Movers and Shakers of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta - Page 13

**DutchPhil** · 9 Feb 2008 , 14:02 PM

Joseph F. D'Angelo - Chairman of King Features Syndicate Unit of the Hearst Corporation; Board of Advisors of St. John's University College of Business Administration; Trustee of the J. Edgar Hoover Foundation; President and Chairman o/t Cowles Syndicate and News America Syndicate

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JOSEPH F. D'ANGELO
Business Leader
Italian
1994 Recipient

Joseph F. D'Angelo is Chairman of King Features Syndicate Unit of the Hearst Corporation.

King Features Syndicate creates, develops, and distributes comics and other features for newspapers. The syndicate services more than 5,000 newspapers published in more than 30 languages in some 100 countries with the world's best-loved comic strips, including BLONDIE, HAGAR THE HORRIBLE, and BEETLE BAILEY. Its text features offer information and commentary covering a broad range of subjects from politics, advice to the lovelorn, and household hints to financial investment, the arts and crossword puzzles.

King features has long been a leader in the field of character merchandising, licensing the rights to its cartoon characters to manufacturers around the world. The likenesses of POPEYE, BETTY BOOP, and about 75 other characters appear on apparel, greeting cards and stationery, food and ceramic products, and other merchandise. King characters also serve as spokespersons for a wide variety of advertising and public service campaigns.

A native of New York City, Mr. D'Angelo was born on July 4, 1930. He was graduated from St. John's University and began his career with King Features in 1965 as Assistant Treasurer and Controller after nine years in the international and domestic fields with the firm of Haskins and Sells.

In 1968, D'Angelo was named Business Manager of King and was appointed General Manager of the Syndicate and a Vice President of The Hearst Corporation, King Features Division, in 1973. He was architect of an elaborate expansion program which, through the next decade, established King Features as a leading force in such diversified areas as licensing, book publishing, and television and feature films.

D'Angelo was named President of King Features in 1976 and became only the second person in the history of the syndicate to hold the title. He was then appointed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of King Features Entertainment, formed in 1980 as a subsidiary of The Hearst Corporation. During this time D'Angelo expanded the company's long-time ventures in television and film production and distribution and launched the company into the new home video market.

Under D'Angelo's leadership as President, King Features continued its efforts to create a universal medium for entertainment and information. By acquiring Cowles Syndicate in 1986 and News America Syndicate in 1987, King added an impressive roster of beloved characters to its formidable family, including THE FAMILY CIRCUS, THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, and DENNIS THE MENACE, as well as popular columnists, such as Carl Rowan and Dr. Joyce Brothers. D'Angelo was named President of both syndicates. In 1997, he was appointed Chairman of both syndicates.

Mr. D'Angelo is a civic leader and devotes considerable time to fundraising for community and national groups. He is on the Board of Trustees of North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, New York, and Chairman of the Hospital's Community Relations Committee. Because of his devotion to charitable works for the Roman Catholic Church, he was made Knight in the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. Mr. D'Angelo is a Trustee of Emerson College, Boston, as well as a member of Emerson's Development Committee. He also serves on the Board of Advisors of St. John's Uni.versity College of Business Administration and is a Trustee of the J. Edgar Hoover Foundation.

In 1991, he was named to the International Museum of Cartoon Art's Board of Trustees as the institution began preparing a major national and regional fundraising campaign for construction of its new permanent home in Boca Raton, Florida. D'Angelo is President of the Museum and has been one of its major supporters since it opened in Rye Brook in 1974.

In 1989, The National Cartoonists Society named him "Member of the Year" honoring his "25 years of solid support" to the organization. It was the first time NCS had given the award. He is on the Board of Directors of the Newspaper Features Council, and was President of that trade organization for four years.

In 1994, Mr. D'Angelo was awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor. He is a member of the New York Newspaper Publishers Association and the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association. He is President of the New York City Baseball Federation, Inc. His club memberships include the Artists and Writers Association, Museum of Television & Radio, National Cartoonists Society, Friars Club, Dutch Treat, the New York Athletic Club, National Press Club and Overseas Press Club.

http://www.neco.org/awards/recipients/j.f.dangelo.html (Proof Positive)

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**DutchPhil** · 9 Feb 2008 , 14:03 PM

Bob Danzig - Nationwide head of The Hearst Newspaper Group and vice president of The Hearst Corporation; Author; Motivational Speaker

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Bob Danzig

Author/Motivational Speaker

As a child, Bob Danzig never imagined that he would be in the position to help other foster children. Several decades after the caring social worker moving a 12-year-old Bob from his fourth to his fifth foster home told him, “You are worthwhile,” he has found himself repeating those same words to today’s foster children.

Bob grew from a childhood spent in five foster homes to two decades as nationwide head of The Hearst Newspaper Group and vice president of The Hearst Corporation. After graduating from high school with no family support, he took a job as an office boy at his local newspaper, the Albany (N.Y) Times Union. Nineteen years later he became publisher of the Times Union, before heading to the helm of The Hearst Newspaper Group.

Now an author and motivational speaker, Bob is also a member of the teaching faculty at the prestigious New School University and the guiding hand of The Hearst Management Institute. His goal is to be an instrument for renewed affirmation that every single person is worthwhile.

A civic leader, Bob has served on boards of directors of Albany Medical College, Siena College, Russell Sage College, St. Peter’s Hospital, Sunnyview Hospital, Albany Institute of History and Art, and Caldwell College, and on the executive committee of the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. In addition to graduating magna cum laude from Siena College, he received the college’s Outstanding Alumni Award, as well as an honorary Ph.D. Bob was also recognized as a Knight of Malta.

As an industry leader, Bob has served the Newspaper Association of America, Newspaper Advertising Bureau, New Directions for News and the American Press Institute, and has earned industry-wide respect for his innovative marketing leadership. Bob was also awarded one of 12 professional journalism fellowships at Stanford University, the only business executive ever to be accepted into this program. He now serves on its board.

Bob has set out to touch the spirits of foster children, caregivers, and social workers nationwide by sharing the messages of his two books and demonstrating how kind words and affirmations of others can influence the lives of those in the foster care community. His books are gifted to the foster care community and his net royalties from traditional book sales are donated to a charity he and his wife developed to offer college scholarships to foster children. Bob says:

“Children in foster care often drift through life because there is no force to offer encouragement or guidance with grades, special interests, homework, and so on. Many of these children have all of their intellectual and emotional energy focused on not being pushed away from yet another foster family, leaving little energy to tap into and develop the potential of their lives.”

http://fostercaremonth.org/SuccessSt...BobDanzig.aspx (Proof Positive)

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Bob Danzig grew from a childhood spent in five foster homes to two decades as nationwide head of the Hearst Newspaper Group and vice president of the Hearst Corporation. After graduating from high school with no family support, he took a job as an office boy at his local newspaper, the Albany (N.Y) Times Union. Nineteen years later he became publisher of the Times Union, before heading to the helm of the Hearst Newspaper Group.

Now an author and motivational speaker, Bob is also a member of the teaching faculty at the prestigious New School University and the guiding hand of the Hearst Management Institute. His goal is to be an instrument for renewed affirmation that every single person is worthwhile.

A civic leader, Bob has served on boards of directors of Albany Medical College, Siena College, Russell Sage College, St. Peter’s Hospital, Sunnyview Hospital, Albany Institute of History and Art, and Caldwell College, and on the executive committee of the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. In addition to graduating magna cum laude from Siena College, he received the college’s Outstanding Alumni Award, as well as an honorary Ph.D. Bob was also recognized as a Knight of Malta.

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Bob is the author of The Leader Within You, Vitamins for the Spirit, Angel Threads, Every Child Deserves a Champion, and There Is Only One You. He is also working towards adapting his adult-focused program, The Confidence Academy, for children.

Bob’s net speaking and author fees are donated to foster children (his passion) and gifted young musicians (his wife’s passion).

http://www.bobdanzig.com/about.html (Proof Positive II)

http://www.nationwidespeakers.com/sp...pacting-others

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**DutchPhil** · 11 Feb 2008 , 17:31 PM

Alfred E. Smith IV - Managing Director of Bear Wagner Specialists LLC; Chairman o/t Government Relations Committee for the New York Stock Exchange; Chairman of the Wall Street Division of the Cardinal’s Committee of the Laity; Director and Secretary of the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation

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Alfred E. Smith IV accepts his great grandfather’s (Alfred E. Smith) posthumous induction to the Labor Hall of Fame from Labor Secretary Elaine L. Chao, with Congressman Peter King of New York in attendance. (DOL photo/Shawn Moore)

http://www.dol.gov/dol/highlights/if_20061116.htm

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Alfred E. Smith IV

The Cancer Research and Treatment Fund is honored to pay tribute to Alfred E. Smith IV as our 2006 Cancer Survivor of the Year at our Annual Dinner on November 2 at the Hilton Hotel in New York City. He contracted a rare form of throat cancer in his mid thirties but has not let its side affects hinder his service to his profession and his community.

Al is Managing Director of Bear Wagner Specialists LLC, a specialist and member firm of the New York Stock Exchange.

After finishing Iona Prep and Villanova, Al began his Wall Street career as an independent floor broker of the New York Stock Exchange. In 1975, he relocated to Chicago to join Mitchell-Hutchins, where he served as Vice President until 1979 when he returned to New York and was named Partner of CMJ Partners. In 1997, he joined Bear Wagner as Managing Director.

Mr. Smith is a Knight of Malta, Chairman of the Government Relations Committee for the New York Stock Exchange, and Chairman of the Wall Street Division of the Cardinal’s Committee of the Laity. He is the great-grandson of the late legendary Governor of New York and serves as the Director, Secretary, and Dinner Chairman for the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation, as well as Master of Ceremonies at the Annual Alfred E. Smith Foundation Dinner.

Mr. Smith serves as Chair of Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers Foundation Board of Directors and is a member of the Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers Board of Directors. He served as a member of the Saint Vincent Manhattan Board from 1986-2000 and is the Co-Chair of the Guaranteeing the Future of Comprehensive Caring $100 million capital campaign.

His family shares in his philanthropic work with St. Vincent. Nan Moore Smith his wife and partner of 30 years has had an affiliation with the Executive Board of the Auxiliary for more than 20 years and served on several event committees’ including this evening’s Angelus Award Gala. In recent years his children Alfred, V and Catherine and daughter -in-law Dana have also become involved as members of the President’s Council, a dedicated group of young professionals committed to enhancing support of Saint Vincent’s and by serving as members of this evening’s Junior Committee of the Gala.

In addition, he is a Trustee of Calvary Hospital, a member of the President’s Council at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Chairman of the Irish Chamber of Commerce of the USA, and a Director of the Center for Hope and the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship. Al is also a founder and Chairman of Hackers for Hope, a foundation dedicated to raising funds for cancer research and cancer care in New York and Connecticut.

Over the years, Al has received numerous honors and awards including: featured speaker, Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, Westchester, 2004; Honoree, United Hospital Fund, 2004; Man of the Year, St. James School, 2003; Medal of Honor, Calvary Hospital, 2001; Man of the Year, Irish Chamber of Commerce of the USA, 2000; Partnership Award, Terence Cardinal Cooke Health Care Center, 1999; Good Scout of the Year, Boy Scouts of America, 1998; Man of the Year, Iona Prep, 1996; Humanitarian Award, Pregnancy Care Center, 1995; Club of Champions God Medal Award, Catholic Youth Organization, 1994; Ellis Island Medal of Honor, 1994; National Brotherhood Award, National Conference of Christians and Jews, 1994; American Cancer Society’s Gold Sword of Hope Award, 1993; the Terence Cardinal Cooke Humanitarian Award, Our Lady of Mercy Medical Center, 1993; and the 2004 Angelus Award, St. Vincent Catholic Medical Center.

http://www.crt.org/Hall/Al_smith.aspx (Proof Positive)

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**DutchPhil** · 11 Feb 2008 , 17:38 PM

George K. Cooney - President and CEO EUE/Screen Gems Ltd.; Vice Chairman of the New York Medical College; Media Mogul
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EUE/Screen Gems LTD owns and operates motion picture and television production facilities in Wilmington, North Carolina and New York City. The CW Television Network show One Tree Hill (TV Series) and over 300 films, commercials and television projects have been shot at the Wilmington studios. The Rachel Ray Show is produced for CBS Productions at the New York facility which has also hosted hundreds of productions since 1965. EUE/Screen Gems owns and operates one of the most successful commercial production companies in the world. EUE/Screen Gems, LTD branded content division collaborates with global brands and advertising agencies for the development, production, marketing and distribution of filmed entertainment for all media – including theatrical feature film, television, and digital content for the Web and mobile platforms.

History

EUE/Screen Gems Studios in Wilmington, NC was built by Dino De Laurentiis in 1984. It operated under the name DEG (De Laurentiis Entertainment Group), until 1990 when it was purchased by Carolco (producers of the Terminator movies). George Cooney, owner of EUE/Screen Gems LTD, acquired the Wilmington Studios in 1996 and renamed it EUE/Screen Gems Studios. In 1998 EUE/Screen Gems Studios built a 9th stage in Wilmington and has recently acquired 12 adjacent acres for future expansion.

In 1965 Columbia Pictures acquired a fifty percent intent in the New York based commercial production company EUE. At that time Screen Gems was the television production division of Columbia Pictures. The commercial company was incorporated into the television division and renamed EUE/Screen Gems.

In 1983, Columbia Pictures was sold to Coca-Cola. At that time EUE/Screen Gems and the New York production facility were sold to long time Columbia Pictures Executive, George Cooney.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EUE/Screen_Gems

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George K. Cooney
President & CEO
EUE/Screen Gems Ltd.

George Cooney purchased the assets of EUE/Screen Gems from Columbia Pictures in 1983. Prior to acquiring the company, Mr. Cooney served as Executive Vice President and General Manager of the division. He joined Columbia Pictures in 1965 and served in a number of administrative positions before being named Executive Vice President of the EUE/Screen Gems division in 1972. While serving as an executive of Columbia Pictures, Mr. Cooney was also Chairman of Bell & Howell/Columbia Pictures Video Services,an early pioneer in home video.

Many charitable organizations have benefited from Mr. Cooney's dedication and commitment. He is Vice Chairman of the New York Medical College and is the former Chairman of its Board of Trustees. He is Chairman of St. Theresa's Home for the Severely Retarded and is Trustee and Treasurer of the Dr. I Fund Foundation. He is on the boards of Save Amateur Sports of the City of New York, the Cancer Research Center of Valhalla, NY, the Terence Cardinal Cooke Health Care Center and St. Patrick's Cathedral. Mr. Cooney has served as a Trustee at Harriman College, the Will Rodgers Foundation and the Joffrey Ballet.

Over the years, George Cooney has held numerous seats on governmental and private industrial planning organizations and committees. Beginning in 1968, he served as a member of the Film Advisory Committee to Vice President Hubert Humphrey and was on the Film Advisory and Promotion Committees of New York City for Mayors John V. Lindsay, Abraham Beame, and Edward Koch. A member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, he served for several years on the Executive Film Committee. He was also Chairman of the Motion Picture Labor Negotiations Committee from 1969 to 1980. Mr. Cooney was appointed by Governor Hugh Carey to the New York State Television & Motion Picture Board and also served on Senator Ralph Marino's Sports & Entertainment Development Committee.

A graduate of Fordham University, Mr. Cooney received an ROTC commission and served in the U.S. Army as a 2nd Lieutenant. He is a recipient of the Honorary Degree from the New York Medical College, and the Helen Hayes Humanitarian Award from St. Clare's Hospital. In 1978, he was inducted into the Sovereign Order of the Knights of Malta and presently serves on its Board of Trustees.Most recently he recieved the William Cullen Bryant Award from New York Medical College for his visionary leadership qualities.

http://www.euescreengems.com/people/gcooney.html (Proof Positive)

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**DutchPhil** · 11 Feb 2008 , 17:43 PM

John D. J. Moore - Lawyer; US Ambassador to Ireland; Chancellor of SMOM; Board of Directors of WR Grace & Co.; OSS and CIA agent
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John D. J. Moore, an Executive And a Former Envoy, Dies at 77

By GLENN FOWLER
Published: September 13, 1988

John D. J. Moore, a lawyer and executive and a former United States Ambassador to Ireland, died of bone cancer yesterday at his home in Manhattan. He was 77 years old.

Mr. Moore was named Ambassador by President Richard M. Nixon in 1969 and served six years, the longest tenure of any American envoy to Ireland. He negotiated the aviation agreement that brought to fruition a 20-year effort by the United States to obtain landing rights for American carriers in Ireland.

Mr. Moore, a lifelong New Yorker, was a graduate of Yale and the Yale Law School. He practiced law with the firm of White & Case before becoming assistant corporation counsel under Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia and an assistant district attorney under Frank S. Hogan.

Mr. Moore later joined W. R. Grace & Company and became a vice president at its headquarters in New York. He traveled extensively in Latin America and Europe and was chairman of the Latin American committee of the Business Council and vice chairman of the Council of the Americas. Adviser to Nixon

Mr. Moore received the Order of Merit of Equador and the Gold Insignia of the Pan American Society of the United States. In 1958 and 1959, he accompanied then Vice President Nixon to South America and the Soviet Union, serving as an adviser.

He was also a founder and first chairman of the Ireland-United States Council, which promotes economic relations between the two countries. His longtime interest in problems of the mentally ill led to his service as vice president of the American Schizophrenia Foundation and to his establishment in 1960 of the Family Care Foundation for the Mentally Ill.

Mr. Moore's wife, the former Mary Foote, died in 1975. He is survived by a son, John D., of San Marino, Calif.; four daughters, Dr. Anne Lisio and Martha Battles, both of New York, Julia Bartholomew, of Philadelphia, and Mary, of Boston; a brother, Richard, of Washington, and 10 grandchildren.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag...5AC0A96E948260

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Knights of Malta

Acronym/Code: SMOM (Sovereign Military Order of Malta)

Record date: 11/91

Principals:

[...]John D. J. Moore (chancellor; U. S. Ambassador to Ireland under Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford)

http://www.voxfux.com/features/knigh...lta_facts.html
http://www.cephas-library.com/cathol..._of_malta.html

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"Wotta Knight," New York Daily News, 1/9/83 (Alexander Haig and Rev. Francis Haig). (NOTE: Other Knights in key positions of power include the following: [...] John D.J. Moore (Amb. Ireland, Grace Co.),

http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/...Americans.html

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The Chancellor of the Order, John D. J. Moore, was a Director of the Grace company until at least 1982 having been with the company since 1946 managing its Peruvian operations from 1947-1950. From 1969-1975 Moore was the U.S. Ambassador to Ireland.

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

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WHO'S WHO ? - KNIGHTS OF MALTA KNOW
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Passionate is also a good description of Grace's feelings about peace activists, affirmative action, environmental programs, government bureaucracy and the media, all of which he loathes. Described by one biographer as "a living example of the roots of Reaganism," Grace hates the New Deal and passionately yearns for a time when business was unfettered. But he also stands in the older SMOM tradition of kings and crusading knights. His stamp on the eastern chapter of SMOM, which he has led for many years, is clearly reflected in the choice of members, eight of whom are on the board of W.R. Grace, including the order's chancellor, John D.J. Moore, former U.S. ambassador to Ireland.

http://www.mosquitonet.com/~prewett/ncrmay891113.html

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An earlier version of this page speculated that the identity of the author of this page was John D. J. Moore, the American Ambassador to Ireland in 1972. Ambassador Moore (1910 to 198

was appointed by President Nixon in 1969 and served until 1975. He had been a member of the OSS and CIA. He was also a Knight of Malta.

http://home.comcast.net/~hconnors/Co...eaderTrip.html

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But there is one institution that stands out as the center of the SMOM in the United States—W.R. Grace & Company. J. Peter Grace, the company chairman, is also president of the American section of SMOM. No less than eight knights, including the chancellor of the order, John D.J. Moore (who was ambas-sador to Ireland under Nixon and Ford), are directors of W.R. Grace.

http://www.motherjones.com/news/feat...illbedone.html

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"Today one corporation stands out as the center of SMOM in the US - W. R. Grace & Co. J. Peter Grace, company chairman, is president of the US SMOM." On the board of W. R. Grace are eight knights, including John D. J. Moore, "who was ambassador to Ireland under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford," and Felix Larkin "former Department of Defense general counsel."

http://ourworld.cs.com/aawwn2/eight/six-jm.htm

http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb06..._JOHN_D%2EJ%2E

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MOORE JOHN D.J.
Ireland 1969-1976

* Lernoux,P. People of God. 1989 (297)
* Mother Jones 1983-07 (24)
* National Reporter 1986-W (57)
* Parapolitics/USA 1982-03-31 (33-4)
* Resource Center. GroupWatch 1991-SMOM (1)
* State Dept. United States Chiefs of Mission 1778-1973. 1973 (81)
* Washington Post 1989-03-15 (A21)
* Washington Post 1989-08-08 (A15)

pages cited this search: 9

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**DutchPhil** · 11 Feb 2008 , 17:44 PM

Felix E. Larkin - Lawyer; Department of Defense General Counsel; Chairman of the W. R. Grace Executive Committee

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Felix E. Larkin, 82, Ex-President Of W.R. Grace and a U.S. Counsel

By STEVEN LEE MYERS
Published: November 12, 1991

Felix E. Larkin, the former president and chairman of W. R. Grace & Company and a lawyer at the Defense Department who oversaw the development of a uniform Code of Military Justice, died Sunday night at New Rochelle Hospital. He was 82 years old and lived in Mamaroneck, N.Y.

Mr. Larkin died of pulmonary failure, said a spokesman for W. R. Grace, the chemical, natural resources and retailing conglomerate based in New York City.

Born in New York City in 1909, Mr. Larkin received a bachelor's degree from Fordham University, a master's from New York University and a law degree from St. John's University before working as a law secretary for Judge James G. Wallace of the Court of General Sessions of New York County from 1939 to 1947.

After World War II, Mr. Larkin served as vice chairman of the Naval Board of Review for Courts Martial and as assistant counsel to the Senate War Investigating Committee.

In 1947, he joined the legal staff of the Defense Department, and in 1949, Defense Secretary Louis A. Johnson appointed him general counsel.

While at the department, Mr. Larkin worked on the drafting of a Code of Military Justice for all the armed services intended to protect the accused and to increase public confidence in the fairness of court-martials. The uniform code superseded the Articles of War for the Army and Air Force and the Articles of Government of the Navy.

He retired from the Defense Department in 1951 to become an executive with W. R. Grace, a company then still primarily devoted to shipping. He served in a number of executive positions as the company expanded and diversified into insurance, aviation, importing and exporting, merchant banking, trucking, chemicals and retailing.

In 1971, Mr. Larkin became president of the company. He was elected chairman in 1974 and was appointed chairman of the executive committee in 1981, a position he held until he retired in 1986.

Mr. Larkin was a trustee of Fordham University from 1969 to 1978. He was chairman of the board of trustees from 1970 to 1977, when he was named a trustee emeritus.

Mr. Larkin's wife, Evelyn Wallace Larkin, died last year. He is survived by two sons, John A., of Wyomissing, Pa., and James W., of Bronxville, N.Y.; a daughter, Nancy Larkin Carr of Larchmont, N.Y.; a brother, Leo A. Larkin of Forest Hills, Queens; four sisters, Rita Cuskley of Mamaroneck, Eileen Reid of Hasbrouck Heights, N.J., Sister Mary Kateri Larkin of San Antonio and Patricia Smith of Denver, and 10 grandchildren.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag...52C1A967958260

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Knights of Malta

Acronym/Code: SMOM (Sovereign Military Order of Malta)

Record date: 11/91
[...]
Members Include: [...] Felix Larkin (W. R. Grace; former Dept of Defense general counsel)

http://www.voxfux.com/features/knigh...lta_facts.html
http://www.cephas-library.com/cathol..._of_malta.html

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"Wotta Knight," New York Daily News, 1/9/83 (Alexander Haig and Rev. Francis Haig). (NOTE: Other Knights in key positions of power include the following: [...] Felix Larkin (Pentagon counsel, Grace Co.),

http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/...Americans.html
http://www.abidemiracles.com/65603.htm
http://www.vaticanassassins.org/jesuit_power.htm

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The Chairman of the W. R. Grace Executive Committee Felix Larkin, is also a SMOM.

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

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"Today one corporation stands out as the center of SMOM in the US - W. R. Grace & Co. J. Peter Grace, company chairman, is president of the US SMOM." On the board of W. R. Grace are eight knights, including John D. J. Moore, "who was ambassador to Ireland under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford," and Felix Larkin "former Department of Defense general counsel."

http://ourworld.cs.com/aawwn2/eight/six-jm.htm

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http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb06?_LARKIN_FELIX_
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LARKIN FELIX

* National Reporter 1986-W (57)
* Parapolitics/USA 1982-03-31 (34)
* Resource Center. GroupWatch 1991-SMOM (1)

pages cited this search: 3

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**DutchPhil** · 11 Feb 2008 , 17:47 PM

Frank Keating - Governor of Oklahoma; Chairman of the National Review Board; Assistant Secretary o/t Treasury; CEO of American Council of Life Insurers; FBI Agent

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Francis Anthony "Frank" Keating (born February 10, 1944) is an American politician from Oklahoma. Keating served as the 25th Governor of Oklahoma. His first term began in 1995 and ended in 1999. Keating won reelection to a second term, which ended in 2003.

As of 2006, Keating is the second Governor in Oklahoma history to hold two consecutive terms and the only Republican to accomplish that feat.

Early life

Born Francis Anthony Keating on February 10, 1944 in St. Louis, Missouri, Keating was not even six months old when his family moved to Oklahoma and settled in Tulsa. A devout Roman Catholic, Keating attended Cascia Hall Preparatory School in Tulsa, from which he graduated in 1962. Keating was accepted to Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.. He would go on to receive as Bachelor of Arts degree in History in 1966. After receiving his degree, Keating would return to Oklahoma to further his education. He received a Juris Doctor from the University of Oklahoma College of Law in 1969.

Upon receiving his law degree, Keating began his career in law enforcement. The same year he finished law school, Keating was made a Special agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Relocated to the West Coast, Keating was charged with investigating terrorism incidents in the area and other various duties. After years on the coast, Keating would return to Tulsa to become an Assistant District Attorney. In 1973, Keating, under the Republican Party banner, was elected to the Oklahoma House of Representatives. He would only serve a single term in the House, until 1975, when he was elected to the Oklahoma Senate. He would serve in the Senate from 1975 until 1981, winning reelection in 1978. While in the Senate, Keating rose to become the highest ranking Republican as the Senate Minority Leader.

Governor of Oklahoma

After two years of private life, in 1994, Keating received the Republican nomination for Governor of Oklahoma. In a three way race, Keating received 47% of the vote and defeated the Democratic nominee by 17 points. Keating was sworn in as the 25th Governor of Oklahoma on January 9, 1995.

Oklahoma City Bombing

Governor Keating had little time to relax upon taking office. Within three months of taking office, on April 19, the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was destroyed in the Oklahoma City bombing, in which the lives of 168 Oklahomans were lost and over 800 people were injured. The blast destroyed or damaged more than 300 buildings in the surrounding area, leaving several hundred people homeless and shutting down offices in downtown Oklahoma City.

Governor Keating immediately mobilized relief and rescue teams to handle the crisis, assuring prompt assistance. Over 12,000 people participated in relief and rescue operations in the days following the blast. The national and worldwide humanitarian response was immediate and overwhelming. Governor Keating declared a state of emergency, which allowed FEMA to activated 11 of its Urban Search and Rescue Task Forces to assist in rescue and recovery operations.

The national focus climaxed on April 23, when President Bill Clinton, along with Governor Keating and the Reverend Billy Graham, spoke in Oklahoma City. In the weeks following the bombing, rescue efforts ceased and the building was imploded. Through both his own works and the works of his wife Cathy Keating, Governor Keating gained both national and international attention for his efforts to help the victims and their families. Governor Keating also created a $6 million fund to assist victims and provide for scholarships for children who have lost a parent in the attack.

Events

* April 19, 1995: Three months after he was sworn in as Oklahoma governor, a fertilizer bomb exploded in front of a federal building in the capital killing 168 people.

Further information: Oklahoma City bombing

* June, 2002: Keating, a practicing Roman Catholic, was named Chairman of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' National Review Board examining sex abuse by Catholic Priests.
* June 16, 2003: After months of working with the Catholic Church, Keating stepped down as head of the Catholic review board. The resignation came days after Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony criticized Keating for comparing some church leaders to the Mafia. In his resignation letter, Keating said, "My remarks, which some Bishops found offensive, were deadly accurate. I make no apology... To resist Grand Jury subpoenas, to suppress the names of offending clerics, to deny, to obfuscate, to explain away; that is the model of a criminal organization, not my church."

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

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Frank Keating, CEO of American Council of Life Insurers and Former Governor of Oklahoma

http://www.accj.or.jp/content/events...ive/events2006

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Gov. Frank Keating received his undergraduate degree in history from Georgetown University and returned to Oklahoma to earn his law degree at the University of Oklahoma in 1969. After service as an FBI agent, Keating was a local prosecutor in Tulsa. He later served in both houses of the Oklahoma Legislature, rising to minority leader of the State Senate, and was named U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma in 1981. From 1985 through 1993 he served in Washington as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Associate General and as General Counsel at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. In 1994, Keating was elected Governor of Oklahoma, and in 1998 he became only the second person and the first Republican to be re-elected to a second consecutive term. During his time as Governor, Keating has mobilized state clergy of all faiths to emphasize prayer and public awareness in response to such social ills as drug abuse, child abuse, divorce and domestic violence, and his statewide initiative to strengthen marriage has won national attention. Keating is term limited and will assume the presidency of the American Council of Life Insurers in Washington after he leaves office in January, 2003. He and his wife Cathy have three children, and their first grandchild, a granddaughter, was born July 4. Governor Keating is a lifelong Catholic communicant. In 1980 he received a papal appointment as a Knight of the Holy Sepulchre. He and his family attend St. Joseph's Old Cathedral and Corpus Christi Church in Oklahoma City.

http://www.usccb.org/comm/archives/2002/02-147.htm

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From 1969 to 1971, Governor Frank Keating of Oklahoma was an FBI Special Agent. From 1981 to 1984, he was the United States Attorney, Northern District of Oklahoma. From 1985 through 1988, Keating served as an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury (Enforcement), Washington, DC. From 1988 to 1989, he was an Associate Attorney General of the United States. Named Knight Commander of the Holy Sepulchre by Pope John Paul II in 1988, Keating is an honored and high-ranking member of the Knights of Malta.

http://www.theconspiracy.us/vol10/cn10-94.html

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Keep in mind that the WACO Operation records were stored in the Oklahoma Murrah Building. That Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating was appointed in 1985 head of the ATF via Treasury Enforcement and oversaw US Interpol activities, and was a special agent with FBI for left wing terrorist opertions on west coast in 1969. Gov Keating's brother Martin wrote a bizarre book about the bombing of a Federal Building with antihero named TOM McVay copyrighted almost 2 years BEFORE the OKC Blast. It is now available as "The Last Jihad" ISBN 0964704811 BUT has changed from the original manuscript. An M. Keating also published a book in 1988 called "The City that Refused to Die" wherein a group of Oklahomans were blowing up buildings. That Frank Keating became a member of the Knights of Malta in 1988. Coincidence ? Not sure.

http://www.apfn.org/apfn/okc.htm

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Frank Anthony Keating
Governor (R.) State of Oklahoma
Knights of Malta

http://www.nogw.com/articles/gas-petrol_war.html (sidebar)

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OKLAHOMA GOVERNOR KEATING -- MEMBER: KNIGHTS OF MALTA
================================================== ===

"I, Frank Anthony Keating, II, in the name of the high and
undivided Trinity, do promise a vow to keep and conceal the
high mysteries of this noble and invincible Order of
Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, from all but such as are
ready and willing to serve the church of Christ, by acts of
valor and charity; and that as far as in me lies, I will
defend the church of the Holy Sepulchre from pillage and
violence, and guard and protect pilgrims on their way to
and from the Holy Land; and if I perform not this vow, to
the best of my abilities, let me become inanimata [dead]."
[...]
From 1969 to 1971, Governor Frank Keating of Oklahoma was an FBI
Special Agent. From 1981 to 1984, he was the United States
Attorney, Northern District of Oklahoma. From 1985 through 1988,
Keating served as an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
(Enforcement), Washington, DC. From 1988 to 1989, he was an
Associate Attorney General of the United States. Named Knight
Commander of the Holy Sepulchre by Pope John Paul II in 1988,
Keating is an honored and high-ranking member of the Knights of
Malta.

http://textfiles.fisher.hu/conspiracy/CN/cn10-94.txt
http://www.textfiles.com/conspiracy/CN/cn10-94.txt

Social Network Diagram:

http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb06...RANK_%28GOV%29
Sources:

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KEATING FRANK (GOV)

* Bainerman,J. The Crimes of a President. 1992 (47)
* Evans-Pritchard,A. The Secret Life of Bill Clinton. 1997 (24)
* Hatfield,J.H. Fortunate Son. 2000 (300)
* Lewis,C. Allison,B. The Cheating of America. 2001 (122, 131-2, 236, 239-40)
* New York Times 2003-06-14 (A10)
* Newsweek 2000-01-24 (4

* Washington Times 1997-07-05 (A2)

pages cited this search: 12

http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb01...RANK_%28GOV%29

**DutchPhil** · 11 Feb 2008 , 17:50 PM

Prince Rainier III of Monaco

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Rainier III, Prince of Monaco (Rainier Louis Henri Maxence Bertrand Grimaldi; 31 May 1923 – 6 April 2005), styled His Serene Highness The Sovereign Prince of Monaco, ruled the Principality of Monaco for almost fifty-six years, making him one of the longest ruling monarchs of the 20th century. Though he was best known outside of Europe for having married American actress Grace Kelly, he was also responsible for reforms to Monaco's constitution and for expanding the principality's economy beyond its traditional gambling base. Gambling accounts for approximately three percent of the nation's annual revenue today; when Rainier ascended the throne in 1949, it accounted for more than 95 percent. Before his death, he was the world's second-longest reigning monarch with his 56 years of reign.

Ancestry

Rainier III was of French, Spanish, German, Scottish, English, Dutch, and Italian ancestry.

Through his great-grandmother Lady Mary Victoria Hamilton, who was briefly Princess of Monaco, he was a descendent of James IV of Scotland. His great-great-great-grandmother was Stéphanie de Beauharnais, the adopted daughter of Napoleon Bonaparte and later the Grand Duchess of Baden. Other ancestors include William Beckford, the scandalous 18th century English collector, tastemaker, writer, and eccentric.

Rainier was also a descendent of Prince William "the Silent" of Orange-Nassau, the main leader of the Dutch revolt against the Spanish Empire and ancestor to the current Dutch Royal Family; Hortense Mancini, the Duchess of Mazarin and mistress of King Charles II of England; Gabrielle de Polignac, a favorite of Queen Marie Antoinette of France; Joan of Kent, the first Princess of Wales; King Charles IX of Sweden; King Frederick II of Denmark and Norway; and Claude, Duke of Guise.
[...]
Actions as Prince

After ascending the throne, Prince Rainier III worked assiduously to recoup Monaco's lustre, which had become tarnished through neglect (especially financial) and scandal (his mother, Princess Charlotte, took a noted jewel thief known as René the Walking Stick as her lover). According to numerous obituaries, the prince was faced upon his ascension with a treasury that was practically empty. The holder of 55 percent of the nation's reserves, the Societé Monégasque de Banques et de Métaux Précieux, was bankrupt. The small nation's traditional gambling clientele, largely European aristocrats, found themselves with reduced funds after World War II. Other gambling centers had opened to compete with Monaco, many of them successfully. To compensate for this loss of income, Prince Rainier decided to promote Monaco as a tax haven, commercial center, real-estate development opportunity, and international tourist attraction. The early years of his reign saw the overweening involvement of the Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis, who took control of the Société des Bains de Mer and envisioned Monaco as solely a gambling resort. Prince Rainier regained control of the Société in 1964, effectively ensuring that his vision of Monaco would be implemented.

As Prince of Monaco, Rainier III also was responsible for the principality's new constitution in 1962 which significantly reduced the power of the sovereign. (He suspended the previous Constitution in 1959, saying that it "has hindered the administrative and political life of the country.") The changes ended autocratic rule, placing power with the prince and a National Council of eighteen elected members.

At the time of his death, he was the world's second longest-serving head of state, ranking just below King Rama IX of Thailand. During the last two or three years of his life, Rainier was in the custom of asking his valet each morning, "Has Rama survived the night? Or did I just move up in the ranks?"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainier...ince_of_Monaco

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Rainier III Prince of Monaco - Titles

Rainier's official shortened title was His Serene Highness Rainier III, Sovereign Prince of Monaco; this does not include the many other hereditary titles acquired by the Grimaldi family (see Prince of Monaco for a complete list).

His other non-hereditary titles and awards included:

* Knight Grand-Cross of Honour and Devotion of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta with Cross of Honorary Professed Member
* Colonel in the French Army
* Grand Master of the Order of Saint-Charles
* Grand Master of the Order of the Crown
* Grand Master of the Order of Grimaldi
* Knight Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour
* Member of the Pontifical Military Order of the Golden Spur
* Member of the Order of Seraphs
* Collar of Merit of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta
* Grand Cordon of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
* Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Savior (Greece)
* Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Order of George I (Greece)
* Grand Cordon of the Order of Léopold (Belgium)
* Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Golden Lion of Nassau
* Knight Grand Cross of the Equestrian Order of Saint-Martin
* Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Mohammed Ali
* Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Star of Karageorgevitch
* Knight Grand Cross of the Military Order of Saint-Jacques of the Sword
* Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Jose Matias Delgado (El Salvador)
* Lebanese Medal of Merit
* The French Cross of War (Croix de Guerre)
* Cross of the Voluntary Combatant 1939-1945
* The Belgian Cross of War
* Gold Medal of the American Legion and the Golden Olympic Order
* Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile Gold Medal for Motor Sport
* Grand Collier of the Order of Manuel Amador Guerrero (Panama)

http://www.experiencefestival.com/a/...les/id/4699561

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His Serene Highness Prince Rainier III of Monaco
(May 31, 1923 – April 6, 2005)

Prince Rainier III was born on May 31, 1923 in Monaco.

He was the son of Princess Charlotte, Louise, Juliette, Duchess of Valentinois, born September 30, 1898 at (Qasantina) Constantine, and deceased November 16, 1977; and of Prince Pierre-Marie-Xavier-Antoine-Melchior, Count of Polignac, born October 24 1895 in the Chateau de Kerscamp (Morbihan), named Grimaldi by Order in Council on March 18, 1920, deceased November 10, 1964.

On April 18, 1956, H.S.H. the Prince married Miss Grace-Patricia Kelly, born November 12, 1929 in Philadelphia (USA) and deceased on September 14, 1982.

[...]

Duke of Valentinois,

Count of Carladès,

Baron of Calvinet,

Baron of Buis,

Lord of Saint-Rémy,

Sire of Matignon,

Count of Torigni,

Baron of Saint-Lô,

Baron of La Luthumière,

Baron of Hambye,

Duke of Mazarin,

Duke of Mayenne,

Prince of Château-Porcien,

Count of Ferrette, Belfort, Thann and Rosemont,

Baron of Altkirch,

Lord of Isenheim,

Marquis of Chilly,

Count of Longjumeau,

Marquis of Guiscard,

Bailiff-Knight Grand Cross of Honour and Devotion to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, with the Cross of the "ad honourem" profession,

Colonel in the French Army, Grand Master of the Order of Saint-Charles, Grand Master of the Order of the Crown, Grand Master of the Order of Grimaldi, Knight Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, Member of the Pontifical Military Order of the Golden Spur, Member of the Order of Seraphs, Collar of Merit of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, Grand Cordon of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Savoir of Greece, Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Order of the Royal Order of George I of Greece, Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold of Belgium, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Golden Lion of Nassau, Knight Grand Cross of the Equestrian Order of Saint-Martin, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of "Mohammed Ali", Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Star of Karageorgevitch, Knight Grand Cross of the Military Order of Saint-Jacques of the Sword, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Jose Matias Delagado of El Salvador, The Lebanese Merit "Hors classe", The French Cross of War, Cross of the Voluntary Combatant 1939-1945, Belgian Cross of War, Gold Medal of the American Legion and the Golden Olympic Order, FIA Gold Medal for Motor Sport , Grand Collier of the Order of Manuel Amador Guerrero of Panama.

http://www.visitmonaco.com/index.cfm...age/pageid/713 (Proof Positive)

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**DutchPhil** · 11 Feb 2008 , 17:56 PM

William A. Schreyer - President of Merrill Lynch; Vice Chairman New York Stock Exchange; CFR; Businessman

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William Schreyer

AKA William A. Schreyer

Born: c. 1927

Religion: Roman Catholic
Occupation: Business
Party Affiliation: Republican

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: CEO of Merrill Lynch, 1984-92

Father: William L. Schreyer (d. 1952)
Wife: Joan

High School: Williamsport High School, Williamsport, PA (1945)
University: Business Administration, Pennsylvania State University (194

Administrator: Trustee, Pennsylvania State University (1986-95)

Merrill Lynch CEO (1984-92)
Member of the Board of AEA Investors Inc.
Member of the Board of Callaway Golf Co.
Member of the Board of Deere
Member of the Board of Marbo, Inc.
Member of the Board of Merrill Lynch (as Chairman, 1985-93)
Member of the Board of New York Stock Exchange (as Vice Chairman, 1987-90)
Member of the Board of Schering-Plough
Member of the Board of True North Communications (1993-)
Member of the Board of Willis Cooroon Group
George Bush Presidential Library
Alfalfa Club 1988
Center for Strategic & International Studies Trustee
Council on Foreign Relations
George W. Bush for President
Institute for Advanced Study
Romney for President
Rudy Giuliani Presidential Committee
Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity

http://www.nndb.com/people/726/000096438/

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Recent American members of SMOM have included the late William Casey (American C.I.A. director), Lee Iacocca (chairman of the Chrysler Corporation), Alexander Haig (former U.S. Secretary of State), and William A. Schreyer (president of Merrill Lynch).

http://www.heart7.net/masons.html

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WELL-KNOWN KNIGHTS

In addition to those listed in the article, the following are some other Knights of SMOM of interest:
[...]
- William A. Schreyer: President Merrill Lynch 1978-present; Chairman since 1981.

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

SMOM by mention:
http://www.mosquitonet.com/~prewett/ncrmay891415.html
http://www.voxfux.com/features/knigh...lta_facts.html

http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb06...EYER_WILLIAM_A

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SCHREYER WILLIAM A

* Business Week. CEOs of 1000 Top Companies. 1991-11-25 (200)
* Chernow,R. The House of Morgan. 1990 (700)
* Council on Foreign Relations. Membership Roster. 1992
* Covert Action Information Bulletin 1986-#25 (3

* Executive Intelligence Review 1999-04-23 (4

* Lernoux,P. People of God. 1989 (301)
* Mother Jones 1996-04 (54)
* Resource Center. GroupWatch 1991-SMOM (1)
* Vise,D. Coll,S. Eagle on the Street. 1991 (300-1)
* Washington Post Magazine 1991-09-29 (2

pages cited this search: 11

http://www.namebase.org/xsch/William-A-Schreyer.html

**DutchPhil** · 11 Feb 2008 , 17:59 PM

General Giovanni De Lorenzo - Head of SIFAR/SID (Italian Secret Service); Head o/t Carabinieri (Italian Paramilitary Police)

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THE SECRET NATO COVER

@TEMP = The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) provided international cover for Washington's postwar
operations in Italy. A secret clause in the initial NATO agreement in 1949 required that before a nation could join, it
must have already established a national security authority to fight communism through clandestine citizen cadres.
This Stay Behind clause grew out of a secret committee set up at U.S. insistence in the Atlantic Pact, the forerunner of
NATO. Each NATO member was also required to send delegates to semiannual meetings on the subject. *4

U.S. authority for such moves flowed in a steady stream of presidential directives transmitted through the National
Security Council (NSC). In December 1950, the council gave the armed forces carte blanche to use appropriate military
force even if the communists merely gain participation in government by legal means or threaten to achieve control...or the government ceases to evidence a determination to oppose communist internal or external threats. *5

The CIA helped the Italian police set up secret squadrons staffed in many cases with veterans of Mussolini's secret
police. *6 The squadrons were trained for intensive espionage and counter-espionage, against communists and other
perceived enemies of the status quo. The plan to use exceptional means was patterned after the highly militarized
French intelligence service, the Suret Nationale, which was reportedly so tough on communists that many fled to other
countries. *7

The newly organized intelligence agency, SIFAR, began operations in September 1949, under the supervision of an undercover American, Carmel Offie, nicknamed godfather by the Italians. *8 Interior Minister Mario Scelba headed
the operation. At the same time, Scelba was directing a brutal repression, murdering hundreds of workers and peasants
who sought improved conditions after the war. *9

OPERATION DEMAGNETIZE

With the Italian secret service under control, the Americans then expanded it under the name Operation Demagnetize
and tied it to an existing network of cadre in northern Italy. In 1951, the Italian secret service formally agreed to set up
a clandestine organization within the military to coordinate with the northern cadres. In 1952, SIFAR received secret
orders from Washington to adopt a series of political, paramilitary and psychological operations destined to diminish the
power of the Italian Communist Party, its material resources, and its influence on government. This priority objective
must be attained by all means. 10

Operation Demagnetize marked the institutional hardening of Gladio. A State Department historian characterized it as
the strategy of stabilization, *11 although it could be more accurately described as one of destabilization. From the
start, the offensive was secretly directed and funded by the U.S. government. In 1956, the arrangement was formalized in a written agreement, using the name Gladio for the first time. According to 1956 documents uncovered in Italy in 1990, Gladio was divided into independent cells coordinated from a CIA camp in Sardinia. These special forces included 40 main groups. Ten specialized in sabotage, six each in espionage, propaganda, evasion and escape tactics, and 12 in guerrilla activities. Another division handled the training of agents and commandos. These special forces had access to underground arms caches, which included hand guns, grenades, high-tech explosives, daggers, 60-millimeter mortars, 57-millimeter machine guns and precision rifles. *12

In 1956, Gen. Giovanni De Lorenzo was named to head SIFAR on the recommendation of U.S. Ambassador Claire
Boothe Luce, the avidly anticommunist wife of the publisher of Time magazine. *13 A key player in Gladio was now in place. In 1962, the CIA helped place De Lorenzo at the head of the national police (carabinieri), while he retained
effective control of the secret service.

The general brought with him 17 lieutenants to begin purging insufficiently right-wing officers. It was the first step to a
right-wing coup attempt, with U.S. military attaché Vernon Walters in the vanguard. In a memo to De Lorenzo the same
year, Walters suggested types of intervention aimed at provoking a national crisis, including blocking a center-left
coalition, creating schisms among the socialists, and funding forces favorable to the status quo.14

Meanwhile, according to CIA files found in Rome in 1984, CIA station chief William Harvey began to recruit action
teams based on a list of 2,000 men capable of throwing bombs, conducting attacks, and accompanying these actions with
indispensable propaganda. 15 These teams had a chance to practice their skills in 1963 as part of an anti-union
offensive. U.S.-trained gladiators dressed as police and civilians attacked construction workers peacefully demonstrating
in Rome, leaving some 200 wounded and a large section of the city in shambles. The link to Gladio was made in later
testimony by a former general in the secret service.16

SIFAR Lt. Col. Renzo Rocca was also training a civil militia composed of ex-soldiers, parachutists and members of
Junio Valerio Black Prince Borghese's paramilitary organization, Decima MAS (Tenth Torpedo Boat Squadron), for the
pending coup.17 President Antonio Segni reportedly knew of the plan, which was to conclude with the assassination of Prime Minister Aldo Moro, under fire for not being tough enough with the communists.18

The long-planned takeover, known later as Plan Solo, fizzled in March 1964, when the key carabinieri involved
remained in their barracks. As a subsequent inquiry moved to question Rocca about the coup attempt, he apparently
killed himself, possibly to fulfill Gladio's oath of silence. After officials determined that state secrets were involved,
three hamstrung inquiries failed to determine the guilty parties.19

THE STRATEGY OF TENSION

Despite the failure of Plan Solo, the CIA and the Italian right had largely succeeded in creating the clandestine
structures envisioned in Operation Demagnetize. Now the plotters turned their attention to a renewed offensive against
the left.

To win intellectual support, the secret services set up a conference in Rome at the luxurious Parco dei Principi hotel in
May 1965, for a study of revolutionary war. The choice of words was inadvertently revealing, since the conveners and
invited participants were planning a real revolution, not just warning of an imaginary communist takeover. The
meeting was essentially a reunion of fascists, right-wing journalists, and military personnel. The strategy of tension
that emerged was designed to disrupt normality with terror attacks in order to create chaos and provoke a frightened
public into accepting still more authoritarian government. *20

Several graduates of this exercise had long records of anticommunist actions and would later be implicated in some of
Italy's worst massacres. One was journalist and secret agent Guido Giannettini. Four years earlier, he had conducted a
seminar at the U.S. Naval Academy on The Techniques and Prospects of a Coup d'Etat in Europe. Another was notorious
fascist Stefano Delle Chiaie, who had reportedly been recruited as a secret agent in 1960. He had organized his own
armed band known as Avanguardia Nationale (AN), whose members had begun training in terror tactics in preparation
for Plan Solo. *21

General De Lorenzo, whose SIFAR had now become SID, soon enlisted these and other confidants in a new Gladio
project. They planned to create a secret parallel force alongside sensitive government offices to neutralize subversive
elements not yet purified. Known as the Parallel SID, its tentacles reached into nearly every key institution of the
Italian state. Gen.Vito Miceli, who later headed SID, said he set up the separate structure at the request of the
Americans and NATO. 22

FRATERNAL BONDS

Two ancient, mysterious, international fraternities kept the loosely-linked Gladio programs from flying apart. The
Knights of Malta played a formative role after the war (see bo, but the order of Freemasonry and its most notorious lodge in Italy, known as Propaganda Due (pronounced doo-ay ), or P-2, was far more influential. In the late 1960s, its Most Venerable Master was Licio Gelli, a Knight of Malta who fought for Franco with Mussolini's Black Shirts. At the end of World War II, Gelli faced execution by Italian partisans for his Nazi collaboration, but escaped by joining the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps. *23 In the 1950s, he was recruited by SIFAR.

After some years of self-imposed exile in Argentine fascist circles,24 he saw his calling in Italy as a Mason. Quickly
rising to its top post, he began fraternizing in 1969 with Gen. Alexander Haig, then assistant to Henry Kissinger,
President Nixon's national security chief. Gelli became the main intermediary between the CIA and SID's De Lorenzo, also a Mason and Knight. Gelli's first order from the White House was reportedly to recruit 400 more top Italian and NATO officials.25

To help ferret out dissidents, Gelli and De Lorenzo began compiling personal dossiers on thousands of people, including
legislators and clerics. *26 Within a few years, scandal erupted when an inquiry found 157,000 such files in SID, all
available to the Ministers of Defense and Interior. *27 Parliament ordered 34,000 files burned, but by then the CIA had
obtained duplicates for its archives. *28

http://www.envirosagainstwar.org/kno...hp?itemid=5479
http://miami.indymedia.org/news/2006/09/5759.php
http://www.beyondweird.com/conspiracies/italy.html

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That same year, 1956, U.S. Ambassador to Italy Clare Booth Luce—a Dame of Malta and the wife of Time and Life magazine publisher Henry Luce, a key sponsor of the fascist Congress for Cultural Freedom—"recommended" a fellow SMOM member, Gen. Giovanni De Lorenzo, as the new head of SIFAR. In 1962, the CIA helped install De Lorenzo as head of the Carabinieri, while he still maintained control over SIFAR. He began purging officers deemed not sufficiently "anti-communist," in either his eyes or or those of U.S. military attaché Vernon Walters.

http://larouchepub.com/other/2005/32...ck_prince.html

Quote:

SMOM members De Lorenzo and Prince Borghese each supported fascist coups in Italy in 1964 (the Solo Plan) and 1970.

http://www.fiu.edu/~mizrachs/pope-die.html

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With McCone heading the CIA and Angleton as his Chief of Counterintelligence, another Knight of Malta of fascist fame, Italian General Giovani De Lorenzo, who had been the chief of the secret service (then known as Sifar) and in 1962 head of the carabinieri, organized an attempted fascist coup on July 14, 1964 (the Plan Solo) and later became a deputy from the fascist MSI party.18

Six and a half years later, on the night of December 7, 1970 Angleton's Prince Borghese gave the order for Stefano delle Chiaie to proceed with seizure of the Interior Ministry in Rome along with 50 fellow neo-Nazis. (See A Killer's Career, in this issue; and see The Fascist Network, in CAIB, Number 22.) This plot to trigger a fascist coup was called off at the last minute, and Borghese and his neo-Nazi protege delle Chiaie fled to Spain where former SS Commando Skorzeny among others was waiting. 19

http://www.mosquitonet.com/~prewett/caqsmom25.3.html
http://www.uruknet.de/?s1=1&p=32812&s2=12

SMOM by mention:
http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/kmlst1.htm

http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb06...ENZO_GIOVANNI_

Quote:

DE LORENZO GIOVANNI
Italy 1952-1970

* Christie,S. Stefano Delle Chiaie. 1984 (18, 24, 34)
* Covert Action Information Bulletin 1986-#25 (34)
* Covert Action Quarterly 1994-#49 (23-4)
* Dorril,S. Ramsay,R. Smear! 1992 (225)
* Executive Intelligence Review 1999-06-04 (27-

* Gurwin,L. The Calvi Affair. 1984 (186)
* Herman,E. Brodhead,F. Rise and Fall of Bulgarian Connection. 1986 (76, 79-80)
* Lee,M. The Beast Reawakens. 1997 (103)
* Lies Of Our Times 1991-06 (21)
* Richelson,J. Foreign Intelligence Organizations. 1988 (108, 11

* Syrokomsky,V. International Terrorism and the CIA. 1983 (223, 236)
* Willan,P. Puppetmasters. 1991 (28, 36-8, 150)

pages cited this search: 24

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