William Averell Harriman

[Libertarian_Guard]

Using money from his father he established W.A. Harriman & Co banking business in 1922. In 1927 his brother Roland joined the business and the name was changed to Harriman Brothers & Company. In 1931, it merged with Brown Bros. & Co. to create the highly successful Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.. Notable employees included George Herbert Walker and his son-in-law Prescott Bush.

Harriman's main properties included Brown Brothers & Harriman & Co, Union Pacific Railroad, Merchant Shipping Corporation, and venture capital investments that included the Polaroid Corporation. Harriman's associated properties included the Southern Pacific Railroad (including the Central Pacific Railroad), Illinois Central Railroad, Wells Fargo & Co., the Pacific Mail Steamship Co., American Shipping & Commerce, Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actiengesellschaft (HAPAG), the American Hawaiian Steamship Co., United American Lines, the Guaranty Trust Company, and the Union Banking Corporation.

Thoroughbred racing

Following the death of August Belmont, Jr. in 1924, Harriman, George Walker, and Joseph E. Widener purchased much of Belmont's Thoroughbred breeding stock. Harriman raced under the name of Arden Farms. Among his horses, Chance Play won the 1927 Jockey Club Gold Cup. As well, he raced in partnership with Walker under the name Log Cabin Stable before buying him out. U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee Louis Feustel, trainer of Man o' War, trained the Log Cabin horses until 1926. [1] Of the partnership's successful runners purchased from the August Belmont estate, Ladkin is best remembered for defeating the European star Epinard in the International Special No. 2.

War seizures controversy

While Averell Harriman served as Senior Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., Harriman Bank was the main Wall Street connection for German companies and the varied U.S. financial interests of Fritz Thyssen, who had been an early financial backer of the Nazi party until 1938, but who by 1939 had fled Germany and was bitterly denouncing Adolf Hitler. Business transactions for profit with Nazi Germany were not illegal when Hitler declared war on the US, but, six days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Trading With the Enemy Act after it had been made public that U.S. companies were doing business with the declared enemy of the United States. On October 20, 1942, the U.S. government ordered the seizure of Nazi German banking operations in New York City.

Harriman is noted for supporting, on behalf of the State department, the coup against Vietnam president Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963. Johnson's confession in the assassination of Diem could indicate some complicity on Harriman's part.[6] [7]


http://www.geni.com/people/W-Averell-Harriman-politician-diplomat/6000000008630249254


http://www.american-buddha.com/cia.americasecretestab.4.htm


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



Summary of career

* Vice President, Union Pacific Railroad Co., 1915-17 * Director, Illinois Central Railroad Co., 1915-46 * Member, Palisades Interstate Park Commission, 1915-54 * Chairman, Merchant Shipbuilding Corp.,1917-25 * Chairman, W. A. Harriman & Company, 1920-31 * Partner, Soviet Georgian Manganese Concessions, 1925-28 * Chairman, executive committee, Illinois Central Railroad, 1931-42 * Senior partner, Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., 1931-46 * Chairman, Union Pacific Railroad, 1932-46 * Co-founded Today magazine with Vincent Astor, 1935-37 (merged with Newsweek in 1937) * Administrator and Special Assistant, National Recovery Administration, 1934-35 * Founded, Sun Valley Ski Resort, Idaho, 1936 * Chairman, Business Advisory Council, 1937-39 * Chief, Materials Branch & Production Division, Office of Production Management, 1941 * US Ambassador & Special Representative to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1941-43 * Chairman, Ambassador & Special Representative of the US President's Special Mission to the USSR, 1941-43 * US Ambassador to the USSR, 1943-46 * US Ambassador, Britain, 1946 * US Secretary of Commerce, 1946-48 * United States Coordinator, European Recovery Program (Marshall Plan), 1948-50 * Special Assistant to the U.S. President, 1950-52 * US Representative and Chairman, North Atlantic Commission on Defense Plans, 1951-52 * Director, Mutual Security Agency, 1951-53 * Candidate, Democratic nomination for US President, 1952 * Governor, State of New York, 1955-58 * Candidate, Democratic nomination for US President, 1956 * US Ambassador-at-large, 1961 * United States Deputy Representative, International Conference on the Settlement of the Laotian, 1961-62 * Assistant US Secretary of State, Far Eastern Affairs, 1961-63 * Special Representative to the US President, Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, 1963 * Under US Secretary of State, Political Affairs, 1963-65 * US Ambassador-at-large, 1965-69 * Chairman, President's Commission of the Observance of Human Rights Year, 1968 * Personal Representative of the US President, Peace Talks with North Vietnam, 1968-69 * Chairman, Foreign Policy Task Force, Democratic National Committee, 1976 * Member, American Academy of Diplomacy Charter, Club of Rome, Council on Foreign Relations, Knights of Pythias, Skull and Bones Society, Psi Upsilon Fraternity and the Jupiter Island Club.

[Glass]

He's probably linked to the killing of Phar Lap as well.....bastard :mad:

[Camp Bassfish]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Averell_Harriman_State_Office_Building_Campus

[Libertarian_Guard]

From The Secret History of the CIA by Joseph Trento:

Who changed the coup into the murder of Diem, Nhu and a Catholic priest accompanying them? To this day, nothing has been found in government archives tying the killings to either John or Robert Kennedy. So how did the tools and talents developed by Bill Harvey for ZR/RIFLE and Operation MONGOOSE get exported to Vietnam? Kennedy immediately ordered (William R.) Corson to find out what had happened and who was responsible. The answer he came up with: “On instructions from Averell Harriman…. The orders that ended in the deaths of Diem and his brother originated with Harriman and were carried out by Henry Cabot Lodge’s own military assistant.”

Having served as ambassador to Moscow and governor of New York, W. Averell Harriman was in the middle of a long public career. In 1960, President-elect Kennedy appointed him ambassador-at-large, to operate “with the full confidence of the president and an intimate knowledge of all aspects of United States policy.” By 1963, according to Corson, Harriman was running “Vietnam without consulting the president or the attorney general.”

The president had begun to suspect that not everyone on his national security team was loyal. As Corson put it, “Kenny O’Donnell (JFK’s appointments secretary) was convinced that McGeorge Bundy, the national security advisor, was taking orders from Ambassador Averell Harriman and not the president. He was especially worried about Michael Forrestal, a young man on the White House staff who handled liaison on Vietnam with Harriman.”

At the heart of the murders was the sudden and strange recall of Sagon Station Chief Jocko Richardson and his replacement by a no-name team barely known to history. The key member was a Special Operations Army officer, John Michael Dunn, who took his orders, not from the normal CIA hierarchy but from Harriman and Forrestal.

According to Corson, “John Michael Dunn was known to be in touch with the coup plotters,” although Dunn’s role has never been made public. Corson believes that Richardson was removed so that Dunn, assigned to Ambassador Lodtge for “special operations,” could act without hindrance.

SOURCE:

“The Secret History of the CIA.” Joseph Trento. 2001, Prima Publishing. pp. 334-335.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2933358

[Libertarian_Guard]

Behind every great man there is a woman and what is often overlooked is that the woman behind Bill Clinton was Pamela Harriman.

Pamela Harriman was married three times to rich and famous men. Two of them died and left her all of their money. This gave her the wealth and power she needed to bankroll the future president.

Born Pamela Digby, her first husband was the son of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. He was a heavy drinker and that marriage ended in divorce.

Next, she married famous Broadway producer Leland Hayward, who produced "The Sound of Music".

After he died, she married Averell Harriman, then 79 years old, who was a former New York governor and Ambassador to Britain and the Soviet Union, and a former candidate for President of the United States. His family owned Brown Brothers Harriman, America's leading investment banking and brokerage firm.

Pamela Harriman obviously took good care of her men, and when he died she got every dime.

Always a supporter of liberal causes, she spoke at the 1984 Democratic National Convention, but her candidate lost. Pamela Harriman then bankrolled young Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign. She raised $12 million for him. After Clinton was elected, any time she wanted to see him, she called him up and he came right over to her house in Georgetown.

Clinton appointed her as US Ambassador to France, where she died on February 5, 1997 at the age of 76. She died of a cerebral hemorrhage she suffered while swimming in the Embassy swimming poll.

On her way to snaring three famous men as her husbands, she obviously slept with a lot of notable millionaires. Leland Hayward, producer of "The Sound of Music", called her "the greatest courtesan of the 20th century". "She loved men, and men loved her, and she knew how to please men," wrote People Magazine.

Almost every woman dreams of marrying a millionaire and wonders how Pamela Harriman did it three times. The answer: She became the mistress of the men while they were married to other women. For example, she became the mistress of Governor Averell Harriman while she was in her early 20s, even though he was 29 years older than her. In order to cover up this relationship, Harriman had his own daughter move into his house and then had Pamela, who was about the same age as his daughter, move in too. Harriman told his wife that Pamela was the friend and school mate of his daughter and that was why she was living there. In this way, Governor Harriman had both his wife and his mistress sleeping in the same house together, and his wife never suspected anything.

Among her reported lovers that she did not marry were Italian billionaire Gianni Agnelli and journalist Edward R. Murrow.

http://www.anusha.com/pamela-h.htm

[JDRock]

Makes ya proud to be a murican....i wanna just wave the flag and say the pledge.....NOT.

[willie pete]

anyone remember that part in "Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid" they were robbing that train and "Woodcock" wouldn't open the door? Woodcock: "I work for Mr. E H Harriman and I can't open the door" Then they blew the shit out of the train....it appears that E.H. Harriman was W.A.'s Father...

[osoab]

Makes ya proud to be a murican....i wanna just wave the flag and say the pledge.....NOT.

I thought you had to play Lee Greenwood and watch Nascar to be a murican.