Panama Papers

[Magda Hassan]

I've been having a bit of a look at the company Mossack Fonesca. It is a partnership between 2 lawyers. Jurgen Mossack's father was in the SS and Wikipeadia is very vague but says he ended up working for the US as a spy against Cuba and ended up in Panama. Has Paperclip type ratline written all over it.

More here from the ICIJ:

Mossack was born in Germany in 1948. He moved to Panama with his family in the early 1960s, according to his law partner.
Mossack's father had been a member of the Waffen-SS, the notorious armed wing of the Nazi Party during World War II, according to U.S. Army intelligence files obtained by ICIJ.
After the war the father offered his services to the U.S. government as an informant, the files show, claiming "he was about to join a clandestine organization, either of former Nazis now turned Communist . . . or of unconverted Nazis cloaking themselves as Communists." An Army intelligence officer wrote that the offer to spy for the U.S. might simply be "a shrewd attempt to get out of an awkward situation."
Nevertheless, the old intelligence files indicate that Mossack's father later ended up in Panama, where he offered to spy, this time for the CIA, on Communist activity in nearby Cuba.
After earning a law degree in Panama in 1973, the son worked for a time as a lawyer in London before returning to Panama to start the firm that he would later merge to form Mossack Fonseca & Co.

Oh boy, this could also have a connection to the Bormann Brotherhood and their investing of Nazi loot throughout the world. Maybe. Perhaps.

Jürgen also has a brother and sister, Peter (pictured) and Marion, who returned to German in the 70s. Peter is the Honorary Consul for Panama in Frankfurt

The newspaper said it applied to the German Federal Intelligence Service, the BND, for information about him. The BND confirmed documents existed on him but said they would not be released becauve this could endanger 'the well-being of the Federal Republic of Germany or one of its members'.
In 1948 he left Germany with his family to settle in Panama, and later returned to Munich with his wife during the 70s. He died in the 1990s, his wife followed five years ago.
According to reports, U.S. Army intelligence archives hold a file on him as he allegedly offered his services to the U.S. government as an informant, claiming 'he was about to join a clandestine organisation, either of former Nazis now turned Communist... or of unconverted Nazis cloaking themselves as Communists.'
An Army intelligence officer wrote that the offer to spy for the U.S. might simply be 'a shrewd attempt to get out of an awkward situation'.
Nevertheless, the old intelligence files indicate that Mossack's father later ended up in Panama, where he offered to spy, this time for the CIA, on Communist activity in nearby Cuba.

Interesting what the BND have to say, I think.

Also, a curious sort of synchronicity here. Perhaps. I note that two books by John Le Carre, The Tailor of Panama, and Graham Greene's The Honorary Consul - the former set in Panama about spies and power and the latter set in the border region of Argentina and Paraguay about overthrowing the Nazi leaning Paraguayan dictatorship of the time.

It's one of those Mmmm moments.

Yes, very interesting what the BND say. If he were just some plain old German even with a Nazi background there should be no big deal. Almost all men of that age would have had Nazi membership. Rare not to. So what's the big secret? /sarcasm

And very curious synchronicity about the books too. Mmmm....indeed

I keep thinking about all that Borman Brotherhood Nazi gold and think what better way to hide your own stolen loot than amongst all the other crooks and thieves loot. And what wonderful leverage having all that knowledge would be knowing where all the real secrets are and who belongs to those real secrets. Mmmm......