Reply #43: Can't leave out Allen Dulles

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http://www.webcom.com/ctka/pr399-fdr.html

According to the Versailles Treaty, which ended WWI, it was illegal to sell arms to Germany, but the DuPonts lobbied State Department delegates to the Paris Peace Conference. They finally obtained assurance from one of the delegates that their business with Germany would be "winked at." That delegate was Wall Street lawyer Allen Dulles. In addition, the Wall Street lawyer who represented the DuPonts at the hearings was William Donovan, who went on to head the Office of Strategic Services (the OSS was the forerunner of the CIA) during WWII.

1934 - A congressional investigation identifies the Hamburg-Amerika shipping line (owned by Prescott Bush's father-in-law) as a cover for I.G. Farben. Instead of divesting the assets, Bush hires Allen Dulles to hide them. Dulles and his brother then continue working as the lawyers for Prescott Bush and Averell Harriman in their dealings with Nazi firms.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/02/04/05_killing.html

When the second world war broke out, the Dulles brothers, Allen (who was a partner in that firm) and John, helped these companies hide their assets. As a result, many Nazi industrialist and their American collaborators maintained their wealth after the hostilites ceased.

Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg once stated that "The Dulles brothers were traitors." Some historians believe that Allen Dulles became head of the newly formed CIA in large part to cover up his treasonous behavior and that of his clients. Not confined to a few isolated companies, some of America's most prominent families and their financial empires worked with the Nazis well after the first bombs were dropped on Pearl Harbor.

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Commentary/011004Hasty/011004hasty.html

Angleton told author Joseph Trento that the reason he had gotten the counterintelligence job in the first place was by agreeing not to submit "sixty of Allen Dulles' closest friends" to a polygraph test concerning their business deals with the Nazis.

http://www.democracyunbound.com/eisenhower.html

Although Prescott Bush's ties to Nazi industrialists led to penalties under the Trading with the Enemy Act after World War II, Allen Dulles' reconciliation committee quietly returned the I.G. Farben gasoline plant shares to Prescott Bush and allowed him to sell them. The close relationship between Prescott Bush and the Dulles Brother continued to thrive during the Eisenhower Administration.

http://www.tarpley.net/bush4.htm

A central focus of the Harriman security regime in Washington (1950-53) was the organization of covert operations, and "psychological warfare." Harriman, together with his lawyers and business partners, Allen and John Foster Dulles, wanted the government's secret services to conduct extensive propaganda campaigns and mass-psychology experiments within the U.S.A., and paramilitary campaigns abroad. This would supposedly ensure a stable world-wide environment favorable to Anglo-American financial and political interests.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/kreca1.html

The Navy tested mescaline as part of its 1947-53 Project CHATTER. MK-ULTRA was first organized in 1949 by Richard Helms under the direction of Allen Dulles as Project BLUEBIRD. Two years later, it was renamed ARTICHOKE (after one of Dulles’s favorite foods) then termed MK-ULTRA in 1953, finally becoming MK-SEARCH in 1965 until the program's "official termination" eight years later.

1953 - Dulles is appointed director of the CIA by Eisenhower and masterminds the overthrow of Mossagdeh in Iran in 1953 and that of Arbenz in Guatemala in 1954. He is later discredited by the U-2 incident (1960) and the Bay of Pigs invasion (1961) and is finally fired by Kennedy late in 1961.

http://www.markdankof.com/all_the_shahs_men.htm

In All the Shah’s Men, the role of the Dulles brothers proves pivotal to the process of tracing the President’s reasons for radical departure from the Truman policy course on Iran. In what would come to be a prototype for clandestine American interventionist policies worldwide, the justification provided to Eisenhower by his Secretary of State and Director of Central Intelligence was cast in terms of opposition to the threat of the ascendancy of Soviet-inspired Communist movements in the oil-rich Middle East.