John “Fish out of water” Reed – Re: Facetime
From: GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com>
Subject: Fish out of water – Re: Facetime – Re: John Reed
Date: May 15, 2016 at 8:46:21 AM PDT
To: John Reed <john.reed@ft.com>
Cc: rest; Geoffrey Rothwell Phd – Principal Economist at De Beers controlled, US Nuclear Energy Agency of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, headquartered in Paris, France. Former 27 year senior Stanford University lecturer, Rothwell is considered the world authority on the pricing of enriched uranium, but failed to include the military component and its aftermath.” <Geoffrey.ROTHWELL@oecd.org>, gili.diamant@yadvashem.org.il, Galit Tassi Military Embassy of Israel – Washington <galit.tassi@gmail.com>, “Jeffrey R. 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Mark is the eldest son of David Gevisser, the male heir of American-German, RACIST SOUTH AFRICAN INVADER Charles W. Engelhard Jr. assassinated by the Mossad on March 2 1971 and buried at St. Mary’s Abbey Church Morristown New Jersey. Mark is a close cousin of Sandra Moshal Jacobson [1957-1997], Gary S. Gevisser’s classmate from Carmel College, Durban, South Africa who was found naked in the trunk of her automobile, tortured to death by fellow members, Mark Gevisser’s father, David Gevisser wrote in his 2006 memoir, THE UNLIKELY FORESTER, in the armed wing of the ANC, who would have eventually all known that David Gevisser was a traitor, as well as all those who curried favor with D. 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John – your actions are bizarre, but understandable.
The OSS had determined, however, that tons of diamonds were somehow reaching Nazi Germany. If the De Beers system of “elaborate controls” was as effective as the War Department held, how could such enormous quantities of diamonds be regularly reaching Germany? To answer this question, the OSS had proposed sending its own undercover agents from its field office in Accra to the Belgian Congo. Since the British Ministry of Economic Warfare was responsible for allied activities in the Congo, this OSS action had to be cleared in London. At first the ministry blocked the request, and then it had proposed a joint “diamond investigation.” OSS agents met with their British counterparts, but little was done to pinpoint the source of the smuggling. Finally the OSS chief in Accra reported to Washington, D.C.:
“We have now come to the conclusion (a) that our assistance was requested in this program so that the Diamond Trading Corporation might discover how much we actually knew of the ramifications of the De Beers world monopoly, and (b) that the OSS/Accra recommendations for a Security Committee were sabotaged, not by the British Government, but by the representatives of the Diamond Trading Corporation, Ltd., London, through their domination of the Diamond Committee of the Ministry of Economic Warfare.”
Fleming also worked with Colonel “Wild Bill” Donovan, President Franklin D. Roosevelt‘s special representative on intelligence co-operation between London and Washington. In May 1941 Fleming accompanied Godfrey to the United States, where he assisted in writing a blueprint for the Office of the Coordinator of Information, the department that turned into the Office of Strategic Services and eventually became the CIA.
At the end of the Anglo-American War [1899-1902], he was a member of the small force which escorted Jan Smuts to the peace negotiations.
As the OSS pursued the investigation, it found that the diamonds were reaching the Axis powers through Tangier and Cairo. Its agents, posing as illegal buyers in these entrepots, found that industrial diamonds were being sold for $26 a carat, which was thirty times the official price. It became increasingly clear that enormous profits were being made on the millions of carats that were being smuggled into Germany. Tracing their way back through the chain of illegal sellers, an OSS agent code-named Teton reported back from Leopoldville that “the major source of leakage was the Forminiere Mines,” which had been under the control of the syndicate ever since they were developed. According to the OSS report, Teton, pretending to be an American official who had come to the Congo to register “all American males of draft age,” made highly productive “contact” in Leopoldville and eventually turned up evidence “that a full year’s supply of diamonds had reached Germany from Forminiere through Red Cross parcels.” The shipment of several million carats of diamonds through the parcels that were regularly sent from the Congo to Nazi-occupied Belgium required considerable organization and support in the intervening areas.
Following the outbreak of war in 1939, the Duke was given a military post in the British Army stationed in France. According to the son of Lord Ironside, the Duchess continued to entertain friends associated with the fascist movement, and leaked details of the French and Belgian defences gleaned from the Duke.[88] When the Germans invaded the north of France and bombed Britain in May 1940, the Duchess told an American journalist, “I can’t say I feel sorry for them.”[89] As the German troops advanced, the Duke and Duchess fled south from their Paris home, first to Biarritz, then in June to Spain. There, she told the United States ambassador, Alexander W. Weddell, that France had lost because it was “internally diseased”.[90] In July, the pair moved to Lisbon, Portugal, where they stayed at the home of Ricardo de Espirito Santo e Silva, a banker who was suspected of being a German agent.[91] In August, the Duke and Duchess travelled by commercial liner to the Bahamas, where the Duke was installed as Governor.[92]
The strategic importance of diamonds became acutely clear to both the Allies and Axis powers with the approach of the Second World War in 1939. Only diamonds were hard enough to stamp out the millions of precision parts that were necessary for mass-producing airplane engines, torpedoes, tanks, artillery and the other weapons of war. Only diamonds could be used to draw the fine wire needed for radar and the electronics of war. Only diamonds could provide the jeweled bearings necessary for the stabilizers, gyroscopes and guidance systems for submarines and planes. Only diamonds could provide the abrasives necessary for rapidly converting civilian industries into a war machine. Without a continuing supply of diamonds, the war machine would rapidly slow to a halt. Yet, nearly all the diamond mines remained closed, and De Beers controlled the world supply of diamonds. Obtaining these industrial diamonds thus became a paramount objective for both the United States and Hitler’s Germany.
In Washington, D.C., the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt began to hold emergency meetings about diamonds in 1940 when Hitler’s armies swept across Europe in a blitzkrieg and threatened to invade England. The possibility had to be at least considered that England, like France, might be overrun or surrender. In that event, the world diamond stockpile would fall into Hitler’s hands. Since the United States had less than one year’s supply of industrial diamonds, the loss of De Beers’ stockpile would make it difficult, if not impossible, to continue the war. The economic planners for the war estimated that the United ,States needed at least 6.5 million carats of industrial diamonds to convert its factories to war production.
When apprized of this critical shortage in diamonds, President Roosevelt ordered the War Production Board, which had the responsibility for mobilizing the American economy for war, to buy the necessary 6.5 million carats from De Beers. De Beers, however, had other interests to consider. Its entire system for monopolizing diamonds depended on its controlling the available stockpile. Transferring a large portion of the stockpile from London to New York City, where it would be out of its control, ran counter to the De Beers logic.
Even though the Americans persisted in the negotiations for the diamonds, they found that Sir Ernest Oppenheimer personally opposed any transfer of diamonds to the United States. He argued that if the United States had its own stockpile, and the war suddenly ended, it might release the diamonds and undercut the entire world order that he had so laboriously constructed. Moreover, he held that the United States had sufficient diamonds for present needs, and that De Beers would continue its delivery of diamonds to American manufacturers on a monthly basis. In one letter, he characterized the American demand for a stockpile as “farcical.”
The Americans were dismayed by this intransigence. In an official Justice Department memorandum, the War Production Board expressed incredulity at the fact that “the leaders of the syndicate are intentionally risking the war production of the allies.” President Roosevelt, disturbed by this development, ordered the State Department to intervene directly with Winston Churchill’s war cabinet in London.
The State Department found, however, that the British government was reluctant to press De Beers to part with the diamonds. An investigation by U.S. intelligence indicated that the division of the British government responsible for acting on the request was entirely staffed by former executives of the De Beers “syndicate.” In a secret memorandum, the War Production Board noted, “The diamond section of the government and the syndicate seem to be the same.”* After the Roosevelt administration had made continuing efforts to persuade the British government that the diamonds were of critical importance to the United States war effort, it ordered the State Department to play its trump card and threaten that the United States would interrupt the supply f airplanes that was vitally needed by the British to defend themselves against the Luftwaffe bombing raids. According to a confidential report in this Justice Department archive, dated April 16, 1942, “It was said unofficially that we would not give planes to England if the syndicate would not sell us the diamonds with which to make them.” This dramatic threat had the desired effect. The British government pressed De Beers to accommodate President Roosevelt, and De Beers yielded.
Oppenheimer agreed to supply the United States immediately with one million carats–14 percent of the American request—and deposit an additional stockpile in Canada for the duration of the war. This Canadian stockpile, which would remain under De Beers control, was meant to mitigate the American concern over the possible capture of the London stockpile.
The Roosevelt administration was not entirely satisfied with this compromise. It continued to apply pressure to the British government, demanding that De Beers supply the additional 5.5 million carats. By this time, the air of crisis had passed, and De Beers was able to procrastinate successfully. At first, it claimed that it did not have enough diamonds in its vaults to supply this amount. Then, after U.S. intelligence debunked this claim, De Beers advised that its vaults were bombed shut” in an air raid on London. A year passed. Then De Beers asserted that it needed additional time to prepare an inventory of the diamonds it had available.
By this time, American officials feared that De Beers, despite the pressure exerted on it, had no intention of allowing a diamond stockpile of any magnitude to be established, even in Canada. Moreover, manufacturers of. diamond tools in the United States had begun complaining to the Office of Price Control that De Beers had effectively raised its prices as much as 60 percent through the device of reducing the quality of the diamonds it delivered. So, though the official price per carat remained the same, manufacturers had to buy more of the lower quality diamonds to build the tools and dies for industry. Since it was exceedingly difficult for the price control officials to measure the relative quality of industrial diamonds, De Beers was able to persist in its claim that it had not raised prices. In any case, the Justice Department concluded that the De Beers monopoly, by manipulating supplies from the stockpile, could impede the war effort.
The Justice Department decided then to launch its own investigation into the diamond monopoly. It had the full cooperation of the War Production Board, which still wanted control of the diamond stockpile, and the OSS, the newly created U.S. wartime intelligence service. The Investigators were not held back by any inhibitions about intercepting mail, borrowing bank records or other such extralegal measures. They all shared a common objective: helping the war effort. In their roughshod manner, they soon began turning up bits of evidence indicating that De Beers had systematically stifled diamond mining in areas of the world over which it could not exert control. For example, intercepted letters from Oppenheimer’s associates suggested that litigation had been initiated in Venezuela to prevent Nelson Rockefeller and other Americans from developing diamond mines in that country. One such letter detailed the possibility of competition in Venezuela, and asked an intermediary to suggest to Oppenheimer that he be “ruthless in stamping it out.” Another intercepted letter from a Belgian diamond executive suggested that De Beers was intentionally exhausting the diamond mines in the Belgian Congo, while preserving its mines in South Africa, so that after the war was over De Beers “will have complete control over the market..” Justice Department investigators also looked into charges that De Beers had conspired to buy out and shut down potential diamond mining areas in the country of Guyana and the state of Arkansas.
In Arkansas, it was charged that after diamonds were found there, Oppenheimer bought control of the company that was to mine the diamonds. Then, when the separation plant built on the site failed to produce a sufficient quantity of diamonds per ton of ore to make the mine profitable, it was closed. Subsequently, it was charged that the separation plant had been designed by the engineer in such a manner that it could not possibly retrieve diamonds. It emerged that the engineer was in the employ of De Beers. The mine, which was bought out by associates of Ernest Oppenheimer, was ordered closed in 1921 after Oppenheimer met the mine officials in New York, and the mine’s records were ordered destroyed. “An inference could be drawn . . . “the Justice Department memorandum noted, “that the property was sabotaged and then closed at the insistence of Sir Ernest Oppenheimer.” The evidence was admittedly highly circumstantial.
Whatever were the specific tactics of De Beers, the justice Department investigators reached the conclusion that the singular effect of these efforts was to artificially restrain the production of diamonds. This, in turn, produced higher prices. A 1944 memorandum to the attorney general concluded, “The United States is paying monopoly prices for an essential material needed in wartime production.” If De Beers were an American company, the memorandum continued, “There would be no question as to [its] having violated the anti-trust laws.” Since De Beers was a South African corporation, the Justice Department had to demonstrate that it had some jurisdiction over its activities before it could consider prosecuting it.
The FBI was called in to interview the leading diamond dealers in New York to determine whether De Beers, which sold them diamonds, could be construed as transacting business in the United States. The FBI reported, “The domestic trade operates in relative secrecy…. The syndicate will sell only to a small group of hand-picked dealers.” It further noted that De Beers officials avoided coming to the United States, and all transactions took place in London. Further inquiry showed that De Beers had closed all its bank accounts in the United States at the outset of the investigation.
The assistant attorney generals at the Justice Department who had superintended the investigation realized that the antitrust division had little chance of ever bringing De Beers to court in the United States. Despite all the prodigious investigative efforts, the case was abandoned in late 1945.
None of these documents cast any light on the question of how Hitler continued to obtain diamonds for the duration of the war. There was, however, an investigation of this problem by the OSS, the forerunner of the CIA.
According to a summary of OSS documents, the OSS learned through its agents in Germany that in November of 1943 Hitler had only an eight-month supply of industrial diamonds. When these diamonds ran out, Hitler’s war machine would be crippled. It would no longer be possible to build V-2 rockets or other exotic weaponry. It was thus a crucial wartime goal to prevent Hitler from replenishing his supply of diamonds.
As all mines in South Africa were closed, the OSS reckoned that there was only one place on earth from which the Germans could get industrial diamonds in sufficient quantity to maintain their .military-industrial complex: the Belgian Congo. The Belgian Congo was, however, administered by the Belgian government in exile, which was in London and completely under British control. The mines themselves were supervised, and policed, by the De Beers syndicate. In fact, when the justice Department began to move against De Beers, the War Department objected on the grounds that it might undercut the security system that De Beers had developed in the Belgian Congo. In an exchange of secret correspondence between the War and Justice Departments (which was declassified under my Freedom of Information request), it was argued by an official responsible for maintaining the diamond blockade that “almost the entire [diamond] production of Africa is policed through the operation of elaborate controls extending through every mining area of the continent.” Further, De Beers, which administered this program, sent “this controlled production … in a closely guarded stream to London.”
What your article has accomplished is to give the public a false sense of security that diamonds are a good investment forever.
Hillel the Elder – If I am not for myself who is for me? And being for my own self, what am ‘I’? And if not now, when?
On May 15, 2016, at 3:47 PM, John Reed <john.reed@ft.com> wrote:Hi Gary –
Listen, I am putting aside this topic for awhile. However, I will contact you if I return to it. Thanks for being in touch.Best regards,John
On 15 May 2016 at 16:29, GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com> wrote:
If a lady answers, her name is XXX. She speaks a pretty good English but her native French is better.
She will bring me the phone.We could bring Geoffrey Rothwell on to the line as I am in touch with him today, but I think that can wait. Of course this Diamond Invention touches closely on nuclear.On May 15, 2016, at 3:21 PM, John Reed <john.reed@ft.com> wrote:
Can you please remind me of who I will be talking to? I can call in half an hour.
rgds,
On 15 May 2016 at 15:44, GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com> wrote:
I’ve been holding on to the landline phone here, but I just returned it to our host as another call came in for her.
Could you tell me when you will be calling?
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From: GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com>Subject: Re: Facetime – Re: John ReedDate: May 15, 2016 at 1:48:17 PM GMT+2To: John Reed <john.reed@ft.com>
the number here is France 33 -XXXXXX
On May 15, 2016, at 1:44 PM, GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com> wrote:
I am going to see if I can use our host and friend’s landline phone which I don’t have the number for. I will get you that number as I would prefer not to burden her with the expense, if that is okay with you.
While I try organize that take a look at the hyperlink belowtaking you to the free Internet edition of THE DIAMOND INVENTION book.When paging through I suggest you spend a little more time on both chapter 9, DIAMONDS FOR HITLER and chapter 16, WARRING WITH ISRAEL and note there the power and influence of Harry Oppenheimer who was my direct report during my year long interviewing process with De Beers and when it ended, my liason with H. Oppenheimer was through Martin Rapaport of the Rapaport Report.Are you familiar with the Rapaport Report?Most important is chapter 18, THE AMERICAN CONSPIRACY. Scroll down until you get to the following paragraph:Just as the Justice Department was about to file antitrust actions, Engelhard relinquished its right to be exclusive distributor of De Beers’ abrasive diamonds in the United States and devolved the distributorship to three industrial diamond dealers in New York, all of whom had close ties to De Beers. Engelhard arranged for Oppenheimer to buy a controlling interest in his far-flung empire, since he had no male heirs to take over. To do this, Oppenheimer set up HD Development Corporation, which was owned by Oppenheimer and Anglo-American.Don’t you find it strange the wording, “since he had no male heirs to take over”?
Are you not surprised that in all your dealings with De Beers people both in South Africa and Israel they have never made you aware of The D I book?BTW, Engelhard Jr.’s “male heir” was my father Bernie Gevisser’s first cousin David Gevisser.As you go back and read your article that I know has already been read by a great many people throughout the world, is there anything there that you might want to change, and if so, what would it be?If you have questions for me that I can prepare myself for ahead of our phone call, that would be great.On May 15, 2016, at 1:28 PM, John Reed <john.reed@ft.com> wrote:No, I haven’t read that book, and yes, I do know what a sightholder is – I used to work for the FT in Johannesburg, and did some of our coverage of De Beers and diamonds.
I’m not keen to do Facetime, but let me know if you have time to chat on the phone, and how I can reach you – or feel free to call me on (972) 544 769 066.Best regards,
On 15 May 2016 at 14:23, GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com> wrote:
Do you know what a site holder is? Have you read Edward Jay Epstein’s 1978 non-fiction book, The Diamond Invention? That was the time I joined site holder Codiam Inc.Most definately we can try Facetime. Once you get back to me with the answer to those 2 questions we can try Facetime. We can start out with video and if that doesn’t work then we will try audio. I assume you have an Apple Computer?
On May 15, 2016, at 1:20 PM, John Reed <john.reed@ft.com> wrote:
You must remind me what your questions were. A phone call would be best for me if that’s OK.
rgds,On 15 May 2016 at 14:19, GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com> wrote:
Right this minute is perfect for me.
I think that before we have a chat on the phone and Facetime is all that I have currently, and my Internet connection here in Corse is a little rough, it would move things along rapidly if you answered my couple of questions from a couple of days ago.
On May 15, 2016, at 1:13 PM, John Reed <john.reed@ft.com> wrote:
Hello Gary –
I am back on duty now. Let me know when you want to talk; my days this week that would work would be Monday, Tuesday or Thursday.
Best regards,
John
On 13 May 2016 at 20:13, GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com> wrote:
I’ll await to hear your response on Sunday; and then we can go from there.
On May 13, 2016, at 6:56 PM, John Reed <john.reed@ft.com> wrote:
Thanks, Gary. I am off duty until Sunday, but would be very glad to talk to you then or next week.
Best regards,
John
On 13 May 2016 at 18:55, GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com> wrote:
John, if you have an Apple, how would like to be included in a Facetime meeting I am looking to make happen in the next half hour with Geoffrey Rothwell Phd, the principal economist for the OECD?
Quick background:
Rothwell and I have known each other since 2006 but we have only met once back in mid-September 2013 when we met in Paris for dinner, along with our respective wives; and we have been in close contact ever since; and more so in the course of the past couple of weeks.
Of course, if I didn’t think it touched solidly on your story, I wouldn’t propose it.
Best regards,
Gary
On May 13, 2016, at 4:06 PM, GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com> wrote:
John hi,
I’m on vacation in Corsica and I will be here for at least the next week before heading to mainland France, so there is no hurry.
Early in my career I worked for a site holder. Do you know what a site holder is? Have you read Edward Jay Epstein’s 1978 non-fiction book, The Diamond Invention? That was the time I joined site holder Codiam Inc.
My French-Canadian wife and I along with our world traveler dog, Mango have been out of the States where we are based for going on 6 months which is not unusual since we have been spending half the year traveling for the past 4 years. We plan on returning to California around the middle of next month.
I know a little about your business in part because I was an advisor to Randolf Apperson Hearst at the tail end of his chairmanship of Hearst Corporation but you probably won’t find anyone quite as knowledgeable about the diamond business as me.
let me know when is a good time,
Gary
On May 13, 2016, at 3:04 PM, John Reed <john.reed@ft.com> wrote:
Hi Gary – I will be glad to speak to you. I am off duty now, but will be back in the office on Sunday. Please let me know how to reach you then or later in the week.
Best regards,
John
On 13 May 2016 at 15:53, GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com> wrote:
I thought I would try myself.
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From: GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com>
Subject: John Reed
Date: May 13, 2016 at 8:07:31 AM GMT+2
To: help@ft.com
I’m trying to reach John Reed who wrote today’s story, Israel: The going gets rough for diamonds
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/120bdeaa-1778-11e6-9d98-00386a18e39d.html#axzz48VpCeck6
I have an inside track on that story that will help his readers make more sense of what is going on.
Gary Gevisser