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Mabel Dodge Luhan Was a Spook return to updates Mabel Dodge Luhan was a Spook by Miles Mathis First published August 14, 2016 As usual, this is just my opinion, arrived at by private research. Also as usual, no “conspiracy theory” is involved. All information here has been compiled from current mainstream sources online. Since I live in New Mexico, I am privy to a constant pushing of certain characters like Mabel Dodge Luhan. Having had my fill of it, I am pushing back. You will say, “Gee Miles, but she doesn't look like a spook in the picture above! She looks so natural and straightforward, like someone you could trust. She doesn't look at all like a fake or a phony”. Yeah. As we have seen, it isn't hard to out these people. Everything they do screams “project!” Their Wikipedia pages look like they were written from sub-basement 8 at Langley. And they were. She was born Mabel Ganson into a very wealthy family. Her father was the banker Charles Ganson and her mother was Sarah Cook. Her grandfather James Ganson was the richest banker in Buffalo, NY, in the early 1800s and his son Charles followed in his footsteps. Charles' genealogy at Geni.com is completely scrubbed, as you would expect. But in the genealogy of John Ewell, we find several mentions of these Gansons. James' father was John, married to Lucy Anderson. After his death, she married Israel Rathbone. Note the first name as well as the last. James' brother John was a US Congressman from New York. John married a Miss Sibley. And Israel Rathbone was of the Rathbones involved in the fake Lincoln assassination. A Rathbone allegedly fought with John Wilkes Booth in the Presidential box, remember? We have a bit more information about Mabel's mother. Sarah Cook was the daughter of Henry Cook and Mary McKay or McCay. Henry Cook's mother was Maria Whitney, daughter of Nathan Whitney. Take note of the name Whitney: it will come up again several times below. His sister Esther married Jeremiah Chase and their son was Lewis Chase. His other sister Abigail married Ephraim Clark. His sister Jerusha married David Gates. His sister Elizabeth married Timothy Hunt. His brother Henry married Ruth Scribner. Let's see, we have the names Whitney, Chase, Clark, Gates, Hunt, and Scribner. Do I need to draw you a picture? I trust you caught all the Jewish first names as well. Mabel Ganson attended the Chevy Chase fininishing school—apropos since she was a cousin of the Chases. Her first marriage was in Trinity Church in Buffalo. Note the name Trinity. That husband died in a hunting accident 3 years later. She almost immediately remarried to architect Edwin Dodge. Edwin's father was named Elisha, and he was a wealthy manufacturer. Elisha was born in 1847. Note the date. Elisha's grandmother was Catherine Howe. In my recent paper on F. Scott Fitzgerald, we saw the Howes were related to Ginevra King, and therefore also probably to Fitzgerald. They were also involved in the fake Salem Witch Trials, with Elizabeth Howe on the fake list of those hung. Elisha's grandmother Catherine Howe was from Ipswich, MA, just north of Salem. But we have another link to the Salem Witch Trials. John Proctor's sister was Sarah Proctor. Who did she marry? Captain John Dodge of Salem. He was an ancestor of our Edwin Dodge. But there is more on Elisha Dodge. He had brothers named Moses and Samuel, and a sister named Eliphalet. Another sister Mary married Ebenezer Parsons. His great-granddaughter is Estelle Parsons, who is still alive. She was born in Essex County, MA. Which is Salem. She married a Zimroth and a Richard Gehman, both Jewish. Her sister Elaine married a Ruggles (name not given, but maybe Wesley Ruggles—a Hollywood director who worked with Charlie Chaplin). See also the composer Carl Ruggles, sold as an anti-Semite but with a son named Micah. His wife was a Snell, which comes from Schnell, meaning quick. It is often used by Ashkenazy Jews. Getting the picture? Edwin and Mabel Dodge immediately (1905) moved to Florence, where they lived in a palatial villa that used to be owned by. wait for it. the Medicis. See my paper on the occult, where I out the Medicis as crypto-Jews. There Mabel began her relationship with Gertrude Stein, whom I outed in my paper on the Paris Salon. Stein was also Jewish. It is admitted that both Stein and Mabel Dodge were gay. While in Florence, the Dodges socialized with art historian Bernard Berenson, who had changed his name from Valvrojenski. He was from a Jewish family from Vilnius, but he liked to assimilate. He converted to Episcopalianism in the US and then to Catholicism in Italy. If he had moved to Japan no doubt he would have become a Taoist. He had graduated from Harvard and married Mary Smith, whose sister Alys was married to Bertrand Russell. Berenson was a close friend of Ray Bradbury, though the connection is hard to see. Maybe the connection was again the Salem Witch Trials. Bradbury was descended from Mary Bradbury, tried at Salem. Berenson's wife was probably related to those people. Berenson moonlighted as an appraiser and expert, attributing and valuing paintings for top galleries. It is now known that he took substantial kickbacks and misattributed several major works, including a Titian. Put on the stand in a trial concerning a Leonardo copy, he failed to answer when asked the medium. His reputation has fallen considerably since his death. In 1912, the Dodges returned to New York, where Mabel set up her own fake Salon. Her list of attendees is like a crème de la crème of spooks, many of whom I have already written about, including John Reed, Big Bill Haywood, Walter Lippmann, Emma Goldman, Max Eastman, Raymond Harrington, Lincoln Steffens, Hutchins Hapgood (whom she was related to), Neith Boyce, Charles Demuth, Margaret Sanger, and Carl van Vechten. You can immediately add all these people to your list of agents, and any others connected to the Dodges. For more evidence of her status as an agent, see her work in organizing the Armory Show, which I have already outed in my paper on Hemingway. The Armory Show was the baby of British agent John Quinn—working with US Intel—so we may assume Mabel was working under his direct supervision. This is why it was at the Armory, you know. Didn't it ever seem curious to you that a major art exhibition was held at a military installation? Next we are told Mabel sailed to Europe with John Reed in 1913 as his lover. No chance that is true, since they were both gay. She was another of his beards, and he hers. They were simply agents abroad, though we aren't told on what project. It was a short one, since it lasted only three months. Reed had to return to the US, where he was re-assigned to Mexico to work the fake revolution there. His cover was as a reporter for Metropolitan Magazine, a front for Intel. That magazine had been founded by John Brisben Walker [b. 1847, note the date]. He had also been involved early in Cosmopolitan Magazine, which he later sold to Hearst. He donated 40 acres to the Jesuits in Denver in 1887. Remember what the Jew Disraeli told us about the Jesuits: the first Jesuits were Jews. If you still don't think Walker was a spook, note that they admit he served as a General in the Chinese Army. Yep, you read that right. Walker also started the Morrison Casino in Denver. Hmmm, I wonder why he called it that? Well, he was married to Emily Strother, and she was both a Strother and a Wolfe. The Morrisons and the Wolfes were related by marriage. So were the Walkers and Morrisons. If you don't know where I am going with this, see Jim Morrison, who I have shown was related to all the first families of the US. Also remember that John Wayne's real name was Marion Morrison. One of the recent Morrisons who married a Wolfe was named Andrew Marion Morrison. Also, don't forget to tie spook writer Tom Wolfe in here. I have written a long paper on him. In 1916 Mabel Dodge went to work for Hearst, writing a nationally syndicated column. As part of this new project, she was assigned a new beard, the painter and sculptor Maurice Sterne. Like the rest of these people, he had very little talent, relying on his connections instead. That second piece is a Whistler rip-off titled “Symphony in Pink and Grey”. Either the colors on my computer have failed, or he doesn't know the difference between pink and pale orange. As for the still life, my students can paint better fruit than that before their first lesson. Sterne had a retrospective at MOMA in 1933. Note the date. He was born August 8, 1878. Note the date. He was born in Latvia, and I assume he was another crypto-Jew. Many Sternes/Sterns are Jewish. See Isaac Stern and Itzhak Stern, as just two examples of many. Mabel Dodge's Wiki page is strange, in that although we aren't told she divorced Dodge, we are told she married Sterne in 1916. They all lived together at Finney Farm in Croton, where John Reed was also stationed. This farm looks a lot like another Intel ranch. Wikipedia gives her full name as Mabel Evans Dodge Sterne Luhan.
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