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Show Page 10 The UTAH Independendent September 20, The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand 1973 Selling the Rope to Hang Ourselves siderations such as military aid to the Arab world the financing of wars of national liberation such as Vietnam, and to military actions such as the occupation of Czechoslovakia. Do we have any hard evidence that they now want to turn to peaceful pursuits? One of the Congressmans concerns was for the expensive trade agreements which Dr. Armand Hammer (President of Occidental Petroleum Company) has recently signed with the Soviets. Over a period of years this will amount to an excess of $10 billion and it involves an agreement entered into between Dr. Hammer on behalf of the Occidental Petroleum Company and the USSR Foreign Trade and Chemical Ministries, covering oil, gas, metal and fertilizer, including developing the oil and gas deposits and building oil and gas carriers. This is to be financed by outside capital rather than the Soviet Union and is to be paid after the projects have been developed and the end products sold. David Rockefeller, Chairman of the Board of Chase Manhattan Bank which has already opened a branch in Moscow and will represent the Chinese Communist government in its financial affairs in this country, was Moscows first choice as the new U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union. He refused, however, and the Soviet hierarchy is now reportedly anxious to have Dr. Armand Hammer appointed as U.S. Ambassador to the USSR. Armand Hammer has enjoyed a close relationship with top Soviet leaders since 1921 and, regardless of the change of power in the Communist hierarchy, he always receives special treatment. Hammer is known as one of the top Insiders associated with the Communist conspiracy. A number of letters written by V. Ulyanov (Lenin) to Dr. Hammer addressing him as Dear Comrade Hammer are on record. One such letter dated May 11, 1922 reads: Excuse me please; 1 have been very ill; now I am much, much better. Many thanks for your present - a very kind letter from American comrades and friends who are in prison. I enclose for You my letter to Comrade Zinoviev or for other comrades in Petrograd if Zinoviev has left Petrograd. My best wishes for the full success of Your first concession: such success would be of great importance also for trade relations between our Republic and United States. Thanking Y ou once more, I beg to apologize for my bad English. Please address letters and to my secretary (Fotieva or telegrams Smolianinoff). I shall instruct them. Yours truly, Lenin. Qn the same date Lenin sent a letter for Dr. Hammer to present on his arrival in Petrograd to the Bolshevik official Zinoviev. The letter reads: I beg you to give every assistance to the bearer, Comrade Armand Hammer, an American comrade, who has taken out the first concession. It is extremely, extremely important that his whole undertaking should be a complete success. With communist greetings, V. Ulyanov (Lenin) From the days of Lenin up to the present time, Armand Hammer has maintained a close relationship with top Soviet leaders. In 1961 he went to Moscow as the unofficial agent of the Commerce Department, charged with seeing what might be done to increase U.S. exports. On this trip Hammer dealt with Anastas Mikoyan, whom he knew from the 1920s, and also with Khrushchev at that time. He met again with Khrushchev in 1964. Armand Hammers father. Dr. Julius Hammer, was one of the founding from page 1 members of the American Communist Party. He rented a house for the Partys headquarters at 108 East 12th Street in New York City and later purchased the house and turned it over to the Communist Party. He also donated money for the establishment of the first Soviet embassy at 10 West 40th St., New York City. Another person who has entered into large contracts with the Soviet Union, is Michel of the Fribourg who owns more than 90 Continental Grain Company. The Fribourg family is one of the richest in the world, reportedly . wealthier than the Rockefellers. Michel Fribourg controls over 100 corporations and is a veteran at trading with the Soviet Union. His company maintains agents in every country of the world and from their headquarters at 2 Broadway in New York City over 5,000 messages a day go in and out. His intelligence network is so efficient that in some areas the CIA gets information from Fribourgs men. The Fribourgs modus operandi is to ascertain where there is a possibility of famine, purchase grains where there is a surplus, and then sell them in the famine area at an enormous profit. They reportedly purchased large quantities from the Bolsheviks years ago at a time when millions of Russians were starving and when the Communists were in need of money for the purchase of arms to subjugate their people. The Communists do not worry about their people starving. The recent grain sales to the Soviet Union (in which Fribourgs Continental Grain Company was involved to the extent of over $500 million) have resulted in shortages of feed grains in this country. This has caused prices to rise over 200 with the end result of higher meat, poultry and egg prices, to say nothing of the increased cost of bread and other grain products, and finally the disappearance of many items from the market. On July 24, 1973 Alex Caldwell, administrator of the Commodity Exchange Authority (CEA), advised a Senate Committee that Continental Grain Company deliberately filed misleading reports with the CEA to keep its part in the one billion dollar Soviet grain deal a secret from competitors. The CEA turned over its evidence to the Justice Department which refused to bring criminal action. The Senate Subcommittee Chairman, Henry M. Jackson has ordered his investigative staff to find out w'hy criminal actions were not 1 taken. On May 20, 1973 the DesMoines Register published an article written by Clark Mollenhoff, George Anthan and James Risser which revealed that pressure from the White House to complete the grain deal with the Soviet Union before the election was a major factor in the decision to subsidize the sale with tax money. .President Nixon wanted the deal consummated quickly and ordered concessions made to the Russians. The deal was viewed as a means of impressing farmers favorably toward the President by boosting grain prices as a way of eliminating some government-owne- d grain stocks. Nixon officials felt that this would boost the Presidents political stock in the agricultural belt. However it did not work out to the farmers benefit. Because of the secrecy surrounding the deal many farmers were unaware of it and sold their crops at low prices. Speculators with inside information on the deal bought low and sold high, profiting immensely. Because the grains were exported at bargain prices, domestic shortages began to occur and prices began to rise. T his forced a further increase in the already high price of beef, chickens, eggs, pork, dairy products, bread, etc., which, in turn, brought on price freezes. Since Fribourg and the Continental Grain Com- Conlinucd on page 12 In a major effort to harness Watergate as a vehicle for New Left activism on a national scaw, while capitalizing on liberal ion feeling, the ultraleftist National Lawyers Guild is now completing elaborate plans to sue for the overturning of the unlawful "fraudulent, unconstitutional" and 1972 presidential election. The suit would call for new elections, hopefully under terms drawn up by the NLG on behalf of the people and financed at least partially by any funds raised but left unspent by the Committee to Relect the President, the 1972 Nixon campaign organization. Drawing almost exclusively on material made public by the Senate Watergate Committee, a task force from the Nlg's national office in New York has fasioned a rough draft of the lawsuit, now being circulated among Guild lawyers for comment and revision. 27-pa- ge Although the draft slates the suit for the U.S. District Crt in Washington, D.C., grandiose NLG plans call for entering it simultaneously in courts in all 50 state and enlisting thousands of ordinary citizens" all over the nation as plaintiffs. to an NLG legal worker in Boston, this will be the biggest thing the Guild has According ever done. Obtained by HUMAN EVENTS ROUGH DRAFT OF THE SUITE AN ACCOMPANYING FOUR PAGE MEMORANDUME THE AND AN EXPLANATORY LETTER NLG national headquarters lawyers james Reif and Paul Schachter point up two clear purposes of the legal effort: FROM Drowned In Red- our WASHINGTON In newsletter of February 14 of this year, we estimated that as business of the close December of 31, 1972, the net public and private debt of this nation was $2.1 Trillion. Now comes a report from the U.S. Department of Commerce to show that our estimate was too conservative. According to the Department, the net public and private debt at the close of business last year was $2,230,000,000,000 (TWO TRILLION TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY BILLION DOLLARS). Thats an increase of $209 Billion over 1971 and, of course, marks 1972 as the year the public and private debt crossed the TWO TRILLION DOLLAR MARK. We have said before in these newsletters and we repeat: THIS COUNTRY IS BEING DROWNED IN A SEA OF RED INK AND DEBTI Cong. H.R. 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