An Iraqi who asked not to be identified had disclosed some of the US activities such as assassinations and bombings in markets that aim at sparking sectarian fighting among Iraqis so as to facilitate the partition of the country (...) The former collaborator said that the Americans have a unit for "dirty jobs." That unit is a mix of Iraqis, Americans, and foreigners and of the security detachments that are deployed in Baghdad and other Iraqi cities. This unit doesn’t only carry out assassinations, but some of them specialize in planting bombs and car bombs in neighborhoods and markets. This unit carries out operations in which wanted people whom the American army does not want killed are arrested. The former collaborator said that "operations of planting car bombs and blowing up explosives in markets are carried out in various ways, the best-known and most famous among the US troops is placing a bomb inside cars as they are being searched at checkpoints. Another way is to put bombs in the cars during interrogations...
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Former collaborator discloses details of US-ordered assassinations, sectarian bomb attacks targeting Iraqi civilians
Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq (AMSI)
May 11, 2006
An Iraqi who asked not to be identified had disclosed some of the US activities such as assassinations and bombings in markets that aim at sparking sectarian fighting among Iraqis so as to facilitate the partition of the country.
He pointed out that he that he worked with the US occupation troops for about two and a half years and then was able to flee from them to an area outside Baghdad where, he hopes, the Americans will not be able to get to him.
The former Iraqi collaborator recalled: "I was a soldier in the Iraqi army in the war of 1991 and during the withdrawal from Kuwait I decided to seek asylum in Saudi Arabia along with dozens of others like me. That was how began the process whereby I was recruited into the American forces, for there were US military committees that chose a number of Iraqis who were willing to volunteer to join them and be transported to America. I was one of those," he said.
The former collaborator went on: "In 1992 I was taken to America, specifically to an island where most of the establishments were military. I was with a number of other Iraqis, one of them the former governor of an-Najaf, 'Adnan adh-Dharfi. We received military training and intense courses in English and in how to carry out tasks like assassination," he recounted.
The former collaborator said that during the 2003 invasion and subsequent war, he was transported back to the interior of Iraq to carry out specific tasks assigned him by the US agencies.
"During the last war that led to the occupation of Iraq," he recalled, "I was with a group of my comrades who had received training in America in how to spread chaos in the ranks of the Iraqi army. We were brought into Iraq across the border from Saudi Arabia. We put on Iraqi army uniforms and out mission was basically to spread rumors among the Iraqis, such as that the American army had already got into such-and-such a city, or that it is on the outskirts of Baghdad and other such things, which were part of the reason for the rapid collapse of the Iraqi forces," he said.
The former collaborator went on: "the unit that I was with settled in the presidential palace in the al-A'zamiyah district. We were allowed to visit our relatives and relations in Baghdad once a month, and so I would go visit my family in 'Madinat as-Sadr’ in eastern Baghdad. But after things began to get worse and the armed men began to shot at everyone leaving the palace, I asked my family to come to the palace every now and then so I could see them. My job was being a guard, but after a time that situation changed and the American occupation forces put me in charge of a group of a unit that carried out assassinations in the streets of Baghdad," he said.
"Our task was to carry out assassinations of individuals. The US occupation army would supply us with their names, pictures, and maps of their daily movements to and from their place of residence and we were supposed to kill the Shi'i, for example, in the al-A'zamiyah, and kill the Sunni in the of 'Madinat as-Sadr’, and so on."
"Anyone in the unit who made a mistake was killed. Three members of my team were killed by US occupation forces after they failed to assassinate Sunni political figures in Baghdad. A US force that had been so-ordered eliminated them. That took place two years ago," the former collaborator recalled.
The former collaborator said that the Americans have a unit for "dirty jobs." That unit is a mix of Iraqis, Americans, and foreigners and of the security detachments that are deployed in Baghdad and other Iraqi cities. This unit doesn’t only carry out assassinations, but some of them specialize in planting bombs and car bombs in neighborhoods and markets. This unit carries out operations in which wanted people whom the American army does not want killed are arrested.
The former collaborator said that "operations of planting car bombs and blowing up explosives in markets are carried out in various ways, the best-known and most famous among the US troops is placing a bomb inside cars as they are being searched at checkpoints. Another way is to put bombs in the cars during interrogations. After the desired person is summoned to one of the US bases, a bomb is place in his car and he is asked to drive to a police station or a marked for some purpose and there his car blows up."
The testimony of the former collaborator is consistent with some western reports that have disclosed the involvement of US military personnel in bombings that target Iraqi civilians. The British reporter Robert Fisk, AMSI noted, had recently met with Iraqis in Syria concerning such "black operations" carried out by the Americans.
The Egyptian writer and former editor of al-Ahram, Muhammad Hasanayn Haykal, also noted in an interview with al-Jazeera satellite TV that there are mercenaries who practically make up an army second only to the regular US army in Iraq in terms of their numbers and equipment. This force is now called the "Knights of Malta" Haykal said, and they are the cause of many of the attacks that target Iraqi civilians. Haykal noted that there are Iraqis and Lebanese working in the ranks of that force.
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| Comment pos ted: by eric lindblad on 12 May 2007 - 22:17 |
Note information below on "The downfall of the Turkish Empire, which in all prob ability, if not overthrown from abroad, must sink under its own weight, will mor eover bring vast cotton countries under their [i.e. England's] suzerainté. In su ch a case they probably aim at Egypt and Minor Asia, not only in this respect, b ut to get the Key to the Red Sea and consequently to East India. "
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APPENDIX TO THE OUTLINES OF AMERICAN POLITICAL ECONOMY,IN THREE ADDITIONAL LETTE RS (Nos. IX. X. XI.)ADDRESSED BY PROFESSOR FREDERICK LIST, OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TUBINGEN IN GERMANY, TO
CHARLES J. INGERSOLL, ESQ., VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE PENNSYLVANIA SOCIETY FOR THE P ROMOTION OF MANUFACTURES AND THE MECHANIC ARTS, 1827.
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LETTER XI
Political Economy is not Cosmopolitan Economy:– (Continuation.)
Reading, 29th July, 1827.
Dear Sir:– As a foreign grain market which may be destroyed every day by the reg ulations of a foreign power, is rather a source of calamity than of prosperity, rather a source of weakness than of power, so it is with a foreign cotton market depending on a country, which, like England, by its predominant political power is enabled, and by its rival feelings against this nation, induced to procure its supply after a short time from other subjected countries. The southern orators would certainly do better to call their fellow citizens to stand by their reason, instead of by their arms, and they will certainly do it if they investigate the subject coolly and deliberately.
In the first place let us see who is the silly boy, who killed the goose laying golden eggs, whom an eminent statesman of the south toasted lately so emphatical ly. I am obliged to refer for that purpose to what President Cooper is lighted t o style “the annual nonsense of finance reports” (page 4) from which I neverthel ess venture to draw something of tolerably good sense. The tables of the treasury give the following result:
EXPORTS.
1816 – 81 millions of pounds raw cotton, brought $24,000,000
1826 – 204 millions of pounds raw cotton, brought $25,000,000
Two and a half pounds brought, consequently, in 1826, just as much as one pound in 1816, because Europe could not digest the number of cotton bales which the So uthern States gave her to swallow. Had every planter thrown the half of his cott on crop into the Mississippi, he would undoubtedly have received as much money f or the other half as he now got for the whole, and he would besides have saved the trouble of bagging one half the number of bags. So true is it that men may labour for nothing, and that a productive power may destroy itself, and that a production which is beneficial to mankind may be destructive for a particular country – so true is it that individual economy is not political economy, and political not cosmopolitical economy. The planter receiving in 1825 very small interest for his capital, on account of the low cotton prices, thought to make up this loss by increasing the quantity of his crop, which was very good individual economy. But all planters had the same plan; the quantity of the whole cotton crop consequently increased in the same proportion, whilst the demand in the European markets had but little increased, the prices fell in consequence in the same proportion in which the quantity had increased, and the planters received not a cent more for their increased quantity than in the preceding year. We see here in clear numbers, that if in material production twice 2 makes 4, it may make in production of value sometimes 1 ½ it or something less; and I venture to predict that the cotton planters will every year produce this result, and that they will at last plant 300 millions of pounds, and not receive more than 25 millions, or something less, until they perceive that every supply must correspond to the demand. According to cosmopolitical principles, it matters not, however, how much the cotton planters cleared by their industry. The riches of the world were increased, and all is well. But I incline to doubt whether the southern planters would not prefer to lessen the comforts of mankind a little, by increasing their private income.
The cause of the great disadvantage from which the southern now are suffering, i s just the same cause which depresses the grain-growing states; these raise too much grain, those too much cotton. Both want a proper division of labour. There and here a part of the inhabitants must seek for another – for a more profitable employment. This is the whole secret for improving both countries.
But what else can the southern states do with their slaves in a profitable manne r? Some say they ought to raise silk, others to plant vines. I, for my part, bel ieve that neither the one nor the other would yield, for the present, a sufficie nt profit to supply their losses, which opinion I shall justify in another place . But why should they not be able to make coarse cotton (coarse shirtings, ginghams, &c.)? I cannot see the reason why not. After the machineries are erected, the labour of spinning and weaving coarse cottons certainly exceeds not the faculties of the slaves. The Pacha of Egypt does very well in applying his slaves to this kind of work; and the ancient Greeks carried all their manufacturing on with slave labour. After having started the machineries, the inhabitants of the south would even enjoy peculiar advantages: – first, they could apply their labourers from the prime of their youth to a certain branch of business, and their skill would be secured to the manufactory for their whole lifetime; secondly, for the spinning mills they could turn the labour of the females and of the children, who are now of very little use for them, to a better account; thirdly, they would have the cotton cheaper, and the South American market nearer; fourthly, they could dye with home raised colour-plants, particularly indigo, without any preparation. *
Let us see what the result would be, if, with the fourth part of their cotton-pl anting slaves, they would only convert the eighth part of their cotton into coar se goods.
* On that important subject, how to use slave labour in manufacturing, I will ex pose my opinion in a particular letter.
They plant now 204,000,000 [lbs.]
For employing the fourth part of their slaves in coarse cotton manufactories the y will plant less raw cotton 51,000,000 [lbs.]
Remain, 153,000,000 [lbs.]
From this quantity they work themselves up one-eighth, 20,000,000 [lbs.]
Remain, 133,000,000 [lbs.]
For this reduced quantity they will receive, according to the quantity and price of 1820, (when they sold 127,000,000 lbs. For 22 ½ millions of dollars,) $24,00 0,000
And 20,000,000 lbs. manufactured at 3 ½ millions, and the value six times increa sed, $21,000,000
Total, $45,000,000
Instead of twenty-five millions, a year.
Thus the whole manufacturing labour would be clear gain, and though not more tha n the fourth part of the cotton planting labour, it would yet bring nearly as mu ch as the other three fourths.
By this the southern planters may learn that they receive for all their slave-ho lding trouble, and all their land, not the twentieth part of the value that may be produced in Europe from their raw cotton. Verily, verily, the southern plante rs will, as well as the French ultras, fail of their aim in resisting the wants of the present time obstinately, instead of complying with them reasonably. The good old times are not to be revived otherwise than by good new ideas, carried into effect by standing at machinery, not by arms.
Whilst the Southerns destroy the fruits of their labour, by self competition, it is quite certain that England is looking about for supply to other countries, s tanding more under their command than the United States. They intend to encourag e Brazil and other South American countries in this business. The downfall of th e Turkish Empire, which in all probability, if not overthrown from abroad, must sink under its own weight, will moreover bring vast cotton countries under their suzerainté. In such a case they probably aim at Egypt and Minor Asia, not only in this respect, but to get the Key to the Red Sea and consequently to East India. The example of the Southern States itself teaches that with the aid of slaves and of a proper soil a country may increase its cotton produce immensely. Then they will more and more exclude American cotton and place the Southern States with their cotton bills in the same situation as they did the grain and wool growing countries with their corn and wool bills.
The calamity arising from such a measure can only be avoided by taking precautio n in due time. In her present situation England cannot dispense with American co tton; she must buy it. By commencing now to raise a cotton manufacturing industr y, the South will by and by diminish the quantity of raw cotton and increase hom e manufactories. Whilst they gain thus in a double way they will moreover secure their cotton market in England. This is effected in the following manner: If the Americans raise cotton manufactories they will rival in foreign countries the English manufactures; should then the English exclude or onerate the importation of American cotton, the prices of raw cotton would be raised in their country and the American cotton manufactories could sell cheaper in foreign countries. This is yet the greatest of all advantages which will grow out of an American manufacturing industry for the Southern States, that they place by this measure England in a dilemma which cannot fail in one case or in the other to turn out to their advantage, whilst in following their old course they will be lost in every way either by their own over-production, or by foreign measures.
Mr. Niles, in his excellent essay on American Agriculture, has with good reason shown that the Southern States would yet receive some millions less for their co tton in Europe, were it not for the home manufactories, which already consume th e quantity of sixty millions of pounds a year. This quantity has been questioned by some opponents of domestic industry, but, I am confident, with little reason. According to the statements of the Count de St. Crique, Director of the French customs, the consumption of France last year was not less than 20 millions of kilograms, or 64 millions of pounds, and the consumption of the preceding year was not more than 24 millions of kilograms, or 48 millions of pounds; the consumption of France had consequently increased in one year 16 millions of pounds. This consumption makes for each inhabitant two pounds a year. But in France, where every body wears linen for shirts, &c. cotton is not half so much in use as in the United States: we can, therefore, at least estimate the average consumption at four pounds per head, which would make a quantity of 48 millions, without exports.
I regret very much that I am not in possession of the statistical tables of Engl and, from which I could derive the internal consumption of that country. The tot al import of raw cotton was estimated last year at 200 millions, from which quan tity certainly two-fifths are consumed in England.
According to this example France may increase her consumption in the course of t he next ten years to l00 millions of pounds, and so may the United States, which would make nearly the double of the quantity we sell at present to England. The interior of Germany and Switzerland, which begin to supply themselves by the wa y of Havre de Grace, will increase in an equal ratio their consumption. In the meantime, while these markets increase their demand, England cannot do without American cotton, and consequently nothing can be lost, whilst all may he gained. France is neither in possession of an overwhelming naval power, nor has she the aim to inundate the world with her manufactures; she will ever be a good and sure market for American cotton. There are strong reasons to believe that France would readily increase the importation of other products from the United States, particularly tobacco, ham, lard, and tallow, if the United States would take proper measures to increase their importation from France. The true policy of this country respecting England and France, has certainly too long been neglected. The United States acquired their political independence by separating from England, and by uniting with France – and in that way – only in that way – they can acquire their economical independence.
Very respectfully your’s, FR LIST.
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| Comment pos ted: by eric lindblad on 12 May 2007 - 22:53 |
Deposition of ret. U.S. Army Criminal Investigator Gene Wheaton, who in the pres ence of lawyers representing defendants Richard Secord, Albert Hakim, Tom Clines , and Theodore Shackley, in a U.S. court case, testifies of information concerni ng the involvement of such individuals in assassinations. A legal representative of co-defendant John Singlaub was also in attendance in the United States court house on the morning of 1 March 1988, at Third Street and Constitution Avenue, in Washington, where the testimony was recorded. |
| Comment pos ted: by eric lindblad on 12 May 2007 - 23:18 |
whether correct in Muhammad Hasanayn Haykal's assessment, such are typical of Gl adio
COVERT ACTION INFORMATION BULLETIN
SPECIAL: NAZIS, THE VATICAN, AND CIA
WINTER 1986 Number 25
pages 27-38
KNIGHTS OF DARKNESS
THE SOVEREIGN MILITARY ORDER OF MALTA
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THE CHECKERED CAREERS OF JAMES ANGLETON AND ROGER PEARSON
Both James Jesus Angleton and George Raymond Rocca were forced into retirement i n December 1974 following Seymour Hersh's revelations that Angleton's Division h ad been involved in illegal domestic operations, known as "the family j*wels."1
By the Winter of 1977-78 Angleton became one of two Associate Editors of the Jou rnal of International Relations under General Editor Roger Pearson. The other As sociate Editor was Gen. Robert C. Richardson III; the Publisher was John Fisher, President of the American Security Council.
Pearson is perhaps the most important neo-Nazi contact and racist propagandist i n the U.S. today and had been a former Editor of Willis Carto's Western Destiny.
According to Replica of January 1978, when the Executive Committee of the World Anti-Communist League (WACL) met December 10 and 11, 1977 to plan for their upco ming conference in Washington D. C., ''The main speaker was ..... General Robert C. Richardson III who delivered a brilliant speech on the theme of USA-USSR nuc lear balance ...... [and] ......... Dr. Roger Pearson [President of North American Regional WACL and later President and host of WACL in 1978] also made a brilliant exposition."
Replica is the journal of the Latin American Anti-Communist Confederation (CAL) which Jack Anderson revealed to be a CIA created anti-Semitic controller of neo- Nazi death squads.2
Pearson was removed as head of the U.S. branch of the World Anti-Communist Leagu e after its 1978 conference in Washington, D.C. because his ties to the neo-Nazi international were too extreme even for WACL which then included death squads, former Nazis, and Nazi collaborators.3
In the July 1978 issue of the racist Mankind Quarterly, the Editor-in-Chief, and Pearson's mentor, Robert Gayre, announced that Pearson would take over publicat ion of the magazine. Robert Gayre had received the Grand Cross of Merit from SMO M in 1963, having already been editor of the Mankind Quarterly for three years. In June 1979 Pearson was listed as a member of the 'Comite de Patronage' (the Advisory Board) of the French neo-Nazi journal Nouvelle Ecole.
Today Pearson continues to publish in Washington, D.C. several journals includin g Mankind Quarterly; The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies; and The Journal of Indo-European Studies; he remains on the Board of Trustees of the American Foreign Policy Institute.4
According to Joseph C. Goulden,
"Brigadier General Robert C. Richardson ........ had served as deputy chief of s taff for science and technology for the U.S. Air Force Systems command; he later was a field commander of the Defense Atomic Support Agency at the supersecret S andia Base, New Mexico. When Richardson retired in 1967 he became a consultant i n defense affairs; one of his positions, which he was to take in 1973, was a vice-president of Ed Wilson's Consultant's International.''5
Gen. Richardson is today one of the key members of the American Security Council (ASC) and the Coalition for Peace Through Strength (CPTS) and is Executive Dire ctor of the American Foreign Policy Institute of which Pearson, John Fisher, Gen . Lyman Lemnitzer, and Gen. Daniel O. Graham are members of the seven member Boa rd of Trustees.
Angleton today is the Chairman of the Security and Intelligence Fund whose Presi dent is former Ambassador Elbridge Durbrow (the Chairman of the American Foreign Policy Institute) and whose Secretary-Treasurer is Robert C. Richardson III. Un til its move in late 1984 to 1010 Vermont Avenue, N.W. in Washington, D.C., it s hared offices with the ASC and the CPTS. The letter heads of the three organizations show extensive membership overlaps.
1. See, Seymour Hersh's stories in the New York Times, December 22 and 30, 1974; and Fensterwald and Ewing, Coincidence or Conspiracy? (New York: Zebra Books, 1 977), at pp .182, 183, 186.
2. See, Jack Anderson stories of January 12, 13, 23, 26, 30 and February 9. See also, Henrik Kruger, The Great Heroin Coup (Boston: South End Press, 1980), and the series in the New York 'Village Voice' by Joe Conason, May 1 and 14, 1985.
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3. See, Paul Valentine Fascist Specter behind the World Anti-Red League in the W ashington Post, May 28, 1978.
4. See generally, Michael Billig, Psychology, Racism & Fascism, London: 1979; an d Searchlight magazine, September 1984, no. 111; both available from Searchlight Who's Who. publications, 37B New Cavendish Street, London W1M 8JR. 'See also', R obert Gayre's entry in the British
5. Joseph C. Goulden, The Death Merchant: The Rise and Fall of Edwin P. Wilson ( New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984), p. 47.
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In 1953 Catholic fanatic Clare Boothe Luce [ wife of Henry Luce ..... JP ] becam e U.S. Ambassador to Rome, and was made a Dame of Malta in 1956. In 1954, with t he backing of Cardinal Spellman and the machinations of General Edward G. Lansda le, the Catholic Ngo Dinh Diem became Prime Minister of South Vietnam.
[ Henry Luce, publisher of Time and Life magazines, was closely associated with Cardinal Spellman. See picture of Cardinal Spellman, Henry Luce and Ngo Diem in Luce and His Empire by Swanberg, published by Scribner ..... JP ]
Commenting on the events in Hungary in 1956, two Soviet journalists wrote,
...... we spoke with Count Karoly Khuen Hedervary [who] bears a great responsibi lity for the crimes the fascists had committed in Europe [but he] was not tried as a war criminal after 1945. ..... After Mindzenty's return to Budapest during the counter-revolutionary events, Karoly Khuen Hedervary took advantage of his b eing an old friend of the cardinal to meet Mindzenty several times, during which he received instructions for the organization [set up by the former fascist minister of industry Geza Bornemisza]. Hedervary served also as the liaison man of the organization and the Duke of Lichtenstein, who came officially to Budapest during the October events in the capacity of the representative of the International Red Cross, but actually as the representative of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta which had helped actively in promoting the counter-revolution in Hungary.15
By November 1961, President Kennedy 16 appointed John McCone as Director of the CIA. In 1963, when it became clear Diem could no longer stay in power in South V ietnam, McCone oversaw his regrettably necessary assassination. McCone is listed as a member of SMOM in the 1980 list.17
With McCone heading the CIA and Angleton as his Chief of Counterintelligence, an other Knight of Malta of fascist fame, Italian General Giovani De Lorenzo, who h ad been the chief of the secret service (then known as Sifar) and in 1962 head o f the carabinieri, organized an attempted fascist coup on July 14, 1964 (the Pla n Solo) and later became a deputy from the fascist MSI party.18
Six and a half years later, on the night of December 7, 1970 Angleton's Prince B orghese gave the order for Stefano delle Chiaie to proceed with seizure of the I nterior Ministry in Rome along with 50 fellow neo-Nazis. (See A Killer's Career, in this issue; and see The Fascist Network, in CAIB, Number 22.) This plot to t rigger a fascist coup was called off at the last minute, and Borghese and his neo-Nazi protege delle Chiaie fled to Spain where former SS Commando Skorzeny among others was waiting. 19
SMOM and P-2
Freemasonry generally purports to be hostile to Catholicism, and conversely, the Vatican has at various times forbidden Catholics to join Masonic organizations. Nevertheless, in December of 1969 an exclusive meeting was held in the Rome off ice of Count Umberto Ortolani, the Ambassador of the Order of Malta to Uruguay, who has been called "the brains" behind the fascist P-2 Masonic Lodge, which had been established in the mid-1960s.20 In addition to Ortolani, the meeting included only Licio Gelli, Roberto Calvi, and Michele Sindona.21
Gelli had fought for Franco (who was himself a Bailiff Grand Cross of SMOM) with Mussolini's troops during the Spanish Civil War. He was a committed fascist dur ing WW II and at the end of the war was wanted by the partisans for collaboratin g with the Nazis. After the war he developed extensive interests in Latin Americ a where he became close friends with the Argentinean dictator Juan Peron; he was also the Grand Master of P-2.22
Calvi had fought on the Eastern front during the war and was decorated by the Na zis. At the time of the 1969 meeting he was a senior officer at Banco Ambrosiano .
Sindona had set up business in 1943 with the help of Vito Genovese, whose Mafia contacts facilitated the American landing on Sicily. By 1948 Sindona had receive d a letter of introduction to Vatican intelligence operative Montini [later pope .... JP].
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According to Larry Gurwin's The Calvi Affair,
One of Sindona's first steps in cultivating the Vatican's money men occurred in the late 1950s when through a priest, he met Prince Massimo Spada, a Vatican nob leman and the senior layman at IOR. [Massimo Spada had become a Knight of Malta on September 21, 1944. IOR, the Istituto per le Opere di Religione
(Institute for Religious Works), known generally as the Vatican Bank, was create d in 1942 by Pius XII.] At the same time he nurtured his friendship with Giovann i Montini, who had become cardinal-archbishop of Milan in 1954.
In 1959 Montini needed to raise a large sum of money for an old people's home, a nd he turned to Sindona for help. Sindona reportedly raised $2 million in a sing le day. In 1960 Sindona purchased a small Milanese bank called Banca Privata and , thanks to his Vatican friendships, it soon began receiving deposits from IOR. Three years later Montini was elected Pope Paul VI and Sindona's Vatican connections were unbeatable."23
The Italian journal L'Espresso of June 28, 1981 indicates that numbers of high r anking members of the Italian military intelligence organizations were both SMOM s and members of P-2. The list of dual members included General Santovito, the f ormer head of SISMI; Admiral Giovanni Torrisi, the head of the general staff of the Army, and General Giovanni Allavena, head of the intelligence service (then Sifar, which was later split into SISDE and SISMI).
The conclusion of the affair is generally known. When, in 1983, the Vatican was finally forced to establish an "independent'' commission to study the relationsh ip between its IOR (since 1970 Ñ and still Ñ headed by Chicago-born Bishop Paul Marcinkus) and the P-2/Banco Ambrosiano criminal fascists, two of the three memb ers selected were Hermann Abs and Joseph Brennan.
Abs, who features in nearly every book on the Third Reich and the Nuremberg tria ls, was Hitler's paymaster, as chairman of the Deutsche Bank from 1940 to 1945, and was a member of the board of I.G. Farben. He regained the board chairmanship s of both firms after the war, even though in Yugoslavia he had been convicted o f war crimes in absentia. In 1953 he received the Great Federal Service Cross for his services in restoring West Germany's financial power; and in 1960 he was decorated by Franco for his "services" to fascist Spain.24
The choice of Abs for the Vatican commission of inquiry was so outrageous that a t the urging of Charles Higham, the Wiesenthal Center issued a special packet of documents clearly showing Abs's involvement in war crimes and publicly proteste d to the Vatican, all to no avail.
Joseph Brennan is the Chairman of the executive committee of the Emigrant Saving s Bank of New York and a Knight of Malta.
SMOM, Americares, and Central America
Just as World Medical Relief and Refugee Relief International are fronts for Waf fen-SS worshipping editors of Soldier of Fortune magazine, so too the SMOM adver tises itself Ñ to those who believe in the Tooth Fairy Ñ as a "charitable'' orga nization greatly concerned for the suffering of the poor and sick around the wor ld.
The New York Times of August 13, 1985 reported that the Nicaraguan Freedom Fund (NFF), one of many front groups for the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church , channelled $350,000 to the Americares Foundation in Connecticut.25 Clare Booth e Luce, a Dame of SMOM, is on the Board of Moon's Washington Times, and is a dir ector of the NFF with fellow SMOM, William Simon [former U.S. Treasurer]. J. Peter Grace is the Chairman of the six member Advisory Board of Americares, which includes fellow Knight William Simon along with former CIA Director George Bush's brother, Prescott Bush, Jr.
Americares' published "Fact Sheet'' recites as specific projects:
Medical Shipments to El Salvador: Since November 1983 AMERICARES has shipped alm ost 700,000 pounds of medicines and supplies valued at over $8,000,000 in 15 sea shipments with local distribution being handled through the Sovereign Military Order of the Knights of Malta (SMOM).
Guatemala: In response to a request for aid from the Order of the Knights of Mal ta, 10 sea shipments of medical supplies worth over $4,000,000 have been sent to the people of Guatemala since January 1984.
Honduras: Since August 1984, three sea shipments of high priority medical suppli es worth over $ 1,000,000 were sent to the people of Honduras in response to a r equest for aid from the Order of the Knights of Malta. .....
Brazil, October 1984: A shipment of vitamins worth $156,075 were sent to Brazil, again in response to a request from the Order of the Knights of Malta (SMOM) wh o serve as our consignees in Central and South America.
The "Fact Sheet" also discusses an ''offshoot" of Americares called "Doctors To All Peoples" said to be "dedicated to the eradication of leprosy in the Americas .'' Leprosy is the most publicized international "charity project" of SMOM.
footnotes
15. A. Belokon and V. Tolstikov, The Truth About Hungary (Moscow: Foreign Langua ges Publishing House, 1957), pp. 58-61; Mary Bancroft in Autobiography of a Spy (New York: Wm. Morrow, 1983), p.260, reports that towards the end of WWII, "A co ntingent of White Russians, who had been fighting in the German Army, had recent ly crossed the Liechtenstein frontier and had been given asylum."
16. The President's father, Joseph Kennedy, who became a Knight of SMOM March 13 , 1945, had been withdrawn as U.S. Ambassador to London when his sympathies for the Third Reich became known. See, e.g., Higham, op. cit., n. 7., at p. 181.
17. McCone, from a senior post at ITT, was later to play a key role in the overt hrow of the Allende government in 1973. At the time of the coup J. Peter Grace w as Chairman of the AIFLD, and a director of First National City Bank and Kenneco tt Copper Co., all of which played a role in the fascist coup. ('See', Fred Hirs ch and Richard Fletcher, CIA and the Labor Movement (London: Spokesman Books, 1977), pp. 16, ff.; and NACLA Report Amazing Grace: The W. R. Grace Corporation vol.X, no.3, March 1976.) W. R. Grace Company senior vice-president Anthony Navarro, who had earlier been involved in armed fighting against the Castro govemment in Cuba, was recently nominated to the Advisory Committee of Radio Marti; the Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Board on Radio Broadcasting to Cuba, Jorge Mas Canosa, according to the New York Times of Aug.5, 1984, is a Cuban businessman in Miami, who took part in the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961 and was a commentator on Radio Swan, an anti-Castro station that was operated by the CIA.
18. See, Laurent, op. cit., n. 9; and Christie, op. cit., n. 10.
19. See, Christie, op. cit., n. 10; and Laurent, op. cit., n. 9.
20. Journal de Geneve, November 11, 1981.
21. Larry Gurwin, The Calvi Affair (London: Pan Books, 1984), p.15.
22. Gelli had chartered the plane which brought Peron back to Argentina in 1972 and was an honored guest at his inauguration; shortly thereafter Lopez Rega, Per on's Minister of Social Welfare who ran the Argentine death squads and who was a n astrologer and mystic, joined P-2.
23. Gurwin, op. cit., n. 21, pp. 11, 12. See also, David A. Yallop, In God's Nam e: An Investigation Into the Murder of Pope John Paul I (New York: Bantam, 1984) .
24. Yallop, op. cit., n. 23, p. 323; National Council of the National Front of D emocratic Germany, Brown Book: War and Nazi Criminals in West Germany (Berlin: D ocumentation Center of the State Archives Administration of the German Democrati c Republic, n.d. [c. 1966]), p. 39.
25. See also, Washington Post, May 9, 1985, p. 34.
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