----> ANNALS OF COMMUNICATIONS, 
THE NEW YORKER
- MAY 22, 1995
THE CONSIGLIERE
There are big decisions yet to be made in the
MCA-Seagram deal, and they may all involve Herbert
Allen.

BY KEN AULETTA

Herbert A. Allen's official biography contains just
five sentences, and they reveal almost nothing about
the man.

The biography says that Allen is the chief executive
officer of Allen & Company, a privately held
investment-banking firm; is a member of the board of
directors of the Coca-Cola Company; was once chairman
of the board ofColumbia Pictures; and graduated from
Williams College. There is no hint that Allen has
becomethe unofficial investment-banking consigliere to
many of the world's communications companies.

Allen calls himself "an owner" and "a buyer," and
notes that, on behalf of Allen & Company, the Allen
family, and the partners, he has several hundred
million dollars invested in a hundred and fifty
companies. "I'm not an investment banker," he says.
Nevertheless, clients seek his investment advice. Last
November, he was summoned to a meeting in Osaka with
Yoichi Morishita, the president of the Matsushita
Electric Industrial Company. In 1990, Allen
represented Matsushita when it bought MCA, which is
the parent of Universal Pictures, Putnam Publishing, a
television company, and a record company, and in
addition has an interest in theme parks.

Now, having tired of the extravagant costs and the
narcissism of Hollywood, Matsushita wanted Allen to
help it sell MCA. What unfolded over the next five
months will no doubt contribute to the Allen
legend.

Allen is fifty-five but appears
to be older. He has pouches under his eyes, which are
deep-set and dark; his forehead is high and is topped
by thin-ning, short black hair. His face looks gaunt.
He is wide-shouldered and lithe, however, and laughs
easily, and heconveys the impression that he is an
older man inhabiting a young man's
body.

Sitting across from Allen in Osaka,
Morishita asked him how much MCA might bring in an
outright sale, and Allen said seven to eight billion
dollars. Morishita asked him to prepare what Allen
calls "a menu of choices" regarding MCA. Back in the
States, Allen visited MCA's executives and listened to
their analysis of the business and to their complaints
about dealing with Matsushita. In December, at a
second meeting in Osaka, with eleven Matsushita
executives present, four members of Allen's team
presented a financial analysis of MCA's strengths and
weaknesses--the kind of computer-generated
presentation that Allen prefers not to do himself. He
is not a spreadsheet specialist, not someone who is
constantly taking notes. Although his clients all
agree that he is smart and financially adept, when
they are asked to describe histalents they usually
mention not pro-fessional qualities but personal
ones--candor, independence, loyalty, anda shrewd sense
of people and theirmotives.

When the
focus of the second Osaka meeting shifted from hard
numbers to matters of judgment, Allen spoke up.

The Matsushita executives said that they were puzzled
by the behavior of MCA's chairman, Lew R. Wasserman,
and its president, Sidney J. Sheinberg, who for months
had been talking openly to the American media about
their grievances against their Japanese parent, their
principal complaint being that Matsushita would not
allow them to buy a television network or to expand
into other areas. Expressing one's grievances publicly
was alien to the team-oriented Japanese management
culture, and in the most indirect, polite ways the
Matsushita leaders said so.

Allen's
response was blunt. T

he Matsushita executives had just three options, he
said. One, they could retain Wasserman and Sheinberg
and other MCA executives and support their expansion
plans; two, they could sell MCA; or, three, they could
keep MCA and invest more resources but change the
management. Allen said that if they chose the first or
the third option they should do as Wasserman and
Sheinberg wanted and invest more money to buy a
broadcast network, perhaps, or expand into cable and
other new media.

For weeks after the
December meeting, Allen heard nothing from Osaka, but
the silence was no surprise to him. Nor did it
particularly bother him. Allen is a stoic, and he knew
that Japanese companies tended to be secretive about
their decision-making and tried to reach an internal
consensus before sharing their thoughts with
outsiders. By March, Matsushita had reached a
consensus to sell MCA. By April, Allen had helped
engineer a sale.

What was unusual about
the sale was its inside nature: Without a public
auction, Allen delivered MCA from one client to
another. In some ways, it was the kind of inside deal
that Allen criticized when Viacom's chairman, Sumner
Redstone, and Paramount's chairman, Martin Davis,
agreed, in 1993, to a friendly merger without an
auction. Nevertheless, with the help of Michael Ovitz,
the chairman of the Creative Artists Agency, who had
also represented Matsushita four years ago and was an
adviser in this negotiation, Allen persuaded the
Japanese to sell the company to Edgar Bronfman, Jr.,
the president of the Seagram Company.

Bronfman advanced his own cause by twice flying to
Osaka to have dinner with Morishita. The first of
these visits was arranged by attorneys at Simpson
Thacher, which had long represented Seagram and now,
conveniently, was counselling Matsushita. After the
second dinner, Morishita told Bronfman that he would
make an exclusive arrangement to sell Seagram eighty
per cent of MCA subject to price and timing. Word of
the deal leaked out in late March, when Seagram raised
the cash by selling its stock in E. I. DuPont de
Nemours & Company for nine billion dollars. And when
word did get out, a friend of Bronfman's says, "a
long, juicy list of those interested in MCA"
materialized, including Ronald Perelman's New World
Communications and the German-based media conglomerate
Bertelsmann.

By then, however, Allen and
Ovitz--along with Seagram's traditional
investment-banking firm, Goldman, Sachs, which, like
Seagram's usual outside counsel, Simpson Thacher, was
this time representing Matsushita--had locked up the
deal for Seagram. There would be no bidding war. "All
our regular advisers were on the other side," Edgar
Bronfman, Jr., says. "I hope that was helpful."

According to Allen, the major credit for putting the
deal together for Bronfman belongs to the attorneys at
Simpson Thacher. In corporate boardrooms, however,
Allen is thought of as the architect of the deal. When
it comes to Hollywood and invest-ment banking, "all
roads lead through Herbert," says Brian Roberts, who
is the president of Comcast, the na-tion's
fourth-largest cable-television company.




Now that Bronfman owns MCA,he has at least three major
decisionsto make--all of which could involve Allen.
First, he must decide on an executive to run MCA--a
decision in which Allen may play a pivotal role.
Sources close to Bronfman say that he is talking to
others but that his first choice is Ovitz, who is a
friend of both Bronfman's and Allen's. Someone
familiar with the situation says, "Bronfman has talked
to him about the job."

Ovitz might be able to bring with him the consortium
of three telephone companies that he has helped
organize to provide video on demand; the consortium
could give MCA more of a presence in new media. Ovitz,
a friend says, has grown tired of the constant
hand-holding and selling required of an agent, even
one with his power. But before Ovitz would leave
Creative Artists, a company he built and from which he
is reported to receive thirty-five million dollars
annually, he would want to net about two hundred
million dollars from the sale of his stake in it, and
from his entry into MCA he would want a promise of
"reasonable autonomy" and other assurances, an Ovitz
intimate says. And one man he would rely on for
counsel is Herbert Allen.

Second,
Bronfman must decide whether to sell Seagram's
fifteen-per-cent stake in Time Warner, which is worth
two billion dollars, and which Allen helped Bronfman
buy last year. Within the investment-banking
community, one hears mild derision over speculation
that Bronfman and Allen, as soon as the MCA sale was
set,did not exercise Seagram's leverage on Time
Warner, the world's largest communications company, to
extract a steep exit price. This is what the
investorKirk Kerkorian may be trying to doby
threatening a takeover of Chrysler. The practice is
called "greenmail," and Allen considers it a form of
extortion. Still, there are Allen clients--NBC, which
is owned by General Electric, and perhaps two or three
others--who might like to be partners with Time
Warner. 

Finally, the road for Seagram to
acquire or become partners with a TV network could
pass through Allen. Seagram needs a network for the
same reason that Twentieth Century Fox, Warner Bros.,
and Paramount started their own networks: studios want
a guaranteed distribution system for their
television-production factories. At the moment,
however, Bronfman is not thinking about a network. "I
have nothing on my plate but understanding MCA," he
says. "This is a big enough bite for us. Once we
understand the business, there will be a whole lot of
opportunities for growing." When Bronfman is ready to
make another move, Allen has a client--NBC,
again--that is searching for a global partner.


ALLEN owns nearly forty per cent of
Allen & Company, his family owns thirty-five per cent
more, and fifteen directors own the rest. Associates
estimate Allen's private fortune to be a billion
dollars--a sum that helps account for his
independence. His firm employs a hundred and sixty
people and occupies two floors of a building on Fifth
Avenue in the Fifties. Allen hasa modest office whose
windows overlook Fifth Avenue, and which contains only
a desk with a brown leather desk chair, a beige couch,
two blue suede armchairs, and a third blue chair
opposite the desk. Allen says that when he is not in
the middle of a big deal hisinvestment-banking duties
consume about twenty per cent of his time.



With clients, Allen can be blunt, as he
was with Matsushita. Edgar Bronfman, Jr., says that
candor is the quality in Allen that most impresses
him. "He tells you what he believes, whether you hear
it or not," Bronfman says. One witness recalls that
when Bronfman was acquiring his stake in Time Warner,
and Time Warner's C.E.O., Gerald Levin, refused to
invite him to jointhe board and refused to solicit his
advice, Allen was a hawk. ...
http://www.kenauletta.com/theconsigliere.html

---->ACTOR CLIFF ROBERTSON ON ALLEN & CO. AND THE
MAFIA (AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF SPIELBERG'S CLOSE
ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND)

CR: When David McClintock wrote the book, Indecent
Exposure, which was about my blowing the whistle on
this whole Columbia Pictures-David Begelman
scandal....

JF: What year was that written, do you know?

CR: I guess it was probably 1980, 1981. He said, "Are
you willing to cooperate?" I said, "Of course! I'm not
going to hide from the truth." So he wrote a very good
book and he made a lot of money. I'm glad for him. But
all the characters, with the exception of me, ended up
making a lot of money. Begelman got, ended up he got a
severance thing and a lot of money. And all the other
people did too. But one of the figures in the book
evidently--and it's pretty obvious--said to
McClintock, or made an agreement with McClintock--and
I never confronted David on this, but in a way I have,
but I never would embarrass him--that he would tell
David who said what in the board room, because he was
on the board, with this one other guy--who said what,
but he wanted his half whitened a little bit, so David
kind of made him look like kind of almost a victim,
but he wasn't a victim, he ended up with a lot of
money too. This is not an actor, this is another one
of these big shots. So you see what had happened.

Well, then I got a call from Lucien.... I want to say
Wainscott [Truscott]. A good writer. He was writing an
article for The New York Times, to raise a lot of
hell. It was [for the] Sunday supplement, and it was
going to be called "The ... something of Hollywood" [
editor’s note: “Hollywood’s Wall Street Connection”].
It was about the ALLEN BROTHERS, Charlie Allen. That
was not the original name, but they have a company
called Allen--Herbert Allen and Charlie Allen. Now,
this Herbert Allen, Jr., you've probably heard about
him, he was a big wheel, he was the head of--he sold
Columbia to Sony and he's the son of Herbert Allen.
They move in a fast track. They were very powerful,
very rich. Now, the more old respectable brokerage
firms, my friends tell me, that the Allen brothers are
considered smart, but they choose not to do business
with them because they've had a lot of ties with
organized crime. They started as bucket brokers in the
twenties. Do you know what a bucket broker is?

JF: No, I don't.

CR: Bucket broker was the term--see, anybody and
everybody--filling station operators were selling
stocks in those days. My former wife's father, who
didn't even graduate from high school, had to quit
school at fourteen, he ended up a stock broker--a lot
of people did--anybody and everyone. Well, the Allen
brothers were these brothers--I don't know what their
original name was, Jewish name--but they started a
brokerage firm. And they were known in those days as
bucket brokers. A bucket broker was a guy that was
taking all these orders on a phone, and then after
he'd get the order, he'd just throw it in the bucket.

There've been a lot of questions, but they've never
been to jail. Very powerful in New York. At any rate,
Ray Stark, who was power without portfolio because he
had done “Funny Girl,” and he was very powerful at
Columbia and did some other pictures and had been very
successful. And I knew Ray, he's a smart little guy.
You'd see him up there, used to go up there with his
wife, skiing, from New Jersey. Deceptively kind of a
funny little guy--funny always kind of, but could be
not a guy to have as an enemy.

JF: Yes, not someone to mess with.

CR: Right. They say that he is one of the guys, along
with Charlie Allen and Herbert Allen....

Lucien Truscott! He's the guy! Lucien called me one
time and said, "Cliff, they didn't go back far
enough." I said, "Who?" He said, "Newsweek and all
these people talking about Hollywoodgate. It goes back
further than that." I said, "What do you mean?" He
said, "It goes back to pre-Castro in Cuba." I said,
"Lucien, what's that got to do with it?" He said,
"Before Castro took over Cuba, there was big gambling
in Cuba, in Havana, and the head of it was a charmer
who had been arrested forty times and never served in
jail, named Myer Lansky." Myer Lansky was a big, big
organized crime figure, never served a day in jail. He
was Jewish, but he was the top guy in the Italian
mafia, but he was the brains. He was in charge of the
gambling. When Castro took over, he kicked the
gamblers out. Myer set up another gambling syndicate
in the Bahamas, and among his partners were Carroll
Rosenblum, who died very mysteriously off of Palm
Beach water, witnessed by a Canadian visitor, a guy in
a scuba suit, and he used to go swimming every
morning. Carroll Rosenblum was the owner of the L.A.
Rams. His wife is now the owner. Now they've moved to
St. Louis, I guess. Carroll Rosenblum; Elliott Hyman
[phonetic spelling]; Ray Stark, partner of Elliott
Hyman; and a guy named--another big Canadian gambling
figure. I'll think of it right before it's over. But
these guys were all in partners with Myer Lansky.

Now, when Ray Stark and the Columbia boys, according
to Lucien Truscott, the master plan was, they knew
they were going to make a lot of money with a picture
called “[Close] Encounters of a Third Kind,” about
aliens. And the master plan, according to Lucien
Truscott--and Lucien Truscott is a very good writer,
his father was a big hero in World War II--you know,
West Point and all this stuff. When they knew that
Encounters of the Third Kind was going to be
successful, according to Lucien--he told me on the
phone--the master plan was to puff up the stock and,
right at the height, sell it to United Artists. He
said they stood to make sixty additional million
dollars. "So when you blew the whistle on these
people, you were not being very friendly. And
therefore, it's no surprise if you're not working, but
it may not be no surprise if something happens to
you." ...

---->ALLEN & CO. AND THE CIA-MAFIA'S CASTLE BANK: "
... After the O.S.S. was disbanded, [Paul] Helliwell
worked within the War Department Far East intelligence
division before opening a law firm in Miami where he
worked for the CIA, handling corporate legal matters.
Helliwell represented Claire Chennault in financing
his airline with drug smuggling, and contracting with
the CIA's sister agency, Office of Policy
Coordination, headed by Frank Wisner, before the two
agencies were merged in the 1950s.

Sea Supply Corporation was set up in Miami in 1949
with its main office in Bangkok, Thailand. Helliwell
in 1952 was attorney for Sea Supply, as well as
general counsel for the Royal Consulate of Thailand,
the address of which was Helliwell's law office. Sea
Supply was a cover for Chennault's Civil Air Transport
(CAT), while also channeling assistance to Thailand's
police chief who was involved in the opium trade. Once
the Far East money stream was set up, Helliwell
focused on Guatemala and helped Frank Wisner and Tommy
Corcoran - lobbyist for the airlines and for the
United Fruit Co. - orchestrate the coup which forced
President Arbenz into exile. Helliwell acted as
"paymaster," the man who made the off-the-books
payments with cash that did not appear on government
budgets. Helliwell also headed the Republican Party in
Florida, bringing him into contact with Bebe Rebozo,
one of Richard Nixon's biggest financial supporters.

Helliwell's law partner Mary Jane Melrose, moved to
Freeport, The Bahamas, in 1969 serving as an officer
and director of the Port Authority and also of
Intercontinental Diversified. Payoffs were made to the
Prime Minister from the corporation's accounts, which
had been laundered through the Castle Bank & Trust,
set up by [CIA operative Paul] Helliwell's law firm.
The year before Melrose began handling operations
personally from the island, the Port Authority had
considered transferring shares to a Philippine mining
company named Benquet, founded in 1903. The group
Helliwell represented was involved in a consortium
with a group represented by ALLEN & CO. - a merchant
bank in New York composed of Charles and Herbert
Allen, who held the largest block of Benquet stock.

According to J. Bryan III and Charles J.V. Murphy in
The Windsor Story (Dell 1979), Charles Allen of Allen
& Co. was one of the Duke of Windsor's most respected
advisers (p. 609). Bryan and Murphy also indicate that
Clint Murchison sold to both Robert Young and the Duke
shares in his Canadian Delhi, from which the Duke made
a profit of more than half a million pounds. While the
three of them were in Mexico, Young attempted to sell
used rolling stock there, while Murchison attempted to
buy mineral rights to offshore properties.

The parent company for Castle Bank was Freeport's
first bank, Mercantile Bank & Trust (founded in 1962),
which owned one of the five shares of Castle.
Mercantile had itself been formed by a syndicate which
included the Cayship Investment Co. of Panama and
other entities owned by Daniel K. Ludwig.

Legal documents revealed that Mercantile had been set
up by Inge Gordon Mosvold, a Norwegian shipbuilder. By
1965, [the CIA's] Paul Helliwell was a director of
Mercantile Bank.

Documents also showed a close connection between
Helliwell and the Chicago law firm of Burton Kanter,
who was a tax attorney for members of organized crime
in Chicago, whose primary means of laundering money
was into hotel chains. ... "

Surprisingly, this Bahamian finance scheme coincided
with much of the political background of Richard
Nixon, whose first government job was in 1943 at the
Office of Price Administration, where he met Cuban
American Bebe Rebozo and future-Senator George
Smathers. Nixon's job was to regulate the prices of
rubber goods, which were rationed during the war.
Smathers was an attorney for crime figures smuggling
tires from Cuba, while Rebozo owned a gas station from
which he sold the tires on the black-market. A few
years later when Nixon ran his first campaign for
Congress, he was assisted by mobsters working for
Mickey Cohen, who sold heroin in Los Angeles. Through
Rebozo, Nixon also met other organized crime figures,
many who had been involved in Cuban casinos before
Castro threw them out. Some of these men set up
businesses in The Bahamas, once it was developed.
Nixon was an attorney for National Bulk Carriers,
which had contracts with General Development Corp.,
run by [the CIA's] Wallace Groves and Lou Chesler, to
build the harbor. In his presidential campaigns, Nixon
was the first Republican to have union support--from
the Teamsters, headed by James Hoffa, who loaned
hundreds of millions of dollars from the Central
States Pension Fund for construction of casinos in Las
Vegas. [Source: Gary W. Potter, Professor, Criminal
Justice and Police Studies, and sources cited
therein.]
http://www.newsmakingnews.com/lm4,30,02,harvardtoenronpt4.htm

Senator Bill Bradley is Managing Director of Allen &
Company LLC.
http://www.gridpoint.com/company/advisors/

"Trends: Secretive New York bank Allen & Co. gets into
Silicon Valley media tech"
http://www.blogforward.com/money/2008/02/21/trends-secretive-new-york-bank-allen-co-gets-into-silicon-valley-media-tech/

••••••
PART NINE: The Composting of Hannah Wit

As mentioned in Part One, there is a solution to
Theresa Duncan's "suicide" ... any volunteers who care
to do so can confirm the information I am about to
report independently. In fact, I am asking that other
researchers follow this path and the overall
investigation and report their findings objectively.

Now that the primary CIA and Mafia connections have
been established, this is an opportune moment to pause
for an interlude, albeit a dismal one, to examine how
they interact.

----> MEDIABISTRO IS IN THE BUSINESS OF "DATA MINING";
BACK TO THE SOVERNS AND WITS: In Part Eight of this
series, we met LOGICAT'S DAVID E. WIT (employer of
MediaBistro's OMER ALGAR from Istanbul before he
signed on as Laurel Touby's chief technology officer
((in which capacity he does "DATA MINING," ie.
gathering intelligence on MediaBistro's 400,000
members, AS BIZTECH REPORTS: " ... Mediabistro.com has
been using business analytic tools, including
data-mining software, to better understand its
members, Algar says. ... Data-mining apps can
aggregate and analyze customer interactions from the
time someone is introduced to the company, Algar says.
What do they do on the Internet? What events have they
attended? ..." MediaBistro.com expends precious
capital to know events attended by it's members ...
this benefits MB somehow? Why does MB want to know
about customer ineractions? Does MB inform paying
members that their personal data is "mined,"
interpersonal relationships tracked?)), formerly of
CAL ENERGY and its symbiotic relationship with
FIRSTIER BANK, which laundered Larry King of Omaha's
stolen $38-million. David Wit's stepfather is MICHAEL
I. SOVERN, the seventeenth president of Columbia
University* and a director at a number of major
corporations - INCLUDING AT&T and COMCAST. (The
founder of Heritage Communications, now AT&T Cable, of
course, was JIM COWNIE, the Des Moines, Iowa
telecommunications entrepreneur, and the subject of
Theresa Duncan's blogging when she died ... ) The
significance of Comcast will soon be apparent.

Take a closer look:

Michael Ira Sovern

----> Michael I Sovern's bona fidés: Director at
COMCAST Corporation Class Aaa Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania; SERVICES /CATV SYSTEMS, Director since
November 2002. Prior to November 2002, he served as a
director of AT&T Corp. for more than five years. From
his Wikipedia entry: "Sovern has served on the board
of trustees of the ASIAN CULTURAL COUNCIL, formerly
the John D. Rockefeller 3rd Fund, based in New York
and in Asia. He also served as a board member and
juror for the Pulitzer Prizes."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_I._Sovern"

----> CIA CONNECTION: The ASIAN CULTURAL COUNCIL's
endowment is funded in large part by the Ford
Foundation, THE STARR FOUNDATION (chaired by Maurice
"Hank" Greenberg of AIG infamy), and the CIA's
LAURANCE S. ROCKEFELLER.

----> Laurance Rockefeller: "Laurance may have been
less visible than his brothers, but he was equally
steeped in the sordid world of covert intelligence and
disinformation. In the 1950s, he served on a panel
that released a report penned by Henry Kissinger (see
Part Eight of this series) International Security -
The Military Aspect, calling for successive
escalations in defense spending of $3 billion per year
to 1965. In 1973 he was named a director of Reader's
Digest, a fount of CIA cold war black propaganda. (To
indulge in a bit of necessary guilt by association,
Melvin Laird, a Digest officer, is also a director of
SAIC, the "remote viewing" sponsor.) Rockefeller is A
TRUSTEE OF M.I.T., a director of the Alfred P. Sloan
Foundation, Olin Mathieson, etc., etc." (DR. W. GERALD
AUSTEN, who we met in Part Seven of this series,
Kissinger's longtime friend, is also a trustee of
MIT.)
http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/hambone/rock.html

----> Sovern and the WIT family: "Sovern married four
times: First to Lenore Sanders, to the former Eleanor
Leen in 1963, to the former JOAN ROSENTHAL WIT
(deceased after a long struggle with cancer) in 1974,
and finally to Dr. Patricia Margaret Walsh in 1995."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_I._Sovern

JOAN ROSENTHAL WIT had a son, David E. Wit, whom we've
met, and a daughter, Hannah E. Wit.

----> HANNAH WIT, 42, the daughter of Harold Maurice
Wit and Joan Rosenthal [Wit] Sovern, DIED ON JULY 3,
2007 - EXACTLY ONE WEEK BEFORE THERESA DUNCAN WAS
FOUND DEAD IN NEW YORK CITY ...
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02EED6123AF931A15754C0A9619C8B63

----> HANNAH EDNA WIT - DAVID E. WIT'S SISTER - ONCE
DEAD, WAS LITERALLY TURNED INTO COMPOST. Her boyfriend
was KCBS (Oakland) reporter DOUGLAS SOVERN. Ms. Wit on
death: "Hannah Wit once told her longtime boyfriend
what should happen to her body after her death. No
toxic embalming fluid for preservation, she insisted.
No fancy metal casket lined in satin. No concrete
vault around her grave. No elaborate marker. Wit just
wanted to disappear. 'I want to be eaten by the
worms,' she said.

"'You can't do that,' DOUG SOVERN - a reporter for the
CBS affiliate in Oakland, California, remembers
telling Ms. Wit.

Doug Sovern, environmentally-friendly KCBS radio
peronality

" ... After she died this year at age 42, Sovern, a
radio reporter who lives in Oakland, did some research
and was surprised to find he could honor Wit's unusual
wish. He learned he could commission a "green" burial,
leaving behind nothing more than biodegradable COMPOST
to fuel plant life. ... "
http://greenburialcouncil.org/files/sacbee.pdf

----> HANNAH WIT WAS DOUG SOVERN'S STEP-SISTER ... AND
"COMPANION." Yet Sovern has a blog and it does not
mention Hannah's death. Checking the archive, there
were two entries in Sovern's blog for July, 2007, when
she died - neither mentions the death of his
step-sister and "companion."
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE2DC1F3EF93BA3575AC0A965958260


Hannah lived on the margins of the same CIA Old Boys
Club that recruited Laurel Touby, but she obviously
wasn't one of them. SF Chronicle Obit: "Hannah Edna
Wit January 27, 1965 - July 3, 2007. Hannah passed
away Tuesday, July 3 at the much-too-young age of 42
... Hannah was born in New York City, the daughter of
Harold and Joan Rosenthal Wit. She was a graduate of
the Dalton School and Wesleyan University. Hannah
moved to the Bay Area in 1987. She worked tirelessly
for many years serving wonderful people who are often
shoved to the margins of society. She was an attendant
for severely physically disabled people, then taught
developmentally disabled adults at the Clausen House
Independent Living Program in Oakland. ... "
http://www.sfchroniclemarketplace.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/07/08/MNWITHANNA49.DTL

Compost

Hannah is worm food now and will never be exhumed ...


So, you ask ...


----> How did Hannah Wit die (precisely one week
before THERESA DUNCAN)? ...


" ... [Hannah] Wit, who committed SUICIDE in July, is
buried on a wind-swept hill, close to the ocean and
Mount Tamalpais. When her loved ones arrived at the
site after a short indoor memorial service, they
spotted a flock of wild peacocks and a baby deer. A
hawk soared overhead. Wit's beloved dog Mujo sat at
attention as her body was lowered into the ground.
'Hannah was a very special person,' Sovern said. 'She
was into nature. She was a vegetarian and very
organic. She loved animals and she cared about people.
In the end, I felt that we did the right thing for
her.' It was exactly what she would have wanted. ... "

"Suicide" ...


----> POSTSCRIPT: "Don’t talk to me of loss; I bury
pills in applesauce." - Poet Sarah Hannah

Sarah Hannah, a graduate of Columbia University, took
her life in Brookline on May 23, 2007 - within a
couple months of Theresa Duncan's death. Theresa wrote
that Sarah Hannah had dated Jeremy Blake, who threw
himself into the sea ... or was thrown ...
********
* Columbia University and the U.S. Intelligence
Community

Excerpted from: North American Congress on Latin
America, Who Rules Columbia? -- Original 1968 Strike
Edition (New York: NACLA, 1970), pages 13-17 of 40
pages.

The very nature of the Cold War struggle against
Communism and the drive for empire require extensive
non-military resources. The U.S. intelligence
community, under the direction of the Central
Intelligence Agency, is in charge of enlisting the
expertise and the cover of non-governmental
organizations. Through covert penetration of civilian
branches of the government, voluntary groups,
corporations, law firms, research centers, cultural
projects, foundations and universities, the CIA is
able to mobilize and coordinate for government service
much of the seemingly a-political work of U.S.
civilian society.

The primary tasks of the U.S. intelligence community
are gathering and analyzing strategic information for
decision-makers and positioning trained personnel in
key locations to manipulate the course of events. (For
a history and discussion of the CIA see, Wise and
Ross, The Invisible Government.) Like several large
universities, Columbia offers excellent opportunities
for achieving these goals. Most of the evidence points
to indirect relationships, but because the CIA is
closed and secret and because the Columbia
Administration refuses to discuss its CIA relations,
it is quite possible that CIA-CU ties are far more
direct and pervasive than the public data now
indicates. In fact, our own information indicates that
these ties are so direct as to involve a highly
influential group of men in dual positions of
leadership -- inside Columbia and in the CIA itself.

One level of association involves individuals
connected with Columbia who are also affiliated with
CIA-related organizations. Three types of
CIA-relationships are identified in the following
table.

CIA-Related Organization
(Position in CIA-Related Organization) Name and
Columbia Position

I. ORGANIZATIONS HEAVILY FUNDED BY CIA:

Asia Foundation
(Tr) Grayson Kirk, President

African-American Institute
(Tr) Arthur Krim, Trustee
(Tr) L. Gray Cowan, Dir. SIA African Institute
(Tr) Louis G. Cowan, Dir. Special Prog. Grad. School
of Journalism

American Society of African Culture
(Ed.Bd.) L. Gray Cowan, Dir. SIA African Institute

Committee of Correspondence
(former Pres) Anna Lord Strauss, SIA contributor
(Mem) Alice Stetten, SIA Adv.

Free Europe Committee
(Mem) Frank Altschul, SIA Adv.
(Mem) Adolf A. Berle, Prof., SIA Adv.
(Mem) Ernest A. Gross, SIA Adv., Past Trustee, Barnard
College


II. ORGANIZATIONS WHICH RECEIVED SOME FUNDS FROM THE
CIA:

Institute for International Education
(Tr) Grayson Kirk, President
(Tr) Lawrence Wien, Trustee
(Pres) Kenneth Holland, SIA Adv.

John H. Whitney Trust
(Tr) Walter N. Thayer, Trustee

American Council for Emigres in the Professions

(Pres) Harry J. Carman, Dn. Emer.
(Dr) Horace L. Friess, Prof.
(Dr) Wesley J. Hennessy, Assoc. Dn. School of
Engineering
(Dr) Frank Tannenbaum, Prof. Emer.
(Dr) Rosemary Parks, Former Pres, Barnard College
(Exec. Dr) Joe Jefferson, former Dean of
Administration
(Adv) Millicent C. McIntosh, Pres. Emer., Barnard
College

III. COVERTLY PASSED CIA FUNDS:

Farfield Foundation
(Dr) William A.M. Burden, Trustee
(Dr) Gardner Cowles, SIA Adv., Trustee Teachers
College

Foundation for Youth and Student Affairs
(Dr) Francis T.P. Plimpton, Trustee Barnard College

Cleveland H. Dodge Foundation
(Pres) Cleveland E. Dodge, Trustee, Teachers College

Edward John Noble Foundation
(Dr) Eugene C. Bewkes, SIA Adv.
(Dr) Alger B. Chapman, SIA Adv.
(Dr) David S. Smith, SIA Assoc. Dean

David, Josephine and Winfield Baird Foundation, Inc.
financial contributor to Columbia

William Benton Foundation
financial contributor to Columbia

Catherwood Foundation
financial contributor to Columbia

W. Alton Jones Foundation
financial contributor to Columbia

J.M. Kaplan Fund, Inc.
financial contributor to Columbia

Lucius N. Littauer Foundation
financial contributor to Columbia

Aaron E. Norman Fund, Inc.
financial contributor to Columbia

Rubicon Foundation
financial contributor to Columbia

Legend: (Dr)=Director; (Tr)=Trustee; (Dn)=Dean;
(Ed.Bd.)=Editorial Board; (Ad)=Advisor;
(Emer)=Emeritus; SIA = School of International
Affairs; (Mem)=Member

Another indirect connection between the CIA and the
School of International Affairs (SIA) is demonstrated
by the presence of Eugene C. Bewkes and Alger B.
Chapman, as advisory council members of SIA, and David
S. Smith, Associate Dean of SIA, Director of the
International Fellows Program and a member of the
Administrative Board of the Research Institute on
Communist Affairs. All three men are directors of the
Edward John Noble Foundation, which besides passing
money for the CIA, has also given over $2 million to
SIA. Smith is also tied to the intelligence community
through his past position as Asst. Sec. of the Air
Force where he was involved with the CIA's U-2 flights
over the Soviet Union.

The Farfield Foundation, which was a large contributor
to the Congress for Cultural Freedom, the American
Society of African Culture and the American Council
for Emigres in the Professions, is well represented at
Columbia through Gardner Cowles [Teachers College
Trustee] and Columbia College Trustee William A.M.
Burden, both of whom are directors of the foundation.
Burden, one of the foundation's founders, is also a
director of Lockheed Aircraft which served as a CIA
front for the U-2 flights. Farfield made contributions
in 1962 and 1964 to Columbia for travel and study
fellowships.

Another important member of SIA's Advisory Council and
a major SIA contributor is Sigurd Larmon, president of
the advertising firm, Young and Rubicam, which is
rapidly increasing the number of its overseas
accounts. Mr. Larmon was one of a nine-member
committee chosen by Eisenhower in 1953 to help perfect
the country's psychological warfare program. According
to The New York Times, the "committee presumably would
study means of improving the organization and
techniques of the Central Intelligence Agency, the
Psychological Strategy Board, the Voice of America,
the Information Services of the State and other
departments, and the psychological operations of the
Army in Korea."

In February, 1967, many students and faculty began an
inquiry into the School of International Affairs to
see if it was funded through conduits, or indirectly
by the CIA. Andrew W. Cordier, Dean of the SIA,
responded by saying, "There is no indication that any
of the foundations which have supported the school and
its associated institutes have in turn been financed
by the CIA."

The investigation was continued by Professor Serge
Lang of the Mathematics Department, who was denied
access to the School's budget. When Lang asked if
Columbia held any contract the existence of which was
classified, Warren Goodell, Associate Director of
Projects and Grants, said he was not at liberty to
comment. Ralph S. Halford, then Dean of Graduate
Faculties (now a special asst. to Kirk) stated the
Administration's official policy on CIA funding:
"University policy would not preclude the acceptance
... of project support from the CIA." He went on to
say that if a project was in line with regular
academic duty, endorsed by the chairman or dean of the
division in which it would be conducted, and approved
by the Office of Projects and Grants as being
appropriate to a University, "the University would not
hesitate to accept ... an offer by the CIA to furnish
funds in support of the project."

The student-professor investigation concentrated on
the research projects of SIA, and late in 1967 a
source that remains anonymous indicated that the
Research Project on National Income in East Central
Europe had been CIA-funded since 1961, receiving
$125,000 a year. Columbia acknowledged that his charge
was accurate, and indicated that the project was
financed by the CIA's Office of Economic Research.
Cordier immediately revealed that Dr. Thad P. Alton,
Director of the National Income Project, had
contracted for funds directly with the CIA, without
going through the dean.

Alton and his staff were required to produce reports
of their findings. Four books concerning the national
income and product of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and
Poland were financed by the CIA and published by
Columbia University Press.

After students exposed it, the Columbia administration
admitted that the Research Project on National Income
in East Central Europe in the SIA was CIA sponsored.
At least two of the researchers on this project, Claus
Wittich and Vaclav Holesovsky, had worked for Radio
Free Europe just prior to their Columbia-CIA work. The
CIA was still funding the National Income Project
until the recent strike when pressure from students
and faculty forced the University to take steps to
sever this tie.

The SIA deals with areas of study which interest the
CIA. At least three of the members of the Advisory
Council, Frank Altschul, Adolf A. Berle and Ernest A.
Gross have served with the Free Europe Committee (FEC)
which administers Radio Free Europe (RFE). The FEC-RFE
complex draws on CIA funds for the radio operations
and, more important, supports Eastern European exile
groups which serve as an important source of
intelligence for the CIA. The relationship between SIA
and FEC goes much deeper than is indicated by the ties
of these three advisory members to both groups. In
1955, FEC contributed $55,000 to Columbia's School of
International Affairs to be used "to further teaching
and research on Eastern Europe." Also, many SIA alumni
work for RFE and RFE personnel come to SIA to do
research, especially at the Research Institute on
Communist Affairs. Another, more indirect tie between
Columbia and FEC is indicated by the fact that Grayson
Kirk's son, John, was a director of FEC.

As important as direct CIA involvement in SIA research
projects, is Columbia's association with two
organizations, the Asia Foundation and the Council on
Foreign Relations.

The Asia Foundation has received much if not all of
its financial support from the CIA. It has a budget of
about $7 million a year to provide "private American
assistance to those Asian groups and individuals
working for continued social and economic
improvement." The foundation has resident
representatives in 14 Asian countries, with American
offices in New York and San Francisco. At various
times, representatives have been kicked out of
Cambodia, Indonesia and more recently, India,
reputedly for their various intelligence activities.

The person who makes the link between the Asia
Foundation and Columbia is Grayson Kirk, president of
the University. Kirk has been on the board of the
Foundation for many years, and is one of its most
influential trustees. In 1962, when Robert Blum,
president of the Foundation, resigned, Kirk was
appointed Chairman of the Nominating Committee of the
Trustees, whose purpose was to select a new president.
In his search for suitable candidates for this
position, Kirk sought the advice and suggestions of
Dean Rusk and Averell Harriman, a move which indicates
the importance of the Foundation. He also encouraged
recommendations from George S. Moore, President of the
First National City Bank of New York, and A.L.
Nickerson, Chairman of the Board of Socony Mobil Oil
Company, Inc., concerning members of the bank and of
Socony Mobil, which had experience in Asian affairs.
One man who was proposed as a possible choice was
Robert Amory, but Kirk himself is reported to have
feared that he might bring embarrassment to the Asia
Foundation. From 1952-1962, Amory was Deputy Director
of the CIA.

The relationship between the Asia Foundation and
Columbia is a reciprocal one. Since at least 1961, the
Foundation has given grants to Columbia's School of
Journalism, recently financing the Japanese Science
Writers' Project and Fellowships for Asiatic
Journalists. Grayson Kirk's long and intimate
association with the Asia Foundation suggests what an
able and prominent supporter of the CIA this
university president really is. It follows that many
of his administrative decisions as President of
Columbia University have also reflected the interests,
priorities and concerns of the CIA. Certainly such
decisions would not infringe on these concerns.
Consider Kirk's attitude toward the NSA (National
Student Association)-CIA exposure: "One shouldn't jump
to conclusions that the people in these organizations
were being used as spies." The money was donated "more
for propaganda purposes than for anything else."
Kirk's only complaint about the CIA's funding of
non-governmental organizations was that "a certain
amount of this seems to have been handled clumsily by
people in Washington."

The Council on Foreign Relations is probably the most
prestigious and influential organization in the area
of international relations and policy. Its members
include former government officials, university
administrators and corporate executives. The Council
publishes books, holds conferences, hosts foreign
dignitaries, advises the government and involves
itself in other activities necessary to influence U.S.
foreign policy. The following list demonstrates the
close relationship between Columbia University and the
Council.

Council on Foreign Relations and Columbia University

Henry M. Wriston (Pres., 1964) SIA Advisory Council
Frank Altschul (VP and Sec'y) SIA Advisory Council
Hamilton Fish Armstrong (Director) SIA Advisory
Council
William A.M. Burden (Director) Trustee, Columbia
Joseph E. Johnson (Director) SIA Advisory Council
Grayson L. Kirk (Director) President, Columbia
David B. Truman (Member) VP and Provost, Columbia
Max Ascoli (Member) SIA Advisory Council
Harding F. Bancroft (Member) SIA Advisory Council
Adolf A. Berle (Member) SIA Advisory Council
Charles M. Brinckerhoff (Member) SIA Advisory Council
Kenneth Holland (Member) SIA Advisory Council
George S. Moore (Member) SIA Advisory Council
William I. Nichols (Member) SIA Advisory Council
Ogden R. Reid (Member) SIA Advisory Council
Edward L. Tinker (Member) SIA Advisory Council
David B. Smith (Member) SIA Associate Dean
Prof. Philip E. Mosely (Member) SIA European Inst.
Prof. L. Gray Cowan (Member) SIA Inst. of African
Studies
Prof. Howard Wriggins (Member) SIA Southern Asia Inst.

Prof. William T.R. Fox (Member) SIA Inst. of War and
Peace Studies
Andrew W. Cordier (Member) Dean, Faculty of Int'l
Affairs, SIA
Arthur Hays Sulzberger (Member) Trustee Emeritus,
Columbia
Marshall D. Shulman (Member) SIA Russian Inst.
Although many CIA conduit foundations have given
contributions to the Council, it has never been
exposed as a recipient of CIA funds. In fact, the
Council appears to serve a much more direct and
important function for the CIA. Convincing evidence of
this is the series of discussion groups on
"Intelligence and Foreign Policy" that the Council
hosted in late 1967 and early 1968, to which Vice
President David Truman was Columbia's representative.
A list of the topics discussed is revealing. The list
is as follows: "Intelligence and Foreign Policy: The
American Experience;" "Intelligence and Policy Making:
The Task Ahead;" "Covert Operations;" "Intelligence
Operations and Private American Institutions;" and
"U.S. Intelligence Organizations in the Future."

The discussions were led by individuals with extensive
knowledge of CIA operations. For example, Richard
Bissell (former Deputy Director of Plans for the CIA
and architect of the Bay of Pigs invasion) reviewed
the activities and functions of CIA agents overseas
and discussed why it is better to work through
nationals when possible; he also discussed when agents
should and should not work through and with the
knowledge of the U.S. Ambassador. In addition, he
spoke of CIA funding of private organizations and the
effect on their programs after the use of foundations
as conduits for CIA money were exposed. Other known
members of the CIA and other intelligence
organizations who participated were Robert Amory, Jr.,
Allen W. Dulles, McGeorge Bundy and Franklin A.
Lindsay.

What follows is an informal record from sources close
to the University administration of the topics
considered in the "Intelligence Operations and Private
American Institutions" discussion group:
Short-run view - Advantages and disadvantages of
having the CIA fund a private institution:

Types of organizations and relations:

Private U.S. organizations created or used as fronts -
e.g. Western Enterprises in Taiwan;
American Universities - Research; Credibility of
American scholars abroad?
Placement of individuals in private organizations for
cover-corporations; Major propaganda organizations -
e.g. Radio Free Europe;

Reasons for covert methods:
To protect relationship with friendly governments or
groups;
Protection from reprisals;
Use of friendly governments to fake retaliatory
actions;
Avoid destroying activity which would occur if done
overtly;
Increase effect by not being aligned with U.S. source;

Avoid necessity of legal requirements;
Allow plausible denial when cover is exposed;
Avoid public accountability by Congress and
Administration for unpopular activity;
Avoid public commitment of U.S. prestige.

Issues:

Relationship of CIA and Universities;
Tragedy that closer relations have been largely
destroyed;
Some way must be found to reestablish relationship;
Overt means of support for NSA [National Student
Association]-type activities;
Means of control and termination of operations;
How to sense a shift in public attitudes;
How to develop a clearly American style of operations,
not patterned after Communist or British;
How to attract the right people and be aware of public
opinion;
Is the CIA becoming too much of a career service?

The importance of the relationship between the
intelligence community and Columbia is great. The
universities and their personnel serve in an advisory
capacity and as a feed-back mechanism for intelligence
evaluation. Also, by involving academics in
intelligence, the CIA is able to create a favorable
disposition towards the secrecy and manipulation which
has become essential to many government operations in
America. Policy initiative during these sessions more
often than not comes from the intelligence community
-- as is clearly the case in many situations where
foreign policy is made.

Integration of a major university like Columbia into
the ranks of this elite means not only that the CIA is
provided with needed scholarship on international
affairs and an academic cover for foreign penetration,
but, most important, it thereby has the power to
enlist Americas own intellectual resources in the
barren campaigns of the Cold War.
http://www.cia-on-campus.org/columbia.edu/columbia.html

••••••
PART TEN: 666 Grand Ave., Des Moines, Iowa

Now we look for an individual lurking behind these
separate "suicides." If one exists, he will be the key
to everything. With the deaths of Hannah Wit and
Duncan/Blake serving as triangulation markers (ideal
for this purpose, because there is no ostensible
connection, and anything they have in common could
well offer a solution to the mystery ... not to
mention why MediaBistro has been so intent on defaming
the "Golden Suicides"), the intelligence ties and
unexplained deaths - including the widely-exploited
deaths of Duncan and Jeremy Blake - should now
converge.

There is another consideration: Theresa's friend FRANK
MORALES - who wrote articles for my web site a few
years ago - was with Jeremy Blake just before her body
was found. This remains to contextualize: Morales told
reporters that he felt Theresa's death was "a warning
shot" ... At this time, the 9/11 movement in New York
that Frank Morales was a prominent figure in had more
or less concluded that a wealthy and well-connected
individual from Omaha, Nebraska was key to
understanding September 11, 2001. Bear this in mind
while reading on.

Simple steps lead to the central figure in the deaths
of Duncan (highly-publicized) and Hannah Wit (very
obscure):

----> Odd, isn't it, that these two "suicides" should
occur seven days apart (Part Nine)? Two untimely
deaths separated by a land mass. It's doubtful that
they knew one another. They had little in common ...
yet there was one significant connection: WARREN
BUFFETT - whose father was a homegrown American
fascist subscriber to the Birch Society, funded early
on by Nazis in postwar Germany, a billionaire with
killer instincts, multiple pathologies and a CIA
history.

The Oracle of Omaha connects the death of Theresa
Duncan, Hannah Wit - and too many others ...

----> Recall that MediaBistro.Com's OMER ALGAR hails
from Logicat, co-founded by DAVID E. WIT - composted
Hannah Wit's surviving brother.

----> David E. Wit - whose father is a director of
ALLEN & CO. (see Parts Four and Seven, in which the
CIA-Mafia's Allen is found in secret conclaves with
Warren Buffett) is a key director of CECI and parent
MID-AMERICAN ENERGY HOLDINGS CO.

That is, Wit and Buffett are business partners. And
they go way back.

The address of Mid-American Energy:

666 Grand Avenue
Des Moines, Iowa

(This is a bit eerie, considering that satanism was at
the heart of the John DeCamp's Omaha child sexual
trafficking allegations ... and that Logicat, Inc.'s
insignia is a black cat ... )

----> MID-AMERICAN ENERGY, which owns Cal Energy
(CECI), IS OWNED BY WARREN BUFFETT:

"Berkshire Hathaway owns MidAmerican Energy Holdings,
a utility conglomerate."
http://search.ft.com/ftArticle?queryText=MidAmerican%20Energy%20Holdings&id=071203000412&ct=0

----> Theresa Duncan was writing about an Omaha
pedophile ring, overseen by Franklin Credit Union's
Lawrence King, when she died.

----> Mr. King was financed by Warren Buffett, son of
Howard, who owns the company that David Wit directs.

Question: How much did the late Hannah Wit know about
the sexual trafficking (the same Theresa Duncan was
exploring when she decided to commit "suicide"), not
to mention the credit union looting that implicates
her brother - the son of an Allen & Co. director,
MediaBistro data miner Omer Algar's employer - and
Warren Buffett?

Basics:

CURRENT STATUS OF OMAHA BASED PEDOPHILE RING

"... President Bush has greeted Father Val Peter at
the White House to promote his 'faith-based
initiative', the idea embodied by the sex pervert,
Father Ritter. Val Peter, as head of Boystown and head
of its Board of Directors facilitated Larry King's
access to its finances and his children. He did this
with the help of Wall street billionaire, WARREN
BUFFETT, whose Berkshire Hathaway is based in Omaha.
Buffett was also good friends with Larry King- hosting
a party to celebrate his 10th wedding anniversary.
.... "
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?read=26295

----> The relationship between Buffett and the King of
Omaha, as detailed by Lincoln, Omaha attorney John
DeCamp in The Franklin Cover-Up. NOTE - "Buffett is a
director emeritus of one of the institutions that
merged to become FIRSTTIER," Larry King's cash
laundry, another Buffett connection to David Wit
(suggesting a long-term relationship):

Pg. 148-50 - "One of King’'s earliest boosters was the
wife of a man with an unrivaled reputation for shrewd
investments - Warren E Buffett, chairman of Berkshire
Hathaway. Based in Omaha, Buffett is the second
biggest stockholder of the Washington Post and a
controlling power in ABC-TV. ... Wifh $4.4 billion to
his name, Buffett is ranked by Fortune magazine as the
24th richest man in the world, and in the United
States among the top five. In Omaha, the Buffett
mystique gains from the fact that there are two
hundred-some "Buffett millionares, who made their
fortunes by investing through Buffett’'s Berkshire
Hathaway.

" ... He contributes to groups advocating radical
population reduction. His Warren Buffett Foundation
lists hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants to
Negative Population Growth, the Association for
Voluntary Sterilization, Planned Parenthood, the
Population Growth Council and Population Institute,
the Sex Information and Education Council, and Federal
American Immigration Reform. Negative Population
Growth members, according to the group’s literature.
...

"Language about Buffett, and his own, abounds with
references to his 'cult.' A 1991 Washington Post
write-up of his annual shareholders’ meeting quoted
guests along those lines: 'It’s like worshipping at
the altar of the high priest of finance...,' 'He has
a very large, cultish following.' ...

" ... His 'folksy' image belies a killer instinct.

"Backing from Buffett’s socialite wife, Susie, came
early in the rise of Larry King. Susie Buffett was a
volunteer at the credit union in its early days.
According to the Lincoln Journal-Star of March
19,1989, King "liked to tell the story of a woman
coming to the credit union to see him and being told
to return at 7:00 the next morning because he was so
busy. The woman was Susie Buffett, wife of billionaire
Warren Buffett, and she did come back to offer her
help at the credit union.

"For years, it has been part of Larry King lore in
Omaha, that the Buffetts' hosted a tenth wedding
anniversary party for him and Alice. James Traub’s
December 1991 Gentleman’s Quarterly article served as
a platform for Warren Buffettt to deny he had a role
in that affair, and to insinuate that perhaps the
party never happened: 'In 1979, King asked Susan
Buffettt if she would be willing to host his and
Alice’s tenth-anniversary party at her house....Susan
said yes, but her husband said no.

"Susan Albert, a close researched of the Franklin
scandal who has interviewed seveal people who attended
the anniversary party commented that the Buffett/Traub
account was carefully worded. Buffett avoided an
outright assertion that the party didn'’t take place,
but 'you’'d be left with the thought that it never
happened, if you didn’t know anything.'

Buffettt told Traub, "I knew that King was a phony...
It was like he had a big sign on his head that said,
PHONY, PHONY, PHONY."’ These protestations prompt the
question, why, if Buffettt saw so clearly that Larry
King was a fraud, he did not alert his friends at
FIRSTIER, or the World-Herald. Buffett is a director
emeritus of one of the institutions that merged to
become FirsTier, and he served on the World-Herald
board.

Larry King returned favors, by hosting a fundraiser
for Buffett's son Howard, when Howard ran for Douglas
County commissioner. Warren Buffettt may have done
some more private socializing with Larry King, if a
former Omaha city employee is correct in his report,
that when Larry King was crowned 'Queen' at The Max
gay bar, Warren Buffett was his escort. 'This is what
his cousin Barbara Webb told me,' said the source.
'She said the people, they were mad, because Larry
brought his son and his wife there.'

"The Wall Street Journal feature reported that Warren
and Susan Buffett have lived apart for thirteen years,
although they attend official functions together.
Buffett shares his home with a companion named Astrid
Menks, 'alternating his time between the two women.
According to the Journal, Buffettt met Menks in 1977,
when Susie brought her home from the nightclub where
Menks was a waitress - the French Cafe.'"

Pg. 150-152- "Buffett and King shared an interest in
Boys Town, which to many Americans evokes the 1938
movie starring Spencer Tracy as Father Flanagan, the
priest with the heart of gold whose orphanage, Father
Flanagan’s Home for Boys, straightened out many an
errant youngster. Known today as Boys Town, it is an
incorporated village on the west side of Omaha, with
extensive land and plush facilities, and an endowment
of $460 million. The orphanage is therefore a major
power in the Omaha financial world. It has begun a $25
million expansion program, and will have youth care
facilities in seventeen cities by 1992. The chairman
of its finance committee is Union Pacific’s Michael
Walsh.

"In 1972, Warren Buffett executed a manuever around
Boys Town, which is not fully understood to this day.
His own Sun newspaper ran a series of articles, that
targetted Boys Town for having too large an
endownment. The Sun wrote, 'members of the board of
directors of Father Flanagan’s Boys’ Home generally
seem little concerned that the institution has amassed
a net worth of more than $200 million while going to
the public twice a year with a plea of poverty. Of
the cited $200 million, $175 million was the liquid
endowment.'

"Editor and Publisher magazine reported on March 30,
1985, 'The Sun papers in 1973 became the first
weeklies to win the Pulitzer Prize for an expose of
Boys Town. The story idea originated with Buffett, who
also participated in its development and wrote a
section of it.

"The articles prompted a major shake-up and purge of
personnel at Boys Town. Buffett is believed to play
some significant role with the orphanage today,
perhaps in his specialty- investment advice. An
inquiry with Boys Town was referred to the in-house
attorney for the orphanage, who, in answer to the
simple question, 'What is Mr. Buffett’s precise role
with Boys Town?' .... At any rate, Buffett has not
complained lately about the size of Boys Town’s
endowment, although it is now much larger than it was
in 1973.

"Larry King was intimately involved with Boys Town.
The institution came up repeatedly during the
Legislature’s Franklin Committee investigation, and
even earlier.

"Foster Care Review Board Executive Director Carol
Stitt’s July 1988 plea to Attorney General Robert
Spire, for an investigation of child abuse, included
that youth care worker Kirstin Hallberg told me about
three youth at Boys Town who all reported
inappropriate activities with Larry King of Omaha. On
March 29, 1989, her colleague Burrell Williams told
investigator Jerry Lowe, 'that on several occassions
in the past he had heard of kids transported from Boys
Town and the north Omaha Girl’s Club to functions
allegedly linked to King."

Pg. 157- "The Omaha corporations that bankrolled Larry
King and Franklin are also the major sponsors of youth
organizations in Nebraska, such as Boys Club, Girls
Club, Boy Scouts, Boys Town, Uta Halee Home for Girls,
and others. These corporations donate millions of
dollars per year to these organizations, as the annual
reports of the recipients show. Many executives of
these firms sit on the boards of the youth care
facilities.

"The donation of so much money and time would seem to
indicate a great concern for Nebraska’s youth. Key
member’s of the Omaha business community, however, did
nothing to help and plenty to wreck the Franklin
committee’s investigation into the sexual abuse,
ritual torture, and murder of children. ... "
http://www.geocities.com/nolte_family2001/franklin-notes.html

----> Warren Buffett, of course, speaks endlessly in
the media of business ethics. ...

MidAmerican Energy, which boasts at its web site of
deep investment in "alternative" fuels, generates an
excess of 3,000 MW annually from COAL burning, and
plans to add another 3,290 MW to that total. Four
proposed COAL-FIRED power plants will cost about $3.3
billion and emit 21.3 million tons of CO2 each year.
MidAmerican companies: CalEnergy, CE Electric UK
Generation, PacifiCorp Energy, Pacific Power, Rocky
Mountain Power, Kern River Gas Transmission Company,
MidAmerican Energy Company, and Northern Natural Gas.

What sort of ethics drove Mid-American Energy Co.,
where David Wit is a key director, in 1999, when
Berkshire Hathaway acquired the Des Moines company?

Looting Indonesia: The energy brokers 'warm-up' for
California
by Michael Billington

MidAmerican Energy Holdings

MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company (formerly
CalEnergy), owned by Warren Buffett, is both a leading
international energy producer and a major player in
the deregulated energy markets in the United States
and the United Kingdom. MidAmerican contracted to
build two geothermal power plants in Java. One plant
was completed and one was under construction at the
time of the 1997-98 collapse in Southeast Asia.

When Indonesia put a hold on the incomplete plant, and
could not meet the contracted purchases on the other,
MidAmerican refused to renegotiate, but took the
matter to the United Nations Commission on
International Trade Law (Uncitral). This international
body ruled in favor of MidAmerican, ordering that
Indonesia immediately pay $572 million to MidAmerican
for breach of contract.

PLN responded in May 1999, by filing suit in a Jakarta
District Court to annul the Uncitral ruling as having
'gravely prejudiced PLN's legal rights by ignoring or
misinterpreting the Indonesian laws', according to PLN
President Adhi Satriya. The contracts, he said, were
'clearly specified to be subject to the sovereign laws
of Indonesia'. MidAmerican returned to the Uncitral,
which simply asserted its jurisdiction over the
dispute 'notwithstanding Indonesian court orders
purporting to enjoin the arbitration ... in violation
of generally recognized principles of international
law'.

Since Indonesia had no means of paying the
extortionists, MidAmerican turned to its insurers,
which included the U.S. government's insurance
operation, the Overseas Private Investment Corp.
(OPIC), which paid the American firm for its loss in
the collapsed Indonesian market. Rather than leaving
it at that, the U.S. State Department, behind the
thugish U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia, Gelbard, went to
work to collect the blood money. In July 2000, Gelbard
announced that he was 'running out of patience' with
Indonesia's tardy repayment to OPIC of the $290
million it had paid to MidAmerican. 'There is always
the possibility of declaring expropriation [of
Indonesian assets].... If we were to do this', snarled
the diplomat, 'it would result in a dramatic
deterioration of the rupiah and would hurt Indonesia
very much'.
http://www.odiousdebts.org/odiousdebts/index.cfm?DSP=content&ContentID=2746

----> ON JIM COWNIE, WARREN BUFFETT, CIA - THERESA
DUNCAN BLOGGED THAT THE HARASSMENT SHE ENDURED JUST
BEFORE HER DEATH WAS THE WORK OF JIM COWNIE ...
FLASHBACK TO JOE ROSENFIELD, IOWA ENTREPRENEUR, OF THE
WARREN BUFFETT CIRCLE -AND THE FOUNDING OF HERITAGE
COMMUNICATIONS:

"Joe was chairman of Younker Brothers Inc, which was
the largest department store chain in Iowa and
Nebraska by 1987. Three brothers Lipman, Samuel and
Marcus started the business in 1856 after they came
out from Poland. It listed on the Nasdaq in 1992, but
today it is part of the Saks Department Store Group
after Proffitt's purchased it in 1996. Its story can
be found here ...
http://www.saksincorporated.com/our_stores/store_histories/YNKhistory.html

" ... Then there is JIM HOAK [Cownie's partner] from
Heritage Communications (Des Moines, Iowa), which got
coaxed into the communications business by Joe. Joe
hung out with BUFFETT, Buffett hung out with TOM
MURPHY [MURPHY WAS A FOUNDER OF CAP CITIES/ABC - A
PRIMARY CIA PROPAGANDA OUTLET. - AC NOTE] and the next
thing you know, Jim Hoak was hanging out with Tom
Murphy. Also mixed in with all of this is the
Hubbells. Then again just about everyone in Des Moines
know the Hubbells, because they are one of Iowa's most
prominent families. This is mainly due to Frederick M.
Hubbell, who accumulated tremendous wealth in the late
1800's and early 1900's. Frederick M. Hubbell is
another subject worthy of research. ... "
http://www.sharenet.co.za/cms.phtml?dir=/&uidn=221406&scheme=default

----> BTW, years later, Buffett was still involved
with CapCities, the notorious CIA propaganda front: "
... In 1986, Capital Cities Inc, with backing from
Warren Buffett, bought ABC for $3.5 billion. ... "
http://www.smokershistory.com/abc.htm

---> JOE ROSENFIELD "INVESTED IN WARREN BUFFETT'S
FUTURE" & SEQUOIA FUND" (Sequoia turned up in parts
six and seven of this series):

" ... In 1967, mutual friends introduced Mr.
Rosenfield to Warren Buffett and the two became close
friends. Investments in Mr. Buffet's future, as well
as an investment in Grinnell graduate Robert Noyce's
startup company, NM Electronics - the forerunner of
INTEL - were the cornerstones of Grinnell College's
endowment growth. ... During his career, Mr.
Rosenfield was committed to a number of institutions,
including the Democratic Party. His support of such
organizations throughout Iowa as Equitable Life
Insurance Company, Northern Natural Gas, Bankers
Trust, General Management Corporation, and
Northwestern Bell, is legendary. ... "
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:76enlczcI3kJ:www.grinnell.edu/publicrelations/releases/2000/rosenfield.html+Joseph+Rosenfield&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us

"Joe Rosenfield spent about 20 years practicing law,
after graduating from Iowa Law School in 1928. He was
chairman of Younkers Brothers Inc and a director of
General Growth Properties. His most famous job was
that of managing Grinnell College's endowment fund. He
had a little help from his friends. Giants like Warren
Buffett, William Ruane and Richard Cunniff (Sequoia
fund), Steven Jobs (Apple Computer), Robert Noyce
(Intel) and James Gipson (Pacific Financial)." ... The
man simply was an investment genius. He bought
Berkshire Hathaway at $17.50 in 1967 shortly after he
met Buffett. ... Joe bought Freddie Mac in its infancy
and thanks to him Grinnell has over $600m in Sequoia
today. ... In 2000 he held 20 stocks, which included
the 10 stocks that was held in the Sequoia fund at the
time. ... Where did Rosenfield meet Buffett? At a
meeting with Martin Luther King, which gave a speech
at Grinnell. ... "
http://www.sharenet.co.za/cms.phtml?dir=/&uidn=221406&scheme=default

----> One very important name in connection to Buffett
remains to be shown - SOVERN (very important to Hannah
Wit ... ). RECALL THAT MICHAEL I. SOVERN IS A DIRECTOR
OF COMCAST. A couple of years back ...

Big Investment in Comcast Doubles Buffett's Holding
By GERALDINE FABRIKANT
February 16, 2005

In a development that caught investors by surprise,
Berkshire Hathaway Inc., controlled by the billionaire
investor Warren E. Buffett, disclosed yesterday that
it had increased its stake in the Comcast Corporation
by about $150 million, doubling its holding to 10
million shares with a total value of $323.6 million.
Berkshire bought five million shares last spring.

In a separate, but less significant move, the Quantum
Fund, the $8.7 billion hedge fund overseen by the
financier George Soros said in regulatory filings that
it had bought $50 million of Time Warner stock, its
first investment in the media company, which has
holdings in cable service, film, television and cable
networks. ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/16/business/media/16cable.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

----> DAVID WIT'S FATHER - Who should we find
commingling with the CIA and Mafia but David Wit's
dad, Harold M. Wit. This site
[http://www.oldbahamabay.com/corporate/founders.htm]
gives you Wit, Wallace Groves from the CIA, Herbert
Allen and other interesting people all investing
together in the Bahamas. Another partner in this
investment: Alvin S. Trenk, fundraiser for Bill
Bradley.

----> THE WARREN BUFFETT 9/11 CONNECTIONS - A SIERRA
MOUNTAIN OF EVIDENCE DAMNS HIM FOR THE DEVASTATION IN
MANHATTAN

----> POSTSCRIPT: BUT WE NEGLECT MR. ALGAR,
MEDIABISTRO.COM'S DATA MINING TECH. He went to
HAMILTON College, and this struck the curious
researcher here as something to look into:

"EXECUTIVE PROFILE Omer Algar ... serves as Chief
Operating Officer and Chief Technology Officer of
Mediabistro.com. Mr. Algar is responsible for
maintaining and growing mediabistro.com. ... Mr. Algar
holds a BA degree in COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ECONOMICS
from HAMILTON College."
http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=31018575

----> A look-see at the Computer Science Department
faculty at Hamilton:

Mark Bailey, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Computer
Science
(mbailey@hamilton.edu)

"Mark Bailey ... is a consultant with Assured
Information Security, a R&D firm that works closely
with the Air Force Research Laboratory. ... "

[More from Bailey's Vitae: Outside Consultant (March
2001–September 2004). Information Directorate, Air
Force Research Lab, Rome, NY. ... Faculty Research
Fellowship. National Research Council/United States
Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Summer 2003.]
http://www.cs.hamilton.edu/~bailey/pubs/vitae.pdf

Alistair Campbell, Ph.D., Associate Professor of
Computer Science
(acampbel@hamilton.edu )

" ... From the Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome,
N.Y., Campbell has received summer fellowships to
perform research on the problems of ontology alignment
and semantic integration of defense department data
sets. ... "

Richard Decker, Ph.D., Professor of Computer Science
(rdecker@hamilton.edu)

Decker ... served as Mathematics-Statistics Assistant
at the U.S. Army Aberdeen Proving Grounds. ...

And so it goes ...
••••••••
Howard Buffett

"For America, a spin-off of the America First
Committee, was formed in 1954, ran by some of the
leading WW II "isolationists." ... The stated aim of
For America was the support of political candidates
sympathetic to the Nazi cause. Three congressmen made
up the recruiting arm of the organization: Burton K.
Wheeler, Hamilton Fish and HOWARD BUFFETT. ... "
http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/hambone/postwar.html

Postwar: Early Birch Society funding came from wealthy
German supporters of the Hitler regime, and the
jingoistic "pro-American" propaganda that flowed from
the notorious Nazi front - identical to the
"conservative" rhetoric that fronts for fascism at the
Fox News Network these days - was nauseating. The
fawning greeds who admire Warren Buffett and receive
their opinions from the Wall Street Journal editorial
page (and Fox News) don't know or care that Buffett
has a secret life beyond the public relations facade.
- AC

Investor Profile: Warren Buffet's Early Years

By Mika Hamilton

Warren Buffett was the only son of the HOWARD BUFFETT
and Lelia Stahl. Leila worked as both a clerk and
secretary and after her marriage has a homemaker and
mother. Howard worked as an investment broker and
spent four terms in Congress as a U.S. representative.
He was elected to “Congress in 1942 with a pledge to
keep FDR from "fasten[ing] the chains of political
servitude around America's neck."

He marked himself an oddball by returning a pay raise
to the Treasury and by subjecting each piece of
legislation to a simple test: "Will this add to, or
subtract from, human liberty?". Howard Buffett was an
extremely conservative man. While in Washington he was
part of an elite organization, the JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY,
which fought against communism and liberal rebels.

Presently, the John Birch Society is associated with
the extreme right of American Politics. Warren was
very close to his father often following him to work.
And his father made good use of his presence,
employing Warren to write prices and quotes on the
board in his investment firm. His close bond with his
father was further encourage but a tense relationship
with his mother. Leila was prone to immense anger and
violent outbursts.

http://www.ezinearticles.com/?Investor
-Profile:-Warren-Buffets-Early-Years&id
=228431
••••••
The Wisdom of Howard Buffett

Nazis hate the UN, of course. Why? Look at any TV
image of a UN conference and the answer is obvious -
race mixing.

"Colored people" and other "subhumans" hold a majority
at the UN.

Howard Buffett, Warren's daddy, on the proposed
creation of a UN Military Force ("subumans" with
guns!!):

http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/
1995/vo11no26/vo11no26_leader.htm

"A number of speakers here have mentioned with quite
some piousness the birthday of the lonely Nazarene,
but I do not think many of them have mentioned ...
that it was probably the first international police
force of all times that crucified the lonely Nazarene.
It was the Roman legions that were in this land
foreign to their own that crucified the lonely
Nazarene whom we revere as the founder of
Christianity. That leads me to the further observation
that if great international police forces are set up
we might again see the spectacle 2,000 years later of
an international police force crucifying Christianity
that the lonely Nazarene died for years ago."
•••••••••
Alex Constantine is the author of The Covert War
Agianst Rock, rated "one of the best music books ever
written" by London's Observer. Constantine was a
member of the Congressional Black Caucus Brain Trust
in 2005, and addressed the Caucus' annual conference
on CIA assassinations and the state propaganda system.
He writes books on fascism, most recently, Psychic
Dictatorship in the USA II. A rock band, The
Constantines, is named after him.


Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin
http://www.alexconstantine.blogspot.com/