Franz Josef Strauß
 Franz Josef Strauß     (politician, deep politician) | ||||||||||
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| Born | 1915-09-06 Munich | |||||||||
| Died | 3 October 1988 (Age 73) Regensburg | |||||||||
| Nationality | German | |||||||||
| Alma mater | University of Munich | |||||||||
| Religion | Roman Catholicism | |||||||||
| Children | • Max Josef Franz Georg Strauß • Monika Hohlmeier | |||||||||
| Spouse | Marianne Zwicknagl | |||||||||
| Founder of | Airbus | |||||||||
| Member of | Le Cercle, Stauffenberg Service | |||||||||
| Interests | • Lockheed/Bribery scandals • anti-communism | |||||||||
| Party | CSU | |||||||||
A deep politician and politician, a known attendee of Le Cercle, accused in connection with the Lockheed bribery scandals.
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Franz Josef Strauß (pronounced 'Strauss') was a West German politician and deep politician. He noted in his memoirs that he had been a friend of Le Cercle’s Antoine Pinay since the two first met in 1953.[1]
Contents
Deep state connections
Franz Josef Strauß is known to have attended Le Cercle[2], though his name does not appear on any of the known guest lists. It is conjectured that he may be "Schmidthuber", guest #8 on the list of German attendees of 1983 meeting of Le Cercle in Bonn, since Strauß was "Minister of State of Bavaria" at the time.
Lockheed bribery scandals
Former Lockheed lobbyist Ernest Hauser told Senate investigators that Minister of Defence Strauß and his party had received at least $10 million for West Germany's purchase of 900 F-104G Starfighters in 1961, which later became part of the Lockheed bribery scandals. The party and its leader denied the allegations, and Strauß filed a slander suit against Hauser. As the allegations were not corroborated, the issue was dropped.[3]
Spiegel scandal
Strauß was forced to step down as defence minister in 1962 in the wake of the Spiegel scandal. Rudolf Augstein, owner and editor-in-chief of Der Spiegel magazine, had been arrested on Strauß' request and was held for 103 days. Strauß later admitted that he had lied to the parliament and was forced to resign, complaining that he was treated like a "Jew who had dared appear at a Nazi party convention".
Activities
Franz Josef Strauß co-founded Airbus.
Exposure
Strauß' enmity with Der Spiegel apparently continued as the magazine was one of very few to break the commercially-controlled media silence surrounding Le Cercle. In the early 1980s the magazine named him as a regular attendant of the Cercle and gave further details of the (then almost unknown) group.[4]
Israeli Nuclear Weapons Development
On April 14, 2015, Veterans Today published a story suggesting that Franz Josef Strauß was implicated in a decision to 'lend' two billion marks for the "development of the Negev" (i.e. the Dinona nuclear weapons factory complex).[5]
A Quote by Franz Josef Strauß
| Page | Quote |
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| Document:The Deep State: Germany, Immigration, and the National Socialist Underground | “One has to make use of the far right, no matter how reactionary they are… Afterwards it is always possible to get rid of them elegantly… One must not be squeamish with auxiliary forces.<a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a>” |
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/1957 October | 4 October 1957 | 6 October 1957 | Italy Fiuggi | The 6th Bilderberg meeting, the latest ever in the year and the first one in Italy. |
| Le Cercle/1969 (Bavaria) | 2 July 1969 | 2 July 1969 | Germany Bavaria | start/date uncertain, but included 2 July 1969 |
| Le Cercle/1970 (Washington) | 2 December 1970 | 2 December 1970 | US Washington DC Rockefeller family mansion | Exact dates uncertain |
| Le Cercle/1978 (Washington) | December 1978 | December 1978 | US Washington DC | Includes the 12 December |
| Le Cercle/1980 (Washington) | 5 December 1980 | 7 December 1980 | US Washington DC Madison Hotel | Detailed in a telegram to the South African Embassy in Madrid that was posted to the internet in 2017. |
References
- ↑ http://www.williamengdahl.com/englishNEO17Dec2016.php
- ↑ https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1977BONN18128_c.html
- ↑ http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,914576-2,00.html
- ↑ http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-14351703.html
- ↑ http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/04/14/caught-germany-bought-israels-nukes/
