From: Gary S. Gevisser
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 11:04 AM PT
To: Derrick.Beare@Investec.co.uk
Cc: rest; Dad; Ron.Bellows@AIG.com; Solly Krok; JRK@class-action-law.com; Eliot Spitzer; FBI
Subject: ...---...settle old scores...---...record...---...

D – Call me when u have 3 minutes of quiet to talk – u can have as much of the time to say what u have to say making sure u give me the blow by blow on how u plan to spend New Year leaving me with no time but to tell u I love u but please, I beg of u don’t bring up my pitiful approach to selling either of the 2 one of a kind properties I own in my name, ok?

Remember tho, it is coming down to the wire, my explaining how the “real world” works, how those who this very moment turn a deaf ear to the increasingly angry cries of the impoverished can no longer use the excuse of being in denial, i.e. u would have to prove to me that your uncle Jonathan, my uncle David Gevisser, Eric Samson, Anton Rupert, Nicholas Oppenheimer, the pitiful Rothchilds, Solly Krok etc etc and the list does not go on ad-infinitum have only the excuse of being imbeciles in not wanting me to get the truth out, the truth does set us free, agree?

Clearly the space between their ears has become a perfect vacuum therefore, the best use is to attach 2 electrodes to their ears to help light up the ever darkening skies, the Tefo Mohapis of the world will disappear in the dust as the angry mob beats a lighted path to each of our doorsteps, agree?

Nothing like the feeling of being “had” to bring out the worst in mankind, so unkind is man to G-D-NAture hard to forget unless one is hooked on Aspartame it axiomatic 4 man to be so unkind to his-her next of kin, when u let people treat u like an ant u become an ant, agree?

Just now getting of the phone with Amos P. Wright, u recall his, “In arbitration do u give in or fight?” suggesting in addition to eating my wheaties in the morning, trying ever so hard to cut back from 2 cups of coffee a day, that I find a way to let your uncle know even if it means contacting the spirits of Pandit Nehru that unless Jonathan is “serfing” [sic] one incredible wave as he tours India for the umpteenth time, January 13^th is the “drop in” no strike that, drop dead date for me wasting a moment longer of my very limited amount of time to begin “settling old scores.”

So very important to read The Diamond Invention, again and again asking yourself why someone as worldly as Charles Engelhard, few in the know would argue at the time of his death in March 1971 could buy and sell the DeBeers-Anglo American Cartel just with the gold he exported out of South Africa to mention little of controlling the world’s supply of platinum would choose a nincompoop like my uncle David Gevisser to oversee his worldwide estate when he could simply have contacted the same publicist who contacted my uncle’s very good friend who would have told Mr. Engelhard who frequented The Moshal Gevisser Group of Companies that he wouldn’t have to look much further than the edge of his nose to find the smartest, shrewdest businessperson, in my humble opinion, the world has ever known, my extraordinary mother at the height of The Diamond Invention was not exactly like Edward Jay Epstein, the author of The Diamond Invention, a “nobody” in South Africa whose credibility would have only increased given how good a job she did for Robert F. Kennedy when the Attorney General of the United States visited Durban in our summer of 1966, agree?

U must simply take my word on it that Royal Mater would have had little difficulty coming up with a list of people RFK should NOT have met with which is not to suggest that my mother got a dime from my father’s first cousin David Gevisser who along with the world’s most sophisticated heavy duty financial engineers supposedly “missed the boat” as The Moshal Gevisser Group of Companies went “on the block”, agree?

Mr. Engelhard tho, for all I know, may have never been formally introduced to my mother who was quite the guest of honor back in October 1968, 3 months after the assassination of RFK, at Aristotle Onassis’ wedding to the former girlfriend of RFK, at one time Jackie O also the First Lady of the United States although u must remember my amazing father shared an office with his father, Israel Issy Gevisser[1] next door to the big time crook Sol “Little King” Moshal, the Chief Executive Officer of The Moshal Gevisser Group of Companies who surely saw to it that his favorite nephew, my uncle David Gevisser, got more than a couple cases of Coca Cola Charles Engelhard always carried with him, agree?

U wouldn’t happen to have a copy of Ian Flemings’ book GoldFinger[2], the likes of Charles Engelhard and Harry Oppenheimer both raised in wealth knew, again u have my word on it, who was behind not only THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING A WOMAN but who could be counted on together with my uncle David “Stuttering” Gevisser to keep her big mouth shut[3]?

BTW when speaking with Sam Hackner, my former next door neighbor from Durban, South Africa whose genius of genius financial engineer father was my Royal Mater’s accountant, now head of Investec’s private banking, let Sam know that when I compute my fire sale liquidation net worth which certainly exceeds that of my mother and my step-father combined, remember Alan Zulman got stiffed out of the “under and over invoicing” monies deposited in numbered accounts in Switzerland by Abe Dubin, his trusted friend and co-founding partner of the public corporation South African Clothing Industries, I don’t include the record of THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING A WOMAN or any of my intellectual property.

Love,

Gg

Ps – Should u leave me all of 30 seconds to say my piece I will read u the following from Chapter 18, The American Conspiracy, of the Diamond Invention, need I remind u that Charles Engelhard died in 1971 which I don’t believe is mentioned in Mr. Edward Jay Epstein’s one of a kind PR campaign for the DeBeers-Oppenheimer-Gevisser-Cohen-Beare-Rothchild-Rupert-Hackner-Benn-Krok-Greenberg-Buffet-Anglo American Cartel:

In order to accommodate Oppenheimer and the other South African directors, Engelhard Minerals and Chemicals agreed to hold board meetings in London and elsewhere outside the United States. In September of 1974, Engelhard directors flew to London and met with Oppenheimer and a number of De Beers executives. According to a secret justice Department source, who had access to that meeting, there was an intriguing discussion between Oppenheimer and a top executive of Engelhard, of the implications of the investigation. According to the September 27, 1974, justice Department report, the executive guaranteed Oppenheimer that there would be no criminal indictments of De Beers' personnel resulting from the diamond grand jury investigation. Moreover, "the executive demanded a substantial increase in his salary [because] ... he would be required to have closer dealings with De Beers."

This raised the possibility that the diamond cartel and its allies might have found some way of intervening in the antitrust division. In a previous antitrust case involving the ITT corporation, President Nixon had blatantly attempted to prevent the antitrust division from pressing its suit. On August 4, 1974, the Justice Department received information that the "De Beers organization is a large contributor to both political parties and should this investigation get to a stage where cases were actually filed [the antitrust division] would probably receive much political pressure." The informant also disclosed that one major diamond dealer in New York was in "constant contact" with Harry Oppenheimer and was somehow relaying to him "information on the progress of this antitrust investigation." The diamond dealer in question was further alleged by this source to have "arranged the meeting for Harry Oppenheimer with John Kennedy when Kennedy was President-elect ... at the Carlyle Hotel," and to have served as an intermediary between Oppenheimer and American concerns in a number of deals.

While this group of antitrust lawyers was at work trying to elaborate the criss-crossing web of corporate ownership among firms that dominated the distribution and sales of diamond grit, a second team of lawyers was actively investigating an alleged conspiracy by De Beers to control the market for drilling stones. These industrial diamonds, ten to twenty times the size of abrasive grit, are crucially important for drilling for oil and other minerals. A single petroleum drilling bit, in which the block-shaped diamonds are inlaid in the metal cutting surface, may require more than $20,000 worth of diamonds; and without diamond drill stones, it would be practically impossible to drill many offshore and deep oil wells.

Unlike diamond grit, drill stones cannot be economically synthesized, and therefore the drilling industry is heavily dependent for its diamond drilling bits on the natural stones excavated from the De Beers-controlled mines in Africa.

In tracing through the subpoenaed records of the drilling companies in the United States in the early seventies, the antitrust lawyers found that a single American company and its subsidiaries supplied most of the diamonds for petroleum drill bits: the Christensen Diamond Product Company. Moreover, through informants and other sources, they learned that Christensen and his company had a long-standing involvement with the Oppenheimer interests.

Frank L. Christensen, a former football player from Detroit, had built up during the 1950s a firm that specialized in providing diamond-cutting ties to the automotive industry. When he visited Johannesburg, he developed a friendship with E. T. S. Brown, a robust De Beers executive, who headed its Industrial Diamond Division. Ted Brown, as he was called, spent considerable time showing Christensen around South Africa and he soon found in the ex-football star the sort of hard-driving entrepreneur he had been looking for to expand De Beers' sales in the United States. Brown's division had just developed a specially treated diamond that was especially efficient as a drilling stone, and he encouraged Christensen to use it to make drilling bits for the petroleum industry. Since De Beers itself could not operate in America, Brown began channeling the better quality bits to Christensen's firm, which rapidly increased its share of the American market.

In 1960, Brown made Christensen an offer he apparently could not refuse. A De Beers subsidiary in Luxembourg, called Boart International S.A., would buy a 50 percent share of Christensen's stock; working together, Christensen and De Beers would dominate the drilling business throughout the world. Christensen agreed, and in conjunction with Brown, who was also managing director of Boart International, he bought shares in other drilling contract companies in the United States and Venezuela. By 1970, Christensen and his silent partners at De Beers controlled well over 50 percent of the petroleum drilling business in the United States; through subsidiaries his firm also attained a dominant position in most other kinds of large-scale drilling industries all over the world. After subpoenaing a host of witnesses before the grand jury, the Justice Department concluded that Christensen and De Beers had acted in a "conspiracy ... to suppress competition among themselves, to require and increase consumption. of De Beers processed diamond drill stones, and to fix, maintain and stabilize world market process for such diamonds." A Justice Department analysis noted that "a key feature of the plan has been the formation of a worldwide network of companies 'Jointly owned by Boart and Christensen Diamond Products to consume De Beers processed diamonds ... [and] the acquisition of stock interests in Longyear and Boyles Bros., two of the largest consumers of diamond drill bits in the United States, and the foreclosure of the substantial purchase of diamond drill bits by these competitors to competitors." Since ownership of these companies was concealed through a tangle of corporations registered in Luxembourg and the Netherlands, the Justice Department concluded: "Much of this conduct was done so as to be secret and misleading, and much was done with full knowledge that there was grave risk of violating U.S. antitrust laws."

While the Justice Department lawyers were proceeding in 1971 to place the final pieces in their case against De Beers and its American associates, they learned of a startling new development. De Beers had relinquished its entire interest in Christensen Diamond Products by having its Boart International subsidiary sell back to Christensen Diamond Products all the stock that it owned in the company. This timely reorganization effectively undercut the entire antitrust case by legally divorcing De Beers from the American company, the main target of the long grand Jury investigation. Even though one of Christensen's major shareholders warned the Justice Department that the purpose of this sudden move by Oppenheimer was to avoid a protracted antitrust suit, and that "after the exchange of stock and rearrangement on the corporate structures ... De Beers would still control Christensen Diamond Products," there was little that the Justice Department could do. As one of the antitrust lawyers on the case explained to me, "After all, the remedy we had been proposing all along was to compel De Beers to sell its stock in Christensen, and when it did it of its own accord, it left us without much ground for proceeding against it."

In the end, the Justice Department had to settle for a token victory. Two distributors of diamond grit, Anco and DAC, both of whom had their De Beers distributorships devolved on them by Engelhard, were indicted for price-fixing. On April 8, 1975, both firms pleaded nolo contendere to charges, and received inconsequential fines, $30,000 for DAC and $20,000 for Anco. Both distributors and a De Beers subsidiary in Ireland entered into a consent judgment that enjoined them in the future from fixing the price of diamond grit in America, allocating territories or entering conclusive bids. Since, however, the vast majority of diamond grit was manufactured synthetically by 1975, and De Beers had no real monopoly over the supply of this synthetic grit, the court injunction had meant little to De Beers. Even without the injunction, De Beers already had to compete for its share of the diamond grit market in America.

In winning this battle, the Justice Department abandoned the war to break the De Beers stranglehold over gems and strategically important drilling stones, the very areas which have not been replaced by synthetic diamonds. The conspiracy case thus ended with the diamond invention intact.

Ps I – If there is any time remaining perhaps we can discuss what other question besides for what is meant by “latkes” Mr. Jeffrey R. Krinsk of Finkelstein & Krinsk could suggest Attorney General and Democratic Governor contender of New York, Eliot Spitzer, along with the FEDs ask Codiam Inc.’s Stephen Cohen, David Gevisser’s close relations, either in interrogatories and/or depositions and/or when simply strapped to an FBI lie detector machine.

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[1] At one time Sol “Little King” Moshal was in the photo standing next to my paternal grandfather, a founder of The Moshal Gevisser Group of Companies that attracted the attention of Charles Englehard but my Royal Mater when finding out about the “dirty deed” perpetrated by the Little King given a “free pass” by the “audirtors” [sic] and lawyers-liars having a fiduciary responsibility to the entire board of directors of The Moshal Gevisser Group of Companies, went “snip snip” with the scissors.

[2] Endnotes to the Diamond Invention:

Ian Fleming, who invented James Bond, also wrote probably the best book on diamond smuggling, The Diamond Smugglers, Cape, London (1957). He had extensive interviews with Percy Sillitoe's staff, who set up De Beers' intelligence system, and considerable access to De Beers itself. It is his only nonfiction book. Fred Kamil, the Lebanese mercenary who hijacked a South African aircraft in order to extort money from Harry Oppenheimer, has also written a book about smuggling called The Diamond Underworld, Allen Lane, London (1979), which is of great interest since Kamil was one of De Beers' diamond soldiers. The section in this chapter on Percy Sillitoe and the organization of De Beers intelligence is drawn mainly from Fleming's account. The section on Kamil is drawn mainly from his autobiographical book.

The section on Sierra Leone is based on interviews I conducted with Maurice Tempelsman, Ronald Winston and Michael Samuels, the former American ambassador to Sierra Leone.

The section on Zaire is based on personal interviews with a former CIA officer stationed in Zaire who prefers that his name not be used. Other sources include New York diamond dealers who do business in Zaire. The section on Angola is based on interviews with Albert Jolis, a New York diamond dealer.

[3] The writing that was on the back of photos in the previous hyperlink suggest but I am not certain they were taken in 1980 after I returned to our family’s one of a kind Heron Water apartment-s on Clifton’s Second Beach in Capetown, South Africa, my rather brief encounter with the folks from Codiam Inc. in New York City requiring I find one of the most perfect spots in the world to recuperate.