Shiite Muslim. President of
United Bank until November 1972. Founder (1972) and
president of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI),
which was initially financed by wealthy individuals like
Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan. The bank's early growth
was concentrated in the Gulf region, where Abedi could take
advantage of his contacts. The bank had been only a year old
when the oil embargo started (October 1973), but already it
was operating in four Gulf states and had opened offices in
the immigrant neighborhoods of London. Between 1973 and
1974, BCCI branches began popping up in much fancier
neighborhoods of London. Bank of Credit and Commerce
International SA was registered in the Caymans in 1975. It
functioned as the principal banking subsidiary of BCCI
Holdings SA, which had been established in Luxembourg in
1972. Beneath these two umbrella groups, Abedi had begun
forming a bewildering array of additional companies and
banking entities.
Agnelli, Giovanni
The history of Fiat begins with
his grandfather, Giovanni Agnelli. In 1899 Giovanni signed a
contract with Emanuele Bricherasio di Cacherano, an
eccentric Turinese nobleman looking for investors, as a
partner in Fiat. Giovanni managed to become the majority
shareholder in 1906, but supposedly through illegitimate
means. A long judicial battle would follow until May 1912,
when Giovanni was acquitted of the charges. The company
started to make large profits in the wake of WWI due to all
the domestic and foreign military orders it received.
Eduardo Agnelli, his son, died in a plane crash in 1935. The
wife of Eduardo (Gianni's mother), who died in a car
accident in 1945, was Virginia Bourbon del Monte, daughter
of the Prince of San Faustino and an American named Jane
Campbell. The elder Giovanni dies 3 weeks later.
Gianni was born in 1921 in
Turin, Italy. He graduated in Law from Turin University.
During World War II he served as a Cavalry Officer in the
Italian Expeditionary Force on the Russian front, with the
"Lodi" Tank Reconnaissance Unit in Tunisia and in the "Legnano"
Division of the Italian Liberation Corps. For his conduct in
Tunisia he was awarded the War Cross for Military Valour.
Became president of Juventus (soccer club) in 1947 and over
the eight years of his stewardship oversaw the establishment
of Juventus as the powerful force in Italian and European
football that it is today. In 1955 Giovanni Agnelli married
Marella, daughter of Prince Caracciolo di Castagneto and
Margaret Clark. Joined Fiat in 1943 as vice chairman. In
1957 David Rockefeller paid a visit to Italy and met Agnelli.
The two became friends and several years later David invites
Agnelli to the newly created International Advisory Council
of Chase Manhattan. He was appointed managing director of
FIAT in 1963. Became managing director, chairman, and
principal shareholder of Fiat in 1966.
As head of Fiat, he oversaw
4.4% of Italy's GNP, 3.1% of its industrial workforce, and
16.5% of its industrial investments in research. He opened
factories from Russia (at the time Soviet Union) to South
America, and started international alliances and joint
ventures (like Iveco) which marked a new industrial
mentality. In 1970, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger met
Agnelli at Hotel Quirinale in Rome. After this meeting
Kissinger and Agnelli became good friends. In 1973 Agnelli
helped with the creation of the Trilateral Commission.
According to Adnkronos, Agnelli was friends with Giscard
d'Estaing, the Rothschild family and Lord Carrington,
Katherine Graham, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Felix Rohatyn,
senator Ted Kennedy, the writer Truman Capote, Andy Warhol,
and international architects as Renzo Piano, Kenzo Tange,
Norman Foster, and Frank O. Gehry. Zbigniew Brzezinski was
another influential person he often met with. Chairman of
the family’s financial company, the Istituto Finanziario
Industriale, the Exor Group SA, the Giovanni Agnelli
Foundation, and La Stampa publishing company. He was also on
the board of Credito Italiano and of the Mediobanca and was
a member of the international committee of the Chase
Manhattan Bank (until the last years before his death).
In May 1974 he was elected
chairman of the Confederation of Industry (Confindustria), a
position he held until July 1976, when he handed over to his
chosen successor, Guido Carli, a former Governor of the Bank
of Italy. Agnelli was a co-founder of the European Round
Table in 1983, together with Pehr Gyllenhammar and Etienne
Davignon, both also close to Kissinger, Rockefellers, and
Rothschilds. Honorary vice-president of the Association for
the Monetary Union of Europe anno 1998, which was co-founded
by Etienne Davignon and brought us the EMU. Member of the
International Advisory Board of the Council on Foreign
Relations. Honorary chairman of the Council for Relations
between Italy and the United States. He is a correspondent
member of the Academy of Moral and Political Science of the
Institut de France and a member of the Chairman's Council of
the Museum of Modern Art of New York (at least in 1999; the
museum was chaired by David Rockefeller and is an
international center of elitist figures). Trustee of the
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.
Named senator for life in
1991 and subscribed to the independent parliamentary group.
Later named a member of the senate's defence commission.
Stood down as chairman of FIAT in 1996. Giovanni Alberto
Agnelli, the eldest son of Umberto Agnelli, was the first
person to be pointed out as Giovanni Agnelli's successor,
but died in 1997 of a rare form of intestinal cancer, age
33. His only son, Edoardo, who wasn't interested in making
cars, committed suicide on November 15, 2000 by jumping off
a bridge in Turin; Gianni himself joined the police at the
scene. The Agnelli family was one of the largest investors
in Rockefeller Center until 2001, together with David
Rockefeller, Goldman Sachs, and Stavros Niarchos. At that
point the Speyer and Crown families took over. Agnelli was a
member of the 1001 Club, the Trilateral Commission, the
Bilderberg steering committee, the European Round Table, and
the Atlantic Institute for International Affairs. Died in
2003. John Elkann (ERT member) is expected to become the new
head of the Agnelli interests in the coming years.
Al-Naki, Mohammed
Chairman of Kuwait Industries
Holding. Military Academy, United Kingdom; Royal School of
Military Engineers, United Kingdom; Industrial Course,
Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands; Master's degree in
Business and Industrial Management, USA. Director, Al
Jazeera Holding, Kuwait; Chairman, Kuwait International
English School. Vice-Chairman: Al Safat Investment Co.,
Kuwait; Al Madina Financial & Investment Co., Sultanate of
Oman. Member of the Board: Transgulf Industrial Investment,
Sultanate of Oman; Alujain Corporation, Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia; Al Ahlia University, Kingdom of Bahrain. Member of
the Committee, Arab Academy for Electronic Business, Egypt.
Life Member, WWF 1001 Club, Switzerland. Board of Trustees,
Kuwait America Foundation, Kuwait. Member: Journal of Arab
Children, Kuwait; Arab Federation for Engineering
Industries, Iraq; Arab Business Council, Jordan; Arab
Thought Forum, Jordan. Recipient of the President's Medal,
Lion of the Republic of Finland.
Anderson, Robert O.
Graduated from The University of
Chicago in 1939 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Self made
oil man, president of the Atlantic Oil Company, subsequently
acquired the Richfield Oil Company through mergers (about
1966) and became the chairman of Atlantic Richfield (until
1986 when he retired). He served as Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer of Hondo Oil & Gas Company, Roswell, New
Mexico, from 1986 to 1994. Mr. Anderson served as Chairman
of the Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas from 1961
through 1964. He has served on the Board of Directors of
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, Columbia Broadcasting
System, New York; First National Bank of Chicago;
Weyerhaeuser Company, Tacoma, Washington; and Carter Hawley
Hale Stores, Inc. of Los Angeles. In the past 55 years his
business endeavors have included - in addition to the
exploration, production, refining and marketing of oil -
cattle raising and feeding operations, mining and milling,
and general manufacturing. Mr. Anderson has served on the
Board of Directors of national Petroleum Council since 1951
and is the recipient of numerous honorary degrees and
awards. By the end of his career, Robert O. Anderson was
reported to have more land holdings than any other person in
the world. He had also bought the London Observer and was
the founder of the International Institute for Environment
and Development (London). He heavily financed the Aspen
Institute of which he was a chairman.
Andersson, Heidi
She is a Ph.D. student in law
with a recent scientific paper on the international
conventions protecting the Baltic Sea. In addition to her
extremely generous donations to WWF, Mrs Andersson has been
vice chairperson on WWF-Finland’s Board of Trustees for the
last three years. A licenciate in law, she is an expert on
environmental laws regarding the Baltic Sea. Received the
WWF Gold Panda Award in recognition of her generous support
to WWF, in particular to WWF-Finland, WWF-Sweden, WWF
International, the WWF European Policy Office, the Baltic
Sea Programme, the Arctic Programme, and the European
Fisheries campaign.
Arundel, Arthur "Nick" Windsor
Trained as a propaganda
specialist for the CIA in Vietnam in the 1950s (listed as a
CIA employee in the 'Pentagon Papers'). Founded the African
Wildlife Leadership Foundation (now AWF) of Nairobi, Kenya
and Washington D.C., together with former OSS and CIA hand
Kermit Roosevelt (Le Cercle), WWF chairman Russell E. Train,
and two others. Russell Train and Arthur Arundel were some
the more prominent members attending a May 1999 fund raising
diner of the AWF in Washington's Chevy Chase Club. Both
Arundel and Train still are trustee emeritus of the African
Wildlife Foundation. Arundel founded the Wildcat Foundation,
which funded the WWF. His sister, Jocelyn Arundel Sladen,
was an IUCN liaison to the United States and an intimate of
Julian Huxley. Arundel owns and publishes about 20
newspapers in Northern Virginia through his ARCOM Publishing
company. According to EIR, Arundel was a prime mover in
getting LaRouche behind bars after the release of his book
'Dope Inc.'. Anno 2005, he is chairman Virginia of the Gold
Cup steeplechase race at Great Meadow in The Plains. Wrote
the foreword of a 2002 novel by Ray Derby called 'The Shadow
Government'. The book is about the secret government that
protects us from the evil terrorists who try to unleash bio
weapons and nukes on our innocent population. Arthur Arundel
is succeeded by his son Peter W. Arundel. He has another son
called John.
Beitz, Berthold
Like his father, Berthold
studied to be a banker. In April 1939, at the age of
twenty-five, he was engaged by the Royal Dutch Shell Oil
Company in Hamburg. It was as a result of the expertise he
had acquired in the strategically important oil industry
that Beitz could have his military service deferred and
receive a wartime commission as the business manager of the
Beskidian Oil Company—later renamed the Carpathian Oil
Company—at Boryslaw in eastern Galicia. Protected the Jews
in his company from prosecution and has been awarded for
that. Beitz was an important German industrialist of the
second half of the 20th century. In 1953 he took over as CEO
and chairman of Krupp Industries (picked by Alfried Krupp).
Chairman of Grundig AG until 1993. Chairman of the Krupp
Foundation in 2003, while in his nineties. He is a honorary
member of the International Olympic Committee.
Bin Laden, Sheikh Salem
He was the older brother of
Osama Bin Laden and one of only four Saudis in the 1001 Club
(late eighties). James Reynolds Bath was his U.S.
representative from 1978 and on, through which he made large
investments in the United States. In 1979 Bath bought a 5%
share in George W. Bush's first oil company, Arbusto. Bath
made his fortune by investing money for Sheikh Kalid bin
Mahfouz (20% stake in BCCI) and Salem Bin Laden into the
BCCI, which was indicted in 1988 for being involved in a
huge amount of drug laundering. Salem Bin Laden died in a
small plane crash over Houston in 1988. Finally, in 1991,
the bank went out of business. This money from the BCCI has
likely been used in financing the Mudjahedeen and various
terrorist organizations that came into existence after the
Afghan war.
Bjercke, Alf R.
Leaving school, he became a
cowboy in Argentina, before studying at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. Joined the Royal Norwegian Air
Force in Toronto in 1941, managing director and chairman of
a Norwegian paint company, which set up sister companies in
Ethiopia, Denmark, and Sweden. Received the Officer's cross
of the Star of Ethiopia and president Bourguiba named him
commander of the Order de la Republique. With the latter in
1963 came an appointment as Tunisia's honorary
consul-general in Oslo, a post now passed on to his son.
Headed the Polio Plus campaign, chairman of the Norwegian
Athletic Association, member of Norway's Olympic committee,
president of the International Wine & Food Society, charter
member of the Peace Park Club of southern Africa, author on
diplomacy and business ethics.
Black, Conrad M.
Chairman The Telegraph Group
ltd., Chairman and CEO of Hollinger International, Inc. His
father, George, was a British agent and the founder of
Hollinger. Zionist who owns the Jerusalem Post. Member
Council on Foreign Relations, member of the Trilateral
Commission, visitor of Bilderberg. In May 2004, Hollinger
International, now free of Black's control, filed a $1.25
billion racketeering lawsuit against Black and other former
corporate insiders, accusing them of pillaging the company
of more than $400 million. In October 2004, a judge
dismissed the racketeering claims, and Hollinger refiled
without them, adding neocon Richard N. Perle as a defendant.
Bloomfield, Louis Mortimer
Canadian. Joined the British
military as an ardent Zionist and served in Palestine as an
Intelligence Officer under General Charles Orde Wingate. He
was involved in training the Jewish army in Haganah
1936-1939 and recruited in the Office of Strategic Services
in 1942 when he was given the rank of Major. OSS becomes the
CIA in 1947. Member of FBI Division Five. Knight of St. John
of Jerusalem. He regularly visits Israel and meets with
David Ben-Gurion in 1949. Becomes a successful lawyer with
Phillips and Vineberg in Montreal. Major stockholder of
Permindex, a company who had its headquarters in
Switzerland. President Permindex of Montreal and likely to
have been involved in the Kennedy assassination together
with the FBI's Defense Industrial Security Command (Claw
Shaw, Jack Ruby, Lee Harvey Oswald, David Ferrie are said to
have been members). Bloomfield has also been a personal
consultant and good friend to FBI head J. Edgar Hoover and
has been considered the same to the Bronfmans. Bloomfield
and J. Edgar Hoover have both been described as homosexuals.
Bloomfield is also said to have been involved in the failed
assassinations on the nationalistic Charles de Gaulle
(1890-1970).
Bronfman, Edgar
(Took the recent head of the
family) Billionaire Edgar Bronfman Jr. inherited the helm of
the Seagram Company Ltd. in 1994. His grandfather Sam
Bronfman built the beverage powerhouse, but the grandson has
expanded it into telecommunications by buying a piece of
Time Warner and pursuing a personal movie bug: The former
teenage amateur filmmaker grew up to buy 80 percent of
MCA/Universal Studios in 1995. Edgar Bronfman, Jr. is the
third-generation heir of one of North America’s great
business dynasties. In less than a decade, he transformed
the Seagram wine and liquor business into one of the world’s
largest media and entertainment conglomerates. Unable to
keep pace with the late 1990s consolidation of media giants
such as Disney and Time Warner, Bronfman in 2000 sold the
family business to Vivendi S.A. in what turned out to be one
of the most disastrous media deals in recent memory.
Bronfman re-entered the media/music business in December
2003 with the acquisition of Time Warner’s Music Group.
President of the World Jewish Congress.
Brusse, Henk
Founder of Buttonboss (button
producer in the UK, Netherlands and Germany). Heavy donor to
the WWF since 1982. Prince Bernhard attended some of the
companies parties and offered him membership in the 1001 in
1996. He has been to Palace Soestdijk.
Bundy, McGeorge
Yale Skull & Bones 1940. He
moved into public life in 1960 becoming national security
advisor to JFK. He played a crucial role in all of the major
foreign policy and defence decisions of the Kennedy and part
of the Johnson administration. These included the Bay of
Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Vietnam
War. He supported escalating the American involvement and
the bombing of North Vietnam. He later came to strongly
regret the decision, one of the first administration members
to do so. Along with other government leaders during
Vietnam, he has been accused of war crimes. Bundy was
president of the Ford Foundation from 1966 to 1969 and was a
member of the 1001 Club. People like Rostow, Kissinger, and
Brzezinski are considered his successors. His brother
William worked at the CIA and Pentagon. Both were members of
the Council on Foreign Relations and both have been to
Bilderberg.
Busch, August Anheuser, Jr.
Scion of the famous brewing
family, Busch served as Chairman of the Anheuser-Busch
Companies, Inc. from 1946-1975. During his tenure, the
company his grandfather established emerged as the largest
brewery in the world. Busch's grandfather Adolphus Busch
came to America from Germany in 1857, settling in St. Louis,
Missouri. In 1866, he founded the Anheuser-Busch Brewing
Company with his father-in-law, Eberhard Anheuser. Busch
discovered a way to pasteurize beer, allowing national
distribution of his product. By 1901, Anheuser-Busch's
brewery was the nation's largest. Busch also developed a
beer lighter than those commonly sold at the time. This
beer, named Budweiser, ultimately became the world's best
seller.
Buxton, Lord Aubrey
Born in 1918. Son of Leland
William Wilberforce Buxton and Ada Mary Oakes. Descendants
of William the Conqueror. Member of the House of Lords.
Helped to establish the WWF and is a lifelong vice-president
(he still is anno 2005). CEO Anglia TV Group 1958-1986.
Extra Equerry to HRH the Duke of Edinburgh (Prince Philip)
1964-1997. Member of the Countryside Commission 1968-1972.
Member of the Royal Commission on Pollution 1970-1975.
Chairman Independent Television News 1980-1986. Chairman
Oxford Scientific Films 1982-1986. Member of the Nature
Conservancy Council 1984-1986. Chairman of Anglia Television
Group 1986-1988. Chairman of Survival Anglia 1986-1992 (made
nature documentaries). Involved with the Royal Society for
the Protection of Birds. According to EIR the Buxton family
is one of the primary stakeholders in the Barclays Bank of
England.
I cannot
confirm this, but Andrew Buxton, born in 1939, was chairman
of this bank until 1999. Barclays has been involved in
banking for over 300 years and operates in over 60 countries
world-wide. Heart of the City is a joint initiative launched
in 2000 by the Bank of England, the Corporation of London
and the Financial Services Authority to encourage City
companies to become more involved in the community. Andrew
Buxton is also very close to the British royals and the City
of London. chairman of Spearhead International Limited and
is a director of Merrill Lynch. Director of Rio Tinto.
Kevin Dowling, a journalist
who wanted to expose the 1001 Club and the WWF back in the
1990s, had a deal with Channel 4 to produce a documentary.
After a phone call from prince Philip's right hand, Lord
Buxton, the whole project was canceled. All of a sudden the
(unfinished) movie wasn't up to the quality Channel 4
demanded.
Cadbury, Sir Peter
Since 2000, Peter Cadbury has
his own corporate advisory firm, Peter Cadbury & Co, and is
Non-Executive Chairman of DTZ Corporate Finance Ltd and a
Director of Celltech plc and other companies. Past
directorships include Chairman of Henderson Smaller
Companies Investment Trust and SMG. Peter has been a leading
figure in Corporate Finance in London throughout his career.
After 5 years at Linklaters, he spent 27 years at Morgan
Grenfell & Co., now the investment banking arm of Deutsche
Bank, including 20 years as a director, and the last 6 as
its Deputy Chairman. Subsequently he became Chairman of
Close Brothers Corporate Finance Ltd. Cadbury also sits on
the advisory board of Gow & Partners, and has been a
chairman of Preston Publications Ltd. Peter Cadbury is a
scion from the very influential Cadbury family that ownes
chocolate and beverage (Cadbury Schweppes) interests
worldwide. His family members have been members of the
Pilgrims Society, the Eugenics movement, and the OECD
Corporate Governance Business Advisory Group. George Cadbury
has been a director of the Bank of England 1970-1994.
Carlos, King Juan
Two days after the death of
dictator Francisco Franco on November 20, 1975 Juan Carlos
was designated King according to the law of succession
promulgated by Franco. He successfully oversaw the
transition of Spain to a democratic constitutional monarchy.
Juan Carlos also claims the title of King of Jerusalem, as
the successor to the royal family of Naples. He is also a
direct descendant of Queen Victoria through his grandmother,
and Louis XIV of France through his family name, Bourbon.
The Bourbons ruled France until the French Revolution. He
moved to Spain in 1948 to be educated there after his
father, Juan de Borbón, persuaded Franco to allow this. He
began his studies in San Sebastián and finished them in 1954
at the San Isidro Institute in Madrid. He then joined the
army, doing his officer training, 1955-57, in Zaragoza. In
1956, his younger brother, the Infante Alfonso died of a
gunshot wound in Estoril, Portugal, with Juan Carlos as the
only witness.
The official explanation is
that it was an accident which occurred while cleaning a gun.
Alfonso suffered from haemophilia, and did not survive. It
is uncertain whether Alfonso or Juan Carlos pulled the
trigger. From 1957 he spent a year in the naval school at
Pontevedra and another in the Air Force school in San Javier
in Murcia. In 1961 he graduated from the Complutense
University. He then went to live in the Palace of Zarzuela,
and began carrying out official engagements. Carlos is a
founder and honorary president of WWF-Spain and a patron of
the International Council for Game and Wildlife Conservation
(CIC). Honorary member of the Club of Rome. Carlos is known
to be a very avid hunter. In 2004 he and his entourage were
accused of shooting at least 9 bears in Romania, at the same
time that the WWF was staging an international forum to
showcase their work in integrating bear and human
populations. It was claimed by the respected Aves Foundation
that one of the bears was pregnant and that the amount of
bears (and other wildlife like wolves and boars) that were
shot, was completely unethical. Carlos goes hunting at times
with foreign leaders, including George Bush, Sr. Juan Carlos
is a Knight of Malta.
Chadha, Hersh
Born in India, landscape
photographer, and a keen supporter of conservation of
nature. Hersh has pledged all his images (over 15000) to
World Wide Life Fund International. Hersh is the founding
member of the ‘1001 A Nature Trust’ from the United Arab
Emirates. Hersh is also one of the 'Corporate Club' members
of World Wide Fund International from United Arab Emirates.
Cisneros, Gustavo
Latin America's billionaire
media baron. Knight of Malta. Chairman and CEO of the
Cisneros Group of Companies (prominent in Puerto Rico the
U.S. Virgin Islands), which has large stakes in companies
like Univision, AOL Latin America, DirecTV Latin America,
and a score of other media companies. Member of the board of
international directors at the United World Colleges in
London, which is presided over by HRH Prince Charles.
Trustee of the Rockefeller University and in general a
friend of the Rockefellers. PR Newswire, May 4, 1992:
"Cisneros, a Venezuelan native, is a member of the
International Advisory Committee of the Chase Manhattan
Bank, the Chairman's Council of the Americas Society and the
International Advisory Council of the United States
Information Agency. He is also a member of the board of
overseers of the International Center for Economic Growth
and the International Advisory Board of the Power
Corporation of Canada. His other memberships include, but
are not limited to, the International Advertising
Association, the board of directors of the National Academy
of Television Arts and Sciences in the U.S., and The 1001: A
Nature Trust for the World Wildlife Fund in Switzerland."
He is an outspoken critic of
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, whom he criticizes for
"arrogant abuse of power and authority." In turn, Chavez
accuses him of complicity in the April 2002 coup attempt (on
Chavez) and of using his private TV station Venevision to
undermine the administration, accusations Cisneros
vehemently denies. Luckily for Cisneros, about 80% of his
holdings are outside Venezuela. A socialite, Cisneros
hobnobs with U.S. friends such as Jimmy Carter and George
Bush Sr. Guests at his daughter's lavish New York wedding
reception in October 2002 included Kofi Annan, Sid Bass and
Oscar de la Renta. He also ran BIOMA, a leading Venezuelan
"environmentalist group" shut down after being caught faking
dolphin killings for a campaign against the tuna fishing
industry. Early in 1994, the family bank, Banco Latino, in
Caracas, went broke after it was charged with fraud. His
brother Ricardo, one of the directors, was fugitive for
years until caught and sent to jail. Cisneros has received
Spain's Order of Isabel la Católica, conferred by His
Majesty King Juan Carlos I (also a 1001 Club member and
Knights of Malta), for strengthening international ties
between Venezuela and Spain.
Cooley, George R.
George R. Cooley was born May
29, 1896 in Troy, New York. He graduated from high school in
1914 and subsequently joined the armed forces to fight in
the first World War. After his tour of duty, he returned to
the Albany area and got a job with the banking house of
Dillon, Read, and Company. Shortly thereafter, he opened his
own investment house and became a successful investment
counselor in the Capital District. After he retired he
became interested in the field of botany and deeply involved
in the modern conservation movement. In 1960, he joined the
Board of Governors of The Nature Conservancy and was
responsible for the establishment of several sanctuaries in
Florida and New York State. He made substantial
contributions to the National Council of Churches, the World
Wildlife Foundation, "The 1001 : A Nature Trust," the
American Baptist Historical Society, and the Colgate
Rochester Divinity School. He later received the 1971
American Motors Corporation Conservation Award and the 1985
Oak Leaf Award. He died at his home in Rensselaerville,
N.Y., September 27, 1986.
Dev, Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah
Chairman of the King Mahendra
Trust for Nature Conservation 1982-2001. Chairman of the
Lumbini Development Trust 1986-1991. Member of Honour of the
World Wildlife Fund for Nature. Member of the 1001-Nature
Trust. Ascended the Throne of the Kingdom of Nepal in June
of 2001 after most of the Royal family had been murdered.
Prince Philip came to meet him in the days thereafter. In
October 2002 he dismissed the elected government and has
since appointed a series of prime ministers. He says he
acted because the cabinet failed to fulfil its mandate,
including the restoration of peace. Britain, the United
States, and Britain have imposed military sactions since
then, while China is supportive of the King's decisions.
Gyanendra received a huge amount of international awards.
The Grand Cross Order of the House of the Orange (The
Netherlands). Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished
Order of St. Michael and St. George. Among his business
interests are a hotel in Kathmandu, a tea estate in the east
of Nepal, and a cigarette factory.
Drake, Sir Eric
Chairman of British Petroleum
(BP) in the sixties and seventies.
Duncan, Sir Val
Chairman of Rio Tinto Zinc in
the seventies. In the past, the Rothschild family owned a
third of this company. Their involvement today is unknown,
just as that of the Windsors. Sir Val Duncan was a dowser
and had met with Uri Geller in the early seventies. He
inspired Geller to use his talents to find minerals (Henry
Kissinger, Gerald Ford and Alexander Haig were very
interested in his talents according to Uri Geller himself).
East, Barry
Owned Town & City Properties. In
June 1974 Sterling Guarantee Trust took over Town & City
through a reverse takeover.
Eastwood, John
Made his fortune with factory
farming.
Edu, Chief Shafi Lawal
The late founder /President of
the Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF). Families members
of him are also members of the 1001 Club and involved with
Shell.
Ford, Henry II
Grandson of the famous Henry
Ford. He left Yale before graduating. President, chief
executive officer and chairman of Ford Motor Company
1945-1980, chairman Finance Committee of Ford Motor Company
1980-1987. At the beginning of the 21th century William Clay
Ford Jr. (great-grandson of Henry Ford) was CEO of Ford
Motor Company.
Fung, Sir Kenneth Ping-fan
Studied in Hong Kong and
California. Founder Dransfield Group in 1936 (now DICHAIN
Holding). Chairman and co-founder Cheung Chuk Shan College
in 1969. Founded the WWF Hong Kong in 1981. Knight Bachelor
and Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Knight of
St. John of Jerusalem, Knight of Justice, and member of
several other orders. Kenneth has been appointed by the
People's Republic of China as a Senior Consultant for
External Economy of the People's Government of Chongqing,
and Honorary Director of the Beijing Municipal Development
Centre of Science and Technology of Agriculture, Forestry
and Animal Husbandry. He served four successive Governors
and Deputy Governors, representing St. John Ambulance
Brigade, as the first Chinese to hold this post. He was
appointed by Queen Elizabeth II to serve on the Executive
Council (Senate) and the Legislative Council (Congress) of
Hong Kong. Upon his retirement from the Executive Council in
1972, Queen Elizabeth II granted Sir Kenneth the special
privilege to retain in perpetuity the prefix "Honourable" to
his name in recognition of his long and distinguished
service to Hong Kong for almost four decades. Kenneth has
been a supporter of the Environmental Justice Foundation
(mentioned his 1001 Club membership), which thinks about
solutions of a worldwide ecological crisis. Serious donator
to the The Hong Kong America Center, chairman Hong Kong Arts
Festival Society. The Sir Kenneth Fung Ping Fan Foundation
Trust funds several environmental projects. Died in 2002.
Guingand, Sir Francis "Freddie"
de
A former British Major-General
and chief of British Military Intelligence. Guingand served
with general Montgomery from El Alamein to the surrender of
the Wehrmacht in the West. Serving as his chief of staff he
was responsible for the running of Montgomery's armies
whilst they made the most glorious march in British military
history, from Egypt to the Rhine. Montgomery appointed De
Guingand soon after his arrival in the desert to supersede
Claude Auchinleck. De Guingand was to prove indispensable to
Montgomery, not only in battle, but also in relations with
the Americans. De Guingand seems to have been blessed with
considerable diplomatic skills, an area in which Monty was
sorely lacking. Guingand died in 1979. He lived in
South-Africa.
Godrej family
The Godrej family is a
wealthy Parsi (Persian) Zoroastrian family living in Mumbai
(Bombay), India. The late S.P. Godrej was the founder
Trustee and President of WWF India. Adi Godrej is the
chairman of Godrej Group, involved with Insecticides, Agro &
Foods, Real Estate, Chemicals, Technology, Home Appliances,
Office Equipment, Security Equipment, Machine Tools, and
more. Adi has an estimated net worth of $1.9 billion. J. N.
Godrej is chairman and managing director of the Godrej &
Boyce Mfg. Co. Ltd., one of the largest privately-held
engineering and consumer products corporations in India. The
combined sales of the company, its subsidiaries and
affiliates, during 2004, amounted to about US$ 980 million.
Two family members are directors of the company. Its shares
are not listed on any Stock Exchange. About one-fourth of
the Company's share capital is held by Pirojsha Godrej
Foundation, a public charitable trust. The website's company
mentions: "We are also a member of
the exclusive "1001: A Nature Trust", which is actively
associated with preservation of nature, wildlife and the
environment... We have been associated with TRAFFIC-India
(Trade Record Analysis of Flora and Fauna in Commerce), a
division of WWF-India, which is responsible for monitoring
and studying legal and illegal trade in wildlife and its
derivatives, thus contributing to the enforcement aspects of
bio-diversity conservation. "
Goulandris, Basil P.
In 1950 he took over the
management of the family shipping companies based in New
York. For many years he held the position of honorary
chairman of the Association of Greek Ship Owners and was
also a director of the American Bureau of Shipping. In 1981
he was appointed the title of Knight of the Legion of Honour
and in 1986 of Officer of the Legion of Honour.
Grace, J. Peter
Bachelor of Arts from Yale
University in 1936, president and CEO of the chemical giant
W.R. Grace & Co. 1945-1992 (also big in South-America),
director Citibank, chairman of the Order of the Knights of
Malta in the United States, chairman National Jewish Center
for Immunology and Respiratory Medicine, president Catholic
Youth Organization for the Archdiocese of New York, member
Willard Garvey's International conference on privatizing
education, chairman of the American Institute for Free Labor
Development, involved in Project Paperclip 1945, trustee
American Committee for Liberation from Bolshevism 1950
(Pilgrim Heinz II also), involved with Radio Liberty and
Radio Free Europe in which Fascists and the CIA were
involved, chairman President’s Private Sector Survey on Cost
Control (under Reagan), chairman Advisory Committee of
AmeriCares 1982-1995 (involved with Bush, Brzezinski &
Powell), director Friends of the Democratic Center in
Central America (involved the Iran-Contra affair), member
Council for National Policy, member Council on Foreign
Relations, member Pilgrim Society, member Newcomen Society.
Haes, Charles de
An economist and a lawyer,
Charles de Haes was born in Antwerp in 1938. He first became
involved in WWF in the early 1970s when asked by
International Trustee Anton Rupert to help create 'The 1001:
A Nature Trust'. Through this, HRH Prince Bernhard of the
Netherlands – WWF founder President – and one thousand other
influential individuals agreed to each contribute US$10,000
to WWF. This was designed with a view to achieving financial
independence for the secretariat. From 1975, Charles de Haes
went on to serve 18 years as Director General, including two
and a half years as Joint Director General with his
predecessor, Fritz Vollmar. During this time, he helped
initiate international fundraising and awareness campaigns,
and further develop the WWF network through initiatives such
as the partnership with IUCN and UNEP in the World
Conservation Strategy, which links conservation and
development.
Hanes, John W. Jr.
Comes from a influential bankers
family, senior partner Chas. D. Barney & Co., Stock Exchange
member, SEC, undersecretary of the U.S. Treasury, assistant
to John F. Dulles, chairman of the (John F.) Dulles
Manuscript Committee, donated heavily to the Princeton
University Library together with the Rockefeller Foundation
and Herbert Hoover, established the Carol Hanes Scholarship
Fund in 1984.
Henrik, Prince
President of WWF-Denmark.
Hoffman, Dr Luc
He founded the Station
Biologique de la Tour du Valat in 1954, a private research
institute devoted to ornithological studies. In 1974, he
created the Tour du Valat Foundation whose mission is to
study the functioning and protection of natural wetlands. He
directed the MAR project in 1958 (IUCN, IWRB, ICBP), which
aimed to promote waterbird monitoring and wetland censuses.
Its major outcome was the signature of the international
Ramsar Convention in 1971 for the conservation of wetlands.
He has played a key role in the creation of WWF
International and in major conservation projects in Spain,
Greece, and Madagascar. He created the International Banc
d'Arguin Foundation in 1985 whose mission is to protect the
Banc d'Arguin, a world heritage Ramsar site in Mauritania.
He has been awarded the Conservation Medal of the Duke of
Edinburgh (WWF International), the Kai Curry-Lindahl award
of the Waterbird Society (1994), and the Légion d'Honneur of
France. Luc Hoffman is currently President of WWF-France and
Director emeritus of Wetlands International. He is past
vice-president of the IUCN (1966-1969), WWF International
(1961-1988), and Wildfowl Trust (1979).He has also been a
director of the Swiss pharmaceutical company Hoffman-LaRoche.
Hunt, Nelson Bunker
His father (Haroldson Lafayette
Hunt, Jr.) was a Texas oil man, who founded Hunt Oil.
Nelson's brother (Ray L. Hunt) has been U.S. Secretary of
Commerce, sat on the board of Halliburton, Electronic Data
Systems Corporation (founded by Ross Perot) Pepsi Cola and
the American Petroleum Institute. Nelson himself was a John
Birch Society financier and director. Financier,
vice-president, and president (1983-1984) of the secretive
Council for National Policy, a major supporter of the Campus
Crusade for Christ, a main financier of the Wycliffe Bible
Associates. The CNP doesn't release membership lists or
allows any media coverage of what they discuss. A
significant portion of the names that have been exposed
represent America's hard-right. Among it's members you can
find John Ashcroft, Pete du Pont, Milton Friedman, Jack
Kemp, Trent Lott, Jerry Falwell, Oliver North, Edward
Teller, John C. Whitehead and Stanley Monteith of Liberty
Radio (said he counters the propaganda). In 1951, Bunker
Hunt and Wallace Johnson, founder of Holiday Inns, worked
with and funded Bill Bright's Campus Crusade for
Christdonating $15.5 million. In 1967, Hunt formed the
Christian World Liberation Front (CWLF) as a covert front
for Campus Crusade, which split off and became a leading
ministry in the Jesus People movement.
Hunt is said to have
partially underwritten the cost of an anti-Kennedy newspaper
advertisement that appeared in the Dallas Morning News the
day of the assassination. Hunt's oil profits were said to be
threatened by Kennedy's announced plans to end the oil
depletion allowance. A note written by Lee Harvey Oswald
addressed to "Mr. Hunt" has raised speculation as to whether
it was intended for the oil tycoon, one of his sons, or the
CIA agent E. Howard Hunt. Bunker Hunt arranged a retreat for
more than 500 millionaires who pledged $20 to Campus
Crusade. He once organized a paramilitary force called
"Americans Volunteer Group" which he intended to use as a
"death squad" against political opponents. [Hougan 55-56;
Saloma 53; Diamond 51-56, 250] In 1967, Nelson Bunker Hunt
provided Cameron Townsend, founder of the Summer Institute
of Linguistics (SIL) and the Wycliffe Bible Translators,
property in Dallas for a new international translation
center. Thy Will Be Done, by Gerard Colby and Charlotte
Dennett, documents the business and political connections
between Wycliffe Bible Translators, the Rockefeller family,
and the CIA. The result of the dealings was the genocide of
indigenous tribes in the Amazon basin, although Cam Townsend
denied the deaths. In 1966, H.L. Hunt was approached for
funding Vatican anti-Communist operations in Latin America.
Bill Bright persuaded Nelson Bunker Hunt to underwrite the
$6 million cost to produce the 'Jesus' movie in the 1970s.
Donated $10 million to Pat Robertson's (CNP president, just
like Hunt) Christian Broadcasters Network in 1970. Hunt
contributed to the contras through NEPL, $484,500. He also
illegally tried to corner the silver market in the 1970, but
this went wrong and the family ended up bankrupt. In August
of 1988 the Hunts were convicted of conspiring to manipulate
the market. Hunt is a member of The Military and Hospitaller
Order of Saint Lazarus (Templar-inspired militant christian
organization).
Jahre, Anders
Anders Jahre was a prominent
Norwegian shipowner, lawyer and benefactor. Quite early, he
saw the tremendous commercial potential of whaling. In 1918
he initiated a modern whaling concept and from then onwards
played a major role in the development of industrialized,
large scale whaling. He was the first to build
industrial-scale mother whaling ships. In 1928 he founded
the shipping company Anders Jahre and throughout 1929-30
several other subsidiary whaling companies. In the 1930'ies
he started the oil refinery Sandar Fabrikker as well as the
chemical factory Jahres Kjemiske Fabrikker. These were
amalgamated into Jahres Fabrikker in 1963. Anders Jahre was
for many years board chairman of Kosmos and Jahres Fabrikker
as well as several other shipping companies.
Jones, Thomas
Convicted of giving Nixon's
chief fundraiser, attorney Herbert Kalbach, $75,000 in $100
bills for use as "hush money" for the CIA connected burglars
who were caught breaking into the Watergate building, good
friend of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. Jones and his
wife socialized with the Reagans both at the White House and
at their own functions. Longtime chairman, chief executive
and president of the Northrop Corporation, also during the
time the B2-Spirit was developed. Had some problems when it
was revealed that his company paid 30 million dollars in
bribes to government officials and agents around the world
in exchange for contracts. One of these bribes involved
fellow club member Prince Bernhard. Jones has a five-acre
vineyard at his Bel Air mansion.
Kagan, Lord Joseph
Labour party donor. Head of
Gannex rain coat manufacturing firm. Convicted of theft and
conspiracy to defraud the British tax service. Was the
conduit for the money from Lockheed to Prince Bernhard.
Kent, Geoffrey J. W.
Chairman and CEO of Abercrombie
& Kent. Founded in 1962 by Colonel and Mrs John Kent and
their son Geoffrey as a safari company in Nairobi, Kenya,
Abercrombie & Kent has become a name synonymous with top
quality in the tour travel industry. As an international
group of companies, A&K provides upscale adventures and
luxury travel in more than 100 countries on all seven
continents. In 1965 Geoffrey Kent became Managing Director
of the company and the following year, Colonel and Mrs Kent
retired from active participation. In the 1970s he met, and
later entered into full partnership with Jorie Butler of Oak
Brook, Illinois, opening offices in the United States and
London to service European and American markets. A few years
later they married. Today Mr & Mrs Kent spend a good part of
every year making reconnaissance in outlying parts of the
world to evaluate the economic and environmental potential
for high-quality tour operations. The A&K Group of Companies
comprises 45 worldwide and satellite offices, including
London, Paris, Cairo, Nairobi, Arusha, Kampala,
Johannesburg, New Delhi, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Melbourne, Lima
and Phnom Penh. The significance of operating its own
offices in the USA and abroad cannot be overstated.
Employing more than 3000 travel professionals worldwide, A&K
overseas locations are staffed by local residents of each
country who quite naturally impact an intimate knowledge of
their culture, and love for their homeland, to visiting
travelers.
Keswick, Henry
Chairman of Jardine Matheson,
once known as one of the largest opium-smuggling companies
of the world. According to EIR, they are still involved in
this type of business today. His brother, John Keswick, a
backer of the WWF, is chairman of Hambros Bank (Peter Hambro
is a member of the Pilgrims Society) and a director of the
Bank of England. The Keswick family controls Jardine
Matheson.
Khan, Prince Sadruddin Aga
His nephew Karim is the 49th
Imam representing most of the Nizari Ismaili community, a
sub-sect of the Sevener Shia Muslim Ismaili sect. He (Karim)
was given the British title "His Highness" by Queen
Elizabeth II in 1957 at the death of his grandfather, Aga
Khan III. The Ismaili line of Imams supposedly trace their
lineage back to the Prophet Mohammed (born 570 AD) through
Fatima Zahra, Mohammed's daughter. Fatima Zahra's son,
Husain, married a daughter descended from the royal house of
Persia from the most remote, almost prehistoric, times. The
Aga Khan's ancestors also ruled in Egypt as Caliphs of the
Fatimid dynasty for a number of years, at a period coeval
with the Crusades. His forefathers are said to have been
involved with the Assassins, the Kights Templar associates
during the crusades (12th and 13th century). Aga Khan I was
a governor-general of the Persian (Iran) province of Kerman.
After an unsuccessful insurgence in the 1840s against his
sovereign, Khan had to flee to Afghanistan and came under
the protection of the British colonialists. He started to
provide mercenary services to the British in their conquest
of Afghanistan and ended up receiving a very decent pension.
Aga Khan III (1877-1957) was a founding member and president
of the All India Muslim League in 1906, which was the
driving force behind the creation of Pakistan as a Muslim
state from British India (the minority Muslim group had
ruled India until the British put an end to that). In
Pakistan, the League formed the country's first government,
but disintegrated in 1958 following an army coup. In 1932
Aga Khan III represented India at the World Disarmament
Congress and from 1937 to 1939 he was president of the
League of Nations. Aga Khan III was a Freemason and a member
of the Privy Council.
Born in 1933 in Paris,
Sadruddin Aga Khan is the son of Mohammed Shah Aga Khan III
of the Indian royal family. Founding publisher of the Paris
Review in 1953, a literary magazine based in New York.
Received a Harvard degree in political science in 1954.
Graduated from Harvard's Centre for Middle Eastern Studies
in 1957. According to EIR, Sadruddin's roommate at Harvard
was John Train, managing editor of the Paris Review and
cousin of Russell Train. Russell and John were deeply
involved in the environmental movement and British
intelligence. Coincidentally Jay Rockefeller was the
roommate of Karim Aga Khan IV. A speech from David
Rockefeller at the Hadrian Award Luncheon The Plaza Hotel,
October 25, 1996: "His Highness The Aga Khan is a man of
vision, intellect, and passion. I've had the pleasure of
knowing him for almost forty years, ever since he was an
undergraduate at Harvard and a roommate of my nephew Jay
Rockefeller." Michael David-Weill, co-chair of the
event and controlling shareholder of the Lazard bank, gave
another speech praising Agha Khan, just as Cyrus Vance did.
Lord Jacob Rothschild couldn't make it to this meeting, but
sent a personal note to Karim to congratulate him with his
new award. Patricia Buckley, sister of William F. Buckley,
was the other co-chairman of the event. Sadruddin was
married to British former top model Nina Dyer from 1957 to
1962, the former wife of Baron Heinrich von
Thyssen-Bornemisza. She committed suicide in 1965.
UNESCO consultant for
Afro-Asian projects 1958-1959. Adviser to the High
Commissioner for Refugees since 1959. Executive secretary to
the UNESCO International Action Committee for the
Preservation of Nubia (the Nile River civilization) in 1961,
which brought together archaeologists from Eastern Europe
and the West at the height of the Cold War to save the
ancient treasures of Abu Simbel, the temples of Philae and
Kalabsha and the Christian churches of Nubia. Two term
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 1965-1977, a
position he held alongside King Hussein of Jordan. Married
Catherine Sursock in 1972. Set up the Bellerive Foundation
and Groupe de Bellerive (think tank) in 1977, an
environmental protection organization located at his Lake
Geneva apartment. Built up a priceless collection of
paintings, drawings and manuscripts dating from the 14th
century in his Lake Geneva house. Sadruddin's grandmother
had left his father a library of Persian books, mystical
texts and astrological treatises, and it was through these
that Sadruddin became interested in Islamic art. Special
consultant and chargé de mission to the secretary-general of
the United Nations in 1978. In 1981, he won the vote to
become U.N. Secretary General, succeeding Nazi war criminal
and Schwarzenegger friend Kurt Waldheim, but his election
was vetoed by the Soviet Union. Known as a tennis partner of
George H.W. Bush. According to EIR, Sadruddin was asked by
George H.W. Bush to undertake secret negotiations during the
Iran-Contra crisis. Sadruddin and Maurice Strong published a
report in August 1986 entitled "United Nations Financial
Emergency: Crisis and Opportunity." Special United Nations
representative for humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan
from 1988 to 1990 and for Iraq and Kuwait after the Gulf War
in 1990 and 1991. He urged the swift lifting of sanctions
against Iraq after the Gulf War (which didn't happen because
of the United States policy). In 1990 he founded the charity
Alp Action, after he became concerned about the degradation
of the Alps by tourist development and deforestation. Again
an unsuccessful candidate for the position of UN
secretary-general in 1991, this time losing the appointment
to Boutros Boutros-Ghali. Together with Robert McNamara
(1001 Club) identified as a member of the Administrative
Board of the International Pugwash Foundation in Geneva in
1995 (official Pugwash history). Director of the in 1999
established Geneva-based Foundation for Interreligious and
Intercultural Research and Dialogue, together with Neil Bush
(George W. Bush's brother), Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (Pope
since 2005), Rene-Samuel Sirat (the former chief rabbi of
France), and Jordan's Prince Hassan (Muslim). Member of the
1001 Club and the Peace Parks Club. Long-standing trustee
and former vice-president of the World Wide Fund for Nature
International (WWF). Named a Knight Commander of the Order
of the British Empire in 2002. Received the Egyptian Order
of the Star of the Nile. Died in 2003. His half-brother, the
late Prince Aly Khan died on exactly the same day
forty-three years before.
King, Alexander
Born in Glasgow, Scotland in
1909. Studied at the Royal College of Science in Londen, the
University of Munich, and the Imperial College. Scientist at
the Imperial College 1932-1941. During this period he was
the leader of an expedition to the small Jan Mayen Island,
which has a foggy arctic climate and no natural resources.
During and after WWII he worked for different British
government agencies, including a position as scientific
advisor to the British Embassy in Washington. The most
classified information he helped to transfer in this
function had to do with the Atomic bomb developments. Also
worked for the office of the British High Commissionair in
Canada. Worked in different executive positions for the
OESO/OECD 1958-1974. Helped to establish the Club of Rome in
1968 with Fiat's second man, Aurelio Peccei. People like
Dean Rusk (Pilgrims Society) and Carroll Wilson (Pilgrims
Society) helped. He later helped with some papers of the
Club of Rome (ecology and sustainable development). He has
also been the head of the National Teachers Association.
Kissinger, Heinz "Henry " Alfred
Henry Kissinger was born in the
Bavarian city of Fuerth. He was a son of Louis and Paula
Stern Kissinger. The elder Kissinger was a school teacher
and after Hitler's rise to power, the family immigrated to
London in 1938. After a short stay, they moved to Washington
Heights in New York City. Recruited by Fritz Kraemer during
WWII. Served in the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps
1943-1946. Captain in the Military Intelligence Reserve
1946-1949. Executive director Harvard International Seminar
1951-1969. Consultant to the Operations Research Office
1950-1961, a John Hopkins University think tank about
psychological warfare and under contract to the Department
of the Army. Director Psychological Strategy Board 1952.
Member of the Department of Government, Center for
International Affairs, Harvard University, 1954-1969.
Consultant Operations Coordinating Board 1955. Study
director of nuclear weapons and foreign policy at the
Council on Foreign Relations 1955-1956. Director Special
Studies Project for the Rockefeller Brothers Fund 1956-1958.
Author of 'Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy', released in
1957. Consultant Weapons Systems Evaluation Group of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff 1959-1960. Consultant National
Security Council 1961-1962. Consultant RAND Corporation
1961-1968. Consultant United States Arms Control and
Disarmament Agency 1961-1968. Consultant to the Department
of State 1965-1968. Nixon's National Security Advisor
1969-1973. Secretary of State 1973-1977. Made two secret
trips to China in 1971 to confer with Premier Zhou Enlai.
Negotiated the SALT I and ABM treaty with the Soviet Union.
Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973. Made other secret
trips to China in later years to make extremely sensitive
intelligence exchanges. Robert C. McFarlane was among those
who went to China with Kissinger, in his case between 1973
and 1976. Negotiated the end of the Yom Kippur War in 1973.
Said to have played a role in the 1973 Augusto Pinochet
coup. Approved President Suharto's invasion of East-Timor in
1973, which resulted in a bout 250,000 dead communists and
socialists.
Suspected of having been
involved in Operation Condor which started around 1975 and
was an assassination and intelligence gathering operation on
3 continents. Director Council on Foreign Relations
1977-1981. Annual visitor of Bilderberg since at least the
1970s. Annual visitor of the Trilateral Commission since the
late 1970s. Visited Le Cercle. Member of the 1001 Club and
the Pilgrims Society. Visitor of Bohemian Grove camp
Mandalay. Founder of Kissinger Associates in 1982, a
secretive consulting firm to international corporations.
Some of the first members to join Kissinger Associates were
Brent Scowcroft (vice-chairman), Lawrence Eagleburger
(president), Lord Carrington, Lord Roll of Ipsden, Pehr
Gyllenhammar, and Viscount Etienne Davignon. Some served
until 1989, others were still active for Kissinger
Associates in the late 1990s. Chairman National Bipartisan
Commission on Central America 1983-1984. Appointed chairman
of AIG's advisory council in 1987. Director of the Atlanta
branch of the Italian Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL) from
1985 to 1991. This was during the 1989 BNL Affair in which
it became known that the Atlanta branch had made $4 billion
in unreported loans to Iraq. After the revelation, the money
was said to be used by the Iraqis to buy food and
agriculture equipment, but in reality they were buying loads
of military equipment. Founded the America-China Society in
1987, mainly with co-Pilgrims Society member Cyrus Vance.
His aide Robert C. McFarlane also played a role. Member
Atlantic Council of the United States. Member of the Council
of Advisors of the United States-Azerbaijan Chamber of
Commerce. Trustee of the Center Strategic and International
Studies (CSIS), the Arthur F Burns Fellowship, the Institute
of International Education, and the Metropolitan Museum of
Art. Honorary Governor of the Foreign Policy Association.
Patron of the Atlantic Partnership and the New Atlantic
Initiative. Chairman of the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships,
the Nixon Center, and the American Academy in Berlin.
Co-chairman of the Editorial Board of 'The National
Interest' magazine. Chancellor of the College William and
Mary. Honorary chairman World Cup USA 1994 (Kissinger has
attended football matches with his friend and colleague
Etienne Davignon). Named Honorary Knight Commander of St.
Michael and St. George, 1995. Director Freeport-McMoRan
1995-2001. Director of Conrad Black's Hollinger
International Inc. Member of J.P. Morgan's International
Advisory Council. Former member of the Advisory Council of
Forstmann Little & Co. and American Express. Advisor to
China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC). Member of the
Europe Strategy Board of Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst. Director
of Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation and Revlon. Chairman of
the International Advisory Board of the American
International Group (AIG), a partner of Kissinger
Associates. Also chairman of the Advisory Boards of AIG
Asian Infrastructure Funds I & II and a director of AIG
Global. In 2000 Henry Kissinger was quoted by Business Wire:
"Hank Greenberg, Pete Peterson and I have been close
friends and business associates for decades." Maurice
Greenburg is head of AIG and Peter G. Peterson is head of
The Blackstone Group, which is the other major partner of
Kissinger Associates. Peterson is also a former chairman of
Lehman Brothers. Kissinger is a friend of Lynn Forester and
introduced her to Sir Evelyn de Rothschild at the 1998
Bilderberg conference. They would soon become married. When
Henry Kissinger is invited to speak at the United Nations
Association on April 11, 2001 Lord Jacob Rothschild is
flanking his side. Picked as the initial head of the 9/11
investigating committee in 2003, although he turned out to
be too controversial to remain in that position. Henry
Kissinger is a trustee of the Open Russia Foundation since
2001, together with Lord Jacob Rothschild. The Foundation
was set up by Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a controversial
oligarch, later locked up by Putin. Honorary trustee of the
Aspen Institute. Because of previous international attempts
by European and South American judges to question him, he is
known to take legal advice before traveling to certain
countries in either continent.
Son of Jewish immigrants and
well known mafia leader. He had an account at the BCCI and
was a friend of the Zionist and co-1001 Club member Tibor
Rosenbaum. Rosenbaum in turn was a good friend of Prince
Bernhard. Involved in everything from murder, drug
smuggling, and illegal weapons sales. He was never
prosecuted and died in 1983 in Florida. He was friends with
mafia figures like Lucky Luciano and Bugsy Siegel.
Lavy, Leslie
Former head of the defunct David
Samuel Trust (1970's information). 2005: Chairman of the
Heritage Committee of the Commonwealth Jewish Council.
The Council was created by the unanimous agreement of Jewish
leaders from 16 Commonwealth countries, meeting in London
from 29th November to 1st December 1982. It now includes the
Jewish communities of 37 countries, Hong Kong having
observer status. The Council works in concert and
association with the World Jewish Congress of which Edgar
Bronfman is the longtime president. Edward Bronfman is one
of the trustees of the Jewish Council. Coincidentally,
Namebase lists only one source of information about Leslie
Lavy, which is a 1976 book about 1001 Club member and drug
runner Robert Vesco.
Leverhulme, Lord
The last Lord Leverhulme died in
2000. The family's residence, Thornton Manor, was sold when
he died. Leverhulme bequeathed a total of £31,477,042 to his
family. His grandfather, William Lever, had build up a vast
industrial empire. William was also the founder of Lever
Brothers, which later became Unilever. The last Lord
Leverhulme has been an advisor to Unilever since 1949. In
1985 he became a honorary advisor.
Lippe-Biesterfeld, Prince
Bernhard van
His mother has been accused of
debauchery, of being involved in different conspiracies, and
of supporting the Nazi's. Bernhard was born and educated in
Germany. Became a member of the SS, SA and NSDAP. Went to
work for Berlin NW-7, the
I.G. Farben
industrial espionage
unit and ended up in it's Paris branch in 1935 (IG Farben
was one of the main companies that built up the Nazi war
machine). Met the desparate-for-a-husband-future-Dutch-queen
Juliana in 1936 and married her in 1937. Fled to London
against his wishes and became an active member of the
resistance. Became a war hero at the end of WWII. Greet
Hofmans-Affair from 1948 to 1956 created tensions between
the Prince and the Queen (investigation results are still
being withheld). Commander of the Dutch domestic army
1946-1976. Inspector-General of the Dutch Air Force, Army,
and Navy 1946-1976. Approached by Vatican prelate Joseph
Retinger to establish Bilderberg, which he founded in 1954.
Bilderberg chairman 1954-1976. First chairman of the WWF
1961. President of the WWF until his death. Co-founder of
the 1001 club in the early 1970's. Edmund Rothschild is the
godfather of Alexia Grinda, one of his extramarital
daughters. Bernhard met the mother, the 18-year old Helene
Grinda (of the noble Roussel family), in 1966, at a swimming
pool of the Rothschild family. Flew as Goodwill-Ambassador
all over the world to broker business deals for the Dutch
state and Dutch multinationals. Accused of taking bribes
from Lockheed and likely also Northrop in 1976. Loved to
duck hunt with Stavros Niarchos (family of Onassis and also
a 1001 Club member).
Livanos, Georges
A Greek who mainly lived in
Lausanne, Switzerland. His father, Stavros Livanos, was a
great figure in Greek shipowning circles. During the Second
World War, Georges Livanos served in the American army in
Japan. In 1949, he founded his own company, Ceres Hellenic
Shipping. Shortly after, he inherited his father's fleet of
30 ships, including the world's five largest supertankers.
Eugenia, Georges Livanos sister, married a competitor,
Stavros Niarchos, and her sister Tina married Aristotle
Onassis. After Eugenia's death, Tina divorced and remarried
Stavros Niarchos, Aristotle Onassis' lifelong rival. With
over 100 ships, Georges' fleet was the largest merchant navy
in Greece. He also created a shipping company between the
Greek Isles and was involved in the protection of ocean and
coastal waters. In 1994, his fortune was an estimated 3
billion dollars. The Greek shipowner then diversified his
activity and invested in real estate, as well as in the
banking industry with Basil Goulandris, another Greek
shipowner also based in Lausanne. Georges Livanos passed
away in 1997, leaving his business to his son, Peter Livanos.
Loudon, John H.
Chairman Shell Oil 1951-1965.
Co-founder Bilderberg in 1954. Director N.M. Rothschild &
Sons Ltd. Successor of Prince Bernhard in the WWF presidency
1966-1981. Berhard considered him a good friend. Knighted by
both the British and Dutch royal families. Member Atlantic
Institute for International Affairs and the 1001 Club.
Ludwig, Daniel K.
Set up National Bulk Carriers,
which became the largest shipping company in the US. His
shipyards pioneered the use of welding rather than riveting
the hulls of ships, thereby saving valuable time during
World War II when demand for ships soared. He transported
oil and molasses around the world. He set up the Jari
project, which was an attempt to create a tropical tree farm
in Brazil for producing pulp for paper. Later helped Meyer
Lansky, chief of the Jewish maffia in New York, to set up
his drug money laundering empire in Bahamas. Ludwig is one
of the richest private citizens in the world and has been a
visitor to the Bohemian Grove.
Luyt, Louis
Louis Luyt was born in 1932, and
grew up in modest circumstances in the Karoo. In the 1940s
Luyt was employed as a railway clerk. During his rugby
career in the 1950s, he captained the Orange Free State
province. By the end of the 1960s Luyt had become a
millionaire. In 1989 he took over the Presidency of the
Transvaal Rugby union and shortly afterwards was elected
President of the South African Rugby football Union (SARFU).
It was during this period that he came under attack for his
administration style and efforts to transform the sport into
a professional one. He was accused of nepotism, bullying
tactics, and administering autocratically. In 1992 Luyt
clashed with the African National Congress when he chose to
play only the Afrikaans section of the national anthem at
the Springbok’s rugby test match against the All Blacks at
Ellis Park stadium.
Luyt became infamous for his
role in the court case involving President Nelson Mandela.
He was a hostile witness in the commission of inquiry into
SARFU affairs. Gradually people distanced themselves from
him, including his former son-in-law Rian Oberholzer, the
then Managing Director of SARFU. This moved resulted in
Luyt’s sacking as President of SARFU in May 1998. Luyt then
ventured into politics with the Federal Alliance Party (FA),
which he financed personally. His stated purpose in forming
the FA was to protect the rights and integrity of
Afrikaners. The FA took part in South Africa’s first
democratic election in 1999 but won no seats, dissolving
soon thereafter. As an entrepreneur, Luyt was prominent in
the establishment of the Triomf fertilizer empire, and that
of the Citizen newspaper, which was embroiled in the info
scandal of the late 1970s, which prompted the resignation of
the Minister of Information Connie Mulder, and indirectly to
the retirement of Vorster from the Premiership. Luyt is
married to Adri and they live in the north of Durban.
Magnin, Cyril
A third generation San
Franciscan born in 1899, Cyril Magnin's life was
characterized by an unflagging commitment to the business,
civic and cultural vitality of San Francisco. Mr. Magnin
served as President of Joseph Magnin, Co., a clothing
company that helped modern American women dress in the
stylish designs of the day. As President of the Port of San
Francisco, which then belonged to the state of California,
Mr. Magnin lobbied tirelessly and ultimately succeeded in
transferring the valuable Port property to the city of San
Francisco. He was also responsible for creating the role of
San Francisco's "Chief of Protocol". Also a champion of the
arts, Cyril Magnin worked with Mayor Joseph Alioto
(president of the San Francisco National Bank) to convince
Avery Brundage to donate his incomparable Asian art
collection to San Francisco's Asian Art Museum. He brought
the A.C.T. to San Francisco, nurtured Beach Blanket Babylon,
and also provided input and guidance to the California
Culinary Academy. Not one to remain behind the scenes
indefinitely, Mr. Magnin played the part of the Pope in the
1978 movie "Foul Play" with Chevy Chase and Goldie Hawn. Mr.
Magnin is also remembered fondly for his role in a
commercial which ran on television for many years. His
speaking part read, "I've had an 80 year love affair with
San Francisco . . . My name is Cyril Magnin and this is my
dog, Tippy."
Some
people have accused Cyril Magnin and Joseph Alioto of having
been members of the mafia and the circle that killed JFK.
Mae Brussell, of who Magnin was an uncle, was a dedicated
conspiracy researcher. She died of rapid-spreading cancer in
1988 while investigating child abuse with a connection to
Army Intelligence and Nazis.
Marmor, Boris "Bobby"
Convicted
embezzler-turned-property-developer and casino owner whose
activities are again under official investigation. (1980 Spy
Magazine info)
McNamara, Robert Strange
Born on June 9, 1916 in San
Francisco. McNamara graduated in 1937 from the University of
California at Berkeley and went on to earn a graduate degree
from the Harvard Business School, where from 1940 to 1943 he
taught as an assistant professor. Poor eyesight kept him out
of combat during World War II, but he served in the Air
Force's Statistical Control Office, focusing, as he had done
at Harvard, on ways to improve efficiency and productivity.
After the war he brought his management skills to the ailing
Ford Motor Company and became one of the "Whiz Kids"
credited with the company's revival. In 1960 he became the
first person outside the Ford family to rise to the position
of president of the company. The same year, McNamara
accepted President-elect John Kennedy's offer to become
secretary of defense. McNamara set out to reorganize and
streamline the nation's defense force and its bureaucracy.
He was central to the Kennedy administration's drive to
change U.S. military strategy from its Eisenhower-era
reliance on nuclear "massive retaliation" to one of
"flexible response," including a range of conventional
options. McNamara emphasized cost control, the phasing out
of what he believed to be obsolete weapons systems, and
greater overall efficiency. While arguing that there was no
essential difference between large organizations such as
Ford and the Pentagon, and even though he did gain
considerable control over the defense establishment,
McNamara also had to deal with resistance from a variety of
powerful, entrenched traditionalists in the various
services, to say nothing of Capitol Hill. Trusted by
Kennedy, McNamara became very influential in the
administration.
He was an important member of
Kennedy's circle of advisers during the 1962 Cuban Missile
Crisis. He was also a central figure in the evolution of the
nation's nuclear strategy from "massive retaliation" to a
more limited "counterforce" doctrine to "mutually assured
destruction," seeking international strategic stability.
During the Vietnam War, McNamara initially was a great
believer in victory and was convinced the United States
could win thanks to its technological superiority. But by
1966 McNamara became disillusioned with the war and offered
his resignation to President Johnson in 1967. In 1968, he
became president of the World Bank. During the 1980s he
became a critic of the nuclear arms race and a proponent of
a policy of "no first use." McNamara recently published a
memoir on Vietnam, admitting that he had been tragically
misguided in his view and conduct of the war. Due to the
McCarthy hysteria all the nuanced, clear thinkers at the
State Department had been purged. McNamara has been a member
of Bilderberg, the Atlantic Council of the United States,
the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Trilateral
Commission. He was a primary sponsor of the United Nations
affiliated (New Age) Lucis Trust together with Greenpeace
(1001 Club), the Rockefeller Foundation (undoutedly
represented at the 1001 Club; Pilgrims) and Thomas Watson of
IBM (1001 Club; Pilgrims). It used to be called the
'Lucifer's Trust' and was inspired by Alice Bailey (who, in
line with Moses, Mohammed, Joseph Smith, Crowley, etc.,
received her info in trance through some kind of spiritual
being). Together with Sadruddin Aga Khan (1001 Club)
identified as a member of the Administrative Board of the
International Pugwash Foundation in Geneva in 1995 (official
Pugwash history).
McTaggart, David Fraser
McTaggart was born in Vancouver,
British Columbia, in 1932 (died in 2001). David McTaggart
was among the chief contributors to the creation of the
environmentalist group Greenpeace in 1971 and became it's
chief spokesman. From 1972 and on he did everything he could
to stop the French from conducting nuclear tests. McTaggart
was chairman of Greenpeace International from 1979 until
1991. The Canadian businessman had become involved with the
issue of French atmospheric nuclear weapons testing in New
Zealand in 1971, and his life was tied to environmental
issues from then on. Between 1975 and 1991, McTaggart was a
driving force behind Greenpeace campaigns to save the
whales, stop the dumping of nuclear waste in the ocean,
block the production of toxic wastes, end nuclear testing,
and protect the Antarctic continent from oil and mineral
exploitation. Over the length of his career he published
numerous articles and two books. Awards for his
contributions to environmentalism world-wide include the
Onassis Award, The Kreisky Prize, and the United Nations
Environmental Programme's Global 500 Award. In September of
1991, McTaggart retired from active chairmanship of
Greenpeace International to a farm in Italy, where he raised
organic olive oil and continued to work on whaling and other
issues through his own foundation. Mr. McTaggart died in an
auto accident on March 23, 2001 near his home in Italy.
Mellon, Paul W.
His father was known as a
ruthless businessman who greatly suppressed his workers in
all his hundreds of companies and polluted the environment
to the extreme. He was the only one to hold his own against
the Rockefellers and the Morgans. Paul was a member of Yale
Scroll & Key. He didn't spend much time in business.
Long-time neighbor of the powerful Averell Harriman and
worked together with his son-in-law. During WWII, Paul
Mellon became OSS station chief in London and liaison to
British Intelligence. After WWII, Martin A. Lee and Bruce
Schlain note in Acid Dreams: "... members of the Mellon
family maintained close ties with the CIA. The Mellon family
foundations have been used repeatedly as conduits for Agency
funds. Furthermore, Richard Helms was a frequent weekend
guest of the Mellon patriarchs in Pittsburgh during his
tenure as CIA director [1966-1973]." Founded the Old
Dominion Foundation which merged to become the Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation. Philanthropist, art collector and horse
breeder. Established the Yale Center for British Art. He has
been a member of the Pilgrims Society.
Meuser, Fred
The bagman for the $1.1 million
bribe to Prince Bernhard from Lockheed Corp. in 1976.
Munk, Peter
A hungarian Jew, regular skiing
partner of Prince Charles, and one of the wealthiest men in
Canada. CEO and chairman of the world's largest gold-mining
corporation, Barricks Gold, which was founded and majority
owned by the controversial Iranian arms dealer Adnan
Khashoggi. Khashoggi has close ties to the British royal
family and his career has been jump started by the Bin Laden
family. Khashoggi has been a business partner of Wally
Hilliard, the financial backer of Rudi Dekkers who trained
the main 9/11 hijackers. Munk tried to keep it under wraps
that his company purchased the rights to a gold mine in
Nevada -- containing $10 billion in gold -- for only
$10,000. His U.S. goldmines have been accused of poisoning
the local water. Munk was accused of insider trading back in
1967. Peter Munk is also chairman of Trizec Properties in
Canada.
Navapan, Sukum
Born in Thailand in 1925. LLB. &
Higher Diploma in Accountancy, Thammasat University
MBA Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, USA.
President of the United Insurance Co., Ltd. 1955-1957.
President of the General Insurance CO., Ltd. 1955-1957.
Secretary-general of the Poh Teck Tung Foundation 1957-1966.
President of Thai Military Bank 1958-1981. Chairman of the
Hyatt Rama Hotel 1974-1976. Chairman of the 23rd World Cup
Golf Tournament, Bangkok, 1975. President of the American
Universities Alumni Association (AUAA) 1976-1977. Chairman
of the Thai Bankers Association 1976-1978. Chairman of the
ASEAN Banking Council 1977-1978. Member of Parliament
1978-1979. Thai Representative of the Inter-Parliamentary
Union 1978-1979. President of the Table Tennis Association
of Thailand 1985-1989. Director of the Ramathibodi
Foundation 1992-1996. Director of the Bangna Central
Property Co., Ltd. 1993-2001. Trustee of the National
Symphony Orchestra Washington D.C., USA. 1993-1999. Chairman
Navatanee Group of Companies Bangkok. Director of American
Standard Sanitaryware (Thailand) Plc., Siam
Inter-Continental Hotel, and Siam Food Products Plc.
President of the Wharton Club of Thailand. Chairman of
Standing Committee, John F. Kennedy Foundation & Sukumo
Foundation. Director of the Mahidol Foundation. Director of
the Bangkok Symphony Orchestra Foundation. Member of the
1001 Nature Trust of the WWF. Life Adviser of the
International Golf Association (IGA). Honorary member of the
Thailand Olympic Committee. Honorary Rotarian of the Bangkok
Rotary Club. Chairman of the Wharton Alumni Club of
Thailand. Member of the Northeast Region Development
Committee. Chairman of the Stanford Research Institute (SRI)
Bangkok Meeting. Knight Grand Cross (First Class) of the
Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant. Knight Grand Cross
(First Class) of the Most Noble of the Crown of Thailand.
Knight Grand Cross (First Class) of the Most Admirable Order
of Direk Kunaporn. His wife is chairperson of the Siew-National
Co., Ltd.
Niarchos, Stavros
Once he had received his
doctorate in law, he worked for his uncle who was a
shipowner. At the age of 25, Stavros Niarchos became
independent and frequented the prestigious royal yacht club.
He was a naval officer in the Second World War, during which
time part of the trade fleet he had built with his uncle was
destroyed. Nearly 2 million dollars in insurance money
helped him to buy another fleet. In 1952, the same year as
his rival Aristotle Onassis, Stavros Niarchos built the
first supertankers capable of transporting enormous
quantities of oil and fuel. In 1956, the Suez Canal Crisis
considerably increased the demand for the type of large
tonnage ships that Niarchos owned. Business flourished and
he became a billionaire, just like his rival, Aristotle
Onassis. The shipowners' rivalry continued into their
private lives. After his divorce from Henry Ford's daughter,
Stavros Niarchos married Georges Livanos' sister, Eugenia.
When she passed away, he married her sister Tina Onassis,
who was also Aristotle's ex wife. At the head of a 4 billion
dollar fortune, the rich shipowner prided himself on having
married five times in the course of his life. After the oil
crisis of 1973, Stavros Niarchos sold off some of his
companies and launched into finances and the diamond trade.
In the eighties, he came more and more often to Geneva, from
where he managed his business around the globe. The Golden
Greek, as his fellow countrymen liked to call him, retired
in the nineties to his main residence in Saint-Moritz, in
the Graubunden, where he devoted a lot of time to his
favorite sport, skiing. One of the largest investors in
Rockefeller Center until 2001, together with David
Rockefeller, Goldman Sachs, and the Agnelli family. At that
point the Speyer and Crown families took over.
Oppenheimer, Harold "Harry"
Of the German Jewish family,
which controls the De Beers diamond company and the huge
Anglo American Corporation. Harry was the son of Ernest
Oppenheimer, who founded Anglo American Corporation in 1917,
became director of De Beers in 1927, and was its chairman
from 1929 to 1957. Harry was chairman of Anglo-American
Corp. from 1957 to 1982 and chairman of De Beers from 1957
to 1984. He also spent some time as the Member of Parliament
for Kimberley (1948 to 1957) and became the opposition
spokesman on economics, finance and constitutional affairs.
He was also extremely generous to the official
philanthropies of the State of Israel. He personally
directed that Israel receive the necessary diamond raw
products from De Beers in order to establish itself as one
of the world's diamond polishing and exporting countries. In
the 1970s and 1980s, he financed the anti-apartheid
Progressive Federal Party , now known as the Democratic
Alliance. Some people believe that he could have done more
to end the regime, but within his sphere of influence he is
believed to have done more than most of his
fellow-businessmen. Harry was one of the world's richest
men. Died in 2004.
Oppenheimer, Nicholas
German Jewish family, son of
Harold Oppenheimer, controls the De Beers diamond company
and the huge Anglo American Corp. Became deputy chairman of
Anglo in 1983 and chairman of De Beers in 1998. He resigned
as Deputy Chairman of Anglo American in 2001. Stayed a
non-executive director of Anglo American.
Pao, Sir Y.K.
Professor; chairman of Public
Law at the University of Hong Kong; shipping and hotel
magnate; rose from poverty to immense wealth.
Patino, Antenor
Antenor Patiño was a Bolivian
tycoon, who dominated the world's supply of tin in the
sixties and seventies, hence his nickname "the King of Tin".
He married the daughter of Spanish monarch Alfonso XIII, the
princess María Cristina de Borbón. His daughter married the
Jew and later Le Cercle member Sir James Goldsmith, but
Patino was violently opposed to this marriage. His daughter,
below the age of 20, died of a massive cerebral hemorrhage
some time later. With his fortune, amongst other things, he
developed tourist destinations like Las Hadas, in Manzanillo,
Mexico, and Las Alamandas in Jalisco state, also in Mexico.
At that time he was among the richest men in the world.
Reksten, Hilmar
Hilmar Reksten, the biggest ship
owner in the world, was an owner of both P&O, Zapata Naess
and most likely, Burmah Oil. Most of his fortune escaped
taxation during the post-war period, mostly because of help
from the Norwegian Labor Government. Eventually he went
bankrupt.
Rosenbaum, Tibor Imgas
A Hungarian Jew who became a a
Mossad agent in 1951. He was a friend of Prince Bernhard.
Tibor worked at the Swiss Israeli Bank through which he
funded Mossad operations. In 1958, he was the founder of the
Swiss BCI through which he funded more Mossad and Permindex
operations. The bank was kind of a forerunner of the BCCI
and equally involved in money laundering. In 1974, Tibor
came into conflict with Edmond de Rothschild, because, as
had happened before, Tibor embezzled money from the
Rothschild owned Israeli Corporation. The BCI was closed
down and for a short time Tibor went to jail. The rest of
his life he tried to pay his debts. In 1980 he died of a
heart attack.
Rupert, Anthony "Anton" Edward
South African billionaire.
Member of the Broederbond. Established the Rembrandt-group
(tobacco and alcohol) and became its chairman. Trustee of
the WWF international and president of WWF South Africa.
Founder and chairman of the Peace Parks Foundation and
chairman of the Club 21. Chairman of the South African
tobacco giant Rothmans International tobacco company (taken
over by British American Tobacco, which is a member of the
Multinational Chairman's Group). Owns about 28% of British
American Tobacco. Chairman of the Technical Investment
Corporation. Back in the late 1980's seven of his relatives
were members of the 1001 Club.
Safra, Edmond J.
Descendent of a Syrian-Jewish
banking family. His ancestors were gold traders in the
Ottoman empire. Grew up in Brazil before moving to Geneva.
The reclusive owner of Trade Development Bank, former owner
American Express Bank, and founder Republic New York
Corporation 1966. Republic Bank had 2 million customers and
83 branches - the third largest network in the city after
Citibank and Chase Manhattan. It also had private banking
operations in New York, Miami, Los Angeles and Asia. In
1990, this Republic Bank was identified as a favorite
laundromat for both the Medellín Cartel and Lebanese-based
heroin and hashish smugglers. The bank has also been accused
of transferring billions of U.S. Federal Reserve notes from
New York to organized crime-controlled Moscow banks, on
behalf of Russian organized crime figures. Safra is also
under investigation by U.S. and Swiss authorities for
laundering Turkish and Columbian drug money. In 2000, the
Republic New York Corporation and its sister company Safra
Republic Holdings were acquired by HSBC for $10.3 billion.
Edmond Safra is a longtime friend and business associate of
Swiss banker Edgar de Picciotto, who comes from an old
Portuguese Jewish trading family, sits on the board of Soros'
Quatum Fund, is a director of American Express Bank SA of
Geneva, was chairman of the Geneva private bank CBI-TDB
Union Bancaire Privee (major player in the gold and offshore
hedge funds), and has also been involved in numerous
scandals. De Picciotto is also a longtime business partner
of Venetian businessman Carlo De Benedetti, closely linked
with the P2 lodge scandal. Edmond Safra died in a fire in
his Monte-Carlo apartment back in 1999. One of his male
nurses (a former U.S. Marine) supposedly set fire to the
building in order to rescue him and be the hero. Among the
friends of the Safra couple were Nancy Reagan, Condoleezza
Rice, and Prince Charles.
Samuel, Lord Harold
Purchased Land Securities
Investment Trust Limited in 1944. Today the firm still
exists as a large investment, management and development
company.
Scott, Sir Peter
Knight of the British Empire
(deceased), WWF-UK president since its foundation in 1961,
president of Survival Service Commission in the The World
Conservation Union (IUCN) since 1963, founder of Wildfowl
Trust in Slimbridge, Gloucetershire in 1964. Sir Peter
Markham Scott (September 14, 1909 - August 29, 1989),
ornithologist, conservationist and painter, was born in
London, the only child of Antarctic explorer Sir Robert
Falcon Scott. He is a half-brother of Wayland Young (Lord
Kennet). He was educated at Oundle School and Cambridge
University, graduating from Trinity College in 1931. He
inherited his artistic talent from his mother, Kathleen, and
had his first exhibition in London in 1933. In 1936, he
represented the United Kingdom at sailing in the Olympic
Games. During World War II, Scott served in the navy,
emulating his father. He was in the "little ships" against
German E-boats. He stood as a Conservative candidate
unsuccessfully in the 1945 general election in Wembley,
North. In 1948, he founded the organisation with which he
was ever afterwards closely associated, the Severn Wildfowl
Trust (now the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust) with its
headquarters at Slimbridge in Gloucestershire. In the years
that followed, he led several ornithological expeditions
worldwide, and became a television personality, popularizing
the study of wildfowl and wetlands. He wrote and illustrated
several books on the subject, including his autobiography,
The Eye of the Wind (1961). Scott was also an accomplished
sailor winning an Olympic Bronze medal for single-handed
dinghy sailing and numerous other sailing championships. He
also skippered the 12 metre yacht Sovereign in 1964
challenge for the America's Cup which was held by USA.
Sovereign suffered a whitewash 4-0 defeat in a very
one-sided competition where the American boat was seen to be
the faster design. From 1973-1983 Sir Peter Scott was
Chancellor of the University of Birmingham. He also founded
the World Wildlife Fund and designed its panda logo. He is
also remembered for giving the scientific name of Nessiteras
rhombopteryx to the Loch Ness Monster so that it could be
registered as an endangered species. The name, based on
Greek, means "the wonder of Ness with the diamond shaped
fin" but is also an anagram of "Monster hoax by Sir Peter
S".
Sese Seko, Mobuto
Born in Lisala, Belgian Congo
(now The Democratic Republic of Congo.) After an education
under the tutelage of Belgian friars Mobuto chose a military
career and eventually rose to become commander in the
Belgian army at the age of 30 with the rank of colonel. In
1958 he joined Patrice Lumumba's Congolese National Movement
Party, and thus found himself close to the the centre of
power when Lumumba was made Prime Minister, following
independence two years later. He took advantage of this
during the ensuing power struggle with the province of
Katanga, stepping into the Prime Minister's shoes following
temporarily when Lumumba was killed. The rule was short,
however as Mobuto handed power back to the civilian
government within six months. He was not so generous a few
years later. He put a stop to the civil war that gripped the
country between 1963 and 1965 and once again took control of
the state machinery, this time for good. The Congo has the
potential to be perhaps Africa's richest nation and it
achieved impressive levels (6-7% every year) of growth
following independence and during the first few years of
Mobuto's rule. This changed however after 1973. Between 1971
and 1973 Mobuto embarked on a program of Zairereanisation.
The country's name was changed to Zaire; in came a new
national anthem and flag; he demanded his countrymen and
women call each other citoyen & citoyenne; abandon European
names and wear a jacket of his own design called the abacost.
But perhaps most significant was the economic impact of
Zaireanisation. In a move out of character for someone
supposedly a bulwark against communism, Mobuto nationalized
not only the entire foreign owned industrial sector of the
economy but also grabbed small businesses from the hands of
Greek, Portuguese and Pakistani expats and handed them to
'sons of the country.' Mobuto remained in power until 1997,
when he was forced to leave by an invading army from Rwanda
under the command of future president Laurent Kabila.
Herbert Batliner from Lichtenstein is said to have been
laundering money for Mobutu at the time he presided over
Zaire. Besides being a senior lawyer and fund manager who
managed over 10,000 letterbox companies, Batliner is today's
(2005) president of Pontificia Accademia delle Scienze
Sociali located in Vatican City.
Solomon, Sir Walter Hans
Born in Hamburg in 1906. His
family had several hundred years of banking behind them.
Following the Nazi persecution he came to London in 1937. He
set up his own merchant bank in one room in Finsbury Square.
In 1950 he acquired the banking house Rea Brothers and
quietly and effectively built up a chain of companies. He
remained as its chairman until 1984 and thereafter served as
president. He was also chairman of the Canal-Randolph
Corporation, one of the largest owner-operators of public
livestock yards in the United States. In the City he was a
well-known and respected banker, and a member of Lloyds and
the Baltic Exchange. He was a member of a number of public
bodies, including the Cambridge Settlement, the Hudson
Institute and the 1001 Club. He was also the founder of
Young Enterprise in 1963, an organization which sought to
teach young people business by helping them to set up their
own companies. Several thousand groups were formed around
the country. Died in 1987.
Spiro, Sidney
Involved in the mining business
somewhere in the sixties and seventies.
Strong, Maurice F.
Strong was born in 1929, and
educated in Manitoba, Canada. Son of Frederick Milton and
Mary Fyfe Strong. Ran away from home in 1943, but his father
retrieved him. Ran away again and became Arctic trading-post
employee for the Hudson's Bay Company 1944-1945. Went to New
York in 1947 to take a job as assistant pass officer in the
Identification Unit of the Security Section. He lived with
Noah Monod, then treasurer of the United Nations. In 1947,
at the age of only 18, he is listed as a member of the
Secretariat of the United Nations in New York. Here, he
(supposedly) first met David Rockefeller and learned that
the UN's funds were handled by Rockefeller's Chase Bank. He
also met the other Rockefeller brothers and other
influential people as well. Although Strong kept his UN job
only two months, he met very influential people through Noah
Monod. The official National Council for Science and the
Environment confirms: "He [Maurice] first worked with
the United Nations as a junior officer in 1947, when he was
just eighteen, and returned in 1970 to lead the Conference
on the Human Environment in Geneva, after which he became
the executive director of the UN's environmental program..."
Strong returned to Winnipeg, failed to qualify for the Royal
Canadian Air Force, and took a job as trainee analyst for
James Richardson & Sons in 1948. By 1951, he had taken a job
with Dome Petroleum, on whose board of directors was Henrie
Brunie, a close friend of John J. McCloy (and a later friend
of Strong). Dome became one of the largest oil companies in
Canada but its shareholders resided on Wall Street. In 1951
Strong married, and in 1952, abruptly sold his home, quit
his job and took a world cruise. He wound up in Nairobi and
took a job with CalTex 1953-1954, a company formed to
exploit Saudi oil. His job involved travel to exotic parts
of the world for two years. Strong visited his distant
cousin, Robbins Strong, in Geneva, who was the Secretary of
the Extension and Intermovement Aid Division of the
international YMCA. He met Leonard Hentsch whose Swiss bank
handled the money of the YMCA. Strong wanted to become an
international ambassador for the YMCA, but settled for a
position on the International Committee of the U.S.A. and
Canada which raised funds for the YMCA. From 1958 to 1961,
he formed M. F. Strong Management Ltd., Calgary and assumed
the management of Ajax Petroleums Ltd. which he reorganized
to form Canadian Industrial Gas and Oil Ltd. At that time,
it was one of the largest Canadian independent energy
companies (now Norcen). He elevated his role in the
international YMCA and Canada's Liberal Party. Executive
vice-president of Power Corporation 1961-1963. Chairman
committee extension and inter movement aid World Alliance
YMCA's 1963-1965. President of the Power Corporation of
Canada 1963-1966. Brought Paul Martin, later Canadian
Prime-Minister, into the company as his assistant. Founder
and first President of the Canadian International
Development Agency (CIDA) 1966-1970. Through his creation
and direction of CIDA, Strong controlled the implementation
of aid programs on the ground -- including who was hired to
do the work, and through the newly created IDRC (by his
mentor Lester Pearson), Strong controlled the issuance of
tax deductible certificates and the distribution of both
private foundation money as well as government money.
President National Council YMCA Canada 1967-1968. Alternate
governor at the International Bank for Reconstruction and
Development, Asian Development Bank 1968-1970 and at the
Caribbean Development Bank in 1970. Member a joint committee
on Justice and Peace of the World Council of Churches,
Vatican, 1969-1971. Member of the advisory board of York
University, Toronto, 1969-1970. Governor of the
International Development Research Centre 1970-1971 and
1977-1978. Returned to the United Nations in 1970 and lead
the Conference on the Human Environment in Geneva. Executive
director environment program of the United Nations, New York
1971-1975. From 1971, he served as a trustee for the
Rockefeller Foundation and the Aspen Institute. Later also
served as an advisor to the Rockefeller Foundation and a
member of the Club of Rome. Secretary-general of the U.N.
Conference on the Human Environment, the 'Stockholm
Conference', which took place in 1972. First executive
director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
in Nairobi, Kenya 1973-1975. Co-founder of the WWF in Canada
and a trustee until at least the 1970s. Also served as an
advisor to the WWF. Supposedly fingered the initial Canadian
members of the 1001 Club and is/was a member himself.
Chairman and CEO of Petro-Canada 1976-1978. Chairman and
largest shareholder of AZL Resources 1978-1983. In 1981, as
head of AZL, he was sued for allegedly hyping the stock
ahead of a merger that eventually failed. He settled for
$4.2 million at the insistence of his insurance company.
February 7, 1997, The Standing Senate Committee on Foreign
Affairs, the words of Senator Jack Austin, President of
Canada-China Business Council: "The Canada-China
Business Council was organized in 1978, at the very
beginning of the Deng Xiaoping economic reform period. It
was organized by a group of leaders, Paul Desmarais [Sr.],
Maurice Strong, Paul Lin, and one or two others, to begin
the development of a commercial relationship with China."
May 15, 2005, Pittsburgh Live: "A near-compulsive
talker, one item about which Strong is almost taciturn is
his relations with China's elite. Strong does not mention
his late cousin Anna Louise Strong. The Marxist journalist
was a member of the Comintern and spent two years with
Chairman Mao. Her funeral in 1970 was organized personally
by Chou En-lai, China's prime minister. Some claim that
Strong arranged the Nixon-Kissinger initial meetings with
the Chinese. However, Strong makes full use of Cousin Anna's
memories among Beijing's elite and has had excellent
relationships with the Chinese for 30 years." Maurice
bought the Colorado Land & Cattle Company and its
accompanying 200,000 acres of San Luis Valley in Colorado in
1978 (now owned by the Conservation Fund). This land sits on
multiple huge underground water streams. Strong & Co.
created American Water Development Inc. in 1986 to pump up
this water. After the locals started protesting, saying the
valley would be turned into a desert, Strong decided to save
his reputation as environmentalist and bailed out. The ranch
belonged to Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi, a man whos
career was started by the Bin Ladens and with strong
connections to British intelligence. Supposedly, in 1978, a
mystic informed Hanne and Maurice Strong that "the Baca
would become the center for a new planetary order which
would evolve from the economic collapse and environmental
catastrophes that would sweep the globe in the years to
come." Hanne and Maurice Strong created the Manitou
Foundation in 1988, a New Age institute on or near the Baca
Ranch. On the website it reads: "In the mid 1990’s,
Manitou and specialists of The Conservation Fund, with
generous support of Laurance Rockefeller [the late UFO/Crop
Circle investigations funder] and the Jackson Hole Preserve,
devoted several years to extensive studies of Manitou’s
mountain properties, culminating in the creation of the
Manitou Habitat Conservation Plan (MHCP)." At the ranch
there are representatives of many of the world's religions,
spiritual movements, and New Age sects, including the
Catholic and Protestant churches, Buddhist monks, and
representatives of different variations on Hinduism. A
circular temple has been built on the ranch where the
missionaries of different religions can contemplate with
each other. If you look at the floor plan you'll see the
building is a complex flower (the representatives sit in
circles within the flower) within a Celtic Cross/Hindu
Kiakra. The latter two represent a divine sexual union. The
building could well be a Rosy Cross, which can be
interpreted as having the same meaning. In that last case,
the color of the rose would correspond with the nearby
mountain range: Sangre de Cristo, meaning 'Blood of Christ',
the sacred name the Spanish settlers decided to reserve for
it. George Hunt, who visited the place, asked to a Catholic
priest there, father Victor, what the purpose of the temple
is: "We contemplate on the sexual union of the church
with God... that's our mission, because we're fulfilling a
role that the pope wants us to fulfill. I don't know, we're
just contemplating on the sexual union of the church with
God." The San Luis Valley is an amazing place. Twelve
different Indian tribes used the Valley as a sacred hunting
and vision-quest area. Some of these tribes have legends
about the 'Sipapu', or 'place of reemergence', near the
lakes area. They believe that their ancestors were led
underground to safety at this location by the 'Ant People',
just before a cleansing period of the earth started.
According to the Navajo tradition, they were warned of the
upcoming cataclysms by 'sky katchinas' (sky spirits). They
also claimed that the 'star people' enter our reality at the
sacred Blanca Massif in the Valley. The San Luis Valley
happens to be a place with enormous UFO activity (even
before the modern UFO era started in June 1947). During peak
UFO waves in the late 1960s dozens of cars would literally
line the roads watching the amazing aerial displays of
unknown lights as they cavorted around in the sky above the
Great Sand Dunes/Dry Lakes area. In 1967 the first case of a
typical cattle mutilation was reported in this valley (Sept.
9, a horse called Snippy. Reported by the AP and Washington
Post in early October). The phenomenon would become epidemic
in the early to mid 1970s. Back to Maurice Strong. He
introduced Edmund de Rothschild on the Fourth World
Wilderness Conference in September 1987, held in Denver and
southern Colorado: "One of the most important
initiatives that is open here for your consideration is that
of the Conservation Banking Program. As mentioned this
morning, we have [inaudible] here the person who really is
the source of this very significant concept. He was/is one
of the trustees of the International Wilderness Foundation
which sponsored this meeting. He was at the first of these
conferences. His conversion to the relationship between
conservation and economic development has been a pioneering
one... Many of the energy developments that we have seen
have come from his early anticipation of our energy needs...
And I'm just delighted to have this opportunity of
introducing to you, Edmund the Rothschild." Edmund
(Pilgrims Society) thanks "Maurice" and gives a speech about
Global Warming and what to do about the melting polar caps,
the stuff we are all familiar with today. David Rockefeller
(Pilgrims Society), James Baker (Pilgrims Society), and
Michael Sweatman (Royal Bank of Canada; president World
Conservation Bank; close associate of Edmund de Rothschild)
also gave speeches. The charge for attending the multi-day
conference was $650 and was visited by about 1500
businessmen. George Hunt, who attended the conference, was
warned (indirectly) by David Rockefeller not to distribute
any rebukes of what was said or "he would regret it".
Maurice was chairman of the International Energy Development
Corporation 1980-1983. Chairman of the Canada Development
Investment Corporation and the Canadian government holding
company for state enterprises 1981-1984. Member of the World
Commission on Environment and Development 1983-1987.
Chairman of the executive committee of Société Générale pour
l'Energie et les Ressources around the early 1980s. Director
Massey Ferguson in 1984. Executive coordinator of the United
Nations Office for Emergency Operations in Africa 1985-1986.
Undersecretary-general of the United Nations 1985-1987 &
1989-1992. Former Chairman the Stockholm Environment
Institute which was established in 1989. It worked with the
recommendations made during the 1972 Stockholm Conference.
In 1991, Strong wrote the introduction to a book published
by the Trilateral Commission, called 'Beyond
Interdependence: The Meshing of the World's Economy and the
Earth's Ecology', by Jim MacNeil. David Rockefeller wrote
the foreword of that book. Secretary-general of the 1992 Rio
Earth Summit. Only those NGOs that were "accredited" by the
UN Conference were permitted to attend. Former chairman
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural
Resources (IUCN). Became a member of the Privy Council of
Canada in 1992, the same year that Paul G. Desmarais, Sr.,
Conrad M. Black, and Charles R. Bronfman (brother of Edgar
Bronfman, Sr.) were also made members. Chairman and CEO of
Ontario Hydro 1992-1995. Commission on Global Governance
1992-1996. Co-founder of the Earth Council Institute in 1992
and has been its chairman ever since (he still is anno
2005). Ruud Lubbers (Dutch Prime Minister 1982-1994) and
Mikhail Gorbachev (president of the USSR until 1991;
established the Green Cross, among its directors Shimon
Peres) were among those who helped in its creation. In 1994,
these people, Maurice Strong, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Ruud
Lubbers joined together again to launch a civil society
Earth Charter initiative. Considered a chief architect of
the Kyoto Accord of 1997 because the regulations to
stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations started with the
Framework Convention on Climate Change at the Earth Summit
in Rio of 1992, headed by Maurice Strong. An international
Earth Charter Commission was formed in 1997 (with Maurice
Strong, Steven C. Rockefeller (second son of Nelson
Rockefeller; father of Steven, Jr.), and Mikhael Gorbachev
among the handful of commissioners), and an Earth Charter
secretariat was established in Costa Rica, where today it is
affiliated with the UN University for Peace. In 2000, the
Earth Charter was formally launched at the Peace Palace
(once built by Andrew Carnegie) in The Hague in the presence
of Queen Beatrix. The mission of the Earth Charter
Initiative is, "To establish a sound ethical foundation for
the emerging global society and to help build a sustainable
world based on respect for nature, universal human rights,
economic justice and a culture of peace." Chairman of the
World Resources Institute 1995-1998. The earlier mentioned
Pittsburgh Live article also states that Maurice Strong is
very good friends with Kofi Annan (UN head; advised by
Strong), Malloch Brown (works for Annan), Al Gore (former US
vice president; intermarried with the Schiff family;
presidential campaign sponsored with $100,000 from Strong),
Tongsun Park (Koreagate; long history of
bribing/blackmailing government officials; indicted in the
Oil-For-Food scandal), Louise Frechette (UN deputy
secretary-general; accused of having ordered the shredding
of incriminating Oil-For-Food documents; actually an
investigator of the Oil-For-Food scandal; has spoken to the
Pilgrims Society), and James Wolfensohn (used to sit on the
Rockefeller Foundation board; former business partner of
Lord Jacob Rothschild; former president of the World Bank;
the head of J. Rothschild Wolfensohn & Co. was Oil-For-Food
investigator and Rockefeller-protege Paul Volcker). Strong
actually was a senior advisor to James Wolfensohn when the
latter was head of the World Bank from 1995 to 2005. Maurice
was and is an advisor to United Nations secretary-generals
Boutros-Ghali & Kofi Annan. Chairman of the High Level
Expert Panel reviewing the Consultative Group on
Agricultural Research (CGIAR) 1998-1999. Member of the World
Water Commission, formed in 1998, which concluded that fresh
water will become scarce in the future. It also recommend
privatization of water companies. Member of the
International Advisory Board of the Federation of Korean
Industry 1998-2001. Former director of the United Nations
Foundation, established in 1998, mainly through the money of
Ted Turner, but sponsored by many corporations and
foundations. President of the Council of the University for
Peace in Costa Rica since 1999. Member of the International
Advisory Board of Governors of the Centre for International
Governance Innovation (CIGI) since 2003. Paul Martin (from a
well-connected Roman Catholic family; Privy Councillor),
Canada's Prime Minister since 2003, has stated a few times
that Maurice Strong acted as his mentor. Chairman,
International Advisory Board, CH2M Hill Group Inc. Director
Toyoto Motor Corp, Zenon Environmental, Inc., World Society,
First Color. Corp., Baca Corp., Consolidated Press Holdings,
and The Humane Society of the United States. Former chairman
and member of the foundation board of DAVOS/World Economic
Forum. Member of the International Advisory Board of the
Center of International Development (Harvard) and the Liu
Centre for the Study of Global Issues at The University of
British Columbia. President of the World Federation of
United Nations Association. Fellow of the Royal Society
(U.K.), the Royal Society of Canada, and the Royal
Architectural Society of Canada. Member of the Yale Club,
University Club, and the Vancouver Club. Currently chairman
of Strovest Holdings and Technology Development Corporation.
Sunley, John
Educated at Harrow and Columbia
University. John served with the Royal Marines before
commencing in the property world in 1960. Chairman of the
Sunley Holdings Group of companies since 1979. He is also
Chairman of the Trustees of the Bernard Sunley Charitable
Foundation and trustee of a number of other charities.
Thurn und Taxis, Prince Johannes
von
Thurn comes from the Torriani or
Della Torre family what was one the ruling families in
northern-Italy in the 13th-15th century. They were
struggling for power with the Guelphs, the Ghibellines, the
Visconti, etc. Very few princely families have been able to
play such an important role in Europe without ever appearing
as actors in the main stage of history. The dynasty of the
Princes of Thurn und Taxis is such a family. The family's
fortunes prospered along those of the imperial court at
Vienna (Habsburg dynasty). For more than 300 years
(15th-18th century), the Thurn und Taxis held the monopoly
over imperial communications and post between Vienna and the
far flung Habsburg possessions that formed the Holy Roman
Empire of the German Nation. It was Napoleon Bonaparte who
first attacked the Thurn und Taxis monopoly (from about
1795). The loss of the mail monopoly did little to affect
the power of the Thurn und Taxis for by then, the family had
diversified into a myriad other enterprises from foodstuffs
to banking to railroads. Their wealth was vast and very few
other European families could match it. In the 19th century
the intermarried with different European royal families,
including Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. In later times, Prince Albert
of Thurn und Taxis was deeply opposed to the advent of
Adolph Hitler. The family lost two members in the war,
together with a large part of their fortunes. A lot of it
was located behind the iron curtain. Johannes started to
rebuild the empire in 1952 and by 1990, when he died, he had
done this for the most part. Unfortunately, he died
unexpectedly, which brought a lot of chaos to the family's
fortune. Gloria, his wife (38 years younger) with whom he
partied during the 1980s, had been selling a lot of the
holdings in the 1990s. Today she raises her sons and they
hope to rebuild their vast fortune once again. The Palace of
Thurn and Taxis in Bavaria is still in use today and it
contains more rooms than Buckingham Palace. Gloria is
involved with ecological business. The assets of the family
are managed through the Thurn und Taxis Group.
In 1990, Joseph Brewda wrote
something very interesting for EIR: "On Oct. 15, 1982, a
month after the 1982 massacres, Sharon held meetings—in the
Chouf Mountains of Lebanon and at his Negev ranch—with
Falange leader Camille Chamoun, Uri Dan, Rupert Murdoch,
Charles Douglas-Home, and others, to move the "Landscam"
West Bank real estate grab forward. On Nov. 15, 1982, a
final meeting took place on several real estate purchases,
mostly through Arab middle-men, to push the massive
expansion of Jewish settlements throughout the West Bank—at
a handsome profit. Attending the meeting at Sharon's ranch
were: Kissinger, Lord Harlech (Sir David Ormsby-Gore),
Prince Johannes von Thurn und Taxis, Tory Parliamentarian
Julian Amery, Sir Edmund Peck, and MI6 Mideast mandarin
Nicholas Elliot." I could be wrong, but I never heard
EIR, Joseph Brewda, or pretty much anyone else talk in any
detail about Le Cercle. In the meantime I found out that
Julian Amery was the chairman of this secret intelligence
group and Nicholas Elliot was another important member.
Amery's father was a hugely important Zionist. Look at the
article about Le Cercle for all the details. Of course it's
no surprize that Kissinger is said to have been a member
too. By the way, last year the prince's favorite fashion
designer, Rudolph Moshammer, was found dead in a suburb of
Munich with a phone cord tied around his neck. This person
was also a favorite fashion designer of Arnold
Schwarzenegger and King Carl Gustaf of Sweden. Maybe it's
nothing, but I come across a lot of strange deaths
investigating this circuit. Member of the 1001 Club.
Thyssen-Bornemisza, Baron
Heinrich von
Baron Hans Heinrich von
Thyssen-Bornemisza (1921-2002), a noted art collector, was a
Dutch-born Swiss citizen with a Hungarian title, a legal
resident of Monaco for tax purposes, with a declared second
residency in the United Kingdom, but in actuality a
long-time resident of Spain. His fifth and last wife is a
former Miss Spain. He was born in Den Haag, the son of
Heinrich Thyssen (1875-1947) and his first wife, Baroness
Margit Bornemisza (1887-1971). The Thyssen family's fortune
was built upon a steel and armaments empire. Heinrich
Thyssen had abandoned Germany as a young man and settled in
Hungary in 1905. He married firstly, 1946, Austrian
aristocrat Princess Teresa Amalia Franziska Elisabeth Maria
zur Lippe-Weissenfeld (born 1925). Their only child was
Georg Heinrich (born 1950). They divorced in 1954, and she
married in 1960, as her second husband, Friedrich
Maximilian, prince zu Furstenberg. He married secondly, in
1954, Anglo-Indian fashion model Nina Dyer (1930-1965); they
had no children and were divorced in 1956. She later married
and divorced His Highness Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan (a 1001
Club family) and committed suicide in 1965. He married
thirdly, September 17, 1956, New Zealand-born British
fashion model Fiona Frances Elaine Campbell-Walter (born
1932). She was a daughter of Rear-Admiral Keith McNeil
Walter (later Campbell-Walter) and his wife, Frances
Henriette Campbell. Their children were Francesca (born 1958
and now married to Archduke Karl of Austria, heir to the
defunct Austrian imperial throne) and Lorne (born 1963).
They divorced January 20, 1965, and she went on to have a
well-publicized relationship with Greek shipping heir
Alexander Onassis, the only son of Aristotle Onassis. He
married 2 more times. Today his empire has merged that of
the Krupp family, forming ThyssenKrupp AG, which has about
190.000 employees worldwide and annual sales of about 40
billion euros (2004). Member of the 1001 Club.
Tikkoo, Ravi
Indian born billionaire,
renowned in the shipping world as the man who pioneered the
use of big bulk-carrying ships to transport commodities such
as oil. Nowadays he is in semi-retirement in London but
still harbours the notion of resurrecting his plan to
construct a giant cruise liner.
Vesco, Robert
The undisputed king of the
fugitive financiers. Vesco fled to Costa Rica in 1973 in
order to avoid standing trial for the alleged theft of $224
million from the Swiss-based mutual fund, Investors Overseas
Services (of Meyer Lansky - Some say the Rothschild family
was involved). Shortly before Vesco left, he delivered
$200,000 in illegal campaign contributions to Richard
Nixon's re-election campaign. The money was stuffed in a
suitcase and handed over to campaign treasurer Maurice Stans,
who ended up paying a $5,000 fine for "non-willful
violation" of campaign-finance law. Vesco was indicted in
absentia. He was indicted yet again in 1989 on drug
smuggling charges. From Costa Rica, Vesco hopscotched to the
Bahamas, Antigua (where he tried unsuccessfully to buy a
nearby island called Barbuda and establish it as a sovereign
state), Nicaragua and, finally, Cuba, where he has lived for
the past two decades and, since 1995, been domiciled in a
Cuban jail. Vesco was convicted in connection with an
alleged scheme to defraud Cuba's pharmaceutical industry.
Also arrested by the Cubans was Vesco's partner and
houseguest, Donald Nixon, nephew to the former president.
Nixon was allowed to return to the U.S., but Vesco went to
the slammer. He gets out in 2009, when he'll be 74. Vesco's
Cuban wife Lidia was convicted on lesser charges and should
be out by this time.
Vestey, Edmund
Vestey's grandfather set up
Union Cold Storage in Liverpool in 1897 with the simple idea
of meat for the working class. Today, Edmund controls a meat
empire and has personal fortune of about 700 million pounds
sterling. Edmund and his brother William also founded Vestey
Brothers, Union Cold Storage Co Ltd and Blue Star Line
shipping. His family owns ranches in England, Scotland,
South-America and Australia. Edmund owns 17000 acres in
Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Essex. He is also a
vice-president of the Essex Scouts and vice-chairman of the
East Anglia Border Terrier Club. East Anglian Daily
Times 19.11.02: "EDMUND Vestey, one of East
Anglia's biggest supporters of foxhunting, has given the
Conservative Party a donation of 6,050 [pounds], figures
published by the Electoral Commission revealed yesterday.
The Commission's internet site indicated that Mr Vestey, of
Vestey Hall, Thurlow, near Haverhill, a former master of the
Thurlow Hounds, paid his donation directly to Conservative
Central Office..." Vestey was a Lord Prior of the Order
of St John of Jerusalem and a his meat company belonged to
the Livery Companies of the City of London.
Wasserman, Lew
Generous contributor to Jewish
and Catholic causes. Donated so much to Catholic charities
that Pope John Paul II asked to meet him in 1987. Awarded
the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1995. Chairman and
chief executive of the Music Corporation of America (MCA).
The most influential player in the Hollywood movie business
up until the eighties. From that time on, Time Warner and
News Corp. became serious competitors. In the 1960s, Lew
demonstrated the political influence Hollywood could wield
by organizing huge fundraising campaigns, particularly for
the Democratic Party. In 1990 MCA was sold to Matsushita,
which sold MCA again to Bronfman controlled Seagram in 1995.
Edgar Bronfman Jr. became the new president of MCA and
renamed it to Universal Studios. Lew only remained a media
consultant to Universal Studios. In the past Lew has been
described as the godfather or even the god of Hollywood.
Stories circulated of executives who fainted or vomited in
the midst of Wasserman tirades.
Watson, Thomas J., Jr.
Eldest son of
Thomas J. Watson, the founder of IBM, known to have
struggled throughout his life with depression, earned a
business degree from Brown University in 1937, and worked a
few years as an IBM salesman. In May of 1956 Watson Jr. was
named CEO of the company. Only six weeks later his father
died. Thomas Jr. took the single biggest risk in IBM's
history when he decided to make all of its previous computer
software (and hardware, for that matter) obsolete, by
developing a uniform range of new IBM mainframe computers.
The new machines were compatible within the range—i.e., they
could run the same software and use the same peripherals—but
incompatible with the former mainframes. The new series,
called the System/360, almost completely bankrupted the
entire company; its highly successful launch in 1964 was
called by Fortune magazine "IBM's $5 Billion Gamble". That
same year, because of this success, Dwight D. Eisenhower at
the New York World's Fair awarded Thomas J. Watson Jr. the
Medal of Freedom, the highest award a U.S. President can
bestow on a civilian. Watson was CEO of IBM from 1956 to
1971 and became a US ambassador to the Soviet Union
1979-1981. He also was a trustee of the China Institute and
was called by Fortune Magazine “the most successful
capitalist who ever lived” (1976) He was a member of the
Pilgrims Society, Bohemian Grove camp Mandalay, and the
Council on Foreign Relations. Once of the primary sponsors
of the Lucis Trust.
Whyte, Tom
Chairman of the
failed "fringe" bank Triumph Investment Trust, back in the
seventies.
Windsor, Prince Charles
Became Duke of
Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron Renfrew,
Lord of the Isles and Great Steward of Scotland and Knight
of the Garter when Elizabeth II ascended to the thrown.
Studied in part under Kurt Hahn. Invested as Prince of Wales
in 1969. Assumed a seat in the House of Lords in 1970.
Married Lady Diana Frances Spencer in 1981 and divorced in
1996. Diana died in a car crash in 1997. Married Camilla
Parker Bowles in 2005, heir to the British Throne. Unlike
his father, he is opposed to genetech.
(Windsor) Mountbatten, Prince Philip
Born in 1921 on
the Isle of Corfu, Greece. Parents were evacuated from
Greece after a revolution and both became depressed (father)
or mentally instable (mother). Studied in Germany under Kurt
Hahn and both came to Scotland in 1933. Played polo in his
youth, often against Sir Evelyn de Rothschild. Philip is the
Duke of Edinburgh, a Knight of the Order of the Garter, a
Knight of the Order of the Thistle, Grand Master and First
or Principal Knight of the Order of the British Empire, and
was a prince of Greece and Denmark until he married. Patron
or President of 814 organizations. His wife, Queen Elizabeth
II is patron of the Pilgrims Society. Long career in the
navy from the start of WWII as a midshipsman to commanding
his own frigate, the HMS Magpie. William R. Denslow's 10,000
Famous Freemasons: "Philip was initiated in Navy Lodge
No. 2612 of London on Dec 5, 1952. Present at the initiation
were the Earl of Scarbrough, grand master, q.v., and
Geoffrey Fisher, archbishop of Canterbury." Philip is a
Master Mason, never having shown great interest in the
organization, while his cousin, Prince Edward (b. 1935) is
the grand master of the United Grand Lodge. He and his wife
set off for a tour of the Commonwealth, with visits to
Africa, Australia, and New Zealand in 1952. They went on to
visit the remote parts of the Commonwealth in 1956. Gordon
Creighton, a Foreign Service official and Intelligence
officer, concluded his story about a reported 1960s UFO
landing on the estate of Prince Philip with: "So there
had been a landing on the estate of Mountbatten and there
was Mountbatten's great interest." The entire testimony
was made during an interview with the Disclosure Project in
September 2000. Prince Philip supposedly had a drawer full
of sketches and information on different types of UFOs.
Philip co-founded the WWF International in 1961 with Julian
Huxley and Prince Bernhard. He has been the long time
president of WWF UK. Co-founded the 1001 Nature Trust and
1001 Club from 1971 to 1974, together with Anton Rupert and
Prince Bernhard. Co-founded the Interfaith consultations
between Jews, Christians, and Muslims in 1984, together with
Crown Prince Hassan of Jordan and Sir Evelyn de Rothschild
at Windsor castle. In August 1988, Prince Philip said to the
West German Deutsche Press Agentur: "In the event that I
am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus,
in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation".
He wrote something along similar lines in the foreword of
the 1987 book 'If I Were An Animal', written by Fleur
Cowles. Philip was supposedly hostile to Diana after she
divorced Charles in 1996. Mohamed Al-Fayed claimed Prince
Philip had ordered Diana's murder who was killed in a car
crash on August 31, 1997. Queen Elizabeth II said to Diana's
butler Paul Burrell in December 1997: "Nobody, Paul has
been as close to a member of my family as you have... There
are powers at work in this country about which we have no
knowledge." She advised him to be cautious and to lay
low. Unlike his son, Charles, Philip supports genetically
modified foods. On June 7, 2000, The Guardian quoted the
Duke of Edinburgh as saying: "Do not let us forget we
have been genetically modifying animals and plants ever
since people started selective breeding." Philip is
known to be the head of the family; what he says, generally
goes. He is still president emeritus of the WWF
International.
Zuckerman, Lord Solly
Solly Zuckerman
was born in Cape Town, South Africa on 30th May 1904. He
studying at the University of Cape Town he traveled to
London in 1926 to complete his studies at University College
Hospital Medical School. He carried out research into
primates and published several books including The Social
Life of Monkeys and Apes (1932) and Functional Affinities of
Man, Monkeys and Apes (1933). Zuckerman joined the faculty
of Oxford University in 1934 and during the Second World War
he carried out several research projects for the government.
This included working with John Bernal on the impact of
bombing on people and buildings. After the war Zuckerman was
professor of anatomy at Birmingham University (1946-1968)
and chief scientific adviser to the Ministry of Defense in
1960. In 1955 Zuckerman became a member of the Council of
the Zoological Society of London and in 1957 accepted the
role of Honorary Secretary; he became the Society's
President in 1977, a position from which he retired in 1984.
Later he was chief scientific adviser to the British
government (1964 to 1971). Knighted in 1956, he was awarded
a life peerage in 1971. Zuckerman's autobiography, From Apes
to Warlords, was published in 1971. During his lifetime he
continuously corresponded with Julian S. Huxley about things
like evolution, population control, and the work of various
scientists. Solly Zuckerman died in 1993.