Skull and Bones Society formed at Yale.
Union Pacific Railroad (UPR) bankrupted.
Union Pacific Railroad sold to Edward Henry Harriman & partner, Judge Robert Scott Lovett. The deal was managed by Kuhn Loeb brokerage of which Felix Warburg was a partner.
Paul and Felix Warburg immigrate to the
German Alfred Plötz founds the Archive for Racial and Social Biology, which becomes the chief journal of the German eugenics or race hygiene movement. Ernst Häckel popularized eugenics in
John D. Rockefeller issues "Occasional Letter No.1" detailing plans to mold the people, reduce national intelligence to the lowest common denominator, destroy parental influence, traditional and customs, and eliminate science and real learning, "in order to perfect human nature".
Eugenics laboratory established at
Samuel Bush elected President of Buckeye Steel Castings Co. in
The Rockefeller Foundation was established. The Rockefellers supported the eugenics movement including the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in
John Foster Dulles joins Sullivan and Cromwell.
Federal Reserve Bank created. Paul Warburg served as a governor of the bank during WWI. At the same time, his brother Max was the head of the German Secret Service.
With war close at hand Percy Rockefeller took control of Remington Arms & appoints Samuel F. Pryor as CEO.
Dulles’ uncle Robert Lansing was appointed Secretary of State.
Prescott Bush joins the Skull and Bones. Both his son and grandson George and George W. likewise were Skull and Bones members. Brown Brothers & Harriman had an exceptional number of members during the 1930s.
Robert Scott Lovett elected president of Union Pacific. Samuel Bush appointed to facilities division of the US War Industries Board chaired by Bernard Baruch & his assistant, Clarence Dillon.
George Herbert Walker forms W.A.Harriman & Co. Walker is president and CEO.
Averell Harriman, son of Edward Harriman is the chairman. Averell would later serve as
Dulles brothers involved in the treaty negotiations after the war.
Averell Harriman and George Walker gain control of German Hamburg-Amerika Line. The deal was arranged through the chief executive German Hamburg-Amerika, William Cuno, & Max Warburg of the shipping line’s bankers, M.M. Warburg. The name of the firm was changed to American Ship & Commerce Corp. Samuel F. Pryor of Remington Arms had been involved in the deal & now served on the board of the renamed corporation. Cuno was later a heavy contributor to Nazi Party funds
Averell Harriman opened a
The Model Eugenic Sterilization Law was published by Harry Laughlin. The law led to the sterilization of over 20,000 Americans and service as the basis of the
Fritz Thyssen begins to contribute to the Nazi party.
W.A.Harriman & Co invested $400,000 in setting up Union Banking Corp to act in partnership with the Thyssen-owned Bank voor Handel en Scheepvart in
Coinciding with the Dawes Plan, which is discussed elsewhere in this chapter John Foster, Dulles arranged a large loan for Krupp. For the loan Dulles had called Leland Harrison, assistant secretary of state on a Saturday to soft pedal the item in the news.
Ethyl Corporation formed jointly by Standard Oil and General Motors.
By 1925, I.G. had established powerful allies inside the Republican administration. The then Secretary of Commerce, Herbert Hoover appointed a nine-member board,
Prescott Bush promoted to Vice-President of W. A. Harriman & Co. Clarence Dillon of Dillon Read, set up the German Steel Trust with Thyssen & partner, Fredrick Flick. According to the terms, Dillon Read would handle the Trust’s corporate banking in return for two Dillon Read representatives being on the board of the German Steel Trust. Albert Vögler was the chief executive of the German Steel trust was. Vögler was another industrialist that was instrumental in bringing Hitler to power. He also held directorships in Thyssen’s Dutch bank and the Hamburg-Amerika Line. Union Bank was not in partnership with Flick’s empire, Silesian Holding Co. Walker, Bush and Harriman owned a third of Flick’s holding company and called their share Consolidated Silesian Steel Corp.
American I.G. founded as a holding company controlling I.G. Farben assets in the
Allen Dulles joins Sullivan and Cromwell.
John Foster Dulles director of GAF Company (American I.G.) until 1934.
Standard Oil and I.G. Farben begin cartel negotiations
Harriman bank bought Dresser Industries, supplier of oil-pipeline couplers to Standard and other companies. Prescott Bush became a director and financial czar of Dresser, installing his Yale classmate Neil Mallon as chairman.
Dulles arranged for the wealthy Czech family, the Petscheks to sell their interest in Silesian Coal to George Mernane. Mernane was used merely to hidthe Petscheks interest. Dulles then sold the shares to his friend Schacht, the Nazi economic minister. After the sale, Dulles became director of Consolidated Silesian Steel Company. Its sole asset was a one third interest in Upper Silesian Coal and Steel Company. The remainder of the shares was controlled by Fredrick Flick.
W.A Harriman merges with the British firm Brown Brothers. Thatcher Brown, Prescott Bush and the two Harriman brothers were the senior partners in the new firm of Brown Brothers and Harriman. Robert Lovett son of Robert Scott Lovett and a close friend of Prescott Bush became a partner in the new firm. Lovett would later serve as Asst. Sec. for Air during the war, as Under Sec. Of State 1947-1949, as Deputy Sec. of Defense 1950-1951 and as Secretary of Defense 1951-1953. Prescott Bush ran the
Prescott Bush and George Walker hosted host of the Third International Congress of Eugenics. The purpose of the event was to call for the sterilization of fourteen million Americans.
Bank of International Settlements formed.
On
Hitler assumes power.
Max Warburg selected by Prescott Bush to be the American Ship & Commerce Line official representative on the board of the Hamburg-Amerika Line. Warburg was a long time advisor of Hjalmar Schacht, the Nazi’s Economic Minister and an executive in the Reichsbank. Warburg was also a close friend with Montagu Collet Norman.
An agreement to coordinate all trade between
North German Lloyd Co. merged with Hamburg-Amerika Line in
William S. Farish was appointed chairman of Standard Oil by John D. Rockefeller. Farish was close friends with Hermann Schmitz, chairman of I.G. Farben. Farish hired Ivy Lee, to write pro-I.G. Farben and pro-Nazi propaganda and get it into the
The US Senate Nye Committee hearings revealed Samuel Pryor, chairman of Remington Arms & founding director of both the UBC & the American Ship & Commerce Corp. had joined in a cartel agreement with I.G. Farben. The committee also uncovered that the Nazis were armed with mostly American arms.
E. W. Webb, president of Ethyl Corporation was advised that
With Hitler in solid control of
John Foster Dulles was publicly supporting the Nazi philosophy. In 1935, he wrote a long article for the Atlantic Monthly entitled "The Road to Peace." He excused
Ethyl Corporation signed a joint production agreement with I.G. Farben in
John Foster Dulles narrowly missed being indicted in a case of Union Electric Company of
Nuremberg Laws passed in
The Schroeder Bank in
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' was the Rockefellers of Standard Oil, who were already coming under scrutiny for their Nazi deals. At the request of Prescott Bush Dulles had cloaked the Bush-Harriman dealings with the Nazis.
Hitler invades
Farish's daughter Martha married Averell Harriman's nephew, Edward Harriman Gerry.
Consolidated Silesian Steel Corporation was located near the Polish town of
Allen Dulles served on the board of the Schröder bank. Johns Foster Dulles served as the legal counsel for Schroeder Bank. Schroeder Bank acted as a financial arm of the Nazis.
Leo Crowley, the US Alien Property Custodian ordered the seizure of all property of Hapag-Lloyd in Aug. In October, US Alien Property Custodian seized thestock shares of the Union Banking Corp. of New York, whose shareholders were: Chm./Dir. E. Rowland Harriman; Pres./Dir. Cornelis Lievense (banking functionary for the Nazis); Treasurer/Dir. Harold D. Pennington (of Brown Brothers Harriman); Dir. Ray Morris (of Brown Brothers Harriman); Dir. Prescott S. Bush; Dir. H.J. Kouwenhoven (Dir./Chief foreign financial exec. of German Steel Trust); Dir. Johann G. Groeninger (Industrial Exec. in Nazi Germany).
In the same month, the
In November, the Nazi assets of Silesian-American Corp were seized leaving the American partners to carry on with business. Seizure of the whole company would have been detrimental to the war effort.
On
The Deutsche-Amerikanische Petroleum A.G. (DAPAG), the Standard Oil subsidiary in
The Treasury Department revealed to congress that United Steel produced the following percentages of war munitions for the Nazis: Pig iron 50.8%; Pipe & tubes 45.5%; Universal plate 41.4%; Galvanised sheet 38.5%; Heavy plate 36%; Explosives 35%; Wire 22.1%. This is the same firm Prescott Bush acted, as banker for. In effect,
Allen Dulles sought out a young Naval Officer that had been put in charge of some captured Nazi documents. If the documents surfaced it would have revealed Dulles as a traitor. In a deal to bury the documents, Dulles agreed to finance the young man’s first political race. This was the beginning of the political career of Richard Nixon.
Project Paperclip begins to import Nazis into the
Nixon defeated Jerry Voohris for congress with the help of an influx of money from
Following the war, authorities seeking to locate the Dutch Royal family’s jewelry discovered the transaction papers of the Silesian American Corporation in the books of Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart. The bank manager, H.J. Kounhoven came under intense scrutiny and was shocked by the discovery. Soon Kounhoven traveled to
Prescott Bush defeated in his political race due to his background association with the American eugenics movement.
Union Bank liquidated. The Bush family received $1.5 million from its interest in Union Bank.
Prescott Bush elected to senate.
Prescott Bush instrumental in the selection of Nixon as vice presidential candidate.
John Foster Dulles appointed Secretary of State.
Allen Dulles appointed Director of the CIA.
With money from Brown Brothers and Harriman, George Bush forms Zapata, a front for the CIA.
CIA under the direction of Allen Dulles help span a coup against Jacobo Arbenz in
C. Dillon appointed Secretary of Treasury.
The
John Kennedy fires Allen Dulles after the
John Kennedy assassinated.
George Bush campaigns against the Civil Rights Act in his bid for election. He lost the election.
George Bush elected to congress.
Nixon elected President.
Zapata attempted to buyout United Fruit another company with strong ties to the CIA and involved in the overthrow of reformed-minded Central American countries.
George Bush appointed as ambassador to the United Nations.
Watergate scandal erupts during Nixon’s reelection campaign
George Bush appointed chairman of the Republican Party. Bush proceeds to set up the ethnic heritage groups in the party. In short, these groups are nothing more than a haven for Nazi émigrés from
Colby reveals information about secret domestic operations by the CIA: Mockingbird, Mk-Ultra. Cheney seeks Colby's removal.
George Bush appointed CIA director by President Gerald Ford, a former member of the pro-Nazi group, American First.
George Bush allowed the execution of Chilean dissident Orlando Letelier by the fascist regime of Pinochet. Bush was fully informed of the operation of the Chilean Operation Condor program to execute dissidents. Operation Condor was an extensive operation by several South American countries led by
Arbusto Energy Inc founded by George W Bush is sold after proving to be a failure.
Silverado Banking Savings & Loan shut down by regulators. Neil Bush son of the Vice President and candidate for President was a director. The seizure and investigation had been delayed to after the election.
Fred Malek, a well-known Nazi collaborator was part of Bush’s campaign for President. Malek would again serve Bush in his 1992 race for reelection. Several Bush campaign staffers forced to resign after it was disclosed they were ex-Nazi war criminals including Laszlo Pastor and Yaroslav Stetsko.
William Draper served as head of Bush’s campaign funding. Draper’s grandfather had founded the Pioneer Fund to promote eugenics.
George Bush takes oath of office as President. Places his assets in blind trust managed by William Farish, grandson of the Wiliam Farish that supplied Hitler with gas.
Following the Gulf War,
George Bush pardons all of the principal players in the Iran-Contra scandal.
George Bush, praises Sun Myung Moon in Buenos Aires. The Moon organization is full of ex-Nazis and closely affiliated with the World Anti-Communist League which is also full of ex-Nazis.
George W. Bush appointed President by 5-4 vote of the Supreme Court.
Bush ordered military to stand down so the 9/11 attack could take place giving him a mandate to wage war and curtail freedom.
Patriotic Act passes restricting our constitutional freedoms at the urging of George W. Bush.
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