EXCELLENT Research on LHO & Ruth Hyde Paine [and family] - Linda Minor

[Tom Scully]

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Ruth Paine is to be encountered to be challenged, not petted, stroked, and flattered. Did Bill ask her how well she got to know her parents' close friend who was rooming in her parents' house in New York in the 1930's, and dining with them in the 1950's?
Mike did not want Ruth to be on the WC record as principal correspondent with Robert Webster's employer, Rand's friend, Frederick T Merrill at the State Dept.:

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=%22...+east-west
Russian Students To Arrive Soon - The Harvard Crimson
www.thecrimson.com/.../russian-students-to-arrive-...
The Harvard Crimson
Four Russian students, visiting the University for a year's study, will arrive next week, Frederick T. Merrill, Director of East-West Contracts in Washington, said last ...

State Department Disclaims Support of Youth Festival - The ...
www.thecrimson.com/.../state-department-disclaims...
The Harvard Crimson
Frederick T. Merrill, Director of East-West Contact, told the CRIMSON last night that "we are simply informing all applicants of what is involved in attending the ...

The Surveillance Imperative: Geosciences During the Cold ...
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1137438746
Simone Turchetti, ‎Peder Roberts - 2014 - ‎History
Thurston to Frederick T. Merrill (Director East-West Contacts Staff, State Department), January 23, 1958. NASA Division of Earth Sciences: Conference on Arctic ...

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archiv...lPageId=82

Ruth won't meet with anyone who wants to ask her anything potentially meaningful. She's convinced a niche audience that she is above suspicion. History is not as kind to her, given the facts......

This is the obit of the father of Robert E.Webster's employer's (H. James Rand's) business partner.:

It seems Jim Rand's father thought highly of the father of Ruth Paine's State Dept. contact that she could
not recall the name of.........

The Diamond of Psi Upsilon - Volume 20, Issue 1 - Page 47

https://books.google.com/books?id=pJ5MAAAAMAAJPsi Upsilon - 1933 - ‎Full view - ‎More editions

William Fessenden Merrill 1933....Resigning both positions in June, 1928, he was named vice- president and general manager of Remington Rand, which had previously absorbed his old company, the Library Bureau. .Two months after joining the company, Mr. Merrill was promoted to the presidency of the organization, succeeding James H. Rand, Jr., who became chairman of the board. More than a year ago Brother Merrill retired because of ill health, but retained many directorships until the time of his death. He was a ... He is survived by a widow, a son, Frederick T. Merrill, and a brother, Oliver B. Merrill, Gamma '91. Charles

This is one of my favorite finds.:


Reagan and Shaheen were both born in Tampico, IL, pop. 600, just a couple of years apart. When Bob Gates was questioned in his DCIA senate committee appointment confirmation hearing, his answers related to questions about John Shaheen's business partner, Roy Furmark, are a real hoot. By that time, Shaheen had died of cancer, along with Bill Casey.......

I have problems with this. from Bill Simpich's first chapter.:

Bill Simpich described Marina's statement passed along to the FBI by Katherine Ford.: (As have authors Evica and DiEugnenio and probably others.)

http://www.maryferre...6&relPageId=265






(Roy Furmark's 1987 testimony excerpted above reminds me of the WC testimony of Nancy Perrin Rich, but she was less vague. Furmark stated that Shaheen spent $16 million on his failed NYC newspaper start up,The New York Press.

IN 1972 Shaheen was quoted in the NY Times saying the purpose of the newspaper was to support president Nixon.)



http://news.google.c...pg=6080,1110710



Other considerations, of many..:

Lt. Col. J. Elroy Mccaw : "Elroy served at Army Air Forces Headquarters in the Pentagon as Executive Officer and Special Assistant to General (Harold M.) McClelland, head of USAAF communications. He was also McClelland's liaison to OSS.."

Mccaw became chairman of Rand Development in 1968.


http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=14...84,2778544


(Entire article text available at link above article image.)

http://seattletimes.com/html/obituaries/...bit30.html
Opera supporter Marion McCaw Garrison dies
By Paul de Barros
Seattle Times staff reporter
June 29, 2012
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The family moved to Seattle in 1953. In 1969, John McCaw died suddenly. Facing lawsuits claiming all but $20,000 of his $12 million estate, Mrs. Garrison spent years resolving the company's finances, enlisting the help of attorney William H. Gates Sr.
She saved the business, and her sons took the helm, creating McCaw Cablevision & Cellular Communications. She remained as chairman emeritus.
In 1994, the family sold the company to AT&T for $11.5 billion......

OSS: The Secret History of America's First Central ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=1599216582
Richard Harris Smith - 2005 - ‎History
Wisner's Bucharest team included George Bookbinder, now president of the Rand Development Corporation, and Columbia political scientist Henry Roberts.....

https://www.google.com/#q=cia.gov+wisner+bookbinder+

1. [PDF]
   [url=http://http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/fi...143/BISHOP, ROBERT_0064.pdf]Download PDF for 51966ece993294098d50b3c6 - CIA FOIA[/url]
   www.foia.cia.gov/.../BISHOP,%20RO...‎
   Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
   End Lt. F.k.. Frank G. Wisner. Robert Bishop. William L. Cary. Wallace Fair. Louis L. Madison. Richard F. Won. George H. Bookbinder ... Finance 0 and Russian. ....
   

Bookbinder NY Times 15 Nov 1959

http://community.sea...0404&slug=1694




Money From Thin Air April 4, 1993

...World War II disrupted Elroy's expansion plans, but it served to enhance the air of mystery about him. He served in the old Army Air Corps in intelligence, working mainly with radio systems.

Exactly what he did remains murky even to family and close friends. ....

(Continued from text in quote box directly above.)
One story has him making a secret journey to Russia to install a weather station to assist British pilots. Many suspected that Elroy for many years stayed active in intelligence work as an operative for the CIA.

In 1965, Nixon was in Moscow on an unplanned trip, he received a Soviet visa in Helsinki in just three hours. He was accompanied by and representing John M. Shaheen.


Shaheen's sister is married since the 1940's to broadcast journalist Hugh Downs. Shaheen honeymooned at Marathon Key, FL in 1951 with Henry J. Rand and Dan T. Moore. Moore's sister was Luvie Moore Abell Pearson, wife of syndicated columnist Drew Pearson. They all cameto Florida at the invitation of their friend, Dr. George W. Crile, Jr., Skull & Bones, 1928. Crile's son George III worked for Pearson and Anderson and then for 31 years, CBS News and 60 Minutes.

http://www.maryferre...720&relPageId=2


George H.Bookbinder is mentioned in the CIA doc image above.:

http://consortiumnew...tober-surprise/


The document revealing White House knowledge of Casey's Madrid trip was among records released to me by the archivists at the George H.W. Bush library in College Station, Texas. The U.S. Embassy's confirmation of Casey's trip was passed along by State Department legal adviser Edwin D. Williamson to Associate White House Counsel Chester Paul Beach Jr. in early November 1991, just as the October Surprise inquiry was taking shape......

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http://www.consortiu...004/110204.html

by Morgan Strong November 2, 2004

......Longtime Arafat confidant Bassam Abu Sharif said that in mid-1980, he met in Paris with John Shaheen, a friend to both Ronald Reagan and Reagan's campaign chief, William J. Casey. Abu Sharif told me that Shaheen, a former U.S. intelligence officer of Lebanese origin, extended a Republican offer of improved U.S. relations with the PLO if the Arafat-led organization would assist in persuading the Iranians to delay the hostage release until after the November 1980 elections.

Shaheen, who died in 1985, has long been a central figure in the so-called "October Surprise" case, allegations that Republicans sabotaged Carter's hostage negotiations as a way to ensure the 1980 election of Reagan as president and George H.W. Bush as vice president. Though Abu Sharif and Arafat have previously discussed the Republican overture, they had refused to identify the Republican intermediary until now.....

Roy Furmark's name is mentioned literally countless times in Robert Gates failed February,1987 Senate, DCI confirmation hearing. Shaheen is never spoken of.:

https://www.google.c...eliable person"

NOMINATION OF ROBERT M. GATES
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17 AND WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1987
.....Senator COHEN. Well, when your General Counsel made the investigation, who did the General Counsel talk to? Mr. GATES. I don't know. He simply told me when I got back from being out of the country that he had looked into it and as far as he could determine there were no problems legally from the Agency's standpoint. Let me go back again to make the point that even with the call from Furmark and Allen's analysis

Mr. ELLIFF. IS Furmark a reliable person?

Mr. GATES. I don't know him. I can't answer that question. We felt we had some fragments. This was the first thing that we had ever seen that suggested there might have been some possibility of a diversion. It was very shaky stuff. What you had was an analytical judgment by Allen with no concrete evidence, and as I point out again in this seven or eight-page memorandum, his concern about this is expressed in one sentence and it doesn t even mention the contras, but simply the possibility of a diversion to other U.S. projects. And we had this call from Furmark, that the Director took from Furmark. It was at that point that we told Allen to lay all this out in a piece of paper that we then passed to Poindexter when we saw it on paper.

What is new? .................... Bookbinder's company of 1955, in the business of distributing films in Europe, featured as its V.P. a man who had been FDR's official steno,
leaving the White House in 1941 for a position as assistant to the president of our H. James Rand's father's company, Remington Rand.

Bookbinder's friend Blatnik had married a citizen of the German Reich employed after WWII in Frankfurt in the film business, just as Bookbinder was.

Blatnik was enlisted by John Shaheen to rehabilitate William Casey's reputation. Robert E. Webster sure knew how to pick who to work for, and lest we forget
Rand and Shaheen got along well with Drew Pearson's wife's brother Dan Moore or that Shaheen's sister was the wife of Hugh Downs, or that the birthplace of both
Reagan and John Shaheen, three years apart, is Tampico, IL., Pop. 600, or that Elroy Mccaw ended up succeeding H James Rand as chairman of Rand Development Corp.!

http://maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docI...and%20ford


http://newspaperarchive.com/us/illinois/...-01/page-9
"...while H James Rand of Cleveland, Ohio was best man."




https://books.google.com/books?id=kO2ySF...e&q&f=true
Veil
By Bob Woodward
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https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&hl...okbinder&=
The Final Film of Laurel and Hardy: A Study of the Chaotic Making ...

https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0786451742
Norbert Aping - 2008 - ‎Preview - ‎More editions
Soon after the end ofWorld War II, American businessman George H. Bookbinder realized that Laurel and Hardy still enjoyed star power in Europe which they had essentially lost ...
At the end of the forties he renamed it All Star Pictures Sales Corporation [All Star] in order to enter the European market. ... Bookbinder was also aware of the tremendous impact of World War II on the European film industry.

https://books.google.com/books?id=qVbWAAAAMAAJ
1956 - ‎Snippet view -
AH Star Picture Sales Corp. ... OFFICERS President George H. Bookbinder Vice-Presidents. .Henry M. Kannee. Irving Shapiro Treasurer Julian Benjamin Secretary Eleanor Eisenberg Allart Pictures Corp.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/l...1793724cac
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.....Mr. Kannee compiled the official record of President Roosevelt's speeches and press conferences from 1933 to 1941, when he left to become assistant to the president of Remington Rand Inc.

http://www.startribune.com/obituaries/de...r)-blatnik

Blatnik, Gisela Hager Age 93, of Ashburn, VA, peacefully passed away with family at her side March 30, 2016. Born November 19, 1922, in Hamburg, Germany to Annalise and Konrad Hager. She received a degree in language translation from Heidelberg University in 1945, just weeks prior to the American liberation of the city. Her first job was as an interpreter for the commanding forces. Thereafter, she worked for the Motion Picture Association of America in Frankfurt. She was married to the late Congressman John A. Blatnik, who represented Minnesota's 8th District from 1946-1974. Their marriage ended in divorce. Gisela was an active member of numerous cultural, social, and political organizations. She was the consummate congressional wife and a loving, devoted mother. She will be remembered for her exceptional kindness, humility, and grace. She is survived by her children.......

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