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What happened to all the charm?
Again less than a month be4, “I don't know you... I don't offer any services please take me off your mailing list., there was this,
I am replying to your email, I hope I answered your questions. Please feel free to call or email with any questions or concerns you may have.
Kindest Regards,
Should I assume u have not got any feedback from either your direct boss Martin Rappaport or his major benefactor Nicholas Oppenheimer on how best to deal with the likes of me mostly home schooled by my extraordinary Royal Mater whose very good friend, my uncle David Gevisser, was the “male heir” to Charles Engelhard the co-inventor of The Diamond Invention responsible for the greatest enslavement, torture and murder of all time?
I promise not to CC on my other broadcasted emails as long as u simply respond to my very direct question to repeat.
1. Are u under the influence of Aspartame, i.e. what else other than someone higher telling u to act stupid has u suffering from such selective memory?
2. Would it be of interest to u to at least know the reaction of Leon Cohen, son of Stephen Cohen, president of Codiam Inc. which I worked for in 1980 to the following section of Chapter 18, the American Conspiracy of the Diamond Invention?:
“In late 1970, there was a new development in the case. An anonymous caller, speaking from a pay phone in a muffled voice, began providing the lawyers in the antitrust division with evidence that suggested that De Beers was attempting a secret takeover of the industrial diamond business in the United States. The mysterious caller rattled off a list of names, places, transactions, bank accounts and subterranean corporate connections in the diamond trade. He also gave detailed accounts of secret meetings between American dealers and agents of the cartel, and the names of witnesses who could confirm these charges.
The
conspiracy he outlined went as follows: Before General Electric began
mass-producing synthetic industrial diamonds, De Beers had been able to
manipulate diamond prices from its offshore bases in
Even with the help of other informants, the task of tracing a conspiracy between De Beers and its putative American co-conspirators was extraordinarily difficult. To even approach the problem of establishing jurisdiction, the Justice Department lawyers had to weave their way through a bewildering maze of some 300 interlocking corporations, registered in Luxembourg and other convenient nations, which were either partly or fully controlled by the Oppenheimer interests. The lawyers also found that industrial diamond users, who were heavily dependent on De Beers and its subsidiaries for their supply of diamonds, were extremely reluctant to discuss openly their relations with De Beers.
Finally, in December of 1971, the lawyers requested that a grand jury be convened so that potential witnesses could be compelled to testify and, if necessary, granted immunity in return for their testimony. To break through the walls of the corporate labyrinth, they decided to focus their investigation on the activities of two American firms closely allied to the Oppenheimer interests. The first was Engelhard Minerals and Chemicals, Inc., a diversified company incorporated in Delaware and based in New York City; the second was Christensen Diamond Products, a manufacturer of diamond drills serving mainly the oil industry, based in Salt Lake City.
The founder of Engelhard Minerals and Chemicals, Charles Engelhard, was a well-connected American entrepreneur who had inherited a small metal fabricating company from his father. In the late 1940s, he had journeyed to South Africa to make his fortune. South African mines had a surplus of gold, but government regulations prohibited the exporting of gold bullion from South Africa without permits from the central bank, which were very difficult to obtain. Great Britain, which still controlled the financial affairs of South Africa, wanted to retain as much gold as possible within the sterling bloc. Engelhard found a loophole through that regulation: while it was illegal to export gold bars, it was legal to export objets d'art made of gold. Engelhard formed a company called Precious Metals Development that bought gold from the mines and cast it in the form of statues and other religious items. Engelhard exported these religious objets d'art to Hong Kong, where they were melted down and turned back into gold bullion, which could then be sold on the free market. (This ploy was later used by Ian Fleming, who was a business partner of Engelhard, in his novel Goldfinger)
While living in Johannesburg, Engelhard became a close friend of Harry Oppenheimer. Both men were approximately the same age and came from the same German-Jewish background. Both men were born millionaires, who later owned and controlled their own family businesses. And both men also shared a passion for racehorses (at one point, Engelhard owned 250 thoroughbred horses). Oppenheimer invited Engelhard to join the board of Anglo-American Corporation, and for his part, Engelhard invited Oppenheimer to participate in a number of mutually profitable joint ventures.
The Justice Department investigators were especially interested in the relationship between Harry Oppenheimer and Charlie Engelhard. They theorized that Oppenheimer relied on Engelhard Minerals and Chemicals to provide the services, credit terms, and contacts necessary to keep its American clients from buying their synthetic diamond grit from General Electric. They concluded in a memo that "Oppenheimer turned to Engelhard to take up the GE challenge." Specifically, Oppenheimer had arranged for Engelhard's holding company, called Engelhard Hanovia, to become the American distributor for De Beers abrasive grits. "The idea was that grit sales needed a new 'American look,' with the old De Beers monopoly image less exposed," the lawyers noted. They concluded that the entire scheme was intended by De Beers to avoid "exposing gem monopoly to antitrust sanctions."
In reconstructing this complicated arrangement, the investigators found that it was based on a quid pro quo. In return for acting as an intermediary for De Beers, Engelhard received all the costs for setting up a Swiss company called Prometco, plus a guaranteed profit of 100,000 English pounds a year. It was a fairly lucrative deal for Engclhard, and it also accommodated his friend Oppenheimer.
The
deal provided far-reaching benefits. In the mid- 1960s, Engelhard intervened on
behalf of Oppenheimer to prevent the United States government from dumping its
vast stockpile of industrial diamonds on the world market. Engelhard, who was
one of President Lyndon Johnson's chief fund-raises, offered to buy up one and
one-half million carats of diamonds from the stockpile on condition that the
Government promise not to sell any more diamonds for five years. He then
planned to resell the American diamonds to De Beers. Not only would Engelhard
personally make a tidy profit from the exchange but as a Justice Department
review notes, "The commitment by the
Engelhard
had also begun to buy control of some important users of industrial diamond
abrasives, including Supercut, Inc., then the third largest consumer of diamond
grit in the
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.
Behind
this whirl of corporate maneuvers, Justice Department lawyers suspected an
attempt by De Beers to carve up the American market for both synthetic and
natural diamond abrasives. According to their theory, Oppenheimer used
Engelhard's companies in
Moreover, as the grand 'Jury investigation gathered momentum, Engelhard Minerals and Chemicals severed all its visible connections with the diamond business. It not only disposed of the abrasive manufacturers it had bought, but locked away in its vaults all the records of its previous dealings with De Beers, its subsidiaries and its agents. Harry Oppenheimer and other South African directors of Engelhard, who were also directors of De Beers and Anglo-American Corporation, stopped attending the board of director meetings of Engelhard in the United States. The concern was that they would be subpoenaed to appear before the grand jury. The Justice Department heard from one of its sources that "the General Counsel for Engelhard ... had a fit" when this possibility was divulged to the American members of the board. Justice Department lawyers also received reports that the " [Baron] Rothschild on the De Beers' board, upset at being told that he could not come to the U.S. because of the diamond investigation, has now resigned from the De Beers board"; and that "Harry Oppenheimer is extremely upset at not being able to come to the U.S."
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
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...
4. Would u say it is worth exhuming the body of Charles Engelhard who died in March 1971 to confirm what my extraordinary Royal Mater told me at the time that this co-conspirator of The Diamond Invention died of an addiction to Coca Cola?
Kindest regards,
Gary S. Gevisser
A Name From Here You Can Trust Over There
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