SS Brotherhood of the Bell: The Nazis’ Incredible Secret Technology (67 page)

So what, exactly, is the connection between Allied Crude Vegetable Oil Refining, its crash, the Bunge Corporation, and the Kennedy assassination?

Noting that the massive short-selling that occurred on Nov. 22, 1963, had been prepared well in advance, Lincoln Lawrence, in his little known classic on the Kennedy Assassination,
Were We Controlled?
, gives the following speculative outline of its connections and motivations:

A small group of hard-as-steel international criminals (with German-Argentine intellectual
and scientific
backgrounds) carefully calculated that:

The coincidence of the assassination of a President of the United States… and the simultaneous scandalizing and collapse of the commodities market… would rapidly
drive the stock market down at least 30 points!

Having advance knowledge of this event… the group would
sell short
on a heavily financed scale… and a profit of perhaps a
half-billion dollars
would be divided amongst its members.
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How all this happened was through careful and very well-though-out long term manipulation of a man named Tino DeAngelis and his Allied Crude Vegetable Oil Refining Corporation.

DeAngelis, according to Lawrence, first came to the attention of the financial group behind the Bunge Corporation in 1954, when in the process of contacts with the West German government, he announced his plans to found a company that would refine edible vegetable oils. In 1955, the Allied Crude Vegetable Oil Refining Corporation was founded by DeAngelis and 20 of his most trusted friends in Bayonne, New Jersey.
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Although it was the last thing that he could have foreseen, the formation of Allied fitted The Group’s plans and led inevitably to his complete financial ruin – and their profit!

If for a second, you find it hard to believe that a small group operating out of a German headquarters could find it sufficiently profitable to plot the long term expansion and deflation of a financial bubble fathered by a Bronx butcher with dreams of glory, think again.
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The Bunge Corporation was chosen, according to Lawrence, to be tied to Allied Crude simply because Bunge’s worldwide and virtually instantaneous communications network, which rivaled that of many large governments, was perfect for the sort of minute-by-minute and second-by-second manipulation of the commodities market their scheme required.
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Thus, the fate of Bunge and Allied Crude – known to the Group but unknown to the luckless DeAngelis – was wedded in a long term scheme:

(The Bunge Corporation’s) good will was essential to the business destiny of Allied!

Of the fifty-one companies which either lent money to Allied or deposited oil at its Bayonne plant against warehouse receipts, the Bunge Corporation was the one most critically attached to its fate.

When Allied’s ship of destiny was steered into the deep waters, as indeed it was by an amazing series of maneuvers, only one collision was needed to sink it instantly to the bottom. A collision with Bunge Corporation would suffice… creating a disaster that would take with it the investment of the other fifty companies.
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How was DeAngelis’ collapse engineered?

Lawrence answers by stating that Bunge’s role apparently was to feed DeAngelis’ ambitions, no matter what. “Bunge used its own money to finance DeAngelis instead of resorting to bank loans.”
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Someone at Bunge wanted very much for De Angelis to succeed, or rather, to
appear
to succeed:

Going even further in its paternal interest in De Angelis’ business affairs, Bunge allowed De Angelis to really take off into financial outer space… by pledging at one point as much as thirty-eight shares of the hundred odd shares of Allied stock and other De Angelis stock for huge loans. Someone in Bunge supported him in his efforts to play king. Others, like Karl Groenfeld, Senior Traffic Manager for Bunge, were suspicious.
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With such powerful corporate backing apparently in his corner, DeAngelis could do no wrong, and was refused no financial favor by some very prestigious brokerage houses on Wall Street.

In the summer of 1961, DeAngelis and Allied Crude began to be steered “into a position where his back was to the wall,”
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for during that period

$166,000,000 was deposited to Tino’s firm at the First National Bank of North Bergen.

Tino was led to believe that he had a sure order from Spain for
275 million pounds of soybean oil!
Payment for this would have amounted to thirty-six and a half million dollars! ….

So, of course, began the inevitable build-up of Allied for the big let-down. In his Bayonne tanks, De Angelis had about fifty million pounds of oil. That left 225 million pounds for Allied to acquire in the future.

Tino turned to the Chicago Board of Trade, with a supposed Spanish “promise” of eventual payment in
American dollars.
(Were he not controlled, this alone would have alerted him to take a second look at the deal.) Tino started dealing….Allied is said to have closed over 3,000 separate contracts for 180-million pounds of oil. If the sale to Spain were not consummated, he would have put forth 18 million dollars for these orders. And even a half-cent a pound drop in the futures price (if it occurred before delivery date) would mean that De Angelis would have to produce almost a
million dollars
more within twenty-four hours to meet the margin regulations of the Exchange.

The Spanish deal, of course, as it had been controlled from the start…
vanished into thin air…
leaving Tino sitting on top of the soybean world in an almost insane predicament.
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Recall that Spain was headquarters to Skorzeny’s International Fascista organization, and that Skorzeny was no stranger to financial wheeling and dealing, being the son-in-law to former Reichsbank President Hjalmar Schacht. Was Skorzeny the source of the “deal” that De Angelis considered so certain? Was this the reason, too, that he did not question being paid in American dollars, since he knew his “source” was certainly capable of paying in American dollars?

We will never know, but we do know that De Angelis’ behavior at that point becomes increasingly strange if not tragic. He began to buy futures contracts, “not on orders he had for Allied, but supposedly on contracts he might be going to get.”
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Since the “Spanish deal” and its collapse had already placed De Angelis against the wall, the only way he could purchase these furtures contracts was by issuing phony warehouse receipts for oil stored in his tanks that did not exist!
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Using these phony receipts, he began borrowing money from several brokerage houses for the funds needed to purchase commodities futures.

Recall that Bunge had loaned De Angelis money from its own funds, a process that had been repeated in the years prior to the “Spanish deal.” De Angelis approached Bunge for more money in October of 1963 for another loan, and “to his astonishment, Bunge refused!”
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Bunge had now weakened Allied Crude for the big crash.

De Angelis attempted to survive a bit longer using check-kiting tactics and more phony warehouse receipts.
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On the Wednesday afternoon before the assassination, Bunge now moved to eliminate Allied, the very corporation it had helped found and propel to prominence, by informing one holder of the phony warehouse receipts to “be on the alert” about De Angelis.
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Then, on Thursday November 21
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, 1963, the final trap was laid.

On Thursday afternoon it was important to the success of the “controllers” that the groundwork for a complete panic of the market be laid so that on the day of the assassination, Friday, the prices would plummet and the profits reaped by selling short would be insured.

In considering whether (this scenario) is truth or fantasy, one must note that of the fifty-odd companies that could have moved that day to lift the lid that would light the bomb… the one that did file suit (charging that [one of the warehouse receipt holders] had “lost 160,450,000 pounds of oil worth $14,240,000 at Allied through forged orders was not Haupt, not Williston & Beane… but the Bunge Corporation!
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As the news of the assassination of the president reached a stock exchange already concussed by the collapse of Allied Crude, its bankruptcy filing, and the suspension of trade of several of De Angelis’ brokerage house financial backers, the market plummeted so severely, in part
driven down
by massive short selling, that the Board of Governors closed trading at 2:07 p.m., more than eighty minutes before its normal closing.
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One of De Angelis’ and Allied Crude’s major customers, Frederick Hediger of Garnac Grain, was subsequently quoted in
Time
magazine as “saying that when he heard on the radio that afternoon that ‘Kennedy had been assassinated, I thought this must be a plot by the Russians or the underworld – too many crazy things are happening at once.’”
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Even the New York State Attorney General thought that it was possible that De Angelis and his Allied Crude Vegetable Oil Refining Company had been “’broken’ in the futures market by someone who sold short and profited on a gigantic scale.”
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That someone was, according to Lawrence, a group of Germans inside of Bunge corporation, a group of Germans of “intellectual and scientific background,” who, on his view, orchestrated the whole scenario for
nothing more than massive financial gain
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Back to this in a moment.

While there are a number of factors that have not been recounted here – as for example the heavy role of “mind control” in Lawrence’s speculations that Oswald, De Angelis, and Jack Ruby were all cynically manipulated by this German “Group” for the mere purpose of immense financial gain – there are a number of points that would tend to make one discount the whole scenario, the most basic of which was that the whole thing occurred
merely
for financial gain.

But oddly, Lawrence himself hints at, though
never again
pursues or mentions,
that the “group” behind his scenario had intellectual and “scientific backgrounds,” hinting in turn that there was possibly a motivation
behind
that of the motivation of financial gain. The money was to be
used
for something, something that, if one carefully reads between the lines of Lawrence’s book, is scientific in nature. Of course, the Bell and similar projects would have required heavy financial outlays. And one would have needed such financial injections for independent projects

Only when taken in a much
wider
context of the other major players in the conspiracy and their motivations does Lawrence’s scenario not only make sense, but begins to hint at things that would have made Nazi involvement coalesce with the other elements: the Mafia, big business and banking, the military industrial complex, “pissed-off” émigré groups, and so on. As Lawrence makes clear, the sudden coincidence of the collapse of Allied Crude, instigated by Bunge, with the assassination, the heavy round of short selling designed ahead of time to occur on that same day, have all the appearance of events being driven by people “in the know.” The events on the stock market during that day have the familiar and dolorous ring of similar stock market events during September 11, 2001 and its aftermath. As will be seen below, the financial picture and motivation of the assassination begin to connect other dots, dots that trace their spider-web-thin and tenuous but still clearly visible threads back to Germany, and World War Two.

We will return to the subject of possible Nazi involvement and motivations in this bizarre scenario in a later section. But for now, there is one last connection that Mae Brussell exposes.

12. More Odd Behavior and Connections: West German
Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger, and Nixon

The day after the assassination of President Kennedy, right-wing extremist, Major General Edwin Walker called Munich, Germany from his home in Shreveport, Louisiana. He called the Munich-based newspaper, the
Deutsche National und Soldaten Zeitung
(The German National and Soldiers’ Times), a neo-nazi rag based in Munich. He called to tell them that Lee Harvey Oswald, the suspect in the assassination, was the same person that had tried to kill him by shooting through his window in April of 1963.
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This is the same General Walker whose address, as mentioned above, was found in Oswald’s address book, along with that of FBI agent James Hosty, and incongruously, that of American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell. Conveniently, “Marxist” Oswald, having allegedly taken pot shots at Walker, was now accused of shooting and killing president Kennedy.

The trouble is, as Brussell points out, “there was never one shred of evidence, or a reliable witness, that could make this connection” of Oswald to the General’s would-be (and unsuccessful) assassin.
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Thus, as Brussell alleges, it became necessary for Ruth Paine to deliver a post-dated letter to Marina Oswald from Lee, implicating him in the attempt on General Walker and establishing him as a “lone nut” extremist capable of murdering prominent figures alone and unaided.
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