Rule by Secrecy
Jim Marrs
The elder Harriman's two sons attended Yale and were inducted into the Order of the Skull and Bones - William
Avcrell (The Order, 1913) and Edward Roland Noel (The Order, 1917]. During the 1930s W. Averell's banking
firm of W. A. Harriman & Company merged with the private international banking firm of Brown Brothers creating
Brown Brothers, Harriman & Company, a long-time partner of which was Prescott Bush (The Order, 1917), father
of George Bush (The Order, 1949). Intermarriages between the prominent Jewish immigrant families were
common around the turn of the century. "As they set about protecting their vast estates, moreover, these Jewish
dynasts often found it useful in the United States as in western Europe to marry among each other”, wrote history
professor Howard M. Sachar. "Solomon Loeb and Abraham Kuhn, it is recalled, married each other's sisters, and
Jacob Schiff became an instant partner by marrying Loeb's daughter. In turn, Felix Warburg, scion of a
distinguished Hamburg banking family, assured himself a senior partnership in Kuhn, Loeb by marrying Schiff’s
daughter Frieda. Felix's brother Paul married Solomon Loeb's daughter Nina - from Loeb's second wife - and thus
became his own brother's uncle. Another partner, Otto Kahn, married Adelaide Wolff, daughter of one of the firm's
original investors. At Goldman, Sachs & Co. two Sachs boys married two Goldman daughters”.
Another more recent example of these upper-level connections was the much publicised 1950s love affair
between Elie de Rothschild and Winston Churchill's former daughter-in-law, Pamela Churchill. After the affair
broke up, she moved to New York where, after a short-lived marriage to a Broadway producer, she wed financier
and CFR member Averell Harriman. In 1993 Pamela Harriman was named U.S. Ambassador to France by
President Clinton. Unrelenting attention to business, coupled with intermarriages and the use of front men, built a
gigantic and secretive Rothschild banking empire. This empire exerted considerable influence on the economic
and hence the political history of Europe as well as the United States, although here in a more covert and indirect
manner. In 1806 Nathan had become an English citizen and wed Hannah Cohen, the oldest daughter of Levi
Barent Cohen, then London's leading financier. The marriage cemented his acceptance by the British banking
establishment. "Nathan Rothschild was able to brag later that in the 17 years he had been in England he had
increased his original 20,000 pounds stake
given to him by his father by 2,500 times, i.e. to 50,000,000 - a truly vast sum at that time, comparable in
purchasing power to billions of U.S. dollars today”, stated one Rothschild investigator.
Derek Wilson, a sympathetic biographer of the Rothschilds, noted that in 1810 Nathan was merely one of several
financiers operating in London. But by 1815 he had become the principal financier to the British government and
its Bank of England. "This remarkable coup could only have been achieved by a complex series of dealings,
many of which were encased in a secrecy which cannot now be penetrated”, remarked Wilson. Author Icke saw
this connection as proof of conspiratorial control by the Rothschilds. "They had the crown heads of Europe in debt
to them and this included the Black Nobility dynasty, the Hapsburgs, who ruled the Holy Roman Empire for 600
years”, he wrote. "The Rothschilds also took control of the Bank of England. If there was a war, the Rothschilds
were behind the scenes, creating the conflict and funding both sides”. "They may have held citizenship in the
country of their residence, but patriotism was beyond their comprehension", wrote Griffin. "They were also very
bright, if not cunning, and these combined traits made them the role model of the cool pragmatists who dominate
the political and financial world of today”.
The Rothschild financial empire arose from loans to Europe's rulers and from the family's successful use of
fractional banking. To understand fractional banking requires a brief look at the nomenclature and history of
money; to understand its application requires a look at one of the most powerful financial institutions on the planet.