Claiborne Pell
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| Born | Claiborne de Borda Pell 1918-11-22 New York City, New York, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | January 1, 2009 (Age 90) Newport, Rhode Island, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | US | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | • Princeton University • Columbia University | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Children | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Spouse | Nuala O'Donnell | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Member of | Senate Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Party | Democratic | ||||||||||||||||||||
Attended the 1992 Bilderberg as Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
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Claiborne de Borda Pell was a spooky American politician who was U.S. Senator from Rhode Island for six terms from 1961 to 1997. He attended the 1992 Bilderberg as Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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Background
Claiborne Pell was born on November 22, 1918, in New York City,[1] the son of Matilda Bigelow and diplomat and congressman Herbert Pell.[2]
Pell's family members included John Francis Hamtramck Claiborne, George Mifflin Dallas, and Nathaniel Herbert Claiborne.[3] He was a direct descendant of English mathematician John Pell and a descendant of Senator William C. C. Claiborne.[4]
In 1927, Pell's parents divorced and his mother remarried the spook Hugo W. Koehler of St. Louis, a commander in the United States Navy.[5] Following World War I, Koehler worked as an Office of Naval Intelligence and State Department operative in Russia during its civil war, and later as naval attaché to Poland.[6] Said to be the "richest officer in the Navy" during the 1920s, Koehler was rumored to be the illegitimate son of Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria and to have assisted the Romanovs to flee the Russian Empire following the Russian Revolution of 1917.[5] Pell was close to his stepfather, who died when Pell was 22.[6]
Education
Pell attended St. George's School in Middletown, Rhode Island,[7] and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in history from Princeton University in 1940.[8] Pell's senior thesis was titled "Macaulay and the Slavery Issue."[9] While at Princeton, he was a member of Colonial Club and the American Whig-Cliosophic Society, and played on the rugby team.[10]
World War 2
After graduating from Princeton, Pell worked as private secretary for his father, who was United States Ambassador to Portugal. At the start of World War II he was with his father, who was then United States Ambassador to Hungary. Claiborne Pell drove trucks carrying emergency supplies to prisoners of war in Germany, and was detained several times by the German government.[11]
Pell enlisted in the U.S. Coast Guard as a seaman second class]on August 12, 1941, four months before Pearl Harbor. Pell was commissioned as an ensign on December 17, 1941.[12] During the war, Pell's ships served as North Atlantic convoy escorts, and also in amphibious warfare during the allied invasion of Sicily and the allied invasion of the Italian mainland.[13]
Pell was promoted to lieutenant (junior grade) on October 1, 1942, and then to lieutenant in May 1943. Due to his fluency in Italian, Pell was assigned as a civil affairs officer in Sicily, where he became ill from drinking unpasteurized milk. He was sent home for recuperation during the summer of 1944, but returned to active service later in the war. Pell was discharged from active duty on September 5, 1945.[14] After the end of World War II, he remained in the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve. He attained the rank of captain and retired in 1978.[15]
Spooky diplomat, further education
From 1945 to 1952, he worked in the United States Department of State as a Foreign Service Officer in Czechoslovakia, Italy, and Washington, D.C. He was fluent in French, Italian, and Portuguese.[16]
In 1945, Pell was a participant in the United Nations Conference on International Organization in San Francisco that drafted the United Nations Charter.[17]
In 1946 he completed graduate studies in International Relations at Columbia University and received a Master of Arts degree.[18]
In 1954, Pell was appointed vice president and member of the board of directors of the International Fiscal Corporation. He also became vice president and director of the North American Newspaper Alliance.[19] He was also a director of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Foundation, Fort Ticonderoga Association, and General Rochambeau Commission of Rhode Island.[20] He also was a fundraiser and consultant for the Democratic National Committee.[21]
He was Vice President of the International Rescue Committee. Stationed in Austria, he was responsible for assisting refugees from the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 to leave the country and resettle.[22] During Pell's "diplomatic career and other international activities in the 1940s and 1950s, he was arrested and jailed at least six times.[23]
Closet homosexual
In 1972's The Washington Pay-Off, author and former lobbyist Robert N. Winter-Berger wrote about Pell's arrest during a raid on a Greenwich Village homosexual bar in 1964.[24] Pell denied the allegation and there were no police records, witness statements or other sources to corroborate Winter-Berger.[25][26][27] Despite legal advice to sue for defamation, Pell declined, deciding that it would draw "undue publicity" to the allegations.[25][26][27]
Activities
C. B. Scott Jones was an aide to Claiborne Pell.[28]
Event Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/1992 | 21 May 1992 | 24 May 1992 | France Royal Club Evian Evian-les-Bains | The 40th Bilderberg. It had 121 participants. |
References
- ↑ William H. Honan, New York Times, Claiborne Pell, Ex-Senator, Dies at 90, January 1, 2009.
- ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=ihc5AQAAMAAJ&q=%22claiborne+pell%22+herbert+matilda
- ↑ Capace, Nancy (2001). Encyclopedia of Rhode Island. St. Clair Shores, MI: Somerset Publishers. pp. 337–338. ISBN 978-0-4030-9610-7.
- ↑ G. Wayne Miller, Providence Journal, 'A Remarkable Life' - Nuala and Claiborne Pell Reflect on Six Extraordinary Decades Together, April 10, 2005.
- ↑ Jump up to: a b G. Wayne Miller, An Uncommon Man: The Life & Times of Senator Claiborne Pell, 2011, pages 41–42.
- ↑ Jump up to: a b https://www.newspapers.com/clip/47060966/koehler/
- ↑ J. Y. Smith, Washington Post, Former R.I. Senator Claiborne Pell, 90; Sponsored Grant Program, January 2, 2009.
- ↑ United Federation of Postal Clerks, Union Postal Clerk and the Postal Transport Journal, Volumes 60-62, 1964, p. 23.
- ↑ http://dataspace.princeton.edu/jspui/handle/88435/dsp01v405sb54b
- ↑ Princeton Alumni Association, Princeton Alumni Weekly, Volume 74, (March 19, 1974), page 44.
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20110423110049/http://www.projo.com/news/content/pell_dies_01-02-09_SRCQQV5_v16.3fe791b.html
- ↑ New York Times, New Face in Politics; Claiborne deBorda Pell, September 30, 1960.
- ↑ Ken Franckling, United Press International, Sen. Caliborne Pell -- You Let the Other Man Have Your Way, Albany (Georgia) Herald, July 22, 1981.
- ↑ G. Wayne Miller, An Uncommon Man, p. 80.
- ↑ Celeste Katz, Providence Journal, Coast Guard Presence in Newport Grows[dead link]Template:Cbignore, July 19, 1996.
- ↑ Providence Journal, Pell to Return to Czechoslovakia, Was There for Communist Takeover, November 29, 1989.
- ↑ Warren Christopher, In the Stream of History: Shaping Foreign Policy for a New Era, 1998, p. 15.
- ↑ M. Charles Bakst, Providence Journal, Claiborne Pell: A Unique Legacy, December 8, 1996.
- ↑ Princeton Alumni Association, Princeton Alumni Weekly, Volume 55, April 15, 1955, p. 24.
- ↑ Newport Daily News, Pell Named Director, May 15, 1954.
- ↑ Joseph M. Siracusa, The Kennedy Years, 2004, p. 376.
- ↑ University of Rhode Island, Register to the Senatorial Papers of Claiborne Pell: Biography, uri.edu; accessed May 21, 2019.
- ↑ University of Rhode Island, Senator Claiborne deBorda Pell (1918–2009), uri.edu; accessed May 21, 2019.
- ↑ Winter-Berger, Robert N. (1972). The Washington pay-off; an insider's view of corruption in government. Lyle Stuart Inc. pp. 86–89.
- ↑ Jump up to: a b {Lofton Jr, John D. (October 29, 1973). "May Call Winter-Berger in Ford Hearing". Sun Journal (Lewiston, Maine). p. 4. Retrieved May 4, 2018.
- ↑ Jump up to: a b Arnold A. Hutschnecker, The Drive for Power, 1974, p. 25.
- ↑ Jump up to: a b Robert Trowbridge Hartmann, Palace Politics: An Inside Account of the Ford Years, 1980, p. 57.
- ↑ Document:Mind Control and the US Government
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