I.G. Farben & J. Paul Getty & Nazi oil

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Date Posted:	August 29, 2003, 2:07 PMFrom: HISTORY
TODAY 

A "Suspect Persons" file made by the Foreign Office
for the Ministry of Economic Warfare has been newly
declassified at the National Archives in Kew. It is
thought to have been the work of the British Security
Co-ordination team in New York during the Second World
War. In it, Texan oil billionaire Jean Paul Getty is
alleged to have had links with dubious financiers who
organised fuel supplies for Nazi Germany. The
intelligence report states: "Getty, controller of
Mission Oil Corp which holds German patents licensed
by I G Farben and Standard Oil of New Jersey
subsidiaries, returned from Europe in November 1939
talking breezily about his 'old friend' Hitler…. Later
he was said to have sold 1,000,000 barrels of oil to
Germany for delivery via Russia. The Hotel Pierre was
filled with doubtful and flashy characters with
Nazi-Fascist-Vichy antecedents and/or connections, and
when Getty bought control of it he first employed an
Austrian baron, then a German war veteran and an ex-U
boat captain as managers.” (Aug 25) 

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