chance.They control the mass media.

We live in a world where the dominant elite has organized into a sinister secret society to plot against humanity. It is creating a "New World Order" symbolized by the unfinished capstone on the pyramid on the US Great Seal.

Its symbols are everywhere but we are not allowed to protest them. Success depends on our willingness to betray our fellow citizens, nation and civilization and to allow this malignant power to grow in our midst.

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Related- "Bormann was a Rothschild Agent - Damning Evidence"

--------- Bormann and Hitler Were Traitors

---------Youtube-- "How Hitler Lost the War"

Bormann Rescued by the British?

Benjamin Freedman's Warning to Americans (1961)`



First Comment from James Perloff



I read Kilzer's book nearly two decades ago. He demonstrated by process of elimination that only Bormann could have been the spy code-named "Werther," who betrayed Germany's military secrets to Stalin through the radio transmitters of the "Red Orchestra" espionage network in neutral Switzerland. Data included: exact strength and movements of German units; who commanded them; how many soldiers were held in reserve; where flanks were unprotected, etc. The reports even stated the exact times Hitler entered and left his war room.

Bormann had devised an ingenious method of collecting this information. In 1942, he convinced Hitler that stenographers should record each military staff meeting. Thus Bormann had, at his disposal, every word said at these talks.

More than any other factor, this is why the Germany military's fate in the Soviet Union changed from complete success to bitter failure. Beginning in 1942, Stalin and his generals were playing with a marked deck every day.

All this was confirmed independently of Kilzer by intelligence specialist Pierre de Villemarest (one of France's best writers on the New World Order) in his out-of-print book UNTOUCHABLE: WHO PROTECTED BORMANN AND GESTAPO MULLER AFTER 1945? De Villemarest actually saw Bormann after the war and fleetingly spoke to him. Subsequently, he reported that Bormann was alive and in Argentina to the CIA, Mossad, and even the KGB. They all gave him the same answer: they knew about Bormann, but he was classified as "untouchable." Hence the title of de Villemarest's book.

[TonyGosling]

For years, a worn-looking sign reading "Pathway to Bormann's House," has lead the way to the ruins at the center of the archaelogists research. Despite evidence proving the death of Martin Bormann in Berlin in 1945, local legend says Hitler's right-hand man settled in a house in the Teyu Cuare provincial park following the fall of the Third Reich.


'Nazi refuge' unearthed by archaeologists in Argentina
In the depths of Argentina's rainforest, archaeologists have discovered what they believe to be a Nazi hideout, built during the Second World War. But lack of evidence has historians questioning the authenticity.
https://www.dw.com/en/nazi-refuge-unearthed-by-archaeologists-in-argen tina/a-18333891

Misiones Province Argentina
For years, a worn-looking sign reading "Pathway to Bormann's House," has lead the way to the ruins at the center of the archaelogists research. Despite evidence proving the death of Martin Bormann in Berlin in 1945, local legend says Hitler's right-hand man settled in a house in the Teyu Cuare provincial park following the fall of the Third Reich.

Following months of research by a team of archaeologists from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) in the northeastern province of Misiones, the small complex of buildings has been thrown into the limelight once again, surrounded by as much conviction as ever before.

The team investigating the ruins believes the stone structures, which allegedly date back to the 1940s, were built as a hideout for leading Nazis in preparation for defeat in the Second World War.

Coins and porcelain

Almost exactly 70 years since the end of the six-year war, the ruined buildings now stand hidden beneath wild vines and thick undergrowth.

Among the remains, researchers from the UBA's Center for Urban Archaeology (CAU) found objects which alluded to links with Nazi Germany, including German coins minted between 1938 and 1944, and fragments of porcelain marked with "Made in Germany" which also dated from the same time period.

German coins
Crudely chiseled into one of the walls is a huge swastika - the sign most closely associated to the Nazi dictatorship which resulted in the deaths of some 11 million people across Europe, including 6 million Jews.

Preparation for defeat

"We can find no other explanation as to why anyone would build these structures, at such great effort and expense, at a site which at that time was totally inaccessible, away from the local community, with material which is not typical of the regional architecture," archeological team leader Daniel Schavelzon told Argentinean newspaper Clarin.

"Apparently, halfway through the Second World War, the Nazis had a secret project of building shelters for top leaders in the event of defeat – inaccessible sites, in the middle of deserts, in the mountains, on a cliff or in the middle of the jungle like this," Schavelzon said.

Dubious evidence

The lack of evidence and documentation regarding the ruins, however, has forced historians to question the truth behind the overgrown house.

"There were many Germans in Argentina during the Second World War," University of Jena historian Daniel Stahl told DW.

"There was economic trade. Therefore its by no means strange that German coins and goods from this period have emerged in Argentina.

"These theories are not scientifically proven," Stahl added.

'Nazi refuge' in Argentina
Similarly, Buenos Aires-based author and historian Uki Goni, told DW categorically that the ruins were not those of a Nazi hideout.

"This is just another part in the myth," Goni said.

"For about 10 years there has been a sign saying that Martin Bormann lived here, and of course that's not true either as Bormann also died in Berlin.

"We have no proof that those coins weren't dropped there by somebody who was keen to get some more tourist up there so they can make a little bit more money," Goni added.

'Nazi refuge'

Schavelzon, however, said the ruins, which he described as a "refuge for the Nazi hierarchy," would have been in an ideal location - just 10 minutes away from bordering Paraguay where they could easily escape to if necessary.

Despite the Nazis defeat in May 1945, leaders of the German, Croatian Ustasha and Italian regimes were able to live openly in Argentina under the blessing of then-President Juan Peron.

"When the war was over some useful Germans helped us build our factories and make the best use of what we had and in time they were able to help themselves too," Peron said at the time.

Abraham Zylberman, a historian at the Holocaust Museum Buenos Aires, also said, that the assumptions of Schavelzon and his team must first be proved. He acknowledged, however, that for experts, such a discovery would be extremely valuable and unique.

[TonyGosling]

Fourth Reich plot revealed
Jewish group uncovers secret papers that prove conspiracy by 'Odessa File' Nazis
DANIEL JEFFREYS New York
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/fourth-reich-plot-revealed-1362082. html
Saturday 7 September 1996 00:02
Secret United States documents uncovered by a Jewish human rights group have proved the existence of a Nazi support group that sought to smuggle people and gold out of Germany in 1945, and worked for the establishment of a Fourth Reich.

The group is vividly portrayed in Frederick Forsyth's novel The Odessa File. Mr Forsyth confirmed yesterday that his novel was based on reports of a meeting in France in August 1944. This meeting is detailed in US documents seen by The Independent which were collected by a top-secret intelligence operation called Project Safehaven at the end of the war.

"The Odessa existed and they removed billions of dollars in looted Jewish assets from Germany," Elan Steinberg, executive director at the World Jewish Congress (WJC), said. "Their plan was to re-establish the Nazi Party from safe havens outside Germany and many of the assets they smuggled out must still exist." The WJC is seeking to recover Jewish assets which were stolen by the Nazis.

The Odessa document is a US intelligence report stamped "Secret", written in November 1944. It is based on the work of a French intelligence agent deployed by the Deuxieme Bureau which penetrated Nazi organisations in Paris during the occupation. The agent observed an August 1944 meeting of German industrialists held in Strasbourg. It was presided over by SS Obergruppenfuhrer Dr Scheid, managing director at the Heshe company before the war.


"Their plan was to smuggle gold, patents and art out of Germany along with top industrialists," Mr Steinberg said. "Meanwhile, the Nazi Party would re-establish itself in Germany as an underground movement." The document was discovered in July when Mr Steinberg gained access to recently declassified papers from the National Archive in Washington. Mr Steinberg has authenticated the report and linked it to others which show that the German Reichsbank was involved in the plot.

According to a secret US State Department telegram dated 4 December 1945, the Reichsbank maintained a depot of gold at the Swiss National Bank throughout the war. By 1945 it had accumulated bullion worth $123m which was earmarked for Odessa operations.

The Strasbourg meeting laid out a comprehensive plan for resurrecting the Reich. Executives from Volkswagen, Krupp Steel, Brown-Boveri, Messerschmidt, Zeiss and Leica were ordered to establish operations overseas and finance the Nazi Party from abroad. The intelligence report quotes SS Obergruppenfuhrer Scheid on post-war strategy: "From now on, German industry must realise that the war cannot be won and that it must make steps in preparation for a post-war commercial campaign," he said.

This and other documents in the possession of the WJC may have adverse implications for the modern descendants of leading German corporations. "We now have sufficient evidence for an indictment," Elan Steinberg said yesterday.

The Odessa document came to light after the WJC failed to persuade Switzerland to open secret Nazi bank accounts in May this year. "The documents are evidence of the biggest robbery in the history of mankind," said Mr Steinberg, who has now forced the Swiss government to begin a full inquiry.

The Independent reported yesterday that Hitler had been reported to have held numbered accounts at Union Bank of Switzerland. UBS yesterday issued a statement denying that it was still handling funds deposited by Nazis during the war.

Robert Vogler, the bank's chief spokesman in Zurich, could not say whether such an account had ever existed but he said that all funds belonging to Germans were frozen after the war, their owners vetted, and those traced to known Nazis handed over to the Allies.

t Few people believed Frederick Forsyth when he said the villain of The Odessa File, Eduard Roschmann, the Butcher of Riga, was a real character, writes Steve Boggan. Or that a meeting of high-ranking SS officers and industrialists took place at the Maison Rouge hotel in Strasbourg in 1944 to discuss ways of moving Nazi gold out of Germany and France.

Yet Mr Forsyth always insisted that large elements of his book were true, based on information from "friends in low places". The US report talks of a meeting at the Hotel Rotes Haus. "I believe there were a number of meetings there at which the SS and industrialists carved up much of the proceeds of the Third Reich," he said.

[TonyGosling]

EXCLUSIVE: Churchill's chum, Martin Bormann, architect of the Holocaust

Link

EXCLUSIVE: Churchill's chum, Martin Bormann, architect of the Holocaust www.youtube.com/watch?v=Peitgkj4auM

[Whitehall_Bin_Men]

Martin Bormann’s wife Gerda
https://heraldpublicist.com/what-kind-of-women-could-wed-senior-nazis/

Known for his brutality, coarseness and virulent anti-Semitism, Bormann wielded enormous power as Hitler’s private secretary. He controlled access to the Fuhrer and was also in charge of Nazi party promotions and appointments.

Few women epitomised the Nazi ideal of womanhood better than Gerda Bormann. She wove her blonde hair into a plait, eschewed cosmetics and wore traditional Bavarian dress — as did all nine of her children. In the few images of them that survive, they look as if they’ve just stepped off the set of The Sound Of Music.

Martin Bormann, pictured, was Adolf Hitler’s private secretary and an important figure in the Nazi regime

Yet Gerda was an unquestioning Nazi, programmed to obey her thuggish husband. So thoroughly had she been brainwashed by Nazi ideology that she never complained about his infidelities.

As far as Gerda was concerned, Bormann’s succession of brief affairs were merely the healthy expression of a man’s need to reproduce. She even reached out the hand of friendship to Hedwig Potthast, the secret mistress of SS chief Heinrich Himmler, who had also organised the extermination camps.

By 1944, unknown to his wife, he’d established his lover and their two children in a cottage. Gerda was only too pleased to accept an invitation to bring her own brood to the cottage for tea. After some pleasant conversation, Hedwig invited them all to the attic to see something special: furniture made from human body parts.

Gerda’s eldest son, Martin Adolf Bormann, later remembered how she ‘clinically and medically’ explained the process behind the making of a chair ‘whose seat was a human pelvis and the legs were human legs — on human feet’.

Hedwig also showed them copies of Hitler’s Mein Kampf, bound with human skin that had been peeled off the backs of inmates at Dachau concentration camp.

The children were ‘shocked and petrified,’ and Martin Adolf claimed his mother was ‘equally stricken’. Perhaps she was — but Gerda already knew all about these loathsome books because, she told the children, Himmler had offered their father one.

Bormann had refused to take it; Gerda said it was ‘too much for him’. Yet it’s doubtful the Bormanns cared about the fate of the Jews. In one of her letters, Gerda urged her husband to ensure that every German child realised ‘that the Jew is the Absolute Evil in this world’.

She’d been living in a Nazi bubble since she was a teenager, because her father was a friend of Hitler. ‘Uncle Adolf’ had taken great interest in the pretty young child, adopting a quasi-guardian role.

Hitler, pictured here in the Berghof, along with Eva Braun with Martin Borman, pictured in the back row with his wife Gerda

Then at 20, she’d been seduced by Bormann, who was already poised to climb the Nazi career ladder. Hitler was a witness at their wedding; Gerda then produced children at a heroic rate.

Bormann delighted in making her organise parties, to which glamorous actresses were invited, and then banned her from attending.

According to a prominent Nazi, her husband was ‘the kind of man who takes delight in humiliating his wife in front of friends as if she was some lower form of being’. In moments of uncontrolled rage, he’d resort to violence against his wife and children. Two of the children were whipped because they were frightened by a dog.

Gerda didn’t fight back. Her duty, she believed, was simply to obey her husband.

In 1936, Bormann bought a three-storey cottage in the Bavarian Alps, close to Hitler’s Berghof hideaway. Locked in the high-security compound, Gerda was sealed from reality.

Seven years later, Bormann fell ‘madly in love’ with the actress Manja Behrens, pestering her until she succumbed. Manja, however, was concerned about his wife’s feelings. She needn’t have worried: Gerda was excited at the prospect of establishing a polygamous household.

What she proposed was that ‘one year M has a child, and the next year I do, so that you will always have a wife that is mobile. Then we’ll put all the children together in a house on a lake, and live together, and the wife who is not having a child will always be able to come and stay with you.’

She suggested they draw up a new marriage contract that would give Manja the same rights as her own. She even suggested such contracts should become Nazi policy in order to boost the birth-rate. Keen to put her ideas into practice, Gerda invited Manja to move in. But the actress struggled to adjust and eventually walked out.

In 1945, as the Allies closed in on Berlin, Martin Bormann was killed — probably by a shell from a Soviet tank. Gerda, who’d stayed behind at their cottage, painted a Red Cross on the roof of a school bus, and set off with her children, her sister-in-law and seven other infants for the South Tyrol.

There, they were met by the Nazis’ regional boss, who found them a home in a small village.

Though safe for the time being, Gerda was assailed by terrible pains. A local doctor recognised that she was in the advanced stages of ovarian cancer.

One day, a British Army major turned up on her doorstep. She panicked, thinking he was going to take her to a concentration camp. Instead, the major took her straight to an Italian hospital, where she had an operation.

It was too late. Gerda died on March 23, 1946, a few months shy of her 37th birthday, with all her fanatical beliefs intact.

[Whitehall_Bin_Men]

[TonyGosling]

Secret files reveal MI5's obsession with Martin Bormann manhunt
Not even the head of the service could halt MI5's long, lingering obsession with sightings of Hitler's trusted private secretary
Robert Booth

Tue 1 Sep 2009 00.05 BSTFirst published on Tue 1 Sep 2009 00.05 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/sep/01/secret-mi5-files-nazi-marti n-bormann

In the end it was the wildest of wild goose chases, [obviously an unbiased report this] but not even the head of MI5 could prevent his spies becoming obsessed with the postwar manhunt for Martin Bormann, Adolf Hitler's trusted private secretary, secret files released today reveal.

Sightings of Bormann, who sat alongside the Fuhrer in his Berlin bunker before he committed suicide in 1945, occupied the secret service officers until at least 1952, more than seven years after he actually died.

Bormann's MI5 file shows how, to the increasing infuriation of their masters, British agents diligently recorded sightings of the prominent Nazi wearing a Tyrolean hat in Germany, sitting on a mountainside in Tibet alongside a pale-looking Hitler, and posing as an Israeli doctor in Lugano, Switzerland, all long after he had, in fact, died as the Red Army converged on Berlin.

According to now fading MI5 memos typed onto tracing paper released to the National Archives for the first time today, senior intelligence officials became more and more exasperated at their spies' over-active imaginations as accounts of spurious sightings flooded back to London. Bormann was allegedly spotted in Switzerland wearing a beard, dark suit and silk tie and carrying a 6.35 calibre Mauser pistol, and on another occasion he was apparently holed up beside an airfield in Spanish Morocco surrounded by piles of world maps and a globe in a glass case as he plotted a Nazi revival.

The low point in the increasingly farcical and ultimately futile hunt, came in May 1947 when a low-ranking officer called Merry, in charge of the ports in Ceylon, implored London to send a description of the Nazi war criminal on the off chance he might pass through.


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"He admits it is a long chance, but would like to have an up-to-date description for purposes of look out," explained assistant Superintendent of police, Perera, in Ceylon in a memo to London on Merry's behalf.

It prompted a cutting reply from an officer called Courtenay Young at HQ, which by now was at the end of its tether and was convinced Bormann was dead.

"I think Perera might be commended for his enthusiasm, but it might also be broken to him gently that the late but peripatetic Herr Bormann is currently being seen in Switzerland (the most persistent locale), Bolivia, Italy, Norway and Brazil – in the last country sitting in state on a high mountain beside his pallid Fuhrer," Young wrote. "The press is doubtless waiting to break the silly season scoop: that he has been seen riding the Loch Ness monster."

The incessant and increasingly unreliable sightings of Bormann, eventually so infuriated HQ that the director general of the security service, Sir Percy Sillitoe, himself weighed in and dispatched a terse note to Ceylon.

"Bormann is almost certainly dead, but his decease has not prevented numerous rumours as to his whereabouts gaining currency," he wrote. "Recently he has been reported in Switzerland, Bolivia, Italy, Norway and Brazil. Most of these reports derive from the press and probably come from irresponsible persons. We do not consider therefore, that it would be worth your while bothering to look out for Bormann in your territory."

But even this high-ranking intervention did not stop the excitable chatter. On the same day as Sir Percy's intervention, a report came through from what was claimed to be "an absolutely reliable German source" that Bormann was in the Argentine city of Posadas, having arrived there by submarine on 29 July 1945. He had since moved on, the source said in a letter from Berlin written in Spanish, to hiding in Chile where he was operating "secret Nazi organisations, which are still in operation in the Western zone of Germany".

Another report had him in Sweden, but MI5 deemed it "so involved" it must be rubbish.

"It was about time Martin Bormann should arrive in Sweden!" noted a jaded agent.

But it was perhaps no surprise people were keen to track Bormann down. Not only had he risen from an unpromising background, including a year in prison for his role in a political murder, to become a key confidant of Hitler, he looked like an irresistibly comic-book version of a Nazi fugitive. Descriptions on the MI5 file mark say he had a "bloated complexion, pale, almost Chinese yellow. Probably duelling scars on left cheek … a deep voice, bull neck and knock-kneed walk".

In the end, the sightings proved to be flights of fantasy. DNA taken from the remains of a body found close to where Bormann was seen trying to escape when the Red Army invaded Berlin in May 1945, confirmed he died there. A test on a skull thought to be Bormann's in 1998 found the remains compatible with his son's and the mystery was over. He had died just hours after Hitler and his adventures from Tibet to South America via north Africa were nothing more than spy stories.

[TonyGosling]

. . . there was a flurry of excitement in the vestibule. A telegram had arrived from Goering, which [top Nazi official Martin] Bormann hastily brought to Hitler.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/07/10/how-the- nazi-telegram-that-helped-drive-hitler-to-suicide-was-nearly-forgotten -in-a-s-c-safe/


I trailed informally along after him, chiefly out of curiosity. In the telegram Goering merely asked Hitler whether, in keeping with the decree on succession, he should assume the leadership of the entire Reich if Hitler remained in Fortress Berlin. But Bormann claimed that Goering had launched a coup d’etat; perhaps this was Bormann’s last effort to induce Hitler to fly to Berchtesgaden and take control there. At first, Hitler responded to this news with the same apathy he had shown all day long. But Bormann’s theory was given fresh support when another radio message from Goering arrived. I pocketed a copy which in the general confusion lay unnoticed in the bunker. It read:
To Reich Minister von Ribbentrop
I have asked the Fuehrer to provide me with instructions by 10 p.m. April 23. If by this time it is apparent that the Fuehrer has been deprived of his freedom of action to conduct the affairs of the Reich, his decree of June 29, 1941, becomes effective, according to which I am heir to all his offices as his deputy. [If] by 12 midnight April 23, 1945, you receive no other word either from the Fuehrer directly or from me, you are to come to me at once by air.
(Signed) Goering, Reich Marshal
Here was fresh material for Bormann. “Goering is engaged in treason!” he exclaimed excitedly. “He’s already sending telegrams to members of the government and announcing that on the basis of his powers he will assume your office at twelve o’clock tonight, mein Fuhrer.”
Although Hitler remained calm when the first telegram arrived, Bormann now won his game. Hitler immediately stripped Goering of his rights of succession – Bormann himself drafted the radio message – and accused him of treason to Hitler and betrayal of National Socialism. The message to Goering went on to say that Hitler would exempt him from further punishment if the Reich Marshal would promptly resign all his offices for reasons of health.
Bormann had at last managed to rouse Hitler from his lethargy. An outburst of wild fury followed in which feelings of bitterness, helplessness, self-pity, and despair mingled. With flushed face and staring eyes, Hitler ranted as if he had forgotten the presence of his entourage:
“I’ve known it all along. I know that Goering is lazy. He let the air force go to pot. He was corrupt. His example made corruption possible in our state. Besides he’s been a drug addict for years. I’ve known it all along.”
According to Speer’s biography (written while serving 20 years in prison following his trial at Nuremberg), Hitler’s fury instantly dissolved into depression.

“Well, all right,” he said, according to Speer. “Let Goering negotiate the surrender. If the war is lost anyhow, it doesn’t matter who does it.”

“Hitler had reached the end of his strength,” Speer wrote. “He dropped back into the weary tone that had been characteristic of him earlier that day. For years he had overtaxed himself; for years, mustering that immoderate will of his, he had thrust away from himself and others the growing certainty of this end. Now he no longer had the energy to conceal his condition. He was giving up.”

A week later, Hitler and his companion, Eva Braun, killed themselves.

Goering was put under house arrest but freed by the Luftwaffe, the Nazi air force. He then made his way west in the hope of surrendering to the Americans instead of the Soviets. He was captured by the U.S. Army on May 6 and imprisoned in Luxembourg and later Nuremberg, where he was among the top Nazi officials to be put on trial. He was sentenced to hang but killed himself hours beforehand by swallowing a cyanide capsule.

[TonyGosling]

US Military Intelligence report EW-Pa 128
https://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com/articles/Intelligence_Report_E W-Pa_128.html

Enclosure No. 1 to despatch No. 19,489 of Nov. 27, 1944, from
the Embassy at London, England.

S E C R E T
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS
ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE
Office of Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2
7 November 1944
INTELLIGENCE REPORT NO. EW-Pa 128


SUBJECT: Plans of German industrialists to engage in underground activity after Germany’s defeat; flow of capital to neutral countries.

SOURCE: Agent of French Deuxieme Bureau, recommended
by Commandant Zindel. This agent is regarded as
reliable and has worked for the French on German
problems since 1916. He was in close contact with
the Germans, particularly industrialists, during
the occupation of France and he visited Germany
as late as August, 1944.

1. A meeting of the principal German industrialists with
interests in France was held on August 10, 1944, in the Hotel
Rotes Haus in Strasbourg, France, and attended by the informant
indicated above as the source. Among those present
were the following:
Dr. Scheid, who presided, holding the rank of S.S. Obergruppenfuhrer
and Director of the Heche (Hermandorff & Schonburg) Company
Dr. Kaspar, representing Krupp
Dr. Tolle, representing Rochling
Dr. Sinderen, representing Messerschmitt
Drs. Kopp, Vier and Beerwanger, representing Rheinmetall
Captain Haberkorn and Dr. Ruhe, representing Bussing
Drs. Ellenmayer and Kardos, representing Volkswagenwerk
Engineers Drose, Yanchew and Koppshem, representing various factories in Posen, Poland (Drose, Yanchew and Co., Brown-Boveri, Herkuleswerke, Buschwerke, and Stadtwerke)
Captain Dornbuach, head of the Industrial Inspection Section at Posen
Dr. Meyer, an official of the German Naval Ministry in Paris
Dr. Strossner, of the Ministry of Armament, Paris.

2. Dr. Scheid stated that all industrial material in France
was to be evacuated to Germany immediately. The battle of
France was lost for Germany and now the defense of the
Siegfried Line was the main problem. From now on also
German industry must realise that the war cannot be won
and that it must take steps in preparation for a post-war commercial
campaign. Each industrialist must make contacts and
alliances with foreign firms, but this must be done individually
and without attracting any suspicion. Moreover, the ground
would have to be laid on the financial level for borrowing considerable
sums from foreign countries after the war. As examples
of the kind of penetration which had been most useful in
the past, Dr. Scheid cited the fact that patents for stainless
steel belonged to the Chemical Foundation, Inc., New York,
and the Krupp company of Germany jointly and that the U.S.
Steel Corporation, Carnegie Illinois, American Steel and Wire,
and national Tube, etc. were thereby under an obligation to
work with the Krupp concern. He also cited the Zeiss
Company, the Leika Company and the Hamburg-American
Line as firms which had been especially effective in protecting
German interests abroad and gave their New York addresses
to the industrialists at this meeting.

3. Following this meeting a smaller one was held presided
over by Dr. Bosse of the German Armaments Ministry and
attended only by representatives of Hecho, Krupp and
Rochling. At this second meeting it was stated that the Nazi
Party had informed the industrialists that the war was practically
lost but that it would continue until a guarantee of the
unity of Germany could be obtained. German industrialists
must, it was said, through their exports increase the strength
of Germany. They must also prepare themselves to finance
the Nazi Party which would be forced to go underground as
Maquis (in Gebirgaverteidigungastellen
gehen).

From now on the government would allocate large sums to industrialists
so that each could establish a secure post-war foundation in foreign
countries. Existing financial reserves in foreign countries
must be placed at the disposal of the Party so that a
strong German Empire can be created after the defeat. It is
also immediately required that the large factories in Germany
create small technical offices or research bureaus which
would be absolutely independent and have no known connection
with the factory. These bureaus will receive plans and
drawings of new weapons as well as documents which they
need to continue their research and which must not be
allowed to fall into the hands of the enemy. These offices are
to be established in large cities where they can be most successfully
hidden as well as in little villages near sources of
hydro-electric power where they can pretend to be studying
the development of water resources. The existence of these is
to be known only by very few people in each industry and by
chiefs of the Nazi Party. Each office will have a liaison agent
with the Party. As soon as the Party becomes strong enough
to re-establish its control over Germany the industrialists will
be paid for their effort and cooperation by concessions and
orders.

4. These meetings seem to indicate that the prohibition
against the export of capital which was rigorously enforced
until now has been completely withdrawn and replaced by a
new Nazi policy whereby industrialists with government
assistance will export as much of their capital as possible.
Previously exports of capital by German industrialists to
neutral countries had to be accomplished rather surreptitiously
and by means of special influence. Now the Nazi
party stands behind the industrialists and urges them to save
themselves by getting funds outside Germany and at the same
time to advance the party’s plans for its post-war operation.
This freedom given to the industrialists further cements their
relations with the Party by giving them a measure of
protection.

5. The German industrialists are not only buying agricultural
property in Germany but are placing their funds abroad,
particularly in neutral countries. Two main banks through
which this export of capital operates are the Basler Handelsbank
and the Schweizerische Kreditanstalt of Zurich. Also
there are a number of agencies in Switzerland which for a
5 percent commission buy property in Switzerland, using a
Swiss cloak.

6. After the defeat of Germany the Nazi Party recognizes
that certain of its best known leaders will be condemned as
war criminals. However, in cooperation with the industrialists
it is arranging to place its less conspicuous but most important
members in positions with various German factories as
technical experts or members of its research and designing
offices.

For the A.C. of S., G-2.
WALTER K. SCHWINN
G-2, Economic Section
Prepared by
MELVIN M. FAGEN
Distribution:
Same as EW-Pa 1,
U.S. Political Adviser, SHAEF
British Political Adviser, SHAEF

[TonyGosling]

PART 2.4 - THE BORMANN–PERON-KRUPP-MARCOS CONNECTION
https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_gold02b. htm

The maneuvering in the US Senate to draw a blade across the war reparations agreement was unnecessary for some of the better-connected German industrialists. Alfried Krupp, widely regarded as a “super-Nazi” for financing Hitler and Himmler (and because he utilised slave labour and plundered occupied territories) was personally “pardoned” from a pending war crimes trial by John McCloy – High Commissioner in Germany. Not only that, but McCloy, a former director of the Ford Foundation, rescinded a property confiscation order that would have stripped the Baron of his enormous holdings, thereby bringing to a close his status as one of the world’s wealthiest individuals.


In the post- war years, one of the more colourful Nazi characters employed by Krupp was Otto (“Scarface”) Skorzeny – dubbed Hitler’s “favourite commando.” In addition to being the head of the post- war SS escape network, Die Spinne (The Spider), Skorzeny was also an operative for the CIA. Krupp favoured the burly SS officer especially because of his valiant achievements in transferring Krupp’s wealth -- and that of other industrialists, plus gold and other loot plundered by the Nazis -- to banks in neutral nations shortly before the collapse of the Third Reich. Skorzeny had other powerful friends also. Allen Dulles is said to have personally involved himself in the 1953 decision by Reinhard Gehlen nominating Skorzeny as the chief military adviser to the Egyptian regime of General Mohammed Naguib.


Also intriguing is the close connection between Baron Krupp and Reichsleiter Martin Bormann, who escaped post-war Germany via the Vatican ratlines to Argentina after languishing for a few years in Italy.


Ladislas Farago in his book Aftermath – Martin Bormann and the Fourth Reich, reveals that Dr. Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach approached Bormann in August 1942 intent on passing his vast fortune – which was increasing under the Third Reich – via a “fideicommission” to a single heir, thus keeping the Krupp empire intact. The alternative was to see the amassed fortune divided many ways, which would have inevitably led to the disintegration of the house of Krupp.


The problem was that the existing law interfered with his desire. He told Bormann that he wished the firm to pass on to his eldest son, Alfried, regarded as a “devout Nazi and SS man.” [i] In exchange for Hitler’s agreeing to modify the law to permit Krupp’s request, Bormann extracted an agreement whereby Krupp assigned a portion of his vast assets, in secret, to the Nazi Party under Bormann’s control. Consequently, a new law was passed on 12 November 1943 permitting a “Lex Krupp.” Pleased with the agreement, Hitler lavished profitable contracts on him, making Krupphaus the “most prosperous cog in the industrial war-machine.”


One of the assets assigned was a massive ranch in Argentina that was later used by Bormann as a favoured bolt-hole. Ever a realist, Bormann understood that the defeat at Stalingrad spelled the end of the Third Reich. Consequently, he began shipping plunder regularly, by U-boat, to Argentina throughout 1942 and 1944 under a plan known as “Aktion Fuerland” – Operation Land of Fire, so named because of the archipelago, Tierre del Fuego, Argentina’s southernmost “Land of Fire.” These transfers, totalling around 1,800 shipments, were to be used to “help the rebuilding of the Nazi empire,” according to Rudolph Freude, one of Bormann’s trustees and a close confidant of Eva Duarte – later to become Eva Peron.


Evita Peron was, in fact, part of the Freude syndicate handling the vast stash of Nazi loot that was regularly being shipped to Argentina for deposit in four banks chosen by Freude. These banks were the Banco Aleman, the Banco Aleman Transatlantico, the Banco Germanico and the Banco Tornquist. In each case the gold, silver, gemstones and other treasure were deposited to accounts in the same name – that of Senorita Eva Duarte. Four individuals implicitly trusted by Bormann had joint control over all the deposits – a procedure designed to ensure that personal greed was checked before it could take root.


The principal reason for Bormann’s sojourn in Italy, forcing his delay in travelling to Argentina to safety, was that Juan Domingo Peron, under the guidance of greedy Evita, wished to acquire some of Bormann’s hoard in exchange for allowing Bormann entry and providing him state security once he had arrived. Practical as ever, Bormann agreed to hand over a portion of the assets he controlled. He eventually arrived in Buenos Aires in the Spring of 1948 to begin his new life.


It is, therefore, of considerable interest to learn that in the summer of 1947 – when negotiations between Bormann and Juan Peron were in full flow – Evita chose to make a “good-will” trip to Europe, travelling to Lisbon, Madrid, Geneva, Paris, Zurich, Lucerne and Rome, where, according to Ladislas Farago, negotiations with Bormann were finally steeled. [ii] She also visited a less well known Spanish city – Avila -- that lies to the west of Madrid.


Why she visited Avila is not known – at least by me. But there is an intriguing possibility worth mentioning. The Appendices at the end of this Dossier reveal a vast fortune in gold, gemstones and currency left as an inheritance by Sr. Don Franco Miguel de Avila and Sra. Dona Trinidad Asis de Villarba de Avila of Spain. The heirs of this vast estate were Francorito MC de Avila and Lolita Trinidad V. de Avila of Manila, Philippines.


Of interest, Dona de Avila shared the same middle name “Trinidad” as Imelda Marcos’s mother – Remedios Trinidad Romualdez, known to intimates as “Medy.” Whether this is happenstance or indicates that the heirs of this fortune are related to Imelda Marcos, I do not know. I do know that both Marcos's preferred to use close confidantes and family as “cut-outs” whenever possible.


The so-called “Melmer” hoard of gold and other blood money gathered by the SS at the death camps included 550,000 ounces of gold. [iii] This is a quite specific amount of gold that converted totals just over 17 tonnes. It is, therefore, of more than passing interest to note that I have in my possession an ownership certificate dated 2 June 1980 in the name of Dra. Rosario Romualdez Ramo. Romualdez is, of course, the family name of Imelda Marcos. The certificate is too faded to reproduce, but it bears the account number 881-161426 together with the transaction code number RRR/51981-26. You will, by now, have gathered that it represents ownership of 17 tonnes of gold.


The Peron connection to Bormann gold provides yet another twist. In early 1973 – the year Peron returned to power in Argentina -- 400 tonnes of gold belonging to Peron was put on sale in the black market. Worth £700 million, it almost equalled the entirety of the Bank of England’s official gold reserves. In any event, the sale of Peron’s 400 tonnes of gold was code-named “Bormann 1345,” creating a suspicion that it might have originated as one of Bormann’s 1,800 odd “shipments” of loot to Argentina (a figure mentioned by both Tom Bower and Ladislas Farago). In any event, the Spanish government was tutor for this bullion and was required to sanction the sale that was being offered by a Chilean businessman living in Madrid. The transfer agent was, according to author, Robert Hutchison, Professor Vincenzo de Nardo – described as an “Inspector-General with the Italian Finance Ministry,” who stated that his involvement was private but conceded that the transactions was of a “political nature.” [iv]


Peron, it will be recalled, was an intimate of Licio Gelli, the grandmaster of the notorious P2 Masonic Lodge that has been described as a right-wing parallel government in waiting [see description of P2 Masonic Lodge below]. Gelli answered to the Vatican Chamberlain, Umberto Ortolani – a member of the inner council of the Knights of Malta. [v] Juan Peron, who visited Rome in 1973, was accompanied on his return to Argentina by Licio Gelli, who was appointed honorary Argentine Consul in Florence a few months later. Less than a year after Peron’s successful re-election, Escriva de Balanguer, the legendary founder of Opus Dei, visited Argentina, said to be home to one of Opus Dei’s most successful operations in South America.


Throughout his long sojourn in South America, Bormann generally felt safe from being identified and, indeed, safe from capture. His life revolved around administering the ever growing mass of Nazi funds that long ago had been artfully invested. However, in November 1972, London’s Daily Express newspaper broke a series of articles showing that Bormann had escaped retribution and was living in South America. Bormann was, in fact, living in some comfort in a huge hacienda in Chile when the story broke, causing a worldwide sensation.


News of the Daily Express’s Bormann “expose” quickly reached Captain Hans von Gerstein in Argentina. Gerstein was a close confidant of Bormann and more than the fear that his master might become a target of Israeli revenge or kidnapping, Gerstein’s concern was for the vast financial empire that Bormann still personally controlled and which was spread throughout 750 corporations located around the world.


With Bormann’s consent, a conference was held Santiago, Chile beginning 22 December 1972 and lasting until Christmas Eve. The meeting was carefully monitored and kept under 24- hour human and electronic surveillance by Chile’s secret police special bureau. Finally, after two days of intense meetings, control over Bormann’s assets moved into the hands of Captain von Gerstein. According to author Paul Manning in his book Martin Bormann – Nazi in Exile, Bormann’s assets are now administered by a “leadership group of twenty” younger men who oversee investment strategy in the form a board of directors, chaired by Bormann.


Among the institutions that have benefited from Bormann’s gold-hoarding efforts is Deutsche Bank, which, just prior to the collapse of the Third Reich, entrusted the Reichsleiter with its secret reserves to preserve them intact. [vi] Manning notes that other major conglomerates that have reason to thank Bormann for his care of Nazi wealth include Bayer AG, BASF and Hoechst. The explosion of growth and profitability of these and numerous other corporations resulted from the huge flow of investment funds that “poured in from the interlocking companies established in safe haven countries by Martin Bormann and Hermann Schmitz.” [vii]


One additional interesting fact was Bormann’s return from Chile – where he had fled following the downfall of Juan Peron in 1955 -- back to Buenos Aires in 1966 and 1967. His visits were timed to coincide with meetings of a shadowy group committed to building a reinvigorated worldwide movement of Third World nations patterned on the Third Reich. This was to be the successor to Hitler’s New Order with a focus on a coalition of anti-communist right-wing forces. One of the aims of the secretive group was “the seizure of total power in Argentina” together with a plan leading to the “ideological conquest of Latin America.” These aims were to be pressed forward in “collaboration” with the “chiefs of national Socialism in Germany and the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church.” [viii]


This “hierarchy” within the Roman Catholic Church would almost certainly have reached as high as Monsignor Giovanni Montini, who was the Vatican’s Undersecretary of State throughout the war years and shortly after. Montini, of course, would become Pope Paul VI. In their book The Secret War against the Jews, authors John Loftus and Mark Aarons say that some evidence exists that Montini became a “source” for the CIA after World War II. [ix] Likewise, the Sicilian born banker, Michele Sindona, who knew Montini and who worked closely with Roberto Calvi, the disgraced Milanese banker who brought down Italy’s largest private bank, Banco Ambrosiano.


It was Montini who headed the Vatican-run “Ratlines” engaged in smuggling wanted war criminals, members of the SS and other Nazis on the run to safety in Latin America, the Middle East and elsewhere. Meanwhile, the shadowy anti-communist group that wished to induct Bormann into its circle as a notional figurehead to aid it with the task of “building a reinvigorated world-wide movement of Third World nations patterned on the Third Reich,” was the World Anti-Communist League (WACL) that was chaired by US CIA operative, John Singlaub. He entered our story earlier as a leading member of the Philippine gold-hunting Nippon Star group.


It is hardly surprising that another member of Singlaub’s WACL was Kodama Yoshio, who also earlier featured in this story. Another, of course, was Ferdinand Marcos, who attended WACL meetings throughout his 20-year reign as dictator of the plunder-rich Philippines. It is interesting to note that America’s tax authority, the IRS, granted the US arm of WACL tax-exempt status following serious pressure from Ronald Reagan’s White House. Singlaub and others would later leave their mark on public history due to their involvement in the Iran-Contra Affair that was given birth by Lt. Col. Oliver North’s so-called “Enterprise.”


Interestingly, Kodama was one of those who, in 1954, founded the Asian Peoples Anti-Communist League. Kodama, along with his Yakuza compatriot and war-criminal cellmate, Ryoichi Sasakawa, ruled Japan with an iron fist artfully concealed in the gloved hand of political puppets. Sasakawa, in particular, boasted of a close, personal friendship with Ferdinand Marcos "long before he became president." Author Sterling Seagrave believes their friendship arose during "the Quirino presidency at the end of the 1940's when Marcos and other Quirino lieutenants were busy trying to discover" where Japanese plunder had been buried in the Philippines. Sasakawa was also deeply involved with the CIA, especially during the CIA sponsored anti-Sukarno campaign of the of the 1950's when he was in charge of supplying "materials to the anti-Sukarno camp." [x]


Other founding members of the APACL included the former Chinese warlord and patron of the feared Shanghai underworld Green Gang, Chiang Kai Shek and Korea's Park Chung Hee -- whose claim to fame was to establish the Korean Central Intelligence Agency modelled on America's CIA. Another founding member was the Reverend Sun Myung Moon of the Unification Church [Moonies] -- a CIA tool if ever there was one. Meanwhile, one-time war criminal and Yakuza boss Ryoichi Sasakawa (together with Kodama) virtually ruled Japan from behind the scenes.


If there was one thing that connected the individual members of this odd group, it was their shared fascist beliefs and backgrounds that resulted in another common denominator -- all became immensely wealthy.


Meanwhile, the stated objective of Hitler's New Order / Vatican- backed coalition group mentioned earlier was simple – “A New World” based on Nazi ideals. The group had major bases in Portugal, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Libya, Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Iran, Taiwan, Japan, Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru and Venezuela, according to a report passed to Coordinacion Federal – Argentina’s secret service. This report additionally stated that funding for the organisation was provided from “hidden treasure of the Third Reich on deposit in Spain, Portugal, Italy, Paris, Monaco, Lucerne and Zurich,” as well as from a US$500 million sum available through “Group Peron” and other revenue “derived from dividends paid by Mercedes-Benz of Stuttgart” on investments placed there by this so-called “Sacred Movement.” It was a case of Nazi loot used to fund the European anti-communist movement and Japanese loot funding the Asian Anti-Communist League.

Bormann’s role in the Fourth Reich group was little more than as an honorific figurehead. His induction into the “Sacred Movement” was scheduled for a meeting in Buenos Aires in the form of an “initiation” ceremony along Masonic lines. It is almost certain that this group was also an appendage of the secretive Italian Masonic Lodge, Propaganda Due (P2) that is known to have had deep and powerful connections in Latin America – especially Argentina. In any event, the Masonic “ceremony” proved a fiasco, with Bormann storming out in impatience. [xi]

It is of more than passing interest to learn that Singlaub’s Nippon Star venture also had ultra right-wing motives in its search for World War II plunder. According to Bob Curtis, who had earlier worked with Ferdinand Marcos following his development of a technique that would alter the metallurgical finger-print of gold (obviously of immense use to Marcos, who had recovered tens of thousands of tonnes of war plunder), Singlaub and others involved with Nippon Star had an ultra right-wing agenda.

Curtis, who had earlier escaped Marcos’s clutches fearing for his life, fled with detailed photographs of all 172 maps made by the Japanese Golden Lily. These showed where each hoard of plunder had been buried and how much each trove was worth. Years later he was given the bulk of Ferdinand Marcos’s personal archives by Marcos’s mistress. These, Curtis said, totalled over 60,000 documents. Because of his possession of the Golden Lily treasure maps and his earlier involvement with Marcos, Curtis was invited to become involved with Singlaub and other members of Nippon Star in their recovery venture.

Curtis travelled to Hong Kong, where he was briefed over a three-day period by the CIA. Included in these briefing were details of a very sensitive transaction between Marcos and Manuel Noriega that involved gold for drugs. [xii] Not least, Curtis speaks of a number of transactions that involved Madame Pineda – who was an intermediary for Imelda Marcos (and who regularly features in Peter Johnston’s correspondence in my keeping). On Pineda, Curtis had this to say: “When I learn how to scan and attach files, I'll send you some goodies on Pineda, which is mind boggling. It involves the son of an ex-US president.” [xiii] This may well be a reference to George W. Bush, who is rumoured by other sources to be involved in black market gold deals.

Not least, Curtis told me that he held many details of Krupp deals other than the one I was already privy to and added that the “Krupp involvement is deeper than you think. Several transactions were for a trillion dollars” [my emphasis]. [xiv] Curtis also revealed that:

“The China Mandate is a real earth shaker. 200,000 metric tons, negotiated with Nixon and Mao. The purpose: to keep China out of any Asian expansion for 50 years. The fear that America had over China's crossing the border in Korea was that China would invade Formosa and the Philippines, leading to a nuclear war. This document could get you killed, so could the Trilateral document that I referred to earlier.”[xv]

Curtis also had some notes written by hand by Edward Lansdale, who he says typifies an “early player and mover” and who was also involved in the China deal. The Trilateral Commission reference, Curtis told me, regards a letter (in the possession of Curtis) that was sent to President Marcos on Trilateral notepaper – on the authority of Dr. Henry Kissinger – demanding that Marcos sell “63, 321 tons of gold to 2000 US and European banks admittedly controlled by the Trilateral.” This letter was dated 21 February 1986. Curtis adds that the last sentence of the 12 page letter states:

“Release the 62,321 metric tons of gold now, while your are in a solid possession and right and you alone can do it and alone can claim immortal glory as the greatest man in Asia."

According to Curtis, it was Marcos's refusal that led to his loss of power three days later. The gold that Marcos refused to sell – in exchange for US Treasury certificates and some cash -- was eventually shipped to the US aboard the US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier “President Eisenhower,” having been later “released” by Imelda Marcos, who was avoiding pursuit for criminal charges when she fled the Philippines with her husband. Curtis notes that President Reagan wanted the gold for the “Rainbow Dollars” that had already been printed and that Reagan planned to back with gold. What is interesting here is a news article that appeared in the Philippine Enquirer where 96 members of the 51st Army Engineering Brigade operating in total secrecy under President Marcos state in an affidavit that they recovered 60,000 tons of gold during the Marcos years. This article is reproduced in the Appendices. Not least Curtis states that other players involved in Marcos gold over the years have included the Club of Rome and also the Tavistock Institute. [xvi]

Curtis’s claims will undoubtedly be seen by some as too conspiratorial and extravagant to be worth taking seriously. However, it is as well to know that Curtis has passed muster with a number of investigative journalists and authors, including, among others, columnist Jack Anderson and Sterling Seagrave.

This was all very interesting to me simply because in addition to his activities with the Secret Treaty gold certificate negotiations, Peter Johnston was also involved with Imelda Marcos on other bullion transactions. One of these involved a vast transfer of money authorised by the last remaining heir of the Krupp family fortune, Baron Arndt Krupp von Bohlen & Halbach. Dated 4 November 1985, a letter issued on the Baron’s private letterhead – and bearing his signature – authorised Krupphausen attorney Carl Letermeyer to effect payment to Clem. T. Santiago of Manila, Philippines of the equivalent of “one percent (1%) from profits of Krupphausen in 1980 up to 1985 now on deposit at Volksbank Willislav AG, Switzerland.” [xvii]

However, complication beset the transaction, not least the death of Baron Krupp. As late as January 1988, Carl Letermeyer wrote to Clem T. Santiago at the Krupp Heritage & World Peace Foundation in Singapore enclosing a summary of figures covering the five-year period stated in the Baron’s November 1985 authorisation. The sums involved are almost unbelievable, and for this reason I recommend a careful study of Sterling Seagrave’s 1999 book The Yamato Dynasty (Bantam Press) – especially the footnotes on pages 354/5. In any event, the transfer sum due to Santiago at the Krupp Foundation – and representing 1% of profits over a five-year period -- totalled US$112 billion. [xviii]


Seagrave’s intriguing and well researched book reveals the true story of the origin of Marcos gold that resulted from immense Japanese plunder throughout Southeast Asia World War II. The bulk of it – totalling 172 treasure troves – was buried on and around the Philippine islands prior to the war’s end. One site referenced by Seagrave, and audited by Japanese accountants, contained a staggering Yen777 billion. The dollar-yen exchange rate was almost four yen to the dollar, giving an equivalent in 1945 US currency of $194 billion. Nor can it be argued that Seagrave is exaggerating. Documents in my own possession amply confirm what he says. The foregoing facts corroborate Seagrave’s thesis that numerous wealthy individuals possessing right-wing sympathies aided and abetted the OSS/CIA by laundering plundered Japanese gold, gemstones and other booty. In fact, the OSS began recovering the loot from one Philippine 777 site commencing in 1945 and efforts have continued, more or less, up to the present.


Directly related to the foregoing are other equally interesting facts. Allen Dulles, together with former New York Governor Thomas Dewey, owned a large shareholding in Mary Carter Paint Company, a firm reputed to be a CIA front and owned by leading Mafia financier, Meyer Lansky. This company, later renamed Resorts International, caused a flurry of press interest when it was discovered it had made a 1968 contribution of $100,000 to the Nixon presidential campaign fund in the form of thirty-three cheques for $3,000 and one for $1,000.


Richard Nixon was, of course, Vice President during the Eisenhower Administration, which spanned the years 1952-1960. In 1971, Nixon closed the gold window, thus removing gold as a backing for the US dollar. In time, the mobbed-up Resorts International would demonstrate links to Castle Bank in the Bahamas – a CIA front company founded by veteran OSS and CIA bagman, Paul Helliwell. Castle Bank would later, in turn, reveal close connections to Wall Street’s junk bond investment bank, Drexel Burnham & Lambert – thus squaring the then- hazy but now- clear circle of associations among the CIA, the Mob, Wall Street and government.


Meanwhile, it is of additional interest to note that the Bahamas-based Paradise Island Bridge Company was principally owned by Swiss and German investors, including the director of a BASF subsidiary company. BASF is, of course, the largest single successor firm of I.G. Farben. In any event, the company was highlighted throughout the Watergate years due to allegations that it had been laundering “skim money” (possibly from the joint Mob/ CIA- owned Paradise Island Casino or, perhaps, from World War II plunder recovered by the CIA?) for eventual payment to then President Nixon via his confidant, Bebe Rebozo. Allegations surrounding an amount of $200,000 paid to Nixon’s camp was made by an IRS informant. [xix] Nixon and his top henchmen in the White House were so pro-Nazi that it began to sour relations with Israel.


Crime boss Meyer Lansky had a controlling interest in the Swiss -registered and -based International Credit Bank through his henchmen Tibor Rosenbaum and John Pullman. Customers of the bank included the State of Israel, the Rothschild family and, not least, Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands.


Bernhard was born a German prince who married a Dutch queen and became an honorary member of the SS before joining the intelligence arm of I. G. Farben -- which later became an indispensable spook asset of the Third Reich. When war broke out, Bernhard quit his German associations and joined the RAF, which, delighted to have this blue-blood aboard, gave him his own battle squadron. Post-war, he closely associated himself with both American and British intelligence and took bribes from American aircraft manufacturer Lockheed Corporation. This latter episode was during his chairmanship of the Bilderberg group – forcing his resignation -- and at about the same time that he opened an account in Meyer Lansky’s private Swiss bank for landed financiers, princes, Mafiosi and casino gentry. Few, surely, can list these manifold and genteel credits on their vitae. The words “for sale” and “highest bidder” inevitably spring to mind.




Footnotes

[i] Ladislas Farago, Aftermath (New York : Simon & Schuster, 1974) at 222-5.
[ii] Ibid at 213.
[iii] Ibid at 203. This treasure also included 3,500 ounces of platinum, 4,638 carats in diamonds and others precious stones and an assortment of gold marks, pound sterling, dollars and Swiss francs.
[iv] Robert Hutchison, Their Kingdom Come (New York, St. Martin’s Press,1997) at 211.
[v] Ibid at 208.
[vi] See, Farago’s Aftermath.
[vii] Paul Manning, – Martin Bormann – Nazi in Exile (Lyle Stuart Inc., 1981) at 282.
[viii] Farago at 395.
[ix] John Loftus and Mark Aarons at 83-84.
[x] See Seagraves at 121
[xi] Farago at 397.
[xii] Personal correspondence with this writer.
[xiii] Ibid.
[xiv] Personal correspondence with this writer.
[xv] Ibid.
[xvi] Personal correspondence with this writer. These claims have also proved impossible to corroborate thus far. However, I believe them to be worthy of inclusion with the understanding that they are unverified. I also think it worth noting that when researching his book, Marcos Dynasty, author Sterling Seagrave arranged for investigative reporter Don Goldberg to spend a few days reviewing thousands of Marcos documents in the possession of Curtis and concluded, based on Goldberg’s reports, he was telling the truth.
[xvii] See the "Krupp Letter" in the Appendices.
[xviii] Copy of fax of original letter in this writer’s possession.
[xix] From an unpublished manuscript by Peter Dale Scott.

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Dr. Joseph Farrell - Rise of the Bormann Reich

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Published on 10 Aug 2015
How did Martin Bormann survive the war and what was he up to afterwards? What is the truth regarding the nuclear weapons research of the axis powers? What is scalar weapons? Did Nazi scientists attain cold fusion in Argentina? To what extent did the extraterritorial Nazi state influence USA? Dr. Farrell returns to continue the uncovering of our recent history, which addresses many more mysteries regarding WW2, as an Antarctica revisit, how the Nazi remnants transformed into a Bormann Reich, the crucial year of 1947, and where HQ is located... and Joseph shares some tidbits with us about his background in South Dakota.

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Rise of the Bormann Reich (Part 1 & 2) A conversation with Farrell (S01P10)

Guest: Dr. Joseph Patrick Farrell (http://www.forumborealis.net/guests)
Recorded: 08 November 2015
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Who is this EXPERT criticising the Sweden non lock down figures?
ha! gotcha!
Stephen J O'Brien emanates from the Renamed US Biological Research Centre institution, Cancer research institution (owner Bormann Capital network IF Farben spin off “Litton corporation”) Dave Emory Spitfire List FTR#1012.
Why Sweden may have lower infection rates.

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FTR #1012 Food For Thought, Part 2
POSTED BY DAVE EMORY ⋅ JUNE 26, 2018
www.spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr-1012-food-for-thought-part-2/

Introduction: This program supplements and recapitulates both FTR #912 and AFA #39. In turn, several other, overlapping programs should be examined to flesh out one’s understanding of the phenomena discussed here, including: FTR #‘s 606, 682 and 686, as well as AFA #16.
Central to our analysis is a look at an excerpt from testimony before a House appropriations subcommittee that was drawing up the defense budget for the following year. (The hearings were in 1969.) The testimony discusses the possibility of using genetic engineering to produce a disease that would be “refractory” to the immune system. This is virtually the clinical definition of AIDS. It is worth noting that the project was funded, and just such a disease—AIDS—appeared in just the time frame posited. It is also worth noting that, in the 2002 edition of A Higher Form of Killing, this passage is omitted!!
. . . As long ago as 1962, forty scientists were employed at the U.S. Army biological warfare laboratories on full-time genetics research. ‘Many others,’ it was said, ‘appreciate the implications of genetics for their own work.’ The implications were made more specific that genetic engineering could solve one of the major disadvantages of biological warfare, that it is limited to diseases which occur naturally somewhere in the world. ‘Within the next 5 to 10 years, it would probably be possible to make a new infective micro-organism which could differ in certain important respects from any known disease-causing organisms. Most important of these is that it might be refractory to the immunological and therapeutic processes upon which we depend to maintain our relative freedom from infectious disease.’ [Italics are Mr. Emory’s.] The possibility that such a ‘super germ’ may have been successfully produced in a laboratory somewhere in the world in the years since that assessment was made is one which should not be too readily cast aside. . .

The corporate logo of I.G. Farben.
Purebred Northern Europeans possess a hereditary immunity to infection by HIV, a gene (CCR5Delta 32) that conferred immunity to the Black Death, long believed to have been bubonic plague. Bubonic plague was a major focal point of Third Reich biological weapons research, stemming from SS chief Heinrich Himmler’s interest in that disease.
Disguised as a cancer research program, Nazi Germany’s plague research was presided over by Kurt Blome, the deputy surgeon general of the Third Reich. Blome went to work for the U.S. under Project Paperclip (also known as Operation Paperclip.) We wonder if the Nazi research into bubonic plague and the emergence of an immune-destroying disease to which only pure-bred Northern Europeans–“Aryans”–were immune might have been the outgrowth of Nazi-inspired U.S. biological weapons research stemming from Paperclip?
Another development in that context is noteworthy:
When the U.S. officially “gave up” biological warfare research, Fort Detrick–the military’s top bw research facility, was officially turned over to the National Cancer Institute’s Viral Cancer Research Project. Featuring veterans of the U.S. biological warfare research program, the NCI’s VCP was implemented by Litton Bionetics, a biotechnology subsidiary of Litton Industries, a major defense contractor. The National Cancer Institute’s Viral Cancer Research Project was at the epicenter of U.S. research into AIDS. We strongly suspect that this was a recapitulation of the Third Reich’s use of “cancer research.”
In both FTR #912 and AFA #39, we highlighted Bayer’s projected purchase of Monsanto.
We engage in a line of inquiry that is speculative in nature, evaluating the possibility that companies descended from the I.G. Farben German chemical cartel may absorb Monsanto, the firm noted for its development of genetically modified organisms.
Specifically, Bayer and BASF figured in the reported maneuvering for Monsanto. The deal has passed American anti-trust regulators, with BASF purchasing some $9 billion in former Bayer assets to permit the deal to go forward.
Against the background of the remarkable Bormann capital network’s effective control of the firms that descended from I.G. Farben, we ruminate about the possibility of genetically engineered binary pathogens being included in the food supply available to much of the world’s population.
Available information highlights possible Underground Reich maneuvering to gain control of firms marketing foodstuffs to middle, lower middle and working class people. This speculation, in turn, is set against the background of information strongly suggesting that AIDS was deliberately developed.
In the context of the purchase of food-producing companies, we note J.A.B Holdings and it’s associated Reimann family.
They are owned by a secretive group of German billionaires, mostly related to each other. This group owns (outright or majority) a rather shocking number of major American brands, including Peets Coffee, Panera Bread, Jimmy Choo Shoes, Dougwe Eberts Coffee, and Krispy Kreme Donuts! They appear to be making a major move to dominate the U.S., and perhaps global, coffee industry.
They also own part of 3G, the massive Brazilian holding company (with one of the three heads having the last name Lemann, and the other having Hermann as a middle name). (This is a focal point of FTR #912.)

Jorge Paulo Lemann
3G owns Inbev (dominant player in the world’s liquor industry), Heinz, Kraft, and Burger King, who they quickly moved to Canada and merged with Tim Hortons, a massive Canadian restaurant chain, for tax breaks. They also own the largest logistics/railroad company in South America and its largest retail shopping company. So, between their interests in JAB and 3G, this one family has their tentacles into a ridiculous amount of commerce.
Like many German corporate citizens, they make their headquarters in Luxembourg.
Is this Bormann money “gulping up companies like a giant amoeba?”
Note how secretive the Reimann family and their operation is: ” . . . . The lack of involvement is allegedly part of the family policy, which also includes signing a codex on one’s 18th birthday pledging to stay out of the public as much as possible, thus making them one of the most private billionaire families. . . .”
Program Highlights Include:

JAB Holding’s apparent move to dominate the coffee market.
Review of the career of Franz Liesau Zacharias.
As discussed in AFA #39, the Nazis began researching toxic agents on apes and then moved on to humans—inmates in concentration camps. AIDS results from a monkey virus that eventually jumped to humans as well. Does the progression in the Nazi death camps of testing on apes to testing on humans have any relationship with the progression of a simian virus to infection of humans? Might the creation of AIDS have stemmed from Nazi research? Is it an accident that the hereditary immunity from HIV infection is only present in the white race, and [according to some sources] Northern Europeans in particular? Is it an accident that people of African extraction are particularly susceptible to HIV infection?
Dr. Franz Liesau Zaccharias was the Abwehr agent who obtained the apes for the Nazi medical experiments. He was badly wanted by Western intelligence after the war. Why?! Western intelligence agencies certainly didn’t need anyone to teach them how to obtain apes from Africa. Experimenting on animals is not a war crime. The suspicion here is that he had discovered something of value during his primate work. Evidence also suggests that he remained part of The Underground Reich.
Among the diseases that Liesau Zacharias’ animals were used for testing was “the plague”! Did the Nazis note that some people appeared to be immune to infection with plague? Were tissue and/or sera samples taken and preserved for further study? Was this in any way connected to the eventual evolution of the CCR5-delta 32 gene as a hereditary protection against infection by HIV? Is it possible that Liesau Zacharias was actually targeted for recruitment by the U.S. for Project Paperclip? Did Liesau Zacharias experience an outbreak of immunodeficiency among his primates awaiting shipment to Germany? Might such an outbreak have been due to SIV? Did Liesau Zacharias take tissue and sera samples from infected primates? Might such a development have been related to his importance to the Allies?
1. Initiating the discussion, we examine the career of Kurt Blome, the deputy surgeon general of the Third Reich, a top biological warfare researcher, conducting his work under the cover of “cancer research.”
Operation Paperclip by Annie Jacobsen; HC Little, Brown and Company; Copyright 2014 by Anne M. Jacobsen; ISBN 978–0‑316–22104‑7; p. 75.

. . .The War Crimes Office had considerable information about Dr. Kurt Blome. He was deputy surgeon general of the Third Reich and vice president of the Reich’s Physicians’ League, Reichsarztekammer. He was believed to have reported directly to Goring and maybe even to Himmler, or to both. Blome had been named head of Reich cancer research in 1942. Alsos and OSS presumed that this was a cover name for biological weapons work. Blome was a dedicated and proud Nazi. . . .
2. More about Blome, biological warfare and the use of “cancer research” as a cover for BW research.
Operation Paperclip by Annie Jacobsen; HC Little, Brown and Company; Copyright 2014 by Anne M. Jacobsen; ISBN 978–0‑316–22104‑7; p. 77.

. . . . [Major E.W.B.] Gill asked how Blome, a “cancer expert,” had been put in charge of the Reich’s bioweapons program, a subject he claimed to know very little about. Blome said he had no answer for that. . . .
3. Nazi biological warfare research was propelled, in considerable measure, by SS chief Heinrich Himmler. Himmler was particularly interested in bubonic plague.
Operation Paperclip by Annie Jacobsen; HC Little, Brown and Company; Copyright 2014 by Anne M. Jacobsen; ISBN 978–0‑316–22104‑7; p. 160.

. . . . Himmler had a layman’s fascination with biological warfare. A former chicken farmer, the Reichsfuhrer-SS had studied agriculture in school. According to Blome, it was Himmler who was the primary motivator behind the Reich’s bioweapons program. Hitler, Blome said, did not approve of biological warfare and was kept in the dark as to specific plans. Himmler’s area of greatest fascination, said Blome, was bubonic plague. . . .
4. Kurt Blome was Himmler’s point man in researching bubonic plague for biological warfare applications.
Operation Paperclip by Annie Jacobsen; HC Little, Brown and Company; Copyright 2014 by Anne M. Jacobsen; ISBN 978–0‑316–22104‑7; p. 161.

. . . . Blome then told Himmler that if he were to experiment with plague bacterium, he would need his own institute, an isolated facility far removed from population centers. Himmler and Blome agreed that Poland would be a good place, and they s ttled on Nessselstedt, a small town outside the former Poznan University (by then operated by the Reich). Blome’s research was to be called the Bacteriological Institute at Nesselstedt. . . .
5. Blome had achieved great progress with both bubonic and pneumonic plague.
Operation Paperclip by Annie Jacobsen; HC Little, Brown and Company; Copyright 2014 by Anne M. Jacobsen; ISBN 978–0‑316–22104‑7; p. 230.

. . . . Dr. Kurt Blome’s expertise was in great demand, but his future was as yet undecided. In his Posen laboratory, Blome had made considerable progress with live plague pathogens, including bubonic and pneumonic plague. How far that research progressed remained vague, likely because it would put an unwanted spotlight on human experiments many believed had taken place there. . .
6. Blome allegedly knew more about bubonic plague than anyone else in the world.
Operation Paperclip by Annie Jacobsen; HC Little, Brown and Company; Copyright 2014 by Anne M. Jacobsen; ISBN 978–0‑316–22104‑7; p. 275.

. . . . As for Dr. Blome, he was seen as a highly desirable recruit for Operation Paperclip. Blome allegedly knew more about bubonic plague research than anyone else in the world. But, given his former position in Hitler’s inner circle, coupled with the fact that Blome had worn the Golden Party Badge, bringing him to America as part of Operation Paperclip remained too difficult for the U.S. Army to justify. But as the Cold War gained momentum and intense suspicion of the Soviets increased, even someone like Kurt Blome would eventually be deemed eligible for Operation Paperclip. . . .
7a. In both FTR #912 and AFA #39 we discussed leading GMO producer Monsanto’s sale to Bayer. We noted that both Bayer and BASF (the firm viewed as a probable purchaser of Monsanto assets to be spun-off to conform to anti-trust requirements) are controlled by the remarkable and deadly Bormann flight capital organization.
Some $9 billion in assets are, indeed, to be sold to BASF. This will still leave them under the control of the Bormann group and the Underground Reich.
“U.S. Forces Germany’s Bayer to Shed $9 Billion in Ag Business in Biggest Ever AntiTrust Sell-Off” by Dan Mangan; CNBC; 5/29/2018.

Drug-maker Bayer, agreeing to the largest divestiture in American antitrust enforcement history, will sell agricultural businesses and assets worth about $9 billion to chemical giant BASF, clearing the way for approval of its $66 billion acquisition of Monsanto, the Justice Department announced Tuesday.
The assets include Bayer’s canola, soybean and vegetable seed businesses, as well as its Liberty herbicide business, all of which currently compete with Monsanto products.
Bayer also agreed to certain “structural divestitures” and to sell off “certain intellectual property and research capabilities, including ‘pipeline’ R&D projects,” according to the Justice Department.
In revealing the settlement it reached with Bayer, the department said the sell-off will “preserve competition threatened by Bayer’s acquisition of Monsanto.
Without the divestiture, the department said, the “merger is unlawful.”
Germany-based Bayer and St. Louis-based Monsanto are two of the world’s biggest agricultural companies, and currently compete against one another to sell farmers seed and crop protection products, the department noted. BASF is the largest chemical producer in the world. . . .
7b. The I.G. Farben company, a core element of the Third Reich, was central to Reichsleiter Martin Bormann’s plans to secret Germany’s wealth abroad. Note, also, I.G. Farben’s dominance of the European chemical industry, and the opinion of Dr. von Schnitzler that technical dependence on I.G. facilities would continue after the war. (To learn more about I.G. Farben, see—among other programs–FTR#’s 305, 411, 506, 552. Serious students should also read Treason’s Peace and The Devil’s Chemists, available for download.)
Martin Bormann: Nazi in Exile; Paul Manning; Copyright 1981 [HC]; Lyle Stuart Inc.; ISBN 0–8184-0309–8; p. 28.

. . . I.G. Farben was a formidable ally for Reichsleiter Bormann in his plans for the postwar economic rebirth of Germany. In a telephone conversation with Dr. von Schnitzler, Bormann asked what would the loss of factories in France and the other occupied countries mean to German industry in general and to I.G. in particular. Dr. von Schnitzler said he believed the technical dependence of these countries on I.G. would be so great that despite German defeat I.G., in one way or another, could regain its position of control of the European chemical business. ‘They will need the constant technical help of I.G.’s scientific laboratories as they do not own appropriate installations within themselves.’ . . .
7c. Bormann and Schmitz then discussed I.G.’s prospects for the postwar period. The cozy relationship with powerful elements within the power elites of the Western allies was foreseen by Schmitz as boding well for the company’s future. Schmitz’s predictions were relatively accurate. Neither Schmitz nor any of the I.G. Farben executives were severely punished and the firm’s three successor firms carried on effectively in the postwar period.
Martin Bormann: Nazi in Exile; Paul Manning; Copyright 1981 [HC]; Lyle Stuart Inc.; ISBN 0–8184-0309–8; p. 158.

. . . .The Reichsleiter asked Schmitz his views of the future. Schmitz replied, ‘The occupation armies will be understanding in the West, but certainly not in the East. I have instructed all Farben administrators and technicians to come to the West, where they can be of use in resuming our operations once the disturbances of 1945 come to a halt.’ Schmitz added that, while general bomb damage to the I.G. plants was about 25 percent of capacity, some were untouched. He mentioned speaking with Field Marshal Model, who was commanding the defenses of the Ruhr. ‘Model had planned to turn our Bayer-Leberkusen pharmaceutical factory into an artillery base, but he agreed to make it an open, undefended factory. Hopefully, we will get it back untouched.’ ‘What about your board of directors and the essential executives? If they are held by the occupation authorities, can I.G. continue?’ Bormann asked. ‘We can continue. We have an operational plan for such a contingency, which everyone understands. However, I don’t believe our board members will be detained too long. Nor will I. But we must go through a procedure of investigation before release, so I have been told by our N.W. 7 people who have excellent contacts in Washington.’ . . .
7d. The broadcast details the profound relationship between I.G. Farben and the government of the Third Reich. Of particular utility to the Bormann flight capital program was I.G. Farben’s elaborate infrastructure in foreign countries. Note that, as is seen here, I.G. Farben was inextricably linked with both the government of the Third Reich and with the Nazi party itself. Of particular significance is the N.W.7 office and its control by Martin Bormann.
Martin Bormann: Nazi in Exile; Paul Manning; Copyright 1981 [HC]; Lyle Stuart Inc.; ISBN 0–8184-0309–8; p. 54.

. . . This, too, reported to Martin Bormann.I.G. Farben’s N.W.7 office in Berlin compiled military and economic data on all countries for the Wehrmacht. This department was staffed with men of recognized ability in all branches of business and science. It was under the direction of Dr. Max Ilgner, nephew of Hermann Schmitz, I.G.’s president, who was known throughout the industrial world as ‘the master of financial camouflage.’ [Emphasis added.] Farben had offices and representatives in 93 countries, and no social gathering of businessmen was too small to be covered by an N.W.7 representative, whose reports on market conditions, factory installations, raw-material supplies, and research were transmitted immediately to Berlin and Dr. Ilgner. In the United States, N.W.7 operated through the firm of Chemnyco, Inc., an American-formed subsidiary. Chemnyco sent tremendous amounts of information ranging from photographs and blue prints to detailed descriptions of entire industrial complexes and secret processes. . . .”
7e. Of particular importance for this discussion is the fact that I.G. used German military conquest to gain effective functional control of the chemical industry of the continent. In paragraph 13, we noted Georg von Scnitzler’s prediction that I.G.’s technical dominance would result in the postwar perpetuation of this control. As we will see, this control was maintained. Note the role of the N.W.7 Farben espionage organization in Bormann’s plans for the secreting of Nazi monies abroad.
Martin Bormann: Nazi in Exile; Paul Manning; Copyright 1981 [HC]; Lyle Stuart Inc.; ISBN 0–8184-0309–8; pp. 55–58.

. . . This huge organization functioned as a manufacturing and research arm of the German government, with the responsibility of discovering all possible means of increasing the military power of Germany. More than RM 4.25 billion was invested in new plants, mines, and power installations, with other millions going into new research facilities. . . . So close had Farben become to the government that I.G. always knew in advance all invasions planned by Hitler. It was to supply the materials necessary to each conquest, and when a land had been overrun and subjugated, the Farben experts would handle the consolidation and organization of the industrial facilities as additional supply sources for the German armed forces. As German troops swept across Europe and Hitler proclaimed his vision of a thousand-year Third Reich, I.G. Farben also dreamed of world empire. This was outlined with clarity in a document called Neuordnung, or ‘New Order,’ that was accompanied by a letter of transmittal to the Ministry of Economics. It declared that a new order for the chemical industry of the world should supplement Hitler’s New Order. Therefore, the document stated, Farben was fitting future industrial plans into such a framework. . . . I.G. Farben was the major chemical firm on the Continent, and as each country fell to Germany its acquisitions of chemical and dyestuff companies were enormous. I.G. also increased its investments in these by RM 7 billion. [Emphasis added.]
. . . .The close relationship of Farben to the Third Reich leadership was underscored in other ways. I.G.’s leading officials assisted in the formulation and execution of economic policies of government; its president was a member of the Reichstag; its leading scientist was a chief assistant to Hermann Goering under the Four-Year Plan; its statisticians and economists prepared intelligence for the Nazi High Command; scores of its technicians were at any given time on loan to the air and war ministries.
. . . The contact men of N.W.7 throughout the world were called the I.G. Verbindungsmanner, the liaison officers between Farben back in Germany and the branches elsewhere. These I.G. Verbindungsmanner, as well as all other key Farben representatives working beyond the borders of the Third Reich, were members of the National Socialist German Workers Party. . . . So now Martin Bormann had at his command not only the Auslands-Organisation but also the I.G. Verbindungsmanner of Farben, which could be counted on to heed his orders when it was time to disperse the commercial assets of the Third Reich. . . .
7f. More about how the vast international operations of the I.G. Farben firm and its various subsidiary operations was a principal element of the Bormann organization. I.G. Farben chief Hermann Schmitz discussed I.G.’s involvement with the Bormann program.
Martin Bormann: Nazi in Exile; Paul Manning; Copyright 1981 [HC]; Lyle Stuart Inc.; ISBN 0–8184-0309–8; pp. 157–158.

. . . . In testimony later given to Nuremberg investigators, Schmitz praised Bormann for the way he had directed the distribution of German assets around the world. His own Farben organization had, of course, contributed to the success of the operation. Every regional representative working for Hermann Schmitz was an exceptional businessman, or he would not have been with I.G. All had contributed sound advice in their areas of competence, the regions of the world where they represented Farben while keeping an eye on the subsidiaries of the parent concern and the 700 hidden corporations they controlled. They had provided assistance and continuing guidance in establishing the 750 new companies created on order of Bormann, who wanted more than hidden assets; Bormann wanted the money and patents and technicians put to work to create even greater assets that would bolster Germany in the postwar years. In their meeting in the chancellery, both men checked over the figures of sums disbursed, and they were accurate to the pfennig. . . .
7g. As forecast by Dr. Scheid in the August 10, 1944 meeting, the corporate allies of the major German corporations, including and especially those of I.G. Farben, proved to be of great value to the uccess of the Bormann flight capital program.
Martin Bormann: Nazi in Exile; Paul Manning; Copyright 1981 [HC]; Lyle Stuart Inc.; ISBN 0–8184-0309–8; p. 156.

. . . . Powerful friends of the Bormann organization in all Western countries, including those sprinkled in control points throughout the administration in Washington and in the financial and brokerage businesses of Wall Street, the City of London, and the Paris establishment, did not wish a coordinated drive to get at these external German assets. They had understandable reasons, if you overlook morality: the financial benefits for cooperation (collaboration had become an old-hat term with the war winding down) were very enticing, depending on one’s importance and ability to be of service to the organization and the 750 corporations they were secretly manipulating, to say nothing of the known multinationals such as I.G. Farben, Thyssen A.G., and Siemens; and, as a second reason, the philosophy of free enterprise and preservation of private property. . . . (Ibid.; p. 156.)
7h. Note the postwar resuscitation of I.G. Farben, in the form of the “Big Three” successor firms that grew out Farben. Although officially broken up at the end of World War II, I.G. Farben continued functioning in new form. Recent mergers (such as the 1996 merger of I.G. cartel affiliates Ciba-Geigy and Sandoz to form Novartis) indicate a new coming together of the old components of I.G. Again, pay close attention to the relationship between these companies and the Bormann capital network.
Martin Bormann: Nazi in Exile; Paul Manning; Copyright 1981 [HC]; Lyle Stuart Inc.; ISBN 0–8184-0309–8; p. 282.

. . . . By 1956, the three major multinationals (Hoechst, BASF, and Bayer) reshaped from the 159 companies within Germany that had comprised I.G. Farben were generating record profits for the original 450 major Farben stockholders, who had organized themselves into the I.G. Farben Stockholders Protective committee in Bonn. The Big Three went on expanding, tripling capitalization in 1956 from investment funds that poured in from the interlocking companies established in safe haven countries by Martin Bormann and Hermann Schmitz. There was a return, more vigorous than ever, of the huge, monolithic industrial multinationals that dominated the German economy before and during World War II. . . .
7i. The enormous corporate wealth and power of the three successor firms is at the disposal of the Bormann capital network and Underground Reich.
Martin Bormann: Nazi in Exile; Paul Manning; Copyright 1981 [HC]; Lyle Stuart Inc.; ISBN 0–8184-0309–8; pp. 282–283.

. . . . Each of these three spinoffs from I.G. Farben today does more business individually than did Farben at its zenith, when its corporate structure covered 93 countries. BASF and Bayer individually boast worldwide sales of nearly $10 billion annually, while Hoechst, now the world’s largest chemical company, generated $16.01 billion in worldwide sales in 1980. Each does more business than E.I. du Pont de Nemours, with sales of $9.4 billion. The United States is, of course, the major market, one into which these German corporations continue to pour investment money for both new capital construction and corporate takeovers. Together, these three multinationals assure permanent prosperity for the original 450 Farben stockholders, their banks, and the shadowy shareholders of the Bormann organization in South America who guard and vote the Hermann Schmitz trust fund through intermediaries at the annual meetings of BASF, Bayer and Hoechst. [Emphasis added.] . . . .
7j. A significant part of the I.G. Farben legacy, the Hermann Schmitz Trust is also at the disposal of the Bormann capital network and the Underground Reich.
Martin Bormann: Nazi in Exile; Paul Manning; Copyright 1981 [HC]; Lyle Stuart Inc.; ISBN 0–8184-0309–8; pp. 279–280.

. . . . If there is any doubt in Europe who, in the long run, won the peace, there is none whatsoever among the former German leaders dwelling in South America. It is a good bet that if Hermann Schmitz were alive today, he would bear witness as to who really won. Schmitz died contented, having witnessed the resurgence of I.G. Farben, albeit in altered corporate forms, a money machine that continues to generate profits for all the old I.G. shareholders and enormous international power for the German cadre directing the workings of the successor firms. . . . He was the master manipulator, the corporate and financial wizard, the magician, who could make money appear and disappear, and reappear again. His whole existence was legerdemain, played out on the gameboard of I.G. Farben and his beloved Germany. . . Their [Schmitz and Bormann] association was close and trusting over the years, and it is the considered opinion of those in their circle that the wealth possessed by Hermann Schmitz was shifted to Switzerland and South America, and placed in trust with Bormann, the legal heir to Hitler. [Hermann] Schmitz’s wealth—largely I.G. Farben bearer bonds converted to the Big Three successor firms, shares in Standard Oil of New Jersey (equal to those held by the Rockefellers), as well as shares in the 750 corporations he helped Bormann establish during the last year of World War II—has increased in all segments of the modern industrial world. The Bormann organization in South America utilizes the voting power of the Schmitz trust along with their own assets to guide the multinationals they control, as they keep steady the economic course of the Fatherland. . . .
7k. The program notes the economic and political significance of the Bormann network:
Martin Bormann: Nazi in Exile; Paul Manning; Copyright 1981 [HC]; Lyle Stuart Inc.; ISBN 0–8184-0309–8; pp. 284–285.

. . . . Atop an organizational pyramid that dominates the industry of West Germany through banks, voting rights enjoyed by majority shareholders in significant cartels, and the professional input of a relatively young leadership group of lawyers, investment specialists, bankers, and industrialists, he is satisfied that he achieved his aim of helping the Fatherland back on its feet. To ensure continuity of purpose and direction, a close watch is maintained on the profit statements and management reports of corporations under its control elsewhere. This leadership group of twenty, which is in fact a board of directors, is chaired by Bormann, but power has shifted to the younger men who will carry on the initiative that grew from that historic meeting in Strasbourg on August 10, 1944. Old Heinrich Mueller, chief of security for the NSDAP in South America, is the most feared of all, having the power of life and death over those deemed not to be acting in the best interests of the organization. Some still envision a Fourth Reich. . .What will not pass is the economic influences of the Bormann organization, whose commercial directives are obeyed almost without question by the highest echelons of West German finance and industry. ‘All orders come from the shareholders in South America,’ I have been told by a spokesman for Martin Bormann. . . . .
8a. We recapitulate information from the Nazi tract Serpent’s Walk. Like The Turner Diaries (also published by National Vanguard Books), the book seems to be a blueprint for a Nazi takeover of the United States (rather than a novel), set to take place in the middle of the 21st century.
Serpent’s Walk by “Randolph D. Calverhall;” Copyright 1991 [SC]; National Vanguard Books; 0–937944-05‑X; pp. 42–43.

. . . . The SS . . . what was left of it . . . had business objectives before and during World War II. When the war was lost they just kept on, but from other places: Bogota, Asuncion, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Mexico City, Colombo, Damascus, Dacca . . . you name it. They realized that the world is heading towards a ‘corporacracy;’ five or ten international super-companies that will run everything worth running by the year 2100. Those super-corporations exist now, and they’re already dividing up the production and marketing of food, transport, steel and heavy industry, oil, the media, and other commodities. They’re mostly conglomerates, with fingers in more than one pie . . . . We, the SS, have the say in four or five. We’ve been competing for the past sixty years or so, and we’re slowly gaining . . . . About ten years ago, we swung a merger, a takeover, and got voting control of a supercorp that runs a small but significant chunk of the American media. Not openly, not with bands and trumpets or swastikas flying, but quietly: one huge corporation cuddling up to another one and gently munching it up, like a great, gubbing amoeba. Since then we’ve been replacing executives, pushing somebody out here, bringing somebody else in there. We’ve swing program content around, too. Not much, but a little, so it won’t show. We’ve cut down on ‘nasty-Nazi’ movies . . . good guys in white hats and bad guys in black SS hats . . . lovable Jews versus fiendish Germans . . . and we have media psychologists, ad agencies, and behavior modification specialists working on image changes.
8b. In the context of the purchase of food-producing companies, we note J.A.B Holdings and it’s associated Reimann family.
They are owned by a secretive group of German billionaires, mostly related to each other. This group owns (outright or majority) a rather shocking number of major American brands, including Peets Coffee, Panera Bread, Jimmy Choo Shoes, Dougwe Eberts Coffee, and Krispy Kreme Donuts! They also own part of 3G, the massive Brazilian holding company (with one of the three heads having the last name Lemann, and the other having Hermann as a middle name). (This is a focal point of FTR #912.)
3G owns Inbev (dominant player in the world’s liquor industry), Heinz, Kraft, and Burger King, who they quickly moved to Canada and merged with Tim Hortons, a massive Canadian restaurant chain, for tax breaks. They also own the largest logistics/railroad company in South America and its largest retail shopping company. So, between their interests in JAB and 3G, this one family has their tentacles into a ridiculous amount of commerce.
Like many German corporate citizens, they make their headquarters in Luxembourg.
Is this Bormann money “gulping up companies like a giant amoeba?”
“Germany’s Intensely Private and Immensely Wealthy Reimann Family” by James Shotter; Financial Times; 3/10/2016.

Late last year, a group called JAB Holding splashed out $13.9bn to add Keurig Green Mountain, the biggest group in the US single-serve coffee market, to its growing list of coffee investments.
The deal capped a three-year, $30bn acquisition spree, during which JAB bought up groups ranging from instant coffee specialists in Europe to hipster coffee chains in the US and prompted suggestions that a challenger to Nestlé’s dominant Nespresso brand could be emerging.
At the same time, the deal sparked another round of interest in the principal owners of JAB Holding: four members of Germany’s intensely private and immensely wealthy Reimann family: Wolfgang, Stefan, Renate and Matthias.
Keurig Green Mountain coffee packs, which form part of JAB’s growing list of coffee investments © Bloomberg
Through JAB, the family owns stakes in some of the world’s best-known brands. As well as its investments in the coffee sector, JAB’s burgeoning portfolio encompasses a 8 per cent stake in Reckitt Benckiser, the consumer goods conglomerate, and a 77.4 per cent stake in the US fragrance group Coty, which owns the Calvin Klein and David Beckham perfume brands. On top of this, the holding company also controls luxury marques Jimmy Choo, Bally and Belstaff.
Last year, Forbes put the combined wealth of JAB’s four principal owners at $16bn, which would make the clan one of Europe’s wealthiest business dynasties. Representatives of the family and JAB declined to comment for this article.
The Reimanns’ march to industrial prominence began in the early years of the 19th century. In 1823, Johann Adam Benckiser, whose initials are enshrined in JAB’s name, bought a chemicals business in Pforzheim, a small town in the south-western German province of Baden-Württemberg.
A few years later, Ludwig Reimann, the great-great-grandfather of the Reimanns who now own JAB, joined the company and married Benckiser’s daughter. After Benckiser’s death, Reimann took over the company, which had by now moved some 100km north to Ludwigshafen, paving the way for his descendants to etch the family’s name into the annals of German industry.
The last of the Reimanns to actively be involved in the day-to-day running of Benckiser was Albert junior, Ludwig’s great-grandson, who inherited the company in 1952 and pushed it in the direction of consumer goods. He died in 1984, leaving equal stakes to his nine adopted children.
Although all nine of Albert’s children had initially kept the 11.1 per cent stakes they inherited, by 2003, Wolfgang and Renate (who are siblings) and Matthias and Stefan (who are brothers) had bought out the other five.
In 1997, the family took Benckiser public and two years later engineered a merger with the British consumer goods group, Reckitt and Colman, to form Reckitt Benckiser.
The family members who sold out of the business then followed a well-trodden path by relying on a family office to manage their wealth. Subsequently they founded Deutsche Kontor Privatbank, a private bank based in Munich, to offer wealth management services to other non-family members.
Those who kept their stakes have put their fortune in the hands of a small group of trusted advisers who run JAB — currently Peter Harf, Bart Becht and Olivier Goudet. Harf started at Benckiser in 1981, while Becht joined in 1988. Goudet, a former Mars executive, joined in 2012. The family members play no role in the operative businesses. The trio of managers make suggestions to the family members on possible investments, which they then discuss, but that the family has the ultimate say.
The set-up has prompted comparisons with 3G, a private equity group run by three Brazilian tycoons, that has been buying up brands in the consumer goods sector. However the difference, according to Pablo Zuanic, an analyst at Susquehanna, is that at 3G the managers also provide the cash. “At JAB, the Reimann family provides the capital, but the driving force behind the day-to-day strategy is the three managers,” he says.
The Reimann’s newest asset, Keurig, co-operates with a number of third-party brands, whose coffee it sells along with its coffee-dispensing machines. This means it is potentially vulnerable to some of those brands walking away. The best way to deal with this, says Zuanic, would be for the family vehicle to buy up more brands of its own. “JAB has to have bigger plans in coffee for this deal to make sense,” he says.
8c. We present more information about JAB Holding and the brands they control.
“Meet the Family Behind the World’s Biggest New Coffee Company;” Quartz; 5/8/2014.

… In addition to the new coffee behemoth, the family owns a substantial luxury portfolio which includes brands such as the high-end shoe brand Jimmy Choo, the perfume maker Coty, and the Swiss shoemaker Bally. Before its $9.8‑billion purchase of D.E. Master Blenders, the company spent a combined $1.3 billion on the retail coffee chains Caribou Coffee and Peet’s, though the businesses are run separately.
8d. More data on the Coffee Coup… also note how JAB is compared to 3G, yet without mentioning how JAB and 3G often partner together!
“Billionaire Reimann Adding Krispy Kreme to Its Empire in $1.35 Billion Deal” by Kevin Orland [Bloomberg]; Saint Louis Post Dispatch; 5/9/2016.

The Reimann family, one of Europe’s wealthiest business dynasties, has the coffee. Now, it wants the doughnuts.
After building a coffee empire ranging from hipster Stumptown Coffee Roasters to single-serve mainstay Keurig, the Reimanns’ JAB Holding investment company wants its growing stable of consumer brands to add some high-calorie oomph: Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc.
The $1.35 billion deal, announced Monday, puts the intensely private Reimann clan — Wolfgang, Stefan, Renate and Matthias — on a potential collision course with Krispy Kreme’s rival of the moment, the mighty Starbucks Corp.
It also trains a spotlight on JAB, whose stewardship of the Reimann fortune has drawn comparisons to 3G Capital, the Brazilian private equity giant run by the billionaire Jorge Paulo Lemann. JAB, run by a trio of trusted Reimann advisers, is coming off a four-year acquisition spree in which it spent about $30 billion taking controlling stakes in Jacobs Douwe Egberts, Peet’s Coffee & Tea, Caribou Coffee, Einstein Noah Restaurant Group, Espresso House and Baresso Coffee.
“They’ve been slowly amassing a pretty big umbrella of breakfast- and coffee-oriented brands, and so Krispy Kreme slides underneath that umbrella pretty easily,” said Will Slabaugh, an analyst at Stephens Inc.
…The four Reimanns each have a net worth of $3.3 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. A fifth sibling, Andrea Reimann-Ciardelli, sold her stake in JAB in 2003 and has a $1.2 billion net worth. Seeking a favorable tax environment for the Reimanns, Harf moved their family offices to Vienna from Ludwigshafen, Germany, in 2006. The family traded their German passports for Austrian ones.
For now, coffee is a small part of Krispy Kreme’s business. Almost 90 percent of its revenue came from doughnuts last year. Compare that with Dunkin’ Donuts, which gets most of its sales from coffee. Dunkin’ too has been cited as a possible JAB takeover target, though the firm may take its time before making such a deal, Slabaugh said.
“They probably want to swallow an acquisition like this for a while before looking at something like Dunkin’,” he said.
8e. More biographical information on the Reimann family.
“The Secretive Billionaire Family Behind The $13.9 Billion Keuring Green Mountain Deal” by Max Jedeur-Palmgren; Forbes; 12/7/2015.

Just as they wish it to be, you have probably have never heard of the Reimann family. Chances are however that you have come across the products of their empire multiple times a day; maybe it was a pair of Jimmy Choo shoes, Durex condoms, Peet’s coffee, a Mondelez snack or Calvin Klein fragrances. On Monday, the family’s conglomerated announced it will pay $13.9 billion in cash to add yet another well-known product to its portfolio, Keurig Green Mountain, maker of home and office coffee brewing systems. The offer was a 78% premium to where it had traded on Friday, and the news sent the stock soaring. (The company’s founder, Bob Stiller, saw his fortune jump nearly $300 million today but he is still worth well less than he was at the stock’s peak).
The siblings are decedents of German chemist Ludwig Reimann, who in 1828 joined Johann Adam Benckiser, and his namesake company in Ludwigshafen, Germany. By marrying one of Benckiser’s daughters, Reimann ended up inheriting the entire company. His great-grandson Albert Reimann took the reins in 1952, and decided to steer the company in a new direction, adding consumer goods to its business. When he died in 1984, his nine adopted children, none of whom had ever worked for the business or had any role in its operations, each inherited 11.1% of John A. Benckiser (JAB S.e.r.l.).
The lack of involvement is allegedly part of the family policy, which also includes signing a codex on one’s 18th birthday pledging to stay out of the public as much as possible, thus making them one of the most private billionaire families.

Five of the original nine siblings have divested from JAB, selling their stakes to the remaining four. Wolfgang, Matthias, Stefan and Renate together now own 95% of the company, which they hold through family offices based in Vienna. Andrea Reimann-Ciadelli, now an American citizen living in New Hampshire, sold her stake in 2003 for close to $1 billion and is the lowest ranking family member one the Forbes Billionaires List. The other sellers are believed to have been bought out in the late 90’s to unknown, but probably lower, amounts.
…The explicit aim of the latest deal according to the press releases was to create the world’s largest pure-play coffee company. With the Keuring Green Mountain Deal announced on Monday, JAB will have succeeded in doing just that, and will pass Nestlé in terms of global annual revenue for coffee. Be as secretive as you may, it’s hard to escape the headlines if you are making deals to take over an industry.
8f. This article discusses JAB and 3G competing for Panera, but takes the time to point out that this unusual and that they usually move in tandem. Also, note that the CEO of JAB is chair of 3G-owned Inbev! Very cozy… also, note that Warren Buffett is routinely involved with both. Few things testify to the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of American liberalism than its fandom for Buffett. Yeah, he occasionally takes a swipe at Trump or the Bushes, but that doesn’t mean he is “the Good Billionaire”. He has always been dirty.
“Buffet-Backed Firm Interested in Bid for Panera Bread” by Josh Kosman; New York Post; 4/10/1017.

If 3G moves to top JAB’s $7.5 billion offer for Panera, it would put two of the world’s largest PE firms in direct competition for what is likely the first time.
JAB and 3G have been seen as allies. For example, Olivier Goudet, JAB’s chief executive, is chair of 3G’s Anheuser-Busch InBev.
The two firms have also invested in each other’s deals, sources close to the firms said.
“The idea of them being in combat with each other is really unusual,” a source who’s an investment banker said.
“Given that they invest in each other’s deals, it would be like going to war with your neighbor,” the banker said.
JAB, the investment vehicle for the reclusive billionaire Reimann family, of Germany, signed a $315-a-share cash merger agreement with Panera last week. Panera shares closed Monday at $313.30.
It was an exclusive sales process whereby Panera did not shop itself to other suitors, an investment banker said.
Both JAB and 3G are on a global buying spree. They have a similar strategy of investing in a space and expanding their businesses via acquisition.
8g. This article confirms the JAB investment in 3G.
“Brazilian PE Firm 3G Capital Eyes SAB Miller;” Venture Capital Post; 9/17/2015.

Though 3G Capital is a PE firm, it doesn’t raise money in the normal way as most of the private equity firms do. It prefers to get huge lots of money from the wealthiest families in the world. Lemann and his associates Carlos Alberto, Sicupira and Marcel have pooled up big lots of money from over three dozen super rich individuals and the most wealthiest families in the world.
The world’s well-known fund manager William Ackman also recently invested in 3G Capital. Other major investors include Colombia’s Santo Domingo family, tennis player Roger Federer from Switzerland and JAB Holdings, which handles Germany’s Reimann family assets.
8h. An overview of Jorge Paulo Lemann’s business undertakings, noting as we go his Germanic last name and the profound Bormann presence in Latin America and Switzerland (Lemann’s place of residence):
“Jorge Paulo Lemann”; Forbes; 5/27/2016.

Jorge Paulo Lemann is Brazil’s richest man thanks to his stake in Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world’s largest brewer, which he owns through private equity firm 3G Capital together with fellow billionaires and longtime partners Carlos Sicupira and Marcel Herrmann Telles [a nice Iberian name, no?–D.E.]. The trio also has stakes in Restaurant Brands International, which owns Burger King and Tim Hortons and is listed both the New York and Toronto stock exchanges. In 2013 Lemann’s private equity firm bought H.J. Heinz & Company for $23 billion together with Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway. It was 3G Capital’s second acquisition of an American name brand. In 2010, 3G Capital bought Burger King in a leveraged buyout.

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Did Bayer buy a lemon? That’s probably one of the questions the company executives and shareholders are probably asking themselves after a week of plummeting stock valuations following a wave a lawsuits directed at Bayer’s recently acquired Monsanto for $63 billion. As the following article articles, Bayer’s share prices dropped 10 percent on Monday following a California jury that awarded $289 million to a man who sued Monsanto after getting cancer following years of heavy use of Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide despite assurances of its safety, opening the floodgates to potentially thousands of other similar lawsuits.
Then, on Wednesday, the California Supreme Court turned down an attempt by Bayer to keep Roundup off the list of known carcinogens. That knocked another 6 percent off of Bayer’s share price and Bayer’s stock is now at a five year low.
But the woes don’t stop there. Bayer/Monsanto was also just hit with a new class action lawsuit by farmers in Arkansas and South Dakota over Dicamba, an alternative herbicide produced by Monsanto and seen as a potential successor to Roundup.
Also, it looks like Brazil might ban glyphosate, the key ingredient in Roundup.
Oh, and it turns out researchers have been elevated levels of glyphosate in a wide variety of children’s cereal products. So Bayer is potentially looking at lawsuits involving exposing children to carcinogens. Plus, if dangerous levels of glyphosate are indeed found in cereals, you can be sure it’s going to be found in all sorts of other food products that have yet to be discovered.
So you have to wonder if this is a surprise for Bayer or was expected when they agreed to pay $63 billion for a company that appears to be a lawsuit machine at this point:
Fortune
Bayer Stock Keeps Falling as Its Monsanto Woes Stack Up

By David Meyer
08/16/2018 7:23 AM EDT
Bayer stock continues to slide in the wake of last week’s bombshell verdict on the carcinogenic nature of Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller.
Bayer bought Monsanto earlier this year for $63 billion. Roundup’s active ingredient is a herbicide called glyphosate, which a jury last week decided was responsible for the cancer of former groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson—a verdict that quickly lopped 10% off Bayer’s share price.
Glyphosate’s responsibility for causing cancer is a deeply contentious issue. The World Health Organization thinks the substance is dangerous. However, the European Union decided in 2015 that it is not carcinogenic, the Environmental Protection Agency said last year that it probably doesn’t cause cancer, and Bayer continues to argue that its newly acquired product is safe—it’s appealing the Johnson ruling.
But on Wednesday, the California Supreme Court turned down Bayer’s attempt to keep Roundup’s name off a list of known carcinogenic chemicals.

Bayer’s share price fell 6.1% on Thursday, following the Californian decision. So far, it has lost more than 18% of its value since the Johnson verdict, and is now lower than it has been for more than five years.
The negative sentiment can also be traced to class action lawsuits that the company is facing in the U.S. over its Dicamba herbicide. According to Bloomberg, Arkansas and South Dakota farmers who are suing Bayer/Monsanto say Dicamba harmed crops adjacent to those on which it was sprayed—it’s only supposed to be applied to plants that are engineered for resistance to Dicamba.
Meanwhile, according to Germany’s Wirtschaftswoche magazine, glyphosate could also face a ban in Brazil. And environmentalists said Wednesday that they found unhealthy levels of glyphosate in popular breakfast cereals such as Cheerios.
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“Bayer Stock Keeps Falling as Its Monsanto Woes Stack Up” by David Meyer; Fortune; 08/16/2018

“Bayer bought Monsanto earlier this year for $63 billion. Roundup’s active ingredient is a herbicide called glyphosate, which a jury last week decided was responsible for the cancer of former groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson—a verdict that quickly lopped 10% off Bayer’s share price.”
So the week started off with a 10 percent drop in Bayer’s share price following the California verdict. And it just kept getting worse. The California Supreme court refused to hear an appeal by Bayer over a ruling that put glyphosate on the list of carcinogenic chemicals, knocking another 6.1 percent off the share price:
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Glyphosate’s responsibility for causing cancer is a deeply contentious issue. The World Health Organization thinks the substance is dangerous. However, the European Union decided in 2015 that it is not carcinogenic, the Environmental Protection Agency said last year that it probably doesn’t cause cancer, and Bayer continues to argue that its newly acquired product is safe—it’s appealing the Johnson ruling.
But on Wednesday, the California Supreme Court turned down Bayer’s attempt to keep Roundup’s name off a list of known carcinogenic chemicals.
Bayer’s share price fell 6.1% on Thursday, following the Californian decision. So far, it has lost more than 18% of its value since the Johnson verdict, and is now lower than it has been for more than five years.
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Then there’s the lawsuits against Bayer/Monsanto by farmers in South Dakota and Arkansas over Dicamba, a product Monsanto was promoting as a replacement for Roundup:
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The negative sentiment can also be traced to class action lawsuits that the company is facing in the U.S. over its Dicamba herbicide. According to Bloomberg, Arkansas and South Dakota farmers who are suing Bayer/Monsanto say Dicamba harmed crops adjacent to those on which it was sprayed—it’s only supposed to be applied to plants that are engineered for resistance to Dicamba.
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Finally, it turns out elevated levels of glyphosate are found in a large number of popular breakfast cereals popular with children:
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Meanwhile, according to Germany’s Wirtschaftswoche magazine, glyphosate could also face a ban in Brazil. And environmentalists said Wednesday that they found unhealthy levels of glyphosate in popular breakfast cereals such as Cheerios.
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So it’s looking like Bayer paid $63 billion for a legal nightmare scenario. Again, was this kind of legal liability seen as a real possibility when they made the purchase or a big surprise? Because if it was a big surprise, well, that’s unfortunate for Bayer but oh well.
But if this legal nightmare was expected, you have to wonder if Bayer also expected to be able to fend off these legal challenges and this is all part of the plan. Or was the expectation inside Bayer that acquisition of Monsanto was going to be so profitable in the long run anyway that Bayer could afford to take these losses? Because if it’s the latter case, and Bayer was willing to just absorb these legal blows, that suggests Bayer is expecting the joint Bayer/Monsanto behemoth to be incredibly profitable in the future, which, in turn, implies that Bayer was expecting Bayer/Monsanto to have an even larger grip on the global agricultural markets than it already has.
And that’s all why the question of “what was Bayer thinking when they made this purchase?” is a rather ominous one for not just Bayer’s shareholders but everyone else too.
POSTED BY PTERRAFRACTYL | AUGUST 16, 2018, 11:39 AM
The German tabloid Bild just reported on the Nazi history of the family behind JAB Holdings. Surprise! It turns out Albert Reimann Sr. and Jr. were big time Nazis and the company employed forced labor. The report found that French and Russian prisoners of war were used in the family’s factories and private villas during WWII. Reimann Jr. once complained to the mayor of Ludwigshafen that the prisoners weren’t working hard enough. Reimann Sr. and Jr. were also big anti-Semites and supporters of Adolf Hitler and Sr. donated to the SS as early as 1933.
The Reimann family, currently the second wealthiest in Germany, actually commissioned a historian in 2014 to investigate the family’s ties to the Nazis. That work is still ongoing and wasn’t part of this report so it sounds like there might be even more Nazi revelations on the way. As family spokesman Peter Harf put it, “It is all correct...Reimann Senior and Reimann Junior were guilty. The two men have passed away, but they actually belonged in prison.”:
The Washington Post
German billionaire family that owns Einstein Bros. Bagels admits Nazi past

By Eli Rosenberg
March 25, 2019 at 10:49 AM
The German family whose holding company owns controlling stakes in companies such as Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Panera Bread, Pret a Manger and Einstein Bros. Bagels profited from the horrors of the Nazi regime, according to a bombshell report in a German newspaper.
The tabloid Bild, one of Germany’s most popular papers, reported that Albert Reimann Sr. and Albert Reimann Jr., whose family backs JAB Holdings, had significant links to the Third Reich.

JAB Holdings is a privately held conglomerate that has investments in a wide portfolio of global companies, among them Peet’s Coffee, Keurig Green Mountain and Dr Pepper-Snapple. It acquired Einstein Noah Restaurant Group, which owns three national bagel chains — Einstein Bros., Noah’s New York Bagels and Manhattan Bagel — in 2014.
The report found that Russian civilians and French prisoners of war were used as forced laborers in the family’s factories and private villas around World War II, when it was involved in chemicals-related manufacturing mostly for the food industry, according to Deutsche Welle.

“It is all correct,” family spokesman Peter Harf, who is one of two managing partners of JAB Holdings, told Bild. “Reimann Senior and Reimann Junior were guilty. The two men have passed away, but they actually belonged in prison.”
The two men died in 1954 and 1984, respectively.
Other disclosures in the report include revelations that the two men were anti-Semites and avowed supporters of Adolf Hitler, and Reimann Sr. donated to the paramilitary SS force as early as 1933, according to Deutsche Welle.

Reimann Jr. once complained to the mayor of Ludwigshafen, where the family had an industrial chemicals company, that the French prisoners of war weren’t working hard enough, Deutsche Welle reported.

The report was a reminder of the way that some private businesses that are willing to put moral and human rights concerns aside are able to profit from the repression of fascist regimes. Many German companies have reckoned with histories of collaboration with the Nazi regime, among them: Hugo Boss, Mercedes-Benz, BMW and others.
Harf told Bild that the company plans to give about $11 million to charity after learning of the family’s history, the AFP reported. He said that the family had been looking into its past and in 2014 commissioned a historian, Paul Erker of Munich University, to study its ties to the Nazi regime, a work that has yet to be completed after more than four years. Harf said that the family plans to release more information about that study when it is done.
In an email, Erker confirmed that he was investigating the company’s history during the Nazi era.
“It is about an overall story also in the industry context, but in which the subject of forced labor plays a central role,” Erker said. “The mandate includes absolute scientific independence and unrestricted access to files, including the Benckiser Archive and family records. I ask for your understanding that I cannot provide any information on the details and results of the ongoing project.”
Die Industriellen-Dynastie Reimann gilt heute mit 33 Milliarden Euro als die zweitreichste Familie Deutschlands. pic.twitter.com/GxkEBbBruJ
— BILD am SONNTAG (@BILDamSONNTAG) March 24, 2019
JAB Holdings was founded in the 1820s by Johann A. Benckiser, according to CB insights, and now serves as the “investment vehicle” for the Reimann family.

It holds stakes in companies behind brands such as Mucinex, Woolite and Durex condoms, according to CB Insights, and is a majority shareholder of the beauty product company Coty. In recent years, its aggressive moves to expand beyond the world of household goods have drawn attention, particularly in the world of coffee and baked goods. It has reportedly spent more than $40 billion to acquire brands such as Peet’s Coffee, Caribou Coffee and Keurig Green Mountain, Stumptown Coffee Roasters and Intelligentsia.
The Reimann family, which has been described repeatedly in news reports as “secretive,” has an estimated wealth of some 33 billion euros, or about $37 billion, according to the AFP, and is believed to be the second-wealthiest in Germany. JAB Holdings did not respond to a request for comment.
Erker said he did not have an exact date when he expected to have his report ready.
According to the AFP, the company employed as many as 175 forced laborers, and produced items for the Nazi military and weapons industry. The company has not provided compensation to any of the forced laborers, “but we have since talked about what we can do now,” Harf said.
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“German billionaire family that owns Einstein Bros. Bagels admits Nazi past” by Eli Rosenberg; The Washington Post; 03/25/2019

“The Reimann family, which has been described repeatedly in news reports as “secretive,” has an estimated wealth of some 33 billion euros, or about $37 billion, according to the AFP, and is believed to be the second-wealthiest in Germany. JAB Holdings did not respond to a request for comment.”
This isn’t just any wealth family with a dark family secret. This is the second wealthiest family in Germany, with holdings that include Peet’s Coffee, Caribou Coffee, Stumptown Coffee Roasters, Keurig Green Mountain, Intelligensia, Dr Pepper-Snapple, Einstein Bros., Noah’s New York Bagels, Manhattan Bagel, Mucinex, Woolite, Durex condoms, and the beauty product company Coty. And that’s just some of the brands held by JAB Holdings:
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JAB Holdings is a privately held conglomerate that has investments in a wide portfolio of global companies, among them Peet’s Coffee, Keurig Green Mountain and Dr Pepper-Snapple. It acquired Einstein Noah Restaurant Group, which owns three national bagel chains — Einstein Bros., Noah’s New York Bagels and Manhattan Bagel — in 2014.
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JAB Holdings was founded in the 1820s by Johann A. Benckiser, according to CB insights, and now serves as the “investment vehicle” for the Reimann family.
It holds stakes in companies behind brands such as Mucinex, Woolite and Durex condoms, according to CB Insights, and is a majority shareholder of the beauty product company Coty. In recent years, its aggressive moves to expand beyond the world of household goods have drawn attention, particularly in the world of coffee and baked goods. It has reportedly spent more than $40 billion to acquire brands such as Peet’s Coffee, Caribou Coffee and Keurig Green Mountain, Stumptown Coffee Roasters and Intelligentsia.
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And this incredible family wealth, along with the family’s extensive secrecy, raises obvious questions about how this Nazi past may have played into the accumulation of such wealth. Of course, that turns out to include the use of prisoner of war forced labor. It’s one of the more shocking findings, along with the revelation that Reimann Sr and Jr were both avowed supporters of Hitler and Sr. donated to the SS as early as 1933:
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The report found that Russian civilians and French prisoners of war were used as forced laborers in the family’s factories and private villas around World War II, when it was involved in chemicals-related manufacturing mostly for the food industry, according to Deutsche Welle.
“It is all correct,” family spokesman Peter Harf, who is one of two managing partners of JAB Holdings, told Bild. “Reimann Senior and Reimann Junior were guilty. The two men have passed away, but they actually belonged in prison.”

The two men died in 1954 and 1984, respectively.
Other disclosures in the report include revelations that the two men were anti-Semites and avowed supporters of Adolf Hitler, and Reimann Sr. donated to the paramilitary SS force as early as 1933, according to Deutsche Welle.

Reimann Jr. once complained to the mayor of Ludwigshafen, where the family had an industrial chemicals company, that the French prisoners of war weren’t working hard enough, Deutsche Welle reported.
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According to the AFP, the company employed as many as 175 forced laborers, and produced items for the Nazi military and weapons industry. The company has not provided compensation to any of the forced laborers, “but we have since talked about what we can do now,” Harf said.
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Eugenics + Vaccinations - IBM The Connection Part 2-5 (More bs Conspiracies)  


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shadyzz954 Subscribe127 Add to  Share  More 807 views 8 1 Published on 30 Nov 2011 IBM's Hollerith punch-card machines--provided the Nazis with a unique and critical tool in their task of cataloguing and dispatching their millions of victims. IBM didn't merely vend its products to Hitler --as did many American companies-- but maintained a strategic alliance with the Third Reich in which it licensed, maintained and custom-designed its products for use in the machinery of the Holocaust. IBM has responded to questions about its relationship with the Nazis largely by characterizing the information as old news. "The fact that Hollerith equipment manufactured by (IBM's German unit) Dehomag was used by the Nazi administration has long been known and is not new information," IBM representative Carol Makovich wrote in an e-mail interview. "This information was published in 1997 in the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing and in 1998 in Washington Jewish Week." IBM also maintains, in a February statement to which it refers most questions on the matter, that the Nazis took control of its German unit before and throughout the war, and that the company "does not have much information about this period or the operations of Dehomag." Black vehemently disputes both claims. Though Thomas Watson, himself, flew to Germany multiple times and met with Adolf Hitler, himself, photos of the meetings exist everywhere online, search for them yourselves. The machines also had to be serviced, and Americans were flown out to NAZI Germany to fix those machines during the holocaust. IBM also defended Chairman Thomas Watson for his dealings with Hitler and his regime. "As chairman of a major international company and a strong supporter of international trade, he met and corresponded with senior government officials from many, many countries, Hitler and Germany among them, in the 1930s," Makovich wrote. "As far as we know, the nature of the contacts between IBM executives and German government officials during the 1930s were similar to those with other government officials in other countries and consistent with IBM practices in the various countries in which the company did business during that era." Category News and Politics
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French/Germans want to leave, so unelected EU MUST punish UK for Brexit 4th Reich Martin Bormann

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Walter Hallstein. He was a highly regarded member of the Association of Nazi Lawyers. Hitler tasked him with drawing up plans for a German ruled anti democratic European Customs Federation. He even sent Hallstein to Italy to explain how Europe would be ruled, and Italy’s share of the spoils. After the failure of Axis Barbarossa and the success of Allied Normandy landings, Germany defeat was certain. They prolonged the war long enough to ensure their post war networks were adequately set up to pursue the thousand year Reich in stealth. Hallstein like many other leading men vital to this plan was given an anti Nazi backstory, and later emerged at the first President of the E.E.C.



The Dekker paper was an internal Philips project led by Dekker's government affairs representative in Brussels, Coen Ramaer. It was the result of the company's growing dissatisfaction with the inability of government officials -- national or EC -- to produce a concrete proposal for a European market. While Mitterrand was promoting an industrial initiative, there were no specifics to the French President's plan. Moreover, when the Commission did produce a comprehensive package of proposals in late 1984, there was no outpouring of support for the initiative. The Commission document developed by Commissioner Narjes listed hundreds of pre-existing pieces of legislation -- ranging from standardisation to social actions to environmental issues -- deemed necessary for the creation of an internal market. Business leaders, while pleased that a package was produced, found the Commission package "unwieldy" and lacking "a precise time-table." Moreover, there was no strategy to ensure its implementation and no rationale for industrial growth. It became apparent to the heads of multinationals that industry needed to produce its own concrete program.
With Dekker's support, Ramaer assembled four Philips experts who had long dealt with the four key areas later outlined in the Dekker speech. As Ramaer explains, he instructed the men to:
"imagine yourselves to be dictators of Europe and that you have decided that the job must be done in five years. And they [the experts] started out "but this is impossible! Be realistic!" And I told them that I couldn't care less if we were realistic or not.
Once they had picked up this idea, they found it fascinating. And they discovered that it could be done -- given the political will, of course." [Interview, September 24th 1992]

Debate: Planning for Brexit
Tue Jan 17, 2017
In this episode of The Debate, Press TV has conducted an interview with investigative journalist Tony Gosling from Bristol, and Mark Thornton, a senior fellow at The Mises Institute from Alabama, to discuss the recent remarks by British Prime Minister Theresa May about the country's exit from the European Union's single market.
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2017/01/...
https://t.co/4P3hxRZoWh

The Single Market programme was the 1980's relaunch of the economic and ultimately political integration of Europe. So-called Father of the EU, [see Mike Peters' paper for more on his role] Jean Monnet, had always felt it crucial to rein back big business. The single market programme turned this policy on its head. The relaunch document (see below) was prepared by Philips Industries in Holland and researched by unnamed Philips staff. The staff were told to "imagine yourselves to be dictators of Europe."

'Imagine yourselves to be dictators of Europe'
http://www.bilderberg.org/bildhist.ht...
Few realise how pivotal the 2000 Bilderberg chairman, Viscount Etienne Davignon, was in this process. As European Commissioner for Industry and the Internal Market from 1977 to 1980 he was perfectly placed to put big business in the driving seat of European policy. In 1985, as Industry Commissioner, he challenged Pehr Gyllenhammar, CEO of Volvo, (also administrator of United Technologies, Vice President of the Aspen Institute and one of the five partners of Kissinger Associates) to organise a group of the top European businessmen to lobby the Commission. Davignon argued that the Commission would be obliged to respond to the demands of some of the largest European industrialists. The Gyllenhammar group was to become the highly influential European Round Table of Industrialists or ERT, drawing up policy for Europe.
Extract from: The Politics of Big Business in the Single Market Program, by Maria L. Green, The American University, Visiting Fellow, CSIA, Harvard University.
School of International Service, The American University, 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington DC 20016.
Paper presented for the European Community Studies Association, Third Biennial International Conference, May 27 1993, Washington DC.
This is an essential document for anyone curious about the origins of the present policies and direction of the European Union. The above paper has the following structure. The opening section of the most relevant chapter, IV, is reproduced below.
IV. The Dekker Paper, the Political Agenda and a Constituency for Delors - extract
Repackaging the message: The Dekker Paper
On January 11, 1985, in Brussels, Wisse Dekker, CEO of Phillips, unveiled a plan, "Europe 1990", before an audience of 500 people including many of the newly appointed EC commissioners.

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Interesting stuff - Otto Skorzeny lived for some time near the Curragh Camp in Co Kildare, and I was reliably informed that he was a regular visitor to some of the officers messes at the Curragh camp. he was initially denied permission to settle in Ireland

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/why-hitler-s-top-ss-man-bough t-a-farm-in-co-kildare-1.3695416


Why Hitler's top SS man bought a farm in Co Kildare
Papers reveal exchanges between officials and ministers divided over Nazi Otto Skorzeny

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Nazi Otto Skorzeny bought a farm in Co Kildare in 1959 and sought to become a permanent resident here. He was refused permission after a lengthy process.
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Irish ministers and top civil servants were divided about whether Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s favourite SS commando, Otto Skorzeny, should be given permanent residence in Ireland in the late 1950s.

Skorzeny, who led the daring rescue of Mussolini from Allied hands, was a regular visitor to Ireland. He bought a farm in Co Kildare in 1959 and wanted to become a permanent resident here.

The latest volume of Documents on Irish Foreign Policy 1957-1961 contains a series of exchanges between officials and ministers about his requests to visit the State and become a permanent resident.

A note from Conor Cruise O’Brien, then a senior official in the Department of External Affairs, in June 1957 refers to a visa application from Skorzeny, who is described as well known for his military exploits with “special” units of the German army in the second World War including his rescue of Mussolini.

“Skorzeny, who is now stateless, resides in Spain. He is on the UK Home Office Black List as an undesirable character. I think this means no more than that he made their faces red in the matter of Mussolini. We are not aware of any specific war crimes charges against him,” he wrote.

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“I see no objection either to the granting of the visa (if D/Justice assent, which they probably will on our recommendation). Of course if the Skorzenys come here there may be some adverse comment in the English popular press but I think we should be prepared to endure that with fortitude.”

The visa was granted and Skorzeny made a very public visit to Dublin where he was welcomed by a number of prominent people including an up and coming politician named Charles Haughey.

‘Werewolf’ operations

The publicity generated by Skorzeny’s visits aroused considerable local and international media interest. Iveagh House official Eoin MacWhite wrote to Cruise O’Brien saying he had doubted the wisdom of granting a visa and added: “He is the focus of a lot of bitterness in the US for the ‘werewolf’ operations and whether or not guilty of ‘war crimes’ letting him settle here only attracts to us a part of that odium without any corresponding advantage.”

Skorzeny bought Martinstown House, a gothic style house near the Curragh, and sought permission to become a permanent resident.

At the end of 1959 another official, Timothy Horan, pointed out that there were allegations in the French press that Skorzeny was using the fact of his residence in Spain to engage in the shipment of arms to Arab countries.

“We have no proof that he was engaged in this arms traffic but it seems to me that there is a reasonable presumption that he was, in fact, so engaged. He seems to be quite well off for a person who 10 years ago had nothing,” he said.

Horan objected to the way Skorzeny had attempted to force the issue by acquiring property here, in other words a permanent residence, before the question of his application for a visa has been disposed of.

“In all the circumstances, therefore, I think the application should be refused.”

The secretary of the Department of Justice Peter Berry advised that Skorzeny be given permanent residency. His view was supported by his minister Oscar Traynor. However, minister for external affairs Frank Aiken strongly advised Justice against granting residence. In the end permission was refused.

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How Organized Crime Infiltrated American Business After WW II and Corrupted National Politics from Truman to Trump

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2021/06/10/how-organized-crime-infilt rated-american-business-after-ww-ii-and-corrupted-national-politics-fr om-truman-to-trump/

By Jeremy Kuzmarov June 10, 2021
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Harry Truman and Tom Pendergast in 1919.Harry S. Truman and Kansas City mafia boss Tom Pendergast in 1919. [Source: cafnr.missouri.edu]
Provocative new book documents the unsavory alliance between the Mafia, the CIA, and the corporate establishment that transformed America into “the world’s most dangerous nation”

During the years of the Trump presidency, popular and scholarly discussions of the erosion of U.S. political and legal norms frequently contrasted the Trump era with a supposed golden age of U.S. democracy in the mid-20th century.

Jonathan Marshall’s new book, Dark Quadrant: Organized Crime, Big Business, and the Corruption of American Democracy (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021) effectively challenges this narrative and the myth of the “greatest generation.”

The book details the largely neglected story of how well-protected criminals organized the corruption of U.S. politics and business at a national level after World War II.
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Traditional U.S. historians, according to Marshall, have treated corruption as a “barely detectable eddy in the large current of events, with no lasting political or even moral significance.”

They ignore the ties between organized crime and dominant political figures, ranging from Harry S. Truman to Lyndon B. Johnson to Richard M. Nixon, along with the role of the mafia and CIA in subverting Third World nations.

As such, they present an incomplete picture, which plays into belief in “American exceptionalism”­that the country’s politics are more morally pure than other countries.

“Americans,” Marshall writes, “must arm themselves with greater knowledge of the long-neglected ‘dark quadrant’ of our national politics in order to shrink its power and strengthen our democracy.”

Harry Truman: The Pendergast’s Man

Marshall begins his story with Harry S. Truman, a failed businessman and law school student whose political rise was fueled by his backing by the mafia-linked Pendergast political machine in Kansas City.

Kansas City in the 1920s was a center for vice. Thomas J. Pendergast­who was convicted in 1939 on federal tax evasion charges­was the “ruling spirit behind” the “roaring business” of gambling, prostitution, bootlegging, the sale of narcotics and racketeering,” in partnership with political boss John Lazia, an ally of Al Capone’s Chicago outfit.
Social Welfare History Project Pendergast MachineTom Pendergast [Source: socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu]
The Murder of John Lazia, Kansas City Mob BossJohn Lazia [Source: ganglandwire.com]

Truman’s political career began in 1922 when he was elected county court judge in Eastern Missouri as Pendergast’s hand-picked candidate.

Young Truman recorded in his diary how he let a former saloon keeper and murderer who was “a friend of the big boss,” as he termed Pendergast, steal about $10,000 from the general revenues of the county, though he rationalized the decision by claiming that it “kept the crooks from getting a million or more from public bond issues.”
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Description automatically generated with low confidencePolitical advertisement for Truman when he was running for county judge in Eastern Missouri with the backing of the Pendergast political machine. [Source: pendergastkc.org]

With Pendergast’s help, Truman won election to the Senate in 1934, just before the indictment of senior police officials in Kansas City for perjury after they had protected criminal mobs and racketeers. Within a few years, Truman was doing everything in his power to block a threatened federal investigation of rampant vote fraud in Kansas City during the 1936 election.
U.S. Senator Harry Truman and Tom PendergastTruman, far left, with Pendergast to his left, at the Democratic Party national convention in Philadelphia in 1936. [Source: flatlandkc.org]

In return for this and other political favors, Pendergast allies, such as Democratic National Committee (DNC) chairman Robert Hannegan, secured Truman’s nomination as Roosevelt’s running mate at the 1944 Democratic Party Convention in Chicago over Henry Wallace, an anti-fascist progressive who had the overwhelming support of the delegates.
Robert E. Hannegan opening the conventionRobert Hannegan opening the 1944 Democratic Party Convention in Chicago. Hannegan was allied with the Pendergast political machine and played a key role in Truman’s nomination over Henry Wallace for Vice President, a turning point in modern U.S. history. [Source: wikiwand.com]

When Roosevelt died nine months later and Truman became president, he issued pardons to 15 members of the Pendergast machine who had been convicted of vote fraud in the 1936 election. Three weeks into his term, Truman further fired the U.S. attorney in Missouri who had prosecuted vote fraud in Kansas City and sent Pendergast to prison along with 250 members of his organization.

According to Marshall, these were the first of many acts of “favoritism, influence peddling, and outright corruption that plagued the Truman administration until voters repudiated the Democratic Party in the 1952 election.”

In a major roundup of Truman’s record published in 1951, two veteran national political reporters at Look magazine condemned the “friendships, favoritism and frauds” that had fostered “immorality” and “corruption” under Truman’s auspices. “Political morality in Washington had sunk to the lowest depths in a quarter of a century,” they charged, citing “four members of the White House staff” and “fourteen high Federal officials” among the nearly “900 Federal employees” who had been “caught trying to improve their private fortunes through their positions on the public payroll.”

This assessment contradicts the attempt by noted historians like David McCullough and Alonzo Hamby to elevate Truman’s reputation and present him as one of the nation’s great presidents.

Look magazine reported that the Truman administration’s alcohol tax unit granted scores of liquor licenses to known hoodlums and mobsters. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) under Truman further privileged issuing loans to political donors who included mob-connected business owners.

When Truman’s Attorney General, Tom Clark, protected Pendergast’s successor, the racketeer and famed bootlegger Charles Binaggio, by restricting an FBI investigation into the blatant theft of ballots during the 1946 Democratic congressional primary on behalf of Truman’s favored candidate, Truman wrote to his wife Bess that “everybody was elated.”

Binaggio went on to help Truman raise $150,000 during his hard-fought 1948 presidential campaign.
Charles Binaggio | Mafia Wiki | FandomCharles Binaggio [Source: mafia.wikia.org]
Attorney General Tom C. Clark Seated, Smoking Cigar - U.S. NatiTom Clark [Source: nara.getarchive.net]

Clark meanwhile was appointed by Truman to the Supreme Court­despite calls for his impeachment as Attorney General for ordering the parole of half a dozen leaders of the Chicago crime syndicate barely a third of their way into ten-year sentences for extorting over a million dollars from Hollywood studios as a favor for Chicago’s Democratic machine.

Politics of Anti-Communism

During the 1940s and 1950s, corrupt politicians championed the politics of anti-communism in order to divert attention from the growing nexus between organized crime, big business and government.

At the center of this nexus stood FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover (1924-1972), who cultivated mob connected businessmen in his war against communism, while refusing to cooperate with the Kefauver Committee’s landmark investigation of organized crime in 1950-1951.
J. Edgar Hoover - WikipediaJ. Edgar Hoover. He maintained that “communism is the major menace of our time” and insisted that fighting crime syndicates was a matter for local law enforcement. [Source: wikipedia.org]

Before being known as an anti-communist red hunter, Senator Joseph McCarthy (R-MN) had earned the moniker the “Pepsi-Cola kid” after pushing through a bill lifting federal controls for sugar that benefited Pepsi.
Joseph McCarthy / Useful Notes - TV TropesSenator Joseph McCarthy [Source: tvtropes.org]

McCarthy also received donations and stock tips from East Texas oil billionaire Clint Murchison, Sr., prompting him to vote with the oil interests on every piece of legislation of that era, including the 27.5% oil depletion allowance, the Tidelands oil bill, which provided for state rather than federal control of submerged oil lands, and the Kerr-Thomas gas bill, which exempted the sale of natural gas from Federal Power Commission rate regulations.

In 1954, McCarthy was censured by the Senate not only because of his infamous communist smear campaign, but also because he had attempted to obstruct an investigation into his finances, which would have revealed improper payoffs by Lustron, an Ohio manufacturer of prefabricated steel houses, in return for its receipt of a generous RFC loan.

China and Dominican Lobbies

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Besides McCarthy, one of the leading sponsors of anticommunist legislation in the 1950s was Pat McCarran (D-Nev.), who was known as the “gamblers Senator” and became the model for the corrupt Nevada Senator Pat Geary in Francis Ford Coppola’s film, The Godfather: Part II.

McCarran was a devoted member of the China lobby, introducing a bill to provide $1.5 billion in loans to the faltering government of Chiang Kai-Shek in China.

The U.S. government supported Chiang in the Chinese Civil War against the Chinese Communist Party led by Mao Zedong. By the late 1940s, however, Chiang was hopelessly corrupt and had lost the mandate to rule in China, which had fallen to the communists.
Smiles of victory and friendship are flashed here by President Harry Truman meets with Madame Chiang Kai-Shek in 1945. [Source: torontopubliclibrary.ca]

Chiang and his top supporters established an effective lobby in the United States, funded in part through proceeds from the drug trade and other illicit commercial activities, which controlled the media and paid off influential politicians extending to the ranks of Defense Secretary Louis Johnson.
99-605 (untitled)Louis Johnson [Source: trumanlibrary.gov]

The China lobby’s intimidation tactics decimated the ranks of independent Asia experts to the extent that, by the mid-1950s, no one who knew anything about that part of the world remained in the State Department’s Far Eastern Division. The disastrous wars in Korea and Vietnam were a major result, along with U.S. backing of regressive governments and opium warlords in Southeast Asia.
Phao Siyanon - WikipediaPolice General Phao Sinyanon, a Thai opium warlord supported by the CIA in the 1950s at the behest of the China lobby. [Source: wikipedia.org]

The China lobby set the standard for other influential lobbies, such as the Dominican lobby promoting dictator Rafael Trujillo (1930-1961), who made tactical alliances with U.S. mobsters, politicians, and U.S. intelligence officials.

Like Chiang, Trujillo was effective at using the politics of anti-communism and bribed U.S. congressmen with cash and prostitutes to secure their support for a large sugar quota and arms sales.

The highest-ranking recipient of Trujillo’s cash was Vice President Richard Nixon, who allegedly pocketed $25,000 from him in September 1956 for his reelection campaign.
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CIA-Mafia Alliance

Trujillo’s network helped to direct counter-revolutionary operations against Cuba following the Castroist revolution in alliance with the CIA and mobsters like Meyer Lansky who had been kicked out of Havana by Castro.
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Description automatically generateTourists and Cubans gamble at the casino in the Hotel Nacional in Havana, 1957. Meyer Lansky who led the U.S. mob’s exploitation of Cuba in the 1950s, set up a famous meeting of crime bosses at the hotel in 1946. [Source: smithsonianmag.com]

The CIA at this time hired mob bosses Sam Giancana and Santos Trafficante Jr., to kill Castro.
Sam Giancana - WikipediaSam Giancana [Source: wikipedia.org]
Santos Trafficante Jr. | Mafia, Mobster, Crime familySantos Trafficante, Jr. [Source: pinterest.co.uk]

The agency’s mob liaison, Johnny Rosselli, had served hard time for labor racketeering and extortion of the movie industry and was later stuffed into a 55-gallon drum and dumped into the waters off Florida after he testified before Congress about the JFK assassination.
Mob fixer Johnny Rosselli is back in the spotlight | The Mob MuJohnny Rosselli [Source: themobmuseum.org]

JFK and his brother Robert had signed their death warrants when they had decided to go after the mob. They were both probably assassinated by professional criminals that had infiltrated the U.S. government and were able to operate with impunity above the law.

Mob-Connected Fixers

The corruption of the Washington political elite was enabled by the work of mob-connected fixers whose names Marshall helps resuscitate. One Henry Grunewald, who donated $1,600 to Truman’s 1948 election campaign, installed a telephone trunk line directly from his home to the Bureau of Internal Revenue so he could fix tax cases more efficiently.
Henry Grunewald. His mob connections originated with his work as a corrupt prohibition agent. [Source: vintageimagephotos]

Another, I. Irving Davidson, was described as “the representative of all that Jack and Bobby [Kennedy] fought against­Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo, Hoffa’s Teamsters, the Somozas’ Nicaragua, the Texas rich, the CIA, Castro, Nixon, the mob.”
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Lyndon Johnson’s closest political aide, Bobby Baker, reported a personal net worth of more than $2 million in 1963 despite receiving a salary of less than $20,000 per year, and was sued for influencing a defense contractor to hire a vending machine company, Serv-U, in which Baker had a hidden interest.

According to columnist Drew Pearson, Baker served as “the pimp” for Johnson along with President Kennedy and Senator George Smathers. He would introduce them and other congressmen to beautiful women at the plush Carousel resort motel he owned in Maryland and Quorum club he helped establish across from the Senate office building, where they could relax with “party girls.”
Mr. Baker with President Lyndon B. Johnson in an undated photo.Bobby Baker, left, with Lyndon B. Johnson in an undated photo. [Source: nytimes.com]

One of Johnson’s first calls after returning to Washington following the assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, was to get an update from Abe Fortas, his crisis adviser and Baker’s attorney, on burgeoning congressional investigations into Baker’s influence peddling, sweetheart business deals and Washington sex­something that Johnson was very apprehensive about.

Part of Baker’s fortune was made in consort with some of the Kennedy Justice Department’s top targets for prosecution. Among them was Edward Levinson, a senior associate of Meyer Lansky, who headed casino operations at the Havana Riviera before the Cuban revolution, and then invested with Lansky and Frank Sinatra in the Sands hotel in Las Vegas.
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Description automatically generated with meMeyer Lansky [Source: wikipedia.org]

An FBI bug overheard Levinson arranging with Baker to fix the award of a federal architectural contract on behalf of a Las Vegas firm in return for its owners purchasing eight $1,000 tickets to a Democratic fundraising dinner hosted by President Kennedy and Vice President Johnson in January 1963.[1]

According to Jack Halfen, a partner of New Orleans mob boss Carlos Marcello, Johnson accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars from syndicate-backed businesses over the span of a decade, and in return helped kill anti-racketeering legislation in the Senate, including that which banned interstate transportation of slot machines, regulated racing wires, [and] aimed to rewrite the tax laws to make it tougher on gamblers.
Don B. ReynoldsDon B. Reynolds [Source: spartacus-educational.com]

A Maryland insurance broker, Don Reynolds, testified before the Senate that Johnson also had demanded illegal kickbacks in exchange for political gifts.

Murchisons

One of Johnson’s primary financiers dating back to the beginning of his political career in the early 1940s was Clint Murchison Sr. (1895-1969), an East Texas oil millionaire and Baker associate who had connections to the Genovese crime family, the Chicago Al Capone outfit, Las Vegas gamblers and the Teamsters.
Clint Murchison Sr.'s Diversification Beyond Texas Oil | The CoClint Murchison, Sr. [Source: theconservativeincomeinvestor.com]

For years, Johnson would attend breakfasts at Murchison’s home to collect campaign cash and returned the favor by ensuring generous subsidies to the oil and gas industry.

After World War II, Johnson campaigned to overturn the regulation of natural gas prices by the Federal Power Commission and launched a red-baiting campaign against a progressive member of the commission, Leland Olds.
Leland Olds Was The Chairman Photograph by EverettLeland Olds [Source: pixels.com]

The latter’s removal exemplified the emergence of a bullying political culture in Washington in which advocates of the public interest were branded as traitors.

The TFX Scandal

In November 1962, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara, Navy Secretary Fred Korth and Air Force Secretary Eugene Zuckert overruled four previous Pentagon evaluation panels and awarded General Dynamics and its main partner, Northrop Grumman, a $7 billion contract for the Tactical Fighter (Experimental) TFX, which became known as the F-111.
General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark - Price, Specs, Photo Gallery, The General Dynamics F-111 [Source: aircraftcompare.com

A month before the announcement, the Fort Worth Press published a story citing top government sources, which warned of a political fix.

It noted that General Dynamics’ largest shareholder, Henry Crown, would have been well-positioned to nudge the selection process in his favor as President Kennedy and Vice President Johnson owed their 1960 victory in part to the Democratic machines of Jacob Arvey in Illinois and Arvey’s protégé Paul Ziffren in California, along with their hidden patrons in the Chicago outfit, all of whom were tight with Crown.
Henry CrownHenry Crown [Source: horatioalger.org]

On November 20th, a member of the Senate investigations subcommittee strongly hinted that Vice President Johnson might have wielded his influence to steer the TFX award to his home state contractor (General Dynamics, based in Fort Worth). Inside the Pentagon, the TFX was known as the LBJ.

On November 22nd, the day of Kennedy’s assassination, Drew Pearson had prepared an explosive column alleging that Johnson had intervened with Air Force Secretary Zuckert to swing the contract to General Dynamics. It also implicated Henry Crown­who had put $1,000 into LBJ’s campaign for the Democratic Party nomination in 1960­and raised questions about links to Bobby Baker and his infamous Quorum Club.
Drew PearsonDrew Pearson [Source: findagrave.com]

When Kennedy was killed, it conveniently blotted the TFX scandal out of the nation’s consciousness. Pearson was forced to cancel his column and TFX hearings planned by anti-corruption crusader John McClellan’s subcommittee were called off, resuming only in 1969 after Johnson had left the Oval Office.

In secret testimony before the Rules Committee on December 1, 1964, Don Reynolds testified that, one day when he was in Bobby Baker’s office, Baker showed him $100,000 worth of hundred dollar bills that Roy Evans, the President of Grumman Aircraft, had left in a paper bag “for the TFX contract.”

Reynolds also stated that “the leader” (Johnson) “had interceded to make sure that the TFX was awarded to General Dynamics Corporation.”

The committee referred the matter to the FBI for investigation, though with little apparent follow-through.

Here’s to the State of Richard Nixon

Besides Johnson, Henry Crown had contributed generously to Richard Nixon, prompting Nixon to visit Fort Worth in the final days of the 1968 presidential campaign where he declared that the F-111 would be “made into one of the foundations of our air supremacy.”

In January 1972, President Nixon approved a controversial $5.5 billion space shuttle development program with General Dynamics as a prime subcontractor to North American Rockwell (successor to North American Aviation), while Henry Crown handed over a $25,000 contribution to the Committee to Re-Elect the President.

Nixon’s relationship with Crown fit a pattern that dated back to his first race for Congress in 1946 against liberal incumbent Jerry Voorhis.

The young Nixon at that time amassed tens of thousands of dollars in unreported contributions from southern California oil companies, banks and movie moguls, whose favor he returned by supporting legislation to curb unions, exempt key industries from anti-trust action, promote oil drilling, and cut funding for public housing and education.
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Nixon’s 1946 campaign was also critical because it began his career-long partnership with his ruthless political consultant, Murray Chotiner, a Beverly Hills lawyer whose clients were mostly bookmakers and gamblers. Chotiner had one word of advice for Nixon: attack. Nixon’s successful House and Senate campaigns in 1946 and 1950 were notoriously ugly, full of insinuations that his opponents were soft on communism and crime.
Murray Chotiner - WikipediaMurray Chotiner at Senate hearing in 1956. Warren Olney, head of the Justice Department’s criminal division in the 1950s, called him a “two-bit crook.” [Source: wikipedia.org]

Chotiner introduced Nixon to Jewish mobster Mickey Cohen, who ended up in Alcatraz after being convicted of tax evasion in 1951 and again in 1961. Cohen donated $5,000 to Nixon’s 1946 congressional campaign (about $50,000 in today’s dollars) and squeezed other colleagues in the underworld for more contributions.
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Description automatically generated witMobster Mickey Cohen, who raised money for Nixon in his first congressional campaign in 1946. [Source: themobmuseum.org]

After Nixon came back to win the 1968 presidential election on a law-and-order platform, Cohen wrote to columnist Jack Anderson: “In my wildest dreams (never) could I ever have visualized or imagined 17 or 18 years ago that the likes of Richard Nixon could possibly become president of the United States. Let’s hope that he isn’t the same guy that I knew: a rough hustler (and) a goddamn small-time ward politician.” (p. 178)

Of course, Nixon remained always the same.

While signing into law the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970 as president, most of his Justice Department’s organized crime targets were allies of big-city Democratic Party politicians.
Robert M. Morgenthau Dies at 99: Remembering 'the Boss' | TimeRobert M. Morgenthau talks on a phone in his office in the late 1960s. [Source: time.com]

President Nixon also fired one of the country’s most effective organized crime prosecutors, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Robert Morgenthau, who just before had directed a grand jury to investigate Cosmos Bank of Zurich, where Nixon was suspected of having a secret account.[2]
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Additionally, Nixon fired U.S. Attorney in San Diego Ed Miller, one of the “city’s true battlers against entrenched corruption,” who prosecuted the brother of the business partner of one of Nixon’s closest personal associates and biggest campaign contributors, C. Arnholt Smith, the owner of the San Diego Padres, who had raised $1 million for Nixon’s 1968 election.

When an IRS investigator handed Miller’s replacement, Harry Steward, a report on illegal campaign contributions by Smith and acts of bribery that violated the Corrupt Practices Act, Steward allegedly told him to “knock it off” and refused to issue a grand jury subpoena.

Nixon’s close ties to the mob emerged from his long political alliance with the Teamsters Union, which was a prime ally of the Chicago outfit along with the Hollywood studios as they crushed a militant Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and supported the anti-communist purge of the motion picture industry.
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Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa was investigated by the Justice Department in 1957 for involvement in a fraudulent Florida venture (Sun Valley) that sold boggy land to unsuspecting Teamster members as retirement property.
17 Jimmy Hoffa ideas | jimmy, organized crime, mobsterJimmy Hoffa [Source: pinterest.com]

He gave generously to Nixon’s 1960 presidential campaign and encouraged other Teamsters to do the same in 1968 when Hoffa was behind bars after being convicted of mail and wire fraud for improper use of Teamsters pension funds.

Once in the Oval Office, Nixon got the Justice Department to indict the key federal witness against Hoffa twice, and instructed Attorney General Richard Kleindienst to derail any further investigations against Hoffa or his allies.
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Description automatically generaNixon shakes hands with Richard Kleindienst. [Source: uspresidentialhistory.com]
Former Teamster's President James Hoffa leaves the Lewisberg, PFormer Teamsters President James Hoffa leaves the Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, penitentiary on December 23, 1971, after having his sentence commuted by Nixon. [Source: nydailynews.com]

Nixon further helped secure Hoffa’s release from prison while plans were being developed to recruit Teamster “thugs” to beat up anti-war demonstrators.[3]

Nixon’s moral turpitude was exposed on a wide scale during the Watergate hearings, which were prompted by Nixon’s illegal spying on his Democratic Party rivals during the 1972 election.

The burglars who broke into the Watergate Hotel were globe-trotting CIA officers who had been involved in the 1954 Guatemalan coup, the Bay of Pigs and CIA-mafia plots against Castro, which Nixon championed.
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According to ringleader G, Gordon Liddy, the purpose of the break-in was to determine what dirty secrets the DNC’s boss, Lawrence O’Brien, had learned about Nixon while working as the Howard Hughes organization’s top Washington political adviser after the 1968 election.
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These secrets included $100,000 in cash payoffs made by Hughes, owner of a major aerospace company, via Nixon’s close friend, Charles “Bebe” Rebozo, in 1969 and 1970, and Nixon’s treasonous sabotage of Lyndon B. Johnson’s proposed peace talks with North Vietnam in 1968, which would have benefitted Nixon’s adversary, Hubert Humphrey, in the election.
President Richard Nixon and his pal Bebe Rebozo in Key BiscayneUp to no good: Nixon and “Bebe” Rebozo in Key Biscayne, Florida, in 1969. [Source: nydailynews.com]
Triumph of the Deep State

Donald J. Trump was a direct heir of Nixon: Both were mentored by Joe McCarthy’s mob-connected lawyer, Roy Cohn, and ruthlessly attacked their opponents.

Trump’s ties to organized crime dated back to his years as a New York real estate mogul when he hired demolition workers controlled by the Genovese crime family and purchased concrete from companies owned by mafia families.
FBI releases file on Trump's late lawyer Roy CohnDonald Trump with Roy Cohn in the late 1980s. Journalist Wayne Barrett described Cohn as “a walking advertisement for every form of graft.” [Source: cnbc.com]

Though Trump’s supporters were convinced that Trump was a victim of a “deep state” conspiracy against him, Trump’s election was in fact a culmination of the triumph of “deep politics,” which Marshall defines as a “form of organized and systematic corruption, or covert influencing of policy and administration, on a scale that subverts national democratic norms.”

The organized and systemic corruption was briefly exposed in the 1950s Kefauver hearings on organized crime and as a result of the Watergate scandal and Church Committee investigations into the CIA, but never effectively contained.
Estes Kefauver (D-TN), standing in center, led hearings that exposed the deep reach of organized crime in the early 1950s. [Source: themobmuseum.org]

The presidents featured in Dark Quadrant were able to pass some progressive legislation­ranging from the desegregation of the armed forces under Truman to the Civil Rights Act, Medicaid and anti-poverty initiatives under Johnson, to Nixon’s establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)­and presided over a period of economic prosperity.

However, they ultimately governed in the interests of their corporate and mob-linked donors, betrayed democratic values, and corroded the nation’s moral fabric.

With a new Cold War heating up, U.S. leaders now strive to present U.S. global leadership as necessary to save the world from Russian and Chinese autocracy.

Marshall’s study reminds us, however, that the United States evolved after World War II as a corrupted dollarocracy. Its rhetoric about promoting democracy around the world as such rings hollow.


Levinson was involved in a scam to launder casino revenues for the mafia along with Benjamin Sigelbaum, another of Baker’s business associates who had invested in Serv-U.

Morgenthau was also an enemy of Nixon political ally Roy Cohn, who was facing a trial on federal charges of conspiracy, mail fraud, bribery, extortion and blackmail.

After being forced to resign from the White House in disgrace, Nixon’s first public appearance was at a Teamsters golf tournament.

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Reich, 4th(Industrial Revolution, now), 3rd, 2nd & 1st.... Do you know the connection?

"The explanation...... "It is common knowledge that Germany under Adolf Hitler (1933-1945) is referred to as the Third Reich, it is however less well known what the First Reich and Second Reich were. The word Reich is hard to translate to English, but realm or empire are probably the best translations.

The First Reich was the Holy Roman Empire (the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, Heiliges Römisches Reich deutscher Nation, not the ancient Roman Empire), 800 - 1806. Charlemagne (Charles the Great) was crowned emperor by Pope Leo III in Rome on Christmas Day 800, this is normally seen as the founding of the Empire, but sometimes the year of 962 is used, that was when Otto I (Otto the Great) was crowned.
The Empire existed almost in name only following the Peace of Westphalia at the end of the Thirty Years' War in 1648, but was not formally dissolved until 6 August 1806 when Emperor Francis II (Franz II) abdicated.

The Second Reich was the Hohenzollern Germany, from the unification of Germany following the Franco-Prussian War (1870 - 1871) and crowning of Wilhelm I as German Emperor at the Palace of Versailles, with Otto von Bismarck as the first Reichskanzler, to the abdication of Wilhelm II in 1919 following the German defeat in the First World War.

The Hohenzollern Empire was followed by the Weimar Republic (1919-1933), but this was not seen as the Third Reich, but rather as an Interim Reich.

The term Third Reich was most likely taken from the book "Das dritte Reich" published by Arthur Möller van den Bruck (1876-1925) in 1923".

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