"Dont forget the real business of the War is buying and selling" (Gravity's Rainbow, p. 105)

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

 > ... "The work of international insurance, like that of banking, is so 
intertwined and multinational - even in the 1940s - that I suspect it 
was decided to let the beneficiaries of fascist finance off the hook," 
said historian Timothy Naftali, a consultant for the commission 
overseeing the declassification of US intelligence files from the World 
War II era ... <

http://www.shellnews.net/wikipedia/CloakedBusiness.pdf

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