[off & long] bush & nazis

[Kaminker/Wood]

From:


http://www.iahushua.com/WOI/nixon_bush.htm

GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH 

Like Richard Nixon, George Bush was a strong anti-marijuana/hemp president,
escalating the so-called "war on drugs" begun by Nixon. And, like Nixon,
George Bush was deeply involved with supporting the Nazis in the
Republican's closet. In fact, support for the Nazis was a Bush family
tradition which goes back more than six decades and, once again, to Allen
Dulles. Loftus and Aarons write: "The real story of George Bush starts well
before he launched his own career. It goes back to the 1920s, when the
Dulles brothers and the other pirates of Wall Street were making their
deals with the Nazis. . . ." 

THE BUSH-DULLES-NAZI CONNECTION

"George Bush's problems were inherited from his namesake and maternal
grandfather, George Herbert 'Bert' Walker, a native of St. Louis, who
founded the banking and investment firm of G. H. Walker and Company in
1900. Later the company shifted from St. Louis to the prestigious address
of 1 Wall Street. . . . 

"Walker was one of Hitler's most powerful financial supporters in the
United States. The relationship went all the way back to 1924, when Fritz
Thyssen, the German industrialist, was financing Hitler's infant Nazi
party. As mentioned in earlier chapters, there were American contributors
as well. 

"Some Americans were just bigots and made their connections to Germany
through Allen Dulles's firm of Sullivan and Cromwell because they supported
Fascism. The Dulles brothers, who were in it for profit more than ideology,
arranged American investments in Nazi Germany in the 1930s to ensure that
their clients did well out of the German economic recovery. . . . 

"Sullivan & Cromwell was not the only firm engaged in funding Germany.
According to 'The Splendid Blond Beast,' Christopher Simpson's seminal
history of the politics of genocide and profit, Brown Brothers, Harriman
was another bank that specialized in investments in Germany. The key figure
was Averill Harriman, a dominating figure in the American establishment. .
. . 

"The firm originally was known as W. A. Harriman & Company. The link
between Harriman & Company's American investors and Thyssen started in the
1920s, through the Union Banking Corporation, which began trading in 1924.
In just one three-year period, the Harriman firm sold more than $50 million
of German bonds to American investors. 'Bert' Walker was Union Banking's
president, and the firm was located in the offices of Averill Harriman's
company at 39 Broadway in New York. 

"In 1926 Bert Walker did a favor for his new son-in-law, Prescott Bush. It
was the sort of favor families do to help their children make a start in
life, but Prescott came to regret it bitterly. Walker made Prescott vice
president of W. A. Harriman. The problem was that Walker's specialty was
companies that traded with Germany. As Thyssen and the other German
industrialists consolidated Hitler's political power in the 1930s, an
American financial connection was needed. According to our sources, Union
Banking became an out-and-out Nazi money-laundering machine. . . . 


"In [1931], Harriman & Company merged with a British-American investment
company to become Brown Brothers, Harriman. Prescott Bush became one of the
senior partners of the new company, which relocated to 59 Broadway, while
Union Banking remained at 39 Broadway. But in 1934 Walker arranged to put
his son-in-law on the board of directors of Union Banking. 

"Walker also set up a deal to take over the North American operations of
the Hamburg-Amerika Line, a cover for I.G. Farben's Nazi espionage unit in
the United States. The shipping line smuggled in German agents, propaganda,
and money for bribing American politicians to see things Hitler's way. The
holding company was Walker's American Shipping & Commerce, which shared the
offices at 39 Broadway with Union Banking. In an elaborate corporate paper
trail, Harriman's stock in American Shipping & Commerce was controlled by
yet another holding company, the Harriman Fifteen Corporation, run out of
Walker's office. The directors of this company were Averill Harriman, Bert
Walker, and Prescott Bush. . . . 

". . . In a November 1935 article in Common Sense, retired marine general
Smedley D. Butler blamed Brown Brothers, Harriman for having the U.S.
marines act like 'racketeers' and 'gangsters' in order to exploit
financially the peasants of Nicaragua. . . . 

". . . A 1934 congressional investigation alleged that Walker's
'Hamburg-Amerika Line subsidized a wide range of pro-Nazi propaganda
efforts both in Germany and the United States.' Walker did not know it, but
one of his American employees, Dan Harkins, had blown the whistle on the
spy apparatus to Congress. Harkins, one of our best sources, became
Roosevelt's first double agent . . . [and] kept up the pretense of being an
ardent Nazi sympathizer, while reporting to Naval Intelligence on the
shipping company's deals with Nazi intelligence. 

"Instead of divesting the Nazi money," continue the authors, "Bush hired a
lawyer to hide the assets. The lawyer he hired had considerable expertise
in such underhanded schemes. It was Allen Dulles. According to Dulles's
client list at Sullivan & Cromwell, his first relationship with Brown
Brothers, Harriman was on June 18, 1936. In January 1937 Dulles listed his
work for the firm as 'Disposal of Stan [Standard Oil] Investing stock.' 

"As discussed in Chapter 3, Standard Oil of New Jersey had completed a
major stock transaction with Dulles's Nazi client, I.G. Farben. By the end
of January 1937 Dulles had merged all his cloaking activities into one
client account: 'Brown Brothers Harriman-Schroeder Rock.' Schroeder, of
course, was the Nazi bank on whose board Dulles sat. The 'Rock' were the
Rockefellers of Standard Oil, who were already coming under scrutiny for
their Nazi deals. By May 1939 Dulles handled another problem for Brown
Brothers, Harriman, their 'Securities Custodian Accounts.' 

"If Dulles was trying to conceal how many Nazi holding companies Brown
Brothers, Harriman was connected with, he did not do a very good job.
Shortly after Pearl Harbor, word leaked from Washington that affiliates of
Prescott Bush's company were under investigation for aiding the Nazis in
time of war. . . . 

". . . The government investigation against Prescott Bush continued. Just
before the storm broke, his son, George, abandoned his plans to enter Yale
and enlisted in the U.S. Army. It was, say our sources among the former
intelligence officers, a valiant attempt by an eighteen-year-old boy to
save the family's honor. 

"Young George was in flight school in October 1942, when the U.S.
government charged his father with running Nazi front groups in the United
States. Under the Trading with the Enemy Act, all the shares of the Union
Banking Corporation were seized, including those held by Prescott Bush as
being in effect held for enemy nationals. Union Banking, of course, was an
affiliate of Brown Brothers, Harriman, and Bush handled the Harrimans'
investments as well. 


"Once the government had its hands on Bush's books, the whole story of the
intricate web of Nazi front 
corporations began to unravel. A few days later two of Union Banking's
subsidiaries -- the Holland American Trading Corporation and the Seamless
Steel Equipment Corporation -- also were seized. Then the government went
after the Harriman Fifteen Holding Company, which Bush shared with his
father-in-law, Bert Walker, the Hamburg-Amerika Line, and the
Silesian-American Corporation. The U.S. government found that huge sections
of Prescott Bush's empire had been operated on behalf of Nazi Germany and
had greatly assisted the German war effort." (1)

"Try as he did," continue the authors, "George Bush could not get away from
Dulles's crooked corporate network, which his grandfather and father had
joined in the 1920s. Wherever he turned, George found that the influence of
the Dulles brothers was already there. Even when he fled to Texas to become
a successful businessman on his own, he ran into the pirates of Wall Street. 

"One of Allen Dulles's secret spies inside the Democratic party later
became George Bush's partner in the Mexican oil business. Edwin Pauley, a
California oil man, was . . . one of Dulles's covert agents in the
Roosevelt and Truman administrations . . . a 'big business' Democrat. . . ."

Among the key posts held by Pauley were: treasurer of the Democratic
National Committee, director of the Democratic convention in 1944 and,
after Truman's election, Truman appointed him the "Petroleum Coordinator of
Lend-Lease Supplies for the Soviet Union and Britain." 

Just after the end of World War II, "in April 1945 Truman appointed Pauley
as the U.S. representative to the Allied Reparations Committee, with the
rank of ambassador," as well as "industrial and commercial advisor to the
Potsdam Conference, 'where his chief task was to renegotiate the
reparations agreements formulated at Yalta.' As one historian noted, the
'oil industry has always watched reparations activities carefully.' There
was a lot of money involved, and much of it belonged to the Dulles
brothers' clients." 

At the same time, report Loftus and Aarons, "the Dulles brothers were still
shifting Nazi assets out of Europe for their clients as well as for their
own profit. They didn't want the Soviets to get their hands on these assets
or even know that they existed. Pauley played a significant role in solving
this problem for the Dulles brothers. The major part of Nazi Germany's
industrial assets was located in the zones occupied by the West's forces.
As Washington's man on the ground, Pauley managed to deceive the Soviets
for long enough to allow Allen Dulles to spirit much of the remaining Nazi
assets out to safety. . . . 

"Pauley, a key player in the plan to hide the Dulles brothers' Nazi assets,
then moved into another post where he could help them further. After
successfully keeping German assets in Fascist hands, Pauley was given the
job of 'surveying Japan's assets and determining the amount of its war
debt.' Again, it was another job that was crucial to the Dulles clique's
secret financial and intelligence operations." (2)

After Pauley retired from government work he went back to being an
independent oil man. Loftus and Aarons state that: "In 1958 he founded
Pauley Petroleum which: . . . teamed up with Howard Hughes to expand oil
production in the Gulf of Mexico.

"Pauley Petroleum discovered a highly productive offshore petroleum reserve
and in 1959 became involved in a dispute with the Mexican Government, which
considered the royalties from the wells to be too low. 

"According to our sources in the intelligence community, the oil dispute
was really a shakedown of the CIA by Mexican politicians. Hughes and Pauley
were working for the CIA from time to time, while advancing their own
financial interests in the lucrative Mexican oil fields. Pauley, say
several of our sources, was the man who invented an intelligence
money-laundering system in Mexico, which was later refined in the 1970s as
part of Nixon's Watergate scandal. At one point CIA agents used Pemex, the
Mexican government's oil monopoly, as a business cover at the same time
Pemex was being used as a money laundry for Pauley's campaign
contributions. As we shall see, the Mexican-CIA connection played an
important part in the development of George Bush's political and
intelligence career. . . . 


"Pauley, say the 'old spies,' was the man who brought all the threads of
the Mexican connection together. He was Bush's business associate, a front
man for Dulles's CIA [Allen Dulles was CIA director then], and originator
of the use of Mexican oil fronts to create a slush fund for Richard Nixon's
various campaigns. . . . 

"Although it is not widely known, Pauley, in fact, had been a committed, if
'secret,' Nixon supporter since 1960. It should be recalled that Nixon
tried to conceal his Mexican slush fund during the Watergate affair by
pressuring the CIA into a 'national security' cover-up. The CIA, to its
credit, declined to participate. Unfortunately, others were so enmeshed in
Pauley's work for Nixon that they could never extricate themselves.
According to a number of our intelligence sources, the deals Bush cut with
Pauley in Mexico catapulted him into political life. In 1960 Bush became a
protege of Richard Nixon, who was then running for president of the United
States. . . . 

"The most intriguing of Bush's early connections was to Richard Nixon, who
as vice president had supervised Allen Dulles's covert planning for the Bay
of Pigs [invasion]. For years it has been rumored that Dulles's client,
George Bush's father, was one of the Republican leaders who recruited Nixon
to run for Congress and later convinced Eisenhower to take him on as vice
president. There is no doubt that the two families were close. George Bush
described Nixon as his 'mentor.' Nixon was a Bush supporter in his very
first tilt at politics, during his unsuccessful run for the Senate in 1964,
and turned out again when he entered the House two years later. 

"After Nixon's landslide victory in 1972, he ordered a general house
cleaning on the basis of loyalty. 'Eliminate everyone,' he told John
Ehrlichman about reappointments, 'except George Bush. Bush will do anything
for our cause.' . . . According to Bush's account, the president told him
that 'the place I really need you is over at the National Committee running
things.' So, in 1972, Nixon appointed George Bush as head of the Republican
National Committee. 

"It was Bush who fulfilled Nixon's promise to make the 'ethnic' emigres a
permanent part of Republican politics. In 1972 Nixon's State Department
spokesman confirmed to his Australian counterpart that the ethnic groups
were very useful to get out the vote in several key states. Bush's tenure
as head of the Republican National Committee exactly coincided with Laszlo
Pasztor's 1972 drive to transform the Heritage Groups Council into the
party's official ethnic arm. The groups Pasztor chose as Bush's campaign
allies were the emigre Fascists whom Dulles had brought to the United
States. . . . 

". . . Nearly twenty years later, and after expose's in several respectable
newspapers, Bush continued to recruit most of the same ethnic Fascists,
including Pasztor, for his own 1988 ethnic outreach program when he first
ran for president. 

"According to our sources in the intelligence community," state the
authors, "it was Bush who told Nixon that the Watergate investigations
might start uncovering the Fascist skeletons in the Republican party's
closet. Bush himself acknowledges that he wrote Nixon a letter asking him
to step down. The day after Bush did so, Nixon resigned. 

"Bush had hoped to become Gerald Ford's vice president upon Nixon's
resignation, but he was appointed U.S. ambassador to the UN. Nelson
Rockefeller became vice president and chief damage controller. He formed a
special commission in an attempt to preempt the Senate's investigation of
the intelligence community. The Rockefeller Commission into CIA abuses was
filled with old OPC [Dulles's Office of Policy Coordination] hands like
Ronald Reagan, who had been the front man back in the 1950s for the
money-laundering organization, the Crusade for Freedom, which was part of
Dulles's Fascist 'freedom fighters' program." (3)

In 1988, Project Censored, a news media censorship research organization,
awarded the honor of "Top Censored story" to the subject of George Bush.
The article revealed "how the major mass media ignored, overlooked or
undercovered at least ten critical stories reported in America's
alternative press that raised serious questions about the Republican
candidate, George Bush, dating from his reported role as a CIA 'asset' in
1963 to his Presidential campaign's connection with a network of
anti-Semites with Nazi and fascist affiliations in 1988." (4) 

NOTES: GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH 
The Secret War Against the Jews, pp. 357-361 
Ibid., pp. 362-364 
Ibid., pp. 365-371 
The 1993 Project Censored Yearbook: The News That Didn't Make The News -
And Why, Project Censored; Dr. Carl Jensen, Director., pp. 230. 


Also stuff at:

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Atlantis/8820/skull.htm

In 1932, the
Union Banking Corporation of New York City had enlisted four directors from
the ('17) cell and two Nazi bankers associated with Fritz Thyssen, who had
been financing Hitler since 1924. 

"President Franklin
Roosevelt's Alien Property Custodian, Leo T. Crowley, signed Vesting Order
Number 248 [11/17/42] seizing the property of Prescott Bush under the
Trading with Enemy Act. The order, published in obscure government record
books and kept out of the news, Note #4 explained nothing about the Nazis
involved; only that the Union Banking Corporation was run for the 'Thyssen
family' of 'Germany and/or Hungary' 'nationals ... of a designated enemy
country.

"By deciding that Prescott Bush and the other directors of the Union
Banking Corporation were legally 'front men for the Nazis', the government
avoided the more important historical issue: In what way 'were Hitler's
Nazis themselves hired, armed, and instructed by' the New York and London
clique of which Prescott Bush was an executive manager? ... 

"4. New York Times, December 16, 1944, ran a five-paragraph page 25 article
on actions of the New York State Banking Department. Only the last sentence
refers to the Nazi bank, as follows: 'The Union Banking Corporation, 39
Broadway, New York, has received authority to change its principal place of
business to 120 Broadway.' 

"The Times omitted the fact that the Union Banking Corporation had been
seized by the government for trading with the enemy, and the fact that 120
Broadway was the address of the government's Alien Property Custodian." 

After the war, Prescott went on to become a U. S. Senator from Connecticut
and favorite golfing partner of President Eisenhower. Prescott claims
responsibility for getting Nixon into politics and takes personal credit
for bringing Dick on board as Ike's running mate in 1952. 

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Allan Wood