Republic of Money: Frank Wisner & AIG

[Hannah Bell]

AIG was founded by Cornelius Starr, reputedly an OSS operative.


Frank Wisner Jr. = a Vice-chair & Board member until 3/09

http://people.forbes.com/profile/frank-g-wisner/4782

http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS221563+13-Feb-2009+BW20090213


son of Frank Sr., OSS & CIA bigwig:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Wisner


Frank Jr. also a former trustee of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund:

http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:A7mGW4oWQA4J:www.rbf.org/trustees/trustees_show.htm%3Fdoc_id%3D495658+aig+frak+wisner&cd=8&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

& past holder of multiple gov't diplomatic appointments as part of US State Dept.


Wife = former wife of Nicolas Sarkozy's father (hungarian aristocrat), & Mother of Sarkozy's half-siblings (e.g. one of whom is UBS bigwig, former Carlyle head, involved in Sallie Mae, Wachovia deals, etc.):

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/world/europe/06iht-web-profile6.5587903.html?_r=1

http://www.forbes.com/2007/05/09/oliver-sarkozy-ubs-face-markets-cx_po_0507autofacescan03.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivier_Sarkozy


wife herself an aristocrat, descendent of this marquise:

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A07E3D6143FE633A25756C1A9609C946296D6CF


In "The War Conspiracy" Peter Dale Scott writes:

"For it is a striking fact that the law firm of Tommy Corcoran, the Washington lawyer for CATCL and T.V. Soong, had its own links to the interlocking worlds of the China Lobby and of organized crime. His partner W.S. Youngman joined the board of U.S. Life and other insurance companies, controlled by C.V. Starr (OSS China) with the help of Philippine and other Asian capital. Youngman's fellow-directors of Starr's companies have included John S. Woodbridge of Pan Am, Francis F. Randolph of J. and W. Seligman, W. Palmer Dixon of Loeb Rhoades, Charles Edison of the postwar China Lobby, and Alfred B. Jones of the Nationalist Chinese government's registered agency, the Universal Trading Corporation....

"We find the same network linking CIA proprietaries, war lobbies, and organized crime, when we turn our attention from CAT to the other identified supporter of opium activities, Sea Supply, Inc. Sea Supply, Inc. was organized in Miami, Florida, where its counsel, Paul E. Helliwell, doubled after 1951 as the counsel for C.V. Starr insurance interests, and also as the Thai consul in Miami..."


Mention of the Soongs & the China Lobby reminds me that the Soongs got their start through alliance with North Carolinian capital:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Soong

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Carr_(industrialist)

[leftstreet]

1. And Lo, Rich Oligarchs Begat more Rich Oligarchs and Wall St saw it was Good

:puke:

[Hannah Bell]

2. Edward E. Matthews

Senior vice president and director of C.V. Starr & Co.
Director of Starr International, private companies affiliated with American International Group, Inc.
Former senior vice chairman — Investments and Financial Services of AIG, director 1973-2005
Former partner and managing director of Morgan Stanley & Co.
Trustee emeritus, Princeton; Past chairman, Princeton Investment Company (investor of endowment)
Vice chairman of the Princeton Medical Center, trustee, Princeton Day School.
M.B.A. Harvard, A.B. Princeton


As of AIG's filing of April 4, 2008, the owners of more than 5% of AIG common stock were:

FMR LLC and Edward C. Johnson 3d (the FMR Group), 5.714%;
C.V. Starr & Co., Inc.;
Edward E. Matthews;
Maurice R. Greenberg;
The Maurice R. and Corinne P. Greenberg Family Foundation, Inc.;
Maurice R. and Corinne P. Greenberg Joint Tenancy Company, LLC;
Starr International Company, Inc. (SICO);
Universal Foundation, Inc.;
C.V. Starr & Co., Inc. Trust (collectively, the Starr Group), 13.6%.

AIG 2008 DEF 14A / Securities and Exchange Commission

As of AIG's Apr. 4, 2008 filing, Matthews was a director of the Starr Group, the largest holder of AIG common stock.