William S. Farish Is Humble Oil was bought out by Rockefellers Standard Oil of New Jersey in 1919. Farish, who became Standards chair in 1933, pled no contest to conspiring with the Nazis in 1942. This graphic was used at the 2nd International Congress of Eugenics, New York, 1921. He was fined $5,000. The Bush Family Ties to Eugenics and Race Hygiene By Webster Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin Bush and Farish e shall examine here the hen George H.W. Bush was wealth is known, not its employment.3 Bush family’s alliance with Welected U.S. Vice President in Will Farish has long been Wthree families whose mem- 1980, Texas mystery man Will Stamps Bush’s closest friend and confidante. bers promoted the global eugenics Farish III took over management of all He is also the unique private host to movement. The private associations of George Bush’s personal wealth in a Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II: Farish among these families have led to rela- “blind trust.” Known as one of the rich- owns and boards the studs which mate tionships with the Bushes’ closest and est men in Texas, Farish keeps his busi- with the Queen’s mares. That is her most confidential advisers. Under- ness affairs under the most intense se- public rationale when she comes to standing these relationships help ex- crecy. Only the source of his immense America and stays in Farish’s house. plain George Bush Sr.’s obsession with President George H.W. the supposed overpopulation of the Bush could count on Farish world’s non-Anglo-Saxons, and the not to betray the violent se- dangerous means he has adopted to crets surrounding the Bush deal with this “problem.” family money. Farish’s own Webster Tarpley wrote Against Oligar- family fortune was made in chy: Essays & speeches, 1970-1996 the same Hitler project, in a (1996), Surviving the Cataclysm: Your nightmarish partnership with Guide Through the Worst Financial Crisis William Stamps George H.W. George Sr.’s father, Prescott. in Human History (1999) and The 9-11 Ter- Farish III Bush On March 25, 1942, ror Fraud: Myth of the 21st Century During the 2000 presidential cam- U.S. Assistant Attorney Gen- (2004). Anton Chaitkin wrote Treason in paign, Will Farish III organized eral Thurman Arnold an- America: From Aaron Burr to Averell Har- nounced that William Stamps riman (1985). During the 1930’s his fa- Kentuckys largest political ther, Jacob, a New York attorney and Jew- fundraiser ever. Held at his thor- Farish (grandfather of the ish activist, was legal director of the Ameri- oughbred horse breeding farm, the President’s money manager) had pled “no contest” to can Jewish Congress boycott against Nazi event raised US$1.7 million for Germany. In court, he opposed John Fos- charges of criminal conspiracy ter Dulles, lawyer for many U.S. million- George Bush Jr. During the 1999- with the Nazis. Farish was the aires who profited from the Holocaust. 2000 election cycle, Farish gave principal manager of a world- Chaitkin’s father also brought suits against $142,875 to Republican candidates, wide cartel between Standard Nazi interests managed by Prescott Bush. including George Bush Jr. In July Oil Co. of New Jersey and the The research by Tarpley and Chaitkin is 2001, Bush appointed Farish to be I.G. Farben concern. The sound and should not be discounted be- cause of their links with Lyndon Larouche. the U.S. Ambassador to Britain. merged enterprise had opened 26 Press for Conversion! Issue # 54 August 2004 In 1910, Mary A. Harriman, the Auschwitz slave labor camp on partnership had been Averells mom, donated land, June 14, 1940, to produce artificial seized by the U.S. Al- buildings and $300,000 for rubber and gas from coal. Hitler’s gov- ien Property Custodian. the Eugenics Record Office ernment supplied political opponents But Uncle Sam did not at Cold Spring Harbor, NY and Jews as slaves, who were worked seize Prescott’s Union (now Human Genome Project to near death and then murdered. Banking Corp. for an- HQ). Proceedings of the Arnold disclosed that Standard other seven months. Third International Congress Oil of N.J. (later known as Exxon), of The Bush- on Eugenics (1932) were which Farish was president and chief Farish axis began in dedicated to her. Fascinated executive, had agreed to stop hiding 1929. That year, the by breeding thoroughbreds, from the U.S. government, the patents Harriman bank bought among horses and humans, for artificial rubber which Standard Oil Dresser Industries, sup- she was escorted to the had provided to the Nazis.4 plier of oil-pipeline cou- races by George H. Walker. A Senate investigating commit- plers to Standard Oil Following in her mothers tee under Senator (later President) and other firms. Pres- footsteps, Mary Harriman, Harry Truman of Missouri called cott Bush became a di- was responsible for enter- Arnold to testify at hearings on U.S. rector and financial tainment at the Third Inter- corporate collaboration with the Na- czar of Dresser, install- national Congress on Eugen- zis. The Senators expressed outrage at ing Yale classmate Neil ics at the American Museum the cynical way Farish was continuing Mahlon as chairman.7 of Natural History, New an alliance with the Hitler regime that George Bush would York, 1932. had begun back in 1933, when Farish later name one of his became chief of Standard Oil NJ. sons after the Dresser executive. tertainment” for the Congress, lived in Didn’t he know there was a war on? William S. Farish was the main Virginia. Her state supplied the speaker The Justice Department showed organizer of the Humble Oil Co. of on “racial purity,” W.A. Plecker, Vir- the committee a letter, written to Texas, which he merged into Stand- ginia commissioner of vital statistics. Standard Oil NJ president Farish by ard Oil of New Jersey. Farish built up Plecker reportedly held the delegates his vice president, shortly after the be- the Humble-Standard empire of pipe- spellbound with his account of the ginning of WWII in Europe. It con- lines and refineries in Texas.8 struggle to stop race-mixing and in- cerned a renewal of their earlier agree- The stock market crashed just ter-racial sex in Virginia. ments with Shell Oil and the Nazi after the Bush family got into the oil The Congress proceedings were chemical/munitions firm I.G. Farben. business. The world financial crisis led dedicated to Averell Harriman’s Shell Oil is principally owned to the merger of the Walker-Harriman mother, Mary A. Harriman. She had by the British royal family. Shell’s bank with Brown Brothers in 1931. paid for the founding of the race-sci- chairman, Sir Henri Deterding, helped Former Brown partner Montagu Nor- ence movement in America back in sponsor Hitler’s rise to power,6 by ar- man, and his protégé Hjalmar Schacht, 1910, building the Eugenics Record rangement with the royal family’s paid frantic visits to New York that Office. She and other Harrimans were Bank of England Governor, Montagu year and the next, preparing the new usually escorted to the horse races by Norman. Their ally, Standard Oil, took Hitler regime for Germany. old George H. Walker. The Harrimans, part in the Hitler project right up to The most important U.S. politi- Bushes and Farishes shared a fascina- the bloody, gruesome cal event in those preparations for Hit- tion with “breeding thoroughbreds,” end. When grandfather ler was the infamous “Third Interna- among horses and humans.10 Farish signed the tional Congress on Eugenics,” held at Averell Harriman personally Justice Depart- New York’s American Museum of arranged with the Walker/Bush Ham- ment’s consent Natural History, August 21-23, 1932, burg-Amerika Line to transport Nazi decree in March supervised by the International Federa- ideologues from Germany to New York 1942, the gov- tion of Eugenics Societies.9 This meet- for this meeting.11 The most famous ernment had al- ing took up the stubborn persistence among those transported was Dr. Ernst ready started of African-Americans and other alleg- Rüdin, psychiatrist at the Kaiser picking its way edly “inferior” and “socially inad- Wilhelm Institute for Genealogy and through the tan- equate” groups in reproducing, ex- Demography in Berlin, where the gled web of panding their numbers, and mixing Rockefeller family paid for Dr. Rüdin world-mono- with others. It was recommended that to occupy an entire floor with his eu- poly oil and these “dangers” to the “better” ethnic genics “research.” Dr. Rüdin had ad- chemical agree- groups and to the “well-born,” could dressed the International Federation’s ments between be dealt with by sterilization or “cut- 1928 Munich meeting, speaking on Standard Oil and the ting off the bad stock” of the “unfit.” “Mental Aberration and Race Hy- Nazis. Many patents Italy’s fascist government sent giene.” Other speakers (Germans and and other Nazi- an official representative. Averell Har- Americans) spoke on race-mixing and owned aspects of the riman’s sister Mary, director of “En- sterilization of the unfit. Rüdin had August 2004 Issue # 54 Press for Conversion! 27 Dr, Ernst Rüdin, also led the German delegation to the founder of the Ger- Karl Lindemann were author- 1930 Mental Hygiene Congress in man Society for Race ized to write checks to Heinrich Washington, D.C. Hygiene, was a psy- Himmler, chief of the Nazi S.S., At the Harrimans’ 1932 Eu- chiatrist doing eugen- on a special Standard Oil ac- genics Congress, Ernst Rüdin was ics research at the count. This account was man- unanimously elected president of the Rockefeller-funded aged by the German-British- International Federation of Eugenics Kaiser Wilhelm Insti- U.S. banker, Kurt von Schroe- Societies. This was recognition of der. Emil Helfferich continued tute for Genealogy & Rüdin as founder of the German So- his payments to the S.S. into ciety for Race Hygiene. Demography in Berlin. 1944, when the S.S. was super- As depression-maddened fin- He was unanimously vising the mass murder at the anciers schemed in Berlin and New elected president of Standard-I.G. Farben Auschwitz York, Rüdin was official leader of the the International and other death camps. world eugenics movement. His move- Federation of Eugen- Helfferich told Allied interroga- ment included groups with overlap- ics Societies at the tors after the war that these were ping leadership, dedicated to: 1932 Eugenics Con- not his personal contributions – 16 l sterilization of mental patients gress in New York. they were Standard Oil funds. (“mental hygiene societies”) After pleading “no contest” to l execution of the insane, criminals like Auschwitz; and finally, for Jews charges of criminal conspiracy with the and the terminally ill (“euthanasia and other race victims, at extermina- Nazis, William Stamps Farish was societies”) tion camps in Poland.13 fined $5,000. (Similar fines were lev- l eugenical race-purification by pre- In 1933, when Hitler’s “New ied against Standard Oil – $5,000 each venting births to parents from “in- Order” appeared, J.D. Rockefeller, Jr. for the parent company and for sev- ferior” blood stocks (“birth control appointed Will S. Farish the chair of eral subsidiaries.) This did not inter- societies”). Standard Oil of New Jersey. He was fere with the millions that Farish had Before the Auschwitz death camp be- made president and chief executive in acquired in conjunction with Hitler’s came a household word, these U.K.- 1937. Farish moved his offices to Rock- New Order, as a large stockholder, U.S.-European groups called openly efeller Center, NY, where he spent a chairman and president of Standard for the elimination of the “unfit” by good deal of time with Hermann Oil. All the U.S. government sought means including force and violence.12 Schmitz, chairman of I.G. Farben. His was the use of the Auschwitz patents In June 1933, Hitler’s interior company paid PR man Ivy minister Wilhelm Frick spoke to a eu- Lee, to write pro-I.G. In 1933, Wilhelm genics meeting in the new Third Reich. Farben and pro-Nazi me- Frick became Hitlers Frick called the Germans a “degener- dia propaganda. Interior Minister, re- ate” race, denouncing one-fifth of Ger- Farish, like the sponsible for drafting many’s parents for producing “feeble- Bush family, was in the Nazi laws. He com- minded” and “defective” children. The shipping business. He missioned Rüdin to following month, on a commission by hired Nazi crews for write a sterilization Frick, Dr. Ernst Rüdin wrote the “Law Standard Oil tankers. And, law modeled on exist- for the Prevention of Hereditary Dis- he hired Emil Helfferich, ing U.S. statutes. He eases in Posterity,” the sterilization law chair of the Walker/Bush/ was in charge of con- modeled on previous U.S. statutes in Harriman Hamburg- Virginia and other states. Amerika Line, as chair of centration camps and police forces. Con- Special courts were established Standard Oil’s German victed of planning and waging wars of ag- for the sterilization of German mental subsidiary. Karl Linde- gression, war crimes and crimes against patients, the blind, the deaf and alco- mann, board member of humanity, he was hanged in October 1946. holics. A quarter million in these cat- Hamburg-Amerika, be- egories were sterilized. Rüdin, Plötz came a top Farish-Standard executive which his company had given to the and their colleagues trained a whole in Germany.14 This interlock between Nazis but had withheld from the U.S. generation of physicians and psychia- their Nazi German operations put military and industry. trists – as sterilizers and killers. Farish with Prescott Bush in a select But a war was on, and if young When WWII started, the eu- group operating from abroad through U.S. men were to be asked to die fight- genicists, doctors and psychiatrists Hitler’s “revolution,” and calculating ing Hitler, then something more was staffed the new “T4” agency, which that they would never be punished. needed. Farish was hauled before the planned and supervised the mass kill- In 1939, Farish’s daughter Senate committee investigating the ings: first at “euthanasia centers,” married Averell Harriman’s nephew, national defense program. Committee where the same categories initially sub- E. Harriman Gerry, and Farish in-laws chairman, Senator Harry Truman, told jected to sterilization were later mur- became Prescott’s partners at Brown newsmen before Farish testified: “I dered, their brains sent to experimen- Brothers Harriman.15 think this approaches treason.”17 tal psychiatrists; then at slave camps Both Emil Helfferich and Farish began breaking apart at 28 Press for Conversion! Issue # 54 August 2004 these hearings. He shouted his “indig- nation” at the Senators, and claimed he was not “disloyal.” After the hear- ings, more dirt came gushing out of the Justice Department and the Con- gress on Farish and Standard Oil. Farish had used deceit to prevent the U.S. Navy from acquiring certain pat- ents, while he did supply them to the John D. HQ of Nazi chemical/munitions Father of PR Nazi war machine. Farish also sup- Rockefeller, Jr. cartel I.G. Farben in Frankfurt. Ivy Lee plied gas and tetraethyl lead for Ger- In 1914, when dozens of men, women and children were massa- man subs and warplanes. Communi- cred in a strike at Rockefellers coal mine in Colorado, John D. cations between Standard and I.G. Rockefeller, Jr., hired PR expert Ivy Lee. Lee later worked Farben were released to the Senate, for Standard Oil, investment bankers Dillon, Read & Co. and showing that Farish’s organization had I.G. Farben. After Lee met with Hitler, he promoted Nazi re- arranged to deceive the U.S. govern- ment into passing over Nazi-owned armament as a plea for equality of rights among nations and to assets: They would nominally buy prevent for all time the return of the Communist peril. I.G.’s share in certain patents because back for more testimony. He was fre- tune comprising much of Standard “in the event of war between ourselves quently accused of lying. Farish was Oil’s profits from Texas and Nazi Ger- and Germany...it would certainly be crushed under the intense, public grill- many was now settled upon the four- very undesirable to have this 20% ing. While Prescott Bush escaped pub- year-old grandson, William S. Farish Standard-I.G. pass to an alien prop- licity when the government seized his III. He grew up a recluse, the most se- erty custodian of the U.S. who might Nazi banking organization in October, cretive multi-millionaire in Texas, with 18 sell it to an unfriendly interest.” Farish was nailed. He died of a heart investments of “that money” in a mul- John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (father attack on November 29, 1942. titude of foreign countries, and a host of David, Nelson and John D. III), con- The Farish family was devas- of exotic contacts overlapping the in- trolling owner of Standard Oil, told the tated by the exposure. Son W.S. Farish, telligence and financial worlds. Roosevelt administration that he knew Jr., was humiliated by public knowl- The Bush-Farish axis started nothing of the day-to-day affairs of his edge that his father fueled the enemy’s George H.W. Bush’s career. After his firm, that these matters were handled aircraft; he died in a miltary training 1948 graduation from Yale (and Skull 19 by Farish and other executives. accident in Texas six months later.20 and Bones), George Sr. flew to Texas In August, Farish was brought With this double death, the for- on a corporate airplane and was em- ployed by his father’s Dresser Indus- George W-style Euthanasia in Texas tries. In a couple of years he got help from his uncle, George Walker, Jr., and By Dana L. Cloud, Professor, Commu- U.S. death-penalty cases are marred by Farish’s British banker friends, to set nication Studies, University of Texas. profound legal flaws warranting re- him up in the oil property speculation versal or new trials. The death penalty n Texas, under Governor George W. business. Soon thereafter, George Bush in Texas is racist in its application. A Bush [1995-2000], there were 154 founded the Zapata Oil Co., which put I 1998 study shows that 23% of all Texas executions. [Editor’s Note: That’s 25% oil drilling rigs into certain locations murder victims were black men, but of all executions in the U.S. since of great strategic interest to the Anglo- only .4% of those executed were con- 1976.] All those executed in Texas American intelligence community. demned to die for killing a black man. were poor and denied adequate legal [Editor’s Note: Zapata Oil ships and White women represent .8% of mur- representation in a state without a pub- oil rigs were used in the failed 1961 der victims, but 34% of those executed lic defender system. Among those ex- Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, which were executed for killing a white ecuted were: the CIA called “Operation Zapata.”] woman. Blacks in Texans are the least • the mentally retarded and mentally Will Farish, at 25, was a per- likely to serve on capital juries, but the ill who, with no health insurance, sonal aide to Zapata Oil chair George most likely to be condemned to die. were denied access to medical care. H.W. Bush during the latter’s unsuc- Capital punishment also un- • women who killed abusive hus- cessful 1964 Senate campaign. Farish fairly targets the poor – many of whom bands but whose histories of abuse used “that Auschwitz money” to back were assigned lawyers who were drug were not presented in their defense. Bush, by investing in Zapata. When addicted, sanctioned by the state bar • juveniles (during the alleged crime). Bush was elected to Congress in 1966, or who slept through their clients’ tri- As a result, Texas is the object of in- Farish joined the Zapata board.21 als. There have been dozens of cases ternational scorn. The U.S. is nearly When George H.W. Bush be- of witness tampering, prosecutorial use alone among advanced industrialized came Ronald Reagan’s Vice President of phony experts, deliberately mislead- nations to continue executions. in 1980, the Farish and Bush family ing evidence and jailhouse informants. A Columbia University study fortunes were again completely, se- reported that more than two thirds of Source: Daily Texan, Jan. 30, 2001. cretly commingled. August 2004 Issue # 54 Press for Conversion! 29 Bush and Draper Draper-Bush population doctrine be- came official U.S. foreign policy. wenty years before he was U.S. William H. Draper, Jr., joined TPresident, Congressman George the Bush team in 1927, when hired by H.W. Bush was chair of the Republi- New York investment bankers, Dillon can Task Force on Earth Resources and Read & Co. Draper was put into a new Population. On August 5, 1969, Bush job slot at the firm: handling the Thys- invited Professors William Shockley sen account. and Arthur Jensen to explain how al- In 1924, Fritz Thyssen had set legedly runaway birth-rates for Afri- up his Union Banking Corp. in George can-Americans were “down-breeding” H. Walker’s bank in Manhattan. Dillon the U.S. population. Bush then person- Read’s boss, Clarence Dillon, began Will H. Draper Jr., promoted ally summed up for Congress the tes- working with Fritz Thyssen sometime U.S. investments in Nazi com- timony his black-inferiority advocates after Averell Harriman first met with panies and handled top Nazi ac- had given to the Task Force on the Thyssen – about the time Thyssen be- threat posed by black babies.22 gan financing Hitler’s political career. counts in the U.S., such as the Bush’s obsessive thinking on In January 1926, Dillon Read Thyssen account, through this subject was guided by his family’s created the German Credit and Invest- Dillon, Read & Co. As Chief, friend, General William H. Draper, Jr., ment Corp. (GCI) in Newark, New Jer- Economics Div., Control Council the founder and chairman of the UN sey and Berlin, Germany, as Thyssen’s for Germany (1945-1946), Maj. Population Crisis Committee, and vice short-term banker. That year Dillon Gen. Draper ensured that U.S. chairman of the Planned Parenthood Read created Vereinigte Stahlwerke millionaires who had aided Hit- Federation. Draper had long been (German Steel Trust), incorporating ler, retained their economic steering U.S. public discussion about Thyssen interests under the direction power in the new Germany. In the so-called “population bomb” in the of New York and London finance.23 1932, Draper helped finance non-white areas of the world. William H. Draper, Jr., was di- If Bush had explained to his rector, vice president and assistant the International Eugenics Con- colleagues how his family had come treasurer of the GCI, arranging short- gress in New York. In 1937, to know General Draper, they might term loans and financial management Williams cousin, Wyckliffe have felt some alarm, or even panic, tricks for Thyssen and the German Draper, created a eugenics and paid more healthy attention to Steel Trust. Draper’s clients sponsored foundation, the Pioneer Fund, Bush’s presentation. Unfortunately, the Hitler’s terroristic takeover and led the that gave $1.2 million to buildup of the Nazi war in- Shockley and Jensen. dustry. The Nazis were Drap- er’s direct partners in Berlin 1933. USIS was shown to be one of and New Jersey: Alexander the great speculative pyramid schemes Kreuter in Berlin, was presi- that swindled stockholders of hundreds dent; Frederic Brandi, whose of millions of dollars. These invest- father was a top coal execu- ment policies had rotted the U.S. tive in the German Steel economy to the core, and led to the Trust, moved to the U.S. in Great Depression of the 1930s. 1926 and was Draper’s co-di- But William H. Draper, Jr.’s rector in Newark. GCI “front” was not apparently affili- Draper’s role was cru- ated with the USIS “front” or with William Shockley Arthur Jensen cial for Dillon Read, for Dillon, and the GCI escaped Congress’ whom Draper was a partner limited scrutiny. This oversight was In 1980, George H.W. Bush, invited race and later vice president. The most unfortunate to the 50 million who theorists to address the Republican task GCI was a “front” for Dillon subsequently died in WWII. force on population control. Shockley, in- Read. It had the same New Dillon Read & Co. hired PR ventor of the transistor (1947), deputy Jersey address as U.S. and man Ivy Lee to prepare its executives director of the Defense Departments International Securities for their testimony and to confuse and Weapons Systems Evaluation Group (USIS) and the same man further baffle the Congressmen.25 Lee 24 (1954-55) and co-recipient of the Nobel served as treasurer of both. apparently took enough time out from Prize for Physics (1956) promoted steri- Clarence Dillon, and his his duties as image-maker for William son C. Douglas Dillon, were lization for those with below average S. Farish and the Nazi I.G. Farben Co. directors of USIS. It was spot- to manage the congressional thinking IQs. Jensen, a professor of education lighted when Clarence Dillon such that Congress did not disturb the psychology at the Univ. of California at was hauled before the Senate Draper operation in Germany, meddle Berkeley, argued that Blacks genes make Banking Committee’s fa- with Thyssen, or interfere with Hitler’s them intellectually inferior to whites. mous “Pecora” hearings in U.S. moneymen. 30 Press for Conversion! Issue # 54 August 2004 Thus, in 1932, William H. structions from his Wall Street law his brother Allen Dulles, formerly of Draper, Jr., was free to finance the In- firm, McCloy had lived for a year in the Schroder bank, headed the CIA. ternational Eugenics Congress, as a Italy, serving as advisor to Benito This friendly environment em- “Supporting Member.”26 Was he using Mussolini’s fascist government. An in- boldened Draper to pull off a stunt with his own income as a Thyssen trust timate collaborator of the Harriman/ his military aid advisory committee. In banker? Or, did the funds come from Bush bank, McCloy sat in Hitler’s box 1959, Draper’s committee recom- Dillon Read corporate accounts, per- at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, at the mended that the U.S. government re- haps to be written off income tax as invitation of Nazi chieftains Rudolf act to the supposed threat of the “popu- “expenses for German project: race Hess and Hermann Göring.30 lation explosion” by making plans to purification”? Draper helped select William H. Draper, Jr., as a depopulate poorer countries. The Ernst Rüdin as chief of the world eu- “conservative,” was paired with the growth of the world’s non-white popu- genics movement, who used his office “liberal” U.S. Treasury Secretary lation, he said, should be regarded as to promote what he called Adolf Hit- Henry Morgenthau in a vicious game. dangerous to U.S. national security!31 ler’s “holy, national and international Morgenthau demanded that German President Eisenhower rejected racial hygienic mission.”27 industry be dismantled. As Germany’s the recommendation. In the next dec- W.S. Farish, as we have seen, economic boss (1945-1946), Draper ade, Draper founded the “Population was publicly exposed in 1942, humili- “protected” Germany from the Crisis Committee” and the “Draper ated and destroyed. Just before Farish Morgenthau Plan, but at a price. Fund,” joining with the Rockefeller died, Prescott Bush’s Nazi banking Draper and his colleagues de- and Du Pont families to promote eu- office (Union Banking Corp.) was qui- manded that Germany and the world genics under the guise of “population etly seized and shut down. But Pres- accept the collective guilt of the Ger- control.” The Lyndon Johnson admin- cott’s close friend and partner in the man people as the explanation for the istration, advised by Draper, began fi- Thyssen-Hitler business, nancing birth control in William H. Draper, Jr., nei- Fellow Skull and Bonesman, the tropical countries ther died nor moved out of William H. Draper III, at- through the U.S. Agency German affairs. He was a di- tended Yale with George for International Devel- rector of the GCI through H.W. Bush. He invested in opment. 1942, and the firm was not Arbusto Energy (1979- General Draper was liquidated until November 1982), George W.s failed oil George H.W. Bush’s 28 1943. Draper, a colonel company, and was appointed guru on the population from previous military serv- question.32 But there was chair of the U.S. Export-Im- ice, went off to the Pacific also Draper’s money – theatre to became a general. port Bank (1981-1986). from that uniquely hor- General Draper ap- Draper and other top Repub- rible source – and Drap- parently had a hobby: magic lican donors urged George W. to run for presi- er’s connections on Wall – illusions, sleight of hand – dent in 1999. Draper has helped George W. raise Street and abroad. Drap- and was a member of the So- millions from high tech/military companies. er’s son and heir, Will- ciety of American Magi- iam H. Draper III, was cians. This is not irrelevant to his sub- rise of Hitler’s New Order, and Nazi co-chair for finance (fundraising chief) sequent career. war crimes. This was rather conven- of the Bush-for-President national The Nazi regime surrendered in ient for General Draper and the Bush campaign in 1980. With George Bush May 1945. In July, Draper was called family. It is still convenient decades Sr. as President, the younger Draper to Europe by the U.S. military govern- later, allowing Prescott’s son, President headed up the UN Development Pro- ment authorities in Germany. He George H.W. Bush, to lecture Germany gram’s depopulation activities. headed the U.S. Control Commission’s on the danger of Hitlerism. General Draper was vice presi- Economics Division and was assigned In 1958, after several years of dent of Dillon Read until 1953. Dur- to take apart the Nazi corporate car- government service (often working di- ing the 1950s and 1960s, the chief ex- tels. There is an astonishing but per- rectly for Averell Harriman in the ecutive there was Frederic Brandi, the fectly logical rationale to this. General North Atlantic Alliance), General German who was Draper’s co-direc- Draper, who had spent 15 years financ- Draper was appointed to chair a com- tor for the Nazi investments and his ing and managing the dirtiest of Nazi mittee advising President Eisenhower contact man with the Nazi German enterprises, was now authorized to de- on the proper course for U.S. military Steel Trust. Nicholas Brady was cide who was exposed, who lost or kept aid to other countries. At that time, Brandi’s partner from 1954, and re- his business and, in practical effect, Prescott Bush was a Connecticut Sena- placed him as chief executive in 1971. who was prosecuted for war crimes.29 tor, a confidential friend and golf part- Brady, who knows where all the bod- Draper was not unique within ner with National Security Director ies are buried, was chair of his friend the postwar occupation government. Gordon Gray and an important golf George H.W. Bush’s 1980 election Consider John J. McCloy, U.S. Mili- partner with Eisenhower. Prescott’s old campaign in New Jersey, and was the tary Governor and High Commissioner lawyer from the Nazi days, John Fos- U.S. Treasury Secretary throughout of Germany, 1949-1952. Under in- ter Dulles, was Secretary of State, and Bush Sr.’s presidency.33 August 2004 Issue # 54 Press for Conversion! 31 Bowman Gray Medical School Bush and Gray
he U.S. Agency for International TDevelopment (USAID) said sur- gical sterilization was the Bush admin- istration’s “first choice” method of population reduction in the Third World.34 The UN Population Fund claimed that 37% of contraception us- Boyden Gray (left) became legal counsel to ers in Ibero-America and the Carib- Vice President George Bush Sr. in 1980. bean have already been surgically steri- Boydens dad, Gordon Gray (right), principal owner of R.J. lized. In a 1991 report, William H. Reynolds Tobacco, founded Bowman Gray Medical School in Draper III’s agency asserted that 254 Winston-Salem, N.C., a major centre for eugenics research. In million couples would be surgically 1946, Gordon began a project there that, over 40 years, steri- sterilized in the 1990s; and if trends lized 7,600, mostly black and poor, including kids under eight. continued, 80% of women in Puerto Rico and Panama would be surgically target nations, and blatant subversion man Gray, was principal owner of the sterilized.35 The U.S. government pays of their religions and governments.36 R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Boyden’s directly for these sterilizations. These activities might be ex- father, Gordon Gray, had founded the Mexico was first among tar- pected to cause serious objections from Bowman Gray Medical School in geted nations, on a list drawn up in the victimized nationalities, or from Winston-Salem, using his inherited July 1991, at a USAID strategy ses- U.S. taxpayers, especially if the pro- cigarette stock shares. The medical sion. India and Brazil were second and gram was given widespread publicity. school was already a eugenics center. third priorities, respectively. Aside from moral considera- As the experiment began, On contract with the Bush ad- tions, legal questions naturally arose. Gordon Gray’s great aunt, Alice ministration, U.S. personnel worked President Bush Sr. had expert legal Shelton Gray, who raised him from from bases in Mexico to perform sur- advice in Boyden Gray, his counsel childhood, was living in his household. gery on millions of Mexican men and since the 1980 election. As chief legal Alice had founded the “Human Bet- women. The acknowledged strategy officer in the White House, Gray could terment League,” the North Carolina walk Bush through the branch of the national eugenical steri- complexities of waging lization movement. She supervised the such unusual warfare 1946-1947 experiment. Working un- against Third World der her was Dr. Claude Nash Herndon, populations. whom Gordon Gray had made assist- In 1946, when Boyden ant professor of “medical genetics” at Gray was about four years Bowman Gray Medical School. old, his father organized Dr. Clarence Gamble, heir to the pilot project for the the Procter and Gamble soap fortune, present worldwide steri- was the sterilizers’ national field op- Human Betterment League lization program. The erations chief. members, in 1953: Nat S. U.S. eugenics movement The experiment worked as fol- Crews, Mrs. A.B. Stroup and was looking for a way to lows: All children enrolled in the James Gordon Hanes begin again. Nazi death Winston-Salem school district were camps such as Auschwitz given a special “intelligence test.” (right), a founder, funder and treasurer had just then seared the Those scoring below a certain arbitrary of the League. Hanes, the underwear mo- conscience of the world. mark were then cut open and surgi- gul, was a trustee of Bowman Gray Medi- The Sterilization League cally sterilized. We quote now from the cal School and friend of Clarence Gamble. of America, which had official story of the project37: changed its name during In Winston-Salem and Orange was to sterilize young adults who had the war to Birthright, Inc., wanted to County, North Carolina, the [Steri- not already completed their families. start up again. First they had to over- lization League’s] field committee Birth control spending, in non- come public nervousness about crack- had participated in testing projects white countries, was one of the few pots proposing to eliminate “inferior” to identify school age children who items that increased during the [first] and “defective” people. The League should be considered for steriliza- Bush administration. As its 1992 tried to surface in Iowa, but backed off tion. The project in Orange County budget was set, USAID said its Popu- due to negative publicity: A little boy was conducted by the University of lation Account would receive $300 had died from a sterilization operation. North Carolina and was financed by million, a 20% increase over 1991. A They decided on North Caro- a ‘Mr. Hanes,’ a friend of Clarence significant part of that was for politi- lina, where the Gray family could play Gamble.... The Winston-Salem cal and psychological manipulations of host. Boyden Gray’s grandfather, Bow- project was also financed by Hanes. 32 Press for Conversion! Issue # 54 August 2004 Dr. Clarence Gamble, heir [Hanes was under- to Procter and Gamble, sterilizer, Herndon, wear mogul James was the sterilizers na- became president of Gordon Hanes, trus- tional field operations the American Eugen- tee of Bowman Gray chief. He funded the Eu- ics Society in 1953, as Medical School and genics Board, paying for it expanded under treasurer of Alice IQ tests, publications and Rockefeller patronage. Gray’s Human Bet- research into the need for Meanwhile, the terment League].... forcibly sterilizing chil- International Planned The medical Parenthood Federation dren, especially non- school had a long was founded in Lon- history of interest in whites. In 1957, he don, in the British Eu- eugenics and had founded the genics Society’s office. compiled extensive Pathfinder Fund Eugenics, the undead histories of families which now con- enemy from WWII, carrying inheritable tinues his work in was renamed “Popula- disease. In 1946, Dr. 60 countries. tion Control,” and has C. Nash Herndon... been revived. made a statement to the press on the tests were run on all the children in George Bush was U.S. ambas- use of sterilization to prevent the the Winston-Salem public school sador to the UN in 1972 when, with spread of inheritable diseases.... system. Only the ones who scored prodding from Bush and friends, The first step after giving the really low [were targeted for sterili- USAID made an official contract with mental tests to grade school children zation], the real bottom of the bar- the old Sterilization League of was to interpret and make public the rel, like below 70. America. The League had changed its results. In Orange County, the re- Did we do sterilizations on name twice, and was now the Asso- sults indicated that 3% of children young children? Yes. This was a ciation for Voluntary Surgical Contra- were either insane or feeble- relatively minor operation.... usually ception. The U.S. government began minded.... [Then,] the field commit- not until the child was eight or ten paying this old fascist group to steri- tee hired a social worker to review years old. For the boys, you just make lize non-whites in foreign countries. each case ... and to present any cases an incision and tie the tube.... We In 1988, USAID signed a con- in which sterilization was indicated more often performed the operation tract with the Association for Volun- to the State Eugenics Board, which on girls.... You have to cut open the tary Surgical Contraception, commit- under North Carolina law had the abdomen, but it is relatively minor. ting the U.S. government to spend $80 authority to order sterilization. Dr. Herndon remarked million over five years. Dr. Claude Nash coolly: “we had a very good re- Clarence Gamble formed the lationship with the press.” This “Pathfinder Fund” as a split-off from Herndon, whom Gor- is not surprising, since Gordon the Sterilization League. This fund, don Gray had made Gray owned the Winston-Salem with additional millions from USAID, professor of medical Journal, the Twin City Sentinel penetrates social groups in non-white genetics at Bowman and radio station WSJS. countries to break down psychologi- Gray Medical School In 1950 and 1951, John cal resistance to surgical sterilization. said: We had a very Foster Dulles, then chair of the Having gotten away with steri- good relationship with Rockefeller Foundation, led lizing several hundred North Carolina the press. Gordon Gray owned the John D. Rockefeller III on a se- school children, “not usually less than two local papers and a radio station. ries of world tours, focusing on eight to ten years old,” the identical the need to stop the expansion group was authorized by President Race science experimenter Dr. of non-white populations. In 1952, Bush Sr. to do this work in 58 coun- Claude Nash Herndon provided more Dulles and Rockefeller set up the Popu- tries of Asia, Africa and Latin details in an interview in 199038: lation Council, with tens of millions America. The group claimed it directly Alice Gray was the general supervi- from the Rockefeller family. sterilized “only” two million people. sor of the project. She and Hanes At that point, the American The Gray family experiment sent out letters promoting the pro- Eugenics Society, still cautious from had succeeded. gram to the commissioners of all 100 the recent bad publicity, vis-a-vis Hit- counties in North Carolina.... What ler, left its old headquarters at Yale or more information on the Ameri- did I do? Nothing besides riding University. The Society’s headquarters Fcan eugenics movement, see: herd on the whole thing! The social moved to the Population Council of- t The Eugenics Archive (thousands workers operated out of my office. I fice, and the two groups melded. The of photos and original documents) was also director of outpatient serv- American Eugenics Society’s long-