-Caveat Lector- http://www.go-jamaica.com/gleaner/discover/tour_ja/tour12.htm Nine miles west of Montego Bay Round Hill, "not a hotel, more a way of life," appears consistently in the Harper's and Queen list of the Three Hundred Best Hotels in the World. Round Hill was created in 1953 by John Pringle, a member of an old Jamaican family who was later a successful Director of Tourism. The concept of a nucleus hotel with luxurious satellite villas owned by shareholders and built to their own design was used shortly afterwards at Half Moon and Tryall. The Round Hill, 53 acres of land almost encircled by the sea, was purchased from Lord Monson, owner of the large cattle and coconut estate. Original shareholders included broadcasting magnate Bill Paley of CBC, Noel Coward, Oscar Hammerstein and Gladys Cooper. The roster has changed with the years but Round Hill remains a magnet for the slightly conservative jet-set. A stellar event of the Winter Season, Round Hill's Sugar Cane Ball raises money for charities in the parish of Hanover. Hopewell is a bustling village; the photogenic Methodist church at the cross roads was built in the1870�s. Back on the open road there are two interesting craft shacks L and a sign offering the services of Captain Steamer (snorkelling guide) just before the Old Steamer beach where the skeleton of an old coastal steamer is a reminder of the days when these boats were a vital transportation link. Captain Groome of Rio Bueno captained this one, and it was reportedly used to run guns to Cuba in the revolt against Spain. Flint River, now a cattle property, has an old stone wharf with cannon and is one of many estates with extensive ruins of slavery-built sugar works. Tryall Golf and Beach Club (with a beach club guarded by cannons from the erstwhile Tryall fort) is a 2,200 acre residential estate with 50 villas, a small hotel, gourmet dining rooms, manicured grounds, and a golf course which hosts the annual Johnny Walker Championship. One of Tryall's original shareholders was Governor John Connally of Texas. Current homeowners, though low profile, are representative of the financial, industrial, political, diplomatic and publishing establishments and constitute a unique and influential international colony. As Tryall's late and much lamented Managing Director Count Kenneth Diacre de Liancourt used to explain: 'We don't make any pretence you know, it's a rich man's club, its no good coming to Tryall unless you are prepared to spend money . . . there's nothing shameful in being rich, you mustn't be mean that's all.' Created in 1956, Tryall does not reflect the economic and social changes that the island has undergone since then, but the citizens of Hanover cherish considerable loyalty to this institution which employs about 500 persons year round and contributes lavishly and conscientiously (noblesse oblige) to local charities and community projects. Tryall was originally a large sugar plantation. The giant water wheel L of the road which turned the mill in the factory has been restored and is sometimes still powered by water transported from Flint River via a 2 mile aqueduct. In the 1832 slave rebellion Tryall Great House was damaged and the estate burnt. Embedded in the lawn at the entrance to the hotel is a fragment of the gravestone which commemorates the headman of the estate "shot by rebels while defending his masters' property." ======= http://parascope.com/articles/1196/torbitt.htm The principal financiers of Permindex were a number of U. S. oil companies, H. L. Hunt of Dallas, Clint Murchison of Dallas, John DeMenil, Solidarist director of Houston, John Connally as executor of the Sid Richardson estate, Haliburton Oil Co., Senator Robert Kerr of Oklahoma, Troy Post of Dallas, Lloyd Cobb of New Orleans, Dr. Oschner of New Orleans, George and Herman Brown of Brown and Root, Houston, Attorney Roy M. Cohn, Chairman of the Board for Lionel Corporation, New York City, Schenley Industries of New York City, Walter Dohrnberger, ex-Nazi General and his company, Bell Aerospace, Pan American World Airways, its subsidiary, Intercontinental Hotel Corporation, Paul Raigorodsky of Dallas through his company, Claiborne Oil of New Orleans, Credit Suisse of Canada, Heineken's Brewery of Canada and a host of other munition makers and NASA contractors directed by the Defense Industrial Security Command. The gambling syndicate and Mafia contracting agents who handled the transactions with Permindex were ex-President Carlos Prio Socarras of Havana, Miami and Houston, Clifford Jones of Las Vegas, Morris Dalitz of Las Vegas, Detroit, Cleveland and Havana, former head of the Cleveland mob and close friend of Hunt, Hoover and Roy Cohn, L.J. McWillie of Las Vegas, a gambling partner with Cliff Jones, Bobby Baker of Washington, D.C., Ed Levinson of Las Vegas, Benny Seigelbaum of Miami, Henry Crown of Chicago, associate of the Mafia, Patrick Hoy of the controlling clique in General Dynamics and Joe Bonanno of Lionel Corporation of NewYork.31 It should be pointed out here that John Connally, Paul Raigorodsky and Jean DeMenil were close friends and business associates. The were members of an exclusive club in Northern Jamaica. The name of the club was Tryall located on Montego Bay. Bill Stephenson, former head of British Intelligence in the U.S., started in the club in 1946. Connally, DeMenil and Raigorodsky owned and still own palatial retreats within the tightly guarded Tryall compound. L.M. Bloomfield met with the three on numerous occasions at Tryall in Jamaica.32 Among Connally's assigned duties was the keeping of Texas police agencies in line after the murder. John Connally was an active participant in the assassination plans, but he was one of the agents whose over-all knowledge was limited by the "need toknow basis". One of the banks through which the American backers channeled funds to Permindex was Astaldo Vaduz in Miami, Florida. As a matter of fact, the Miami bank was owned and controlled by the Permindex financiers and board members. The European banks handling the accounts were De Famaco Vaduz, Liechtenstein, Credit Bank of Geneva, Switzerland, (Credit Bank and Credit Suisse are one and the same), Banca Nazionale del Lavoro of Italy, De Famaco Astalde Vaduz, Switzerland and Seligman Bank of Basal, Switzerland. The attorney for the transactions through the Miami bank was Alex Carlson, Double-Chek's Miami Springs manager.33 Alex Carlson turned the entire CIA Double-Chek organization and personnel over to Division Five of the FBI to work for Permindex in executing the assassination thus causing many astute observers to mistakenly believe the CIA carried out the affair. L.M. Bloomfield, a lawyer of Montreal, Canada and a long time friend and confidant of J. Edgar Hoover, has been Hoover's contract supervisor of Division Five since his days in the O.S.S. before World War II. Bloomfield held one-half of the shares of Permindex and was in total command of its operation in Europe and Africa as well as the North and South American continents. He was the co-ordinator of all activities responsible only to Hoover and Johnson in carrying out the plans for John Kennedy's assassination.34 Bloomfield ordered Permindex's Ferenc Nagy and George Mandel, alias Giorgio Mantello, to the United States in 1962 where they helped to supervise the plans. Mandell was assigned to the Los Angeles, California area. Ferenc Nagy, former Premier of Hungary in 1946 and 1947, settled in Dallas, Texas, where he contacted H.L. Hunt, Igor Voshinin, George Bouhe, Peter Gregory of Fort Worth, Paul Raigorodsky and other members of the Solidarists and took command of actual planning in the Southwest. Notes: 32 C.H. IX, 3 & 4, New Orleans District Attorney Records. 33 Basal Switzerland Publication A-Z, August, l961; Canadian Le Devoir Publication, March 1967; Rome Paesa Sera Publication, March, April, 1967, also 1959 thru 1969 files; Il Gornia of Milan, Italy, 1967-1968 files; Il Tempe, Rome 1967-1968 files; New Orleans District Attorney Records; Swiss Intelligence, J.F. Kennedy files. 34 Ibid. DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. 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