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THE CARTEL Governors. None of the Americans who sat on the same board as The Parliamentary "Dickinson Statement" refers to "the vast those convicted was ever tried as a “war criminal". Farben chemical plants in Germany". Throughout the entire Second World War conflict, not one It has been said by Anthony C. Sutton in his book, Wall Street bomb fell on the I. G. Farben headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany, and the Rise of Hitler: "Without the capital supplied by Wall allegedly as a consequence of Allied orders Street, there would have been no I. G. Farben in the first place, In 1938, I. G. Farben borrowed 500 tons of tetra-ethyl lead, the and almost certainly no Adolph Hitler and World War II." gasoline additive, from Standard Oil. Interssen Gemeinschaft Farben (Interessen Gemeinschaft der During 1939, the year Germany invaded Austria and Poland, the Deutschen Teerfarbenindustrie, or, simply, I. G. Farben) was a Standard Oil Company of New Jersey loaned I. G. Farben German chemical manufacturing concern that supplied the chlo- | US$20,000,000 worth of high-grade gasoline. rine gas used by Germany during the First World War, but the In 1939 the American Aluminium Company (Alcoa), then prob- eventual creation of the huge I. G. Farben cartel began in 1924 ably the world's largest producer of sodium fluoride, transferred when American bankers began to arrange foreign loans in what _its technology to Germany (the Alted Agreement). The Dow Professor Carroll Quigley terms "the Dawes Plan", "largely aJ.P. | Chemical Company transmitted its experience and technology in Morgan production". that same period. In 1928 Henry Ford merged his German assets with I. G. Germany's two largest tank manufacturers were Opel, a sub- Farben, to be followed by the American sidiary of General Motors (J. P. Morgan), Standard Oil Company (the Rockefellers) and the German subsidiary of the Ford who, in concert with I. G. Farben, developed | 1 P Motor Company. the coal-to-oil hydrogenation process. However—and | want to Even with the purchase of oil from non- In a letter to Roosevelt from Berlin in the make this very definite and | German sources, the major supplier of oil early ‘thirties, the US Ambassador in was still the Farben cartel. The I. G. Farben- Germany, William Dodd, said: __Positive—the real reason Standard Oil co-operation for the production "At the present moment, more than a hun- ehind water fluoridation i 1S | of synthetic oil gave the I. G. Farben cartel a dred American corporations have sub-| yotto benefit children's monopoly on German gasoline production. sidiaries here or cooperative understand- | teeth Just under one half of the Germans’ high- ings. a i octane gasoline in 1945 was produced direct- Germany ha are aig n he comaneet (A soc compan business. Their chief ally is the 1. G. Farben | there are many ways In So, in 1941 when cylinders of Zyklon B, Company, a part of the government which which it could be done the deadly cyanide-based extermination gas gives 200,000 marks a year to one pro- . ; made by I. G. Farben, were lethally paganda organization operating on which are much easier, unvalved on inmates of Auschwitz, American opinion. i cheaper and far more Bitterfeld, Walfen, Hoechst, Agfa, Standard Oil C ffecti Ludwigshaf id Buch 1a, th "Standar i ompany...sent 3) e, udwigshafen and Buchenwald, there US$2,000,000 here in December 1933 ectiv f were more than substantial links and has made US$500,000 a year help- The real purpose behind between huge American technology and ing Germans make ersatz fa substitute] water fluoridation is to German manufacturers. gas [the hydrogenation process of con- E d h + f i Two questions must be asked here: verting coal to gasoline] for war pur- ai educe the resistance of the (a) Was I. G. Farben associated with the poses; but Standard Oil cannot take - masses to domination and formulation of Sarin and/or Soman, the any of its earnings out of the country i : 0 0 German-developed fluorinated nerve except in goods. control and loss of liberty... gases that made Zyklon B little more "The International Harvester i than an underarm deodorant by compari- Company president told me their busi- son?; and (b) What of I. G. Farben ness here rose 33% a year [arms manu- today? facture, 1 believe}, but they could take nothing out. The answer to (a) is an unequivocal yes! As for (b), I. G. "Even our airplanes people have secret arrangements with Farben signed cartel agreements with the such companies as Krupps. Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), Borden, Carnation, General "General Motors Company and Ford do enormous business Mills, M. W. Kellogg Co., Nestlé and Pet Milk, and I. G. Farben here through their subsidiaries and take no profits out.” either owns outright, has had a substantial interest in or has had The I. G. Farben assets in America were controlled by a holding _ other cartel agreements with Ow] Drug, Parke-Davis and Co., company, American I. G. Farben, which listed on its Board of | Bayer and Co., Whitehall Laboratories, Chef-Boy-Ar-Dee Foods, Directors: Edsel Ford, President of the Ford Motor Company; Bristol Meyers and Squibb and Sons. The list goes on and on and Chas. E. Mitchell, President of Rockefeller's National City Bank on and includes Proctor and Gamble who ‘domesticated’ the word of New York; Walter Teagle, President of Standard Oil of New "fluoride" with official encouragement in 1958, being the origina- York; Paul Warburg, Chairman of the Federal Reserve and brother _ tors of the infamous "Crest" fluoridated toothpaste campaign. of Max Warburg, financier of Germany's war effort; and Herman The only reference to "Farben" traceable in a limited search of Metz, a Director of the Bank of Manhattan, controlled by the modern literature was in 25th Edition of Martindale, under Warburgs. “F.B.A. Pharmaceutical Limited; Products of Farbenfabriken It is an interesting fact of history that three other members of the Bayer". Board of American I. G, Farben were tried and convicted as All corporate traces of the huge I. G. cartel have been absorbed German “war criminals” for their "crimes against humanity” dur- _ by the hundreds, if not thousands, of one-time cartel members, but ing World War II, while serving on the I. G. Farben Board of the 'malady lingers on’... NEXUS ¢ 27 AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 1995