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.

Other Information and References

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Related Follow Up Post: 

Wash, Rinse, Repeat at the Troika Laundromat

Link for Later Post:

George de Mohrenschildt (Deep Politics Forum)

  

Deep State Death by Braided Bathrobe Belt - The 1965 "Suicide" of Ethel DuPont

Well before Epstein was "suicided" with his own bed sheets, death at the presumably distraught's own hand, had become almost an Internet meme or at least a Reddit forum post trope.

Anthony Bourdain hung himself in June 2018 and so did Kate Spade. Other recent celebrity hangings include Chris Cornell (2017), Chester Bennington (2017), Mark Sailing (2018), August Ames (2017) a Canadian pornography actress, and no doubt more I've missed.

The suicides listed above were all relatively controversial. Like the Epstein "suicide" many have speculated that these people were murdered by forces associated with human trafficking rings and/or despicable acts involving children, etc, all under the authority, or at the insistence of very powerful people (aka, the Deep State.)

That the deaths by hanging seemed to be a common denominator, the idea that the method was a "calling card" by the Deep State did not take long to take hold in every media venue except the mainstream. We generally subscribe to the theory that the deaths above, and others, were at the hands of Deep State operators. The death by hanging method, especially with the belt of a bathrobe might be a calling card, but we would argue it is just a more practical murder method when the goal is to make the murder look like a suicide.

As the chart shows, suicide by firearm is the most popular method, followed by hanging, poisoning, falling and cutting. If the plan is to commit a murder and try to pass it off as a suicide, then hanging/suffocating seems the most efficient and practical. A gun to the head is definitely going attract immediate attention, plus, it is apparently to technical to get just right as far as how the gun should be held, the position the body should be in, whether or not the victim had a gun. The "suicide" of Vince Foster is still causing problems for the Clintons because of all those factors.

Aside from hanging, the other "popular" suicide methods are not always practical if you want the murder to look like a suicide. Those of us with dogs know how difficult it is to get "Rover" to take a single heart worm pill. Imagine trying to shove a bottle full of Oxycontin into the mouth of someone who does not want it. There is going to be a struggle, and even if successful, a long wait.

• Fall - You need a high place.
• Cut/Piece - Who has time to wait for the victim to bleed out.
• Drowning - You need a pool or a pond; etc.

The point should be clear. Strangling someone with a rope is quieter than using a firearm, and making it look like a suicide by hanging, is just more practical than the other methods. If there is symbolism in a bathrobe rope, so be it, but it is probably just quick, practical, and does not leave a mess.

Ethel du Pont (January 30, 1916 – May 25, 1965)

Robert Mueller Jr. (l) Dupont (c) Donald Sherwood (r)
1937

Ethel du Pont was the eldest child of Eugene du Pont, Jr. and Ethel du Pont (nee Pyle) and granddaughter of Eugene du Pont Sr., the first head of the modern DuPont Corporation. 

Ethel is most famous for two things, her marriage in 1937 to  Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., son of  President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt and her eventual suicide in 1965. She divorced Frank Jr. in 1949, and married Benjamin S. Warren Jr. in 1950.

From Wikipedia: Ethel du Pont was forty-nine years old when she committed suicide on May 25, 1965. She had been under psychiatric care several times in the years preceding her death and spent time at the Silver Hill Foundation, a hospital in New Canaan, Connecticut. Her death took place a few months before her son Christopher's wedding in June 1965 and while her son with Warren, then 10 years old, was away at boarding school. 

In typical Wikipedia fashion, there is no mention about the method Ethel used to kill herself. As the clipping shows though, Ethel hung herself

"...by a braided bathroom belt from a shower curtain rod in a locked second-floor bathroom."

Ethel was probably upset about something 

1937

We have not come across any articles, essays, accounts or other evidence that suggests that Ethel's suicide was anything other than what it was; a suicide, not a murder. The only thing that got our attention was the bathrobe rope. As noted above, death by hanging, and in particular, bathrobe ropes, is a common theme with individuals that may have crossed the wrong group of powerful people. As a du Pont and a Roosevelt, Ethel was definitely familiar with powerful people, some of them in the wrong group.

The clipping above showing Robert Mueller Jr. (father of Robert Swan Mueller III) Eugene du Pont Jr. (Ethel's father) and Donald Sherwood. They were definitely powerful. There are other posts in this blog that highlight some of the connections between these members of the Gibson Island Club and nefarious historical events that have occurred, possibly because of their influence and power, over the past 100 years.

Who knows what Ethel was upset about. It probably had nothing to do with Cold War intrigue, illicit weapons transfers, third world coups, or first world assassinations. Nevertheless, her suicide must have been the talk of the Gibson Island cocktail parties in the summer of 1965.

Only the previous Fall (October 12, 1964), another face very familiar to the Gibson Island Set had been shot to death  on the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal towpath in Georgetown, where many of the Gibson Islanders had their full year residences.

Mary Pinchot Meyer was not "Suicided"

Her murder remains suspicious to this day. Theories generally surmise she was killed because of what she knew about the JFK Assassination. This Smithsonian Magazine article tells the story.

Mary Pinchot and Cord Meyer
Married '45 - Divorced '58

There were only about 100 families on Gibson Island back in the 1960s. Whether or not Mary Pinchot spent much time on Gibson, either as a child, or later in life, we are not sure. We tend to believe she was at the very least familiar with the place and Ethel du Pont.

Mary Pinchot's uncle Gifford (Gifford Pinchot - 28th Governor of Pennsylvania) was an early buyer of a Gibson Island lot (1920s or 1930s) along with Ethel's grandfather Eugene du Pont. In those early days, there were probably less than 50 families on Gibson Island. Ethel was four years older than Mary Pinchot. It is probably not a stretch to speculate they knew each other.

We'll take a closer look at Ethel and Mary and see if they had more in common than their association with Gibson Island, for now though, the gang at Gibson Island sure must have had a lot to talk about with the tragic deaths of Ethel and Mary within eight months of each other.

More information about the Pinchots and Gibson Island

• Ahoy! Mary Pinchot Meyer's Cousin, Gifford Pinchot II, was a Gibson Island Yachtsmen
• Our Fascination with Gibson Island, Maryland

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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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Arrowsmith of Gibson Island, a Few More Familiar Names and a Dueling Scar

As noted in our last post, Harold N. Arrowsmith Jr. was known to associate with Neo-Nazis, including George Lincoln Rockwell, and old-Nazis, like Hans Rechenberg.

The historical record can confirm that Rockwell and Rechenburg were first degree connections to Harold Arrowsmith. A few more names have popped up in the list of associates of Rockwell and Rechenburg that are interesting. We have not dug deep enough to confirm a first degree connection between Arrowsmith and these associates, so we'll call them second degree connections for now.

• Link to Original Post - About the Gibson Islander Neo-Nazi Financier, the "Face" he Financed, and the Futile JFK File Search - August 21, 2019
• Link to Follow Up Post - More About Arrowsmith, the Nazi from Gibson Island - August 22, 2019

Did Somebody Say Hookers?
Harold N. Arrowsmith was not the first wealthy WASP that Rockwell ran in the same circles with that was a potential source of funding for a nascent North American Nazi movement. Prior to Rockwell's receipt of some "start-up" capital from Arrowsmith in 1958, Rockwell was introduced to
DeWest Hooker (aka West Hooker.)

DeWest Hooker

DeWest Hooker is another one of those characters in the huge circle of JFK conspirators, Cold-War spies, culture manipulators and disinformation agents that all seemed to know each other, in some way, before November 1963.

The last name "Hooker" is one of those "Eastern Establishment" family names that would lend credibility to a possible "mark" like George Lincoln Rockwell, who was looking for a wealthy benefactor back in the mid-1950s. As this blog post reads, Dewest looked like a genuine "hoi polloi", and he may well have been. There are other Hookers in the general "milieu" of the JFK conspiracy, including a branch in the Rockefeller family. An Edward Hooker was the room mate of George H.W. Bush at Andover and the uncle of George de Mohrenschildt.

The Hooker/Rockwell association does not appear to have developed into a benefactor/protege relationship, and we only think it is noteworthy that apparent attempt was made because of the more successful relationship that developed a few years later between Rockwell and Arrowsmith. (ie. Neophyte Nazi (Rockwell) find WASP money (Arrowsmith.) In other words, was Rockwell an actor in a play he probably did not know he was in?

Otto Skorzeny with "dueling scar"

Otto Skorzeny, Super Nazi, had one Hell of a Dueling Scar
As described in this post the CIA station in Munich was keeping tabs on Harold Arrowsmith in 1962. Harold was noted to have been in contact with an un-repentant ex-Nazi named Hans Rechenburg. 

The CIA has a substantive file on Hans Rechenburg with 129 records available for review in the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act section of the CIA FOIA vault.

The most interesting record we have come across so far is a translation of a correspondence between Rechenburg and Super Nazi Otto Skorzeny. The letter is dated February 19, 1962 and a February 12 letter is referenced.  (The letter between Rechenberg and Arrowsmith is date January 20, 1962.) 

We'll set aside further speculation as to whether the letters have any significance for the time being and anyone is free to go through the Reckenberg CIA files if you are conducting your own research.

CIA Vault - Translation of letter between
Otto Skorzeny and Hans Rechenburg

• Link to full letter (pdf) above
• Link to "Rechenberg" (also occasionally "Reckenburg") Files in CIA Vault.
• Link to CIA Vault 

Otto Skorzeny gained Super-Nazi status when in World War II, Hitler asked him to rescue Benito Mussolini from his prison "high in the Abruzzi Apennines."

Skorzeny agreed and on 13th September he led an airbourne force of commandos by glider to a dangerous landing near the hotel where he was being held. Mussolini was soon freed and Skorzeny flew him to safety. Source: Spartacus Educational

Otto Skorenzy is also a suspect in the JFK Assassination, which is what makes him relevant to this narrative. The book below is relatively new (we have not read) and presents evidence that Skorzeny was involved in the plot to kill JFK.

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More About Arrowsmith, the Nazi from Gibson Island

Harold Noel Arrowsmith corresponded with both "Old-School" Nazi's, like Hans Rechenberg, in addition to the neo-Nazis.

Our post yesterday highlighted Harold Noel Arrowsmith Jr.. The Arrowsmith family was one of the early "investors" in the Gibson Island real estate development. The post, About the Gibson Islander Neo-Nazi Financier, the "Face" he Financed, and the Futile JFK File Search can be read here.

Subsequent to yesterday's post, we found additional information about "Harold Jr."

• Seems to have lived in both Maryland and Germany since at least the late 1950's.
• Moved to Germany permanently in 1974, and passed away there in 1989.
• He was wealthy. As a result of international tax treaty issues, an appeal and litigation by his heirs prompted the disclosure that Harold had about $30 million when he died.

Munich Station - Keeping Tabs

We noted the absence of a "file" on Arrowsmith in the maryferrell.org archive database in the earlier post. A subsequent check of the CIA archives was more fruitful. (A few JFK researchers have said on various message boards that the maryferrell.org website is "controlled opposition." Maybe they are correct.)

The screenshot below shows that in early 1962, the CIA in Munich was monitoring the correspondence of Harold Arrowsmith with a German national named Hans Rechenberg. The letter indicates that Harold Arrowsmith either had an innocent interest in German history, which would square with his "anthropology" interests, or that his willingness to finance some small expenses may indicate more nefarious intentions.

Link to full Document - CIA Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act

The Rechenberg Dossier

Every stack of paper sounds important when you call it a dossier.

Hans Rechenberg (also Hans-Joachim Rechenberg, sometimes Rechenburg) was a Nazi "journalist" who worked under Reich Minister Walther Funk before the war and under Goebbels during the war. He was a war correspondent for the Reich and flew with the Luftwaffe on London bombing missions and parachuted into Tunisia with the Afrika Korps. In May 1943 Rechenberg was listed as MIA and spent the rest of the war in Concordia, Kansas until being repatriated back to Germany in 1946.

After the war, Rechenberg was apparently unrepentant, or duty bound, or needed the money, and remained loyal to some of his former bosses who rank high enough in the Nazi organizational chart to warrant a trial at Nuremberg.  These loyalist activities included:

Francois Genoud
Swiss Banker, ODESSA Supporter

• advocating for better prison conditions for his former bosses.
• oversaw "Progress", a Pro-German Nationalism / Anti-American Magazine.
• conspiring with a Swiss banker and escape agent for Nazi criminals named François Genoud 
• and according to the German to English translation, "With Genoud Rechenberg has worked in the marketing of the estate of Martin Bormann and at the trial of Adolf Eichmann in 1961."

In short, as of 1962, Rechenberg was assisting some of the more infamous Nazis in a variety of ways and was an "undercover agent" for the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) aka West German Intelligence.

• CIA list of Rechenberg contacts
• CIA Intercept of Skorzeny & Rechenberg letter

Revisiting Arrowsmith

Harold Arrowsmith becomes even more interesting given that he was corresponding with Rechenberg, who it turns out, was actively running Nazi rat lines, if not actual Nazis. We can't say for sure if Arrowsmith's "old school" associations were prompted by the fall out with George Lincoln Rockwell and his new brand of American Nazis. (ie Rockwell was a disappointment, so Arrowsmith hooked up with the original version of the Nazi band.)

Alternatively, Arrowsmith may just have become disillusioned with Rockwell in particular, or Rockwell had served out a particular purpose, or the breakup was part of the school play. Whatever the case, Arrowsmith seems to have been in a relatively rare position to effect communication, plans, conspiracies, financial transfers, and a host of other arrangements between two "verbotten" entities; the Old School original Nazis and the New Wave Neo-Nazis of North America.

Nazi Rat Lines to New Orleans

The discovery of Harold N. Arrowsmith dovetails slightly with the broader thesis described by George Webb and McDuff (Kennedy's Man to Smash the CIA) on their Youtube channels (Webb Channel) (McDuff Channel), which, in summary, says that the CIA was running former Nazi's into place like New Orleans, and that these Nazi's were not always the scientific types, like under Operation Paperclip. That thesis is expanded on this earlier post; Who was Edward Pierpont Morgan? Was Charles W. Lyons a CIA Cut Out? Did Otepka run across a Nazi Rat Line?

Also worth a watch, The Nazis Next Door: How America Became A Safe Haven For Hitler’s Men, by the author of this book.

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Crowdsource Gibson Island Names Out of 1936-1937 Maryland Phone Directory

The Phone Directory Pictured Below contains the names and numbers of Gibson Island residents.

If anyone wants to help extract the names, that would be great,.

The entire directory is 133 pages long. The entire directory, including the commercial "Yellow Page Listings" is 189 pages.

I am only interested in the Residential Listings.

Cover Page

Towns covered in Directory

Here is an example listing

In order to avoid Duplication, write in the comment section below. "I have letter C."

When you have all the letter C names, add to your comment or put in a separate comment.

See Example in Comment. 
(There was only one under letter "A". There won't be too many. Gibson Island was pretty sparesly populated back then.)

Here is a link to the Directory. It is in PDF Form.

http://connergenealogy.com/wp_files/Catonsville/Catonsville_Directory_1936_pdf_only.pdf

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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