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Ed Ball recruited
George Smathers documented
“Because he thought Pepper was getting too liberal. In 1950, Ball put up George Smathers to run against the senator and then orchestrated a smear campaign. This included calling the incumbent Red Pepper, accusing him of being a communist, an…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 21 @ 38:05
Ed Ball funded
George Smathers documented
“Because he thought Pepper was getting too liberal. In 1950, Ball put up George Smathers to run against the senator and then orchestrated a smear campaign. This included calling the incumbent Red Pepper, accusing him of being a communist, an…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 21 @ 38:05
Ed Ball funded
Nemours Foundation documented
“primarily in the form of stock in various companies, including St. Joe Paper Company, the Florida East Coast Railroad. The trust beneficiary is the Nemore Foundation, which owns and operates the hospitals and clinics. The money flows this w…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 21 @ 47:29
Ed Ball funded
St. Joe Paper Company documented
“One of the first moves Ed Ball made after Alfred DuPont died was to build up the St. Joe Paper Company, which Alfred had just started, at the town of Port St. Joe on the northwest coast of Florida. Ball had a huge paper mill constructed. To…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 21 @ 36:39
Ed Ball funded
Florida National Bank documented
“Jesse Ball's brother. The first order of business in Florida was to buy a bank. Because, you know, that's what all rich people do. Ed Ball was assigned that job. And like a good cutout, he bought up controlling shares of Florida National Ba…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 21 @ 33:19
Ed Ball funded
Florida East Coast Railway documented
“to feed the mill. Ball expanded the Florida National Bank umbrella to 30 banks across the state, making it the largest in the state and the largest in the country south of Philadelphia. He then bought Florida's most important railroad, Flor…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 21 @ 37:09
Ed Ball funded
Nemours Foundation documented
“Fred Silverman, an assistant attorney general in Delaware, had led the fight to try to get more money spent on the charity. We try to keep an eye on them as best we can, which is not good at all. They cook the books and make the 3% as small…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 21 @ 49:52
Ed Ball funded
St. Joe Paper Company documented
“on charity equal to at least 5% of their total assets by classifying his system as a hospital. Then before he died, Ball was sued by the state of Delaware and Florida, which alleged he was not spending enough of the profits on charity. Ball…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 21 @ 48:25
Ed Ball funded
Florida East Coast Railway documented
“on charity equal to at least 5% of their total assets by classifying his system as a hospital. Then before he died, Ball was sued by the state of Delaware and Florida, which alleged he was not spending enough of the profits on charity. Ball…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 21 @ 48:25
Mentions (27)
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went to the Isle of Jersey company that was also handling Jack DeVoe's drug trafficking and John Dick's trust funds, i.e. the CIA's money that they laundered there. If this complex deal has confounded many FBI agents, federal prosecutors, f…
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Ed Ball lifting his glass, muttering an epitaph and smiling from beyond the grate. So they make it extra convoluted so they can all pretend that they couldn't get to the bottom of it. Moving on. Ed Ball. Who is Ed Ball? Originally from Virg…
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in the 1920s. Following after his brother-in-law, Alfred DuPont, the great black gunpowder man in the country, Alfred had feuded and split with his Wilmington, Delaware kin, one of the richest, most powerful, most famous families in America…
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Jesse Ball's brother. The first order of business in Florida was to buy a bank. Because, you know, that's what all rich people do. Ed Ball was assigned that job. And like a good cutout, he bought up controlling shares of Florida National Ba…
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much of it backwater neglected panhandle property at $2 to $3 an acre. After Alford died in 1935, before he could get much further in his Florida dealings, he left most of his $55 million estate to his wife, Jessie, who along with her broth…
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One of the first moves Ed Ball made after Alfred DuPont died was to build up the St. Joe Paper Company, which Alfred had just started, at the town of Port St. Joe on the northwest coast of Florida. Ball had a huge paper mill constructed. To…
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to feed the mill. Ball expanded the Florida National Bank umbrella to 30 banks across the state, making it the largest in the state and the largest in the country south of Philadelphia. He then bought Florida's most important railroad, Flor…
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Excuse me, 50,000 acres of sugar cane property in South Central Florida. He constructed a processing plant for the cane. Finally, no empire is complete without its politicians. And Ed Ball bought many of them. In the most infamous incident …
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Because he thought Pepper was getting too liberal. In 1950, Ball put up George Smathers to run against the senator and then orchestrated a smear campaign. This included calling the incumbent Red Pepper, accusing him of being a communist, an…
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of Senator Paul Claude Pepper. Smathers won. In a 1970s book entitled Richard Nixon and the Mafia, New York Times reporter Jeff Gerth described how Smathers, Ball, and B.B. Roboso were good friends and that Ball was involved in key besting …
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One of Ball's closest friends and business associate was Raymond Mason. He controlled the Charter Company, which was the primary affiliate of Charter Oil Company. In 1992, Ball and Mason swapped stock in their companies, Charter gaining 8% …
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Charter Oil was in the middle of a so-called Billy Gates scandal with Billy Carter, the brother of Jimmy Carter, and that was during his Libya fiasco to be in the middleman to secure oil. Ball also sold Mason the Alfred DuPont estate and ma…
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where his sister, Jessie, had lived until her death in 1970. Mason co-authored a biography of Ball titled Confusion to the Enemy. Together, the two traveled all over the world in Mason's jet, rubbing elbows with Middle Eastern sheiks, the S…
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When Vasco was trying to get Ball and Mason to buy one of his companies, Ball allegedly told Vasco, I had a dream that you and I slept together on a cold night. In the morning, you had all the blankets. At one time, Vasco served on the boar…
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in case there was a shootout. But he certainly ran in the circles of the CIA, along with Raymond Mason. The next item on the itinerary was one of the most exciting and pleasurable experiences of their worldwide trip. It was a meeting with t…
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While visiting with his majesty, Mr. Ball confessed his regrets that he was not 45 years younger so that he would be around to watch the growth and development of the country. That didn't work out very well. Among the people he met in Iran …
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Using the expertise of Talisman Sugar Company, a subsidiary of St. Joe's, and selling it to Iran, the Shah expressed interest in building sugar refineries on land in Australia if our trip there proved successful. A meeting with the housing …
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in Iran. Mr. Ball spoke with the American ambassador to Iran, who just so happened to be at that time, the former CIA director, Richard Helms, and several banking interests, about a 35% interest in the Iranian bank. The final stop was at an…
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on the southern coast of the Persian Gulf, known as Doha, for another discussion about oil concessions, one which covers an area of 300 million acres of dry land. Ball had purchased Talisman Sugar Company. All right, Bridget, you get one gu…
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100% William Polly was intelligent. 100%. Yeah. So Ball purchased Talisman Sugar Company from William Polly. In fact, it was William Polly who had helped transform the airline company into CIA's Civil Air Transport, the umbrella company for…
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After Ball died in 1981, his successor, C.J. Jake Boleyn, reversed stock swapped with Charter in 1983. The next year, Charter filed for bankruptcy, and then in 87, 51% of its stock was purchased by Mason's friend and associate, Carl Lender.…
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Ball lost his fight in Congress to stop a law that required him to divest A.I. DuPont Trust of its controlling interest in Florida National Bank, primarily because of his gruesome labor practices and union busting at the railroad, which wer…
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Ball also carried on a continuous fight with the Attorney General in Florida and Delaware over the amount of money remitted to the trust for the Nemore Foundation, which operated several hospitals and clinics in Delaware and Florida for eld…
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it would be required to pay an amount equal to at least 5% of the assets of the trust to the foundation each year. But the way it's set up, there can be several impediments to the flow of money. The companies might not make a profit and thu…
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on charity equal to at least 5% of their total assets by classifying his system as a hospital. Then before he died, Ball was sued by the state of Delaware and Florida, which alleged he was not spending enough of the profits on charity. Ball…
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which had been paying about 1% of its assets to the foundation each year, agreed to settle the Florida and Delaware lawsuits by upping the percentage to three. Ball then hired an auditor to lower the appraised value of the assets of the tru…
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Fred Silverman, an assistant attorney general in Delaware, had led the fight to try to get more money spent on the charity. We try to keep an eye on them as best we can, which is not good at all. They cook the books and make the 3% as small…