Allen Dulles, CIA Director 1953-61, suspect in JFK assassination, prime mover on the Warren Commission, in an interview with Willie Morries
"While Allen Dulles was using his OSS post in [Zurich] Switzerland to protect the interests of Sullivan and Cromwell’s German clients, his brother Foster was doing the same in New York. By playing an intricate corporate shell game, Foster was able to hide the U.S. assets of major German cartels like IG Farben and Merck KGaA, the chemical and pharmaceutical giant, and protect these subsidiaries from being confiscated by the federal government as alien property.
Some of Foster’s legal origami allowed the Nazi regime to create bottlenecks in the production of essential war materials—such as diesel-fuel injection motors that the U.S. military needed for trucks, submarines, and airplanes. By the end of the war, many of Foster’s clients were under investigation by the Justice Department’s antitrust division. And Foster himself was under scrutiny for collaboration with the enemy.
But Foster’s brother was guarding his back. From his frontline position in Europe, Allen was well placed to destroy incriminating evidence and to block any investigations that threatened the two brothers and their law firm. “Shredding of captured Nazi records was the favorite tactic of Dulles and his [associates] who stayed behind to help run the occupation of postwar Germany,” observed Nazi hunter John Loftus, who pored through numerous war documents related to the Dulles brothers when he served as a U.S. prosecutor in the Justice Department under President Jimmy Carter.
But with Franklin Roosevelt gone from the arena, as of April 1945, there was not enough political will to challenge two such imposing pillars of the American establishment. Allen was acutely aware that knowledge was power, and he would use his control of the country’s rapidly expanding postwar intelligence apparatus [CIA] to carefully manage the flow of information about him and his brother."
David Talbot, The Devil's Chessboard, 2015
“After a long discussion of the country's woes, the interviewer asked Bobby, "But you are an optimist?" Kennedy nodded and smiled his weary-eyed smile. "Just because you can't live any other way, can you?" he replied.”
David Talbot, Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years, 2007
"All I have is a voice
To undo the folded lie,
The romantic lie in the brain
Of the sensual man-in-the-street
And the lie of Authority
Whose buildings grope the sky:
We must love one another or die."
W. H. Auden, September 1, 1939
"It is never really between them and you, but between you and yourself, between you and your God. No act of kindness is wasted. You store them in your heart, and these are the only things that you will take with you when the day is done. It is how you rise above, and become human. To be a light to the world."
Jesse, Even In a Time of Vanity and Greed", 5 May 2013
Stocks rallied higher today. And then flopped into the close.
Silver was the star of the day moving higher up to the 37 handle.
Gold managed to hold a decent bounce after an overnight selling program.
VIX is still rather complacent.
Geopolitical risks remain grossly underpriced.
Domestic risks are building, artificially driven by the audacious oligarchy.
Grifters are running things these days.
And they are feeling ebullient.
Pride comes before a fall. And this will end in tears.
Madness.
Have a pleasant evening.
