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Octafish

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16. John LOFTUS documented the case. He served as Jimmy Carter's NAZI Hunter at DoJ.
Sat Aug 15, 2015, 03:04 PM
Aug 2015

From what I can see, Loftus may have saved democracy. Not by arresting a bad person, per se, but by exposing the evil people do.



Bush/Nazi Link Continued

By John Buchanan and Stacey Michael
from The New Hampshire Gazette
Vol. 248, No. 3, November 7, 2003

Prescott Bush

After the seizures in late 1942 of five U.S. enterprises he managed on behalf of Nazi industrialist Fritz Thyssen, Prescott Bush, the grandfather of President George W. Bush, failed to divest himself of more than a dozen “enemy national” relationships that continued until as late as 1951, newly-discovered U.S. government documents reveal.

Furthermore, the records show that Bush and his colleagues routinely attempted to conceal their activities from government investigators.

Bush’s partners in the secret web of Thyssen-controlled ventures included former New York Governor W. Averell Harriman and his younger brother, E. Roland Harriman. Their quarter-century of Nazi financial transactions, from 1924-1951, were conducted by the New York private banking firm, Brown Brothers Harriman.

The White House did not return phone calls seeking comment.

Although the additional seizures under the Trading with the Enemy Act did not take place until after the war, documents from The National Archives and Library of Congress confirm that Bush and his partners continued their Nazi dealings unabated. These activities included a financial relationship with the German city of Hanover and several industrial concerns. They went undetected by investigators until after World War Two.

At the same time Bush and the Harrimans were profiting from their Nazi partnerships, W. Averell Harriman was serving as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s personal emissary to the United Kingdom during the toughest years of the war. On October 28, 1942, the same day two key Bush-Harriman-run businesses were being seized by the U.S. government, Harriman was meeting in London with Field Marshall Smuts to discuss the war effort.

Denial and Deceit

While Harriman was concealing his Nazi relationships from his government colleagues, Cornelius Livense, the top executive of the interlocking German concerns held under the corporate umbrella of Union Banking Corporation (UBC), repeatedly tried to mislead investigators, and was sometimes supported in his subterfuge by Brown Brothers Harriman.

All of the assets of UBC and its related businesses belonged to Thyssen-controlled enterprises, including his Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart in Rotterdam, the documents state.

Nevertheless, Livense, president of UBC, claimed to have no knowledge of such a relationship. “Strangely enough, (Livense) claims he does not know the actual ownership of the company,” states a government report.

H.D Pennington, manager of Brown Brothers Harriman and a director of UBC “for many years,” also lied to investigators about the secret and well-concealed relationship with Thyssen’s Dutch bank, according to the documents.

Investigators later reported that the company was “wholly owned” by Thyssen’s Dutch bank.

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http://www.nhgazette.com/the-bushnazi-stories/bushnazi-link-continued/



Thank you, navarth! Your friendship means the world to me! Especially considering who holds the power and the loot.

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Prescott Bush's mentor, W. Averial Harriman, is the more intersing character Kaleva Aug 2015 #1
Interesting. Thanks. n/t wildbilln864 Aug 2015 #2
this should be common knowledge here olddots Aug 2015 #3
indeed it should be but also... wildbilln864 Aug 2015 #4
It still is, but you can see the vast amount of dirty money flowing into our party Hydra Aug 2015 #5
People need to know this. n/t RoccoR5955 Aug 2015 #6
Amen sunyasi Aug 2015 #8
Jeb Bush played a behind-the-scenes role in the Iran-Contra affair Ichingcarpenter Aug 2015 #7
A Strong Case to be Made that the Bush's Are the Most Treasonous Family in US History Chasstev365 Aug 2015 #9
Two Bush "presidencies" lied America into illegal wars on Iraq. Octafish Aug 2015 #18
Ding ding lark Aug 2015 #10
also in 1933 or 1934 he was involved in a coup to oust Roosevelt Angry Dragon Aug 2015 #11
Good for the Guardian navarth Aug 2015 #12
John LOFTUS documented the case. He served as Jimmy Carter's NAZI Hunter at DoJ. Octafish Aug 2015 #16
Where Was Poppy Bush True Blue American Aug 2015 #13
saddam foxface666 Aug 2015 #15
And that was reason enough True Blue American Aug 2015 #17
Rumours? The evidence is in the National Archives. jwirr Aug 2015 #14
The thought of another Bush in power, makes my skin crawl Oilwellian Aug 2015 #19
exactly! n/t wildbilln864 Aug 2015 #20
And there are many more Bush's currently being groomed to FlatBaroque Aug 2015 #21
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