Naval Intelligence, MKUltra and the Hippie Movement

[Linda Minor]

Footsteps in the shifting sands...

Manson's supply of LSD may have come directly from the CIA. A new type of LSD known as "Orange Sunshine" was being used by the Manson Family immediately prior to the Tate-LaBianca murders according to Family member Charles "Tex" Watson, who wrote in his prison memoir that it was the use of the Orange Sunshine LSD that finally convinced him that Manson's Helter Skelter, apocalyptic vision was real. (13) And this special LSD may have been supplied by the CIA. Orange Sunshine was manufactured and distributed by a group known as "The Brotherhood of Eternal Love" who operated out of a beach resort near Los Angeles. The Brotherhood had among it's drug manufacturers and dealers, one Ronald Stark, a person with known connections to the CIA. It is believed that Stark was responsible for the manufacture of up to 50 million hits of LSD). (14)

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(13) Will You Die for Me?: The man who killed for Charles Manson tells his
own story by Tex Watson, as told to Chaplain Ray, Fleming H. Revell Company,
page 118-120.

(14) Acid Dreams, pages 248-251

The one person who connects all the disparate elements was Billy Mellon Hitchcock. He moved into Sausalito, CA to work for Delafield and Delafield, a banking firm. He had owned the house in Millbrook where Timothy Leary was passing out LSD. He was also acquainted with Owsley et al and laundered their drug profits through a bank in the Caribbean. What I found interesting about Hitchcock--whose father had been a very famous polo player who played with the likes of Jock Whitney, Averell Harriman and Bobby Lehman--was that he also set up a Swiss bank as a subsidiary of a bank in Houston whose directors included George Bush's oil partners, the Liedtke brothers, who had close connections to the Mellon family's oil empire (Gulf Oil) which became Chevron:

http://www.sandersresearch.com/index.php...iew&id=295

The San Francisco-based corporation called Chevron which elected Condi Rice to its board of directors can trace its roots back to several component companies—not least of which is Standard Oil of California (Socal) which became very interested in acquiring rights in the Middle East after World War I....

http://mediamayhem.blogspot.com/2004_04_11_archive.html
The Mafia, CIA and George Bush: The Untold Story of America's Greatest Financial Debacle by Pete Brewton; Spi Books, 1992
pages 137-38
The same month that MCorp was formed Bank of the Southwest gobbled up Capital National Bank in Houston in the largest bank merger in Texas History to that date. Capital National Bank had been formed in 1965 in Houston and in 1969 joined a Swiss bank, Paravicini Bank, to start a new Swiss bank called Bank for Investment and Credit Berne.
The chairman of the new bank was J.F. Paravicini, the head of Paravicini Bank, while the vice chairman became L.F. McCollum, Sr., chairman of Capital National. Other investors in the new bank included Boeing in Seattle, Seagrams in Montreal, Minute Maid in Zurich (an affiliate of Coca-Cola), the London subsidiary of Brown and Root [Harriman's investment banking firm? No, the Houston-based construction company, George and Herman Brown] headed by ] … and Schlesinger Organization of London and Johannesburg. One of the directors of Capital National Bank was George Bush's close friend and trustee of his blind trust, William Stamps Farish III, then an officer in Underwood Nehaus.
Another director of Capital National at the time the Swiss affiliate formed was J. Hugh Liedtke, who was Bush's original partner in Zapata Petroleum back in the 1950s and later chairman of Pennzoil.
Shortly after the union of Capital National Bank and Paravicini Bank, Paravicini's owner was caught helping Billy Mellon Hitchcock (the oil heir, LSD freak and associate of Seymour Lazar) hide and launder $67 million of Hitchcock's money, which included proceeds from the manufacture and sale of LSD. Paravicini was also involved in fraudulent stock transactions with Hitchcock and was eventually forced to sell Paravicini Bank. After Parvicini got into trouble with Hitchcock, Capital National Bank continued on in the Swiss bank, the Paravicini's travails were never mentioned in the Houston press. ...

page 378 [Liedtke]
One of George Bush's closest friends, with whom he started Zapata Petroleum back in the 1950s, is Hugh Liedtke, the chairman of Pennzoil. Liedtke is mentioned in this book, in connection with a Houston bank. Liedtke is also a member of the board of directors of Paramount Communications, the parent company of Simon & Shuster.
Paramount Communications is the successor company to the giant conglomerate Gulf + Western. One Gulf + Western's original founders was Houston businessman John Duncan. Duncan and his brother, Charles, the former Secretary of Energy and before that Deputy Secretary of Defense in the Carter Administration, were involved in the family's business, Duncan Coffee Company, which was merged with Coca-Cola. Charles subsequently became president of Coca-Cola, the company that later would buy 700,000 acres in Belize with none other than Walter Mischer. ....