Patrick J. Frawley Options

[John Simkin]

Yesterday I posted a request on the forum requesting information about a character called William Fawley, a man written about by Ed Haslam in Dr. Mary's Monkey. Haslam provides a reference to research carried out by James DiEugenio. I found the relevant article on the web about William Fawley. However, I could not find any other information on this man. A couple of members suggested that Patrick J. Frawley might be the man I was looking for. Although their is very little about Patrick J. Frawley on the web, there was an entry on Namebase:

http://www.namebase.org/main3/Patrick-J-jr-Frawley.html

Anderson,J. Peace, War, and Politics. 1999 (142)
Chamorro,E. Packaging the Contras. 1987 (53)
Contemporary Marxism 1982-W (84)
Covert Action Information Bulletin 1986-#25 (38)
Covert Action Information Bulletin 1988-#29 (23)
Diamond,S. Spiritual Warfare. 1989 (47)
Donner,F. The Age of Surveillance. 1981 (437)
Forster,A. Epstein,B. Danger on the Right. 1964 (62, 277)
Lernoux,P. People of God. 1989 (300)
Mintz,M. Cohen,J. America, Inc. 1971 (228)
Nikitin,V. The Ultras in the USA. 1981 (175, 244)
O'Toole,G. The Private Sector. 1978 (160)
Resource Center. GroupWatch 1991-SMOM (1)
Resource Center. The New Right Humanitarians. 1986 (8)
Sale,K. Power Shift. 1976 (97, 101-3, 196)
Swanberg,W.A. Luce and His Empire. 1972 (419)
Turner,W. Christian,J. The Assassination of RFK. 1993 (59-60)
Turner,W. Power on the Right. 1971 (171-95, 208, 212)
Turner,W. Rearview Mirror. 2001 (88)

I have copies of seven of these books and was able to research him. This is what I have found. It makes an interesting read.

Patrick J. Frawley was born in Nicaragua in 1923. His American father was a banker, import-exporter and dealer in heavy equipment in Latin America.

Fawley was educated in San Francisco but at the age of 18 dropped out of college and returned to Nicaragua to work with his father. One deal arranged by Fawley involved the sale of $300,000 worth of tyres to the Panamanian government.

Fawley served with the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War. In 1945 he married a Canadian and settled in San Francisco. There he became engaged in a series of small-time business ventures that eventually landed him in possession of a failed manufacturer of parts for ball-point pens. Frawley turned the company into Paper Mate and in 1955 sold it to Gillette for $15.1m.

The extremely rich Fawley now purchased Bing Crosby' old house on South Mapleton Drive in Los Angeles. That was later sold to Aaron Spelling for $10.25m. He then built another house for $11m.

Fawley took over Eversharp Incorporated, makers of Schick razors. Schick's introduction of stainless-steel razor blades made it another financial success. Fawley opened up a manufacturing plant in Cuba, but this was lost when Fidel Castro took control of the country.

Fawley now became a financial supporter of Richard Nixon who he hoped would as president order the overthrow of Fidel Castro in Cuba. He was devastated by Nixon losing to John F. Kennedy in 1960 and the failed Bay of Pigs operation the following year.

In 1961 Alton Ochsner, with the financial help of Clint Murchison, established the Information Council of the Americas (INCA). Ed Butler was appointed as Executive Director of INCA. The main objective of the organization was to prevent communist revolutions in Latin America. Ochsner told the New Orleans States Item: "We must spread the warning of the creeping sickness of communism faster to Latin Americas, and to our own people, or Central and South America will be exposed to the same sickness as Cuba." (16th April, 1963)

Edgar and Edith Stern, owners of WDSU radio and television, were members of INCA. Eustis Reily of the Reily Coffee Company personally donated thousands of dollars to INCA. However, it was Fawley who was INCA's largest financial contributor. The organization used some of this money to make a film about Fidel Castro entitled, Hitler in Havana. The New York Times reviewed the film calling it a "tasteless affront to minimum journalistic standards."

In 1967 Jim Garrison began investigating the activities of Lee Harvey Oswald in New Orleans. Alton Ochsner told a friend that he feared Garrison would order his arrest and the seizure of INCA's corporate records. Ed Butler took these records to California where Frawley arranged for them to be hidden. Ronald Reagan, the governor of California refused all of Garrison's extradition requests. Frawley had previously helped fund Reagan's political campaigns in California.

Fawley continued to work closely with right-wing activists like Ed Butler. Together they put out a magazine called The Westwood Village Square which tried to blame the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King on the communists. He also used the threat of withdrawing advertising to control the content of media outlets. For example, he cancelled $3m worth of Schick advertising from ABC News after it broadcast a documentary critical of Richard Nixon.

An alcoholic, Fawley purchased Shadel Hospital in Seattle after receiving a course of treatment for his drinking problem.

In 1970 Fawley sold Schick to Warner Lamber. He retained Shadel Hospital and invested some of his profits in order to build up a chain of health treatment centres.

Patrick J. Frawley died in Santa Monica, California, on 3rd November, 1998.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKfawleyP.htm

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[Nathaniel Heiden...]

"The extremely rich Fawley now purchased Bing Crosby' old house on South Mapleton Drive in Los Angeles. That was later sold to Aaron Spelling for $10.25m. He then built another house for $11m. "

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[Nathaniel Heiden...]

John this is very interesting:

" He also used the threat of withdrawing advertising to control the content of media outlets. For example, he cancelled $3m worth of Schick advertising from ABC News after it broadcast a documentary critical of Richard Nixon."


What is your source on this? Any additional paths, like maybe to contemporary articles? Otherwise I'll try to find some. This is the kind of direct cause and effect example that are plentiful, yet seem to be rarely mentioned, except as part of generalizations.

[John Simkin]

John this is very interesting:

" He also used the threat of withdrawing advertising to control the content of media outlets. For example, he cancelled $3m worth of Schick advertising from ABC News after it broadcast a documentary critical of Richard Nixon."


What is your source on this? Any additional paths, like maybe to contemporary articles? Otherwise I'll try to find some. This is the kind of direct cause and effect example that are plentiful, yet seem to be rarely mentioned, except as part of generalizations.

Edward Helmore, The Independent, 24th November, 1998

[William Kelly]

"The extremely rich Fawley now purchased Bing Crosby' old house on South Mapleton Drive in Los Angeles. That was later sold to Aaron Spelling for $10.25m. He then built another house for $11m. "

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Of course everyone knows that after Sinatra built a new Presidential wing onto his LA home, JFK stayed with Bing Crosby instead.

BK

[John Simkin]

In 1968, Frawley organized an attempt to oust liberal Senator Thomas Kuchel. Frawley wanted to replace him with retired U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay. However, it was eventually agreed to back Max Rafferty, who unseated Kuchel in the primary but lost to Democrat Alan Cranston.

[John Simkin]

In his book, The Ultras in the USA, Vyacheslaw Nikitin points out that Frawley was involved with the American Security Council, the lobby for the military-industrial complex. Frawley was a member of National Strategy Committee that also included General Lyman Lemnitzer.

[John Simkin]

In March 1970, Jack Anderson reported that Senator George Murphy was on the payroll of Technicolor Incorporated. Murphy was receiving $20,000 a year and played a role in helping Frawley to obtain a $3.5 million contract for Technicolor to handle all the filming at Cape Kennedy.

[Tim Gratz]

Bill wrote:

"Of course everyone knows that after Sinatra built a new Presidential wing onto his LA home, JFK stayed with Bing Crosby instead."

Bill, I could be wrong but I think you are mixing up Sinatra's homes. I think it was a home in Palm Springs on which Sinatra was building the "wing" for JFK and not a home in LA. But I may be wrong and it is of little consequence in any event.

This post has been edited by Tim Gratz: Aug 9 2007, 08:14 AM

[John Simkin]

Bill wrote:

"Of course everyone knows that after Sinatra built a new Presidential wing onto his LA home, JFK stayed with Bing Crosby instead."

Bill, I could be wrong but I think you are mixing up Sinatra's homes. I think it was a home in Palm Springs on which Sinatra was building the "wing" for JFK and not a home in LA. But I may be wrong and it is of little consequence in any event.

Can we keep to the subject of Patrick J. Fawley's political activities. I would hate to think members would get the impression that you are guilty of the offences described on this thread:

http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=10672

[Tim Gratz]

John, it was not I who brought up the subject of Sinatra building a wing on his house--which of course has nothing to do with Frawley. I think your comment should have been addressed to the individuals who first went down the path of such irrelevancies. Fair enough?

[John Simkin]

William W. Turner spent many years investigating the illegal activities of Frawley. After one article appeared in The Progressive, Frawley complained that Turner was "setting me up to be assassinated". In his autobiography, Rearview Mirror, Turner claimed that Frawley worked closely with Jerry Ducote in "political espionage matters".

[Tim Gratz]

And speaking of irrelevancies, John, I just saw that on the thread about the 1963 Secret Service our two Charles--Charles Drago and Charles Black--somehow got into a lengthy discussion of (believe it or mot!) General Custer; an interchange which got so heated they started to exchange personal insults! So it is far from unusual for these threads to go far "off topic"!

[John Simkin]

William W. Turner spent many years investigating the illegal activities of Frawley. After one article appeared in The Progressive, Frawley complained that Turner was "setting me up to be assassinated". In his autobiography, Rearview Mirror, Turner claimed that Frawley worked closely with Jerry Ducote in "political espionage matters".

[Tim Gratz]

John, Frawley sounds like an interesting character, to be sure. Who is Jerry Ducote? Have you covered that before?

(The "Progressive" magazine was headquartered in my home town of Madison, Wisconsin, as you may know.)

What were Frawley's "illegal activities"?

This post has been edited by Tim Gratz: Aug 9 2007, 11:01 AM