Wash, Rinse, Repeat at the Troika Laundromat

Our latest Russian Princess, the sister of the Russian Princess in this Post, is married to the founder of Troika Dialog, now known as Sberbank, the first post communist Russian Bank to receive an international banking license.

Miss Universe Pageant - Moscow 2013

Sponsored by Sberbank

We thought this was interesting enough to post even though we have not dived into the research too deeply yet.

Piotr Wladimirovich - Sbrebank Founder

Who's idea was it to set up the meeting?

Agalarov's father was given the Order of Honor of the Russian Federation in 2013 by President Vladimir Putin, and claimed the two were going to build a Trump Tower in Russia. The family is close to Putin's government, and Aras Agalarov set up a meeting between Donald Trump and Putin's former economy minister, Herman Gref, now CEO of Russia's state-controlled Sberbank PJSC, on Donald Trump's last visit to Moscow, in November 2013. Link to full Article

Peter Derby Background & CV

• Peter Derby (aka Piotr Wladimirovich)
• Peter Derby - SEC & Sberbank

Prior to becoming Managing Executive at SEC, Derby served as an elected member of the Board of Trustees of the village of Irvington, New York.

Derby spent a decade in Russia, where he participated in the founding of DialogBank, the first private Russian bank to receive an international banking license. He was named CFO in 1990, served as President and CEO from 1991 to 1997 and as Chairman from 1997 to 1998.

Additionally, Derby founded the first Russian investment firm, Troika Dialog and served as President and CEO from 1991 to 1996 and as Chairman from 1996 to 1997. Prior to his tenure in Russia, Derby was a Corporate Finance Officer at National Westminster Bank from 1985 to 1990, and an Auditor at Chase Manhattan Bank from 1983 to 1985, both in New York City.

The Troika Laundromat

Troika Laundromat was a collection of 70 offshore shell companies whose controllers used them to move billions of dollars of private wealth from Russia to the west. About $4.6bn was paid into the Troika network, and a similar sum was paid out of it. It was operated by staff at an independent arm of the Russian investment bank Troika Dialog, which has now been merged with one of Russia’s two big state-owned banks. The network was like a washing machine: money arrived from many sources. Most transfers were at Lithuania’s Ukio Bank, closed by the authorities in 2013.- Source: Wikipedia Sberbank

The main purpose of the system we’ve named the Troika Laundromat was to channel billions of dollars out of Russia. But it was much more than a money laundering system: The Laundromat allowed Russian oligarchs and politicians to secretly acquire shares in state-owned companies, to buy real estate both in Russia and abroad, to purchase luxury yachts, to hire music superstars for private parties, to pay medical bills, and much more.

To protect themselves, the wealthy people behind this system used the identities of poor people as unwitting signatories in the secretive offshore companies that ran the system. 

Full Article:  THE TROIKA LAUNDROMAT

Tomorrow's Business

• Wladimirovich looks similar to one of the employees of the Russian Troll Farm that Mueller indicted for spending $3,000 on Facebook ads.
• Who is Winklehorn and what did he do for the OSS?

We Found a Russian Princess While Looking For Merson Booth's Parents

If there is anything we have learned from the JFK assassination and the attempted Trump coup d'etat, there are probably some White Russian royalists lurking in the shadows if the conspiracy is big enough. 

First, a point of clarification.

Aside from the cocktail, the term "White Russian" can mean:

1. A person from White Russia or White Ruthenia, "a territory in the eastern part of present-day Belarus." 
2. Anyone from Belarus, under the presumption that "White" is "an archaic literal translation for Belarus." 
3. A member of the "White" movement during the Russian Civil War. The forces that opposed the "Red" movement (Communist/Boslshevik.) They were often monarchists, or those that remained loyal to the Russian Royal family, but also included Russian Nationalists, Ukranian and other regional Nationalist proponents ("Free Lithuania", "Free Belorus",  anti-Soviets, pro-democracy and other factions, the common denominator being anti-Red.)
• Also narrowly, emigres from Imperial Russia during and after the civil war that remained actively opposed to the Reds while in exile.
• More Broadly, any emigre from Imperial Russia during the civil war, whether or not they cared about returning to Russia. (ie. forced out of Russia but no plans to return.)

What was Merson Booth's "White Privilege?"

We called attention Merson Booth in this post "The Gibson Island Atomic Lighthouse and Introduction to Merson Booth" a few days ago. Briefly, we are interested in learning more about Merson Booth (1924-2012)  for the following reasons:

• Member of the Gibson Island Club.
• Recruited by Admiral Hyman Rickover to work on US Navy Nuclear Submarine Program.
• Contemporary of, and likely worked directly with, Zalman Shapiro, founder of NUMEC and central figure in "The Apollo Affair" (the illegal sale of Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) to Israel in 1960s.)
• Worked for the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) during the period the HEU went missing and was involved in the investigation of a radiation incident less than an hour away from the NUMEC plant in Apollo, Pennsylvania. 

Naturally, we like to know more about the background whenever we come across suspicious characters from Gibson Island, especially when they have connections to important conspiracies.

Since Gibson Island is so exclusive and limited in size, residents (property owners) are "privileged" to live there. In our research into the history and families of Gibson Island, we have noticed a few broad patterns with which we can suggest a stereotypical family. These stereotypes, especially for pre-World War II founding families, with much overlap, include:

• WWI War Profiteers
• Standard Oil "Trusters" (Rockefeller relatives, as well as early investors, partners, corporate officers and bought-out competitors of Standard Oil before it was broken up in 1911.)
• Colonial Founders (Mayflower and early Virginia descendants, etc.)
• Revolutionary War Fighters & Declaration Signers
• "Spurious Nobility" (ie. family can claim some type of lineage to a European Royal Family.)
• "Confederate Royalty" (ie. a great-grandfather [great-great, etc.] was a high ranking officer in the Confederate Army or politician.
• "Baltimore Brahmans" (Social Register listed families from nearby Baltimore.)
• Annapolis Admirals

We believe that residents and families of Gibson Island that purchased houses later in the 20th century likely fall into one or more of the categories above, but there may be a few exceptions. These exceptions might include people that ingratiated themselves via displays of competence while undertaking a specific mission for the Deep State. A few of the Admirals, Intelligence Officers, Media Manipulators, Academics and Industry Leaders might fall into the category. Nonetheless, we would not be surprised to find out if most of the newer members of the Gibson Island Gang, were put in a position to demonstrate competence, and eventually progress to "Full Member" status, because their lineage could be traced to one or more of the bullet-pointed groups.  

Among the privileged, Merson is a descendant of John Hart, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. The Booths were a large family. William Booth had nine children (not all shown) and at least two of his children had eight children. We believe two Booths on the "Skull & Bones" Membership Roster from the 1880s are related to Merson Booth, as well as Clare "Booth" Luce. Further research is required.

Who are Merson Booth's "White Russians?"

We will often find that a suspicious character does not end up playing a roll in a conspiracy out of sheer coincidence. For example, as a member of the Gibson Island Club, Merson Booth would have rubbed shoulders with the Muellers and duPonts, who have already been connected to post WWII nuclear weapons and power projects (as well as pre-WWII weapons projects in general).

Booth also would have come into contact with Godfrey Rockefeller (worked for Bell Helicopter at same time as Lee Harvey Oslwald "friend" Michael Paine), and Harold Noel Arrowsmith, Jr., whom we can connect to George Lincoln Rockwell, the neo-Nazi founder believed to be an associate of several JFK assassination suspects, and Hans Reckenberg, an original Nazi that corresponded with Otto Skorzeny. See these posts:

• Arrowsmith & Rockwell Post: About the Gibson Islander Neo-Nazi Financier, the "Face" he Financed, and the Futile JFK File Search
• Arrowsmith - Reckenberg Skorzeny Post: Arrowsmith of Gibson Island, a Few More Familiar Names and a Dueling Scar

Along another line of inquiry that is discussed in this thread, Who was Edward Pierpont Morgan? Was Charles W. Lyons a CIA Cut Out? Did Otepka run across a Nazi Rat Line? we delve into a potential CIA sponsored effort to smuggle Nazi War criminals into the United States by disguising them as White Russians, using any of the definitions for White Russian we highlighted above.

As things tend to happen, a simple google search of the name "Merson Booth" pulled up "Irina Troubetzkoy" as some sort of relative. Russian names and anything nuclear related are always worth a look, so digging deeper into Irina revealed that she is married to William Clay Booth, the son of Merson, and a White Russian Princess.

Princess Irina Troubetzkoy hails from "The Princely House of Gagarin" which originates from the founder of Russia, "Rurik" in 867, according to this genealogy website http://www.gagarin.com/.

The full Family Tree of the House of Gagarin can be viewed at this link. Gargarin Family Tree - Beginning Year 879.

The Primary modern branches of the House of Gagarin are shown in the table below.

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Wash, Rinse, Repeat at the Troika Laundromat

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The Gibson Island Atomic Lighthouse and Introduction to Merson Booth

In the years following the splitting of the atoms over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, scientists, government leaders and business men described a future where atoms would be split, at a slower pace, for fun and profit. 

Atomic Studebakers would whisk commuters to cities where the electricity was too cheap to meter. Flying cars, moving side walks, elevators to space, all powered by nuclear energy were the promise. While we are still waiting for our atomic powered flying cars, Gibson Island did manage to get the only Atomic Lighthouse in North America. 

"It's easy to grin, when your ship comes in,
and you've got the stock market beat..."

Members of the Gibson Island Yacht Squadron have no doubt appreciated the sight of the Lighthouse (officially the Baltimore Harbor Light) after a long sail from Newport or Bermuda, since the Gibson Island Yacht Club was created in the 1920s. The children and grand children of the original Club founders, such as the Eugene DuPonts, the Gifford Pinchots, and the Sifford Pearres (a relative of General Charles "Pearre" Cabell, and Dallas Mayor Earle Cabell)  probably radiated with pride when a nuclear light was installed in 1964, before being replaced a year later with conventional power.

We can only guess as to why the Gibson Island approaches were chosen to test the first and only nuclear powered lighthouse. Perhaps Gibson Island resident Merson Booth thought it was a good idea and was in the position to make it happen.

Merson Booth passed away in 2012 at the age of 88. He spent his entire career in the Nuclear industry. After graduating from the Naval Academy in 1946, Merson was assigned to work on the US Nuclear Weapons program in Los Alamos, NM.

In the 1950s, Admiral Hyman S. Rickover recruited Merson Booth "to participate in the early development of the Navy's first nuclear-powered vessels" according to his Washington Post Obituary.

In 1958, Merson resigned from the Navy and joined the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). He retired in 1972 as chief of systems at the age of 48. (The WAPO obituary does not make it clear if Merson just retired from the AEC and went to work somewhere else or retired permanently.)

Merson Booth Obituary - 12/2/2012 (Part 1)

Merson Booth Obituary - 12/2/2012 (Part 2)

How do you sneak 300 lbs. of Highly Enriched Uranium out the back door

We have another series of posts in progress where we present facts, opine and speculate on an incident called The Apollo Affair. The Wikidpedia summary is below.

The Apollo Affair was a 1965 incident in which a US company, Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC), in the Pittsburgh suburbs of Apollo and Parks Township, Pennsylvania was investigated for losing 200–600 pounds (91–272 kg) of highly enriched uranium, with suspicions that it had gone to Israel's nuclear weapons program. Full Wikipedia Article

Our posts are more focused on the possible financial mechanisms that could be used to launder the large sums of money that must have changed hands in order to move HEU from Pittsburgh to Israel. The Posts (so far) are here:

The Apollo Affair, Missing Uranium and Katy Perry (Part 1)
The Apollo Affair, Missing Uranium and Katy Perry (Part 2)
The Apollo Affair, Missing Uranium and Katy Perry (Part 3)
The Apollo Affair, Missing Uranium and Katy Perry (Part 4)

Our broader thesis, with respect to the Apollo Affair is that Zalman Shapiro, the President of NUMEC is not at the "tippy-top" of the conspiracy pyramid and that he must have had help from government agencies, and/or the Navy, and/or other Uranium industry companies to be able to pull off the caper. In short, the government agencies and other entities that were responsible for keeping tabs on weapons grade uranium had to have been persuaded to look the other way.

The AEC, where Merson Booth worked, was the primary agency that was mandated to keep track of all sorts of nuclear material, including the HEU at Apollo. They were also the primary agency in charge of investigating the loss of the HEU.

The "persuaders" would naturally be wealthy and powerful, so when we discovered that Merson Booth was a member of the Gibson Island Club, we figured we had a good lead.

Manhattans at the Gibson Island Club

Your finer and more exclusive Eastern Establishment clubs will usually have a "signature" cocktail that you must have at least one of before switching to your preferred cocktail. The Gibson Island Club probably has one. We don't know what it is, but for narrative purposes, we'll say its a "Manhattan" as in "Manhattan Project Cocktail."

How exactly Merson got involved with the Gibson Island Gang, we have no idea. Nevertheless, he would have been useful in the illicit weapons trade business the gang started back in World War 1. Maybe over Manhattan's, Merson mentioned he worked with Zalman Shapiro under Admiral Rickover's nuclear boat project.

That Merson worked for the AEC is also more than a curiosity and deserves a deeper dive in to the archives. In the meantime, Merson's involvement in a "Radiation Incident" is also worth a closer look.

• Radiation Incident, Westinghouse Testing Reactor, Waltz Mills, PA - April 18, 1960
• Investigation of Radiation Incident, May 27, 1960

The Radiation Incident

Merson Booth was a member of the AEC committee that investigated the radiation incident at Waltz Mills. We are still going through the documents that are linked above. In the meantime, our cynicism prevents us from dismissing the proximity of Waltz Mills, PA from Apollo PA, where the AEC would discover in 1965, that 300 lbs. of HEU was missing, and it was eventually discovered that the HEU ended up in the hands of the Israelis. 

Apollo PA to Waltz Mills PA, 25 miles as the crow flies. 40 Minute Drive

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Uranium Connections to the JFK Assassination Deserve More Attention

The Potential Loss of the Oil Depletion Allowance was not a reason to Kill JFK. Controlling the Energy Supply Chain for the Next 100 Years Makes More Sense.

When we hear or read that JFK was assassinated because some "Texas Oil Men" did not want to lose tax breaks under the existing oil depletion allowance, we shake our heads. Tax policy changes do not prompt conspiracies and assassination attempts. It is a lot cheaper and safer to hire some tax lawyers and accountants to find the loopholes that will inevitably exist in whatever new tax law is adopted.

If the preceding 100 years before 1963 were the Petroleum Century, the next 100 years promised to be the Nuclear Century. The common denominator of the 200 year Petroleum and Nuclear centuries is Energy. There is no reason to believe the primary commercial interests that controlled the flow of Petroleum Energy would relinquish any of their control of Energy markets in general, and not position themselves for control of Nuclear Energy for the next 100 years.

In other words, if you want to maintain dominance over "Energy" in the next 100 years, like you did for the previous 100 years, then occasionally taking out a President or two, who will not play ball, is likely an acceptable risk, given the rewards.

Naturally, if you control the Energy markets, you effectively control the Global Economy. I you control the Global Economy, then you effectively control everything else (smaller industries and markets, governments, people, etc.)

Atomic Everything

Since at least the 1970s, when Three Mile Island looked like it would blow-up half of Pennsylvania, the viability and safety of nuclear energy has mostly been viewed skeptically by the public. In the early days of the Atomic Age (shortly after WW2), however, the splitting of the atom held out the promise of unlimited amounts of clean energy for public consumption. Nuclear planes and atomic Studebakers, were just on the horizon by the early 1950s and every serious investor and fly-by-night speculator wanted in on the action; much like the late 1990s Internet craze.

The Cabal that controlled the Petroleum Industry for the previous 100 years, out of the need to maintain its control over governments, markets and people for the next 100 years, needed to control the Nuclear Industry going forward. 

Not Much JFK Era Nuclear Research

We are relative "newbies" to the world of JFK assassination theories. In fact, until the attempted Coup against Trump, we had little interest in lone gunman, grassy knoll conspiracies, or oil depletion allowances. Until 2016, none of the JFK theories out there seemed to have much of a connection to contemporary events. The existence of cabals and conspiracies involved in the JFK assassination seemed irrelevant if true. Nevertheless, the research into Robert Mueller's family tree and the peripheral connections of some Trump coup plotters, like Stefan Halper, to past coup attempts, led us to take a closer look at the JFK assassination, and the various theories about who was behind it.  

The Mueller Family involvement in the nuclear industry forced us to take a closer look at JFK's nuclear energy and weapons policies and see if their were any connections to his assassination.

Even though there is tons of JFK assassination literature out there, and we have only perused a sliver of it, from what we can tell, little has been written about potential associations between the assassination and his nuclear policy.

JFK's Atomic Issues  

The "Atomic-themed" research that does exist seems too under-represented in the assassination literature, relative to the importance of JFK's policies, and the perceived importance to the American economy in the early 1960s. In other words, at a time when Nuclear Energy was perceived as the successor to Petroleum Energy, and therefore to be the primary driver of the global economy going forward, assassination related connections to nuclear issues are lacking.

Israel Nuclear Weapons Program

JFK was opposed to Israel nuclear weapons program. There is a decent amount of information about JFK's opposition, and the program itself, however, there seems to be a reluctance to connect some historical events, or examine certain aspects of the program in the context of the JFK Assassination.

While we know JFK opposed the program, and we know the Mossad managed to smuggle enough Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) out of the NUMEC plant in Apollo, Pennsylvania by 1965 to build several bombs ("The Apollo Affair"), we have not seen any documented research, or very much undocumented speculation, that the smuggled HEU and the assassination are potentially related. 

The lack of literature linking The Apollo Affair to the JFK Assassination, in part reflects a reluctance to get to close to the third rail of American foreign policy, which is anything critical of Israel. (We would argue that it is good that Israel built the bomb, and that the Mossad's  procurement of the HEU is less important than who in the U.S. Government sold the HEU to the Mossad. ie. The Mossad, as foreign spies, did what foreign spies do. The Americans, on the other hand, are traitors.)

The 1958 formation of NUMEC and the 1965 discovery that HEU was missing from the NUMEC plant in Apollo (near Pittsburgh) suggests that some of that HEU was going out the back door of the factory when JFK was President. (Alternatively, the HEU finally made its way out the door after JFK's death because he was no longer in the way.)

Final Judgment - The Missing Link In The JFK Assassination Conspiracy does dig into possible connections between Israel's Nuclear Weapons Program and the JFK assassination.

"George Sergius de Mohrenschildt was a petroleum geologist..."

That is the first sentence on George "Ds" Wikipedia Page. He probably was, but he easily could have been a uranium geologist, or both, given his travels and a few other indications in his biographies. Any of the countries he visited in the 1950s and 1960s could have been for uranium prospecting in addition to, or instead of oil prospecting. 

George "D" visited Nigeria, France, Mexico, Ghana, Togoland, France, Yugoslavia, Venezuela, Haiti and Cuba, among others. Although some of those countries currently have operating uranium mines, in the early days, any of those countries held potentially commercially viable reserves.

According to CD 531, CD 532 and Volume IX of the Hearings, deMohrenschildt in the 1940s was accused of collecting data regarding the operation of a uranium plant and in
1957 was suspected of spying in Yugoslavia. - Source: Coup d'etat in America"  

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Mr. JENNER. Tell me about the Sharples family*.
Mr. De MOHRENSCHILDT. The Sharples family is from Philadelphia, Philadelphia Quakers. He is in the centrifugal processing business and also in the oil business. And I had dealings with his nephew for many years.
Mr. JENNER. What is his name? Source: The Warren Report

*Wynne Sharples was the second wife of George De Mohrenschildt from 1951 to 1956. 

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"In 1939, while on a cross continental trek, George Von Mohrenschildt and Rodrick MacArthur were taken into custody by Mexican authorities, suspected of being spies because of their interest in uranium resources and evicted from the country after protests from the American embassy."- Source: JFK Counter Coup 2

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Those Texas Oil Men were also in the Uranium Business

It was not necessary to fly to Togoland or Yugoslavia to find Uranium.

"The uranium district of south Texas was discovered by accident in 1954 by an airborne gamma radiation survey looking for petroleum deposits." Source: Wikipedia

Uranium production started in 1958 in Texas and continued until 1999. After a five year hiatus, production started up again in 2004.

Many of the early investors included companies and groups who were already familiar with the area from their investments related to oil exploration and production.

According to Quixotic Joust "Morris D. Jaffe had help from LBJ's connections in Washington to get his alleged uranium field certified as "rich" by the AEC. As the grandson of real estate investors, he was then able to buy up options to purchase adjoining lands in which he optioned off prior to the uranium crash, apparently to Climax Molybdenum Company" 

and..

"Col. D. Harold Byrd is one of the most energetic and enterprising U.T. geology exes and one of the most active supporters of the University, which owes much of the Longhorn Band's appearance and activity to his assistance. He is president of the following four corporations in Dallas: Byrd Oil Corporation, Byrd Uranium Corporation, McConnell Drilling Corporation, and Colorado Carbonics, Inc. The fabulous role which Harold Byrd and Jack Frost played in discovering and developing the great East Texas Field is well known to most of the oil industry." 

D. Harold Byrd owned the 411 Elm Building, to which the Texas School Book Depository company moved in April 1963 from just across the street at 501 Elm, often called the Dal-Tex Building.

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