_________ _______ ______ /___ ___\ / __ \ / ____\ / / / /__\ / / / / / / __ / / __\ / / / / \ / / / /__/ /__/ /__/ /__/ THE ANNIHILATION FOUNTAIN A JOURNAL OF CULTURE ON THE EDGE... TEXT ONLY - ISSUE #7 The Annihilation Fountain & TAF Copyright c 1997-99 Neil MacKay ISSN 1480-9206 http://www.capnasty.org/taf/ the_annihilation_fountain@iname.com CONTENTS: --------- *SUGAR *3 SHORT STORIES *THE ELKHORN MANIFESTO - SHADOW OF THE SWASTIKA *MARIJUANA AND HEMP - THE UNTOLD STORY *CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE ************************************************************************ SUGAR - A SERIALIZED PLAY by BEN OMART ************************************************************************ Sugar by Ben Ohmart (Through the darkness wails .38 Special or Rush, something hard driving yet slightly out of date. This description would also fit NGUGI, a quasi-flashy photographer, who now and then pops himself into focus on the stage, taking pix of glorious and unknown-glamorous MODELS who fret and mark up the mini-stage with their attitudes. They aren't dressed in much; much less than bikinis, but nobody minds. Lights come up instantly. We see that NGUGI is a 6 footer, and he can be tooough when he has to be) NGUGI. (Still behind the camera, about lights) Thank God. (He continues to work, shouting commands, praises and dog whistles at the 3 bone and make-up composites) Monar. Look like that bus done passed. Good. Okay. Great. Yeah. Julie. If you're going to hold your breasts, look like they're having fun in your hands, right, vixen? Oh! I love it. Give me more. Come on. More! I'm glad I'm wearing underwear. Come on! Yeah. Okay. Kia, girl, get down on the floor, pretend you're looking for that bone. Fluff the hair, yeah, remember, you wake up hungry, you go to bed hungry, you eat and you're hungry. KIA. Push the stupid button down. NGUGI. Attitude! I love it! - Julie. A little more...... yeah. You gotta remember, you're hiding your art. Can't have too much..... Oh, I love this. Flash! Ah-ah. - Monar, give me, give me, pretend I'm the last drug store open. One size fits all, come on. Oh! Come on. Julie. I gotta get home in twenty minutes. NGUGI. In twenty minutes - (Loud pounding at door, then it stops) In twenty minutes, that underwear's going to be famous. You've got butt like sunshine, and it's goin' down. Down. Okay, lower. (Pounding) Lower. Lick the floor. Julie. We're selling underwear here, NGUGI. NGUGI. We gotta keep the place clean. Huh? (Door is broken in. Enter a Go Large FRANK. Pause. NGUGI takes his picture) KIA. I want my picture, I go to the post office. NGUGI. And when you want a gun? FRANK. (Steps up menacing) Don't Need a gun. NGUGI. You don't need a gun. FRANK. You got my woman, she - KIA. (Upset and dressing) Frank! NGUGI. You must be FRANK. (Sticks out ignored hand) KIA. WHAT are you doing here? FRANK. Come on! You said you were working! KIA. I'm working! FRANK. You said you were working, you didn't say you were working It! KIA. You're so -! NGUGI. Um.... haha, excuse me, Frank? We've got a photo shoot to do here, before my lights go out again, and the ad man says - FRANK. I don't give a butt stench what the ad man says, (Pushes on NGUGI's chest) you don't treat my woman like that unless you're prepared to have a slice. Am I right? NGUGI. (Backing up, pushing continues) You couldn't be wronger. I am often - FRANK. I don't like it when people contraDict me, or interrupt me. NGUGI. I'm sorry, next time I'll wait until you're talking. FRANK. (Grabs him) You're a wise ass, right? You know what I do with wise asses that treat my Kia like an object and a sexual desire and getting off on - KIA. (Tries to pull him away) Frank! FRANK. - exploiting something just because it's white, it shaves, and it'll stand for you like you Ask it when you flash that money? NGUGI. (Laughs) I'm sorry that was such a long question, I forgot how it star- (FRANK grunts and prepares to hit NGUGI, but NGUGI assumes the defensive quickly. Little fist grinds big bone. He obviously knows what he's doing, and loves to kick ass when the ass wants it. FRANK sheds blood, lip cut with NGUGI's high school ring. Makes him mad) What? I thought we were gonna fuck each other, I don't have my pants down yet. (FRANK screams and lunges for him. NGUGI stands there, then flips an elbow up and gets another fist into his jaw. FRANK is on his knees, but mean..) Oooo.. (Digs a few bits of teeth out of his elbow) FRANK. Gonna FUCK you, man... NGUGI. You're really dick brained. (FRANK lunges again, still on his knees. NGUGI is too quick, but so is FRANK at the moment. He takes NGUGI by the neck from behind. NGUGI struggles, then grabs out for his camera, closes his eyes, and uses the flash. FRANK is dazed and only loosens his grip vaguely. It's all NGUGI needs to grab some hair and hit, hit, hit, POW, until the man is down, and there's hair in the hero's hand. But FRANK makes a last try, grabs NGUGI's legs, but the photographer turns around in the loose grip so that he's face to face with FRANK) Buy some pussy, butt plug. (Knees FRANK in the jaw, and there is a Bad crunch. FRANK is down. There is ooze coming out of that mouth, bits of bone and chips of teeth. He convulses a little, and lays still. NGUGI checks his camera, as FRANK spits up so he doesn't choke on any fluid. He is down and groaning. NGUGI quickly has inspiration and turns to catch the startled looks of the half-naked nymphs standing around) Oh yeah....................... Oh, yes............... Oh, yeah..... This is..... Oh, yeah... Hold it. (KIA starts over to pick up FRANK) No! Come here! (She obeys, but only for a minute) KIA. (Putting on the rest of her clothes) Forget it. I'm outa here. You're mean. I've got a record, you know. NGUGI. (Regretful for the way things are turning out) I'm sorry to hear that. KIA. I Mean I don't have to do this, I've done an Elle, European. Playboy did a black and white of me in Italy one - NGUGI. Yeah, yeah. (Mood's broken. To the other two) Take ten. (Comes over, kicks FRANK to get up. FRANK does with KIA's help) Fuck! - Never again!(Lights down here, and up on The Rothmore Agency, a near-the-top ad agency, run by one of the sexiest brunettes made this century. NGUGI paces once and explains as RILAL, a touch Asian, but hot white listens and tests her silky stockings. She's either doing this to stop his sentences sometimes - NGUGI can't ever pass up a hot side dish - or because she's naturally sexy. Let's guess both) Do you realize that I gotta go to Court because of that jerkoff now? Paying the woman money, and I got to put on a suit and go into hundreds of dollars in lost light bulbs a day? For a lawyer! - Jealous boyfriends and meat hooks for brothers that think their sisters are the Catholic kind! Lesbians start to get involved with each other and turn off the twat shots, because they say raunch is private? What are you sending me! That's the 4th boyfriend I've had this week that - RILAL. Congratulations. NGUGI. You're not getting around this one. Maybe if you'd set me up with dog food ads and stinking babies I could treat my women and my work separately. How about that? RILAL. (Leaning cleavage forward) And what about me, Ngugi? You haven't treated me yet. NGUGI. (Melts a little) Baby, you're the end. I wouldn't know where to start. RILAL. (Half a laugh) I like that. NGUGI. Do you? RILAL. Uh-huh. NGUGI. Do you really? (RILAL nods) Then you'll go wet before your time on this one, RILAL. I'm through with blondes, redheads, brunettes, all the punk rock colors and that woman on the first Star Trek movie! - Give me something I can use! RILAL. (Pause. Comes around desk and hangs on him like a rubber band on a doorknob. They kiss) You don't pay me any money. NGUGI. Oh great. (Gets up) RILAL. I used to be one of the town's top models, NGUGI. NGUGI. That's another thing - Ngugi! I changed my name and I sound like a good Scrabble score. I don't want - RILAL. (Continuing) I never told you what I was making a week. I didn't want to put you through that. But I could buy you and sell you like an Eastern slave. I went into This because it's nice not staring into the lights. And I don't like dog food and I wouldn't have a baby if you filled it with diamonds and Andres thin mints. (NGUGI takes a mint from a dish on the desk and sulks, as..) I do this because you helped me out. NGUGI. (Blows off steam) And I appreciate it. RILAL. Then have dinner with me tonight. Have me tonight. NGUGI. (Smiles) I think you skipped a word or two. (RILAL comes close, he backs up) Maybe that's why I'm a photographer. I just like to look, thanks. RILAL. (She knows what's wrong, but won't say, just comes to desk, gets slip of paper) Go to this address. She's a single mother and - NGUGI. Rilal, darling, (Gets camera case) if she's a mother, she's never single. (He goes, leaving a hungry executive and her desk to fade out. Noise of a busy private investigator's office. The phone actually rings here. Lights up on NGUGI standing there Watching the phone ring and marveling at it. The SECRETARY picks up the phone, notices NGUGI, and puts it down again. She stands, busty and thirsty) SECRETARY. Dennis, I haven't seen - NGUGI. I keep telling you that my name is legally changed. What did you do with all those business cards I gave you? SECRETARY. (Nudges three out of her bazooms) I stop people on the street and give them out. NGUGI. I bet they're disappointed when they read 'em. (Opens the closed door and finds TRACEY, a solid, likable, clear-witted p.i., engaged in a loud conversation with RALPH, an aging businessman, one of the original yuppies before Geritol caplets set in) TRACEY. You wanna cool off a minute? RALPH. I'll cool down cold when you give me something I can use! (Throws papers at TRACEY's desk) TRACEY. I guess you can't use the truth, huh? RALPH. Huh. I don't even think you're looking. What, 200 a day gets you sitting on your ass. Man, I worked like a dog licking asses and Pissing on myself before I got a break in the business. NGUGI. You're a sweet man. RALPH. (To TRACEY, yelling More) Can't you conduct a simple, civil meeting in private? I'm beginning to wonder if you're worth uptown prices downtown! (Leaves in a huff) NGUGI. What's Al Gore's problem? TRACEY. (Picking up the papers) Ralph here runs a club that twirls the hottest asses at the lowest prices, and Jenny 1-String reaches for his hard. NGUGI. I know the feeling. TRACEY. Idiot to get mixed up with his girls. He doesn't believe she's not carrying on with another asshole. NGUGI. There's confidence for ya. TRACEY. (Throws him a folder) Subsidy time, my friend. (Starts to get coat) NGUGI. (Looking at folder) You called me over for This? TRACEY. Hey, Ralph can't pay All my big city bills, whatever the hell your name is. NGUGI. Remind me to laugh with feeling. TRACEY. I suppose you got enough cash in the bank to ignore murder when it happens. NGUGI. I was just discussing my ATM this morning. Rilal thinks my face is too perfect. She keeps sending me boyfriend sandwiches, heavy on the mean. TRACEY. Well, this one's a simple case of divorce prelim. NGUGI. Think I'll take in the Titanic musical. TRACEY. (Grabs him, they start to go) Be a good little man and I'll spring for the Kings game and a nice bus ride up. NGUGI. You're on. The poisoned fruit of Ralph? TRACEY. (Nods) Enough on this stripper's life to bake us all in glory. Jenny 1-String photographs well. NGUGI. (Hurt) Why didn't you call me? TRACEY. (They pass SECRETARY) Corner of 5th and Smith. (SECRETARY jots this) NGUGI. You're kidding. TRACEY. It's a real corner, Dennis. NGUGI. Watch your mouth. SECRETARY. Oh, Mr. Darkroom. (Bends over, gives him a trading card) MY card. NGUGI. (Looks at it, sucks in painful air) Girl. With a body like that, why do you buy clothes? SECRETARY. It keeps me on the streets. NGUGI. You should - TRACEY. (Pushes him out, they're in a hurry) Less one cute remark. (They're on the street now. Traffic sounds. NGUGI still looks at the card) We're in a hurry, man. NGUGI. - Why the Hell does she work for you? TRACEY. She's a good kid. NGUGI. Tracey, I think you need to see this card. (Hands it to him. TRACEY tries not to look) Is that the body of a freshman Anything? TRACEY. I'm trying to make a relationship work, do you mind? NGUGI. I don't mind. TRACEY. (Walk for a while, then) You know she's hot about you. I don't know a woman who ain't. You've got - I don't know. You're fictional, Den. I think you were made up when I see every woman - NGUGI. What's the job? TRACEY. (Sigh) You can't keep turning them off just because Lynn was - NGUGI. What's the job? TRACEY. (Pause) A wants to divorce B. There are little C's and D's running around. Heavy money couple. Got the gig with contacts, and A would like pictures of B to make sure B keeps the kids. NGUGI. You don't have your alphabet on tight. TRACEY. (Shakes his head) The kids stink. When the case comes up, Mr. Durning is going to try to stick the woman with them. Typical rich kids and they're bastards. NGUGI. Even the girl? TRACEY. She's a bitch. (Pause) Let's haul a cab in. Business is booming. NGUGI. Yeah, when you keep working for farts like these. (They get into a cab) TRACEY. Fifth and Smith. - Den, I want anything you think is usable. You know, the average. NGUGI. Your typical vow-breaking video box covers, uh-huh. - Don't you ever get tired of this? TRACEY. - I don't get tired of the Kings. I don't tire of spending that money. Cary doesn't mind when I surprise her with flowers every day. NGUGI. That's a surprise? TRACEY. (Pause) But how's life been, man? I see you like only twice a week. What's the matter? NGUGI. (Eager to change subject) Nothing's the matter, I got more jobs than I want. The other day I got a Personal rejection from Bass Monthly. TRACEY. Personal? Hey! "Dear Nugget" and everything? NGUGI. Ngugi, yeah. It was quite a praise. I came close to $500. - Then there was two weeks ago, I tried to do a complete layout for Smoker's Quarterly, on the history of cigarette rolling shacks and where they hung the leaves to dry and shit. - They took the one shot, got $40. TRACEY. - Close, but no cigar, huh? NGUGI. Hey, man. I try. You can get off my case. I'm putting my life back on track. I appreciate all the jobs and fuck it! TRACEY. Back on tack is more like it. You keep stepping carefully like you're going to get - NGUGI. What? What? Go on - what! TRACEY. - Like you're going to get Hurt. All right? Okay? NGUGI. (They sit and sulk for a while) What's A and B paying out? TRACEY. I told you, man. I don't take nothing under 200 anymore. You raise your prices, they think you're suddenly better. NGUGI. For a downtown private eyepatch. I think Ralph's right, it don't smell right. TRACEY. Yeah, well, when I'm the whole mainframe of the operation, I've gotta Fucking bring it in. I've got a secretary and her big stacka trading cards to support. NGUGI. Got that right. (Lights fade here) Scene 2 (Outside the DURNINGS' place, dark out here. Through the small windows part of the kitchen can be seen. It's the elder - 40s - MRS. COL DURNING coming into the room, swaying to something slow and barely audible. She gets ice from a container, puts a few rocks in the glass, pours gin, takes a cube out, and rubs it against her. The men look at each other. TRACEY motions that he's going around the side of the house. NGUGI mouths "Now? It's just getting good!" Still, TRACEY leaves. Suddenly FRANK comes in. Almost as if he's going to rape or attack. NGUGI doesn't know what to do. But in a moment it's clear that this is a willing sexual encounter, and COL enjoys every rough moment. From the yard, there's a faint sound of... something. NGUGI looks, then turns back to the kitchen scene. The couple are beginning to make out. She still has her ice, which she rubs around him. The glass topples to the floor. They follow it. NGUGI tries to see and can't) NGUGI. (Whispering to himself) I can't believe this. A million people - (He's interrupted by a masked ATTACKER coming up quickly. NGUGI's instincts tell him quick enough to kick, but the man has a lead pipe, which clangs when it misses. The two trade blows, but NGUGI's hits don't seem to do much against a face of material. The lead pipe hits against the house a couple times. There is a faint scramble of voices from inside. The fight is so quick, and NGUGI is down too fast. The pipe comes down on the back of his head, maybe, with a crack. A second blow comes, then a third is interrupted by faces at the window. FRANK bolts out, ATTACKER blows. COL is worried. Lights out) Part II Scene 3 (Hospital. TRACEY is in bed, and it looks bad. Broken ribs, watercolor face. NGUGI enters with a bandaid on his nose. TRACEY is surprised and pleased as coke) TRACEY. I can't believe you're still alive. NGUGI. I'm going to kill the man. TRACEY. Why are you still alive? NGUGI. I've got everything to live for. TRACEY. Get a look? NGUGI. Who else? It was Frank. TRACEY. Saw the bastard? NGUGI. Who could it be? Who knew? (They shake hands) TRACEY. I can't believe this. NGUGI. Let me tell you the secret. I'm strong enough for a man - TRACEY. - made for a woman. NGUGI. It was the outside hose. One of those old fashioned kinds with the - thing you hook the hose to. Guy thought it was my head. It cracked. Sounded good. Second one caught me a little in my shoulder. I had an itch there anyway. It was dark. TRACEY. You don't know how glad - NGUGI. Yeah. I'm going to kill the guy, TRACEY. Get ready to use all your political influence. TRACEY. Surprised burglar? NGUGI. What are the chances of me seeing Frank again? TRACEY. Frank? NGUGI. Tell you about it. (Turns to go) TRACEY. I'm going to be laid up. Do me a favor? NGUGI. After almost getting me killed? Sure. TRACEY. (Throws wallet) You're me. I'm - how the hell you say that ag- NGUGI. NGUGI. TRACEY. Nobody tells me anything around here. I didn't know your condition, but whoever they're after, if anyone, helps a little if you're not who you are. NGUGI. Watch your mouth. (Rips off bandaid) I was shaving the fuzz of my nose this morning. TRACEY. I got up this morning, it was getting lighter, I called us in. Man, you looked Dead. NGUGI. I sleep heavy. If I fall asleep on top of a woman - TRACEY. Yeah, okay. - Just check into Ralph for me, huh? Jenny's got him quacking like a cartoon, and I'm laid up like day-old. Huh? NGUGI. You know you don't have to ask me twice. (Looks in wallet) I got other stuff to finish. TRACEY. Develop it at the Mama, Please, huh? NGUGI. (Laughs) What? TRACEY. The Mama, Please. A clubfoot for the nude in us all. NGUGI. This sounds too much like a repeat. TRACEY. Hey, you're right. I didn't notice it until just now. Getting the dope on all these women.. NGUGI. Patterns, baby, patterns. (Starts off) You didn't see him. Her. TRACEY. From behind. Couldn't've been a lead pipe on me? - Hey, man. Thanks. (NGUGI grabs crotch and exits room. Outside waits an anxious CARY. The two hug) CARY. Tell me the truth. NGUGI. I used to be a woman. (She laughs to tears, falls in his arms) He's okay. He's all right! You'd think it was Me that got shot in the ass! CARY. (Laughs again; cleans up) You'll come to dinner. NGUGI. I gotta go kick some ass. (Gently removes her. She goes into room, he leaves, as lights fade) Scene 4 (An apartment in the Bronx. The furniture is brown and often moves. Cracks in the walls, in the glass, in the windows. It's dark. But a woman wheels pottery. She is pretty, sleek and perfectly figured; Playmate of the Year, the rarest of novelties. The front door slams open from NGUGI's foot. Light in the room) NGUGI. I'm sorry. Is Frankie in? MERL. I don't like Sinatra. (Quickly takes a gun from a hidden pocket in her clay tools. Big gun) You want to get out, or you want to leave this world? NGUGI. (A bluff, steps in) What's the next one like? MERL. What do you want? NGUGI. Frank. (Flashes p.i. badge) I don't know his social security number. MERL. (Decides. Puts gun at ease, but not away) As I said, I'm not a Sinatra fan. NGUGI. That's not his name, surely. MERL. I find it's easier to deal in types than be surprised later. The man coughs and the women swoon, Frank. I was born with too much male hair under my arms I guess. I'm MERL. Live with Kia. Live against her really. Makes me sick with that Frank guy, and he treats her like gold shit. I don't know, it's hard to explain. I'm always getting in between them when he's pissed with her - and comes up with a Good reason, so, it's like her fault. NGUGI. Is there anything else I can tell you? MERL. (Smiles) You're a funny man. NGUGI. It's okay. I'm gay. (Steps in more. She is Beautiful) That's a big gun. MERL. Hey. Big men. The Bronx is built that way. NGUGI. Where's Kia? MERL. I haven't seen her all day. NGUGI. (Noticing pottery and sculptures around, all in the dark) You're pretty good. MERL. I suppose you're better? NGUGI. (Smiles) You don't do this for a living? MERL. That's right. I like to go to the movies, blow bubbles, feed this part time cat that hangs around my bedroom window, have a plum. That shit costs cash. NGUGI. That mouth would look better if it wasn't always steeped in - MERL. I have no idea where she is. (Pause) Huh? NGUGI. Oh! - If you hear from her, call, and give her this to call. (Hands her card) MERL. You don't trust anyone. NGUGI. You know if she has a regular source of income/outcome? MERL. Try her agency. NGUGI. She doesn't have one. Told me she came right off the street. Had the face. Somebody said she should be a model. She was dumb enough to take her clothes off for me. MERL. You photograph? NGUGI. Yeah, MERL. I hate that name, sugar. Give me a name. MERL. It's MERL. And that's it. Oh, you mean - I don't know. Sometimes she's at Brahim's, when she goes all cold and naked. Indian food. Follow the smell. NGUGI. Thanks, sugar. You're - MERL. MERL. Short and distorted for Mural, I like it. You could wet down my clay. NGUGI. My name's NGUGI. And I don't have time. (Lights out. Immediate strip club music. JENNY 1-STRING dances with the Sunday paper in front of her; it's her gimmick. She peels the funnies, or ads, and covers the good parts with the sections. She's an idiot, but it doesn't show in the lights. Somehow the lights come up dimly on the seating area. Guys around, paying attention. RALPH comes forward, almost proud. NGUGI enters. He can't help it, takes out the camera he always carries and snaps a few pix. RALPH snaps and a couple of "BOYS" come forward to bounce the ball Out. NGUGI takes them down with terrific, too fast triple-action gut blows which double them over. He takes the pix over their bowing mainframes. RALPH comes back, snaps to JENNY. She leaves) RALPH. You got a problem with me? NGUGI. Oh god, you're not one of those jews that always states in questions. RALPH. Are you askin'? NGUGI. Fuck you, RALPH. RALPH. Do I know you? I don't go to that many funerals. NGUGI. Ha, you've got about as much muscle as a - I'll let you finish it. What do you think? RALPH. I think you got ten seconds... (A BOUNCER stands, NGUGI punches the gut again. He knees the teeth of the other one, just for fun. Laughs) NGUGI. That guy was going to knife my twat. RALPH. What the hell are you doing? NGUGI. Oh, that's right. I wanna see JENNY. Thanks. (Goes off) RALPH. (To BOUNCERS) I don't want no gall bladders. Please don't say something's wrong. (Lights dim here, come up on a small dressing area. JENNY is half-nude and dealing with problematic glitter stars for her face; they get all over) NGUGI. Jenny 1-String? JENNY. (Speaks with false French accent. Laughs) Yeah. But I'm not on the stage. You want a lap dance? NGUGI. That's very kind of you to ask, but it's Lent you know. JENNY. Oh. NGUGI. (Watches her, then) Ralph loves you. You know that? JENNY. He is kind. He is watchful. He is considerate. NGUGI. What was that second one? JENNY. He is like the big brother I never had. Always watching, always careful. Sometimes we drive all the way up Third Avenue, and they come to wipe the bird doo off the front, and he smacks them in the face. (Laughs) That is love. NGUGI. When's the last time you had sex with your brother? JENNY. (Looks at him for the first time) What kind of question is that? NGUGI. I don't know. Interrogative? JENNY. If you don't want a dance, leave. NGUGI. (Sits on stool) Okay. Let's suppose I really do want this lap dance. What does it entail? JENNY. No tail. I just dance for you. Shoulders, arms, upper neck, I touch, I experience. You drive home, you find yourself going faster. You turn on the radio to slow down. NGUGI. Uh-huh. - I don't know. I'd have to be satisfied. You see, I'm Catholic, and I'm very fond of any children I spend. You understand. (She turns back to him again, away from mirror. NGUGI takes out money. An attention getter) I'd need references. JENNY. What are these references? NGUGI. The men. The men from before. I mean. It's not always at this club, is it? JENNY. What? NGUGI. Sometimes they can't get in. They're busy. You make arrangements, make appointments. An apartment. Class is as class does. JENNY. Huh? NGUGI. I can see the nipple on your accent... JENNY. What? NGUGI. A name. Any name. I pay too well, and I have my beliefs. Would you have me sin for the sake of something unsatisfactory? I can't deal with that. I pray. Every Saturday. St. Martin's in the Field. Without cause, without deviance, straight there, God. (Up close) JENNY. I'd like something really Good to confess this time. JENNY. (Under the spell of both fool and his money) Max. Max Blaster. NGUGI. Max Blaster? (She nods) Is he on the corner of 5th and Smith? (She shakes her head) I have a family. When I'm unfaithful.. JENNY. I know. And it's okay. We all have to break loose sometime. NGUGI. I know. And I know this seems foolish to you. I don't subscribe to Hustler. I don't even get gas at Mobil, I know the racks that are waiting for me in there. The pain. The Jenny McCarthy... JENNY. (Pause. Gets the thought) A magazine! NGUGI. They keep them wrapped up, but you can still see a little. JENNY. I know. I know. - But I don't do any fucking. No fucking. NGUGI. (Looks at her) Don't you? (Lights out) Scene 5 (In a cab. NGUGI takes cell phone out of inside shirt or coat pocket, looks at it for a minute, then dials. Lights up on TRACEY's office, where SECRETARY, as on fire as ever, answers) SECRETARY. Tracey Associates, investigators. (Pause) Hello? NGUGI. Say it again. SECRETARY. Tracey Associates, investigators. (Pause) Hello? NGUGI. Ngugi, baby. I'm taking the first cab I've had from the inside in - three months. I'm going to have lunch at Fontano's. I might even keep the receipt. SECRETARY. Don't worry about it, Tracey has the government sewn up, it's the cops he worries about. NGUGI. Don't we all. SECRETARY. (Reads from pad) He said to dig up the bodies on Mr. and Mrs. Alphabet? NGUGI. Durning. SECRETARY. And a - Sugar called? Kia's in touch, and Frankie's off singing somewhere, I do Not know what this stuff means, I'm reading it off paper. NGUGI. And it's very believable. See what Treasury, National Endowment for the Arts, whatever, has on Max Baxter. And Ralph, while you're at it, you got the information on whatever retainer he left. Need to know the nightmares I'm dealing to. Kia still stationary? SECRETARY. Well, Merl said she had something on at the Greysilk Outlet Center. NGUGI. Something on? Never. (Suddenly COL gets into cab, with gun. Pause) Um, I'm going there now. Tell everyone. (Hangs up. Lights out on SECRETARY. COL doesn't let gun be seen by "cabbie") Hi. I caught your ice show. You can really twirl. COL. (Smiles) I know. That's why you're going to tell me what the hell? NGUGI. - What? COL. You were doing there. NGUGI. Do you mind? (She doesn't. To "cabbie") Greysilk Outlet Center. (Pause) How did you find me? COL. I've made love to enough private eyes to know when they're looking. NGUGI. - I don't believe you. - Anyway, the case is suspended indefinitely. Ngugi's recovering nicely like a fool. What's with the gun? COL. (Takes out paper) Sign this. (NGUGI tries to read) You can sign it. NGUGI. Under durrest? COL. I'm not placing anyone under arrest. Just shoot your balls off. NGUGI. No. Du. Durrest. My balls bounce loud, girl. (To "cabbie") No, left. Left! (COL looks, and in that moment NGUGI disarms her with a good wrist twist. Still to "cabbie") Stop. Here! Stop! (Opens door, makes COL move toward it with one hand, snatching document with the other. Kicks her ass out) Okay, go. Please. (Lights out as NGUGI reads) Scene 6 (Greysilk Outlet Center. Lights up and loud music on a runway where a lanky MODEL slinks out like a black man in a 30s movie. The music is industrial, the watchful crowd barely heard, the lights punk in origin. MODEL finishes up her walk, and KIA comes on, unsure, but putting on a Grade-A front. NGUGI walks on, in the back, with newspaper in hand. He breaths in the familiar air, then coughs on it. KIA walks down to the end, then falls, clutching her bloody neck. A brief pause, then NGUGI races to help her. Crowd sounds. It's too late. Lights down. Lights up at a news stand on the street. TRINH, big, smart like a dog collar, roams the street. NGUGI walks a few steps back to the stand. He's eating a hot dog, reading a paper) TRINH. Where have you been? NGUGI. Getting some beef! TRINH. You walked off a murder scene. NGUGI. Great. TRINH. (Notebook ready) Name. NGUGI. Look. (Hands him hot dog, shows p.i. badge) Tracey, and I'm no Dick. Well. I am a dick I guess. TRINH. I'll say. Don't you know that I could slam you away right now for doing a disappearance? For all I know, you could've taken something from her hand, removed something, you could be the killer, and I'm holding your hot dog. (Gives it back) NGUGI. Let's break that down. I killed her, from a distance, so I could be one of many. I decide to come up on stage, losing my disguise, for the treat of claiming something I could've gotten before or after the strut. TRINH. You could've arrived too late. NGUGI. I could've waited. TRINH. She might've been so afraid of you, she wasn't going to Let you get close enough. Women scream. NGUGI. Let's not bring sex into this. TRINH. Tell me what you were doing there, I could forgive. NGUGI. I'll need a list of the players in the crowd. TRINH. For what! NGUGI. For forgiveness. See, you don't ask me if she was a friend or perhaps a co-worker, you'll never forgive Yourself, and it's goodbye to the really Good crackers at the Governor's parties. Yes, I've heard about them. They're not Ritz. Even though they have that vague butter flavor. TRINH. What do you know about Joe's crackers? NGUGI. It's Joe! Well, you and buddy are working Close to fight this crime wave. As if the ocean ever stops producing waves. You idiot. I'm sorry. I meant, I've seen your black and whites in the paper, I'm sorry no one airbrushes when it's not color. TRINH. (Smiles) What's your connection? Who are - NGUGI. Do I get the list, Trinh? TRINH. I've heard of you. You're good. (Pause) For that, I want the name of your client. NGUGI. (Sees something) Get down! (The hot dog is shot out of NGUGI's hand. He screams in pain. Even though he's flat on the pavement, TRINH has his gun out, looking around. NGUGI still screams) All right! Come on! (TRINH starts to run out) Fuck that! Help me find my finger!! (Writhing in tragedy, NGUGI can barely focus his eyes from the pain. TRINH can't help a smile, but it fades fast as he looks around for the meat. Lights down here) Scene 7 (Outpatient surgery, hospital. A fine redhead NURSE is caring for NGUGI's red bandages. NGUGI is dazed, but coming out of the trauma) NURSE. Thursday. NGUGI. Thursday. NURSE. Can you think about that? Thursday. NGUGI. You should be a teacher. All the little boys would get A's, at least a shy B. Everything that comes outa your mouth... NURSE. You're sweet. NGUGI. Yeah, but what flavor? (She smiles and looks at him. For some reason, she finds her head tilting toward him. But TRACEY enters on crutches or wheelchair and crawls over) I could've been serving myself here, TRACEY. TRACEY. No locks on anything, pal. Except that one. NURSE. Don't mind me. (Cleans up area) TRACEY. This isn't the self-service pump, friend. NGUGI. I need everything you've ever had on all these Durnings crapping around. TRACEY. What's the connection? You were going to see some sort of Kia something? NGUGI. Yeah, Mrs. A bangs Frank, Frank bangs KIA, and Frank bangs you. You'd have had the girl, if the circle is to continue. TRACEY. Sorry about her, man. NGUGI. (Long pause) I'm in. (Pause) How long before both feet kick? TRACEY. Believe it or not, this sock is a new foam cast or some shit. Lightweight and holds your position totally. NGUGI. I knew a cheerleader just like that. (NURSE gives him a smirk and leaves) And I need your office. TRACEY. You're kidding me. (He ain't) Aw, man, what am I going to do? NGUGI. Sit on your Asshole. (Lights dim) Part III Scene 8 (Front door of a Fine upper-class dwelling. NGUGI walks toward it, but a beeper goes off in his pocket. It freaks him out!) NGUGI. Shit! Shit!! (He twirls around and around like a fool dog. He finds the beeper and switches it off. PAUL, a bouncer turned Big butler, opens the door) Did you just call me? PAUL. What? NGUGI. Did you just - PAUL. What do you Want? NGUGI. Really need to slice those things closer to the bone, queer duck. Now. When I call you queer - PAUL. Have an appointment? NGUGI. Thanks! (He tries to walk in. PAUL tries to stop him. But they are both unfortunately easily matched. The struggle continues for a moment, then NGUGI decides it's time for unsportsmanship, and withdraws a pocketknife, blade up already, from his sock. He threatens PAUL with it) I don't have the time. And pay phones are now 35 cents, you know that? (He backs into the house, as scenes change to let him into a fine living room, complete with bean bags and false art. The click of a gun, and NGUGI turns to see RALPH standing there) I thought houses this big were sprayed. RALPH. (Smiles) I'd love to kill you. NGUGI. Enjoy yourself. (NGUGI puts his knife away) RALPH. It's my nephew's birthday and he wants an ear. What do you say? (No response. He laughs) Knowing when to shut up - COL. (Entering) I couldn't get it out, but I've sent someone for a new one. Oh. NGUGI. What couldn't you get out? Bloodstains? COL. (Nasty mouth taste) I never liked you. I was a chambermaid in Henry the 1st's court, and you tasted the food. NGUGI. Hey, I'm still doing that. COL. And I hated you Then. RALPH. - Don't bother with the glass, baby. Lemon doesn't do anything for my stomach. (Replaces gun, and walks out, brushing NGUGI. Pause) NGUGI. Baby. Don't tell me he just changed you? COL. He calls everyone that. Or don't you read people? NGUGI. Just Sunday and Wednesday papers, much, much cheaper than putting my ear to the mouth. COL. Frank's mouth isn't that bad. NGUGI. You pick up quick. So what's the crossword here?, how does Ralph fit into Frank?, without the obvious A. COL. Frank? NGUGI. You know. (Shows p.i. badge) The one you've been icing when the Freeon gives out. COL. (He's not Tracey) But y- (Stops. NGUGI is suspicious) I could have you put out. NGUGI. If I'm any judge of raccoon muscle, the James Arness Thing that just walked out of here with Ralph beLongs to your guest. Or - is there a man at the door Now? COL. The point. NGUGI. On the end of your sharpest pen. You know. There used to be this ad in my hometown. A woman and a deep voiced man, selling cars? And he'd claim they had the sharpest pencil in town. COL. (Smiles) What's your price? NGUGI. It's more than a filing cabinet. COL. What? NGUGI. And I'm afraid it's up there beyond cruises, I don't want to see the world, I've been there. I need property. There's a limited volcano supply, so everything's so High. COL. I'll repeat myself. NGUGI. (Sits. Uncomfortable here) Depends. You want a medium or a large? COL. (Presses on an intercom) Forget the fresh glass. NGUGI. Servants quarters that far away? What, the lemon in the bottom of Ralph's glass didn't get washed thoroughly? COL. (Surprised he guessed. Immediately calmed down) I can guess. The medium, I get everything off it, including you, and you go away. NGUGI. (Shakes head) That's the large. Go down a size, I just give your husband a false report. COL. - I knew someone had been on me a while now. NGUGI. Frankly, I don't care what you do with your kids. Your fault for not killing the seeds or whatever. You're a woman that thought she could have it all. Or you had the kids to keep the man. But disillusionment on either count. You want to be free. You've found some gold somewhere, and you want to break, but somehow there's something kind in you - COL. Please! Yes, I could run away and abandon those little fuckers. But I'm not giving up half an estate. I go into court, and I put my plea in, and I say I Want the children. But in comes limp hubby with the wrong photographs. Proving I am sin. I ate the apple. NGUGI. (Sits forward, intrigued) I don't get this at All. Then you don't get the kids. That's what you want. COL. But the judge is human. I'm a bad person, I don't deserve Quite so much money. NGUGI. You - (Pause. Tries to figure this out) Are you a very good artist? COL. (Smiles) There's someone behind you. NGUGI. (Looks quickly for a second) It's like lotto. You never know. - But Kia was a friend of mine. COL. Who's Kia? NGUGI. You know. COL. Why tell me? NGUGI. (A step closer) I'm going to find out. COL. What? NGUGI. If I knew that· (Goes toward the bar) Does Frank know - (He falls to his knees, then out completely. COL presses the intercom) COL. DERRY. (She comes over, searches NGUGI's pockets, takes his gun, his notebook. She also takes a few 100s from a special comb in her hair. She puts the bills in NGUGI's wallet as lite DERRY enters) DERRY. No car. Guess it was a cab. COL. Cab? (Surprised. Thinks) DERRY. (About the money) What's that? COL. I believe in equal distribution of fate. You get fucked, I believe you should Get something for it. DERRY. The ranch? (She nods. He starts to collect up NGUGI) COL. (Looks at watch) If I haven't called - in 20 hours - you kill him. (DERRY nods and takes the victim out. Lights out) Scene 9 (An apartment, warm and fuzzy, out of the way and experimental in dŽcor. TRINH, always armed just below the armpit, sits on the edge of his seat, doing paper work like an addict. A knock at the door. He looks at his watch) TRINH. Yeah! RILAL. (Enters) I guess you wanted me to come in. TRINH. Yeah. (Finishes up work. Sees this Gorgeous gal) I'm sorry. If I'd known you were so hot· Please. You want to sit down. Or a cup of water. RILAL. (Smiles and sits) I can only give a moment. TRINH. Great. That's all I'm about. (Shows her photo) Know him? RILAL. Half the city would. TRINH. What's his connection to Kia Maplethorpe? RILAL. She didn't have a last nane. TRINH. Bet she did. RILAL. I hired her out, all the time. She was Kia. TRINH. You don't have to polish it for me. What were they, lovers? RILAL. What were who? TRINH. (Stares at her. Pause) That's all. You can go. RILAL. (Sits for a moment) You call me here. Why am I here? TRINH. That's all. (She starts to go) Oh. Give him this. (Scribbles something on paper, and hands it) You get him jobs, I believe. Say there's 200 in it for this. RILAL. What is it? TRINH. Reward. Officially. It's yours. There is 200 in that paper. - Good girl? (She spits on him. TRINH's so surprised, he laughs as she exits. MONAR enters, carefully, dressed for love) Come in, come in, thanks for coming. MONAR. Coming's extra. TRINH. Huh? MONAR. Look. What is this place? I saw RILAL. I don't know what you want - TRINH. Told you. Head of Tecs. Monar? Right? MONAR. I don't know, You're head of tecs. What is that? Is that good? TRINH. (Laughs) Detectives. Officer. You won't get banged. Well, not by me. You want to sit? MONAR. Then why am I.. (Spreads her arms) TRINH. (Sigh) I take this place as a way of making people comfortable. And being where it is, hmm, isn't it just odd that most of the people I need to interview Come from this half of the city. Convenience. Annonimity. It just Feels right. MONAR. Yeah, but I saw Her. I see her, somebody else sees - TRINH. Only if you've got something to hide. (Pause) If you don't want to be seen. (Pause. She sits) You were there. Tell me. MONAR. I was there. (His piercing eyes say 'cut the crap'. Pause) I wasn't suppose to run, I was there for morale. But they went a leg short - TRINH. Leg? MONAR. It was a special garter, with a holder. Yes, I was wearing something else. It was trash. Just to make the rest of it look better, anyway. I was hooking into it. - I saw this man give Kia a small package. Or it could've been one of those padded envelopes. Does it matter? (TRINH shakes his head) She gave him a tip. (Pause) If that's the only thing you want to know. There was nothing else. TRINH. Was it Ngugi? MONAR. Ngugi? No. I don't think so. It was - Huh. (Thinks) Funny. Something weird about that shadow. TRINH. Shadow? MONAR. Well, the guy. He had the lights back of him, or in front, I don't remember which way sunlight works. In a shadow. And - weird. TRINH. (Pause) You were also at the shoot the morning the boyfriend got his balls knocked together. MONAR. (Pause) That was unfortunate. TRINH. I'll bet. - Where is he now? NGUGI. (She shrugs) Anything between them? MONAR. Ngugi? (Laughs) You don't know about the man. (Lights up slowly on a solitary room. NGUGI is out cold on a chair with a bent back as DERRY plays electronic checkers at a small table) TRINH. Tell. MONAR. While back. Lynn gets killed. It was his first time in love, I guess, or whatever a person thinks that is. She slips in the bathtub. It doesn't have to happen. TRINH. I have no accident report on that. MONAR. Oh? (Pause) Well, the man's not into women now. He's not a fag. I think. But he's clit tease, sharpening the thing on our egos, and some of them want him more. I need the work. TRINH. Of course. But you couldn't swear - MONAR. Why all this? TRINH. We want him. - I'm not a fag. (Lights have finally faded here. DERRY plays for a few minutes, winning the game which makes stupid little sounds. It awakens NGUGI who decides to play dead for a moment) DERRY. Might as well open your eyes for a little while. NGUGI. Okay, igit. Why? DERRY. Because life is beautiful. And too short. You've got. 7 minutes to live. NGUGI. Are you God? DERRY. Don't we look alike? NGUGI. Cute. DERRY. That's what the ladies say. NGUGI. Shut up. (Phone rings) DERRY. (Answers phone fron pocket) Hi. (Pause) Yeah. (Pause) You think that's going to help? (Pause. Replaces phone) Part 4 coming soon... ************************************************************************ 3 SHORT STORIES by BEN OHMART ************************************************************************ The Smoke Clears You know, all this trash that's being dumped right at cigarettes' butts is great, having the corporations pay off big time, and the human race getting a little bit back out of the mega-mind control that's been going on ever since Bogy first mumbled something black and white, but what about the booze, baby? I never hear about the Booze. I want to hear something about The BOOOOZE. If the point of restricting cigarettes is that they kill, in or out of your mouth, it seems to me that beer, hard stuff and wine does just as much damage. But it's never talked about. It's treated as dramatic by the poets who want to lead cool, self-destructive lives; it's let on tv as the most imaginative of the commercials (unfortunately, the biggest bucks hire the cleverest gag writers); and it's not an in thing to talk about booze killing. But it takes the lives of 1000s of people each year: this second hand smoke of having a woozy hand behind the wheel pick off pedestrians.And it kills the drinkers. Is it a slower death? I thought lung cancer tookjust as long as dying from a drowned liver? How come drinks and smokesaren't on the same level? Of course drinking is a social activity; and sometimes you look coolerlighting up by yourself. Safety and acceptance in numbers? Maybe that's it. It can't be the cash. Cigars, cigarettes, and pipes bring in just as much cash from the zombies as the drinking does. Of course, you can drink faster than you can smoke. Maybe that's it. You can get plastered. And it's an alternative to pills, cheaper even, if you buy by the bottle instead of haunting pubs. Yeah, that's right, there are no smoking clubs anymore, are there? Or were there Ever in the US? Besides, other things went on in smoking clubs besides smoking anyway. But on a college campus, you can set up shop to look grown-up, be a real man and push back a lot of liquor in one swaying sitting. If you're a three pack a day man, no one really cares. They can't watch you smoke them all, can they? It's got to be looked at in a different light, or the same light, drinking. People will have to consider that what they do will ultimately harm another person at some point. Non-smokers could hold their noses and put up an unamused wall of trashy looks and uninterest. But until we start holding our noses at the drink that could hit us later, it's not going to happen, nothing's going to change. You can smell the smoke on you immediately. It hurts your senses. It's dramatic, you See what it does, it rises, it causes coughs Immediately. What does that second hand drink do? I guess it's going to have to do Something to get us concerned enough. Either that or hit a Mayor's son. Yeah, that's it, jocks. Swerve for some Names. ------------------- God In The Sky Science continues to overtake God everyday, forcing more people out of the reverence place, into more Sunday morning tv programming. The young people continue to disbelieve because there hasn't been any hearsay since the New Testament got written. The old people who still go to worship are lucky, because they had fewer choices than we do now. Yes, fewer choices could be better, it made life simpler, and when there were fewer things to worry about, you could put your trust in a God of your own making, or that word of mouth God that was supposed to make everything better, because the solution was simple. Fewer answers to worry about back then too, since science was still a babe, one that didn't look very fine, and there wasn't enough faith in this new god to prove itself to anyone except Future Generations. So why is the church still around after all this time, in the age of the laptop computer and Monostat 7? The aim has gone from being a vengeful and powerful God into being a being of peace. More problems, more choices in the world means the old ways of thinking need a place to gather, replenish outdated ideals, and go back into the new world for another week, refreshed, and able to see life for what it isn't. A world under God, where everything happens for a reason. But church is more than that, on the other hand. Most churches don't just pass the plate around for the pastor's paycheck and the rent. They do some good in the community. They preach forgiveness and tolerance, and do nothing destructive. They give to the needy, and help out in times of crisis and natural disaster. This is what Really keeps the church alive in our modern day; humans are naturally greedy creatures. If the church, "empowered" by "God", didn't do anything for Them, it would be just another institution that's gone the way of all drive-ins. That is a good thing. Because there isn't enough goodness or graciousness in the world. It all comes from the people who feel good enough to give it, not from a named power that sits up somewhere in the clouds and dictates random order. People are left to people, and there are a lot of nuts out there. Bombs and childhood traumas blubbing up and people that just click and mow down some long-lasted lives. Not to mention the wars between God's chosen, each thinking the other wrong, each calling their holy war necessary, not caring who is ultimately hurt. This alone is enough of a reason to Know that there's nothing up, down or beside us at every turn, there to save us from ourselves, eternal Anything, or an immediate sin just because we've prayed to the right entity. But if there's a god, Greek, Roman or Albanian, or not, what's wrong with people believing there is? If it keeps them in line, nothing. The point of God is keeping everyone in line, letting them live good lives. The evil of the coin is those people who think their lives are preordained so that Nothing they do matters, and therefore, they can do Anything. Then there are those Gods who don't seem to care about anyone except the believers. The religious nuts of these higher powers won't rest, some of them anyway, until all infidels go the way of the panda bear: just slow enough so that the pain Feels good. If there is any argument for whether or not God SHOULD exist, I'd say the cons far outweigh the pros. There are enough problems in the world already without getting supernatural. Check your guns with your Bibles at the door, and come in for a nice game of T2 in the lobby of the movies. It's going to be more fun watching the latest Sharon Stone sin than worrying about an eternity that's taking forever to prove itself. ------------------- Geek Limp friend of mine was over the wall yesterday. the wall's a place that sells the most sell out music. go to the mall, go to the wall, see what all the corporations want you to buy. it's the place to find out what's cool by the absence of cool things. hung out at the mall eating a corn dog that tasted like a wrestler's middle finger, and tried on 2 sets of black Payless shoes. would've been 3, but you know. missed the computer. so to make myself feel better, went to the game shop and looked at all the stuff that wasn't facing me. see, a biz has to pay more $$ to get their games facing front. you don't have to pay any extra to have just the spine showing on the shelf. so i was overlooking all the air sim games in favor of mysteries. i didn't like the Doom clones because guns were so cheap, i could do the real thing for real if i really wanted to. might as well play something you won't get anywhere else. i mean, i could always hijack a plane. mysteries take strategy and time. Under a Killing Moon. ever heard of it? any good? i don't know. 20 bucks. i went to the bargain rack again; my major hang out. there was some weird game in there called Your Mother Smells. $2. so i bought it. said on the back it was supposed to be about this mom who can tell what her kid's Really doing. a mystery. see, her kid doesn't go to school. so she has to find out what the hell he does all day. and she's got this Big funny nose, and no arms. weird. and as soon as you find out what your kid's doing (drugs, numbers, programming http, or playing spin the bottle opener), you go into the bedroom. you have another kid. then you play again. it took me 5 minutes to finish the 3 kid, and i was Bored. i'm always BORED. i get on my bike and i run into a tree. then i limp back to my computer, click on the extra hard drive and start clicking my mouse while my cat fills up the holes in my speakers with loose hair. went back to the mall. no mall. i thought - what the hell? just what i said. NO MALL. it wasn't there anyway. i was there, like, 15 hours ago. there was a sign on one of the pulled up boulders. they left a note for me. 'dear wineburger. we've moved. no, don't look for us. you never buy anything anyway.' i went home and got the receipt for Your Mother Smells. i had to get my mall back. i couldn't believe this. i couldn't - i mean - this - you know, this was my Life. god. then receipt blew out of my hands. life over. ************************************************************************ THE ELKHORN MANIFESTO - SHADOW OF THE SWASTIKA by R. WILLIAM DAVIS ************************************************************************ The Elkhorn Project Presents: Shadow of the Swastika: The Real Reason the Government won't Debate Medical Cannabis and Industrial Hemp Relegalization The five parts which follow this introduction contain the results of my three years of research into the connection between the prime suspects in the "hemp and marijuana conspiracy," namely William Randolph Hearst, the du Ponts, and Andrew Mellon, and the Nazis. This document, published as an Open Letter to all Americans, reveals evidence I have gathered that these powerful Americans, prominent in the Media, Petrochemical, and Banking industries in the 1930s and 1940s, were involved in a much larger conspiracy as well, during this same time period. This larger conspiracy, which is extensively documented in Congressional Records, criminal indictments, and Justice Department files, involved a secret business and financial alliance between several major American corporations, and the Nazis, during World War II. This is not a conspiracy "theory." It is history, and I have included a listing of all my sources. I believe that after you read this paper, and review the extensive documentation included, you will agree that the evidence shows that the government- and corporate-sponsored repression of medicinal, industrial and, yes, even personal, use of cannabis hemp in America today, is being enforced for two reasons: (1) to prevent public discovery of the truth that marijuana is not the "deadly" drug the government claimed it was and was supressed only to protect the profits of patented medicines, wood-pulp paper and petrochemicals and, (2) to prevent any serious investigation into certain events and circumstances which existed during the creation of Marijuana Prohibition in the years leading up to World War II. As you will see, such an investigation would reveal to the American public not only the fact that Hearst, the du Ponts, and Mellon were Nazi collaborators, but that many other U.S. corporations - among them Ford Motor Company, General Motors, ITT and Standard Oil - actively aided Nazi Germany throughout World War II, owning and operating Nazi war factories inside Germany, producing weapons, equipment and fuel which was used to kill American soldiers and sailors and airmen. Not only did these corporations directly profit financially from the blood of Americans, in 1967, the U.S. Congress awarded millions of dollars in war reparations payments and tax breaks to American corporations whose Nazi war factories were damaged during the war, on the basis that they were American property damaged by Allied attacks. "Shadow of the Swastika" documents the pro-Nazi, pro-Fascist, anti-American roots of the present-day Cannabis Prohibition, and includes evidence that, after the end of World War II, fugitive Nazi war criminals were recruited into U.S. intelligence agencies, the U.S. State Department and the Republican Party, and more recently, into the Presidential Administrations of the three most anti-cannabis Republicans in modern history - Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George Bush. SHADOW OF THE SWASTIKA: The Real Reason the Government Won't Debate Medical Cannabis and Industrial Hemp Relegalization: ---------------------------------------------------------------- Documented Evidence of a Secret Business and Political Alliance Between the U.S. "Establishment" and the Nazis, Before, During and After World War II, up to the Present. ---------------------------------------------------------------- By R. William Davis Director, The Elkhorn Project ------- PREFACE ------- Before the Gatewood Galbraith for Governor Campaign in 1991, few Kentuckians knew that the plant that the federal government had demonized for over 50 years as "Marijuana - Assassin of Youth," was, in fact, Cannabis Hemp, the most traded commodity in the world until the mid-1800s, and our state's number one crop, industry, and most important source of revenue, for over 150 years. Today, thanks to the efforts of pioneer hemp researchers and public advocates such as Galbraith, Jack Fraizer, Jack Herer, Chris Conrad, Ed Rosenthal, Don Wirtshafter and others, the federal government's unjustifiable suppression of our state's right to develop our most valuable and versatile natural resource, is facing increasing opposition from an informed public. Hemp is now recognized as the number one agriculturally renewable raw material in the world, and perhaps the only crop / industry which can guarantee us industrial and economic independence from the trans-national corporations. "Shadow of the Swastika" is a follow-up to my earlier work, "Cannabis Hemp: the Invisible Prohibition Revealed," which I wrote and published in support of the Galbraith Campaign. Since publication of that booklet, there has been growing public acceptance of the evidence that Marijuana Prohibition was created in 1937, not to protect society from the "evils of the drug Marijuana," as the Federal government claimed, but as an act of deliberate economic and industrial sabotage against the re-emerging Industrial Hemp Industry. Previous investigations by hemp researchers have been limited to the suppression of free-market competition from the hemp industry, and focused on the activities of three prominent members of America's corporate, industrial and banking establishment during the mid- to late-1930s: WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST, the newspaper and magazine tycoon. The expected rebirth of cannabis hemp as a less expensive source of pulp for paper meant his millions of acres of prime timberland, and investment in wood pulp papermaking equipment, would soon be worth much less. In the 1920s, about the same time as the equipment was developed to economically mass-produce raw hemp into pulp and fiber for paper, he began the "Reefer Madness" hoax in his newspaper and magazine publications. ANDREW MELLON, founder of the Gulf Oil Corporation. He knew that cannabis hemp was an alternative industrial raw material for the production of thousands of products, including fuel and plastics, which, if allowed to compete in the free-market, would threaten the future profits of the oil companies. As Secretary of the Treasury he created the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, and appointed his own future nephew-in-law, Harry Anslinger, as director. Anslinger would later use the sensational, and totally fabricated, articles published by Hearst, to push the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 through Congress, which successfully destroyed the rebirth of the cannabis hemp industry. A prominent member of one Congressional subcommittee who voted in favor of this bill was Joseph Guffey of Pennsylvania, an oil tycoon and former business partner of Andrew Mellon in the Spindletop oil fields in Texas. THE DU PONT CHEMICAL CORPORATION, which owned the patents on synthetic petrochemicals and industrial processes that promised billions of dollars in future profits from the sale of wood pulp paper, lead additives for gasoline, synthetic fibers and plastics, if hemp could be suppressed. At the time, du Pont family influence in both government and the private sector was unmatched, according to historians and journalists. This publication, however, reveals documented historical evidence that the suppression of the hemp industry was only one key part of a much larger conspiracy in the 1930s, not only by the three corporate interests named above, but by many others, as well. Congressional records, FBI reports and investigations by the Justice Department, during the 1930s and 1940s, have already documented evidence of this wider plot. A list of the corporations named include Du Pont, Standard Oil, and General Motors, all of which were proven to be conspiring with Nazi industrial cartels to eliminate competition world-wide and divide among themselves the Earth's industrial resources and commercial markets, for profitable exploitation. This conspiracy succeeded. It is now obvious that this lack of serious competition in the industrial raw materials market caused our present - and totally contrived - addiction to petrochemicals. Its success is directly responsible for the most troubling problems we now face in the 1990s; serious damage to our environment, concentration of economic and political power into fewer and fewer hands, and the weakening of the rights of individuals and states to determine their own futures. It is more and more evident that, given the historical record, the structure of the New World Order is being built upon the Foundation of Marijuana Prohibition, and only the relegalization of free-market hemp competition can save us. R. William Davis July 4, 1996 Louisville, Kentucky ------------ INTRODUCTION ------------ To clearly understand the circumstances which existed during the 1930s and 1940s, and are the subject of this booklet, it would be helpful to first put the hemp / petrochemical conflict into historical perspective. The events which took place in the years leading up to World War II were a continuation of a struggle between agricultural and industrial interests that began before the American Revolution, a struggle which has yet to be decided, even today. AGRICULTURE VS. INDUSTRY The historical record, at least as it has been presented to us in the public school system, is that the Civil War was fought to end slavery. This is not the whole story. The truth of the matter is that it was also a clash between Northern industrialists and Southern agriculturists, over control of the expansion into the newly opened West. In 1845, Abraham Lincoln wrote, "I hold it a paramount duty of us in the free states due to the union of the states, and perhaps to liberty itself, to let the slavery of other states alone." (1) Concerning the Western territories, he said "The whole Nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We want them for homes and free white people. This they cannot be, to any considerable extent, if slavery be planted within them." (2) Lincoln was caught in the middle between the Northern industrialists and the Southern agriculturists, who both wanted to dominate Western expansion because of the wealth it offered. The industrialists knew that the agriculturists depended on slavery because cotton, upon which Southern wealth was based, was very labor intensive and required the inexpensive labor that slavery provided. They knew that if the Western lands were declared "free states" then the Southern agriculturists would be unable to compete, and would be forced to leave Western expansion, and its potential profits, to the Northern industrialists. Quoting "The Irony of Democracy," by Thomas R. Dye and T. Harmon Zeigler, "The importance of the Civil War for America's elite structure was the commanding position that the new industrial capitalists won during the course of the struggle. . . . The economic transformation of the United States from an agricultural to an industrial nation reached the crescendo of a revolution in the second half of the nineteenth century. "Civil War profits compounded the capital of the industrialists and placed them in a position to dominate the economic life of the nation. Moreover, when the Southern planters were removed from the national scene, the government in Washington became the exclusive domain of the new industrial leaders." (3) The Northern industrialists used this increased capital to build the system of transcontinental railways, linking the Northeast with both the South and West. The labor for this undertaking was from the Northeastern Establishment's own source of cheap labor - recently freed slaves and poor immigrants from Europe and China - who suffered under living conditions which were often little better than those which existed under the Slave System just a few years before. It was during the years between the Civil War and the beginning of the Twentieth Century that the Northern industrialists altered the role of the American government. Originally established by the Revolution to protect and preserve the lives, property and freedoms of all Americans from repressive government, it was transformed into an agency to protect the economic future of Northern industrialists. "[T]he industrial elites," according to Dye and Zeigler, "saw no objection to legislation if it furthered their success in business. Unrestricted competition might prove who was the fittest, but as an added precaution to insure that the industrial capitalists themselves emerged as the fittest, these new elites also insisted upon government subsidies, patents, tariffs, loans, and massive giveaways of land and other natural resources." (4) The struggle between Western farmers and the railroads owned by the Northern industrialists is a good example. To protect their interests, citizens created "the Grange," an organization which helped to enact state laws regulating the "ruthless aggression" of the railroads. In 1877, these laws were upheld by the Supreme Court in the Munn v. Illinois decision. But, a few years later, Justice Stephen A. Field changed the role, and the very definition, of the corporation. He gave a new interpretation to the Fourteenth Amendment that actually gave corporations legal status as citizens . . . as artificial persons. (5) It was not long after this change in the interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment that John D. Rockefeller, the father of the modern-day corporation, created the great Standard Oil Corporation which, by the late 1880s, gained control over 90% of all the oil refineries in America. (6) The roots of 20th Century American politics can best be illustrated by the 1896 Presidential Election, won by Republican William McKinley by a landslide. The McKinley campaign was directed by Marcus Alonzo Hanna of Standard Oil and raised a $16,000,000 campaign fund from wealthy fellow industrialists, (an amount that was unmatched in Presidential campaigns until the 1960s). The major theme of the campaign, and one that would echo far into the future, was "what's good for business is good for the country." (7) This emerging political and judicial misuse of power in America was feared by Thomas Jefferson who, in 1787, wrote, "I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they remain chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there shall be vacant lands in any part of America. When they get piled upon one another in large cities as in Europe they will become corrupt as in Europe." (8) It is important to remember that the American Revolution was a clash between the agriculturists in the colonies, and the British industrialists who controlled the government in England. Almost 100 years later the Civil War was fought as a continuation of the same basic struggle, but with the victory going back to the industrialists. This began the erosion of the American government "of the people, for the people and by the people." The buying of the 1896 Presidential Election, by Hanna of Standard Oil and the Northern industrial interests, was the next important step on the long road to the American government "of the corporation, for the corporation and by the corporation." A few years later, World War I would forge an even closer relationship between corporations and government in the United States, as well as around the world. Anthony Sampson, in his book "The Arms Bazaar," notes that "the American companies, led by US Steel and du Pont, were transformed by war orders. US Steel, which had absorbed Carnegie's old steel company, had made average annual profits in the four pre-war years of $105 million, while in the four war years they were $240 million; and du Pont's average profit went up from $6 million to $58 million. . . . "Certainly the arms companies had become much richer through the war, and there were widespread suspicions that they were actually trying to prolong it." (9) The bottom line is, of course, victory or profit, and in what proportions? To what lengths would this nation's top industrial leaders go to secure their share of the profits before and during the next "war to end all war?" -------------------- NOTES: INTRODUCTION -------------------- 1 - American Political Tradition, Hofstadter, p. 109. (As reprinted in The Irony of Democracy, Thomas R. Dye and L. Harmon Zeigler, p. 72) 2 - American Political Tradition, p. 113. (As reprinted in The Irony of Democracy, p. 72) 3 - Irony of Democracy, p. 73 4 - Ibid., p. 74 5 - Ibid., p. 75 6 - Ibid., p. 76 7 - Ibid., p. 82 8 - Ibid., p. 62 9 - The Arms Bazaar, Anthony Sampson, p. 65 ------------------------------- U.S. CORPORATIONS AND THE NAZIS ------------------------------- "A clique of U.S. industrialists is hell-bent to bring a fascist state to supplant our democratic government and is working closely with the fascist regime in Germany and Italy. I have had plenty of opportunity in my post in Berlin to witness how close some of our American ruling families are to the Nazi regime. . . . "Certain American industrialists had a great deal to do with bringing fascist regimes into being in both Germany and Italy. They extended aid to help Fascism occupy the seat of power, and they are helping to keep it there." -- William E. Dodd, U.S. Ambassador to Germany, 1937. (1) A large volume of documentary evidence exists that reveals that many of the richest, most powerful men in the United States, and the giant corporations they controlled, were secretly allied with the Nazis, both before and during World War II, even after war was declared between Germany and America. This alliance began with U.S. corporate investment during the reconstruction of post-World War I Germany in the 1920s and, years later, included financial, industrial and military aid to the Nazis. On the pages which follow we will review which prominent Americans and corporations were involved, what aid and comfort they gave our nation's enemies - treasonable offenses during time of war, and investigations into these matters which produced evidence of a US/Nazi corporate conspiracy to bring a fascist state to America, and eliminate competition in the industrial raw materials market in order to force world-wide dependance on oil-based petrochemicals. WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST Hearst, who was so concerned about the American public's health and safety on the matter of marijuana use, apparently had no such fears when it came to Hitler and the Nazis. According to journalist George Seldes: ". . . Hitler had the support of the most widely circulated magazine in history, 'Readers Digest,' as well as nineteen big-city newspapers and one of the three great American news agencies, the $220-million Hearst press empire. ". . . William Randolph Hearst, Sr., . . . was the lord of all the press lords in the United States. The millions who read the Hearst newspapers and magazines and saw Hearst newsreels in the nation's moviehouses had their minds poisoned by Hitler propaganda. "It was . . . disclosed first to President Roosevelt [by Ambassador Dodd] almost on the day it happened, in September 1934, and it is detailed in the book 'Ambassador Dodd's Diary,' published in 1941, and again in libel-proof documents on file in the courts of the state of New York. William E. Dodd, professor of history [at the University of Chicago], told me about the Hearst sell-out . . . "According to Ambassador Dodd, Hearst came to take the waters at Bad Nauheim in September 1934, and Dodd somehow learned immediately that Hitler had sent two of his most trusted Nazi propagandists, Hanfstangel and Rosenberg, to ask Hearst how Nazism could present a better image in the United States. When Hearst went to Berlin later in the month, he was taken to see Hitler." Seldes reports that a $400,000 a year deal was struck between Hearst and Hitler, and signed by Doctor Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda minister. "Hearst," continues Seldes, "completely changed the editorial policy of his nineteen daily newspapers the same month he got the money." In the court documents filed on behalf of Dan Gillmor, publisher of a magazine named "Friday," in response to a lawsuit by Hearst, under item 61, he states: "Promptly after this said visit with Adolf Hitler and the making of said arrangements. . . said plaintiff, William Randolph Hearst, instructed all Hearst press correspondents in Germany, including those of INS [Hearst's International News Service] to report happenings in Germany only in a friendly' manner. All of such correspondents reporting happenings in Germany accurately and without friendliness, sympathy and bias for the actions of the then German government, were transferred elsewhere, discharged, or forced to resign. . . ." In the late 1930s, Seldes recounts, when "several sedition indictments [were brought by] the Department of Justice . . . against a score or two of Americans, the defendants included an unusually large minority of newspaper men and women, most of them Hearst employees." (2) ANDREW MELLON "Thurman Arnold, as assistant district attorney of the United States, his assistant, Norman Littell, and several Congressional investigations, have produced incontrovertible evidence that some of our biggest monopolies entered into secret agreements with the Nazi cartels and divided the world up among them," states Seldes in his book, "Facts and Fascism," published in 1943. "Most notorious of all was Alcoa, the Mellon-Davis-Duke monopoly which is largely responsible for the fact America did not have the aluminum with which to build airplanes before and after Pearl Harbor, while Germany had an unlimited supply." (3) Alcoa sabotage of American war production had already cost the U.S. "10,000 fighters or 1,665 bombers," according to Congressman Pierce of Oregon speaking in May 1941, because of "the effort to protect Alcoa's monopolistic position. . ." "If America loses this war," said Secretary of the Interior [Harold] Ickes, June 26, 1941, "it can thank the Aluminum Corporation of America." "By its cartel agreement with I.G. Farben, controlled by Hitler," writes Seldes, "Alcoa sabotaged the aluminum program of the U.S. air force. The Truman Committee [on National Defense, chaired by then- Senator Harry S. Truman in 1942] heard testimony that Alcoa's representative, A.H. Bunker, $1-a-year head of the aluminum section of O.P.M., prevented work on our $600,000,000 aluminum expansion program." (4) DU PONT AND GENERAL MOTORS General Motors is included here because, by 1929, the Du Pont corporation had acquired controlling interest in, and had interlocking directorships with, General Motors. Irenee du Pont, "the most imposing and powerful member of the clan," according to biographer and historian Charles Higham, "was obsessed with Hitler's principles. "He keenly followed the career of the future Fuhrer in the 1920s, and on September 7, 1926, in a speech to the American Chemical Society, he advocated a race of supermen, to be achieved by injecting special drugs into them in boyhood to make their characters to order." Higham's book on this subject, "Trading with the Enemy: An Expose of the Nazi-American Money Plot 1933-1949," is highly recommended. Du Pont's anti-Semitism "matched that of Hitler" and, in 1933, the Du Ponts "began financing native fascist groups in America . . ." one of which Higham identifies as the American Liberty League: "a Nazi organization whipping up hatred of blacks and Jews," and the "love of Hitler. "Financed . . . to the tune of $500,000 the first year, the Liberty League had a lavish thirty-one-room office in New York, branches in twenty-six colleges, and fifteen subsidiary organizations nationwide that distributed fifty million copies of its Nazi pamphlets. . . . "The Du Ponts' fascistic behavior was seen in 1936, when Irenee du Pont used General Motors money to finance the notorious Black Legion. This terrorist organization had as its purpose the prevention of automobile workers from unionizing. The members wore hoods and black robes, with skulls and crossbones. They fire-bombed union meetings, murdered union organizers, often by beating them to death, and dedicated their lives to destroying Jews and communists. They linked to the Ku Klux Klan. . . . It was brought out that at least fifty people, many of them blacks, had been butchered by the Legion." (5) Du Pont support of Hitler extended into the very heart of the Nazi war machine as well, according to Higham, and several other researchers: "General Motors, under the control of the Du Pont family of Delaware, played a part in collaboration" with the Nazis. "Between 1932 and 1939, bosses of General Motors poured $30 million into I.G. Farben plants . . ." Further, Higham informs us that by "the mid-1930s, General Motors was committed to full-scale production of trucks, armored cars, and tanks in Nazi Germany." (6) Researchers Morton Mintz and Jerry S. Cohen, in their book, "Power Inc.," describe the Du Pont-GM-Nazi relationship in these terms: ". . . In 1929, [Du Pont-controlled] GM acquired the largest automobile company in Germany, Adam Opel, A.G. This predestined the subsidiary to become important to the Nazi war effort. In a heavily documented study presented to the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly in February 1974, Bradford C. Snell, an assistant subcommittee counsel, wrote: "'GM's participation in Germany's preparation for war began in 1935. That year its Opel subsidiary cooperated with the Reich in locating a new heavy truck facility at Brandenburg, which military officials advised would be less vulnerable to enemy air attacks. During the succeeding years, GM supplied the Wehrmact with Opel "Blitz" trucks from the Brandenburg complex. For these and other contributions to [the Nazis] wartime preparations, GM's chief executive for overseas operations [James Mooney] was awarded the Order of the German Eagle (first class) by Adolf Hitler.'" Du Pont-GM Nazi collaboration, according to Snell, included the participation of Standard Oil of New Jersey [now Exxon] in one, very important arrangement. GM and Standard Oil of New Jersey formed a joint subsidiary with the giant Nazi chemical cartel, I.G. Farben, named Ethyl G.m.b.H. [now Ethyl, Inc.] which, according to Snell: "provided the mechanized German armies with synthetic tetraethyl fuel [leaded gas]. During 1936-39, at the urgent request of Nazi officials who realized that Germany's scarce petroleum reserves would not satisfy war demands, GM and Exxon joined with German chemical interests in the erection of the lead-tetraethyl plants. According to captured German records, these facilities contributed substantially to the German war effort: 'The fact that since the beginning of the war we could produce lead-tetraethyl is entirely due to the circumstances that, shortly before, the Americans [Du Pont, GM and Standard Oil] had presented us with the production plants complete with experimental knowledge. Without lead-tetraethyl the present method of warfare would be unthinkable.'" (7) At about the same time the Du Ponts were serving the Nazi cause in Germany, they were involved in a Fascist plot to overthrow the United States government. "Along with friends of the Morgan Bank and General Motors," in early 1934, writes Higham, "certain Du Pont backers financed a coup d'etat that would overthrow the President with the aid of a $3 million-funded army of terrorists . . ." The object was to force Roosevelt "to take orders from businessmen as part of a fascist government or face the alternative of imprisonment and execution . . . " Higham reports that "Du Pont men allegedly held an urgent series of meetings with the Morgans," to choose who would lead this "bizarre conspiracy." "They finally settled on one of the most popular soldiers in America, General Smedly Butler of Pennsylvania." Butler was approached by "fascist attorney" Gerald MacGuire (an official of the American Legion), who attempted to recruit Butler into the role of an American Hitler. "Butler was horrified," but played along with MacGuire until, a short time later, he notified the White House of the plot. Roosevelt considered having "the leaders of the houses of Morgan and Du Pont" arrested, but feared that "it would create an unthinkable national crisis in the midst of a depression and perhaps another Wall Street crash." Roosevelt decided the best way to defuse the plot was to expose it, and leaked the story to the press. "The newspapers ran the story of the attempted coup on the front page, but generally ridiculed it as absurd and preposterous." But an investigation by the Congressional Committee on Un-American Activities - 74th Congress, first session, House of Representatives, Investigation of Nazi and other propaganda - was begun later that same year. "It was four years," continues Higham, "before the committee dared to publish its report in a white paper that was marked for 'restricted circulation.' They were forced to admit that 'certain persons made an attempt to establish a fascist organization in this country . . . [The] committee was able to verify all the pertinent statements made by General Butler.' This admission that the entire plan was deadly in intent was not accompanied by the imprisonment of anybody. Further investigations disclosed that over a million people had been guaranteed to join the scheme and that the arms and munitions necessary would have been supplied by Remington, a Du Pont subsidiary." (8) The names of important individuals and groups involved in the conspiracy were suppressed by the committee, but later revealed by Seldes, Philadelphia Record reporter Paul French, and Jules Archer, author of the book, "The Plot to Seize the White House." Included were John W. Davis (attorney for the J.P. Morgan banking group), Robert Sterling Clark (Wall Street broker and heir to the Singer sewing machine fortune), William Doyle (American Legion official), and the American Liberty League (backed by executives from J.P. Morgan and Co., Rockefeller interests, E.F. Hutton, and Du Pont-controlled General Motors). (9) THE US/NAZI CARTEL AGREEMENT "On November 23, 1937," states Higham, "representatives of General Motors held a secret meeting in Boston with Baron Manfred von Killinger, who was . . . in charge of West Coast espionage [for the Nazis], and Baron von Tipplekirsch, Nazi consul general and Gestapo leader in Boston. This group signed a joint agreement showing total commitment to the Nazi cause for the indefinite future. . . ." (10) Seldes describes the plotters as "the great owners and rulers of America who planned world domination through political and military Fascism" including "several leading American industrialists, members of the Congress of the United States, and representatives of large business and political organizations . . ." He obtained the text of the agreement, and published it in his newsletter, "In Fact," on July 13, 1942. The plan "goes much further than the mere cartel conspiracies of Big Business of both countries," writes Seldes, "because it has political clauses and points to a bigger conspiracy of money and politicians such as helped betray Norway and France and other lands to the Nazi machine. The most powerful fortress in America is the production monopolies, but its betrayal would involve, as it did in France, the participation of some of the most powerful figures of the political as well as the industrial world." (11) "Shadow of the Swastika" - Page Two ------------------------------------------------------------------------ STANDARD OIL OF NEW JERSEY (Now Exxon) "On February 27, 1942," according to Higham, "Arnold, with documents stuffed under his arms, . . . strode into the lion's den of Standard at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. Just behind him were Secretary of the Navy Franklin Knox and Secretary of the Army Henry L. Stimson." They confronted Standard official William Farish and "Arnold sharply laid down his charges" that "by continuing to favor Hitler in rubber deal and patent arrangements," Standard Oil "had acted against the interests of the American government . . . suggested a fine of $1.5 million and a consent decree whereby Standard would turn over for the duration all the patents" in question. "Farish rejected the proposal on the spot. He pointed out that Standard" was also selling the U.S. a "high percentage" of the fuel being used by the Army, Navy, and Air Force "making it possible for America to win the war. Where would America be without it?" Blackmail? Yes, says Higham. And effective. Arnold was finally reduced to asking the oil company official "to what Standard Oil would agree. After all, there had to be at least token punishment. . . . Arnold, Stimson, and Knox soon realized they had no power to compare with that of Standard." The price Standard Oil "agreed" to pay for its crime? A modest fine of a few thousand dollars divided up among ten defendants. "Farish paid $1,000, or a quarter of one week's salary, for having betrayed America." In New Jersey, charges of "criminal conspiracy with the enemy" were filed against Standard, then "dropped in return for Standard releasing its patents and paying the modest fine." But Arnold, and his ally, Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, weren't finished with Standard Oil just yet. They approached Senator Truman, chairman of the Senate Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program. "With great enthusiasm Give 'em Hell Harry embarked on a series of hearings in March 1942, in order to disclose the truth about Standard." Between the 26th and the 28th of March, 1942, Arnold "produced documents showing that Standard and Farben in Germany had literally carved up the world markets, with oil and chemical monopolies all over the map," according to Higham. (12) Mintz and Cohen describe the confrontation: "Four months after the United States entered World War II, the Justice Department obtained an indictment of Exxon and its principal officers for having made arrangements, starting in the late 1920s with I.G. Farben involving patent sharing and division of world markets. Jersey Standard agreed not to develop processes for the manufacture of synthetic rubber; in exchange, Farben agreed not to compete in the American petroleum market. After war broke out in Europe, but before the attack on Pearl Harbor, executives of Standard Oil and Farben, at a meeting in Holland, established a 'modus vivendi' for continuing the arrangements in event of war between the United States and Germany - although the arrangements interfered with the ability of the United States to make synthetic rubber desperately needed after it entered the war in December 1941. Rather than face a criminal trial, Exxon and the indicted executives entered no-contest pleas - the legal equivalent of guilty pleas - and were fined the minor sums which were the maximum amounts permitted by law. A few days later, on March 26, 1942, the Senate Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program held a hearing at which Thurman Arnold, chief of the Antitrust Division, put into the record documents on which the [criminal] indictment had been based, including a memo from a Standard Oil official on the 'modus vivendi' agreed to in Holland. After the hearing, the committee chairman, Harry S. Truman, characterized the arrangements as treasonable." (13) Another source book on this subject of US / Nazi corporate activities is "The Secret War Against the Jews," by Mark Aarons and John Loftus. Here is their version of the events: "Before the war Standard of New Jersey had forged a synthetic oil and rubber cartel with the Nazi-controlled I.G. Farben," which "worked well until the United States joined the war in 1941. . . . Next to the Rockefellers, I.G. Farben owned the largest share of stock in Standard Oil of New Jersey. Among other things, Standard had provided Farben with its synthetic rubber patents and technical knowledge, while Farben had kept its patents to itself, under strict instructions from the Nazi government." Evidence which Thurman Arnold turned over to the Truman Committee, which Truman would declare "treasonous," included "Standard's 1939 letter renewing its agreement, which made it clear that the Rockefellers' company was prepared to work with the Nazis whether their own government was at war with the Third Reich or not. Truman's Senate Committee on the National Defense was outraged and began to probe into the whole scandalous arrangement, much to the discomfort of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Suddenly, however, the whole matter was dropped. "There was a reason for Rockefeller's escape: blackmail. According to the former intelligence officers we interviewed on this point, the blackmail was simple and powerful: The Dulles brothers [John Foster, later Secretary of State, and Allen, later director of the CIA] had one of their clients threaten to interrupt the U.S. oil supply during wartime." When confronted by Arnold on the Standard - Farben arrangement "Standard executives made it clear that the entire U.S. war effort was fueled by their oil and it could be stopped. . . . The American government had no choice but to go along if it wanted to win the war." (14) July 13, 1944, Ralph W. Gallagher, attorney for Standard Oil, filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government's seizure of the contested patents. "On November 7, 1945, Judge Charles E. Wyzanski gave his verdict," according to Higham. "He decided that the government had been entitled to seize the patents. Gallagher appealed. On September 22, 1947, Judge Charles Clark delivered the final word on the subject. He said, 'Standard Oil can be considered an enemy national in view of its relationships with I.G. Farben after the United States and Germany had become active enemies.' The appeal was denied." (15) One aspect of this Standard - I.G. Farben relationship, revealed in testimony during the Patents Committee hearings, chaired by Senator Homer T. Bone in May 1942, is of interest to those who seek direct evidence of a conspiracy by big oil companies to suppress development of synthetic substitutes to petrochemical products such as industrial chemicals, aircraft lubricants and fuel, all of which can be made from hemp: "On May 6th, John R. Jacobs, Jr., of the Attorney General's department, testified that Standard had interfered with the American explosives industry by blocking the use of a method of producing synthetic ammonia. As a result of its deals with Farben, the United States had been unable to get the use of this vital process even after Pearl Harbor. Also, the United States had been restricted in techniques of producing hydrogen from natural gas and from obtaining paraflow, a product used for airplane lubrication at high altitudes. . . ." On August 7th, "Texas oil operator C.R. Starnes appeared to testify that Standard had blocked him at every turn in his efforts to produce synthetic rubber after Pearl Harbor. . . ." On August 12th, "John R. Jacobs reappeared in an Army private's uniform (he had been inducted the day before) to bring up another disagreeable matter: Standard had also, in league with Farben, restricted production of methanol, a wood alcohol that was sometimes used as motor fuel." (16) The restriction against methanol production apparently did not apply to the Nazis, however. "As late as April 1943," Higham reveals, "General Motors in Stockholm [Sweden] was reported as trading with the enemy. . . . Further documents show that, as with Ford, repairs on German army trucks and conversion from gasoline to wood-gasoline production were being handled by GM in Switzerland." (17) The use of hemp as a source of methanol was known to the Nazis, revealed in the pamphlet "The Humorous Hemp Primer," published in Berlin, also in 1943. This document, recently re-published in the 1995 edition of "Hemp and the Marijuana Conspiracy: The Emperor Wears No Clothes," by veteran hemp conspiracy researcher Jack Herer, states that: "Crops should not only provide food in large quantities, they can provide raw materials for industry. . . . Among such raw materials of especially high value is hemp . . . "The woody part of this large plant is not to be thrown out, since it can easily be used for surface coatings for the finest floors. It also provides paper and cardboard, building materials and wall paneling. Further processing will even produce wood sugar and wood gas. . . . "Anyone who grows hemp today need not fear a lack of a market, because hemp, as useful as it is, will be purchased in unlimited amounts." (18) The Nazis obviously considered hemp a vital war material that could be used to produce methanol, or "wood gas," at the same time, in 1943, that Du Pont-controlled General Motors in Switzerland was "converting from gasoline to wood-gasoline production." This, taken into consideration along with the earlier statement that Standard Oil- I.G. Farben had "restricted production of methanol" and the GM- Standard Oil-I.G. Farben joint venture, Ethyl, Inc., whose profitability depended on the production of lead-tetraethyl for oil- -based petrochemical gasoline - in direct competition with the alternative methanol, or "wood gas," certainly opens new avenues of investigation into the existence of a conspiracy against hemp as an alternative, and competing, industrial raw material, by these very same corporations which sold America out to the Nazis for profit and control of world resources and markets. "Just after Pearl Harbor," writes Seldes, "the Assistant Attorney General, Mr. Thurman Arnold, issued a sensational report of the sabotage of the national [war production] program, the first report naming the practices which were later to be referred to as the treason of big business in wartime. Said Mr. Arnold: "Looking back over 10 months of defense effort we can now see how much it has been hampered by the attitude of powerful basic industries who have feared to expand their production because expansion would endanger their future control of industry. "'Anti-trust investigations during the past year have shown that there is not an organized basic industry in the United States which has not been restricting production by some device or other in order to avoid what they call "ruinous overproduction after the war."' (19) By "ruinous overproduction," of course, they meant free-market competition. So, to question the existence of an industrial conspiracy against competition, during the 1930s and 1940s, is pointless. It has long been totally documented by volumes of evidence, available in the public record. And among this list of convicted corporate conspirators are murderers, racists, pro-Nazi collaborators, blackmailers and American Fascists who plotted at least one armed take-over of the U.S. government. And the list is not yet complete. THE FORD MOTOR COMPANY Henry Ford, writes Higham, "admired Hitler from the beginning, when the future Fuhrer was a struggling and obscure fanatic. He shared with Hitler a fanatical hatred of Jews." "Ford's book 'The International Jew' was issued in 1927. A virulent anti-Semitic tract, it was still being distributed in Latin America and the Arab countries as late as 1945. Hitler admired the book and it influenced him deeply. Visitors to Hitler's headquarters at the Brown House in Munich noticed a large photograph of Henry Ford hanging in his office. Stacked high on the table outside were copies of Ford's book. As early as 1923," when Hitler heard that Ford was planning to run for President, he "told an interviewer from the 'Chicago-Tribune,' 'I wish that I could send some of my shock troops to Chicago and other big American cities to help.'" As late as 1940, Ford Motor Company "refused to build aircraft engines for England and instead built supplies of the 5-ton military trucks that were the backbone of German army transportation." (20) The Ford Motor Company was also aware of the potential of hemp as an alternative industrial resource, devoting many years research to the subject. In a 1989 ABC Radio broadcast, Hugh Downs reported that in the 1930s, "the Ford Motor Company also saw a future in biomass fuels. Ford operated a successful biomass conversion plant that included hemp at their Iron Mountain facility in Michigan. Ford engineers extracted methanol, charcoal fuel, tar, pitch, ethyl acetate, and creosote - all fundamental ingredients for modern industry, and now supplied by oil- related industries. . . . Henry Ford's experiments with methanol promised cheap, readily-available fuel." (21) As reported in "Popular Mechanics" in December, 1941, Ford's research represented "an industrial revolution in progress . . . a revolution in materials that will affect every home." (22) So, it is possible, even likely, that Ford and General Motors conversion "from gasoline to wood-gasoline production" for Nazi Germany, as earlier reported by Higham, involved at least some consideration of hemp as a resource, if not actual production of "wood-gas" from hemp. After all, Ford had already committed several years and significant research dollars to the subject. The implication of methanol fuel patents, hemp industry research and production facilities, all in the hands of this cabal of Nazi- allied American corporations, during a proven period of anti- competition conspiracies, and wartime blackmail against the U.S. government, should provide additional support for the hemp conspiracy theories. The fact is that Nazi Germany recognized hemp as a vital war material - one which, just before America's entrance into World War II, was positioned to compete in the free-market against the products controlled by the Pro-Nazi American corporations. Unrestricted expansion of United States industrial hemp production threatened not only the profits of these treasonous corporations, but the degree of their control over America's production of vital war materials. This view of hemp, not as a "dangerous drug" but as a vital war material, was acknowledged by the Kentucky Legislature a little over 100 years before the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. In 1841, according to Professor James F. Hopkins, author of "A History of the Hemp Industry in Kentucky," published by the University of Kentucky Press in 1951: "When the farmers of Woodford County [KY] assembled in October, 1841, to consider a program of hemp production for the navy, they only went as far as to express an opinion that the government should employ a rope spinner in Kentucky for the purpose of converting the fiber into yarns, which could be transported much more cheaply and safely than the bulky raw material. The Committee on Agriculture of the Kentucky House of Representatives inquired into the matter early in 1842 . . . "Both houses of the General Assembly sent to the Senators and Congressmen from Kentucky a request that they use their 'best exertions' to have established in the state one or more agencies for the inspection and manufacture of hemp for the navy. A select committee of Congress, appointed to consider the resolutions from Kentucky, reported three resolutions of its own: that the navy be directed to construct a factory at Louisville 'for the purpose of depositing and manufacturing . . . such hempen fabrics of domestic water-rotted hemp as the public service may require'; that inspectors be appointed to test the fiber that might be offered for sale; and that, after due notice to the public, purchase of the necessary amount of fiber be made at the factory. The Committee contended that its plan would build up during peacetime a source of hemp which would be vitally important in case of war, encourage American agriculture and manufactures, and decrease the unfavorable balance of trade." (23) [NOTE: For many years we Kentuckians have had a good deal of our heritage and history buried beneath a thick layer of propaganda from a source of power and control in this country which knows neither honor nor justice. Now, we are learning the truth. Our history as a state built upon the foundation of a long- and dishonestly-outlawed industry endures.] INTERNATIONAL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH Even after Pearl Harbor, ITT was working for the Nazis, reports Higham: ". . . the German army, navy, and air force contracted with ITT for the manufacture of switchboards, telephones, alarm gongs, buoys, air raid warning devices, radar equipment, and thirty thousand fuses per month for artillery shells used to kill British and American troops." ITT also "supplied ingredients for the rocket bombs that fell on London," and other devices as well, without which "it would have been impossible for the German air force to kill American and British troops, for the German army to fight the Allies in Africa, Italy, France, and Germany, for England to have been bombed, or for Allied ships to have been attacked at sea." (24) In 1938, "following a series of meetings with Luftwaffe chief Herman Goring, [ITT founder and chairman Sosthenes] Behn encouraged ITT's Lorenz subsidiary to purchase 28 percent of the Focke-Wulf firm, manufacturer of the bombers that were to sink so many Allied ships during the war," according to researcher and author Jim Hougan. (25) Anthony Sampson, in "The Sovereign State of ITT," reports on what is perhaps the most bizarre aspect of the US/Nazi corporate partnership, war reparations: ". . . ITT now presents itself as the innocent victim of the Second World War, and has been handsomely recompensed for its injuries. In 1967, nearly thirty years after the events, ITT actually managed to obtain $27 million in compensation from the American government, for war damage to Focke-Wulf plants - on the basis that they were American property bombed by Allied bombers." (26) The Foreign Claims Settlement Commission was responsible for this payment to ITT, and other U.S. corporations as well. Bradford Snell reports that "After the cessation of hostilities, GM and Ford demanded reparations from the U.S. Government for wartime damages sustained by their Axis facilities as a result of Allied bombing. By 1967 GM had collected more than $33 million in reparations and Federal tax benefits for damages to its warplane and motor vehicle properties in formerly Axis territories . . . Ford received a little less than $1 million, primarily as a result of damages sustained by its military truck complex at Cologne." (27) ALLEN DULLES: ARCHITECT OF THE US-NAZI NETWORK Contemporary history records Allen Dulles as one of America's top spymasters, from his early days in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in World War II, to his position as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the 1950s and early 1960s (until President John F. Kennedy fired him over the Bay of Pigs disaster in 1961), and finally to his membership on the controversial Warren Commission, which investigated President Kennedy's assassination. Until recently, his pivotal role in promoting a U.S. corporate relationship with the Nazis was little known. Loftus and Aarons describe the post-World War I role of Allen, and his brother, John Foster, in the following terms: "We first turn to Dulles's creation of international finance networks for the benefit of the Nazis. In the beginning, moving money into the Third Reich was quite legal. Lawyers saw to that. And Allen and his brother John Foster were not just any lawyers. They were international finance specialists for the powerful Wall Street law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell. . . . "The Dulles brothers were the ones who convinced American businessmen to avoid U.S. government regulation by investing in Germany. It began with the Versailles Treaty, in which they played no small role. After World War I the defeated German government promised to pay war reparations to the Allies in gold, but Germany had no gold. It had to borrow the gold from Sullivan & Cromwell's clients in the United States. Nearly 70 percent of the money that flowed into Germany during the 1930s came from investors in the United States, many of them Sullivan & Cromwell clients. . . "Foster Dulles, as a member of the board of I.G. Farben, seems to have had little difficulty in getting along with whoever was in charge. Some of our sources insist that both Dulles brothers made substantial but indirect contributions to the Nazi party as the price of continued influence inside the new German order. . . ." (28) -------------------------------------- NOTES: U.S. CORPORATIONS AND THE NAZIS -------------------------------------- 1 - Facts and Fascism, George Seldes, p. 122 Trading with the Enemy, Charles Higham, p. 167 2 - Even the Gods Can't Change History, Seldes, pp. 140-144 3 - Facts and Fascism, p. 68 4 - Ibid., p. 262 5 - Trading with the Enemy, pp. 162-165 6 - Ibid., p. 166 7 - Power, Inc., Morton and Mintz, pp. 497-499 8 - Trading with the Enemy, pp. 163-165 9 - The Plot to Seize the White House, Jules Archer, Hawthorn Books, 1973 (Quoted from It's A Conspiracy, National Insecurity Council, EarthWorks Press, 1992, pp. 179-184) 10 - Trading with the Enemy, pp. 167-168 11 - Facts and Fascism, pp. 68-70 12 - Trading with the Enemy, pp. 45-46 13 - Power, Inc, pp. 499-500 14 - The Secret War Against The Jews, Aarons and Loftus, pp. 44-65 15 - Trading with the Enemy, pp. 61-62 16 - Ibid., pp. 49-52 17 - Ibid., p. 176 18 - The Emperor Wears No Clothes, Jack Herer, pp. 127-130 19 - One Thousand Americans, Seldes, pp. 142-143 20 - Trading with the Enemy, pp. 154-156 21 - Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do, p. 734 22 - Popular Mechanics Magazine, Vol. 76, No. 6, Dec. 1941 (The Emperor Wears No Clothes, 1995 edition, p. 199) 23 - A History of the Hemp Industry in Kentucky, Professor James F. Hopkins, University of Kentucky Press, 1951 24 - Trading with the Enemy, p. 99 25 - Spooks, Jim Hougan, pp. 423-424 26 - The Sovereign State of ITT, Anthony Sampson, p. 47 (Power, Inc., pp. 500-501) 27 - GM and the Nazis, by Bradford C. Snell, Ramparts Magazine, June 1974, pp. 14-16 (Democracy for the Few, Michael Parenti, pp. 91-92) 28 - The Secret War Against the Jews, pp. 55-60 ------------------------ THE NEW WORLD (DIS)ORDER ------------------------ "The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling power. "Among us today a concentration of private power without equal in history is growing." -- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1) As mentioned earlier, the secret U.S./Nazi corporate alliance during World War II was the result of substantial American investment in post-World War I Germany. In order to protect these investments, and the accumulating profits, the U.S. multinational corporations remained an important part of the Nazi war machine until the final defeat of Germany in 1945. What effect did the end of World War II have on this faction of American Nazi collaborators? In this section we will review the evidence, much of it from recently de-classified documents, that this pro-Nazi faction, rather than facing charges of high treason, became an integral part of the United States national security apparatus, extending its fascist influence in both foreign and domestic policies and, in effect, creating what has been referred to as America's "Invisible Government." The excuse, of course, was Communism. THE BUGGING OF WALL STREET Aarons and Loftus' research, which documents the Dulles brothers' pro-Nazi activities, did not go unnoticed. "Before his death, former Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg granted one of the authors an interview. Justice Goldberg had served in U.S. intelligence during World War II. Although he said little in public, he had collected information on the Dulles boys' activities over the years. His verdict was blunt. 'The Dulles brothers were traitors.' They had betrayed their country, by giving aid and comfort to the enemy in time of war." (2) Much of what is now known about the activities of the Dulles brothers and other American Nazi collaborators in banking and industry came as a result of a top-secret joint U.S.-British intelligence program known as the Ultra Project. "Prior to the United States' entry into the war," write Loftus and Aarons, "Roosevelt permitted British intelligence to wiretap American targets. "According to our sources in the intelligence community, the area of coverage included a good bit of the New York financial district, several floors of Rockefeller Plaza, part of the RCA Building, two prominent clubs, and various shipping firms. . . . "The wiretap unit reported to Sir William Stephenson, a Canadian electronics genius better known by his code name, 'Intrepid.' From his headquarters in the Rockefeller building, Stephenson's job was to identify U.S. companies that were aiding the Nazis." (3) "Several months before the United States declared war," continue Loftus and Aarons, "Bill Donovan invited Allen Dulles to head up the New York branch of the Office of the Coordinator of Information (COI), President Roosevelt's new intelligence agency and the precursor to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). Its primary mission was to collect information against the Nazis and their collaborators. In other words, Dulles was asked to inform on his own clients in New York. . . ." "Roosevelt had approved his selection as head of the COI Manhattan branch because he wanted Dulles where the British wiretappers could keep an eye on him. . . . "One floor below Dulles was Stephenson's wiretap shop. Inside Dulles's operation was one of Roosevelt's spies, Arthur Goldberg . . ." who, "confirmed . . . that Dulles's appointment was a setup. . . . "Roosevelt was giving Dulles enough rope to hang himself. From Stephenson's Manhattan wiretaps, it is known that Dulles was continuing to work with his German business clients, who wanted to remove Hitler and install a puppet of their own who would make peace with the West while forging an alliance against Stalin. It was to be a kinder, gentler Third Reich, favorably disposed to American financial interests. . . . (4) "The wiretap evidence against Dulles originally was collected by a special section of Operation Safehaven, the U.S. Treasury Department's effort to trace the movement of stolen Nazi booty towards the end of the war. Roosevelt and Treasury Secretary Henry Morganthau had set up Dulles by giving him the one assignment - intelligence chief in Switzerland - where he would be most tempted to aid his German clients with their money laundering." Roosevelt had one thing in mind: "The sudden release of the Safehaven intercepts would force a public outcry to bring treason charges against those British and American businessmen who aided the enemy in time of war." Among the targets were Allen Dulles, Henry Ford, and other U.S. industrialists. (5) The plan failed, however, due to Dulles being "tipped off . . . that he was under surveillance" in time to cover his tracks. One possible source of the leak was Vice President Henry Wallace, "who constantly shared information with his brother-in-law, the Swiss minister in Washington during the war." "Wallace," the authors reveal, "gave many details of his secret meetings with Roosevelt to the Swiss diplomat." The problem was that, at the time, the Nazis "had recruited the head of the Swiss secret service." It is, perhaps, no coincidence that Roosevelt dropped Wallace during the 1944 election, choosing instead Senator Harry S. Truman as his new running mate. (6) THE ENEMY OF MY ENEMY "After the Nazis' 1943 defeat at Stalingrad," write Loftus and Aarons, "various Nazi businessmen realized they were on the losing side and made plans to evacuate their wealth. The Peron government in Argentina was receiving the Nazi flight capital with open arms, and Dulles helped it hide the money. . . . "The Guinness Book of Records lists the missing Reichsbank treasure [estimated at $2.5 billion dollars] as the greatest unsolved bank robbery in history. Where did it go? . . . . "According to our source, the bulk of the treasure was simply shipped a very short distance across Austria and through the Brenner Pass into Italy. Dulles's contacts were waiting at the Vatican. The German-Vatican connection was how Allen Dulles and the Nazi industrialists planned to get away with it. . . ." (7) The effort was successful, according to the authors, who state that the "vast bulk of the wealth of the Nazi empire" which "disappeared before the end of World War II" reappeared "within a decade in the hands of the same men who financed Hitler's war against the Jews. Allen Dulles's clients were not defeated, only inconvenienced." The authors identify two of Dulles's accomplices as James Jesus Angleton and his father, Hugh Angleton. The Angletons were members of X-2, the OSS counterintelligence branch in Italy, in 1943. Like Dulles, Hugh Angleton was financially involved with Axis powers. He was the European representative for National Cash Register in Italy before the war and business associate of Dulles. When World War II broke out, the authors write, ". . . Angleton was crushed financially as all his investments were in enemy hands." "Like Dulles's clients, he wanted his money back. Like Dulles, Hugh offered his services to the OSS." With high-placed contacts in Mussolini's Interior Ministry, Hugh was accepted and "promoted rapidly in U.S. intelligence. He became second in command to Colonel Clifton Carter, the OSS commander in Italy at the end of World War II." (8) Perhaps the most controversial information which is now emerging with the release of recently declassified documents concerning World War II, is the role of the Vatican, both in its pre-war German investments, and its role in helping Nazi war criminals escape justice after the war. Concerning the Vatican-German investments, Loftus and Aarons are quite clear: "That the Vatican encouraged such investments and even donated money to Hitler himself cannot be denied. A German nun, Sister Pascalina, was present at its creation. In the early 1920s she was the housekeeper for Archbishop of the Vatican-Nazi connection . . . Eugenio Pacelli, then the papal nuncio in Munich. Sister Pascalina vividly recalls receiving Adolf Hitler late one night and watching the archbishop give Hitler a large amount of Church money." In addition, Eugenio Pacelli "later convinced the Vatican to invest millions of dollars in the rising German economy, money from the Vatican's land settlement that ended the Pope's claim of sovereignty over territory outside the walls of Vatican City. It was Pacelli who negotiated the Concordat with Germany and then had to deal with the consequences of his own mistakes when he became pope on the eve of World War II." "The Vatican and the Dulles brothers had the same problem. Once their money was in Hitler's hands, how would they get it back?" The authors interviewed "a former colonel in U.S. Military Intelligence who specialized in tracing enemy assets. He claimed that only a tiny portion of the Reichbank's gold ingots actually reached the Vatican Bank, while the rest was held in cooperative banks in Belgium, Liechtenstein, and especially Switzerland." It was only necessary to transfer the paperwork on the gold, not the gold itself. Since, by that time, Dulles knew his telegraph communications were being monitored by the British wiretap operation in New York, he instead used couriers to "ensure absolute secrecy in moving the foreign currency and the ownership documents out of Switzerland . . . special agents of the Vatican who had diplomatic immunity to move back and forth across both Nazi and Allied lines. . . ." (9) ". . . . The Vatican's eminence grise for Balkan intelligence, the Bosnian-Croat priest Krunoslav Draganovic, was involved in transporting large quantities of Nazi booty, especially gold bullion, from Austria to the safety of the Holy See with the help of the Dulles-Angleton clique in Rome. Some of the booty was transported in truck convoys run by British troops. Other shipments were carried in U.S. Army jeeps provided to Father Draganovic so that he could conduct pastoral visits' on behalf of the Vatican. "Another ardent Nazi propagandist and agent, Slovenian bishop Gregory Rozman, was sent to Bern with the help of Dulles's friends in U.S. intelligence. Declassified U.S. intelligence files confirm that Bishop Rozman was suspected of trying to arrange the transfer of huge quantities of Nazi-controlled gold and Western currency that had been discreetly secreted in Swiss banks during the war. For a few months the Allies prevented Rozman from gaining access to this treasure, but then the way was mysteriously cleared. In fact, the Dulles-Vatican connection had fixed it, and before too long the bishop obtained the loot for his Nazi friends, who were hiding in Argentina. "Such instances turned out to be only the tip of the iceberg. It has long been acknowledged that it was Allen Dulles who tipped off General Patton about the buried German treasure that lay in the path of the U.S. Third Army. Patton explicitly urged General Eisenhower to conceal as much of the gold as possible, but his advice was refused. "Our sources claim that Dulles and his colleagues exerted a great deal of influence to ensure that Western investments in Nazi Germany were not seized by the Allies as reparations for the Jews. After all, much of 'Hitler's Gold' had originally belonged to the bankers in London and New York. The . . . captured Nazi loot went underground. . . . "In the cause of anticommunism, and to retrieve its own investments in Germany, the Vatican agreed to become part of Dulles's smuggling window, through which the Nazis and their treasure could be moved to safety." (10) On April 12th, 1945, Roosevelt died, and Truman became President. May 7th, Nazi Germany surrendered after the suicide of Adolf Hitler. September 2nd, Japan surrendered. World War II finally ended, but at the cost of more than 35,000,000 lives, over half that amount civilians. The death toll for the United States was 294,000. (11) A PLEDGE BETRAYED "Dulles and some of his friends volunteered for postwar service with the government not out of patriotism but of necessity," according to Loftus and Aarons. "They had to be in positions of power to suppress the evidence of their own dealings with the Nazis. The Safehaven investigation was quickly stripped from Treasury . . . and turned over to the State Department. There Dulles's friends shredded the index to the interlocking corporations and blocked further investigations. "Dulles had this goal in mind: Not a single American businessman was ever going to be convicted of treason for helping the Nazis. None ever was, despite the evidence. According to one of our sources in the intelligence community, the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps had two large 'Civilian Internment Centers' in Occupied Germany, code named 'Ashcan' and 'Dustbin.' The CIC had identified and captured a large number of U.S. citizens who had stayed in Germany and aided the Third Reich all through World War II. The evidence of their treason was overwhelming. The captured German records were horribly incriminating. "Yet Victor Wohreheide, the young Justice Department attorney responsible for preparing the treason trials, suddenly ordered the prisoners' release. All of the Nazi collaborators were allowed to return to the United States and reclaim their citizenship. At the same time, another Justice Department attorney, O. John Rogge, who dared to make a speech about Nazi collaborators in the United States was quickly fired. However, the attorney who buried the treason cases was later promoted to special assistant attorney general. "Dulles and his clients had won. The proof is in the bottom line. Forty years after World War II, Fortune magazine published a list of the hundred richest men in the world. There were no Jews on the list. The great fortunes of the Rothschilds and Warburgs had been diminished to insignificance by the Depression, the Nazis, and World War II. "Near the top of the list were several multibillionaires who had been prominent members of Hitler's inner circle. A few even had served time in Allied prisons as Nazi war criminals, but they were all released quickly. The bottom line is that the Nazi businessmen survived the war with their fortunes intact and rebuilt their industrial empires to become the richest men in the world. Dulles's clients got away with it. President Roosevelt's dream of putting the Nazis' moneymen on trial died with him." England also failed to see justice done, according to the authors: "The British authorities in Germany ordered the U.S. Army to release all of the VIP British Nazis and hand over the evidence against them. Even before Roosevelt's death, Churchill had already begun to withdraw from his commitment to prosecute Nazis." The reason? "Too many British industries might be seized as Nazi fronts. Too many upper-class collaborators might have to be prosecuted. The Germans were defeated, and the Soviets were now the enemy. "Funding for British war crimes investigations suddenly dried up. Nazi bankers such as Herman Abs were released from prison to work as economic advisers in the British zone of Germany. The history of British 'efforts' to punish Nazis after the war is aptly summarized in Tom Bower's book, 'The Pledge Betrayed'. . . ." "The pattern was repeated all over the remnants of the Third Reich. Despite direct orders from President Truman and General Eisenhower, I.G. Farben, the citadel of the Nazi industrialists, was never dismantled. Dulles's clients demanded, and received, Allied compensation for bomb damage to their factories in Germany. Only a few of the top Nazis were executed. Most of the rest were released from prison within a few years. Others, . . . would go virtually unpunished. No one ever investigated the Nazi sympathizers in Western intelligence who had made it all possible." (12) As we have seen, the American industrialists who did business with the Nazis were in no way inconvenienced by war crimes trials, and even received compensation for damages to their Nazi war plants. Some Nazi industrialists were charged and convicted by the Nuremberg war crimes trials but, in their book, "The American Establishment," authors Leonard and Mark Silk observe that in the late 1940s "the United States and its leaders faced an agonizing moral problem in coming to terms with those German industrialists who had willingly done business with the Nazis and who were now just as willing to do business with the Americans in the reconstruction of Germany. The problem was dramatized when those German industrialists who had been convicted of war crimes at Nuremberg were all released from Landsberg prison in early 1951, their sentences commuted by the American High Commissioner [of German Occupation], John J. McCloy. ". . . . Whatever the motivation," the authors continue, "the blanket release of the convicted industrialists was taken within Germany - and by them - as a sign that businessmen were not to be seriously blamed for their involvement in matters for which others were hanged or suffered long imprisonment." (13) The motivation for the mass release of imprisoned Nazi war criminals is described in the book, "The New Germany and the Old Nazis," by T.H. Tetens, an expert in German affairs. Tetens observes that in "1950, when Washington showed its eagerness to create a new German army of 500,000 men, the SS [at that time reorganized into a neo-Nazi front group called HIAG, which stands for 'mutual assistance,' a so-called veterans organization], together with the old Wehrmacht officers, started an all-out campaign for the immediate release of all war criminals. It was a superbly organized blackmail action, enjoying wide support from the public, from all parties, and carried toward success by Dr. Adenauer's astute maneuverings. "The Chancellor suggested an inconspicuous way to solve the problem with 'parole,' 'sick leave,' and other roundabout methods. The more the U.S. High Commission in Germany showed leniency, however, the stronger the pressure became: either 'all so-called war criminals are released or there will be no German army.' American diplomats followed Dr. Adenauer's plan to feed the nationalistic monster piecemeal. Every few days we quietly released one or two more from prison - the Krupps, the I.G. Farben directors, and dozens of former Wehrmacht Generals. On friendly advice from Washington, the British and the French, extremely reluctant, had to follow suit. When the supply dried up, there remained behind bars only the SS, the mass murderers from Dachau, Belsen, and Buchenwald, and the toughs from the Waffen SS who had massacred American, British, and Canadian prisoners of war. This put High Commissioner John McCloy in a most embarrassing position. . . ." Tetens explains how Chancellor Adenauer helped High Commissioner McCloy and the U.S. State Department avoid this embarrassment: Adenauer "suggested the formation of a review board, with three German members sitting in and having equal voice in making recommendations. The whole procedure was to be shrouded in secrecy, and it was decided that the names of those released should not be revealed to the public. In this way the last few hundred 'poor devils,' those SS mass killers and sadists, were quietly set free within two or three years." (14) Christopher Simpson, in his extensively documented book on the subject of U.S. recruitment of Nazis, "Blowback," goes into more detail of the backgrounds of those released: "The beneficiaries of this act included, for example, all of the convicted concentration camp doctors; all of the top judges who had administered the Nazis' 'special courts'" and dozens of similar cases. In addition, "McCloy's clemency decisions for the Landsberg inmates set in motion a much broader process that eventually freed hundreds of other convicted Nazi war criminals over the next five years. . . . By the winter of 1950- 1951 the most senior levels of the U.S. government had decided to abrogate their wartime pledge to bring Nazi war criminals to justice. . . . in the interests of preserving West German military support for American leadership in the cold war. While nazism and Hitler's inner circle continued to be publicly condemned throughout the West, the actual investigation and prosecution of specific Nazi crimes came to a standstill." (15) One case merits special attention: Sepp Dietrich, "the organizer of the Fuehrer's bodyguard. Dietrich carried out Hitler's personal murder assignments" and, Tetens continues, "was in charge of the liquidation of the Jewish population in the city of Kharkov. During the Battle of the Bulge his troops committed the Malmedy massacre, killing more than 600 military and civilian prisoners, among them 115 American G.I.s. He was sentenced to death, and the sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment. In 1955 he was one of the last poor devils' quietly released from prison and greeted by the Bonn government with the homecoming pay of 6,000 marks." (16) In a "New York Times" article published February 1, 1951, one prominent American expressed support for the reduction of sentences for those responsible for the mass murder of the 600 unarmed prisoners of war at Malmedy, describing the decision as "extremely wise." The American was Senator Joseph McCarthy, Republican from Wisconsin. Tetens observes that, despite the wide-spread fear by "the French, the British, and the smaller European countries" of a re-militarized Germany, "the outbreak of the Korean War (June 1950) brought a total change. The provisions which banned all military and veterans' organizations lost all their meaning and were no longer enforced. Western Germany was allowed by the Allies to set up its own General Staff, camouflaged under the name Blank Office. Supported by Bonn and tolerated by the United States, a nation-wide network was created to reactivate the experienced officers and the man power of the old Wehrmacht. The short period of 1950-51 must be marked as the time when Hitler's old officers, SS leaders, and [Nazi] party functionaries returned to power and influence." (17) Tetens' comment that the Nazi's return to power in Germany was "tolerated by the United States" was a historical understatement. By the time Tetens' book was published in 1961, hundreds of convicted Nazi war criminals had already been smuggled out of Germany to avoid prosecution at the war crimes trials at Nuremberg, recruited by, and on the payroll of several U.S. government agencies, including the Army CIC, the OSS, and the Office of Policy Coordination within the State Department. Over the past fifty years, it is now documented, these Americanized fugitive Nazi war criminals have been involved in, and in many cases in charge of, many U.S. government covert operations -- international weapons smuggling, drug cartels, Central American death squads, right wing anti-communist dictatorships, LSD mind control experiments -- the Republican National Committee's Ethnic Heritage Councils, and the Presidential campaigns of Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George Bush. THE GEHLEN ORGANIZATION Probably the most influential Nazi to come to work for the United States intelligence agencies during the Cold War was named Gehlen. "Reinhard Gehlen," writes author Christopher Simpson, "Hitler's most senior military intelligence officer on the eastern front, had begun planning his surrender to the United States at least as early as the fall of 1944." Of "several hundred" high-ranking Nazi officers who switched sides at the end of World War II, Gehlen "proved to be the most important of them all. "In early March 1945 Gehlen and a small group of his most senior officers carefully microfilmed the vast holdings on the USSR in the . . . military intelligence section of the German army's general staff. They packed the film in watertight steel drums and secretly buried it in remote mountain meadows scattered through the Austrian Alps. Then, on May 22, 1945, Gehlen and his top aides surrendered to an American Counterintelligence Corps [CIC] team." (18) According to Tetens: ". . . [Gehlen] immediately asked for an interview with the commanding officer . . ." and offered the United States "his intelligence staff, spy apparatus, and the priceless files for future service." Gehlen was sent to Washington and his offer was taken. "The Pentagon-Gehlen agreement," states Tetens, "in practice guaranteed the continuation of the all-important Abwehr division of the German General Staff. Hundreds of German army and SS officers were quietly released from internment camps and joined Gehlen's headquarters in the Spessart Mountains in central Germany. When the staff had grown to three thousand men, the Bureau Gehlen opened a closely guarded twenty- five-acre compound near Pullach, south of Munich, operating under the innocent name of the South German Industrial Development Organization. . . . "Within a few years the Gehlen apparatus had grown by leaps and bounds. In the early fifties it was estimated that the organization employed up to 4,000 intelligence specialists in Germany, mainly former army and SS officers, and that more than 4,000 V-men (undercover agents) were active throughout the Soviet-bloc countries. Gehlen's spy network stretches from Korea to Cairo, from Siberia to Santiago de Chile. . . . When the Federal Republic [of West Germany] became a sovereign state in 1955, the Bureau Gehlen was openly recognized as the official intelligence arm of the Bonn government." (19) How important was the Gehlen Org, as it became known, to the history of the Cold War? Simpson's research documents that it was perhaps the most significant element of all: ". . . . The Org became the most important eyes and ears for U.S. intelligence inside the closed societies of the Soviet bloc. 'In 1946 [U.S.] intelligence files on the Soviet Union were virtually empty,' says Harry Rositzke, the CIA's former chief of espionage inside the Soviet Union. '. . . . Rositzke worked closely with Gehlen during the formative years of the CIA and credits Gehlen's organization with playing a "primary role" in filling the empty file folders during that period. . . .' "'Gehlen had to make his money by creating a threat that we were afraid of,' says Victor Marchetti, formerly the CIA's chief analyst of Soviet strategic war plans and capabilities, 'so we would give him more money to tell us about it.' He continues: 'In my opinion, the Gehlen Organization provided nothing worthwhile for the understanding or estimating Soviet military or political capabilities in Eastern Europe or anywhere else.' Employing Gehlen was 'a waste of time, money, and effort, except that maybe he had some CI [counter-intelligence] value, because practically everybody in his organization was sucking off both tits.'" (20) By 'sucking off both tits' Marchetti is referring to the fact that Gehlen's elaborate operation was penetrated by Soviet spies at the very time it was our most important source of intelligence upon which the Cold War was based. In fact, the Communists had infiltrated Nazi intelligence long before Gehlen switched sides. TRIPLE CROSS "In each generation," write Aarons and Loftus, "Soviet intelligence created 'anti-Communist' emigre front groups, ostensibly to foment revolution and topple Bolshevism. The front groups attracted support from the West. Considerable financial assistance was supplied and close ties forged with various Western intelligence services. This enabled the Communist double agents running the front groups to co-opt the legitimate emigre opposition, splinter their leadership and provoke them into premature and poorly organized rebellions which were easily defeated. More importantly, the false front groups were a vehicle for long-term Soviet penetration of Western society. . . ." The authors identify one of these groups as the Narodny Trudovoi Soyuz (NTS), or the People's Labour Alliance. The NTS represented itself as a group of anti-communist "moles" inside the Kremlin and, in the 1920s, recruited a Communist agent named Prince Anton Vasilevich Turkel. Turkel, who actually worked for Soviet Military intelligence (GRU), went on to penetrate French, Japanese, Italian, British, German, and even the Vatican intelligence services before the end of World War II. "After World War II, Turkel worked for West German intelligence (the Gehlen Org), collaborated with many of the spy services of NATO, including the American Military Intelligence Service (MIS - for offensive intelligence), the US Army Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC - for defensive purposes), the ultra-secret State Department Office of Policy Co-ordination and the Central Intelligence Agency. . ." (21) "Just before World War II began," according to the authors, "an Austrian Jew named Richard Kauder created a secret intelligence network, code named MAX." Kauder, using the name of [Max] Klatt - Turkel's intelligence chief ["Unholy Trinity," Aarons and Loftus, p. 166] - "worked exclusively for Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, the German spy chief who collaborated with the Vatican and the British to topple Hitler during the war [the group known as the Black Orchestra]." The Nazis thought the Max network was made up of "so-called Fascist Jews" who "were willing to spy against the Soviet Union, not for the glory of the Third Reich but to save themselves and their families from the concentration camps." The Max network was supposed to have had "the only communication link to a secret network of 'White' Russian Fascists inside the Kremlin [Turkel's NTS], who had supposedly infiltrated Stalin's military headquarters prior to World War II." But, the authors continue, "the Max network was not made up of Fascist Jews. They were, in fact, Communist Jews who risked their lives inside the heart of the Third Reich's intelligence service." The Max network actually misled the Nazis, feeding them false intelligence on the capabilities and intentions of the Soviet Union, leading "the Nazi divisions into a series of death traps on the Eastern front." The Max double-agents were responsible for the Nazis defeats at Stalingrad, "the giant battle of Kursk where Hitler's tank divisions were slaughtered. The final sting," continue the authors, "was to mislead Germany into believing that the Red army was on the verge of collapse in 1944, when in fact the Soviets were preparing for the most massive onslaught of the war. "It would not be an exaggeration to say that the 'Fascist Jews' of the Max network did more to defeat the German army than all the Western intelligence services combined. Seventy percent of all Hitler's divisions were destroyed on the Eastern front, largely as a result of the misleading intelligence supplied by Max." (22) When Gehlen was recruited by the United States, Allen Dulles ordered the ex-Nazi spymaster to "revive the Max network." Gehlen already had plans to do just that, intending "to make Turkel's Max network the centerpiece of his new West German intelligence agency. As soon as a Republican president was elected in the United States, Dulles intended to take over the CIA and make Gehlen and Turkel the heart of his anti-Soviet network. The Soviets, of course, were delighted as they watched Dulles and Gehlen attempt to plant a Communist spy ring in the heart of Western intelligence. . . . ". . . [E]ventually, in 1956, the Allies decided that the whole thing had been a giant Soviet-controlled operation. Dozens of operations, hundreds of agents, thousands of innocent civilians had been betrayed. . . . ". . . [T]hree years after Dulles became head of CIA in 1953, his pet 'Fascist,' Turkel, broadcast the CIA codes to start the Hungarian uprising prematurely. Thousands of innocent Hungarians rushed on to the streets of Budapest to start the revolution. Instead of American paratroopers dropping supplies, they found Soviet tanks waiting in the suburbs." By 1959, the collapse of Dulles's spy network was almost total: "U.S. Military Intelligence admitted to the National Security Council that it did not have a single network of couriers or safe houses left in Communist territory, apart from East Germany. Dulles's Nazi 'freedom fighters' had sold him out." (23) COLD WARRIORS It was Harry Rositze who best described the attitude of the United States military-intelligence establishment after the end of World War II: "Any bastard as long as he was anti-Communist." Rositze, the "former head of secret operations inside the USSR" for the CIA, was correct. (24) We have seen that many Nazis - including those who committed atrocities - returned to positions of power and influence inside Germany after the war. Unknown until fairly recently was the extent of Nazi recruitment by U.S. intelligence agencies and political organizations, in the 1940s and 1950s. Perhaps the most publicized program of Nazi recruitment is that of Project Paperclip, which involved the collection of Nazi rocket scientists and facilities, all of which were later incorporated into the U.S. Space Program. Klaus Barbie's employment by the U.S. State Department in the 1940s is another well-known incident. Barbie, head of the Gestapo in Lyons, France, was known as the "Butcher of Lyons" and was sought by the French Government for atrocities committed against French Resistance fighters captured by the Nazis. Barbie was recruited as a U.S. intelligence "asset" in 1947 by one branch of the State Department's Counter-intelligence Corps (CIC), while another branch, the Operation Selection Board, a joint U.S./British project, was trying to put him in prison for war crimes. Eventually, according to Aarons and Loftus, "Barbie's employment (and protection) by the Americans began to reach French newspapers and politicians at least as early as 1948. They, in turn brought increasing pressure on the U.S. government through publicity and eventually through official notes requesting Barbie's extradition from Germany. That, in the final analysis, is why the CIC chose to provide Barbie with a new identity and safe passage to Argentina in 1951, while thousands of other ex-Nazis who had been 'of interest' to the CIC at one time or another have simply lived out their lives in Germany. If the CIC had dumped Barbie when the French government began requesting his extradition, he would have had plenty of compromising things to say about the CIC. . ." (25) But when Barbie was eventually captured by Bolivian authorities in the early 1980s, and returned to France to face charges of war crimes, the U.S. government was forced to conduct an investigation into the Barbie affair. The official position? ". . . [T]his investigation concluded that the United States had indeed protected Barbie in Europe and engineered his escape but that Barbie was the only such Nazi who had been assisted in this fashion." (26) As documented previously, this statement was false. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Nazis were employed by the several U.S. agencies, from the CIC to the CIA, and used in covert operations overseas, as our first line of defense against Communism. Others, equally as guilty of wartime atrocities, were brought into the United States for domestic political purposes. This aspect of the U.S.-Nazi connection is well-documented, and deserves closer attention by the mainstream press. One of the first researchers to reveal the connections between the U.S. government and the Nazis, was a lady named Mae Brussell of Carmel, California. Her career as a conspiracy researcher and host of the weekly radio program "World Watchers International" began with the Kennedy assassination. "In ferreting out every morsel from the Warren Report," writes Jonathan Vankin, author of the book "Conspiracies, Cover-ups and Crimes," "supplementing her research with untold amounts of reading from the 'New York Times' to 'Soldier of Fortune,' Brussell discovered not merely a conspiracy of a few renegade CIA agents, Mafiosi, and Castro haters behind Kennedy's death, but a vast, invisible institutional structure layered into the very fabric of the U.S. political system. "Comprising the government within a government were not just spies, gangsters, and Cubans, but Nazis. Mae found that many of the commission witnesses -- whose testimony established Oswald as a lone nut' -- had never even spoken to Oswald, or knew him only slightly. The bulk of them were White Russian emigres living in Dallas. Extreme in their anti-Communism, they were often affiliated with groups set up by the SS in World War II -- Eastern European ethnic armies used by the Nazis to carry out their dirtiest work. "Brussell also discovered an episode from history rarely reported in the media, and not often taught in universities. Those same collaborationist groups were absorbed by United States intelligence agencies. They hooked up with the spy net of German General Reinhard Gehlen, Hitler's Eastern Front espionage chief." "'This is a story of how key Nazis . . . anticipated military disaster and laid plans to transplant nazism, intact but disguised, in havens in the West,' wrote Mae Brussell in 1983. She didn't author too many articles, but this one, 'The Nazi Connection to the John F. Kennedy Assassination' (in 'The Rebel,' a short-lived political magazine published by 'Hustler' impresario Larry Flynt), was definitive, albeit convoluted. "'It is a story that climaxes in Dallas on November 22, 1963, when John Kennedy was struck down,' Brussell's article continued. 'And it is a story with an aftermath -- America's slide to the brink of Fascism.'" Mae Brussell quit broadcasting her radio show in Spring of 1988, after receiving a death threat from a "man who is said to have identified himself as 'a fascist and proud of it.'" The last project she worked on, before her death from cancer on October 3, 1988, writes the author, "was a study of Satanic cults -- within the U.S. military. The hidden fascist oligarchy had progressed far beyond the need for patsies like Oswald. They were now able, Brussell asserted, to hypnotically program assassins. "Satanic cults are the state of the art in brainwashing. With drugs, sex, and violence, they strip any semblance of moral thought. They are perfect for use in creating killers. The United States military, Brussell found, was using them." (27) ------------------------------- NOTES: THE NEW WORLD (DIS)ORDER -------------------------------- 1 - One Thousand Americans, George Seldes, p. 5-6 2 - The Secret War Against the Jews, Loftus and Aarons, p. 71 3 - Ibid., pp. 73-74 4 - Ibid., pp. 75-76 5 - Ibid., p. 77 6 - Ibid., p. 78 7 - Ibid., pp. 79-80 8 - Ibid., pp. 82-83 9 - Ibid., pp. 84-85 10 - Ibid., pp. 85-86 11 - Tragedy and Hope, Prof. Carrol Quigley, p. 827 12 - Secret War Against the Jews, pp. 100-102 13 - The American Establishment, Leonard and Mark Silk, p. 249 14 - The New Germany and the Old Nazis, T.H. Tetens, pp. 99-102 15 - Blowback: America's recruitment of Nazis and its effects on the Cold War, Christopher Simpson, pp. 191-192 16 - The New Germany and the Old Nazis, p. 103 17 - Ibid., pp. 112-113 18 - Blowback, pp. 40-41 19 - The New Germany and the Old Nazis, pp. 42-43 20 - Blowback, pp. 54-55 21 - Unholy Trinity, Mark Aarons and John Loftus, pp. 151-152 22 - The Secret War Against the Jews, pp. 135-136 23 - Ibid., pp. 151-152 24 - Blowback, p. 159 25 - Ibid., pp. 187-189 26 - Ibid., pp. 192-193 27 - Conspiracies, Cover-ups and Crimes, Jonathan Vankin, pp. 101-104 ---------------------- RICHARD MILHOUSE NIXON ---------------------- In this section we will explore the Nazi connections of Richard Nixon. To do so we must return to the years just after the end of World War II and, of course, a man named Dulles. The irony of Nixon's political career ending with a cover-up can only be appreciated with the knowledge that this turbulent career also began with one. Loftus and Aarons state that: "According to several of our sources among the 'old spies,' Richard Nixon's political career began in 1945, when he was the navy officer temporarily assigned to review . . . captured Nazi documents." The documents in question revealed the wartime record of Karl Blessing, "former Reichsbank officer and then head of the Nazi oil cartel, Kontinentale Ol A.G. 'Konti' was in partnership with Dulles's principal Nazi client, I.G. Farben. Both companies had despicable records regarding their treatment of Jews during the Holocaust. After the war Dulles not only 'lost' Blessings Nazi party records, but he helped peddle a false biography in the ever-gullible 'New York Times.'" The authors' sources reveal that not only did Dulles help cover up his Nazi client's record, he "personally vouched for Blessing as an anti-Nazi in order to protect continued control of German oil interests in the Middle East. Blessing's Konti was the Nazi link to Iben Saud [King of Saudi Arabia] and Aramco [the Arabian-American Oil Company]. If Blessing went down, he could have taken a lot of people with him, including Allen Dulles. The cover-up worked, except that U.S. Naval Intelligence scrutinized a set of the captured Konti records." According to the "old spies," Allen Dulles made a deal with the young navy officer who was reviewing the Konti files - Richard Nixon. Nixon would help Dulles bury the Konti files. In return, Allen Dulles "arranged to finance [Nixon's] first congressional campaign against Jerry Voorhis." (1) Dulles's support for Nixon paid off in 1947 when, as the freshman congressman from California, he "saved John Foster Dulles considerable embarrassment by privately pointing out that confidential government files showed that one of Foster's foundation employees, Alger Hiss, was allegedly a Communist. The Dulles brothers took Nixon under their wing and escorted him on a tour of Fascist 'freedom fighter' operations in Germany, apparently in anticipation that the young congressman would be useful after Dewey became president." [He would be useful anyway, despite the fact that incumbent President Truman won reelection in 1948, defeating Dewey.] (2) After Truman's victory, write the authors, "Nixon became Allen Dulles's mouthpiece in Congress. Both he and Senator Joseph McCarthy received volumes of classified information to support the charge that the Truman administration was filled with 'pinkos.' When McCarthy went too far in his Communist investigations, it was Nixon who worked with his next-door neighbor, CIA director Bedell Smith, to steer the investigations away from the intelligence community. "The CIA was grateful for Nixon's assistance, but did not know the reason for it. Dulles had been recruiting Nazis under the cover of the State Department's Office of Policy Coordination, whose chief, Frank Wisner, had systematically recruited the Eastern European emigre networks that had worked first for the SS, then the British, and finally Dulles. "The CIA did not know it, but Dulles was bringing them to the United States less for intelligence purposes than for political advantage. The Nazis' job quickly became to get out the vote for the Republicans. One Israeli intelligence officer joked that when Dulles used the phrase 'Never Again,' he was not talking about the Holocaust but about Dewey's narrow loss to Truman. In the eyes of the Israelis, Allen Dulles was the demon who infected Western intelligence with Nazi recruits. "In preparation for the 1952 Eisenhower-Nixon campaign, the Republicans formed an Ethnic Division, which, to put it bluntly, recruited the 'displaced Fascists' who arrived in the United States after World War II. Like similar migrant organizations in several Western countries, the Ethnic Division attracted a significant number of Central and Eastern European Nazis, who had been recruited by the SS as political and police leaders during the Holocaust. These Fascist emigres supported the Eisenhower-Nixon 'liberation' policy as the quickest means of getting back into power in their former homelands and made a significant contribution 'in its first operation (1951/1952).'" The authors point out that "over the years the Democrats had acquired one or two Nazis of their own, such as Tscherim Soobzokov, a former member of the Caucasian SS who worked as a party boss in New Jersey. But in 90 percent of the cases, the members of Hitler's political organization went to the Republicans. In fact, from the very beginning, the word had been put around among Eastern European Nazis that Dulles and Nixon were the men to see, especially if you were a rich Fascist . . ." (3) This relationship between Richard Nixon and the Nazis developed because both he and Allen Dulles "blamed Governor Dewey's razor-thin loss to Truman in the 1948 presidential election on the Jewish vote. When [Nixon] became Eisenhower's vice president in 1952, Nixon was determined to build his own ethnic base. "Vice President Nixon's secret political war of Nazis against Jews in American politics was never investigated at the time. The foreign language-speaking Croatian and other Fascist emigre groups had a ready-made network for contacting and mobilizing the Eastern European ethnic bloc. There is a very high correlation between CIA domestic subsidies to Fascist 'freedom fighters' during the 1950s and the leadership of the Republican party's ethnic campaign groups. The motive for under-the-table financing was clear: Nixon used Nazis to offset the Jewish vote for the Democrats. "In 1952 Nixon had formed an Ethnic Division within the Republican National Committee. 'Displaced Fascists, hoping to be returned to power by an Eisenhower-Nixon "liberation" policy signed on' with the committee. In 1953, when Republicans were in office, the immigration laws were changed to admit Nazis, even members of the SS. They flooded into the country. Nixon himself oversaw the new immigration program. As vice president, he even received Eastern European Fascists in the White House. After a long, long journey, the Croatian Nazis had found a new home in the United States, where they reestablished their networks. "In 1968 Nixon promised that if he won the presidential election, he would create a permanent ethnic council within the Republican party. Previously the Ethnic Division was allowed to surface only during presidential campaigns. Nixon's promise was carried out after the 1972 election, during [George] Bush's tenure as chairman of the Republican National Committee. The Croatian Ustashis became an integral part of the campaign structure of Republican politics, along with several other Fascist organizations." (4) The authors describe Nixon's pro-Nazi activities in no uncertain terms: "Nixon himself personally recruited ex-Nazis for his 1968 presidential campaign. Moreover, Vice President Nixon became the point man for the Eisenhower administration on covert operations and personally supervised Allen Dulles's projects while Ike was ill in 1956 and 1957." (5) One of the Nazis recruited by candidate Nixon was Laszlo Pasztor, described by Aarons and Loftus as "the founding chair of Nixon's Republican Heritage Groups council" who, "during World War II . . . was a diplomat in Berlin representing the Arrow Cross government of Nazi Hungary, which supervised the extermination of the Jewish population. "[A]fter Nixon won [the 1968 Presidential Election], he approved Pasztor's appointment as chief organizer of the ethnic council. Not surprisingly, Pasztor's 'choices for filling emigre slots as the council was being formed included various Nazi collaborationist organizations.' The former Fascists were coming out of the closet in droves. "The policy of the Nixon White House was an 'open door' for emigre Fascists, and through the door came such guests as Ivan Docheff, head of the Bulgarian National Front and chairman of the American Friends of the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations (ABN). . . . an organization dominated by war criminals and fugitive Fascists. Yet Nixon welcomed them with open arms and even had Docheff to breakfast for a prayer meeting to celebrate Captive Nations Week." (6) "During Nixon's 'Four More Years' campaign in 1971-1972, Laszlo Pasztor again played a key role in marshaling the ethnic vote. No longer a marginal player on the fringes, now he held a key position as the Republican National Committee's nationalities director. . . . "The Republican leadership cannot claim ignorance as a defense. [Syndicated Columnist Jack] Anderson's famous expose of Nixon's Nazis appeared in 'The Washington Post' at the same time as the November 1971 convention. Among those mentioned was Laszlo Pasztor, 'the industrious head of the GOP ethnic groups, [who] was never asked about his wartime activities in Hungary by the four GOP officials who interviewed him for his job.' It was too embarrassing for Nixon to admit that Pasztor had been a ranking member of a Fascist government at war with the United States. ". . . . It is one thing to promote obscure Eastern European Fascist movements in the Republican party. It is quite another to let the German Nazis have a major influence. After 1953, the Republican administration changed the rules, and even members of the Waffen SS could immigrate to the United States as long as they claimed only to have fought the Communists on the Eastern Front." (7) The Republican/Nixon attraction to Nazism was also observed by Robert J. Groden and Harrison Edward Livingstone, authors of the book, "High Treason," dealing with the Kennedy Assassination. Groden and Livingstone write: "Nixon surrounded himself with what was known as the Berlin Wall, a long succession of advisors with Germanic names: We recall at the top of his 'German General Staff' as it was also known, Haldeman, Erlichman, Krogh, Kliendienst, Kissinger (the Rockefellers' emissary) and many others. "The selection of German names was no accident. Many of the brighter staff people close to Nixon came to him from the University of Southern California, and the University of California at Los Angeles, where there were fraternities that kept alive the vision of a new Reich. America has for a long time harbored this dark side of its character, one of violence and the Valhalla of Wagner and Hitler. "But Gordon Liddy was the one in whose mind 'Triumph of the Will' was the most alive. Some of these men would watch the great Nazi propaganda films in the basement of the White House until all hours of the night, and drink, in fact, get drunk with their power, with blind ambition, as one of them wrote." (8) "According to several of our sources in the intelligence community who were in a position to know," continue Loftus and Aarons, "the secret rosters of the Republican party's Nationalities Council read like a Who's Who of Fascist fugitives. The Republican's Nazi connection is the darkest secret of the Republican leadership. The rosters will never be disclosed to the public. As will be seen in Chapter 16 dealing with George Bush, the Fascist connection is too widespread for damage control. "According to a 1988 study by Russ Bellant of Political Research Associates, virtually all of the Fascist organizations of World War II opened up a Republican party front group during the Nixon administration. The caliber of the Republican ethnic leaders can be gauged by one New Jersey man, Emanuel Jasiuk, a notorious mass murderer from what is today called the independent nation of Belarus, formerly part of the Soviet Union. But not all American ethnic communities are represented in the GOP's ethnic section; there are no black or Jewish heritage groups. . . . "The truth is that the Nazi immigrants were 'tar babies' that no one knew how to get rid of. Dulles had brought in a handful of the top emigre politicians in the late 1940s. They in turn sponsored their friends in the 1950s. By the 1960s ex-Nazis who had originally fled to Argentina were moving to the United States. . . ." (9) It is clear that, even before the break-in at the Democratic Party Headquarters on June 17, 1972, the Republicans were on the brink of having their pro-Nazi activities over the past four decades become a matter of mass-media attention. After the Watergate Break-in, as the Congressional Hearings began to reveal the slush-funds, money- laundering, illegal corporate campaign contributions, the political sabotage of the 1972 Presidential election process, the involvement of ITT and the Nixon Administration into the assassination of Salvador Allende, the democratically elected president of Chile, and many other aspects of Nixonism, the floodgates of truth were about to open. Only one thing averted this wholesale learning of the truth by the American people: Nixon's resignation and subsequent pardoning by his hand- picked successor, Gerald Ford. ----------------------------- NOTES: RICHARD MILHOUSE NIXON ----------------------------- 1 - The Secret War Against the Jews, p. 221 2 - Ibid., pp. 221-222 3 - Ibid., pp. 222-223 4 - Ibid., pp. 122-123 5 - Ibid., pp. 224-225 6 - Ibid., pp. 297-298 7 - Ibid., pp. 298-299 8 - High Treason, Robert J. Groden and Harrison Edward Livingstone, pp. 417-418 9 - The Secret War Against the Jews, pp. 300-301 -------------------------- GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH -------------------------- Like Richard Nixon, George Bush was a strong anti-marijuana/hemp president, escalating the so-called "war on drugs" begun by Nixon. And, like Nixon, George Bush was deeply involved with supporting the Nazis in the Republican's closet. In fact, support for the Nazis was a Bush family tradition which goes back more than six decades and, once again, to Allen Dulles. Loftus and Aarons write: "The real story of George Bush starts well before he launched his own career. It goes back to the 1920s, when the Dulles brothers and the other pirates of Wall Street were making their deals with the Nazis. . . ." THE BUSH-DULLES-NAZI CONNECTION "George Bush's problems were inherited from his namesake and maternal grandfather, George Herbert 'Bert' Walker, a native of St. Louis, who founded the banking and investment firm of G. H. Walker and Company in 1900. Later the company shifted from St. Louis to the prestigious address of 1 Wall Street. . . . "Walker was one of Hitler's most powerful financial supporters in the United States. The relationship went all the back to 1924, when Fritz Thyssen, the German industrialist, was financing Hitler's infant Nazi party. As mentioned in earlier chapters, there were American contributors as well. "Some Americans were just bigots and made their connections to Germany through Allen Dulles's firm of Sullivan and Cromwell because they supported Fascism. The Dulles brothers, who were in it for profit more than ideology, arranged American investments in Nazi Germany in the 1930s to ensure that their clients did well out of the German economic recovery. . . . "Sullivan & Cromwell was not the only firm engaged in funding Germany. According to 'The Splendid Blond Beast,' Christopher Simpson's seminal history of the politics of genocide and profit, Brown Brothers, Harriman was another bank that specialized in investments in Germany. The key figure was Averill Harriman, a dominating figure in the American establishment. . . . "The firm originally was known as W. A. Harriman & Company. The link between Harriman & Company's American investors and Thyssen started in the 1920s, through the Union Banking Corporation, which began trading in 1924. In just one three-year period, the Harriman firm sold more than $50 million of German bonds to American investors. 'Bert' Walker was Union Banking's president, and the firm was located in the offices of Averill Harriman's company at 39 Broadway in New York. "In 1926 Bert Walker did a favor for his new son-in-law, Prescott Bush. It was the sort of favor families do to help their children make a start in life, but Prescott came to regret it bitterly. Walker made Prescott vice president of W. A. Harriman. The problem was that Walker's specialty was companies that traded with Germany. As Thyssen and the other German industrialists consolidated Hitler's political power in the 1930s, an American financial connection was needed. According to our sources, Union Banking became an out-and-out Nazi money-laundering machine. . . . "In [1931], Harriman & Company merged with a British-American investment company to become Brown Brothers, Harriman. Prescott Bush became one of the senior partners of the new company, which relocated to 59 Broadway, while Union Banking remained at 39 Broadway. But in 1934 Walker arranged to put his son-in-law on the board of directors of Union Banking. "Walker also set up a deal to take over the North American operations of the Hamburg-Amerika Line, a cover for I.G. Farben's Nazi espionage unit in the United States. The shipping line smuggled in German agents, propaganda, and money for bribing American politicians to see things Hitler's way. The holding company was Walker's American Shipping & Commerce, which shared the offices at 39 Broadway with Union Banking. In an elaborate corporate paper trail, Harriman's stock in American Shipping & Commerce was controlled by yet another holding company, the Harriman Fifteen Corporation, run out of Walker's office. The directors of this company were Averill Harriman, Bert Walker, and Prescott Bush. . . . ". . . In a November 1935 article in Common Sense, retired marine general Smedley D. Butler blamed Brown Brothers, Harriman for having the U.S. marines act like 'racketeers' and 'gangsters' in order to exploit financially the peasants of Nicaragua. . . . ". . . A 1934 congressional investigation alleged that Walker's 'Hamburg-Amerika Line subsidized a wide range of pro-Nazi propaganda efforts both in Germany and the United States.' Walker did not know it, but one of his American employees, Dan Harkins, had blown the whistle on the spy apparatus to Congress. Harkins, one of our best sources, became Roosevelt's first double agent . . . [and] kept up the pretense of being an ardent Nazi sympathizer, while reporting to Naval Intelligence on the shipping company's deals with Nazi intelligence. "Instead of divesting the Nazi money," continue the authors, "Bush hired a lawyer to hide the assets. The lawyer he hired had considerable expertise in such underhanded schemes. It was Allen Dulles. According to Dulles's client list at Sullivan & Cromwell, his first relationship with Brown Brothers, Harriman was on June 18, 1936. In January 1937 Dulles listed his work for the firm as 'Disposal of Stan [Standard Oil] Investing stock.' "As discussed in Chapter 3, Standard Oil of New Jersey had completed a major stock transaction with Dulles's Nazi client, I.G. Farben. By the end of January 1937 Dulles had merged all his cloaking activities into one client account: 'Brown Brothers Harriman-Schroeder Rock.' Schroeder, of course, was the Nazi bank on whose board Dulles sat. The 'Rock' were the Rockefellers of Standard Oil, who were already coming under scrutiny for their Nazi deals. By May 1939 Dulles handled another problem for Brown Brothers, Harriman, their 'Securities Custodian Accounts.' "If Dulles was trying to conceal how many Nazi holding companies Brown Brothers, Harriman was connected with, he did not do a very good job. Shortly after Pearl Harbor, word leaked from Washington that affiliates of Prescott Bush's company were under investigation for aiding the Nazis in time of war. . . . ". . . The government investigation against Prescott Bush continued. Just before the storm broke, his son, George, abandoned his plans to enter Yale and enlisted in the U.S. Army. It was, say our sources among the former intelligence officers, a valiant attempt by an eighteen-year-old boy to save the family's honor. "Young George was in flight school in October 1942, when the U.S. government charged his father with running Nazi front groups in the United States. Under the Trading with the Enemy Act, all the shares of the Union Banking Corporation were seized, including those held by Prescott Bush as being in effect held for enemy nationals. Union Banking, of course, was an affiliate of Brown Brothers, Harriman, and Bush handled the Harrimans' investments as well. "Once the government had its hands on Bush's books, the whole story of the intricate web of Nazi front corporations began to unravel. A few days later two of Union Banking's subsidiaries -- the Holland American Trading Corporation and the Seamless Steel Equipment Corporation -- also were seized. Then the government went after the Harriman Fifteen Holding Company, which Bush shared with his father- in-law, Bert Walker, the Hamburg-Amerika Line, and the Silesian- American Corporation. The U.S. government found that huge sections of Prescott Bush's empire had been operated on behalf of Nazi Germany and had greatly assisted the German war effort." (1) EDWIN PAULEY "Try as he did," continue the authors, "George Bush could not get away from Dulles's crooked corporate network, which his grandfather and father had joined in the 1920s. Wherever he turned, George found that the influence of the Dulles brothers was already there. Even when he fled to Texas to become a successful businessman on his own, he ran into the pirates of Wall Street. "One of Allen Dulles's secret spies inside the Democratic party later became George Bush's partner in the Mexican oil business. Edwin Pauley, a California oil man, was . . . one of Dulles's covert agents in the Roosevelt and Truman admini-strations . . . a 'big business' Democrat. . . . Among the key posts held by Pauley were: treasurer of the Democratic National Committee, director of the Democratic convention in 1944 and, after Truman's election, Truman appointed him the "Petroleum Coordinator of Lend-Lease Supplies for the Soviet Union and Britain." Just after the end of World War II, "in April 1945 Truman appointed Pauley as the U.S. representative to the Allied Reparations Committee, with the rank of ambassador," as well as "industrial and commercial advisor to the Potsdam Conference, 'where his chief task was to renegotiate the reparations agreements formulated at Yalta.' As one historian noted, the 'oil industry has always watched reparations activities carefully.' There was a lot of money involved, and much of it belonged to the Dulles brothers' clients." At the same time, report Loftus and Aarons, "the Dulles brothers were still shifting Nazi assets out of Europe for their clients as well as for their own profit. They didn't want the Soviets to get their hands on these assets or even know that they existed. Pauley played a significant role in solving this problem for the Dulles brothers. The major part of Nazi Germany's industrial assets was located in the zones occupied by the West's forces. As Washington's man on the ground, Pauley managed to deceive the Soviets for long enough to allow Allen Dulles to spirit much of the remaining Nazi assets out to safety. . . . "Pauley, a key player in the plan to hide the Dulles brothers' Nazi assets, then moved into another post where he could help them further. After successfully keeping German assets in Fascist hands, Pauley was given the job of 'surveying Japan's assets and determining the amount of its war debt.' Again, it was another job that was crucial to the Dulles clique's secret financial and intelligence operations." (2) After Pauley retired from government work he went back to being an independent oil man. Loftus and Aarons state that: "In 1958 he founded Pauley Petroleum which: . . . teamed up with Howard Hughes to expand oil production in the Gulf of Mexico. "Pauley Petroleum discovered a highly productive offshore petroleum reserve and in 1959 became involved in a dispute with the Mexican Government, which considered the royalties from the wells to be too low. "According to our sources in the intelligence community, the oil dispute was really a shakedown of the CIA by Mexican politicians. Hughes and Pauley were working for the CIA from time to time, while advancing their own financial interests in the lucrative Mexican oil fields. Pauley, say several of our sources, was the man who invented an intelligence money-laundering system in Mexico, which was later refined in the 1970s as part of Nixon's Watergate scandal. At one point CIA agents used Pemex, the Mexican government's oil monopoly, as a business cover at the same time Pemex was being used as a money laundry for Pauley's campaign contributions. As we shall see, the Mexican-CIA connection played an important part in the development of George Bush's political and intelligence career. . . . "Pauley, say the 'old spies,' was the man who brought all the threads of the Mexican connection together. He was Bush's business associate, a front man for Dulles's CIA [Allen Dulles was CIA director then], and originator of the use of Mexican oil fronts to create a slush fund for Richard Nixon's various campaigns. . . . "Although it is not widely known, Pauley, in fact, had been a committed, if 'secret,' Nixon supporter since 1960. It should be recalled that Nixon tried to conceal his Mexican slush fund during the Watergate affair by pressuring the CIA into a 'national security' cover-up. The CIA, to its credit, declined to participate. Unfortunately, others were so enmeshed in Pauley's work for Nixon that they could never extricate themselves. According to a number of our intelligence sources, the deals Bush cut with Pauley in Mexico catapulted him into political life. In 1960 Bush became a protege of Richard Nixon, who was then running for president of the United States. . . . "The most intriguing of Bush's early connections was to Richard Nixon, who as vice president had supervised Allen Dulles's covert planning for the Bay of Pigs [invasion]. For years it has been rumored that Dulles's client, George Bush's father, was one of the Republican leaders who recruited Nixon to run for Congress and later convinced Eisenhower to take him on as vice president. There is no doubt that the two families were close. George Bush described Nixon as his 'mentor.' Nixon was a Bush supporter in his very first tilt at politics, during his unsuccessful run for the Senate in 1964, and turned out again when he entered the House two years later. "After Nixon's landslide victory in 1972, he ordered a general house cleaning on the basis of loyalty. 'Eliminate everyone,' he told John Ehrlichman about reappointments, 'except George Bush. Bush will do anything for our cause.' . . . According to Bush's account, the president told him that 'the place I really need you is over at the National Committee running things.' So, in 1972, Nixon appointed George Bush as head of the Republican National Committee. "It was Bush who fulfilled Nixon's promise to make the 'ethnic' emigres a permanent part of Republican politics. In 1972 Nixon's State Department spokesman confirmed to his Australian counterpart that the ethnic groups were very useful to get out the vote in several key states. Bush's tenure as head of the Republican National Committee exactly coincided with Laszlo Pasztor's 1972 drive to transform the Heritage Groups Council into the party's official ethnic arm. The groups Pasztor chose as Bush's campaign allies were the emigre Fascists whom Dulles had brought to the United States. . . . ". . . Nearly twenty years later, and after expose's in several respectable newspapers, Bush continued to recruit most of the same ethnic Fascists, including Pasztor, for his own 1988 ethnic outreach program when he first ran for president. "According to our sources in the intelligence community," state the authors, "it was Bush who told Nixon that the Watergate investigations might start uncovering the Fascist skeletons in the Republican party's closet. Bush himself acknowledges that he wrote Nixon a letter asking him to step down. The day after Bush did so, Nixon resigned. "Bush had hoped to become Gerald Ford's vice president upon Nixon's resignation, but he was appointed U.S. ambassador to the UN. Nelson Rockefeller became vice president and chief damage controller. He formed a special commission in an attempt to preempt the Senate's investigation of the intelligence community. The Rockefeller Commission into CIA abuses was filled with old OPC [Dulles's Office of Policy Coordination] hands like Ronald Reagan, who had been the front man back in the 1950s for the money-laundering organization, the Crusade for Freedom, which was part of Dulles's Fascist 'freedom fighters' program." (3) In 1988, Project Censored, a news media censorship research organization, awarded the honor of "Top Censored story" to the subject of George Bush. The article revealed "how the major mass media ignored, overlooked or undercovered at least ten critical stories reported in America's alternative press that raised serious questions about the Republican candidate, George Bush, dating from his reported role as a CIA 'asset' in 1963 to his Presidential campaign's connection with a network of anti-Semites with Nazi and fascist affiliations in 1988." (4) --------------------------------- NOTES: GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH --------------------------------- 1 - The Secret War Against the Jews, pp. 357-361 2 - Ibid., pp. 362-364 3 - Ibid., pp. 365-371 4 - The 1993 Project Censored Yearbook: The News That Didn't Make The News - And Why, Project Censored; Dr. Carl Jensen, Director., pp. 230. ---------- CONCLUSION ---------- If, before you finished reading this publication, you ever wondered why the U.S. federal government refuses to consider the medicinal and industrial value of cannabis hemp, despite widespread and growing support from the public, medical experts, industry leaders, and a growing number of state legislators across this nation . . . you now have the answer. For the past several generations, Americans have been systematically deceived about the true nature of cannabis hemp. Many Americans have died - victims of political murders. Millions have been imprisoned, their children and their property taken away, their futures destroyed. The history of my own state - Kentucky - and others as well, have been "sanitized," rewritten, our heritage deleted, our citizens defrauded and impoverished to bury the truth. And if, before you finished reading this publication, you ever wondered why the U.S. federal government would train and finance Central American death squads; or why, while waging the so-called "war on drugs," the U.S. federal government would operate cocaine and heroin smuggling operations around the world, bringing in tons of drugs to places like Mena, Arkansas; or why the U.S. federal government would "spread democracy" throughout the world by assassinating democratically elected politicians - both at home and abroad - replacing them with right-wing dictators and training their secret police in the latest techniques of torture, terrorism, and mind control; or why the U.S. federal government would conduct deadly medical and radiation experiments on unsuspecting citizens - including pregnant women, the mentally impaired, and children . . . you now have the answer. 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BOURIL ************************************************************************ MARIJUANA AND HEMP The Untold Story The purpose of this article (a 20-minute read) is to expose the numerous facts about marijuana and hemp that have been suppressed--facts the government does not want you to know. You are encouraged to copy and distribute this document freely assuming this work remains unaltered and is distributed free of charge. For information on how to download this entire document in either HTML form, or as a Microsoft Word document, CLICK HERE. Author: Thomas J. Bouril, 1997 Portions copyright 1997 Cannabis Action Network and CANNABIS.COM ----------------------------------------------------------------- INDEX 1: Introduction 2: Hemp Facts 3: Hemp For Victory 4: Medical Marijuana 5: Why Was Marijuana/Hemp Banned? 6: Marijuana Myths 7: Canada Re-Legalizes Hemp 8: Prohibition Causes Harm 9: How Harmful Is Marijuana? 10: The Hemp Directory Popular Mechanics Article: New Billion-Dollar Crop ----------------------------------------------------------------- INTRODUCTION Hemp is a plant that can be used to produce thousands of products. Hemp is of the same plant species that produces marijuana; its scientific name is Cannabis Sativa. Hemp has been used for thousands of years to produce products like paper, textiles, oil, rope, and canvas. In fact, the name canvas is derived from the Arabic word meaning cannabis. Hemp grown for industrial use is very low in THC (the psychoactive chemical in marijuana), thus making industrial hemp useless as a drug. Although marijuana is mostly known as a recreational drug, marijuana also has many medicinal uses. During the 1930s, the American media propagated numerous false stories depicting marijuana as an extremely dangerous drug. Because these lies went unchallenged, marijuana and hemp were effectively banned in 1938. Recently, hemp has been rediscovered as a natural resource that has great economic and environmental potential. Marijuana for medicinal use is also gaining renewed recognition. Ironically, as will be explained shortly, it is possible that the real reason marijuana was banned was to prevent hemp from ever becoming a major natural resource. What follows are many astonishing facts about marijuana and hemp--facts that will shock most people. HEMP: THE WORLD'S MOST BENEFICIAL NATURAL RESOURCE? AMAZING FACTS ABOUT AN AMAZING PLANT * On an annual basis, 1 acre of hemp will produce as much fiber as 2 to 3 acres of cotton. Hemp fiber is stronger and softer than cotton, lasts twice as long as cotton, and will not mildew. Many textile products (shirts, jackets, pants, backpacks, etc.) made from 100% hemp are now available. * Cotton grows only in moderate climates and requires more water than hemp; but hemp is frost tolerant, requires only moderate amounts of water, and grows in all 50 states. Cotton requires large quantities of pesticides and herbicides--50% of the world's pesticides/herbicides are used on cotton. But hemp requires no pesticides, no herbicides, and only moderate amounts of fertilizer. * On an annual basis, 1 acre of hemp will produce as much paper as 2 to 4 acres of trees. From tissue paper to cardboard, all types of paper products can be produced from hemp. Global demand for paper will double within 25 years. Unless tree-free sources of paper are developed, there is no way to meet future demand without causing massive deforestation and environmental damage. Hemp is the world's most promising source of tree-free paper. * The quality of hemp paper is superior to tree-based paper. Hemp paper will last hundreds of years without degrading, can be recycled many more times than tree-based paper, and requires less toxic chemicals in the manufacturing process than does paper made from trees. * Hemp can be used to produce fiberboard that is stronger than wood, lighter than wood, and fire retardant. Substituting hemp fiberboard for timber would further reduce the need to cut down our forests. Hemp can also be used to produce strong, durable and environmentally-friendly plastic substitutes. Thousands of products made from petroleum-based plastics can be produced from hemp-based composites. Mercedes Benz of Germany has recently begun manufacturing automobile bodies and dashboards made from hemp. * It takes years for trees to grow until they can be harvested for paper or wood, but hemp is ready for harvesting only 120 days after it is planted. Hemp can grow on most land suitable for farming, but forests and tree farms require large tracts of land available in few locations. Harvesting hemp rather than trees would also eliminate erosion due to logging, thereby reducing topsoil loss and water pollution caused by soil runoff. * Hemp seeds contain a protein that is more nutritious and more economical to produce than soybean protein. Hemp seeds are not intoxicating. Hemp seed protein can be used to produce virtually any product made from soybean: tofu, veggie burgers, butter, cheese, salad oils, ice cream, milk, etc. Hemp seed can also be ground into a nutritious flour that can be used to produce baked goods such as pasta, cookies, and breads. * Hemp seed oil can be used to produce non-toxic diesel fuel, paint, varnish, detergent, ink and lubricating oil. Because hemp seeds account for up to half the weight of a mature hemp plant, hemp seed is a viable source for these products. * Just as corn can be converted into clean-burning ethanol fuel, so can hemp. Because hemp produces more biomass than any plant species (including corn) that can be grown in a wide range of climates and locations, hemp has great potential to become a major source of ethanol fuel. * Literally millions of wild hemp plants currently grow throughout the U.S. Wild hemp, like hemp grown for industrial use, has no drug properties because of its low THC content. U.S. marijuana laws prevent farmers from growing the same hemp plant that proliferates in nature by the millions. * From 1776 to 1937, hemp was a major American crop and textiles made from hemp were common. Yet, The American Textile Museum, The Smithsonian Institute, and most American history books contain no mention of hemp. The government's War on Marijuana Smokers has created an atmosphere of self censorship--speaking of hemp in a positive manner is considered taboo. * United States Presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew hemp, used products made from hemp, and praised the hemp plant in some of their writings. Under the laws written by today's politicians, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson would be considered a threat to society--they would be arrested and thrown in prison for the felony crime of growing plants. * No other natural resource offers the potential of hemp. Cannabis Hemp is capable of producing significant quantities of paer, textiles, building materials, food, medicine, paint, detergent, varnish, oil, ink, and fuel. Unlike other crops, hemp can grow in most climates and on most farmland throughout the world with moderate water and fertilizer requirements, no pesticides, and no herbicides. Cannabis Hemp (also known as Indian Hemp) has enormous potential to become a major natural resource that can benefit both the economy and the environment. * "Make the most you can of the Indian Hemp seed and sow it everywhere." --President George Washington, 1794 During World War II, the U.S. government urged patriotic American farmers to grow... HEMP FOR VICTORY Fibers needed to make rope, textiles and other materials were in such short supply during World War II, the U.S. government temporarily re-legalized hemp cultivation so American farmers could grow it for the war effort. Although the government allowed more than 350,000 acres (550 square miles) of hemp to be cultivated during World War II, the U.S. experienced no increase in marijuana use during that period. The surrounding images are from the 1942 U.S. Dept. of Agriculture film titled Hemp For Victory, which was used to educate American farmers about growing hemp for the war effort. This film portrays the hemp plant in a very positive light. For years the government denied it made this film, and records of its existence in The Library of Congress were mysteriously missing. But in 1989, after an exhaustive search of government archives, researchers uncovered the original library records which prove Hemp For Victory was produced by the U.S. government. Video cassette tapes of Hemp For Victory are now available for sale to the public. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DO HEMP ADVOCATES HAVE AN AGENDA TO RE-LEGALIZE MARIJUANA? Many prohibitionists discredit the need for a hemp industry because they fear hemp is being used as a vehicle to re-legalize marijuana. The facts must be judged on their own merit. The economic and environmental benefits of hemp are very real. There are literally thousands of American farmers who want to grow industrial hemp. The repeal of Hemp Prohibition is also advocated by numerous major farm organizations, including the conservative 4.5-million-member American Farm Bureau. Many businesses are now producing hemp-based products and some large American corporations (e.g., International Paper, Inc.) are beginning to advocate the repeal of Hemp Prohibition. It is entirely possible to repeal Hemp Prohibition without re-legalizing marijuana because hemp grown for industrial use has no drug properties. China and Eastern European nations are the world's leading growers of hemp, but marijuana is still illegal in those nations. Although marijuana is illegal in Canada, England, Germany, and Australia, those nations have recently begun growing hemp for the first time in decades. If the United States does not repeal Hemp Prohibition, a significant economic and environmental opportunity will be lost--the benefits will be reaped only by America's economic competitors. MARIJUANA AS MEDICINE: FACTS THE GOVERNMENT IGNORES The DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) classifies marijuana as a dangerous drug with no medical value. That classification contradicts mounds of evidence showing marijuana to be a very safe and effective medicine. Marijuana is more effective, much less expensive, and much safer than many drugs currently used in its place. Marijuana can provide excellent relief for those who suffer from cancer, AIDS, glaucoma, multiple sclerosis, chronic pain, arthritis, rheumatism, asthma, insomnia, and depression. If knowledge of marijuana's many medicinal uses, its remarkable safety, and hemp's enormous potential as a natural resource become widely known, the DEA fears that support for Marijuana Prohibition will collapse, and thus threaten the DEA's budget. To maintain the myth that marijuana/hemp is useless and dangerous, the DEA prohibits medicinal use of marijuana, denies researchers access to marijuana for use in clinical studies, and rejects all applications to grow industrial hemp. In 1988--after reviewing all evidence brought forth in a lawsuit against the government's prohibition of medical marijuana--the DEA's own administrative law judge (Judge Francis Young) wrote: "The evidence in this record clearly shows that marijuana has been accepted as capable of relieving the distress of great numbers of very ill people, and doing so with safety under medical supervision. It would be unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious for the Drug Enforcement Administration to continue to stand between those sufferers and the benefits of this substance in light of the evidence." Judge Francis Young of the Drug Enforcement Administration went on to say: "Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known. In strict medical terms, marijuana is safer than many foods we commonly consume." Judge Young recommended that the DEA allow marijuana to be prescribed as medicine, but the DEA has refused. Although the federal government claims marijuana has no appropriate medicinal use, the federal government contradicts itself by supplying government-grown, FDA-approved marijuana cigarettes to 8 seriously ill Americans remaining from its discontinued medical marijuana program. The federal government closed its medical marijuana program in 1992 after the AIDS epidemic created a flood of new applicants. In November 1996, California voters approved an initiative (Proposition 215) that re-legalizes the personal use and cultivation of marijuana for medicinal purposes. MARIJUANA/HEMP WAS LEGAL, WHY WAS IT BANNED? For the first 162 years of America's existence, marijuana was totally legal and hemp was a common crop. But during the 1930s, the U.S. government and the media began spreading outrageous lies about marijuana, which led to its prohibition. Some headlines made about marijuana in the 1930s were: "Marijuana: The assassin of youth." "Marijuana: The devil's weed with roots in hell." "Marijuana makes fiends of boys in 30 days." "If the hideous monster Frankenstein came face to face with the monster marijuana, he would drop dead of fright." In 1936, the liquor industry funded the infamous movie titled Reefer Madness. This movie depicts a man going insane from smoking marijuana, and then killing his entire family with an ax. This campaign of lies, as well as other evidence, have led many to believe there may have been a hidden agenda behind Marijuana Prohibition. Shortly before marijuana was banned by The Marijuana Tax Act of 1937, new technologies were developed that made hemp a potential competitor with the newly-founded synthetic fiber and plastics industries. Hemp's potential for producing paper also posed a threat to the timber industry (see New Billion-Dollar Crop). Evidence suggests that commercial interests having much to lose from hemp competition helped propagate reefer madness hysteria, and used their influence to lobby for Marijuana Prohibition. It is not known for certain if special interests conspired to destroy the hemp industry via Marijuana Prohibition, but enough evidence exists to raise the possibility. After Alcohol Prohibition ended in 1933, funding for the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (now the Drug Enforcement Administration) was reduced. The FBN's own director, Harry J. Anslinger, then became a leading advocate of Marijuana Prohibition. In 1937 Anslinger testified before Congress in favor of Marijuana Prohibition by saying: "Marijuana is the most violence causing drug in the history of mankind." "Most marijuana smokers are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana usage. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes." Marijuana Prohibition is founded on lies and rooted in racism, prejudice, and ignorance. Just as politicians believed Harry J. Anslinger to be a marijuana expert in 1937, many people still believe law enforcement officials are marijuana experts. In reality, law enforcement officials have no expert knowledge of marijuana's medical or health effects, but they do represent an industry that receives billions of tax dollars to enforce Marijuana Prohibition. Before the government began promoting reefer madness hysteria during the 1930s, the word marijuana was a Mexican word that was totally absent from the American vocabulary. In the 1930s, Americans knew that hemp was a common, useful, and harmless crop. It is extremely unlikely anyone would have believed hemp was dangerous, or would have believed stories of hemp madness. Thus, the words marijuana and reefer were substituted for the word hemp in order to frighten the public into supporting Hemp Prohibition. Very few people realized that marijuana and hemp came from the same plant species; thus, virtually nobody knew that Marijuana Prohibition would destroy the hemp industry. Bolstering the theory that marijuana was banned to destroy the hemp industry, two articles were written on the eve of Marijuana Prohibition that claim hemp was on the verge of becoming a super crop. These articles appeared in two well-respected magazines that are still published today. The articles are: Flax and Hemp (Mechanical Engineering, Feb. 1937) New Billion-Dollar Crop (Popular Mechanics, Feb. 1938) This was the first time that billion dollar was used to describe the value of a crop. These articles praise the usefulness and potential of hemp by stating "hemp can be used to produce more than 25,000 products" and "hemp will prove, for both farmer and public, the most profitable and desirable crop that can be grown." Marijuana Prohibition took effect within one year after both these articles were written. MARIJUANA MYTHS Myth: Today's marijuana is more potent and more harmful than it was many years ago. Fact: There is no medical evidence that shows high-potency marijuana is more harmful than low-potency marijuana. Marijuana is literally one of the least toxic substances known. High-potency marijuana is actually preferable because less is of it consumed to obtain the desired effect; thereby reducing the amount of smoke that enters the lungs and lowering the risk of any respiratory health hazards. Claiming that high-potency marijuana is more harmful than low-potency marijuana is like claiming wine is more harmful than beer. Myth: Smoking marijuana can cause cancer and serious lung damage. Fact: There chance of contracting cancer from smoking marijuana is minuscule. Tobacco smokers typically smoke 20+ cigarettes every day for decades, but virtually nobody smokes marijuana in the quantity and frequency required to cause cancer. A 1997 UCLA study (see page 9) concluded that even prolonged and heavy marijuana smoking causes no serious lung damage. Cancer risks from common foods (meat, salt, dairy products) far exceed any cancer risk posed by smoking marijuana. Respiratory health hazards and cancer risks can be totally eliminated by ingesting marijuana in baked foods. Myth: Marijuana contains over 400 chemicals, thus proving that marijuana is dangerous. Fact: Coffee contains 1,500 chemicals. Rat poison contains only 30 chemicals. Many vegetables contain cancer-causing chemicals. There is no correlation between the number of chemicals a substance contains and its toxicity. Prohibitionists often cite this misleading statistic to make marijuana appear dangerous. Myth: Marijuana is a gateway drug--it leads to harder drugs. Fact: The U.S. government's own statistics show that over 75 percent of all Americans who use marijuana never use harder drugs. The gateway-drug theory is derived by using blatantly-flawed logic. Using such blatantly- flawed logic, alcohol should be considered the gateway drug because most cocaine and heroin addicts began their drug use with beer or wine--not marijuana. Myth: Marijuana is addicting. Fact: Marijuana is not physically addicting. Medical studies rank marijuana as less habit forming than caffeine. The legal drugs of tobacco (nicotine) and alcohol can be as addicting as heroin or cocaine, but marijuana is one of the least habit forming substances known. Myth: Marijuana use impairs learning ability. Fact: A 1996 U.S. government study claims that heavy marijuana use may impair learning ability. The key words are heavy use and may. This claim is based on studying people who use marijuana daily--a sample that represents less than 1 percent of all marijuana users. This study concluded: 1) Learning impairments cited were subtle, minimal, and may be temporary. In other words, there is little evidence that such learning impairments even exist. 2) Long-term memory was not affected by heavy marijuana use. 3) Casual marijuana users showed no signs of impaired learning. 4) Heavy alcohol use was cited as being more detrimental to the thought and learning process than heavy marijuana use. Myth: Marijuana is a significant cause of emergency room admissions. Fact: The U.S. government reports that marijuana-related emergency room episodes are increasing. The government counts an emergency room admission as a marijuana-related episode if the word marijuana appears anywhere in the medical record. If a patient tests positive for marijuana because he/she used marijuana several days before the incident occurred, if a drunk driver admits he/she also smoked some marijuana, or if anyone involved in the incident merely possessed marijuana, the government counts the emergency room admission as a "marijuana-related episode." Less than 0.2% of all emergency room admissions are "marijuana related." This so-called marijuana-causes-emergencies statistic was carefully crafted by the government to make marijuana appear dangerous. 1997: CANADA REPEALS HEMP PROHIBITION After a successful two-year trial period of permitting experimental hemp cultivation, Canada repealed Hemp Prohibition in 1997. Canada's hemp industry is now poised for rapid expansion. The United States of America remains one of the last industrialized nations on Earth where growing industrial hemp can result in a prison sentence. The below photos show an August 1997 hemp harvest in Ontario, Canada. Detailed information about Canada's brand-new hemp industry can be found at: http://www.kenex.org DOES PROHIBITION CAUSE MORE HARM THAN MARIJUANA? Recently, narcotics officers raided the house of a suspected marijuana dealer in Wisconsin. The unarmed suspect, who offered no resistance, was shot to death in front of his 7-year-old son. His crime? Possession of 1 ounce of marijuana. In Oklahoma, a wheelchair-bound paraplegic who used medicinal marijuana to control muscle spasms caused by his broken back was sentenced to 10 years in prison. His crime? Possession of 2 ounces of marijuana. Another Oklahoma man is serving 75 years in prison for growing only 5 marijuana plants. (These are not misprints.) Prohibition is the number one cause of America's exploding prison population. Many non-violent drug offenders are now serving longer prison sentences than murderers, rapists, and other violent criminals. It costs taxpayers $30,000 per year to imprison just one non-violent drug offender. Politicians are spending billions of tax dollars to build new prisons and jails so more and more non-violent drug offenders can be warehoused. Meanwhile, funding for education and other services are being strained. Reducing drug abuse is a desirable goal, but law enforcement methods used to obtain that goal are counterproductive. Prohibition costs billions to enforce, creates a black market that generates violence and corruption, and makes criminals out of millions of productive and harmless adults. Adult use of alcohol and tobacco is accepted, but adult use of marijuana is considered criminal behavior. Why? The main rationalization for Prohibition is to keep marijuana away from children. That rationalization does not reflect reality. Several surveys reveal that teenagers can obtain marijuana easier than they can obtain the legal drugs of beer or wine. In Holland, where sale of marijuana to adults is openly accepted, the percentage of teenagers using marijuana is less than half that of American teenagers. Because America's marijuana trade is totally unregulated, marijuana dealers are on the streets selling to anybody--especially teenagers. Regulating marijuana like wine would put street dealers out of business, would make marijuana dealers pay taxes, and would restrict sales to adults only. Prohibition does not make it difficult for teenagers to obtain marijuana. Tougher marijuana laws have not reduced marijuana use. Marijuana use has increasedevery single year since 1991. In 1937 (the last year that marijuana was legal) only 100,000 Americans used marijuana. Now that marijuana is illegal, 30 million Americans use marijuana, and marijuana is easily available to anybody who wants it--including children and prison inmates. 600,000 Americans are arrested for marijuana violations every year and thousands of them are sent to jail or prison, where many of them can still obtain drugs. The government can't even keep drugs out of its own prisons, yet the politicians keep telling us they can rid the entire nation of marijuana by spending more tax dollars. The government now spends $15 billion every year (a 1,500% increase since 1980) waging a war on marijuana smokers--a war that has lasted 60 years and is impossible to win. Another $5 billion per year is lost in tax revenue that could be generated if marijuana was regulated and taxed like wine. For all practical purposes, Marijuana Prohibition is a $15-billion-per-year government subsidy for drug traffickers, organized crime, and street dealers. Because the government prohibits well-regulated liquor stores from selling marijuana, the government ensures that organized crime and street dealers will flourish. Prohibition escalates violence and corruption as mobsters, street gangs, and thugs fight for control of the marijuana trade. Just as Alcohol Prohibition escalated violence and corruption during the 1920s, Marijuana Prohibition does the same today. Once all the facts are known, it becomes clear that America's marijuana laws need reform. This issue must be openly debated using only the facts. Groundless claims, meaningless statistics, and exaggerated scare stories that have been peddled by politicians and prohibitionists for the last 60 years must be rejected. HOW HARMFUL IS MARIJUANA? ANNUAL AMERICAN DEATHS CAUSED BY DRUGS TOBACCO ........................ 400,000 ALCOHOL ........................ 100,000 ALL LEGAL DRUGS ................20,000 ALL ILLEGAL DRUGS ..............15,000 CAFFEINE .......................2,000 ASPIRIN ........................500 MARIJUANA ...................... 0 ---------------------------------------- Source: United States government... National Institute on Drug Abuse, Bureau of Mortality Statistics Like any substance, marijuana can be abused. The most common problem attributed to marijuana is frequent overuse, which can induce lethargic behavior, but does not cause serious health problems. Marijuana can cause short-term memory loss, but only while under the influence. Marijuana does not impair long-term memory. Marijuana does not lead to harder drugs. Marijuana does not cause brain damage, genetic damage, or damage the immune system. Unlike alcohol, marijuana does not kill brain cells or induce violent behavior. Continuous long-term smoking of marijuana can cause bronchitis, but the chance of contracting bronchitis from casual marijuana smoking is minuscule. Respiratory health hazards can be totally eliminated by consuming marijuana via non-smoking methods, i.e., ingesting marijuana via baked foods, tincture, or vaporizer. A 1997 UCLA School of Medicine study (Volume 155 of the American Journal of Respiratory & Critical Care Medicine) conducted on 243 marijuana smokers over an 8-year period reported the following: "Findings from the long-term study of heavy, habitual marijuana smokers argue against the concept that continuing heavy use of marijuana is a significant risk factor for the development of chronic lung disease." "Neither the continuing nor the intermittent marijuana smokers exhibited any significantly different rates of decline in lung function as compared with those individuals who never smoked marijuana." The study concluded: "No differences were noted between even quite heavy marijuana smoking and nonsmoking of marijuana." Marijuana does not cause serious health problems like those caused by tobacco or alcohol (e.g., strong addiction, cancer, heart problems, birth defects, emphysema, liver damage, etc.). Death from a marijuana overdose is impossible. In all of world history, there has never been a single human death attributed to a health problem caused by marijuana. THE HEMP DIRECTORY INTERNET LINKS For detailed information on the health effects of marijuana, medical marijuana, industrial hemp, activist organizations, businesses that sell hemp products, the history of marijuana and hemp, and the government's War on Marijuana Smokers, visit the following Web sites. Marijuana Links (http://www.calyx.net/marijuana.htm) CANNABIS.COM (http://www.cannabis.com) Drug Policy Foundation (http://www.dpf.org) Drug Library (http://www.druglibrary.org) Ecolution (http://www.ecolution.com) Hemp BC (http://www.hempbc.com) Hempen Ale--America's 1st Hemp Beer http://www.hempenale.com) Hempstead Company (http://www.hempstead.com) Hempy's (http://www.hempys.com) North American Industrial Hemp Council (http://www.naihc.org) ----------------------------------------------------------------- BOOKS AND VIDEOS The Hemp Revolution - An excellent videotape documenting the entire history of marijuana and hemp ($20.00). Call: 1-800-649-4421 Hemp For Victory - The U.S. governmentās 1942 pro-hemp film on videotape ($9.95). Call: 1-800-851-7039 Marijuana Myths, Marijuana Facts - Authors: Dr. John P. Morgan, Lynn Zimmer (ISBN: 0964156849) Hemp, Lifeline to the Future - Author: Chris Conrad (ISBN: 0963975412) The Great Book of Hemp - Author: Rowan Robinson (ISBN: 0892815418) ----------------------------------------------------------------- ACTIVIST ORGANIZATIONS Marijuana Policy Project P.O. Box 77492 Washington, DC 20013 Phone: (202) 462-5747 Internet: http://www.mpp.org NORML 1001 Connecticut Ave., Suite 1010 Washington, DC 20036 Phone: (202) 483-5500 Internet: http://www.norml.org Cannabis Action Network 2560 Bancroft Way Berkeley, CA 94704 Phone: (510) 486-8083 ----------------------------------------------------------------- PUBLICATIONS Cannabis Canada Magazine #504-21 Water St. Vancouver, BC, Canada V6B-1A1 Phone: (604) 669-9069 Internet: http://www.hempbc.com HempWorld Magazine P.O. Box 550 Forestville, CA 95436 Phone: (707) 887-7508 Internet: http://www.hempworld.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- HEMP PRODUCTS Ecolution P.O. Box 2279 Merrifield, VA 22116-2279 Phone: (703) 207-9001 Internet: http://www.ecolution.com Products: 100% hemp clothing (jeans, jackets, shirts, shoes, hats, shorts) and more. Hempy's 617 West Grape St San Diego, CA 92101 Phone: (619) 233-HEMP Internet: http://www.hempys.com Products: 100% hemp backbacks, travel bags, clothing, etc. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Proposition 215 was approved by California voters on November 5, 1996 and went into effect on November 6, 1996. Detailed county-by-county election results of Prop. 215 appear below. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Text of California's Proposition 215 SECTION 1. Section 11362.5 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read: 11362.5. (a) This section shall be known and may be cited as the Compassionate Use Act of 1996. (b) (l) The people of the State of California hereby find and declare that the purposes of the Compassionate Use Act of 1996 are as follows: (A) To ensure that seriously ill Californians have the right to obtain and use marijuana for medical purposes where that medical use is deemed appropriate and has been recommended by a physician who has determined that the person's health would benefit from the use of marijuana in the treatment of cancer, anorexia, AIDS, chronic pain, spasticity, glaucoma, arthritis, migraine, or any other illness for which marijuana provides relief. (B) To ensure that patients and their primary caregivers who obtain and use marijuana for medical purposes upon the recommendation of a physician are not subject to criminal prosecution or sanction. (C) To encourage the federal and state governments to implement a plan to provide for the safe and affordable distribution of marijuana to all patients in medical need of marijuana. (2) Nothing in this act shall be construed to supersede legislation prohibiting persons from engaging in conduct that endangers others, nor to condone the diversion of marijuana for nonmedical purposes. (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no physician in this state shall be punished, or denied any right or privilege, for having recommended marijuana to a patient for medical purposes. (d) Section 11357, relating to the possession of marijuana, and Section 11358, relating to the cultivation of marijuana, shall not apply to a patient, or to a patient's primary caregiver, who possesses or cultivates marijuana for the personal medical purposes of the patient upon the written or oral recommendation or approval of a physician. (e) For the purposes of this section, "primary caregiver" means the individual designated by the person exempted under this act who has consistently assumed responsibility for the housing, health, or safety of that person. SECTION 2. If any provision of this measure or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, that invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the measure which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this measure are severable. ----------------------------------------------------------------- The following article appeared in the February 1937 issue of Mechanical Engineering Magazine. The author predicted that hemp would become "the most profitable and desireable crop that can be grown." Within less than one year after this article was written, The Marihunana Tax Act of 1937 took effect, which eventually killed the American hemp industry. Due to the dry and technical nature of this article, you may want to read only the highlights, which are provided in bold type for your convinience. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FLAX AND HEMP: FROM THE SEED TO THE LOOM From: Mechanical Engineering Magazine, February 1937 This country imports almost all of its fibers except cotton. The Whitney gin, combined with improved spinning methods, enabled this country to produce cotton goods so far below the cost of linen that manufacture practically ceased in the United States. We cannot produce our fibers at less cost than can other farmers of the world. Aside from higher cost of labor, we do not get as large a production. For instance, Yugoslavia, which has the greates fiber production per acre in Europe, recently had a yield of 883 lbs. Comparable figures for other countries are Argentina, 749 lbs.; Egypt, 616 lbs.; and India, 393 lbs.; while the average yield in this country is 383 lbs. To meet world competition profitably, we must improve our methods all the way from the field to the loom. Flax is still pulled up by the roots, retted in a pond, dried in the sun, broken until the fibers separate from the wood, then spun, and finally bleached with lye from wood ashes, potash from burned seaweed, or lime. Improvements in tilling, planting, and harvesting mechanisms have materially helped the large farmers and, to a certain degree, the smaller ones, but the process from the crop to the yarn are crude, wasteful, and injurious. Hemp, the strongest of the vegetable fibers, gives the greatest production per acre and requires the least attention. It not only requires no weeding, but also kills off all the weeds and leaves the soil in splendid condition. This, irrespective of its own monetary value, makes it a desireable crop to grow. In climate and cultivation, its requisites are similar to flax, like flax, should be harvested before it is too ripe. The best time is when the lower leaves on the stalk wither and the flowers shed their pollen. Like flax, the fibers run out where the leaf stems are on the stalks and are made up of laminated fibers that are held together by pectose gums. When chemically treated like flax, hemp yields a beautiful fiber so closely resemblimg flax that a high-power microscope is needed to tell the difference--and only then because in hemp, some of the ends are split. Wetting a few strands of fiber and holding them suspended will definitely identify the two because upon drying, flax will be found to turn to the right or clockwise, and hemp to the left or counterclockwise. Before [World War I], Russia produced 400,000 tons of hemp, all of which is still hand-broken and hand-scutched. They now produce half that quantity and use most of of it themselves, as also does Italy from whom we had large importations. In this country, hemp, when planted one bu. per acre, yields about three tons of dry straw per acre. From 15 to 20 percent of this is fiber, and 80 to 85 percent is woody material. The rapidly growing market for cellulose and wood flour for plastics gives good reason to believe that this hitherto wasted material may prove sufficiently profitable to pay for the crop, leaving the cost of the fiber sufficiently low to compete with 500,000 tons of hard fiber now imported annually. Hemp being two to three times as strong as any of the hard fibers, much less weight is required to give the same yardage. For instance, sisal binder twine of 40-lb. tensile strength runs 450 ft. to the lb. A better twine madeof hemp would run 1280 ft. to the lb. Hemp is not subject to as many kinds of deterioration as are the tropical fibers, and none of them lasts as long in either fresh or salt water. While the theory in the past has been that straw should be cut when the pollen starts to fly, some of the best fiber handled by Minnesota hemp people was heavy with seed. This point should be proved as soon as possible by planting a few acres and then harvesting the first quarter when the pollen is flying, the second and third a week or ten days apart, and the last when the seed is fully matured. These four lots should be kept separate and scutched and processed separately to detect any difference in the quality and quantity of the fiber and seed. Several types of machines are available in this country for harvesting hemp. One of these was brought out several years ago by the International Harvester Company. Recently, growers of hemp in the Middle West have rebuilt regular grain binders for this work. The rebuilding is not particularly expensive and the machines are reported to give satisfactory service. Degumming of hemp is analogous to the treatment given flax. The shards probably offer slightly more resistance to digestion. On the other hand, they break down readily upon completion of the digestion process. And excellent fiber can, therefore, be obtained from hemp also. Hemp, when treated by aknown chemical process, can be spun on cotton, wool, and worsted machinery, and has as much absorbance and wearing quality as linen. Several types of machines for scutching the hemp stalks are also on the market. Scutch mills formerly operating in Illinois and Wisconsin used the system that consisted of a set of eight pairs of fluted rollers, through which the dried straw was passed to break up the woody portion. From there, the fiber with adhering shards--or hurds, as they are called--was transfered by an operator to an endless-chain conveyor. This carries the fiber past two revolving single drums in tandem, all having beating blades on their periphery, which beat off most of the hurds as well as the fibers that do not run the full length of the stalks. The portion of line fiber to tow is 50 percent each. Tow or short tangled fiber then goes to a vibrating cleaner that shakes out some of the hurds. In Minnesotsa and Illinois, another type has been tried out. This machine consists of a feeding table which the stalks are placed horizontally. Conveyor chains carry the stalks along until they are grasped by a clamping chain that grips them and carries them through half of the machine. A pair of intermeshing lawnmower-type beaters are placed at a 45-degree angle to the feeding chain and break the hemp stalks over the sharp edge of a steel plate, the object being to break the woody portion of the straw and whip the hurds from the fiber. On the other side and slightly beyond the first set of lawnmower beaters is another set, which is placed 90-degrees from the first pair and whips out the hurds. The first clamping chain transfers the stalks to another to scutch the fiber that was under the clamp at the beginning. Unfortunately, this type of scutcher makes even more tow than the so-called Wisconsin type. This tow is difficult to reclean because the hurds are broken into long slivers that tenaciously adhere to the fiber. Another type passes the stalks though a series of graduated fluted rollers. This breaks up the woody portion into hurds about 3/4 inch long, and the fiber then passes on though a series of reciprocating slotted plates working between stationary slotted plates. Adhering hurds are removed from the fiber which continues on a conveyor to the bailing process. Because no beating of the fiber against the grain occurs, this type of scutcher makes only line fiber. This is then processed by the same method as those for flax. Paint and lacquer manufacturers are interested in hempseed oil which is a good drying agent. When markets have been developed for the products now being wasted, seed and hurds, hemp will prove, both for farmer and the public, the most profitable and desireable crop that can be grown, and one that will make American mills independent of importations. Recent floods and dust storms have given warnings against the destruction of timber. Possibly, the hitherto waste products of flax and hemp may yet meet a good part of that need, especially in the plastic field which is growing by leaps and bounds. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- New Billion-Dollar Crop appeared in the February 1938 issue of Popular Mechanics Magazine. Just as this article went to press The Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 took effect, which effectively killed the hemp industry. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- New Billion-Dollar Crop American farmers are promised a new cash crop with an annual value of several hundred million dollars, all because a machine has been invented that solves a problem more than 6,000 years old. It is hemp, a crop that will not compete with other American products. Instead, it will displace imports of raw material and manufactured products produced by underpaid coolie and peasant labor and it will provide thousands of jobs for American workers throughout the land. The machine that makes this possible is designed for removing the fiber-bearing cortex from the rest of the stalk, making hemp fiber available for use without prohibitive amounts of human labor. Hemp is the standard fiber of the world. It has great tensile strength and durability. It is used to produce more than 5,000 textile products, ranging from rope to fine laces, and the woody "hurds" remaining after the fiber has been removed contain more than 77 percent cellulose, which can be used to produce more than 25,000 products, ranging from dynamite to Cellophane. Machines now in service in Texas, Illinois, Minnesota, and other states are producing fiber at a manufacturing cost of half a cent per pound, and are finding a profitable market for the rest of the stalk. Machine operators are making a good profit in competition with coolie-produced foreign fiber, while paying farmers $15 a ton for hemp as it comes from the field. >From the farmer's point of view, hemp is an easy crop to grow and will yield from three to six tons per acre on any land that will grow corn, wheat, or oats. It can be grown in any state of the Union. It has a short growing season, so that it can be planted after other crops are in. The long roots penetrate and break the soil to leave it in perfect condition for next year's crop. The dense shock of leaves, eight to twelve feet above the ground, chokes out weeds. Two successive crops are enough to reclaim land that has been abandoned because of Canadian thistles or quack grass. Under old methods, hemp was cut and allowed to lie in the fields for weeks until it "retted" enough so that the fibers could be pulled off by hand. Retting is simply rotting as a result of dew, rain, and bacterial action. Machines were developed to separate the fibers mechanically after retting was complete, but the cost was high, the loss of fiber great, and the quality of fiber comparatively low. With the new machine--known as a decorticator--hemp is cut with a slightly modified grain binder. It is delivered to the machine where an automatic chain conveyor feeds it to the breaking arms at a rate of two or three tons per hour. The hurds are broken into fine pieces that drop into the hopper, from where they are delivered by blower to a baler, or to a truck or freight car for loose shipment. The fiber comes from the other end of the machine, ready for baling. >From this point on, almost anything can happen. The raw fiber can be used to produce strong twine or rope, woven into burlap, used for carpet warp or linoleum backing, or it may be bleached and refined, with resinous by-products of high commercial value. It can, in fact, be used to replace foreign fibers which now flood our markets. Thousands of tons of hemp hurds are used every year by one large powder company for the manufacture of dynamite and TNT. A large paper company, which has been paying more than a million dollars a year in duties on foreign-made cigarette papers, now is manufacturing these papers from American hemp grown in Minnesota. A new factory in Illinois is producing bond paper from hemp. The natural materials in hemp make it an economical source of pulp for any grade of paper manufactured, and the high percentage of alpha cellulose promises an unlimited supply of raw material for the thousands of cellulose products our chemists have developed. It is generally believed that all linen is produced from flax. Actually, the majority comes from hemp--authorities estimate that more than half of our imported linen fabrics are manufactured from hemp fiber. Another misconception is that burlap is made from hemp. Actually, its source is usually jute, and practically all of the burlap we use is woven from laborers in India who receive only four cents a day. Binder twine is usually made from sisal, which comes from the Yucatan and East Africa. All of these products, now imported, can be produced from home-grown hemp. Fish nets, bow strings, canvas, strong rope, overalls, damask tablecloths, fine linen garments, towels, bed linen, and thousands of other everyday items can be grown on American farms. Our imports of foriegn fabrics and fibers average about $200 million per year; in raw fibers alone we imported over $50 million in the first six months of 1937. All of this income can be made available for Americans. The paper industry offers even greater possibilities. As an industry it amounts to over $1 billion a year, and of that, 80 percent is imported. But hemp will produce every grade of paper and government figures estimate that 10,000 acres devoted to hemp will produce as much paper as 40,000 acres of average pulp land. One obstacle in the onward march of hemp is the reluctance of farmers to try new crops. The problem is complicated by the need for proper equipment a reasonable distance from the farm. The machine cannot be operated profitably unless there is enough acreage within driving range and farmers cannot find a profitable market unless there is machinery to handle the crop. Another obstacle is that the blossom of the female hemp plant contains marijuana, a narcotic, and it is impossible to grow hemp without producing the blossom. Federal regulations now being drawn up require registration of hemp growers, and tentative proposals for preventing narcotic production are rather stringent. However, the connection of hemp as a crop and marijuana seems to be exaggerated. The drug is usually produced from wild hemp or locoweed, which can be found on vacant lots and along railroad tracks in every state. If federal regulations can be drawn to protect the public without preventing the legitimate culture of hemp, this vast new crop can add immeasurably to American agriculture and industry. ************************************************************************ CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE ************************************************************************ Thomas J. Bouril is a marijuana and hemp activist. He supports various groups including Human Rights 95. His piece Marijuana and Hemp - The Untold Story was obtained through Cannabis.Com, "the home of cannabis on the net". Wose "primary mission is to provide accurate and unbiased information about cannabis, marijuana, and hemp to the public." Ben Ohmart Ben Ohmart has had 100s of stories and poems in zines and journals, and had 4 plays produced last year. His lyrics will be on 2 CDs this year, 1 a gothic album, the other a rock album. He's currently writing films, with hopes of having one done in Malaysia soon, and is also trying to break into the prison of television. He's white, 26, single and loves British comedy. He lives in Boalsburg, PA, right next to PSU, and enjoys watching rabbits eat his garbage. On January 1st, 1997, R. William Davis first posted his research paper, "Shadow of the Swastika," on his website. It documented the historical evidence of a secret alliance between various elements of the US "Establishment" (as we called it in the '60s) and the Nazis. Since the publishing of that document many countries behind the old Iron Curtain have opened up formerly classified archives, exposing some of the secrets of these Cold War years. And recently, there was a bill in Congress which would open up the classified files in Washington related to this US / Nazi alliance. {}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{} The Annihilation Fountain & TAF Copyright c 1997-99 Neil MacKay http://www.capnasty.org/taf/ the_annihilation_fountain@iname.com