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From: Gary <galevy@pipeline.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 00:28:46 -0400
Fwd Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 08:44:35 -0400
Subject: UFOSearch #8 - Big Money and UFOs parts 5 & 6 of
This is the eighth of the series of essays by UFOSearch
that I am posting to UFO UpDate. This essay has been
divided into three posts, each containing two parts of
the essay. There are six parts in toto.
There will be approximately 25 essays in all.
Several of these essays were posted in the past in the
alt.paranet.ufo USENET newsgroup.
These essays are posted with the permission of the author,
Val Germann. Unfortunately the author is not presently
available on the Internet. However, if you would like to
correspond with the author I have arranged a temporary
internet email address that I will use for forwarding the
correspondence to him. This is not a permanent
email address. The address is:
ufosearch@pipeline.com
Commentary:
This essay will speak for itself and give one something to
contemplate while the list is inactive and ebk is away at
Roswell 97.
Gary Alevy
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Big Money and UFOs
(parts 5 & 6 of 6)
UFOSearch
Val Germann
Columbia, Missouri
Big Money And UFOs -- 5: Laurance Rockefeller
As a UFO analyst I live in the past almost all of the time. That is, I
depend on the hard work of others for the vast majority of my
information and it takes time for that information to see the light of
day. Nowhere is this more true than where someone like Laurance
Rockefeller is concerned. When it comes to what the Rockefellers are
doing right NOW I know about what everyone else does: not much. But I
have informed myself as to what they have done in the past and how they
have done it. This information sheds considerable light on what they
might be doing now since consistency is one of the Rockefeller
hallmarks.
This message will concern the Laurance Rockefeller who is/was a brother
to Nelson, Winthrop, David and John D. Rockefeller 3rd. The Laurance
Rockefeller who is helping bankroll John Mack could well be the same
person you will read about below.
Laurance Rockefeller (b. 1910) became interested in high tech firms in
1938 with the foundation of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. During World
War II Laurance was in the Navy overseeing the production of patrol
bombers before being shifted to the fighter desk by his good friend
James V. Forrestal. At this time Laurance owned 20 per cent of
McDonnell aircraft which had been founded by Laurance's college friend
James S. McDonnell, with some help from Laurance. It seems that both
were at Princeton.
In 1947 there was talk of a Congressional investigation of Navy
contracts vis-a-vis McDonnell during the period that Laurance was in the
Navy. But, that investigation never seemed to get off the ground, no
pun intended. Thus Laurance sailed on, later forming a consortium with
family friends C. Douglas Dillon and Felix DuPont to make a fortune out
of helicopter production during the Korean War. This consortium also
owned Nuclear Development Associates, the original power behind civilian
nuclear reactors, and a little company called ITEK, which would make the
spy cameras for the U-2 and America's spy satellites. The capital for
these ventures would come from brother David's Chase Bank, the very
center of Rockefeller power and the prime force behind the great war
scare of 1948, which I have documented earlier.
In 1950 Laurance hired Lewis Strauss, former Kuhn, Loeb banker who had
been an assistant to Herbert Hoover in World War I, an official in the
1930s of the company that later became UniRoyal, and the lawyer/banker
who had helped Kodak market Kodachrome and later aided Dr. Land and his
Polaroid. Strauss spent World War Two in the Navy and had been made an
Admiral by his good friend James V. Forrestal. Funny how things like
this worked out.
In any event, in 1950 Strauss was overseeing the Rockefeller Brothers
Fund and was heavily connected into the high-tech science world. He
left Rockefeller employ to become the chairman of the AEC under
Eisenhower, just as Laurance put together a company called United
Nuclear which had the inside track on the development of civilian atomic
power. Also at this time ITEK was created, begun when a Boston
University scientist advised his good friend Laurance Rockefeller that
Ike's Administration was going to liquidate Boston University's Physics
Research Lab.
I wonder how they knew of this in advance? Probably just luck. Anyway,
Laurance bought the thing and put his good scientific friend in charge
of it. It made millions out of the U-2 and the Discovery satellites,
both of which were promoted relentlessly by Rockefeller operatives,
including Nelson (!), inside the former Council On Foreign Relations
member's (Ike) administration.
Later on, Laurance would be a power behind LBJ's administration and his
wife would give Lady Bird the idea for her beautification of America
scheme. In 1969 Laurance would use his connections into the world of
"conservation" to help push through SLAC, the Stanford Linear
Acclerator, over the objections of the people who actually lived there.
By that time he would have been president of the Jackson Hole (WY)
Preserve society for decades and his family would own large tracts in
the West.
Also by the middle 1970s Laurance and his brother Nelson would have
created several "conservation" societies revolving around the family's
Pocantico estate (47,000-plus acres) on the Hudson River. How many
folks investigating UFOs know that the so-called Hudson Valley Object
has been flying for years over an area that is more or less a
Rockefeller private preserve? Do you think the family might be
interested in that, or MORE than interested?
Big Money And UFOs -- 6: The Hudson Valley Object
This writer spent the night of November 19/20, 1980 on a friend's farm
near Ashland, Missouri, trying to find the planet Pluto through an
8-inch telescope. This was unfortunate because around midnight a huge
flying triangle, blasting along at about 40 mph, passed almost directly
over my house. If I had been observing from my backyard that
night/morning I could hardly have missed it. As it was, hundreds of
people did NOT miss it and I have talked to many of them over the 15
years since.
At around 7 pm that evening two college students in Kirksville,
Missouri, about 90 miles north of Columbia in the northeastern part of
the state, were sitting in a parking lot on campus discussing the day's
football game. They noticed a bright light to the east but did not
think much of it, believing it to be an aircraft with its landing lights
on. They observed the light for about half an hour as it slowly came
closer. By about 7:40 pm the light was getting quite close and very,
very bright. It dominated the sky even in the presence of a first
quarter moon.
About 7:45 the lights (there were now two of them) and the object to
which they were attached passed very near the Moon. The two students
were shocked to see that the brilliant lamps high in the south were on
the leading edge of a huge triangular shaped object moving slowly, oh so
slowly, from east to west. They jumped into their cars and followed it
across town, at no time going faster than about 40 mph. They easily
kept up. When they reached their fraternity house they roused everyone
inside and they all watched the object, now with two red lights visible
on its trailing edge, fly majestically away to the west, at about 40-50
mph.
It seems that this object flew over 100 miles straight west to the
vicinity of Princeton, Missouri, where it turned south and headed down
highway 65 (passing over my home town of Carrollton) to Interstate 70.
Then it turned east at an altitude of a few hundred feet and headed down
the four lane highway, occasionally slowing traffic. Sometime between
midnight and 1 a.m. it arrived at Columbia where it was witnessed by
many, many people, including law enforcement officers, some of whom
chased it to the east, all the way to Fulton, Missouri. Two policemen
attempted to break into the University of Missouri observatory in order
to get a better look at the object through the 16-inch telescope. But no
one in the building at that time had a key or knew how to operate the
telescope. This incident is mentioned briefly in Imbrogno's book
[ ed. - Night Seige The Hudson Vallevy Sightings. Dr. J. Allen Hynek
and
Phillip Imbrogno with Bob Pratt, 1987] on the Hudson Valley flap of
1983-85.
Now, let's think about this. A large, strange flying object is seen by
the public over the northeastern quadrant of Missouri. For more than
seven hours it flies, unmolested, at low altitude, over heavily
populated areas and major interstate highways. The Air Force has a base
near Warrensburg, Missouri, 50 miles south of Carrollton, and they were
called. No interception was made, at least none that I have ever heard
of or been able to find. The FAA radar at Kirksvile had it on their
screens early in the evening and the operator saw it visually at the
same time. The witnesses I have talked to who kept the object in view
for many minutes report that commercial airliners flew above the object
on more than one occasion. It sailed serenely on its way.
Now this is amazingly similiar to what has been reported, on a much
grander scale, just about 50 miles north of Manhatten in Westchester
County, New York, along the Hudson River Valley and in the vicinity of
the family homes of the wealthiest and most influential people in the
United States and by extension the world. I have a friend who three
years ago had reason to be in the corporate offices of a huge
international firm whose U.S. headquarters were in Westchester County.
He was there in an adversarial way and two of the firm's lawyers were
there, too, making sure the files that were examined were the correct
ones. Hour after hour this went on and the people involved struck up a
casual acquaintanceship. What were these two lawyers talking about?
UFOs. It seems that the mother of one of them had called her son to her
home the night before because of the overflight, at very low altitude,
of the Westchester Wing.
Get a map and look at the area involved. The Rockefeller family estate
of Pocantico is right there, smack in the middle of it. Nearby, too, is
West Point, as is the former Stuart Air Force Base. Interesting, isn't
it? And interesting, too, is the fact that the most important economic
development in recent years has been the development of the E.E.C.
[ed. - European Economic Community] and its headquarters in, er, well,
er, Belgium. . .where the Westchester Wing has been flying, too,
for several years, just as the Green Fireballs flew over Los Alamos
back in the late 1940s.
Is it just coincidence that big money began to flow into UFO research,
surreptitiously, in the late 1980s? I don't think so. The Wing flew
over my house but, so what, what can I do about it?
Not very much. . .write a few articles. But when the Wing flies over
the Rockefellers' houses, well, that's different. That's going to get
some action -- of some kind.
A Little More Background On The Rockefellers, Funding Source For
Abduction Research, And Pocantico, New York -- Plus a few notes.
Val Germann
Columbia, Missouri
We turn to Ferdinand Lundberg and his blockbuster 1937 book
"America's Sixty Families", page 423:
"In surveying the residential seats of the Rockefeller family it is also
difficult to know to which family one should assign each mansion and
estate, as the Rockefellers are intermarried, as we have seen, with the
Stillmans (CitiCorp), Carnegies (U.S. Steel), McCormicks (Chicago
Tribune), Aldriches (old Colonial Connecticut family), Davisons (J.P.
Morgan partner), Dodges (Phelps-Dodge Mines), and others. We will,
however, concentrate on the two main Rockefeller lines of descent,
observing first, however, that the Rockefeller publicity men, geniuses
of a sort, have admirably suggested that this imperial family lives
rather ascetically; seldom are descriptions of the Rockefeller
residential interiors permitted to leak out, so that one must
reconstruct them mentally from fragmentary suggestions just as a
paleontologist reconstructs the framework of a dinosaur from a few
scraps of bone.
"There is, first, the great family duchy of thirty-five hundred acres at
Pocantico Hills, near Tarrytown, New York. (Now much enlarged and
extended, VG) On this estate stand five separate family mansions, for
as each child marries a house is constructed for separate occupancy.
Like the Standard Oil Company, the estate has been assembled with guile
and force against the will of neighbors. In Cleveland the Rockefellers
had a town house on Euclid Avenue and a regal estate at Forest Hill, now
turned into an expensive real-estate development; but in the 1890s the
family moved to Pocantico Hills.
"This estate at the turn of the century comprised only about
sixteen-hundred acres, which have since been added to by purchase and by
persuasion. The first brush the elder Rockefeller had with the local
authorities, who are now the family's most loyal servitors, was
occasioned by his desire to have Tarrytown construct a road around the
Croton reservoir, the property of New York City. This road would connect
his home with that of his brother William, on the other side of the
reservoir. Rockefeller proceeded in violation of the law to have the
road built, even using hired roughnecks to drive local officials from
the area.
"In 1929, Rockefeller, Jr., paid the town of Eastview $700,000 for the
priviledge of ousting forty-six families so that the main line of the
Putnam division of the New York Central Railroad might run along what
was Eastview's main street instead of through the gradually swelling
Pocantico Estate.
"The assessed evaluation of the Rockefeller demesne in 1928 was
$5,588,050, calling for a tax of $137,000. According to the New York
Times (May 24, 1937) the elder Rockefeller's fifty-room mansion at
Pocantico, surrounded by fully nurtured gardens, alone cost $2,000,000
to build and $500,000 per year to maintain, while the estate requires
the services of three hundred and fifty employees and thirty teams of
horses the year round, making a monthly payroll of $18,000.
"From the New York Herald Tribune, also May 24, 1937:
"From the village of East View the estate extends northward three miles
over soft, pleasant countryside to the boundaries of Ossining, where it
joins the estate of the elder James Stillman, former president of the
National City Bank (CitiCorp today, VG). At the southern tip of
Pocantico on a high knoll stands the massive Georgian house of Mr.
Rockefeller. It lies in the center of the estate's only enclosure area,
350 acres surrounded by a high fence with two gates. Thirty watchmen,
twenty in the winter when the families are living in town, patrol the
enclosure in eight hour shifts to keep out unwelcome visitors.
"There is also the William Rockefeller line of more than one hundred
persons. More than fifty of his great-grandchildren will be
millionaires by 1950. In all it can be estimated that the existing
Rockefeller establishments, including the thirty-two thousand acre
Adirondak estate of William, have a total valuation of $50,000,000 to
$75,000,000."
And this was in 1937!!! Multiply that by at least fifteen today, and
that doesn't count the pure additions made since then!
Now, beginning on page 375 of the same book is Lundberg's analysis of
who controls the agenda at a few of America's better colleges and
universities, sites of Internet nodes today:
1) Harvard: J.P. Morgan management; Standard Oil largest donor.
2) Yale: Morgan-Rockefeller; Standard Oil largest donor.
3) Columbia: National City Bank management (William Rockefeller)
4) Chicago: Rockefeller management, Standard Oil largest donor.
5) M.I.T.: Du Pont management, George Eastman largest donor.
6) Standord: Southern Pacific management, Leland Stanford donor.
7) Duke: Duke (Sun Oil) family management and donation.
8) Cornell: Rockefeller management.
9)Princeton: National City Bank management (Wm. Rockefeller).
10) Johns Hopkins: Morgan influence on Board of Trustees.
11) Northwestern:Deering Family, McCormick largest donors.
12) Cal Tech: Crocker, (Union Pacific) Hearst, Bank of America.
13) Penn: J.P. Morgan management, Drexel, Morgan donors.
14) Carnegie Inst.: Mellon & Carnegie (Steel,Aluminum) donors.
"All of these schools are adjuncts, or departments, of the big
corporations and banks, and are most or less openly operated as such.
This is evidenced in many ways, but mainly (a) by the identities of the
trustees, most of whom are men engaged in pecuriary pursuits as deputies
of the great fortunes or in person the ruling heads of the great
forturnes; (b) by the composition of the investment portfolios of the
institutions themselves; (c) by the curricular emphasis upon studies of
direct pecuniary value to the wealthiest estates, studies embracing, in
the main, the physical sciences and problems of business administration
as well as the professional pursuits; and (d) by the recurrent offical
pronouncements of the presidents of the institutions on behalf of the
political, economic and social status quo.
"Of the trustees of the top 27 institutions of higher learning in 1937
(659 people), 254 are bankers, 141 are merchants, 111 are utility
operators, 63 are railroad executives, 153 are professional men, 22 are
judges, 7 are miscellaneous. These top 27 schools possess about
one-half of the total endowment of all scholls and colleges in the
United States.
"Among the trustees of Harvard are: Henry Sturgis Morgan, son of J.P.
Morgan; George Whitney, Morgan partner; Charles Francis- Adams, Boston
banker and father-in-law of Henry Sturgis Morgan; Walter S. Gifford,
president of AT&T (Morgan); George R. Agassiz (copper magnate); Gaspar
G. Bacon, son of a Morgan partner."
"On the one hundred percent reactionary board of M.I.T. are Gerald
Swope, president of General Electric (Morgan); W. Cameron Forbes,
director of AT&T (Morgan); Pierre S. Du Pont; Lammont Du Pont; Albert
Wiggin, former chairman of Chase Bank (Rockefeller); Alfred Sloan,
president of General Motors (Du Pont) and director of E.I. Du Pont de
Nemours and Company (Du Pont).
"Similiar personalities dominate all the private university and college
boards, and select the academic presidents who dragoon the faculties and
give utterance as well to reactionary pronouncements under the
ostensible sanction of science and learning, enlightenment and progress.
Without readily perceptible exception, the university presidents are the
drudges of the money lords that lurk behind the boards of trustees.
"One of the prime purposes of university endowments is to avoid taxes.
Another is to mass stock voting power through interlocked boards of
university trustees and boards of corporation directors. This goes
along with the rise of universities as great financial institutions, due
to the appearance of income, estate, and gift-tax laws. The wealthy, in
making "gifts" to education have attained triple value for their money,
since their gifts have enabled them to get control of a large pool of
money most of which has actually been given by others. Meerly to be
able to designate depositary banks and investment vehicles is very
profitable, even though the directors of a fund do not actually own it.
To be able to purchase materials from companies of one's own choice is
also very profitable."
Now, how many of my readers know that the Internet backbone was sold to
"private" concerns (AT&T, Morgan) a few months ago? So, if any of you
were looking for any long-range change in our society due to the
"information superhighway," well, better think again.
***
P.S. For the true M.I.T. spirit we turn to the great physicist Karl T.
Compton (Compton Effect), president of M.I.T. in the 1930s, and this
comment on one of the many effects of the Great Depression, then raging
in the land:
"The attention and money devoted to relief and regulation interferes
with simultaneous adequate attention and support of the basic
contribution which our sciences can make."
And you thought something had actually changed since 1937!!
End, Series.
Big Money & UFOs -- Update -- December, 1995 The Rockefellers, Laurance
& David
Val Germann
Columbia, Missouri
There is no doubt that the original Laurance Rockefeller, now 85 years
old, is the power behind much UFO research in the United States. This
man, one of two surviving grandsons of the first John D. Rockefeller,
has been a true major league player in the affairs of the United States
since the 1930s! If he is interested in UFOs then they are indeed very,
very important.
Some of my readers may know that the Rockefeller family is about to make
a big killing in the re-aquisition of Rockefeller Center, which they
sold to the Japanese (and others) in the mid-1980s. It looks like the
total profit the family will realize on this deal will be in the $1.5
Billion area since they are buying back a $2.2 Billion property (current
value) for about 40 per cent of the $1.5 Billion they sold it for ten
years ago. In the process they have handed the Mitusbishi Estate
Company (brought you the Japanese "Zero" in World War II!) their
financial head on a plate and restablished the family reputation at the
head of the world class of very large sharks.
Now, whose idea do you think it was to sell 30 Rock to the Japs? Well,
it was Laurance's idea, and he pushed it through the family meeting at
Pocantico over the objections of David and others. Oh, how various
people howled at first. But, now, a decade later, the far-sighted
Laurance has been vindicated, and the family has their centerpiece back,
along with a tidy premium.
Let me tell you something, if the human race has a planetary royalty,
this guy is a member. Bill Clinton is a pimple on Laurance's butt, as
is any politician, bureaucrat or military officer in the United States.
If Laurance Rockefeller has hundreds of thousands of dollars to spend on
UFOs. . .don't you think it behooves YOU to find out something about
them too?
I think so.
***
(End of Big Money and UFOs)
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