In the late 50s, the CIA even creates an Armee Clandestine of Asian mercenaries to attack the Pathet Lao. On October 27, 1997, losses resulting from this investment, combined with a 554-point (7.2%) single-day decline in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (the eighth largest point decline to date in index history), forced Niederhoffer Investments to close its doors. "If you are 100 years old, you get to like who you like," says gardening writer Mac Griswold, Mellon's friend for a half century. Paul passed away in 1999 at age 91, and Bunny Mellon continued the couple's philanthropy until her own death 15 years later. Jane Stanton Hitchcock says, "Jackie told me that she thought Bunny was a visual genius." To our eyes, the open-source material on Hitchcock and his operations look rather scrubbed and memory holed. The CIA then rigs the upcoming elections in favor of another right-wing military strongman. The second begged question is: Why should American interests come at the expense of other peoples human rights?. 10. CIA-trained death squads roam the countryside, committing atrocities like that of El Mazote in 1982, where they massacre between 700 and 1000 men, women and children. Unlucky nations are targeted for a wide variety of reasons: not only threats to American business interests abroad, but also liberal or even moderate social reforms, political instability, the unwillingness of a leader to carry out Washingtons dictates, and declarations of neutrality in the Cold War. In revenge, the Muslims take 52 Americans hostage in the U.S. embassy in Tehran. He was wise, he was clear, he was a very good person. Some dropped acid for 10 days straight, increasing the dosage and mixing in other drugs. Approved For Release 2003/07/01 : CIA-RDP80R01731R001200020021-8, Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room. Sometimes I think when we see a drop off of a friend on here, it can be a result of realizing just how vast the whole picture is and equally how hard it may be for us to even wrap our heads around it all. Mac Griswold says, "I think her view is that he's a cute guy and he's allowed to fool around if he likes. The history of the agency is growing painfully clear, especially with the declassification of historical CIA documents. Her days of pruning in the garden are over, but she still swims and does Pilates. He was survived by his wife, Rachel (a.k.a. ** Paul Mellion Profiles | Facebook In March her longtime investment adviser Ken Starr received a seven-and-a-half-year jail sentence for running a Ponzi scheme and stealing $33 million from clients, including $5.75 million from Mellon and $3 million from her son Stacey Lloyd III. The two reporters, Woodward and Bernstein, make almost no mention of the CIAs many fingerprints all over the scandal. In October 1946, as the Mellons were riding home together after fox hunting, Paul's wife, Mary, suffered a severe asthma attack, dying hours later. However, over the last two decades the tide of evidence has become overwhelming, and the CIA has found that it does not have enough fingers to plug every hole in the dike. TELEGRAM TO ALLEN DULLES FROM PAUL MELLON by Central Intelligence Agency Publication date 1953-07-16 Topics CREST, General CIA Records, RIPPUB, TELEGRAM, CIA, Central Intelligence Agency Collection cia-collection; nationalsecurityarchive; additional_collections Contributor Emma Best Language English The country soon dissolves into civil war, with the peasants in the hills fighting against the military government. Upon his death, he left yet another $2.5 million to the Foundation's endowment. In his 1992 memoir Reflections in a Silver Spoon, Paul Mellon estimated that the couple had given more than $600 million to charitable causes. PAUL MELLON Paul Mellon was the son of Andrew W. Mellon, US Secretary of the Treasury from 1921 to 1932, and Nora McMullen of Hertfordshire, England and brother of Ailsa Mellon-Bruce. She says she was drawn to him by "his very deep intelligence. The indictment quotes a note from Mellon: "I was sitting alone in a grim mood, furious that the press attacked Senator Edwards on the price of a haircut.
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