"Justice Scalia spent his last hours with members of this secretive society of elite hunters"

[Peter Lemkin]

The International Order of St. Hubertus. A brief bit of digging into one of the founders of the new international order taken from their website.

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Mr. Ekern was one of the first to be invited to be a member of the restituted Order along with Llewellyn E. Thompson, the American Ambassador, General Mark W. Clark, Commanding General of the Allied Forces in Austria, George Wood, British Ambassador Baron Harold Craccia and others.













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I have focused on Baron Harold Craccia. My sense id that what is so far available is the authorized biography and that there are deeper aspects.

This from Wiki:

Harold Caccia, Baron Caccia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Caccia in 1962

Harold Anthony Caccia, Baron Caccia GCMG GCVO GCStJ (21 December 1905 Pachmarhi, India - 31 October 1990 Builth Wells, Wales) was a British diplomat.
He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Oxford and won a Blue at rugby union, playing at centre for Oxford in The Varsity Match in 1926.[SUP][1][/SUP] He played cricket for Oxfordshire in the Minor Counties Championship between 1928 and 1938.[SUP][2][/SUP] In 1932 he married Anne Catherine Barstow, daughter of George Lewis Barstow and Enid Lillian Lawrence.
Caccia entered the diplomatic service in 1929 and was posted to Peking (Beijing) and then to Athens and London where, in 1936, he became assistant private secretary to Anthony Eden. He was back in Athens early in World War II, but was then attached to the staff of Harold Macmillan, Britain's representative at Allied headquarters in North Africa. The Greek civil war once again saw him in that country, and by 1945 his services earned him recognition on the Birthday Honours List.
Caccia was Ambassador to Austria from 1951 to 1954, and from 1956 to 1961 Ambassador to the USA. He was sent to Washington to repair relations badly damaged by the Suez crisis of 1956. The breakdown in mutual confidence arose when Britain and France joined an Israeli invasion of Egypt and sent military forces to capture the Suez Canal, which had been nationalized by President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt. In the years that followed, he was instrumental in restoring and nurturing the "special relationship" between London and Washington.[SUP][3][/SUP]
In 1961, he became Permanent Under-Secretary of State, an office he held until 1965. He was Provost of Eton 1965-78 and President of MCC in 1973-74.
He was knighted in 1950, and was created a life peer with the title Baron Caccia, of Abernant in the County of Breconshire, on 11 May 1965. Caccia was appointed a Bailiff Grand Cross of the Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order and a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George.

That bio suggested to me that there were spook connections that did not form part of his authorized bio.

After some sniffing around I found this Telegraph review of a book on the history of the SIS and the following extract:

Nor is the work of Kim Philby, "SIS's worst traitor", in Jeffery's words, in any way glossed over or toned down. We don't have in MI6 SIS's damage assessment of Philby's treachery (which is a pity) because it was compiled after Jeffery's cut-off date. Philby was not interrogated until after the defection of Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess in May 1951. But what Harold Caccia, the chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, called in 1946 "the difficulty of piercing the iron ring of Russian controlled territory" from the Baltic to the Adriatic, was nearly impossible in terms of successful operations until Philby was removed from SIS, which happened in 1951 (though he was not confirmed as the "third man" until 1963).

Finding about his directorships, which aren't even mentioned in the Wiki bio proved more difficult and I have had the time to go deeply into this area. But the below from the Modern History Project provides a little more insight.

Thomas D. Cabot, honorary chairman of Cabot Corp. was director of Office of Inter-American affairs for the State Dept. 1951, president of United Fruit, and set up Radio Swan on Swan Island for the CIA; he went on a special mission to Egypt in 1953. His brother John was in the foreign service from 1926, served as Consul Gen. Shanghai; ambassador to Pakistan, Finland and Colombia, Brazil and Poland; he was U.S. delegate to Dumbarton Oaks in 1944, and was secretary to the United Nations organization (conference) in San Francisco in 1945 under Alger Hiss.
Paul Cabot is director of J.P. Morgan Co., Ford, Continental Can, Goodrich, and M.A. Hanna Co. Lord Harold Caccia is also a director of Cabot Corp. He served on the Allied Control Commission in Italy 1943-44 as political advisor, Ambassador to Austria 1951-54, Ambassador to U.S.(?) 1956-61; he is also on the board of Orion Bank, National Westminster Bank and Prudential Assurance. He is chmn of Standard Telephone & Cable.

Orion Bank has long since disappeared, but I knew it because I used have dealings with it back in 1970's/80's - and I vaguely remember there were some interrsting connections for those of us interested in deep politics. But sadly my memory can't dredge up what it was now, although the feelings haunts me that it was to do with with the Roberto Calvi, Michel Sindona and Vatican affair?

Anyway, the bottom line is that I think the Order of St. Hubertus and it's founders and leading members deserves much deeper research than I can currently give it.

Well, from the poking around you did, Cabot was surely a spook and shared directorships on companies with Caccia. Caccia also had appointments [political and business] that very well might have had strong intelligence connections and was certainly friends with some who were. His having been in Greece when the CIA and MI6 were trying their best to deter Greek democracy and set up a dictatorship by the Generals [which succeeded] is Exhibit A...but not the only hint.
That leads to the interesting speculation of whether Scalia also had intelligence connections. That the intelligence community acts as a big factor in/on/through the Deep Political forces/players is no secret. Every President since the intelligence community had a hand in killing JFK has had at least some to very strong intelligence connections...so why not the other branches of government being 'seeded' with them as well......

[Drew Phipps]

Antonin Scalia's Death Just Cost This Company $835 Million

Dow Chemical settled a price-fixing lawsuit because it lost the late justice's vote.


02/26/2016 08:13 pm ET Cristian Farias Legal Affairs Reporter, The Huffington Post

Dow Chemical Co., one of America's largest chemical manufacturers, agreed on Friday to settle a price-fixing lawsuit for $835 million in the wake of Justice Antonin Scalia's death. The company had challenged a $1 billion judgment in a high-stakes, class-action case. But without Scalia, it appears the new reality at the high court was too big a gamble for the company to continue with the litigation. "Growing political uncertainties due to recent events within the Supreme Court and increased likelihood for unfavorable outcomes for business involved in class action suits have changed Dow's risk assessment of the situation," the company said in a statement.


Dow said a case the Supreme Court heard last year but hasn't yet decided, Tyson Foods v. Bouaphakeo, was the reason its own case was still on hold at the court. Both cases present common questions of law that may limit class-action liability -- an area where the Supreme Court of late has been friendly to business interests. Stunningly, Dow's statement singled out two major cases in which Scalia wrote the majority opinions -- 2011's Wal-Mart v. Dukesand 2013's Comcast v. Behrend -- essentially conceding that, without Scalia, the company no longer had any prospects of winning. Both of those cases were decided 5 to 4, with conservatives ruling for the corporations. Given the new eight-justice court, Dow called its decision to end the litigation "the right decision for the company and our shareholders." As is usual with settlements, the company maintained its innocence. "While Dow is settling this case, it continues to strongly believe that it was not part of any conspiracy and the judgment was fundamentally flawed as a matter of class action law," the company said.


A jury in 2013 had found Dow Chemical liable in a price-fixing scheme with four other companies for chemicals used to produce urethane, a compound used in foam upholstery for furniture and plastic walls in refrigerators, according to Bloomberg. About 2,400 businesses that bought the chemicals from Dow joined in a class action against the industrial giant. Friday's settlement is just another example of the shifting landscape at the Supreme Court -- and why it matters who fills the now-vacant seat.


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So, if there was foul play involved in Scalia's death, that gives us 2401 suspects and 835 million motives. (The extra suspect is the victorious Washington law firm of Joseph Goldberg, trust-busting attorney, but there is another pending Supreme Court case Tyson Foods v. Bouaphakeo, on the same sort of class certification issues. Stay tuned.)

Bouaphakeo represented some 3300 workers that were not paid by Tyson for the time it took them to put on, and take off, and clean, and store, the safety equipment required by law and by the company in the dangerous meat packing/slaughter factory line. Tyson had lost this case twice before and was refusing to comply with an existing injunction to pay the workers. At trial, the workers won 5.8 million dollars and Tyson appealed. Tyson attempted to rely on Scalia's Walmart opinion (denying that there was a legally cognizable "class" of female workers that had been subjected to Walmart policies that statistically resulted in less pay and fewer promotions than male employees) to argue that its meat-packers were a class. (I'm no expert, but the Tyson "class" sure looked far more homogenous than the Walmart "class.")

So, to sum up, between these 2 cases, there are about 5710 entities with a monetary interest: Either about $1100 each (3300 Tyson worker-plaintiffs), a group of Tyson lawyers with roughly $400,000 at stake, or $350,000 each (2400 Dow business-plaintiffs) and a group of lawyers with about $300 million at stake, in keeping Scalia from ruling against and throwing out their verdict. There might be many such cases pending in the Courts of Appeals. With that kind of stakes up for grabs, a financial motive for Scalia's murder (if, in fact, it was a murder) cannot be ruled out.

[Lauren Johnson]

[Drew Phipps]

Enquirer cracks Scalia case?

The National Enquirer published a story that Scalia was killed by a female prostitute from a bar called "El Toreo" in Ojinaga, Mexico. According to the Enquirer, the hooker, recruited by a CIA agent in the Mexican bar, was allegedly paid $2000 to inject Scalia with a hypodermic needle filled with some sort of drug that causes a heart attack. Also, according to the Enquirer, a "mystery woman" was caught on a surveillance camera at the Cibola Creek Resort. According to the Enquirer, Scalia's body was then diverted to the funeral home in El Paso where the poison was flushed from his body.

So, there are so many problems with this story, it's hard to know where to begin. One solid fact stands in opposition for sure, Scalia's family selected both the lack of autopsy and the actual funeral home.

[Lauren Johnson]

One solid fact stands in opposition for sure, Scalia's family selected both the lack of autopsy and the actual funeral home.

If Chip Tatum is credible, remember he said that the family can be easily handled.

Don't forget, The National Enquirer is the best source of the real news bar none -- at least according to Agent K of Men in Black.

::lilgreenman::::beammeup::

[Ralf Anders]

The International Order of St. Hubertus.

I did some research today on Emilio de Mistura who, as I suspected, turned out to be the father of Staffan de Mistura.

Connaisseurs of the "Langemann-Papers" will know that I am talking about one of the most important agents of the BND in the 60s, active in Rome, the Vatican, Vietnam and, it turns out, the US. Reinhard Gehlen once called him his "best man".

In Heigl/Saupes book on the Langemann scandal, "Operation EVA", I stumbled across the following (my quick translation):

"De Mistura also built up links to the US with the help of the BND. He did so using the International Order of St. Hubertus who had been operating across the world since 1695 under the guise of a hunter's association. The North American section, to which mainly Californians belong, included two persons who were connected to the BND (...)"

These were, for the sake of completeness, Karl U. Weber, honorary consul of Austria in San Francisco, and Daniel E. London, vice president of Western Hotels Company International.

[David Guyatt]

The International Order of St. Hubertus.

I did some research today on Emilio de Mistura who, as I suspected, turned out to be the father of Staffan de Mistura.

Connaisseurs of the "Langemann-Papers" will know that I am talking about one of the most important agents of the BND in the 60s, active in Rome, the Vatican, Vietnam and, it turns out, the US. Reinhard Gehlen once called him his "best man".

In Heigl/Saupes book on the Langemann scandal, "Operation EVA", I stumbled across the following (my quick translation):

"De Mistura also built up links to the US with the help of the BND. He did so using the International Order of St. Hubertus who had been operating across the world since 1695 under the guise of a hunter's association. The North American section, to which mainly Californians belong, included two persons who were connected to the BND (...)"

These were, for the sake of completeness, Karl U. Weber, honorary consul of Austria in San Francisco, and Daniel E. London, vice president of Western Hotels Company International.

Thanks for the heads up Ralf. This all ties into Le Cercle. There's more on Langemann at Peter's Wikispooks, HERE and [URL="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Langemann_Papers#BND_and_Vatican"]HERE
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[Ralf Anders]

Thanks for the heads up Ralf. This all ties into Le Cercle. There's more on Langemann at Peter's Wikispooks, HERE and HERE Those who wish to read the full 4th edition of David Teacher's book on Le Cercle (Rogue Agents) can obtain a free copy HERE

As regards the second link you provided ("operation EVA 102"): EVA 102 was Emil or Emilio de Mistura. EVA 125 was his son Staffan de Mistura ("Operation EVA", 119, gives "Stefano", but they are the same person). According to "Operation EVA", the young man was sent to the US and Mexico by Langemann, he was sent to a boarding school in England in the hope that he would be helpful later on ("Perspektivquelle"), allegedly he provided information from his first UN job at FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) in Rome to the BND. As for the Order of Saint Hubertus: Obviously, the order has not been working for the BND or Le Cercle since 1695. The important name here appears to be Habsburg. All of this information pertains to the end of the 1960s. It would be interesting to know whether de Mistura is still linked to the BND and what the Order of Hubertus is up to nowadays.

[Michael Barwell]

News in brief from the i-paper today
Law schools new name hit bum note: A law school that changed it's name to honour the late US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who died in February, has been forced into a rethink. George Mason Uni was set to become the Antonin Scalia School of Law, or ASSoL for short. It will now be the Antonin Scalia Law School, ASLS.