David Guyatt Wrote:The International Order of St. Hubertus. A brief bit of digging into one of the founders of the new international order taken from their website.

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Mr. Ekern was one of the first to be invited to be a member of the restituted Order along with Llewellyn E. Thompson, the American Ambassador, General Mark W. Clark, Commanding General of the Allied Forces in Austria, George Wood, British Ambassador Baron Harold Craccia and others.













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I have focused on Baron Harold Craccia. My sense id that what is so far available is the authorized biography and that there are deeper aspects.

This from Wiki:

Quote:Harold Caccia, Baron Caccia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Caccia in 1962

Harold Anthony Caccia, Baron Caccia GCMG GCVO GCStJ (21 December 1905 Pachmarhi, India - 31 October 1990 Builth Wells, Wales) was a British diplomat.
He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Oxford and won a Blue at rugby union, playing at centre for Oxford in The Varsity Match in 1926.[SUP][1][/SUP] He played cricket for Oxfordshire in the Minor Counties Championship between 1928 and 1938.[SUP][2][/SUP] In 1932 he married Anne Catherine Barstow, daughter of George Lewis Barstow and Enid Lillian Lawrence.
Caccia entered the diplomatic service in 1929 and was posted to Peking (Beijing) and then to Athens and London where, in 1936, he became assistant private secretary to Anthony Eden. He was back in Athens early in World War II, but was then attached to the staff of Harold Macmillan, Britain's representative at Allied headquarters in North Africa. The Greek civil war once again saw him in that country, and by 1945 his services earned him recognition on the Birthday Honours List.
Caccia was Ambassador to Austria from 1951 to 1954, and from 1956 to 1961 Ambassador to the USA. He was sent to Washington to repair relations badly damaged by the Suez crisis of 1956. The breakdown in mutual confidence arose when Britain and France joined an Israeli invasion of Egypt and sent military forces to capture the Suez Canal, which had been nationalized by President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt. In the years that followed, he was instrumental in restoring and nurturing the "special relationship" between London and Washington.[SUP][3][/SUP]
In 1961, he became Permanent Under-Secretary of State, an office he held until 1965. He was Provost of Eton 1965-78 and President of MCC in 1973-74.
He was knighted in 1950, and was created a life peer with the title Baron Caccia, of Abernant in the County of Breconshire, on 11 May 1965. Caccia was appointed a Bailiff Grand Cross of the Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order and a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George.

That bio suggested to me that there were spook connections that did not form part of his authorized bio.

After some sniffing around I found this Telegraph review of a book on the history of the SIS and the following extract:

Quote:Nor is the work of Kim Philby, "SIS's worst traitor", in Jeffery's words, in any way glossed over or toned down. We don't have in MI6 SIS's damage assessment of Philby's treachery (which is a pity) because it was compiled after Jeffery's cut-off date. Philby was not interrogated until after the defection of Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess in May 1951. But what Harold Caccia, the chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, called in 1946 "the difficulty of piercing the iron ring of Russian controlled territory" from the Baltic to the Adriatic, was nearly impossible in terms of successful operations until Philby was removed from SIS, which happened in 1951 (though he was not confirmed as the "third man" until 1963).

Finding about his directorships, which aren't even mentioned in the Wiki bio proved more difficult and I have had the time to go deeply into this area. But the below from the Modern History Project provides a little more insight.

Quote:Thomas D. Cabot, honorary chairman of Cabot Corp. was director of Office of Inter-American affairs for the State Dept. 1951, president of United Fruit, and set up Radio Swan on Swan Island for the CIA; he went on a special mission to Egypt in 1953. His brother John was in the foreign service from 1926, served as Consul Gen. Shanghai; ambassador to Pakistan, Finland and Colombia, Brazil and Poland; he was U.S. delegate to Dumbarton Oaks in 1944, and was secretary to the United Nations organization (conference) in San Francisco in 1945 under Alger Hiss.
Paul Cabot is director of J.P. Morgan Co., Ford, Continental Can, Goodrich, and M.A. Hanna Co. Lord Harold Caccia is also a director of Cabot Corp. He served on the Allied Control Commission in Italy 1943-44 as political advisor, Ambassador to Austria 1951-54, Ambassador to U.S.(?) 1956-61; he is also on the board of Orion Bank, National Westminster Bank and Prudential Assurance. He is chmn of Standard Telephone & Cable.

Orion Bank has long since disappeared, but I knew it because I used have dealings with it back in 1970's/80's - and I vaguely remember there were some interrsting connections for those of us interested in deep politics. But sadly my memory can't dredge up what it was now, although the feelings haunts me that it was to do with with the Roberto Calvi, Michel Sindona and Vatican affair?

Anyway, the bottom line is that I think the Order of St. Hubertus and it's founders and leading members deserves much deeper research than I can currently give it.

Quote:One solid fact stands in opposition for sure, Scalia's family selected both the lack of autopsy and the actual funeral home.

David Guyatt Wrote:The International Order of St. Hubertus.

Ralf Anders Wrote:

David Guyatt Wrote:The International Order of St. Hubertus.

I did some research today on Emilio de Mistura who, as I suspected, turned out to be the father of Staffan de Mistura.

Connaisseurs of the "Langemann-Papers" will know that I am talking about one of the most important agents of the BND in the 60s, active in Rome, the Vatican, Vietnam and, it turns out, the US. Reinhard Gehlen once called him his "best man".

In Heigl/Saupes book on the Langemann scandal, "Operation EVA", I stumbled across the following (my quick translation):

"De Mistura also built up links to the US with the help of the BND. He did so using the International Order of St. Hubertus who had been operating across the world since 1695 under the guise of a hunter's association. The North American section, to which mainly Californians belong, included two persons who were connected to the BND (...)"

These were, for the sake of completeness, Karl U. Weber, honorary consul of Austria in San Francisco, and Daniel E. London, vice president of Western Hotels Company International.

Quote:Thanks for the heads up Ralf. This all ties into Le Cercle. There's more on Langemann at Peter's Wikispooks, HERE and HERE Those who wish to read the full 4th edition of David Teacher's book on Le Cercle (Rogue Agents) can obtain a free copy HERE