Getty helped traitors sell oil to Hitler

[legin]

Found this over at the other side, thought some people might like this for their files, another little puzzle piece




Getty helped traitors sell oil to Hitler
By Peter Day
(Filed: 25/08/2003)


The Texan oil billionaire Jean Paul Getty was at the heart of a conspiracy to provide support to Hitler's Germany early in the Second World War, according to newly released intelligence documents.

The file links Getty to a shadowy network of financiers who supplied the Nazis with fuel in defiance of a British blockade and accuses him of gathering spies and traitors around him at his fashionable Hotel Pierre in New York.

It records that he returned from Berlin in 1939 "talking breezily of his old friend Hitler" and that his business contacts included Serge Rubinstein, a notorious fraudster who ran part of his empire through London.

The "Suspect Persons" file prepared by the Foreign Office for the Ministry of Economic Warfare has just been declassified at the National Archives at Kew, south-west London. It appears to be the work of the British Security Co-ordination team in New York, run by William Stephenson, Churchill's secret envoy to President Roosevelt, codenamed Intrepid.

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[cherryperry]

1. Please forgive my cynicism, but

surprise, surprise, surprise ... if ya know what I mean?

:hi:

[harrison]

2. Well, let's see: there's Getty, and Thomas Watson of IBM, and

Henry Ford, and Prescott Bush. Gee, all these wonderful Americans cozying up to Hitler.

[ctex]

3. Article may be true, but Getty was not a Texan

Jean Paul Getty was born in Minnesota and spent most of his oil industry career in Oklahoma and California. He moved to the UK in the 50's where he died in 1976.

The Brits, being the forgiving sort, allowed him to reside in their country despite whatever he did in WW2 and they latere knighted his son.

[newyawker99]

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