FTR#481—Interview with John Buchanan—(Two 30-minute segments) (Recorded on
10/09/2004.)
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Summary of FTR#480—(Note: The massive
volume of “For The Record” programs about 9/11 and related topics is summarized
and analyzed in the periodically-updated description for FTR#391. FTR#’s 454, 455, 456 are
compilations of much of the key documentation culled from Mr. Emory’s
investigation into 9/11. Along with FTR#391, they
should give listeners/readers a substantive grasp of this momentous event. It
is recommended that listeners use this description and e-mail it to others.
Also: The book “Martin Bormann: Nazi in Exile” is
available at About Paul Manning. In addition,
the professional history of the late Paul Manning, the book’s author, is
presented in the description About Paul Manning.
This enables listeners to acquaint others with Mr. Manning’s journalistic
credentials. Key material from the book is synopsized in an extended
description for FTR#305. Understanding the
Bormann organization is essential to comprehending the concept of “the
Underground Reich.” Note also that U.S. Government
documents proving Prescott Bush Sr.’s Money-Laundering on behalf of the Third
Reich before and after World War II are available at a linked website, along
with commentary by John Buchanan, who located the documentation. This material
is discussed in FTR#435. The website containing
the documents is www.debatecomics.org/BushFamilyFortune/
.) Supplementing information presented in FTR#’s 435, 479, this program presents John Buchanan, the
journalist who uncovered recent information adding to the growing body of
knowledge about the Bush family’s involvement with Nazi industry. In addition
to discussion of Prescott Bush’s participation in the Nazi flight capital
program that moved the Third Reich’s funds out of Europe and into neutral
countries after World War II, the
program sets forth John Buchanan’s harrowing experience at the hands of
vengeful government officials looking to punish him for his efforts. Another
important discovery concerns John’s uncovering of the fact that Prescott Bush,
Sr. was an early financier of the Liberty League, a domestic fascist
organization that plotted to overthrow President Roosevelt in 1934.
Program Highlights Include: Description of
the establishment by listeners to this program of a website that features the
declassified documents about the Bush family’s involvement with Nazi industry (www.debatecomics.org/BushFamilyFortune/);
John’s discussion of a law suit against the Bush family by two Auschwitz
survivors; further revelations concerning the Bush-connected Hamburg-Amerika
line’s pro-Nazi activities in the United States; a successful wager John
undertook with The Guardian (a
British paper) betting that they could
not impugn the authenticity of the documents he had uncovered.
1.
This interview
highlights John Buchanan’s political odyssey, undertaken to uncover the truth
of the Bush family’s involvement with Nazi industry. In FTR#435, we examined
John’s magnificent articles written for The
New Hampshire Gazette about the Bush family’s Third Reich connections. Most
important of the revelations contained in Buchanan’s articles is the disclosure
that Prescott Bush (Sr.) continued his involvement with the Nazi money machine
after World War II. Specifically, he continued to deal with individuals and
institutions that were moving Nazi monies out of Germany and into neutral
countries between the years of 1945 and 1951. This places Bush squarely in the
Bormann flight capital milieu, about which we have spoken so often. (The text
of the New Hampshire Gazette articles
is reproduced in the description for FTR#435. The declassified documents
themselves are available online at: www.debatecomics.org/BushFamilyFortune/.
More about the Bush family’s Nazi involvement can be found in—among other
programs—FTR#’s 273, 361, 370, 479.)
2.
The substance of
the Bush family’s involvement with Nazi industry can be found in the broadcasts
cited immediately above. Mr. Emory feels it would be pointless to restate the
details, in that they have been presented so often before. FTR#479 contains the
most recent treatment of the subject. This program will only highlight aspects
of the research that have not been discussed previously.
3.
Among the points
raised by Mr. Buchanan is the fact that after his articles were printed in The New Hampshire Gazette, almost no
news organizations would follow up on the story. The Guardian—a British paper—engaged in a friendly wager with Mr.
Buchanan, who wagered that no one could impugn the authenticity of the
documents he had uncovered. John notes that recently—as discussed in
FTR#479—two Auschwitz survivors have filed a $40 billion suit against the Bush
family because some of their investments utilized slave labor. In particular,
Mr. Buchanan notes that the Bush family had some stock in the Consolidated
Silesian Steel Corporation, which used slave labor at Auschwitz.
4.
John relates
how a group of listeners in the Midwest (high school students and their
teacher) obtained copies of the documents he had uncovered and put them on the
web, with copyrighted introductions that he had written. These are the
documents available at: www.debatecomics.org/BushFamilyFortune/.
Mr. Emory notes that if teenagers can do something this brave, heroic and
important, adult listeners should be able to do more.
5.
Next, John
presents a harrowing tale of some of the official retribution to which he was
subjected because of his investigations. Detained by two people misrepresenting
themselves as “Secret Service Agents,” John was told he was being investigated
for allegedly threatening the life of the President of the United States. No
concrete proof was given (as he had done no such thing), but they nonetheless
demanded, and received, access to all of John’s personal records and contacts.
After that, he was detained in Florida and told he had threatened the life of
someone he had never met and whose name was not presented to him. He was then
told that his public defender had lost his file and that he was in deep
trouble. He would probably be convicted, according to the legal authorities.
Fortunately, a benefactor came to his assistance and he was released and exonerated.
6.
Mr. Buchanan then
relates some information that he had just gleaned from the files of the
McCormack-Dickstein Committee. In those files, he found that the
Hamburg-Amerika Line, one of the most prominent of the Bush family’s Nazi
businesses, was financing a Nazi newspaper in the United States and supporting
the establishment of a full-blown Nazi movement in this country.
7.
Among the most
substantively interesting of John’s recent discoveries is the fact that
Prescott Bush was an early financier of the Liberty League, a domestic fascist
organization that was the primary element in the 1934 fascist plot to overthrow
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. (For more about the 1934 coup attempt,
see—among other programs—FTR#’s 448, 475.)
8.
The program
reviews a passage from Martin Bormann:
Nazi in Exile about the Nazis’ preparations for their postwar underground
revival. “ . . . Dr.
Scheid also affirmed, ‘The ground must now be laid on the financial level for
borrowing considerable sums from foreign countries after the war.’ As an
example of the kind of support that had been most useful to Germany in the
past, Dr. Scheid cited the fact that ‘patents for stainless steel belonged to
the Chemical Foundation, Inc. New York, and the Krupp Company of Germany,
jointly, and that of the United States Steel Corporation, Carnegie, Illinois,
American Steel & Wire, National Tube, etc., were thereby under an
obligation to work with the Krupp concern.’ He also cited the Zeiss Company,
the Leica Company, and the Hamburg-Amerika line as typical firms that had been
especially effective in protecting German interests abroad. He gave New York
addresses to the twelve men.” (Martin
Bormann: Nazi in Exile; Paul Manning; Copyright 1981 [HC]; Lyle Stuart
Inc.; ISBN 0-8184-0309-8; p. 25.)