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Claims (59)
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr founded
American Asiatic Underwriters host_asserted
“mail steamship company in Japan. He ends up creating a global insurance empire by starting in 1919. He founded a thing called the American Asiatic Underwriters in Shanghai, China. Now keep in mind, Shanghai, China is one of the provinces th…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 56 - 'INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE - WHO ARE THEY' @ 10:14
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr recruited
Duncan Lee host_asserted
“for the CIA. I'm talking about AIG people. Okay. One of the most infamous ones that he hired was a OSS captain, Duncan Lee. He was a lawyer who became a long-term AIG general counsel. Now we're going to come back to him because he's very im…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 56 - 'INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE - WHO ARE THEY' @ 14:18
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr founded
American International Group host_asserted
“is the founder of American International Group, AIG. Everybody's heard of AIG because what happened in 2008, they went belly up. They were intimately involved in the defrauding of people with the mortgage derivative, all of that stuff.…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 56 - 'INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE - WHO ARE THEY' @ 7:33
Leonard Jerome did_business_with
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr documented
“So that's his background. He begins boarding school at a place called St. George's in Ascot in Berkshire at the age of seven. Winston is poorly behaved and gets in a bunch of scuffles, doesn't do well academically at all. So they transfer h…”
▶ The Shadow State 79 Pilgrims Society 5 Churchill 1 @ 12:58
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr member_of
Vanderbilt family documented
“I guess that first tree you could really see how diluted a family's worth can be over the generations. It just keeps spreading and spreading. So the real founder of the Vanderbilt family fortune is, of course, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt…”
▶ The Shadow State 54 The Vanderbilt Curse @ 3:51
William Vanderbilt succeeded
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr documented
“A little bit up the road. All right. Railroads, he did great. 1873, he founds Vanderbilt University. He's now starting to get into the charities. Beginning. His will, remember he's got 12 living kids, gives 95% of the estate to William Henr…”
▶ The Shadow State 54 The Vanderbilt Curse @ 21:56
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr founded
Accessory Transit Company documented
“You go through Lake Nicaragua, and then you jump out on the San Juan River, and you can get to the Pacific and go straight to California. Cornelius Vanderbilt would help hack out that route himself through the jungle, and he establishes som…”
▶ The Shadow State 54 The Vanderbilt Curse @ 15:28
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr founded
Vanderbilt University documented
“A little bit up the road. All right. Railroads, he did great. 1873, he founds Vanderbilt University. He's now starting to get into the charities. Beginning. His will, remember he's got 12 living kids, gives 95% of the estate to William Henr…”
▶ The Shadow State 54 The Vanderbilt Curse @ 21:56
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr married
Sophia Johnson Vanderbilt documented
“He never had debt. He marries his first cousin, Sophia Johnson Vanderbilt. Marrying your first cousin is another thing that people might blame on the curse. I want to share something funny here. Give me one second. You want to comment while…”
▶ The Shadow State 54 The Vanderbilt Curse @ 9:55
Chauncey Depew worked_for
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr host_asserted
“Spent most of his career working directly for Cornelius Vanderbilt. And he was his lawyer, correct? Yeah, yeah, for the most part. He ended up becoming president of New York Central Railroad. So he was really deeply involved in New York Rep…”
▶ The Shadow State 76 The Pilgrims Society Pt. 2 @ 7:30
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr founded
Guaranteed Trust Company of New York host_asserted
“He becomes the co-founder of a company called the Guaranteed Trust Company of New York, which we've talked about before. Oh, my gosh. Got involved in a lot of mining interests, not just in America, but South America, pretty much internation…”
▶ The Shadow State 46 Secret Societies 29 The Whitney Lineage @ 50:19
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr founded
MCA Music Corporation of America host_asserted
“whose names are not associated with the people that they put out front that are really the movers and shakers of everything. Yeah, that's exactly the story I'm trying to tell. Yeah. That's exactly it. Okay. What does Cornelius Vanderbilt Wh…”
▶ The Shadow State 46 Secret Societies 29 The Whitney Lineage @ 51:21
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr appointed
United Kingdom host_asserted
“In 1950 to the United Kingdom, Luxembourg, Spain, and Italy. And why is that important in that time frame? Because Operation Gladio is getting off the ground in primarily Italy. But who moved to Spain and set up all the training for the ini…”
▶ The Shadow State 46 Secret Societies 29 The Whitney Lineage @ 53:34
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr descendant_of
William Collins Whitney host_asserted
“Because we're not done. This story is never over with the Whitney's. So here's what Grok told us, in no particular order. We had Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney II, the great-grandson, son of Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, and Mary Louise Schro…”
▶ The Shadow State 46 Secret Societies 29 The Whitney Lineage @ 1:05:55
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr married
Mary Louise Schroeder host_asserted
“Because we're not done. This story is never over with the Whitney's. So here's what Grok told us, in no particular order. We had Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney II, the great-grandson, son of Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, and Mary Louise Schro…”
▶ The Shadow State 46 Secret Societies 29 The Whitney Lineage @ 1:05:55
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr founded
Guaranty Trust Company host_asserted
“With a name like that, do you think he has a difficult time getting a restaurant reservation? No. I mean, is there a more noble name in American history than that one? No. Where do you think he goes to college? Yale. I don't see him in Skul…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies @ 49:38
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr funded
Chiang Kai-shek host_asserted
“When I came across C.B. Starr, the first thing I thought was he has to be connected to William Polly. He just has to. So I started doing some research on it. Starr's operation through companies like American International Assurance Company …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 56 - 'INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE - WHO ARE THEY' @ 15:47
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr member_of
China Lobby host_asserted
“CV Star was a significant figure within the circles that were associated with the China lobby. And the China lobby is the group behind the World Anti-Communist League. Just keep bringing it full circle here. This guy touches on just about e…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 56 - 'INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE - WHO ARE THEY' @ 18:10
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr founded
American International Group host_asserted
“Those all were tied into American International Underwriters, which was established as part of an insurance empire by OSS agent C.B. Starr. And I'm telling you, when you get into Starr, that's probably another one that we need to highlight.…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Italy Part 4 @ 52:51
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr exposed
Vanderbilt Plot book_quoted
“And of course, we know about the one of Smedley Butler, but there was also one that involved DuPont and Cornelius Vanderbilt. Well, the DuPont, sorry. In 1940, newspaperman and socialite Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., one of FDR's friends in New…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 2 @ 31:09
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr member_of
Vanderbilt Plot book_quoted
“And of course, we know about the one of Smedley Butler, but there was also one that involved DuPont and Cornelius Vanderbilt. Well, the DuPont, sorry. In 1940, newspaperman and socialite Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., one of FDR's friends in New…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 2 @ 31:09
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr secretly_owned
U.S. Life host_asserted
“which was represented by U.S. corporations and that of organized crime. It said Cochran's partner, W.S. Youngman, joined the board of U.S. Life, which is an insurance company, controlled by C.V. Starr. And we remember C.V. Starr because he'…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 1:16:36
Paul Helliwell member_of
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr host_asserted
“other opium-related activities like Sea Supply. Sea Supply was organized in Miami, Florida by none other than Paul Helliwell, who also doubled in 1951 as the counselor for CV Star's insurance interest because he was the Thai consul in Miami…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 1:21:21
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr secretly_owned
Compagnie Franco-Américaine d'Assurances book_quoted
“of Suvanna Bauma in Laos, and it later served as part of an infrastructure for the CIA's secret Laotian war. Previously, one of the principal U.S. financial interests in Indochina was the Camparne Franco Americano Assurance of Saigon, owned…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 a @ 24:53
Harry S. Truman appointed
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr host_asserted
“In 1950 to the United Kingdom, Luxembourg, Spain, and Italy. And why is that important in that time frame? Because Operation Gladio is getting off the ground in primarily Italy. But who moved to Spain and set up all the training for the ini…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies @ 53:16
Harry S. Truman appointed
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr host_asserted
“He was basically the muscle behind Gone with the Wind, the highest grossing film of all time. Doesn't happen without him. He had been born. I don't have the year he was born here. Anyways, he would serve in World War II as a colonel in the …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies @ 52:39
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr member_of
Pacific Mail Steamship Company host_asserted
“You couldn't have three names like that. CB star guy. He comes along as like his first job was in the, uh, the Pacific mail company, you know? So he's involved. I mean, he was originally involved in that before he had AIG. Right. And that w…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed in The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12B @ 1:35:33
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr funded
MCA Music Corporation of America host_asserted
“the people that they put out front that are really the movers and shakers of everything. Yeah, that's exactly the story I'm trying to tell. Yeah, that's exactly it. Okay. What does Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney do next? Oh, he would back a c…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies @ 51:06
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr member_of
United States Navy host_asserted
“He was basically the muscle behind Gone with the Wind, the highest grossing film of all time. Doesn't happen without him. He had been born. I don't have the year he was born here. Anyways, he would serve in World War II as a colonel in the …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies @ 52:39
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr relationship_with
Mary Louise Schroeder host_asserted
“Because we're not done. This story is never over with the Whitney's. So here's what Grok told us in no particular order. We had Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney II, the great grandson, son of Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, and Mary Louise Schroe…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies @ 1:05:37
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr supplied_arms_to
Union Navy documented
“moved south and developed a monopoly on the California steamship business because that's what this guy does. We get to the Civil War, and he donates his biggest steamship, known as the Vanderbilt, to the Union Navy. That's the one they outf…”
▶ The Shadow State 54 The Vanderbilt Curse @ 19:20
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr carried_out_attack
William Walker documented
“who, like the rest of Central America, declared war in Nicaragua when Walker took over. He sends his men, mercenaries, to lead a raid that captured steamboats on the San Juan River and cut Walker off from his reinforcements, and he had to g…”
▶ The Shadow State 54 The Vanderbilt Curse @ 18:15
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr attempted_coup_against
Erie Railroad documented
“moved south and developed a monopoly on the California steamship business because that's what this guy does. We get to the Civil War, and he donates his biggest steamship, known as the Vanderbilt, to the Union Navy. That's the one they outf…”
▶ The Shadow State 54 The Vanderbilt Curse @ 19:20
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr financed_via
Thomas Gibbons documented
“and killing innovation. Good point. We're going to be talking a lot about that theme going forward. Good question, though. Here we are. He embraces the steamboat technology. He's going fast. He's working for a ferry entrepreneur by the name…”
▶ The Shadow State 54 The Vanderbilt Curse @ 7:08
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr member_of
Vanderbilt family host_asserted
“of the biltmore because it has a veranda on the back of it and he wanted to be able to approve the view from each level of the veranda yeah well the guy didn't know how to spend money that's for sure all right who we're going to do next let…”
▶ The Shadow State 54 The Vanderbilt Curse @ 39:10
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr member_of
Vanderbilt family host_asserted
“Well, that's one of the oldest families in America. And it goes all the way back to Williams, Collins, Whitney, etc. We talked about them quite a bit. There have been about four or five Whitney's in Skull and Bones. And that's who Gertrude …”
▶ The Shadow State 54 The Vanderbilt Curse @ 42:39
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr member_of
Skull and Bones host_asserted
“Well, that's one of the oldest families in America. And it goes all the way back to Williams, Collins, Whitney, etc. We talked about them quite a bit. There have been about four or five Whitney's in Skull and Bones. And that's who Gertrude …”
▶ The Shadow State 54 The Vanderbilt Curse @ 42:39
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr funded
Beaulieu Estate host_asserted
“socializing with, oh, I don't know, King Henry VII, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Czar Nicholas II. He would serve in the National Guard. World War I breaks out, and he gets called to action. He gets promoted quickly into Brigadier General. Never saw …”
▶ The Shadow State 54 The Vanderbilt Curse @ 44:05
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr founded
Vanderbilt family host_asserted
“i don't know second classes and a new serfdom and that's how america was built and it was not honest this just shows you a huge wealth disparity at the time it really is and the only reason this family has a name is they have one ancestor c…”
▶ The Shadow State 54 The Vanderbilt Curse @ 1:09:02
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr member_of
Scroll and Key Society host_asserted
“to manipulate the strategy of tension around the world to be able to, for these same people, the Rockefellers, the Carnegies, to exploit the entire world. That's pretty much the story we've been telling right there. I thought you might enjo…”
▶ The Shadow State 52 Scroll & Key Pt. 2 @ 1:07:09
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr member_of
Whitney family host_asserted
“I got three member of the Webb family and I'm going to finish with the Whitney's. We have talked about the Whitney's. They were one of those original founding fathers of America on founding families. I should say very wealthy old school fam…”
▶ The Shadow State 36 Secret Societies 20; The Groton School @ 1:16:55
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr founded
Vanderbilt family host_asserted
“And so how is this Vanderbilt related to the ones that built the breakers? Yeah. It was, was it Cornelius that built the breakers? Well, the Commodore was the first, the founder of the family fortune was Commodore and he did a lot, but it r…”
▶ The Shadow State 21 Secret Societies 5; Skull & Bones 1887-1908 @ 59:29
Leonard Jerome did_business_with
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr host_asserted
“Winston is poorly behaved and gets in a bunch of scuffles. Doesn't do well academically at all. So they transfer him out. Oh, one more thing about his mother, his mother's father. This is the guy that was a partner in many deals with none o…”
▶ The Real Story behind World War 1 @ 12:55
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr provided_bridge_financing_for
George H.W. Bush host_asserted
“is the guy the CIA uses. He's corrupt. He was over, he was part of the China lobby, the World Anti-Communist League, the Chiang Kai-shek group, all of those. That's where C.B. Starr got his start was over in China with the insurance company…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 2 @ 43:39
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr did_business_with
China host_asserted
“that not only did they get rich doing the slave trade, but worked on behalf of British India, pumping all of the Indian opium into China. And that was primarily dominated by the Sassoons, Tadas, and that other family whose name's not coming…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed in The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12B @ 1:33:53
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr did_business_with
Nelson Rockefeller host_asserted
“Got involved in a lot of mining interests, not just in America, but South America, you know, pretty much internationally. Remember, they're always diversifying their portfolios, natural resources. And of course, that also ties them to Nelso…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies @ 50:12
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr studied_at
Yale University host_asserted
“With a name like that, do you think he has a difficult time getting a restaurant reservation? No. I mean, is there a more noble name in American history than that one? No. Where do you think he goes to college? Yale. I don't see him in Skul…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies @ 49:38
Ogden Goelet married
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr host_asserted
“And the same architect. He's a busy guy. This is built in 1892 for a guy by the name of Ogden Golay. Not a household name, but he should have been. He inherited his father's wealth and just ran his real estate empire. He was a businessman. …”
▶ Operation Gladio Meets Secret Societies Summary Part 4 @ 10:13
The Breakers built_for
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr host_asserted
“yeah so do i we'll we'll have to share those when we do our thing on the vanderbilt's um it is crazy oh yeah the ceilings are just like clouds and ceilings uh the ornate uh work on every everything it's just it's amazing it's very impressiv…”
▶ Operation Gladio Meets Secret Societies Summary Part 4 @ 8:09
Compagnie Franco-Américaine d'Assurances owned_by
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr book_quoted
“Previously, one of the principal U.S. financial interests in Indochina was the Camparne Franco Americano Assurance of Saigon, owned by Corcoran's client, C.B. Starr and Company, whose president by 1960 was Corcoran's law firm partner, Willi…”
▶ Colonel Towner Exposes OPERATION GLADIO in Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 @ 25:03
Gordon Tweedy involved_in
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr book_quoted
“were also involved in TV Star's worldwide insurance operations. The private influence of Corcoran's law firm on U.S. policy appears to have been good reason why in 1957, Fortune would report that Robert Lehman's family, investment firm of L…”
▶ Colonel Towner Exposes OPERATION GLADIO in Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 @ 27:47
John S. Woodbridge involved_in
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr book_quoted
“were also involved in TV Star's worldwide insurance operations. The private influence of Corcoran's law firm on U.S. policy appears to have been good reason why in 1957, Fortune would report that Robert Lehman's family, investment firm of L…”
▶ Colonel Towner Exposes OPERATION GLADIO in Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 @ 27:47
Thomas Corcoran represented
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr book_quoted
“reveals a latent continuity underlying all of them. Take, for example, the private law firm of Thomas G. Corcoran, who organized both Chenault's Flying Tigers and the Civil Air Transport. In the early 1950s, Corcoran represented the CAT, th…”
▶ Colonel Towner Exposes OPERATION GLADIO in Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 @ 18:42
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr member_of
World Anti-Communist League host_asserted
“The guy we talked about yesterday by the name of C.V. Starr, S-T-A-R-R. He is the guy the CIA uses. He's corrupt. He was over. He's part of the China lobby, the World Anti-Communist League, the Chiang Kai-shek group, all of those. That's wh…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror by Joe Trento Chap 2 @ 44:08
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr financed_via
Sassoon Family host_asserted
“insured those shipments and that's how he was making money as well so they were all getting rich off of opium right yeah it's a crazy story and something you don't find in any history book yeah and it's i mean but just the conjunction of th…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12b @ 1:35:36
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr front_for
CIA host_asserted
“Star, like Polly, later allowed his various insurance companies to be used by the CIA to house agents undercover. And the C.B. Star story is its own show. I'm going to make myself a note because we definitely need to come back to him becaus…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 1 @ 55:57
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr member_of
Pacific Mail Steamship Company host_asserted
“But I just I think that somehow you couldn't have three names like that. And then this CV Star guy, he comes along and it's like his first job was in the Pacific Mail Company. You know, so he's involved. I mean, he was originally involved i…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12b @ 1:36:39
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr covered_up
Vanderbilt family host_asserted
“evidence of scandal with cornelius who's the king of the shippers for you know better part of 40 or 50 years you know we know it probably happened but they just either they've been so they were so wealthy they could cover anything up and th…”
▶ The Shadow State 54 The Vanderbilt Curse @ 1:29:52
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr secretly_owned
Pacific Mail Steamship Company host_asserted
“pacific mail company by 1860 cornelius vanderbilt are we talking a name change here or is this a different person it so i cannot find any direct relation to it now um our guy stars is named he's basically a junior he's named after his dad h…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 56 - 'INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE - WHO ARE THEY' @ 21:05
Mentions (108)
▶ 7:01
I don't think anybody's done as much research on it. And that's why it has to be you. All right. It does. All right. Get to work, people. Let's get started. Let's roll. We're going to talk about Cornelius Bander Starr. He goes by C.V. Starr…
▶ 7:33
is the founder of American International Group, AIG. Everybody's heard of AIG because what happened in 2008, they went belly up. They were intimately involved in the defrauding of people with the mortgage derivative, all of that stuff.…
▶ 9:07
Fits the criteria of belonging to the international syndicate, right? So, and AIG, by the way, is still in business. Thanks to our $163 billion. Jesus. Wait until you find out what this company actually is. Okay. His entire life, CV Star, h…
▶ 9:40
the United States the entire time. Okay. We're going to go into a whole bunch of the details. So he was born in 1892 and he briefly attended Berkeley, the university there, but he dropped out and he did all kinds of odd jobs. And he decided…
▶ 11:47
Starr was compelled to relocate his main operations to New York City in 1939, where he opened the first U.S. office called American International Underwriters Corporation. That actually opened in 1926. So during World War II, Starr engaged.…
▶ 12:48
in order for them to spy dressed up as civilians. So that was a major supplier of World War II intelligence out of insurance offices, thanks to CV Star. They were gathering information to determine what companies to sabotage.…
▶ 13:16
And guess which companies were never sabotaged? The one CV Star Insured. Of course. Those were left alone. They gave factory information, bridge information, and cargo shipping information of who to attack and who not to attack. And his off…
▶ 13:46
was in the exact same building as the OSS office in New York City. Get out of here. They shared offices. Okay. After the war, Star hired a whole bunch of the OSS people into AIG. So do you think they were ever not intelligence? No. They con…
▶ 14:18
for the CIA. I'm talking about AIG people. Okay. One of the most infamous ones that he hired was a OSS captain, Duncan Lee. He was a lawyer who became a long-term AIG general counsel. Now we're going to come back to him because he's very im…
▶ 15:47
When I came across C.B. Starr, the first thing I thought was he has to be connected to William Polly. He just has to. So I started doing some research on it. Starr's operation through companies like American International Assurance Company …
▶ 16:44
which then turns into the Civil Air Transport, which turns into Air America, that everybody knows is a drug smuggling airline of the CIA, right? So Polly, CV Star are at the heart of that. Documents note that CV Star worked with the help of…
▶ 17:16
Polly as an overseas investor. And why is Philippines important? Because that's where the Japanese buried all of the gold. That's where the golden lily stuff comes from. Where Japan hid all of that gold in 175 different underground faciliti…
▶ 17:45
C.V. Starr was working with Philippine capital. And just to remind everybody, Colonel, if my memory serves me correct, this was one of the things that bothered me a lot. When they buried that gold, they buried it with our troops in there th…
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CV Star was a significant figure within the circles that were associated with the China lobby. And the China lobby is the group behind the World Anti-Communist League. Just keep bringing it full circle here. This guy touches on just about e…
▶ 18:41
the KMT army to power in China and consolidate a Western presence in Southeast Asia. So this is a financial backer of Chiang Kai-shek and his KMT army to get them back into China, which is why we went into Korea, why we went into Vietnam. A…
▶ 19:09
was had approximately 40 percent of its business operations centered in and around China. But when Mao took over, he got kicked out. So he's just like Chiang Kai-shek. He wants his territory back. All right. Stars Company's board of directo…
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is another establishment to this whole anti-communist world, anti-communist league. Starr's involvement with the OSS and his strong support led him to basically doing business with Chiang Kai-shek. All right. So I went and looked up who own…
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from panama to the west coast that's kind of their big um claim to fame which was paying very big money back then um it also goes through several of the other people but one of the okay now do you remember what i told you his name was corne…
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pacific mail company by 1860 cornelius vanderbilt are we talking a name change here or is this a different person it so i cannot find any direct relation to it now um our guy stars is named he's basically a junior he's named after his dad h…
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pacific mail company by 1860 cornelius vanderbilt are we talking a name change here or is this a different person it so i cannot find any direct relation to it now um our guy stars is named he's basically a junior he's named after his dad h…
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Then after Cornelius Vanderbilt gets done with it, Brown Brothers of Brown Brother Harriman buys the controlling interest in it. So like literally everybody that's the foundation of this international syndicate has some ties to this story. …
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These ties are. OK, then it gets transferred again to and we're just talking about this shipping place where C.D. Starr started his career with ties to all of these people. So no wonder that he ends up with AIG, right? Because he's touched …
▶ 27:08
All right. Now we're going to talk about CV Star's corporate lawyer. The OSS spy guy turned AIG's corporate lawyer. Okay. It just so happens that Duncan Lee was a confidential assistant to Major General William Wild Bill Donovan while he wa…
▶ 30:41
um secretly um as being a soviet mole someone accused him of that um didn't appear like the cia was all that concerned about that though because i think they knew he was a plant in there um so then it says that after the oss was disbanded u…
▶ 33:35
following the nationalist retreat to Taiwan in 1949, which basically involved Duncan Lee, who had worked at OSS and had ties to CV Star and the civil air transport plate, transport aircraft industry. They got sued and.…
▶ 36:06
went to Honduras. So they fired both of those so that they could stage their coup in border countries. Okay. And you're never going to believe this. This probably could be the mic drop of the night. In the book, In Banks We Trust, it is rev…
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Those all were tied into American International Underwriters, which was established as part of an insurance empire by OSS agent C.B. Starr. And I'm telling you, when you get into Starr, that's probably another one that we need to highlight.…
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Because it's actually something else. And I haven't done enough digging into it. But it turns into AIG. And the entire thing was built on money laundering and drugs. AIG was founded on money laundering and drugs, posing as an insurance comp…
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Yeah, he was the ambassador to Iraq right after 2001. That's where I know him from. Who was the other name? There was one more that I saw. This guy, Gregory Starr, if I'm not mistaken, that's a grandson of C.V. Starr. And C.V. Starr is the …
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The guy we talked about yesterday by the name of C.V. Starr, S-T-A-R-R. He is the guy the CIA uses. He's corrupt. He was over. He's part of the China lobby, the World Anti-Communist League, the Chiang Kai-shek group, all of those. That's wh…
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And speaking of AIG, y'all know where that came from, right? Where is the origins of AIG as the big financial insurance, blah, blah, blah. It was CV Star, S-T-A-R-R. And I was recently posting about him. His name is Cornelius Vander Star. H…
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part of this international syndicate worked for oss during world war ii basically was a cia the whole origin of aig was a cia front company was star the same one is is that the like how they have this there's also a system that's within the…
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like A.I.G. and you go back and you look at C.B. Starr, the guy that created A.I.G. and he's tied up with the opium trade in China. Yeah. So I don't believe that the majority of these failures are actual failures. But anyway. Yeah. Well, yo…
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There's Alfred Gwynn in a top hat looking very svelte. Well, Alfred Gwynn, why is he important besides the points of Vanderbilt? Of course he is. He was class of, I have it here, 1899. So we're almost done with the 19th century. Okay, a lot…
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His mom was a descendant of Roger Williams, who was the founder of Rhode Island. Cornelius II was the favorite grandson of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, who was known as the original robber baron. He would have a steamship business to Cal…
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And during the Civil War, you heard about the famous Virginia, which is also known as the Merrimack? Yes. Well, the steamship that countered it, was finally accepted, was the Vanderbilt. It was in the Civil War. Basically, they just armored…
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which was represented by U.S. corporations and that of organized crime. It said Cochran's partner, W.S. Youngman, joined the board of U.S. Life, which is an insurance company, controlled by C.V. Starr. And we remember C.V. Starr because he'…
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other opium-related activities like Sea Supply. Sea Supply was organized in Miami, Florida by none other than Paul Helliwell, who also doubled in 1951 as the counselor for CV Star's insurance interest because he was the Thai consul in Miami…
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who organized both Chenault's Flying Tigers and the Civil Air Transport. In the early 1950s, Corcoran represented the CAT, the insurance interest of Asia's CV Star, who was also from the OSS, and United Fruit, and was said by fortune to mai…
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The Flying Tigers, which become a lot of those airplanes, become part of the Civil Air Transport, then Air America. And he was also, for those of you who have not, again, been with us, CB Star, S-T-A-R-R. His insurance company eventually be…
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are companies with national interests, and he has a choice clientele in that field. It includes United Fruit, American International Underwriters Corp., which was part of CB Star's interest in Asia, General Claire Chenault's Civil Air Trans…
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of Suvanna Bauma in Laos, and it later served as part of an infrastructure for the CIA's secret Laotian war. Previously, one of the principal U.S. financial interests in Indochina was the Camparne Franco Americano Assurance of Saigon, owned…
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Furthermore, the apparently diverse economic interest who chose to be represented by Corcoran's firm, like United Fruit, Civil Air Transport, and CV Star, turned out on closer examination to be less differentiated than the usual pluralistic…
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were also involved in CV Star's worldwide insurance operations. The private influence of Corcoran's law firm on U.S. policy appears to have been good reason why in 1957, Fortune would report that Robert Lehman's family, investment firm of L…
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What I find very interesting about all of this is if you go back before World War II, people like C.B. Starr, the Tadas, and a lot of Indian, what are now oligarchs, the families are, the British all did business throughout China. And it to…
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And their counterpart, just for you guys, we've talked about Cornelius Bander Starr a lot in the past. He basically did the same thing in Asia. Remember, and that's the entity that eventually becomes AIG. But when he started, basically, he …
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JP Morgan Jr. was so incensed by the class traitor FDR that his servants had to cut out the president's picture from a Wall Street Titans morning newspaper over fear he would spike his blood pressure. FDR even resulted in at least two abort…
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And of course, we know about the one of Smedley Butler, but there was also one that involved DuPont and Cornelius Vanderbilt. Well, the DuPont, sorry. In 1940, newspaperman and socialite Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., one of FDR's friends in New…
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So then you start talking about the CB star guy. And the thing that hit me right away is the Latin word for star is Aster. Okay. We've got Vanderbilt. We've got Vanderstar. And we've got Aster, which means star. And then you start talking a…
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Well, he wasn't involved in China trade per se. He was an insurance. Right. Yeah. But he insured the trade. Right. And then he also has the ties to the CIA and all that. Correct. But it just struck me like, because when you said Vanderstar,…
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that not only did they get rich doing the slave trade, but worked on behalf of British India, pumping all of the Indian opium into China. And that was primarily dominated by the Sassoons, Tadas, and that other family whose name's not coming…
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But I just I think that somehow you couldn't have three names like that. And then this CV Star guy, he comes along and it's like his first job was in the Pacific Mail Company. You know, so he's involved. I mean, he was originally involved i…
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One world government. And I think we made that point crystal clear last night on the Alpha Warriors show talking about CV Star. And then we made it again at noon with our secret society where we see overlaps again. And then all along just p…
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And for some reason, CB Star just kind of stuck out. And so I started going back through my notes and using Illini's handy dandy little tool that he built. And I started building this overview of CB Star. And I'm like, I knew all of this st…
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pre-World War II through World War II to today that illustrates the connectivity of all of these actions and how the cycle just consistently repeats itself and the thing that we learned early on.…
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that they all have an industry, they all have a bank, and they all have an insurance company. And so when you start looking at him, he fits like literally every Operation Gladio stereotype that we've created. And more importantly to all of …
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He was class of, I have it here, 1899. So we're almost done with the 19th century. Okay, a lot of Vanderbilt history coming here. He was the third son of Cornelius Vanderbilt II and Alice Claypool Gwynn, which is where he got his middle nam…
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The second was the favorite grandson of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, who's known as the original robber baron. He would have a steamship business to California for the gold rush. When the gold rush happened in 1849, they had to get the g…
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that countered it, was finally accepted, was the Vanderbilt. It was in the Civil War. Basically, they just armored up the steamship and put a ram on it, and that basically leveled the playing field in the Civil War, in the naval battle. So …
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And so how is this Vanderbilt related to the ones that built the breakers? Yeah. It was, was it Cornelius that built the breakers? Well, the Commodore was the first, the founder of the family fortune was Commodore and he did a lot, but it r…
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So the Vanderbilt family spread far and wide very quickly after Commodore Cornelius. Yeah. I was just wondering which one built the breakers. I'd have to go back. That's a funny story between him and the, it may have been anyway, whatever. …
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He died in 1928. So, I mean, he was very, very old. And he was an attorney, a businessman, and a member of the Republican Party. He served two terms as a U.S. Senator from New York. And his primary, like, benefactor, if you will, was Cornel…
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like AIG and you go back and you look at C.B. Starr, the guy that created AIG, and he's tied up with the opium trade in China. Yeah. So I don't believe that the majority of these failures are actual failures. But anyway. Yeah. Well, you tal…
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Who was the director of national intelligence. Yeah, it's basically a who's who of spooks and diplomats. Yeah, he was the ambassador to Iraq right after 2001. That's where I know him from. Who was the other name? There was one more that I s…
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I got three member of the Webb family and I'm going to finish with the Whitney's. We have talked about the Whitney's. They were one of those original founding fathers of America on founding families. I should say very wealthy old school fam…
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Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, 1917. He became a film producer. He did a film called The Searchers he was known for. You had a Harry Payne Whitney, class of 1894, who became a horse breeder, big polo guy, country club guy. You had a John Hay…
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So their son, though, is important. Because he's got the name of Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney. With a name like that, do you think he has a difficult time getting a restaurant reservation? No. I mean, is there a more noble name in American …
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He becomes the co-founder of a company called the Guaranteed Trust Company of New York, which we've talked about before. Oh, my gosh. Got involved in a lot of mining interests, not just in America, but South America, pretty much internation…
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in south america and um let's just fast forward operation gladio and the pre-gladio events did we do anything to uh basically overturn any governments to basically make those mining operations more efficient like every single one yeah at th…
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whose names are not associated with the people that they put out front that are really the movers and shakers of everything. Yeah, that's exactly the story I'm trying to tell. Yeah. That's exactly it. Okay. What does Cornelius Vanderbilt Wh…
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How you doing, buddy? Whether he was in another club. I have not looked. I didn't see a mention of one of the other secret societies. So I don't know the answer. If he comes up in our later research, I will let you know. If anybody finds it…
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He was basically the muscle behind Gone with the Wind, the highest grossing film of all time. Doesn't happen without him. He had been born... Oh, I don't have the year he was born here. Anyways, he would serve in World War II as a colonel i…
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Because we're not done. This story is never over with the Whitney's. So here's what Grok told us, in no particular order. We had Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney II, the great-grandson, son of Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, and Mary Louise Schro…
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Because we're not done. This story is never over with the Whitney's. So here's what Grok told us, in no particular order. We had Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney II, the great-grandson, son of Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, and Mary Louise Schro…
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The ceilings are just like clouds and ceilings, the ornate work on everything. It's amazing. It's very impressive. Not a small house. That was built in 1895 for Cornelius Vanderbilt II. Also on Newport, Rhode Island is Marble House, finishe…
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First one is a William Adams Delano. When you talk about the Delanos, you've got to talk about the Roosevelt's. So I want to spend an entire day, entire show on the Delano Roosevelt's because I've got some Roosevelt corruption stories you'r…
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I guess that first tree you could really see how diluted a family's worth can be over the generations. It just keeps spreading and spreading. So the real founder of the Vanderbilt family fortune is, of course, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt…
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moved here from a Dutch county called De Bilt. John Urchin would eventually change his name to Van, meaning from De Bilt, so Vanderbilt. That's where it came from. And he came over and was a servant for a wealthy Dutch family. That's their …
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The country is in the early stages of transitioning from kind of agrarian to this raw industrial capitalist system which would dominate the 19th century. Cornelius is in Staten Island, New York, seeing it right in front of his eyes. He grew…
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to ferry cargo and people back and forth from Staten Island to Manhattan. And by the age of 16, he's got a really reliable reputation. And no matter the weather, this guy delivers on time. He bet on himself and outworked the competition. Wa…
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It's a little bit of a victim of circumstance. Like I said, a lot of the competition disappears in 1812. But he's just a cutthroat, ruthless negotiator. He will cut his rates to destroy the competition, buy up their boats on the cheap, and …
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and killing innovation. Good point. We're going to be talking a lot about that theme going forward. Good question, though. Here we are. He embraces the steamboat technology. He's going fast. He's working for a ferry entrepreneur by the name…
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which is kind of a, well, at this time, it's the highest rank in the Navy, but there was kind of a, you'd use it in commercial enterprises and use it at yacht clubs. The head of the yacht club was the Commodore, but he got that nickname and…
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So they granted a license to Ogden to run it. Well, under Cornelius Vanderbilt's guidance, they undercut the prices. Gibbons and Ogden, which is a famous Supreme Court case, goes to the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court holds that the st…
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Vanderbilt won. Cleared the way for the federal government to basically be superior in all interstate commerce issues. It's a big deal. States' rights got smashed right there. So Cornelius continues on, acquires the business from his boss, …
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He drives them into bankruptcy, buys out their ships on the cheap, and then he raises his rates right back up. So what kind of man was he? Ruthless, iron will, swore excessively, chewed tobacco. He sought out spiritualists and psychics, and…
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He never had debt. He marries his first cousin, Sophia Johnson Vanderbilt. Marrying your first cousin is another thing that people might blame on the curse. I want to share something funny here. Give me one second. You want to comment while…
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So anyway, Sophia's got it done in a very good picture. Let's put her back up on screen. Okay. And of course they have, bear with me. Okay. They have 13 children together, 12 of which live to adulthood. I believe it's 10 girls and three boy…
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So these kids aren't living like they grew up with a silver spoon in their mouth. Not these ones. So he's doing great in his steamship business. Marrying, kicking out kids all over the place. Although they live in a humble abode. He's buyin…
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was to go to Panama and get on a string of mules to go across Panama. Doesn't Panama show up when we talk about Gladio quite a bit? Yes, it does. Well, everybody shows up in Panama. So the story we're going to tell right now is probably whe…
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And he proposes a Nicaraguan canal and never got approval or funding for it, which is interesting because he's already like close to the richest man in America. And what time frame is this? This is California Gold Rush is 1849. So this is b…
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controversy over the Panama Canal because Congress eventually does approve the funding for the Nicaraguan Canal. Yes. Well, tell me if this sounds familiar. No, but it's exactly proven our point. Exactly. Yeah, they do it because they need …
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You go through Lake Nicaragua, and then you jump out on the San Juan River, and you can get to the Pacific and go straight to California. Cornelius Vanderbilt would help hack out that route himself through the jungle, and he establishes som…
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And at the time, Vanderbilt, most of 1853, Vanderbilt and his whole family touring Europe on his yacht, the North Star. So his partner, White, would conspire with Charles Morgan, one of J.P. Morgan's, I think, brothers or cousins, to betray…
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Out of business. They had to basically pay him off, and they ended up buying his ships from him at an inflated price. So this guy just wins everywhere he goes, right? All right, a little bit more on Cornelius. He would then shift to transat…
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He drove them into extinction by cutting prices. Sensing a pattern here? Yes. Goes back, repurchases the accessory transit that line over Nicaragua again, cheaper than he sold it for. Here's where it gets fun. Right before he bought it back…
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How many people know that an American actually was the ruler of Nicaragua in the 1850s? I did, but only because I went through this. So this guy by the name of Edmund Randolph, he's a close friend of Walker's. He convinces Walker to annul t…
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who, like the rest of Central America, declared war in Nicaragua when Walker took over. He sends his men, mercenaries, to lead a raid that captured steamboats on the San Juan River and cut Walker off from his reinforcements, and he had to g…
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What we see post-World War II was nothing new. It's just the installation of these same activities inside the government because they went on for at least 100 years before that. Yeah. Well, piracy is nothing new. Correct. It really isn't. I…
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moved south and developed a monopoly on the California steamship business because that's what this guy does. We get to the Civil War, and he donates his biggest steamship, known as the Vanderbilt, to the Union Navy. That's the one they outf…
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And what they did is they defeated him by issuing what's called watered stock, which is basically printing fake certificates. And Gould had bribed the New York legislature to allow the issuance of the stock. And they actually beat Vanderbil…
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of the biltmore because it has a veranda on the back of it and he wanted to be able to approve the view from each level of the veranda yeah well the guy didn't know how to spend money that's for sure all right who we're going to do next let…
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Born in 1830, dies in 1882. He was epileptic and had a generous heart, but no business sense. His father would commit him to an insane asylum on more than one occasion. And apparently he had forged some drafts and the Vanderbilts were tryin…
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Well, that's one of the oldest families in America. And it goes all the way back to Williams, Collins, Whitney, etc. We talked about them quite a bit. There have been about four or five Whitney's in Skull and Bones. And that's who Gertrude …
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This is the guy who went to Yale and was scrolling key. He would marry a woman named Mary, I'm sorry, Grace Graham Wilson. Their father did not approve of the marriage, so he gets disinherited and they elope. He gets only a $500,000 stip in…
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Spent most of his career working directly for Cornelius Vanderbilt. And he was his lawyer, correct? Yeah, yeah, for the most part. He ended up becoming president of New York Central Railroad. So he was really deeply involved in New York Rep…
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He was a target of William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan Magazine, where he basically accuses the Pew of being owned by the Vanderbilts, which is probably true. And that made William Randolph Hearst enemy number one from a couple of guys l…
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I also had one other thing. Before you go on, I'm just saying to myself, another Russell? Yes. Well, many of the leading skull and bones have also been pilgrims. Vanderbilt's lawyer and Pilgrim Society co-founder Chauncey DePue is one of th…