Sosthenes Behn person
· born in U.S. Virgin Islands
also: Behn, Ben, Bien, Colonel Behn, Prince of Foam, Prince of Telephones, Prince of the Foams, Sothians
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Claims (3)
Sosthenes Behn founded
International Telephone and Telegraph book_quoted
“And I'm going to spell his name. S-O-S-T-H-E-N-E-S. And his last name is B-E-H-N. I'm just going to refer to him as Ben. Ben is described as a flamboyant wheeler dealer. Expert at playing each side against the other. He is the founder and c…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 7 @ 7:46
Sosthenes Behn spied_on
United States book_quoted
“the Virgin Islands, which we purchased from Denmark. He considered himself a citizen of his company. We know that he participated in World War II by filing secret reports on a variety of matters to American officials. And when the guy wrote…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 7 @ 13:39
Sosthenes Behn born_in
U.S. Virgin Islands book_quoted
“the Virgin Islands, which we purchased from Denmark. He considered himself a citizen of his company. We know that he participated in World War II by filing secret reports on a variety of matters to American officials. And when the guy wrote…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 7 @ 13:39
Mentions (14)
▶ 7:13
who the Inertel directors were. Then we get to what we're going to spend basically the majority of the time on. Chapter 12, the title of the chapter is it started with the Prince of Foam, perhaps. Well, who is the Prince of the Foams? Well,…
▶ 7:46
And I'm going to spell his name. S-O-S-T-H-E-N-E-S. And his last name is B-E-H-N. I'm just going to refer to him as Ben. Ben is described as a flamboyant wheeler dealer. Expert at playing each side against the other. He is the founder and c…
▶ 11:24
So the author says that Benz had a global empire and he was referred to as the prince of telephones. He had power over the world's communication and he used it. The empire he founded established the die from which subsequent multinationals …
▶ 12:58
and pretended to support communist countries. Again, he was in all of the countries. So there was no contradiction in his enthusiasm, either for Franco's Spain, Peron's Argentina, Hitler, the Queen of England. He serviced them all. He was A…
▶ 14:22
He also provided copies of private telegrams and telexes sent by governments and individuals through ITT channels. By virtue of his monopolies over the world's communications, the Prince of Telephones was also very rich in both monetary ter…
▶ 14:54
He would receive America's highest civilian honor, the Medal of Merit. There were considerable evidence that ITT and some of its subsidiaries provided services to both sides. In South America, ITT facilities served as cover for FBI and Nazi…
▶ 15:29
As early as 1933, Ben had met with Hitler in Berlin. In deference to advice given, at least two top Nazi officials were placed on the directorate of ITT's European company, Dr. Gerhard Westrich, the envoy of General von Rippentrop, and Kurt…
▶ 16:03
By the time hostilities broke out between the U.S. and Germany, Ben was well regarded in the council of both countries. Clearly vital to the U.S. military and economic interests, ITT facilities had also been carefully and deliberately integ…
▶ 16:32
Lorenz subsidiary to purchase 28% of the Frock Wolf firm, manufacturer of bombers that would be used to sink U.S. allied ships. ITT, in other words, by expanding into armaments and ingratiating itself into the Nazi infrastructure, became vi…
▶ 18:06
And throughout this period, ITT facilities were used to communicate intelligence to both the Allies and the Axis. While Ben himself reported directly to the U.S. Secretary of War, and then kind of with a dotted line to Goring, finally, whil…
▶ 18:36
Ben was nevertheless placed under surveillance by the FBI while having a wartime tap placed on his telephone conversations. How ironic. He was brilliant in the way that he maneuvered himself. And the author, ironically, refers to him as the…
▶ 19:14
He established a prototype that was later called the Milo Minderbender in Catch-22, a show. In fact, even the most straightforward newspaper accounts detailing his repossession of ITT's facilities in France and Belgium and Holland had an in…
▶ 19:44
line was being rolled back, Bien and his envoys were seen very close to the front lines, basically re-establishing his companies along the way. He was designated as a communication advisor to the American army. He arrived in Paris the exact…
▶ 22:55
adult life studying ITT and OSS materials, the multinational post-war activities were enabled by none other than Alan Dulles. Besides his gratitude for the intelligence provided by Ben during the war, Dulles is said to have recognized the s…