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America's Secret Establishment
An introduction to The Order of Skull & Bones
by ANTONY C. SUTTON
Liberty House Press
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1986
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The Harriman Family And Its Satellites
In The Order
Harriman Family
Lovett
3 members
Bush
3 members
Woolley
2 members
Ames
2 members
James
6 members
Brown
9 members in various families
Superficially, Averell Harriman's life has been quite different than his
father's. Here's an official summary of Averell Harriman's long career:
* Married three times -
(1) 1915 Kitty Lanier Lawrence
(2) 1930 Marie Norton Whitney[1][1]For Marie Norton Whitney, see Volume
One. The Order. p. 29.
(3) 1971 Pamela Churchill Hayward[2][2] Pamela Hayward was formerly married
to Randolph Churchill, thus linking Harriman to the British establishment.
* Groton Prep School, then Yale. Initiated into The Order in 1913.
* Started with his father's company, Union Pacific Railroad.
* 1917 organized the Merchant Shipbuilding Corporation, sold all
shipping interests in 1925
* 1917 Director of Guaranty Trust. Family holdings of about one-third
of Guaranty stock were put into a J.P. Morgan voting trust in
1925
* 1920 established W.A. Harriman Company, with his brother Roland
as Vice-President
* 1923 formed Georgian Manganese Company
* 1933 W.A. Harriman merged with Brown Brothers to become
Brown Brothers, Harriman
* 1934 Special assistant administrator of Roosevelt National
Recovery Act
* 1941 Minister to Great Britain in charge of Lend Lease for Britain
and Russia
* 1941 Ambassador to the Soviet Union
* 1946 Ambassador to Great Britain
* 1946 Secretary of Commerce
* 1948 U.S. representative to ECA in Europe
* 1950 Special Assistant to President Truman
* 1951 U.S. representative at NATO defense meetings
* 1951 Director of Mutual Security Agency
* 1955 Governor of State of New York
* 1961 Ambassador at Large
* 1961 Assistant Secretary of State for Far East
* 1963 Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
* 1968 U.S. representative at Paris "peace" talks on Vietnam
* 1974 Chairman Democratic Party Foreign Policy Task Force
* 1975 Limited Partner Brown Brothers, Harriman
* 1983 Visits Yuri Andropov in Moscow
With this lengthy global experience one might suspect that Harriman
has developed a deep knowledge, understanding and perception of the
world. But in fact his writings suggest he is either rather stupid or one of
the most deceptive men ever to walk the face of our earth. Let's take
one example; an article written by Averell Harriman, published in Look
October 3, 1967 and entitled "From Stalin to Kosygin: the myths and
the realities."
Here are two extracts:
(1) "Therefore in the early twenties my firm participated in credits to
finance trade with Russia. We found as others did that the new
government was most meticulous in meeting its financial
commitments."
In fact, the Soviets expropriated the concessions of the 1920s in-
cluding Harriman's, usually without reimbursement. Harriman was
double-crossed by the Soviets in his Georgian manganese concession,
then persuaded to take $3 million in Soviet bonds as compensation
(See documents printed on pages 154-155). This Soviet "compensa-
tion" in effect put Harriman in a position of making the first U.S. loan to
Russia, so breaching United States law against such loans.
But this is what Harriman told John B. Stetson, Jr. of the State
Department (861.637-Harriman) "Mr. Harriman said that they expect
to drop about three million dollars which they would charge off to ex-
perience." This, Harriman calls "most meticulous in meeting its financial
obligations."
(2) "On the Russian side, one of the most troublesome myths is that
America is run by a 'ruling circle,' made up of Wall Streeters and
industrialists who have an interest in continuing the cold war and
the arms race to prop up the 'capitalist' economy. Anybody who
knows American politics knows what nonsense this is."
Unfortunately, the Russians are largely right on the political aspects
of this one. In making the above statement Harriman not only confirms
Russian paranoia, i.e., that capitalists can't be trusted to tell the truth
but also deceives the American reading audience in Look that they do
in fact, have a participation in running political affairs. Compare this
paragraph to this series on The Order and you will see the devious way
the Harriman mind works, perhaps not so different than Harriman
senior.
The previously described official Harriman biography suggests that
Harriman, given his decades on the political inside, must be well aware
of the dependence of the Soviet Union on Western technology: that the
Soviet Union can make no economic progress without Western enter-
prise technology. In fact, Stalin himself told Harriman as much back in
1944. Here's an extract from a report by Ambassador Harriman in
Moscow to the State Department, dated June 30, 1944:
"Stalin paid tribute to the assistance rendered by the United States to
Soviet industry before and during the war. He said that about two-thirds
of all the large industrial enterprises in the Soviet Union had been built
with United States help or technical assistance."[1][1] Original in U.S State
Department Decimal File 033 1161 Johnston Eric/6-3044 Telegram June 30, 1944
Stalin could have added that the other one-third of Soviet industry
had been built by British, German, French, Italian, Finnish, Czech and
Japanese companies.
In brief, Harriman knew first hand back in 1944 at least that the
West had built the Soviet Union. Now examine Harriman's official
biography with its string of appointments relating to NATO, Mutual
Security Agency, State Department, foreign policy, and so on. In these
posts Harriman actively pushed for a military build-up of the United
States. But if the Soviet Union was seen to be an enemy in 1947, then we had
no need to build a massive defense. What we should have
done was cut off technology. There was no Soviet technology - and
HARRIMAN KNEW THERE WAS NO SOVIET TECHNOLOGY.
Furthermore, Harriman has been in the forefront of the cry for "more
trade" with the Soviet Union - and trade is the transfer vehicle for
technology. In other words, Harriman has been pushing two CON-
FLICTING POLICIES SIMULTANEOUSLY.
(a) a build-up of Soviet power by export of our technology,
(b) a Western defense against that power.
Isn't this the Hegelian dialectic? Thesis versus antithesis, then conflict
which leads to a new synthesis. In the following memoranda we will show how
Harriman and his fellows in the Brotherhood of Power went
about this program of conflict creation.
Moreover, Harriman is understandably highly sensitive when
challenged on his pious "I am always right about the Soviet" attitude.
One memorable occasion was back in 1971 when author Edward
(Teddy) Weintal was at a dinner party with Harriman when Harriman
trotted out his well worn line: "I was the first to warn of Soviet dangers
. . ."
Weintal stopped him cold. In research for a book, Weintal had found
documents incriminating Harriman in the National Archives (similar to
those reproduced later in this book). In particular, Weintal cited a State
Department telegram dated February 12, 1944 from Harriman to
Roosevelt. Said Weintal,
"You told Roosevelt that you were convinced that the Soviets did not
want to introduce a Communist government into Poland."
So up jumped 79-year-old Harriman from the dinner table, and
waved his fists at 70-year-old Weintal. Shouted Harriman, "If you print
anything like that in your book, I'll beak your jaw."
Reportedly, the agitated host separated the two men, but not before a
Washington Post reporter noted the details (See Washington Post
March 17, 1971, VIP Column by Maxine Cheshire).
III. THE GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY
Guaranty Trust was founded l864 in New York. Over the next 100
years the banking firm expanded rapidly by absorbing other bank and
trust companies; in 1910 it merged Morton Trust Company, in 1912
the Standard Trust Company, and in 1929 the National Bank of Com-
merce. The J.P. Morgan firm has effectively controlled Guaranty Trust
since 19l2 when Mrs. Edward Harriman (mother of Roland and Averell
Harriman) sold her block of 8,000 shares of the total outstanding
20,000 shares to J.P. Morgan. By 1954 Guaranty Trust had become
the most important banking subsidiary of the J.P. Morgan firm and since 1954
the merged firms have been known as Morgan-Guaranty
Company.
The original capital for Guaranty Trust came from the Whitney,
Rockefeller, Harriman and Vanderbilt families, all represented in
The Order, and on the Board of Guaranty Trust by family members
throughout the period we are discussing.
Harry Payne Whitney (The Order '94) inherited two Standard Oil for-
tunes from the Payne and the Whitney families. H.P. Whitney was a
director of Guaranty Trust, as was his father, William C. Whitney (The
Order '63). Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt (The Order '99) represented the
Vanderbilt family until he drowned at sea in the sinking of the Lusitania
in 1915. (His sister Gertrude married Harry Payne Whitney, above),
The power of The Order is reflected in a bizarre incident as Alfred
Gwynne Vanderbilt boarded the Lusitania in New York on its fateful
voyage. A telegram warning Vanderbilt not to sail was delivered to the
Lusitania before it sailed - but never reached Vanderbilt. Conse-
quently, Vanderbilt went down with the ship.
The Harriman investment in Guaranty Trust has been represented by
W. Averell Harriman.
The Rockefeller investment in Guaranty Trust was represented by
Percy Rockefeller (The Order '00).
In brief, The Order was closely associated with Guaranty Trust and
Morgan-Guaranty long before 1912 when Mrs. Edward Harriman sold
her interest to J.P. Morgan. Averell Harriman remained on the Board
of Guaranty Trust after the transfer. The following members of The
Order have also been officers and directors of Guaranty Trust and
Company:
Harold Stanley (The Order 1908): Harold Stanley, born 1885, was
the son of William Stanley, an inventor associated with General Electric
Company. Stanley prepared for Yale University at the elitist Hotchkiss
School, Lakeville, Connecticut. An excellent athlete, Stanley graduated
Yale in 1908-and was initiated into The Order.
After Yale, Stanley joined National Bank of Albany and then, be-
tween 1913-1915, was with J.G. White (prominent in construction of
the Soviet First Five Year Plan). In 1915 Stanley joined Guaranty Trust
as Vice President. From 1921 to 1928 he was President of Guaranty
Trust and then a partner in the firm of J.P. Morgan, replacing William
Morrow. From 1935 to 1941 he was President of Morgan, Stanley &
Company, then a partner from 1941 to 1955 and a limited partner after
1956, until his death in 1963.
In brief, a member of The Order was Vice President, then President,
of Guaranty Trust Company in the years 1915 to 1928 - the years
which record the Bolshevik Revolution and the rise of Hitler to power in
Germany.
Joseph R. Swan (The Order '02). The Guaranty Company was a
subsidiary of Guaranty Trust Co. Joseph Rockwell Swan (The Order
'02) was President of the Guaranty Company as well as a director of
Guaranty Trust Company.
Percy Rockefeller (The Order '00). Percy Rockefeller, born 1878
was the son of William D. Rockefeller (brother of John D. Rockefeller)
and inherited part of the Standard Oil fortune. Percy was a director of
Guaranty Trust in the 1915-1930 period.
How The Order Relates To Guaranty Trust
Company And Brown Brothers, Harriman
THE
ORDER
GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY
HAROLD STANLEY (The Order '08)
W. MURRAY CRANE (The Order '04)
HARRY P. WHITNEY ("The Order '94)
W. AVERELL HARRIMAN (The Order '13)
KNIGHT WOOLLEY (The Order '17)
FRANK P. SHEPARD (The Order '17)
JOSEPH R. SWAN (The Order '02)
THOMAS COCHRANE (The Order '94)
PERCY ROCKEFELLER (The Order '00)
POST WORLD WAR II PARTNERS
GEORGE H. CHITTENDEN (The Order '39)
WILLIAM REDMOND CROSS (The Order '41)
HENRY P. DAVISON, JR. (The Order '20)
THOMAS RODD (The Order '35)
CLEMENT D. GILE (The Order '39)
DANIEL P. DAVISON (The Order '49)
BROWN BROTHERS, HARRIMAN,
formerly
W.A. HARRIMAN
W. AVERELL HARRIMAN (The Order '13)
E. ROLAND HARRIMAN (The Order '17)
ELLERGY S. JAMES (The Order '17)
RAY MORRIS (The Order '01)
PRESCOTT SHELDON BUSH (The Order '17)
KNIGHT WOOLLEY (The Order '17)
MORTIMER SEABURY (The Order '09)
ROBERT A. LOVETT (The Order '18)
POST WORLD WAR II PARTNERS
EUGENE WM. STETSON, JR. (The Order '34) (1937-42)
WALTER H. BROWN (The Order '45)
STEPHEN Y. HORD (The Order '21)
JOHN BECKWITH MADDEN (The Order '41)
GRANGE K. COSTIKYAN (The Order '29)
PARTNER NOT IN THE ORDER:
MATTHEW C. BRUSH (32' Mason)
IV. BROWN BROTHERS, HARRIMAN
The other operational vehicle used by The Order was the private
banking firm of Brown Brothers, Harriman. Before 1933 W.A. Harri-
man Company was the vehicle, and Brown Brothers did not enter the
picture. After 1933, the merged firm continued Harriman Company ac-
tivities.
In Introduction To The Order we presented details of the merged firm
(PP. 29-33). There is, however, one aspect we want to identify: the ex-
traordinary role of the Yale Class of '17 in Brown Brothers, Harriman
and the events to be described in Memoranda Three and Four.
The following five members in the class of '17 (only fifteen were in-
itiated) were involved:
Knight Woolley (The Order '17) was with Guaranty Trust from
1919-1920, Harriman Company from 1927-1931, then Brown
Brothers, Harriman from 1933 to the present time. Woolley was also a
director of the Federal Reserve Bank.
Frank P. Shepard (The Order '17) also joined Guaranty Trust in
1919 and was a Vice President from 1920 to 1934, the period con-
cerned with development of both Soviet Russia and Hitler's Nazi Party.
>From 1934 onwards Shepard was with Bankers Trust Company, a
member of the Morgan group of banks.
Ellery Sedgewick James (The Order '17) was a partner in Brown
Brothers, Harriman.
And finally, two interesting characters: Edward Roland Noel Harri-
man (The Order '17) and Sheldon Prescott Bush (The Order '17), the
father of George Herbert Walker Bush (The Order '49), currently Vice
President of the United States.
V. THE ORDER'S "FRONT MAN": MATTHEW C. BRUSH
From World War I until well into the 1930s The Order's "front man"
in both Guaranty Trust and Brown Brothers, Harriman was Matthew C.
Brush.
Brush was not Yale, nor a member of The Order, but through an ac-
cidental meeting in the 1890s his talents were used by The Order. Brush
became a Knight Templar, a 32nd degree Mason and a Shriner, but not
- so far as we can trace - more closely linked to the power center.
Brush was born in Stillwater, Minnesota in 1877 and was a graduate
of the Armour Institute of Technology and MIT. By accident his first job
in the 1890s was as a clerk with Franklin MacVeagh & Company of
Chicago. Franklin MacVeagh was a member (The Order '62) and
Secretary of the Treasury (1909-1913) under President William Taft
(The Order '78).
MacVeagh himself, as distinct from Brush, is a little difficult to classify.
In 1913 MacVeagh left the Treasury and resigned as trustee of the
University of Chicago. By 1919 he had become delinquent in his fees to
Russell Trust. We have a copy of a dunning notice sent to MacVeagh by
Otto Bannard (The Order '76), President of New York Life and
Treasurer for The Order in 1919. The notice asked MacVeagh to pay
up his dues.
While the trail of MacVeagh fades out after 1913, that of Matthew
Brush, his one-time clerk, blossoms forth. After a series of posts in
railroad companies, Brush was made Vice President of American Inter-
national Corporation in 1918 and President in 1923. He was also
Chairman of the Equitable Office Building, also known as 120 Broad-
way, illustrated on page 139.
Moreover, Brush was President of Barnsdall Corporation and
Georgian Manganese Company; the significance of these posts will be
seen in the next memorandum,
The purpose of this memorandum has been to demonstrate control
of two banking houses by members of The Order. Both Guaranty Trust
and Brown Brothers, Harriman can truly be said to have been
dominated and substantially owned by individuals identified as
members. Furthermore, both Guaranty Trust and the original W.A.
Harriman Company were established by members of The Order.
Brown Brothers was not absorbed until 1933.
Now, let's examine the evidence that these two banking firms have
been vehicles for creation of war and revolution.
pps. 129-137
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