But the CIA was established in 1947 according to the prescription of Robert Lovett, of Jupiter
Island.Charles Payson and his wife, Joan Whitney Payson, were extended family members of Harriman's
and business associates of the Bush family.
Joan's aunt, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, was a relative of the Harrimans. Gertrude's son,
Cornelius Vanderbilt (Sonny '') Whitney, long-time chairman of Pan American Airways (Prescottwas a Pan Am director), became Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Air Force in 1947. Sonny's wife Marie had divorced him and married Averell Harriman in 1930. Joan and Sonny's uncle, Air Marshall Sir Thomas Elmhirst, was director of intelligence for the British Air Force from 1945 to 1947. Joan's brother, John Hay ( Jock '') Whitney, was to be ambassador to Great Britain from 1955 to
1961--when it would be vital for Prescott and George Bush to have such a friend. Joan's father,
grandfather and uncle were members of the Skull and Bones secret society.
Charles Payson organized a uranium refinery in 1948. Lmakers of parts for submarine-launched ballistic missiles, equipment for frequency surveillance andater he was chairman of Vitro Corp., (^)
torpedo guidance, and other subsurface weaponry.
Naval warfare has long been a preoccupation of the British Empire. British penetration of the U.S.
Naval Intelligence service has been particularly heavy since the tenure of Joan's Anglophilegrandfather, William C. Whitney, as Secretary of the Navy for President Grover Cleveland. This (^)
traditional covert British orientation in the U.S. Navy, Naval Intelligence and the Navy's included
service, the Marine Corps, forms a backdrop to the career of George Bush--and to the whole
neighborhood on Jupiter Island. Naval Intelligence maintained direct relations with gangster boss
Meyer Lansky for Athe establishment of the CIA. Lansky officially moved to Florida in 1953.@snglo-American political operations in Cuba during World War II, well before 7
George Herbert Walker, Jr. (Skull and Bones 1927), was extremely close to his nephew George
Bush, helping to sponsor his entry into the oil business in the 1950s. Uncle Herbie '' was also a partner of Joan Whitney Payson when they co-founded the New York Mets baseball team in 1960. His son, G.H. Walker III, was a Yale classmate of Nicholas Brady and Moreau D. Brown (ThatcherBrown's grandson), forming what was called the Yale Mafia '' on Wall Street.
Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. had been chairman of the finance committee of the Du Pont Corporation
(1930-40). In 1933, Carpenter oversaw Du Pont's purchase of Remington Arms from Sam Pryor
and the Rockefellers, and led Du Pont into partnership with the Nazi I.G. Farben Company for the
manufacture of explosives. Carpenter became Du Pont's president in 1940. Hwas broken up by the U.S. government. Nevertheless, Carpenter remained Du Pont's president asis cartel with the Nazis
the company's technicians participated massively in the Manhattan Project to produce the first
atomic bomb. He was chairman of Du Pont from 1948 to 1962, retaining high-level access to U.S.
strategic activities.
Walter Carpenter and Prescott Bush were fellow activists in the Mental Hygiene Society.
Originating at Yale University in 1908, the movement had been organized into the World
Federation of Mental Health by Montagu Norman, himself a frequent mental patient, former Brown
Brothers partner and Bank of England Governor. Norman had appointed as the federation's
chairman, Brigadier John Rawlings Rees, director of the Tavistock Psychiatric Clinic, chiefpsychiatrist and psychological warfare expert for the British intelligence services. Prescott was a (^)
director of the society in Connecticut; Carpenter was a director in Delaware.
Paul Mellon was the leading heir to the Mellon fortune, and a long-time neighbor of Averell
Harriman's in Middleburg, Virginia, as well as Jupiter Island, Florida. Paul's father, Andrew
Mellon, U.S. Treasury Secretary 1921-32, had approved the transactions of Harriman, Pryor and