FTR#586—Miscellaneous
Articles and Updates--(Two 30-minute segments) (Sources are noted in parentheses.) (Recorded
on 2/18/2007.)
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Martin Bormann: Nazi in
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be downloaded with a modem Internet connection. They are available at: Spitfirelist.com/Books. In addition, we have added Cairo to Damascus by John Roy Carlson [1951], Germany Plots with the Kremlin by T.H. Tetens [1953], and Armies of Spies by Joseph Golomb [1939].
Yet another recent addition is Germany’s
Master Plan by Joseph Borkin and Charles Welsh. (Borkin is the author of
the 1979 classic The Crime and Punishment
of I.G. Farben.) Another anti-fascist classic about I.G. Farben supplements
the Borkin and Welsh text—Treason’s Peace
by Howard Watson Ambruster. Two more recently-posted gems are The Thousand-Year Conspiracy by Paul
Winkler and Falange by Alan Chase,
both published in 1943. The Winkler text documents the evolution of militant
Pan-Germanism from the Teutonic Knights to the Nazis and Falange documents the Third Reich’s geopolitical goals in the
Spanish-speaking world. By the time many of you read this description, more of
the long-out-of-print anti-fascist books that are more than 50 years old will
have been added to the Spitfirelist.com/Books URL. The Manning text’s URL also features a discussion of
Paul Manning’s career and professional credentials. Martin Bormann: Nazi in Exile is also available in html. Note also that FTR#305
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Note also that U.S. Government documents proving Prescott
Bush Sr.’s Money-Laundering on behalf of the Third Reich before and after World
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The website containing the documents is www.debatecomics.org/BushFamilyFortune/.
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Summary of FTR#586—(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.) Examining and updating a
number of different paths of inquiry, the program begins with discussion of the
profound relationship between General Motors and Nazi Germany. GM profited
handsomely from its association with the Third Reich, and that company’s
support was essential to the Third Reich’s military conquests. A German
financial firm that was a mainstay of the Nazi money machine—Deutsche Bank—may
be realizing one of Hitler’s geopolitical goals by gaining control over much of
Russia’s fossil fuels industry. Supplementing a long-standing inquiry by Mr.
Emory, the program sets forth a recent development in the investigation into
the assassination of President Kennedy. A dispute has erupted over the proposed
release of documents belonging to the late Montreal attorney Louis Mortimer Bloomfield.
Some JFK assassination researchers believe that Bloomfield was involved in the
assassination. Bloomfield’s family is seeking to delay the release of
Bloomfield’s personal papers to the public. Next, the program delves into the
subject of the privatization of national security matters. The broadcast notes
CIA alarm at the close relationship between the Blackwater security firm and
the CIA. Concluding with competing conspiracy theories about the death of an
Iranian scientist, the program highlights the various hypotheses about the
death of Ardeshir Hassanpour. The American security firm Stratfor theorized
that the Mossad (the Israeli foreign intelligence service) assassinated
Hassanpour as part of a campaign to neutralize the Iranian nuclear development
program. An Iranian dissident stated that Hassanpour was killed by the Iranian
government because of his opposition to the regime of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and
added that he was not a nuclear scientist. The Iranian government stated that
Hassanpour died an accidental death.
Program Highlights Include: The enthusiasm of General Motors executives
for Hitler’s regime; GM’s adherence to the Nazi racial doctrine; L.M.
Bloomfield’s participation in Permindex—a probable intelligence front to which
Garrison suspect Clay Shaw belonged; Blackwater’s cooption of contacts
developed by the CIA.
1.
Beginning with a subject Mr. Emory has covered for almost thirty years,
the program examines part of the history of the collaboration between corporate
America and Nazi Germany. The cooperation between General Motors and the Third
Reich was extensive and essential to Hitler’s prosecution of the war. (For more
about the subject of U.S. collaboration and Nazi Germany, see—among other
programs—FTR#’s 29, 370, 435, 506, 511, as well as many of
the books available at: http://spitfirelist.com/Books/books.html.
Many of the same industrialists and financiers—including people associated with
General Motors—tried to overthrow Franklin D. Roosevelt in a fascist coup in
1934. For more about this, see—among other programs—FTR#’s 448, 475, 481.) “ . . .. Nonetheless, GM and Germany began a strategic
business relationship. Opel became an essential element of the German
rearmament and modernization Hitler required to subjugate Europe. To accomplish
that, Germany needed to rise above the horse-drawn divisions it deployed in
World War I. It needed to motorize, to blitz -- that is, to attack with
lightning speed. Germany would later unleash a blitzkrieg, a lightning war.
Opel built the 3-ton truck named Blitz to support the German military. The
Blitz truck and its numerous specialized models became the mainstay of the
Blitzkrieg. In 1935, GM agreed to locate a new factory at Brandenburg, where it
would be geographically less vulnerable to feared aerial bombardment by allied
forces. In 1937, almost 17 percent of Opel's Blitz trucks were sold directly to
the Nazi military. That military sales figure was increased to 29 percent in
1938 -- totaling about 6,000 Blitz trucks that year alone. The Wehrmacht, the
German military, soon became Opel's No. 1 customer by far. Other important
customers included major industries associated with the Hitler war machine.
Expanding its German workforce from 17,000 in 1934 to 27,000 in 1938 also made
GM one of Germany's leading employers. Unquestionably, GM's Opel became an
integral facet of Hitler's Reich.” (“Nazis Rode to War on GM Wheels”
by Edwin Black; San Francisco Chronicle; 1/7/2007; pp. E1-E6; available
at: http://ftrsupplemental.blogspot.com/2007/01/nazis-rode-to-war-on-gm-wheels.html.)
2.
More about just how profound the relationship between GM and the Third
Reich was: “More than just an efficient
manufacturer, Opel openly embraced the bizarre philosophy that powered the Nazi
military-industrial complex. The German company participated in cultic
führer-worship as a part of its daily corporate ethic. After all, until GM
purchased Opel in 1929 for $33.3 million, or about one-third of GM's after-tax
profit that year, Opel was an established carmaker with a respected German
persona. The Opel family included several prominent Nazi Party members. This
identity appealed to rank-and-file Nazis who condemned anything foreign-owned
or foreign-made. For all these reasons, during the Hitler years, Sloan and
Mooney both made efforts to obscure Opel's American ownership and control. Of
course, GM's subsidiary vigorously joined the anti-Jewish movement required of
leading businesses serving the Reich. Jewish employees and suppliers became
verboten. . . .” (Idem.)
3.
Next, the program sets forth the fundamentals of a
possible takeover of the Russian YUKOS oil company by Deutsche Bank. If such a
development does take place, it would cement German influence on the Russian
fossil fuel business, thereby reaching a longstanding German eco/political
goal. “YUKOS chairman of board Viktor Gerashchenko told
Kommersant
that Deutsche
Bank is in talks about redeeming debts and buying the controlling
stock of YUKOS. If Deutsche Bank manages to carry this out, it will have in its
hands the fate of the major current corporation conflict in Russia’s economy –
that of Gazprom and Rosneft. Two independent
sources in the investment banking sphere told Kommersant
last week that Deutsche Bank and its Russian subsidiary
Deutsche UFG are interested in YUKOS assets. YUKOS
chairman of board Viktor Gerashchenko confirmed the information in his
interview to Kommersant yesterday. He said that last week he received a
letter signed by Ilya Shcherbovich, head of the bank’s subsidiary in Russia
Deutsche UFG. The letter said that the bank is interested in purchasing
‘YUKOS’s controlling stock’ and ‘is ready to undertake’ redeeming the company’s
debts. . . .” (“YUKOS Assets to Become German” by Dmitry Butrin, Denis Rebrov; Kommersant:
Russia’s Daily Online; 10/16/2006; available at: http://ftrsupplemental.blogspot.com/2006/10/yukos-assets-to-become-german.html.)
3. Supplementing a
long-standing inquiry by Mr. Emory, the program sets forth a recent development
in the investigation into the assassination of President Kennedy. A dispute has
erupted over the proposed release of documents belonging to the late Montreal
attorney Louis Mortimer Bloomfield. Some JFK assassination researchers believe
that Bloomfield was involved in the assassination. (For more about the JFK
assassination, use the search function: http://www.spitfirelist.com/FTR_search.html.) “Does the
key to the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy lie buried in
Canada's national archives? Or is it another secret that has pitted Montreal
researcher Maurice Philipps against Library and Archives Canada and the widow
of a once prominent Montreal lawyer, Louis Mortimer Bloomfield? One thing is
certain. Whatever Bloomfield's widow is trying to keep under lock and key - out
of concern for ‘privacy and the reputation of Louis M. Bloomfield’ - it has
left Canada's national archives wrestling with a dilemma that goes to the heart
of the question of who controls access to private documents donated to the
federal government. A recent federal court ruling found the institution cannot
arbitrarily extend the restriction on access to Bloomfield's papers well past
the original deadline set by Bloomfield himself. Now, the archives is
struggling to decide when to lift the veil of secrecy on papers that have been
judged of exceptional interest to Canada. . . .” (“Do
Lawyer’s Files Hide JFK Secrets?” by Elizabeth Thompson; Montreal Gazette;
1/27/2007; available at: http://ftrsupplemental.blogspot.com/2007/01/do-lawyers-files-hide-jfk-secrets.html.)
4.
Bloomfield’s alleged participation in the Kennedy assassination stems
from his association with a company called Permindex. This topic is discussed
in The Guns of November,
Part IV. “ . . . At the center of the
controversy are 31 boxes of documents that Bloomfield donated to the archives a
few years before his death in 1984. . . . Philipps, author of the book De
Dallas a Montreal, which explores a possible Montreal connection to JFK's 1963
assassination in Dallas, stumbled on a reference to the Bloomfield connection
in the mid-1990s and was intrigued - particularly given allegations advanced by
some JFK conspiracy theorists that tied Bloomfield to the shooting, a company
called Permindex, the CIA and the agency that preceded it, the Office of
Strategic Services. While the conspiracy theory connection between Bloomfield
and JFK's assassination is a complex one and has evolved over time, it appears
to stem from the fact he was named as a major shareholder in a shadowy
international company called Permindex. Among the other people involved in
Permindex was Clay Shaw, whom New Orleans district-attorney Jim Garrison
suspected was part of a conspiracy to murder the president. There are also
allegations Permindex was a front or shell company for the CIA and was used to
funnel money for intelligence operations. Some of the theories allege
Bloomfield had been recruited into the OSS and that he had ties to intelligence
circles - something Harry Bloomfield vehemently denies. While Philipps does not
believe the papers implicate Bloomfield in the shooting - in fact, he believes
they may clear Bloomfield's name - he believes they could contain clues that
could help shed light on JFK's assassination: ‘I think we will find information
on people other than him ... but I don't think that Mr. Bloomfield was directly
linked to that in a criminal way.’ . . .” (Idem.)
5.
Next, the program delves into the subject of the privatization of
national security matters, the broadcast notes CIA alarm at the close
relationship between the Blackwater security firm and the CIA. (For more about
the Blackwater firm, see FTR#529.
For more about the privatization of national security, see FTR#451. For more about
Joseph P. Schmitz, now the top man at Blackwater, see FTR#476.) “ . . . A number of senior CIA and Pentagon officials have taken top jobs
at Blackwater, including firm vice chairman Cofer Black, who was the Bush
Administration's top counterterrorism official at the time of the 9/11 attacks
(and who famously said in 2002, ‘There was before 9/11 and after 9/11. After
9/11, the gloves came off.’) Robert
Young Pelton, author of the new book, Licensed
to Kill, says that an early Blackwater contract—a secret no-bid
$5.4 million deal with the CIA—came in 2002 after Prince placed a call to Buzzy
Krongard, who was then the CIA's executive director. A CIA source with whom I
spoke said that Prince is very tight with top agency officials and has a ‘green
badge,’ the security pass for contractors who have access to CIA installations.
‘He's over there [at CIA headquarters] regularly, probably once a month or so,’
this person told me. ‘He meets with senior people, especially in the D.O.’ (The
D.O., or Directorate of Operations, runs covert operations; last year, it was
absorbed by the newly created National Clandestine Service.) Prince's visits
are probably one reason that the revolving door to Blackwater keeps turning.
Last fall, Rob Richer resigned from the post of Associate Deputy Director of
Operations; he immediately took a job as Blackwater's Vice President of
Intelligence. Richer is a former head of the CIA's Near East Division and long
served in Amman, where, for a period beginning in 1999, he held the post of
station chief. . .” (“Revolving Door to Blackwater Causes Alarm at CIA”
by Ken Silverstein; Harper’s Magazine; 912/2006; available at: http://ftrsupplemental.blogspot.com/2006/09/revolving-door-to-blackwater-causes.html.)
6.
Concluding with competing conspiracy theories about the death of an
Iranian scientist, the program highlights the various hypotheses about the
death of Ardeshir Hassanpour. The American security firm Stratfor theorized
that the Mossad (the Israeli foreign intelligence service) assassinated
Hassanpour as part of a campaign to neutralize the Iranian nuclear development
program. An Iranian dissident stated that Hassanpour was killed by the Iranian
government because of his opposition to the regime of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and
added that he was not a nuclear scientist. The Iranian government stated
that Hassanpour died an accidental death. “The
escalating confrontation between Iran and the West has produced an atomic
‘whodunit,’ with fingers pointing across the Middle East. Last month, Iran
reported the death of Ardeshir Hassanpour, 44, one of the country’s leading
nuclear scientists. The news fueled a wave of rumors and conspiracy theories in
cyberspace. . . .” (“Iranian Scientist’s Death Stirs Talk of an
Atomic ‘Whodunit’” by Marc Perelman; Forward; 2/16/2007; available at: http://ftrsupplemental.blogspot.com/2007/02/iranian-scientists-death-stirs-talk-of.html.)