John J. McCloy
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| Born | John Jay McCloy March 31, 1895 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Died | March 11, 1989 Stamford, Connecticut |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Amherst College, Harvard Law School |
| Children | 2 |
| Spouse | Ellen Zinsser |
| Party | Republican |
US deep politician, Warren Commission, CFR Chair for 17 years, President of the World Bank ... | |
John J. McCloy was a US client of the Rockefeller family and deep politician with a wide net.
Introduction to the Rockefellers
The son oh a Philadelphia hair dresser, his big break came when he was freshman in college. He was able to hire himself out as a tutor of history and law. One day his mother urged him to approach the Rockefellers, one of her rich clients, for a tutoring job. Although the Rockefeller children already had a history tutor his personable mother managed to get him a job teaching the young Rockefellers. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., was forty-six years old and had five sons and one daughter, Abby, who was seventeen at the time. John D. 3rd, Nelson, Laurance, Winthrop, and young David Rockefeller ranged in ages from fourteen to five. That summer set the terms for what turned out to be a lifelong association between John and the Rockefellers.[1]
"Chairman of the Establishment"
The New York Times obituary stated "Between times and often concurrently, he was board chairman of the Ford Foundation, chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations and board chairman of a dozen or so other entities, including the Salk Institute and of E. R. Squibb & Sons. As a lawyer, he represented scores of corporate clients, including 23 oil companies dealing with the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Mr. McCloy was chairman of so many boards and had his hands in so many ventures that the political writer Richard Rovere once proposed that he was the informal chairman of the Establishment, a group that 'fixes major goals and constitutes itself a ready pool of manpower for the more exacting labors of leadership.'"[2]
World War II
McCloy was heavily involved in the US government program of interning Japanese-Americans in World War II. Defending that policy in 1981 before a Congressional commission, he claimed that it was "reasonably undertaken and thoughtfully and humanely conducted", althoguh history disagreed and in 1988 the US Congress paid compensation to those internees who were still alive.[2]
U.S. High Commissioner of Allied Forces in West Germany
McCloy once stated "I had the powers of a dictator as High Commissioner of Allied Forces in West Germany, but I think I was a benevolent dictator".[2]
In 1947, Klaus Barbie was recruited as an agent for the 66th Detachment of the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC).[3] When the French discovered that Klaus Barbie was in U.S. hands, having sentenced him to death in absentia for war crimes, they requested McCloy, U.S. High Commissioner for Germany, hand him over for execution, but McCloy refused.[4] Instead, the CIC helped him flee to Bolivia with the help of a "ratline" organized by U.S. intelligence services[5] and the Croatian Roman Catholic priest Krunoslav Draganović.
Other activities
McCloy was CFR chairman from 1954 until 1970. A member of the Warren Commission, he worked to prevent the truth coming out as regards the assassination of JFK.
References
- ↑ http://jaxrevenge.blogspot.com/2011/06/hairdressers-son.html
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 http://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/12/obituaries/john-j-mccloy-lawyer-and-diplomat-is-dead-at-93.html?pagewanted=all
- ↑ Wolfe, Robert (19 September 2001). "Analysis of the Investigative Records Repository file of Klaus Barbie". Interagency Working Group. Retrieved 1 May 2009.
- ↑ http://books.google.com/books?id=s5qIj_h_PtkC&pg=PA167 Cockburn, Alexander; Clair, Jeffrey St. (1998). Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press. Verso. pp. 167–70. ISBN 9781859841396.
- ↑ Terkel, Studs (1985). The Good War. Ballantine. ISBN 0-345-32568-0