About the Gibson Islander Neo-Nazi Financier, the "Face" he Financed, and the Futile JFK File Search

If your father could have afforded to buy a house on Gibson Island back in the 1920's, when it was first developed and marketed by the Symington brothers as a "Newport" on the Chesapeake, then your father was likely wealthy and important, and possibly a founding member of a secret society that starts world wars, controls the weather, "keeps the metric system down"(1) , prevents the Buffalo Bills from ever winning the Super Bowl (2), and likes to sail. 

This Gibson Island "cottage", featured in a 1926 Gibson Island marketing brochure prompted a closer look into the Arrowsmiths a "prominent Baltimore family." 

Reverend Arrowsmith may be interesting in his own right, nevertheless, a duckduckgo search pulled up more interesting information about his Hitler saluting, Atlanta synagogue bombing son, with ties to stay-behind Confederate groups, neo and old-school Nazi's and possible JFK assassination conspirators.  

The 1958 Atlanta Synagogue Bombing 

Harold Noel Arrowsmith Jr. was born in 1919 to the owner and wife (Frances Swayne Cook Arrowsmith) of the house pictured on Gibson Island above. He died in 1989 in Germany. 

Harold gained some notoriety in 1958 when he was questioned in connection with the October 12^th bombing of The Hebrew Benevolent Congregation Temple located on Peachtree Street in Atlanta Georgia.

The explosion occurred just after 3:30 AM Eastern Standard Time on October 12, 1958.Those who heard the blast reported a "loud explosion" to police and newspapers. A United Press International (UPI) staff member had received a call earlier that night warning that a bombing would occur, but did not take the call seriously. At about 3:50 AM, shortly after the bombing, UPI staff received a call from "General Gordon of the Confederate Underground" who said "We have just blown up the temple. This is the last empty building I'll blow up in Atlanta." The explosion caused damage to the building estimated at between $100,000 and $200,000. Source: Wikipedia

Five people were quickly arrested after the bombing, including Luther King Corley (released quickly) George Bright, Robert A. Bolling (sometimes spelled “Bowling”), Wallace Allen, and Kenneth Chester Griffin.

The five were members of the National States’ Rights Party (NSRP) “…a fusion of numerous far-right groups including the Columbians, the Christian Anti-Jewish Party, and the United White Party.” 

All five were also members of the Knights of the White Camelia, an offshoot of the Ku Klux Klan founded in 1867 in Franklin Louisiana. Richard Bolling, the brother of Robert, who went on the run, was arrested a few days later. Source: Southern Spaces

Kenneth Chester Griffin quickly confessed and pointed at Bright as the ring leader. Griffin said the dynamite came from J.B. Stoner, founder of the NSRP. Within days, the NY Times reported that George Lincoln Rockwell had sent a letter to Wallace Allen the previous July and mentioned a “big blast.”

Jewish Telegraph Agency - 10/20/1958

George Lincoln Rockwell the Pipe Smoking Nazi 

George Lincoln Rockwell

George Lincoln Rockwell (1918 to 1967) served in the US Navy from 1941 to 1959. He is often given "credit" for founding the American Neo-Nazi movement and the Internet contains any number of biographies, articles, his original speeches, pictures, harangues, etc.

In other words, his comings and goings are well documented. (The Netflix series "The Man in the High Castle" even has a character named "George Lincoln Rockwell", the top ranking Nazi Official for the Fourth Reich's North American satellite states. The Man in the High Castle Netflix series is based on the book with the same name by Philip K. Dick. The book and series imagines what the world would be like if the Nazi's won World War 2. Rexford Tugwell even makes an appearance in the book and TV show.)   

While Rockwell's name is used in the Netflix Series, his real life persona is more like a character out of the series Mad Men. He was kind of a well polished "new" type of Nazi, often shown smoking a pipe and acting like your typical Madison Avenue portrayal of a 1950s and early 1960's family man.

Reichmarschall Rockwell
Fictional Netflix Character
Based on real Rockwell

Aside from being known as founder of the neo-Nazi movement in America, Rockwell and his associates are on the list of potential suspects and conspirators related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. 

Rockwell can be connected to various individuals or groups with extreme right political leanings such as General Walker (Oswald reportedly took a shot at Walker a few months earlier), Guy Bannister (shared his New Orleans offices with Oswald), David Ferrie, and others. The factual and speculative literature related to Rockwell and linked extreme right wing groups to the JFK assassination are extensive and can be found with simple google searches.

George Lincoln Rockwell, would eventually be killed JFK style in 1967 when a supposedly disgruntled former follower and ex-Marine Corps. sniper shot Rockwell with a rifle while Rockwell sat in his car.

Did Rockwell Find His 'Fat Cat' or Did the 'Fat Cat' Find Rockwell

As noted above, Rockwell joined the Navy in 1941, becoming a pilot. He had been a Sophomore at Brown University when war broke out but did not return to Brown when his service ended in 1946; instead going to Pratt as an art's student (did not graduate), and then opening is own advertising firm in Maine. In 1950 he was recalled to duty as a Lieutenant Commander. Rockwell was married with three kids when he was recalled and stationed in San Diego, where he trained Navy and Marine Corp. pilots, then in Iceland (his wife divorced him at this time) and Washington DC in 1955.

Rockwell seems to have become somewhat radicalized by extreme right ideas while stationed in the Washington DC area. He started a magazine in which he published anti-communist, anti-immigration screeds, had dreams about Hitler, and otherwise formulated his own brand of National Socialism. The magazine folded quickly, for lack of financial support.

Whenever the Internet does not give up easy answers to simple search queries, we naturally become suspicious.

As noted, there is plenty of information about Rockwell. What is missing is anything substantive about his benefactor, Harold Noel Arrowsmith, Jr.

“In 1958, Rockwell met Harold Noel Arrowsmith, Jr., a wealthy heir and anti-Semite who provided Rockwell with a house and printing equipment.” 

The typical mention of Rockwell's benefactor, like the quote above, suggests Arrowsmith was a "bit player" in Rockwell's radicalization and rise to recognition, even though both Rockwell's radicalization and/or the motivation for public recognition were mostly the result of meeting Mr. Arrowsmith and taking his money; as described in the quote below..

Rockwell’s metamorphosis from private to public Nazi, and political advocate only occurred after encouragement and financial support from Harold Noel Arrowsmith who has the dubious credit of being responsible for Rockwell’s early anti-Semitic activity. In 1958 Rockwell became a full-time anti-Semite and political agitator after Arrowsmith provided a house, printing press and $2,500 in cash.

Arrowsmith, an amateur anthropologist and exponent of white superiority and antisemitism sought an output for his genetic theories. His association with Rockwell ended in 1959, partly due to Rockwell’s inability to work in conjunction with others.

However, it was important in the political development of Rockwell as he had been enticed by the prospect of financial backing, though arguably Arrowsmith did not plant the seeds of anti-Semitism in Rockwell, but merely mobilized Rockwell into becoming a full-time political activist. Source: The leaderless resistance: George Lincoln Rockwell and the White Separatist Movement. PhD thesis

If Harold Arrowsmith was from anywhere else but Gibson Island, we would probably just accept the official story that a nutty, anti-Semite like Arrowsmith, showed up on Rockwell's doorstep one day and gave Rockwell a handful of cash to promote anti-semitism. Rockwell, whether or not a committed anti-semite before meeting Arrowsmith, decided to go "full Nazi" after meeting Arrowsmith.

However, since Arrowsmith is from Gibson Island, we wouldn't be surprised if the official story was not at least partially contrived.

Did The Gibson Island Gang Need a Nutty Nazi?

Harold N. Arrowsmith clearly came from money. We need to do more research, as his biography is extremely thin, from what we have found so far. He was supposedly an "anthropologist."

He may well have been an anthropologist. Whether he was a real anthropologist, or just played one for a "school play", perhaps one that Rockwell did not know he was also a player in. In either case, getting people to listen to your crazy Nazi ideas about Aryans, or the skull volume differences between Sephardic Jews and nomadic horsemen of the Asian Steppe, etc., is presumably easier if you tell people you are an anthropologist.

Maybe Arrowsmith was in fact a dyed in the wool Nazi loving anthropologist, or maybe that's what he told Rockwell. There is certainly the argument that their was a need for a Rockwell in the 1950s. The Gibson Island Gang, with their CIA and CFR associations, Rockefeller and Rothschild members, Ford and Carnegie Foundation affiliations, and early 1920's development of the Island, by the wealthy industrialists and bankers that had rallied the US public to fight the Kaiser "over there", probably needed a Rockwell for its multi-decade effort to stay in control. 

A domestic Gladio program would certainly have a need for a few right wing nuts, to parry the left-wing nuts on the CIA payroll, like Lee Harvey Oswald, or more legitimate and organically formed groups, including up and coming threats, like those led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.

For more information about Gibson Island and its residents plan to take over the world, a maybe do some sailing or play a few rounds of golf, see this post.

The Absence of Data is Meta

That Arrowsmith came from money, is a given. Whether he had any of his own, or had a job that allowed him to accumulate more wealth is also not clear. This is a matter of digging deeper into the family. Since there was family wealth, the most we can surmise is that it was "Old New York" family fortunes. Harold Arrowsmith's ancestors include the Bleekers and Lispenards. We will provide more information about the Bleekers and Lispenards at a later date, however for now, if a street in New York City is named after your ancestors, you can rest assure your ancestors had a lot of money. Bleeker Street is in Greenwich Village and Lispenard is down in Tribeca. 

Maryferrell.org is a searchable database of all the know documents related to the JFK assassination, as well as the other assassinations of the era, related cold war intrigue and domestic spying.

If you do a search on "George Lincoln Rockwell", the founding "face" of the New American Nazi's this is what you get.

If you do a search on "Arrowsmith", the founding "financier" of the New American Nazi's this is what you get.

Most of the 12 search hits are for a different "Arrowsmith."

Needless to say, we find it odd that Harold Noel Arrowsmith merits barely a mention in the millions of government files or in the nearly 53,000 files related to George Rockwell Lincoln.

Update to this Post  - More About Arrowsmith, the Nazi from Gibson Island - Added August 22, 2019.

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Related Links:

• Dave Emory Podcast FTR #188 American Gladio? (and related subjects.)
• Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Effect on the Cold War
• Estate Tax Case with biographical info. Harold Arrowsmith
• Draft of screed with account of Arrowsmith meeting Rockwell

Addendum Items:

Assets & Heirs at death - Harold Arrowsmith - 1919-1989

CIA Letter - Arrowsmith correspondence with Germans 1962
Link to CIA document

• Wikipedia (German) - Hans Rechenberg (the former Nazi who Arrowsmith was writing to.) 
• See Updated Rechenberg information, added August 22, 2019.

Footnotes:
(1) Simpsons Reference - "We Do" (The Stonecutters' Song)
(2) X-Files Reference  - "...what I don't want to see is the Bills winning the Superbowl" - The Smoking Man - Clip

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