Movers and Shakers of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta

Bowie Kent Kuhn

2008-09-02T11:36:00.002+02:00

Bowie Kent Kuhn - American Lawyer; Member o/t New York City law firm Willkie, Farr & Gallagher; Commissioner of Major League Baseball; President o/t Kent Group; Chairman o/t Catholic Advisory Board o/t Ave Maria Mutual Funds

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Bowie Kent Kuhn (October 28, 1926 – March 15, 2007) was an American lawyer and sports administrator who served as the 5th commissioner of Major League Baseball from February 4, 1969 to September 30, 1984. He served as legal counsel for Major League Baseball owners for almost 20 years prior to his election as commissioner. Early life and career Kuhn was born in Takoma Park, Maryland, grew up in Washington, D.C. and graduated from Theodore Roosevelt High School. He then attended Franklin and Marshall College in the V-12 Navy College Training Program before going to Princeton University in 1945. He graduated from Princeton with honors in 1947 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics. He then received his law degree in 1950 from the University of Virginia where he served on the editorial board of the law review. Following his graduation from law school, Kuhn became a member of the New York City law firm Willkie, Farr & Gallagher because the firm represented the National League. While working in baseball's legal affairs, Kuhn served as a counselor for the NL in a lawsuit brought against it by the City of Milwaukee when the Milwaukee Braves moved to Atlanta following the 1965 season. After the owners forced out William Eckert in 1968, Kuhn seemed like a logical replacement for the job of commissioner. He, unlike Eckert, was very aware of the inner workings of Major League Baseball before taking office. Kuhn's closest challengers to the commissionership were Mike Burke, president of the New York Yankees; and San Francisco Giants head of baseball operations Chub Feeney, who instead became president of the National League.[1] Kuhn was the youngest (42), tallest (6-foot-5), and heaviest (240 pounds, 109 kg) commissioner in history. Actions as commissioner His tenure was marked by labor strikes (most notably in 1981), owner disenchantment, and the end of baseball's reserve clause, yet baseball enjoyed unprecedented attendance gains (from 23 million in 1968 to 45.5 million in 1983) and television contracts during the same time frame. Kuhn suspended numerous players for involvement with drugs and gambling, and took a strong stance against any activity that he perceived to be "not in the best interests of baseball." In 1970, he suspended star Detroit Tigers pitcher Denny McLain indefinitely (the suspension was later set at 3 months) due to McLain's involvement in a bookmaking operation, and later suspended McLain for the rest of the season for carrying a gun. He barred both Willie Mays (in 1979) and Mickey Mantle (in 1983) from the sport due to their involvement in casino promotion; neither was directly involved in gambling, and both were reinstated by Kuhn's successor Peter Ueberroth in 1985. Also in 1970, Kuhn described Jim Bouton's Ball Four as "detrimental to baseball" and demanded that Bouton retract it. The book has been republished several times and is now considered a classic. On October 13, 1971, the World Series held a night game for the first time. Kuhn, who thought that baseball could attract a larger audience by featuring a prime time telecast (as opposed to a mid-afternoon broadcast, when most fans either worked or attended school), pitched the idea to NBC. An estimated 61 million people watched Game 4 on NBC; TV ratings for a World Series game during the daytime hours would not have approached such a record number. Kuhn's vision in this instance has been fulfilled, as all the World Series games are now shown in prime time. Kuhn's war on drugs After being in office for over ten years, Kuhn had grown a strong reputation for being hard on players who abused drugs. Kuhn was quick to punish players who used drugs with heavy fines and suspensions. Kansas City Royals catcher Darrell Porter told the Associated Press that during the winter of 1979-1980 he became paranoid, convinced that Kuhn knew about his drug abuse, was trying to sneak into his house, and planned to ban him from baseball for life. Porter found himself sitting up at night in the dark watching out the front window, waiting for Kuhn to approach, clutching billiard balls and a shotgun. Ironically, when Porter was named the most valuable player of the 1982 World Series while playing for the Cardinals, Kuhn was on hand to congratulate him. In 1980, during the Iranian hostage crisis, Kuhn sat at a baseball game with Jeremiah Denton, a Navy admiral and former POW in Vietnam who would be elected U.S. Senator later that year from the state of Alabama. Recalling the event to The Washington Post, Kuhn believed that "that afternoon...the idea of a lifetime baseball pass was discussed," and upon their return from Iran, each of the 52 hostages was given one of these unique passes.[2] In 1983, four players from the Kansas City Royals - Willie Wilson, Jerry Martin, Willie Mays Aikens, and Vida Blue - were found guilty of cocaine use. In addition, such established stars as Ferguson Jenkins, Keith Hernandez, Dave Parker, and Dale Berra admitted to having problems with drugs. See also: Pittsburgh drug trials Leaving office Kuhn was both praised and attacked for the firm stand that he levied against offenders. In 1982, some of the owners organized a move to push him out of office. In 1983, Kuhn and his supporters made a last-ditch effort to renew his contract but ultimately failed. Kuhn, though, was allowed to stay for the 1984 regular season before being replaced by Peter Ueberroth. Life after baseball Following baseball, Kuhn returned to the law firm of Willkie, Farr & Gallagher and assumed presidency of the Kent Group, a business, sports and financial consulting firm. Mr. Kuhn left Willkie, Farr & Gallagher to join with Harvey D. Myerson, a former senior partner in the firm of Finley, Kumble, Wagner, Underberg, Manley, Myerson & Casey, to form the firm of Myerson & Kuhn.[3] He also became an adviser and board member for Domino's Pizza and the Ave Maria Foundation. Kuhn had been a longtime resident of Ridgewood, New Jersey.[4] According to an AP wire story,[5] he partnered in a law firm with Harvey Myerson which subsequently went bankrupt and then sold his New Jersey home and moved to Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, because his home and other assets were shielded from the bankruptcy. Kuhn became the Chairman of the Catholic Advisory Board of the Ave Maria Mutual Funds upon the inception of their first mutual fund, Ave Maria Catholic Values Fund, in May 2001. During a telecast of the 2004 World Series, broadcaster Joe Buck announced that just prior to his 78th birthday, Kuhn was scheduled to undergo open-heart surgery.[6] Kuhn died in 2007, and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame later the same year. Racial insensitivity and other criticisms A number of observers complained about Kuhn's apparent insensitivity (or at least poor public relations) on race-related matters: * When the decision was made to induct Negro League players into the Baseball Hall of Fame starting in 1971, Kuhn announced that their plaques would be in a separate wing of the Hall, presumably based on the argument that the Negro Leagues were not true "Major League Baseball" leagues, ignoring the historical fact that Major League Baseball's exclusionary policies had compelled the creation of the Negro Leagues in the first place. (He also ignored the fact that the Hall of Fame is a separate entity from Major League Baseball; it is under no obligation to induct and chronicle only Major League Baseball players and events, as inductees have included figures from the era before the first professional leagues were established. In spite of this, both sides cooperate as it is in their mutual interests.) Whatever the motivation for this idea might have been, the resulting public outcry resulted in the inclusion of Negro Leaguers' plaques with the others. * Although Kuhn was personally in attendance in Cincinnati when Atlanta Braves slugger Hank Aaron hit his 714th home run to tie Babe Ruth for the all-time record, the commissioner made himself a target for criticism when he was absent on the historic night that Aaron hit his 715th home run in Atlanta. NBC-TV announcer Tony Kubek specifically commented on that point, on the air. Kuhn argued that he had a prior engagement that he could not break. * He was said to have personally added the name of Carl Yastrzemski to the All-Star roster in Yaz's last season, but had failed to make the same gesture for Willie Stargell in 1982. * According to George Steinbrenner, during the YES Network's broadcast of the Thurman Munson episode of Yankeeography, Kuhn was opposed to the Yankees team chartering a plane to Ohio to attend Munson's funeral. Kuhn cited the possibility of not returning in time for their next scheduled game and therefore having to forfeit. * When the major leagues went on strike in 1981, Kuhn made no effort to order the striking players back, and allowed a two-tiered playoff series to be played after the regular season. The St. Louis Cardinals and the Cincinnati Reds, who had the best won-lost records in the National League, were left out altogether.[7] * According to an article in Sports illustrated, while Kuhn enforced gambling rules against Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle, he took no action against Yankee owner George Steinbrenner, who owned a racetrack. (The first commissioner, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, had ordered owners and managers to sell out any interest they owned in racetracks.)

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Bowie Kent Kuhn (October 28, 1926 – March 15, 2007) was an American lawyer and sports administrator who served as the 5th commissioner of Major League Baseball from February 4, 1969 to September 30, 1984. He served as legal counsel for Major League Baseball owners for almost 20 years prior to his election as commissioner.

Early life and career

Kuhn was born in Takoma Park, Maryland, grew up in Washington, D.C. and graduated from Theodore Roosevelt High School. He then attended Franklin and Marshall College in the V-12 Navy College Training Program before going to Princeton University in 1945. He graduated from Princeton with honors in 1947 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics. He then received his law degree in 1950 from the University of Virginia where he served on the editorial board of the law review.

Following his graduation from law school, Kuhn became a member of the New York City law firm Willkie, Farr & Gallagher because the firm represented the National League. While working in baseball's legal affairs, Kuhn served as a counselor for the NL in a lawsuit brought against it by the City of Milwaukee when the Milwaukee Braves moved to Atlanta following the 1965 season.

After the owners forced out William Eckert in 1968, Kuhn seemed like a logical replacement for the job of commissioner. He, unlike Eckert, was very aware of the inner workings of Major League Baseball before taking office. Kuhn's closest challengers to the commissionership were Mike Burke, president of the New York Yankees; and San Francisco Giants head of baseball operations Chub Feeney, who instead became president of the National League.[1] Kuhn was the youngest (42), tallest (6-foot-5), and heaviest (240 pounds, 109 kg) commissioner in history.

Actions as commissioner

His tenure was marked by labor strikes (most notably in 1981), owner disenchantment, and the end of baseball's reserve clause, yet baseball enjoyed unprecedented attendance gains (from 23 million in 1968 to 45.5 million in 1983) and television contracts during the same time frame.

Kuhn suspended numerous players for involvement with drugs and gambling, and took a strong stance against any activity that he perceived to be "not in the best interests of baseball."

In 1970, he suspended star Detroit Tigers pitcher Denny McLain indefinitely (the suspension was later set at 3 months) due to McLain's involvement in a bookmaking operation, and later suspended McLain for the rest of the season for carrying a gun. He barred both Willie Mays (in 1979) and Mickey Mantle (in 1983) from the sport due to their involvement in casino promotion; neither was directly involved in gambling, and both were reinstated by Kuhn's successor Peter Ueberroth in 1985.

Also in 1970, Kuhn described Jim Bouton's Ball Four as "detrimental to baseball" and demanded that Bouton retract it. The book has been republished several times and is now considered a classic.

On October 13, 1971, the World Series held a night game for the first time. Kuhn, who thought that baseball could attract a larger audience by featuring a prime time telecast (as opposed to a mid-afternoon broadcast, when most fans either worked or attended school), pitched the idea to NBC. An estimated 61 million people watched Game 4 on NBC; TV ratings for a World Series game during the daytime hours would not have approached such a record number. Kuhn's vision in this instance has been fulfilled, as all the World Series games are now shown in prime time.

Kuhn's war on drugs

After being in office for over ten years, Kuhn had grown a strong reputation for being hard on players who abused drugs. Kuhn was quick to punish players who used drugs with heavy fines and suspensions. Kansas City Royals catcher Darrell Porter told the Associated Press that during the winter of 1979-1980 he became paranoid, convinced that Kuhn knew about his drug abuse, was trying to sneak into his house, and planned to ban him from baseball for life. Porter found himself sitting up at night in the dark watching out the front window, waiting for Kuhn to approach, clutching billiard balls and a shotgun. Ironically, when Porter was named the most valuable player of the 1982 World Series while playing for the Cardinals, Kuhn was on hand to congratulate him.

In 1980, during the Iranian hostage crisis, Kuhn sat at a baseball game with Jeremiah Denton, a Navy admiral and former POW in Vietnam who would be elected U.S. Senator later that year from the state of Alabama. Recalling the event to The Washington Post, Kuhn believed that "that afternoon...the idea of a lifetime baseball pass was discussed," and upon their return from Iran, each of the 52 hostages was given one of these unique passes.[2]

In 1983, four players from the Kansas City Royals - Willie Wilson, Jerry Martin, Willie Mays Aikens, and Vida Blue - were found guilty of cocaine use. In addition, such established stars as Ferguson Jenkins, Keith Hernandez, Dave Parker, and Dale Berra admitted to having problems with drugs.

See also: Pittsburgh drug trials

Leaving office

Kuhn was both praised and attacked for the firm stand that he levied against offenders. In 1982, some of the owners organized a move to push him out of office. In 1983, Kuhn and his supporters made a last-ditch effort to renew his contract but ultimately failed. Kuhn, though, was allowed to stay for the 1984 regular season before being replaced by Peter Ueberroth.

Life after baseball

Following baseball, Kuhn returned to the law firm of Willkie, Farr & Gallagher and assumed presidency of the Kent Group, a business, sports and financial consulting firm. Mr. Kuhn left Willkie, Farr & Gallagher to join with Harvey D. Myerson, a former senior partner in the firm of Finley, Kumble, Wagner, Underberg, Manley, Myerson & Casey, to form the firm of Myerson & Kuhn.[3] He also became an adviser and board member for Domino's Pizza and the Ave Maria Foundation.

Kuhn had been a longtime resident of Ridgewood, New Jersey.[4] According to an AP wire story,[5] he partnered in a law firm with Harvey Myerson which subsequently went bankrupt and then sold his New Jersey home and moved to Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, because his home and other assets were shielded from the bankruptcy.

Kuhn became the Chairman of the Catholic Advisory Board of the Ave Maria Mutual Funds upon the inception of their first mutual fund, Ave Maria Catholic Values Fund, in May 2001.

During a telecast of the 2004 World Series, broadcaster Joe Buck announced that just prior to his 78th birthday, Kuhn was scheduled to undergo open-heart surgery.[6]

Kuhn died in 2007, and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame later the same year.

Racial insensitivity and other criticisms

A number of observers complained about Kuhn's apparent insensitivity (or at least poor public relations) on race-related matters:

* When the decision was made to induct Negro League players into the Baseball Hall of Fame starting in 1971, Kuhn announced that their plaques would be in a separate wing of the Hall, presumably based on the argument that the Negro Leagues were not true "Major League Baseball" leagues, ignoring the historical fact that Major League Baseball's exclusionary policies had compelled the creation of the Negro Leagues in the first place. (He also ignored the fact that the Hall of Fame is a separate entity from Major League Baseball; it is under no obligation to induct and chronicle only Major League Baseball players and events, as inductees have included figures from the era before the first professional leagues were established. In spite of this, both sides cooperate as it is in their mutual interests.) Whatever the motivation for this idea might have been, the resulting public outcry resulted in the inclusion of Negro Leaguers' plaques with the others.

* Although Kuhn was personally in attendance in Cincinnati when Atlanta Braves slugger Hank Aaron hit his 714th home run to tie Babe Ruth for the all-time record, the commissioner made himself a target for criticism when he was absent on the historic night that Aaron hit his 715th home run in Atlanta. NBC-TV announcer Tony Kubek specifically commented on that point, on the air. Kuhn argued that he had a prior engagement that he could not break.

* He was said to have personally added the name of Carl Yastrzemski to the All-Star roster in Yaz's last season, but had failed to make the same gesture for Willie Stargell in 1982.

* According to George Steinbrenner, during the YES Network's broadcast of the Thurman Munson episode of Yankeeography, Kuhn was opposed to the Yankees team chartering a plane to Ohio to attend Munson's funeral. Kuhn cited the possibility of not returning in time for their next scheduled game and therefore having to forfeit.

* When the major leagues went on strike in 1981, Kuhn made no effort to order the striking players back, and allowed a two-tiered playoff series to be played after the regular season. The St. Louis Cardinals and the Cincinnati Reds, who had the best won-lost records in the National League, were left out altogether.[7]

* According to an article in Sports illustrated, while Kuhn enforced gambling rules against Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle, he took no action against Yankee owner George Steinbrenner, who owned a racetrack. (The first commissioner, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, had ordered owners and managers to sell out any interest they owned in racetracks.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowie_Kuhn

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Luke Easter (left) and Steve Bilko (right) flank Bowie Kuhn, Major League Baseball commissioner, before a June 26, 1975 game at Silver Stadium. Easter and Bilko were back for an old-timers game. Kuhn was on hand to present Rochester with an award for being the top organization in minor-league baseball.

http://www.redwingsbaseball.com/history/easterhof.html

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Bowie Kuhn, TMLC Hall of Fame People - Bowie KuhnMr. Kuhn was Commissioner of Major League Baseball from 1969-1984. Since then he had been a leader in both the business and Christian community, recognized widely for his defense of the sanctity of human life, and other political and cultural issues important today. He was a graduate of Princeton University with a law degree from the University of Virginia. He was a board member of Christendom College, New York Medical College, Thomas Aquinas College, Franklin & Marshall College, the Jackie Robinson Foundation, and the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. He also was a board member of the Ave Maria Foundation. Bowie Kuhn Died March 15, 2007. A clergyman with Bowie Kuhn on March 15th relayed to TMLC that the Thomas More Law Center was in Bowie Kuhn's thoughts on the day he died.

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Bowie Kuhn, TMLC Hall of Fame
People - Bowie KuhnMr. Kuhn was Commissioner of Major League Baseball from 1969-1984. Since then he had been a leader in both the business and Christian community, recognized widely for his defense of the sanctity of human life, and other political and cultural issues important today. He was a graduate of Princeton University with a law degree from the University of Virginia. He was a board member of Christendom College, New York Medical College, Thomas Aquinas College, Franklin & Marshall College, the Jackie Robinson Foundation, and the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. He also was a board member of the Ave Maria Foundation. Bowie Kuhn Died March 15, 2007. A clergyman with Bowie Kuhn on March 15th relayed to TMLC that the Thomas More Law Center was in Bowie Kuhn's thoughts on the day he died.

http://www.thomasmore.org/qry/page.taf?id=54

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Bowie Kuhn (Law ’50) of Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., died March 15, 2007. He served as the commissioner of baseball for 15 years, from 1969 to 1984. During his tenure, players won the right to free agency and staged their first strikes. Additionally, the major leagues expanded into Canada and realigned into divisional play. Prior to serving as commissioner, Mr. Kuhn was a partner in Willkie Farr & Gallagher, the law firm that represented the National League. In 1966, he won an antitrust court battle that cleared the way for the Braves’ move from Milwaukee to Atlanta.

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Bowie Kuhn (Law ’50) of Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., died March 15, 2007. He served as the commissioner of baseball for 15 years, from 1969 to 1984. During his tenure, players won the right to free agency and staged their first strikes. Additionally, the major leagues expanded into Canada and realigned into divisional play. Prior to serving as commissioner, Mr. Kuhn was a partner in Willkie Farr & Gallagher, the law firm that represented the National League. In 1966, he won an antitrust court battle that cleared the way for the Braves’ move from Milwaukee to Atlanta.

http://www.uvamagazine.org/site/c.esJNK1PIJ.../k.8F85/In_Memoriam.htm

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A memorial Mass for Bowie Kuhn, the former Commissioner of Baseball, is on the schedule soon. A long time ago, Bowie and Tom Monahan pushed me into the Order of Malta. Bowie was a great inspiration to me as he visited with AIDs patients every week at St. Claire’s Hospital and at the Terrence Cardinal Cooke Health Care Center. Bowie and Tom used to communicate very often to discuss their spiritual realities — one of the things they often discussed was their spiritual reading. Both of them were daily communicants and did spiritual reading every day. Spiritual reading is a necessity to develop one’s spiritual life. It should be a part of each person’s spiritual development. [...] On March 15th, Bowie Kuhn, former Hospitaller of the American Association, died at the age of 80.

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A memorial Mass for Bowie Kuhn, the former Commissioner of Baseball, is on the schedule soon. A long time ago, Bowie and Tom Monahan pushed me into the Order of Malta. Bowie was a great inspiration to me as he visited with AIDs patients every week at St. Claire’s Hospital and at the Terrence Cardinal Cooke Health Care Center. Bowie and Tom used to communicate very often to discuss their spiritual realities — one of the things they often discussed was their spiritual reading. Both of them were daily communicants and did spiritual reading every day. Spiritual reading is a necessity to develop one’s spiritual life. It should be a part of each person’s spiritual development.
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On March 15th, Bowie Kuhn, former Hospitaller of the American
Association, died at the age of 80.

http://www.maltausa.org/files/newsletter_hospitallers_14.pdf (Proof Positive)
SMOM by mention:
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-13255813.html
http://www.catholicity.com/mccloskey/bowiekuhn.html
http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/kmlst1.htm
http://www.aliveness.com/kangaroo/L-overclass.html
http://www.mosquitonet.com/~prewett/ncrjan891.html
http://spirituallysmart.com/pics.htm
Social Network Diagram (sparse):
http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb06?_KUHN_BOWIE_
Resources:
http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0geu6w...p=NL&rd=r1&meta=vc%3Dnl
http://images.google.com/images?client=oper...=utf-8&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi

David L. Garrison

2008-09-02T11:35:00.004+02:00

David L. Garrison - Vice President of Finance of CheckFree Corporation; Founder and CEO of ec payments

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CheckFree Corporation (CheckFree) is an electronic payment processing company providing financial electronic commerce products and services. It operates through three divisions. Through its Electronic Commerce Division, CheckFree enables consumers to receive and pay bills.[...] 1. ecpayments : about ecpayments : management www.ecpayments.com/management. - [Cached] Published on: 5/19/1999 Last Visited: 8/21/2001 David L. Garrison , CEO - Founder Mr. Garrison has over 20 years experience in the areas of financial auditing , financial management , and electronic commerce. He is one of the leading industry experts in electronic transaction processing and consumer bill payment. Prior to founding ec payments in 1999 , he was Senior Vice President of Payment Strategies in the Business Development Division of CheckFree. Mr. Garrison joined CheckFree in 1983 as Vice President of Finance. Prior to joining CheckFree Mr. Garrison worked for Deloitte & Touche ( formerly Touche Ross & Co ) in Cincinnati , Ohio. Mr. Garrison holds a BA in Accounting from Mount Vernon Nazarene College , Mount Vernon , Ohio , an MBA from Miami University , Oxford , Ohio and is a Certified Public Accountant , State of Ohio ( non-practicing status ).

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CheckFree Corporation (CheckFree) is an electronic payment processing company providing financial electronic commerce products and services. It operates through three divisions. Through its Electronic Commerce Division, CheckFree enables consumers to receive and pay bills.[...]

1. ecpayments : about ecpayments : management
www.ecpayments.com/management. - [Cached]

Published on: 5/19/1999 Last Visited: 8/21/2001

David L. Garrison , CEO - Founder

Mr. Garrison has over 20 years experience in the areas of financial auditing , financial management , and electronic commerce. He is one of the leading industry experts in electronic transaction processing and consumer bill payment.

Prior to founding ec payments in 1999 , he was Senior Vice President of Payment Strategies in the Business Development Division of CheckFree. Mr. Garrison joined CheckFree in 1983 as Vice President of Finance.

Prior to joining CheckFree Mr. Garrison worked for Deloitte & Touche ( formerly Touche Ross & Co ) in Cincinnati , Ohio.

Mr. Garrison holds a BA in Accounting from Mount Vernon Nazarene College , Mount Vernon , Ohio , an MBA from Miami University , Oxford , Ohio and is a Certified Public Accountant , State of Ohio ( non-practicing status ).

http://www.zoominfo.com/Search/PersonDetail.aspx?PersonID=9375055

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About ec payments Founded in 1999, ec payments, inc. has developed a payment management infrastructure for both e-commerce and legacy business applications. Companies leverage the Internet-based service to fulfill and manage all types of payments with no modification to existing systems, thereby gaining the cost and productivity benefits of an outsourced Internet solution with virtually no up front investment or risk. ec payments, inc. is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

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About ec payments

Founded in 1999, ec payments, inc. has developed a payment management infrastructure for both e-commerce and legacy business applications. Companies leverage the Internet-based service to fulfill and manage all types of payments with no modification to existing systems, thereby gaining the cost and productivity benefits of an outsourced Internet solution with virtually no up front investment or risk. ec payments, inc. is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN...000_Sept_20/ai_65320129

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David L. Garrison - philanthropist, Constantinian knight, knight of Malta, Papal knight;

http://www.regalis.com/2sicilieshead.htm

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David L. Garrison (deceased)

http://www.smom.org/files/annual-report-2006.pdf (listed under 'sovereign circle', page 16) (Proof Positive)
http://www.smom.org/files/annual-report-2005.pdf
Social Network Diagram (don't bother):
http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb01?_GARRISON_DAVID_L

Genevieve Garvan Brady

2008-09-02T11:35:00.003+02:00

Genevieve Garvan Brady - Spouse of Tycoon Nicholas Frederic Brady; Founder o/t Carroll Club; Board Chairman o/t Girls Scouts of America; Vice President of the Welfare Council of New York

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Genevieve Garvan of Hartford, Conn., comely sister of Francis Patrick Garvan (Chemical Foundation), in 1906 married Nicholas Brady, son of a family whose transit and utilities fortune at one time was among the greatest in the U. S. To them both, their wealth became a means by which to serve their Church. In 1920 a Cardinal, His Eminence Giovanni Bonzano, Apostolic Delegate to the U. S., dedicated "Inisfada." The Bradys, indifferent to decorators, had spent 20 years traveling the world buying furnishings for it. Tycoon Brady, who confessed his sins in his last years to a bishop, his friend the Most Rev. John Gregory Murray (now Archbishop of St. Paul), was a trusted lay adviser to the Church, became the second U. S. Catholic named Papal Chamberlain and was made a Papal Duke in 1926, by which time he had given the Vatican more than $1,000,000. Goodness once was viewed as woman's chief end. In a time when women compete with men in politics, business and badness, goodness and piety are seldom seen practiced on a grand scale, or recognized as such by the Press. Moreover, Papal Duchess Brady is shy, extremely apprehensive of publicity. Yet she is the foremost member of her social class in a faith which demands completely public acts of faith of its people. While her husband was living, Mrs. Brady—Dame of Malta, Dame of the Holy Sepulchre, holder of the Cross Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice—founded the Carroll Club (for Catholic business girls), visited and gave money to Catholic hospitals, orphanages, homes for the aged. She succeeded Mrs. Herbert Hoover as board chairman of the Girls Scouts of America. *Her husband dead (in 1930, leaving her $50,000,000), she accepted Notre Dame's Laetare Medal as the most notable U. S. lay Catholic of 1933, and began thinking of giving "Inisfada"* to the Jesuits. In recent months black-clad Jesuits have been seen about the estate, while a famed Jesuit, Very Rev. William Coleman Nevils, onetime president of Georgetown University, acted as negotiator of details with Mrs. Brady.** To North Hills, the village (339 population) in whose boundaries lies the $8,000,000 Brady property, on which it has levied taxes for 16 years, last week's announcement was a shock. In a quandary was the village's Mayor Malcolm Pratt ("Mac") Aldrich.

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Genevieve Garvan of Hartford, Conn., comely sister of Francis Patrick Garvan (Chemical Foundation), in 1906 married Nicholas Brady, son of a family whose transit and utilities fortune at one time was among the greatest in the U. S. To them both, their wealth became a means by which to serve their Church. In 1920 a Cardinal, His Eminence Giovanni Bonzano, Apostolic Delegate to the U. S., dedicated "Inisfada." The Bradys, indifferent to decorators, had spent 20 years traveling the world buying furnishings for it. Tycoon Brady, who confessed his sins in his last years to a bishop, his friend the Most Rev. John Gregory Murray (now Archbishop of St. Paul), was a trusted lay adviser to the Church, became the second U. S. Catholic named Papal Chamberlain and was made a Papal Duke in 1926, by which time he had given the Vatican more than $1,000,000.

Goodness once was viewed as woman's chief end. In a time when women compete with men in politics, business and badness, goodness and piety are seldom seen practiced on a grand scale, or recognized as such by the Press. Moreover, Papal Duchess Brady is shy, extremely apprehensive of publicity. Yet she is the foremost member of her social class in a faith which demands completely public acts of faith of its people. While her husband was living, Mrs. Brady—Dame of Malta, Dame of the Holy Sepulchre, holder of the Cross Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice—founded the Carroll Club (for Catholic business girls), visited and gave money to Catholic hospitals, orphanages, homes for the aged. She succeeded Mrs. Herbert Hoover as board chairman of the Girls Scouts of America. Her husband dead (in 1930, leaving her $50,000,000), she accepted Notre Dame's Laetare Medal as the most notable U. S. lay Catholic of 1933, and began thinking of giving "Inisfada" to the Jesuits.

In recent months black-clad Jesuits have been seen about the estate, while a famed Jesuit, Very Rev. William Coleman Nevils, onetime president of Georgetown University, acted as negotiator of details with Mrs. Brady. To North Hills, the village (339 population) in whose boundaries lies the $8,000,000 Brady property, on which it has levied taxes for 16 years, last week's announcement was a shock. In a quandary was the village's Mayor Malcolm Pratt ("Mac") Aldrich.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,930896,00.html
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,930896,00.html

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Nicholas and Genevieve had given over one million dollars to the Vatican by 1926. Nicholas was the personal friend of three Popes. He took a leading part in the organization and development of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York under the leadership of Cardinal Hayes. The following honors were conferred upon Nicholas: Knight of Malta (he founded the American chapter), Knight Commander of St. Gregory and Knight of St. Gregory, Knight of the Supreme Order of Christ, Papal Chamberlain and Papal Duke. Nicholas and Genevieve were leading Catholic laypersons in the world. Genevieve received a Doctor of Laws from Georgetown University. Genevieve was awarded the following honors, a Laetaere Medal from the University of Notre Dame; Order of the Knight of the Crown from King Albert of Belgium; Cross of Malta; French Academy Award; and Papal Dutchess. Genevieve succeeded Mrs. Hoover as Chairperson of the National Girl Scouts of America and was Vice President of the Welfare Council of New York. By 1930, the Brady’s had given more than 2 million dollars for the buildings and grounds of the Jesuit Center in Wernersville, PA. Just two months before the Jesuit Center opened, Nicholas Frederic Brady passed away in his New York residence on March 27, 1930. A Requiem Mass was celebrated at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola on March 29, 1930. Nicholas is buried in a crypt beneath an altar in the main chapel at the Jesuit Novitiate at Wernersville, PA. His Eminence Patrick Cardinal Hayes issued a statement in the public press which reflects his personal attachment and keen sense of loss: “Church, country, and city may well lament the passing of Nicholas Frederic Brady, a lovable personality whose sublime Christian faith, unbounded charity, inspiring family life, notable citizenship, and sensitive fidelity to high ideals in business relations leave an impress long to be remembered and cherished by a host of friends who deeply mourn their personal loss.” Genevieve Garvan Brady died in 1938 and is buried in a vault next to her beloved - Nicholas.

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Nicholas and Genevieve had given over one million dollars to the Vatican by 1926. Nicholas was the
personal friend of three Popes. He took a leading part in the organization and development of Catholic
Charities of the Archdiocese of New York under the leadership of Cardinal Hayes. The following honors
were conferred upon Nicholas: Knight of Malta (he founded the American chapter), Knight Commander of
St. Gregory and Knight of St. Gregory, Knight of the Supreme Order of Christ, Papal Chamberlain and
Papal Duke.
Nicholas and Genevieve were leading Catholic laypersons in the world. Genevieve received a Doctor of
Laws from Georgetown University. Genevieve was awarded the following honors, a Laetaere Medal from the University of Notre Dame; Order of the Knight of the Crown from King Albert of Belgium; Cross of Malta; French Academy Award; and Papal Dutchess. Genevieve succeeded Mrs. Hoover as Chairperson of the National Girl Scouts of America and was Vice President of the Welfare Council of New York. By 1930, the Brady’s had given more than 2 million dollars for the buildings and grounds of the Jesuit Center in Wernersville, PA. Just two months before the Jesuit Center opened, Nicholas Frederic Brady passed away in his New York residence on March 27, 1930. A Requiem Mass was celebrated at the
Church of St. Ignatius Loyola on March 29, 1930. Nicholas is buried in a crypt beneath an altar in the main
chapel at the Jesuit Novitiate at Wernersville, PA. His Eminence Patrick Cardinal Hayes issued a
statement in the public press which reflects his personal attachment and keen sense of loss: “Church,
country, and city may well lament the passing of Nicholas Frederic Brady, a lovable personality whose
sublime Christian faith, unbounded charity, inspiring family life, notable citizenship, and sensitive fidelity to high ideals in business relations leave an impress long to be remembered and cherished by a host of friends who deeply mourn their personal loss.” Genevieve Garvan Brady died in 1938 and is buried in a
vault next to her beloved - Nicholas.

http://www.stignatiusloyola.org/pdf/nursery/nursery_history.pdf (Proof Positive)

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After the death of her husband, Genevieve donated Inisfada in 1937 to the New York Province of the Society of Jesus, the Jesuits. By 1963 Fr. John Magan, S.J. converted it into a retreat house. What was formerly a summer refuge for the wealthy eventually became a spiritual oasis for all. The long paned windows on the southern exposure of the main chapel, once the living room, gently filters in the daylight of each season upon the altar and pews to enhance your quiet.

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After the death of her husband, Genevieve donated Inisfada in 1937 to the New York Province of the Society of Jesus, the Jesuits. By 1963 Fr. John Magan, S.J. converted it into a retreat house. What was formerly a summer refuge for the wealthy eventually became a spiritual oasis for all. The long paned windows on the southern exposure of the main chapel, once the living room, gently filters in the daylight of each season upon the altar and pews to enhance your quiet.

http://www.inisfada.net/about_us.html
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Amadeo Peter Giannini

2008-09-02T11:34:00.002+02:00

Amadeo Peter Giannini - Founder of Bank of America (frmr. Bank of Italy); President Transamerica Corporation

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Giannini, Amadeo Peter Born in 1870. Giannini, who in 1904 founded Bank of America in San Francisco, originally called Bank of Italy (until 1930), virtually invented branch banking. Giannini's bank was "for the little fellows" at a time when banks generally lent only to the wealthy. Giannini's first foray east was to reach across the continent to form the East River National Bank in New York City in 1919. He then bought the Bowery National Bank in 1925 and New York's small Bank of America in 1928. In 1928, banker Giannini formed Transamerica Corporation as a holding company for all his Californian interests. Transamerica Corp. held 99% of the stock of Bank of America and it continued buying up banks in Oregon, Nevada, Washington and Arizona. Right after Transamerica was created, Giannini retired to Italy. He put New York banker Elisha Walker, who headed Blair & Co. until it was taken over by Transamerica in March 1929, in charge as CEO. Elisha Walker was a director of American International Corp., once set up by the Morgans and Rockefellers, together with Percy Rockefeller, Pierre du Pont, Otto Kahn, William Woodward (director NY Fed), and George Herbert Walker (father of Prescott). Elisha became a senior partner in Kuhn Loeb & Co. in 1933, which was managed by Felix Warburg (Pilgrims Society family; 18% interest) and Otto Kahn (Pilgrims Society; 14% interest), successors to Rothschild agent and Pilgrims Society member Jacob Schiff. Elisha held 13% of the bank's stock in 1933, the same amount as John Schiff, son of Jacob Schiff. In the 1960s, after Giannini's death, Bank of America even became larger than First National City Bank and Chase Manhattan of Wallstreet. Giannini was a great admirer of FDR's New Deal. Lawrence Mario Giannini, son of founder Amadeo Peter Giannini, was elected president of Bank of America in 1936. In 1945, Bank of America became America's largest bank, with assets of $5 billion. A.P. Giannini died in 1947. In 1953, regulators succeeded in forcing the separation of Transamerica and Bank of America.

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Giannini, Amadeo Peter
Born in 1870. Giannini, who in 1904 founded Bank of America in San Francisco, originally called Bank of Italy (until 1930), virtually invented branch banking. Giannini's bank was "for the little fellows" at a time when banks generally lent only to the wealthy. Giannini's first foray east was to reach across the continent to form the East River National Bank in New York City in 1919. He then bought the Bowery National Bank in 1925 and New York's small Bank of America in 1928. In 1928, banker Giannini formed Transamerica Corporation as a holding company for all his Californian interests. Transamerica Corp. held 99% of the stock of Bank of America and it continued buying up banks in Oregon, Nevada, Washington and Arizona. Right after Transamerica was created, Giannini retired to Italy. He put New York banker Elisha Walker, who headed Blair & Co. until it was taken over by Transamerica in March 1929, in charge as CEO. Elisha Walker was a director of American International Corp., once set up by the Morgans and Rockefellers, together with Percy Rockefeller, Pierre du Pont, Otto Kahn, William Woodward (director NY Fed), and George Herbert Walker (father of Prescott). Elisha became a senior partner in Kuhn Loeb & Co. in 1933, which was managed by Felix Warburg (Pilgrims Society family; 18% interest) and Otto Kahn (Pilgrims Society; 14% interest), successors to Rothschild agent and Pilgrims Society member Jacob Schiff. Elisha held 13% of the bank's stock in 1933, the same amount as John Schiff, son of Jacob Schiff. In the 1960s, after Giannini's death, Bank of America even became larger than First National City Bank and Chase Manhattan of Wallstreet. Giannini was a great admirer of FDR's New Deal. Lawrence Mario Giannini, son of founder Amadeo Peter Giannini, was elected president of Bank of America in 1936. In 1945, Bank of America became America's largest bank, with assets of $5 billion. A.P. Giannini died in 1947. In 1953, regulators succeeded in forcing the separation of Transamerica and Bank of America.

http://www.thunderministries.net/Oneworld/worshippers_of_moloch.htm

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Bank of America founder A.P. Giannini in 1929

http://www.time.com/time/time100/builder/profile/giannini.html

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Nationality: United States Executive summary: Founder of Bank of America Son of immigrants from Genoa, and worked as a partner in his stepfather's grocery business until 1901. After experiencing banking at the Bank of Columbus in the North Beach part of San Francisco, he and several others founded the Bank of Italy in 1904, later becoming the Bank of America. Giannini's revolutionary idea was to lend money to working class people, an entire class of people who were deemed by banks at the time as uncreditworthy. He was able to keep his bank open in the aftermath of the 1906 earthquake, while many other banks were forced to fold. He build Bank of America into the nation's first statewide branch-banking system. Also founded Transamerica as a holding company.

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Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Founder of Bank of America

Son of immigrants from Genoa, and worked as a partner in his stepfather's grocery business until 1901. After experiencing banking at the Bank of Columbus in the North Beach part of San Francisco, he and several others founded the Bank of Italy in 1904, later becoming the Bank of America. Giannini's revolutionary idea was to lend money to working class people, an entire class of people who were deemed by banks at the time as uncreditworthy. He was able to keep his bank open in the aftermath of the 1906 earthquake, while many other banks were forced to fold. He build Bank of America into the nation's first statewide branch-banking system. Also founded Transamerica as a holding company.

http://www.nndb.com/people/380/000094098/

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Beautifully engraved specimen from the Transamerica Corporation. This historic document was printed by the Security Banknote Company in 1929 and has an ornate border around it with a vignette of an allegorical woman between two globes. The certificate has the printed signature of the company's president, A.P. Giannini.

http://www.scripophily.net/trancor1.html

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History of Transamerica Corporation Transamerica Corporation is involved, largely through semi-independent subsidiaries, in life insurance, financial services, and real estate services. Through its Transamerica Life Insurance Companies subsidiary, it is the eighth-largest life insurer in North America, and its life insurance operations generated 48 percent of Transamerica's 1994 earnings. Financial services operations generated 40 percent of 1994 earnings, and centered around consumer and commercial lending, as well as the leasing and managing of transportation equipment. Transamerica Financial Services ranks fourth in the United States in consumer lending; Transamerica Commercial Finance is a leading commercial lender in the United States and the largest in Canada; Transamerica Leasing has the second-largest fleet of container equipment for rail, steamship, and motor carriers in the world. Real estate services comprise Transamerica's smallest general area of operation, with 12 percent of 1994 earnings. Transamerica Real Estate Tax Service is one of the leading real estate tax operations in the United States, while Transamerica Realty Services oversees a real estate and mortgage portfolio that includes the holdings of both Transamerica's parent company and its subsidiaries. When Peter Amadeo Giannini, the son of Italian immigrants, began dreaming of his career in turn-of-the-century San Francisco, he had not set his heart on building a banking empire. Instead, at the age of 12 he was sneaking out of his home at night to work in his stepfather's produce business and, by the age of 19, was a full partner. His early success at this business allowed him to retire at the age of 31 with a modest, but comfortable, fortune. His foray into the banking world did not begin until several years later when he received a legacy from his father-in-law, Joseph Cuneo, who had made Giannini a director of his Columbus Savings and Loan Society, a building and loan association in San Francisco. Giannini's career in banking lasted for over forty years, and during this time he established the Transamerica Corporation. After Giannini was appointed a director of Columbus Savings and Loan he became immersed in a number of disagreements with other directors of the bank over policy issues. He consequently left the Savings and Loan Society and established his own banking business which was located directly across the street from Columbus Savings and Loan. Giannini organized the Bank of Italy with $150,000 in capital contributed by his stepfather and ten friends. He envisioned the bank as an institution for the "little fellow," and the bank subsequently made loans to merchants, farmers, and laborers who were mostly of Italian descent. Ironically, the San Francisco fire and earthquake of 1906 established Giannini's reputation in the banking world. As he stood amid the rubble of his bank on the morning of the earthquake, he was able to salvage over $2 million in gold and securities. In order to avoid the looters who were running through the city, he hid his bank's resources under piles of vegetables in a horse-drawn cart borrowed from his former produce business. Giannini immediately alerted his depositors that their savings were safe and began making loans to businessmen who had lost their savings and their companies. Giannini's success as a banker is also clearly evidenced by his anticipation of the 1907 stock market crash, and his accumulation of gold before the crash. When the crash came Giannini was able to pay his depositors in cash while other banks were using certificates for cash. From this experience, Giannini realized that only larger banks would ensure security, and therefore he began purchasing small banks and converting them into branches of the Bank of Italy. With these acquisitions Giannini established the first branch banking policy in California. The Bank of Italy grew so rapidly that by 1919 Giannini was able to form Bancitaly Corporation to organize the expansion. In 1928 Bancitaly Corporation was followed by Transamerica Corporation, which was formed as a holding company for all Giannini's banking, insurance, and industrial concerns. Giannini's expansion into other areas of the financial services had established him as a leader in the financial services field. By 1929 he had moved into the New York banking scene and purchased the solidly established Bank of America. The following year after this important acquisition, all of Giannini's banks were consolidated into Bank of America National Trust and Savings Association. Transamerica played the role of parent company throughout this period. In 1931, just a year after the consolidation of his banks under Bank America, Giannini retired and left the top post to Elisha Walker, a Wall Street investment banker. Walker did his best to break up this "empire" created by Giannini. Not surprisingly, Giannini forced Walker out in what was called a "furious proxy battle" at the 1932 annual meeting. During the previous few decades Giannini's operations had been closely observed by both Wall Street and regulatory branches of the U.S. government; Giannini's success had found critics within both these institutions. Throughout the 1930s Transamerica experienced problems with regulatory procedures and changes enacted by the government. In 1937 Transamerica sold 58 percent of its stock in Bank America, although it still controlled the board of directors. At the time of his death in 1949, Giannini was embroiled in a fight with the Federal Reserve Board as to whether or not Transamerica had violated the Clayton Anti-Trust Act in creating a "credit monopoly" by placing directors on the boards of banks in the huge chain owned by Bank of America. It was the Reserve Board's belief that Transamerica still controlled the bank even after the 1937 split. [...]

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History of Transamerica Corporation

Transamerica Corporation is involved, largely through semi-independent subsidiaries, in life insurance, financial services, and real estate services. Through its Transamerica Life Insurance Companies subsidiary, it is the eighth-largest life insurer in North America, and its life insurance operations generated 48 percent of Transamerica's 1994 earnings. Financial services operations generated 40 percent of 1994 earnings, and centered around consumer and commercial lending, as well as the leasing and managing of transportation equipment. Transamerica Financial Services ranks fourth in the United States in consumer lending; Transamerica Commercial Finance is a leading commercial lender in the United States and the largest in Canada; Transamerica Leasing has the second-largest fleet of container equipment for rail, steamship, and motor carriers in the world. Real estate services comprise Transamerica's smallest general area of operation, with 12 percent of 1994 earnings. Transamerica Real Estate Tax Service is one of the leading real estate tax operations in the United States, while Transamerica Realty Services oversees a real estate and mortgage portfolio that includes the holdings of both Transamerica's parent company and its subsidiaries.

When Peter Amadeo Giannini, the son of Italian immigrants, began dreaming of his career in turn-of-the-century San Francisco, he had not set his heart on building a banking empire. Instead, at the age of 12 he was sneaking out of his home at night to work in his stepfather's produce business and, by the age of 19, was a full partner. His early success at this business allowed him to retire at the age of 31 with a modest, but comfortable, fortune. His foray into the banking world did not begin until several years later when he received a legacy from his father-in-law, Joseph Cuneo, who had made Giannini a director of his Columbus Savings and Loan Society, a building and loan association in San Francisco. Giannini's career in banking lasted for over forty years, and during this time he established the Transamerica Corporation.

After Giannini was appointed a director of Columbus Savings and Loan he became immersed in a number of disagreements with other directors of the bank over policy issues. He consequently left the Savings and Loan Society and established his own banking business which was located directly across the street from Columbus Savings and Loan. Giannini organized the Bank of Italy with $150,000 in capital contributed by his stepfather and ten friends. He envisioned the bank as an institution for the "little fellow," and the bank subsequently made loans to merchants, farmers, and laborers who were mostly of Italian descent.

Ironically, the San Francisco fire and earthquake of 1906 established Giannini's reputation in the banking world. As he stood amid the rubble of his bank on the morning of the earthquake, he was able to salvage over $2 million in gold and securities. In order to avoid the looters who were running through the city, he hid his bank's resources under piles of vegetables in a horse-drawn cart borrowed from his former produce business. Giannini immediately alerted his depositors that their savings were safe and began making loans to businessmen who had lost their savings and their companies.

Giannini's success as a banker is also clearly evidenced by his anticipation of the 1907 stock market crash, and his accumulation of gold before the crash. When the crash came Giannini was able to pay his depositors in cash while other banks were using certificates for cash. From this experience, Giannini realized that only larger banks would ensure security, and therefore he began purchasing small banks and converting them into branches of the Bank of Italy. With these acquisitions Giannini established the first branch banking policy in California.

The Bank of Italy grew so rapidly that by 1919 Giannini was able to form Bancitaly Corporation to organize the expansion. In 1928 Bancitaly Corporation was followed by Transamerica Corporation, which was formed as a holding company for all Giannini's banking, insurance, and industrial concerns.

Giannini's expansion into other areas of the financial services had established him as a leader in the financial services field. By 1929 he had moved into the New York banking scene and purchased the solidly established Bank of America. The following year after this important acquisition, all of Giannini's banks were consolidated into Bank of America National Trust and Savings Association. Transamerica played the role of parent company throughout this period.

In 1931, just a year after the consolidation of his banks under Bank America, Giannini retired and left the top post to Elisha Walker, a Wall Street investment banker. Walker did his best to break up this "empire" created by Giannini. Not surprisingly, Giannini forced Walker out in what was called a "furious proxy battle" at the 1932 annual meeting.

During the previous few decades Giannini's operations had been closely observed by both Wall Street and regulatory branches of the U.S. government; Giannini's success had found critics within both these institutions. Throughout the 1930s Transamerica experienced problems with regulatory procedures and changes enacted by the government. In 1937 Transamerica sold 58 percent of its stock in Bank America, although it still controlled the board of directors. At the time of his death in 1949, Giannini was embroiled in a fight with the Federal Reserve Board as to whether or not Transamerica had violated the Clayton Anti-Trust Act in creating a "credit monopoly" by placing directors on the boards of banks in the huge chain owned by Bank of America. It was the Reserve Board's belief that Transamerica still controlled the bank even after the 1937 split.
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http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/history...merica-Corporation.html

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1929 [...] -- The Vatican awards Knighthood in the Order of Malta to two San Franciscans, Transamerica Corporation President Amadeo Peter Giannini and American Trust Company President John S. Drum. The knighthood is the oldest and most distinguished decoration of laymen conferred by the Catholic Church.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f...M151.DTL&type=printable
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In the 1930’s, the Illuminati’ Bank of America financed Walt Disney. Years before, the Bank of America had been quietly created from Bank of Italy which was controlled by the same oligarchy that has run the Knights of Malta and renaissance Venice. The Bank of Italy was a powerful bank in Hollywood’s first years. It’s representatives A.P. and Atillo Giannini financed Walt during the 1920’s with petty cash to keep him going, but not enough to get him out of financial bondage.

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In the 1930’s, the Illuminati’ Bank of America financed Walt Disney. Years before, the Bank of America had been quietly created from Bank of Italy which was controlled by the same oligarchy that has run the Knights of Malta and renaissance Venice. The Bank of Italy was a powerful bank in Hollywood’s first years. It’s representatives A.P. and Atillo Giannini financed Walt during the 1920’s with petty cash to keep him going, but not enough to get him out of financial bondage.

http://www.thewatcherfiles.com/bloodlines/disney.htm
Below is an excerpt from a very recent email exchange I had with researcher Eric Jon Phelps in which I requested him for further evidence of SMOM membership of Giannini. Although he could not give any, he did submit evidence regarding the remarkable affinity the Jesuit Order has with the Bank of America, which they funded right from its very inception. Here's what Phelps wrote:

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Here is a quote from Avro Manhattan in his The Vatican Billions (1983), pp. 183-184, 191, 216, 220: "The most important order, however, as a true religious order, in terms of importance and of influence, is that of the Jesuits. The Society is paramount in the educational and in the financial fields. . . . "Even more telling is the fact that fifty years ago, they furnished A. P. Gianni, an Italian promoter, with half or the starting capital for the Bank of America. Today, the Jesuits still own 51 per cent of the stock. . . . "The pugnacious Jesuits, about 8,000 in the U.S. alone, out of 35,000 in the Order, by 1983-4 had increased their income to between 300 to 350 million dollars, and were the controllers, even if tangently, of the largest bank in the world, the Bank of America. . . . "Sindona had his first studies with the Jesuits, then at Messina's University where he became one of its youngest lawyers. . . . By now, Sindona was acting, not only for the Vatican, but also tangently for the no less powerful concerns, enjoying by now, the confidence of a growing number of American business companies, beginning with the Jesuit controlled Bank of America, the Celanese Corporation and other big U.S. bodies." The Jesuit rule of the Bank of America is undeniable. The Bank is a member of Cardinal Egan's CFR in New York. Thus, even though you have only one reference to the fact that the Order's front man in the founding of the Bank of America, Italian Roman Catholic Amadeo Peter Giannini, was a Knight of Malta, that will be sufficient.

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Here is a quote from Avro Manhattan in his The Vatican Billions (1983), pp. 183-184, 191, 216, 220:

"The most important order, however, as a true religious order, in terms of importance and of influence, is that of the Jesuits. The Society is paramount in the educational and in the financial fields. . . .

"Even more telling is the fact that fifty years ago, they furnished A. P. Gianni, an Italian promoter, with half or the starting capital for the Bank of America. Today, the Jesuits still own 51 per cent of the stock. . . .

"The pugnacious Jesuits, about 8,000 in the U.S. alone, out of 35,000 in the Order, by 1983-4 had increased their income to between 300 to 350 million dollars, and were the controllers, even if tangently, of the largest bank in the world, the Bank of America. . . .

"Sindona had his first studies with the Jesuits, then at Messina's University where he became one of its youngest lawyers. . . . By now, Sindona was acting, not only for the Vatican, but also tangently for the no less powerful concerns, enjoying by now, the confidence of a growing number of American business companies, beginning with the Jesuit controlled Bank of America, the Celanese Corporation and other big U.S. bodies."

The Jesuit rule of the Bank of America is undeniable. The Bank is a member of Cardinal Egan's CFR in New York. Thus, even though you have only one reference to the fact that the Order's front man in the founding of the Bank of America, Italian Roman Catholic Amadeo Peter Giannini, was a Knight of Malta, that will be sufficient.

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GIANNINI AMADEO PETER * Adams,J.R. Frantz,D. A Full Service Bank. 1992 (19-20) * Lundberg,F. The Rich and the Super-Rich. 1969 (73-4, 382-4) * Naylor,R.T. Hot Money and the Politics of Debt. 1994 (51) * New York Times Book Review 1994-11-06 (26) * Nikitin,V. The Ultras in the USA. 1981 (253) * Sale,K. Power Shift. 1976 (5) * Sampson,A. The Money Lenders. 1982 (56-62, 83) * Tosches,N. Power on Earth. 1986 (145) * Tye,L. The Father of Spin. 1998 (153-4) * Van der Pijl,K. The Making of an Atlantic Ruling Class. 1997 (101-2) pages cited this search: 24

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GIANNINI AMADEO PETER

* Adams,J.R. Frantz,D. A Full Service Bank. 1992 (19-20)
* Lundberg,F. The Rich and the Super-Rich. 1969 (73-4, 382-4)
* Naylor,R.T. Hot Money and the Politics of Debt. 1994 (51)
* New York Times Book Review 1994-11-06 (26)
* Nikitin,V. The Ultras in the USA. 1981 (253)
* Sale,K. Power Shift. 1976 (5)
* Sampson,A. The Money Lenders. 1982 (56-62, 83)
* Tosches,N. Power on Earth. 1986 (145)
* Tye,L. The Father of Spin. 1998 (153-4)
* Van der Pijl,K. The Making of an Atlantic Ruling Class. 1997 (101-2)

pages cited this search: 24

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Robert Ouimet, Jr.

2008-09-02T11:34:00.001+02:00

Dr. Robert Ouimet Jr. - Chairman o/t Board and CEO Holding OCB Inc.; Cordon Blue International Ltd; Chairman and CEO Ouimet-Tomasso, Inc.

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Dr. J.-Robert Ouimet, C.M., C.Q., Ph.D. Chairman of the Board and CEO Holding O.C.B. Inc. Cordon Bleu International Ltd – Piazza Tomasso International Inc. « To God Go » Foundation J.-Robert Ouimet graduated from HEC Montreal. He also has a MBA from Columbia University in New York and a doctorate in economic and social sciences from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. Mr. Ouimet is chairman of the board and CEO of Holding O.C.B., Inc., Cordon Bleu International and Ouimet-Tomasso, Inc. He is also on the board of HEC. For more information about J.-Robert Ouimet (in French)

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Dr. J.-Robert Ouimet, C.M., C.Q., Ph.D.
Chairman of the Board and CEO
Holding O.C.B. Inc.
Cordon Bleu International Ltd – Piazza Tomasso International Inc.
« To God Go » Foundation

J.-Robert Ouimet graduated from HEC Montreal. He also has a MBA from Columbia University in New York and a doctorate in economic and social sciences from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. Mr. Ouimet is chairman of the board and CEO of Holding O.C.B., Inc., Cordon Bleu International and Ouimet-Tomasso, Inc. He is also on the board of HEC.
For more information about J.-Robert Ouimet (in French)

http://www.jeunessesmusicales.com/en/jmc/fondation/conseil.asp

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Mr. Robert Ouimet Jr. [...] Chairman and Chief Executive Officer5 Cordon Bleu Headquarters Address: 453 Laurier Avenue East Ottawa, ON K1N 6R4 Canada Website: www.cordonbleu.net Phone: (800) 457-2433 Fax: (613) 236-2460 Le Cordon Bleu provides consulting services to companies in all areas of the culinary and hospitality industries. The expertise and dedication of our Master Chefs combined with the passion and drive of our partners creates a synergy that is ideal for maximizing growth potential. Found. More # Chairman and Chief Executive Officer5 Holding O.C.B. inc. Montreal, Quebec Canada # President of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer4 Holding O.C.B. inc. Montreal, Quebec Canada # Chairman and Chief Executive Officer1 Ouimet-Tomasso , Inc.

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Mr. Robert Ouimet Jr.
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Chairman and Chief Executive Officer5
Cordon Bleu

Headquarters Address:
453 Laurier Avenue East
Ottawa, ON K1N 6R4
Canada
Website: www.cordonbleu.net
Phone: (800) 457-2433
Fax: (613) 236-2460

Le Cordon Bleu provides consulting services to companies in all areas of the culinary and hospitality industries. The expertise and dedication of our Master Chefs combined with the passion and drive of our partners creates a synergy that is ideal for maximizing growth potential. Found. More
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Chairman and Chief Executive Officer5
Holding O.C.B. inc.
Montreal, Quebec
Canada
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President of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer4
Holding O.C.B. inc.
Montreal, Quebec
Canada
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Chairman and Chief Executive Officer1
Ouimet-Tomasso , Inc.

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Inspired Business Speakers – Robert Ouimet Wednesday April 18 at 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. Uris Hall, Room 326 While business schools generally focus on WHAT an individual can accomplish, Dr. Robert Ouimet ’61, chairman and CEO of O.C.B Inc. and Ouimet-Tomasso Inc, will explore WHY business leaders achieve. We live in a world of increasingly ambiguous business ethics. Some individuals, however, have been able to stand their ground in defense of their own values. It is these individuals we hope to showcase to serve as inspiration for the future global business leaders. Dr Ouimet is on the board of the Council of Canadian Chief Executives, Petro-Canada and the National Bank of Canada. He is a knight of the Sovereign and Military Order of Malta; Order of the Guardians of Mount Zion and the Holy Sepulcher (Jerusalem); Order of Canada and Ordre national du Québec. Dr Ouimet was inspired by Mother Teresa and her deeds for the poor and sick, which intrigued him to visit her. They developed an immediate kinship, lasting until her death in 1997. He returned home with her prayer and incorporated these values into the company’s mission. This event is jointly sponsored by the Student Leadership and Ethics Board of the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center, Jewish Business Students Association, Muslim Business Students Association, South Asian Business Association, and Young Arab Leaders Association. Please RSVP to Shervin Setareh.

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Inspired Business Speakers – Robert Ouimet

Wednesday April 18 at 1:30 – 3:00 p.m.
Uris Hall, Room 326

While business schools generally focus on WHAT an individual can accomplish, Dr. Robert Ouimet ’61, chairman and CEO of O.C.B Inc. and Ouimet-Tomasso Inc, will explore WHY business leaders achieve. We live in a world of increasingly ambiguous business ethics. Some individuals, however, have been able to stand their ground in defense of their own values. It is these individuals we hope to showcase to serve as inspiration for the future global business leaders.

Dr Ouimet is on the board of the Council of Canadian Chief Executives, Petro-Canada and the National Bank of Canada. He is a knight of the Sovereign and Military Order of Malta; Order of the Guardians of Mount Zion and the Holy Sepulcher (Jerusalem); Order of Canada and Ordre national du Québec. Dr Ouimet was inspired by Mother Teresa and her deeds for the poor and sick, which intrigued him to visit her. They developed an immediate kinship, lasting until her death in 1997. He returned home with her prayer and incorporated these values into the company’s mission.

This event is jointly sponsored by the Student Leadership and Ethics Board of the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center, Jewish Business Students Association, Muslim Business Students Association, South Asian Business Association, and Young Arab Leaders Association. Please RSVP to Shervin Setareh.

http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/leadership/events/events06 (Proof Positive)

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THE PROMOTER THE AUTHOR The author, J.- Robert Ouimet , is the president of the Board of Directors and chief executive officer of the Holding OCB Inc. He is a well-known personality in the business and political worlds of both Quebec and Canada . He turned a small family business into a middle-sized company that is today active in the Canadian, American, Mexican, Australian, and other markets Monsieur Ouimet is the main leader of the Inner Silence and Prayer Meetings (ISPM), a one-of-a-kind organization of Quebec leaders, whose meetings have brought together more than 20,000 leaders and managers. He is a member of the Order of Canada and the Ordre National du Québec, a knight of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta as well as the Order of the Guardians of Mount-Zion and the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem. He is graduate emeritus of the École des Hautes Études Commerciales, Montreal (HEC-Montréal) where he obtained a bachelor's degree in commerce. He received another bachelor's degree in economics and social sciences (magna cum laude) from the University of Fribourg , Switzerland , and an MBA in business administration from Columbia University , New York . He has been, and is, a member of numerous boards of directors. Finally, on November 27, 1988 , with the constant encouragement of Professors Roger Berthouzoz and Maurice Villet of the University of Fribourg , he wrote and defended his doctoral thesis, magna cum laude. In September 1998, the 1 st International Forum on Management, Ethics, and Spirituality (IFMES) was held; the 2 nd IFMES took place in 2000 at the HEC-Montréal; and the 3rd IFMES was hosted in May 2003 at St. Thomas University , Minneapolis , Minnesota . These forums were the result of the discovery of the possibility that two ISMA, the economic and the human, can "work hand in hand¨. The activities of the new, non-economic M.T., some of which are found no where else in the world, also contributed to laying the groundwork for the IFMES forums. In 2002, the 1 st meeting of the International Committee for Reflection and Action on Our Project (ICRAOP) was held in Montreal . The 2 nd meeting of ICRAOP occurred in Montreal at the beginning of 2003. A book, Human Happiness and Profits: It Can Be Done! will soon be published in Europe . In 2003, the 70 th anniversary of the founding of the Holding OCB Inc., the following versions of The Golden Book were published: the 4 th revised, French edition; the 3rd revised, English edition; and the 1 st Spanish edition. Tomasso Corporation Our Mission at Ouimet-Tomasso Inc. As a highly ethical, economically competitive, provider of quality frozen dinners and entrées, centred on and driven by our people and in cooperation with a loving God, to innovatively generate continuous growth . . . in human well-being, in customer enthusiasm, in long-term economic performance. Our values AUTHENTICITY is expressed through our integrity, our HUMILITY . . . . . . everyday . . . in everything we do. We demonstrate RESPECT by embracing diversity and accepting the differences among people. We endeavour to treat everyone equitably . . . ethically. Our PASSION is evident in our “joie de vivre” . . . a confident and positive state-of-being. We are committed to developing our people toward their full intellectual and spiritual potential, to innovation, and to surpassing customer expectations for quality and service. We believe that faith in the wisdom of a loving God . . . a Supreme Being . . . nourishes these values. Therefore we encourage the free expression of spirituality and commit ourselves to fostering spiritual growth. Cordon Bleu Enterprise ''La Maison J.-Rene Ouimet Ltée'' The action began in 1933 in the midst of the great depression. J.Rene Ouimet, a farmer son borrowed twenty thousand dollars to found “La Maison J.-Rene Ouimet Ltée.? He rapidly establishes a strong network to distribute prepared foods and European cheese. The adventure is started. Cordon Bleu Ltée At the same era, a new brand is lunched by the Faille brothers. Lucien and Aimé, impressed by the popularity of their mother’s meat pâtés, founded Cordon Bleu Ltée Company. Neighbour of Faille family, J.René shows rapidly is interest. Beginning by being the exclusive distributor for Quebec and Ontario, he got the entire control of the companies in 1946. In 1952 J.-René had the idea to market a meatball stew just like the one his mother made for the holidays. That year, the renowned Cordon Bleu Meatball Stew came into existence and was destined to become the company’s flagship product. In 1963, in its thirtieth year of business, les Entreprises J.-René Ouimet ltée merged with Cordon Bleu ltée. The expansion M. J.-Rene Ouimet kept the control of his company until 1963. On march 29, he turned over his company’s share to his three children, J.-Robert, Suzanne and Francine. An expansion era is started. In 1964, J.-Robert Ouimet was promoted to executive president. One year later, he became the sole shareholder. In 1963 and 1964, the Cordon Bleu quality is recognized during the World Quality Competitions held in Paris, Brussels and London. The Cordon Bleu brand won 18 gold medals for exceptional quality of its products. To commemorate this prestigious achievement, the officials of the World Quality Competitions awarded The Cordon Bleu Seal of Quality – a seal that represents Cordon Bleu’s excellence and tradition since 1933. The year 1979 signalled the beginning of a series of acquisitions, namely the Paris Pâté, Esta, and Clark brands. In 1986, the factory and the administrative offices regrouped in the same location – the move took two years to complete. It was in the summer 1988 that the inauguration of the new premises at 8383 J. René Ouimet in Anjou, east of Montreal, was celebrated in the presence of no other than Mother Theresa ! Todays … Ouimet-Cordon Bleu Foods Inc. is now owned by Ouimet Tomasso inc. The company produces canned product under Cordon Bleu, Clark, Esta and Paris Pate brand. Moreover, many private label brand are also produced in Anjou factory for the biggest Canadian food banner. Also, with the HACCP certification, the company is exporting products in USA and Australia. Within the knowledge acquired in this great history, Ouimet-Cordon Bleu Foods Inc. will continue to accomplish its mission: producing and marketing highly differentiated and value-added food products. The future is bright for Ouimet-Cordon Bleu Foods Inc.

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THE PROMOTER

THE AUTHOR

The author, J.- Robert Ouimet , is the president of the Board of Directors and chief executive officer of the Holding OCB Inc. He is a well-known personality in the business and political worlds of both Quebec and Canada . He turned a small family business into a middle-sized company that is today active in the Canadian, American, Mexican, Australian, and other markets

Monsieur Ouimet is the main leader of the Inner Silence and Prayer Meetings (ISPM), a one-of-a-kind organization of Quebec leaders, whose meetings have brought together more than 20,000 leaders and managers. He is a member of the Order of Canada and the Ordre National du Québec, a knight of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta as well as the Order of the Guardians of Mount-Zion and the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem.

He is graduate emeritus of the École des Hautes Études Commerciales, Montreal (HEC-Montréal) where he obtained a bachelor's degree in commerce. He received another bachelor's degree in economics and social sciences (magna cum laude) from the University of Fribourg , Switzerland , and an MBA in business administration from Columbia University , New York . He has been, and is, a member of numerous boards of directors.

Finally, on November 27, 1988 , with the constant encouragement of Professors Roger Berthouzoz and Maurice Villet of the University of Fribourg , he wrote and defended his doctoral thesis, magna cum laude.

In September 1998, the 1 st International Forum on Management, Ethics, and Spirituality (IFMES) was held; the 2 nd IFMES took place in 2000 at the HEC-Montréal; and the 3rd IFMES was hosted in May 2003 at St. Thomas University , Minneapolis , Minnesota . These forums were the result of the discovery of the possibility that two ISMA, the economic and the human, can "work hand in hand¨. The activities of the new, non-economic M.T., some of which are found no where else in the world, also contributed to laying the groundwork for the IFMES forums.

In 2002, the 1 st meeting of the International Committee for Reflection and Action on Our Project (ICRAOP) was held in Montreal . The 2 nd meeting of ICRAOP occurred in Montreal at the beginning of 2003. A book, Human Happiness and Profits: It Can Be Done! will soon be published in Europe .

In 2003, the 70 th anniversary of the founding of the Holding OCB Inc., the following versions of The Golden Book were published: the 4 th revised, French edition; the 3rd revised, English edition; and the 1 st Spanish edition.

Tomasso Corporation Our Mission at Ouimet-Tomasso Inc.

As a highly ethical, economically competitive,
provider of quality frozen dinners and entrées,
centred on and driven by our people
and in cooperation with a loving God,
to innovatively generate continuous growth . . .
in human well-being,
in customer enthusiasm,
in long-term economic performance.

Our values

AUTHENTICITY is expressed through our integrity, our HUMILITY . . .
. . . everyday . . . in everything we do.
We demonstrate RESPECT by embracing diversity and accepting the differences among people. We endeavour to treat everyone equitably . . . ethically.
Our PASSION is evident in our “joie de vivre” . . . a confident and positive state-of-being. We are committed to developing our people toward their full intellectual and spiritual potential, to innovation, and to surpassing customer expectations for quality and service.

We believe that faith in the wisdom of a loving God . . . a Supreme Being . . . nourishes these values. Therefore we encourage the free expression of spirituality and commit ourselves to fostering spiritual growth.

Cordon Bleu Enterprise

''La Maison J.-Rene Ouimet Ltée''

The action began in 1933 in the midst of the great depression. J.Rene Ouimet, a farmer son borrowed twenty thousand dollars to found “La Maison J.-Rene Ouimet Ltée.? He rapidly establishes a strong network to distribute prepared foods and European cheese. The adventure is started.

Cordon Bleu Ltée

At the same era, a new brand is lunched by the Faille brothers. Lucien and Aimé, impressed by the popularity of their mother’s meat pâtés, founded Cordon Bleu Ltée Company. Neighbour of Faille family, J.René shows rapidly is interest. Beginning by being the exclusive distributor for Quebec and Ontario, he got the entire control of the companies in 1946.

In 1952 J.-René had the idea to market a meatball stew just like the one his mother made for the holidays. That year, the renowned Cordon Bleu Meatball Stew came into existence and was destined to become the company’s flagship product.

In 1963, in its thirtieth year of business, les Entreprises J.-René Ouimet ltée merged with Cordon Bleu ltée.

The expansion

M. J.-Rene Ouimet kept the control of his company until 1963. On march 29, he turned over his company’s share to his three children, J.-Robert, Suzanne and Francine. An expansion era is started. In 1964, J.-Robert Ouimet was promoted to executive president. One year later, he became the sole shareholder.

In 1963 and 1964, the Cordon Bleu quality is recognized during the World Quality Competitions held in Paris, Brussels and London. The Cordon Bleu brand won 18 gold medals for exceptional quality of its products. To commemorate this prestigious achievement, the officials of the World Quality Competitions awarded The Cordon Bleu Seal of Quality – a seal that represents Cordon Bleu’s excellence and tradition since 1933.

The year 1979 signalled the beginning of a series of acquisitions, namely the Paris Pâté, Esta, and Clark brands. In 1986, the factory and the administrative offices regrouped in the same location – the move took two years to complete. It was in the summer 1988 that the inauguration of the new premises at 8383 J. René Ouimet in Anjou, east of Montreal, was celebrated in the presence of no other than Mother Theresa !

Todays …

Ouimet-Cordon Bleu Foods Inc. is now owned by Ouimet Tomasso inc. The company produces canned product under Cordon Bleu, Clark, Esta and Paris Pate brand. Moreover, many private label brand are also produced in Anjou factory for the biggest Canadian food banner. Also, with the HACCP certification, the company is exporting products in USA and Australia. Within the knowledge acquired in this great history, Ouimet-Cordon Bleu Foods Inc. will continue to accomplish its mission: producing and marketing highly differentiated and value-added food products.

The future is bright for Ouimet-Cordon Bleu Foods Inc.

http://www.our-project.org/212.html (Proof Positive II)

Resources:
http://images.google.com/images?q=%22Robert...7NL237&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi

Anne Crellin Seggerman

2008-09-02T11:33:00.001+02:00

Anne Crellin Seggerman - Founder of Fourth World Foundation, Inc. (ecumenical corporation; develops interfaith media); Chairman o/t board o/t Fairfield County Chapter of Huxley Institute for Biosocial Research; Member o/t President's Committee on Mental Retardation

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Anne Crellin Seggerman Anne Crellin Seggerman of Fairfield, Connecticut, is the founder of Fourth World Foundation, Inc., a company engaged in the development of interfaith media. A member of the Bridgeport Urban Gardens and Youth at Risk/Breakthrough Foundation, Mrs. Seggerman founded and serves as the chairman of the board of the Fairfield County Chapter of Huxley Institute for Biosocial Research. She previously was a member of the President's Committee on Mental Retardation. Mrs. Seggerman is listed in Who's Who of American Women and has received numerous honors including an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters Award from Sacred Heart University, the Association of Knights and Ladies of the Holy Sepulchre, and the American Association of the Order of Malta. She was previously appointed to serve on the Housing of Handicapped Families of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Mrs. Seggerman is experienced in providing care, treatment, and rehabilitation to people with schizophrenia and has extensive experience with alcoholics and children with learning disabilities. She is married and has six adult children.

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Anne Crellin Seggerman

Anne Crellin Seggerman of Fairfield, Connecticut, is the founder of Fourth World Foundation, Inc., a company engaged in the development of interfaith media.

A member of the Bridgeport Urban Gardens and Youth at Risk/Breakthrough Foundation, Mrs. Seggerman founded and serves as the chairman of the board of the Fairfield County Chapter of Huxley Institute for Biosocial Research. She previously was a member of the President's Committee on Mental Retardation.

Mrs. Seggerman is listed in Who's Who of American Women and has received numerous honors including an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters Award from Sacred Heart University, the Association of Knights and Ladies of the Holy Sepulchre, and the American Association of the Order of Malta. She was previously appointed to serve on the Housing of Handicapped Families of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Mrs. Seggerman is experienced in providing care, treatment, and rehabilitation to people with schizophrenia and has extensive experience with alcoholics and children with learning disabilities. She is married and has six adult children.

http://www.ncd.gov/newsroom/publications/1993/sharing.htm (Proof Positive)
http://www.empowermentzone.com/minority.txt

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The Fourth World Foundation is a non-profit, ecumenical corporation founded to promote and strengthen man’s spiritual, ethical and moral values. The Foundation believes that men and women of good will can preserve the Earth and serve mankind if they are united by these spiritual ideals. We hope to counter the negative, nihilistic qualities of contemporary culture. We have only begun to explore the power and potential of man’s mind and his relation to the other dimensions of life. The Fourth World Foundation hopes to deal with these themes with the ever present goal of strengthening man’s spiritual destiny.

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The Fourth World Foundation is a non-profit, ecumenical corporation founded to promote and strengthen man’s spiritual, ethical and moral values.

The Foundation believes that men and women of good will can preserve the Earth and serve mankind if they are united by these spiritual ideals.

We hope to counter the negative, nihilistic qualities of contemporary culture. We have only begun to explore the power and potential of man’s mind and his relation to the other dimensions of life. The Fourth World Foundation hopes to deal with these themes with the ever present goal of strengthening man’s spiritual destiny.

http://fourthworldfoundation.org/

Resources:
http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0geu.e...p=NL&rd=r1&meta=vc%3Dnl

Elizabeth Windsor

2008-09-02T11:31:00.003+02:00

Elizabeth II - Queen of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth

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Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born 21 April 1926)[1] is the Queen regnant of sixteen independent states and their overseas territories and dependencies. Though she holds each crown and title separately and equally, she is resident in and most directly involved with the United Kingdom, her oldest realm, over parts of whose territories her ancestors have reigned for more than a thousand years. She ascended the thrones of seven countries in February 1952 on the death of her father King George VI. (see Context below). In addition to the United Kingdom, Elizabeth II is also Queen of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, and Saint Kitts and Nevis, in each of which she is represented by a Governor-General. The 16 countries of which she is Queen are known as Commonwealth realms, and their combined population, including dependencies is over 129 million. In theory her powers are vast; in practice (and in accordance with convention) she herself rarely intervenes in political matters. In the United Kingdom at least, however, she is known to take an active behind-the-scenes interest in the affairs of state, meeting regularly to establish a working relationship with her government ministers. Elizabeth II holds a variety of other positions, among them Head of the Commonwealth, Supreme Governor of the Church of England, Duke of Normandy, Lord of Mann, and Paramount Chief of Fiji. Her long reign has seen sweeping changes in her realms and the world at large, perhaps most notably the dissolution of the British Empire (a process that began in the last years of her father's reign) and the consequent evolution of the modern Commonwealth of Nations. Since 1947, the Queen has been married to Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, born a prince of Greece and Denmark but after naturalisation known as Philip Mountbatten and subsequently created Duke of Edinburgh. To date the couple have four children and eight grandchildren; the eighth (Viscount Severn) was born on 17 December 2007 to Prince Edward and Sophie, Countess of Wessex.[3] Context Elizabeth became Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Pakistan and Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) upon the death of her father, George VI, on 6 February 1952. As other colonies of the British Empire attained independence from the UK during her reign, she acceded to the newly created thrones as Queen of each respective realm so that throughout her 56 years on the throne she has been the sovereign of 32 nations, half of which subsequently became republics. She is currently the only monarch of more than one independent state. Further information: States headed by Elizabeth II Elizabeth II is currently the second longest reigning monarch of the United Kingdom ranking behind Victoria (who reigned over the UK for 63 years). She is also one of the longest-reigning monarchs of any of its predecessor states, ranking behind George III (who reigned over Great Britain and subsequently the UK for 59) and James VI (who reigned over Scotland for 57). In March 2008 she surpassed Henry III of England. Following tradition, she is also styled Duke of Lancaster and Duke of Normandy. She is also Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces of many of her realms (and Lord Admiral of the United Kingdom), and is styled Defender of the Faith in various realms for differing reasons.

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Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born 21 April 1926)[1] is the Queen regnant of sixteen independent states and their overseas territories and dependencies. Though she holds each crown and title separately and equally, she is resident in and most directly involved with the United Kingdom, her oldest realm, over parts of whose territories her ancestors have reigned for more than a thousand years. She ascended the thrones of seven countries in February 1952 on the death of her father King George VI. (see Context below).

In addition to the United Kingdom, Elizabeth II is also Queen of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, and Saint Kitts and Nevis, in each of which she is represented by a Governor-General. The 16 countries of which she is Queen are known as Commonwealth realms, and their combined population, including dependencies is over 129 million. In theory her powers are vast; in practice (and in accordance with convention) she herself rarely intervenes in political matters. In the United Kingdom at least, however, she is known to take an active behind-the-scenes interest in the affairs of state, meeting regularly to establish a working relationship with her government ministers.

Elizabeth II holds a variety of other positions, among them Head of the Commonwealth, Supreme Governor of the Church of England, Duke of Normandy, Lord of Mann, and Paramount Chief of Fiji. Her long reign has seen sweeping changes in her realms and the world at large, perhaps most notably the dissolution of the British Empire (a process that began in the last years of her father's reign) and the consequent evolution of the modern Commonwealth of Nations.

Since 1947, the Queen has been married to Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, born a prince of Greece and Denmark but after naturalisation known as Philip Mountbatten and subsequently created Duke of Edinburgh. To date the couple have four children and eight grandchildren; the eighth (Viscount Severn) was born on 17 December 2007 to Prince Edward and Sophie, Countess of Wessex.[3]

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Elizabeth became Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Pakistan and Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) upon the death of her father, George VI, on 6 February 1952. As other colonies of the British Empire attained independence from the UK during her reign, she acceded to the newly created thrones as Queen of each respective realm so that throughout her 56 years on the throne she has been the sovereign of 32 nations, half of which subsequently became republics. She is currently the only monarch of more than one independent state.

Further information: States headed by Elizabeth II

Elizabeth II is currently the second longest reigning monarch of the United Kingdom ranking behind Victoria (who reigned over the UK for 63 years). She is also one of the longest-reigning monarchs of any of its predecessor states, ranking behind George III (who reigned over Great Britain and subsequently the UK for 59) and James VI (who reigned over Scotland for 57). In March 2008 she surpassed Henry III of England.

Following tradition, she is also styled Duke of Lancaster and Duke of Normandy. She is also Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces of many of her realms (and Lord Admiral of the United Kingdom), and is styled Defender of the Faith in various realms for differing reasons.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_II_of_the_United_Kingdom

Notice that the Queen is dressed in darker colors while the Pope is dressed in lighter colors, thus symbolizing the submissiveness of the former to the latter.

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The Knights of Malta by Harold Meij, H.P. Tokyo Chapter #1, R.A.M. [...] Queen Elizabeth II in the robes of Sovereign Head of the Order in Great Britain

http://www.themasonictrowel.com/Articles/Hi...ta/knights_of_malta.htm (Proof Positive)

Coat of Arms of the House of Windsor

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Queen Elizabeth II in Garter Robes

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/sociopol_garter03.htm
Social Network Diagram (negligible):
http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb06?_ELIZABETH_II_%28QUEEN%29

George P. Clancy, Jr.

2008-09-02T11:31:00.001+02:00

George P. Clancy, Jr. - Executive Vice President and Chief Lending Officer of Chevy Chase Bank; President and COO of The Riggs National Corporation; President and CEO Signet Bank; Chairman o/t Catholic Charities Foundation; Chairman o/t Washington, D.C. Police Fund

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George P. Clancy, Jr., age 61, is a very high up member of the Knights of Malta (SMOM) and is also Executive Vice President and Chief Lending Officer of Chevy Chase Bank, FSB, a position he has held since 1995. Mr. Clancy has an extensive career in banking which includes serving as President and Chief Operating Officer of The Riggs National Corporation (1985-1986) and President and Chief Executive Officer — Signet Bank, N.A. (1988-1995). Mr. Clancy is active in several community and civic organizations, including serving as Chairman of the Catholic Charities Foundation, Chairman of the Washington, D.C. Police Fund, Member of the Board of Trustees of the University System of Maryland Foundation, Inc. and the University of Maryland College Park Foundation. Mr. Clancy has been a director of Washington Gas Light Company and a director of WGL Holdings since December 2000.

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George P. Clancy, Jr., age 61, is a very high up member of the Knights of Malta (SMOM) and is also Executive Vice President and Chief Lending Officer of Chevy Chase Bank, FSB, a position he has held since 1995. Mr. Clancy has an extensive career in banking which includes serving as President and Chief Operating Officer of The Riggs National Corporation (1985-1986) and President and Chief Executive Officer — Signet Bank, N.A. (1988-1995). Mr. Clancy is active in several community and civic organizations, including serving as Chairman of the Catholic Charities Foundation, Chairman of the Washington, D.C. Police Fund, Member of the Board of Trustees of the University System of Maryland Foundation, Inc. and the University of Maryland College Park Foundation. Mr. Clancy has been a director of Washington Gas Light Company and a director of WGL Holdings since December 2000.

http://www.wglholdings.com/committees.cfm http://www.forbes.com/finance/mktguideapps/...l?passedPersonId=893176 http://spirituallysmart.com/riggs.html

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Officers and Directors of the Federal Association president George P. Clancy, Jr. Kensington, Maryland

http://www.smom.org/files/annual-report-2006.pdf (Proof Positive)

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President Pat Clancy, congratulates two winners of the 2005 President's Award: Dr. Frank Schmidt (left) of New Orleans, and Dr. Gael Delany (center) of Washington, DC.

Federal Association President G. Patrick
Clancy made presentations to several members
of the Federal Association for their outstanding
service and dedications to the work of the
Order. In September, the Order learned that
the Holy Family Hospital in Bethlehem would
receive a $3.5 million grant from the U.S.
government.These funds will be used to further
establish and expand the mobile clinic program
that allows doctors to travel about the West
Bank and visit pregnant women who would
have great difficulty traversing the region to get
the medical care they need. Rob Lively organized
and orchestrated the grant request made to
USAID. Letters were written to Senators and
Congressmen, and countless phone calls to
government agencies all over Washington. In
recognition for this tremendous work, Mr.
Lively was awarded the Cross of Commander
Pro Merito Militense.
Mr. Clancy also had the pleasure of
presenting the President’s Award to five very
dedicated Knights and Dames.The first two
were presented to Dr. Gael Delany, a dentist
from Chevy Chase,MD, for his work on a
medical mission to the Dominican Republic
and to Dr. Frank Schmidt, a surgeon from New
Orleans, LA, for spearheading a medical mission
to Nicaragua.

http://www.maltezerorde.nl/pdf/Nieuwsbrief%...le%20Afdeling%20USA.pdf (Proof Positive II)

Resources:
http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0geu5X...p=NL&rd=r1&meta=vc%3Dnl

Mark J. Wolff

2008-09-02T11:30:00.004+02:00

Prof. Dr. Mark J. Wolff - Assistant Dean at St. Thomas University School of Law; Member o/t Board of Directors o/t Human Rights Institute at St. Thomas University; Head o/t Delegation for the SMOM to the UN International Consultative Conference Social Education in relation to Freedom of Religion or Belief, Tolerance and Non-Discrimination

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Professor Dr. Mark J. Wolff, K.M., was a delegate to the United Nations World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and related Intolerance, in Durban, South Africa. For text, video, and audio of Professor Wolff’s intervention to the Plenary Session of the United Nations on 3 September 2001, evening Session, Item 11, visit The United Nations World Conference Against Racism Web page. Professor Wolff also served as Head of the Delegation for the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta to the United Nations International Consultative Conference Social Education in relation to Freedom of Religion or Belief, Tolerance and Non-Discrimination in Madrid, Spain, and addressed the Plenary Session on 25 November 2001. For the text of Professor Wolff’s intervention to the Plenary Session, click here. Professor Wolff received his B.A. from Wadhams Hall Seminary-College, J.D. magna cum laude from Nova Southeastern University School of Law, and LL.M. (in Taxation) from New York University Graduate School of Law. He was in the private practice of tax, corporate and securities law for almost a decade before being appointed Assistant Dean at St. Thomas University School of Law. Professor Wolff now enjoys the rank of Professor of Law and over the past fourteen academic years has specialized in teaching courses in numerous areas of Federal Taxation, Comparative Taxation, Tax Policy, Corporations, and Jurisprudence. Professor Wolff was elected to public office in 1987 serving as Vice Mayor and Commissioner for the City of Coral Gables. During his elected tenure he served as Chairman of the Municipal Finance and Taxation Committee for the Florida League of Cities, Member of the Finance Administration and Inter-Governmental Affairs Committee of the National League of Cities and on the Board of Directors and as Treasurer of the Dade County League of Cities. Professor Wolff is admitted to the Florida Bar, Southern District Court of Florida, the Fifth and Eleventh Circuit Courts of Appeals, Supreme Court of Florida, United States Tax Court and Supreme Court of the United States. He is currently Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of his alma mater, Wadhams Hall Seminary College, Executive Director of the Dade County Educational Facilities Authority and member of the Board of Directors of the Human Rights Institute at St. Thomas University.

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Professor Dr. Mark J. Wolff, K.M., was a delegate to the United Nations World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and related Intolerance, in Durban, South Africa. For text, video, and audio of Professor Wolff’s intervention to the Plenary Session of the United Nations on 3 September 2001, evening Session, Item 11, visit The United Nations World Conference Against Racism Web page.

Professor Wolff also served as Head of the Delegation for the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta to the United Nations International Consultative Conference Social Education in relation to Freedom of Religion or Belief, Tolerance and Non-Discrimination in Madrid, Spain, and addressed the Plenary Session on 25 November 2001. For the text of Professor Wolff’s intervention to the Plenary Session, click here.

Professor Wolff received his B.A. from Wadhams Hall Seminary-College, J.D. magna cum laude from Nova Southeastern University School of Law, and LL.M. (in Taxation) from New York University Graduate School of Law. He was in the private practice of tax, corporate and securities law for almost a decade before being appointed Assistant Dean at St. Thomas University School of Law. Professor Wolff now enjoys the rank of Professor of Law and over the past fourteen academic years has specialized in teaching courses in numerous areas of Federal Taxation, Comparative Taxation, Tax Policy, Corporations, and Jurisprudence.

Professor Wolff was elected to public office in 1987 serving as Vice Mayor and Commissioner for the City of Coral Gables. During his elected tenure he served as Chairman of the Municipal Finance and Taxation Committee for the Florida League of Cities, Member of the Finance Administration and Inter-Governmental Affairs Committee of the National League of Cities and on the Board of Directors and as Treasurer of the Dade County League of Cities.

Professor Wolff is admitted to the Florida Bar, Southern District Court of Florida, the Fifth and Eleventh Circuit Courts of Appeals, Supreme Court of Florida, United States Tax Court and Supreme Court of the United States. He is currently Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of his alma mater, Wadhams Hall Seminary College, Executive Director of the Dade County Educational Facilities Authority and member of the Board of Directors of the Human Rights Institute at St. Thomas University.

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The Delegation of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta at the World Conference (left to right) Professor Dr. Mark J. Wolff, K.M. and Father Gérard T. Lagleder, O.S.B.

http://www.smom-za.org/wcar.htm

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Intervention by: Professor Dr. Mark J. Wolff, B.A., J.D., LL.M., Knight of Magistral Grace of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and Representative of the Order to this World Conference. Madam / Mr. President, As we conclude this year the twentieth anniversary of the 1981 “Declaration on the Elimination of all Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief”, and approach the international consultative conference on school education in relation to freedom of religion and belief, tolerance and non-discrimination to be held in Madrid November 23rd to 25th, 2001, it is disheartening to observe the increase of religious intolerance in many regions of the World. Since 1987 special Rapporteurs of the Commission on Human Rights have been examining the problem of religious intolerance. Since 1987 reports have been submitted each year to the Commission and since 1994 to the General Assembly. While some progress has been made the studies and reports reveal a disturbing trend exacerbated by additional factors complicating and compounding the issues and practices of religious intolerance. The right to freedom of religion is a fundamental human right. It is an inherent right of every human being and is an essential expression of the human spirit, protecting and enhancing the dignity and individuality of each person created in the image of God. Yet as we begin the Third Millennium religious intolerance remains an increasing and pervasive problem with historical roots in social, cultural and religious traditions. Today religious intolerance is co-mingled with new and alarming phenomena. Extremism in any manifestation is incompatible with the elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance; particularly when combined with extremist religious and political organizations.[1] History and unfortunately our contemporary world are replete with holocausts and ethnic cleansings that have occurred in the name of religion and perpetrated by extremists utilizing religion as a scapegoat. According to the excellent report submitted by Special Rapporteur Mr. Abdelfattah Amor on Civil And Political Rights, Including Religious Intolerance to the Commission on Human Rights minorities[2] and women are predominantly vulnerable to extremist religious organizations. (E/CN.4/2001/63, Feb. 13, 2001) These extremist organizations utilize a variety of means of intimidation including, aggressive proselytism, harassment, threats, direct or indirect legal restrictions on religion and beliefs, physical violence and murder as has tragically occurred recently in many parts of our world. But extremist organizations do not operate effectively without active or tacit support from local or state governmental authorities. When both religious intolerance and discrimination against already vulnerable minorities intersect, the offences are not merely cumulative but rather create a new and even more devastating violation of human rights. Our delegation believes that in order to achieve the elimination of religious intolerance preventative long-range measures must be implemented, in particular through education. The youth of the world must be educated, at the earliest levels, to respect the rich diversity of genuine religious beliefs held by mankind. The beauty of a quilt is comprised of the unique and genuine nature of each thread – an appreciation of the diverse religions of the world enhances the fullness and completes the potentialities of the human being – religious intolerance and discrimination reduce, confine, subjugate and degrade civil society and human dignity. As recently stated by Wilfred Cardinal Napier of Durban: “We must take upon ourselves the sins of world racism and religious intolerance.” We call upon all leaders of institutions, governments, religions and civil society to engage in a respectful dialogue with a view towards achieving the goals of this World Conference to end racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance. We must take positive action to assure that every human being will reach his or her divine destination in dignity, freedom and peace.

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Intervention by: Professor Dr. Mark J. Wolff, B.A., J.D., LL.M., Knight of Magistral Grace of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and Representative of the Order to this World Conference.

Madam / Mr. President,

As we conclude this year the twentieth anniversary of the 1981 “Declaration on the Elimination of all Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief”, and approach the international consultative conference on school education in relation to freedom of religion and belief, tolerance and non-discrimination to be held in Madrid November 23rd to 25th, 2001, it is disheartening to observe the increase of religious intolerance in many regions of the World.

Since 1987 special Rapporteurs of the Commission on Human Rights have been examining the problem of religious intolerance. Since 1987 reports have been submitted each year to the Commission and since 1994 to the General Assembly. While some progress has been made the studies and reports reveal a disturbing trend exacerbated by additional factors complicating and compounding the issues and practices of religious intolerance.

The right to freedom of religion is a fundamental human right. It is an inherent right of every human being and is an essential expression of the human spirit, protecting and enhancing the dignity and individuality of each person created in the image of God. Yet as we begin the Third Millennium religious intolerance remains an increasing and pervasive problem with historical roots in social, cultural and religious traditions. Today religious intolerance is co-mingled with new and alarming phenomena.

Extremism in any manifestation is incompatible with the elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance; particularly when combined with extremist religious and political organizations.[1] History and unfortunately our contemporary world are replete with holocausts and ethnic cleansings that have occurred in the name of religion and perpetrated by extremists utilizing religion as a scapegoat. According to the excellent report submitted by Special Rapporteur Mr. Abdelfattah Amor on Civil And Political Rights, Including Religious Intolerance to the Commission on Human Rights minorities[2] and women are predominantly vulnerable to extremist religious organizations. (E/CN.4/2001/63, Feb. 13, 2001) These extremist organizations utilize a variety of means of intimidation including, aggressive proselytism, harassment, threats, direct or indirect legal restrictions on religion and beliefs, physical violence and murder as has tragically occurred recently in many parts of our world. But extremist organizations do not operate effectively without active or tacit support from local or state governmental authorities.

When both religious intolerance and discrimination against already vulnerable minorities intersect, the offences are not merely cumulative but rather create a new and even more devastating violation of human rights.

Our delegation believes that in order to achieve the elimination of religious intolerance preventative long-range measures must be implemented, in particular through education. The youth of the world must be educated, at the earliest levels, to respect the rich diversity of genuine religious beliefs held by mankind. The beauty of a quilt is comprised of the unique and genuine nature of each thread – an appreciation of the diverse religions of the world enhances the fullness and completes the potentialities of the human being – religious intolerance and discrimination reduce, confine, subjugate and degrade civil society and human dignity.

As recently stated by Wilfred Cardinal Napier of Durban: “We must take upon ourselves the sins of world racism and religious intolerance.”

We call upon all leaders of institutions, governments, religions and civil society to engage in a respectful dialogue with a view towards achieving the goals of this World Conference to end racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance.

We must take positive action to assure that every human being will reach his or her divine destination in dignity, freedom and peace.

http://www.smom-za.org/wcar.htm (Proof Positive)

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After cutting the ribbon at a new health and legal center at the Father Patrick H. O’Neill Center for Health and Legal Services at St. Ann Mission, Archbishop John C. Favalora hands the scissors to St. Thomas University law professor, Mark J. Wolff, a member of the Order of Malta, as Father Patrick H. O'Neill applauds and Father Pedro Garcia looks on.

http://www.thefloridacatholic.org/mia/mia20..._mia_migrant_center.php

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C U R R I C U L U M V I T A E MARK J. WOLFF St. Thomas University School of Law 16401 N.W. 37th Avenue Miami Gardens, Florida 33054 [...] Investiture by American Association of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, His Eminence John Cardinal O'Connor (1993) [...] United Nations - New York, N.Y. Main Representative to United Nations, New York Office Pax Romana (ICMICA) 2004-Present Area Chairman & President (Florida), Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta [...] Main Representative, Pax Romana (ICMICA) United Nations New York, New York 1 January 2004-Present Delegate to the United Nations World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, Durban, South Africa, August 31 - September 9, 2001. Intervention address presented to Plenary Session on September 3, 2001 on Behalf of The Sovereign Military Order of Malta and Rhodes.

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C U R R I C U L U M V I T A E
MARK J. WOLFF
St. Thomas University School of Law
16401 N.W. 37th Avenue
Miami Gardens, Florida 33054
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Investiture by American Association of the Sovereign Military Order
of Malta, His Eminence John Cardinal O'Connor (1993)
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United Nations - New York, N.Y. Main Representative to United Nations, New York Office Pax Romana (ICMICA)

2004-Present Area Chairman & President (Florida), Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta
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Main Representative, Pax Romana (ICMICA) United Nations New York, New York 1 January 2004-Present

Delegate to the United Nations World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, Durban, South Africa, August 31 - September 9, 2001.

Intervention address presented to Plenary Session on September 3, 2001 on Behalf of The Sovereign Military Order of Malta and Rhodes.

http://www.stu.edu/IMG/pdf/wolffrez.pdf (Proof Positive II)

Resources:
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22MARK+J.+W...lz=1B3GGGL_nlNL237NL237
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Jack Fitzpatrick

2008-09-02T11:30:00.001+02:00

Cmdr. John P. "Jack" Fitzpatrick - Naval Intelligence Officer; Vice president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Spain; Vice president and Director of International Affairs of Gulf Oil Corp.

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John Fitzpatrick, 87; Navy Officer, Oil Executive Saturday, August 4, 2007; Page B06 John P. "Jack" Fitzpatrick, 87, a retired Navy commander and oil executive with long ties to Spain, died July 30 of a heart attack caused by respiratory failure at Sibley Memorial Hospital. A Spanish speaker, Cmdr. Fitzpatrick had served as note-taker and interpreter in the 1951 negotiations between Adm. Forrest Sherman, the U.S. chief of naval operations, and Spanish dictator Francisco Franco that led to the establishment of U.S. bases in Spain. Special Report Read Washington Post obituaries and view multimedia tributes to Pope John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, James Brown and more. [...] Cmdr. Fitzpatrick often told the story that when Sherman, who was his father-in-law, died before returning home to the Washington, the historic U.S.-Spanish Defense Agreement had to be drafted from his notes and recollections of the Madrid meeting. Family members said that in 1969, Cmdr. Fitzpatrick earned a personal footnote in Spanish history books by being the person who broke the news -- then still a secret known to a few top Spanish officials -- to Prince Juan Carlos that Franco planned the following week to declare the prince his successor, thus restoring the Spanish monarchy after his death. Cmdr. Fitzpatrick never revealed how he acquired this information, but he had spent a career in naval intelligence, serving as naval attache in Rio de Janeiro, Madrid, Lisbon, and as fleet intelligence officer for the U.S. 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean, his family said. John Patrick Fitzpatrick was born in Santa Monica, Calif., the son of an Irish-born owner of avocado and lime orchards. After graduating from Loyola University of Los Angeles, he attended Georgetown School of Foreign Service and in 1941 was commissioned into the Navy. His first overseas assignment was as a U.S. naval convoy and routing officer in Santos, Brazil. He married Ann Sherman, the admiral's daughter, in 1945. After retiring from the Navy in 1959, Cmdr. Fitzpatrick returned to Madrid as area representative for the Gulf Oil Corp. and lived there until 1976. He was vice president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Spain from 1959 to 1967. A Russian speaker, he was for a time Gulf Oil's chief negotiator with Moscow, looking into possible areas of joint activity in the energy field. He retired from Gulf in 1978 as vice president and director of international affairs. Cmdr. Fitzpatrick joined Ahlstrom Pyropower, a San Diego subsidiary of A. Ahlstrom Corp. of Finland, as a consultant to market the company's new, ecologically friendly technology for power plant boilers designed to burn low-grade fuels. He was with the U.S. subsidiary when the Foster Wheeler Corp. acquired it in 1995, marketing the turnkey power plants worldwide. He retired in 1998. He was Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Lazarus and a Knight of Malta. His wife of 61 years died in 2006. Survivors include four children, John Sherman Fitzpatrick, Diane Flamini and Deirdre Fitzpatrick, all of Washington, and Amarie Kappaz of Potomac; two sisters; 13 grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.

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John Fitzpatrick, 87; Navy Officer, Oil Executive

Saturday, August 4, 2007; Page B06

John P. "Jack" Fitzpatrick, 87, a retired Navy commander and oil executive with long ties to Spain, died July 30 of a heart attack caused by respiratory failure at Sibley Memorial Hospital.

A Spanish speaker, Cmdr. Fitzpatrick had served as note-taker and interpreter in the 1951 negotiations between Adm. Forrest Sherman, the U.S. chief of naval operations, and Spanish dictator Francisco Franco that led to the establishment of U.S. bases in Spain.

Special Report

Read Washington Post obituaries and view multimedia tributes to Pope John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, James Brown and more.
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Cmdr. Fitzpatrick often told the story that when Sherman, who was his father-in-law, died before returning home to the Washington, the historic U.S.-Spanish Defense Agreement had to be drafted from his notes and recollections of the Madrid meeting.

Family members said that in 1969, Cmdr. Fitzpatrick earned a personal footnote in Spanish history books by being the person who broke the news -- then still a secret known to a few top Spanish officials -- to Prince Juan Carlos that Franco planned the following week to declare the prince his successor, thus restoring the Spanish monarchy after his death.

Cmdr. Fitzpatrick never revealed how he acquired this information, but he had spent a career in naval intelligence, serving as naval attache in Rio de Janeiro, Madrid, Lisbon, and as fleet intelligence officer for the U.S. 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean, his family said.

John Patrick Fitzpatrick was born in Santa Monica, Calif., the son of an Irish-born owner of avocado and lime orchards. After graduating from Loyola University of Los Angeles, he attended Georgetown School of Foreign Service and in 1941 was commissioned into the Navy. His first overseas assignment was as a U.S. naval convoy and routing officer in Santos, Brazil.

He married Ann Sherman, the admiral's daughter, in 1945.

After retiring from the Navy in 1959, Cmdr. Fitzpatrick returned to Madrid as area representative for the Gulf Oil Corp. and lived there until 1976. He was vice president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Spain from 1959 to 1967.

A Russian speaker, he was for a time Gulf Oil's chief negotiator with Moscow, looking into possible areas of joint activity in the energy field.

He retired from Gulf in 1978 as vice president and director of international affairs.

Cmdr. Fitzpatrick joined Ahlstrom Pyropower, a San Diego subsidiary of A. Ahlstrom Corp. of Finland, as a consultant to market the company's new, ecologically friendly technology for power plant boilers designed to burn low-grade fuels. He was with the U.S. subsidiary when the Foster Wheeler Corp. acquired it in 1995, marketing the turnkey power plants worldwide. He retired in 1998.

He was Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Lazarus and a Knight of Malta.

His wife of 61 years died in 2006.

Survivors include four children, John Sherman Fitzpatrick, Diane Flamini and Deirdre Fitzpatrick, all of Washington, and Amarie Kappaz of Potomac; two sisters; 13 grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conten...03/AR2007080302018.html

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John P. Fitzpatrick

http://www.smom.org/files/annual-report-2005.pdf (listed as a patron on page 16) (proof positive)

Resources:
http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0geu4y...p=NL&rd=r1&meta=vc%3Dnl

Jacques G. Jonet

2008-09-02T11:29:00.002+02:00

Baron Jacques G. Jonet - Fascist Ultra-Conservative Anti-Communist Belgian Lawyer; Political Secretary of Otto von Habsburg; President o/t Belgian French holding company Média Participations

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Jacques Jonet (to the left in the photo) died one week ago, 8 of April, the Sunday of Passover of the Resurrection. [...] Jacques was there many years PDG of the Éditons du Lombard, of Brussels a reference of the cartoon. But it was and was in that condition and action that I knew him as a combatant and militant of the conservative, catholic values - or better traditionalist - anti-communist, etc., etc. We did join some "wars" of the Cold War (we were friends of an important one "routier" of that period, Brian Crozier) and still we tried to find other synergies, by example "African". Jacques was coherent, courageous, religious, with a big sense of humor and friendship. His codes of life had very much to do with the rules of the Knighthood; be faithful to God, fight the good battle, defend the weak, put in the place the haughty and other kinds of wrongdoers. Although they are not very popular customs nowadays, he was not disturbed by this. And so am I. God receives and revives in the day of the Last one Páscoa.P.N.A.M.

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Jacques Jonet (to the left in the photo) died one week ago, 8 of April, the Sunday of Passover of the Resurrection.
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Jacques was there many years PDG of the Éditons du Lombard, of Brussels a reference of the cartoon. But it was and was in that condition and action that I knew him as a combatant and militant of the conservative, catholic values - or better traditionalist - anti-communist, etc., etc. We did join some "wars" of the Cold War (we were friends of an important one "routier" of that period, Brian Crozier) and still we tried to find other synergies, by example "African". Jacques was coherent, courageous, religious, with a big sense of humor and friendship. His codes of life had very much to do with the rules of the Knighthood; be faithful to God, fight the good battle, defend the weak, put in the place the haughty and other kinds of wrongdoers. Although they are not very popular customs nowadays, he was not disturbed by this. And so am I. God receives and revives in the day of the Last one Páscoa.P.N.A.M.

http://ofuturopresente.blogspot.com/2007_04_01_archive.html (translated from Portuguese with http://ets.freetranslation.com/ and subsequently polished up by yours truly)

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Died Jacques Jonet, the President of Média-Participations 10 avril 2007 The necrology of the Free Belgium informs us that the Baron Jacques Jonet, the President of the Belgian French holding company Media Participations, deceased April 7 2007. This lawyer to the bar of Brussels was also representing on the order of Malta with Belgium. As president of the holding company owner of the editions Dupuis, it had participated in the negotiations aiming at the conflict resolution that shook the corporation carolorégienne in the last spring.

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Died Jacques Jonet, the President of Média-Participations
10 avril 2007

The necrology of the Free Belgium informs us that the Baron Jacques Jonet, the President of the Belgian French holding company Media Participations, deceased April 7 2007. This lawyer to the bar of Brussels was also representing on the order of Malta with Belgium. As president of the holding company owner of the editions Dupuis, it had participated in the negotiations aiming at the conflict resolution that shook the corporation carolorégienne in the last spring.

http://www.universbd.com/spip.php?breve1974 (translated from French with http://ets.freetranslation.com/ and subsequently polished up by yours truly)

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In 1959, Otto received the Knight Grand-Cross of Honour and Devotion of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta with the Cross of Honorary Professed Member. One of Otto's political secretaries, Jacques G. Jonet, is named as a co-founder of low-profile ultraconservative/fascist European-integration groups as Ordre du Rouvre, the Institut Européen pour la Paix et la Sécurité (IEPS), the Société Internationale de Wilton Park (Wilton Park conferences), and Cercle des Nations. [...] Jonet has been named as a member of Mouvement d'Action pour l'Union de l'Europe (MAUE), the Habsburg-founded Centre of Documentation and Information (CEDI), and CEPIC (of the Opusian Baron de Bonvoisin and Paul Vanden Boeynants, both named as child abusers in the Dutroux X-Files by a combination of X1, X2, and X3). Jonet is suspected of membership in Opus Dei and is the representative of the Belgian Order of Malta, while his wife is a member of the administrative council (anno 2006).

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In 1959, Otto received the Knight Grand-Cross of Honour and Devotion of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta with the Cross of Honorary Professed Member. One of Otto's political secretaries, Jacques G. Jonet, is named as a co-founder of low-profile ultraconservative/fascist European-integration groups as Ordre du Rouvre, the Institut Européen pour la Paix et la Sécurité (IEPS), the Société Internationale de Wilton Park (Wilton Park conferences), and Cercle des Nations.
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Jonet has been named as a member of Mouvement d'Action pour l'Union de l'Europe (MAUE), the Habsburg-founded Centre of Documentation and Information (CEDI), and CEPIC (of the Opusian Baron de Bonvoisin and Paul Vanden Boeynants, both named as child abusers in the Dutroux X-Files by a combination of X1, X2, and X3). Jonet is suspected of membership in Opus Dei and is the representative of the Belgian Order of Malta, while his wife is a member of the administrative council (anno 2006).

http://www.pehi.eu/organisations/introducti...to_von_Habsburg_bio.htm
http://www.verschwoerungen.info/index.php?t..._Habsburg&printable=yes

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The Habsburg network in this table is a reference to this person's central role in setting up and running what this author has been labeling the "Vatican-Paneuropa network". Besides the national branches of Opus Dei and the Knights of Malta, in Belgium this network consisted of such organizations as Mouvement d'Action pour l'Union de l'Europe (MAUE), l'Institut Europeen de Developpement, Académie Europeene des Sciences Politiques, Ordre du Rouvre, the Ligue Internationale de la Liberte (WACL) and Cercle des Nations. All these organizations had overlapping membership and were connected to other, equally reactionary organizations all over Catholic Europe. One of the most important branches in this extremely anti-communist network is the privatized, intelligence-oriented, discussion group Le Cercle, which for over 50 years has brought together questionable individuals connected to European and US intelligence agencies (including CIA heads Casey and Colby, respectively belonging to the Knights of Malta and Opus Dei). It was set up by French prime minister Antoine Pinay and the fascist intelligence agent Jean Violet in the 1950s. Otto von Habsburg acted as a sponsor of Violet. (259) Interestingly, Violet is known to have been a member of Cercle des Nations, meeting here with such men as Baron de Bonvoisin, Paul Vanden Boeynants, Paul Vankerkhoven, de Merode family, lawyer Jacques Jonet and other anti-communist radicals (260). It's probably no surprise to learn then that most, if not all, of these men, including Violet, belonged to Opus Dei and the Knights of Malta (261). It's also known that Violet, Vankerkhoven and Jonet worked closely with Otto von Habsburg (262). Opus Dei has come up more than once in Belgium conspiracy history. BOB officers Gerard Bihay and Guy Dussart informed congressional investigators during a closed session that they had been provided information by two nobles belonging to Opus Dei. These two informed the officers that at least 9 members of Opus Dei were involved in a plan to subvert the Belgian state. Several meetings between the conspirators, which included gendarmerie general Fernand Beaurir (accused of incest and pedophilia) and Paul Vanden Boeynants, would have taken place at Castle Dongelberg, an Opus Dei retreat (263). Interestingly, in 1996, both X2 (264) and Nathalie W. (265) mentioned Dongelberg in their testimonies, referring to it as a location where children had been abused by members of the network. X4 has testified that members of Opus Dei had been among her most sadistic clients (266). [...] [224] ) 1990, Hugo Gijsels, 'De Bende & Co. - 20 jaar destabilizering in België' ('The Gang & Co. - 20 years of destabilization in Belgium'), p. 177-179: "Several authors already pointed out that there exists an interesting similarity between the ideas and persons of such organizations as the CEPIC, the Ordre du Rouvre, the WACL and the Order of Malta [not to mention Opus Dei].* In the early 1970s the leading figures of these organizations regularly met each other at the headquarters of the in 1969 founded Cercle des Nations... Paul Vanden Boeynants, Jo Gerard, Paul Vankerkhoven, Vincent vanden Bossche and Jacques Jonet interact there with a wide array of individuals like prince Francois de Merode, the French lawyer Jean Violet [founder and head of Cercle Pinay], Richard van Wijck, Benoit de Bonvoisin and numerous others. Founded in 1969 by Paul Vankerkhoven, the Cercle des Nations soon became the rotating platter where rightist nobility figures and similar businessmen and politicians could ventilate their anti-democratic and neo-Nazi sympathies without having to hold back. Thus the Cercle organized in April 1970 a reception in honor of the colonel's regime in Greece, a celebration which caused serious incidents between progressive students of the ULB [a university across the street] and participants of the reception. The same scenario could be seen in January 1976 when the Cercle found it necessary -at the initiative of Paul Vankerkhoven- to celebrate the tenth birthday of the dictatorship of Papa Doc Duvalier in Haiti. The magazine L'Eventail, owned by Baron Adelin van Yperseel de Strihou, later taken over by Richard van Wijck, acted as the official publication of the Cercle des Nations. In the 1970s the editorial office indulged itself in lyrical reports about the Greek colonels, the apartheid in South-Africa and the white-minority government in Rhodesia. Paul Vankerkhoven even published in L'Eventail an exclusive interview with his idol Pinochet. While in the 1970s in both Flanders and Walloon a coup is being worked on by ex-colonialists, soldiers, gendarmes and leaders of the extreme right to establish an authoritarian state, the aristocracy of the Cercle openly symphatizes with the dictatorships of Franco in Spain, Salazar in Portugal and Pinochet in Chili. Also the Belgian department of the WACL, which -then more than now- followed a virulent extreme-right course, came to full fruition in the salons of the Cercle under the leadership of Paul Vankerkhoven and baron Adelin van Yperseel de Strihou. The political climate in the Cercle and the WACL is then virtually identical. While the Cercle organizes receptions for the most depraved dictatorships, the WACL directors takes up dictators as Somoza, Stroessner and Pinochet in her ranks and opens the doors for Nazi organizations and even for the Argentinian death squads of Lopez Rega. The interesting connection between the CEPIC, the Cercle des Nations and the WACL has a simple reason: the three organizations are led by the same figures of which most also are members of or maintain good relations with the Ordre du Rouvre and the Order of Malta."

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The Habsburg network in this table is a reference to this person's central role in setting up and running what this author has been labeling the "Vatican-Paneuropa network". Besides the national branches of Opus Dei and the Knights of Malta, in Belgium this network consisted of such organizations as Mouvement d'Action pour l'Union de l'Europe (MAUE), l'Institut Europeen de Developpement, Académie Europeene des Sciences Politiques, Ordre du Rouvre, the Ligue Internationale de la Liberte (WACL) and Cercle des Nations. All these organizations had overlapping membership and were connected to other, equally reactionary organizations all over Catholic Europe. One of the most important branches in this extremely anti-communist network is the privatized, intelligence-oriented, discussion group Le Cercle, which for over 50 years has brought together questionable individuals connected to European and US intelligence agencies (including CIA heads Casey and Colby, respectively belonging to the Knights of Malta and Opus Dei). It was set up by French prime minister Antoine Pinay and the fascist intelligence agent Jean Violet in the 1950s. Otto von Habsburg acted as a sponsor of Violet. (259)

Interestingly, Violet is known to have been a member of Cercle des Nations, meeting here with such men as Baron de Bonvoisin, Paul Vanden Boeynants, Paul Vankerkhoven, de Merode family, lawyer Jacques Jonet and other anti-communist radicals (260). It's probably no surprise to learn then that most, if not all, of these men, including Violet, belonged to Opus Dei and the Knights of Malta (261). It's also known that Violet, Vankerkhoven and Jonet worked closely with Otto von Habsburg (262).

Opus Dei has come up more than once in Belgium conspiracy history. BOB officers Gerard Bihay and Guy Dussart informed congressional investigators during a closed session that they had been provided information by two nobles belonging to Opus Dei. These two informed the officers that at least 9 members of Opus Dei were involved in a plan to subvert the Belgian state. Several meetings between the conspirators, which included gendarmerie general Fernand Beaurir (accused of incest and pedophilia) and Paul Vanden Boeynants, would have taken place at Castle Dongelberg, an Opus Dei retreat (263). Interestingly, in 1996, both X2 (264) and Nathalie W. (265) mentioned Dongelberg in their testimonies, referring to it as a location where children had been abused by members of the network. X4 has testified that members of Opus Dei had been among her most sadistic clients (266).
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[224] *) 1990, Hugo Gijsels, 'De Bende & Co. - 20 jaar destabilizering in België' ('The Gang & Co. - 20 years of destabilization in Belgium'), p. 177-179: "Several authors already pointed out that there exists an interesting similarity between the ideas and persons of such organizations as the CEPIC, the Ordre du Rouvre, the WACL and the Order of Malta [not to mention Opus Dei]. In the early 1970s the leading figures of these organizations regularly met each other at the headquarters of the in 1969 founded Cercle des Nations... Paul Vanden Boeynants, Jo Gerard, Paul Vankerkhoven, Vincent vanden Bossche and Jacques Jonet interact there with a wide array of individuals like prince Francois de Merode, the French lawyer Jean Violet [founder and head of Cercle Pinay], Richard van Wijck, Benoit de Bonvoisin and numerous others. Founded in 1969 by Paul Vankerkhoven, the Cercle des Nations soon became the rotating platter where rightist nobility figures and similar businessmen and politicians could ventilate their anti-democratic and neo-Nazi sympathies without having to hold back. Thus the Cercle organized in April 1970 a reception in honor of the colonel's regime in Greece, a celebration which caused serious incidents between progressive students of the ULB [a university across the street] and participants of the reception. The same scenario could be seen in January 1976 when the Cercle found it necessary -at the initiative of Paul Vankerkhoven- to celebrate the tenth birthday of the dictatorship of Papa Doc Duvalier in Haiti.

The magazine L'Eventail, owned by Baron Adelin van Yperseel de Strihou, later taken over by Richard van Wijck, acted as the official publication of the Cercle des Nations. In the 1970s the editorial office indulged itself in lyrical reports about the Greek colonels, the apartheid in South-Africa and the white-minority government in Rhodesia. Paul Vankerkhoven even published in L'Eventail an exclusive interview with his idol Pinochet. While in the 1970s in both Flanders and Walloon a coup is being worked on by ex-colonialists, soldiers, gendarmes and leaders of the extreme right to establish an authoritarian state, the aristocracy of the Cercle openly symphatizes with the dictatorships of Franco in Spain, Salazar in Portugal and Pinochet in Chili.

Also the Belgian department of the WACL, which -then more than now- followed a virulent extreme-right course, came to full fruition in the salons of the Cercle under the leadership of Paul Vankerkhoven and baron Adelin van Yperseel de Strihou. The political climate in the Cercle and the WACL is then virtually identical. While the Cercle organizes receptions for the most depraved dictatorships, the WACL directors takes up dictators as Somoza, Stroessner and Pinochet in her ranks and opens the doors for Nazi organizations and even for the Argentinian death squads of Lopez Rega.

The interesting connection between the CEPIC, the Cercle des Nations and the WACL has a simple reason: the three organizations are led by the same figures of which most also are members of or maintain good relations with the Ordre du Rouvre and the Order of Malta."

http://www.pehi.eu/dutroux/Belgian_X_dossie..._the_Dutroux_affair.htm
http://www.scribd.com/doc/276769/Beyond-the-Dutroux-Affair

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Fred Monroe Zeder II

2008-09-02T11:28:00.004+02:00

Fred Monroe Zeder II - Ambassador; Chairman and CEO of Hydrometals Corporation; Chairman o/t board of Paradise Cruise Corporation in Hawaii; Director of the Office of Territorial Affairs; President and CEO of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC);...

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Ambassador Fred Monroe Zeder II, whose distinguished career spanned both public and private sectors, died March 12 at the age of 82 in Pebble Beach, California, following a brief illness. A fighter pilot in World War II, Zeder participated in the U.S. invasion and repatriation of Attu and Kiska Islands in the North Pacific. He flew both P-40 and P-38 fighters, retiring from the Air Force Reserve in 1951 with the rank of major. Zeder was familiar with high speeds. In 1941, he won a national hydroplane racing championship. He was also a Golden Gloves semifinalist. was admitted to the Young Presidents’ Organization in 1960.University of Michigan. His roommate was Prescott Bush, brother of George H. Bush. Gerald Ford was the university's star football player at the time. After the war, Zeder received his degree from the University of California at Los Angeles. His first enterprise was Zeder Talbott, Inc., an advertising and marketing company based in Los Angeles. In 1960, Zeder moved to Connecticut to create the Chrysler-Zeder sports car. One hundred were made in Italy (picture). He obtained an interest in cars from his father who worked with Walter Chrysler in 1924 as head of engineering at the newly formed Chrysler-Zeder Corporation. Previous to this effort, his father had developed the "Zeder Car" at Studebaker which featured a high compression engine. From 1956 to 1975, Zeder was chairman and CEO of Hydrometals Corporation, a diversified manufacturing company that he moved from New York to Dallas in the early 1960s. He brought the company from near bankruptcy to an international business listed on the New York stock exchange. The company was sold to Wallace Murray Co. in 1979. In 1960, he was admitted to the Young Presidents’ Organization. He served as chairman of the board of Paradise Cruise Corporation in Hawaii from 1978 to the present. Zeder first entered government service in 1971 when elected to the City Council in Dallas, Texas, where he also served on the Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Airport Board. President Gerald Ford appointed Zeder in 1974 to serve in the U.S. Department of the Interior as director of the Office of Territorial Affairs with oversight for U.S. policy and programs relating to American Samoa, Guam, the Virgin Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. In 1982, the U.S. Senate confirmed President Ronald Reagan’s appointment of Zeder as the President’s personal representative for Micronesian status negotiations. Holding the rank of ambassador, Zeder negotiated the historic Compact of Free Association. The Compact was a unique agreement that created a relationship of Free Association between the U.S. and the independent countries of the Republic of Palau, Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of the Marshall Islands. The agreement facilitated the movement of the Island groups from governmental control under the UN Trusteeship of the Pacific Islands(TTPI) administered by The U.S. to the status of newly independent countries. The uniqueness of the Compacts that Zeder fostered, is found in the close working relationship between the U.S. and the Compact countries while allowing their complete independence and self-government. The Compacts were detailed agreements that provide funding and technical assistance while permitting the citizens of Compact countries to live, obtain education and work in the U.S. The U.S. also provides military security that mutually benefits the U.S. and the Compact countries. Approval of the Compacts by Congress also cleared the way for a fourth island group, the Marianas Islands, to become a Commonwealth of the U.S. Zeder was appointed by President George H. W. Bush in 1988 as president and CEO of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC). In this role, Zeder promoted private investment and supported U.S. national interests in 130 countries. Under his leadership, OPIC played a major role on behalf of President Bush in supporting the Solidarity Union reform movement that ended communist rule in Poland. Following Poland, Zeder and OPIC turned their attention to each Eastern European country that emerged from communist rule. Similar efforts were made in the Soviet Union, Nicaragua, and Panama. Zeder served as district director of the National Alliance of Businessmen, vice chairman of the Committee of Publicly Owned Companies, and a founding member of the World Business Council. He served as a special advisor to the Fund for America’s Future from 1987 to 1988, a member of the board of directors of the U.S. Air Force Academy, and a trustee of the George H. W. Bush Library. He was also a decorated Knight of Malta. Zeder was married to the late Martha Blood for 57 years, with whom he had five children. In 2001 he married Dorothy Post Rodgers.

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Ambassador Fred Monroe Zeder II, whose distinguished career spanned both public and private sectors, died March 12 at the age of 82 in Pebble Beach, California, following a brief illness.

A fighter pilot in World War II, Zeder participated in the U.S. invasion and repatriation of Attu and Kiska Islands in the North Pacific. He flew both P-40 and P-38 fighters, retiring from the Air Force Reserve in 1951 with the rank of major. Zeder was familiar with high speeds. In 1941, he won a national hydroplane racing championship. He was also a Golden Gloves semifinalist. was admitted to the Young Presidents’ Organization in 1960.University of Michigan. His roommate was Prescott Bush, brother of George H. Bush. Gerald Ford was the university's star football player at the time. After the war, Zeder received his degree from the University of California at Los Angeles. His first enterprise was Zeder Talbott, Inc., an advertising and marketing company based in Los Angeles.

In 1960, Zeder moved to Connecticut to create the Chrysler-Zeder sports car. One hundred were made in Italy (picture). He obtained an interest in cars from his father who worked with Walter Chrysler in 1924 as head of engineering at the newly formed Chrysler-Zeder Corporation. Previous to this effort, his father had developed the "Zeder Car" at Studebaker which featured a high compression engine.

From 1956 to 1975, Zeder was chairman and CEO of Hydrometals Corporation, a diversified manufacturing company that he moved from New York to Dallas in the early 1960s. He brought the company from near bankruptcy to an international business listed on the New York stock exchange. The company was sold to Wallace Murray Co. in 1979. In 1960, he was admitted to the Young Presidents’ Organization. He served as chairman of the board of Paradise Cruise Corporation in Hawaii from 1978 to the present.

Zeder first entered government service in 1971 when elected to the City Council in Dallas, Texas, where he also served on the Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Airport Board.

President Gerald Ford appointed Zeder in 1974 to serve in the U.S. Department of the Interior as director of the Office of Territorial Affairs with oversight for U.S. policy and programs relating to American Samoa, Guam, the Virgin Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.

In 1982, the U.S. Senate confirmed President Ronald Reagan’s appointment of Zeder as the President’s personal representative for Micronesian status negotiations. Holding the rank of ambassador, Zeder negotiated the historic Compact of Free Association. The Compact was a unique agreement that created a relationship of Free Association between the U.S. and the independent countries of the Republic of Palau, Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of the Marshall Islands. The agreement facilitated the movement of the Island groups from governmental control under the UN Trusteeship of the Pacific Islands(TTPI) administered by The U.S. to the status of newly independent countries. The uniqueness of the Compacts that Zeder fostered, is found in the close working relationship between the U.S. and the Compact countries while allowing their complete independence and self-government. The Compacts were detailed agreements that provide funding and technical assistance while permitting the citizens of Compact countries to live, obtain education and work in the U.S. The U.S. also provides military security that mutually benefits the U.S. and the Compact countries.

Approval of the Compacts by Congress also cleared the way for a fourth island group, the Marianas Islands, to become a Commonwealth of the U.S.

Zeder was appointed by President George H. W. Bush in 1988 as president and CEO of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC). In this role, Zeder promoted private investment and supported U.S. national interests in 130 countries. Under his leadership, OPIC played a major role on behalf of President Bush in supporting the Solidarity Union reform movement that ended communist rule in Poland. Following Poland, Zeder and OPIC turned their attention to each Eastern European country that emerged from communist rule. Similar efforts were made in the Soviet Union, Nicaragua, and Panama.

Zeder served as district director of the National Alliance of Businessmen, vice chairman of the Committee of Publicly Owned Companies, and a founding member of the World Business Council. He served as a special advisor to the Fund for America’s Future from 1987 to 1988, a member of the board of directors of the U.S. Air Force Academy, and a trustee of the George H. W. Bush Library. He was also a decorated Knight of Malta.

Zeder was married to the late Martha Blood for 57 years, with whom he had five children. In 2001 he married Dorothy Post Rodgers.

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Burton Gerber

2008-09-02T11:28:00.003+02:00

Burton Gerber - CIA Case Officer; CIA Station Chief in Moscow during the Cold War; CFR and Royal Society for Asian Affairs Member; Board of Directors of SHARE (food network)

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Worcester, MA - Former CIA Case Officer Burton Gerber has always possessed a unique willingness to experiment and take on new things. Growing up as a newspaper delivery boy in smalltown Ohio during the World War II era, Gerber quickly became fascinated with world affairs and the military. This fascination would eventually lead him to an exciting, unpredictable and lengthy career in the CIA. Gerber shared his story of career development and offered advice to Assumption College students in Professor Jeanne McNett's Management and Organizational Behavior (MGT 100) course on the afternoon of March 21, 2006. During his career in the CIA, Gerber lived and worked in Germany, Bulgaria, Iran, Yugoslavia, and Russia as well as the United States. His basic duty was to recruit international spies in order to gain intelligence on foreign countries for the benefit of the U.S. Gerber refers to his work in the CIA as "not normal activity." He was trained in various psychological and intellectual methods in order to perform his recruiting tasks. Gerber stated that the goal of this line of work is to "get things that can't be gotten through any other means." His missions forced him to learn several foreign languages including German, Bulgarian, Russian, and Farsi. Gerber also conducted intelligence missions in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. Often times Gerber didn't know what the next step of a mission would involve but as he puts it, "Your time is never your own. It's the government's time." In his presentation to Assumption students, Gerber also provided some career and life advice. He stressed the importance of training, the willingness to experiment and overcome apprehensions, and loyalty. Gerber will speak formally at Assumption on Wednesday, March 22 at 7:00 p.m. His lecture will address “Intelligence Challenges in the 21st Century: Terrorism/Proliferation/Civil Liberties.” The event will be held in the La Maison Francaise Auditorium and is free and open to the public. Gerber spent 39 years with the CIA primarily in operations related to the former Soviet Union and the former Warsaw Pact countries. He served with distinction in some of the most challenging overseas posts, including as Station Chief in Moscow during the Cold War. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the recipient of the CIA’s Distinguished Intelligence Medal among other CIA honors. Gerber, at the request of U.S. Government agencies and other organizations, often lectures on ethics as related to public policy and intelligence. He is also a frequent guest lecturer with Georgetown University's Security Studies Program and recently edited a book on U.S. Intelligence entitled Transforming U.S. Intelligence with Jennifer Sims by Georgetown Press. This public lecture is sponsored by the Office of Academic Affairs. For more information, please contact the Office of Public Affairs at (508)767-7160 or acpa@assumption.edu.

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Worcester, MA - Former CIA Case Officer Burton Gerber has always possessed a unique willingness to experiment and take on new things.

Growing up as a newspaper delivery boy in smalltown Ohio during the World War II era, Gerber quickly became fascinated with world affairs and the military. This fascination would eventually lead him to an exciting, unpredictable and lengthy career in the CIA.

Gerber shared his story of career development and offered advice to Assumption College students in Professor Jeanne McNett's Management and Organizational Behavior (MGT 100) course on the afternoon of March 21, 2006.

During his career in the CIA, Gerber lived and worked in Germany, Bulgaria, Iran, Yugoslavia, and Russia as well as the United States. His basic duty was to recruit international spies in order to gain intelligence on foreign countries for the benefit of the U.S. Gerber refers to his work in the CIA as "not normal activity." He was trained in various psychological and intellectual methods in order to perform his recruiting tasks. Gerber stated that the goal of this line of work is to "get things that can't be gotten through any other means."

His missions forced him to learn several foreign languages including German, Bulgarian, Russian, and Farsi. Gerber also conducted intelligence missions in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. Often times Gerber didn't know what the next step of a mission would involve but as he puts it, "Your time is never your own. It's the government's time."

In his presentation to Assumption students, Gerber also provided some career and life advice. He stressed the importance of training, the willingness to experiment and overcome apprehensions, and loyalty.

Gerber will speak formally at Assumption on Wednesday, March 22 at 7:00 p.m. His lecture will address “Intelligence Challenges in the 21st Century: Terrorism/Proliferation/Civil Liberties.” The event will be held in the La Maison Francaise Auditorium and is free and open to the public.

Gerber spent 39 years with the CIA primarily in operations related to the former Soviet Union and the former Warsaw Pact countries. He served with distinction in some of the most challenging overseas posts, including as Station Chief in Moscow during the Cold War. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the recipient of the CIA’s Distinguished Intelligence Medal among other CIA honors. Gerber, at the request of U.S. Government agencies and other organizations, often lectures on ethics as related to public policy and intelligence. He is also a frequent guest lecturer with Georgetown University's Security Studies Program and recently edited a book on U.S. Intelligence entitled Transforming U.S. Intelligence with Jennifer Sims by Georgetown Press.

This public lecture is sponsored by the Office of Academic Affairs. For more information, please contact the Office of Public Affairs at (508)767-7160 or acpa@assumption.edu.

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At the Allied Museum, standing in front of a section of the Berlin tunnel. From left: Oleg Gordievsky, Burton Gerber, Helmut Trotnow, Oleg Kalugin, Peter Sichel. (Photo: W. Durie)

https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/summer00/art01.html

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Speaker Biography: BURTON L. GERBER Mr. Gerber served in the Central Intelligence Agency for 39 years as a case officer and Chief of Station. He worked primarily in operations concerned with the former Soviet Union and the former Warsaw Pact countries. In three Communist countries he was the CIA's Chief of Station. In Washington for eight years he directed the Agency's operational programs in the Soviet Union and Europe. Mr. Gerber has received CIA's Distinguished Intelligence Medal, Intelligence Commendation Medal and William J. Donovan Award. On three occasions he was designated a Meritorious Officer. After his retirement in 1995 Mr. Gerber has spoken and written on questions of espionage and ethics and the importance of espionage and intelligence in the war on terrorism. He has particularly focused on the need to respect civil liberties and human rights in fighting terrorism. Mr. Gerber has also spoken on business ethics and ethics in public service. With Professor Jennifer Sims of Georgetown University, he is the co-editor of and contributor to Transforming U.S. Intelligence, published by Georgetown University Press in September 2005. Mr. Gerber is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs. He is a member of the Board of Directors of SHARE, a food network, and of the Board of Visitors of James Madison College at Michigan State University. He is a Knight of Malta. Mr. Gerber graduated with high honor from Michigan State University in 1955 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations. With his late wife Rosalie, Mr. Gerber endowed scholarships at Michigan State University, Beta Theta Pi Fraternity and Assumption College in Worcester, MA.

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Speaker Biography:

BURTON L. GERBER

Mr. Gerber served in the Central Intelligence Agency for 39 years as a case officer and Chief of Station. He worked primarily in operations concerned with the former Soviet Union and the former Warsaw Pact countries. In three Communist countries he was the CIA's Chief of Station. In Washington for eight years he directed the Agency's operational programs in the Soviet Union and Europe. Mr. Gerber has received CIA's Distinguished Intelligence Medal, Intelligence Commendation Medal and William J. Donovan Award. On three occasions he was designated a Meritorious Officer.

After his retirement in 1995 Mr. Gerber has spoken and written on questions of espionage and ethics and the importance of espionage and intelligence in the war on terrorism. He has particularly focused on the need to respect civil liberties and human rights in fighting terrorism. Mr. Gerber has also spoken on business ethics and ethics in public service.

With Professor Jennifer Sims of Georgetown University, he is the co-editor of and contributor to Transforming U.S. Intelligence, published by Georgetown University Press in September 2005.

Mr. Gerber is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs. He is a member of the Board of Directors of SHARE, a food network, and of the Board of Visitors of James Madison College at Michigan State University. He is a Knight of Malta.

Mr. Gerber graduated with high honor from Michigan State University in 1955 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations. With his late wife Rosalie, Mr. Gerber endowed scholarships at Michigan State University, Beta Theta Pi Fraternity and Assumption College in Worcester, MA.

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Volunteer Projects Members of the Order (and their families) who are interested in participating in one of these activities should contact the Regional Hospitaller. The phone/fax number is available in Federal Association Directory. Project SHARE Food distribution center Contact: Burton Gerber, Stephen Gavin

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GERBER BURTON LEE
Germany 1957-1965 Bulgaria 1966-1968 Iran 1973-1975 Yugoslavia 1976-1979
USSR 1979-1982

* Assn. Former Intelligence Officers. Membership Directory. 1996
* Bearden,M. Risen,J. The Main Enemy. 2004
* Council on Foreign Relations. Membership Roster. 2004
* Covert Action Information Bulletin 1980-#8 (34)
* Kessler,R. Escape from the CIA. 1991 (13-4, 49-52, 55-6, 100, 147-8, 173, 209)
* Mader,J. Who's Who in CIA. 1968
* New York Times 1994-03-08 (A19)
* New York Times 1994-07-28 (A13)
* Smith,J. List of CIA Agents. 1985
* State Dept. Biographic Register. 1977
* Vanity Fair 1994-07 (91, 126)
* Washington Post 1994-09-25 (A10)
* Washington Times 1994-04-14 (A3)
* Washington Times 1994-09-29 (A3)
* Washington Times 1994-10-01 (A4)
* Wise,D. Nightmover. 1995 (110-1, 128-32, 167, 171, 308-9)
* Wise,D. The Spy Who Got Away. 1988 (12, 16-7, 127)

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Delano Eugene Lewis

2008-09-02T11:27:00.003+02:00

Delano Eugene Lewis - President and CEO of Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company; President and CEO of National Public Radio (NPR); Director, Chairman of Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee; Director of Colgate-Palmolive Co.; Director of Africare and Foundation Schools; etc, etc...

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Personal Information

Born Delano Eugene Lewis, November 12, 1938, in Arkansas City, KS; son of a railroad employee and a beautician; married; wife's name, Gayle; children: Delano, Jr., Geoffrey, Brian, Phillip.
Education: University of Kansas, B.A., 1960; Washburn School of Law, J.D., 1963.

Career

U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, attorney, 1963-65; Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Washington, DC, attorney in Office of Analysis and Advice; U.S. Peace Corps, volunteer associate director in Nigeria and country director in Uganda, 1966-69; Office of Senator Edward Brooke, Washington, DC, legislative assistant, 1969-71; Office of Congressman Walter E. Fauntroy, Washington, DC, legislative assistant, 1971-73. Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company, Washington, DC, began as public affairs manager, 1973, became vice president, 1983, president, 1988, and chief executive officer, 1990. National Public Radio (NPR), Washington, DC, named president and chief executive officer, 1993; assumed office, 1994--. National Information Infrastructure (NII), member of advisory council, 1994. Has served on numerous boards of directors and in philanthropic organizations, including Greater Washington Board of Trade, Eugene and Agnes Meyer Foundation, Mainstream, Africare, Washington Performing Arts Society, and D.C. Vocational Education and Career Opportunities Commission.

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Awards

Named a "Washingtonian of the Year" by Washingtonian magazine, 1978; President's Medal from Catholic University, 1978; named to Sovereign Military Order of Malta, 1987. Honorary degrees from Marymount University, George Washington University, and Bowie State University.

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The Honorable Delano E. Lewis, Sr., President of the Constituency for Africa, emceed the Africare dinner

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Delano E. Lewis
Director, Chairman of Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee, Member of Personnel & Organization Committee and Member of Finance Committee, Colgate-Palmolive Co.

Delano E. Lewis served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company (C&P), a subsidiary of Bell Atlantic Corporation, from 1988 to 1993. Mr. Lewis served as Vice President of Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company from 1983 to 1988. he began his career in government in 1963 as an attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice. He joined C&P in 1973. He served at National Public Radio [NPR] as its President and Chief Executive Officer ... from 1994 to 1998, and later as Chairman of the NPR Foundation. Mr. Lewis has been Director of Colgate-Palmolive Co. since 2001, Eastman Kodak Co. since July 2001, Government Employees Insurance Company, Inc. since 1989 and BET Holdings, Inc. since 1994. He serves as a Director of Africare and Foundation Schools. He served as a Director of KnowledgeMax Inc. (formerly Sideware Systems Inc.) since May 2002, Colgate-Palmolive Co. from 1991 to 1999, Eastman Kodak Company from May 1998 to December 1999 and C&P Telephone Company from 1983 to 1993. Mr. Lewis served as Director of Chalk Media Corp., since July 19, 2006 until December 2007. He was named Director of the Peace Corps' East and Southern Africa Division. He serves as Chairman of United Way Campaign, D.C. Youth Employment Advisory Council and Co-chair of The National Information Infrastructure Advisory Council [NIIAC] from 1994 to 1996. He served as Chairman of Eugene and Agnes Meyer Foundation. He has been President of Greater Washington Board of Trade. His lifetime of social, philanthropic, and outreach activities was capped when President Clinton appointed him to be U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of South Africa in December 1999, where he served until his retirement from diplomatic service in July 2001. He worked in the Peace Corps as Associate Director in Nigeria and Country Director in Uganda from 1966 to 1969. In the past, he has served on the boards of Apple Computer, Chase Manhattan Corporation, Halliburton Company, Black Entertainment Television, and the Eugene and Agnes Meyer Foundation. Mr. Lewis has also served on the Peace Corps staff in Africa and on the staff of the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the United States Department of Justice. He continued his public service on Capitol Hill as Legislative Assistant to Senator Edward Brooke of Massachusetts and later as Administrative Assistant to Delegate Walter E. Fauntroy of the District of Columbia. In 1992, he participated in President-elect Clinton's Economic Summit. Among many honors and awards, Mr. Lewis was named 'Washingtonian of The Year' and awarded Catholic University's America's President Award and the Sovereign Order Of Malta. He has also received honorary degrees from George Washington University, Marymount University and Bowie State University, Kent State University and Lafayette College. With an educational background in Political Science, History and Law, he held memberships in the Kansas and District of Columbia Bar Associations. Mr. Lewis received a BA from University of Kansas and a JD from Washburn School of Law.

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George William Strake

2008-09-02T11:27:00.002+02:00

George William Strake - Pioneering Texas oilman; Director o/t Mercantile-Commerce Bank and Trust Company in St. Louis; Chairman o/t Board and President o/t Aluminum Products Company in Houston; Founder o/t Houston Tribune

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Died. George W. Strake, 74, pioneering Texas oilman and pillar of the Roman Catholic Church; of a heart attack; in Columbus, Texas. For five years as a wildcatter, Strake drilled dry well after dry well. Then in 1931 he hit oil in Conroe, Texas, in what proved to be the nation's third biggest field. It brought him a fortune estimated at $100 million, much of which he gave to his church—a beneficence that brought him two of the Vatican's highest honors for a layman—the Order of St. Sylvester and the Order of Malta.

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STRAKE, GEORGE WILLIAM (1894-1969). George William Strake, pioneer oilman and philanthropist, was born on November 9, 1894, in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of William George and Anna (Casper) Strake. He was educated in the public schools of St. Louis and received a B.S. degree from St. Louis University in 1917. He served in the United States Army Air Corps in World War I,qv then worked in the oil industry in Mexico from 1919 to 1925. Afterwards, he went to Havana, Cuba, where he lost almost all of the $250,000 he had made in Mexico. In 1927 Strake moved to the Houston area and, as an independent oilman, leased land near Conroe. His 8,500 acres of South Texas Development Company land was the largest block of land leased up to that time for oil exploration. Geologists claimed that no oil was to be found there, however, and Strake could not get outside financial backing; nevertheless, after drilling many dry wells, he struck oil in December 1931. Other successful wells followed in the Conroe oilfield,qv which proved to be the third largest oilfield in the United States. Strake's discovery proved that the Cockfield sand was an oil-producing formation and opened wildcatting in an area fifty miles wide and 500 miles long, from Texas into Louisiana and Mississippi. His oil operations eventually spread into coastal and West Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, the southern states, and as far north as Michigan and Nebraska. His oil fortune was estimated to be between $100 million and $200 million. In addition to his oil interests, Strake was a director of the Mercantile-Commerce Bank and Trust Company in St. Louis, chairman of the board and president of the Aluminum Products Company in Houston, an original stockholder and founder of the Houston Tribune, and an officer in many other companies. In 1937 he represented the governor and the state of Texas at the United States presidential inauguration, and during World War II he served on the citizens' committee for Houston-Harris County civil defense and as Texas representative for Belgian war relief.

Strake, a devout Catholic, gave much of his oil fortune to educational institutions, civic organizations, and charities. He served on the national executive board of the Boy Scouts of America and donated several thousand acres near Conroe to the scouts; the land, named Camp Strake, was the third largest scout camp in the United States. Strake donated $500,000 to the St. Joseph's Hospital Foundation in Houston and thus became a founding benefactor of that institution. He was also a generous contributor to the University of St. Thomas and a member of its board of trustees, and to Strake Jesuit College Preparatory School in Houston, which was named in his honor. He was on the board of the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, served Our Lady of the Lake College (now Our Lady of the Lake University) in San Antonio in an advisory capacity, and was a trustee of the Institute of Chinese Culture in Washington. He was also on the board of governors of the American National Red Cross and the Southwest Research Institute and was a trustee of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Strake was cited as the most generous contributor to the Houston-Harris County United Fund charities. He was a member of numerous professional and civic organizations. In recognition of his gifts and support, Strake received several honorary degrees and four papal honors between 1937 and 1950, including two of the Vatican's highest honors for a layman-the Order of St. Sylvester and the Order of Malta. The National Conference of Christians and Jews, in which he served as a member of the national board, honored him in 1950 for outstanding contributions to business, civic, and religious affairs. On June 5, 1957, the citizens of Conroe honored Strake on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the discovery of oil in Montgomery County by dedicating a monument to him on the city hall lawn; Governor Price Daniel read a proclamation designating the day George W. Strake Day in Montgomery County. Strake was married to Susan E. Kehoe on September 10, 1924, and they had three children. He died on August 6, 1969, in Columbus, while on a trip to San Antonio, and was buried in the Garden of Gethsemane Cemetery in Houston.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Houston Chronicle, June 4, 5, 1957, August 7, 1969. Houston Post, May 1, 1966, August 7, 1969. Time, August 15, 1969. Vertical Files, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin. Who's Who in the South and Southwest, Vol. 2.
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Rupert zu Löwenstein

2008-09-02T11:26:00.000+02:00

Prince Rupert zu Löwenstein - President of the British Association of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta; London Based Merchant Banker; Chief Financial Adviser to the Rolling Stones

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Mick Jagger's secret divorce

He's outlasted Jerry, Bianca and Carla and helped the Stones earn £1 BILLION. But now the man they call Rupie The Groupie has quit, what will the famously frugal Mick do without him?

Guests couldn't believe their eyes. There he was, Mick Jagger, one of the most famous rock stars in the world, chasing his manager round London's Savoy hotel, screaming: "Where's my money? Where's my money?"

The Rolling Stone could not believe that after making massive international hits such as Satisfaction and Jumpin' Jack Flash, he and the rest of his band were stony broke.

Not only that, they owed massive back taxes and, worse still, had signed away the rights to their songs.

Rolling in it: From left, Keith Richards, Prince Rupert Loewenstein and Mick Jagger

Jagger blamed one man for the mess: the Stones' manager Allen Klein. To this day, he resents the fact that Klein holds the rights to all their recordings before 1970.

"From Brown Sugar onwards, the Stones get a reasonable amount of royalties if you hear a song on the radio," says one Stones source.

"But for the records before that, they get something like half a penny. Mick still regards it as a complete rip-off."

The man he brought in to sort out this financial mess was Prince Rupert Loewenstein - an impeccably well-connected Catholic banker, with a cut-glass accent and a fondness for sombre, yet expensive, suits.

Ever since, this jovial character has made an incongruous addition to the Stones' entourage - holding court quietly backstage and at parties -unfortified by so much as a sip of alcohol.

Jerry Hall nicknamed him "Rupie The Groupie" because she mischievously guessed that it would affront the genteel Loewenstein's dignity.

But despite the good-humoured teasing, he has long been an integral part of the Stones family.

Indeed, some would contend that the partnership between Sir Mick and Prince Rupert has shaped the band every bit as much as the combustible relationship between Jagger and Keith Richards.

But all that is now to change, and the seemingly unstoppable Rolling Stones moneymaking machine will no longer be in control.

Last Friday, the band announced that, after 37 years as their manager, Rupie The Groupie was stepping aside.

He won't be replaced, and will continue to give advice on stocks.

Now well into his 70s, this is effectively a retirement - but no one is using the word for fear of offending Prince Rupert.

Yet it's very much the end of an era - and also the end of a partnership which made rock 'n'roll as a profession lucrative in ways that were revolutionary at the time.

Back in 1970, when Prince Rupert took the Stones on, no one imagined that these Sixties symbols of the counter-culture would become, as they aged, multi-millionaires many times over.

But with Prince Rupert's financial acumen and Mick's abiding interest in making and keeping his fortune, that is just what has happened.

The maths is mind-boggling. Their last tour, A Bigger Bang, took an astonishing £220million.

Prince Rupert Loewenstein with Jagger's second wife Jerry Hall

Other tours were equally lucrative: 1997's Bridges To Babylon made £197million.

Three years earlier, Voodoo Lounge made £186 million. Even back in 1989, the Steel Wheels tour earned £100million.

Under Rupie's eye, the Stones are believed to have made £1billion - most from touring and merchandising.

There has been nothing like it in the history of modern music.

No wonder Keith Richards says: "As long as there's a smile on Rupert's face, I'm cool."

Popular legend holds that Prince Rupert had no idea who the Rolling Stones were when he was introduced to Jagger at a party in 1970.

A scion of the royal house of Wittelsbach, a dynasty which ruled Bavaria from 1180 to 1918, Prince Rupert Loewenstein was an obscure merchant banker - albeit with great social connections.

He had begun his career working for an independent bank, Bache & Co, before buying a rival, Leopold Joseph and Sons, in 1963.

Josephs specialised in private clients who earned money in several countries and had a reputation for being hyper-discreet.

Mick, the grammar school boy from Dartford, was immediately impressed.

Prince Rupert certainly appealed to Mick's fiscal sharpness, and perhaps, also, to his love of social climbing.

Marianne Faithfull once talked about the way Jagger would accept invitations from "any silly thing with a title and a castle".

The Prince's first piece of advice was that the whole band should become tax exiles, as the Inland Revenue was in pursuit at the time over unpaid income tax.

Similarly, Rod Stewart, Elton John and David Bowie all left Britain to escape Prime Minister Harold Wilson's top tax rate of 90 per cent.

France was the destination of choice for the Stones in 1971.

Bill Wyman ended up becoming friends with the surrealist artist Marc Chagall; Richards rented a Gothic chateau where the band recorded the album Exile On Main Street.

Jagger, meanwhile, led an itinerant existence.

Bianca, his wife at the time, said they paid illicit visits to London, crawling around their Chelsea house on their hands and knees in an effort not to be spotted.

She later said in court papers during their 1980 divorce: "Throughout our married life, he and I literally lived out of a suitcase in a nomadic journey from one place to another in his quest to avoid income taxes.

"On numerous occasions (when Jagger was in America), he told me he had to keep secret the fact that he was making recordings in Los Angeles, so as not to be forced to pay United States income tax."

Meanwhile, Prince Rupert set about restructuring the Stones as a blue-chip company, with four individual firms set up in Holland, each dealing with a different revenue stream.

That remains the basis of the Stones' financing to this day.

Their early tours used VW camper vans - but this haphazardness quickly became transformed into a professional enterprise on a scale which no other band ever attempted.

The result was an immense entourage, including immigration lawyers and fleets of business managers. All of them, until Friday, answered to Prince Rupert.

What the Stones have done - perhaps in the absence of the massive revenues which other stars get just from their songs being played, thanks to the incompetence of former manager Allen Klein - is to have taken the rock tour to unprecedented levels of profit.

They were the first to spend millions on spectacular staging, and the first to slog around the world for years at a time.

Without the guiding hand of Prince Rupert, surely the band would have folded years ago.

Instead, the Stones have proved innovators in their field.

They were the first to add product sponsorship, doing multi-million-dollar deals with Jovan perfume, Budweiser beer, Volkswagen and the Chase Manhattan Bank.

They reputedly got £6 million for allowing Bill Gates to use a snatch of Start Me Up to promote his Windows software.

Add to this the money from tickets (which are always more expensive than for other groups), record sales and merchandise, and you can see how Sir Mick has amassed his £150million fortune.

Prince Rupert has always been there to advise him on what to do with this money.

Jagger is said to have around £40million in stocks, which Loewenstein manages.

Then there is a £30 million art collection and an impressive property portfolio.

For the most part, business is conducted with discretion - but every now and again there is an unavoidable eruption.

For example, there was uproar when the Stones postponed the four-concert British leg of their Bridges To Babylon tour, complaining that Labour's new tax regulations would have made the shows "uneconomic".

The rules stated that Britons living abroad lost their tax-exempt status if they did any work in the UK.

So, once he discovered that it would cost them £10 million, Prince Rupert advised Jagger to scrap the tour.

But Prince Rupert is, despite his retiring personality, very much at home on tour and, contrary to what Jerry Hall thought, revelled in the "Rupie The Groupie" nickname.

During their long professional association, he has witnessed many of the more dramatic chapters in Jagger's life; watching his marriage to Bianca collapse as he fell for Jerry Hall and being there when, in 1991, Hall, in turn, discovered that he was still seeing the model Carla Bruni.

A furious Hall joined a party thrown by Prince Rupert, before giving Mick an earful and flying back to London.

No one knows, though, just what Loewenstein has made of it all.

He deliberately flies under the radar - hardly ever giving interviews and is rarely photographed, preferring instead the seclusion of his £10million Richmond mansion.

He's happily married to his blonde wife, Josephine - indeed, the couple celebrate their golden wedding anniversary this year.

They have two sons - Rudolf, 49, and Konrad, 48 - who have both devoted their lives to serving God.

Rudolf is a priest, while Konrad became a monk.

This dedication to religion can be seen in their father's status as a high-ranking Knight of Malta - one of the most eminent of all Catholic societies.

However, his daughter, Dora, has worked alongside her father in his West End offices before starting her own PR firm - and even edited a book on the Rolling Stones.

A thoroughly old-school charmer who disdains those sections of society he thinks of as "parvenu" or "nouveau riche", Loewenstein counted Princess Margaret as a close friend, even lending her his Caribbean home as a holiday refuge when her health was worsening.

He is not afraid to issue harsh words about the modern worship of celebrities, which is ironic given his dedication to his famous clients.

But Rupie is terrifically grand, don't forget - he worships at London's Brompton Oratory with his close friend General Sir Charles Guthrie, who was the Chief of the Defence Staff until 2001.

He also likes to lunch at Harry's Bar in South Audley Street, Mayfair, and is believed to be a member of the gentlemen's club Whites.

He was a guest at Imran Khan and Jemima Goldsmith's wedding, as a family friend of the Goldsmith clan.

But surely the defining relationship in his life has been his unlikely alliance with Sir Mick Jagger, the snake-hipped, penny-pinching graduate of the London School of Economics.

Mick's rackety personal life - seven children by four different women, the Balinese marriage with Jerry that never was, and so on - must seem utterly alien to his blueblooded financial adviser.

But the friendship has endured longer than any of Mick's romantic liaisons.

Perhaps it's because of the two men's mutual love - of money.

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The British Association

In Great Britain the Order has a long connection with the Hospital of St. John and St. Elizabeth which is in St. John's Wood, London, and is so named because it was an ancient manor of the Order. Founded in 1875, the British Association of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (BASMOM), as part of the OSJCT (Orders of St John Care Trust), participates in the operation of homes for the aged, in Lincolnshire, Wiltshire, Arundel and Oxfordshire. Currently there are some 2200 residents, the Order being part of the organisation which is the largest provider of protected accommodation in the UK. The Delegation of Scotland and the Northern Marches provides mini-buses for the Order of Malta Dial-a-Journey Service for the disabled. BASMOM also sponsors a leprosy centre in Uganda and a medical centre in Tanzania. The various Associations cooperate in organising pilgrimages to Lourdes and Fatima as well as to other places.

The Order has some 240 British members, many of whom are descended from recusant Catholic families and martyrs. Membership is by invitation, usually after work for the Order. The President of the British Association is Prince Rupert zu Loewenstein (shown here).

In Britain the Order has two auxiliary bodies, the Order of Malta Volunteers in England and the Companions of the Order of Malta in Scotland. They are closely associated with the work of the Order, organising pilgrimages to Lourdes and Walsingham and various fund raising events.

The Grand Priory and offices of the British Association are at Brampton House, The hospital of St. John and St. Elizabeth, in St. John's Wood, London NW8.

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The Rolling Stones, reports Serwer, are a private and secretive organization, and many of their executives, such as chief financial officer Joe Rascoff, tour manager Michael Cohl, and Prince Rupert Lowenstein, a London-based banker who has been the band's business advisor for over 30 years, stay out of the public eye. But they are crucial when it comes to "interlocking" the various businesses linked to the band: touring, merchandising, publishing rights, etc. They oversee a group of four companies--based in the Netherlands, which has a more favorable tax code than the U.K.--each dedicated to a particular side of the business

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APPOINTMENT OF PRINCE RUPERT ZU LOEWENSTEN TO A PAPAL KNIGHT AND HIS PROMOTION TO BAILIFF OF THE SMOM

On 5th December 2006 in a ceremony in the London Oratory, H.S.H. Prince Rupert zu Loewenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg, Count of Loewenstein-Scharffeneck, Vice-President of the Deputation and President of the British Association of the Order was invested as a knight commander with star of the Pontifical Order of St Gregory the Great, in recognition of his services over many years as President of the Friends of the London Oratory, President of the Latin Mass Society, and Chairman (now Chairman Emeritus) of the British section of the Latin Mass society.

Prince Rupert zu Loewenstein has been elevated to the rank of Bailiff Grand Cross of Honour and Devotion of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta; Prince Rupert is president of the British Association of the SMOM.

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Adrian FitzGerald

2008-09-02T11:25:00.004+02:00

Sir Adrian James Andrew Denis FitzGerald - Conservative UK Politician; Editor of the Monday World (o/t Conservative Monday Club); Honorary Alderman o/t Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea; 24th Knight of Kerry

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Sir Adrian is the last in a long line of the Knights of Kerry. He gives a chronological description of the life of each Knight, speaking from the last estate of the Kerry Knights, on Valentia Island.

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Adrian FitzGerald

Sir Adrian James Andrew Denis FitzGerald, 6th Baronet, 24th Knight of Kerry (b. 24 June 1940) is a former Conservative politician in the UK.

Career

He was educated at Harrow and was editor of the Monday World (a periodical of the Conservative Monday Club) from 1967 to 1974. He has also served as a Councillor of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London from 1974 until his retirement in 2002,[1] and as Mayor for 1984–85.

Other interests

Sir Adrian has also served as Chairman of Anglo-Polish Society for 1989–92, and is currently its President. He is vice Chairman of the London Chapter of the Irish Georgian Society and a Patron of the Save Sloane Square campaign[2] and the anti-euthenasia organisation Alert.[3] Sir Adrian is a Knight of Malta, he is currently vice President of the Irish Association of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.

He currently spends his time between his homes in London and Cappoquin, County Waterford, Republic of Ireland.

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Sir Adrian FitzGerald dinner

Sir Adrian FitzGerald, Bart., 24th Knight of Kerry, kindly addressed the League over dinner on the Conservative Monday Club and the history of the Knights of Kerry.

Sir Adrian began by telling of how the Monday Club, of which he was a founder-member, came into being as a result of the dissatisfaction being experienced with the policies of the Tory Party as it was in the 1960s. He outlined the Club's rise from half-a-dozen members to an influential group with many MPs as members. Sir Adrian, during this period, was editor of the Club's journal, Monday World which sought to introduce philosophical thought into right-wing politics. The (somewhat unexpected) radical policies of Margaret Thatcher, however, led to a decline in the influence of the Club by the 1970s. Sir Adrian quoted Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson, who described the Club as "the guardian of the Tory conscience."

Sir Adrian then outlined the history of the Knights of Kerry, the Green Knight, one of only two extant hereditary knighthoods in the United Kingdom. Some of the theories as to how these knighthoods came into existence were discussed, although it is not, as yet, definitive as to why they did and further research in this area is needed.

We are very grateful to Sir Adrian for taking the time to come up to Durham and for his speaking to us. His informative talk was most well received.

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(ii) Question by Councillor Coleman

Will the Chair join me in congratulating Sir Adrian Fitzgerald, Bt., member of the London Fire and Civil Defence Authority from 1985 - 2000 and Leader of the Conservative Group of that Authority from 1994 -2000, on being admitted as an Honorary Alderman of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, in recognition of his service as a Councillor of the Royal Borough from 1974 to 2002, including being Mayor, and in doing so note Sir Adrian's distinguished public service in London and particularly the contribution he has made in the area of fire?

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James Augustine Gobbo

2008-09-02T11:24:00.001+02:00

Sir James Augustine Gobbo - Supreme Court Jurist; Governor of Victoria; Chairman Australian Multicultural Foundation; Chairman Council of the Order of Australia; Chairman Council o/t Electricity Industry Ombudsman

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Chairman Library Council Home Next Member
Sir James Augustine Gobbo, AC, CVO, QC

BA (Hons) (Melb), MA (Oxon), Hon LLD (Monash), Hon LLD (Bologna), DUniv (ACU), Hon LLD (Melb), Hon FAIV

Chairman, Australian Multicultural Foundation

Chairman, Council of the Order of Australia

Reappointed 27 June 2007 for a further three-year term until 26 June 2010.
Former Positions

1997 - 2000: Governor of Victoria

1995 - 1997: Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria

1995 - 1999: Chairman, Council of the Electricity Industry Ombudsman

1995 - 1997: President, Order of Australia Association

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The Governor, Sir James Gobbo, AC (left) discussing HRV Volume 7 with John Meckan, Director Melbourne University Press and Ross Gibbs, Director Public Record Office Victoria.

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James Gobbo

Sir James Augustine Gobbo, AC CVO QC (b. 22 March 1931, Melbourne, Victoria) was an Australian jurist and was the 25th Governor of Victoria.

Family

James Gobbo was born to Italian parents, who returned to Italy briefly before returning to live permanently in Australia in 1938.

Gobbo attended Xavier College before studying law at the University of Melbourne during which time he lived at Newman College. In 1951 he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship, with which he attained a Master of Arts degree at Oxford University.

Gobbo married former librarian Shirley Lewis in 1957, and has five children. His son James Gobbo, Jr. was the Liberal candidate for the district of Bentleigh in the 2006 Victorian legislative election.

Judicial career

After many years as a barrister and later as a Queen's Counsel, Gobbo was appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria, which is the highest ranking court in the Australian State of Victoria. He served from 18 July 1978 until he retired from the bench on 28 February 1994.

Political career

Gobbo served as Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria from 1995 until he was appointed Governor of Victoria in 1997 by the government of Premier Jeff Kennett. He was the first Australian state governor of Italian descent.

In 2000 the new Premier Steve Bracks announced that Gobbo's successor would be John Landy, who would take up his post in January 2001. Gobbo immediately made it known that he had had an understanding with Kennett for an extension of his term beyond 2000, and expressed deep disappointment that this was not now to occur.

After leaving office, Gobbo took up the position of Commissioner for Italy for the Victorian Government until June 2006 and has since continued on various boards and councils.

As of 2006, he is the Chair of the Council of the National Library of Australia and the Council of the Order of Australia and Chair of the Australian Multicultural Foundation.

Honours

Gobbo was knighted in 1982 and became a Companion of the Order of Australia in 1993. He is also a Knight of Malta (see [1]).

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Tangible international links

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Monash chancellor Mr Jerry Ellis, Governor of Victoria Sir James Gobbo and Prato centre director Professor Bill Kent.

The Governor of Victoria, Sir James Gobbo, officially accepted an invitation to become the new patron of Monash University in Prato at a reception at the Monash city offices last week.

Sir James said he had followed the establishment of the Prato centre with great interest, as Monash had become the first Australian university to have a physical presence in Italy.

"It's so important for Australian universities that aspire to achieve the very best in international standards to form valuable international linkages," he said.

"There's no more tangible and effective way to make such linkages work than to be physically present and physically related to the people."

Prato centre director Professor Bill Kent welcomed Sir James, saying there could be no better or distinguished patron.

"He is one of the founding fathers of Australian multiculturalism and a tireless worker for the Italo-Australian community, and is also a champion of closer ties between the two countries," he said.

The reception was attended by about 80 people, including Monash chancellor Mr Jerry Ellis and representatives from the Italian community.

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Ten members of the Association were admitted to the Promise in Obedience in Melbourne and Sydney in the course of 2006: they are (in order of admission) the President, HE Confrere James Dominguez; Confrere the Hon Sir James Gobbo; Confrere Nicholas Tonti-Filippini; Consoeurs Leonie Gallagher and Lady Murray and Confreres Dr George Boffa, Adrian Borg-Cardona, Robert Ward and Kevin Croagh;

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http://www.smom.org.au/pdf/Hospitaller%20P8.pdf (Proof Positive II)

http://www.smom.org.au/pdf/Hospitaller%20P7.pdf (Proof Positive III)

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Roberto Alejos Arzú

2008-09-02T11:23:00.003+02:00

Roberto Alejos Arzú - Guatemalan Sugar Industrialist; Rightwing Anti-Communist Revolutionary; CIA Asset; Leader of SMOM Guatemala

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OTHER COUP D'ETATS

In 1965 HEMMING was involved with Roberto Alejos Arzu in an attempt to overthrow the Government of Guatemala. [CIA Intell. Information Cable IN 74057 10.16.65] The CIA reported that in April 1965 "Roberto Alejos Arzu, Guatemalan millionaire who resided in Miami Beach, Florida, planned the overthrow of the Government of Guatemala in the Spring of 1965, using a group of Cuban emigres he had recruited for the operation. On May 4, 1965, Alejos and Luis Sierra Lopez, military leader of the group, were apprehended and their arms cache seized by United States Government officials. There have been several reports on Alejos' recent involvement in another attempt to overthrow the Guatemalan Government. On October 13, 1965, Armando Medina Montes de Oca, a member of Roberto Alejos Arzu's abortive plot to overthrow the Guatemalan Government in the Spring of 1965, said that the pilot who flew Roberto Alejos to Puerto Barrios, Guatemala, a short time ago [October 13, 1965] was GERALD PATRICK HEMMING. The aircraft landed at Puerto Barrios, Guatemala, where it remained for about two weeks. HEMMING is now in Miami. (Field Comment: HEMMING, an American soldier-of-fortune and United States Marine, has been engaged in Cuban revolutionary activities for about five years. HEMMING, leader of INTERPEN, a guerilla group, was most recently involved in the recruitment of Cuban emigres with guerilla warfare experience who would be willing to fight the Communist guerillas in the Dominican Republic on behalf of General Antonio Imbert Barrera. It is believed this plan never materialized.) Medina intends to give this information to the new Guatemalan Consul General in Miami, hoping that this will sharpen his interest in Alejos. (Field Comment: It was recently reported that Medina accepted an offer of $30,000 to deliver Alejos safely to Guatemalan authorities)." [CIA IN 74057 - 10.16.65 - Source: "A Cuban emigre, former member of a Cuban Commando Group, who is no longer associated with activists. Source is regarded as reliable, and previous reporting from him has proved to be accurate."] HEMMING told this researcher: "We were going to overthrow Montenegro. He was cutting deal with the guerrillas. Alejos didn't like it. He wouldn't let Cuban exiles launch raids against Castro. He eventually got ousted." Before the 1980 election Alejos complained that "most of the elements in the State Department are probably pro-Communist...either Mr. Carter is a totally incapable president or he is definitely a pro-communist element." [Jay Marshall, The Iran-Contra Connection]

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Alejos Arzú

An important theme in the history of the Knights of Malta is its support to the central american counter-revolution through personages such as the Guatemalan Roberto Alejos Arzú, and of private institutions like the Amicares Foundation.

Alejos Arzú has had a long career right-wing activist: 'In 1959, the powerful sugar industrialist Roberto Alejos Arzú, put at the disposal to the Central Intelligence Agency U.S. (CIA) his extensive farm The Helvetia at which Cuban troops and anti-castro mercenaries were to be trained.'

'Of those lands, located in the western part of Retalhuleu, they left toward Port Heads, Nicaragua, from which the would be failure Bay of Pigs invasion was launched...’.

Roberto Alejos Arzú is an uncle of Alvaro Arzú Wilson, who in the 90s was president of Guatemala and also a brother of Mercy Arzú, founder of the pro-life group Family of Americas.

Alejos was one of the characters who two decades ago was important in approaching the conservative government of Reagan, from the start of his campaign. Previously, Alejos had complained that 'The majority of the elements of the State Department probably were pro-communist who were using appeal to human rights as an argument to promote the socialization of these areas. We have arrived to the point of fearing the State Department more than the communist infiltration. Carter is either a completely incompetent president or is downright communistic'.

In April of 1980, Alejos sought sponsorship during a meeting with members of Young Americans for Freedom, the Foundation Heritage, Moral Majority, Young Republicans National Federation, the American Conservative Union and Conservative Digest. During the adminstration of Reagan, Alejos established good contacts with congressmen and officials of the State Department U.S. and even Reagan himself, who did not hesitate to support a government that was anti-communistic.

Alejos has been also one of the leaders of the Knights of Malta in Central America. In December 27, 1984, the Washington Post reported that according to Alejos, ambassador of the Knights of Malta in Honduras, the private foundation called AmeriCares together with the Knights of Malta channeled more than 14 million dollars of medical aid to El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala in the two previous years, and that in Honduras a part of those funds was destined for the Indian miskitos who supported the contras.

In Honduras, AmeriCares began officially its operations in 1985, being diplomatically connected to, and supported by the Knights of Malta. 'As in the Central American remainder, in Honduras AmeriCares worked very close with the Knights of Malta. They support military civic actions and counterrevolutionary programs, but also provide supplies to the Department of Health for clinics in the country'.

In Guatemala a part of the funds mentioned was distributed among the armed forces, like part of a program of relocation by means of 'model villages'. According to Alejos, ‘..... the Guatemalan army sends medicines of AmeriCares to the people of the model villages along the border with Mexico'.

Besides, the Association of the Air Command, of Fort Walton Beach, said to have used installations of the Knights of Malta in El Salvador. The retired general H. C. Aderholt, leader of the group of 1500 members affirmed that the command sent food and medicines to the Knights and that jointly 'we gave good support to the Salvadorian air command'. According to Aderholt, the association mentioned has distributed to El Salvador 4,5 million in food and well-proportioned medicines by the Christian Broadcasting Network and World Medical Relief. In turn, Russ Bellant, in the Detroit Metro Times of October 9, 1985, stated that Aderholt claimed that the Christian Broadcasting Network of Pat Robertson had given the Knights of Malta 2 million dollars for operations in Central America.

The American magnate J. Peter Grace, of the Knights of Malta, has said that he initiated the medical shipments to Central America in 1983 based on the notion that AmeriCares and the Knights worked together in the region. Grace presided the American Institute for Free Work Development (AIFLD), an organization linked to the CIA, and was also member of the American Committee of Liberation of the Bolshevism, a group also linked to the CIA, and that helped ex-officials of the Nazi intelligence to escape from the pursuit.

At the beginning of the 90s, Marvin Bush, son of the president Bush sr, accompanied the second shipment of AmeriCares to Nicaragua. The cargo was received by Roberto Alejos, in the capacity of representative of the Knights of Malta. Prescott Bush jr, uncle of the current president Bush, is member of the Knights of Malta, and of the executive counsel of AmeriCares. As it has been mentioned, member of the Knights of Malta William Simon belonged also to the national counsel of Prodemca, an organization that along with the Knights has been involved in the support for the contras and to other groups of anti-sandinista opposition in Nicaragua.

It suits to add that in Mexico, after the earthquake of 1985, AmeriCares did an air shipment of more than 1.5 million in medical equipment. As in other countries, its work has been supported by the Knights of Malta, whose president has been José Muddy Chávez, a character who at the end of the 90s, like the president of the Red Cross, was publicly opposed to the distribution and use of condoms. The organization SHARE distributed in Mexico vaccines of Americares that had been rejected in Philippines, as 'unnecessary and potentially dangerous'.

http://www.argenpress.info/notaold.asp?num=017096 (translated by http://ets.freetranslation.com/ and subsequently polished up by yours truly)

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The delegation led by Generals Graham and Singlaub to Guatemala in 1979 was hosted by plantation owner Roberto Alejos, the Guatemalan codirector of the Knights of Malta, an ultraconservative lay Catholic organization. Alejos also allowed the CIA to use his farm to train brigadistas for the Bay of Pigs invasion. (41)

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The Knights of Malta is closely allied with Covenant House's
Central American activities. AmeriCares consigns its shipments to
the Knights and the Knights deliver it to Covenant House operations.
Roberto Alejos, the leading figure of the Knights of Malta in
Guatemala and the group's ambassador to Honduras, has played an
important role in Covenant House's development in Central America.
He was considered to be the link to numerous donations, many of
them anonymous, that Covenant House received from moneyed people
around Central America.(12) Alejos, linked to William Simon and
J. Peter Grace through the Knights, has a history of anticommunist
activities and once ran as a rightwing candidate for president of
Guatemala. He was described by author Jean-Marie Simon as "a thug
in a business suit," and has been connected with the CIA and the
contra aid network. When queried about Alejos connection with
Covenant House, Jean-Marie Simon said, "its like having Idi Amin
on the board of Amnesty International."(12)

http://www.blythe.org/nytransfer-subs/99ca/...House:_GroupWatch_Files
Social Network Diagram:

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ALEJOS ARZU ROBERTO
Guatemala 1960-1984 Cuba 1961

* Anderson,S.& J. Inside the League. 1986 (175, 183)
* Brewton,P. The Mafia, CIA, and George Bush. 1992 (366)
* Colby,G. Dennett,C. Thy Will Be Done. 1995 (412)
* Covert Action Information Bulletin 1981-#12 (16, 19-20)
* Covert Action Information Bulletin 1986-#25 (36)
* DeCamp,J. The Franklin Cover-up. 1994 (180)
* Escalante,F. The Secret War. 1995 (48, 161)
* Hunt,H. Give Us This Day. 1973 (11, 27, 117)
* Lernoux,P. People of God. 1989 (295)
* Marshall,J... The Iran-Contra Connection. 1987 (53)
* NACLA. Latin America and Empire Report 1976-09 (25)
* National Reporter 1986-W (57, 60)
* Operation Zapata: Bay of Pigs Testimony. 1984 (75)
* Prados,J. Presidents' Secret Wars. 1988 (182)
* Prouty,L.F. JFK. 1992 (126)
* Sklar,H. Washington's War on Nicaragua. 1988 (83, 240)
* Smith,J.B. Portrait of a Cold Warrior. 1981 (339)
* Tully,A. CIA: The Inside Story. 1962 (246)
* Washington Post 1984-12-27 (A1, 25)
* Wise,D. Ross,T. The Invisible Government. 1974 (23-8, 41)
* Wyden,P. Bay of Pigs. 1979 (35)

pages cited this search: 36

http://www.namebase.org/main4/Roberto-Alejos-arzu.html

Daniel Imperato

2008-09-02T11:23:00.001+02:00

Daniel Imperato - Presidential Candidate 2008 (Libertarian Party); American Businessman; Chaplain for the Latin/African American Chaplain's Association

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Daniel Imperato (b. March 9, 1958, Boston, Massachusetts) is an American businessman, currently a candidate for the Libertarian Party nomination for President of the United States in 2008. Imperato at one time also sought the Green Party and Reform Party nominations. A resident of West Palm Beach, Florida, the 2008 election is Imperato's first run for political office. Imperato's campaign literature describes him as an "independent Libertarian" and an "alternative candidate" for the Presidency. He is married and has one stepson.

Early life

Imperato grew up in Revere, Massachusetts. Daniel is the son of Paul "Sonny" Imperato and the late Mary C. Imperato. The Imperatos were originally immigrants from Italy. When promoting The Red Worm (A film he supposedly produced), Imperato claimed his family was descended from the Roman Emperor Nero. [1] While living in Boston, Massachusetts, Imperato played hockey and at one point was a semi-professional ice hockey player.[citation needed]

Honors & Donations

Imperato claims to currently be a Papal Knight [1] and a Knight of Malta [2]. Daniel Imperato also claims to be a knight of the Orden Bonaria[citation needed], and that he serves as the organization's United Nations representative.[citation needed]

Imperato was a board member and headed up the Palm Beach, Florida branch office of the African Center Foundation. Imperato's website claims the organization is a United Nations non-governmental organization [3] but in reality only works with the United Nations Economic and Social Council [4]. Imperato also is a Chaplain for the Latin/African American Chaplain's Association [5].

Imperato has also purchased several awards from the Republican Party. His campaign site while mentioning these "awards" (even though they in no way signify achievement) fails to mention that he paid for them [6].[citation needed] These awards include a 2004 NRCC (National Republican Congressional Committee) Honorary Chairman of the Business Advisory Council (an award which is purchased through a donation to the NRCC, see NRCC "award winners"), a Ronald Reagan Gold Medal Winner (purchased title through donation), and a 2007 recipient of the Order of Merit from the NRCC (purchased title through donation).[2]

Campaign

Imperato has participated in several candidate forums held by third parties. To date, Imperato has not secured the nomination of any political party. He has been vocal on many "culture war" issues, including keeping religious symbols, such as the Ten Commandments, and religious references, such as "In God We Trust", in American government. [3].

Imperato has appealed very strongly to the Hispanic community with a pro-immigration policy, and has been covered by many Hispanic media outlets. [4] In October 2007, Imperato spoke at the Hispanic Achievers Awards Banquet and the HAP Institute Forum on Energy Policy in Las Vegas, Nevada [5]Imperato has supported ballot access for third parties, meeting with the Oklahomans for Ballot Access Reform Movement in Oklahoma. [6].

Imperato appeared in front of the Reform Party of the United States of America, for their consideration as their Presidential candidate in 2008, as reported in the Tampa Bay Sun, March 10, 2007. In addition, Imperato participated in a debate with other candidates at the Libertarian Party State Chairs Conference in Orlando on March 19, 2007. Imperato is touring the country visiting Libertarian Conventions in ten states. [7]. At the North Carolina convention Imperto claimed he had spent about $2 million of his own money on his campaign [7], but his FEC fileing showed this to be false, having personally contributed $33,000 of the $33,150 raised [8]. The Libertarian Nominating convention is scheduled for May 2008 and the Green Party Convention is scheduled for the Summer of 2008. Imperato has been placed on the ballot for the Libertarian Party Presidential primary election in California.[8] On July 10, 2007

He joined other candidates at the Independent Green Party of Virginia Presidential Debate at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., moderated by CBS newsman, and former host of Meet the Press, Marvin Kalb. [9] July 12-15, 2007 Imperato attended the Green Party national meeting in Reading, Pennsylvania. Imperato was among the ten candidates participating in a two hour forum before 200 Green Party delegates.[9] At the forum Imperato was highly criticized for his use of the Green Party election database on his website under the heading Independents Across America. The implication that Green candidates were independents, and his refusal to remove this section sealed his fate with the party, because in the words of one delegate "Imperato clearly demonstrated his true colors and lack of interest in helping to grow the party".[citation needed] On July 13th, Imperato attended the opening of the new Green Party office in Washington, D.C. Speaking to assembled Greens.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Imperato

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Working the field, part V — Imperato
September 22, 2007 — wickle

Daniel J. Imperato

I am always intrigued by the Libertarian Party and its candidates and positions. Daniel Imperato is particularly fascinating. I do think that he has done an especially wise thing — reaching out to other “third parties” in order to help them all have access to ballots. He even addressed the Green Party in July of 2007 on the subject of ballot access.

[...]

He is a Knight of Malta, a Papal Knight, and has apparently been made recently Grand Prior of the Orden Bonaria… which is certainly something not on most candidates’ resumes.

http://1truebeliever.wordpress.com/category/libertarian/

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Affiliations and Memberships:

* Youth Mentor
* Ordained as a chaplain for the Latin/African American Chaplains Association
* U.N. Representative and Knight of the Orden Bonaria
* Member, Papal Knight and Knight of Malta
* Recipient, NRCC Businessman of the Year Award
* Recipient, Ronald Reagan Gold Medal
* Honorary Chairman of the National Republican Congregational Committee (NRCC) Business Advisory Council, 2004

http://www.2008electionprocon.org/candidates/danielimperato.htm

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Imperato Coat of Arms

http://www.imperato2008.com/imperato2008/Imperato.asp

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Vatican Certificate

http://www.imperato2008.com/imperato2008/Imperato.asp

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Knight of Malta Certificate

http://www.imperato2008.com/imperato2008/Imperato.asp (Proof Positive)

Michael Novak

2008-09-02T11:22:00.003+02:00

Michael Novak - American Catholic Philosopher, Journalist, Novelist, and Diplomat

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Michael Novak (born September 9, 1933) is an American Catholic philosopher, journalist, novelist, and diplomat. The author of almost 25 books on the philosophy and theology of culture, Novak is most widely known for his book The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism (1982). In 1994 he was awarded the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion, which included a million-dollar purse awarded at Buckingham Palace. He writes books and articles focused on capitalism, religion, and the politics of democratization.

Novak served as U.S. chief ambassador to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in 1981 and as the ambassador to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Additionally, Novak served on the board of directors of the now-defunct Coalition for a Democratic Majority, a kind of faction in the Democratic Party, which sought to influence Democratic Party policies in the same direction that the Committee on the Present Danger later did. Novak is currently George Frederick Jewett Scholar in Religion, Philosophy, and Public Policy at the American Enterprise Institute. On December 12th, 2007 he declared his support for the presidential candidacy of Mitt Romney.

Early life and education

Novak was born in 1933 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. He earned an M.A. in history and philosophy of religion from Harvard University in 1966, a Sacrae Theologiae Baccalaureus (a degree in theology), from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome in 1958, and a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and English (Summa Cum Laude) from Stonehill College in 1956.

Novak attended Harvard University to study philosophy and religion, hoping to obtain a doctorate in philosophy of religion. Novak stated that he thought the philosophy department was too focused on analytic philosophy, neglecting religious philosophy[citation needed]. He did not receive his doctorate and he started work as a writer.

Early writings

Second Vatican Council

Novak worked as a correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter during the second session of the Second Vatican Council in Rome, where he also got the opportunity to fulfill a book contract for a fellow reporter who was not able to complete the project. The result was Novak's second book, The Open Church, a journalistic account of the events of the second session of the Council.

Early books

Michael Novak has published two novels: The Tiber Was Silver (1962) and Naked I Leave (1970). At the time, he considered the modest $600 advance to be "a fortune" [1]

Stanford years

Novak's friendship with the Presbyterian theologian Robert McAfee Brown during the Second Vatican Council led to a teaching post at Stanford University, where he became the first Roman Catholic to teach in the Humanities program. Novak taught at Stanford University from 1965 to 1968, during the key years of student revolt throughout California. During this period, he wrote A Time to Build (1967), discussing problems of belief and unbelief, ecumenism, sexuality, and war. In A Theology for Radical Politics (1969), Novak makes theological arguments in support of the New Left student movement, which he states advanced the renewal of the human spirit rather than just reforming social institutions. His book Politics: Realism and Imagination includes accounts of visiting American Vietnam War deserters in France ("Desertion"), the birth and development of the student movement at Stanford ("Green Shoots of Counter-Culture") and philosophical essays on nihilism and Marxism.

SUNY Old Westbury

Novak left Stanford for a post as dean of a new "experimental" school at the newly-founded State University of New York at Old Westbury, Long Island.

Novak's writings during this period included the philosophical essay The Experience of Nothingness (1970, republished in 1998), in which he cautioned the New Left that utopianism could lead to alienation and rootlessness. Novak's novel Naked I Leave (1970) chronicles his experiences in California and in the Second Vatican Council and his journal from seminarian to reporter.

His later teaching and writing career

After serving at Old Westbury/SUNY from 1968 to 1973, Novak launched the humanities program at the Rockefeller Foundation in 1973-1974. In 1976, he accepted a tenured position at Syracuse University as University Professor and Ledden-Watson Distinguished Professor of Religion. In the fall semesters of 1987 and 1988, Novak held the W. Harold and Martha Welch chair as Professor of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

In the spring of 1978, Novak joined the American Enterprise Institute for Social Policy Research as a Resident Scholar, a position he still holds at the present time.

Novak is a frequent contributor to magazines and journals including First Things and National Review. He is a member of the Catholic Advisory Board for the Ave Maria Mutual Funds. Novak is also a board member of the Capital Research Center and the Center of the American Experiment.

Opinions

* Novak believes that Utopian beliefs can lead to the weakening of social bonds. He wrote that "the family is the human race's natural defense against utopianism." (The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism)

* He states that religion can 'thrive only in a personal universe' and not universities or companies, and that Western Humanism, which he states is the leading belief system of most of academia, does not ask "the fundamental questions about the meaning and limits of personal experience" and that "they leave aside the mysteries of contingency and transitoriness, for the certainties of research, production, consumption." ("God in the Colleges," A New Generation: American and Catholic (1964))

* Novak states that the Holy Trinity and God are often thought of in abstract and impersonal terms in philosophy, and that they should be "thought of as a Communion of Divine Persons—radiating his presence throughout creation, calling unworthy human beings to be his friends, and infusing into them his love so that they might love with it." (From “The Love That Moves the Sun,” in A Free Society Reader)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Novak

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Pope with Tertio Millennio Institute alumni

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honorary doctorate, St. Louis University [Jesuit]

http://www.michaelnovak.net/Module/Site/Photo.aspx

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Michael Novak with Cardinal Caccai Villan and Pope John Paul II.

http://www.michaelnovak.net/Module/Site/Photo.aspx

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THE KNIGHTS OF BUSINESS In a crop of corporate dramas, Knights of Malta are everywhere [...] Well-known columnists Michael Novak and William F. Buckley Jr. are knights.

http://www.voxfux.com/archives/00000057.htm
http://www.cephasministry.com/nwo_corp_knights.html

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Michael Novak

http://www.smom.org/files/annual-report-2005.pdf (Listed under 'patrons', page 18) (Proof Positive)
Social Network Diagram:

http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb06?_NOVAK_MICHAEL_

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NOVAK MICHAEL
Nicaragua 1985

* American Enterprise Institute. Scholar Directory. 1991-06
* Blumenthal,S. Rise of the Counter-Establishment. 1988 (10, 194)
* Brownstein,R. Easton,N. Reagan's Ruling Class. 1983 (533)
* Council on Foreign Relations. Membership Roster. 1995
* Covert Action Information Bulletin 1982-#16 (28)
* Covert Action Information Bulletin 1985-#24 (35)
* Diamond,S. Spiritual Warfare. 1989 (150)
* Executive Intelligence Review 1999-04-23 (49)
* Furgurson,E. Hard Right: The Rise of Jesse Helms. 1986 (220)
* Herman,E. Brodhead,F. Rise and Fall of Bulgarian Connection. 1986 (176)
* Lernoux,P. People of God. 1989 (176-7, 200-1)
* Lind,M. Up From Conservatism. 1997 (56, 69, 72-3, 140-2, 251-2)
* National Reporter 1986-SU (25)
* New Federalist 1994-04-11 (12)
* New York Times 2004-05-22 (A12)
* PRODEMCA. National Council Member. 1986
* Resource Center. AIFLD in Central America. 1986 (57, 59, 61, 72)
* Resource Center. Bulletin 1989-F (5)
* Resource Center. GroupWatch 1989-IRD (1-3)
* Resource Center. GroupWatch 1989-LID (1, 4)
* Resource Center. GroupWatch 1991-AEI (1, 3-4)
* Robinson,W. A Faustian Bargain. 1992 (118)
* Saloma,J. Ominous Politics. 1984 (11)
* Sanders,J. Peddlers of Crisis. 1983 (287)
* Sklar,H. Washington's War on Nicaragua. 1988 (241)
* Smith,J. The Idea Brokers. 1993 (180, 272)
* Snyder,A. Warriors of Disinformation. 1995 (7)
* Washington Post 1983-03-19 (B6)
* Washington Times 1986-04-14 (1B, 3)
* Washington Times 1986-06-27 (2A)
* Wilcox,D.A... The Right Guide. 1993 (45)

pages cited this search: 53

http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb01?_NOVAK_MICHAEL_

Conrad N. Hilton

2008-09-02T11:22:00.001+02:00

Conrad N. Hilton - Chairman and Director o/t Hilton Hotels Corporation and Hilton International Company

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About Conrad N. Hilton

Hard work, faith in God, an abiding patriotic confidence in the United States and the capacity to dream as large as his imagination would allow were the cornerstones of Conrad Hilton's life.

Born in a primitive adobe dwelling on Christmas Day, 1887, in San Antonio, New Mexico Territory, Conrad Hilton was one of seven children born to a Norwegian immigrant father and a German-American mother. Working at his father's general store, the young boy developed entrepreneurial skills that would guide him for a lifetime.

The most enduring influence to shape Mr. Hilton's philanthropic philosophy beyond that of his parents was the Roman Catholic Church and its Sisters. He credits his mother, Mary, with guiding him to prayer and the Church whenever he was troubled or dismayed — from a boyhood loss of a beloved pony to severe financial losses during the Great Depression. His mother continually reminded him that prayer was the best investment he would ever make.

Conrad Hilton was recognized worldwide for his leadership and vision during the Depression and World War II as well as in prosperity. Using extraordinary instinct, enthusiasm and business acumen, he created the largest and most profitable international hotel chain.

Beginning with his first purchase, the 40-room Mobley Hotel in Cisco, Texas, in 1919, to the thousands of guest rooms at Hilton properties throughout the world at the time of his death, his name remains synonymous with hotels. He capitalized on this global success by taking advantage of his role as an entrepreneurial statesman to promote a post-World War II philosophy of reconciliation and nonviolence, as reflected in a Hilton corporate motto of that time, "World Peace Through International Trade and Travel."

Conrad Hilton successfully combined a lifetime of professional achievement together with a genuine feeling of concern and responsibility toward the less fortunate. This most sensitive of human qualities is reflected beautifully in his Last Will and Testament wherein he creates a legacy by directing that his wealth be eternally reinvested to alleviate human suffering throughout the world.

http://www.hiltonfoundation.org/main.asp?id=51

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Innkeeper Extraordinary
Statesman and Philanthropist
1887 - 1979
Cathleen D. Baird, Director & Archivist
Hospitality Industry Archives
Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and R

As a man of vision, Conrad Nicholson Hilton built the largest hotel real estate empire of his time —
Hilton Hotels Corporation — and served as its chairman until his death on January 3, 19791. His
commitment to world peace and economic stability was combined with a vigorous program to develop a
global-system of world-class hotels. He established standards of quality for the entire hospitality industry
in the fields of hotel management and operations

http://www.hrm.uh.edu/cnhc/DownloadFile.asp?f=9332 http://www.hrm.uh.edu/docs/pdf/CNHBiographylong.pdf

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CHAIRMAN:
Hilton Hotels Corporation (and Director)
Hilton International Company (and Director)
DIRECTOR:
All-Year Club of Southern California
* American Committee on United Europe
El Paso National Bank (Advisory Director)
* Freedoms Documents Foundation (Honorary Director)
* Freedoms Foundation
* National Conference of Christians and Jews
* People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc. (Project Hope)
(also Advisory Committee)
TRUSTEE:
* American Friends of Spain Foundation, Inc.
Barat College of the Sacred Heart (Lake Forest, Illinois)
Boys Club Foundation of Southern California
* Center for International Economic Growth
DePaul University (Chicago, Illinois) Emeritus
Loretto Heights College, Denver (National Board of Trustees)
* Olympic Games 1980 (Athens)
Providence Memorial Hospital (El Paso, Texas)
* United States Council of the International Chamber of Commerce,
Inc.

http://www.hrm.uh.edu/cnhc/DownloadFile.asp?f=9332

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Figure 1. Conrad Hilton is shown here at his desk in his Los Angeles office sometime in the early 1940s. Photo from the Conrad N. Hilton Collection, Hospitality Industry Archives, University of Houston.

http://www.hrm.uh.edu/cnhc/DownloadFile.asp?f=9332

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Figure 2. Hilton's Private "Statesmanship" of "World Peace through International Trade and Travel” facilitated negotiations for hotels in key cities around the world. Photo from the Conrad N. Hilton Collection, Hospitality Industry Archives, University of Houston.7

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Magisterial Knight of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta

http://www.hrm.uh.edu/cnhc/DownloadFile.asp?f=9332 (Proof Positive)http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:-iixKc...loadFile.asp%3Ff%3D9332
Social Network Diagram (sparse):

http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb06?_HILTON_CONRAD_

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HILTON CONRAD * Cooney,J. The American Pope. 1984 (229) * Intelligence (Paris) 2001-09-10 (12) * Johnston,D. Temples of Chance. 1992 (89-90) * Moldea,D. Interference. 1989 (97) * Scott,P.D. Crime and Coverup. 1977 (66) * Scott,P.D. Deep Politics. 1993 (155) * Swanberg,W.A. Luce and His Empire. 1972 (455) pages cited this search: 8

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George William Mundelein

2008-09-02T11:21:00.000+02:00

George William Cardinal Mundelein - Archbishop of Chicago

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George William Mundelein, later George Cardinal Mundelein, (July 2, 1872–October 2, 1939) was an American prelate who served as the eighth bishop and third archbishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Chicago, serving in that post from 1915 to 1939.

Biography

He was born on July 20, 1872 in New York City to a family of German ancestry, educated at La Salle Academy in New York, Manhattan College, St. Vincent Seminary, in Rome, and ordained a priest on June 8, 1895 in the Diocese of Brooklyn. From 1895 to 1909, he served at Williamsburg, Pa. [1]On June 30, 1909 he was appointed Titular Bishop of Loryma and Auxiliary Bishop of Brooklyn, New York, where he was ordained a bishop on September 21, 1909. He was appointed Archbishop of Chicago, on December 9, 1915 and installed February 9, 1916. He was elevated to Cardinal on March 24, 1924, and served as archbishop until his death at the age of 67.

During his tenure at the Archdiocese of Chicago, Mundelein launched an effort to unify ethnic Catholic groups such as the Poles and Italians into territorial, instead of ethnic, parishes with mixed success. St. Monica's (Colored) parish, however, was endorsed by Mundelein as the city's sole black parish, leading to distaste for the Archbishop in both the early 1900's and today. After constructing the landmark Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary in Chicago, Mundelein built St. Mary of the Lake Seminary in Area, now Mundelein, Illinois. Quigley Seminary was the site of Mundelein's 1937 "paper hanger (wallpapering)" speech, criticizing Adolf Hitler.

The archdiocese greatly expanded its charity functions during the Great Depression, rivalling that of Chicago's Associated Jewish Charities. A city-wide network of St. Vincent de Paul Societies was established.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Cardinal_Mundelein

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Chicago. In Rome, George Cardinal Mundelein received the Grand Cross of the Sovereign Order of Malta, originated in the first crusade by the Knights of the Order of the Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem. He is the first American so honored.

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MUNDELEIN RECEIVES GRAND CROSS OF MALTA; He Is Also Feted by the College of Propaganda -- Will Sail for Home on May 3.

April 24, 1924, Thursday

Section: SPORTS, Page 21, 372 words

ROME, April 23. -- The Grand Cross of the Sovereign Order of Malta, originally founded as the Knights of the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem during the First Crusade, was conferred upon Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago in a private ceremony at his hotel today. The decoration, the first ever conferred upon a citizen of the United States, was pinned to the Cardinal's breast by Count Lambertini, the Grand Master.

http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html...DDDAD0A94DC405B848EF1D3(NB: It is odd that Lambertini is listed as Grand Master of the Order of Malta since the official Grand Master was Frà Galeas von Thun und Hohenstein)

Social Network Diagram: (sparse)
http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb06?_MUNDELEIN_GEORGE_CARDINAL

Bob Hope

2008-09-02T11:20:00.003+02:00

Bob Hope - Actor and Comedian

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Bob, the son a stonemason and an aspiring concert singer, had a career that stretched across seven decades.

Though born in Eltham, south London, Hope moved to Cleveland, Ohio, when he was just four, where, as a youth, he entered local talent shows.

His casual careers included a butcher's delivery boy, a soda jerk, a shoe salesman, pool hustler and boxer (under the name 'Packy East'), but it was the stage where he was most at home.

He worked vaudeville houses as a dancer, where he was signed up to fill the bill of the Fatty Arbuckle Show, before a stint on Broadway.

Hope's break was in the 1933 Broadway musical Roberta, during which time he met a young singer Dolores, who he married a year later. They remained married until his death.

In May 1937, Bob signed a 26-week radio contract for the Woodbury Soap Show, and the next year was given his own show on NBC radio, which became ratings-topper. He continued to host a regular show until 1956.

His radio fame led to Hollywood. Aside from one-reel comedy shorts, Hope's first film role was in The Big Broadcast of 1938.

Hope starred in more than 50 films, though is still most famous for the 'Road' movies with Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour, which made his name. He only got the role after George Burns and Fred MacMurray passed.

Though he has never won a best actor Oscar, he has been awarded two honorary academy awards, two special awards and a humanitarian award.

Alongside his film work, Hope also maintained a stong presence on TV.

Although he appeared on the first commercial television broadcast on the West Coast in 1947, and in several experimental broadcasts before the Second World War, he was really a latecomer to the medium, not convinced it would succeed, not hosting his first show until 1950 - and TV never became the mainstay of his career.

Over his lifetime, he has been awarded more honours than any other entertainer - an achievement that earned him a place in the Guinness Book of Records.

He was given an honorary knighthood in 1998, and on hearing the news said: "I'm speechless. 70 years of ad lib material and I'm speechless."

President Kennedy presented him with the Congressional Gold Medal, President Johnson awarded him the Medal of Freedom and Bill Clinton gave him a Medal of the Arts. He had 58 honorary degrees and was even been declared an 'honorary veteran' by the US congress for his his commitment to the nation's armed forces.

The first "GI Bob" appearance was in May 1941, at a Californian air base and all but two of his shows during the war were broadcast from military installations. He continued to perform for the forces right up to the Gulf war.

Bob's other great passion was golf, organising the annual Desert Classic in Palm Springs, California.

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Bob Hope KBE (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003) was an English-born entertainer who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway, in radio, television, movies, and on numerous USO tours for U.S. military personnel.

[...]
Titles and designations
[...]
* Honorary Veteran of the United States Armed Forces, a tribute from the United States Congress given in recognition of the entertainment he provided U.S. troops during war and peacekeeping missions (October 29, 1997)

* Honorary Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) In recognition of his contributions to film, to song, and to the entertainment of troops in the past. (1998). He had previously been made an Honorary Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in 1976.

* Knighthood from the Knights of Malta and the Order of St. Sylvester from the Vatican

* Silver Buffalo Award (highest adult award given by the Boy Scouts of America)

* The Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels.

* Made a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great by Pope John Paul II in 1998[12]

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Comedian Bob Hope, knighted by the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, shows the Masonic square, known also as the triangle, V, downward delta sign.

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Likewise he has been feted by his native England. Most recently in 1998, by order of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Bob received an honorary knighthood - Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (KBE) in recognition of his contribution to film, to song and to the entertainment of troops in the past. Upon hearing the news, Bob said, "I'm speechless. 70 years of ad lib material and I'm speechless."

http://www.bobhope.com/bob6.htm
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Among recipients of the Order of Pope Saint Sylvester are former Maltese Prime Minister George Borg Olivier, Prince Karl August von Thurn und Taxi, entertainer Bob Hope, KBE, and Italian politician Sergio Berlinguer. In Great Britain, association members include businessman John Studzinski and interfaith campaigners HE Anthony Bailey, Professor David Khalili and Mahmoud Khayami.

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HOPE BOB * Dye,T. Who's Running America? 1983 (114-5) * Findley,P. They Dare to Speak Out. 1989 (19-20) * Hitchens,C. Blood, Class, and Nostalgia. 1990 (17) * Sale,K. Power Shift. 1976 (220) pages cited this search: 6

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Paul McHugh

2008-09-02T11:19:00.003+02:00

Dr. Paul McHugh - Head of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medine; Founder and First Director, Bourne Behavioral Research Laboratory of New York Hospital; Member o/t Presidential Council on Bioethics (Eugenics)

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Paul R. McHugh received his medical education at Harvard Medical School and did an internship at the Peter Bent Brigham (now Brigham and Women's Hospital) and a neurology and neuropathology residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He continued his education in Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, and in the Division of Neuropsychiatry at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. After his training, he was eventually and successively Professor of Psychiatry at Cornell University School of Medicine, Clinical Director and Director of Residency Education at the New York Hospital Westchester Division; Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the Oregon Health Sciences Center. He was Henry Phipps Professor and Director of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Psychiatrist- in-Chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital from 1975-2001. The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine named him Distinguished Service Professor in 1998.

Dr. McHugh was Founder and First Director, Bourne Behavioral Research Laboratory of New York Hospital, Westchester Division at Cornell. He was Chairman of the Medical Board, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1984-89. From 1985-1991, he was Chairman of the Professorial Promotions Committee at Hopkins School of Medicine. From 1992-2001, he directed the Blades Center for Clinical Practice and Research in Alcohol/Drug Dependence at Hopkins.

In 1986-89, Dr. McHugh was Chairman of the NIH BioPsychology Study Section. From 1982-1992, he was Associate Editor, Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology for the American Journal of Physiology. He is also on the editorial boards of several psychiatry journals and book series. From 1993- 1998, he was on the Editorial Board of The American Scholar. Since 1987, he has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease. He received the William C. Menninger Award, American College of Physicians, 1987, and the Joseph Zubin Award from the American Psychopathological Association, 1995. He was elected to the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences in 1992. In 2001, he was appointed by President Bush to the Presidential Council on Bioethics.

His career has three interrelated themes. The first is to create a model department of academic psychiatry by rendering explicit the conceptual structure of psychiatry and by demonstrating what this structure implies for patient care, education and research. The second is to teach how the brain-mind problem is embedded in these concepts and how it affects the thought and actions of psychiatrists. The third is to investigate the "motivated" or "driven" behaviors, including the addictions that are open in this era to multiple levels of analysis from molecular biology to social science. These ideas should be clear from the directions he has given his Department, the careers he has fostered, and the books and papers he has written.

Selections from among his publications:

* The Perspectives of Psychiatry, 1983 (book with P. R. Slavney). 2nd Edition in 1998
* William Osler and the New Psychiatry, 1985 (Award address)
* Mini-Mental State: A Practical Method for Grading the Cognitive State of Patients for the Clinician, 1975 (journal article with M. F. Folstein and S. E. Folstein), [Citation Classic, 1989]
* Genes, Brain, and Behavior, 1990 (book edited with V. A McKusick)
* A Structure for Psychiatry at the Century's Turn-The View from Johns Hopkins, (article in Jourrnal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 85: 483-487, 1992)
* Psychiatric Misadventures (essay in The American Scholar, selected and reprinted in The Best American Essays - 1993)

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Paul McHugh, M.D.
Council Member

Paul R. McHugh, M.D. is the University Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He was the Henry Phipps Professor of Psychiatry, Director of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and psychiatrist-in-chief at the Johns Hopkins Hospital from 1975-2001. He is the author of 4 books and more than 150 papers.

http://www.bioethics.gov/about/mchugh.html

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Since it was created by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops last June as a lay-based review body, board members have met nine times in various cities around the country. “We have spent hundreds of hours and done tons and tons of work on the issues of priest abuse,” said board member Anne Burke, a justice of the Illinois Court of Appeals. “And almost everywhere we’ve gone, the local bishops have been so thoughtful and worked very hard to portray themselves as cooperating with us. They’ve said Mass for us and met with us.” Burke said she could not understand the apparent lack of hospitality on the part of Egan.

Last September Pamela Hayes wrote to Egan notifying him of the New York meeting. She received a warm reply, she said, in which the cardinal said details of his involvement could be worked out later. Meanwhile, Justice Burke, who is a Dame of Malta, along with another board member who is a knight, invited all 13 board members to gather for the dinner to be held the evening of Jan. 17, just after the conclusion of the board’s own meeting. The knights’ annual white-tie gala at the Waldorf-Astoria, regularly draws 800 to 1,000 attendees with tickets at $250 a person. Burke said she and the other Malta members intended to host the full board. Besides Burke, the Malta members on the national review board are William Burleigh, chair and former CEO of E.W. Scripps; Raymond Siegfried, CEO of the NORDAM Group; and Dr. Paul McHugh, head of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. When Burke met Egan at the bishops’ conference in November, she told him of the plans.

Weeks later as the full board was meeting in Covington, Ky., they received a conference call from a high level member of the bishops’ conference, whose name they declined to divulge. He stated that Egan did not want non-knights attending the dinner. The presence of the full board, he said, might cause controversy and might take attention away from the knights’ good works. The spokesman also relayed word that Egan did not want McChesney speaking in New York, though no reason was reportedly given for this order.

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http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-97173572.html

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The review board meeting coincided with a dinner for the Knights of Malta, an elite organization of Catholic lay persons active in the church. Review board members Anne Burke, Ray Siegfried, Bill Burleigh and Paul McHugh were Malta members.

http://ncronline.org/NCR_Online/archives2/2004a/031204/031204c.htm
http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/update/nt030504b.htm
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Hanna Siniora

2008-09-02T11:19:00.001+02:00

Hanna Siniora - Co-CEO o/t Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information (IPCRI)

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Hanna Siniora Awarded a Peace Prize of Honor from the

Order of the Knights of Malta

Saturday, April 21, 2007 at 14:00

Bethlehem Room, Tantur Ecumenical Institute

Today, Saturday April 21, 2007 Mr. Hanna Siniora, the Co-CEO of IPCRI – the Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information was awarded a tribute of honor for his life time commitment to Palestinian-Israeli peace by the Order of the Knights of Malta. This tribute has been awarded to Heads of State and world leaders for peace. The winner of the tribute prior to Mr. Siniora was the President of Burundi and Nelson Mandela will receive the tribute after Mr. Siniora.

The Order of St. John also known as the Knights of Malta has created a federation of Knightly Orders unifying all of the Holy Orders to work together for World Peace. A group of the Knights of Malta is now on their first visit to the Holy Land since the Federation was established. The head of the Delegation, composed of Knights of the order including two members of the European Parliament from Italy and other dignitaries, awarded Mr. Siniora a Silver Olive Branch. When the Pope came to Holy Land in 2000, he took with him a small olive tree plant and planted it in the garden of the Vatican. The prize is made of a branch of that olive tree covered with silver.

After announcing that the Knights of Malta intend to build a university for peace in the Holy Land, Mr. Siniora took the floor and spoke of his 40 years of experiences working for peace between the Palestinian people and the Israeli people. Mr. Siniora mentioned that in 6 weeks we will be marking 40 years since the 1967 war and the beginning of the occupation. During that we, IPCRI together with other important organizations like Combatants for Peace will be holding events throughout Israel and Palestine calling for peace – two states for two peoples, an end of the occupation and an end to the conflict.

Mr. Siniora was then officially made a Knight of Malta. The Chief of the Order declared Mr. Siniora’s induction into Knighthood by removing his own personal pin of the Order and placing it on Mr. Siniora’s lapel.

Hanna Siniora, currently the Co-CEO of IPCRI has in fact dedicated his life to making peace. He has been a courageous and active advocate of the rights of the Palestinian people all the time recognizing the importance and urgency of making peace with Israel.

Hanna Siniora is well known and respected throughout the region and the world.

Hanna Siniora anointed a Knight of Malta

Hanna Siniora receives the Papal Silver Olive Branch for Peace

http://www.ipcri.org/files/knights.html (Proof Positive)
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George Raymond Rocca

2008-09-02T11:18:00.003+02:00

George Raymond Rocca - Deputy Chief of CIA Counterintelligence under Angleton; Head of CIA section: Research and Analysis, CI/R&A.

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Employment History

*Deputy Chief of the Staff
Counter-Intelligence

*Angleton's Deputy Chief of Counterintelligenee Division
CIA

*Counter-Intelligence Officer
CIA

*Chief of Research and Analysis In the Counterintelligence Division
CIA

*Chief of Research and Analysis Group
DD/P Counter-Intelligence

*Member, Staff
DD/P Counter-Intelligence

*Chief of Research and Analysis for the Staff
CI

*Chief of Research and Analysis for the Staff
Colima

*Head
Colima

RAYMOND ROCCA

Raymond Rocca (born February 22, 1917) was reputedly ANGLETON'S chief deputy. Raymond Rocca attended the University of California at Berkeley, where he studied Fascist Italy. In 1942 he received a Doctorate Degree in 1942. He went into the Analytical Section of the Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service, where he learned content analysis as a Italian broadcast analyst. He joined the OSS Counter-Intelligence component in April 1944. He remained in Italy in the service of the OSS and its successor agencies, the Strategic Services Unit and the CIA. Raymond Rocca met ANGLETON in August 1944 and became his executive assistant.
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Raymond Rocca remained in Italy until after the 1948 elections and was ANGLETON'S liaison with the Italian intelligence service until his own return to Washington in the Summer of 1953. Raymond Rocca joined the DD/P Counter-Intelligence Staff in July 1955, as chief of its Research and Analysis Group. His functions there included production and editing of finished Counter-Intelligence studies, case studies, briefings, defector debriefings, accumulation of Counter-Intelligence doctrine, and research, stimulation and participation in Counter-Intelligence training. In July 1969 Raymond Rocca became Deputy Chief of the Counter-Intelligence Staff. Clare Edward Petty reported: "Rocca was the head of a CI section called Research and Analysis, CI/R&A.
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, CI/RA [Raymond Rocca]

http://www.zoominfo.com/Search/PersonDetail.aspx?PersonID=376102792

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- On December 27, 1946 James Angleton received the Croci Al Merito Seconda Classe from the Order, the same day as George Raymond Rocca. Rocca went on to become Angleton's deputy chief of Counterintelligence Division of the CIA and was the liaison between the Warren Commission and the CIA following the Kennedy Assassination. (See sidebar.)

http://www.mosquitonet.com/~prewett/caqsmom25.2.html

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The Knights of Malta were an offshoot of the Knights of St. John, who, like the Teutonic Knights, fought in the Crusades. The Knights of Malta became an ultra-conservative international group granted sovereignty by the Vatican. On December 27, 1946, ANGLETON received the Knights of Malta's Croci Al Merito Seconda Classe, the same day as Raymond Rocca.

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After the war, Gehlen was hired by the newly created CIA to organize its operations in Europe! CIA directors known to be Knights of Malta have been John McCone and William Casey, and so was George Rocca, a deputy chief of CIA counter-intelligence. The Knights of Malta were almost certainly involved in the guns-for-drugs Iran-Contra affair in the US, which brought Oliver North to world public attention. North was represented at the hearings by the law firm of Bennett Williams, a Knight of Malta. One of the Americans who intervened to ensure that selected Nazi personnel escaped from Germany to the United States after the war was the industrialist, J. Peter Grace, the one-time American head of the Knights of Malta. This Order is an ultra-extreme authoritarian organisation which connects with the highest levels of the Elite web.

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On another note, I just finished watching "The Good Shepherd" for the third time. As you know it is about the CIA's Counterintelligence wing led by SMOM James Angleton with his right hand man, the Jesuit Fordham trained SMOM Italian Roman Catholic Raymond Rocca. Thus the Jesuits controlled the apex of CIA power via Angleton and Rocca. It was here at this pinnacle that the Order united the CIA with the British MI5/MI6, with the Soviet KGB, with the Israeli Mossad, with French Intelligence, with the Shah's SAVAK, INTERPOL, etc. This is the Black Pope's International Intelligence Community financed by the Black Pope's International Drug Trade with its trillions laundered through the Black Pope's International Banking Community run by the Knights of Malta. This is the picture described in VAIII.

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ROCCA RAYMOND G
Italy 1944-1953

* Back Channels 1993-SU (4)
* Codevilla,A. Informing Statecraft. 1992 (141)
* Corson,W. Trento,S.& J. Widows. 1989 (71)
* Covert Action Information Bulletin 1986-#25 (31-2)
* DiEugenio,J. Pease,L. The Assassinations. 2003 (39, 41, 45-6, 137, 145, 177, 183, 187, 193-4)
* Dorril,S. Ramsay,R. Smear! 1992 (37-8)
* Epstein,E. Deception. 1989 (22-8, 114)
* Epstein,E. Dossier: The Secret History of Armand Hammer. 1996 (212)
* Fensterwald,B. Coincidence or Conspiracy? 1977 (182-3)
* Foreign Intelligence Literary Scene 1985-08 (8 )
* Godson,R. Intelligence Requirements for the 1990s. 1989 (248)
* Hersh,B. The Old Boys. 1992 (359)
* Lane,M. Plausible Denial. 1991 (155, 307)
* Liberation Magazine 1977-04 (7)
* Loftus,J. Aarons,M. The Secret War Against the Jews. 1994 (96, 98)
* Maas,P. Manhunt. 1986 (214)
* Mangold,T. Cold Warrior. 1991 (41, 59-60, 89, 278-9, 293-4, 320)
* Martin,D. Wilderness of Mirrors. 1981 (148, 182, 210-1)
* Morrow,R. First Hand Knowledge. 1992 (254)
* Newman,J. Oswald and the CIA. 1995 (91, 96, 381)
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* Schweizer,P. Friendly Spies. 1993 (11)
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* Veterans of OSS. List of Members. 1990
* Volkman,E. Warriors of the Night. 1985 (205)
* Washington Times 1993-11-14 (A9)
* West,N. Games of Intelligence. 1990 (103, 174, 213)
* West,N. The Circus. 1984 (136)
* Winks,R. Cloak and Gown. 1987 (363, 385-7, 433)
* Wise,D. Molehunt. 1992 (37, 165, 245)

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Joseph Michael Pigott

2008-09-02T11:18:00.001+02:00

Joseph Michael Pigott - President of Pigott Realty Ltd.; President o/t Canadian Construction Association and Hamilton Chamber of Commerce; Vice President & Director of the Toronto Dominion Bank and North American Life Insurance Company; Director of Canada Permanent Trust, Artlas Steels Ltd, and United Fuel Investments Ltd.

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Joseph Pigott

Joseph M. Pigott was born in Hamilton, Ontario on 23 February [1885], the son of a prominent Irish contractor (Michael Pigott, himself the founder of Pigott Construction Co. and the son of an Irish farmer who emigrated to Canada and settled near Guelph).

In 1903 he began working for his father's construction company. In 1909 Pigott travelled to Saskatchewan with his younger brother Roy where they secured a large contract to build St. Paul's Hospital in Saskatoon.

While in the West, Pigott met and married Yvonne Prince, daughter of the Honorable Joseph Benjamin Prince of Battlefield, Saskatchewan. They had 6 sons: William, Jean-Jacques, Joseph, Patrick, Ronald and Paul.

Together the brothers would direct Pigott Construction to fortune and fame. Roy looked after the engineering and Joseph took care of the business administration. The first $1,000,000 year came in 1926, and in 1930, Hamilton's earliest skyscraper, the 16-storey Pigott Building, was completed.

After the Second World War Pigott Construction was Canada's largest privately-owned construction company amassing more than $113,000,000 in business in a single year.

Pigott built some of Canada's largest industrial plants and finest buildings: the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto; Crown Life Insurance Company head office, Toronto; Bank of Canada, Ottawa; a plant for General Motors, Oshawa, and buildings for A. V. Roe Company in Malton. In Hamilton, buildings built by his firm included: the Canadian Westinghouse offices, Banks of Nova Scotia, Royal and Montreal, McMaster University, the County Court House, Westdale Secondary School, St. Joseph's Hospital, the Pigott Building, the new City Hall and the Cathedral of Christ the King.

Pigott was honoured for many of is accomplishments:

Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great and later "Con Placa" - in recognition of the Cathedral, by Pope Pius XI.

Commander of the British Empire (in 1946), in recognitiion of his services to the Government of Canada during the war, particularly as president of the Wartime Housing Ltd.

Knight of magistral grace of the Sovereign and Military order of Malta (in 1953) and awarded the honorary degree of LL.D by McMaster University (1962) in consideration of his contributions to social welfare and to the political and intellectual life of Christian society.

He was a former president of the Canadian Construction Association, Hamilton Chamber of Commerce, a former vice-president and director of the Toronto-Dominion Bank, president of Pigott Realty Ltd., vice-president and director of North American Life Assurance Company, director of Canada Permanent Trust Company, Atlas Steels Ltd., and United Fuel Investments Ltd. Pigott was also a former president of the board of governors of the Art Gallery of Hamilton, a director of the Ontario Heart Foundation, chairman of the advisory committee of St. Joseph's Hospital, a member of the Hamilton Club, the Hamilton Golf and Country Club and the National Club of Toronto. Pigott played an enormous role in the development of Hamilton. He died in Hamilton on 20 April 1969.

Sources of this informaiton include content from the Hamilton Hall of Fame Inductees as well as information coming from the University of McMaster archives (whose reflections come from the donation of Joseph M. Pigotts daily journals donated to the University in 2000).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Pigott

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Joseph Michael Pigott

Joseph Michael Pigott's prolific career left a legacy of prominent buildings. As a family man, a community advocate, a volunteer and business man, Joe Pigott set a standard of performance which few can match.

Born in 1885 into a construction family, he began working with his father, and soon stuck out on his own. As he would later say, it was natural for a young man to have ideas different from his fathers and a need to put these into action. He moved out west to start a company with his brother Roy. Following a successfully hospital bid, his father joined them. Later, upon his brothers return from WWI, he and Roy began to steer the Pigott Construction Company to its well known success.

Joe Pigott believed rewards could come indirectly and did benefit from involvement in associations and his community. He was the first president (1920) of the Hamilton Construction Association, first President of the Canadian construction Association (1921) and an honourary life of Apprenticeship (1928-1960), and a man known as the "father" of apprenticeship in Ontario.

His wider community contributions include time as President of the Art Gallery of Hamilton. Director of the Ontario Heart Foundation, Advisory Board member of St. Joseph's Hospital, Member of the McMaster University Board of Governors, 1932 President of the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce and non-paid President form 1941-1948 of the government of Canada War Time Housing.

He was not so much a man of academia as a leader by intuition and intellect. His writings, conceptual planning, drive, and leadership came from what he called " A liberal education in the field". One look at the long list of Pigott building projects easily demonstrates he learned well: the present City Hall, Royal Ontario Museum, Bank of Montreal (Main & James), Westdale High School, original McMaster Buildings, Hamilton Armoury, the Pigott Building and the Cathedral of Christ the King.

For the latter project, a labour of love, he was Knighted Commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great by Pope Pius XI, he was a Knight of Magistral Grace of the Sovereign and Military Order of Malta, a Hamilton Gallery of Distinction inductee, Commander of the Order of British Empire (CBE) and received an Honourary Law Degree from McMaster University. He served as a Vice President & Director of the Toronto Dominion Bank and North American Life Insurance Company. Director of Canada Permanent Trust, Artlas Steels Ltd, and United Fuel Investments Ltd.

On the death of Joe Pigott, McMaster President Dr. H. G. Thode was quoted by the Hamilton Spectator as saying "Hamilton knew him as a builder of great imagination and strong courage. He will be mourned by men and women in all walks of life". The most Reverend Joseph Ryan, Bishop of Hamilton said "When you have a man of such high position and such humble ways, you feel the loss even more."

Joseph Pigott may be gone, but his contribution and legacy remains, in buildings, in writings, his influence on the construction industry association development and in the development of industry standards.

http://www.hhca.ca/hall%20of%20fame/inductees/j.m.pigott.asp (Proof Positive)

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Cathedral of Christ the King. Upon completion of the Cathedral, Pope Pius XI, in recognition of his accomplishment on this and other buildings, created him a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great and later "Con Placa". In 1946 in acknowledgment of his services to the Government of Canada during the war Pigott was created Commander of the British Empire. His service to Canada as president of the Wartime Housing Ltd. provided solutions to some most serious problems at that critical time. In consideration of his contributions to social welfare and to the political and intellectual life of Christian society, he was invested as a knight of magistral grace of the Sovereign and Military order of Malta in 1953, and in 1962, he was awarded the honorary degree of LL.D by McMaster University.

http://library.mcmaster.ca/archives/findaids/fonds/p/pigott.htm (Proof Positive II)

Seán Patrick O'Malley

2008-09-02T11:17:00.002+02:00

Seán Patrick Cardinal O'Malley - Archbishop of Boston; Member of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin; Founded Centro Catolico Hispano; SMOM Honorary Chaplain

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His Eminence Seán Patrick Cardinal O'Malley, OFM Cap, Ph.D (born June 29, 1944) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He currently serves as the Archbishop of Boston, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 2006. O'Malley is also a member of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, more commonly known as the Capuchins.

Early life

Seán Patrick O'Malley was born as Patrick O'Malley in Lakewood, Ohio, the son of Theodore and Mary Louise (née Reidy) O'Malley. O'Malley, his sister, and his older brother grew up in Herman, Pennsylvania. At age 12, he entered St. Fidelis Minor Seminary, a boarding school for students considering joining the Franciscan order, in Butler, Pennsylvania. While there, in addition to studying the normal high school subjects, he also studied Spanish, Greek, German, and Hebrew, and he was active in theater.

On July 14, 1965, at the age of 21, O'Malley professed his vows in the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin and took the name Seán in honor of St. John the Apostle. After he was ordained Deacon he spent a brief period in Easter Island, Chile. He was ordained a priest on August 29, 1970, at age 26, by Bishop John McDowell, an auxiliary of Pittsburgh.

After graduating from St. Fidelis, he attended Capuchin College in Washington, D.C. and The Catholic University of America, where he is now a member of the Board of Trustees. He graduated from CUA with a master's degree in religious education and a Ph.D. in Spanish and Portuguese literature. He once said of his alma mater, "I have a great affection for Catholic University. I studied there, received my doctorate there and even taught there for a couple of years. It’s always a joy to go back to see the progress that they have made."[1] O'Malley served as a professor at The Catholic University from 1969 to 1973.

In 1973, he was asked to minister to Latinos living in the D.C. area. He founded Centro Catolico Hispano (Hispanic Catholic Center), an organization which provided educational, medical and legal help to immigrants. He opened a Spanish bookstore and founded the first Spanish newspaper in the D.C. area. In 1978, William Cardinal Baum appointed him episcopal vicar for the Portuguese, Hispanic, and Haitian communities, and became the executive director of the archdiocesan Office of Social Ministry. He was also named knight commander of the Order of Prince Henry the Navigator in 1974 by Portugal for his service to its people.

Episcopacy

O'Malley was appointed coadjutor bishop of the Diocese of Saint Thomas on May 30, 1984 by Pope John Paul II. He received his epsicopal consecration on the following August 2 by Bishop Edward John Harper, CSSR, with Archbishop James Hickey and Bishop Eugene Marino, SSJ, serving as co-consecrators. He served as coadjutor for one year and then succeeded Bishop Harper as Bishop of Saint Thomas on October 16, 1985, upon Harper's resignation. While in the Virgin Islands, he worked with the homeless, and opened a home for people with AIDS. He was made an honorary chaplain of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta in 1991.

On June 16, 1992, following a series of sexual abuse allegations leveled against Father James Porter, O'Malley was chosen to head the Diocese of Fall River. He was installed on the following August 11. While Bishop of Fall River, O'Malley settled 101 abuse claims and initiated a zero-tolerance policy against sexual abuse. He also instituted one of the first comprehensive sexual abuse policies in the Roman Catholic Church. He also worked closely with the Portuguese and Hispanic population, which make up a large per-centage of the Catholics in the diocese. In 1998 John Paul II appointed O'Malley to the Special Assembly for Oceania of the Synod of Bishops. - After serving in Fall River for ten years, he was appointed Bishop of Palm Beach in Florida, on September 3, 2002. He was installed on the following October 19. The appointment came after the diocese had been rocked by revelations of sexual abuse against two of its former bishops: Joseph Symons (resigned on 1998 after admitting he molested five boys while he was a pastor) and Symons' successor Anthony O'Connell (resigned in 2002 after admitting to molesting an underage seminarian).

At age 59, just nine months after arriving in Palm Beach, O'Malley was called once again to Massachusetts. He was appointed Archbishop of Boston on July 1, 2003, upon the resignation of Bernard Cardinal Law after criticism of Law's management of the sexual abuse scandals. O'Malley was installed in Boston on the following July 30.

Cardinalate

Pope Benedict XVI elevated O'Malley and 14 others to the rank of cardinal in the consistory on March 24, 2006. O'Malley was one of two Americans to be elevated on that day (the other was Archbishop William Levada, who succeeded Pope Benedict as the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 2005). The Pope announced the appointments during an audience on the Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter at Antioch on February 22, 2006. O'Malley was created Cardinal Priest with the title of Santa Maria della Vittoria. In May 2006, he was named as a member of both the Congregation for the Clergy and the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life in the Roman Curia.

On September 19, 2006, O'Malley became the first and, as of December 2006, only cardinal with a personal blog, www.CardinalSeansBlog.org. As of Christmas 2006 he began offering a regular podcast as well.[2] He views the podcasts "as yet another tool [he] can use to reach the young people in our Church who more and more are turning to the Internet for their information."[3]

Cardinal O'Malley will be able to participate in any future papal conclaves that begin before his 80th birthday on June 29, 2024.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Patrick_O'Malley

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The Knights and Dames of the Order of Malta in Rome to attend the consistory pose with Cardinal O’Malley at the North American College March 26. Later in the day the order held a reception in his honor. Pilot photo by Gregory L. Tracy

Friday, March 31, 2006 edition of The Pilot
Order of Malta holds reception for new cardinal

BY Donis Tracy--Pilot correspondent
Posted: 3/31/2006

ROME — Boston Knights and Dames of the Order of Malta who had traveled to Rome to attend the consistory greeted their new cardinal at an open-air reception held in his honor March 26.
Nearly 50 people gathered at the Casa Santa Maria, a house for clergy members furthering their studies in Rome, in order to congratulate Cardinal Seán P. O’Malley and wish him well.
“This entire celebration has been spectacular,” said James F. O’Connor, chairman for the Knights of Malta for the Archdiocese of Boston. “This whole thing — it has just been phenomenal.”
According to O’Connor, Cardinal O’Malley has always been a supporter of the Knights of Malta, even serving as a chaplain for the order before becoming archbishop of Boston.
The Knights of Malta are a lay religious order of the Church, with a nearly 1,000-year-old history.
The group boasts 11,000 members worldwide, according to O’Connor, adding that in the United States there are currently 3,000 members. About 240 members of the order reside within the Archdiocese of Boston.
“Archbishop Seán has been through a very difficult time, which has taken an extra amount of holiness to get him through it. He has an aura of holiness,” said South Boston businessman Jack Shaughnessy.
“You can’t know him without loving him,” he added. “It’s a great day for Boston, an exciting day for the Church in Boston.”
“Rome has recognized his gift,” commented Dr. Mary Jane England, president of Regis College in Weston.
“We need his leadership at this time,” she said.
“We’ve got to get our heads back up in Boston and having a cardinal-archbishop might just do that,” she added.
Joining the Knights and Dames of the Order of Malta were also representatives from the Knights and Ladies of the Holy Sepulcher in Boston.
Dennis Looney, on behalf of the Knights and Ladies of the Holy Sepulcher, presented Cardinal O’Malley with a Knights Grand Cross, an insignia of a high rank for the cardinal.
“Thank you for everything you do for the order,” Looney told the cardinal.

http://www.thebostonpilot.com/articlearchives.asp?ID=2980
http://www.cardinalrating.com/cardinal_196__article_3571.htm (Proof Positive)

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n Oct. 25, the Order of Malta had their annual Mass at Boston College’s St. Mary Chapel.
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It was a very successful meeting for the Order of Malta. Here is the homily I gave at the Mass:

During my installation ceremony, I introduced the scores of O’Malleys who assembled for Mass in our Cathedral. There was a gasp when the congregation saw how many members of the O’Malley clan were present. So, I said: “And these are only the ones we’re talking to.” It got a big laugh because in big Irish families there is always somebody who is mad at somebody.”
[...]
The motto of the Order of Malta is “Tuitio Fidei et Obsequium Pauperum”: defense of the Faith and assistance to the poor and suffering.

Recently, I was in an old Capuchin Monastery where the beams in the ceilings of the refectory were made from the ships of the Battle of Lepanto. The way we defend the Faith today is by living it and passing it on, not by invoking military prowess and force. The world needs a new apologetic as we try to answer the real questions that modern people struggle with and to answer them in the light of Christ’s Gospel. The answers need to be accompanied by the witness of a life committed to the service of poor and the sick.

When the world becomes convinced that those who live as Christ’s followers are truly making this a better world, then we will get their attention and have a hearing. So, defending the faith and helping the poor are inexorably linked in our life of discipleship, and especially in the spirituality of Malta.
[...]
We cannot afford to be guilty bystanders; we must raise the flag of the colony of resident aliens in defense of life, of marriage and of the Church. Our message must emanate from a life transformed by prayer and committed to the works of mercy. To me that is what Malta needs to be about.

Thank you for being part of it.

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Additionally, it will be noted that the Cardinal's shield also rests upon a Maltese Cross in its proper colors of red and white. The inclusion of this cross in the design signifies that at the request of His Eminence James Cardinal Hickey, then Cardinal-Archbishop of Washington, DC and Chaplain of the Washington Lieutenancy of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, Cardinal O'Malley was named as a Chaplain "Ad Honorum" of the Order in 1991. By this position the Bishop became a member of one of the oldest chivalric order in Christendom, the Hospitaliers of St. John of Jerusalem, who, at one time, had their headquarters on the Island of Malta (the headquarters are now In Rome) and have thereafter been known as the Knights of Malta.

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His Eminence, Sean Cardinal O'Malley stops after the International Mass to greet Ligia Remick (Baltimore). Ms. Remick tutored then Father O'Malley in Portuguese when both were in Washington in the '70's.

One highlight was having one
of our distinguished former Chaplains, His Eminence Sean
Cardinal O'Malley, Archbishop of Boston (who has since transferred
to the American Association), as the Principal Celebrant
for Sunday Mass in the underground Basilica of St. Pius X.
Not only were the Mass and the Homily mostly in English for
the first time in recent memory, but Cardinal O'Malley was
very humorous and insightful in his teaching.

http://www.smom.org/files/malta-review-16x02.pdf (Proof Positive III)

Nelson Mandela

2008-09-02T11:16:00.003+02:00

(OSJ) Nelson Mandela - 11th President of South Africa; 18th Secretary General of Non-Aligned; Anti-apartheid activist; Leader of the African National Congress Movement and its Armed Wing: Spear of the Nation (MK)

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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela IPA: [xolí?a?a mandé?la] (born 18 July 1918) is a former President of South Africa, the first to be elected in fully representative democratic elections. Before his presidency, Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist and leader of the African National Congress and its armed wing Umkhonto we Sizwe. He spent 27 years in prison, much of it in a cell on Robben Island and the remainder in Pollsmoor Prison, on convictions for crimes that included sabotage committed while he spearheaded the struggle against apartheid.

Among opponents of apartheid in South Africa and internationally, he became a symbol of freedom and equality, while the apartheid government and nations sympathetic to it condemned him and the ANC as communists and terrorists.

Following his release from prison in February 11, 1990, his switch to a policy of reconciliation and negotiation helped lead the transition to multi-racial democracy in South Africa. Since the end of apartheid, he has been widely praised, even by former opponents.

Mandela has received more than one hundred awards over four decades, most notably the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993. He is currently a celebrated elder statesman who continues to voice his opinion on topical issues. In South Africa he is often known as Madiba, an honorary title adopted by elders of Mandela's clan. The title has come to be synonymous with Nelson Mandela.

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Education

At seven years of age, Rolihlahla Mandela became the first member of his family to attend a school, where he was given the name "Nelson," after the British admiral Horatio Nelson, by a Methodist teacher who found his native name difficult to pronounce.[citation needed]

His father died of tuberculosis when Rolihlahla was nine, and the Regent, Jongintaba, became his guardian. Mandela attended a Wesleyan mission school next door to the palace of the Regent. Following Thembu custom, he was initiated at age sixteen, and attended Clarkebury Boarding Institute. He completed his Junior Certificate in two years, instead of the usual three. Destined to inherit his father's position as a privy councillor, in 1937 Mandela moved to Healdtown, the Wesleyan college in Fort Beaufort which most Thembu royalty attended. Aged nineteen, he took an interest in boxing and running.[1]

After matriculating, he started to study for a B.A. at the Fort Hare University, where he met Oliver Tambo, and the two became lifelong friends and colleagues. He also became close friends with his kinsman, Kaiser ("K.D.") Matanzima who, however, as royal scion of the Thembu Right Hand House, was destined for the throne of Transkei, a role that later led him to embrace Bantustan policies which made him and Mandela political enemies.[1] At the end of Nelson's first year, he became involved in a boycott by the Students' Representative Council against the university policies, and was asked to leave Fort Hare.

Later, while imprisoned, Mandela studied for a Bachelor of Laws from the University of London External Programme (see below).

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Guerrilla activities

In 1961, Mandela became the leader of the ANC's armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (translated as Spear of the Nation, also abbreviated as MK), which he co-founded. He coordinated a sabotage campaign against military and government targets, and made plans for a possible guerrilla war if sabotage failed to end apartheid. A few decades later, MK did wage a guerrilla war against the regime, especially during the 1980s, in which many civilians were killed. Mandela also raised funds for MK abroad, and arranged for paramilitary training, visiting various African governments.

Mandela explains the move to embark on armed struggle as a last resort, when increasing repression and violence from the state convinced him that many years of non-violent protest against apartheid had achieved nothing and could not succeed.[6][2]

Mandela later admitted that the ANC, in its struggle against apartheid, also violated human rights, and has sharply criticised attempts by parts of his party to remove statements supporting this fact from the reports of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.[7]

On 5 August 1962 Mandela was arrested after living on the run for seventeen months, and was imprisoned in the Johannesburg Fort. The arrest was made possible because the CIA tipped off the security police as to Mandela's whereabouts and disguise.[8][9][10] Three days later, the charges of leading workers to strike in 1961 and leaving the country illegally were read to him during a court appearance. On 25 October 1962, Mandela was sentenced to five years in prison. Two years later on 11 June 1964, a verdict had been reached concerning his previous engagement in the African National Congress (ANC).

While Mandela was imprisoned, police arrested prominent ANC leaders on 11 July 1963, at Liliesleaf Farm, Rivonia, north of Johannesburg. Mandela was brought in, and at the Rivonia Trial, Mandela, Ahmed Kathrada, Walter Sisulu, Govan Mbeki, Andrew Mlangeni, Raymond Mhlaba, Elias Motsoaledi, Walter Mkwayi (who escaped during trial), Arthur Goldreich (who escaped from prison before trial), Denis Goldberg and Lionel "Rusty" Bernstein were charged by the chief prosecutor Dr. Percy Yutar, the deputy attorney-general of the Transvaal, with the capital crimes of sabotage (which Mandela admitted) and crimes which were equivalent to treason, but easier for the government to prove. The second charge accused the defendants of plotting a foreign invasion of South Africa, which Mandela denied.

In his statement from the dock at the opening of the defence case in the trial on 20 April 1964 at Pretoria Supreme Court, Mandela laid out the clarity of reasoning in the ANC's choice to use violence as a tactic. His statement revealed how the ANC had used peaceful means to resist apartheid for years until the Sharpeville Massacre. That event coupled with the referendum establishing the Republic of South Africa and the declaration of a state of emergency along with the banning of the ANC made it clear that their only choice was to resist through acts of sabotage. Doing otherwise would have been tantamount to unconditional surrender. Mandela went on to explain how they developed the Manifesto of Umkhonto we Sizwe on 16 December 1961 intent on exposing the failure of the National Party's policies after the economy would be threatened by foreigners' unwillingness to risk investing in the country.[11] He closed his statement with these words:
“ During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to the struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.[6] ”

Bram Fischer, Vernon Berrange, Harry Schwarz, Joel Joffe, Arthur Chaskalson and George Bizos were part of the defence team that represented the accused. Harold Hanson was brought in at the end of the case to plead mitigation. All except Rusty Bernstein were found guilty, but they escaped the gallows and were sentenced to life imprisonment on 12 June 1964. Charges included involvement in planning armed action, in particular four charges of sabotage, which Mandela admitted to, and a conspiracy to help other countries invade South Africa, which Mandela denied.

[...]

Iraq invasion views

In 2003 Mandela criticised the foreign policy of the George W. Bush administration in a number of speeches. Criticising the lack of UN involvement in the decision to begin the War in Iraq, he said, "It is a tragedy, what is happening, what Bush is doing. But Bush is now undermining the United Nations." Mandela stated he would support action against Iraq only if it is ordered by the UN. Mandela also insinuated that Bush may have been motivated by racism in not following the UN and its secretary-general Kofi Annan on the issue of the war. "Is it because the secretary-general of the United Nations is now a black man? They never did that when secretary-generals were white".[40]

He urged the people of the U.S. to join massive protests against Bush and called on world leaders, especially those with vetoes in the UN Security Council, to oppose him. "What I am condemning is that one power, with a president who has no foresight, who cannot think properly, is now wanting to plunge the world into a holocaust." He attacked the United States for its record on human rights and for dropping atomic bombs on Japan during World War II. "If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don't care."[40]

As a member of the United States House of Representatives in 1986, Dick Cheney had voted against a congressional resolution calling for Mandela's release from prison. In 2002, Mandela called Cheney a "dinosaur."[41]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela

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Above: Mr Nelson Mandela and the Duke of Gloucester, at the Knights and Dames Investiture on 23rd November [2004] at St James’s Palace, when the Duke invested Mr Mandela as a Bailiff Grand Cross of the Order of St John. The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester were later the Guests of Honour at a dinner at the Army and Navy Club, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of His Royal Highness’s appointment as Grand Prior

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From left: Watercolour Painting of St John Ambulance Brigade Members attending to a patient at a Duran-Duran concert; "Glenshiel", headquarters of the Order of St John in South Africa; President Nelson Mandela, wearing his Knight of Grace mantle.

http://www.suedickinson.co.za/st-john-mandela.html (Proof Positive II)
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Victor Rothschild

2008-09-02T11:16:00.002+02:00

(OSJ(+SMOM?)) Sir Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild - MI5 Agent; Chairman o/t Agricultural Research Council; Worldwide head of research at Royal Dutch Shell; Security Adviser to Margaret Thatcher; Head o/t Central Policy Review Staff

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Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild, GBE, GM, FRS (October 31, 1910 – March 20, 1990) was a biologist by training, a cricketer and a member of the prominent Rothschild family. He was the son of Charles Rothschild and Rozsika Edle Rothschild (née von Wertheimstein).

Life

Rothschild was educated at the Harrow School and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read Physiology, French and English. He played first-class cricket for the University and Northamptonshire. At Cambridge he was known for his playboy lifestyle, driving a Bugatti and collecting art and rare books.

At Trinity, Rothschild joined the secret society, the Cambridge Apostles, which at that time was predominantly Marxist, though he "was mildly left-wing but never a Marxist".[1] There he became friends with KGB spies Guy Burgess and Anthony Blunt, who were also members. Rothschild gave Blunt £100 to purchase "Eliezer and Rebecca" by Nicholas Poussin.[2] The painting was sold by Blunt's executors in 1985 for £100,000 (totalling £192,500 with tax remission[3]) and is now in the Fitzwilliam Museum.[4] He is also alleged to have supplied an apartment in London where Burgess and Blunt could meet, leading to suspicions that he was the so-called Fifth Man in the Cambridge Spy Ring. The Fifth Man has never been formally identified, although more than a dozen names have been suggested, including that of John Cairncross.

Rothschild inherited his title at the age of 26 following the death of his uncle Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild on 27 August 1937, and sat as a Labour Party peer in the House of Lords.

World War II

Rothschild was recruited to work for MI5 during World War II in roles including bomb disposal, disinformation and espionage, winning the George Medal. Because of his association with Burgess and Blunt, he was questioned by Special Branch at the time of Blunt's unmasking in 1964 and was apparently cleared, subsequently working on projects for the British government. Rumours continued to circulate, and Rothschild himself took the step of publishing a letter in British newspapers on 3 December 1986 to state "... I am not, and never have been, a Soviet agent." Roland Perry's 1994 book The Fifth Man repeated the charges without firm authority, and there remains no evidence to suggest that Rothschild spied for the Soviet Union. [5]

Post-war work

After the war, he joined the zoology department at Cambridge University from 1950 to 1970. He served as chairman of the Agricultural Research Council from 1948 to 1958 and as worldwide head of research at Royal Dutch Shell from 1963 to 1970. He continued to work in security issues, namely as a security adviser to Margaret Thatcher. He was also head of the Central Policy Review Staff from 1971 to 1974 (known popularly as the "Think Tank"), a high-level committee which provided policy advice to government until Margaret Thatcher abolished it. In 1982 he published An Enquiry into the Social Science Research Council at the behest of Keith Joseph.

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Sir Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild1
M, #71075, b. 31 October 1910, d. March 1990

Sir Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild was born on 31 October 1910.1 He was the son of Nathaniel Charles Rothschild and Rozsika von Wertheimstein.2 He married, firstly, Barbara Hutchinson, daughter of St. John Hutchinson, on 28 December 1933.1 He and Barbara Hutchinson were divorced in 1946.3 He married, secondly, Teresa Georgina Mayor, daughter of Robert John Grote Mayor, on 14 August 1946.3 He died in March 1990 at age 79.1

Sir Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild was educated at Harrow School, Harrow on the Hill, London, England.1 He was a Fellow between 1935 and 1939 at Trinity College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England.1 He graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, in 1937 with a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) and Master of Arts (M.A.).1 He succeeded to the title of 3rd Baron Rothschild, of Tring, co. Hertford [U.K., 1885] on 27 August 1937.1 He succeeded to the title of 4th Baronet Rothschild [U.K., 1847] on 27 August 1937.1 He gained the rank of Major in the service of the Intelligence Corps.1 He fought in the Second World War, where he was mentioned in despatches.1 He was decorated with the George Medal (G.M.) in 1944.1 He was decorated with the U.S. Legion of Merit in 1946.3 He was a director of BOAC between 1946 and 1958.1 He was decorated with the U.S. Bronze Star in 1948.3 He was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Science (Sc.D.) by Cambridge University, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, in 1950.1 He was Assistant Director of the Research Department Zoology between 1950 and 1970 at Cambridge University, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England.1 He was invested as a Fellow, Royal Society (F.R.S.) in 1953.1 He was Research Co-ordinator of the Royal Dutch Shell Group between 1965 and 1970.1 He was invested as a Knight, Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (K.St.J.).3 He was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) by Newcastle University, Newcastle, Northumberland, England.1 He was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) by Manchester University Medical School, Manchester, Lancashire, England.1 He was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) by Technion Haifa, Haifa, Israel.1 He was director-general of Central Policy Review Staff between 1970 and 1974.1 He was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) by Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1971.1 He was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) by Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, in 1975.1 He was chairman of N M Rothschild and Sons in 1975.3 He was invested as a Knight Grand Cross, Order of the British Empire (G.B.E.) in 1975.1 He was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) by Bar-ilon University, Israel, in 1980.1 He was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of the University (D.U.) by York University, York, Yorkshire, England, in 1980.1
Children of Sir Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild and Barbara Hutchinson

* Hon. Sarah Rothschild+ b. 13 Sep 19342
* Sir Nathaniel Charles Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild+ b. 29 Apr 19362
* Hon. Miranda Rothschild b. 25 Dec 19402

Children of Sir Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild and Teresa Georgina Mayor

* Hon. Emma Georgina Rothschild b. 16 May 19482
* Benjamin Mayor Rothschild b. 16 May 1952, d. 16 May 19522
* Hon. Victoria Katherine Rothschild b. 13 Aug 19532
* Hon. Amschel Mayor James Rothschild+ b. 18 Apr 1955, d. 8 Jul 19962

Citations

1. [S37] Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 3, page 3417. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.
2. [S37] Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.
3. [S37] Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition, volume 3, page 3418.

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NATHANIEL MAYER VICTOR ROTHSHILD AND THE SMOM SECRET SERVICE

The Orders of St John in the Alliance are Orders of Chivalry and are distinguished from other national Orders because of their Christian faith and their traditions as religious confraternities of so called Christian lay people.Officialy they say they are united by a common historical tradition and a unique vocation: the care of the sick and the poor but in reality there are keeping the Christian Tradition in the firm hands of the Catholic mafia in Rome.The mafia of the Vatican illuminati and their Catholic/Zionist New World Order has a secret army of intelligence operatives and they are the Knights of Malta . One of the most illustrius figures of this Catholic/Zionist illuminati alliance use to be Sir Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild (October 31, 1910 – March 20, 1990) a high level member of the Sovereign Order of Malta, a proud member of the Vatican illuminati elite' forces . For this kind of people joining the Knights of Malta is a unique possibility that offers you the nature of a Religious Order with an Order of Chivalry that in reality is the Secret Service of the Vatican, beacuse thats what they realy are, and the Order of Malta is widely recognised as a sovereign entity of International Law wich means alot of Tax benefits and infinite possibilities for the usual illuminati criminals like Baron Victor Rothshild who spent most of his life in the intelligence field around the world working for the Vatican illuminati of the SMOM in various ways . ...some recentelly say even as a Soviet spy http://www.henrymakow.com/001411.html

Calvi for example was murdered by the Mafia assassins of the Thule Society in a ritual murder ordered by the Jesuits the P2 and sponsored by Victor Rothschild a loyal follower of the Vatican who was always involved with the very important business of the important P2 Lodge of another illustrius Knight of Malta member the infamous Licio Gelli. Gelli's lodge consist of extremely important members of the SMOM [Sovereign Military Order of Malta], including armed forces commanders, secret service chiefs, head of Italy's financial police, 30 generals, eight admirals, newspaper editors, television and top business executives and key bankers - including Calvi. Licio Gelli and others in P2 were behind the assassination of Pope John Paul 1 and it's interesting to know that some have been also thinking of Gelli as a Soviet spy just like they are doing now with his friend Victor Rothshild but in reality these two have always been loyal Vatican slaves nothing else!

http://www.illuminati-news.com/2006/1217d.htm
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ROTHSCHILD VICTOR
Britain 1941-1990

* Coleman,P. The Liberal Conspiracy. 1989 (146)
* Dorril,S. MI6. 2000 (480-1)
* Dorril,S. Ramsay,R. Smear! 1992 (9, 165, 219-22, 245-6, 300, 325-7)
* Hersh,S. The Samson Option. 1991 (160-1)
* Intelligence (Paris) 1999-10-18 (13)
* Leigh,D. The Wilson Plot. 1988 (xiii, 3, 79, 114, 153-4, 174, 176E, 203, 206)
* Lobster Magazine (Britain) 1988-#16 (1-7)
* Lobster. A Who's Who of the British Secret State. 1989
* Raviv,D. Melman,Y. Every Spy a Prince. 1990 (91-2)
* Sampson,A. The Money Lenders. 1982 (63)
* Saunders,F. The Cultural Cold War. 2000 (9, 175-6, 327, 374-6)
* Schmidt,O. The Intelligence Files. 2005 (32)
* Tarpley,W.G. Chaitkin,A. George Bush. 1992 (219)
* Thomas,K. Popular Alienation: A Steamshovel Press Reader. 1995 (187)
* Washington Times 1986-11-27 (6A)
* Washington Times 1990-03-22 (B4)
* Wise,D. Molehunt. 1992 (103)
* Wright,P. Spycatcher. 1987 (117-8, 214-5, 259, 347-8)

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Roger Pearson

2008-09-02T11:15:00.002+02:00

Dr. Roger Pearson - President o/t World Anti-Communist League; Editor of Western Destiny and Mankind Quarterly; Board Member o/t French Neo-Nazi Journal Nouvelle Ecole; British Eugenicist; Neo-Nazi

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Roger Pearson (born 1927) is a British anthropologist, advocate of eugenics, and editor of several scholarly journals published by the Institute for the Study of Man.

Life and work

Originally from Great Britain, Pearson has also served as (colonial) officer in the British army to India, then directed various British-controlled companies there. He studied at the University of London, where he gained a Master's degree in Economics and Sociology, and a Ph.D. in Anthropology.[1]

In 1958 Pearson founded the Northern League "to foster the interests, friendship and solidarity of all Teutonic nations." He recruited Hans F. K. Günther, who received awards under the National Socialist regime for his work on race, Ernest Cox of the Ku Klux Klan, and Dr. Wilhelm Kesserow, a former SS officer.[2]

He joined the Eugenics Society in 1963 and became a fellow in 1977.

Pearson was brought to the United States in 1965 by Willis Carto of the Liberty Lobby, and contributed to some of Carto's publications, such as Western Destiny and at Noontide Press. At the end of the 1960s, he parted with Carto, and successively taught at Queens University of Charlotte, The University of Southern Mississippi and Montana Tech. During his tenure as dean at Montana Tech, Pearson received $60,000 from the Pioneer Fund.[1][3]

In 1975, he left academics and moved to Washington, D.C., where he founded the Council on American Affairs. He also joined the editorial board of Policy Review, the monthly Heritage Foundation publication in 1977, but was forced to resign in 1978, after the Washington Post exposed Pearson's background following the 11th Conference of the World Anti-Communist League — which he chaired.[1][4]

In 1981 Pearson received the library of Donald A. Swan through a grant from the Pioneer Fund.[5] Pearson also held the directorship of the Institute for the Study of Man, a group which was alleged by Searchlight magazine to have received $869,500 between 1981 and 1996 from the Pioneer Fund [6] and which under Pearson acquired the peer-reviewed journal Mankind Quarterly in 1978.[1] Pearson simultaneously took over as editor and has remained editor through to the present day, though his name has never appeared on the masthead. [2] Pearson has used diverse pseudonyms to contribute to the journal including, J.W. Jamieson. Auschwitz doctor Josef Mengele's advisor, Otmar von Verschuer, was on the editorial advisory board of this journal before his death in 1970.[2] The institute also prints the Journal of Social, Political, and Economic Studies and the Journal of Indo-European Studies and has the Scott-Townsend book imprint. In the editing of the Journal of Indo-European Studies he is assisted by JP Mallory.

Publications

* Essays on Eugenics and Race. 1958, Northern World, Coventry
* Mankind Quarterly 1960
* The Religious Attitudes of the Indo-Europeans. 1966, 1967 Hans Gunther, trans. by Vivian Bird (See Oliver Bird Trust and George Cadbury) in collaboration with Roger Pearson.
* Introduction to Anthropology. Harcourt College Pub, 1974.
* Anthropological Glossary. Krieger Pub Co, 1985.
* Race, Intelligence and Bias in Academe. Scott-Townsend Publishers, 1997 (2nd edition).
* Heredity and Humanity: Race, Eugenics and Modern Science. Scott-Townsend Publishers, 1996.

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The Grand Cross of Merit of the Knights of Malta has gone to Robert Gayre, editor of the racist magazine Mankind Quarterly, and Roger Pearson, president of the World Anti-Communist League and board member of the French neo-Nazi journal Nouvelle Ecole.

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KNIGHTS OF DARKNESS

THE SOVEREIGN MILITARY ORDER OF MALTA
[...]
[Picture caption] - Roger Pearson.
[...]
THE CHECKERED CAREERS OF JAMES ANGLETON AND ROGER PEARSON

Both James Jesus Angleton and George Raymond Rocca were forced into retirement in December 1974 following Seymour Hersh's revelations that Angleton's Division had been involved in illegal domestic operations, known as "the family jewels."1

By the Winter of 1977-78 Angleton became one of two Associate Editors of the Journal of International Relations under General Editor Roger Pearson. The other Associate Editor was Gen. Robert C. Richardson III; the Publisher was John Fisher, President of the American Security Council.

Pearson is perhaps the most important neo-Nazi contact and racist propagandist in the U.S. today and had been a former Editor of Willis Carto's Western Destiny.

According to Replica of January 1978, when the Executive Committee of the World Anti-Communist League (WACL) met December 10 and 11, 1977 to plan for their upcoming conference in Washington D. C., ''The main speaker was ..... General Robert C. Richardson III who delivered a brilliant speech on the theme of USA-USSR nuclear balance ...... [and] ......... Dr. Roger Pearson [President of North American Regional WACL and later President and host of WACL in 1978] also made a brilliant exposition."

Replica is the journal of the Latin American Anti-Communist Confederation (CAL) which Jack Anderson revealed to be a CIA created anti-Semitic controller of neo-Nazi death squads.2

Pearson was removed as head of the U.S. branch of the World Anti-Communist League after its 1978 conference in Washington, D.C. because his ties to the neo-Nazi international were too extreme even for WACL which then included death squads, former Nazis, and Nazi collaborators.3

In the July 1978 issue of the racist Mankind Quarterly, the Editor-in-Chief, and Pearson's mentor, Robert Gayre, announced that Pearson would take over publication of the magazine. Robert Gayre had received the Grand Cross of Merit from SMOM in 1963, having already been editor of the Mankind Quarterly for three years. In June 1979 Pearson was listed as a member of the 'Comite de Patronage' (the Advisory Board) of the French neo-Nazi journal Nouvelle Ecole.

Today Pearson continues to publish in Washington, D.C. several journals including Mankind Quarterly; The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies; and The Journal of Indo-European Studies; he remains on the Board of Trustees of the American Foreign Policy Institute.4

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Also, SMOM members Roger Pearson and James Jesus Angleton have edited the rightwing Journal of International Relations . (Pearson, former Editor of the racist journals Western Destiny and Mankind Quarterly , currently sits on the board of trustees for the American Foreign Policy Institute. In 1977, he was removed as head of the U.S. branch of the World Anti-Communist League, a Reverend Moon-financed organization, because he was "too extreme!" Angleton had worked with Luigi Gedda of Catholic Action to fight communism through the Civic Committees and rig the 1948 Italian elections.)

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PEARSON ROGER

* Anderson,S.& J. Inside the League. 1986 (92-103, 282)
* Bellant,R. Old Nazis. 1989 (44, 47, 51-4)
* Bellant,R. The Coors Connection. 1990 (14-5, 38, 48)
* Covert Action Information Bulletin 1986-#25 (32)
* Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR). Extra! 1996-08 (11)
* Furgurson,E. Hard Right: The Rise of Jesse Helms. 1986 (188)
* Guardian (New York) 1985-05-01 (3)
* Herman,E. O'Sullivan,G. The Terrorism Industry. 1989 (78, 101)
* Lee,M. The Beast Reawakens. 1997 (362, 491)
* Marshall,J... The Iran-Contra Connection. 1987 (62)
* Parapolitics/USA 1981-05-30 (45-6)
* Public Eye Magazine 1979 (5, 26)
* Public Eye Magazine 1984-SU (4-5)
* Sklar,H. Washington's War on Nicaragua. 1988 (79)
* Village Voice 1985-05-07 (20, 22)
* Village Voice 1985-05-14 (20)
* Wilcox,D.A... The Right Guide. 1993 (76)

pages cited this search: 43

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Geraldine Frawley

2008-09-02T11:15:00.001+02:00

Geraldine Frawley - Publisher of the Conservative 'National Catholic Register'

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Patrick J. Frawley Jr. Heir to the Schick razor fortune, Frawley is a well-known funder of right-wing Catholic causes, such as the Christian Anti-Communist Crusade. His wife, Geraldine, is publisher of the conservative 'National Catholic Register' and a Dame of Malta.

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Patrick J. Frawley, Jr.: also a Knight of the Order of St. Sylvester of which William [ head of WWII OSS .... JP ] Donovan was a member. He is a longstanding funder of right-wing causes including Fred Schwarz's Christian Anti-Communism Crusade. His wife is a Dame of SMOM and is Publisher of the National Catholic Register of California, whose editor, Francis X. Maier was formerly with National Review.

http://www.mosquitonet.com/~prewett/caqsmom25.4.html

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i6 - The Alliance Between the Orders of Saint John of Jerusalem

2008-09-02T11:14:00.000+02:00

INTERJECTION - The Alliance Between the Orders of Saint John of Jerusalem

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The Chivalric Alliance of Hospitallers of Saint John of Jerusalem (Alliance de Chevalerie des Hospitaliers de Saint Jean de Jerusalem)

© Guy Stair Sainty

The Alliance, as it is customarily described, was formed at the instigation of the Johanniter Orders in Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden with the subsequent addition of the Most Venerable Order, in 1961. Its stated purpose and aims are "to reduce to silence the enemies of Christ" and "to succour the sick and to help the destitute". [1] The preamble of the statement of 13 June 1961 read "A knight must do his utmost to combat all manifestations of unbelief. He must employ every form of persuasion to combat the enemies of the Church, using all the powers and spiritual forces at his command; a word of encouragement at the right moment, a disinterested piece of advice, a noble action. The Order represents the whole spiritual heritage of its founders; in taking their vows knights assume for themselves, of their own free will and conviction, the objectives of their Crusader predecessors.

The Order is a non-political body of people inspired by the same ideals. They support, exhort and encourage each other, fraternally and chivalrously, in the accomplishment of their duty and their work. The Order unites them in a powerful Brotherhood, giving them strength and spiritual sustenance. The vow they take is a living reminder of the duties they must faithfully fulfill and of self-renunciation; it embodies the entitlement of nobility alike for the Order itself as for its members".

The Convention between the four Orders stated in particular:

I. All Orders of St. John to-day are dedicated, according to their various Constitutions, to the Christian faith and to the work of caring for the sick and needy. The fulfillment of these tasks is largely exemplified in the establishment and operation of hospitals, welfare institutions, nursing schools, first aid organizations and associations for social aid and care of the sick, and like institutions.

II. The signatory Orders of St. John hereunder mentioned are akin to the older Tongues, respect the ancient rule and its underlying purpose, but are each of them free, independent and autonomous, and they now form an Alliance of Orders of St. John to be known by that description.

The signatory Orders of St. John are as follows:

Die Balley Brandenburg des ritterlichen Ordens St. Johannis vom Spital zu Jerusalem

The Grand Priory in the British Realm of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem

Johanniter Orde in Nederland

Johanniterorden i Sverige

With these are to be counted the four Associations in union with the Bailiwick of Brandenburg, namely:

Johanniter Ridderskap i Finland

Association des Chevaliers de St. Jean, Langue de France

Genossenschaft der Johanniterritter in der Schweiz

Johannitarend Magyar Tagozata

III. The signatory Orders are firmly of the opinion that the unity of all Orders of St. John is demanded by history, by their faith and by their common purposes and will fortify their international standing, and that if their efforts and labours are to be effective on the international plane these should be carried on shoulder to shoulder and as a common task.

IV. To enable all Orders of St. John to promote the success of the many international tasks which they undertake and with a view to facilitating also the co-ordination of their various activities, the establishment of a suitable joint committee and of a General Secretariat may be envisaged. The realization of this will only be effected by agreement between all Orders at the time members of the Alliance of Orders of St. John hereby established and if circumstances call for it or make it appear expedient. The organization, duties and powers of these bodies will be laid down by special regulations framed by agreement in the same way. In any case the members of this Alliance recognize that regular mutual contact is desirable.

V. Other Orders, associations, or institutions recognized as Orders of St. John by all members of the said Alliance at the time may with the consent of all such members in like manner adhere to this Convention and become members of the said Alliance. &127

Any member of the Alliance of Orders of St. John may withdraw therefrom and from this Convention by giving six months notice in writing of that intention to all other members at the time.

VII. The word "Alliance" used in the heading and text of this Convention has no political meaning and is not to be interpreted in the light of public international law, and no individual Sovereign person is intended to be bound or committed by this Convention.

VIII. This Convention shall be drawn up in the English and German languages and the text in each language shall have equal validity. HEREBY AGREED AND SIGNED by the Orders mentioned in Article II at the meeting of their delegates held at the Commandery of Niederweisel on the 13th June 1961".

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Two years later, on 26 November 1963, the Alliance was consolidated with the signing of a joint declaration between the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and the Most Venerable Order, at St John's Gate, London, by the Grand Chancellor of the SMHOM, the Prince of Resuttano, and Lord Wakehurst, Lord Prior of the Most Venerable Order. The text of this document reads:

The relationship which exists between the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta and the Grand Priory in the British Realm of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem is not always clearly understood, and it is to dispel any misconceptions which may exist that this statement is being made.

A dispute, long since relegated to the realms of academic discussion, as to whether the Most Venerable Order was the lineal descendent of the old Grand Priory of the Sovereign Order, at one time caused division amongst those concerned with such questions. Certain it is that the Most Venerable Order acquired a completely independent existence when it was granted a Royal Charter by Her Majesty Queen Victoria, who became its Sovereign Head.

Since this time the Most Venerable Order has pursued the same high ideals of charity, especially to the poor and sick, which were the very cause of the foundation of the Sovereign Order nearly one thousand years ago.

It will be easy to understand, therefore, why two great Orders, representing the same traditions, pursuing the same ideals, serving the same cause and wearing the same famous eight pointed cross, should have the greatest respect and esteem for each other. It is our great happiness to declare that such a relationship does truly exist, and that it is the dearest wish of both Orders, to seek ever more ways in which they can collaborate, to promote God's glory and to alleviate the sufferings and miseries of mankind.

To supplement this statement, a further agreement was drawn up between the SMHOM and the Venerable Order in 1983. This was signed by Sir Maurice Dorman, Lord Prior of the Most Venerable Order and Sir Peter Hope, KCMG, then President of the British Association of the Sovereign Military Order. It reads as follows:

Twenty years have passed since the signing of the Joint Declaration concerning the relationship between the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and the Most Venerable Order of St. John, during which the relationship between our two Orders has grown ever closer.

In it the common ideal of the struggle in the defense of our suffering brethren was affirmed and the amity between the signatory Orders was acclaimed especially the common wearing of the eight-pointed Cross of St. John.

The last two decades have seen an increase in the world-wide suffering of our brethren, our response has likewise expanded. The banner of our eight-pointed Cross has been flown increasingly where-ever in the world sickness or distress have made demands upon us. Our ties are strong and our purpose to help Our Lords the Sick identical. We are pleased to record our joint efforts to help the elderly which have already seen the creation of Alms Houses in Sussex and Wales.

We are also united in one fight against False Orders, those self constituted and self styled groups which lack both authenticity or legitimacy of origin but variously describe themselves as an "Order of St. John" or an "Order of Malta". However the Johanniter Orden in Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands is a legitimate and honoured ally.

We pledge ourselves anew to carry into the Twentyfirst Century the historical aims and obligations of our Orders.

The most recent agreement between the five Orders culminated in a further statement which clarifies the difference between those Orders which are recognized as such by the Sovereign authorities of the countries in which they are based and the self-styled "Orders of Saint John" whose pretension to be Orders of Chivalry are unrecognized by such sovereign authorities. Confirming the close and friendly relations between the five Orders, this statement reads as follows:

THE ORDERS OF SAINT JOHN

With the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta which is Roman Catholic, the four non-Catholic Orders of St. John provide a Christian answer to the problems of a troubled and materialistic world. They have a common devotion to a historical tradition and a unique vocation: the lordship of the sick and the poor. They strive to realize their aim by mutual collaboration as well as by their own works. They are the only Orders of St. John which may legitimately use that name.

The Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem had its origins in Jerusalem in the late eleventh century and was recognized as an Order by Pope Pascal II in 1113. From that date it was a religious Order. Its members took monastic vows and lived according to a religious rule.

In the course of its history it developed a class of knights who took no vows, while knights belonging to the first class continued to be professed religious. The Order, therefore, uniquely combined and still combines within itself the nature of a religious Order and an Order of chivalry. In the former capacity it was and still is subject to the laws of the Church. The Sovereign Military and Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta (generally known as the Sovereign Military Order of Malta) is this Order. It is widely recognized as a sovereign subject of International Public Law. It has five Grand Priories, three Sub-Priories and thirty-seven National Associations throughout catholic Christendom. Since 1834 its extra-territorial headquarters have been in Rome. The Grand Master is H.M.E.H. Fra' Angelo de Mojana di Cologna.

Four non-catholic Orders of St. John of Jerusalem are recognized by their sovereign authorities in the countries in which they are based. They are:

Die Balley Brandenburg des Ritterlichen Ordens Sankt Johannis vom Spital zu Jerusalem (generally known as Der Johanniterorden). Besides seventeen Associations in the Federal Republic of Germany, there are Austrian, Finnish, French and Swiss (which are officially recognized in their respective countries) and the Hungarian in exile. Its Headquarters are in Bonn. Its head, styled Der Herrenmeister, is H.R.H. Prince Wilhelm-Karl of Prussia.

Johanniter Orde in Nederland. It was formed as an independent Order in 1946. Its headquarters are in the Hague. Its head is H.R.H. Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands.

Johanniterorden i Sverige. It was incorporated by royal charter in 1946. Its headquarters are in Stockholm and the High Patron is H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf.

The Grand Priory of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (generally known as the Order of St. John). It has six Priories, two Commanderies and forty Saint John Councils throughout the English-speaking world. Its headquarters are in London. Its Sovereign Head is H.M. Queen Elizabeth II.

The four non-Catholic Orders are associated with one another in the international Alliance of the Orders of St. John of Jerusalem. They are Orders of Chivalry, but they are to be distinguished from most national Orders because of their Christian faith and their traditions as religious confraternities of Christian laymen.

In all these Orders are fostered such ideals of the medieval Order as are applicable to their circumstances, essentially the care of the sick and other service to fellow men.

14 October 1987. Signed by H.M.Em. H. Fra' Angelo di Mojana, Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign, Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, called of Rhodes and of Malta; H.R.H. Wilhelm-Karl, Prince of Prussia, Herrenmeister of the Johanniter Order; H.R.H. Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, Landcommander, Johanniter Order in the Netherlands; Fredrik Lowenhielm, Johanniter Order in Sweden; Rt. Hon. the Earl Cathcart, Lord Prior, The Most Venerable Order of Saint John.

The headquarters of the Alliance, whose current President is Baron Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven, Statthalter of the German Johanniter Order, are in Switzerland and it is administered by a Secretary, presently Mr R. Ehinger Krehl. [2] The administration is situated at the headquarters of the Swiss commandery of the Johanniter Order, 15 Aeschenvorstadt, CH-40511 Basel, Switzerland.

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Aims of the Order

The main aim of the original Order of the church, some 900 years ago, was to give help to the sick and needy. At the dawn of the 21st Century, that is still at the core of the mission of the modern Christian Orders of St John in Europe and around the world. As non-political bodies, whose members are inspired by much the same ideals as their mediaeval predecessors, they support and encourage each other, fraternally and chivalrously, to carry out their duty and their good works. The Orders unite them in a powerful organisation, giving them strength and spiritual sustenance. The vow they take reminds them of the duties they should fulfill pro fide et pro utilitate hominum (for the faithful and to assist those in need)

http://www.allianceofstjohn.org/
http://www.allianceofstjohn.org/about/anexa.html
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Paul Dietrich

2008-09-02T11:13:00.002+02:00

Paul Dietrich - Attorney with Law Firm of Jones Day Reavis & Pogue; President o/t Catholic University of America's Institute for International Health & Development; Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Saturday Review; TV Producer for CBS and Public Broadcasting; Board of Directors of Federal Association of SMOM

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Knights of Malta Acronym/Code: SMOM (Sovereign Military Order of Malta) Record date: 11/91 Principals: J. Peter Grace (chair, U. S. chapter; W. R. Grace), Martin F. Shea (sec, U. S. chapter; Morgan Bank), John D. J. Moore (chancellor; U. S. Ambassador to Ireland under Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford). Members include: [...] Paul Dietrich (program director).

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Paul Dietrich was a Director of the Vatican's "Sovereign Order of the Knights of Malta' in the USA and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Catholic University of America in Washington D.C.

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Type
Biography
Company
British American Tobacco Co.
Site
Guildford Depository
Named Person
Dietrich, Paul
Dietrich, Laura Jordan
Named Organization
Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue
Catholic University of America's Institute for International Health and Development
Saturday Review (pub)
CBS
Public Broadcasting
Missouri General Assembly
Wall Street Journal (pub)
International Health and Development (pub)
Sovereign Military Order of Malta-Federal Association Harvard AIDS Institute\Development Committee of the Pan American Health Organization

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Mr. Dietrich, ex-publisher and editor of Saturday Review,
is chairman of the International Hospital Committee of the
Order of Malta-Federal Association, in Washington. The order
is one of the world's largest charitable hospital
associations.

[This article is made available here by Dow Jones Co. for the
personal and non-commercial use of callers to this bbs, in the
hope that it will be of some help to those who are suffering
from the disease and others who are seeking to help them.]

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Box: 2 Fold: 43 Paul Dietrich 1986 DESCRIPTION: Contains 3 TLS from Dietrich, publisher, Saturday Review. Topics include: proposed visit of Prince angelo de Mojana di Cologna, Grand Master of the Knights of Malta, to US; Villa Pacelli Foundation.

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DIETRICH PAUL G * Resource Center. GroupWatch 1989-IRD (1) * Resource Center. GroupWatch 1991-SMOM (1) * Thomas,E. The Man to See. 1991 (390) * Washington Times 1993-05-28 (F4) pages cited this search: 4

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Steven Saxton

2008-09-02T11:13:00.001+02:00

Steven Saxton - Chairman, Founder, and CEO Hollywood Studios International

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Steven Saxton visits with His Highness Sheikh Majid Bin Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum in Dubai

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Sheikh Saeed Bin Maktaum Bin Rashid Bin Saeed and Sir Steven Saxton

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Steven Saxton
Chairman, Founder, and CEO
Hollywood Studios International

Mr. Saxton oversees all creative, production, financial, marketing, and distribution operations of the company. Over the past 17 years of his career, Mr. Saxton has successfully provided financing for and assisted in numerous mergers and acquisitions in the entertainment, technology and oil industries. Mr. Saxton has developed, financed, and produced numerous film and music projects. Mr. Saxton began his career as Vice President at the NASD broker dealer 21st Century Securities. Mr. Saxton was instrumental in providing production funding to Silver Screen Partners, a $100 million partnership, for 18 Disney distributed movies including “Three Men and A Baby”, “Who Framed Roger Rabbit”, (winner of 4 Academy Awards), “Good Morning Vietnam”, and “Honey I Shrunk the Kids”. He then became an executive producer at Triad Entertainment, a film production company specializing in G-rated family films, in 1992. In 1996, while working as Executive Producer on the Paramount Studios lot via a first look deal, Mr. Saxton founded Doc Hollywood Productions, Inc. He expanded into Doc Hollywood Records in 2001. In 2002 he founded Bop City Records with legendary producer/engineers Al Schmitt, Ed Cherney, and Elliot Scheiner, and then formed Doc Hollywood Kidz and Artist International Management in 2004. Mr. Saxton is a voting member of NARAS, the organization awarding Grammys in the Music Industry. In 2004, he was inducted as a Knight by the Knights of Malta Coptic Catholic. Sir Steven Saxton’s nomination has been endorsed by Grand Master H.S.H. Prince Antonio Ruspoli, approved by Cardinal Stephanos II, Patriarch of Alexandria, blessed by his eminence, Pope John Paul II and is on record at the Vatican in Rome.

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Samuel Jayson LeFrak

2008-09-02T11:12:00.004+02:00

Samuel Jayson LeFrak - Chairman of The Lefrak Organization (Housing Development); Political Centipede

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Samuel J. LeFrak (1918- April 16, 2003) was a noted housing developer who chaired a private building firm, The LeFrak Organization, which had revenues of $2.8 billion, as of 1999. The LeFrak Organization was also ranked 45th on the Forbes list of top 500 private companies.[1] The development firm is best known for major development projects in Battery Park City, Lefrak City in Queens, and Newport, Jersey City. The LeFrak Organization was founded in 1883 in France, by Samuel J. LeFrak's grandfather, Maurice.[1]

LeFrak grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and attended Erasmus Hall High School.[2] He attended the University of Maryland, College Park, from which he graduated in 1940,[3] with the University's LeFrak Hall named for him. In 1988, LeFrak was honored by the United Nations along with former President Jimmy Carter, for their global contributions through "Habitat International."

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Samuel J. LeFrak (1918- April 16, 2003) was a noted housing developer who chaired a private
Samuel J. LeFrak '40
Inducted April 22, 1995
As chairman of The LeFrak Organization, Samuel LeFrak presided over one of the world’s largest private building firms. Its development projects include New York’s LeFrak City, Battery Park City, Gateway Plaza and the $10 billion Newport City Complex in New Jersey—one of the world’s largest planned communities. The company also pursues global gas and oil exploration, international financing, publishing and entertainment. LeFrak counseled all levels of government, foreign and domestic, on urban planning and housing tech-nology issues. He received many awards for his work, including knighthood, the John F. Kennedy Peace Award and numerous honorary doctorates. LeFrak's son Richard now heads the company.

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Samuel J. LeFrak, chairman of The Lefrak Organization, passed away on April 16 after a long illness. Along with William Levitt and Fred Trump, LeFrak was an early champion of affordable middle-class housing after World War II.

The son of immigrant builders, LeFrak accomplishments include Lefrak City, Battery Park City, and Newport in the New York Metropolitan area.

Jersey City Mayor Bret Schundler told Real Estate Weekly, "He was a visionary who put his money where his dreams were. He saw Jersey City's potential long before any others in the real estate community. And he made a larger commitment to the city than any other person in the real estate community. And this is just one illustration of why he's been so singularly successful. In the same way that he touched this community, he rejuvinated and brought new life to urban areas all throughout the metropolitan area. Jersey City feels tremendous gratitute for his believing in us."

Mitchell Hersh, CEO of Mack-Cali echoed those thoughts. "Sam was a man of great vision. His developments in New York City. and Jersey City were cutting edge. Newport 'City not only changed the skyline of Jersey City, but in many senses was the first step in creating the 'Gold Coast'."

LeFrak was a trustee of the Guggenheim Museum; an advisory director of the Metropolitan Opera; a member of the Board of Trustees of the Queens College Foundation; and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School. A graduate of the University of Maryland, LeFrak pursued postgraduate studies at Columbia and Harvard Universities; and has been awarded honorary doctoral degrees from Pratt Institute, New York Law School, Colgate University, Michigan State University, Queens College, St. John's University and the University of Maryland.

LeFrak had served six presidents, seven governors and eight New York City mayors, in various capacities, including United States delegate to the International Conference on Housing and Urban Development in Geneva; as a special consultant for the State Department; and as a member of the United States National Energy Council. He served New York State and New York City as commissioner of the Saratoga Springs Commission; as Landmarks Preservation Commissioner of New York; commissioner of the Interstate Sanitation Commission for New York, New Jersey and Connecticut; as a member of the New York Task Force on Housing; the New York City Industrial Development Corporation; and the Executive Committee on the Citizens Committee for New York City.

He also was a founder of the Albert Einstein School of Medicine. Due to LeFrak's long-term, dedicated service to New York State and City, Governor George Pataki honored him by having Nov. 19 set aside as "Samuel J. LeFrak Day," and created a special automobile license plate for LeFrak" "Commissioner Emeritus 1."

Among LeFrak's many awards were recognition and honors from a spectrum of international societies, philanthropies, and cultural and educational institutions, such as being Knighted a Knight Commander by the King of Norway and receiving that Nation's Royal Order of Merit; being Knighted a Knight Commander by the King of Sweden and receiving Sweden's Royal Order of the North Star; being Knighted a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government; and being presented the Medal of Parliament and the Order of the Lion from the President of Finland; the Jerusalem 3000 Medal from the State of Israel Bond; the Knights of Malta Cross of Merit and Honor; the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit from the Republic of Italy; the John F. Kennedy Peace Award; Man of the Year Award from the Veterans of Foreign Wars; Man of the Year Award from Queens College; Annual Brotherhood Award from the National Conference of Christians and Jews; The Flame of Truth Award from the Fund for Higher Education; and elected to th e Hall of Fame of the National Sales Executive Club.

LeFrak's long-term affiliation and support of the United Nations, moreover, earned him a number of distinguished awards and recognitions. In 1988, LeFrak and former U.S. president Jimmy Carter were honored by the United Nations because of their world-wide work with "Habitat International." The same year, LeFrak presented an address on "Planning for Urbanization in the 21st Century" at the United Nations. The "Distinguished Citizens of the World" award was presented to Mr. and Mrs. LeFrak at a special United Nations Ambassador's Ball in 1994. In 1994, LeFrak also was appointed by the Secretary General, Boutros BoutrosGhali as New York's representative and member of the Advisory Group for the 1995 50th Anniversary Celebration of the United Nations.

At Michigan State University, a new school -- the LeFrak Forum -- has been established to foster studies supporting Western civilization and culture, democratic political principles, and American free enterprise business systems and strategies. In 2002, the American Museum of Natural History marked the 100th Anniversary of the Lefrak Organization by naming the refurbished IMAX Theatre the LeFrak Theatre.

LeFrak is survived by his wife Ethel Stone LeFrak, and children Denise LeFrak Calicchio, Richard LeFrak, Francine LeFrak Friedberg, and Jacqueline LeFrak Kosinski; his grandchildren Harrison, James, Allison, Jennifer, and Dylan; and great grandchildren Cameron and Julia.

Services were held April 18 at Temple Emanu-El. In lieu of flowers, contributions in Samuel J. LeFrak's name can be made to: Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1 Gustave Levy Place, Box 1049, New York, New York 10029.

http://www.allbusiness.com/operations/facil...al-estate/538320-1.html
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Samuel+LeFrak+dies+at+85-a0101192153
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3601/is_38_49/ai_101192153
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Samuel-LeFrak

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Sir Samuel J. LeFrak, the business card he readily proffers proclaims in elegant script, displaying no less than six heraldic coats of arms, ranging from the Knights of Malta Cross to the Order of the Lion of Finland, in raised goldleaf.

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Albert J. Wetzel

2008-09-02T11:12:00.003+02:00

Col. Albert J. Wetzel - Director o/t Atomic Program for Guided Missiles for the Army, Navy and Air Force; Technical Executive to the Assistant to the President; Director of Guided Missiles; Director of the Titan Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Program

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Tulane alumnus honored by U.S. Airforce

Alumnus Col. Albert Wetzel was recently inducted into the Air Force Hall of Fame for his work in
America's missile programs.
Courtesy Of Col. Wetzel
Gregory Pejic
staff writer

January 30, 2004-- Vice President Emeritus of the Tulane School of Engineering Col. Albert J. "Red
Wetzel recently received the 2003 Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers Award and an induction into
the Air Force Hall of Fame.

His contributions to the development and management of the Titan Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
and Space Launch Program led to his recognition last July.

Wetzel, a New Orleans native, received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Tulane
University in 1939.

Wetzel recalls his experiences at Tulane favorably. "There's a lot of difference between college and
the real world, but Tulane prepared me as well as I could have been prepared," Wetzel said. "There
were wonderful leaders on campus at that time and they had great influence on me; the professors
were really impressive."

Subsequently, Wetzel served as a test pilot for the Air Corps Research and Development Center and
also served as chief project engineer for Matador, which was the Air Force's first ground-launched
cruise missile.

Wetzel continued his education at Johns Hopkins University, where he earned a master's degree in
aeronautical and astronautical engineering in 1950.

Upon graduation, Wetzel was appointed director of the Atomic Program for Guided Missiles for the
Army, Navy and Air Force for the Secretary of Defense in Washington, D.C. This led to his next
appointment, technical executive to the assistant to the president, then Harry Truman, and director of
Guided Missiles, also in the office of the secretary of defense.

He served as the director of the Titan Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Program from 1958 until 1961.
During this period, Wetzel transformed this program from a concept into an actual operation. His
leadership during his tenure as director helped advance the missile program due to progress made in
the guidance system, fuel technology and use of underground launch silos for global missile reach.
Upon retirement in 1965, Wetzel returned to Tulane where he became director of Research and
Sponsored Programs and director of University Development. He was later appointed to other
positions including president for Alumni and University Affairs, assistant to the president and is
currently vice president emeritus.

The United States Air Force and the National Space Club unofficially initiated the Air Force Space
and Missile Pioneers Award in 1989. The award was later formalized into an official Air Force award
in 1997 in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the Air Force and the 15th anniversary of the Air
Force Space Command.

While this award recognized those who play a significant role in the space and missile program, such
as Wetzel, it also seeks to educate current Air Force personnel about such figures and increase
further interest in the Air Force space and missile program.

Increasing awareness about the actions of those in these programs is important to Wetzel. "It takes a
lot of courage and imagination on the part of people who make these amazing discoveries, but it
benefits everybody and it's going to be interesting and wonderful to see what evolves from current
research," he said. "These programs have made significant progress in health, communication and
transportation, but people often do not see it even though it affects their own lives."

About receiving this prestigious award, Wetzel said, "I am most appreciative and very humble about
the whole thing. It is wonderful to be in the company of all the people in the Hall of Fame. Those were
very important years in my life and it was a difficult time for the whole country."

Wetzel received a trophy inscribed with his name and year presented as well as his portrait in the Air
Force Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame.

Engineering Dean Nicholas Altiero expressed pleasure with Wetzel's recent success. "The School of
Engineering is extremely proud to have alumni of the stature of Al Wetzel. His pioneering work helped
make our country the world's leader in space exploration," Altiero said.

http://alumni.tulane.edu/emeritus/Albert%20Wetzel%20AF%20award.pdf

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Col. Albert J. Wetzel, Sr. (E'39) 50 YEAR REUNION COMMITTEE 2003 - 2004 Chairman - Pictured with his wife, Helen Zurad Wetzel (N'76) at the 1999 Presidents Reunion Reception

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Albert J. Wetzel

http://www.smom.org/files/annual-report-2005.pdf (page 18) (Proof Positive)

Stefano Giovannone

2008-09-02T11:11:00.004+02:00

Col. Stefano Giovannone - Italian Military Intelligence (SISMI) Officer; P2 Member

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1976 Arms deals between the PLO and the Red Brigades based on a secret accord between the PLO and the CIA mediated by Colonel Stefano Giovannone, an Italian SISMI (Military Security Information Service, formerly SID) officer in Beirut who collaborated with Abu Ayad in a disinformation operation about the Bologna bombing.

http://www.flatlandbooks.com/rereport.html
SMOM by mention (Italian)
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GIOVANNONE STEFANO (COL) Lebanon 1972-1985 Italy 1972-1985 * Executive Intelligence Review 2006-05-26 (70) * Willan,P. Puppetmasters. 1991 (165-6, 194-6, 313-4) pages cited this search: 8

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Robert Prantner

2008-09-02T11:11:00.001+02:00

Dr. Robert Prantner - Lecturer at the Theological Seminary at the Heiligenkreuz Monastery; Member of Engelwerk, a Right-Wing Catholic organization; Director of Studies at the Political Academy of the Österreichische Volkspartei; Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the SMOM

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"The Zur Zeit weekly - which received a government subsidy to the tune of $80,000 last year - is close to the FPO, and has clear anti-Semitic tendencies. For instance, in 1997 a right-wing Catholic, Dr. Robert Prantner, wrote that the Jews should apologize for the crucifixion of Christ and for the so-called 'ritual murder' of Anderl von Rinn centuries ago. He then still held the exalted post of 'Extraordinary Envoy of the Knights of Malta.' He was, however, thereafter relieved of this position by the Order for 'reasons of health.'"

http://www.jcpa.org/phas/phas-15.htm

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JEWISH GROUPS BLAST POPE'S PLANS: Jewish groups are outraged
over Pope John Paul II's plans to meet Friday with a professor of theology
who has accused the Jews of ritual murder.The pope's three-day visit to
Austria was to include a meeting with the Vienna-based diplomatic corps,
whose members include Dr. Robert Prantner, envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary of the Knights of Malta. In a December 5 article in
the Austrian publication ZUR ZEIT Prantner argued that rather than the
Catholic Church apologizing to the Jews for centuries of antisemitism, the
Jews should apologize for "their deplorable crimes ... against Catholic
children like the holy martyr-child Anderl von Rinn, against adults in the
days before Easter ... and for the blood of murdered Christians, spilled by
Jewish hands, which cries to heaven, too." Efraim Zuroff, head of the
Simon Wiesenthal Center's Israel office, said "this theologian, Prantner,
is basically saying that the blood libel is true - we're in 1998 for God's
sake! This is outrageous. This is taking us back to the Middle Ages." The
blood libel accusing Jews of the ritual murder of Anderl von Rinn took
place in the 17th century and was used to incite pogroms against the
Jews. It was condemned in 1985 as a falsehood by Innsbruck Bishop
Reinhold Stecher, who also banned pilgrimages to the Church of Rinn,
which had become a shrine as the purported place of the ritual murder.
(JERUSALEM POST)

http://philologos.org/bprdigests/1998/d062198i.htm

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Friday, June 19, 1998 25 Sivan 5758
The Jerusalem Post - Internet Edition

Jewish groups blast pope's plans to meet
antisemitic envoy

By ELLI WOHLGELERNTER and KARL PFEIFER

JERUSALEM (June 19) -- Jewish groups are outraged
over Pope John Paul II's plans to meet today with
a professor of theology who has accused the Jews
of ritual murder.

The pope's three-day visit to Austria is to
include a meeting with the Vienna-based diplomatic
corps, whose members include Dr. Robert Prantner,
envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary
of the Knights of Malta.

In a December 5 article in the Austrian
publication Zur Zeit Prantner argued that rather
than the Catholic Church apologizing to the Jews
for centuries of antisemitism, the Jews should
apologize for "their deplorable crimes... against
Catholic children like the holy martyr-child
Anderl von Rinn, against adults in the days before
Easter... and for the blood of murdered
Christians, spilled by Jewish hands, which cries
to heaven, too."

Efraim Zuroff, head of the Simon Wiesenthal
Center's Israel office, said "this theologian,
Prantner, is basically saying that the blood libel
is true - we're in 1998 for God's sake! This is
outrageous. This is taking us back to the Middle
Ages. This guy is the antithesis of everything the
present pope has worked on in terms of
Catholic-Jewish relations and is a dark stain on
the Austrian church unless this person is totally
condemned by their leadership."

The Knights of Malta is a Catholic lay order.
While Prantner is not a diplomat, he is an
employee of the Vatican, according to Rabbi David
Rosen, director of the Israel office of the
Anti-Defamation League.

"The Knights of Malta is a lay order in which he
serves as their ambassador," Rosen said, "and
which still has status within the Catholic Church,
and therefore it's certainly within the power of
the Catholic Church to tell the Knights of Malta
to clip this fellow's wings."

Prantner was a lecturer at the theological
seminary at the Heiligenkreuz monastery, a member
of Engelwerk, a right-wing Catholic organization,
and is a former director of studies at the
political academy of the Oesterreichische
Volkspartei.

"He has some significant credentials within the
Catholic Church," Rosen said. "In certain areas of
academic specialization, as well as diplomatic
representation, he might be perfectly competent.
But that doesn't in any way detract from the fact
that he has publicly on record made some of the
most outrageous antisemitic comments - and has not
been publicly chastised by either the local church
or the Vatican, despite letters that we have sent
to the headquarters of the Knights of Malta in
Rome."

The blood libel accusing Jews of the ritual murder
of Anderl von Rinn took place in the 17th century
and was used to incite pogroms against the Jews.
It was condemned in 1985 as a falsehood by
Innsbruck Bishop Reinhold Stecher, who also banned
pilgrimages to the Church of Rinn, which had
become a shrine as the purported place of the
ritual murder.

http://www.hebroots.org/hebrootsarchive/9806/980622_e.html

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Specialized Bibliographies Bibliography of the Knights of St. John of the Hospital Compiled by Lynn Nelson [...] 145. Author: Prantner, Robert. Title: Malteserorden und Volkergemeinschaft / von Robert Prantner. Place: Berlin : Publisher: Duncker & Humblot, Date: [1974]

http://www.the-orb.net/bibliographies/st-john_bib.html

Philip Allen Lacovara

2008-09-02T11:10:00.004+02:00

Philip Allen Lacovara - Senior Partner in the law firm of Mayer, Brown, Rowe, & Law in New York City; President of the District of Columbia Bar and Chairman of the American Bar Association Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities; Deputy Solicitor General

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PHILIP A. LACOVARA, Esq. Mr. Lacovara is Senior Partner in the law firm of Mayer, Brown, Rowe, & Law in New York City. Former President of the District of Columbia Bar and Chairman of the American Bar Association Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities, Mr. Lacovara was Counsel to the Watergate Special Prosecutors and Special Counsel to the New York City Police Commissioner. He also served as Deputy Solicitor General of the United States. A husband and father of seven children, Mr. Lacovara lives in New Canaan.

http://www.bridgeportdiocese.com/storySM.shtml

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Legends in the Law

Philip Allen Lacovara
(Appeared in Washington Lawyer, January 2005)

Philip Allen Lacovara is currently senior counsel with the law firm of Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP in New York. A 1966 graduate of Columbia Law School, Lacovara has served in numerous capacities in government, private practice, and private business, including law clerk to Judge Harold Leventhal of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, deputy solicitor general, counsel to Watergate special prosecutors Archibald Cox and Leon Jaworski, vice president and senior counsel of the General Electric Company, and partner at two law firms.

He has argued more than a dozen cases in the U.S. Supreme Court, including United States v. Nixon in 1974.

Lacovara was president of the District of Columbia Bar for the 1988–89 term and was general counsel to the Bar from 1985 to 1987.

Where did you grow up?
New York. My father was a trusts and estates lawyer in the city, and our family lived in the suburbs, where I went to a Jesuit high school.

When did you first come to Washington?
Nineteen sixty. At my high school it was frowned upon for anyone to even consider going to a non-Catholic college, so I only applied to two colleges: Georgetown and Holy Cross. I chose Georgetown because I was interested in studying political science. It seemed to me that if you’re interested in politics, Washington is where the action is. I arrived on campus in the final year of the Eisenhower administration, when the Nixon–Kennedy campaign was taking place. That was an exciting time to come to town.

Did you enjoy Georgetown?
Yes, I liked it a lot. My situation was a bit complicated because my wife, Madeline, and I got married during my second year at Georgetown. By the time I graduated we already had one child, with a second child on the way. So it was not your normal college experience. I had to juggle the responsibilities of studying with the responsibilities of being a new husband and a new father.

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Experience
Management and business; academic research, teaching and lecturing; government service and public policy formulation; corporate legal counseling, including securities, antitrust and corporate governance; litigation, including Supreme Court, appellate and trial litigation and regulatory enforcement.

Notable Engagements
Cases Argued in the Supreme Court of the United States : Grimmett v. Brown, 519 U.S. 233, 1997 • Crandon v. United States, 494 U.S. 152, 1990 • Boyle v. United Technologies Corp., 487 U.S. 500, 1988 • Bowsher, Comptroller General v. Merck & Co., 460 U.S. 824, 1983 • Rodriguez v. Popular Democratic Party, 457 U.S. 1, 1982 • Northwest Airlines, Inc. v. Transport Workers Union, 451 U.S. 77, 1981 • Washington v. Washington State Commercial Passenger Fishing Vessel Association, 443 U.S. 658, 1979 • United States v. Nixon, 418 U.S. 683, 1974 • Almeida-Sanchez v. United States, 413 U.S. 266, 1973 • Bradley v. United States, 410 U.S. 65, 1973 • United States v. Dionisio, 410 U.S. 1, 1973 • United States v. Mara, 410 U.S. 19, 1973 • United States v. Russell, 411 U.S. 23, 1973 • United States v. U.S. Coin and Currency, 401 U.S. 715, 1971 • United States v. Covington, 395 U.S. 57, 1969 • United States v. Nardello, 393 U.S. 286, 1969.

Employment
Mayer Brown LLP, New York and Washington, D.C., Senior Counsel and Retired Partner, 2004 to date; Partner • Morgan Stanley & Co., Managing Director, General Counsel, and member of Management Committee, New York, 1990-1993 • General Electric Co., Vice President and Senior Counsel for Litigation and Legal Policy, Fairfield, CT, 1988-1990 • Hughes Hubbard & Reed, Washington, D.C., Partner-in- Charge, 1974-1988; Associate, New York City, 1969-1971 • Watergate Special Prosecutor's Office, Counsel to Special Prosecutor, Washington, D.C., 1973-1974 • Office of the Solicitor General, Department of Justice: Deputy Solicitor General, 1972-1973; Assistant to the Solicitor General, 1967-1969, Washington, D.C. • New York City Police Department, Special Counsel to the Police Commissioner, New York, 1971-1972 • Law Clerk to The Honorable Harold Leventhal, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, 1966-1967. Governmental or Public Positions: Delegation Member, United States Department of Commerce and Department of Justice Legal Mission to Japan, 1992 • New York State Superintendent of Banks Advisory Committee on Supervision of Transnational Banking Institutions, 1991-1992, appointed by Governor Cuomo • Delegation Member, United States Department of Commerce Legal Mission to the European Community, 1991 • Judicial Conference of the District of Columbia Circuit, 1973-1990 • Judicial Conference of the District of Columbia, 1983-1989 • Special Counsel to Governor of Alaska, Impeachment Inquiry, 1985 • Committee on Admissions and Grievances, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1979-1985; Secretary, 1980-1982; Chairman, 1983-1985 • District of Columbia Judicial Nomination Commission, appointed by President Ronald Reagan, 1981-1985 • Advisory Committee on Procedures, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1977-1983; Chairman, 1982-1983 • Board of Trustees, Public Defender Service of the District of Columbia 1976-1981; Chairman 1977-1979 • Special Counsel, United States House of Representatives Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, Ethics Committee, for Korean influence investigation, 1976-1977.

Education
Columbia University Law School, J.D. summa cum laude, 1966; First in class each year; awarded John Ordronaux Prize as outstanding graduate; Chairman of Board of Visitors Columbia Law School, 1991-1995 • Georgetown University, B.A. magna cum laude, 1963; Pi Sigma Alpha • Executive Development Program, European Institute of Business Administration (INSEAD), Fall 1989

Admitted
New York, 1967 • District of Columbia, 1974 • U.S. Supreme Court, 1970 • Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales, 2003 • U.S. District Court for the Southern, Eastern, and Northern Districts of New York and for the District of Columbia • U.S. Courts of Appeals for the First, Second, Third, Fifth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Eleventh and District of Columbia and Federal Circuits • Member, London Court of International Arbitration
[...]
Awards and Honours
Charles A. Horsky Awards for Outstanding Lawyering, presented by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University, 1997 • Columbia University Medal for Excellence, awarded by Trustees of the University, 1975 • “Who's Who in America” • “Who's Who in American Law” • “Who's Who in Industry & Finance” • “Litigation: An International Who’s Who of Commercial Litigators” • “Who's Who Legal: The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers” • Knight of Malta (Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes, and of Malta)

http://www.mayerbrown.com/lawyers/printprof...sp?hubbardid=L454506994 (Proof Positive)
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LACOVARA PHILIP A

* Boettcher,R. Gifts of Deceit. 1980 (249-55)
* Colodny,L. Gettlin,R. Silent Coup. 1992 (383)
* Greider,W. Who Will Tell the People. 1993 (333, 350-1, 353)
* Jaworski,L. The Right and the Power. 1977 (13, 83, 183, 358)
* Summers,A. The Arrogance of Power. 2000 (459)
* Wise,D. The American Police State. 1978 (414)
* Zeifman,J. Without Honor. 1995 (59)

pages cited this search: 19

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Louis J. Cappelli

2008-09-02T11:10:00.001+02:00

Louis J. Cappelli - Chairman and CEO of Sterling Bancorp; Active in Numerous "Charitable" Organisations; Zionist

(Proof Positive)

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Marty Richards, Caroline Hirsch, Louis J. Cappelli, and Tony Cointreau

http://www.15minutesmagazine.com/archives/..._58/society.htm

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STERLING BANCORP CHAIRMAN AND CEO LOUIS J. CAPPELLI
NAMED “MAN OF THE YEAR” BY BOYS’ TOWNS OF ITALY
NEW YORK, N.Y., April 2, 2004 – Sterling Bancorp (NYSE: STL), a financial
holding company with assets of $1.8 billion, announced today that Louis J.
Cappelli, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, has been selected by the Boys’
Towns of Italy as “Man of the Year.” Mr. Cappelli will be honored at the Boys’
Towns of Italy 59th Anniversary “Ball of the Year” tonight at the Waldorf Astoria in
New York City.

Founded in 1945, Boys’ Towns of Italy is one of the oldest registered United
States charities authorized for service abroad. The organization provides
assistance to children who are victims of abandonment, family dysfunction,
domestic violence, wars and oppressive poverty. Previous Man of the Year”
honorees include President Harry S. Truman and Frank Sinatra.

“It is an honor to be recognized for such a prestigious award and to be listed
among such esteemed past honorees,” said Mr. Cappelli. “Boys’ Towns provides
services that make a difference for children across the world. I am proud to be
associated with a truly remarkable, charitable organization.”

Mr. Cappelli, a native New Yorker, is also active in other philanthropic
organizations including the Catholic Youth Organization, AmeriCares
humanitarian mission to Kosovo; Development Corporation for Israel Bonds; United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York and The American Association of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. Mr. Cappelli has previously been honored by a number of organizations for his charitable contributions and business successes including State of Israel Bonds, Anti Defamation League, Terence Cardinal Cooke Health Care Center, United Cerebral Palsy, Ohel Children’s Home & Family Services and Calvary Hospital.

About Sterling Bancorp
Sterling Bancorp (NYSE: STL) is a financial holding company with assets of $1.8
billion, offering a broad array of banking and financial services products. Its
principal banking subsidiary is Sterling National Bank, founded in 1929. Sterling
provides a wide range of products and services, including business and
consumer loans, commercial and residential mortgage lending and brokerage,
asset-based financing, factoring, trade financing, equipment leasing, corporate
and consumer deposit services, trust and estate administration, and investment
management services. The Company has operations in New York, New Jersey,
and North Carolina and conducts business throughout the U.S.

https://www.sterlingbancorp.com/ir/040204.pdf (Proof Positive II)

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Louis J. Cappelli
Business Leader
Italian
1998 Recipient

Louis J. Cappelli is Chairman of Sterling National Bank/Sterling Bancorp, whose shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:STL). Starting as a 18-year-old mail room messenger at Sterling, he rose through the ranks to his current position.

A native New Yorker, served in the U.S. Army from 1951-53. Graduated from the City College of New York in 1958, received a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration.

Active in civil, charitable, ecumenical and other organizations. A member of American Association of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (Knight of Malta); Cardinal’s Committee of the Laity; Columbus Citizens Foundation; Alumni Association of CCNY; Development Corporation for Israel Bonds; Economic Club of New York; New York City Board of Education Audit Advisory Committee; New York Friars Club; Saint Joseph’s Finance and Administration Committee; United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York; University Club and Westchester Country Club.

Involved in numerous industry-related organizations, A member of American Bankers Association; Director, Commercial Finance Association; Financemen’s Club of New York; Federal Reserve Bank of New York Nominating Committee; Director, New York State Bankers Association. Former director, Fashion Institute of Technology- Consiglio d’Istituto of Polimoda.

A former member of Mayor Dinkins’ New York City Council of Economic Advisors. Previously active in Meals on Wheels (Westchester, NY); the Boy Scouts of America; Yonkers Community Relations Board; American Management Association; New York Institute of Credit; Director of New York University Management Decision Laboratory; and Director of Long Island University’s "The Business Game" graduate program. In addition, served as "Principal for a Day" at alma mater, William Howard Taft High School (Bronx, NY).

Volunteers at St. Francis Xavier Church (New York, NY) and the Dutch Reformed Church (Westchester,NY), serving meals and distributing clothing to the homeless and others in need.

Honored with the Gates of Jerusalem Medal from State of Israel Bonds; Bronze Award from the Financial World Magazine "Top Chief Executive"; Human Relations Award from the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith; Leadership in Business Award from Coalition of Italo-American Associations, Inc.

A resident of Bronxville, New York; Milford, Connecticut; Windham, New York. Married to the former Virginia M. Delger. Five children and four grandchildren.

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NECO, Inc. All rights Reserved.

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Joseph E. Spinnato

2008-09-02T11:09:00.003+02:00

Joseph E. Spinnato - President and CEO of the Hotel Association of New York City, Inc.; Treasurer International Hotel & Restaurant Association (IH&RA)

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"It's the right thing to do, and now's the time to do it. It's doable, achievable, and we can afford it." Joseph E. Spinnato

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IH&RA – the International Hotel & Restaurant Association – is the only global business organization representing the hospitality industry worldwide. Officially recognized by the United Nations, IH&RA monitors and lobbies all international agencies on behalf of this industry, estimated to comprise 300,000 hotels and 8 million restaurants, employ 60 million people and contribute 950 billion USD annually to the global economy.

The IH&RA is run on a not-for-profit basis with a team led by a Director General. It is governed by a General Assembly and a Board of Directors.
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Treasurer
Joseph E. Spinnato
President
Hotel Association of New York City, INC

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JOSEPH E. SPINNATO
Joseph E. Spinnato is President and CEO of the Hotel Association of New York City, Inc., which represents over 200 hotels, employs over 30,000 people, and generates billions of dollars in revenues for the City. He served as Fire Commissioner of New York City during the Koch administration, as First Assistant to the Special Prosecutor for Nursing Homes, and First Assistant to the District Attorney at the Nassau County District Attorney’s Office. He is also a member of the Board of Advisors of City Harvest, the Cardinal’s Committee for Charity, Board of Directors of Just One Break, Inc., Board of Directors of the Big Apple Greeters, Inc., and the Board of Trustees of St. Vincent’s Hospital and Medical Center in Manhattan. He also serves on the Board of Governors of the New York Convention Center Operating Corporation (Jacob K. Javits Convention Center). A quintessential New Yorker, Spinnato was born in Queens and attended public schools there until he entered LaSalle Military Academy in Oakdale, New York. He graduated St. John’s University in Hillcrest and received his law degree from the University of Miami Law School in Coral Gables, Florida

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JOSEPH E. SPINNATO

For the past twenty-five years, Joseph E. Spinnato has been directly involved in the betterment of life in and for New York. In his current capacity as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Hotel Association of New York City, Inc., he brings to this venerable association a new image and direction. He has moved the one hundred twenty-five year old organization into a more active and visible role in the city. The Association represents more than 200 hotels, employs more than 30,000 people and generates billions of dollars in revenues for the city.

In 1982, then Mayor Edward I. Koch appointed Mr. Spinnato as the Fire Commissioner of New York City. As Fire Commissioner, a position he held for 5 years prior to his appointment to the Hotel Association, Spinnato was responsible for the fire protection of the city and its 7 1/2 million residents. Before joining the Fire Department, Mr. Spinnato served as First Assistant to the Special Prosecutor for Nursing Homes for 5 years. Previously, he was at the Nassau County District Attorney's Office for 10 years serving as First Assistant to the District Attorney and also Chief of the Rackets Bureau.

Mr. Spinnato's humanitarian interests are extensive and varied. He is a Knight of Malta and is now the Lieutenant of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre of the Eastern Lieutenancy. He is also a member of the Board of Advisors of City Harvest, the Cardinal's Committee for Charity, Board of Directors of Just One Break, Inc., Board of Directors of the Big Apple Greeters, Inc., and the Board of Trustees of St. Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center in Manhattan. He received the 1989 Human Relations Award from the American Jewish Committee, in 1990 he received the Cardinal's Award from His Eminence John Cardinal O'Connor, in 1992 he received the Jerusalem Founders Man of the Year Award from the American Committee for Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem, and in 2001 he received the International Brotherhood Award from Bikor Cholim Hospital, also in Jerusalem.

In 1987 Mr. Spinnato received an Honorary Doctor of Civil Law Degree from St. John's University, and in 1991 Governor Mario Cuomo appointed Mr. Spinnato to the Board of Governors of the New York Convention Center Operating Corporation (Jacob K. Javits Convention Center), a position he still holds.

A quintessential New Yorker, Spinnato was born in Queens and attended public schools there until he entered LaSalle Military Academy in Oakdale, New York. He graduated St. John's University in Hillcrest and received his law degree from the University of Miami Law School in Coral Gables, Florida. Mr. Spinnato is married to the former Madeline Romano, a graduate of St. John's University at Hillcrest. They have one daughter, Janine, who graduated from Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut, and from St. John's University School of Law. Her husband, Sean P. Leyden, is also an attorney and is with the law firm of Garfunkel, Wild & Travis. They have two children, Sean Joseph and Jason Michael.

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V. The Order of the Holy Sepulchre today
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3. Organisation

Responsibility for the Order is entrusted by the Pope to a Cardinal who bears the title of Grand Master. He holds all necessary powers except the power to amend the constitution, which is the prerogative of the Pontiff.

H. M. R. Cardinal John Patrick FOLEY
Grand Master of the Order

The Grand Magisterium currently consists of the following:

Grand Master of the Grand Magisterium

S. Em. Rme / Z.H. Em. le Cardinal / Kardinaal John Patrick FOLEY

Grand Master Emeritus of the Grand Magisterium

S. Em. Rme / Z.H. Em. le Cardinal / Kardinaal Carlo FURNO

The members of the Grand magisterium
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Chev.Gr.Cr. Joseph E. SPINNATO

http://www.holysepulchre.be/en/History_en.htm

William F. Gorog

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William F. Gorog - Deputy Assistant to the President for Economic Affairs; Executive Director of the Council on International Economic Policy; Cofounder, Chairman and CEO of InteliData Technologies Corporation; Corporate and Banking Centipede

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William F. Gorog

1925 Born, Warren, OH

1949 B.S., United States Military Academy

1949-54 Reconnaissance Officer, United States Air Force

1954-55 Marketing Manager, Bulova Watch Company

1956-63 Executive Vice President, Data Corporation, Dayton, OH

1963-68 Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Data Corporation, Dayton, OH

1968-75 Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Mead Technology Laboratories, Dayton, OH

May 1975-March 1976 Deputy Director for Domestic Economic Policy, Economic Policy Board

March-Nov. 1976 Deputy Assistant to the President for Economic Affairs

Nov. 1976-Jan. 1977 Executive Director of the Council on International Economic Policy

1977-Present Managing Director, The Arbor Group, Washington, DC

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WILLIAM F. GOROG
Chairman
InteliData Technologies Corporation

William F. Gorog was one of the founders, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Data Corporation, a high technology research and development company involved in optics, photographic systems and the design of special purpose computers and software. He was the originator of the computerized law and news information systems known as LEXIS-NEXIS now in use by thousands of law firms, courts, federal agencies, and corporations throughout the United States.

In 1969 Data Corporation was merged with the Mead Corporation. Mr. Gorog remained as Chairman and CEO of the subsidiary company, and was also designated a senior officer of the parent and became a member of the Senior Operations Management Group with responsibility for high technology ventures.

In March of 1975, he joined the Ford Administration as Deputy Director of the President’s Economic Policy Board. He was later named Deputy Assistant to the President of Economic Affairs and in 1976 was made Executive Director of the Council on International Economic Policy. In this capacity he was a member of the White House Senior Staff reporting directly to the President.

Mr. Gorog left the White House after the election and change in administration in 1977 and established a trading company primarily involved in the export of U.S. computer products to the Far East. During this period he also acted as managing partner of an investment group and as an advisor to foreign investors in Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America.

From 1983 to 1987 he was President of the Magazine Publishers of America, an association composed of the principal consumer magazine publishers such as Time Warner, Conde Nast, and Hearst. In 1987, Mr. Gorog became Chairman and CEO of Arbor International, an investment management company principally involved in merger and acquisition activity and in financing energy, high technology, and real estate ventures. The InteliData project was started at Arbor. After prototype hardware and software was field tested, the corporation was formed in 1990 with second stage financing provided by WorldCorp.

During these periods he served as a director of VeriFone, the California-based transaction automation company and of Fiskars, the Helsinki-based worldwide manufacturer of scissors and garden tools. He also served in the banking industry as a director of Commerce Union Bank of Nashville, Tennessee; Sovran Bank of Norfolk, Virginia; C&S Sovran of Atlanta; and NationsBank, N.A.

In community affairs, he has served as chairman of The Board of Visitors of the Georgetown University School of Business; and as chairman of The Washington Campus, a consortium of sixteen university business schools which provides student exposure to the workings of the Federal Government. From 1984 to 1985 he was chairman of the chief Executives Organization, a 1,000 member graduate group of previous members of the Young President’s Organization.

He attended Carnegie Mellon, is a graduate of West Point and holds a Master of Science Degree in Industrial Engineering from the Ohio State University Graduate School.

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GOROG-William F. William F. Gorog, one of America's most successful entrepreneurs who often noted that an almost warped sense of optimism, ''a refusal to accept reality'' was required to succeed in bringing pioneering technologies into mainstream use, died of complications from lung cancer on July 14, 2002 surrounded by his family in McLean, Virginia. Mr. Gorog was 76, and is survived by his wife of 53 years, Gretchen Meister Gorog, six children, and 21 grandchildren. Mr. Gorog's forty plus years in business included Co-Founding both Data Corporation and InteliData and serving as Chairman and CEO. During his career he also served as President of the Magazine Publishers Association, Chairman of the Chief Executives Organization, participated in the creation of VeriFone and served in President Ford's White House as head of the Council on International Economic Policy. In community affairs, Mr. Gorog served as chairman of The Board of Visitors of the Georgetown University School of Business; and as Chairman of The Washington Campus, a consortium of sixteen university business schools that provides student exposure to the workings of the Federal Government. Mr. Gorog most recently CoFounder and Chairman of InteliData (NASDAQ: ''INTD'') where he helped pioneer the Electronic Banking and Bill Payment (EBPP) technology. Mr. Gorog was born in Warren, Ohio on September 2, 1925. He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1949, attended Carnegie Mellon and achieved his Master of Science Degree in Industrial Engineering from the Ohio State University Graduate School. Mr. Gorog served both in World War II and the Korean War. Shortly after the Korean War, he Co-Founded and served as Chairman and CEO of Data Corporation, a high technology research and development company where he conceived of and developed the computerized law and news information systems known as LEXIS/ NEXIS now in use by thousands of law firms, courts, federal agencies, and corporations throughout the United States. Mr. Gorog's company also worked extensively with NASA and developed the photo-optics and systems for the Apollo Mission to the Moon. In 1969 Data Corporation was merged with the Mead Corporation and he became a director of Mead and remained Data's Chairman and CEO. In 1975 Mr. Gorog joined the Ford Administration as the Deputy Director of President's Economic Policy Board and in 1976 was made Executive Director of the Council on International Economic Policy. In this capacity, he was a member of the White House Senior Staff and reported directly to the President. Mr. Gorog left the White House after the change in administration in 1977 and established a trading company primarily involved in the export of U.S. computer products to the Far East. During this period, he also acted as managing partner of an investment group and advisor to foreign investors in Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America. From 1983 to 1987, he was President of the Magazine Publishers of America, an association composed of the principal consumer magazine publishers such as Time Warner, Conde Nast, and Hearst. In 1987, Mr. Gorog became Chairman and CEO of Arbor International, an investment management company involved in financing energy, high technology, and real estate ventures. The InteliData project was started at Arbor and the corporation was formed in 1990. During these periods, Mr. Gorog served as a director of VeriFone, the California-based transaction automation company and of Fiskars, a Helsinki-based worldwide manufacturer. He served in the banking industry as a Director of Commerce Union Bank of Nashville, Sovran Bank of Norfolk, C&S Sovran of Atlanta, and NationsBank, VA. In 1949, Mr. Gorog, an only child, married Gretchen Meister, also an only child and together they had six children: Robin Gorog, Jonathan Gorog, Christopher Gorog, Lesley Gorog Harris, Jennifer Gorog Nichols, Peter Gorog, and twenty-one grandchildren. Gretchen and all his children and grandchildren survive him. Many of Mr. Gorog's six children and twenty-one grandchildren share his pioneering, entrepreneurial spirit, and are successful business executives, entrepreneurs and Olympians in their own rights. Mr. Gorog was a member of the Knights of Malta since 1976, a lay order of the Roman Catholic Church, and is a member of St. Luke Catholic Church in McLean, Virginia. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the American Cancer Society specified for lung cancer research.

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Mr. Gorog's community activities include serving as chairman of the board of visitors of the Georgetown University School of Business. He was also a member of the Knights of Malta, a lay order of the Roman Catholic Church.

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