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December 12, 1913 - The Mona Lisa recovered by Armand Hammer who as Flash knows was a commie sympathizer & later a Soviet collaberator.

DOSSIER: THE SECRET HISTORY OF ARMAND HAMMER

Armand Hammer was one of the odder, more odious characters of American business and politics, "famous" chiefly because he was rich enough to promote his ...
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Hammer came to communism legitimately. His father, Julius, a Russian immigrant, linked up with Vladimir Lenin at a socialist conference in Berlin in 1907 and "agreed to become part of the elite underground cadre that Lenin would depend on to change the world." A physician by training, Julius built a small drug chain into Allied Drug and Chemical, purveyor of skin creams and herbal medicines.

When the Bolsheviks seized Russia in 1919, Julius worked with Ludwig Martens, Lenin's de facto "ambassador" in the United States. Julius used Allied, of which Martens was the covert half-owner, to launder sales proceeds of smuggled diamonds --- money that financed a revolutionary Communist Labor Party (CLP) dedicated to "overthrowing the government, expropriating banks, and establishing a proletarian dictatorship." Julius held card No. 1. The CLP eventually became the Communist Party USA and part of the Communist International (Comintern).

Lenin's grand scheme was to "advance the image of a non-threatening and potentially profitable Soviet Russia." Lenin relied on capitalist greed to make U.S. German and British businesses vie for Russian concessions and to force their governments to lift trade restrictions. When one of Lenin's aides asked where he would obtain the rope with which to hang the capitalists, he replied famously, "They'll supply us with it."

Lenin used Hammer as his opening pawn in this economic chess game, offering him an abandoned asbestos mine in return for a promise to bring in wheat. Everyone concerned realized the mine was worthless, but it gave the Soviets a means to transfer money to Comintern agents. Lenin issued orders to" make note of Armand Hammer and in every way help him on my behalf if he applies." There were admonitions to keep the relationship secret lest there be a "fatal effect" on Hammer.

Expansion was swift. Hammer persuaded automaker Henry Ford to move into the Soviet Union to develop the "Fordson" tractor. There were fur deals, and a Hammer pencil factory was given a Soviet monopoly. The Soviets permitted Hammer sweetheart deals on sales abroad of precious czarist art. (When Hammer depleted his stock of Faberge eggs, no problem: He counterfeited them in New York.)

The most important element was Allied Drug, which acted as the Soviets' de facto banker in the United States, laundering millions of Soviet dollars through sham transactions. Hammer eventually made millions in such enterprises as liquor, oil refining and art. The constant element, according to Mr. Epstein, was bribery and sharp dealing, including his capstone deal, the acquisition of Libyan oil rights for his Occidental Petroleum Co.

Hammer never deceived the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover, who in 1919 began creating a massive file, "61-280 --- Armand Hammer, Internal Security --- Russia," scrawling across the front, "a rotten bunch." Hoover knew that Hammer financed Comintern agents but did not move, knowing that "it is often more profitable not to arrest a detected courier" when there is no assurance that the replacement will be detected.

Hammer recognized the utility of buying politicians, and here Mr. Epstein understates one of his juicier stories: how the impecunious Senator Albert Gore Sr. got the wealth to enable him to live in splendor

Thank you for handing me this I warned you about the Fordson tractor before, but I had never heard of this guy.

Fascinating reading and I have left the whole link. This of course blows a lot of Tiger into the weeds.

No I fully admit I did not know he was a commie I shall now telephone Mr McCarthy and suggest he lay off Buffalo.

No. Arm and Hammer is a brand of Sodium Bicarbonate, used for killing crab-lice.

You load a shotgun, prop it against the wall. Take a 1 gallon demi-john of rum, drink half the contents. Pour the other half over the affected area.

Take one bucket of Arm and Hammer coarse grade, and a shovel, sprinkle it generously over the affected area. If your preparation was correct the lice get drunk and stone each other to death.

Voice of experience Flash? sounds like the type of advice you'd get from Tommmy.

Flash, it is a wasted day unless you learn something & I have certainly been the benificiary of your sage wisdom over the years. If I can reciprocate in some miniscule manner on an infrequent basis I am pleased. Armand Hammer was a filthy pinko commie.

Shula, interesting point on the logo, bereft of the sickle eh?

I thank you in turn for your generous comments. Yes you may reciprocate., Hobbs and I will be very grateful for your feedback on the Arm and Hammer treatment on a say, 1-10 rating.

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