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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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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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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Part 1 of 2: The Rape "of" and "in", Belgium. American and Belgian Ambassadors Look Forward to the 100 Year Anniversary of the Mutual Rape Propaganda and Cover-up Treaty /s

Part 1 of 2

I would guess that if you showed the average American a map of Europe, with the country names removed, less than 10% could point to Belgium's location on the map.

Belgium is small, and wealthy, like Switzerland, is known for making expensive chocolates, like Switzerland; shares a border with France and Germany, like Switzerland; and prefers to remain neutral in World Wars, like Switzerland.

Most of the important similarities end there. While Belgians prefer to remain neutral during World Wars, like the Swiss; the Germans do not care. It was the Germans "nonchalance" with respect to Belgium's borders, on August 3, 1914, that would eventually usher in the Rape & Propaganda Era of Belgian and American Diplomacy. 

Helena Constance Lodge, daughter of George Cabot Lodge, and bother of Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.*, betrothed to Edourd de Streel, first secretary of the Belgian Embassy - August 2, 1929, Washington DC.

As described in "America's Political Dynasties" , the marriage of Helena to Edourd was the fashionable "Lodge" wedding of the season. (The less fashionable wedding was between another brother, John Davis Lodge and Francesca Braggiotti, who was an actress and dancer.)

The Helena Lodge and Edourd de Steel wedding caught our attention because of how one of the guests arrived, and where he arrived from. 

Prince Alfred de Ligne was the Belgian Ambassador to the United States from 1927 to 1931. 

Prince of Ligne is a title of Belgian nobility that belongs to the House of Ligne, which goes back to the eleventh century. 

British Hegemony, War Profiteering and Eugenics

According to a number of historians, World War I was started by proponents of British hegemony, of which, Cecil Rhodes and his protege Alfred Milner are considered to be the "modern age" founding fathers.

The strategy and intricacies of effecting the plans of Milner, Rhodes, and others, mostly associated with secret societies, are plentiful on the Internet. Very briefly though, a War was necessary to bring all of the Anglosphere, including the US, in to alignment with the Milner/Rhodes plans. The Germans made the perfect enemy and war began in 1914. 

Even before the War began, the British Hegemony Crowd was eager to get the Americans involved and it did not take much effort to get the support of the wealthy American Industrialists of the Day. 

No doubt, many (but not all) of those American Industrialists, could care less about "British Hegemony", but they certainly knew one could make a lot of money during a war so they joined the World War I Conspiracy. (If for the Americans, the promise of British Hegemony did not have appeal, and War Profiteering caused an ethical dilemma, then some of those powerful Americans in academia and government could possibly justify joining the war, to themselves, by considering the benefits from a Eugenics point of view.)

Even if British Hegemony, War Profiteering and Eugenics was enough to get a small group of Eastern Elites to sign up for carnage, the American Public didn't really see the benefits of rescuing the Europeans from their stupid war.   

The Kaiser is Killing Belgian Kids and Other Horrible Atrocities

No doubt the Belgians suffered greatly under German occupation. Many Belgian children were killed by the Huns and probably even a few by a Hun with a bayonet, as opposed to getting caught in the cross fire of bullets intended for the French Forces. Many rapes also no doubt occurred along with any other number of atrocities. Whether or not the Americans were ethically obligated to save the Belgian woman and children, propagandizing the atrocities, or "The Rape of Belgium" rallied the American Public to action. 

Propaganda may not apply to the entire effort to stop "The Rape of Belgium", as their was no doubt a significant amount of suffering in Belgium. The effort was organized around the 

Emil Franqui

"Commission for Relief in Belgium" in the United States, and led by Herbert Hoover, and the "National Aid and Food Committee" its Belgian counterpart based in London, and led by Emil Franqui (see Mueller & Bissell & Prudhomme – WWI Connections to the Rockefellers and Rothschilds).

Emil Franqui, as an agent of the London Rothschilds was likely instrumental in yelling "Rape" and getting the Americans into the war, to both stop the "rape", and as an extra benefit, advance the agenda of the British Hegemony promoters, Eugenicist eggheads and above all, the War Profiteers (after all Franqui was a banker.) 

The Belgians of Gibson Island  

Thanks to "The Rape of Belgian", a small group of Americans were able to make a lot of money. Daniel Sheehan of Watergate and Iran/Contra fame mentions in one of his videos (I don't know which one - will try to find) that he believes their were about 30 families that made astronomical amounts of money from the War, most of whom were already wealthy. 

The families that undoubtedly took their wealth to higher level, even though they were already rich, included the Rockefellers, the duPonts, the Morgans and Rothschild bank American affiliates like the Kuhns and Schiffs. Newly minted families, that went from "Well to do" status to "Tycoon" status include the Symingtons (Whitney, Orrick, etc.), Muellers (Bissell, Standish, etc.), Bushs (Walker, Pierce, etc.) and various branches of their extended families.

Prince Alfred de Ligne 

As the post about Francui and the formation of the Belgian American Coke Company notes, the special friendship between the American Industrialists and Belgian Bankers (ie Rothschilds Bankers), continued after the war, culminating as far as our research goes for now, with the marriage of a Cabot/Lodge to a member of the Belgian Diplomatic corp. 

That the head of the corp., Prince Alfred de Ligne, spent his summers on Gibson Island, with the families that also resided their, or eventually bought in, which are the same families listed above, suggests Gibson Island was a very important place. It's almost like it was designed so that Rockefellers and Rothschilds could steer the course of history in their owned preferred direction, like they did for World War I. 

Prince de Ligne, wife and daughter, pictured on Gibson Island

Addendum

Philippe Edmond Jean de Nicolay,

We noticed that when a Rothschild could not find a cousin to marry, royalty would normally do, especially in the days before genetics were understood.

Given the size and availability of historical records of both the Rothschilds and the de Ligne family, we figured it would be relatively easy to find someone with both Rothschilds and de Ligne blood. Francois and Guy de Nicolay are Rothschild's on their father's side (photo right)  and de Ligne on their mother's side.

• Philippe Edmond Jean de Nicolay, born 1955. (Mother was Marie-Hélène de Rothschild [1927 to 1996])
• Married (1980) and Divorced (some time between 1993 & 2000)
• Sophie, Princesse de Ligne born 1957.
• Two children
• Francois de Nicolay (1989)
• Guy de Nicolay (1993)

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*articles and other sources use the "Jr." suffix mostly and "the 2nd", occasionally. Technically, he was not a "Jr." since he was name after his grandfather, not his father George.

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Kids in Containers – Diplomatic Art Exchange Program Started by Gibson Island Resident and Former US Ambassador to Norway Lester Corrin Strong

The current “all Epstein, all the time” news cycle prompted a remembrance of several themes from the days when child trafficking and abuse by the elites was just a “conspiracy theory.” In the fall of 2016 and into 2017, when foods were used as code words, ping-pong took on a new meaning, and Jeffrey Dahmer inspired art-work was the talk of Reddit, any number of researchers began to look into the logistics of international child trafficking rings.

One suspected method that the elites and high-ranking government officials use to ship kids (drugs, weapons, blood diamonds, other illicit cargo) is through the US Department of State “Art In Embassies” program.

The “Art in Embassies” program is an ideal conduit for moving illegal cargo because the containers, crates and boxes can not be inspected because they are protected by diplomatic privileges.

A few companies, such as Masterpiece International, have the licenses and authority to provide the special shipping services (the website is down, but we found this description of the services they offer.)

This includes in-house consultation and coordination of shipments requiring specialized expertise with other US regulatory agencies such as US Fish and Wildlife Service (for shipments that contain endangered species or animal products), the Office of Foreign Assets Control (for shipments containing objects whose country of origin is under current embargo with the U.S. or where cultural property restrictions are in place), Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (ATF – for those works that contain such products), among others. We also operate and maintain a TSA Security Program which includes National TSA Security Coordinators on each coast, and worked closely with the TSA during the preliminary phases of the Certified Cargo Screening Program to facilitate the early approval of museums, galleries and fine art warehouses into the program.

Noteworthy, the company has the ability to ship living animals.

One can imagine that the Art in Embassies program started out innocently enough, after all, who doesn’t like art? Especially modern art.

Art in Embassies became an official State Department Program in 1963 as described in this Vanity Fair article by Hillary Clinton in 2013. 

Ambassador Lestor Corrin Strong

While the official program start date was in 1963, it was originally conceived 10 years earlier by the wife of the US Ambassador to Norway, Lester Corrin Strong.  (Detailed history of the program.)

We can only presume the program was conceived under the sincere love of art by Ambassador Strong and his wife, and that any nefarious associations with the program to come were due to the recognition a loophole could be easily exploited by a Secretary of State or two, such as Clinton, or Kissinger, and their minions, who needed a better way to supply the Epstein mansion (or some other mansion) with fresh children. 

The presumption of innocence on the part of the Strongs, of course remains. Still, as residents of Gibson Island, Maryland, they no doubt were part of the crowd, that were almost always above the law. The Morgans, Walkers, Symingtons, Muellers, and above all the Rockefellers, were certainly at the center of the 20^th century efforts to affect a “New World Order” via subterfuge of government, the financial system, and the culture as a whole, including the arts, and in particular “Modern Art.”

In either case, of innocence or guilt, with respect to using the “Art in Embassies” program to diplomatically ship kids, drugs and other illegal contraband around the globe, Ambassador Strong and his wife, of Gibson Island should be given some credit for advancing the Rockefeller/CFR agenda through the subterfuge of the culture via exhibitions of modern art around the world.

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Questions for another day

• Is Ronald Buck related to Ed Buck?
• According to Hurtado, [Ronald] Buck had made a secret tape recording of several "wealthy individuals" hobnobbing with bigwigs from Washington. These worthies were "gloating" over the deaths of JFK and Martin Luther King, and discussed plans to deal similarly with Robert F. Kennedy, who was then running for the Democratic presidential nomination. Source: Late-breaking news on the RFK assassination
• Ronald Buck who owned or ran a club called The Factory. 
• As of 2006 - "a club by that name still operates in West Hollywood; apparently, it caters to a gay clientele. I don't know if that was the case in 1968, or even if we are dealing with the same place."
• Is CIA/KGB mole Aldrich Ames related to Peter Ashmun Ames. 
• Peter's grandfather was Daniel Bushnell, one of the founders of Standard Oil (a Rockefeller Gang connection.)
• Patricia Barnard Hankey - "Hankey"? 
• Georgetown Set - Married to Alsop. 
• Possible "Hankey" Name in George Webb U1 Research. 
• Otto Koch associated with Penn Lubricating Company
• Is this a Standard Oil Company?
• Is this the famous Koch family?
• Is Koch Penn Lubricating the same company owned by Mueller's wife's family?
• Who are the Rhodes of Gibson Island? Are they related to:
• Ben Rhodes or his brother David Rhodes.
• Any of these related to Cecil Rhodes.

Mueller & Bissell & Prudhomme – WWI Connections to the Rockefellers and Rothschilds

Mueller & Bissell & Prud'homme – Industry Connections to Rothschilds & Rockefellers

Our interest in the Belgian American Coke Company was initiated by the deeper dive we did into the Mueller family tree. As noted in previous posts, Robert Swan Mueller the 3rd is related to Richard Bissell Jr., the famed CIA Director of Plans, fired by JFK for the Bay of Pigs debacle, along with Allen Dulles and General Charles Pearre Cabell.



As shown in the abbreviated family tree, Richard Bissell's sister married Hector C. Prud'homme. Hector "C", is interesting in his own right, but for now, we are more interested in his father Hector "P" Prud'homme, and his associations with the Belgian American Coke Company, its officers and investors.

As noted in the clipping, Hector "P" was from Brussels. He spent some time in China (circa 1903) where he was a "Belgian civil engineer in charge of railway construction" , according to the obituary of his son Hector "C", who was born in China in 1903.

At some point after 1903, Hector "P" moved to St. Louis, likely in connection with the start-up of the Belgian American Coke Ovens. Hector "P" and his wife made the papers in September of 1922 when they returned from a trip to Marseilles and landed in Brooklyn and failed to declare a diamond brooch worth $1,000.00. The paper notes their would be an investigation, but it appears they were allowed to continue on to their home in St. Louis.

[Side Note: George Herbert Walker was from St. Louis. Robert Swan Mueller Sr. also lived in St. Louis. Dorothy Lucille Cabell, the mother of Ann Cabell Standish Mueller (RSM3 wife) was also from St. Louis.] 

Belgian American Coke Company - Officers, Directors, Financiers

The Belgian American Coke Company was no small affair. It's initial capitalization of $10 million in 1921 would be about $143 million today (a useful inflation calculator.)

The Americans

The American investors were well known at the time due to their pre-WWI wealth and post-WWI astronomical level of wealth, influence, and all around tycoon like status. They included President George H.W. Bush's grandfather (George Herbert Walker) and Thomas Fortune Ryan, the founder of the American Tobacco Company. American Tobacco Company, was ruled a "Trust", like Standard Oil. It was the largest tobacco company in the United States before it was broken up in 1911; also like Standard Oil.

Both George Herbert Walker and Thomas Fortune Ryan benefited financially from WWI, with economic interests in all types of companies, whether or not those companies provided goods and services to the war effort indirectly (banking, shipping, raw materials) or directly.

George H. Walker's daughter, Dorothy Walker, was introduced to Samuel Prescott Bush's son, Prescott Sheldon in 1919, linking the Walkers to Remington Arms, a Rockefeller controlled company. 

Samuel Prescott Bush was also closely associated with Samuel Pryor, who, along with the Rockefellers, controlled the Remington Arms Company. During the First World War, Clarence Dillon, a senior figure at the War Industries Board, arranged for Bush, to become chief of the Ordnance Small Arms and Ammunition Section of the WIB. This involved giving out contracts to supply arms and ammunition to the United States Army. Over half of the small-arms ammunition and 69% of the rifles used by the United States in the war were supplied by Remington. Source: Spartacus-Educational

Thomas Fortune Ryan, among many other corporate interests, was also an early financial backer of the Auto-Ordnance Company, which developed the Thompson Submachine Gun. Although intended to be used in the trenches of Europe, the war ended before the first "Tommys" were shipped. Nevertheless, post WWI sales to the US Marines for use in various Banana Wars, law enforcement agencies and foreign forces, helped Ryan's investment pay-off.

The Belgians

The Belgians listed in the 1921 press release mostly represented the economic interests in the company of the Rothschilds. The Belgians listed include Emil Francui, Oliver Piette, Adolphe Stoclet, Lambert Jadot, and Hector P. Prud'homme. Piette was the inventor of the coke oven.

Emil Franqui, Adolphe Stoclet, Lambert Jadot,  Hector P. Prud'homme were either officers and/or directors of Société générale de Belgique (Socgen) and its sub-affiliate Banque d'Outremer. The French Rothschilds as one of the primary owners of the Banque d'Outremer, along with Socgen, and through countless cross ownership arrangements, collectively owned most of the metal mining and mineral assets in the Belgian Congo. Socgen itself was believed to be the agent for the London Rothschilds in all Belgian related business. In short, both the French and English branches of the Rothschild banking group had interests in the Belgian American Coal Company.

Emil Franqui is of particular interest. He became a friend of Herbert Hoover when both were stationed in China in the late 1890's. When WWI broke out, he worked with Hoover to set up the "National Aid and Food Committee" and its American counterpart the "Commission for Relief in Belgium" to provide food, clothes and other necessities for the Belgian population, which was at 7.8 million at the start of the war, and in bad shape from the German occupation, blockades and the overall inconvenience of being stuck between the Germans on one side and the French and English on the other side,

A number of historians have argued that the situation of the Belgians, though dire, was also intentionally embellished in the effort to get America to join the War. Various unspeakable atrocities were attributed to the occupying German forces in an effort to rally the American public to demand that US soldiers be sent to end the "Rape of Belgium."

Post War Partnership

If one reads enough Carrol Quigley, or have watched The Corbett Report special on WWI, or taken a deeper look into the history of WWI beyond what most text books deliver, there are many convincing arguments that WWI was entirely contrived by a small group of British bankers and industrialists. The "Milner Group" (members list) is often considered to be an early organizing cabal, although any number of other British "secret societies" can probably be given credit, and more than likely they are the same people, working together under different names. These would include "Milner's Kindergarten", the "Rhodes Roundtable" and others. The groups had foreign affiliates or overlapping connections.

In the United States, this would include The Pilgrim Society (members list), and predecessors of groups like the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR.)  Some sources give the date of the founding of the CFR as July 29, 1921, which is one day before the NY Times article posted here. Founding CFR members include the Rockefellers, Herbert Hoover and Edward House, among others.

To be continued....