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It took two ferry rides to get to Orcas Island in the San Juans, where we drove up to
Mt.Constitution, the highest point in this island chain at 2,409 feet. There's no way to
describe the beauty of this view - to say stunning is a gross understatement.
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The Old Man, the Mountain and the Sea
Naturalist Has Big Plan for Sailboat
By Blaine Harden ©2004
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, April 28, 2004; Page A01
ORCAS ISLAND, Wash. -- At 85, App Applegate keeps pushing the limits of living
off the grid.
Out here in Puget Sound, on the upper west side of the American dream, he lives
n a shack without running water, listens to National Public Radio on a hand-crank
radio and avoids outhouses as ecologically incorrect. He prefers a shovel and an
open field.
Barely 5 feet tall, Applegate is a Hobbit-size pioneer among the counterculture cadre
that has long sought soggy exile in the far corners of the Pacific Northwest. But Orcas
Island, which Seattle millionaires are busily refurbishing as the Martha's Vineyard of
the West, is not nearly far out enough for Applegate. So, for the past 15 years, he has
been building an escape module.
It's a whopper: An 80-foot, 50-ton, three-masted sailboat. Local sailors say the wooden
barkentine is nearly finished, solid and seaworthy, if a bit rough around the gunnels.
Applegate built it by hand -- outdoors, often in miserably dank weather -- and he paid
for the whole thing with Social Security checks. He plans to sail east around the world
to dock in Cienfuegos Bay, Cuba. He's a fervent admirer of Fidel Castro.
There is a logistical kink. The boat sits where it was built: on the side of a mountain
beneath towering Douglas firs, 400 feet above sea level, six miles from a suitable
boat launch. A narrow dirt road -- steep, potholed and snaggled with switchbacks --
lies between Applegate's boat and its departure for his beloved "Coo-bah."
"We will set sail in April," he said. "I am not yet sure which April."
Before explaining how Applegate -- a retired physics professor and self-described
atheist, socialist and radical -- intends to get himself and his boat off the mountain,
it makes sense to examine why he went up there in the first place.
"I came to Orcas to sit down and read, to enjoy the ferns and moss and to escape
the contemptibility of our politicians," he said.
In this respect, Applegate is not all that far off the demographic grid, as it exists in
the Pacific Northwest.
The region is more liberal, more literate and much less religious than the country as
a whole. Washington and Oregon lead the states in the percentage of adults who
report no religious identification -- 25 percent here, compared with 14 percent
nationally.
There is a secular orthodoxy here, and it believes in wild salmon, clean rivers and
urban growth management. Twenty-eight percent of the population voted for
George W. Bush in 2000, compared with 45 percent nationally. Politicians in Portland
and Seattle have welcomed gay marriage. Heterosexual marriage, meanwhile, takes
its lumps. The Northwest has a higher divorce rate than any other region of the country.
Politically correct Northwest residents drink Wild Salmon Organic Pale Ale and build
houses out of wood that is certified by a third party to have been cut from sustainable
forests. When Washington state residents die, they are 12 times as likely as
Alabamans to be cremated rather than buried. Eco-aware residents, apparently,
don't want to contribute to cemetery sprawl.
The name of Applegate's boat is the Aproximada. It's Spanish for "approximate,"
and the word captures Applegate's design and construction philosophy. It also
describes his departure schedule and his technique for recruiting sailors who might
want to go with him to Cuba.
The Aproximada has eight berths and will need a crew of at least five. So far, there
is only one sure bet.
She is Rivkah Sweedler, 58, a woodcarver and longtime exile from what she calls
"the dominant culture." She and Applegate joined forces in 1997, shortly after her
husband died. He helped her move on after her loss; she eased his loneliness and
turned him into a phenomenally healthful eater. She typically serves him a breakfast
that includes triticale flakes, buckwheat groats and pumpkin seeds.
Applegate and Sweedler see eye to eye on religious, environmental and political
matters: Her late husband, Walter, was also an atheist. App and Rivkah are outspoken
advocates of open-field defecation. They deeply dislike President Bush.
Sweedler will be the ship's cook and has already filled the Aproximada's larder with
bulk organic foods. While she is not nearly as excited about living in Cuba as
Applegate is, she's trying to keep an open mind.
The position of onboard engineer could also be filled. It might be Barbara Roddy,
54, who has a degree in combustion engineering from the University of California
at Davis. She has helped Applegate do much of the mechanical and electrical work
on his boat. Roddy makes her living on Orcas as a fix-it person, hot-tub sales agent
and specialty-cruise guide. She runs Captain Barb's Mechanical Wizardry and leads
Captain Barb's Lesbian Cruises and Adventures.
When Applegate retired to five acres of forest on Orcas Island's Mount Pickett in
1977, he had no intention of ever living anywhere else.
"I had had it," he said. "I was just going to vegetate."
Born and raised in the Northwest, he was retired from a number of professions that
had taken him from Honolulu to Yaounde, Cameroon, but had never made him much
money.
With a master's degree in physics, he had been a college professor, a guide for
cruises around the Hawaiian Islands and the self-taught builder of a 100-foot steel
sailboat that he captained along the Eastern Seaboard. (He sold it for next to
nothing, and it later sank.) His last job was in 1976, as a Peace Corps worker in
Cameroon.
Settling in on Orcas, Applegate promised himself that he would stay away from boats.
"Too much work," he said. "I didn't want to build any damn vessel."
Yet one thing led to another. He had time on his hands. The Social Security checks
kept coming in. He became curious about the Douglas firs on the island. Could
they be made into a substantial sailing vessel?
Applegate is not without social skills. It did not take long for word to get out among
the 3,500 year-round residents of Orcas Island that the little white-bearded socialist
on Mount Pickett was witty, self-deprecating and a good listener. He also has a
gift for persuading islanders to volunteer their time and power tools for his boat.
Over the years, they have painted the Aproximada, hoisted its heavy beams and
helped rig its sails.
"Here is a man who started this project when he was 70, an age when most men
sit back, watch television and give up," said Joe Goodrich, 58, who owns a roof
and deck cleaning business on Orcas and often helps Applegate with heavy
lifting up on the mountain. "App is a powerful example of what you can do if you
don't quit."
In the 15 years that Applegate has been building his boat, Orcas Island, which
is an hour by ferry from the mainland, has become the preferred summer
destination for Seattle's high-tech millionaires.
As property values have soared, farmers and commercial fishermen have all but
disappeared. Most year-round island residents have found jobs in the service
industry -- taking care of rich people's houses, boats, cars, lawns and children.
The Vineyardification of Orcas has increased the value of Applegate's five
scruffy acres more than tenfold -- but otherwise it has left him alone, at least so far.
"The folks who show up in designer cars and designer suits soon figure out the
best way to get along on this island is to try to fit in," said John B. Evans, a
Republican county commissioner and a close neighbor of Applegate's. Evans
lent him a grinder to smooth the hull of the Aproximada.
County authorities are well aware that Applegate's shack and sanitary facilities are
not up to county codes, Evans said.
"All the rules aren't followed all the time," he said. "We have million-dollar houses
next door to yurts. The culture supports that. And people like App. He is so far
out there, it makes for interesting conversation."
Applegate, though, wants out. If push came to shove, he said, he could probably
get the boat off the mountain in a week or two.
His plan involves two large bulldozers, signed waivers from downhill neighbors
and a bond to pay for damages -- if the boat runs amok and squashes a house
or two. Several people who know details of the plan say there is a good chance
it will work.
Applegate, though, has to wait for more Social Security checks to bankroll the
plan. He also needs more crew to sail the boat. He doesn't appear especially
panicked about the lack of either.
Thanks to Sweedler, he has constant companionship and eats well. His health
is excellent. Nearly every day, friends drive up the mountain to check on him,
work on the boat and review the countless ways in which the United States is
succumbing to moral and environmental rot. Some of these friends wonder
privately if the Aproximada will ever get out of the woods.
Applegate, himself, acknowledges only one time-related reason to get the boat
off the mountain and sail away: Castro could drop dead.
© 2004 The Washington Post Company
As the beetle burrows in, the tree begins its defense. Resin oozes
from the bark to surround the beetle. If the tree is healthy the resin
washes the beetle out. But if the tree is weak the beetle will penetrate
the bark in several hours. There it sends out pheromones, chemical
signals that let other beetles know that here is a tree that can be
invaded.
GOAT DAIRY
White City, Oregon
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For the street artist issue see: http://www.openair.org/alerts/artist/nyc.html
Feel Free to Forward http://www.baltech.org/lederman/
For a few of thousands of links to CIA-media material see:
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For mainstream references to the CIA-media connection see: John M. Crewdson and Joseph B. Treaster, "The CIA's
3-Decade Effort to Mold the World's Views," New York Times, 25 December 1977, pp. 1, 12; Terrence Smith, "CIA
Contacts With Reporters," New York Times, p. 13; Crewdson and Treaster, "Worldwide Propaganda Network Built by the
CIA," New York Times, 26 December 1977, pp. 1, 37; Crewdson and Treaster, "CIA Established Many Links to Journalists
in U.S. and Abroad," New York Times, 27 December 1977, pp. 1, 40-41.
Also see: Networks of Power, by Dennis Mazzocco.
The CIA and the Media published by the U.S. House of Representatives in 1978.
Robert Lederman, President of A.R.T.I.S.T. (Artistsâ?T Response To Illegal State Tactics)
ARTISTpres@aol.com (718) 743-3722
Robert Lederman is an artist, a regular columnist for the Greenwich Village Gazette
[See: http://www.gvny.com/ for an extensive
archive of Lederman columns] The Shadow, The African Sun Times, The Vigo-Examiner
[see: http://www.vigo-examiner.com/archive.htm] and Street News, and is the author of
hundreds of published essays concerning Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.
Lederman has been falsely arrested 41 Times to date for his anti-Giuliani activities and has never been convicted of
any of the charges. He is best known for creating hundreds of paintings of Mayor Giuliani as a Hitler like dictator.
Robert Lederman,
President of A.R.T.I.S.T.
(Artists' Response To Illegal State Tactics)
a must read http://veritas.20m.com/
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Last week I sent out an essay about GW Bush's extensive ties to the Manhattan Institute [MI]
a far right think tank founded by the CIA. Now the South Florida Sentinel has published a story detailing the think tanks ties to Jeb Bush and to Alliance Capital Management, Enron's top shareholder SEE:
for the Sun-Sentinel article, my previous article and many other quotes on MI]. It turns out that
ACM is run by the top board members of MI while MI is financed by JP Morgan/Chase - the
bank behind both Enron and GW Bush.
From: South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Praise for Bush policy questioned
By Tamara Lytle and Lori Horvitz
Washington Bureau March 2, 2002
WASHINGTON
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How the Bush family made its fortune from the Nazis
by Robert Lederman
February 9, 2002
Note: This article's author, John Loftus, is a former U.S.Department of Justice Nazi War Crimes prosecutor, the
President of the Florida Holocaust Museum and the highly respected author of numerous books on the CIA-Nazi
connection including The Belarus Secret and The SecSecret War Against the Jews, both of which have extensive
material on the Bush-Rockefeller-Nazi connection.
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Copyright September 27, 2000
by Attorney John Loftus
The Dutch Connection
How a famous American family
made its fortune from the Nazis
For the Bush family, it is a lingering nightmare. For their Nazi clients, the Dutch connection was the
mother of all money laundering schemes. From 1945 until 1949, one of the lengthiest and, it now
appears, most futile interrogations of a Nazi war crimes suspect began in the American Zone of
Occupied Germany. Multibillionaire steel magnate Fritz Thyssen-the man whose steel combine
was the cold heart of the Nazi war machine-talked and talked and talked to a joint US-UK interrogation team. For four long years, successive teams of inquisitors tried to break Thyssen's
simple claim to possess neither foreign bank accounts nor interests in foreign corporations, no
assets that might lead to the missing billions in assets of the Third Reich. The inquisitors failed
utterly.
Why? Because what the wily Thyssen deposed was, in a sense, true. What the Allied investigators
never understood was that they were not asking Thyssen the right question. Thyssen did not need
any foreign bank accounts because his family secretly owned an entire chain of banks. He did not
have to transfer his Nazi assets at the end of World War II, all he had to do was transfer the
ownership documents - stocks, bonds, deeds and trusts--from his bank in Berlin through his
bank in Holland to his American friends in New York City: Prescott Bush and Herbert Walker.
Thyssen's partners in crime were the father and father-in-law of a future President of the United
States.
The allied investigators underestimated Thyssen's reach, his connections, his motives, and his means. The web of financial entities Thyssen helped create in the 1920's remained a mystery
for the rest of the twentieth century, an almost perfectly hidden underground sewer pipeline for moving dirty money, money that bankrolled the post-war fortunes not only of the Thyssen industrial empire...
but the Bush family as well. It was a secret Fritz Thyssen would take to his grave.
It was a secret that would lead former US intelligence agent William Gowen, now pushing 80, to
the very doorstep of the Dutch royal family. The Gowens are no strangers to controversy or
nobility.
His father was one of President Roosevelt's diplomatic emissaries to Pope Pius XII, leading a
futile attempt to persuade the Vatican to denounce Hitler's treatment of Jews. It was his son,
William Gowen, who served in Rome after World War II as a Nazi hunter and investigator with
the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps. It was Agent Gowen who first discovered the secret Vatican Ratline for smuggling Nazis in 1949. It was also the same William Gowen who began to uncover the secret Dutch pipeline for smuggling Nazi money in 1999.
A half-century earlier, Fritz Thyssen was telling the allied investigators that he had no interest in foreign companies, that Hitler had turned on him and seized most of his property. His remaining assets were mostly in the Russian Occupied Zone of Germany (which he knew were a write-off anyway). His distant (and disliked) relatives in neutral nations like Holland were the actual
owners of a substantial percentage of the remaining German industrial base. As innocent victims
of the Third Reich, they were lobbying the allied occupation governments in Germany, demanding restitution of the property that had been seized from them by the Nazis.
Under the rules of the Allied occupation of Germany, all property owned by citizens of a neutral
nation which had been seized by the Nazis had to be returned to the neutral citizens upon proper presentation of documents showing proof of ownership. Suddenly, all sorts of neutral parties, particularly in Holland, were claiming ownership of various pieces of the Thyssen empire. In
his cell, Fritz Thyssen just smiled and waited to be released from prison while members of
the Dutch royal family and the Dutch intelligence service reassembled his pre-war holdings
for him.
The British and American interrogators may have gravely underestimated Thyssen but they nonetheless knew they were being lied to. Their suspicions focused on one Dutch Bank in
particular, the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart, in Rotterdam. This bank did a lot of business
with the Thyssens over the years. In 1923, as a favor to him, the Rotterdam bank loaned the
money to build the very first Nazi party headquarters in Munich. But somehow the allied investigations kept going nowhere, the intelligence leads all seemed to dry up.
If the investigators realized that the US intelligence chief in postwar Germany, Allen Dulles, was
also the Rotterdam bank's lawyer, they might have asked some very interesting questions. They
did not know that Thyssen was Dulles' client as well. Nor did they ever realize that it was Allen Dulles's other client, Baron Kurt Von Schroeder who was the Nazi trustee for the Thyssen
companies which now claimed to be owned by the Dutch. The Rotterdam Bank was at the heart
of Dulles' cloaking scheme, and he guarded its secrets jealously.
Several decades after the war, investigative reporter Paul Manning, Edward R. Murrow's
colleague, stumbled across the Thyssen interrogations in the US National Archives. Manning intended to write a book about Nazi money laundering. Manning's manuscript was a dagger at
Allen Dulles' throat: his book specifically mentioned the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart by
name, albeit in passing. Dulles volunteered to help the unsuspecting Manning with his manuscript,
and sent him on a wild goose chase, searching for Martin Bormann in South America.
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Without knowing that he had been deliberately sidetracked, Manning wrote a forward to his book personally thanking Allen Dulles for his "assurance that I was "on the right track, and should keep going.'"Dulles sent Manning and his manuscript off into the swamps of obscurity. The same
"search for Martin Bormann"scam was also used to successfully discredit Ladislas Farago,
another American journalist probing too far into the laundering of Nazi money. American investigators had to be sent anywhere but Holland.
And so the Dutch connection remained unexplored until 1994 when I published the book "The
Secret War Against the Jews."As a matter of historical curiosity, I mentioned that Fritz Thyssen
(and indirectly, the Nazi Party) had obtained their early financing from Brown Brothers Harriman,
and its affiliate, the Union Banking Corporation. Union Bank, in turn, was the Bush family's holding
company for a number of other entities, including the "Holland American Trading Company."
It was a matter of public record that the Bush holdings were seized by the US government after
the Nazis overran Holland. In 1951, the Bush's reclaimed Union Bank from the US Alien Property Custodian, along with their "neutral" Dutch assets. I did not realize it, but I had stumbled across
a very large piece of the missing Dutch connection. Bush's ownership of the Holland-American investment company was the missing link to Manning's earlier research in the Thyssen
investigative files. In 1981, Manning had written:
"Thyssen's first step in a long dance of tax and currency frauds began [in the late 1930's] when
he disposed of his shares in the Dutch Hollandische-Amerikanische Investment Corporation to be credited to the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart, N.V., Rotterdam, the bank founded in 1916 by August Thyssen Senior."
In this one obscure paragraph, in a little known book, Manning had unwittingly documented two intriguing points: 1) The Bush's Union Bank had apparently bought the same corporate stock
that the Thyssens were selling as part of their Nazi money laundering, and 2) the Rotterdam
Bank, far from being a neutral Dutch institution, was founded by Fritz Thyssen's father. In
hindsight, Manning and I had uncovered different ends of the Dutch connection.
After reading the excerpt in my book about the Bush's ownership of the Holland-American trading
Company, retired US intelligence agent William Gowen began to put the pieces of the puzzle
together. Mr. Gowen knew every c orner of Europe from his days as a diplomat's son, an American
intelligence agent, and a newspaperman. William Gowen deserves sole credit for uncovering
the mystery of how the Nazi industrialists hid their money from the Allies at the end of World War II.
In 1999, Mr. Gowen traveled to Europe, at his own expense, to meet a former member of Dutch intelligence who had detailed inside information about the Rotterdam bank. The scrupulous
Gowen took a written statement and then had his source read and correct it for error. Here, in summary form, is how the Nazis hid their money in America.
After World War I, August Thyssen had been badly burned by the loss of assets under the harsh terms of the Versailles treaty. He was determined that it would never happen again. One of his
sons would join the Nazis; the other would be neutral. No matter who won the next war, the
Thyssen family would survive with their industrial empire intact. Fritz Thyssen joined the Nazis in 1923; his younger brother married into Hungarian nobility and changed his name to Baron
Thyssen-Bornemisza.
The Baron later claimed Hungarian as well as Dutch citizenship. In public, he pretended to detest his Nazi brother, but in private they met at secret board meetings in Germany to coordinate their operations. If one brother were threatened with loss of property, he would transfer his holdings
to the other.
To aid his sons in their shell game, August Thyssen had established three different banks during the 1920's -- The August Thyssen Bank in Berlin, the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart in Rotterdam, and the Union Banking Corporation in New York City. To protect their corporate holdings, all the brothers had to do was move the corporate paperwork from one bank to the other. This they did with some regularity. When Fritz Thyssen "sold"the Holland-American Trading Company for a tax loss, the Union Banking Corporation in New York bought the stock. Similarly, the Bush family invested the disguised Nazi profits in American steel and manufacturing corporations that became part of the secret Thyssen empire.
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When the Nazis invaded Holland in May 1940, they investigated the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart in Rotterdam. Fritz Thyssen was suspected by Hitler's auditors of being a tax fraud
and of illegally transferring his wealth outside the Third Reich. The Nazi auditors were right:
Thyssen felt that Hitler's economic policies would dilute his wealth through ruinous war inflation.
He had been smuggling his war profits out through Holland. But the Rotterdam vaults were empty
of clues to where the money had gone. The Nazis did not know that all of the documents evidencing
secret Thyssen ownership had been quietly shipped back to the August Thyssen Bank in Berlin, under the friendly supervision of Baron Kurt Von Schroeder. Thyssen spent the rest of the war under
VIP house arrest. He had fooled Hitler, hidden his immense profits, and now it was time to fool
the Americans with same shell game.
As soon as Berlin fell to the allies, it was time to ship the documents back to Rotterdam so that
the "neutral"bank could claim ownership under the friendly supervision of Allen Dulles, who, as
the OSS intelligence chief in 1945 Berlin, was well placed to handle any troublesome
investigations. Unfortunately, the August Thyssen Bank had been bombed during the war,
and the documents were buried in the underground vaults beneath the rubble. Worse, the vaults
lay in the Soviet Zone of Berlin.
According to Gowen's source, Prince Bernhard commanded a unit of Dutch intelligence, which
dug up the incriminating corporate papers in 1945 and brought them back to the "neutral"bank
in Rotterdam. The pretext was that the Nazis had stolen the crown jewels of his wife, Princess
Juliana, and the Russians gave the Dutch permission to dig up the vault and retrieve them. Operation Juliana was a Dutch fraud on the Allies who searched high and low for the missing
pieces of the Thyssen fortune.
In 1945, the former Dutch manager of the Rotterdam bank resumed control only to discover that he
was sitting on a huge pile of hidden Nazi assets. In 1947, the manager threatened to inform Dutch
authorities, and was immediately fired by the Thyssens. The somewhat naive bank manager then
fled to New York City where he intended to talk to Union Bank director Prescott Bush. As Gowen's
Dutch source recalled, the manager intended "to reveal [to Prescott Bush] the truth about Baron Heinrich and the Rotterdam Bank, [in order that] some or all of the Thyssen interests in the
Thyssen Group might be seized and confiscated as German enemy property."The manager's
body was found in New York two weeks later.
Similarly, in 1996 a Dutch journalist Eddy Roever went to London to interview the Baron, who
was neighbors with Margaret Thatcher. Roever's body was discovered two days later. Perhaps,
Gowen remarked dryly, it was only a coincidence that both healthy men had died of heart attacks immediately after trying to uncover the truth about the Thyssens.
Neither Gowen nor his Dutch source knew about the corroborating evidence in the Alien Property
Custodian archives or in the OMGUS archives. Together, the two separate sets of US files overlap
each other and directly corroborate Gowen's source. The first set of archives confirms absolutely
that the Union Banking Corporation in New York was owned by the Rotterdam Bank. The second
set (quoted by Manning) confirms that the Rotterdam Bank in turn was owned by the Thyssens.
It is not surprising that these two American agencies never shared their Thyssen files. As the
noted historian Burton Hersh documented:
"The Alien Property Custodian, Leo Crowley, was on the payroll of the New York J. Henry
Schroeder Bank where Foster and Allen Dulles both sat as board members. Foster arranged
an appointment for himself as special legal counsel for the Alien Property Custodian while simultaneously representing [German] interests against the custodian."
No wonder Allen Dulles had sent Paul Manning on a wild goose chase to South America. He was very close to uncovering the fact that the Bush's bank in New York City was secretly owned by the Nazis, before during and after WWII. Once Thyssen ownership of the Union Banking Corporation
is proven, it makes out a prima facie case of treason against the Dulles and Bush families for
giving aid and comfort to the enemy in time of war.
PART TWO
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The first key fact to be proven in any criminal case is that the Thyssen family secretly owned the Bush's Bank. Apart from Gowen's source, and the twin American files, a third set of corroboration comes from the Thyssen family themselves. In 1979, the present Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza
(Fritz Thyssen's nephew) prepared a written family history to be shared with his top management.
A copy of this thirty-page tome entitled "The History of the Thyssen Family and Their Activities"
was provided by Gowen's source. It contains the following Thyssen admissions:
"Thus, at the beginning of World War II the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart had become the holding of my father's companies - a Dutch firm whose only shareholder was a Hungarian citizen..Prior to 1929, it held the shares of .the August Thyssen Bank, and also American subsidiaries and the Union Banking Corporation, New York.The shares of all the affiliates
were [in 1945] with the August Thyssen Bank in the East Sector of Berlin, from where I was
able to have them transferred into the West at the last moment"
"After the war the Dutch government ordered an investigation into the status of the holding
company and, pending the result, appointed a Dutch.former general manager of my father who turned against our family.. In that same year, 1947, I returned to Germany for the first time after
the war, disguised as a Dutch driver in military uniform, to establish contact with our German directors"
"The situation of the Group gradually began to be resolved but it was not until 1955 that the
German companies were freed from Allied control and subsequently disentangled. Fortunately,
the companies in the group suffered little from dismantling. At last we were in a position to concentrate on purely economic problems -- the reconstruction and extension of the companies
and the expansion of the organization."
"The banking department of the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart, which also functioned as the Group's holding company, merged in 1970 with Nederlandse Credietbank N.V. which increased
its capital. The Group received 25 percent.The Chase Manhattan Bank holds 31%. The name
Thyssen-Bornemisza Group was selected for the new holding company."
Thus the twin US Archives, Gowen's Dutch source, and the Thyssen family history all
independently confirm that President Bush's father and grandfather served on the board of
a bank that was secretly owned by the leading Nazi industrialists. The Bush connection to these American institutions is a matter of public record. What no one knew, until Gowen's brilliant
research opened the door, was that the Thyssens were the secret employers of the Bush family.
But what did the Bush family know about their Nazi connection and when did they know it?
As senior managers of Brown Brothers Harriman, they had to have known that their American clients, such as the Rockefellers, were investing heavily in German corporations, including
Thyssen's giant Vereinigte Stahlwerke. As noted historian Christopher Simpson repeatedly documents, it is a matter of public record that Brown Brother's investments in Nazi Germany
took place under the Bush family stewardship.
When war broke out was Prescott Bush stricken with a case of Waldheimers disease, a sudden amnesia about his Nazi past? Or did he really believe that our friendly Dutch allies owned the
Union Banking Corporation and its parent bank in Rotterdam? It should be recalled that in January 1937, he hired Allen Dulles to "cloak"his accounts. But cloak from whom? Did he expect that happy little Holland was going to declare war on America? The cloaking operation only makes sense in anticipation of a possible war with Nazi Germany. If Union Bank was not the conduit for laundering the Rockefeller's Nazi investments back to America, then how could the Rockefeller-controlled Chase Manhattan Bank end up owning 31% of the Thyssen group after the war?
It should be noted that the Thyssen group (TBG) is now the largest industrial conglomerate in Germany, and with a net worth of more than $50 billion dollars, one of the wealthiest corporations
in the world. TBG is so rich it even bought out the Krupp family, famous arms makers for Hitler, leaving the Thyssens as the undisputed champion survivors of the Third Reich. Where did the Thyssens get the start-up money to rebuild their empire with such speed after World War II?
The enormous sums of money deposited into the Union Bank prior to 1942 is the best evidence
that Prescott Bush knowingly served as a money launderer for the Nazis. Remember that Union Banks' books and accounts were frozen by the U.S. Alien Property Custodian in 1942 and not released back to the Bush family until 1951. At that time, Union Bank shares representing hundreds of millions of dollars worth of industrial stocks and bonds were unblocked for distribution. Did the Bush family really believe that such enormous sums came from Dutch enterprises? One could sell tulip bulbs
and wooden shoes for centuries and not achieve those sums. A fortune this size could only have come from the Thyssen profits made from rearming the Third Reich, and then hidden, first from the Nazi tax auditors, and then from the Allies.
The Bushes knew perfectly well that Brown Brothers was the American money channel into Nazi Germany, and that Union Bank was the secret pipeline to bring the Nazi money back to America from Holland. The Bushes had to have known how the secret money circuit worked because they were on the board of directors in both directions: Brown Brothers out, Union Bank in.
Moreover, the size of their compensation is commensurate with their risk as Nazi money launderers. In 1951, Prescott Bush and his father in law each received one share of Union Bank stock, worth $750,000 each. One and a half million dollars was a lot of money in 1951. But then, from the
Thyssen point of view, buying the Bushes was the best bargain of the war.
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The bottom line is harsh: It is bad enough that the Bush family helped raise
the money for Thyssen to give Hitler his start in the 1920's, but giving aid
and comfort to the enemy in time of war is treason. The Bush's bank
helped the Thyssens make the Nazi steel that killed allied soldiers. As bad
as financing the Nazi war machine may seem, aiding and abetting the
Holocaust was worse. Thyssen's coal mines used Jewish slaves as if they
were disposable chemicals. There are six million skeletons in the Thyssen
family closet, and a myriad of criminal and historical questions to be
answered about the Bush family's complicity.
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SLATE.COM - April 17, 2002
By Anne E. Kornblut
(Click Here for original Web link.)
The Bush family and the Jews
Unlike his father and grandfather, George W. has crafted a pro-Jewish image.
Flanked by Jewish leaders, President George W. Bush signed a proclamation March 25 recognizing the commitment to education demonstrated by the late leader of the Jewish Lubavitcher movement, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson.
In 1998, George W. Bush took his first and only trip to the Holy Land. During a helicopter tour - guided
by none other than Ariel Sharon - Bush was astonished to discover how tiny Israel is compared to its Arab neighbors. He later described the visit as one of the most meaningful experiences of his life.
A photographer captured a striking image of Bush, in a yarmulke, standing reverently at the Wailing Wall. |