Monday, March 24, 2008

Ephilution's Knight of Malta Information for March 24, 2008


 

 

George Raymond Rocca - Deputy Chief of CIA Counterintelligence under Angleton; Head of CIA section: Research and Analysis, CI/R&A.
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Employment History

    *Deputy Chief of the Staff
      Counter-Intelligence
   
  *Angleton's Deputy Chief of Counterintelligenee Division
      CIA

    *Counter-Intelligence Officer
      CIA

    *Chief of Research and Analysis In the Counterintelligence Division
      CIA

    *Chief of Research and Analysis Group
      DD/P Counter-Intelligence

    *Member, Staff
      DD/P Counter-Intelligence

    *Chief of Research and Analysis for the Staff
      CI
   
  *Chief of Research and Analysis for the Staff
      Colima
   
  *Head
      Colima

RAYMOND ROCCA

Raymond Rocca (born February 22, 1917) was reputedly ANGLETON'S chief deputy. Raymond Rocca attended the University of California at Berkeley, where he studied Fascist Italy. In 1942 he received a Doctorate Degree in 1942. He went into the Analytical Section of the Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service, where he learned content analysis as a Italian broadcast analyst. He joined the OSS Counter-Intelligence component in April 1944. He remained in Italy in the service of the OSS and its successor agencies, the Strategic Services Unit and the CIA. Raymond Rocca met ANGLETON in August 1944 and became his executive assistant.
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Raymond Rocca remained in Italy until after the 1948 elections and was ANGLETON'S liaison with the Italian intelligence service until his own return to Washington in the Summer of 1953. Raymond Rocca joined the DD/P Counter-Intelligence Staff in July 1955, as chief of its Research and Analysis Group. His functions there included production and editing of finished Counter-Intelligence studies, case studies, briefings, defector debriefings, accumulation of Counter-Intelligence doctrine, and research, stimulation and participation in Counter-Intelligence training. In July 1969 Raymond Rocca became Deputy Chief of the Counter-Intelligence Staff. Clare Edward Petty reported: "Rocca was the head of a CI section called Research and Analysis, CI/R&A.
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, CI/RA [Raymond Rocca]







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- On December 27, 1946 James Angleton received the Croci Al Merito Seconda Classe from the Order, the same day as George Raymond Rocca. Rocca went on to become Angleton's deputy chief of Counterintelligence Division of the CIA and was the liaison between the Warren Commission and the CIA following the Kennedy Assassination. (See sidebar.)







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The Knights of Malta were an offshoot of the Knights of St. John, who, like the Teutonic Knights, fought in the Crusades. The Knights of Malta became an ultra-conservative international group granted sovereignty by the Vatican. On December 27, 1946, ANGLETON received the Knights of Malta's Croci Al Merito Seconda Classe, the same day as Raymond Rocca.







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After the war, Gehlen was hired by the newly created CIA to organize its operations in Europe! CIA directors known to be Knights of Malta have been John McCone and William Casey, and so was George Rocca, a deputy chief of CIA counter-intelligence. The Knights of Malta were almost certainly involved in the guns-for-drugs Iran-Contra affair in the US, which brought Oliver North to world public attention. North was represented at the hearings by the law firm of Bennett Williams, a Knight of Malta. One of the Americans who intervened to ensure that selected Nazi personnel escaped from Germany to the United States after the war was the industrialist, J. Peter Grace, the one-time American head of the Knights of Malta. This Order is an ultra-extreme authoritarian organisation which connects with the highest levels of the Elite web.







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On another note, I just finished watching "The Good Shepherd" for the third time. As you know it is about the CIA's Counterintelligence wing led by SMOM James Angleton with his right hand man, the Jesuit Fordham trained SMOM Italian Roman Catholic Raymond Rocca. Thus the Jesuits controlled the apex of CIA power via Angleton and Rocca. It was here at this pinnacle that the Order united the CIA with the British MI5/MI6, with the Soviet KGB, with the Israeli Mossad, with French Intelligence, with the Shah's SAVAK, INTERPOL, etc. This is the Black Pope's International Intelligence Community financed by the Black Pope's International Drug Trade with its trillions laundered through the Black Pope's International Banking Community run by the Knights of Malta. This is the picture described in VAIII.







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ROCCA RAYMOND G
  Italy 1944-1953

    * Back Channels 1993-SU (4)
    * Codevilla,A. Informing Statecraft. 1992 (141)
    * Corson,W. Trento,S.& J. Widows. 1989 (71)
    * Covert Action Information Bulletin 1986-#25 (31-2)
    * DiEugenio,J. Pease,L. The Assassinations. 2003 (39, 41, 45-6, 137, 145, 177, 183, 187, 193-4)
    * Dorril,S. Ramsay,R. Smear! 1992 (37-8)
    * Epstein,E. Deception. 1989 (22-8, 114)
    * Epstein,E. Dossier: The Secret History of Armand Hammer. 1996 (212)
    * Fensterwald,B. Coincidence or Conspiracy? 1977 (182-3)
    * Foreign Intelligence Literary Scene 1985-08 (8 )
    * Godson,R. Intelligence Requirements for the 1990s. 1989 (248)
    * Hersh,B. The Old Boys. 1992 (359)
    * Lane,M. Plausible Denial. 1991 (155, 307)
    * Liberation Magazine 1977-04 (7)
    * Loftus,J. Aarons,M. The Secret War Against the Jews. 1994 (96, 98)
    * Maas,P. Manhunt. 1986 (214)
    * Mangold,T. Cold Warrior. 1991 (41, 59-60, 89, 278-9, 293-4, 320)
    * Martin,D. Wilderness of Mirrors. 1981 (148, 182, 210-1)
    * Morrow,R. First Hand Knowledge. 1992 (254)
    * Newman,J. Oswald and the CIA. 1995 (91, 96, 381)
    * Peake,H. Reader's Guide to Intelligence Periodicals. 1992 (53)
    * Riebling,M. Wedge. 1994 (142, 216, 323)
    * Schorr,D. Clearing the Air. 1978 (177)
    * Schweizer,P. Friendly Spies. 1993 (11)
    * Scott,P.D. Deep Politics. 1993 (54, 67, 124)
    * Scott,P.D... The Assassinations: Dallas and Beyond. 1976 (454, 458-9, 481)
    * Trento,J. The Secret History of the CIA. 2001 (282, 407)
    * Veterans of OSS. List of Members. 1990
    * Volkman,E. Warriors of the Night. 1985 (205)
    * Washington Times 1993-11-14 (A9)
    * West,N. Games of Intelligence. 1990 (103, 174, 213)
    * West,N. The Circus. 1984 (136)
    * Winks,R. Cloak and Gown. 1987 (363, 385-7, 433)
    * Wise,D. Molehunt. 1992 (37, 165, 245)

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Hanna Siniora - Co-CEO o/t Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information (IPCRI)
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Hanna Siniora Awarded a Peace Prize of Honor from the

Order of the Knights of Malta

Saturday, April 21, 2007 at 14:00

Bethlehem Room, Tantur Ecumenical Institute

Today, Saturday April 21, 2007 Mr. Hanna Siniora, the Co-CEO of IPCRI – the Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information was awarded a tribute of honor for his life time commitment to Palestinian-Israeli peace by the Order of the Knights of Malta.  This tribute has been awarded to Heads of State and world leaders for peace.  The winner of the tribute prior to Mr. Siniora was the President of Burundi and Nelson Mandela will receive the tribute after Mr. Siniora.

The Order of St. John also known as the Knights of Malta has created a federation of Knightly Orders unifying all of the Holy Orders to work together for World Peace.  A group of the Knights of Malta is now on their first visit to the Holy Land since the Federation was established.  The head of the Delegation, composed of Knights of the order including two members of the European Parliament from Italy and other dignitaries, awarded Mr. Siniora a Silver Olive Branch. When the Pope came to Holy Land in 2000, he took with him a small olive tree plant and planted it in the garden of the Vatican. The prize is made of a branch of that olive tree covered with silver.

After announcing that the Knights of Malta intend to build a university for peace in the Holy Land, Mr. Siniora took the floor and spoke of his 40 years of experiences working for peace between the Palestinian people and the Israeli people.  Mr. Siniora mentioned that in 6 weeks we will be marking 40 years since the 1967 war and the beginning of the occupation.  During that we, IPCRI together with other important organizations like Combatants for Peace will be holding events throughout Israel and Palestine calling for peace – two states for two peoples, an end of the occupation and an end to the conflict.

Mr. Siniora was then officially made a Knight of Malta. The Chief of the Order declared Mr. Siniora’s induction into Knighthood by removing his own personal pin of the Order and placing it on Mr. Siniora’s lapel. 

Hanna Siniora, currently the Co-CEO of IPCRI has in fact dedicated his life to making peace.  He has been a courageous and active advocate of the rights of the Palestinian people all the time recognizing the importance and urgency of making peace with Israel.

Hanna Siniora is well known and respected throughout the region and the world.

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Hanna Siniora anointed a Knight of  Malta

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Hanna Siniora receives the Papal Silver Olive Branch for Peace


 

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Bob Hope - Actor and Comedian
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Bob, the son a stonemason and an aspiring concert singer, had a career that stretched across seven decades.

Though born in Eltham, south London, Hope moved to Cleveland, Ohio, when he was just four, where, as a youth, he entered local talent shows.

His casual careers included a butcher's delivery boy, a soda jerk, a shoe salesman, pool hustler and boxer (under the name 'Packy East'), but it was the stage where he was most at home.

He worked vaudeville houses as a dancer, where he was signed up to fill the bill of the Fatty Arbuckle Show, before a stint on Broadway.

Hope's break was in the 1933 Broadway musical Roberta, during which time he met a young singer Dolores, who he married a year later. They remained married until his death.

In May 1937, Bob signed a 26-week radio contract for the Woodbury Soap Show, and the next year was given his own show on NBC radio, which became ratings-topper. He continued to host a regular show until 1956.

His radio fame led to Hollywood. Aside from one-reel comedy shorts, Hope's first film role was in The Big Broadcast of 1938.

Hope starred in more than 50 films, though is still most famous for the 'Road' movies with Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour, which made his name. He only got the role after George Burns and Fred MacMurray passed.

Though he has never won a best actor Oscar, he has been awarded two honorary academy awards, two special awards and a humanitarian award.

Alongside his film work, Hope also maintained a stong presence on TV.

Although he appeared on the first commercial television broadcast on the West Coast in 1947, and in several experimental broadcasts before the Second World War, he was really a latecomer to the medium, not convinced it would succeed, not hosting his first show until 1950 - and TV never became the mainstay of his career.

Over his lifetime, he has been awarded more honours than any other entertainer - an achievement that earned him a place in the Guinness Book of Records.

He was given an honorary knighthood in 1998, and on hearing the news said: "I'm speechless. 70 years of ad lib material and I'm speechless."

President Kennedy presented him with the Congressional Gold Medal, President Johnson awarded him the Medal of Freedom and Bill Clinton gave him a Medal of the Arts. He had 58 honorary degrees and was even been declared an 'honorary veteran' by the US congress for his his commitment to the nation's armed forces.

The first "GI Bob" appearance was in May 1941, at a Californian air base and all but two of his shows during the war were broadcast from military installations. He continued to perform for the forces right up to the Gulf war.

Bob's other great passion was golf, organising the annual Desert Classic in Palm Springs, California.







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Bob Hope KBE (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003) was an English-born entertainer who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway, in radio, television, movies, and on numerous USO tours for U.S. military personnel.

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Titles and designations
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    * Honorary Veteran of the United States Armed Forces, a tribute from the United States Congress given in recognition of the entertainment he provided U.S. troops during war and peacekeeping missions (October 29, 1997)

    * Honorary Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) In recognition of his contributions to film, to song, and to the entertainment of troops in the past. (1998). He had previously been made an Honorary Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in 1976.

    * Knighthood from the Knights of Malta and the Order of St. Sylvester from the Vatican

    * Silver Buffalo Award (highest adult award given by the Boy Scouts of America)

    * The Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels.

    * Made a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great by Pope John Paul II in 1998[12]







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Comedian Bob Hope, knighted by the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, shows the Masonic square, known also as the triangle, V, downward delta sign.







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Likewise he has been feted by his native England. Most recently in 1998, by order of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Bob received an honorary knighthood - Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (KBE) in recognition of his contribution to film, to song and to the entertainment of troops in the past. Upon hearing the news, Bob said, "I'm speechless. 70 years of ad lib material and I'm speechless."


http://www.bobhope.com/bob6.htm

Confirmation of membership in the Order of Pope Saint Sylvester






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Among recipients of the Order of Pope Saint Sylvester are former Maltese Prime Minister George Borg Olivier, Prince Karl August von Thurn und Taxi, entertainer Bob Hope, KBE, and Italian politician Sergio Berlinguer. In Great Britain, association members include businessman John Studzinski and interfaith campaigners HE Anthony Bailey, Professor David Khalili and Mahmoud Khayami.







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HOPE BOB

    * Dye,T. Who's Running America? 1983 (114-5)
    * Findley,P. They Dare to Speak Out. 1989 (19-20)
    * Hitchens,C. Blood, Class, and Nostalgia. 1990 (17)
    * Sale,K. Power Shift. 1976 (220)

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Vittorio Emmanuelle IV - Prince of Naples (Last Crown Prince of Italy)
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Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples (Vittorio Emanuele Alberto Carlo Teodoro Umberto Bonifacio Amedeo Damiano Bernardino Gennaro Maria di Savoia) (born February 12, 1937) was the last Crown Prince of Italy and is considered to be a pretender to the defunct Italian throne. He is commonly known in Italy as Vittorio Emanuele di Savoia.

Although the titles and distinctions of the Italian royal family have not been legally recognised in Italy since 1946, the titles are still legally recognised in many other countries such as Belgium, and he is often styled Prince of Naples out of courtesy, particularly by supporters of the former monarchy.

Vittorio Emanuele also uses the title Duke of Savoy and claims the headship of the House of Savoy. These claims are disputed by supporters of his cousin, Amedeo, 5th Duke of Aosta. He is also a claimant to the title of King of Jerusalem. He is known to some Italian monarchists as Vittorio Emanuele IV. He has lived for most of his life in exile – following a referendum in 1946 in which a majority of the Italian people voted for Italy to become a republic.

On several occasions he has been the centre of controversy in Italy and abroad due to a series of incidents, including remarks that were seen by some as anti-semitic. In France he was tried on a murder charge, of which he was cleared of unlawful killing but convicted of a firearms offence. More recently, Vittorio Emanuele was arrested on June 16, 2006, following an investigation started by Henry John Woodcock of the Public Prosecutor's Office in Potenza, Italy, on charges of criminal association, corruption and exploitation of prostitution.[1]

Early life and family

Vittorio Emanuele was born February 12, 1937 in Naples to Umberto, Prince of Piedmont, who would later become the last King of Italy, and Princess Marie-José of Belgium. When Umberto II left Italy after a referendum abolishing the monarchy in 1946 (see also birth of the Italian Republic), the Savoy family lived in exile, mostly in Switzerland and Portugal. Following the separation of the exiled ex-King and ex-Queen, Prince Vittorio Emanuele lived with his mother in an estate in Merlinge, Switzerland. Vittorio Emanuele and his family currently reside in Geneva.

After an 11-year engagement, Vittorio Emanuele married Swiss biscuit heiress and world-ranked water skier Marina Doria in Tehran on October 7, 1971.

Vittorio Emanuele has worked as a banker and an aircraft salesman[citation needed].

Vittorio Emanuele has one son, Emanuele Filiberto, Prince of Venice and Piedmont, born in Geneva, June 22, 1972. Emanuele married Clotilde Courau, a French actress, on September 25, 2003.

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Other honours

Vittorio Emanuele is a Bailiff Grand Cross of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and a Bailiff Grand Cross of Justice of the Constantinian Order of St George.


He also claims to hold several Russian dynastic orders, including the Order of Saint Andrew, Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Alexander Nevsky, the Order of the White Eagle, and the Order of Saint Anne. He is also a Knight of the Order of the Redeemer of Greece, and the Order of the Immaculate Conception of Vila Viçosa. He is the heir to the Savoy claim to the title of "King of Jerusalem".
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Controversies

Unilateral declaration of Kingship (1969)

Vittorio Emanuele unilaterally declared himself King of Italy on December 15, 1969.[6][7] He argued that by agreeing to submit to a referendum on his place as head of state, his father (Umberto II) had thereby abdicated. Vittorio Emanuele took this action after his father allegedly called for Amedeo, 5th Duke of Aosta to visit him in Portugal to name him his heir.[8] Under his self-assumed powers as King of Italy, Vittorio Emanuele conferred the title of Duchess of Sant'Anna di Valdieri on his then fiancee, Marina Doria.[9]

Killing of Dirk Hamer (1978-1989)

In the night of August 17 or the morning of August 18, 1978, on the island of Cavallo (which lies off the south coast of Corsica), Vittorio Emanuele discovered his yacht's rubber dinghy had been taken and attached to another nearby yacht. Arming himself with a rifle, he attempted to board the yacht. He shot at a passenger he had awakened; the shot missed the passenger but mortally wounded Dirk Hamer (the nineteen-year-old son of Ryke Geerd Hamer), a passenger sleeping on the deck of another adjacent yacht. The prince admitted civil liability for the death in a letter dated August 28, 1978.[10] Dirk Hamer died of his wounds on December 7, 1978, and Vittorio Emanuele was arrested.

On October 11, 1989, Vittorio Emanuele was indicted on charges of fatal wounding and offensive-weapon possession. But on November 18, 1991, after thirteen years of legal proceedings, the Paris Assize Court acquitted him of the fatal wounding and unintentional homicide charges, finding him guilty only of unauthorised possession of a US30MI rifle.[11] He received a six month suspended prison sentence.[12]

When incarcerated in June, 2006, on unconnected charges of corruption (see below, "Arrest and imprisonment"), Vittorio Emanuele was recorded admitting that "I was in the wrong, [...] but I must say I fooled them [the French judges]",[13] leading to a call from Dirk Hamer's sister for Vittorio Emanuele to be retried in Italy for killing her brother.[14] He also described, in a phone call, the magistrates investigating him as "penniless, envious turds whose wives are probably cuckolding them while they keep track of me."[15][16]

Allegations of anti-semitism
(2003)

Vittorio Emanuele also said in recent years that the anti-Semitic laws passed under Mussolini's regime were "not that terrible".[17][18] Other senior members of the House of Savoy have also in the past downplayed the significance of the anti-Jewish laws signed by Vittorio Emmanuele's grandfather[citation needed]. "I'm not saying it was he who signed the racial laws in 1938. But, as a Savoy heir, Victor Emmanuel has never distanced himself from them," the president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, Amos Luzzatto, said in an interview with Il Corriere della Sera newspaper.[19]

On 27 January 2005, in a letter published by Il Corriere della Sera, Vittorio Emanuele issued an apology to Italy's Jewish leadership asking forgiveness from the Italian Jewish community, and declaring that it was an error for the Italian Royal Family to have signed the racial laws of 1938 [1].

Fight with Amedeo (2004)

On May 21, 2004, following a dinner held by King Juan Carlos I of Spain on the eve of the wedding of his son Felipe, Prince of Asturias, Vittorio Emanuele punched his third cousin and arch-rival Amedeo of Savoy, Duke of Aosta, twice in the face.[20] Part of the background to his behaviour during this incident is the support Duke Amedeo has received from monarchists as legitimate heir to the Italian throne, since Vittorio Emanuele officially had to recognise the Italian republic as the valid government of the country in order to return to Italy[citation needed].

Arrest and imprisonment (2006)

On June 16, 2006 he was arrested in Varenna and imprisoned in Potenza on charges of corruption and recruitment of prostitutes for clients of the Casinò di Campione (casino) of Campione d'Italia.[21][22][23]

The enquiry was conducted by Italian magistrate John Woodcock, of British ancestry, famous for other VIPs' arrests.[24]

After several days, Vittorio Emanuele was released and placed under house arrest instead.[25] He was released from house arrest on July 20, but he had to stay inside the Italian borders.







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Vittorio  Emmanuelle IV
Currently age 64

VITTORIO EMANUELE (IV) Alberto Carlo Teodoro Umberto Bonifacio Amedeo Damiano Bernardino Gennaro Maria,
DUKE OF SAVOY, Prince of Naples, b at Naples 12 Feb 1937, Grand Master Supreme Order of the Annunziata,
Grand Master Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus, the Civil Order of Savoy, and the Order of Merit of Savoy,
Bailiff Gd Cross Hon & Dev of Sov Mil Order of Malta, Bailiff Gd Cross of Justice Constantinian Order of St George,
Kt Order of Saint Andrew, Gd Cross Orders of Saint Alexander Nevsky, the White Eagle, Saint Anne, Saint Stanislas,
the Redeemer of Greece, the Immaculate Conception of Vila Viçosa, & of Karageorge,
son of late King Umberto II whom he succeeded 18 Mar 1983,
m at Teheran 7 Oct 1971, Marina (b at Geneva 12 Feb 1935),
Gd Cross Order of Saints Maurice & Lazarus, Gd Cross Hon & Dev Sov Mil Order of Malta,
Dame Star Cross Order, daughter of René Ricolfi Doria and Iris Benvenuti.


 

 

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Conrad N. Hilton - Chairman and Director o/t Hilton Hotels Corporation and Hilton International Company
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About Conrad N. Hilton

Hard work, faith in God, an abiding patriotic confidence in the United States and the capacity to dream as large as his imagination would allow were the cornerstones of Conrad Hilton's life.

Born in a primitive adobe dwelling on Christmas Day, 1887, in San Antonio, New Mexico Territory, Conrad Hilton was one of seven children born to a Norwegian immigrant father and a German-American mother. Working at his father's general store, the young boy developed entrepreneurial skills that would guide him for a lifetime.

The most enduring influence to shape Mr. Hilton's philanthropic philosophy beyond that of his parents was the Roman Catholic Church and its Sisters. He credits his mother, Mary, with guiding him to prayer and the Church whenever he was troubled or dismayed — from a boyhood loss of a beloved pony to severe financial losses during the Great Depression. His mother continually reminded him that prayer was the best investment he would ever make.

Conrad Hilton was recognized worldwide for his leadership and vision during the Depression and World War II as well as in prosperity. Using extraordinary instinct, enthusiasm and business acumen, he created the largest and most profitable international hotel chain.

Beginning with his first purchase, the 40-room Mobley Hotel in Cisco, Texas, in 1919, to the thousands of guest rooms at Hilton properties throughout the world at the time of his death, his name remains synonymous with hotels. He capitalized on this global success by taking advantage of his role as an entrepreneurial statesman to promote a post-World War II philosophy of reconciliation and nonviolence, as reflected in a Hilton corporate motto of that time, "World Peace Through International Trade and Travel."

Conrad Hilton successfully combined a lifetime of professional achievement together with a genuine feeling of concern and responsibility toward the less fortunate. This most sensitive of human qualities is reflected beautifully in his Last Will and Testament wherein he creates a legacy by directing that his wealth be eternally reinvested to alleviate human suffering throughout the world.







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[center]Innkeeper Extraordinary
Statesman and Philanthropist
1887 - 1979
Cathleen D. Baird, Director & Archivist
Hospitality Industry Archives
Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and R[/center]

As a man of vision, Conrad Nicholson Hilton built the largest hotel real estate empire of his time —
Hilton Hotels Corporation
— and served as its chairman until his death on January 3, 19791. His
commitment to world peace and economic stability was combined with a vigorous program to develop a
global-system of world-class hotels.
He established standards of quality for the entire hospitality industry
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CHAIRMAN:
Hilton Hotels Corporation (and Director)
Hilton International Company (and Director)
DIRECTOR:
All-Year Club of Southern California
* American Committee on United Europe
El Paso National Bank (Advisory Director)
* Freedoms Documents Foundation (Honorary Director)
* Freedoms Foundation
* National Conference of Christians and Jews
* People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc. (Project Hope)
(also Advisory Committee)
TRUSTEE:
* American Friends of Spain Foundation, Inc.
Barat College of the Sacred Heart (Lake Forest, Illinois)
Boys Club Foundation of Southern California
* Center for International Economic Growth
DePaul University (Chicago, Illinois) Emeritus
Loretto Heights College, Denver (National Board of Trustees)
* Olympic Games 1980 (Athens)
Providence Memorial Hospital (El Paso, Texas)
* United States Council of the International Chamber of Commerce,
Inc.







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Figure 1. Conrad Hilton is shown here at his desk in his Los Angeles office sometime in the early 1940s.
Photo from the Conrad N. Hilton Collection, Hospitality Industry Archives, University of Houston.







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Figure 2. Hilton's Private "Statesmanship" of "World Peace through International Trade and Travel” facilitated negotiations for hotels in key cities around the world. Photo from the Conrad N. Hilton Collection, Hospitality
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Magisterial Knight of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta







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HILTON CONRAD

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    * Intelligence (Paris) 2001-09-10 (12)
    * Johnston,D. Temples of Chance. 1992 (89-90)
    * Moldea,D. Interference. 1989 (97)
    * Scott,P.D. Crime and Coverup. 1977 (66)
    * Scott,P.D. Deep Politics. 1993 (155)
    * Swanberg,W.A. Luce and His Empire. 1972 (455)

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Michael Novak - American Catholic Philosopher, Journalist, Novelist, and Diplomat
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Michael Novak (born September 9, 1933) is an American Catholic philosopher, journalist, novelist, and diplomat. The author of almost 25 books on the philosophy and theology of culture, Novak is most widely known for his book The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism (1982). In 1994 he was awarded the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion, which included a million-dollar purse awarded at Buckingham Palace. He writes books and articles focused on capitalism, religion, and the politics of democratization.

Novak served as U.S. chief ambassador to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in 1981 and as the ambassador to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Additionally, Novak served on the board of directors of the now-defunct Coalition for a Democratic Majority, a kind of faction in the Democratic Party, which sought to influence Democratic Party policies in the same direction that the Committee on the Present Danger later did. Novak is currently George Frederick Jewett Scholar in Religion, Philosophy, and Public Policy at the American Enterprise Institute. On December 12th, 2007 he declared his support for the presidential candidacy of Mitt Romney.

Early life and education

Novak was born in 1933 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. He earned an M.A. in history and philosophy of religion from Harvard University in 1966, a Sacrae Theologiae Baccalaureus (a degree in theology), from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome in 1958, and a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and English (Summa Cum Laude) from Stonehill College in 1956.

Novak attended Harvard University to study philosophy and religion, hoping to obtain a doctorate in philosophy of religion. Novak stated that he thought the philosophy department was too focused on analytic philosophy, neglecting religious philosophy[citation needed]. He did not receive his doctorate and he started work as a writer.

Early writings

Second Vatican Council

Novak worked as a correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter during the second session of the Second Vatican Council in Rome, where he also got the opportunity to fulfill a book contract for a fellow reporter who was not able to complete the project. The result was Novak's second book, The Open Church, a journalistic account of the events of the second session of the Council.

Early books

Michael Novak has published two novels: The Tiber Was Silver (1962) and Naked I Leave (1970). At the time, he considered the modest $600 advance to be "a fortune" [1]

Stanford years

Novak's friendship with the Presbyterian theologian Robert McAfee Brown during the Second Vatican Council led to a teaching post at Stanford University, where he became the first Roman Catholic to teach in the Humanities program. Novak taught at Stanford University from 1965 to 1968, during the key years of student revolt throughout California. During this period, he wrote A Time to Build (1967), discussing problems of belief and unbelief, ecumenism, sexuality, and war. In A Theology for Radical Politics (1969), Novak makes theological arguments in support of the New Left student movement, which he states advanced the renewal of the human spirit rather than just reforming social institutions. His book Politics: Realism and Imagination includes accounts of visiting American Vietnam War deserters in France ("Desertion"), the birth and development of the student movement at Stanford ("Green Shoots of Counter-Culture") and philosophical essays on nihilism and Marxism.

SUNY Old Westbury

Novak left Stanford for a post as dean of a new "experimental" school at the newly-founded State University of New York at Old Westbury, Long Island.

Novak's writings during this period included the philosophical essay The Experience of Nothingness (1970, republished in 1998), in which he cautioned the New Left that utopianism could lead to alienation and rootlessness. Novak's novel Naked I Leave (1970) chronicles his experiences in California and in the Second Vatican Council and his journal from seminarian to reporter.

His later teaching and writing career

After serving at Old Westbury/SUNY from 1968 to 1973, Novak launched the humanities program at the Rockefeller Foundation in 1973-1974. In 1976, he accepted a tenured position at Syracuse University as University Professor and Ledden-Watson Distinguished Professor of Religion. In the fall semesters of 1987 and 1988, Novak held the W. Harold and Martha Welch chair as Professor of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

In the spring of 1978, Novak joined the American Enterprise Institute for Social Policy Research as a Resident Scholar, a position he still holds at the present time.

Novak is a frequent contributor to magazines and journals including First Things and National Review. He is a member of the Catholic Advisory Board for the Ave Maria Mutual Funds. Novak is also a board member of the Capital Research Center and the Center of the American Experiment.

Opinions

    * Novak believes that Utopian beliefs can lead to the weakening of social bonds. He wrote that "the family is the human race's natural defense against utopianism." (The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism)

    * He states that religion can 'thrive only in a personal universe' and not universities or companies, and that Western Humanism, which he states is the leading belief system of most of academia, does not ask "the fundamental questions about the meaning and limits of personal experience" and that "they leave aside the mysteries of contingency and transitoriness, for the certainties of research, production, consumption." ("God in the Colleges," A New Generation: American and Catholic (1964))

    * Novak states that the Holy Trinity and God are often thought of in abstract and impersonal terms in philosophy, and that they should be "thought of as a Communion of Divine Persons—radiating his presence throughout creation, calling unworthy human beings to be his friends, and infusing into them his love so that they might love with it." (From “The Love That Moves the Sun,” in A Free Society Reader)







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