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>'Bush - Nazi Dealings Continued Until 1951' - Federal Documents
>
>By John Buchanan and Stacey Michael
>The New Hampshire Gazette Vol. 248, No. 3,
>November 7, 2003
>
>After the seizures in late 1942 of five U.S. enterprises he managed on
>behalf of Nazi industrialist Fritz Thyssen, Prescott Bush, the
>grandfather of President George W. Bush, failed to divest himself of
>more than a dozen "enemy national" relationships that continued until
>as late as 1951, newly-discovered U.S. government documents reveal.
>
>Furthermore, the records show that Bush and his colleagues routinely
>attempted to conceal their activities from government investigators.
>
>Bush's partners in the secret web of Thyssen-controlled ventures
>included former New York Governor W. Averell Harriman and his younger
>brother, E. Roland Harriman. Their quarter-century of Nazi financial
>transactions, from 1924-1951, were conducted by the New York private
>banking firm, Brown Brothers Harriman.
>
>The White House did not return phone calls seeking comment.
>
>Although the additional seizures under the Trading with the Enemy Act
>did not take place until after the war, documents from The National
>Archives and Library of Congress confirm that Bush and his partners
>continued their Nazi dealings unabated. These activities included a
>financial relationship with the German city of Hanover and several
>industrial concerns. They went undetected by investigators until after
>World War Two.
>
>At the same time Bush and the Harrimans were profiting from their Nazi
>partnerships, W. Averell Harriman was serving as President Franklin
>Delano Roosevelt's personal emissary to the United Kingdom during the
>toughest years of the war. On October 28, 1942, the same day two key
>Bush-Harriman-run businesses were being seized by the U.S. government,
>Harriman was meeting in London with Field Marshall Smuts to discuss
>the war effort.
>
>Denial and Deceit
>
>While Harriman was concealing his Nazi relationships from his
>government colleagues, Cornelius Livense, the top executive of the
>interlocking German concerns held under the corporate umbrella of
>Union Banking Corporation (UBC), repeatedly tried to mislead
>investigators, and was sometimes supported in his subterfuge by Brown
>Brothers Harriman.
>
>All of the assets of UBC and its related businesses belonged to
>Thyssen-controlled enterprises, including his Bank voor Handel en
>Scheepvaart in Rotterdam, the documents state.
>
>Nevertheless, Livense, president of UBC, claimed to have no knowledge
>of such a relationship. "Strangely enough, (Livense) claims he does
>not know the actual ownership of the company," states a government
>report.
>
>H.D Pennington, manager of Brown Brothers Harriman and a director of
>UBC "for many years," also lied to investigators about the secret and
>well-concealed relationship with Thyssen's Dutch bank, according to
>the documents.
>
>Investigators later reported that the company was "wholly owned" by
>Thyssen's Dutch bank.
>
>Despite such ongoing subterfuge, U.S. investigators were able to show
>that "a careful examination of UBC's general ledger, cash books and
>journals from 1919 until the present date clearly establish that the
>principal and practically only source of funds has been Bank voor
>Handel en Scheepvaart."
>
>In yet another attempt to mislead investigators, Livense said that
>$240,000 in banknotes in a safe deposit box at Underwriters Trust Co.
>in New York had been given to him by another UBC-Thyssen associate,
>H.J. Kouwenhoven, managing director of Thyssen's Dutch bank and a
>director of the August Thyssen Bank in Berlin. August Thyssen was
>Fritz's father.
>
>The government report shows that Livense first neglected to report the
>$240,000, then claimed that it had been given to him as a gift by
>Kouwenhoven. However, by the time Livense filed a financial disclosure
>with U.S. officials, he changed his story again and reported the sum
>as a debt rather than a cash holding.
>
>In yet another attempt to deceive the governments of both the U.S. and
>Canada, Livense and his partners misreported the facts about the sale
>of a Canadian Nazi front enterprise, La Cooperative Catholique des
>Consommateurs de Combustible, which imported German coal into Canada
>via the web of Thyssen-controlled U.S. businesses.
>
>"The Canadian authorities, however, were not taken in by this
>maneuver," a U.S. government report states. The coal company was later
>seized by Canadian authorities.
>
>After the war, a total of 18 additional Brown Brothers Harriman and
>UBC-related client assets were seized under The Trading with the Enemy
>Act, including several that showed the continuation of a relationship
>with the Thyssen family after the initial 1942 seizures.
>
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Subject: Bush - Nazi Dealings Continued Until 1951 - Federal Documents
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Date: 2004-02-05 11:29:11 PST
>'Bush - Nazi Dealings Continued Until 1951' - Federal Documents
>
>By John Buchanan and Stacey Michael
>The New Hampshire Gazette Vol. 248, No. 3,
>November 7, 2003
>
>After the seizures in late 1942 of five U.S. enterprises he managed on
>behalf of Nazi industrialist Fritz Thyssen, Prescott Bush, the
>grandfather of President George W. Bush, failed to divest himself of
>more than a dozen "enemy national" relationships that continued until
>as late as 1951, newly-discovered U.S. government documents reveal.
>
>Furthermore, the records show that Bush and his colleagues routinely
>attempted to conceal their activities from government investigators.
>
>Bush's partners in the secret web of Thyssen-controlled ventures
>included former New York Governor W. Averell Harriman and his younger
>brother, E. Roland Harriman. Their quarter-century of Nazi financial
>transactions, from 1924-1951, were conducted by the New York private
>banking firm, Brown Brothers Harriman.
>
>The White House did not return phone calls seeking comment.
>
>Although the additional seizures under the Trading with the Enemy Act
>did not take place until after the war, documents from The National
>Archives and Library of Congress confirm that Bush and his partners
>continued their Nazi dealings unabated. These activities included a
>financial relationship with the German city of Hanover and several
>industrial concerns. They went undetected by investigators until after
>World War Two.
>
>At the same time Bush and the Harrimans were profiting from their Nazi
>partnerships, W. Averell Harriman was serving as President Franklin
>Delano Roosevelt's personal emissary to the United Kingdom during the
>toughest years of the war. On October 28, 1942, the same day two key
>Bush-Harriman-run businesses were being seized by the U.S. government,
>Harriman was meeting in London with Field Marshall Smuts to discuss
>the war effort.
>
>Denial and Deceit
>
>While Harriman was concealing his Nazi relationships from his
>government colleagues, Cornelius Livense, the top executive of the
>interlocking German concerns held under the corporate umbrella of
>Union Banking Corporation (UBC), repeatedly tried to mislead
>investigators, and was sometimes supported in his subterfuge by Brown
>Brothers Harriman.
>
>All of the assets of UBC and its related businesses belonged to
>Thyssen-controlled enterprises, including his Bank voor Handel en
>Scheepvaart in Rotterdam, the documents state.
>
>Nevertheless, Livense, president of UBC, claimed to have no knowledge
>of such a relationship. "Strangely enough, (Livense) claims he does
>not know the actual ownership of the company," states a government
>report.
>
>H.D Pennington, manager of Brown Brothers Harriman and a director of
>UBC "for many years," also lied to investigators about the secret and
>well-concealed relationship with Thyssen's Dutch bank, according to
>the documents.
>
>Investigators later reported that the company was "wholly owned" by
>Thyssen's Dutch bank.
>
>Despite such ongoing subterfuge, U.S. investigators were able to show
>that "a careful examination of UBC's general ledger, cash books and
>journals from 1919 until the present date clearly establish that the
>principal and practically only source of funds has been Bank voor
>Handel en Scheepvaart."
>
>In yet another attempt to mislead investigators, Livense said that
>$240,000 in banknotes in a safe deposit box at Underwriters Trust Co.
>in New York had been given to him by another UBC-Thyssen associate,
>H.J. Kouwenhoven, managing director of Thyssen's Dutch bank and a
>director of the August Thyssen Bank in Berlin. August Thyssen was
>Fritz's father.
>
>The government report shows that Livense first neglected to report the
>$240,000, then claimed that it had been given to him as a gift by
>Kouwenhoven. However, by the time Livense filed a financial disclosure
>with U.S. officials, he changed his story again and reported the sum
>as a debt rather than a cash holding.
>
>In yet another attempt to deceive the governments of both the U.S. and
>Canada, Livense and his partners misreported the facts about the sale
>of a Canadian Nazi front enterprise, La Cooperative Catholique des
>Consommateurs de Combustible, which imported German coal into Canada
>via the web of Thyssen-controlled U.S. businesses.
>
>"The Canadian authorities, however, were not taken in by this
>maneuver," a U.S. government report states. The coal company was later
>seized by Canadian authorities.
>
>After the war, a total of 18 additional Brown Brothers Harriman and
>UBC-related client assets were seized under The Trading with the Enemy
>Act, including several that showed the continuation of a relationship
>with the Thyssen family after the initial 1942 seizures.
>