He was also inducted into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame and the English Jockey Club Hall of Fame. Its special clientele also included Miami mob ally Bebe Rebozo, President Richard M. Nixon, Nixon campaign contributor and Golden Triangle heroin druglord Robert Vesco, the CIAs George Bush, and certain anti-Castro Cubans . ", The centenarian's friends view her tolerant attitude to John Edwards's affair as an outgrowth of her own marital experiences. Which tree exactly are you referring to? The U.S. Has a Long History of Election Meddling - The Atlantic Paul Mellon | Biography & Facts | Britannica Above all else, we respect everyone's opinions and ALL religious beliefs and creeds. He died at his home, Oak Spring, in Upperville, Virginia, on February 1, 1999. In early 1973, Billy Hitchcock was threatened with 24 years in prison for tax evasion if he didnt help the government convict the prime movers of the LSD (and hashish) cartel. He is replaced by CIA puppet Lon Nol, who immediately throws Cambodian troops into battle. The people support their leader because he intends to conduct land reform, strengthen unions, redistribute wealth, nationalize foreign-owned industry, and regulate business to protect workers, consumers and the environment. Read and watch one of Winter Watchs most important posts In Plain View: Jaw-Dropping Video of LSD Promoters Holding 1979 Meeting.. And that was us. Pictured above, from left to right, Sandy Grimes, Paul Redmond, Jeanne Vertefeuille, Diana Worthen and Dan Payne, all members of the CIA "mole hunt" team that worked to reveal Ames as a Soviet spy. Yale University today praised Paul Mellon as belonging in the highest company of philanthropists. 1.5 JULY 1953 Cambodia Congress votes to cut off CIA funds for its secret war in Cambodia. Dark Journalist: Truth UFO disclosure & Mellon family secrets Browse the Collections | Advanced Search | Search Help, Approved For Release 2003/07/01 : CIA-RDP80R0l731 R001200020020-9 Billy, the financier and promoter, turned informant, provided evidence and testified against Tim Scully and Nick Sand. Beatnik Allen Ginsbergs Weaponized Debasement of Culture. The Bollingen Foundation published over 100 books before closing in 1969, the same year the assets of the Old Dominion Foundation were merged into those of his sister Ailsa's Avalon Foundation. She's going to do what she wants, and that's the way it's going to be.". Angola Eager to demonstrate American military resolve after its defeat in Vietnam, Henry Kissinger launches a CIA-backed war in Angola. This includes humanitarian aid donated by Adolph Coors and William Simon, and military aid funded by Iranian arms sales. ", http://www.cmu.edu/presidential-search/images/13-038_Presidential_Search_81712.pdf, "Leadership Homepage - Leadership - Carnegie Mellon University", "Dietrich's donation to be one of higher education's largest", National Gallery of Art: Paul Mellon Remembered, "Reflections in a Silver Spoon: on the Life of Paul Mellon", Paul Mellon at the Yale University Center for British Art, Paul Mellon at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Paul Mellon's Personal Library at the University of Virginia, Paul Mellon at The National Sporting Library, Paul Mellon at the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame, Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation, Inc. - History, "Paul Mellons Legacy: A Passion for British Art", Legacies of the Turf: A Century of Great Thoroughbred Breeders, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul_Mellon&oldid=1146389882, "I have been an amateur in every phase of my life; an amateur poet, an amateur scholar, an amateur horseman, an amateur farmer, an amateur soldier, an amateur connoisseur of art, an amateur publisher, and an amateur museum executive. Cant find anything on him since, which is odd for someone in that family. The CIA installs a repressive, right-wing junta. [7][8] Additionally, he donated substantial funds to Carnegie Mellon.[9]. Four years later Paul Mellon presented both the building by John Russell Pope and his father's collection of 115 paintings to the nation. When he was 5 years old his parent divorced. According to a 1971 congressional report, this operation killed about 20,000 Viet Cong.. Hungary Radio Free Europe incites Hungary to revolt by broadcasting Khruschevs Secret Speech, in which he denounced Stalin. The only two options for the U.S at this point are impotence or war. Then she adds, "I'm very busy. The CIA has been trying to eliminate Sukarno since 1957, using everything from attempted assassination to sexual intrigue, for nothing more than his declaring neutrality in the Cold War. William Billy Mellon Hitchcock (1928-1989) was heir to the Gulf Oil fortune and nephew of Pittsburgh financier Andrew Mellon. He graduated from The Choate School (now Choate Rosemary Hall) in Wallingford, Connecticut, in 1925, where he wrote for the literary magazine. Locations. Dominican Republic A popular rebellion breaks out, promising to reinstall Juan Bosch as the countrys elected leader. However, the reforms prove ineffective, as the Iran/Contra scandal will show. "It was while I was at Cambridge that I embarked on the dangerous seas of collecting", Paul Mellon once saida statement by the man who described himself as "the incurable collector" that has had profound implications for his major beneficiaries, both in the US and the UK. s aC ` s,,u'E'i~ Huffman introduced Mellon to John Edwards in 2006. Mellon established the Old Dominion Foundation in 1941 and the Bollingen Foundation in 1945, both to support advancement and learning of the humanities and liberal education. The use of this archaic and never-used law stuns the nation. Paul Mellon was a trustee of the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame and one of the only five people ever designated an "Exemplar of Racing" by the Hall of Fame. fr As some of you may know, Chris Mellon unexpectedly passed away on Wednesday, November 11th. He enrolled at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland in 1940 but six months later joined the United States Army, asking to join the cavalry. These efforts fail to win the hearts and minds of the South Vietnamese because the Diem government is opposed to true democracy, land reform and poverty reduction measures. The Marxist Sandinistas take over government, and they are initially popular because of their commitment to land and anti-poverty reform. Bunny Mellon's. The Agency then hires, trains and works with them to overthrow the existing government (usually a democracy). Prosecutors have charged that she gave $725,000 to former presidential candidate John Edwards in 2007 and 2008, which he used to conceal his extramarital affair with Rielle Hunter and the existence of their child. It also gave him all the military might he needed to conduct further adventurism in Kuwait, for example. (Despite a 98 percent incumbency reelection rate, both Church and Pike are defeated in the next elections.) In revenge, the Muslims take 52 Americans hostage in the U.S. embassy in Tehran. First, American business interests abroad are threatened by a popular or democratically elected leader. Students are sometimes recruited through blackmail and bribery, including draft deferments. Mellon won the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Breeder in 1971 and again in 1986. CIA created President Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947, creating the Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Council. Paul, a major benefactor of the National Gallery of Art, died in 1999. "I think it's awful." Her early death from Asthma in the 1940s led Paul Mellon to turn further to the dark side with help from CIA Occultist Dulles. Bunny Mellon was an avid horticulturist and gardener, whose fondness for French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting, as well as American art, Mellon came to share. The product from the lab was distributed by The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, which was also arranged by Hitchcock. Honduras notorious Battalion 316 then uses these techniques, with the CIAs full knowledge, on thousands of leftist dissidents. Honestly, about a month or two into being on this site, I could not for the life of me understand why you even do this work, Yet with time and a whole lot of patience from you, as well as Torchy, I got it to the extent that I can get it (not a slam at you, but an admission of my own limitations). Nicaragua Anastasios Samoza II, the CIA-backed dictator, falls. And that is just one family. After his wife Mary's death in 1946 from an asthma attack, he married Rachel Lambert Lloyd, known as "Bunny", the former wife of Stacy Barcroft Lloyd Jr. She was a descendant of the Lambert family who formulated and marketed Listerine and an heiress to the Warner-Lambert corporate fortune (Warner-Lambert is now part of Pfizer, following a 2000 merger). In May 2000, Bunny's daughter from her first marriage, Eliza Lloyd, was crossing the street in Manhattan when she was hit by a truck, suffering a severe brain injury. The 35-year-old Lloyd, a Washington investment adviser, adds, "As I explained to the jury, imagine a very handsome man who is well liked and respected, and there are two women vying for his affections.". Paul Mellon, 91, the heir to one of the great banking and industrial fortunes of 20th-century America and the primary benefactor of Washington's National Gallery of Art, died Monday at his home. Angleton fired Congress holds hearings on the illegal domestic spying efforts of James Jesus Angleton, the CIAs chief of counterintelligence. Paul Mellon is its president. WW leaves that blowhard in the dust; however, even as good as this website is and even with the strong, smart, as well as varied support of its readers, the fact remains that we are talking about the largest, corporate, empire to exist on Earth (Amerika).