Al Gore, Armand Hammer, Hoover and the Commies

Tinfoil hats on, please.

I just read a review of a bit of journalism on Armand Hammer. The reviewed book is “DOSSIER: THE SECRET HISTORY OF ARMAND HAMMER” by Edward Jay Epstein

What I didn’t expect to see where connections between him, the Ruskies, Hoover and Occidental Petroleum. Turns out Al Gore Senior was, at first the political face for Armand Hammer’s empire: one built on secret multi-generational family relationships with the Communists (WHHHhhhaaaa?). Apparently Hammer was a secret Commie and son of a not so secret commie. He made his fortune, according to the reviewed book, through backroom dealings with the Communists, essentially helping to secretly set up their access to the capitalist marketplace, especially acting as launderer for Communist funds inside the US.

The under-funded Gore the Senior’s career was started with Hammer’s money – and therefore tainted by Communist influence on some level. Hoover opened a file on the organization, scrawling ‘a rotten bunch’ across the top way back in 1919. When Senator Gore retired, he went to work for Hammer’s Occidental Petroleum. Before retiring, Gore served (no irony here!!) as chairman of the ‘Special Committee on Attempts to Influence Senators’ during the 84th Congress (chuckle).

full review

Senator Gore Sr. on Wiki

Soo.. The Bush’s were created by dirty dealings with the fascists, the Gores with the Commies..

Kinda makes Joe Kennedy’s rum-running look all the more mainstream American by comparison!

Which mass murdering autocrats did YOUR grandfather make shady deals with to attain the pinnacle of power? None? Too bad. Probably explains a lot.

4 Comments

idredit on July 24, 2008 at 5:02 pm

and capitalism has self destruct. It’s the workers’ tax dollars that will save the system.

das monde on July 24, 2008 at 9:51 pm

Isn’t wealth unquestionably respected in America? The greatest wrong is not to get rich, so it seems.

But regarding Al Gores, you have to have credit to them for not matching Bushes’ hypocrisy of condemning Nazi appeasement while having a record of Nazi financial-industrial support.

For a balance, Joe Kennedy had a Nazi sympathizer reputation as well.

One remark regarding this (from the review)…

how the impecunious Senator Albert Gore Sr. got the wealth to enable him to live in splendor in Washington’s Fairfax Hotel

This is one of those “internet invention” bloopers of the 2000 campaign…

When the Gores lived in the building in question in the 1950s, it was a residential facility–the Fairfax Apartment Hotel–known as “Washington’s family hotel.” It was not the Ritz when the Gores lived there, and according to a string of Gore biographers, it was neither “fancy” nor “elegant” (nor “pricey”) at the time. In February 1998, for example, Marjorie Williams examined Gore’s childhood years in a profile for Vanity Fair. “Although the Fairfax Hotel later became the Ritz-Carlton,” she wrote, “it was not a posh place at the time Gore was growing up.” Bill Turque agreed in his later biography. “[T]he Fairfax was a bit more modest in Gore’s day,” he wrote. “[T]he bare linoleum floor and thick steel doors suggested transience and utility.” Why did foreign-service families often live at the Fairfax? “The hotel apartments were the only ones with kitchens that were within the State Department’s stingy temporary-housing allowance,” the Washington Post recalled in a 1998 retrospective.

anarchronarchist on July 25, 2008 at 12:42 am

When you think about it, the 2000 Presidential Campaign was between the scions of America’s most accomplished Nazi and Communist collaborators’ ill-gotten fortunes. If American power lies with rich Nazis and Pinkos, apparently America lost both the Cold and Second World Wars through our own greed.

Unfortunately, I’m sure the GWOT is already lost in much the same way. Erik Prince’s children for President in 2032? Any bets on who’s got the exclusive deal to bring in all that black market Iraq oil to market at European and US prices? Bet their kid is a Senator someday soon too..
- das monde on July 25, 2008 at 5:04 am
  
  The American ideals are more for a show – they are long overtaken by a scale of narrow interests. Core ideological models and distinctions are just as present in the US as in the old Europe, but with more aggressive media dressing. It is too simplistic to assign anyth
  
  I do see Bushes’ Nazi contributions and Al Gores’ “communist sympathies” of unlike characters, but that is a complicated distinction. Conflating communism, fascism and/or terrorism, and contiguous scares, are necessary tricks to those who want to keep their power, appearances, intentions and the past hidden. Soviet communism was a lousy experiment – and it was kept running just as long as it was useful to certain US internal politics. (Now they need terrorism to keep the circus going.) It is very cheap to dismiss any social vision with milder social extremes and some attention to collective effects as Marxist or communists. Even Adam Smith was a proto-Marxist when it came to labour relations. Various “Marxist” ideas will be ridiculed for a long time, quite unfortunately for the upcoming crises of resources’ boundaries. There is also a high risk that those ideas will be pushed in a desperate manner again.
  
  Fascism makes most sense as a reaction from higher financial industrial classes to the threat of communism – not so much a “freedom threat” (yet), but the kind of existential threat that Russian elites had to experience. So they supported Hitler as a useful kind of “socialism”; and you have to appreciate the support that Hitler got. He served only nine months of mild prison regime (of merely five years sentence) for a failed attempt to overthrow a government. He had attention of many influential figures. He had industrial support, media support, and saw no orderly opposition. As well known, his political and industrial partners were popular on Wall Street and US political circles. Hitler would had gone nowhere without that kind of support that, in particular, senior Prescott Bush gave. Masses just follow what the elites approve. Why is there so little attention to Nazi financiers? Because financial classes are supposed to do no wrong; only little Eichmans must be at fault.
  
  I don’t see the same scale of damage (or benefit to Moscow commies) that Al Gore Sen could possibly have done. Al Gores’ vision might had been relatively Marxist in the post-McCartian pool of American politics; but they were not necessarily utterly wrong or selling out. In fact, more disappointingly, Al Gore Jr might be just playing (and liking) an American looser role, for what we know.

idredit on July 24, 2008 at 5:02 pm

and capitalism has self destruct. It’s the workers’ tax dollars that will save the system.
das monde on July 24, 2008 at 9:51 pm

Isn’t wealth unquestionably respected in America? The greatest wrong is not to get rich, so it seems.

But regarding Al Gores, you have to have credit to them for not matching Bushes’ hypocrisy of condemning Nazi appeasement while having a record of Nazi financial-industrial support.

For a balance, Joe Kennedy had a Nazi sympathizer reputation as well.

One remark regarding this (from the review)…

how the impecunious Senator Albert Gore Sr. got the wealth to enable him to live in splendor in Washington’s Fairfax Hotel

This is one of those “internet invention” bloopers of the 2000 campaign…

When the Gores lived in the building in question in the 1950s, it was a residential facility–the Fairfax Apartment Hotel–known as “Washington’s family hotel.” It was not the Ritz when the Gores lived there, and according to a string of Gore biographers, it was neither “fancy” nor “elegant” (nor “pricey”) at the time. In February 1998, for example, Marjorie Williams examined Gore’s childhood years in a profile for Vanity Fair. “Although the Fairfax Hotel later became the Ritz-Carlton,” she wrote, “it was not a posh place at the time Gore was growing up.” Bill Turque agreed in his later biography. “[T]he Fairfax was a bit more modest in Gore’s day,” he wrote. “[T]he bare linoleum floor and thick steel doors suggested transience and utility.” Why did foreign-service families often live at the Fairfax? “The hotel apartments were the only ones with kitchens that were within the State Department’s stingy temporary-housing allowance,” the Washington Post recalled in a 1998 retrospective.
- anarchronarchist on July 25, 2008 at 12:42 am
  
  When you think about it, the 2000 Presidential Campaign was between the scions of America’s most accomplished Nazi and Communist collaborators’ ill-gotten fortunes. If American power lies with rich Nazis and Pinkos, apparently America lost both the Cold and Second World Wars through our own greed.
  
  Unfortunately, I’m sure the GWOT is already lost in much the same way. Erik Prince’s children for President in 2032? Any bets on who’s got the exclusive deal to bring in all that black market Iraq oil to market at European and US prices? Bet their kid is a Senator someday soon too..
  - das monde on July 25, 2008 at 5:04 am
    
    The American ideals are more for a show – they are long overtaken by a scale of narrow interests. Core ideological models and distinctions are just as present in the US as in the old Europe, but with more aggressive media dressing. It is too simplistic to assign anyth
    
    I do see Bushes’ Nazi contributions and Al Gores’ “communist sympathies” of unlike characters, but that is a complicated distinction. Conflating communism, fascism and/or terrorism, and contiguous scares, are necessary tricks to those who want to keep their power, appearances, intentions and the past hidden. Soviet communism was a lousy experiment – and it was kept running just as long as it was useful to certain US internal politics. (Now they need terrorism to keep the circus going.) It is very cheap to dismiss any social vision with milder social extremes and some attention to collective effects as Marxist or communists. Even Adam Smith was a proto-Marxist when it came to labour relations. Various “Marxist” ideas will be ridiculed for a long time, quite unfortunately for the upcoming crises of resources’ boundaries. There is also a high risk that those ideas will be pushed in a desperate manner again.
    
    Fascism makes most sense as a reaction from higher financial industrial classes to the threat of communism – not so much a “freedom threat” (yet), but the kind of existential threat that Russian elites had to experience. So they supported Hitler as a useful kind of “socialism”; and you have to appreciate the support that Hitler got. He served only nine months of mild prison regime (of merely five years sentence) for a failed attempt to overthrow a government. He had attention of many influential figures. He had industrial support, media support, and saw no orderly opposition. As well known, his political and industrial partners were popular on Wall Street and US political circles. Hitler would had gone nowhere without that kind of support that, in particular, senior Prescott Bush gave. Masses just follow what the elites approve. Why is there so little attention to Nazi financiers? Because financial classes are supposed to do no wrong; only little Eichmans must be at fault.
    
    I don’t see the same scale of damage (or benefit to Moscow commies) that Al Gore Sen could possibly have done. Al Gores’ vision might had been relatively Marxist in the post-McCartian pool of American politics; but they were not necessarily utterly wrong or selling out. In fact, more disappointingly, Al Gore Jr might be just playing (and liking) an American looser role, for what we know.

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