04-05-2010, 09:34 PM
ALTON OCHSNER, M.D.: A BIOGRAPHY
Adapted from Spartacus with information by Judyth Vary Baker
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKochsner.htm
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Edward William Alton Ochsner, the son of German immigrants, was born in Kimball, South Dakota, on 4th May, 1896. His uncle, A. J. Ochsner, a famed surgeon, was the founder and president of the American College of Surgeons.
Ochsner studied at Washington University, St. Louis before moving to the University of Wisconsin Medical School. He then went to work with A. J. Ochsner in Chicago where he helped develop techniques for blood typing.
Michael DeBakey, the world-famed heart surgeon who was mentored by Ochsner, wrote of him in glowing terms:
“He was the ideal mentor, disciplined yet compassionate, demanding yet charismatic, awe-inspiring yet accessible, and exemplary as a teacher, model, scientist, and friend. …completing his residency training at Augustana Hospital in Chicago, he studied abroad and had a short stint at the University of Wisconsin Medical School before settling in New Orleans, Louisiana, for a notable career in American surgery. His leadership qualities were manifest early. While studying in Switzerland and Germany, he introduced blood transfusion to the European medical community and soon became "the blood transfusion specialist" of Europe. His keen sense of observation was similarly evident early in his career. “
In 1939 Alton Ochsner and Michael DeBakey published an article suggesting a link between cigarette smoking and lung cancer. His close friends in the medical world, Dr. Harold Diehl (Vice President of Research for the American Cancer Society) and Dr. George Moore (Director of Roswell Park Memorial Institute for Cancer Research) assisted him in his crusade against smoking, testifying with him in court cases involving smoking and lung cancer.
As a result of his research, international ties and fund raising, the Ochsner Clinic, established in 1942, grew rapidly. Along with William Donovan (Head of the OSS and a founder of the CIA) Ochsner was on the board of the American Cancer Society. Later he became president of the organization. In 1952 Ochsner appointed Mary Sherman to take control of the bone cancer laboratory that today is named in her honor. In 1955 he published Smoking and Cancer: A Doctor's Report.
Ochsner was a passionate anti-communist, and after becoming friends with U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull, was invited to look after Tomas Gabriel Duque, the former dictator of Panama. He also become friends with Anastasio Somoza, the dictator of Nicaragua, and his family. Ochsner also secretly treated Juan Peron, the dictator of Argentina, in an emergency leg operation. A frequent traveler to Latin American countries, he was honored with numerous medals and awards from dictators and leaders throughout Latin America and Cuba.
The FBI maintained a file on Ochsner. This file was recently released under the Freedom of Information Act. It shows that Ochsner had a long relationship with various U.S. government agencies. A. J. Weberman and others state that he gave personal reports to US Army Surgeon Generals, flying to Washington as often as once a week.
Ochsner also developed a close friendship with Texas oil magnate Clint Murchison, who helped fund various right-wing organizations. Ochsner was also closely connected to Warren Commission member Hale Boggs. According to one Louisiana State Representative, Ochsner was "the most aggressive seeker and recipient of so-called federal handouts in the Second District (Hale Boggs' district).
In 1961 Ochsner, with the financial help of Clint Murchison, established the Information Council of the Americas (INCA). Ed S. Butler was appointed as Executive Director of INCA. The main objective of the organization was to prevent communist revolutions in Latin America. Ochsner told the New Orleans States Item: "We must spread the warning of the creeping sickness of communism faster to Latin Americas, and to our own people, or Central and South America will be exposed to the same sickness as Cuba." (16th April, 1963)
Edgar and Edith Stern, owners of WDSU radio and television, were members of INCA. Eustis Reily of the Reily Coffee Company personally donated thousands of dollars to INCA. However, it was Patrick J. Frawley, a Californian industrialist and close friend of Richard Nixon, who was INCA's largest financial contributor. The organization used some of this money to make a film about Fidel Castro entitled, Hitler in Havana. The New York Times reviewed the film calling it a "tasteless affront to minimum journalistic standards." INCA created “Truth Tapes” that were sent to hundreds of radio stations throughout Latin America.
One of Ochsner's friends described him as being "like a fundamentalist preacher in the sense that the fight against communism was the only subject that he would talk about, or even allow you to talk about, in his presence."
Edward Haslam argues in Dr. Mary's Monkey that "Ochsner's hospital was one of the 159 covert research centers which the CIA had admitted to setting up." Haslam believes that Ochsner recruited Mary Sherman to run the research operation that would eventually lead to the development of a bioweapon, though originally, Ochsner’s interest in the deadly side of medical projects had been sparked by the death of his grandson. Ochsner had publicly administered a dose of the contaminated Cutter Laboratories polio vaccine to his own grandson, who died shortly afterward. Ochsner and Sherman wanted to improve the vaccine, but efforts to do so resulted in the discovery of a mutated monkey virus that had potential as a bioweapon when combined with powerful strains of cancer.
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The basic project was set up March 23, 1962, using conventional facilities, which then expanded out of the loop for its final phases. Haslam believes that Sherman, at first involved in carrying out secret research into developing a vaccine to prevent an epidemic of soft-tissue cancers caused by the polio vaccine contaminated with SV-40, eventually joined Ochsner in his search for an effective bioweapon for use against “another Hitler, such as Castro,” as witness Judyth Vary Baker has pointed out.
Their work included using a linear particle accelerator located in the Infectious Disease Laboratory at the Public Health Service Hospital in New Orleans. According to Haslam there were other labs set up to isolate various parts of the project. One such lab, the “Mouse House,” handled the smaller lab animals that had been inoculated with the cancer strains, not far from David Ferrie’s apartment. The processing and selection of ever-more aggressive tumors and cell lines, destined for more recycling and radiation, involved the use of David Ferrie’s large kitchen in his apartment on Louisiana Avenue Parkway. The product was then handled by Dr. Sherman, who made additional decisions
Ochsner was strongly opposed to the domestic and foreign policy of President John F. Kennedy. He wrote to Senator Allen Ellender: "I sincerely hope that the Civil Rights Bill can also be defeated, because if it was passed, it would certainly mean virtual dictatorship by the President and the Attorney General, a thing I am sure they both want."
Ochsner was also friends with Clay Shaw. Ochsner was president of the International House, whereas Shaw was the long-time director of the organization. Shaw was also a director of the International Trade Mart in New Orleans. Both men were also directors of the Foreign Policy Association of New Orleans and arranged for a CIA Deputy Director to New Orleans to discuss the communist threat.
Ochsner sat on the National Institute of Health Board of Directors. A fellow director in the early 1960s was Jose Rivera. In 1963 Rivera was in New Orleans handing out research grants from NIH to the Tulane Medical School.
The records of the Mexican consulate office in New Orleans show that when Lee Harvey Oswald obtained his visa for his trip to Mexico, William Gaudet’s number was next—he was probably standing right behind him (though he denied this). . As Edward Haslam points out in DR. MARY'S MONKEY: "Gaudet. is known to have worked for the CIA and edited an anti-Communist newsletter which Ochsner financed."
Adele Edisen, a neurologist, has revealed that in April 1963, Jose Rivera, gave her the name of Lee Harvey Oswald and his New Orleans phone number three weeks before he moved to the city.
On 21st July, 1964, the same day the Warren Commission came to New Orleans to obtain unsolicited testimonies, Mary Sherman was brutally murdered. The following day, Ochsner wrote a letter to R. H. Crosby, his largest financial contributor saying "our Government, our schools, our press, and our churches have become infiltrated with Communism".
In 1967 Jim Garrison began investigating the activities of Lee Harvey Oswald in New Orleans. Ochsner told a friend that he feared Garrison would order his arrest and the seizure of INCA's corporate records. Ed Butler took these records to California where Patrick J. Frawley arranged for them to be hidden. Ronald Reagan, the governor of California refused all of Garrison's extradition requests. Frawley had previously helped fund Reagan's political campaigns in California. In 2000, Sixty Minutes located a document from the Garrison investigation regarding Ochsner’s possible indictment, along with officials from Reily Coffee Company, where Oswald had worked in 1963.
Ochsner attacked the Garrison investigation as being "unpatriotic" because it eroded public confidence and threatened the stability of the American government. In his article, “Social Origins of Anticommunism: The Information Council of the Americas” (Louisiana History, Spring 1989) Arthur Carpenter claimed that Ochsner launched a propaganda campaign against Garrison. This included sending information to a friend who was the publisher of the Nashville Banner. It is known from Grand Jury testimony that former Reily Vice President William I. Monaghan (also former FBI) obstructed the Garrison investigation as well.
According to Carpenter, Ochsner also attempted to discredit Mark Lane, who was assisting the Garrison investigation. He told Felix Edward Hebert that Lane was "a professional propagandist of the lunatic left." Ochsner also instructed Herbert to tell HUAC’s Edwin E. Willis (Chairman of the House Unamerican Activities Committee) to dig up "whatever information you can" on Lane.
Felix Edward Hebert later sent Ochsner a report on Mark Lane extracted from confidential government files. This included "the files of the New York City Police, the FBI, and other security agencies." These files claimed that Lane was "a sadist and masochist, charged on numerous occasions with sodomy". Hebert also supplied Ochsner with a photograph that was supposed to be Lane engaged in a sadomasochistic act with a prostitute.
Ochsner had a close friendship with Anna Chennault, whose husband, and also Ochsner’s friend, Claire Chennault, ran a Flying Tiger CIA flight operation over China. She served as an intermediary to Vietnam for Nixon and played a role in extending the Vietnam War. Ochsner later married another Nixon associate after his first wife, a non-smoker, died of a galloping lung cancer.
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Alton Ochsner died of heart surgery complications on 6th September, 1981.
Adapted from Spartacus with information by Judyth Vary Baker
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKochsner.htm
Edward William Alton Ochsner, the son of German immigrants, was born in Kimball, South Dakota, on 4th May, 1896. His uncle, A. J. Ochsner, a famed surgeon, was the founder and president of the American College of Surgeons.
Ochsner studied at Washington University, St. Louis before moving to the University of Wisconsin Medical School. He then went to work with A. J. Ochsner in Chicago where he helped develop techniques for blood typing.
Michael DeBakey, the world-famed heart surgeon who was mentored by Ochsner, wrote of him in glowing terms:
“He was the ideal mentor, disciplined yet compassionate, demanding yet charismatic, awe-inspiring yet accessible, and exemplary as a teacher, model, scientist, and friend. …completing his residency training at Augustana Hospital in Chicago, he studied abroad and had a short stint at the University of Wisconsin Medical School before settling in New Orleans, Louisiana, for a notable career in American surgery. His leadership qualities were manifest early. While studying in Switzerland and Germany, he introduced blood transfusion to the European medical community and soon became "the blood transfusion specialist" of Europe. His keen sense of observation was similarly evident early in his career. “
In 1939 Alton Ochsner and Michael DeBakey published an article suggesting a link between cigarette smoking and lung cancer. His close friends in the medical world, Dr. Harold Diehl (Vice President of Research for the American Cancer Society) and Dr. George Moore (Director of Roswell Park Memorial Institute for Cancer Research) assisted him in his crusade against smoking, testifying with him in court cases involving smoking and lung cancer.
As a result of his research, international ties and fund raising, the Ochsner Clinic, established in 1942, grew rapidly. Along with William Donovan (Head of the OSS and a founder of the CIA) Ochsner was on the board of the American Cancer Society. Later he became president of the organization. In 1952 Ochsner appointed Mary Sherman to take control of the bone cancer laboratory that today is named in her honor. In 1955 he published Smoking and Cancer: A Doctor's Report.
Ochsner was a passionate anti-communist, and after becoming friends with U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull, was invited to look after Tomas Gabriel Duque, the former dictator of Panama. He also become friends with Anastasio Somoza, the dictator of Nicaragua, and his family. Ochsner also secretly treated Juan Peron, the dictator of Argentina, in an emergency leg operation. A frequent traveler to Latin American countries, he was honored with numerous medals and awards from dictators and leaders throughout Latin America and Cuba.
The FBI maintained a file on Ochsner. This file was recently released under the Freedom of Information Act. It shows that Ochsner had a long relationship with various U.S. government agencies. A. J. Weberman and others state that he gave personal reports to US Army Surgeon Generals, flying to Washington as often as once a week.
Ochsner also developed a close friendship with Texas oil magnate Clint Murchison, who helped fund various right-wing organizations. Ochsner was also closely connected to Warren Commission member Hale Boggs. According to one Louisiana State Representative, Ochsner was "the most aggressive seeker and recipient of so-called federal handouts in the Second District (Hale Boggs' district).
In 1961 Ochsner, with the financial help of Clint Murchison, established the Information Council of the Americas (INCA). Ed S. Butler was appointed as Executive Director of INCA. The main objective of the organization was to prevent communist revolutions in Latin America. Ochsner told the New Orleans States Item: "We must spread the warning of the creeping sickness of communism faster to Latin Americas, and to our own people, or Central and South America will be exposed to the same sickness as Cuba." (16th April, 1963)
Edgar and Edith Stern, owners of WDSU radio and television, were members of INCA. Eustis Reily of the Reily Coffee Company personally donated thousands of dollars to INCA. However, it was Patrick J. Frawley, a Californian industrialist and close friend of Richard Nixon, who was INCA's largest financial contributor. The organization used some of this money to make a film about Fidel Castro entitled, Hitler in Havana. The New York Times reviewed the film calling it a "tasteless affront to minimum journalistic standards." INCA created “Truth Tapes” that were sent to hundreds of radio stations throughout Latin America.
One of Ochsner's friends described him as being "like a fundamentalist preacher in the sense that the fight against communism was the only subject that he would talk about, or even allow you to talk about, in his presence."
Edward Haslam argues in Dr. Mary's Monkey that "Ochsner's hospital was one of the 159 covert research centers which the CIA had admitted to setting up." Haslam believes that Ochsner recruited Mary Sherman to run the research operation that would eventually lead to the development of a bioweapon, though originally, Ochsner’s interest in the deadly side of medical projects had been sparked by the death of his grandson. Ochsner had publicly administered a dose of the contaminated Cutter Laboratories polio vaccine to his own grandson, who died shortly afterward. Ochsner and Sherman wanted to improve the vaccine, but efforts to do so resulted in the discovery of a mutated monkey virus that had potential as a bioweapon when combined with powerful strains of cancer.
The basic project was set up March 23, 1962, using conventional facilities, which then expanded out of the loop for its final phases. Haslam believes that Sherman, at first involved in carrying out secret research into developing a vaccine to prevent an epidemic of soft-tissue cancers caused by the polio vaccine contaminated with SV-40, eventually joined Ochsner in his search for an effective bioweapon for use against “another Hitler, such as Castro,” as witness Judyth Vary Baker has pointed out.
Their work included using a linear particle accelerator located in the Infectious Disease Laboratory at the Public Health Service Hospital in New Orleans. According to Haslam there were other labs set up to isolate various parts of the project. One such lab, the “Mouse House,” handled the smaller lab animals that had been inoculated with the cancer strains, not far from David Ferrie’s apartment. The processing and selection of ever-more aggressive tumors and cell lines, destined for more recycling and radiation, involved the use of David Ferrie’s large kitchen in his apartment on Louisiana Avenue Parkway. The product was then handled by Dr. Sherman, who made additional decisions
Ochsner was strongly opposed to the domestic and foreign policy of President John F. Kennedy. He wrote to Senator Allen Ellender: "I sincerely hope that the Civil Rights Bill can also be defeated, because if it was passed, it would certainly mean virtual dictatorship by the President and the Attorney General, a thing I am sure they both want."
Ochsner was also friends with Clay Shaw. Ochsner was president of the International House, whereas Shaw was the long-time director of the organization. Shaw was also a director of the International Trade Mart in New Orleans. Both men were also directors of the Foreign Policy Association of New Orleans and arranged for a CIA Deputy Director to New Orleans to discuss the communist threat.
Ochsner sat on the National Institute of Health Board of Directors. A fellow director in the early 1960s was Jose Rivera. In 1963 Rivera was in New Orleans handing out research grants from NIH to the Tulane Medical School.
The records of the Mexican consulate office in New Orleans show that when Lee Harvey Oswald obtained his visa for his trip to Mexico, William Gaudet’s number was next—he was probably standing right behind him (though he denied this). . As Edward Haslam points out in DR. MARY'S MONKEY: "Gaudet. is known to have worked for the CIA and edited an anti-Communist newsletter which Ochsner financed."
Adele Edisen, a neurologist, has revealed that in April 1963, Jose Rivera, gave her the name of Lee Harvey Oswald and his New Orleans phone number three weeks before he moved to the city.
On 21st July, 1964, the same day the Warren Commission came to New Orleans to obtain unsolicited testimonies, Mary Sherman was brutally murdered. The following day, Ochsner wrote a letter to R. H. Crosby, his largest financial contributor saying "our Government, our schools, our press, and our churches have become infiltrated with Communism".
In 1967 Jim Garrison began investigating the activities of Lee Harvey Oswald in New Orleans. Ochsner told a friend that he feared Garrison would order his arrest and the seizure of INCA's corporate records. Ed Butler took these records to California where Patrick J. Frawley arranged for them to be hidden. Ronald Reagan, the governor of California refused all of Garrison's extradition requests. Frawley had previously helped fund Reagan's political campaigns in California. In 2000, Sixty Minutes located a document from the Garrison investigation regarding Ochsner’s possible indictment, along with officials from Reily Coffee Company, where Oswald had worked in 1963.
Ochsner attacked the Garrison investigation as being "unpatriotic" because it eroded public confidence and threatened the stability of the American government. In his article, “Social Origins of Anticommunism: The Information Council of the Americas” (Louisiana History, Spring 1989) Arthur Carpenter claimed that Ochsner launched a propaganda campaign against Garrison. This included sending information to a friend who was the publisher of the Nashville Banner. It is known from Grand Jury testimony that former Reily Vice President William I. Monaghan (also former FBI) obstructed the Garrison investigation as well.
According to Carpenter, Ochsner also attempted to discredit Mark Lane, who was assisting the Garrison investigation. He told Felix Edward Hebert that Lane was "a professional propagandist of the lunatic left." Ochsner also instructed Herbert to tell HUAC’s Edwin E. Willis (Chairman of the House Unamerican Activities Committee) to dig up "whatever information you can" on Lane.
Felix Edward Hebert later sent Ochsner a report on Mark Lane extracted from confidential government files. This included "the files of the New York City Police, the FBI, and other security agencies." These files claimed that Lane was "a sadist and masochist, charged on numerous occasions with sodomy". Hebert also supplied Ochsner with a photograph that was supposed to be Lane engaged in a sadomasochistic act with a prostitute.
Ochsner had a close friendship with Anna Chennault, whose husband, and also Ochsner’s friend, Claire Chennault, ran a Flying Tiger CIA flight operation over China. She served as an intermediary to Vietnam for Nixon and played a role in extending the Vietnam War. Ochsner later married another Nixon associate after his first wife, a non-smoker, died of a galloping lung cancer.
Alton Ochsner died of heart surgery complications on 6th September, 1981.