Linda Minor

http://www.cancun.bz/cancun_info/cancun_history.php Cancun City History Four decades ago, Cancun was a deserted island and few even knew of its existence. Located in a nearly forgotten region of the Caribbean, it consisted of a series of sand dunes in the shape of a number “7" –some parts of which were only 20 meters (66 ft) wide– separated from the mainland by two narrow canals that opened out on to a huge lagoon system. The coast was comprised of marshes, mangroves, virgin jungle and unexplored beaches. Even its name was not clear: some maps called it “Kankun” (a single word written with the two “k’s”), which means “pot of snakes” or “nest of snakes” in Maya language. However, in the first Infratur documents (a government agency existing prior to the creation of Fonatur), it is written as two words, “Kan Kun,” and occasionally, “Can Cun” (in its Spanish form). The current name of “Cancun” is a natural phonetic development that facilitates pronunciation... or maybe it developed by mere chance.

There was a Myra S. DaRouse who was born in Louisiana in 1922 and went into the Women's Air Corps in 1943 as a teacher, according to documents at Ancestry.com: In 1956 Myra (unmarried) was a bridesmaid for Geraldine LeBlanc from New Orleans, who married Sanford John Hodge, Jr. of Midland, Texas. Geraldine's parents were referred to as Dr. and Mrs. Joseph E. LeBlanc of Paincourtville and New Orleans. Ancestry records show that in 1929 33-year-old Joseph E. LeBlanc of Paincourtville returned on a Honduran Cuyamel Fruit Co. ship (S.S. Nicarao) from Honduras to New Orleans. The LeBlanc family of Paincourtville, La. have long been associated with sugar planting. (Dugas & LeBlanc, Ltd - http://files.usgwarchives.org/la/assumptio...s/leblanre.txt) ...Dugas & LeBlanc, Ltd., sugar planters and manufacturers. This corporation operates the Westfield Plantation, which is a tract of 1,834 acres, situated ten miles south of Donaldsonville, on Bayou Lafourche; the Whitmel Plantation, a tract of 700 acres, situated adjoining the Westfield on the west, also comprising 1,000 acres of timber land; and the Magnolia Plantation, nine miles south of Donaldsonville, comprising 1,000 acres under cultivation and 1,600 acres of timber land. The company operates its own sugar refinery and a general store at Paincourtville. Mr. LeBlanc is also president of the Bank of Paincourtville, which was opened for business in 1907, and of which he has been the chief executive since 1909, having been the second man elected to that post. A democrat in politics, during the past fifteen years he has served as a member of the School Board of the Parish of Assumption. His religious connection is with St. Elizabeth's Roman Catholic Church, of which he is one of the trustees, and as a fraternalist he is a past grand knight of Assumption Council No. 1099, K. of C., of Napoleonville. Mr. Le Blanc resides at the old home residence on the Armelise Plantation, Paincourtville, of which the Dugas & LeBlanc, Ltd., are directors and stockholders.... To Mr. and Mrs. LeBlanc there have been born the following children: Joseph E., manager of a sugar plantation in Spanish Honduras owned by Vacarro Brothers, who was in the veterinary division of the United States Army for one year during the World war, having trained at Chattanooga, Tennessee, and in California, with the commission of second lieutenant; Robert E., a druggist of New Orleans; George, a clerk in the Marine Bank & Trust Company, New Orleans; Marie Therese, a student at the Louisiana State Normal College, Natchitoches; Yvonne, a student at Mount Carmel Convent, Paincourtville; Noelie, a student at St. Michael Convent, St. James Parish; and Durand and Eliza. A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 346-347, by Henry E. Chambers. Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925. According to the 1955 write-up in the Abilene, Texas newspaper: Following the wedding the couple moved to Midland, Texas where a son was subsequently born to them. http://whiteout.blog.ca/2007/03/17/king_ke...a_repu~1923288/ In 1906 United Fruit purchased 50% of a Honduran banana company, the Vaccaro Brothers Company—then in 1908 it was forced to resell by anti-trust rulings in the US. In 1914 United Fruit took over its competition in Costa Rica, the Atlantic Fruit Company, after winning a crippling price war. And finally in 1929, the year of [Minor Cooper] Keith's death, his company bought-out the single biggest competing banana firm, the Cuyamel Fruit Company—which United Fruit had been warring with since it became “United Fruit's biggest competition” in 1915. With such monopoly of the tropical banana industry, and their known connections in American political circles, United Fruit was fully capable of doing business by the cheapest possible means, affording no regard for national sovereignty or workers' rights. By the manipulation, placement, and domination of successions of dictators in newfangled 'Latin' nations, and the overthrow of democracy where it reared its head, the United Fruit Company as much as owned the nations of Central America, and its ancient peoples, from 1890 well into the late 1960's. Even today, with the emergence of vast coca and coffee demand in the 20th century, many of the nations once domineered by the Fruit Company are now under the finger of criminal drug-lords and Wall Street CEO's. Though perhaps the banana industry has been forced to reform, its legacy-of-hell is alive and well in South and Central America, under new ownership.

I, for one, feel that if Barb or Jack can't come up with any more reason not to quit arguing about something they know nothing about than they have so far, you and Judyth would be better off to stop wasting your time trying to convince them. Fold your tent and have Judyth get her new book finished. I would like to read it. I know it will be as fascinating and informative as the last one, which I found truly gripping. It was well-written and informative. I would challenge anyone to remember every detail of anything that happened to them in 1963 without making any errors or mistakes. To hold Judyth to the standard they have required is totally absurd! And I'll repeat what I said many pages of posts before--there is very valuable material in what Judyth has presented, simply in the way she describes the entire set up at Reily Coffee, the way Lee was hired, allowed to slip out to do other things, etc. That is what people should be following up on in my opinion. It is how intelligence organizations operate within an existing corporate infrastructure that includes the military and elements of organized crime. She was there and saw how it operated. This is the whole crux of what is important about the assassination--how the power structure operated.

Apparently few bothered to read the timeline of JVB I posted. The implications of it are clear to me. It reads like a script for "MISSION IMPOSSIBLE". IMAGINED SCRIPT: Hello, Miss Vary. Your assignment, if you choose to accept it, is as follows. Move to New Orleans at your own expense this summer. On April 26, watch the line of people at general delivery at the Post Office. When a young man about 5'9" tall gets in line, approach him and drop a folded newspaper. If he does nothing, he is not your contact. If he picks up the paper for you, say "Thank You" to him in Russian. He will confirm that he is your contact. He will introduce you to people we want you to know in New Orleans. The next day he will introduce you to a Dr. Ochsner, Dr. Ferrie and our man Guy Banister. They will instruct you to watch for a classified ad which will place both of you in one of our front companies. Once in place, you will await further instructions regarding your assignments. This tape will self-destruct in five seconds.... 4...3...2...1...pfffffft. I read your timeline and replied to it. You wouldn't have to be asking these questions if you had read the book she wrote. I read it, including all the footnotes and then did follow-up research on it. She explained it all very cogently.

So you never read the two volume book with the tiny footnotes that was published a few years ago? It amazes me that people are spending so much time examining everything she says here under a microscope without reading what she wrote.

JUNE 20, 1951 High Brass of Reds Arrested Twenty-One Communist Officials Rounded Up NEW YORK. J u n e 20—(UP)—A federal grand jury today indicted 21 of the high brass of the U n i t e d States Communist party on a charge of conspiracy to teach and advocate the overthrow of the government by force and violence. The FBI had just finished rounding up 17 of the 21 reds when the indictments were handed down. The other four were sought. The 17 were arrested on the basis of warrants issued here secretly yesterday. The indictment was the beginning of a government drive to lop off the second head of the party, which sprouted after the conviction of the 11 members of the Communist national committee on the same charge in 1949. The indictment came just 16 days after the U. S. Supreme Court affirmed the conviction of the 11 and upheld the c o n s t i t u t i o n a l i t y of the Smith act, under which they were indicted. A majority of the 21 indicted today are members of the alternate national committee of the party. That committee recently was formed to serve as the top policy making board of the party in the absence of, the convicted national committee members. Triggered at 6:30 a m. EST, the FBI rounded up 16 of the defendants in New York and one in Pittsburgh. The FBI still was seeking four of the defendants. They were Dr. James K. Jackson, 36, of Brooklyn, southern regional director of the U. S. Communist party; Sidney Steinheig, 36, of New York, assistant national labor secretary of the party, Fred Fine, 37, of New York, secretary of the party public affairs department, and William Norman Marion, 49, of New York, executive secretary of the party. There were four women among those arrested. The indictment also named as co-conspirators, but not as defendants, the 11 convicted leaders and William Z Foster, national party chairman, who has been indicted but not prosecuted in the previous case because of illness. ...Louis Weinstock. 48, Bronx, N.Y., a member of the national review commission of the party. A former member of the national committee and secretary of the United May Day committee the last two years, he is a native of Satara, Hungary. He was naturalized in 1930.

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...bsPageId=267525 John Pic's wife: Margaret (Marge) Fuhrman, born Dec. 1933 in New York Mother is Mary, father deceased; sister is Mrs. John Ebel in NY City. Margaret Dorothy Fuhrman Born: 21 Dec 1933 New York City, New York, New York, USA Died: 7 Nov 1994 Lynn Haven, Bay, Florida, USA Spouse John Edward Pic Born: 17 Jan 1932 in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA Died: 25 Apr 2000 in Lynn Haven, Bay, Florida, USA http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...amp;relPageId=6 June 1954 John Pic was on sea duty with Coast Guard Emma Henrietta Parrish nee Fuhrman Doris Ebel, Mrs. Pic's sister Nancy Rico, another sister http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...amp;relPageId=7 Three brothers: Edward, Arthur, Paul Fuhrman http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...bsPageId=338518 George Clifford Parrish, USN http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...bsPageId=339464 http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...bsPageId=699655 John Pic's job Pics did not blame Lee but his mother. Address of school he attended. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...bsPageId=331534 Weinstock, editor of Woman's World Emile Kardos, brother-in-law Woman caller had Austrian or German accent http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/weinstock.html Guide to the Papers of Louis Weinstock WAG 013 Dates: 1910-1994, (Bulk 1930-1980) Abstract: Louis Weinstock was born in Hungary in 1903 and emigrated to the United States in 1923. He settled in New York City and in 1925 joined the Painters’ Union, Local 499. Weinstock became one of the leaders of the “Rank and File” movement in District Council 9 of the International Painters and Paperhangers. Weinstock fought for Social Security and initiated the drive for unemployment insurance. Weinstock also led the Rank-and-File painters caucus in a fight against corruption in the union. Weinstock defeated the corrupt leadership of the infamous Lepke-Gurrah racketeer gang and was elected to the office of Secretary-Treasurer. In 1951, Weinstock was charged with conspiring to violate the Smith Act while teaching a trade union class; he was found guilty and sentenced to three years in jail. Weinstock retired from the union in 1963 and died in 1994 from heart failure. His activism included attending the founding convention of the World Federation of Trade Unions in 1945. He was a delegate to the first World Peace Congress, held in Paris in 1949. He continued to work throughout his life on the important issues facing international trade unions. In 1950 Weinstock became the secretary of the May Day planning committee. In 1953 the permit for the parade was canceled because the U.S. Subversive Activities Control Board declared that the group must register under the McCarran Act for operating a "Communist front" organization. At this point in Weinstock's life he was defending himself against three separate federal prosecutions: the May Day charge of perjury for allegedly lying about the name of the organizing committee; the Smith Act charge of teaching anti- American labor history, and the McCarran Act for being branded a Communist. On June 20, 1951 the FBI showed up to take Weinstock to jail. He was charged with conspiring to violate the Smith Act while teaching a course on trade unionism in 1950. The Justice Department argued that some issues being taught could be viewed as advocating a violent overthrow of the U.S. government. In 1953 Weinstock was found guilty and sentenced to three years in jail and $6,000 fine. He was finally released from prison in May 1957 and continued to pay off the $6,000 fine in monthly installments for the next 19 years. After his release from prison in 1957, he was reinstated back into the District Council 9 and continued his trade as a house painter until a massive heart attack in 1963 forced him to retire. After retirement, Louis and Rose moved to Los Angeles where they remained active by working with the Los Angeles Committee for Trade Union Action and Democracy (TUAD) and also coordinated a Senior Citizens Organization. During the 1980s he was active with senior citizens' organizations and was a delegate to the World Conference on Aging, organized by the United Nations, held in Vienna, Austria. Louis Weinstock died on November 26, 1994 at the age of 91 from heart failure. Sources: Gersh, Adolph B., Occupational Hazards and the Painter.New York: New York District Council No. 9, B. of P. D. & P. of A., 1937.

Nice research, Linda. It seems to me that there are some in the Ongoing Coverup who define the scenario as Judyth V the WCR+Marina. For some reason, it seems that Marina has to be 'protected' from Judyth (she has refused so far to speak to anyone connected with Judyth). It also seems that Marina's testimony within the WCR needs to be 'protected at all costs'. Were there to be another source of first-hand information about Lee Oswald, not to mention from someone who can account for his time in NOLA when Marina cannot, the public might see what a sham the WCR was, and might even realize that Marina's testimony was a result of her being forced into sequestration with the SS and FBI and threatened with deportation unless she told them what they wanted to hear. The reaction against Judyth coming forward has been so violent, especially at the level of the press (re the 60 Minutes episode and the sandbagging of Anna Lewis) that it would seem that all our understanding of the assassination would be changed if she were allowed to have an open forum and everyone was allowed to weigh and evaluate what she has to say. When I used the word "silenced," it was a euphemism. Since Judyth has lived in exile for such a long time, she really believes her life is in jeopardy. My question is really about who would want to kill her to keep her quiet? I personally don't see Marina as a factor in that. In Judyth's 2006 published book--Lee Harvey Oswald--at pages 325-326, she mused about the connection between her supervisor at the coffee company, William I. Monaghan (who had a career in the FBI before moving on to work for Standard Fruit Co.) and his boss, the owner of the corporation, William B. Reily. She said: I would appreciate any help researchers good offer to locate the transcript of this interview in the HSCA papers.

A valuable study of JVB would be a gathering of all points that she claims, and checking everything for accuracy compared to known records, and any significance noted. I for one have never read (other than postings) ANY of the books or papers on the subject...all second hand and perhaps unreliable. I have read her profile statement to the Manatee alumni newsletter, but no acutal writings...only quotes from them. I hope that when her book comes out, someone will make a LISTING of all of the JVB claims. Some may check out, some may not. Jack Her first book came out several years ago and does indeed contain very valuable evidence, some of which I referred to in my post yesterday on this thread, before I took her book off the shelf and searched more closely what she had said there about William Monaghan's association with William B. Reily, who owned the coffee companies where Judyth and Lee worked together. Chapter 20 is entitled "INCA," and quotes from Bill Davy's excellent book about Monaghan, and also from HSCA transcripts about Gerry Patrick Hemming's contacts in New Orleans with Monaghan's employer, Reily himself.

Thanks, Tosh, for your eloquence. I think the question we all have to ask is, "Who is still alive who would want Judyth silenced?" The research I have done for the last few years is based on following the trail of money, which I think is a good rule to follow in this case. The political power has changed more than once, and the intelligence operations have mostly been revealed. However, what remains hidden is the financial networking system or infrastructure that supported (and still supports) the control of intelligence operations by private commercial and banking networks that profit from organized crime. I think that Judyth's story reveals those longstanding connections and allows us to understand for once and for all how the network was started, by whom, and who runs it today--which is why THEY want to shut her up. Monaghan is one extremely important clue because that tells us the governmental agency involved was the FBI. William B. Reily is also important because of his family's Southern connections going back to the Confederacy, as well as to the coffee importation element of the business, relating to interests in South America, which the FBI controlled before being superseded by the CIA. Several generations ago, a Reily ancester, Samuel Warburton Reily, was married to the maternal aunt of Col. House's wife during a time that black ops were being handled through Woodrow Wilson's state department. That was while the father of the CIA's long-time counsel Lawrence Houston (David Franklin Houston) was secretary of agriculture in the Wilson administration, having been hand-picked by Col. House, who had known him for years since he was a fellow faculty member in Texas alongside the Colonel's wife's brother-in-law, Sidney Mezes. Another important clue about Monaghan is that he left the FBI to work for Standard Fruit, a rival of the United Fruit Company, which Dulles had used (as had his uncle Robert Lansing, Secretary of State during the Woodrow Wilson years) as a cover for other black ops in South America. The employment records were presented to the Warren Commission but ignored: http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...bsPageId=143938 Monaghan also testified to the Orleans Parish grand jury in 1967 after he had written a letter, attempting to suppress Jim Garrison's prosecution of Clay Shaw: http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...bsPageId=155010 Ed Haslam's story about the first meetings with "Judyth Vary Baker" in 1972, an excerpt from Dr. Mary's Monkey, can be read here: http://doctormarysmonkey.com/PDFs/The%20Witness.pdf This link contains newspaper photos of and articles about the teen Judyth doing scientific cancer research, as well as a copy of her W2 at Reily Coffee.

And talking and talking and talking. Did he ever get to the point?

Phyllis Bernau's father was Arthur Bernau, and her mother was Miriam Cohen Bernau. All four of Phyllis' grandparents were Jewish and born in either Poland or Germany, though her parents were born in Massachusetts. In 1930 Arthur was employed in insurance work. Phyllis's parents lived for many years in Milton, MA, just a few blocks from where Prescott and Dotty Bush were living when their son George was born.

John Bucknell's father, Howard Bucknell Jr., in 1937 had been named U.S. consul in Bern, Switzerland. He would undoubtedly have know Allen Dulles, who was there during that time. John Bucknell was then 9 years old. He later married the sister of Thomas J. Devine.

Bucknell appears to have been a professional tennis player as well. He was defeated by a Wimbledon champion in July 1960 in Switzerland: Bucknell had been born in 1928 in Peking, China while his father served in the Foreign Service. His brother, Howard Bucknell III was born in Canton, China. On his mother's side, he was descended from a long line of southerners from Georgia named Cobb. His mother's stepfather was Nathaniel B. Stewart, a diplomat to Europe and Africa at various times.

One question that has never been answer to my satisfaction deals with the identity of Frank Bender aka Gerry Droller who was in the center of the JM WAVE operation in Miami and in Washington, D.C. My theory is that U.S. intelligence operations were set up by elected officials with the intent of protecting the American people's interests. However, at the time when FDR set up the OSS and Truman agreed to establish the CIA, there were numerous former members of nobility running around who were angry about their estates having been dispossessed by communists and their titles having been made meaningless. Could the alias "Frank Bender" have been created by one of Droller's wealthy patrons who had managed to inject him into intelligence circles in order to overthrow the philosophy which had deprived them of wealth? Is there a thread running from the persons mentioned in the above 1916 article that ties together this anti-communists with LBJ's siblings--a sister (who married Col. Boris Pash's subordinate, Col. Willard White) and a brother (who for many years took over Lyndon's former role on the staff of Cong. Dick Kleberg of Texas before joining the OSS)--and LBJ's adopted nephew who married a daughter of Archduchess Assunta of Austria (1902-1993), a granddaughter of Grand Duke Leopold II (1797-1870), Tuscany’s last proper Habsburg ruler who was married twice, first in 1817 to Princess Maria Anna of Saxony, who bore him three daughters and who died in 1832. The following year he married Princess Maria Antonia of Bourbon-Sicily, by whom he had 10 children and innumerable grand children and great-grandchildren. Assunta's parents were Leopold Salvator (1863-1931) and Infanta Blanca of Spain (1868-1949). Some info from David McIntosh "The Unkhown Habsburgs" : "Assunta entered a convent in Barcelona with the intention of becoming a nun, but was forced to flee when the convent was destroyed during the Spanish Civil War in 1936...At the age of 37 Assunta married a Doctor, Joseph Hopfinger, who originated from Galicia. He was Jewish and as remaining in Europe at that time was unsafe, they emigrated to the USA. The couple, who had 2 daughters, Maria Teresa and Elisabeth, divorced in 1950. Assunta spent the rest of her life in Texas and died in San Antonio in 1993." Some additions: Assunta entered the covent of the Carmelites of the Holy Teresa in Tortosa which is in the southwest of Barcelona in 1924. She stayed there unil the end of 1936 when the nuns had to flee for Roma. Because there were to many nuns in the monasteries, Pope Pius XI. released those who had relatives from their vow. On 16 (civil) / 17 (religious) September 1939, Assunta married Dr. Joseph Hopfinger in Ouchy in the south of Lausanne (CH). Hopfinger was born on 14 March 1905 as the son of Aron Hopfinger and Sara Rachel Roth. Their daughters are Maria Teresa (born Barcelona, 12 May 1940) and Juliette Elisabeth (born New York, 30 Oktober 1942). Juliette changed her name "Hopfinger" into "Habsburg-Bourbon". Assunta and Hopfinger got divorced in San Antonio on 25 July 1950. Assunta didn't marry again and died at Saint Teresa's Academy (San Antonio, Texas) on 24 January 1993. She was 90 years old. After the divorce, Hopfinger married a woman called Helen N. He also changed his name into Joseph Hoppin, but I don't know when. He died at Charleston (South Carolina) on 23 August 1992 aged 87. http://www.teresians.org/locations.htm#IN%20TEXAS: Teresian Sisters - St. Teresa Convent 138 Fair Ave. San Antonio, TX 78223-1014 St. Teresa's Academy's address was 4018 S. Presa street, which is at the corner of Presa and Fair Ave. What's interesting is the rumor I've heard that Hattie Valdez left her fortune upon her death to her only daughter, who was a nun. If Josefa did work for Hattie, and if Hattie's daughter was a nun, there may have been a connection to Josefa's adopted son's marriage to the daughter of a nun. It's all very strange.

Tom, have you seen the article I wrote in 2005 that concerned George Murnane's relationship with the Forbes family--ancestors of both Ruth Forbes Paine Young (Ruth Hyde Paine's mother-in-law) and John Kerry? Also discussed is Grayson Mallet-Prevost Murphy http://www.sandersresearch.com/index.php?o...7&Itemid=62

Tom, Did you notice that when Wrede came to the U.S. aboard the S.S. Rex from Genoa in 1940, he was with numerous other diplomats? A few weeks earlier (Feb. 17) newspapers reported that U.S. Sec. of State Sumner Welles sailed on the Rex to Naples with steel corporation chairman Myron C. Taylor as FDR's peace envoy to the Vatican. (Feb. 17--On the same ship was Mr. Axel WennerGren, leading Swedish industrialist, who according to Mr. Kluchkhorn of "The New York Times," was summoned from Nassau, where he has a winter home, by General Goering, who had informed him that he wanted Germany to make peace in Finland.) Interestingly, the Rex had been a gambling ship until a year before these passengers boarded. http://www.onlinenevada.org/SS_Rex_Club Tony Cornero, a one-time 1920s bootlegger from California and a former casino operator well known in Las Vegas, opened the S.S. Rex Club casino at Second and Fremont streets in downtown Las Vegas in 1944. Cornero, born in Italy in 1895, named the club after an ill-fated gambling ship he owned off the coast of Southern California, six years before. Back in 1931 in Las Vegas, Cornero and his two brothers built and ran the Meadows Club at Fremont Street and Boulder Highway, considered the first casino resort to debut in the town in the weeks after the Nevada Legislature legalized gambling. After a brief success, the business ran into trouble, and Cornero and his brothers lost control of the Meadows only months after it opened. Cornero returned to California. In 1938, he operated the S.S. Rex gambling ship, about three miles off the coast of Santa Monica, in international waters where gambling was legal. But California prohibited gambling, and Cornero and his fellow cruise ship operators often ignored the three-mile limit. The state's attorney general, Earl Warren, deemed the boat illegal and the United States Coast Guard viewed it as a menace to navigation. Following a nationally publicized confrontation with the Coast Guard that lasted nine days at sea, Cornero was forced to close down his floating casino.

I'm not a fan of sarcasm. What exactly do you mean by "self sustaining"?

http://www.whale.to/b/m_ch5.html To understand why these firms operate as they do, it is necessary to give a brief history of their origins. Few Americans know that J.P. Morgan Company began as George Peabody and Company. George Peabody (1795-1869), born at South Danvers, Massachusetts, began business in Georgetown, D.C. in 1814 as Peabody, Riggs and Company, dealing in wholesale dry goods, and in operating the Georgetown Slave Market. In 1815, to be closer to their source of supply, they moved to Baltimore, where they operated as Peabody and Riggs, from 1815 to 1835. Peabody found himself increasingly involved with business originating from London, and in 1835, he established the firm of George Peabody and Company in London. He had excellent entree in London business through another Baltimore firm established in Liverpool, the Brown Brothers. Alexander Brown came to Baltimore in 1801, and established what is now known as the oldest banking house in the United States, still operating as Brown Brothers Harriman of New York; Brown, Shipley and Company of England; and Alex Brown and Son of Baltimore. The behind the scenes power wielded by this firm is indicated by the fact that Sir Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England for many years, was a partner of Brown, Shipley and Company.* Considered the single most influential banker in the world, Sir Montagu Norman was organizer of "informal talks" between heads of central banks in 1927, which led directly to the Great Stockmarket Crash of 1929. http://www.save-a-patriot.org/files/view/whofed.html Chart 1 reveals the linear connection between the Rothschilds and the Bank of England, and the London banking houses which ultimately control the Federal Reserve Banks through their stockholdings of bank stock and their subsidiary firms in New York. The two principal Rothschild representatives in New York, J. P. Morgan Co., and Kuhn,Loeb & Co. were the firms which set up the Jekyll Island Conference at which the Federal Reserve Act was drafted, who directed the subsequent successful campaign to have the plan enacted into law by Congress, and who purchased the controlling amounts of stock in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in 1914. These firms had their principal officers appointed to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and the Federal Advisory Council in 1914. In 1914 a few families (blood or business related) owning controlling stock in existing banks (such as in New York City) caused those banks to purchase controlling shares in the Federal Reserve regional banks. Examination of the charts and text in the House Banking Committee Staff Report of August, 1976 and the current stockholders list of the 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks show this same family control. (see chart at above url)

Who runs this country? The Federal Reserve. Who runs the Federal Reserve? Its shareholders. The people you are tracking are the shareholders of the most important segments of that banking system. The NY Fed initially was controlled by the wealthy clients of Kuhn Loeb, an investment bank greatly dependent upon Rothschild interests who managed trust estates of certain institutions and wealthy clientele. When E.H. Harriman got control of Illinois Central and Union Pacific, which had been in receivership and began paying dividends to Kuhn Loeb's old clients, they became quite enamored of Mr. Harriman. Other wealthy investors in banking stock of the NY Fed banks included Rockefellers and Stillmans, who made money from Standard Oil. They saw the destiny of the nation as dependent upon their banks' ability to guarantee the credit of the U.S. government's federal reserve notes. The Federal Reserve in some ways replaced the old Bank of the U.S. and Second Bank of the U.S. except that all they did back then was underwrite or guarantee the financial and monetary policies of the elected government. The bank itself was still privately owned but didn't have a governor or any voice in policy. But when its charter was not renewed, the bankers still owned the bank, but its charter was just transferred to a state government. The bank had moved from Philadelphia to the area that became Washington, D.C., but was originally part of Virginia and Maryland. When you trace the shareholders of the Bank of the U.S. , you learn that they too were in many cases related to the Brown family--Alexander Brown and his four sons.

I don't have my chart in front of me, but I recognize the name T. Suffern Tailer. He married one of the heirs of the Brown banking family. I think his wife (a Brown) later married C. Ledyard Blair. The Tailers lived in Tuxedo Park, NY, which was either in or close to Orange County, NY. They were close also to the branch of Browns married into the Stillman and Potter families. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html...96E9C946397D6CF http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html...9649C946395D6CF Always follow the money.

Terry, the Reagan/Bush team did not impress me as a regime that ever let the facts get in the way of their ideology or agenda. If the above article is a reasonably accurate account of the relationship with the Reagan administration, any idea why they enjoyed such a strong rapport, before the 1984 NBC smear broadcast of LaRouche and his organization? I suspect the LaRouche description of Reagan's political opponent, Mondale, as a KGB planted agent, in and of itself would NOT have been enough to illicit the praise for the LaRouche organization, quoted in the above 1984 WaPo article? This looks to me like a piece of disinformation. It was published shortly before Bush I's inaugural and primary sources were members of World Anti-Communist League: Clines, Singlaub et al. LaRouche has always taken credit for working with Reagan on the Star Wars plan, but I have never quite understood how a mathematician who says he's an economist would understand all that. I think his main attack has always been against oligarchy, and why and how his opponents reverse his characterization from communist to right-wing I haven't a clue. LaRouche claims that the international oligarchy is based in Venice and has traced the ultimate banking mentality back to the original Bank of Venice. He favors the international design of the Florentines and Medicis, who were also sacked by the Venetians, who moved to Amsterdam and were part of the influx of bankers who designed the Bank of England after the Act of Settlement in Britain. They also helped design the government's takeover of the defunct British and Dutch East India Companies' colonial empires in the Far East, moving the drug trade into the treasury of the government at about the same time the American colonies were conducting their revolution. Following that revolution which began in 1776, the British government surreptitiously attempted to take back the colonies it had lost, using spycraft and intelligence operations learned from former generations of Venetian bankers, who had become first Dutch, then British advisers to aristocratic monarchists. I suspect [no documentary evidence of this, however] that LaRouche gets a lot of his funding from descendants of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt because he lauds FDR to the skies, never explaining why FDR did not turn on his financial background and Harvard connections to wealth derived initially from the China trade in opium from India through Warren Delano, a partner in Russell & Company, founder of Skull and Bones at Yale.

You realize, Tom, you are getting into the people behind Harken Energy?

Tom, Gay Talese has captured well the implicit question in your post--how does one generation of men affect the behavior of the generation that follows? The published fictional ideal, the memoirs (probably only half accurate and 200% romanticized) serve as a model for each successive generation. They seek to discover how it would feel to live in a seedier existence, always protected by an invisible net of wealth and prestige that only money--old money, with all the "class" and unearned status it provides--can offer a new generation which craves such excitement, the feel of being alive without the originality to create life on its own. Plimpton and his crony John P. C. Train went to Paris in search of the romanticized ideal that Hemingway had left them from his memoirs of intelligence ops a decade earlier during the war in Spain. What they left is an imprint of how rich kids out on the town can mess up the world. Looking for Hemingway by Gay Talese

If we trace John Train's ancestry back a few generations, therefore, we find him associated in society and business with the men in and around Boston and its environs who traveled extensively to the Far East. Those jocular seamen engaged in their pernicious global trading over a century ago set the model for the cold war spies who used Train Cabot as a front, as they still use a plethora of proprietaries today. State Street Trust Company, Boston (1919) published this reminiscence of those burly merchants of yore, which gives us a glimpse of how John Train and his ilk saw their ancestors: Some Merchants and Sea Captains of Old Boston ENOCH TRAIN Enoch Train was so popular with his employees that when he failed during one of the panics prior to the Civil War, one of his Portuguese stevedores, taking his own bank book, placed it on his employer's desk, saying, "Take it; I have made the money out of your ships." This anecdote well illustrates the fine relations that existed between himself and his employees, to whom he was always kind and considerate. He was likewise the soul of honor and integrity, and was generous and public-spirited in every worthy cause. Aaron Sargent in his " Recollections of Boston Merchants " best describes his popularity: "To receive a bow or a 'Good-morning' salute from Enoch Train, as, tall and erect and with manly step, he walked down State Street and along Commercial Street to his counting-room, was something not to be despised by any one, whether a merchant or one holding some other position in commercial Boston." He was also foremost among the merchant ship-owners of his day, and at one time owned the largest number of ships of any firm in Boston, thirty or more of his vessels plying between this port and Liverpool. Having been brought up in the hide and leather store of his uncle, Samuel Train, his earliest ventures after he went into shipping on his own account were in the Russian and South American trades, importing principally hides. A few years later, in 1844, he established the well-known Train line of packets to Liverpool, the first ship built being the " Joshua Bates," named after the American partner of Baring Brothers at that time. This vessel was built for him at Newburyport by the celebrated ship-builder, Donald McKay. Mr. Train was so much pleased with this first vessel and with the skill of the builder that on the day she was launched he said to McKay, "You must come to Boston; we need you, and if you want any financial assistance in establishing a shipyard let me know the amount and you shall have it." The rest is too well known to repeat. In rapid succession were launched the "Anglo Saxon," "Anglo American," " Washington Irving," "' Ocean Monarch," " Parliament," " Star of the Empire," "Chariot of Fame," " Staffordshire," " Cathedral," and " John Eliot Thayer." The " Staffordshire " was lost at sea not far from this coast and many passengers were lost. It is stated that there were so few boats and panic-stricken people slung so desperately to the gunwales of the rowboats that one of the officers was obliged to chop off their fingers with a hatchet in order to save even a few of the passengers. Another ship, the " Ocean Monarch," was burned at sea with a loss of four hundred lives, and George Francis Train, a representative of the firm, in an account of his life, describes the pathetic scene he witnessed when the news was first announced in Boston. It was customary for the captain of each inward-bound vessel as she approached her dock to shout from the rail the latest news. On this occasion the " Persia " under Captain Judkins was about to dock, and hundreds of people were waiting to hear tidings of some friend or vessel. The captain shouted the sad fate of the " Ocean Monarch " and within a few minutes the announcement was made in the Merchants Exchange. The Train firm on another occasion believed the " Gov. Davis," which ran on their Boston, New Orleans, Liverpool triangular route, had also been burned at sea, as word was received that " The ' Gov. Davis ' is burned up." While those in the counting-house were grieving over their losses of friends and cargo, another message was handed to them, changing the message to " The ' Gov. Davis ' is bound up." The vessel was safe in Boston Harbour and there was great rejoicing in the Train office. Another ship belonging to the firm, called " Break of Day," came into Boston Harbour on a winter's day without a spar standing. " The Chariot of Fame " was Train's favorite vessel, her master being Captain Knowles. She had a reading-room on her quarter-deck for cabin passengers, a great luxury in those days. Donald McKay also built for Mr. Train the " Flying Cloud," " Empress of the Seas," " Plymouth Rock," which was half-owned by George B. Upton, and the " Lightning." Some of Train's captains were Caldwell, Thayer, Murdock, Brown, Richardson, Howard, and Knowles. In 1855 the Boston & European Steamship Company was incorporated, with Enoch Train, George B. Upton, Donald McKay, Andrew T. Hall, and James M. Beebe as sponsors, " for the purpose of navigating the ocean by steam." The plan was to build a splendid line of steamers, rivalling in every respect the well-known Collins line of New York, [financed by Brown Brothers] the English port to be Milford Haven in Wales. The remarks made by Enoch Train at that time are especially interesting to look back upon, as they show his ideas in regard to the steamship which was then just beginning to replace the sailing-ship. It had been expected that Train would oppose the suggested company, as being antagonistic to his own, but instead he was so broad-minded that he lent it the strength of his right arm, as he expressed it. *** RUSSELL STURGIS RUSSELL STURGIS'S grandfather, who bore the same name, visited the Daniel Bacons on Cape Cod, and while there he met and married Elizabeth, the daughter of Mrs. James Perkins. Mrs. Perkins was the daughter of Thomas Handasyd Peck, who left some interesting letters concerning the lives of the Bostonians of the early days. Of her it is related that during the Revolutionary War there was much sickness among the English troops in Boston and the English general was advised to get assistance from Mrs. Perkins, who was known to be very capable. She replied, as was quite natural at that time, that she would aid them " as sick men but by no means as soldiers." After the war Mrs. Perkins and her son-in-law returned from the Cape to Boston. Russell Sturgis, the grandson and well-known Boston and Canton merchant, was born in Boston in 1805, went to Harvard at the age of twelve, and in 1828 made his first voyage abroad in the " Boston," with only two fellow-passengers. He had settled down in this city as a young lawyer and would probably have continued in this profession had he not overheard John P. Cushing speak of the unwillingness of a certain person to go to China. "I wish I had that chance offered me," remarked Sturgis. In a few days the opportunity was given to him by Mr. Cushing and he sailed for Canton in 1833. Eventually Sturgis entered the firm of Russell & Sturgis of Manila and Russell, Sturgis & Co. of Canton, and in 1840 the latter house consolidated with Russell & Co., Mr. Warren Delano being taken in as a member of the firm. Two years later Russell Sturgis became a partner. The East had a great fascination for him, and in fact for all the men who went out there from Boston. The life there was new and interesting to them, and they assumed great responsibilities; they lived a life of great freedom, although they were not allowed to go outside the " Factory " reservation. Besides being called " foreign devils " they were also described as " a ghostly tribe of barbarians," as " uncouth beings with fiery hair," as " a strange people who came to the Flowery Kingdom from regions of mist and storm where the sun never shines," even as " wild, untamed men whose words are rough, and whose language is confused." During the opium war, Russell Sturgis's son, Julian Sturgis, who wrote a short memoir of his father, describes how each member of Russell & Co. had to do some of the housework. Lots were drawn and the duty of cook fell to Capt. R. B. Forbes, who was soon deposed from his position by Warren Delano for presenting to his fellow-captives a dish of ham and eggs which was mistaken for some sort of leather. John C. Green, who was the head of Russell & Co., tried his hand at boiled rice, which resembled a mass of glue, so the story goes. A. A. Low, father of Seth Low, was ordered to set the table after having produced some boiled eggs that resembled grape-shot. To kill time they played whist, and hunted rats with a terrier, which latter fact led the Chinese to believe that the "Fan-Kwae" were holding a continuous feast. Julian Sturgis also mentions the Canton Regatta Club, which was founded in 1837, thereby causing a protest to be Issued by three of the Co-Hongs, who believed that great danger would arise from its formation. The protest reads as follows: — "On the river boats are mysteriously abundant; everywhere they congregate in vast numbers; like a stream they advance and retire unceasingly. Thus the chances of contact are many; so are accidents even to the breaking of one another's boats, to the injury of men's bodies, while more serious consequences might ensue! HOUQUA, MOUQUA, PwANKEIQUA." " More better no go," warned Houqua, In his pigeon English. In 1844 Russell Sturgis retired from business and came home to Boston to join his children, who had been sent there to school, their mother having died in Manila in 1837. Sturgis then married again, his wife being Julia A. Bolt, a sister of Robert A. Bolt's mother. He found the scale of living in that day more expensive than he had expected and therefore decided to return with his family to the East. He was to sail on the " Canada " from Boston to London, where he was to connect with a ship that was to take him eastward. The expressman who brought In the family luggage from Jamaica Plain was delayed by an open drawbridge and failed to get to the wharf until after the vessel had sailed. Sturgis and his family decided not to sail without the luggage and had to wait over for the next boat. It is said that when he found the delay occurred through no fault of the expressman, he treated the expressman so kindly that the man was so surprised and overcome that he Immediately burst into tears. The steamer on which they finally crossed did not arrive in London in time to catch the boat sailing eastward, therefore Sturgis and his family had to remain a number of weeks in London before making connections. During this time he was asked by Mr. Bates, the senior member of Baring Bros. & Co., to become a partner in the firm, which position he accepted, finally becoming head of the house. It was jokingly said in the family that if it had not been for the dilatory expressman Mr. Sturgis would never have become head of the firm of Baring Bros. & Co. He never returned to this country, dying in England in 1887. Mr. Sturgis's genial, hearty, and kindly personality is well remembered by many Bostonians whom he warmly welcomed and sumptuously entertained at his town house in Carlton House Terrace and at his country place, first at Walton-on-Thames and later at Leatherhead. His American guests were often astonished at his up-to-date information, and accurate memory of births, marriages, and deaths among his acquaintances in Boston, as he always showed a genuine and constant interest in all his friends in this country. He was one of the generous contributors to the Boston Art Museum when its new building was built in Copley Square by his son John H. Sturgis. COLONEL THOMAS HANDASYD PERKINS Colonel Thomas Handasyd Perkins, Jr., son of Colonel Perkins, described in last year's pamphlet, was invariably known as " Short- arm Tom " because his right arm was a trifle shorter than his left, a defect, however, which didn't prevent his " landing " it in the right place when occasion demanded. While he was in London there was no one skilful enough to box with him and so his friends recommended that he go to a curious old African sparrer, named Richmond, who had such long arms that he could button his breeches at the knee without stooping at all. During the first lesson Colonel Perkins was at first hit very hard, but later retaliated by fighting the African backwards until he was knocked into the window and would have gone completely through had not his antagonist and his friends pulled him back by the ankles. After he had extricated a few pieces of glass from his arms, he said with great respect for his amateur sparring partner: "Golly, Massa Major, how you do hit wid dat right of yours ! Why, I radder be kicked by old Massa's black mule dan hab you hit me again like dat. No, by golly, I don't want any mo' of dat hitten here." It is interesting to record that Richmond was born at Richmond on Staten Island. He became a body-servant to General Earl Percy when the English took possession of Long Island during the Revolution, and later accompanied his master to England, where he served him for a number of years. He then took up prize-fighting and soon became a champion. Another example of the Colonel's strength and agility was shown when he and the well-known actor James Wallack were leaving the Federal Street Theatre in Boston. A man very much under the influence of liquor rushed at them with a knife, whereupon Colonel Perkins parried the blow and felled the assailant to the ground, but himself received a bad wound. It was later discovered that the attacker was none other than Junius Brutus Booth, the actor, who doubtless was jealous over the success of Wallack, and who had intended his blow for his rival instead of for Colonel Perkins. When Colonel Perkins first went to China he was very young, and very homesick, and was much disappointed not to be received more cordially by John Perkins Cushing, the head of the firm of J. & T. H. Perkins, who happened to be very much occupied when he arrived. Young Perkins presented a letter of introduction from Mrs. Forbes, a sister of his father, which was met with a curt " There's your desk." Nothing was said for a long time, young Perkins in the mean time spending his time making lamp-lighters, when suddenly Mr. Cushing looked over at him and said, " Is your Aunt as fat as she used to be?" "Ten times fatter" was the reply, and the conversation again ended. This may have been the same aunt who asked one of the younger members of the family to put a pillow in the small of her back. The reply came, " You haven't any small to your back, Aunty." A friendship between Mr. Cushing and his young apprentice quickly began, and the two became lifelong friends. Not many days after their first meeting Mr. Cushing asked the new arrival if he would take an armed boat and go up to Houqua's and get from him a hundred thousand dollars. Perkins got ready for the expedition and then waited around for further instructions, thinking he would need a letter of introduction to the comprador. Mr. Cushing said that this was very unnecessary, as all the business with Houqua was by word of mouth. The Chinaman promptly appeared when he knew an American had arrived to see him, and invited him ashore, saying in his pigeon English, " Hi ya, my welly glad sabe that son my olo flen, Mr. Perkins, my welly much chin chin you, askee come ashore, come ashore; as for dollar, can hab, yes, can hab leckly." While the money was being counted out, Houqua invited young Perkins to lunch with him and to attend an old Chinese play which Houqua said had been going on for several weeks. Finally the play was over, Houqua amusingly remarking that "the tide would not wait even for Confucius " and therefore the play must come to an end for the day. The dollars were taken back safely to Canton. Colonel Perkins spent a good many years of his life in London, where he made many warm friends. He also acquired the reputation of being one of the best-dressed men of his day and of having the handsomest leg in London. Wliile there he served on the staff of General Devereux for over two years. On one occasion the question of wearing knee-breeches or trousers was discussed, and those present decided to ask Major Perkins what his decision would be. His answer was that all men who had bad legs might come in trousers, and, as General Devereux expressed it, " trousers were very scarce that season at Almack's." On another occasion a marquis had driven six horses through the streets of London and had been fined, as this was against the municipal regulations. Major Perkins declared that the offender hadn't known how to do it, and he promptly made bets with all the people in the room that he could drive his six-in-hand about the Park without being fined. The next morning the same party of men scrambled into their seats in the drag and the six-in-hand started on its way about London. In a short time a " bobby " ordered them to stop, remarking that it was contrary to the law to drive six horses about the streets of London. " I am aware of that," answered Colonel Perkins. " Then I must summon you," replied the officer. " I am Colonel Thomas H. Perkins of Park Lane," was the reply, " and I am not breaking that regulation. If you will take the trouble to inspect my off-wheeler you will perceive that he is a mule and I know of no regulation which prevents a gentleman from driving five horses and a mule to his drag if he pleases." None on the drag had noticed the mule, and when they did see it there was a shout of laughter from every one, with the exclamation, " You have won, Tom," and the " bobby " remarked, " Damned Yankee trick that," as Colonel Perkins touched up his horses and started for home. General Devereux praised Colonel Perkins very highly while he was his staff officer. One day a number of men were having a discussion and the Marquis of Hertford said he knew a certain thing was so. Some one else asked him how he knew this, and he replied, " Because Tom Perkins told me so." Again the questioner rather carelessly asked who Tom Perkins was and why he should always be quoted. The questioner again was admonished by the Marquis, who replied that Tom Perkins was a young man whom he admired and respected; that he admired any man who could knock Richmond through a window, and respected a young man who when he came to hunt with them not only brought nags enough to horse himself but had spare mounts for some of his own impecunious relatives. He further stated that he had seen the questioner riding some of Tom's horses himself. There was a shout from all those in the room, and the questioner declared that he was sorry he had spoken. When Colonel Perkins returned to America he purchased a house at Nahant which was owned at one time by General Charles J. Paine, the famous yachtsman. Perkins was always fond of the water and was an excellent hand in steering a small boat. Captain Dumaresq came back from Baltimore and described a very beautiful schooner which Perkins bought, and made a match with her against the " Sylph," which was to be sailed by John Perkins Cushing and Capt. R. B. Forbes. The race was to a buoy off the outer light in Boston Harbour, it being agreed that the first boat around should drive a boat-hook into the buoy and the next boat should take it out. The Perkins-Dumaresq yacht, which was called the " Dream," rounded the buoy first, and the Colonel drove his boat-hook into it and succeeded in first reaching home. The boat-hook never was brought back, and for years afterwards, when Colonel Perkins met Captain Forbes on Temple Place or on the Common he used to yell: "Ben, ahoy! Where is my boat-hook?" Colonel Perkins was born in his father's house on Pearl Street and later attended school at Exeter Academy, where the master declared he was a very rare fellow because he had "a watch, a fowling piece and a Lexicon," a rare combination at that time. He married Miss Jane Francis Dumaresq and they lived in Boston, first on Chauncy Street and then at 1 Winthrop Place. He became a partner in the firm of J. & T. H. Perkins, and was so successful that in 1834 he built a house of his own at 1 Joy Street, where he passed many years. To their house came many of the important people of this time, — Harrison Gray Otis, Judge Story, Samuel Appleton, Thomas L. Winthrop, Daniel Webster, Nathaniel Amory, Major Joseph Russell, Mr. and Mrs. Everett, Augustus Thorndike. Francis Codman, Charles Hammond, J. P. Cushing, Thomas and Lothrop Motley, Louis Stackpole, Henry Cabot, Col. T. G. Carey, W. H. Gardiner, and others. His father's house in Temple Place was the rendezvous of all the important people of the day. Mention is often made of the wonderful Thanksgiving dinners there, which were attended by four generations, those present often numbering over sixty, and occupying two rooms for the dinner-table. Upon these occasions it was always customary after dinner for the youngest child to walk down the entire length of the table, and it is recorded that the last one to achieve this feat was a great-grand-daughter, now Mrs. F. C. Shattuck, who was then about five years old. When Colonel Perkins realized that he was about to die he said to a friend of his: " I am about as good as Gus Thorndike, Jim Otis, or Charlie Hammond, and almost as good as Frank Codman. I shall go where they go, and that is where I wish to go." In a few weeks this fine gentleman died, in the year 1850.