William Draper person
also: Draper, Major General William Draper, Whiting
Explore in graph → Export claims (CSV) ↓
Related entities (most co-mentioned)
United Statescountry · 14West Germanycountry · 12Potsdam Conferenceevent · 5Lucius Clayperson · 5Nazi Partyorganization · 4Joint Chiefs of Stafforganization · 4Harley Kilgoreperson · 4Allied Forcesorganization · 3Dillon, Read & Co.organization · 3Denazificationoperation · 2Frederick Devereuxperson · 2German Credit and Investment Corporation of New Jerseyorganization · 2Robert Murphyperson · 2Henry Stimsonperson · 2Laoscountry · 1Vietnamcountry · 1Soviet Unioncountry · 1Burmacountry · 1Kuomintangorganization · 1Adolf Hitlerperson · 1United Kingdomcountry · 1Chinacountry · 1The New York Timesorganization · 1Francecountry · 1
Claims (15)
William Draper member_of
Dillon, Read & Co. book_quoted
“And that's why Angleton spent a lot of time in Italy before he joined the OSS and then the CIA, because his dad was spying and providing information to the State Department based on his franchise in Italy. And that is all very well document…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #4 @ 18:52
William Draper member_of
Skull and Bones guest_asserted
“those two organizations had their fingerprints all over post-World War I reparations. But also, if you go to the Morgenthau Plan, which was post-World War II, right prior to the Marshall Plan, the biggest opponents of the Morgenthau Plan wa…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #4 @ 51:00
George H.W. Bush urged
William Draper book_quoted
“So for example, in the mid-1980s, Bush contacted a classmate by the name of William Draper, D-R-A-P-E-R, who was head of the Export-Import Bank, which is a big deal, and urged him to approve funding for Iraq, a complete reversal of the bank…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Prelude to Terror Chap 25 @ 27:08
William Draper member_of
Dillon, Read & Co. book_quoted
“in this semi-clandestine shift of U.S. policy towards Germany that summer. And keep in mind, Dillon, Reed, and Company, we've talked about many times on Secret Societies because they're just like Sullivan and Cromwell. They had all of the o…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 13 @ 14:27
Henry Stimson appointed
William Draper book_quoted
“engineered Draper's appointment as chief of the economic division of the Joint Allied Control Council for Germany and as director of economic policy for the German territories administered by the U.S. So you have the very people that arrang…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 13 @ 15:22
James Forrestal appointed
William Draper book_quoted
“engineered Draper's appointment as chief of the economic division of the Joint Allied Control Council for Germany and as director of economic policy for the German territories administered by the U.S. So you have the very people that arrang…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 13 @ 15:22
William Draper headed
Joint Allied Control Council for Germany book_quoted
“engineered Draper's appointment as chief of the economic division of the Joint Allied Control Council for Germany and as director of economic policy for the German territories administered by the U.S. So you have the very people that arrang…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 13 @ 15:22
William Draper member_of
German Credit and Investment Corporation of New Jersey book_quoted
“And prior to the war, he had been a corporate treasurer at Dillon Reed and Company, and he was also an officer on the German Credit and Investment Corporation of New Jersey, a Dillon Reed-sponsored holding company that specialized in doing …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 13 @ 16:23
William Draper covered_up
Potsdam Conference book_quoted
“According to his own account, William Draper never had any intention of implementing the Potsdam Agreement or any other Washington policy on denazification or decarteling of German industry. Draper considered such programs to be naive and c…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 13 @ 18:24
William Draper covered_up
IG Farben book_quoted
“who believed accurately, as it turned out, that Draper and the higher-ups had systematically thwarted their initiatives against IG Farben and many other German companies. Kilgore charged that the top U.S. officials in Berlin were reluctant …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 13 @ 27:55
Harley Kilgore exposed
William Draper book_quoted
“rehabilitated German industry whose leading figures are well known to them, rather than striking out on new paths of economic enterprise, unquote. And he had it dead straight. Kilgore named William Draper, Fredericks, Devereux, Wolfus Weiss…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 13 @ 26:58
Federal Maritime Commission exposed
William Draper documented
“Kilgore, however, provided increasingly specific information, though it was rarely found its way into any of the mainstream media. Big shock. State Department U.S. military government spokesman bitterly denied his accusation while knowing t…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 13 @ 28:47
William Draper funded
Lewis H. Brown documented
“The company had frequently been accused in U.S. courts of cooperating and corruption and actual crimes. Brown toured Germany during 1946 and 47 and returned to the U.S. with detailed arguments against economic reform in Germany that had bee…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 13 @ 51:07
William Draper headed
German Credit and Investment Corporation of New Jersey book_quoted
“though not called that by name. They sold them in New York, London, Zurich, and other financial centers. Dylan Reed, Vice President William Draper, emerged as one of the most prosperous traders of these bonds. As director of the German Cred…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 5 @ 19:48
William Draper financed_via
Iran book_quoted
“After Bush's phone call, the bank approved the loan. When George and Barbara Bush arrived in Washington after the election, they stayed at George's old Yale roommate, Jonathan W. Sloat, S-L-O-A-T. Sloat was a Washington attorney who basical…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Prelude to Terror Chap 25 @ 27:38
Mentions (33)
▶ 27:08
So for example, in the mid-1980s, Bush contacted a classmate by the name of William Draper, D-R-A-P-E-R, who was head of the Export-Import Bank, which is a big deal, and urged him to approve funding for Iraq, a complete reversal of the bank…
▶ 26:50
Corcoran, William Pauley, Whiting, Willauer, and others played important roles in projecting a forward U.S. presence in that area. This was true both for the support of the KMT forces and allies in Taiwan, Burma, Thailand, Korea, Laos, and …
▶ 8:19
population emergency campaign which urged u.s government to use taxpayer dollars to search to um to aid the overpopulation problem it specifically endorses the 1959 draper report on foreign aid for population control where they'd go around …
▶ 19:23
who would become the U.S. Secretary of Defense and the guy that famously supposedly checked out the window when he was seeking psychiatric medical care. William Draper, later economics chief of the U.S. military government during the U.S. o…
▶ 51:00
those two organizations had their fingerprints all over post-World War I reparations. But also, if you go to the Morgenthau Plan, which was post-World War II, right prior to the Marshall Plan, the biggest opponents of the Morgenthau Plan wa…
▶ 13:58
Antifa and placed them under considerable restraint. From the very first days of the occupation, the U.S. and British occupation governments shut down the independent denazification by the summer of 1945. For the most part, they dispersed m…
▶ 14:53
They were not interested in denazification. They were interested in expanding their control. By 1945, Secretary of War Stimson and Secretary of the Navy Forrestal, who used to be Dylan Reed president. So you literally have a Dylan Reed agen…
▶ 15:22
engineered Draper's appointment as chief of the economic division of the Joint Allied Control Council for Germany and as director of economic policy for the German territories administered by the U.S. So you have the very people that arrang…
▶ 15:55
of Germany and their economic policy. Draper emerged as by far the most powerful U.S. industrial and financial officer in occupied Germany with overall authority for implementing the Joint Chiefs of Staff memo and other U.S. quote-unquote d…
▶ 16:23
And prior to the war, he had been a corporate treasurer at Dillon Reed and Company, and he was also an officer on the German Credit and Investment Corporation of New Jersey, a Dillon Reed-sponsored holding company that specialized in doing …
▶ 16:54
considered the common good. The Draper family had owned textile mills, patents on textile equipment, and a substantial share of the international trade in fibers. Their New England mill towns featured model worker communities where the comp…
▶ 17:23
shared many of the same roots as that of the new quote-unquote non-Nazis. Draper's 1945 decision concerning rations for German coal miners illustrates that point. The mines had to be mined if we were going to get the factory started, Draper…
▶ 17:54
or even 1,800. So one of the first steps he took was to raise the calorie level of miners to 4,000 calories a day against great protest. Then the next step was to search for miners when they went home every night because they were dividing …
▶ 18:24
According to his own account, William Draper never had any intention of implementing the Potsdam Agreement or any other Washington policy on denazification or decarteling of German industry. Draper considered such programs to be naive and c…
▶ 18:48
He surrounded himself with like-minded aides to the degree that he could, and together they often succeeded in undermining reform and denazification in the German economy. Draper's electronic industry specialist was Frederick Devereux. He h…
▶ 19:49
When he was confronted with his lack of progress in denazification and breaking up the cartels, he thought they were fine. Why shouldn't these German businessmen run things the way they used to? I don't know. Maybe it's because it was ran b…
▶ 20:17
from the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Potsdam Agreement stayed in effect. Draper contended in a later interview. And so we had to wiggle here and waggle there and do the best we could without openly breaking any of the directives to permit…
▶ 20:40
We didn't pay much attention to the Potsdam Agreement, as perhaps we should from the point of view of a military discipline. There were several efforts to pull me back to Washington and have me charged with not carrying out the directive. G…
▶ 21:10
Draper's critics pointed to the tough language from both the Joint Chiefs of Staff and from the Potsdam Agreement, arguing that Draper failed to implement the letter and spirit of the official policy. But what the critics did not understand…
▶ 23:59
Draper announced that top anti-Nazi measures in accordance with the official policy then shortly after he proclaimed success in carrying out these measures, while at the same time undermining every single one of them. Some Draper subordinat…
▶ 24:29
aimed at all German businesses. It focused only on those who had thrived on the death camps and the looting. And the proposal did not call for criminal trials of these suspects. The aim was simply to investigate what had happened. Draper bl…
▶ 24:58
When subordinates complained to sympathetic congressmen in Washington, Draper's allies, Robert Murphy and Colonel Clarence Adcock, General Clay's most senior aide, issued a series of reports in October 1945 that the main work of denazifying…
▶ 25:28
What the investigators are doing here through denazification is nothing less than a social revolution. That's what he said. Murphy's top aide, Charles Reinhard, complained, quote, if the Russians want to Bolshevikize their side of the river…
▶ 26:00
Draper's rebellious subordinates nonetheless managed to win some congressional support in Washington, notably from West Virginia Democrat Senator Harley Kilgore. And from FDR loyalist, Kilgore delivered a broadside against Draper's economic…
▶ 26:58
rehabilitated German industry whose leading figures are well known to them, rather than striking out on new paths of economic enterprise, unquote. And he had it dead straight. Kilgore named William Draper, Fredericks, Devereux, Wolfus Weiss…
▶ 27:27
and they have shown every disposition to making peace with it, unquote. Well, of course they did, because they got rich off of it. Kilgore returned again and again to the theme that the U.S. military government in Germany was refusing to ca…
▶ 27:55
who believed accurately, as it turned out, that Draper and the higher-ups had systematically thwarted their initiatives against IG Farben and many other German companies. Kilgore charged that the top U.S. officials in Berlin were reluctant …
▶ 29:15
by the frank comments of Lucius Clay, William Draper, and others once it was over. Next chapter, which is named, it would be undesirable if this became publicly known. The political conflict among the allies over how to deal with the accuse…
▶ 46:25
Denazification should not be carried so far as to prevent the building of a stable democratic society in Germany. We must avoid the creation of a huge mass of outcasts who will provide fertile soil for agitators and a source of social insta…
▶ 47:54
because they owned the media, to influence government policy and eventually to shift public opinion was dramatically manifested in a realignment of U.S. policy concerning denazification and getting rid of cartels between 1945 and 1947. One …
▶ 22:39
All right. So Brown's lobbying trip to Germany was underwritten mainly. And again, keep in mind that this is the impetus for all of this. We established with Draper, William Draper and General Lucius Clay, how they're basically.…
▶ 19:48
though not called that by name. They sold them in New York, London, Zurich, and other financial centers. Dylan Reed, Vice President William Draper, emerged as one of the most prosperous traders of these bonds. As director of the German Cred…
▶ 20:17
the U.S. economic chief in occupied Germany. You just can't make that shit up. The U.S. companies bought substantial interest in established German companies, which in turn plowed that new money into the arms production that had been banned…