With reference to the excerpt from the posting below, I am curious about
what Colleen Jones has previously said about Mobil and the Masonic Lodge.
Curiously, I have researched Mobil in the past because it is successor to
the Magnolia Petroleum Co. of Texas whose employees seemed to be so close to
the Kennedy assassination in Dallas. Also, several years ago I had noticed
in checking the title to the land on which the First City Bank in Houston
sat, that it had previously been owned by trustees for Magnolia Petroleum,
the trustees being the founders of the Scottish Rite in Houston who received
the charter from the lodge in South Carolina after the Civil War. That
intrigued me. Then later I learned that George Bush's chief fundraiser,
Robert Mosbacher, worked for Mobil in Houston.
See attachment, which is a hodgepodge of excerpts from a much longer
article.
Linda Minor
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From: Kris Millegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, July 02, 1999 7:04 PM
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>ED KING
MOBIL OIL - MASONIC MURDER - HELLMANNS - DRUGS
We understand that this American propagandist for international
Freemasonry is about to have his first name changed from 'Ed' to 'Juan'
(pronounced 'Whan'). We have no quarrel with that. He has recently
posted on the Internet that we scandalised our former wife, fought
policemen in front of our young children, were anti-Semitic and anti-
Masonic and had failed to publish some unspecified statement. We
plead guilty to being anti-Masonic. The man is a nut case.
In the past we silenced King by answering his rubbish as he
published it. Now that Demon has closed our Web page and denied us
access to News Groups he is spreading his poison again. As our old
English teacher would have said "He hasn't the guts of a louse". And
perhaps Bob Dylan would have said "Things they are achangin'"
We have to put on record that the nincompoop King is not
reacting to what we publish on the Internet. Every time we refer
elsewhere to the Mobil Oil organised crime, Masonic killing, Hellmann
International Forwarders and drugs, King crawls out of the woodpile.
It is high time the FBI investigated King and Hellmanns International
Forwarders. Does anyone have King's address? Does he live in Miami
the main drug distribution centre? Is he connected with that brave
American policeman. Aubrey Brown, Senior. Is he a member of Scotty's
"Gay Brotherhood"? The yellow-livered rat is probably using a false
name and another person's address
>
Although it has never been proven that Farish, Liedtke or George Bush had any
background in intelligence operations before Bush was appointed director of the CIA by
Gerald Ford in 1976, an inference can be made just by reviewing the associations that
existed in the Texas oil community in the 1960s. Billy's training as an investment
banker had taken place at the English branch of Lazard Freres, which has been shown to
be closely tied to one of George Bush's original investors, Eugene Meyer, and to
Everett DeGolyer, a Dresser director who had spent most of his career working for Sir
Weetman Pearson (Viscount Cowdray). DeGolyer left his job at Amerada Petroleum in New
York and moved to Dallas where he established a geological consulting firm called
DeGolyer and MacNaughton and served from 1954 until his death in 1956 on the board of
Dresser Industries in Dallas. He was replaced on the board by his partner, Lewis W.
MacNaughton, who remained until 1969. i
Lewis MacNaughton was also a director of Empire Trust, a company whose largest single
holding of stock was comprised of Loeb-Lehman, Bache and Bronfman holdings, in which
Edgar Bronfman became a director in 1963. Edgar Bronfman, Sr. married the daughter of
John L. Loeb (Loeb, Rhoades), who was himself married to a Lehman.ii A vice-president
of Empire Trust in Dallas was Jack Crichton (also president of Nafco Oil & Gas, Inc.)
who was connected with Army Reserve Intelligence.iii In a 1995 book written by
Fabian Escalante, the chief of a Cuban counterintelligence unit during the late 1950s
and early 1960s, he describes that as soon as intelligence was received from agents in
Cuba that Fidel Castro had "converted to communism," a plan called "Operation 40" was
put into effect by the National Security Council, presided over by Vice-President
Richard Nixon. Escalante indicates that Nixon:
was the Cuban "case officer" who had assembled an important group of businessmen
headed by George Bush and Jack Crichton, both Texas oilmen, to gather the necessary
funds for the operation. Nixon was a prot�g� of Bush's father Preston [sic] who in
1946 had supported Nixon's bid for Congress. In fact, Preston Bush was the campaign
strategist that brought Eisenhower and Nixon to the presidency of the United States.
With such patrons, [Tracy] Barnes was certain that failure was impossible.iv
According to Peter Dale Scott, Crichton arranged for Marina Oswald to have Ilya
Mamantov as her interpreter when she was questioned after Oswald's arrest.v Mamantov
also taught scientific Russian classes at Magnolia Oil Co. Lee and Marina Oswald first
met the Paines at a party at the home of Richard Pierce and Everett Glover where
practically all the guests worked for Magnolia Oil. The guests included a German named
Volkmar Schmidt who came to Dallas in 1961 to do geological research at Magnolia's
laboratories in nearby Duncanville.vi
MacNaughton's personal accountant was George Bouhe, who also worked at the Tolstoy
Foundation with Paul Raigorodsky-a man involved with the National Alliance of
Solidarists. Bouhe was closely tied to George DeMohrenschildt, who later became
famous as the White Russian assigned to "handle" Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas. It was
DeMohrenschildt who had taken the Oswalds to a party where they met Volkmar Schmidt,
and then a later party at the same house where they met Michael Paine.
DeMohrenschildt was also the one in charge of getting Marina a place to stay at Ruth
Paine's home, and it was Ruth Paine who found Oswald the job at the book depository
office in the building owned by Jack Crichton's friend. DeMohrenschildt also was
involved with the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia in Dallas which received
subsidies from the Baird Foundation, which was determined to be a CIA conduit by the
Patman House Select Committee hearings [cf. New York Times, March 5, 1967, p. 36].vii
DeMohrenschildt immigrated to the U.S. in 1938, having been involved in espionage with
the OSS and probably with the Nazis.viii He had a doctorate in commerce from the
University of Liege, Belgium, when he came to the United States at age 27 where his
brother Dmitry was a professor at Dartmouth, having degrees from Columbia and Yale.ix
While visiting his brother and American sister-in-law at Bellport, near East Hampton,
on the eastern, ocean tip of Long Island, DeMohrenschildt met many influential people,
including stockbroker Jack and Janet Bouvier (Jackie's parents). He was also a friend
of Margaret Clark Williams, whose family had vast land holdings in Louisiana, who gave
him a letter of introduction to Humble Oil.x DeMohrenschildt came to Texas by bus
"where he got a job with Humble Oil Company in Houston, thanks to family connections,"
and, "[d]espite being friends with the chairman of the board of Humble," he worked as
a roughneck in the Louisiana oil fields.xi
DeMohrenschildt came to Texas in 1944 and got a master's degree in petroleum geology
at the University of Texas at Austin. For a time he worked overseas for the
Murchisons' Three States Oil and Gasxii and for Pantipec, an oil company owned by
William F. Buckley, Jr.'s father operated in Mexico at the same time Sir Weetman
Pearson (later Viscount Cowdray) and DeGolyer were there running the Mexican Eagle.
In fact, Buckley and his brother were the attorneys for the Mexican oil companies
after their properties were taxed illegally by the Mexican government.xiii According
to William Engdahl, Pearson worked for British Secret Intelligence, "as did all other
major British oil groups."xiv They had financed and put in power the regime of
General Victoriano Huerta, subsequently overthrown by President Woodrow Wilson, who
was supporting the objectives of Standard Oil in attempting to take from Britain at
least a portion of its concessions for half of Mexico's oil. The U.S. under
Rockefeller cover sent money and arms to Carranza.xv
Mosbacher
Once he returned to Houston after George Bush's defeat in 1992, Mosbacher moved his
energy company offices to 55 Waugh Drive, and in 1995 he became a 50-50 partner in the
development of the Cinco Ranch with Max M. Fisher-a Detroit businessman and former
recruit of Julius Klein--who became head of United Brands in 1975. Fisher had also
been an honorary chairman of the Bush-Quayle 1992 National Finance Committee.xvi
Mosbacher, Bush and Liedtke were, of course, familiar with the funding of presidential
campaigns from their work in 1972 for Richard Nixon's Texas Committee to Re-Elect the
President. They are "the Texans" mentioned in the "smoking gun" tape which forced
Nixon to resign from the presidency. The Dahlberg check from Dwayne Andreas and
several other checks issued on a bank in Mexico were given to the Washington committee
to deposit in Bernard Barker's hush money account in a Florida bank. George Bush
convinced Nixon to resign in order to prevent any further investigation into the
source of these Texas checks.xvii
Fisher also had ties with the Bronfmans during Prohibition and with Moe Dalitz as a
supplier of illegal gasoline during the war and, later, surplus tanks and weapons
systems destined for Palestine for sale on the black market. In the mid-70s he also
was placed in charge of United Brands, formerly known as United Fruit. As mentioned
previously, Zapata Off-Shore was buying stock in United Fruit Co. in 1969 when an
agreement was made with then chairman E.M. Black to withdraw from bidding. It is not
presently known how much of the United Fruit stock Zapata retained, but it appears
that, in 1973, 50% of Zapata Offshore's Norwegian shipping subsidiary was purchased by
the P&O Steamship Co. for $100 million in cash and short-term notes. A competing
offer by Hambros Bank acting on behalf of "an international group of investors,"
called Palmerston Holdings, headed by Norwegian shipowner Hilmar Reksten as chairman
proposed to buy 99% of the company for $200 million but was quickly rejected.xviii
Both Hollywood Marine, in which Mosbacher fronted for Bush, and Mosbacher Energy Co.,
have offices at 55 Waugh Drive in the Central Bank & Trust Building. This office
building was constructed on land purchased in January 1981 with $1.5 million financing
from First International Bank in Houston and with $11.5 million in financing from
Great-West Life Insurance-a subsidiary of the Power Corporation of Canada. Another
$26.7 million came from The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (which amalgamated with
Barclays Bank of England in January 1956xix). According to the Unauthorized
Biography, George Bush became chairman of the executive committee of First
International Bank of Houston in 1977, one month after he was kicked out of the CIA by
Jimmy Carter. First International Bancshares was also represented on the board of
Dresser Industries.xx At the same time, he became a director of First International
Bankshares Ltd. of London and of the holding company based in Dallas which was chaired
by a Republican activist named Robert H. Stewart III. Stewart, incidentally, has
longstanding ties with the Murchison family who have also been closely tied to both
Trizec and Bramalea, in which the Bronfmans have long been involved. The Murchisons
and Bronfmans are basically cut-outs for the financial interests which were managing
the larger investment scheme.
Baker Botts, United Fruit and Zapata
he ran as a Republican against Democratic Senator Ralph Yarborough.xxi After being
defeated in that race, however, Bush had "been bitten by another bug," and resigned in
February 1966 as chairman and CEO of Zapata to run for Congress full-time. Bush was
later appointed National GOP Chairman and served during the same time Texan Robert
Strauss was chair of the Democratic Party-helping to ensure Nixon's election in 1968.
At the end of 1976 Zapata Off-Shore was still an independently owned subsidiary of
Zapata Corporation, but apparently there were plans in the works to merge back into
the parent during 1977.xxii By that time the Liedtke brothers had already moved into
Pennzoil; though Zapata and Pennzoil were located in the same office complex in
Houston, they had separate management. xxiii It is impossible to tell from reading
the SEC reports whether Bush retained his stock in Zapata and, if so, how much he had.
It is clear from newspaper articles, however, in what direction Zapata was moving by
1968. According to a January 20, 1969xxiv Houston Chronicle article by Albert T.
Collins, Zapata Norness, Inc. (formerly Zapata Off-Shore) had been seeking to acquire
United Fruit Co. stock by offering to exchange one share of convertible stock for
every share of United Fruit stock tendered to it. A competing offer to purchase stock
had been made by AMK Corp., which was recommended by officers of the fruit company.
The following week, after Zapata had already received almost 31,000 shares, AMK
Corp.'s chairman, E.M. Black, and Zapata Norness reached an agreement whereby AMK
would pay Zapata $3.8 million to withdraw from competition for United Fruit. AMK
would buy all United Fruit stock which Zapata had purchased, in cash up to $3 million
and would execute a promissory note for any amount in excess of the $3 million,
payable at 6-7/8% interest in 10 equal annual installments.
The purchase of United Fruit makes much more sense, however, when viewed in light of
Dresser's other connections. The Harriman crew had installed Yale Skull and Bones
colleague, Neil Mallon, as president of Dresser, when he appeared in town for a visit
after spending six months in the "European Alps," presumably in Switzerland-getting an
indoctrination in high finance. Mallon's grandfather had been a Cincinnati judge,
his father a lawyer with connections to President Taft. Mallon himself had an
abiding interest in world cooperation-active in Cleveland's Council on World Affairs
while Dresser was headquartered there, and then establishing a branch in Dallas as
soon as the company relocated in 1950. The Council was his "chief outside
interest."xxv
In connection with this interest, Mallon hired a man named Hans Bernd Gisevius to work
on a worldwide economic development program called the "Institute on Technical
Cooperation."xxvi Gisevius, an Abwehr (German Intelligence) member stationed at the
German consulate in Zurich, was a friend of Allen Dulles, who served as head of U.S.
intelligence in Switzerland from December 1942 until the war ended.xxvii While in
Switzerland Dulles began a long-lasting love affair with a woman named Mary Bancroft,
whom he asked in 1943 to translate a book about the Third Reich which Gisevius had
written. Gisevius and some of his Abwehr associates had planned the July 20th plot to
kill Hitler with the idea of forming an alliance with Britain and the U.S. against
Russia. His group, like Dulles, was anti-Nazi and anti-Communist, "but not
necessarily anti-fascist."xxviii
Dulles' mistress, Mary Bancroft, had previously been married to a man named Sherwin
Badger, a Harvard graduate whose first job had been in the head office of United Fruit
in Cuba. After a year in Cuba he became a journalist in Boston, later moving to the
Wall Street Journal and Barron's in New York, both of which were published by Mary's
stepfather, Clarence Walker Barron. Mary also had a long friendship with George Lymon
Paine and Ruth Forbes Paine, whose son Michael Paine and his wife Ruth befriended
Marina Oswald the year prior to John Kennedy's assassination. The Paines were from
Boston and both had family trees tying them to the United Fruit Co.-through Michael's
mother (a niece of W. Cameron Forbes) and his father (a descendant of Thomas Dudley
Cabot, a former president of United Fruit). Michael's uncle, Eric Schroeder, was a
friend and investment associate of geologist Everette DeGolyer and a cousin of
Alexander "Sandy" Forbes, former director of United Fruit who "belonged to the elite
Tryall Golf Club retreat in Jamaica with former DeGolyer associate Paul
Raigorodsky..."xxix
Everett DeGolyer, the famous geologist, who spent his entire career working for the
Pearson oil companiesxxx-and thus had close ties to Lazard Brothers-was also a
director of Dresser Industries. He had begun his career employed by Mexican Eagle Oil
Co., owned by Sir Weetman Pearson, who called him to London in 1918 to sell Mexican
Eagle to Royal Dutch Shell. The proceeds from the sale were invested by Pearson in
the creation of a new oil company founded and operated by De Golyer in 1919 called
Amerada (some years later merged into Amerada Hess).xxxi After he retired from the
oil business to become an owner of Saturday Review, DeGolyer still maintained an
office in Houston and was well-known in the Houston and Dallas petroleum clubs
frequented by Bush and Liedtke. One of DeGolyer's daughters married George C. McGhee,
a U.S. State Department official, who was present in May 1954 at the first Bilderberg
meeting with George Ball, David Rockefeller, Prince Bernhard of Holland and Dr. Joseph
Retinger.xxxii McGhee later served as a trustee of the Aspen Institute for Humanistic
Studies, established by the Anglo-American establishment to shape the "limits to
growth" agenda.xxxiii By that time McGhee had left the State Department to become a
director of Mobil Oil, the company which absorbed Magnolia Oil Company, which played
a very strategic part in the Kennedy assassination
i Darwin Payne, Initiative in Energy: Dresser Industries, Inc. 1880-1978 (New York:
Simon and Schuster, 1979), pp. 232 and 388. DeGolyer's death was reported in a
December 15, 1956 Houston Post article, which stated that he "shot himself to death
Friday in his Dallas office....His death was ruled a suicide....No immediate reason
for DeGolyer's act could be determined. However, DeGolyer's son, E.L. DeGolyer, Jr.
said his father had been in ill health for seven years and for the last two years
suffered from aplastic anemia, a disease similar to leukemia. He said his father
required frequent blood transfusions, having had the most recent one about four weeks
ago. DeGolyer had other difficulties, his son said, including an operation for a
detached retina in 1949, which was not successful and left him without the sight of
one eye." None of those facts answers the question of why, at that particular time,
he chose to kill himself. He had endured all those trials for years and survived
optimistically. In the year before DeGolyer died, two men began buying land in the
area of town which is now the location of the Galleria Shopping Center. One was the
son of Grover J. Geiselman, an independent oil man who officed at Suite 849 of the
Houston Club Building, where both Farish and Bush were located during this time.
Eventually Geiselman conveyed his half interest to the other buyer, J.S. Michael, who
in 1961 deeded to the estate of E.L. DeGolyer for a nominal sum, indicating they may
have been holding title for him all along. Further indication of this is the deed in
1969 to Stephen T. Cochran, Trustee, executed by both Geiselman, Jr. and J.S. Michael,
as well as Nell DeGolyer and First National Bank in Dallas, Trustees for the estate,
as well as the three daughters and their husbands. All were joint payees on one
promissory note. This land ended up having frontage on either side of the West Loop,
which was constructed through the tracts, which were purchased for a pittance from
Italians who had owned the land for decades.
DeGolyer's death is reminiscent of the death of Howard R. Hughes, Sr., which was
reported in a Houston Post January 15, 1949 "Post Yesteryears 15 Years Ago" column.
The article stated: "Howard R. Hughes, 54, millionaire Houston manufacturer, and a
brother of Rupert Hughes, the novelist, died suddenly in his office at the Humble
building yesterday. Born in Lancaster, Mo., Mr. Hughes graduated from Harvard
university in 1897....As a young Harvard graduate, Mr. Hughes entered the oil industry
in the Old Sour Lake field and almost immediately began inventing oil well tools. Oil
men said that he, more than any other man in America, was responsible for
revolutionizing the oil industry. In association with W.B. Sharp of Houston, the
Sharp-Hughes Tool company was launched by Mr. Hughes, and on Mr. Sharp's retirement,
the concern became the Hughes Tool company which is known wherever drillers operate."
ii Stephen Birmingham, "Our Crowd": The Great Jewish Families of New York (New York:
Dell Publishing Co., 1967), pp. 444-445.
iii Dick Russell, The Man Who Knew Too Much (New York: Carroll & Graf
Publishers/Richard Gallen, 1992), p. 615 and pp. 792-93 fn. 14. Crichton was also
director of Dorchester Gas Producing Co. with D.H. Byrd, founder of the Temco Co.
(later LTV), who owned the building to which the Texas School Book Depository had
moved several months before Kennedy was killed.
iv Fabian Escalante, translated by Maxine Shaw, edited by Mirta Muniz, The Secret War:
CIA Covert Operations against Cuba 1959-62 (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia: Ocean
Press, 1995), p. 42.
v See Scott, The Dallas Conspiracy, chapter III, p. 37 (quoted in Bartholomew, p. 71).
vi In Germany Schmidt had lived with Dr. Wilhelm Kuetemeyer, a professor of
psychosomatic medicine at the University of Heidelberg. Kuetemeyer conducted
experiments on schizophrenics. His work was interrupted when he became involved in
the July 20 plot to kill Adolph Hitler. See Edward J. Epstein, Legend: The Secret
World of Lee Harvey Oswald (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1978), pp. 203-05. Schmidt shared
a room in the house with the Magnolia employees who gave the party at Schmidt's
request where Oswald met Michael Paine. Schmidt was also studying Russian at Magnolia
with Mamantov, who worked as a geologist for Sun Oil Co. Mamantov was acquainted also
with George Bush, who wrote to Mamantov's wife after his death stating, "We did it!"
See Dick Russell, The Man who Knew Too Much. (Magnolia Petroleum Co., incidentally,
as an unincorporated joint stock association with offices in Galveston, acquired a
tract of land in downtown Houston in 1926 from the trustees of the Walter Browne Botts
Estate-one of the founding attorneys of Baker & Botts. This tract later became the
site of the First City National Bank.)
vii See Peter Dale Scott, Crime and Cover-Up, p. 66.
viii Marrs, Crossfire, p. 278-9. Gaeton Fonzi, The Last Investigation (New York:
Thunder Mouth Press, 1993), p. 190.
ix Priscilla Johnson McMillan, Marina and Lee (Harper & Row, 1976), p. 216.
x Ibid., p. 219.
xi Ibid. The quoted passage does not identify which of the Humble Oil founders was
DeMohrenschildt's friend, but it is known that his UT roommate, Hines Baker did later
become chairman of Humble Oil. McMillan revealed that DeMohrenschildt was also
friendly with H. L. Hunt, Clint Murchison, John Mecom, Robert Kerr and Jean De Menil
of Schlumberger. According to Jim Marrs' interviews with Jeanne DeMohrenschildt after
her husband's death, George was making regular trips to Houston from Dallas during
1962-63 on oil business with Mecom and De Menil. George's Russian friends in the
Tolstoy Foundation told Marrs that he was going to Houston to see George and Herman
Brown (Crossfire, p. 282.)
xii Peter Dale Scott, Crime and Cover-up, p. 34
xiiiBuckley Sr., a Texan, as an undergraduate lived in the same upperclass dorm at the
University of Texas at Austin where DeMohrenschildt, brothers Rex G. Baker and Hines
Baker (who W.S. Farish, Sr. later hired as attorneys and top management for Humble
Oil) lived when they were at UT. See Richard Bartholomew, Possible Discovery of an
Automobile Used in the JFK Conspiracy (the Nash Rambler)--unpublished manuscript, pp.
63, 88-89.
xiv Engdahl, p. 72.
xv Engdahl, p. 72.
xvi Houston Chronicle, June 29, 1995.
xvii Another chapter can be added to describe how the Mexican subsidiary of Gulf
Resources, on whose account checks were written to CREEP, fits into the Houston fondi
structure. Gulf Oil and the Mellon family have been intertwined with Houston
businessmen ever since Spindletop in 1901.
xviii In 1968 Hambros had joined Lehman Brothers, Paribas and Banca Privata
Finanziaria (controlled by Michele Sindona) in a planned Italian investment bank,
which was halted because of threats issued by Enrico Cuccia, director of rival
Mediobanca. At that time Sindona and Hambros proceeded to attempt to take over
Italcementi shares to be pooled with those of Union de Banque Suisses in Zurich. This
activity brought more threats, this time from Governor Guido Carli-to the effect that
a takeover by a foreign company would result in nationalization of all cement
manufacturers and insurance companies. They were forced to sell the stock they had
accumulated back to the company for 60 billion lire, the source of which could only be
assumed. The following year Sindona and Hambros again attempted a collaboration in
purchasing the Vatican's holdings in Condotte d'Acqua and all except 5% of the
Vatican's controlling interest in the Societa Generale Immobiliare (SGI), a
real-estate conglomerate. The buyer was a Luxembourg joint-stock company owned equally
by Hambros and Sindona's Fasco corporation. The resulting company held title to the
Montreal Stock Exchange building as well as the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C.
See Nick Tosches, Power on Earth..
xix The London Sunday Times, January 22, 1956.
xxDarwin Payne, Initiative in Energy, p.389.
xxi George Bush, Looking Forward, p. 83.
xxii In 1972 the chairman and CEO of Zapata Corporation, William H. Flynn, also became
chairman and CEO of ZOS. The 1976 SEC report shows a man named Paul E. Baria at ZOS
as general manager for Europe and Africa from 1972 to date, having come to ZOS from
the London office of Clinton International Corporation; prior to that he was acting as
London resident manager of International Resources Limited. In 1973 Clinton
International Corp. was 79% owned by Clinton Oil Co. and 19% owned by Robert B.
Anderson, Eisenhower's Secretary of the Treasury. (Wall Street Journal, April 3, 1973,
p. 44) The article states that Anderson, since leaving the government, had "helped
put together an international consortium that owns concessions in copper-rich Zaire,
the former Congo republic." The article also says that Anderson "even got involved at
one time with Bernard Cornfeld, then the head of the faltering I.O.S. Ltd....Barred
from selling mutual-fund shares in Portugal and Iran, Mr. Cornfeld asked Mr. Anderson
to use his influence with Portugal's late premier Antonio Salazar and the Shah of Iran
to get the ban lifted." After Clinton Oil entered into a consent agreement about
insider stock bolstering with the SEC, the old management team was replaced. It
therefore appears that Paul Baria may have been part of that illegal activity. The
1979 SEC report for Zapata lists attorney B. John Mackin of Baker & Botts, a director
since 1966, as chairman and CEO since March 1979. The 1979 report also lists Grossi
Brothers, 208 S. LaSalle in Chicago as owner of 12,000 shares of $2 preferred stock
(29.3%), perhaps indicating they were still holding stock exchanged with United Fruit.
International Mining Corporation of 200 Park Avenue in New York was the largest
shareholder of common stock (10%).
On the same day the agreement was announced, the Chronicle contained another article
about a tender offer made by Hugh Liedtke of Pennzoil to acquire American Smelting and
Refining Co. through an exchange. An injunction had been issued in favor of the
target company which challenged a merger under the Clayton Act. What is not clear is
whether Bush or Liedtke retained any stock in their old companies. If not, how did
they dispose of the stock and to whom?
xxiv The dates of the offer coincide with Nixon's election in November and his
inauguration the following January.
xxv Darwin Payne, Initiative in Energy, pp. 248-49.
xxvi Richard Bartholomew, Possible Discovery of an Automobile Used in the JFK
Conspiracy (the Nash Rambler)--unpublished manuscript, p. 48. Bartholomew cites this
information to Bruce Campbell Adamson with Steve Perez, Oswald's Closest Friend: The
George DeMohrenschildt Story (unpublished manuscript, 1993)-Bush chapter, p. 31.
Adamson apparently accused Mallon of using Dresser as a cover for CIA activities. One
researcher has also alleged that in 1957 Zapata Off-Shore was drilling on the Cay Sal
Bank on islands leased the previous year to Howard Hughes, Jr., which were later used
as a base for CIA raids on Cuba. See article entitled "Zapata Petroleum Corp." in
Fortune, April 1958, p. 248.
xxviiRichard Bartholomew, Possible Discovery, p 31.
xxviii Mary Bancroft, Autobiography of a Spy (New York: William Morrow, 1983), pp.
187-88.
xxix Richard Bartholomew, Possible Discovery, p. 38. See also Mary Bancroft,
Autobiography of a Spy (New York: William Morrow, 1983).
xxx DeGolyer had handled the negotiations of the sale of Pearson's former oil company,
the Mexican Eagle, to Royal Dutch Shell and used the profits to set up Amerada, 10% of
which was said to be owned by the British Government. The sale of the Mexican Eagle
to Deterding occurred at approximately the same time that Deterding was "secretly
financing a White Russian counter-revolution beginning in 1918, in concert with
Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill,...[when he then] went to France and bought up
the pre-Revolutionary oil leases for the Russian Baku..." F. William Engdahl, A
Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order (Dr. Bottiger
Verlags-GmbH, 1992-1st English printing in 1993, distributed by Paul & Company
Publishers Consortium, Inc. in Concord, Mass.), p. 78.
xxxi The Hess Oil Co. was founded by the husband of Leota Meyer Hess, a member of the
Joseph Meyer banking family, which controlled Houston National Bank, which eventually
became RepublicBank, and is now a branch of Nations Bank. It was this family which
developed Meyerland Plaza and formed First General Realty, which later became General
Homes.
xxxii F. William Engdahl, A Century of War, p. 149.
xxxiii Engdahl, p. 160.
