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Subject: [itsgiulianitime] CIA art donors with Giuliani links?
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 17:28:32 -0400
From: Robert Lederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Between the lines....
Here's an article from today's issue of Crains about wealthy donors to
the arts. It's a puff piece on how wonderful the wealthy art donors
are. What the article doesn't mention is how many of the people named
are associated with the CIA and with worse things.
While admiring their generosity you might consider where their money
came from. The invisible common thread throughout the Crains article
is Rockefeller-CIA-EXXON-Nazi. Check it out....
For example, MOMA, according to The Cultural Cold War by Francis
Stoner Saunders, has been a CIA front ever since the CIA was created
after WWII. Most of its early directors were themselves CIA officials.
MOMA is the Rockefeller family museum, yet it gets tax funds from the
City of NY. MOMA has repeatedly been sued for possessing art stolen
from Jews by the Nazis during the Holocaust. Roger Hertog, the
philanthropist repeatedly mentioned below, is the Chairman of the
Board of the Manhattan Institute (MI). MI is the think tank behind all
of Bush and Giuliani's most controversial policy ideas. Hertog also
runs Alliance Capital Management, which financed ENRON. MI was founded
by Reagan's CIA director, William Casey. Giuliani was the #3 man in
Reagan's Justice Dept and worked closely with Casey. Casey helped
bring thousands of former Nazi officials to the US after the war, many
of who were employed by the then new CIA. MI was financed by Chase
Bank, the Rockefeller family bank that helped finance Adolf Hitler.
Standard Oil, now known as EXXON, is the Rockfeller oil company that
is now the world's largest corporation, you know, the one ripping us
all off at the gas pump. Standard Oil was half owner of IG Farben, the
German pharmaceutical/chemical/munitions company that built and ran
Auschwitz and 40 other Nazi slave labor camps. Think I'm making this
stuff up? See the mainstream quotes at the end of the Crains article.
That's who's sponsoring NY's art.
CRAINS
April 24, 2006
Arts contributors may get big return
by Steve Garmhausen
Agnes Gund has spent much of the past five decades buying modern art
by the likes of Jasper Johns and Mark Rothko. But she has also given
scores of works away to the Museum of Modern Art.
"It could be because I feel guilty about having so much more than most
people," says MoMA's president emerita, who has contributed some 250
pieces to the museum. "If I can have it, others should be able to
enjoy it."
Ms. Gund, heiress to a Cleveland banking fortune, is the embodiment of
the New York City arts patron. Wealthy New Yorkers love to support
culture: As a group, the arts are the second-biggest recipient of
donations from local foundations, after educational charities, says
Kathleen McCarthy, director of the Center on Philanthropy and Civil
Society at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. The
arts trail education and health in most areas of the country.
Richard Marker, a philanthropy expert with Marker Goldsmith Advisors,
says, "People who give to the arts see it as supporting a national
treasure."
Such benefactors have a variety of motivations in deciding which
institutions they'll support. Altruism is one, but so is the desire
for prestige. Then there's the issue of who requests the help, says
Naomi Levine, who brought in more than $2 billion over 22 years as New
York University's chief fund-raiser.
"It depends very much on the priorities in your life, and it also
depends on who asks and gets you involved," Ms. Levine says.
For Ms. Gund, it was two friends who asked back in 1967. Though she
was just in her 20s and still in her native Ohio, Ms. Gund was already
a collector. The friends talked her into joining MoMA's international
council, which raises money for shows outside New York. After moving
here, Ms. Gund held a number of positions at the museum, including
president.
Choosing carefully
Ronald Ulrich, the chairman of Equinox Capital Management, is engaged
as a New York Philharmonic "Maestro" contributor--someone who has
committed $100,000 over three years.
"I've tended to be pretty closely involved when I've been a
significant donor," says Mr. Ulrich, who sits on the orchestra's
executive committee and heads the development panel. He sometimes
attends three or more meetings a week.
Others are less hands-on. Roger Hertog, vice chairman of investment
firm Alliance Bernstein, is on the board of the New-York Historical
Society and is a trustee of the New York Public Library, two of the
biggest recipients of the "many millions" that he and his wife, Susan,
give annually. "Many times just being an investor is good enough," Mr.
Hertog says. "You can't be involved in that many things and really
make a serious contribution."
Choosing among New York's cultural groups isn't easy, he says. The
ones he picks have strong leadership, a defined vision and a solid
plan to achieve their goals. Often, they match his personal interests.
Mr. Hertog is an American history buff, which helps explain his
support for the society. And he and his wife, both of whom grew up in
the Bronx, credit library branches with augmenting their public school
educations. The couple has more than returned the favor: They are the
main private donors behind the NYPL's $50 million Bronx Library
Center, which opened in January.
Whether donors accept public recognition varies. Some will, but only
for the good of the institution, says Francie Ostrower, senior
researcher at the Urban Institute and author of Why the Wealthy Give
and Trustees of Culture: Power, Wealth, and Status on Elite Arts
Boards.
"Some people will have their name associated because the organization
convinces them that it helps get other donors," Ms. Ostrower says.
"Other people need no convincing."
Several buildings at Mr. Ulrich's alma mater, Lehigh University, bear
his name, but he says he could take or leave the honor. Ms. Gund says
she, too, can do without the plaudits. MoMA's Agnes Gund Garden Lobby,
overlooking the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, was so
named at David Rockefeller's insistence, she explains.
And the Agnes Gund Artist's Choice Exhibition Fund, which allows
artists to curate shows from MoMA's collection, was endowed by her
four brothers to honor her service to the museum.
Nothing is named after Mr. Hertog, and he likes it that way. "I know
my own name," he says. "I'm interested in the vision, the leadership,
the plan, the ideas."
10.9% is the percentage of disposable income that city residents gave
away in 2003. According to a study of U.S. urban areas by the
Chronicle of Philanthropy, that level tied them with Fort Worth-area
residents as No. 2 in munificence, behind Detroiters, who donated
12.1%.
Philanthropists like Roger Hertog and Ronald Ulrich are not as
recognizable as high-profile names like David Rockefeller. Mr.
Rockefeller, the chairman emeritus of MoMA, announced last year that
his will would include a $100 million bequest to the institution. He
also plans to give the museum $5 million annually until his death.
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(c)2006 Crain Communications Inc.
NY Times Monday, May 12, 1997 Manhattan Institute Has
Nudged New York Rightward
"...the institute was founded as a free-market education and
research organization by William Casey, who then went off to
head the Central Intelligence Agency in the Reagan
Administration."
NY Times June 12, 2000 Bush Culls Campaign Theme
>From Conservative Thinkers
"Gov. George W. Bush has said his political views have been
shaped by the work of Myron Magnet of the Manhattan
Institute."
Daily News 12/7/98 Chase Banked On Nazis - Report
"The New York-based bank controlled by the Rockefeller
family closed Jewish accounts even before the Germans
ordered them to do so and did business with the Nazis while
they were sending Jews to the gas chambers, Newsweek
magazine reports in this week's edition. And while the U.S.
was at war with the Nazis, Chase also apparently helped
German banks do business with their overseas branches, the
magazine reported...The relationship between Chase and the
Nazis apparently was so cozy that Carlos Niedermann, the
Chase branch chief in Paris, wrote his supervisor in Manhattan
that the bank enjoyed "very special esteem" with top German
officials and "a rapid expansion of deposits." Niedermann's
letter was written in May 1942 -- five months after the
Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and the U.S. also went to war
with Germany...And subsidiaries of Ford and General Motors
have been accused of forcing thousands of Jews, Poles and
others to work as slave laborers."
"The Bush family fortune came from the Third
Reich,"-Sarasota Herald-Tribune 11/11/2000 -Former US
Justice Dept. Nazi War Crimes prosecutor John Loftus-who is
today the director of the Florida Holocaust Museum.
FROM:
The CIA and the Cultural Cold War by Frances Stonor Saunders,
"The CIA and its allies in the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) poured vast
sums of money into promoting Abstract Expressionist (AE) painting and
painters as an antidote to art with a social content. In promoting AE,
the CIA fought off the right-wing in Congress. What the CIA saw in AE
was an "anti-Communist ideology, the ideology of freedom, of free
enterprise. Non-figurative and politically silent it was the very
antithesis of socialist realism" (254). They viewed AE as the true
_expression_ of the national will. To bypass right-wing criticism, the
CIA turned to the private sector (namely MOMA and its co-founder,
Nelson Rockefeller, who referred to AE as "free enterprise painting.")
Many directors at MOMA had longstanding links to the CIA and were more
than willing to lend a hand in promoting AE as a weapon in the
cultural Cold War. Heavily funded exhibits of AE were organized all
over Europe; art critics were mobilized, and art magazines churned out
articles full of lavish praise. The combined economic resources of
MOMA and the CIA-run Fairfield Foundation ensured the collaboration of
Europe's most prestigious galleries which, in turn, were able to
influence aesthetics across Europe."
"Moma has even been outed as a front for the CIA in the 50s, when its
international touring shows of American art were supposedly little
more than Cold War propaganda exercises."
UK Guardianunlimited 8/29/2000
"Mayor Rudolph W. Guiliani pledged Thursday that the city would
contribute $65 million over the next three years to help pay for a
major expansion project at the Museum of Modern Art...Facing its huge
price tag, trustees from the museum's expansion committee, including
David Rockefeller, the real estate developer Jerry Speyer and Donald
Marron, the chairman of PaineWebber Inc., approached City Hall. Mr.
Rockefeller, whose mother, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, was a founder of
the Modern, said the city money was "the financial cornerstone" of the
expansion. Of the remaining $585 million the museum must raise, he
said that about $200 million had been pledged by "the family and
trustees." Then he quickly added a qualifier: "When I say family, I
mean the museum family, not my family."
NY TIMES 4/24/98 MOMA to Get $65 Million for Expansion
"During the war, Rockefeller foreshadowed the anticommunist policies
of the Cold War by cozying up to dictatorial regimes in Latin America.
Niccola Tucci, head of the State Departmentís Bureau of Latin American
Research, resigned and asked Secretary of State Cordell Hull to
abolish his bureau. "My bureau was supposed to undo the Nazi and
fascist propaganda in South America and Rockefeller was inviting the
worst fascists and Nazis to Washington." Tucci took his objections to
Rockefeller and was told: "Everybody is useful and weíre going to
convert these people to friendliness to the United States.mAnd then,
Rockefellerís lawyer Larry Levy said to me, "Don't worry, we'll buy
those people." (Peter Collier and David Horowitz, The Rockefellers: An
American Dynasty. Holt, Rine-hart & Winston, 1976, p. 236).
>From The Cultural Cold War by Frances Stonor Saunders, New Press [pg 132]
"The fund raising arm of the Free Europe Committee [a CIA front] was
The Crusade for Freedom for which a young actor named Ronald Reagan
was a leading spokeman and publicist. The Crusade for Freedom was used
to launder money to support a programme run by Bill Casey, the future
CIA director, called the International Refugee Committee in New York
[aka International Rescue Committee], which allegedly coordinated the
exfiltration of Nazis from Germany to the United States where they
were expected to assist the government in fighting Communism...[pg
142]...The Ford Foundation gave $500,000 to Bill Caseyís International
Rescue Committee and substantial grants to another CIA front, the
World Assembly of Youth...the convergence between the Rockefeller
billions and the U.S. government exceeded even that of the Ford
Foundation ."
Daily News 12/24/98
Chase Named In Holocaust-Asset Suit
"Two American banks were named in a class-action lawsuit yesterday
that accuses them of collaborating with the Nazis to deprive Jewish
depositors of their rightful assets. "They froze and blocked Jewish
accounts during the period of the Nazi occupation in France, depriving
Jewish families of the financial means to flee France," said attorney
Kenneth McCallion, who filed the suit against Chase Manhattan Bank,
J.P. Morgan and seven French banks. ...McCallion charges Chase's Paris
branch ó with full backing of its New York office ó displayed
"excessive zeal" in enforcing anti-Jewish laws and was held in "very
special esteem" by Vichy authorities. Court papers also say Chase
prospered under German occupation, nearly doubling its deposits
between 1942 and 1944 from 27 million to more than 50 million French
francs...Chase officials said in a statement that it has been in
settlement talks with the World Jewish Congress for several weeks and
that it was disappointed that an "unnecessary" lawsuit has been
filed."
"Chase Manhattan Corp. apologized yesterday for aiding Adolf Hitler's
Third Reich by converting German marks into U.S. dollars between 1936
and 1941. Because many countries refused to accept German currency
during the war, the Nazis used foreign banks like Chase National to
change the currency into money that would be accepted. "We are sad to
learn and deeply troubled about the involvement of one of our
predecessor banks in a program that benefited Germany during that
period," said William Harrison Jr., chief executive officer of Chase.
"We have a responsibility to make this information public and wish to
express our sincere apologies to the Jewish community and to the
American public." Chase does not, however, intend to make financial
reparations for the role it played in aiding Hitler and the Nazis."
-Daily News 2/23/2000 CHASE APOLOGIZES FOR DOING BIZ WITH NAZIS
From: The Secret War Against the Jews pg. 168
"In 1936 the Rockefellers entered into partnership with Dulles's Nazi
front, the Schroder Bank of New York, which, as we have already seen,
was the key institution of the Fascist economic miracle. In 1939 the
Rockefeller-controlled Chase National Bank secured $25 million for
Nazi Germany and supplied Berlin with information on ten thousand Nazi
sympathizers in the United States. Except for a few months
interruption the Rockefeller-owned Standard Oil of New Jersey shipped
oil to the Nazis through Spain all throughout the war. The roster of
the Rockefellers known pro-Nazi behavior is horrendous. As previously
outlined, in 1942 Senator Harry Truman described the behavior of the
Rockefeller company as treasonous...On September 22, 1947, Federal
Judge Charles Clark issued the following opinion in a civil case:
"Standard Oil can be considered an enemy national in view of its
relationship with I.G. Farben after the U.S. and Germany had become
active enemies".
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