Louis Abbott Lapham person
also: Lapham, Louis Abbott Lapham, Louis H. Lapham, the bonesman himself, this guy
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Claims (7)
Louis Abbott Lapham member_of
Skull and Bones host_asserted
“And he was a bonesman class of 1931. I want to tell you about his family before we talk about him. He is the grandson of a gentleman by the name of Lewis Henry Lapham, who lived from 1858 to 1934. Lewis Henry makes his money, made his fortu…”
▶ Shadow State 27 Secret Societies 11; The 1930's @ 17:29
Louis Abbott Lapham member_of
Skull and Bones host_asserted
“Now let's do the bonesman himself. And he's not all that excited. He's more exciting for his relatives, but as you might guess, yeah, as you might guess, he went to a private high school called a Hotchkiss school in Connecticut, gets out of…”
▶ Shadow State 27 Secret Societies 11; The 1930's @ 32:04
Louis Abbott Lapham appointed
San Francisco Examiner host_asserted
“Now let's do the bonesman himself. And he's not all that excited. He's more exciting for his relatives, but as you might guess, yeah, as you might guess, he went to a private high school called a Hotchkiss school in Connecticut, gets out of…”
▶ Shadow State 27 Secret Societies 11; The 1930's @ 32:04
Louis Abbott Lapham headed
Pacific American Steamship Association host_asserted
“So this guy, Lewis Abbott Lapham, I'm going to say Lapham, 1945 and 46 after the war, he becomes the president of the Pacific American Steamship Association. And then he would become the last president of the American Hawaiian Steamship Com…”
▶ Shadow State 27 Secret Societies 11; The 1930's @ 35:35
Louis Abbott Lapham headed
American Hawaiian Steamship Company host_asserted
“So this guy, Lewis Abbott Lapham, I'm going to say Lapham, 1945 and 46 after the war, he becomes the president of the Pacific American Steamship Association. And then he would become the last president of the American Hawaiian Steamship Com…”
▶ Shadow State 27 Secret Societies 11; The 1930's @ 35:35
Louis Abbott Lapham member_of
Bankers Trust host_asserted
“And he joins a company called the Bankers Trust Company. Hold on a second. Yep. We're supposed to believe that this guy screwed up. And again, this is just another thing that I have observed in doing all of this research. Generally, that's …”
▶ Shadow State 27 Secret Societies 11; The 1930's @ 36:07
Louis Abbott Lapham member_of
Bankers Trust host_asserted
“So these are the boards of directors that Louis Abbott Lapham sat on until the end of his life. And Deutsche Bank is one of the biggest money launderers for the CIA. Is it now? Is there a bank that isn't? They've actually been caught more t…”
▶ Shadow State 27 Secret Societies 11; The 1930's @ 39:27
Mentions (26)
▶ 16:58
We've gotten down some rabbit holes already. Let's go into the topic. Okay. I'm ready. All right. As usual, we're going through chronological order for the most part, the list of Skull and Bones members. And we left off with the Hines famil…
▶ 29:34
Interesting history with this guy and labor. Well, interesting only in the fact that it replicates every other international syndicate that pleads that they're all for unions and the workers while in action does nothing for either. Yeah. Wh…
▶ 30:01
He said he was only going to run for mayor one time, and he actually stuck to his word. He was the mayor of San Francisco 1944 to 1948. He was trying to scrap the cable car system. Wait a minute. In that 1944, that would be right as the war…
▶ 30:33
um asian people that got interned in the west in these internment camps and how at the end which would have been around the time that he was mayor all of their belongings was basically permanently confiscated they didn't get their property …
▶ 31:04
And expected. And expected. And if you know how San Francisco is just like, what do you call it, the New York of the East Coast or the Boston of the East Coast? Yeah, I think it's the New York of the West Coast. Yeah, well, what's interesti…
▶ 31:34
that really control california i've been working on doing a piece that i'll get out one of these days called california water wars but you started talking about the getty family and a few of their friends and getty's basically adopted gavin…
▶ 32:04
Now let's do the bonesman himself. And he's not all that excited. He's more exciting for his relatives, but as you might guess, yeah, as you might guess, he went to a private high school called a Hotchkiss school in Connecticut, gets out of…
▶ 32:35
Worked six years as a journalist and editor. And World War II comes around, he becomes a civilian executive assistant to the general in command of the San Francisco Port of Embarkation. So that's the CIA. Yes. But what qualifications does t…
▶ 33:03
Let me say a couple of things about what you just said. It would be very interesting, given his family's ties to water, obviously shipping, he knows a lot more than most 30-year-olds would about water, right? About ports, about whatever. He…
▶ 33:32
The executive assistant, so if you have a general officer and you want him to do a mission, the executive officer is like his right-hand man. He does the speeches for the general. He does all of the arranging of minutes, the meetings, the m…
▶ 34:00
it is a very interesting role especially if you're going to be the gatekeeper because no one sees the general without going through the executive assistant okay it's a very powerful role yeah i kind of assumed that but my point is that you …
▶ 34:34
um intelligence apparatus and not an actual journalist it would be interesting to go back and see what articles he was writing and where he went to do research for those articles because i would imagine he's gathering intelligence um and th…
▶ 35:03
especially with the World War II, you got all these guys from business or what have you, and they get appointed to all these military intelligence positions. And it's not because of their general knowledge. It's because they've got the conn…
▶ 35:35
So this guy, Lewis Abbott Lapham, I'm going to say Lapham, 1945 and 46 after the war, he becomes the president of the Pacific American Steamship Association. And then he would become the last president of the American Hawaiian Steamship Com…
▶ 36:07
And he joins a company called the Bankers Trust Company. Hold on a second. Yep. We're supposed to believe that this guy screwed up. And again, this is just another thing that I have observed in doing all of this research. Generally, that's …
▶ 36:36
I don't know. I did not do any deep homework into why the Hawaiian Steamship Company is no more. But apparently, but it did not end his career because he goes to work for a company called the Bankers Trust Company. And he held various board…
▶ 37:08
So it was founded in 1903 just exactly for that reason. Who are the big New York banks in 1903? The who's who of what we've been talking about, you know, JP Morgan, Rockefeller, et cetera. The Bankers Trust had many partners, but the voting…
▶ 37:42
He became the first governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He was also at the meeting on Jekyll Island. This guy is back right in the formation of the Fed. Benjamin Strong from Bankers Trust was there right alongside the Morgans,…
▶ 38:06
He is known as the father of open market operations. And what that is, is the Federal Reserve goes out there and basically trades. Stabilized markets are to move the price of gold and the dollar around to try to stabilize things. He's the g…
▶ 38:28
would cite his success in doing that and say if he'd still been there, maybe he could have avoided the Great Depression. But John Maynard Keynes is an idiot, as I like to maintain loudly. And Murray Rothbard actually disagrees. He says, no,…
▶ 38:59
Bankers Trust would then merge with a company called Alex Brown and Sons in 1977. Who's Alex Brown and Sons? It's one of the banks of Brown Brothers Harriman. Oh, do we have another connection? That company would then be acquired by Deutsch…
▶ 39:27
So these are the boards of directors that Louis Abbott Lapham sat on until the end of his life. And Deutsche Bank is one of the biggest money launderers for the CIA. Is it now? Is there a bank that isn't? They've actually been caught more t…
▶ 39:53
So we've got the grandfather, Lewis Abbott's grandfather. We've got his father. We've got Lewis Abbott himself. But he also had a couple of kids. His first son was Lewis H. Lapham. And it was pointed out in our chat earlier, he was the edit…
▶ 40:24
And its connections was dresser industries? Yes. This is Louis H. Lapham, the editor of Harper's Magazine, with the guy writing about that. So I think that apple fell a bit from the tree. He has another son by the name of Anthony A. Lapham.…
▶ 40:58
He works somehow. He gets his way to work for the U.S. Treasury in 1965 to 1967. He was actually the executive assistant. Remember that term, executive assistant to the Treasury Secretary? So he's the son of a bonesman from Yale, so he's pr…
▶ 41:29
Yes. So he's in the Army Reserve in an intelligence unit while he's on the staff of the Treasury. Mm-hmm. Which would give him access to intelligence that other people wouldn't necessarily have. Uh-huh. Well, that's interesting. Yeah. He ha…