Profumo Sex Scandal Link to Astor family?

[Linda Minor]

Charlie, I find a cabal of US and Soviet intell types in regrd to JFK not at all unlikely. Elsewhere on this forum I mentioned the unusual multi-millionaire, Armand Hammer, for his absolute open door access to the very top Soviet officials throughout the cold war. Hammer was an unremitting and unapologetic Capitalist.

Where did Stalin draw the line? Capitalists who weren't prepared to indulge his power needs - plus his outrageous urge to personally financially benefit from selling off the Romanoff treasure (well, some of it anyway - a great deal ended up in Manchuria and thence Japan following the latter's conquest of "Manchuckuo" in 1932).

As always it is the elite who pull the strings and who produce shadow matinee performances from behind the curtain, to keep us all guessing and to flummox us with perpetual misdirection.

As Linda says, it was the elite who ran drugs from the very beginning starting with Opium. So why should anyone imagine they would turn over such a massively lucrative trade to their state managers which today we call like to "government"?

In other words does anyone know of a case where a hired Plantation "manager" took control of his masters lands?

Not f**king likely is it.

I totally agree, David. I have been reading several new books that have come out recently all at once, and what really seems to tie the lot together is Jennet Conant's book about Roald Dahl being an undercover spy for the Brits in order to find out whether the Americans were going to come into the war and whether FDR was going to keep the leftist Henry Wallace on as vice president. Wallace was adamant about the need to trash the British and French (and others') colonial empires after the war in the event the Americans were able to rescue those countries from the Nazis.
I haven't finished reading the last chapters, but was struck by who Dahl's sources were--Charles Marsh, the newspaper chain owner who bankrolled LBJ's rise being the primary source.

Thus it seems Lyndon, who was having a long-term affair with Marsh's girlfriend/wife Alice Glass, may have been promoted to the top with the help of this cabal of spies who were feeding information up the chain to God only knows who.