(A stash of liquid acid had spilled in Richard Alperts suitcase, soaking his underwear, when the psychedelic fraternity was traveling back from Zihuatanejo, so anyone could get high merely by sucking on his briefs.) Find a doctor. With full U.S. blessing, he creates the Gehlen Organization, a band of refugee Nazi spies who reactivate their networks in Russia. Born in Pittsburgh, he was the only son of the financier, industrialist, and Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon, and his English wife, Nora McMullen. They always returned, however, to Windsor, Calif., where their lab was secreted in the basement of a small wooden farmhouse. Yet what of United States Senator Henrik Shipstead? Approved For Release 2003/07/01 : CIA-RDP80R0l731 R001200020020-9, Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room. She says she was drawn to him by "his very deep intelligence. The Mellon Legacy - VirginiaLiving.com But Iraqs dictator, Saddam Hussein, is another creature of the CIA. The voice on the phone was frail but clear, with a hint of Southern gentility. Even if we gave you a staff of 100, and funded you with Monopoly playing money to the moon, there is an excellent chance that you could miss 1000 or more key players in the grand scheme of the national destruction project. Given the CIAs clear preference for dirty tricks over mere information gathering, the possibility of serious criminal behavior is very great indeed. It turns out the CIA can control, deal with or sidestep Congress with ease. In May 2000, Bunny's daughter from her first marriage, Eliza Lloyd, was crossing the street in Manhattan when she was hit by a truck, suffering a severe brain injury. The Agency then hires, trains and works with them to overthrow the existing government (usually a democracy). Hungary Radio Free Europe incites Hungary to revolt by broadcasting Khruschevs Secret Speech, in which he denounced Stalin. Mellon also provided extensive endowment support to fund not only operations but also an ongoing program of acquisitions, and he made a generous bequest to the Center at the time of his death. [7][8] Additionally, he donated substantial funds to Carnegie Mellon.[9]. Unlucky nations are targeted for a wide variety of reasons: not only threats to American business interests abroad, but also liberal or even moderate social reforms, political instability, the unwillingness of a leader to carry out Washingtons dictates, and declarations of neutrality in the Cold War. The U.S. does not protest their dismal human rights record. "It's been like falling down the rabbit hole with Alice in Wonderland," says Huffman, who rues introducing the heiress to the senator. In Acid Dreams, Billy Mellon Hitchcock is described as the "black sheep" of the Mellon family. We could write FOIAs until our fingers are blistered and still not get much further than we are right at this moment. 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The Paul and Rachel Mellon Collection - Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Yet now the private Mellon, who turns 101 on Aug. 9, has become front-page news for her unwitting involvement in two unrelated criminal cases. In 1957, when Fortune prepared its first list of the wealthiest Americans, it estimated that Paul Mellon, his sister Ailsa Mellon-Bruce, and his cousins Sarah Mellon and Richard King Mellon, were all among the richest eight people in the United States, with fortunes of between 400 and 700 million dollars each (around $3,900,000,000 and $6,800,000,000 in today's dollars). Paul Mellon: Pillar of the Turf | America's Best Racing Beyond these capital gifts, Mellon endowed the deanships of each of Yale's 12 residential colleges. Bunny Mellon is aristocratic American history personified, a woman who has entertained two generations of British royalty (Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip in 1957 and, three decades later, Charles and Di), lent her jet and accompanied Jackie Kennedy to Martin Luther King Jr.'s funeral, gardened in clothes designed by Givenchy, and searched the world for art treasures with an open checkbook and an astute eye. Telegram to Paul Mellon, Esq. From Allen Dulles - Cia from allen dulles As glamorous as their life in society was, the couple had a higher purpose. (Hate to go all Judge Napolitano on you, but) What if Tommy the Cork Corcoran had a best friend that was a gangster that few people even knew existed? Drug Wars trading card- Timothy Leary and Richard Helms- The Yale Center for British Art holds one of the world's greatest collections of the work of William Blake thanks to the enthusiasm of its founder, Paul Mellon, for Blake's art and ideas. In early 1973, Billy Hitchcock was threatened with 24 years in prison for tax evasion if he didnt help the government convict the prime movers of the LSD (and hashish) cartel. CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY (Humbly) I would suggest that a discussion on the author and his other works (including his intelligence access) could be interesting. More is here. The Mellon family has many made-men connections to the American intelligence community, and Mellon family foundations have frequently been used as financial conduits for CIA and Crime Syndicate operations. Haiti Competing against 10 comparatively wealthy candidates, leftist priest Jean-Bertrand Aristide captures 68 percent of the vote. Even now she is making improvements. However, the U.S. compels the inexperienced officers to include many of the old guard in key positions in their new government. "That's why I want to do this story now," I reply. She had been an admirer from afar, buying an ad in her local newspaper three years earlier trumpeting Edwards's candidacy. Scully served a couple years in prison, and Hitchcock walked scot-free. STAT Paul Mellon's foremost philanthropic interest was his alma mater, Yale University. The investigations lead to a number of reforms intended to increase the CIAs accountability to Congress, including the creation of a standing Senate committee on intelligence. The hearings result in his dismissal from the CIA. As the second wife of financier Paul Mellon, she helped him amass a renowned art collection, hundreds of works ranging from Czannes to Rothkos, either donated to the National Gallery in Washington or still hanging on her walls. His successor, General Suharto, will massacre between 500,000 to 1 million civilians accused of being communist. The CIA supplies the names of countless suspects. Calm it down, calm it down.". The Bay of Pigs The CIA sends 1,500 Cuban exiles to invade Castros Cuba. Paul Mellon was OSS station chief in London and a liaison to British intelligence. According to Michael Randall, a formative member of the Brotherhood, the plan was to drive down the price of LSD through mass production. "She called and invited me to lunch.". Facebook gives people the power to. Mellon's other major gift was to provide extensive funding to support the creation of two new undergraduate residential colleges at Yale, Ezra Stiles College and Morse College. Mellon's collection was catalogued by Dudley Snelgrove and Judy Egerton.[3]. In fact, it is only marginally effective. The history of Resorts International has been brilliantly detailed in Jim Hougans book Spooks. This leads down many other rabbit holes but is beyond the scope of this intro to Hitchcock. Senator Frank Church heads the Senate investigation (The Church Committee), and Representative Otis Pike heads the House investigation. fr Furthermore, he requested that double that amount be raised in response to his donation. The most notorious part of this project involves giving LSD and other drugs to American subjects without their knowledge or against their will, causing several to commit suicide. Since censorship is impossible, the Agency must now defend itself with apologetics. The only two options for the U.S at this point are impotence or war. One of her grandfathers, chemist Jordan Lambert, invented Listerine, but it was her father, Gerard Lambert, an advertising innovator, who turned it into a hit product by marketing the antiseptic as a cure for halitosis. In 1978, Mellon received the S. Roger Horchow Award for Greatest Public Service by a Private Citizen, an award given out annually by Jefferson Awards. The CIA should be abolished, its leadership dismissed and its relevant members tried for crimes against humanity. The OSS had a short life but it was the foundation on which much of the modern US intelligence community has been built . ", The centenarian's friends view her tolerant attitude to John Edwards's affair as an outgrowth of her own marital experiences. No ego, but when I referenced this author and his works, months ago on WW, no one seemed remotely moved. Noriega has been on the CIAs payroll since 1966, and has been transporting drugs with the CIAs knowledge since 1972. Arbenz is replaced with a series of right-wing dictators whose bloodthirsty policies will kill over 100,000 Guatemalans in the next 40 years. Haiti Papa Doc Duvalier dies, leaving his 19-year old son Baby Doc Duvalier the dictator of Haiti. They are searching for Russian instigators, which they never find. They will kill over 100,000 during the Duvalier family reign. Still, I would like to see you keep plugging away. The most important of these is Reinhard Gehlen, Hitlers master spy who had built up an intelligence network in the Soviet Union. rl-`rt of all Mellon raises racehorses. Is not the LSD experience culminated in todays clown world that is either embraced or abhorred? William Billy Mellon Hitchcock (1928-1989) was heir to the Gulf Oil fortune and nephew of Pittsburgh financier Andrew Mellon. This aid fails to materialize as Hungarians launch a doomed armed revolt, which only invites a major Soviet invasion. 242-246] we learn: William Mellon Hitchcock was Timothy Learys Godfather and the Daddy Warbucks of the Counterculture. In the early 60s, Billy Mellon-Hitchock almost singlehandedly bankrolled mass-production and distribution of LSD (which, hardly by coincidence, was at the time the subject of testing by the CIAs secret MK-ULTRA program) financing this effort through known CIA fronts like Castle Bank in the Bahamas [founded by Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunts onetime boss, Paul Helliwell, paymaster for the Bay of Pigs invasion], the Meyer Lansky syndicates bank of choice for its money-laundering. Five of the commissions eight members are also members of the Council on Foreign Relations, a CIA-dominated organization. How many of our friends are going to recognize this name or the party he originally won his seat with? Bunny Mellon was an avid horticulturist and gardener, whose fondness for French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting, as well as American art, Mellon came to share. He graduated from The Choate School (now Choate Rosemary Hall) in Wallingford, Connecticut, in 1925, where he wrote for the literary magazine. Greece With the CIAs backing, the king removes George Papandreous as prime minister. Caroline Mellon is organizing this fundraiser. These facts began emerging nearly two decades ago at an ever-quickening pace. Mellon granted his extensive collection of British art, rare books, and related materials to Yale University in the 1960s, along with the funding to create an appropriate museum to house it (designed by Louis Kahn). Donate. Paul R. Mellon | National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame Mac Griswold says, "I think her view is that he's a cute guy and he's allowed to fool around if he likes. Paul Mellon (1907 - 1999) - Genealogy Congress holds hearings, and several key figures (like Oliver North) lie under oath to protect the intelligence community. The U.S., which hates instability in a puppet country, flies the despotic Duvalier to the South of France for a comfortable retirement. "I don't know what I've done that has made people so interested in me, more than anyone else." Now there seems to be interest. Haiti The U.S. military helps Papa Doc Duvalier become dictator of Haiti. To get up every day and be willing to do this work takes immense endurance and a lot of true bravery. As society bandleader Peter Duchin says, "Bunny is a person with wonderful taste. This suggests that it has been so busy undermining governments that it hasnt been doing its primary job: gathering and analyzing information. In 1936, Mellon purchased his first British painting, Pumpkin with a Stable-lad by George Stubbs, who became a lifetime favorite of Mellon's. Memories of Paul Mellon: fascinating insights as racing museums team up "I thought the church was charming and sent her a little note," he recalls. Bunny tolerated his paramours, even inviting one mistress to join them at their Antigua estate. The precise pain, in the precise place, in the precise amount, for the desired effect, is his motto. Paul Mellon recalled later: "I remember showing John Russell Pope's preliminary but awe-inspiring plans and elevations to my father only days before he died in the summer of 1937, and I have always hoped that he was aware enough of them to have made him happy, and to have realized fully what a . He was also a major benefactor of Clare College and Clare Hall, both in Cambridge, England. On October 27, 1997, losses resulting from this investment, combined with a 554-point (7.2%) single-day decline in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (the eighth largest point decline to date in index history), forced Niederhoffer Investments to close its doors. Locations. To our eyes, the open-source material on Hitchcock and his operations look rather scrubbed and memory holed. Papandreous has failed to vigorously support U.S. interests in Greece. I SINCERElY Graham is publisher ofThe Washington Post,which becomes a major CIA player. The CIA does this by giving an ultimatum to its Governor-General, John Kerr. The CIA has been trying to eliminate Sukarno since 1957, using everything from attempted assassination to sexual intrigue, for nothing more than his declaring neutrality in the Cold War. ITT offers the CIA $1 million for a coup (reportedly refused). Indonesia The CIA overthrows the democratically elected Sukarno with a military coup. WW does a heck of a job shinning a light on some of the least known corners of this whole network, which is highly compartmentalized. For example, a bipartisan Congressional Committee of 40 members could review and veto all aspects of CIA operations upon a majority or super-majority vote. But Mellon struck up new life-affirming friendships with much younger, artistic men. Iran The CIA fails to predict the fall of the Shah of Iran, a longtime CIA puppet, and the rise of Muslim fundamentalists who are furious at the CIAs backing of SAVAK, the Shahs bloodthirsty secret police. This cemented Husseins power at home, allowing him to crush the many internal rebellions that erupted from time to time, sometimes with poison gas. Small wonder that Bunny and Jackie Kennedy, introduced in 1957, would become confidantes. People stayed up all night tripping and prancing around the estate. It uses every trick in the book: propaganda, stuffed ballot boxes, purchased elections, extortion, blackmail, sexual intrigue, false stories about opponents in the local media, infiltration and disruption of opposing political parties, kidnapping, beating, torture, intimidation, economic sabotage, death squads and even assassination. The junta that replaces it will, in the next two decades, become one of the most bloodthirsty in history. During this costly eight-year war, the CIA built up Husseins forces with sophisticated arms, intelligence, training and financial backing. Sure sometimes we try and push you to do more (I did above with my reference to Mr. Jim Hougan, an author I found only about 2-3 months before arriving at WW) and I think that is because we see how talented you are at bringing new knowledge our way. Born on June 11, 1907, in Pittsburgh, Pa., Paul Mellon was the only son of Nora McMullen, an aristocratic English mother, and Andrew W. Mellon. We hope to challenge issues which have captured the publics imagination, from JFK and UFOs to 9/11. Marks has spent five years as an intelligence official in the State Department. Mellon owned many thoroughbred horses under his Rokeby Stables, including Kentucky Derby winner Sea Hero. Heck, I think with the limited size and straight forward resources of WW, the site actually does a far better job than the bigger truth-ish sites (not you or this tie, them). Forever blonde, tall, and slender, she greets visitors in cotton shirts or cashmere twin sets, accented with pearls and Schlumberger bracelets. We had a deep spiritual commitment to what we were doing, Leary wrote. The CIA also attempts to legitimize a tyrannical puppet regime in South Vietnam, headed by Ngo Dinh Diem. The incident makes a mockery of President Reagans claims that the CIA is not illegally arming the Contras. Mellon, now blind, lives in luxurious seclusion on her 2,000-acre Virginia farm, cosseted by a staff of 120 loyal retainers. In 2016, the Mellon Sr. sent his 15-year-old daughter with high functioning autism to a church camp. The CIA then finds it cannot overthrow him, because the police and military are under the dictators control, afraid to cooperate with American spies for fear of torture and execution. The commissions namesake, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, is himself a major CIA figure. Its too bad, LSD had / has so much potential as a mind expanding conduit. Paul Mellon, Founder | Yale Center for British Art After prosecutors learned that Edwards had visited Mellon on May 26even as his lawyers were conducting unsuccessful plea-bargain negotiations prior to the indictmenthe was banned from contacting his benefactor. --R-'2T :nom, 2-O5AM This one black hole could last us a decade to unravel, and that is but a scintilla of the entire picture. They work for the Committee to Reelect the President (CREEP), which does dirty work like disrupting Democratic campaigns and laundering Nixons illegal campaign contributions. The bigger picture is easy for us because the powers that be often release the names or have lost control of the names to a point that it becomes common knowledge. She's a classic, the epitome of a society that is no longer with us.". More is here.. Francis Marion Bush, Paul Mellon:Visionary of the Turf, North Charleston, S.C., BookSurge Publ, 2006, This page was last edited on 24 March 2023, at 15:46. Bolivia A CIA-organized military operation captures legendary guerilla Che Guevara. Associates said that Donovan never got over his daughter's death. Ch. We require coverage for hundreds of services. Greece A CIA-backed military coup overthrows the government two days before the elections. Browse the Collections | Advanced Search | Search Help, Approved For Release 2003/07/01 : CIA-RDP80R0l731 R001200020020-9 ", Another friend was Bryan Huffman, a 47-year-old North Carolina decorator who got to know Mellon after visiting a church she helped design and underwrite. ), The following timeline describes just a few of the hundreds of atrocities and crimes committed by the CIA. The airplane belongs to Southern Air Transport, a CIA front. Any idea from what? Aug 2014 - Present8 years 9 months. Hitchcock laundered and invested money for the Angels in Switzerland- and lost much of it. The team members have extensive CIA histories, including James McCord, E. Howard Hunt and five of the Cuban burglars. Paul Mellon was OSS station chief in London and a liaison to British intelligence. House clears CIA in Watergate The House of Representatives clears the CIA of any complicity in Nixons Watergate break-in. Second, this argument begs several questions. HOPE THAT YOU CAN JOIN US. The aide used the money to pay expenses for Rielle Hunter and his own family, as they lived together during much of Hunter's pregnancy to maintain the charade. ; Verify Insurance As a part of our screening process, we encourage professionals to carry general liability insurance. In October 1946, as the Mellons were riding home together after fox hunting, Paul's wife, Mary, suffered a severe asthma attack, dying hours later. Billy is much younger. In 1938, he received an Oxbridge MA from Clare College, Cambridge. Angleton fired Congress holds hearings on the illegal domestic spying efforts of James Jesus Angleton, the CIAs chief of counterintelligence. ", Mellon and her late husband Paul recommended Starr to friends, and she is mortified that they have suffered, saying, "The worse thing is the people he stole money from." Paul Mellon is its president. The two reporters, Woodward and Bernstein, make almost no mention of the CIAs many fingerprints all over the scandal. WW leaves that blowhard in the dust; however, even as good as this website is and even with the strong, smart, as well as varied support of its readers, the fact remains that we are talking about the largest, corporate, empire to exist on Earth (Amerika). Cambodia The CIA overthrows Prince Sahounek, who is highly popular among Cambodians for keeping them out of the Vietnam War. Psychedelics & Elitism: "Liberal CIA" Control over the Psychedelics This polarizes Angolan politics and drives his opponents into the arms of Cuba and the Soviet Union for survival. Paul Mellion Profiles | Facebook WE EXPECT TO FINISH BY IC) O'CLOCK. He enrolled at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland in 1940 but six months later joined the United States Army, asking to join the cavalry. Funded in part by the Rockefeller and Ford foundations, research includes propaganda, brainwashing, public relations, advertising, hypnosis, and other forms of suggestion. William was introduced to LSD and Leary through his sister, Peggy Hitchcock, who Leary introduced to LSD the year before and with whom he had a brief affair. A $7.25 million fixer-upper: Turning Bunny Mellon's private art museum First, American business interests abroad are threatened by a popular or democratically elected leader. Four years of political turmoil follow. Bunny), his children, Catherine Conover (first wife of John Warner) and Timothy Mellon, and two stepchildren, Stacy Lloyd III and Eliza, Viscountess Moore. The CIA replaces him with a dictator, the Shah of Iran, whose secret police, SAVAK, is as brutal as the Gestapo. Eventually, the CIAs media assets will include ABC, NBC, CBS,Time, Newsweek,Associated Press, United Press International, Reuters, Hearst Newspapers, Scripps-Howard, Copley News Service and more. The Association for Responsible Dissent estimates that by 1987, 6 million people had died as a result of CIA covert operations. Heck, everyone here is going to know Soros, and maybe even knows Rogers, but how many will know Victor Niederhoffer? Mellon served with the Morale Operations Branch of the Office of Strategic Services in Europe. I am still shaking my head that there isnt a major book out and a Netflix series on the shtick of Billy Mellon Hitchcock a major hidden away New Underworld Order operative. [2] By this marriage, he had two stepchildren: Stacy Lloyd III and Eliza Lambert Lloyd (d. 2008; who married and divorced Viscount Moore). The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence Victor Marchetti and John Marks publish this whistle-blowing history of CIA crimes and abuses. So I was freshening up my recollection of Senator Henrik Shipstead and came across the Roosevelt Corollary. Now when we apply the similar thinking (small potatoes can equal huge shifts in the world) to our government and we realize that no matter how smart we are, we are still just scratching the surface, then the whole picture just becomes a blur in our brains. We may not know the details ofspecificoperations, but we do know, quite well, thegeneralbehavior of the CIA. ", The events of the past five yearsthe death of her daughter, Ken Starr's betrayal, the indictment of Edwardsmight leave less hardy souls reaching for Prozac. LEGIB PAUL MELLON Yale University Pays Tribute to Paul Mellon, Citing the Lasting CIA Director William Casey dies of brain cancer before Congress can question him. Enter your email address to subscribe to Winter Watch and receive notifications of new posts by email. In the early 60s, Billy Mellon-Hitchock almost singlehandedly bankrolled mass-production and distribution of LSD (which, hardly by coincidence, was at the time the subject of testing by the CIA's secret MK- ULTRA program) -- financing this effort through known CIA fronts like Castle Bank in the Bahamas [founded by Watergate burglar E. Howard
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