John J. McCloy

John J. McCloy       (lawyer, central banker, politician, diplomat, deep politician)
Born	John Jay McCloy 31 March 1895 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died	11 March 1989 (Age 93) Stamford, Connecticut
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Amherst College, Harvard Law School
Children	2
Spouse	Ellen Zinsser
Founder of	American Council on Germany
Member of	Atlantic Bridge (Germany), Atlantic Institute, Bohemian Grove, Council on Foreign Relations/Historical Members, Links Club, National Committee for a Free Europe, The Georgetown Set, The Warren Commission
Party	Republican
US deep politician, Warren Commission, CFR Chair for 17 years, President of the World Bank ...  Chair of the Council on Foreign Relations In office 1953 - 1970 Preceded by Russell Cornell Leffingwell Succeeded by David Rockefeller  U.S. High Commissioner for Germany In office September 2, 1949 - August 1, 1952  President of the World Bank Group In office March 17, 1947 - July 1, 1949 Employer World Bank Group Preceded by Eugene Meyer Succeeded by Eugene Black  Chairman of the General Advisory Committee on Disarmament In office 1961 - 1974 Employer United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency  American High Commissioner for Occupied Germany In office September 21, 1949 - August 1, 1952

John J. McCloy was a US client of the Rockefeller family and deep politician with a wide net.

Introduction to the Rockefellers

The son oh a Philadelphia hair dresser, his big break came when he was freshman in college. He was able to hire himself out as a tutor of history and law. One day his mother urged him to approach the Rockefellers, one of her rich clients, for a tutoring job.Although the Rockefeller children aleady had a history tutor his personable mother managed to get him a job teaching the young Rockefellers. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., was forty-six years old and had five sons and one daughter, Abby, who was seventeen at the time. John D. 3rd, Nelson, Laurance, Winthrop, and young David Rockefeller ranged in ages from fourteen to five. That summer set the terms for what turned out to be a lifelong association between John and the Rockefellers.

"Chairman of the Establishment"

The New York Times obituary stated "Between times and often concurrently, he was board chairman of the Ford Foundation, chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations and board chairman of a dozen or so other entities, including the Salk Institute and of E. R. Squibb & Sons. As a lawyer, he represented scores of corporate clients, including 23 oil companies dealing with the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Mr. McCloy was chairman of so many boards and had his hands in so many ventures that the political writer Richard Rovere once proposed that he was the informal chairman of the Establishment, a group that 'fixes major goals and constitutes itself a ready pool of manpower for the more exacting labors of leadership.'"

World War II

McCloy was heavily involved in the US government program of interning Japanese-Americans in World War II. Defending that policy in 1981 before a Congressional commission, he claimed that it was "reasonably undertaken and thoughtfully and humanely conducted", althoguh history disagreed and in 1988 the US Congress paid compensation to those internees who were still alive.

U.S. High Commissioner of Allied Forces in West Germany

McCloy once stated "I had the powers of a dictator as High Commissioner of Allied Forces in West Germany, but I think I was a benevolent dictator".

In 1947, Klaus Barbie was recruited as an agent for the 66th Detachment of the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC). When the French discovered that Klaus Barbie was in U.S. hands, having sentenced him to death in absentia for war crimes, they requested McCloy, U.S. High Commissioner for Germany, hand him over for execution, but McCloy refused. Instead, the CIC helped him flee to Bolivia with the help of a "ratline" organized by U.S. intelligence services and the Croatian Roman Catholic priest Krunoslav Draganović.

Other activities

McCloy was CFR chairman from 1954 until 1970. A member of the Warren Commission, he worked to prevent the truth coming out as regards the assassination of JFK.

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/1957 February	15 February 1957	17 February 1957	US St Simons Island Georgia (State)	The earliest ever Bilderberg in the year, number 5, was also first one outside Europe.
Bilderberg/1958	13 September 1958	15 September 1958	United Kingdom Buxton UK	The 7th Bilderberg and the first one in the UK. 72 guests
Bilderberg/1964	20 March 1964	22 March 1964	US Virginia Williamsburg	A year after this meeting, the post of GATT/Director-General was set up, and given Eric Wyndham White, who attended the '64 meeting. Several subsequent holders have been Bilderberg insiders, only 2 are not known to have attended the group.
Bilderberg/1965	2 April 1965	4 April 1965	Italy Villa d'Este	The 14th Bilderberg meeting, held in Italy
Bilderberg/1966	25 March 1966	27 March 1966	Germany Wiesbaden Hotel Nassauer Hof	Top of the agenda of the 15th Bilderberg in Wiesbaden, Germany, was the restructuring of NATO. Since this discussion was held, all permanent holders of the position of NATO Secretary General have attended at least one Bilderberg conference prior to their appointment.

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