From Brian Quig's article:
>>I have the highest regard for Peter Brewton who visited me in Phoenix and used much of my material for the Carl Lindner chapter of his book GEORGE BUSH,THE MAFIA AND THE CIA. I took him on what I call the TOUR OF INFAMY, to show him the location of the Charles Keating/General John Singlaub/Walter Bush/Governor Symington/David Rockefeller properties which are all a five minute walk away from each other. If you ever get to Phoenix please call me and I will show this to you. Keating, this nation's largest S & L looter at 2.5 B, was never anything more than the attorney for Carl Lindner who is a far bigger player. I also showed this to Peter Dale Scott and Barbara Honneger who live in your area. It was only with their help and that of Jonathan Kwitny that I was able to put together the article CHARLIE KEATING AND THE CIA which is now located in the INTELLIGENCE CONNECTION section of DCIA.
Lastly, I have noted that all the Foster writers are trying to cast suspicion onto the Clinton inner circle and none seem to ever suggest those outside the circle. The fact that the CIA's media attack dog, Reed Irvine, has been so active is a good indication of Agency involvement. Reed was especially savage to Pete Brewton and others of my speakers. I have known Reed for about 20 years. His role is defined in my article DE-PROPAGANDIZING AMERICA. Contrary to popular opinion free speech is brutally suppressed in America. <<
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Brian,
One thing everyone on this list seems to agree on is the absolute integrity of Pete Brewton. His book came out the year I was in Houston working with the Harris County Attorney on his investigation of the judge Pete mentioned in chapter nine. Although my role was very minor, I developed an obsession about putting such people away. I passed my research on to Pete because he has so much credibility in this field.
The CIA scam Pete was investigating in Houston involved a "mule" named Robert Corson, who had been the son-in-law of one of Harris County's biggest land developers.The scheme the county judge was involved in involved a bribe made by Corson to Lindsay to build a county road through land Corson was purchasing from a corporation called General Homes. This corporation had moved to Houston from Phoenix. It also had ties to Florida. When I called Pete to ask about General Homes, he didn't have much information. He referred me to a researcher named Rebecca Sims, who told me that the Bronfmans had been involved in General Homes for a time.
That was how my innocuous research began to overlap with the Kennedy assassination investigation--since, according to the Torbitt Document, the Bronfmans had been involved in Permindex in Montreal. Clay Shaw had been on the board of directors of Centro Mondiale Commerciale, the Italian arm of Permindex.
The attorney for Centro Mondiale Commerciale in Rome was Carlo d’Amelio, who was also attorney for the Paravicini Bank in Berne, Switzerland, which set up a bank in Houston with some of George Bush's friends and investment bankers, as well as with the Bronfmans' Seagrams corporation. The bank's directors included J. Hugh Liedtke (Bush's former partner in Zapata) and Bush’s securities adviser, W.S. Farish III, whose grandfather was a founder of Humble Oil (Exxon). Called "Bank for Investment and Credit Berne" (BICB), its stock was owned by Capital National Bank of Houston and Paravicini Bank, but investors included Seagrams, Boeing, the London subsidiary of Brown and Root and the Schlesinger Organization of London and Johannesburg.
The BICB was located across the street from the Humble Oil Building on Main Street, in which the Main Bank of Houston officed. John Connally and his Saudi friends were owners of Main Bank. Interesting, is it not that both banks were located in buildings controlled by oil companies? Main Bank by Exxon and BICB by Conoco. BICB's president was a cousin of James A. Baker III, a man named Baker Lovett, who was also related to the first president of Rice University, whose endowment was controlled by the Baker family. Seagrams also owned a great deal of stock in Conoco and caused a major eruption with DuPont in 1981 over who would control the company.
W.S. Farish III had controlling interest in his family's investment banks--Underwood Neuhaus and W.S. Farish & Co. These were both located in the Houston Club Building where George Bush had his office when he first moved to Houston. In 1973 Farish III became a director of Houston Natural Gas (now Enron). His grandfather, W.S. Farish, Sr., had been chairman of Standard Oil of New Jersey prior to World War II. W.A. Harriman & Co. helped Jersey Standard finance a merger with I.G. Farben. Farish's grandmother was Libbie Randon Rice Farish (wife of W.S. Farish, Sr.), who was the greatniece of William Marsh Rice and daughter of Jonas S. Rice, former president of Union National Bank of Houston. W.S. Farish III's aunt was Martha Botts Farish Gerry, who was married to Averell Harriman's nephew, Edward H. Gerry.
W.S. III's grandmother's sisters were Ella Rice Winston (whose first husband was Howard Hughes, Jr.) and Kate Rice Neuhaus (whose son, Hugo V. Neuhaus, Jr., married the mother of W.S. Farish III after his father died) and Laura Rice Neff. The Farishes, Rices and Winstons were also married into the family of attorney Charles I. Francis, whose daughters were Anne Francis Farish and Martha Francis Winston. Their children included Charles F. Winston, Stephen P. Farish III and George Rice Farish. J.O. Winston, Jr., who was president of W.S. Farish & Co. investment company at one time, was Ella Rice Winston's husband. George Rice Farish was named for George Rice, a named partner in Butler Binion, a law firm which represented Farish's banks.
The two oil companies were connected through the Farish family. Farish Sr., one of the founders of Humble Oil in 1917, became a director of Jersey Standard in 1926, moved to New York in 1933, and became chairman in 1938. His office was at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. When he died in 1942, followed by his son’s death the next year, his estate fell to his grandson, W.S. Farish III, who was then 4 years old. The guardian of the minor child’s estate was his uncle, Stephen Power Farish, married to one of the Rice heirs, until 1960. The minor’s investments were managed by Underwood, Neuhaus. Steve Farish worked at Humble Oil until 1922 until he left to form Navarro Oil which was sold in 1945 to the Continental Oil Co. (later Conoco).
The Rice family was related to Howard Hughes, Jr. through his mother's sister's husband also. It is a Rice heir who acquired control of the Hughes empire--Fred R. Lummis, a former attorney with Andrews, Kurth. Before James A. Baker III went to Washington, D.C. to work in the Reagan administration, he was an attorney for Andrews, Kurth, which has always represented Humble Oil and Exxon and had offices in the same building. When Baker returned from Washington, he joined his great-grandfather's firm, Baker and Botts, which represents Enron and major utility companies.
Linda Minor
