Movers and Shakers of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta - Page 9

**DutchPhil** · 7 Feb 2008 , 06:54 AM

Colonel James J. Phelan - Banker; First President of the American Chapter of SMOM
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SOME NOTES ABOUT THE SOVEREIGN MILITARY ORDER OF MALTA IN THE U.S.A.

Dr. Carl EDWIN LINDGREN *

Member, Royal Historical Society (London) and Fellowship of Catholic Scholars

The history of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (S.M.O.M.) in the United States is one of growth and transition. In the United States, there exists three separate Associations of the S.M.O.M. each having a distinct development. These Associations of the S.M.O.M. (a lay, religious order of the Roman Catholic Church) include the American Association, Western Association, and Federal Association. All three Associations, as Knights of Malta worldwide, have the same goal[1].

Although characteristic in many ways to fellow Associations abroad, the three American Associations share one different trait from fellow European Order of Malta Associations in that “most of the members of the Order in the United States are Knights and Dames of Magistral Grace[2].”

Regarding noble ranks of knighthood within the Order, classes consist of the Knights of Justice and Conventual Chaplains (who have taken the three monastic vows), the Knights and Dames in Obedience (who promised to strive for Christian perfection in accordance with the spirit of the Order) as well as the first four ranks of class three. These classes must traditionally be of noble heritage[3].

Individuals who find themselves accepted into the non-noble ranks of Knights and Dames of Magistral Grace are usually some of the most influential and wealthy citizens of the country in which they reside. This is especially true of the members that reside within the United States and curiously enough they also tend to be much older than their European brothers.

Due to the cultural and political differences that existed between Europe and America, many members here in the States have little enthusiasm for the support of noble categories within the Order. In fact, no provision exists within the Statues of the American Association for admission to the noble categories[4].

American Association

The first association of the S.M.O.M in America was formed in 1926 into what was to become the American Association (or the ‘New York’ Association). The Association’s original thirteen Knights were, in most cases, American-Irish members of the Catholic Knights of Columbus.

In April 1927, the Supreme Council of the S.M.O.M. granted these Knights a Constitution (Charter) creating the American chapter of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. This creation of the first eastern association (in New York) was at the request of Pope Pius XI. It was not until nearly fifty-nine years later that the first group of women invested into the Association. This investiture took place at St. Patrick’s Cathedral with sixty women being admitted as Dames of Magistral Grace.[5] An equal amount of Dames and Knights have been admitted into the American Association since 1986.[6]

The [SMOM] Association’s first president James J. Phelan and later president George Macdonald were instrumental in increasing the Association’s membership and in bringing increased revenues into the American organization.

http://users.panola.com/AAGHS/ARTICLES/MALTA.html

Proof of SMOM administrative activity between Raskob and Phelan and thus proof of Phelan's SMOM membership:

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File: Title: Dates: Items Contents:
1814 Phelan, James Joseph 1926-1933 25 Letters of introduction and arrangements for meetings, invitations to Knights of Malta events, banquets and family events, and club nominations.

http://www.hagley.org/raskob/raskob-inventory.pdf

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Co laster Knights and )ames, members of."
THE ASSOCIATION OF MASTER KNIGHTS
OF THE SOVEREIGN MILITARY ORDER OF MALTA
IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Requiem Mass for the repose of the soul of the late James
J. Phelan, K.M., former Master and Grand Cross member and a
member of out Board of Founders from the inception of the
American Chapter, Knights of Malta, will be celebrated at the
Lady Chapel, St. Patrick's Cathedral, 50th Street and Fifth Avenue,
New York, N.Y., at 9 o'clock A. NI. on Thursday, October 25,1934.
Out Grand Protector and Spiritual Advisor, His Eminence,
Patrick Cardinal Hayes, will celebrate the Mass.
Ail members of the Association are urgently requested to
attend.
It is desirable to bave Knights and Dames wear the button
of the Order on that occasion.
MOltG-N J. O'BRIEIq,
Master
American Chapter, Knights of Malta.

http://fax.libs.uga.edu/text/br939txt.txt (Proof Positive)

SMOM by mention:
http://www.mosquitonet.com/~prewett/caqsmom25.2.html
http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,722890,00.html

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**DutchPhil** · 7 Feb 2008 , 06:58 AM

Lewis E. Lehrman - Founder o/t Investment Firm L. E. Lehrman & Co; Chairman of The Lehrman Institute; Managing Director of Morgan Stanley & Co.; Teacher, Author and Businessman

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Lewis E. Lehrman

Born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, August 15, 1938, Lewis E. Lehrman received his Bachelor of Arts degree at Yale University in 1960, after which he won a Carnegie Teaching Fellowship as an instructor of history on the Yale faculty. Subsequently, he received his master's degree as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow from Harvard University. He also has been awarded Honorary Degrees from Babson College (Babson Park, MA), Gettysburg College (Gettysburg, PA), Marymount University (Arlington, VA) and Thomas Aquinas College (Santa Paula, CA). In 2005, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President George W. Bush in an Oval office ceremony.

He is presently Senior Partner, L. E. Lehrman & Co., an investment firm he established.

Lehrman ran for Governor of New York in January 1982. Nominated by both the Conservative and Republican parties of New York, Lehrman launched a campaign to rebuild New York, losing narrowly to Mario Cuomo.

In 1983, Lehrman was the Cardinal Cooke honoree of the Archdiocese of New York for his early work in developing the Inner City Scholarship Fund. He has been a trustee of the American Enterprise Institute, the Morgan Library, the Manhattan Institute and the Heritage Foundation. He is a former Chairman of the Committee on Humanities of the Yale University Council.

In April of 1987, Lehrman joined Morgan Stanley & Company, investment bankers, as a Senior Advisor and a Director of Morgan Stanley Asset Management. In 1988, he became a Managing Director of the firm.

Lehrman has written books and articles on American history, national security, and economic and monetary policy. He has co-authored the book Money and the Coming World Order. He has also written on economic, foreign policy and national security issues in publications such as Harper's, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, National Review, and Policy Review.

Lehrman actively lectures and writes on economics and American history. He has published numerous articles on Abraham Lincoln, Alexander Hamilton and other historical figures in addition to teaching a seminar on Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg College. He is the managing partner of the Gilder Lehrman Collection, a national resource of American historical documents, now on deposit at the New-York Historical Society, where he is also a trustee. Lehrman is co-founder of the Lincoln Prize, given annually to the best scholarly work published on Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. He is co-chairman of the Board of Advisors of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History which promotes the teaching of history in American high schools and colleges through seminars, workshops and an extensive website featuring original documents. The Gilder Lehrman Institute is a co-sponsor of the George Washington Book Prize. Lehrman is a trustee of the Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale University for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition which gives the annual Frederick Douglass prize.

He is chairman of The Lehrman Institute, a public policy research and grant making foundation founded in 1972. The Lehrman Institute created The Lincoln Institute, which has promoted the study of America's 16th president - particularly through five web sites (see: www.abrahamlincoln.org).

Lewis and Louise Lehrman were married in 1966; they have five children and seven grandchildren.

http://www.lewiselehrman.com/biography/index.html

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

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President George W. Bush and Laura Bush stand with 2005 National Humanities Medal recipients Lewis Lehrman and Richard Gilder, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2005 in the Oval Office at the White House.

http://www.lewiselehrman.com/NEH11082005.html

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Lewis Lehrman was the founder and chairman of the Citizens for America, a lobby group supporting anticommunist resistance groups around the world. (17,36) Lehrman was also a trustee of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank that developed foreign and domestic policy strategies that were influential in the early years of the Reagan administration. (37) Lehrman is also a member of the Knights of Malta. (13)

http://rightweb.irc-online.org/groupwatch/cnp.php
http://rightwing.wikia.com/wiki/Heri...dation/source2

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WHO'S WHO ? - KNIGHTS OF MALTA KNOW
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Lewis E. Lehrman, a convert. Lehrman's $60 million drugstore-chain fortune made him the moneybag of the New York Republican party after Nelson Rockefeller's death. In 1982 he made a bid for the governor's seat against Mario Cuumo in which he was unsuccessful, though supported by a cabal of Knights, including William Buckley, Grace and Bolan. Lehrman served the necessary time at Radio Free Europe and was also on the board of the Heritage Foundation. His Citizens for America lobbied extensively for the Nicaraguan contras.

http://www.mosquitonet.com/~prewett/ncrmay891415.html

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Lehrman, Lewis SMOM • former executive, Rite Aid
• former member, Board of Directors, PNAC
• trustee, American Enterprise Institute and Heritage Foundation
• leader of “New Right”

http://www.learn-usa.com/relevant_to..._Influence.pdf

SMOM by mention:
http://www.thewebfairy.com/911/cia-drugs/Msg00961.html http://www.mosquitonet.com/~prewett/ncrmay891113.html
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-13255813.html

Social Network Diagram:

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

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LEHRMAN LEWIS E
Angola 1985

* Allen,M.P. The Founding Fortunes. 1989 (285)
* Baum,D. Citizen Coors. 2000 (160)
* Bellant,R. The Coors Connection. 1990 (67)
* Blumenthal,S. Rise of the Counter-Establishment. 1988 (225)
* Cockburn,A.& L. Dangerous Liaison. 1991 (232)
* Council for National Policy. Mailing List. 1984
* Covert Action Information Bulletin 1986-#25 (50)
* Covert Action Information Bulletin 1988-#30 (63)
* Covert Action Information Bulletin 1989-#31 (62-3)
* Diamond,S. Spiritual Warfare. 1989 (197)
* Guardian (New York) 1985-06-26 (7)
* Hatfield,J.H. Fortunate Son. 2000 (66)
* Judis,J. William F. Buckley, Jr. 1988 (457)
* Lernoux,P. People of God. 1989 (294, 300-1)
* Nair,K. Devil and His Dart. 1986 (84)
* Saloma,J. Ominous Politics. 1984 (15, 20)
* Sklar,H. Washington's War on Nicaragua. 1988 (241)
* Unger,C. House of Bush, House of Saud. 2004 (116)
* Walls,D. The Activist's Almanac. 1993 (377)
* Washington Post 1985-06-06 (A30)
* Washington Post 1985-07-27 (A10)
* Washington Post 1985-08-11 (A17)
* Washington Post 1990-03-18 (B2)
* Washington Times 1986-09-26 (2A)

pages cited this search: 28

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

**DutchPhil** · 7 Feb 2008 , 07:00 AM

Count Alexandre de Marenches - Head o/t Service de Documentation Extérieure et de Contre-Espionnage (SDECE, French Intelligence); Founder o/t Safari Club (private Intelligence); Author

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Count Alexandre de Marenches (June 7, 1921 - June 2, 1995) was a French military officer.

During the Second World War, Count de Marenches was aide de camp to General Juin. As such, he helped to coordinate the US military with the remaining French divisions.

He was head of the Service de Documentation Extérieure et de Contre-Espionnage (SDECE, France's external intelligence agency) from November 6, 1970 to June 12, 1981.

Among other things, Count de Marenches is known to have predicted the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan to an American journalist that immediately reported his conversation to US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski and left for Kabul, "arriving in the same time as the Soviet tanks did" (Marenches in Dans le Secret des Princes).

In 1986, he co-authored Dans le secret des Princes ("In the Princes' secret", literally, published in English as The Evil Empire: Third World War Continues) with journalist Christine Ockrent about his days working in secret services.

In 1992, he co-authored The Fourth World War: Diplomacy and Espionage in the Age of Terrorism with David Andelman.

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

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KNIGHTS OF DARKNESS

THE SOVEREIGN MILITARY ORDER OF MALTA

INTRODUCTION
[...]
Alexandre de Marenches (the chief of French Intelligence under Giscard d'Estaing, himself a Knight of SMOM)

http://www.mosquitonet.com/~prewett/caqsmom25.1.html
http://www.watch.pair.com/jbs-cnp.html

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Baigent, Lincoln and Leigh in The Messianic Legacy (Henry Holt, New York, 1987) have added to the list of SMOM members Alexandre de Marenches, former chief of French Intelligence, and claim mysterious links between SMOM and the Priory of Sion.

http://www.mystae.com/restricted/str.../conspire.html

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Alexandre de Marenches SMOM member who set up the right wing intelligence and direct action group, the Safari Club. In 1978, Le Monde claimed that de Marenches led a domestic campaign of terrorism and disinformation while being head of the SDECE.

http://www.gnosticliberationfront.com/le_cercle.htm

Suggested SMOM membership:

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Besides having been a co-founder of Crozier's 61, Walters also was a good friend of French intelligence chief Alexandre de Marenches (104), who by 1976 had set up a secret private intelligence network of his own, the Safari Club. The Safari Club's network included the Shah of Iran, Saddam Hussein of Iraq, Anwar Sadat of Egypt, Ashraf Marwan of Egyptian intelligence, and Kamal Adham of Saudi intelligence (105). Count de Marenches was the biggest rival of Jean Violet within the SDECE, but because he was part of the same hard-right intelligence network he counted many of the same friends and associates, including Franz-Josef Strauss (106), William Casey (107), and Baron de Bonvoisin (10

. All of these individuals have been named as members of Opus Dei or the Knights of Malta.

http://www.pehi.eu/organisations/Le_Cercle.htm

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The Knights of Malta have had a knack for landing members in what I will call the Intelligence Net. A recent sampling from just the past 100 years:

* Alexander de Marenches, the head of French Intelligence during the ’70s and ’80s. According to one story, it was de Marenches who first referred to the Soviet Union as an “Evil Empire” in a private strategy meeting with Reagan on the Afghanistan situation, and Reagan liked the term so much that he adopted it as his own.

http://www.branchfloridians.org/wdu84.html#malta

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Alexandre de Marenches (Leiter des französischen Geheimdienstes).

http://beepworld.de/members74/mimirs...llschaften.htm

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Tell Barry that Bernard Law is a Knight of Malta along with Alexandre de
Marenches, former chief of French Intelligence under Giscard d'Estaing,
himself a Knight of Malta. That is the same French Intelligence that sought
to give Saddam Hussein a nuclear reactor for the building of a nuclear
device." - Jon Eric Phelps, author of Vatican Assassins.

http://www.freedomfiles.org/unfoldin...esofeurope.htm

SMOM member by mention:
http://www.rawilsonfans.com/articles/priory.htm
http://beepworld.de/members74/mimirs...llschaften.htm

Social Network Diagram:

http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb06...HES_ALEXANDRE_
Sources:

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DE MARENCHES ALEXANDRE
France 1945-1995

* Beaty,J. Gwynne,S.C. The Outlaw Bank. 1993 (303-6)
* Covert Action Information Bulletin 1986-#25 (27)
* Covert Action Quarterly 1993-#46 (49)
* Covert Action Quarterly 1996-#55 (42)
* Crile,G. Charlie Wilson's War. 2003 (67-8, 187-

* Deacon,R. The French Secret Service. 1990 (237-47, 262, 265-6, 294, 297-8, 320-3)
* Epstein,E. Dossier: The Secret History of Armand Hammer. 1996 (311-2)
* Herman,E. Brodhead,F. Rise and Fall of Bulgarian Connection. 1986 (94, 119)
* Honegger,B. October Surprise. 1989 (87-90, 109, 122)
* Intelligence (Paris) 1995-07-03 (20)
* Intelligence Newsletter (Paris) 1988-11-30 (4)
* Intelligence Newsletter (Paris) 1992-09-10 (7)
* Intelligence/Parapolitics (Paris) 1986-01 (5)
* Intelligence/Parapolitics (Paris) 1986-10 (3)
* Leigh,D. The Wilson Plot. 1988 (35)
* Lobster Magazine (Britain) 1989-#18 (22-3)
* Parapolitics/USA 1981-08-15 (11)
* Parry,R. Trick or Treason. 1993 (154-5, 281-2, 317-23)
* Payne,R. Dobson,C. Who's Who in Espionage. 1984 (114-5)
* Richelson,J. Foreign Intelligence Organizations. 1988 (157, 179, 296)
* Schweizer,P. Friendly Spies. 1993 (13, 75, 104-6)
* Sick,G. October Surprise. 1991 (110-1)
* U.S. News & World Report 1994-07-04 (46)
* Unger,C. House of Bush, House of Saud. 2004 (73)
* Vankin,J. Whalen,J. The 60 Greatest Conspiracies. 1998 (172-3, 343)
* Washington Post 1984-01-16 (C12)
* Washington Times 1986-09-08 (7A)
* Washington Times 1988-09-28 (F3)
* Washington Times 1992-09-22 (F3)
* West,N. Games of Intelligence. 1990 (130, 154-5, 159, 163, 167-70)
* West,N. The Circus. 1984 (307)
* Wise,D. Molehunt. 1992 (226-

* Woodward,B. Veil. 1987 (39-41)
* Yallop,D. Tracking the Jackal. 1993 (436)

http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb01...HES_ALEXANDRE_

**DutchPhil** · 7 Feb 2008 , 07:03 AM

Lt. Col. Robert Gayre of Gayre and Nigg - Editor-in-Chief o/t Racist Magazine Mankind Quarterly; Cofounder o/t Augustan Society; Founder of the British branch of St Lazarus;

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George Robert Gayre of Gayre and Nigg (6 August 1907[1] - February 10, 1996) was a Scottish anthropologist who founded Mankind Quarterly. An expert on heraldry, he also founded The Armorial, and produced many books on this subject.[2]

Education and military service

Born in Cornwall and an Anglican, he earned an MA from University of Edinburgh, then studied at Exeter College, Oxford.

Gayre served with the British Expeditionary Force in France in 1939, as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Royal Artillery[3] afterwards becoming Educational Adviser to the Allied Military Government of Italy, based in Palermo, where he fought for the exclusion of left-wing text-books and communist influence from the Italian education system. He was thereafter Director of Education to the Allied Control Commission for Italy, based in Naples; and Chief of Education and Religious Affairs, German Planning Unit, Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force.[4] After the war he spent a considerable amount of time in India where he was instrumental in the establishment of the Italo-Indian Institute.[5]

Heraldry

Both Gayre and Sir Thomas Innes of Learney were authors of books on heraldry. As Chief of Clan Gayre, Gayre appended "of Gayre and Nigg" becoming Grand Almoner, and Hereditary Commander of Lochore, of the Order of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem.[6]

His 1959 book Heraldic Standards and Other Ensigns: Their development and history is considered an important work on the subject, and he contributed on the topic to Encyclopædia Britannica.

Mankind Quarterly and publications on race

Gayre was editor of Mankind Quarterly from 1960 to 1978, and was honorary editor-in-chief thereafter.[7]

In 1968 he testified on behalf of members of the Racial Preservation Society who were charged under the Race Relations Act for publishing racialist material. They prevailed in their defense. In his evidence to the court Gayre described blacks as being "feckless" and he maintained that scientific evidence showed that blacks "prefer their leisure to the dynamism which the white and yellow races show."[8]

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

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International Commission on Orders of Chivalry (1996)
Membership of the International Commission on Orders of Chivalry (Commission Internationale Permanente d'Études des Ordres de Chevalerie) as of January 1996

The list of names (and nothing else) comes from a post to rec.heraldry on May 9, 1996 by David Wooten. The biographical information on the individuals is provided by James Algrant and Patrick Cracroft-Brennan, and taken from Who's Who, Burke's Landed Gentry, etc. The opinions expressed on this site are not necessarily theirs.
Executive Committee
President:
Lt. Col. Gayre of Gayre and Nigg (†)
[...]
Lt. Colonel Gayre of Gayre and Nigg
Born 1905 as Robert Gayre, died Feb. 10, 1996. Founder of the British branch of St Lazarus. Secretary-general of the 6th International Congress of Heraldry and Genealogy. Secretary-general of the original ICOC and chairman from 1978. Constable of the Niadh Nask.

http://www.heraldica.org/topics/orders/icoc.html

http://www.maineworldnewsservice.com/caltrap/amore.htm

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Lt. Col. Robert Gayre of Gayre and Nigg
M.A., D.Pol.Sc., D.Phil., D.Sc.
(1905 - 1996)

M.A. 1934, Univ. Edinburgh; D.Pol.Sc. 1943, Palermo Univ.; D.Phil. 1944, Messina Univ.; D.Sc. 1944, Naples Univ.;
Baron of Lochoreshyre; Chief of Clan Gayre; Chamberlain to the Prince of Lippe. Knight of the Sacred Military Order of Constantine St. George of Naples; Knight Commander of the Cross of Merit (Military Division) of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta; Knight Commander of the Order of Lippe; Knight Grand Cross with Collar of the Military and Hospitaller Order of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem; Knight Grand Officer of the Crown of Italy.

http://jtl.org/links/gayre.html

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

http://www.mosquitonet.com/~prewett/caqsmom25.3.html

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The Sovereign Military Order of Malta has a membership that includes wealthy corporate and top government officials of many Western countries linked to neo-Nazi and racist organizations. Over the last sixty years it has been closely tied to such organizations as the World Anti-Communist League, the American Security Council, and the Coalition for Peace Through Strength.

Board members and recipients of awards connect it to an international network of anti-Semitic and racist publications in the U.S., France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain, and Latin America, and to lobbying organizations and semi-secret groups linked to the CIA. The Grand Cross of Merit of the Knights of Malta has gone to Robert Gayre, editor of the racist magazine Mankind Quarterly, and Roger Pearson, president of the World Anti-Communist League and board member of the French neo-Nazi journal Nouvelle Ecole.

http://www.truedemocracy.net/td2_2/68dyk.html

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Robert Gayre, one of the founders of the Augustan Society was awarded the Grand Cross of Merit of SMOM.

http://www.deepblacklies.co.uk/princes_of_plunder.htm

Circumstantial evidence:

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Lt. Col. Gayre of Gayre & Nigg, whose sympathies are with the Knights of Malta, includes a chapter on modern Templarism in his The Knightly Twilight-A Glimpse of the Chivalric and Nobiliary Underworld.

http://www.smotjnyc.org/history.htm

Social Network Diagram:

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

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GAYRE ROBERT

* Bellant,R. Old Nazis. 1989 (44)
* Covert Action Information Bulletin 1986-#25 (31-2)
* Lobster Magazine (Britain) 1987-#13 (15)
* Parapolitics/USA 1981-05-30 (45-52)
* Parapolitics/USA 1982-03-31 (36)
* Village Voice 1985-05-07 (20)

pages cited this search: 14

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

**DutchPhil** · 7 Feb 2008 , 07:05 AM

Joseph H. Retinger - Polish Socialist; Founder o/t European Movement; Cofounder of the Bilderberg Club

In the left most image, Retinger is to the most right

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Joseph Retinger, Józef Hieronim Retinger (17 April 1888 – 12 June 1960) was a Polish political advisor and the founder of the European Movement.

Joseph Retinger was born in Krakow, Poland (at that time a part of Austria-Hungary), the youngest of four children. His father, Józef Stanisław Retinger, was the personal legal counsel and advisor to Count Władysław Zamoyski, an eminent nobleman. When Józef H. Retinger's father died, Count Zamoyski took young Józef under his wing. Retinger had planned on becoming a priest, and was enrolled in a seminary, but the prospect of celibacy made him change his mind.

Funded by Count Zamoyski, Retinger attended the Sorbonne in 1906, and was the youngest person ever to earn a PhD there, in 1908 at the age of twenty, before his move to England in 1911, where his closest friend was fellow Pole, Joseph Conrad. He would later write about Conrad in his book, Conrad and His Contemporaries (1943).

In 1917, Retinger travelled to Mexico, where he became an unofficial political advisor to union organizer Luis Morones and President Calles. Later, during World War II, he advised Prime Minister of the Polish Government in Exile, General Sikorski.

After the war, he became a leading advocate of European Unification and helped to found both the European Movement and the Council of Europe. Retinger was later to become Honorary Secretary General of the European Movement.

Retinger initiated the original Bilderberg conference in 1954.

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

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Bilderberg Group
PIONEERS:
Rome (Joseph Retinger)
* "The original Bilderberg conference was held at the Hotel de Bilderberg, ... from May 29 to May 30, 1954. The meeting was initiated by ... Joseph Retinger" [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilderberg_Group]. "Joseph Retinger ... founder of the European Movement" [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Retinger]. "The European Movement ... coordinates the efforts of associations and private individuals desiring to work towards the construction of a united Europe" [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Movement].
* "The single most important personality connected with the birth and creation of the Bilderberg Group is Joseph Retinger (also known as L'Eminence-His Grey Eminence). Retinger had a colourful, lifelong career that raised him to the top of the world power élites. ... Retinger, as a Catholic, was viewed by many as an agent of the Vatican, acting in liaison between the Pope and the Father-General of the Jesuit order" [global-elite.org/index.php/Bilderberg_Group].
* "Retinger was brought to America by Averell Harriman (Council on Foreign Relations), then U.S. ambassador to England, where he visited prominent citizens such as David and Nelson Rockefeller, John Foster Dulles, and then CIA Director Walter Bedell Smith. Previously, Retinger had formed the American Committee on a United Europe along with future CIA Director and CFR member [and Freemason] Allen Dulles, then CFR Director George Franklin, CIA official Thomas Braden, and William Donovan, former chief of the Office of Strategic Studies (OSS), forerunner of the CIA" [Marrs, Rule by Secrecy, p. 40].

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~emcd/TheFrontOfIt.htm

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THE BILDERBERGERS
One of the most powerful front groups of the Illuminati, which also works as a secret society in itself, is the Bilderbergers. This is a group which was created in the early 1950s by Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (former SS-officer) and the Polish socialist Joseph Retinger, one of the founders of the European movement. These two persons initiated scheduled meetings on a regular basis for the European foreign ministers. Their first meeting occurred at the Hôtel Bilderberg in the Dutch Oosterbreck on May 29, 1954, thus the name of the group.

The core of the group, called the Steering Committee, had an original count of 39. To reiterate, they were originally led by Prince Bernhard, a close friend to the British Crown.

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/es...tapestra01.htm

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As the Cold War intensified, Knight of Malta Joseph H. Retinger, acting on behalf of the Vatican and the Priory of Sion, forged ties with the European Council of Princes (the respectable name for the Dragon Court), the CIA, and Britain's MI6 to create the New World Order think-tank "The Bilderberg Group", of which Henry Kissinger is a permanent member. It's first chairman was Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, who held that position for the next 22 years, until a financial scandal forced him to resign. His daughter Queen Beatrix attended the year 2000 meeting, as did ample other European aristocratic players. The undemocratic "Bilderberg Group" continues to play a major part in international affairs, and remains closed to public scrutiny and participation.

http://www.voxfux.com/features/knightsofmalta.html
http://www.geocities.com/newworldord...tsofmalta.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: William Casey (CIA Director) [...] Joseph Retinger (Bilderberger, Bernhard),

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

Quote:

They also shared another very interesting commonality, they were all faithful Catholics. And not just that; Pinay, Habsburg, and Adenauer were members of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM). Pinay, Habsburg and the less prominent Jean Violet have also been accused of involvement with Opus Dei. On the membership list of Le Cercle you'll find plenty of names accused of having been connected with the Knights of Malta, Opus Dei, or the Priory the Sion (monarchist templar organization).

This is all the more interesting, because Joseph Retinger, who recruited Bernhard and others to set up Bilderberg, was another Vatican agent; a Jesuit and likely a Knight of Malta. At the end of WWII, the Knights of Malta have been involved with smuggling nazis out of Germany with the help of the OSS (later CIA), an organisation they themselves created.

In turn, the CIA funded the covert anti-communist war in Europe, including Radio Free Europe, the Economist, the European Council of Princes, the Gehlen Organization, the Stay-Behind networks, the Pinay Circle, and the overall European moverment. A lot of this money was funneled through American Committee on United Europe (ACUE), which was established at the direction of Duncan Sandys, Joseph Retinger, Allen Dulles, and William Donovan. Dulles and Donovan were top CIA chiefs and Knights of Malta, Retinger a Vatican agent, and Duncan Sandys a son-in-law of Churchill. Besides the CIA's clandestine efforts, the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Institute were the prime sponsors of the ACUE

http://www.declarepeace.org.uk/capta...te/gladio.html

Social Network Diagram:

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

Quote:

RETINGER JOSEPH
Britain 1941-1980
Agee,P. Wolf,L. Dirty Work. 1978 (194)
Bird,K. The Chairman. 1992 (471-2)
Dorril,S. MI6. 2000 (250, 427, 439-40, 453-64, 469, 495-6)
Gill,S. American Hegemony and the Trilateral Commission. 1991 (123)
Hirsch,F. Fletcher,R. The CIA and the Labour Movement. 1977 (58-9, 66, 69-71)
Korten,D. When Corporations Rule the World. 1996 (137)
Lobster Magazine (Britain) 1990-#19 (3)
Lobster Magazine (Britain) 1996-#32 (3-6)
Lobster Magazine (Britain) 2005-#49 (43)
Parapolitics/USA 1982-03-31 (36)
Ramsay,R. Conspiracy Theories. 2000 (47)
Seven Days Magazine 1977-06-06 (23)
Sklar,H. Trilateralism. 1980 (161-4, 167, 183-4)
Spotlight Newspaper 1998-07-20 (B7)
Van der Pijl,K. The Making of an Atlantic Ruling Class. 1997 (119-20, 166, 182)
pages cited this search: 51

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

**DutchPhil** · 7 Feb 2008 , 07:07 AM

George J Tenet - CIA Director

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George John Tenet (born January 5, 1953) was previously the Director of Central Intelligence for the United States Central Intelligence Agency and is Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at Georgetown University. Tenet held the position as the DCI from July 1997 to July 2004, making him the second-longest serving director in the agency's history — behind Allen Welsh Dulles — as well as one of the few DCIs to serve under two U.S. presidents of opposing political parties.
[...]
CIA career

Tenet was appointed Deputy Director of Central Intelligence in July 1995. After John Deutch's abrupt resignation in December 1996, Tenet served as acting director until he was officially appointed the position on July 11, 1997, after a unanimous confirmation vote in the Senate. This was followed by the withdrawal of Anthony Lake, whose nomination had been blocked by Republicans in Congress. While the Director of Central Intelligence has typically been replaced by an incoming administration ever since Jimmy Carter replaced DCI George H. W. Bush, Tenet served through the end of the Clinton administration and well into the term of George W. Bush.

Tenet embarked on a mission to regenerate the CIA, which had fallen on hard times since the end of the Cold War. The number of agents recruited each year had fallen to an all-time low, a 25-percent decline from the Cold War peak. Tenet appealed to the original mission of the agency, which had been to "prevent another Pearl Harbor". The trick was to see where danger might come from in the post-Cold War world. Tenet focused on potential problems such as "the transformation of Russia and China", "rogue states" like North Korea, Iran and Iraq, and terrorism.[9]
[...]
Tenet and Iraq WMD controversy

According to a report by veteran investigative journalist Bob Woodward in his book Plan of Attack, Tenet privately lent his personal authority to the intelligence reports about weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) in Iraq. At a meeting on December 12, 2002, he assured Bush that the evidence against Saddam Hussein amounted to a "slam dunk case." After several months of refusing to confirm this statement, Tenet later stated that this remark was taken out of context. (Tenet indicated that the comment was made pursuant to a discussion about how to convince the American people to support invading Iraq, and that, in his opinion, the best way to convince the people would be by explaining the dangers posed by Iraq's WMD i.e., the public relations sale of the war via the WMD, according to Tenet, would be a "slam dunk").[18] The search following the 2003 invasion of Iraq by U.S., British and international forces yielded no stockpiles of WMDs, however.

Resignation

Citing "personal reasons," Tenet submitted his resignation to President Bush on June 3, 2004. James Pavitt, his Deputy Director for Operations at the CIA, announced his resignation the following day, leading to speculation that the exit of both senior intelligence officials was related to the controversy over alleged Iraqi WMDs and the decision to go to war. Admiral Stansfield Turner, director of the CIA under President Jimmy Carter, said, "I think the president feels he's in enough trouble that he's got to begin to cast some of the blame for the morass that we are in Iraq on to somebody else and this was one subtle way to do it." (Boston Herald, June 4, 2004) However, Bush voiced support for Tenet's efforts, stating, "George Tenet did a superb job for America. It was a high honor to work with him, and I'm sorry he left." (Reuters, June 5, 2004)

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

Quote:

In fact, membership of the Knights of Malta (known as “SMOM” an
abbreviation of its full title of The Sovereign Military and Hospitaler Order
of St. John of Jerusalem of Rhodes) and American intelligence pre-date
the CIA. William (Bill) Donovan, the head of the wartime Office of
Strategic Services (OSS) – the precursor to the CIA - was associated with
SMOM. As was James Jesus Angleton, the CIA’s hard-core counter

intelligence expert until he was fired by President John Kennedy. Another
DCI who was a knight was Bill Casey who was chief of the CIA during the
Reagan Administration. Earlier, Bill Colby, who headed the spy agency
during the Vietnam War era was approached to become a member but
declined. Other senior CIA knights included William Buckley and John
McCone. On the US military side General Alexander Haig was appointed
a knight of SMOM. This almost unbroken but subterranean connection
between the two is reported to extend to the current DCI, George Tenet,
according to a former CIA source.

http://www.deepblacklies.co.uk/maste...persuasion.pdf

Quote:

With these corrections kept in mind, knowing that the current cover-up leads to the Archbishop of New York City---now Edward Cardinal Egan---, we have more details as to "Who" was involved in the murder of a President who was first an American and secondly a Roman Catholic who refused to enforce the Pope's Temporal Power. That "Who" extends to Watergate and Iran Contra. That "Who" includes Knight of Malta William F. Buckley, Jr., Knight of Malta William J. Casey, Knight of Malta Alexander Haig, Jr., Knight of Malta Pat Buchanan, Knight of Malta Oliver North, and now with the WTC demolition, Knight of Malta George J. Tenet. All of these traitors were or are today under the control of Fordham and Georgetown University Jesuits ruling the Pope's "Holy Roman" Fourteenth Amendment American Empire (1868-Present).

http://houston.indymedia.org/news/2005/07/41158.php

Quote:

"Honorary Shriner and Knight of Malta former President Ronald Reagan's administration was the most Roman Catholic but I think the Bush administration now holds that record. Former CIA director Knight of Malta George J. Tenet, Jesuit-trained at the Walsh School of Foreign Service was rewarded for his bold act of high treason with a professorship at his alma mater. Former CIA director Skull and Bonesman, Porter Goss, will be rewarded for his secretive actions. I wouldn't surprised if Georgetown or Fordham soon gives him a professorship.

http://www.rense.com/general74/vattt.htm

SMOM by mention:
http://www.modernhistoryproject.org/...Entity=TenetGJ
http://www.calltodecision.com/hout4.htm
http://www.outlawjournalism.com/news/?p=2924
http://www.cuttingedge.org/NEWS/n2045.cfm
http://www.rightwingnews.com/crackpots/levy.php

Social Network Diagram:

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

Quote:

TENET GEORGE J
Assn. Former Intelligence Officers. Periscope 1989-SU (7)
Assn. National Security Alumni. Unclassified 1995-F (13-4, 25)
Assn. National Security Alumni. Unclassified 1995-W (16-7)
Assn. National Security Alumni. Unclassified 1997-SU (4, 7)
Bamford,J. Body of Secrets. 2001 (476-7, 496)
Borjesson,K. Into the Buzzsaw. 2002 (316-7)
CIA. Hitz Report on Contras and Cocaine. Volume II. 1998-04-27 (417, 1140)
CIA. Studies in Intelligence: Website Index. 2006 (25, 82, 86)
Coll,S. Ghost Wars. 2004 (353-62, 451-4)
Council on Foreign Relations. Membership Roster. 2004
Covert Action Quarterly 2001-#70 (37-

Covert Action Quarterly 2002-#73 (13-5, 17)
George Magazine 1997-10 (63)
Intelligence (Paris) 1997-03-24 (9)
Intelligence (Paris) 1997-08-25 (22)
Intelligence (Paris) 1998-11-16 (

Intelligence (Paris) 1999-03-22 (12)
Intelligence (Paris) 2000-05-01 (1

Intelligence Newsletter (Paris) 1992-12-03 (4)
Levy,S. Crypto. 2001 (246)
Miller,J. Engelberg,S. Broad,W. Germs. 2002 (287-9)
Nation 1997-05-19 (23-6)
New York Times 1995-05-16 (A7)
New York Times 2001-01-20 (A16)
New York Times 2002-09-28 (A10)
New York Times 2004-02-21 (A7)
New York Times 2004-04-15 (A1, 20-1)
New York Times 2005-01-07 (A1, 16)
New York Times 2005-04-01 (A11)
New York Times 2005-04-08 (A6)
New York Times 2005-08-26 (A12)
New Yorker Magazine 1999-04-05 (36)
New Yorker Magazine 2003-10-27 (80, 84)
Parade Magazine 1995-11-19 (5)
Rampton,S. Stauber,J. The Best War Ever. 2006 (50-1, 94, 97, 115, 139)
Richelson,J. The Wizards of Langley. 2001 (282-3)
San Antonio Express-News 1998-06-25 (10B)
San Antonio Express-News 1998-11-11 (1A, 20)
San Antonio Express-News 2000-02-01 (1A, 4)
Wall Street Journal 2002-10-04 (A

Washington Post 1993-01-25 (A15)
Washington Post 1995-05-12 (A23)
Washington Post 1999-10-14 (C1, 7)
Washington Post 2000-02-11 (A39)
Washington Post 2000-02-18 (A21)
Washington Post 2000-10-24 (A25)
Washington Times 1993-11-10 (A9)
Washington Times 1995-05-15 (A2)
Washington Times 1995-05-16 (A4)
Washington Times 1995-08-29 (A5)
Washington Times 1997-03-20 (A1, 9)
Washington Times 1997-03-21 (A6)
Washington Times 1997-05-01 (A3)
Webb,G. Dark Alliance. 1998 (467-

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**DutchPhil** · 7 Feb 2008 , 07:10 AM

Rear Admiral Jeremiah Andrew Denton, Jr. - US Senator from Alabama; Founder o/t National Forum Foundation

Quote:

"Linebacker II ... it wasn't the straw that broke the camel's back, it was the sledgehammer that hit the camel in the head where he should've been hit back in 1964 ... every prisoner believes that."

Jeremiah A. Denton, Jr. spent seven years and seven months as a prisoner of war. He suffered severe mistreatment, and was subjected to four years of solitary confinement. He is well-known for two incidents as a POW: The first was blinking out with his eyes the message "T-O-R-T-U-R-E" in Morse Code during a television interview, confirming that POWs were being tortured. And as the senior POW with the first group of POWs released in 1973, he spoke for the group as the plane landed in the Philippines. Admiral Denton's naval career spanned 34 years. He was elected to the United States Senate in 1980 and served until 1987. In 1983, he founded and continues to be involved with the National Forum Foundation. In collaboration with Ed Brandt, Admiral Denton chronicled his experience in the book When Hell was in Session.

http://www.teleproductiongroup.com/12_72-lived-it.html

Quote:

Rear Admiral and Senator Jeremiah A. Denton, Jr. (b.1924)
A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, he was commissioned in 1946.
While flying an A6 Intruder from the U.S.S. Independence,
he was shot down over North Vietnam on July 18, 1965.
Released in February, 1973 after spending seven years
and seven months as a POW, Jeremiah Denton went on to become a
United States Senator from Alabama.

http://www.dentongenealogy.org/Theyserved.htm

Quote:

Jeremiah A. Denton, Jr. was born on July 15, 1924 in Mobile, Alabama. He attended McGill Institute, Spring Hill College, and the United States Naval Academy, graduating in 1946.

His 34-year naval career included service on a variety of ships, in many types of aircraft. His principal field of endeavor was naval operations. He also served as a test pilot, flight instructor, and squadron commander. In 1957, he was credited with revolutionizing naval strategy and tactics for nuclear war as architect of the "Haystack Concept", while serving on the staff of Commander, South Fleet, as Fleet Air Defense Officer.

Denton graduated from the Armed Forces Staff College and the senior course at the Naval War College, where his thesis on international affairs received top honors by earning the prestigious President 's Award. In 1964, he received the degree of Master of Arts in International Affairs from George Washington University.

In June 1965, he began a combat tour in Vietnam as prospective Commanding Officer of Attack Squadron Seventy-Five. On July 18, 1965, Denton was leading a group of twenty-eight aircraft from the USS lNDEPENDENCE in an attack on enemy installations near Thanh Hoa, when he was shot down and captured by local North Vietnamese troops.

He spent the next seven years and seven months as a prisoner of war, suffering severe mistreatment and becoming the first U.S. military captive to be subjected to four years of solitary confinement.

[...]

In 1977, Denton retired from the Navy and returned to Mobile where he soon founded and led the non-profit organization "Coalition for Decency" ( CFD) and served as a consultant to the President of Spring Hill College.

Denton was elected to the United States Senate in November 1980. In so doing, he became the first Republican ever elected by popular vote to the U S. Senate from Alabama, the first resident of Mobile elected to the U.S. Senate, the first retired military flag officer and the first Catholic elected to any statewide office in Alabama, and the first retired Admiral or General elected to the U.S. Senate by any state.

Denton served in the Senate from January 1981 to January 1987. His major committee assignments included: the Judiciary Committee where he chaired the Sub-Committee on Security and Terrorism; the Labor and Human Resources Committee where he was Chairman of the Sub-Committee on Aging, Family, and Human Services; the Armed Services Committee; and the Veterans Affairs Committee. He re-named and re-formed CFD as the National Forum Foundation with goals supporting National Security through Peace through Strength, the concept of One Nation under God, the strength of the institution of the family, and other goals paralleling and developing support for his principle Senate projects.

In 1983, Senator Denton served as an observer of the El Salvadoran election and as a key advisor to President Reagan on the successful effort to stop the Nicaraguan Communist aggression in Central America and to replace the Communist government in Nicaragua with a free government headed by Madame Chamorro.

During his Senate years, the National Forum Foundation was effective in helping change public and congressional opinion to support Reagan and Bush Cold War initiatives, and it helped him sponsor final passage a number of significant bills improving National Security, Anti-Terrorism, the Institution of the Family and Church-State issues.

In 1985, Denton established the highly acclaimed international aid program now known as The Denton Program. Working on a space available basis with the U.S. Military, this program has transported over 50 million pounds of critical equipment and supplies to needy people throughout the world at reduced or no cost to other international humanitarian organizations.

Following his U.S. Senate term, he was appointed in 1987 by President Ronald Reagan to be Chairman of the Presidential Commission on Merchant Marine and Defense, which he led throughout its two-year mandate.

In 1998, under the auspices of NFF, Denton established the TRANSFORM Program, which is similar to the Denton Program but uses commercial spare space. This Program has immeasurably greater potential for increased volume of shipping of aid and has been praised throughout the world for its work.

In addition to his leadership of the National Forum Foundation, more recently re=named the Admiral Jeremiah Denton Foundation (AJDF)…<ajdf.org>. Denton presently lectures on national and international affairs; while serving as a Member of Board of Visitors of St. Thomas Aquinas College, the Advisory Council of Christendom College, the Board of Advisors of St. Augustine Academy and Thomas Aquinas College and as Chairman of the Board of Advisors of the Thomas More Law Center. He also has primary responsibility as their Strategy Director. He is a member of the Board of Insure.com., Inc. and of Judy McCloskey’s Catholic Military Organization.

Senator Denton is married to the former Jane Maury. They have seven children, fourteen grandchildren, and three great granddaughters.

Most Distinguished Honors and Awards
[...]
Silver Medal; Pope Paul VI in private audience - 1973
[...]
Patriot Award; Knights of Columbus - 1975
[...]
Knight of Sovereign Military Order of Malta - 1981
[...]
Lifetime Memberships

Knights Of Malta

http://dentonfoundation.org/jeremiahdenton.html (Proof Positive)

Quote:

The Knights of Malta is a 900-year-old fellowship modeled after an ancient order of soldier-monks who merrily slaughtered thousands of "infidels." The KoM is dedicated to "inculcating lessons in chivalry and courage, and inspire a militant spirit in opposition to all non-Christian ideologies and powers." The American branch of the KoM counts among its members former CIA directors William Casey and John McCone. McCone is remembered as the architect of the bloody 1973 military coup in Chile. Others include former CIA chief of counterintelligence, James Jesus Angleton; William and James Buckley; Alexander Haig; former treasury secretary William Simon (and his son, Bill Simon), and the rabid critic of John Kerry, former Senator and Admiral Jeremiah Denton, who sponsored a bill allowing US Air Force transports to ship goods for AmeriCares, a privilege accorded no other relief organization.

http://www.thepanamanews.com/pn/v_10...pinion_07.html

Quote:

WHO'S WHO ? - KNIGHTS OF MALTA KNOW
[...]
Other prominent American Knights include:
Former Senator Jeremiah Denton [R-Ala.], who lost his seat in the 1986 election. Denton gained notoriety during his hearings on terrorism when prominent Catholic religious orders were attacked for preaching "violent Marxist revolution."

http://www.mosquitonet.com/~prewett/ncrmay891415.html

Social Network Diagram:

http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb06...20%28R%2DAL%29
Sources:

Quote:

DENTON JEREMIAH A (R-AL)
Vietnam 1966-1973
Burnham,D. Above the Law. 1996 (251, 255-6)
Chamorro,E. Packaging the Contras. 1987 (43)
Council for National Policy. Mailing List. 1984
Council for National Policy. Member Participants. 1984
CounterSpy 1982-08 (5)
Covert Action Information Bulletin 1981-#12 (32)
Covert Action Information Bulletin 1986-#25 (3

Covert Action Information Bulletin 1987-#27 (24)
Diamond,S. Spiritual Warfare. 1989 (224)
Donner,F. The Age of Surveillance. 1981 (xi)
Guardian (New York) 1982-04-14 (

Herman,E. Brodhead,F. Rise and Fall of Bulgarian Connection. 1986 (7)
Herman,E. O'Sullivan,G. The Terrorism Industry. 1989 (63, 87, 89)
Lernoux,P. People of God. 1989 (301)
Mother Jones 1985-01 (2

National Reporter 1986-F (14)
Parapolitics/USA 1981-05-30 (6)
Pell,E. The Big Chill. 1984 (190-

Public Eye Magazine 1981 (45)
Public Eye Magazine 1983 (20, 22)
Resource Center. GroupWatch 1991-SMOM (1)
Resource Center. The New Right Humanitarians. 1986 (7, 15)
Saloma,J. Ominous Politics. 1984 (82)
Sampson,A. Black and Gold. 1987 (251)
Sklar,H. Washington's War on Nicaragua. 1988 (240)
Terrell,J. Disposable Patriot. 1992 (294-6)
Washington Post 1982-12-14 (A3)
Washington Post 1985-02-17 (D7)
Washington Times 1986-05-06 (3A)
Washington Times 1987-10-16 (F2)
pages cited this search: 46

http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb01...20%28R%2DAL%29

**DutchPhil** · 7 Feb 2008 , 07:10 AM

General Alfred Maximilian Gruenther - Supreme Allied Commander in Europe (SACEUR); Chief o/t Advanced Planning Group; Director of US Joint Defense Staff; President o/t American Red Cross

Quote:

Born at Platte Center, Nebraska, March 3, 1899, he graduated from West Point in 1917.
He became famous for the quality of his staff and tactical planning work, becoming World War II's youngest Major General.

After the war, he served as Supreme Allied Commander in Europe from 1953 to 1956 as a Full General. Pretty exclusive company when one considers those who have held this office (Dwight D Eisenhower, 1951-1952( later President of the United States); Matthew B Ridgway, 1952-1953 (who later was Army Chief of Staff); Lauris Norstad, 1956-1962; Lyman L Lemnitzer, 1963-1969 (who later was Chairman JCS); Andrew J Goodpaster, 1969-1974; Alexander M Haig, 1974-1979; Bernard W Rogers,1979-1987; John R Galvin, 1987-1992; John M Shalikashvili, 1992-1993 (later Chairman of the JCS);George A Joulwan, 1993-1997; Wesley K Clark, 1997-2000.

General Alfred M. Gruenther retired after 38 years in the U.S. Army on December 31, 1956, and on the following day he became President of the American Red Cross. His final military assignment was as Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, a position which he occupied at SHAPE Headquarters in Paris from July 1953 until he retired.

He brought with him a warm enthusiasm for the Red Cross. Having seen the organization function effectively during World War II and in peacetime, he had been deeply impressed with the humanitarian principles underlying the world-wide programs of the organization. Early in his administration General Gruenther became convinced that one of his principle duties would be the telling of the Red Cross story. His strenuous schedule took him back and forth across the United States scores of times. On June 25, 1963, at Elkhart, Indiana, he filled his 748th speaking engagement as the American Red Cross President.

He was the official representative of the American Red Cross at the League of Red Cross Societies and was a member of the Executive Committee of the League, which has its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. He served as vice chairman of the League and a member of the Standing Commission of the International Red Cross. General Gruenther's first major international Red Cross meeting was at the nineteenth International Red Cross Conference in New Delhi, India, in 1957. Since then, he has visited 31 Red Cross and Red Crescent societies, including those of Canada, Japan, the Phillippines, Indonesia, Australia, India, Pakistan, Turkey, Poland, the U.S.S.R., and nearly all of the Western European societies. In February 1962, he went to Panama to participate in the Gray Lady training course conducted by the American Red Cross to help start the Gray Lady program in Panama and the five countries of Central America. He also visited the Red Cross societies of Chile, Peru, Argentina, and Brazil. He devoted much time to the Red Cross Blood Program, which at that time supplied more than 45 percent of the more than 5 million pints of blood used in blood transfusions in the United States. He was always eager to explain to audiences the Red Cross program for the conversion of outdated blood into blood fractions, the research program for the preservation of whole blood, and the program for the classification of rare blood types. He credited Red Cross blood with saving the life of his son when he was seriously wounded in combat in Korea. Perhaps his greatest Red Cross interest was the development of the Red Cross youth program as a means of preparing young people for community and national volunteer leadership responsibilities. General Gruenther was decorated by the United States and 14 other governments and by nine Red Cross societies. He received honorary degrees from 32 American colleges and universities. General Gruenther reached the mandatory Red Cross retirement age of 65 early in March 1964, and he retired at the end of that month.

He died in Washington, D.C. on May 30, 1983 and was buried in Section 7 of Arlington National Cemetery.

His wife, Grace E. Gruenther (November 23, 1897-May 18, 1979), is buried with him.

http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/gruenthe.htm

Quote:

Supreme Allied Commander Europe

1953-1956

General Alfred M. Gruenther, USA

In July of 1953 the President of the United States appointed General Alfred Gruenther to become the Supreme Allied Commander Europe. General Gruenther had long experience in the Alliance, having begun with the early planning group and continued through the first two SACEURs. He had joined the organisation before SHAPE existed, and was tasked, as the director of the Advanced Planning Group at the Hotel Astoria in Paris, to organise a headquarters and NATP military structure. Upon its activation by General Eisenhower on 2 April 1951, Gen. Gruenther was the logical choice to be the first Chief of Staff of SHAPE.

He served as the chief of Staff for both General Eisenhower, an old World War II comrade and for General Ridgway, Ike’s successor. He had actually been Ike’s choice as his successor, but the President and NATO council had agreed upon Ridgway. Less well known than his two predecessors, Gruenther was highly talented and, working in conjunction with the first DSACEUR, Field Marshal Montgomery, did much to improve Allied Command Europe.

When appointed SACUER, General Gruenther was the youngest four star general in the US Army. He was known as an officer who could assimilate and organise masses of information, converting the whole into clear operational plans. His sense of informality inspired the SHAPE staff and was in great measure responsible for the harmony among SHAPE officers in carrying out their tasks.

He was famous for sending little notes, called “Grunnions,” that dealt with details to be looked into. He also occasionally “Gruetherized” the staff, which meant he queried someone intensely in order to refine something more clearly. He was also known to send “Gruenther-grams”, or short but detailed memos, to the staff to provide guidance.

He felt that NATO’s defensive concept was one of U.S. nuclear weapons that formed a ‘sword’ and a necessary conventional ‘shield’ that would make that nuclear retaliation one of last resort. Another member joined the Alliance in 1955 – Germany. General Gruenther strongly promoted the addition of German forces into the military structure as an important element of the ‘shield’.

He campaigned vigorously for German integration into NATO’s force structure against some significant opposition and reluctance by some of the allies. Gruenther succeeded and with the new German armed force integrated into Allied Command Europe, the conventional defence of the Alliance was significantly enhanced.

Some of General Gruenther’s other achievements as SACUER were: a new approach that improved basic Allied planning; improved infrastructure planning and programming; the initiation of a coordinated air defence system in NATO Europe; and the introduction of improved communications systems into the Alliance’s command and control environment.

General Gruenther had the same zeal as General Eisenhower in his desire to promote NATO and he continued a personal public information campaign throughout his tenure. In 1955, for example, Gruenther made numerous speeches outside the headquarters and spoke to hundreds of visitor groups. His message was always ‘Unity!’ His speaking style was careful but casual and he never used a prepared speech.

By December of 1955 General Gruenther had decided to retire. He announced his retirement in April 1956.

General Gruenther was a native of Nebraska who graduated fourth in his class at the U.S. Military Academy at West Pont in 1918. He served in numerous peacetime assignments through 1941. In August 1942 he was appointed as Deputy Chief of Staff for the new Allied Force Headquarters in London, where his boss was General Eisenhower. Later he served as Chief of Staff of the 15 th Army Group in Italy. After the war, he served as Director of the Joint Staff of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Before assuming duties as the Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans for the US Army. It was from this position that he was sent to Paris as chief of the Advanced Planning Group in January 1951.

After SHAPE, General Gruenther went on to become the President of the American Red Cross.

http://www.nato.int/shape/bios/saceur/gruenther.htm

Quote:

GRUENTHER, Alfred M. (Gen. USA, Ret.) (1)-(7) [SHAPE and European matters;
Red Cross; use of multinational forces; address on NATO; Japanese Red Cross
Society and nuclear weapons; American Legion and status of forces agreements;
Fulton Lewis; Grand Cross of Military Merit of Sovereign Order of Malta; Middle
East oil]

http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/l...pers193087.pdf (Proof Positive)

Social Network Diagram:

http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb06..._M%20%28GEN%29
Sources:

Quote:

GRUENTHER ALFRED M (GEN)
Bird,K. The Chairman. 1992 (468, 623)
Bird,K. The Color of Truth. 1998 (181)
Corvo,M. The O.S.S. in Italy, 1942-1945. 1990 (245)
Domhoff,G.W. The Higher Circles. 1971 (153)
Domhoff,G.W. Who Rules America? 1967 (113)
Hunt,L. Secret Agenda. 1991 (135)
Kaplan,F. The Wizards of Armageddon. 1983 (176)
Mollenhoff,C. The Pentagon. 1967 (121)
NACLA. The University-Military-Police Complex. 1970 (27)
Prados,J. Keepers of the Keys. 1991 (31, 187)
Prados,J. Presidents' Secret Wars. 1988 (11

Swanberg,W.A. Luce and His Empire. 1972 (370)
Yakovlev,N. Washington Silhouettes. 1985 (164)
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**DutchPhil** · 7 Feb 2008 , 07:11 AM

Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou - Pretender to the Crown of France

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Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou (Luis Alfonso Gonzalo Víctor Emanuel Marco de Borbón y Martínez-Bordiú; born 25 April 1974, Madrid) is considered to be the head of the French Royal House by legitimists who consider the renunciation of Philip V of Spain as invalid. They call him Prince Louis de Bourbon, and accord him the title duc d'Anjou (Duke of Anjou). As king, he would be Louis XX of France.
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Titles and honours

Louis Alphonse of Bourbon is the legitimist pretender of the French crown and would take the name Louis XX if reigning. He may have the title His Royal Highness written on his National Identity Card.[citation needed] He is currently the Head of the House of Bourbon, and holds the following titles of nobility:

* Titular Duke of Anjou
* Titular Duke of Burgundy
* Titular Duke of Touraine
* Titular Duke of Bourbon
* Titular King of France
* Titular King of Jerusalem
* Titular King of Navarre
* Head of the House of Bourbon
* Bailiff Grand Cross of Honour and Devotion of the Order of Malta

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_A..._Duke_of_Anjou

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La Orden de Malta esta formada por 11.000 caballeros y damas entre lo más escogido de la nobleza, pero también está abierta a la sociedad civil. En su seno acoge a unos 70.000 voluntarios, amén de un millón de colaboradores en un centenar de países, entre ellos España, que contribuyen a sufragaria con sus donaciones. En nuestro país hay unos 600 caballeros y 80 damas y entre sus miembros se cuentan personajes tan ilustres como el mismísimo rey Juan Carlos o Luis Alfonso de Borbón, duque de Anjou y heredero de la Corona de Francia (Luis XX para el legitimismo borbónico).

http://www.orderofmalta.org/dettrs.asp?id=52&idlingua=5 (Proof Positive)

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**DutchPhil** · 7 Feb 2008 , 07:12 AM

George Macdonald - Oil and Utilities Entrepreneur; Head of the American Chapter of SMOM

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Business, Pleasure Monday, Nov. 11, 1929

Last fortnight one of the innumerable roads to Rome (this one was the Saturnia of the Cosulich Line) took His Eminence Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes, third-ranking U. S. Cardinal, Archbishop of New York to His Holiness Pius XI. Ghostly was His Eminence's business. As Archbishop of Rome's largest diocese (1,273,291) he had some to report on its spiritual condition.

To the Vatican went Cardinal Hayes, to a private audience with the Pope. Then he visited his titular church, Santa Maria in Via, placed on the image of the Virgin of Sorrows a tiara "of imperial design," studded with precious gems, diamonds, rubies, pearls. The tiara was a gift from the Cardinal's parishioners.

In Cardinal Hayes' party were four priests and one layman—Papal Knight Commander of the Grand Cross Sir George MacDonald, noted Catholic charitarian. Manhattan financier. While Cardinal Hayes was in Rome, Sir George served as Papal Chamberlain at the Vatican. Then the party went to Naples to embark on the yacht lamara, chartered for a lengthy cruise by Papal Knight MacDonald. Manned by 50 sailors, 300-foot, 14-cabined, the lamara is the largest yacht in European waters. Once before, in 1927, had Sir George taken the Cardinal cruising, but that had been in the Caribbean. This time his yacht will skim the storied waters of the Mediterranean, carry them to Egypt, Palestine, Constantinople, return the Cardinal to Rome in time for the Pope's Golden Jubilee on Dec. 20.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...738002,00.html

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It should not be forgotten that distinguished Catholic Americans, several of whom were members of the SMOM, received titles of nobility from the Holy See as recently as the 1950's. Among the better known examples are the late Rose FitzGerald Kennedy, a Papal Countess and mother of President John F. Kennedy, and Bernardine Donohue, a Papal Countess created by Pius XII, whose husband Daniel J. Donohue is a Gentleman of His Holiness and member of the American Association of the SMHOM. In the 1920's one of the founders of the American Association, Nicholas Brady, received the title of Papal Duke while another, George Macdonald, sometime President of the Association, was created a Papal Marquess.

http://www.chivalricorders.org/orders/smom/m-nbprf5.htm

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The Association’s first president James J. Phelan and later president George Macdonald were instrumental in increasing the Association’s membership and in bringing increased revenues into the American organization.
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Using his inherent talent, drive, and devotion to the Association, Cardinal Spellman was able to enlist the aid of some of America’s elite, including: John J. Raskob, chairman of General Motors; John Farrell, then president of U.S. Steel; Joseph P. Grace of W.R. Grace & Co.; Joseph Kennedy, a Boston entrepreneur; George MacDonald of Pennsylvania; and John D. Ryan.

http://users.panola.com/AAGHS/ARTICLES/MALTA.html

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If one enters Fordham Law School, a large bronze wall plaque lists the benefactors whose generosity enabled the construction of the Lincoln Center campus of the Jesuit University of New York. Among them is George, Marquis MacDonald. If memory serves, he had begun as a contractor, became a spectacularly successful financier, and then a benefactor of the church. He had married a daughter of the infamous police inspector Thomas Byrnes, whose personal fortune came from sources best left unexamined. MacDonald became a Knight of Malta, a Knight Grand Cross of the Holy Sepulchre, a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Gregory the Great, the holder of numberless honorary doctorates and, much to his pleasure, a papal marquis. He loved to have his picture taken in the uniform of one or another of these orders.

http://www.nypress.com/13/21/news&columns/oldsmoke.cfm

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WHO'S WHO ? ................... KNIGHTS OF MALTA KNOW
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An exception was made for the United States because of its rising political, economic and military power, and in 1927 a branch of SMOM was established on the East Coast. Most of the founding members were tycoons of industry and finance who would strongly oppose Roosevelt's New Deal [one, John J. Raskob, the chairman of the board of General Motors, even became involved in a plot to seize the White House].

They were soon joined by such titans as John Farrell, president of U.S. Steel; Joseph P. Grace, of W.R. Grace & Co.; Joseph Kennedy, a Boston entrepreneur and father of a future president of the United States; and George MacDonald of Pennsylvania, who made a fortune in oil and utilities.

MacDonald was typical of those who joined SMOM for the sheer fun of it. In recognition of generous contributions to the church, he was made a papal marquis as well as a grand master of the Knights, of Malta. MacDonald loved to dress up in the splashy Knights costume, with its ostrich-plumed hat, gold spurs and a uniform with gold epaulets, sashes and the medal with the Knights' eight-pointed Maltese cross

Many of the approximately 1,500 Americans who subsequently joined the knighthood also enjoyed the rituals of induction at the local cathedral and the ceremonies in honor of the order's patron, St. John. But for others, SMOM was more than pomp and circumstance-it was a source of money and power.

http://www.mosquitonet.com/~prewett/ncrmay890910.html

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June 1, 1938.
Co /laster Knights and Dames, members of."
THE ASSOCIATION OF MASTER KNIGHTS
OF THE SOVEREIGN MILITARY ORDER OF MALTA
IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Feast of St. John the Baptist will be celebrated this year on Satur-
day, June 25th. On that day the Association of Master Knights of the
Sovereign Military Order of Malta in the United States of America will
assemble in reunion by attending Holy Mass in the Lady Chapel of St.
Pafrick's Cathedral, 50th Street and Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y., at
nine o'clock A. M.
His Eminence Patrick Cardinal Hayes, Archbishop of New York, Grand
Protector and Spiritual Advisor of the Order in the United States, will
celebrate the Mass.
St. John the Baptist is the Patron Saint of the Order of Malta and
throughout the world the Knights gather in prayer on his annual Feast Day.
The By-Laws of the Association make it obligatory if possible that there
shall be a reunion or assemblage of ail members of the Association in a church
or chapel to be selected by the Board of Founders. Each member of the
Association should attend the said reunion or assemblage unless for justifiable
reason it is impossible for him to be present. We would naturally be pleased
to have the members of your family or friends attend on your invitation.
Ail members of the Association are urgently requested to attend but in
the event that it is impossible for Knights or Dames residing outside the
City of New York to be present, they are requested to attend Holy Mass on
June 25th at their parish church.
It is desirable to bave Knights mld Dames wear the button of the Order
on that occasion.

GEORGE MAcDONALD
zVaster
American Chpte', Knights of Malta.

R.S.V.P.
149 Broadway,
New York, N. Y.

http://fax.libs.uga.edu/text/br939txt.txt (Proof Positive)

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

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