Walter B. Jones Jr. person
also: Meisner, Michener, Michener Senior, Mishner, mitchner, Mitchner, Papa Michener, Walter Michener, Walter Michener Jr., Walter Michener Sr., Walt Jr., Walt Michener Jr.
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Claims (54)
Walter B. Jones Jr. did_business_with
Charles Sonny Duncan Jr. host_asserted
“which of course they were implicated in business with Walter Michener in buying the Belize landing area, 12% of the country, to smuggle arms and drugs. When Charles was nominated as Secretary of Energy, he was introduced to the Senate Commi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book ClubReview @ 1:01:09
Walter B. Jones Jr. funded
Ronald Reagan book_quoted
“Walter Michener was the largest fundraiser in the country for Ronald Reagan and George Bush, collecting more than $3 million for their campaign, including $2.8 million in one fundraising dinner alone in Houston. The Houston Chronicle also r…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 2 @ 19:30
Walter B. Jones Jr. acquired
Continental National Bank book_quoted
“Gerald Smith and Michener go back to at least the 1960s when Michener bought one of his first banks, Continental Bank, where Smith was working. Smith had been a former bank examiner. He became Michener's right-hand man at Allied. And as we …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 4 @ 10:20
Walter B. Jones Jr. acquired
Benjamin Franklin Savings book_quoted
“sold the savings and loan to IC Industries of Chicago. In 78, the Michener Corporation bought Benjamin Franklin Savings from the Chicago entity that it was sold to, IC Industries. And that was, it says Michener sold the savings and loan in …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 2 @ 3:43
Walter B. Jones Jr. relationship_with
Albert Bell Frey book_quoted
“Bush said Frey was his close personal friend and leader in building the Republican Party in Houston. And keep in mind, Trinidad and Tobago, even back then, was a drug trafficking hub. Michener has also acknowledged that Fay was a good frien…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 2 @ 12:10
Walter B. Jones Jr. did_business_with
Marcello Family book_quoted
“After the 1987 interview with Michener, the author talked to two other people who confirmed Michener's relationship to the Marcello family. One, a former Michener employee and close personal friend, said Michener not only dealt with Marcell…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 2 @ 46:33
Walter B. Jones Jr. relationship_with
Marcello Family book_quoted
“was written about in a book called Shadow of the Alamo by a Washington investigative reporter by the name of Katz, who picked up on the significance of Michener faster than most people in Texas. Katz missed something very important, though,…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 2 @ 36:19
Walter B. Jones Jr. sold_to
John Kenneth Coyle book_quoted
“Houston Intercontinental Airport opened north of the city. The Hobby Airport was closed for a short time. The carousel died on the vine during that time. That's when Marcello came around saying he wanted to buy it. It appears that Michener …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 2 @ 42:59
Walter B. Jones Jr. sold_to
John Kenneth Coyle book_quoted
“He had one called the San Antonio Inn in Louisiana, which is where we find Herman Beebe, as well as the Marcello family. He had another one called the Town and Country, which was supposedly where Marcello hung out all the time. The transact…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 2 @ 44:02
Walter B. Jones Jr. did_business_with
Jim Elkins documented
“Interstate of California in 1990, he invested in a little Houston bank called Southwest Bank of Texas, whose growth had skyrocketed, and whose CEO, Walter Johnson, was the former president of Allied Bank. Michener also joined with Jim Elkin…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book ClubReview @ 13:55
Walter B. Jones Jr. did_business_with
Lloyd Bentsen book_quoted
“and also running to retain his Senate seat just in case they lost. That's when Dukakis was running for president. Benson's senatorial campaign headquarters was in Michener's corporate headquarters. Michener would later deny ever doing any s…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 2 @ 1:37
Walter B. Jones Jr. funded
George H.W. Bush book_quoted
“Walter Michener was the largest fundraiser in the country for Ronald Reagan and George Bush, collecting more than $3 million for their campaign, including $2.8 million in one fundraising dinner alone in Houston. The Houston Chronicle also r…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 2 @ 19:30
Walter B. Jones Jr. did_business_with
Carlos Marcello book_quoted
“The retired intelligence division officers confirmed that Michener and Marcellos knew each other, met often, and had mutual business interests. They also said that Marcello had contact with other powerful Houstonians, including developer Ke…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 2 @ 37:18
Walter B. Jones Jr. relationship_with
Carlos Marcello book_quoted
“Definitely in existence because he had been in it. When Mary Flood and the author interviewed Michener in 1987 for an article in the Houston Post, he asked him about his relationship with Carlos Marcello, which a number of people had told t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 2 @ 40:57
Walter B. Jones Jr. did_business_with
Howard Terry book_quoted
“Mishner said Marcello, whom he described as short, squatty, and Italian, wanted to buy two Houston hotels from him. Mishner and his partner, Howard Terry, who owned the Coronado Hotel and the Carousel Hotel together. The Coronado was in an …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 2 @ 41:29
Walter B. Jones Jr. did_business_with
Howard Terry book_quoted
“um area at one time in the early 1980s he served on the board of braniff airlines he had a long time working relationship with a guy by the name of howard terry they were stockholders in marathon manufacturing corporation which was purchase…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 2 @ 25:38
Walter B. Jones Jr. sold_to
First City Bank documented
“Before that could happen, First City foreclosed. Michener's old financing bank had changed hands. Judge Elkins was probably spinning in his grave when he found out that his bank had foreclosed on Walter Michener, the man who had gotten him …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book ClubReview @ 13:28
Walter B. Jones Jr. sold_to
First Interstate Bank book_quoted
“billion dollars. He had more than 40 subsidiaries across Texas. He was the largest stockholder of the bank with 5% of the common shares and was chairman of the holding company Allied Bank Shares. When he sold out in 1988 to First Interstate…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 2 @ 27:48
Joe McDermott did_business_with
Walter B. Jones Jr. documented
“There were other intersections between Michener Circle and Corson after the divorce. There was a loan from Corson Savings and Loan to Joe McDermott, a friend and business partner and former employee of Michener's, who was given his start in…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 10 @ 6:16
Gene Phillips relationship_with
Walter B. Jones Jr. book_quoted
“to make all of the big loan decisions. Anderson, who was Beebe's partner, said they dealt primarily with grows in their transactions with Southmark. Well, Southmark, and remember Southmark is like a REIT as well in Texas, was generously bai…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 4 @ 14:55
John Lindsay did_business_with
Walter B. Jones Jr. documented
“in whose precinct the road would run, said he opposed it, Echols voted against it, saying that he would follow the practice of the commissioner's court and acquiesce to the wishes of the appropriate commissioner. When Michener found out wha…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 10 @ 23:07
Archie Bennett did_business_with
Walter B. Jones Jr. documented
“Also listed in Bennett's bankruptcy papers is half a million dollar unsecured loan from his friend, Walter Michener. Again, that's how they paid each other. At the front of the Catberg's inside near the bar was a chair that was called the C…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 10 @ 15:43
Tommy Atkins did_business_with
Walter B. Jones Jr. book_quoted
“They would sometimes stay at the Stouffer Hotel, which was developed by Schnitzner. Schnitzner, who had a number of business connections with Michener, bought a savings and loan in a suburb of Houston that was controlled by a man called Tom…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 2 @ 37:46
Kenneth Schnitzer did_business_with
Walter B. Jones Jr. book_quoted
“along with Saddam Hussein, Manuel Noriega, and all of the drug kingpins, their Houston branch was in the same building with Michener. That's crazy. In 1990, Snitchner was a partner with Walt Michener Jr. and a group of Houston investors vyi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 2 @ 39:23
Kenneth Schnitzer did_business_with
Walter B. Jones Jr. book_quoted
“And I have been very close, Snitchner said. I think the only business transaction that we did together was the development of a merchandise mart. I have never done any other business with Mitchner or his son. However, Snitchner Development …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 2 @ 38:17
Kenneth Schnitzer did_business_with
Walter B. Jones Jr. book_quoted
“They would sometimes stay at the Stouffer Hotel, which was developed by Schnitzner. Schnitzner, who had a number of business connections with Michener, bought a savings and loan in a suburb of Houston that was controlled by a man called Tom…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 2 @ 37:46
Tom Anderson did_business_with
Walter B. Jones Jr. documented
“Corson had claimed in a letter that Sturdivant was not credible because he had been fired for stealing. But Sturdivant made his comments during an investigation of Corson's associate by Houston attorney Tom Alexander, who is Michener's atto…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 10 @ 4:21
Tom Anderson relationship_with
Walter B. Jones Jr. host_asserted
“Wallingford had strenuously objected to the Houston Post running the story about Pulver and Martin Schrimmer being neighbors, which contained a great deal of background about Pulver. Wallingford succeeded in keeping a lot of the detail out …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book ClubReview @ 46:36
Tony Robbins relationship_with
Walter B. Jones Jr. book_quoted
“Harrison County contributors. Michener was introduced to the circle of Brahmin Houston Republicans like Bush, James Baker III, and Mosbacher by Lyons and Tony Robinson. Robinson, another banker, he was also a contractor who owned First Mort…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 2 @ 20:01
Jimmy Lyon relationship_with
Walter B. Jones Jr. book_quoted
“Harrison County contributors. Michener was introduced to the circle of Brahmin Houston Republicans like Bush, James Baker III, and Mosbacher by Lyons and Tony Robinson. Robinson, another banker, he was also a contractor who owned First Mort…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 2 @ 20:01
Martha Adger worked_for
Walter B. Jones Jr. documented
“Their director of sales was Martha Adger, sister of John and Stephen. This is the development that President Bush visited when he walked in the back door and paid a visit to Michener's daughter. Finally, one of the biggest questions in poli…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book ClubReview @ 14:23
General Coffee Corporation did_business_with
Walter B. Jones Jr. documented
“one of the original members of the Lamar Hotel suite. That included Walter Michener. Among other dealings together, American General and Michener's company were partners in a large residential development called Cinco Ranch. Four days after…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 10 @ 32:17
Jack Trotter relationship_with
Walter B. Jones Jr. host_asserted
“John and Charles are involved in a number of investments and business ventures with Michener's close associate, Jack Trotter, and Trotter's wife. Trotter is the name partner in the D.C. lobbyist and law firm McClure and Trotter, who boasts …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book ClubReview @ 1:01:37
Herman Beebe relationship_with
Walter B. Jones Jr. book_quoted
“And the author goes on to say, Bebe must hold the record for meeting people only one time because that's all anybody ever wanted to say. No, I only ever met him once. But the one person who saw Bebe almost daily was a guy by the name of Dal…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 4 @ 5:51
Lloyd Bentsen relationship_with
Walter B. Jones Jr. host_asserted
“which of course they were implicated in business with Walter Michener in buying the Belize landing area, 12% of the country, to smuggle arms and drugs. When Charles was nominated as Secretary of Energy, he was introduced to the Senate Commi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book ClubReview @ 1:01:09
George H.W. Bush relationship_with
Walter B. Jones Jr. book_quoted
“The exact relationship between Michener and President Bush was a mystery. Michener acknowledged having known Bush for a long time, but he says he was never particularly close to him. And you're also going to find out through this book, as m…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 2 @ 4:43
Ben Barnes relationship_with
Walter B. Jones Jr. book_quoted
“very smooth talker never flustered and um he was a very close associate of herman bb and walter mitchner and when asked about whether or not um they knew each other ben barnes was like i don't even know if they knew each other which of cour…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 4 @ 3:18
Robert Sterling Clark relationship_with
Walter B. Jones Jr. book_quoted
“The former U.S. Comptroller of the Currency, Robert Clark, who was not reconfirmed by the Senate in 1991, but stayed on until 1992 because Bush had not named a replacement, was a good friend of Michener's too. Clark was an investor, borrowe…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 2 @ 28:49
Raymond Hill did_business_with
Walter B. Jones Jr. host_asserted
“Why gave Raymond Hill the idea that he was never going to get subpoenaed about these deals? Who was he really working for? Searching for the answers to those questions led to a discovery of Hill and Mainland's relationship to Mafia CIA, Ira…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 4 @ 34:32
Robert Corson did_business_with
Walter B. Jones Jr. host_asserted
“Michener and his former son-in-law, Corson, was doing all of these deals together with Michener's allied bank after he divorced Michener's daughter under the auspices of supposedly beating her and not being a good husband at all. And so mos…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 10 @ 0:31
Carlos Marcello did_business_with
Walter B. Jones Jr. book_quoted
“Mishner said Marcello, whom he described as short, squatty, and Italian, wanted to buy two Houston hotels from him. Mishner and his partner, Howard Terry, who owned the Coronado Hotel and the Carousel Hotel together. The Coronado was in an …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 2 @ 41:29
Walter B. Jones Jr. member_of
Braniff Airlines book_quoted
“um area at one time in the early 1980s he served on the board of braniff airlines he had a long time working relationship with a guy by the name of howard terry they were stockholders in marathon manufacturing corporation which was purchase…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 2 @ 25:38
Walter B. Jones Jr. invested_in
Bank of Southwest documented
“Interstate of California in 1990, he invested in a little Houston bank called Southwest Bank of Texas, whose growth had skyrocketed, and whose CEO, Walter Johnson, was the former president of Allied Bank. Michener also joined with Jim Elkin…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book ClubReview @ 13:55
Walter B. Jones Jr. relationship_with
Jimmy Lyon book_quoted
“Lyons is also a banker. He is mentioned at least four times in Oliver Norse's diary in connection with fundraising for the Contras. Lyon and Michener are also longtime good friends. Lyon said they had done business together for many years. …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 2 @ 18:29
Walter B. Jones Jr. headed
Michener Corporation documented
“Do not discuss this case with anyone. The law enforcement source said this file had been classified by the CIA. By the middle of the 91, the old war horse, Walter Michener, was practically out to pasture. His company, the Michener Corporati…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book ClubReview @ 11:59
Walter B. Jones Jr. paid
Edwin Edwards book_quoted
“a large sum of money to on an annual basis, $100,000 a year. When it became obvious to insiders in the early 80s that the savings and loan industry in Texas was hitting rough times, Michener ordered all savings and loan stock loans at Allie…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 4 @ 11:45
Walter B. Jones Jr. recruited
Robert Corson book_quoted
“Several people who were familiar with the CIA believe that Michener engineered the involvement of his former son-in-law, Robert Corson. And remember what I said, out of the three names of his daughter, Corson was one of those names. Robert …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 2 @ 5:14
Walter B. Jones Jr. financed_via
Robert Corson guest_asserted
“transferred over to Corson, maybe as his handler. One of Corson's former chauffeurs and bodyguard in 1986, Tom Sturtevent, told a private investigator that Corson and Michener were very close to each other. Sturtevent said that Michener bac…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 10 @ 3:53
Walter B. Jones Jr. did_business_with
Mainland Savings host_asserted
“They're not going to go outside of their sphere of influence, which is why it's so important to understand how many banks BB and Michener touched because all of the banks that they touched was involved in this. So you have to have a corrupt…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 4 @ 45:26
Walter B. Jones Jr. relationship_with
William Blakemore book_quoted
“has said that he knows mitchner well and said he gave a little money to his foundation one supporting a desert museum in far west texas but mitchner when asked if he knew blake moore said yeah i know him he's got a ranch by alpine and now k…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 2 @ 16:56
Raymond Hill relationship_with
Walter B. Jones Jr. book_quoted
“He bought a huge Spanish Mediterranean style building with a clock tower in the area that was purchased from none other than Walter Michener. It was not known then, but Hill and Michener had met each other on more than one occasion. Hill th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 4 @ 20:22
Walter B. Jones Jr. laundered_money_for
Lloyd Bentsen book_quoted
“purchased an apartment building in a Houston suburb from Benson for an undisclosed sum of cash and a promissory note of about $250,000. Money laundering to the politician. There were other indirect business connections between Senator Bento…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 2 @ 2:11
Walter B. Jones Jr. relationship_with
Robert Mosbacher book_quoted
“Lyons is also a banker. He is mentioned at least four times in Oliver Norse's diary in connection with fundraising for the Contras. Lyon and Michener are also longtime good friends. Lyon said they had done business together for many years. …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 2 @ 18:29
Walter B. Jones Jr. ordered_assassination_of
Carol Kelly book_quoted
“a large sum of money to on an annual basis, $100,000 a year. When it became obvious to insiders in the early 80s that the savings and loan industry in Texas was hitting rough times, Michener ordered all savings and loan stock loans at Allie…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 4 @ 11:45
Mentions (8)
▶ 34:46
Hospital Estate, which made headlines in 85 with a scandal involving self-dealing, theft, and extravagant perks. The hospital was established as a charity, but was spending less than 10% of its income on poor patients. One of Herman's trust…
▶ 35:12
The Houston Post published a story about how Walt Jr. engineered a deal in which Herman Estate bought a large track of land north of Houston at the same time he and his father's company bought an adjacent large track. They bought the land c…
▶ 36:13
When Michener Sr. was on the Herman board, it instituted its famous Life Flight Helicopter Service. This pains me to say this. The hospital hired Evergreen Air, the CIA front company, to run Life Flight.…
▶ 58:14
Adderholt, the unconventional warfare editor of Soldier of Fortune, is president of the Air Commando Association, which provides relief assistance to counter-revolutionary groups like the Contras. Ailey said that Adderholt asked Atkinson ab…
▶ 58:45
perhaps through his Middle East activities and connections, perhaps through his home building. In a financial statement in November of 1982, Atkinson listed Walter Michener's company as a credit reference. And it was reported through Michen…
▶ 1:00:40
There's something wrong with people who want to spend $35 million and don't want the shopping center. Several weeks before Atkinson showed up at her door, Hess was in a downtown Houston visiting her attorneys who happened to be Fulbright an…
▶ 1:01:13
You're not doing anything with it anyway. You just need to retire. So several weeks later, Atkinson introduced himself to Hess and he told her that Walter Michener had sent him. Haley, Atkinson's accountant, who joined him at the Meyerland …
▶ 1:01:41
However, Michener, when asked about it, said, guess. I don't know him. Not only did Atkinson use Michener as a reference, Michener's allied bank lent Atkinson $5 million to secure part of the shopping center, while Southmark San Joaquino Sa…