Nicolae Malaxa person
also: Malaksa, Malakza, Malaxa, Malaxis, Malaxus, Malexa, Melaxa, Mille Lacs, Nicholas Malaxa
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Claims (12)
U.S. Department of Justice pardoned
Nicolae Malaxa documented
“and Nixon swept to a decisive victory, winning 55% of the vote and carrying 39 of the 48 states. After Republicans' triumph, Dulles and Nixon were finally able to speed Malaxa's immigration case through the bureaucracy. In December of 1953,…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 8(b) @ 21:43
Nicolae Malaxa paid
Richard Nixon book_quoted
“There was indeed a smoking gun, a $100,000 check from Malaxa deposited in Nixon's Whittier bank account, but Pearson was unable to get his hands on it. In a twist of bad luck for Nixon, one of the tellers at the bank branch turned out to be…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 8(b) @ 5:21
Nicolae Malaxa funded
Operation Gladio book_quoted
“of landing on his feet. He is considered to be essentially a dangerous type of man. None of that mattered to Alan Dulles when Malaxa turned up in his office at Sullivan and Cromwell. The pertinent fact was that Romanian had a huge fortune a…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 8(b) @ 16:52
Nicolae Malaxa funded
Iron Guard book_quoted
“the mistress. Despite the debt he owed the king's mistress for her patronage, the ever opportunistic Malaxa began currying favor with the Iron Guard as the group grew more powerful, financing its activities and flying its flag from the roof…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 8(b) @ 12:02
Nicolae Malaxa spied_on
Frank Wisner host_asserted
“He had turned up, Hoover had turned up old news that Beadle Smith had earlier checked out and found groundless. But it turned out that the information had been provided by Nicholas Malaxa. Oh, that's when they were in the FBI. So the FBI ke…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 8(b) @ 1:02:49
Nicolae Malaxa member_of
Iron Guard host_asserted
“Beatlesmith's investigators discovered that it was questionable source in Romania gossip circles. They're talking about this guy who had been responsible for the salacious charges that had been leveled against Wisner. The source was Nicolae…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 8(b) @ 1:00:36
Nicolae Malaxa paid
Allen Dulles host_asserted
“was Nikolai's art enemy in America. And Malaxa had hired Alan Dulles. So Wisner's representing one of them and Dulles is representing the other one. And that's how you control the outcome. That's crazy. That's absolutely crazy. I had even f…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 8(b) @ 1:01:38
Richard Nixon funded
Nicolae Malaxa book_quoted
“Melaxa's, let's see, where'd I go? Senator Nixon, who pulled strings on his behalf to allow him to continue living in the U.S. and procure a major tax break for him. Pearson knew that Nixon had performed these favors for Melaxa in return fo…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 8(b) @ 4:53
Allen Dulles recruited
Nicolae Malaxa book_quoted
“in the U.S., which they used as an advocacy group in order to further the CIA's operations. Despite Wisner's feelings, he realized that Alan Dulles was deeply implicated in the Romanian unsavory story. Dulles had not only been Malaxa's lawy…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 8(b) @ 8:13
Nicolae Malaxa carried_out_attack
Iron Guard book_quoted
“With Hitler's influence expanding into Romania, Malaxas made another move, merging his industrial empire with that of Hermann Göring's brother Albert. Your interests, my dear Mr. Malaxas, are the same as ours, the Nazi industrialists assure…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 8(b) @ 12:29
Frank Wisner recruited
Nicolae Malaxa book_quoted
“As he had long demonstrated, Frank Wisner was quite willing to recruit from the ranks of the fascists for his espionage operations in Eastern Europe, many of whom he had even passed immigration authorities in order to get them into the Unit…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 8(b) @ 6:49
Frank Wisner spied_on
Nicolae Malaxa host_asserted
“of an equally disreputable Roman steel magnet accused of collaborating with the Germans. So they're basically having a pissing contest. Wisner came into Malexa's sights because immediately after the war, when he had returned to his law firm…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 8(b) @ 1:01:03
Mentions (25)
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Pearson was again on the verge of blowing up Nixon's career. Reporting in his widely syndicated Washington merry-go-round column, Pearson revealed that the VP candidate had left out something very important from his checker speech, namely h…
▶ 4:20
collaborated with the Nazis during the war and later with communist regimes that took over his homeland. But Mille Lacs' reputation, Pearson reported, did not discredit him with Senator Nixon. He was intimately involved in the CIA operation…
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Melaxa's, let's see, where'd I go? Senator Nixon, who pulled strings on his behalf to allow him to continue living in the U.S. and procure a major tax break for him. Pearson knew that Nixon had performed these favors for Melaxa in return fo…
▶ 5:21
There was indeed a smoking gun, a $100,000 check from Malaxa deposited in Nixon's Whittier bank account, but Pearson was unable to get his hands on it. In a twist of bad luck for Nixon, one of the tellers at the bank branch turned out to be…
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But Wisner, somewhat mysteriously, had insisted on drawing the line at Nikolai Malaksa, whom he considered a particularly unsavory character. He wasn't even bad enough, or he was too much for even the CIA to put their stamp of approval on. …
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who had finagled his way into the United States after the war as part of a Romanian trade delegation, be deported. Wisner had served as the OSS station chief in Romania, and he considered the country his turf. He was acutely sensitive to th…
▶ 8:13
in the U.S., which they used as an advocacy group in order to further the CIA's operations. Despite Wisner's feelings, he realized that Alan Dulles was deeply implicated in the Romanian unsavory story. Dulles had not only been Malaxa's lawy…
▶ 8:42
compromising directions, including Nixon's bank account, Dulles' law firm, the CIA front organization called National Committee for Free Europe, and even some of Wisner's own secret combat groups. The Romanian industrialists who reportedly …
▶ 9:13
in overseas bank accounts before he fled to the U.S. had made himself extremely useful as a shadow financier in the CIA's underground network. Malaxa was the type of scoundrel with whom Dulles enjoyed doing business. The Romanian oligarch h…
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The looks, and this is so ironic, of a dashing werewolf. Isn't that interesting? A dashing werewolf, considering he was helping fund werewolf units, at least their follow-on. He conducted himself with a cynical European confidence that ever…
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Bribery came so naturally to him that he once tried to buy off the dedicated Immigration and Nationalization Service prosecutor who was handling his case. A man to Mille Lacs' great surprise turned it down. He began his career in a modest f…
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Soon he had amassed a small fortune as a manufacturer of railroad equipment. In the 1920s, he and his family moved into a mansion in Bucharest, where he entertained capital's high society and befriended the mistress of King Carol II, Madame…
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In a Game of Thrones-like move, he cemented his royal connections by arranging for his own daughter to become the mistress of the king's son, Prince Michael. By forging a partnership with the king, who proved equally vicarious, Malaxa becam…
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the mistress. Despite the debt he owed the king's mistress for her patronage, the ever opportunistic Malaxa began currying favor with the Iron Guard as the group grew more powerful, financing its activities and flying its flag from the roof…
▶ 12:29
With Hitler's influence expanding into Romania, Malaxas made another move, merging his industrial empire with that of Hermann Göring's brother Albert. Your interests, my dear Mr. Malaxas, are the same as ours, the Nazi industrialists assure…
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After the coup was suppressed, Malakza was jailed as a leader of a conspiracy and his industrial empire was confiscated by the Nazis and Romanian government. But in 1944, as the advancing Soviet army drove the Germans out of Romania, Malakz…
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returned all of his industrial property. Nevertheless, Malaxa was savvy enough to realize that his future was not bright in communist Romania. He had already taken the precaution of moving his fortune into U.S. accounts after the war by mak…
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His generous distribution of bribes included jewels, Cadillacs, and cash. Malaxa persuaded Romanian officials to allow him to travel to the United States, ostensibly on trade business. He arrived in 1946 and never returned. Malaxa wisely ch…
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that his battle to stay in the U.S. would drag on for years. Malaksa's OSS, CIA, FBI, and INS files bulged with condemnations. One government report labeled him notorious. Another called him the most vile man in Romania. He was a master of …
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at various times during the war. He had gone from playing Hitler's game to someone who must be considered an agent of the Soviet government and that of the Romanian communists in the U.S. According to a 1952 CIA memo, perhaps the most conci…
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of landing on his feet. He is considered to be essentially a dangerous type of man. None of that mattered to Alan Dulles when Malaxa turned up in his office at Sullivan and Cromwell. The pertinent fact was that Romanian had a huge fortune a…
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which had stretched from Buenos Aires to Bucharest, Malaxa secured Dulles' influential help in his battle to stay in the U.S. Some of Malaxa's treasure went to prominent Romanian exile leaders who hoped to take power after the communist reg…
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parked a whole bunch of Nazis there. And the same was true in France, where he underwrote scholarships for exiled Romanian students who turned out to be veterans of the Iron Guard. That was a scam. It was just a way to pay them. And they tu…
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but his wheeling and dealing had begun to attract unwanted press. In May, a gossip columnist, Walter Winchell, exposed the notorious collaborator who was freely enjoying the city's pleasures. Winchell noted that the distinguished firm of Su…
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Romanian's immigration battle to his political protege, Nixon. In return for Malaxa's substantial gift of $100,000, the California senator became vigorously lobbying the INS officials on his behalf and pushing an immigration bill through Co…