China - Vatican Secret Two Year Deal

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Major Main Stream Media is still not covering this story.

Article Links:

https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1202008.shtml

https://www.irishcatholic.com/pope-francis-considers-renewing-controversial-china-vatican-deal/

https://www.yahoo.com/news/vatican-officials-defend-accord-china-155226582.html

https://www.churchmilitant.com/video/episode/vortex-the-catholic-connection

https://stanfordartsreview.com/2020/09/23/the-pope-and-xi-jinping-anger-trump/

https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4015093

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-vaticans-deal-with-the-dragon/

https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2020/09/22/china-seems-to-be-moving-closer-to-the-holy-see/

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/9/22/vatican-and-china-prepare-to-renew-historic-deal-angering-us

https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2020/09/22/secretary-mike-pompeo-enters-vatican-china-agreement-debate

https://catholic-sf.org/news/vatican-china-agreement-secretary-pompeo-enters-the-debate

https://www.manilatimes.net/2020/09/23/news/world/china-vatican-renew-deal-in-naming-bishops/771011/

https://www.catholicregister.org/home/international/item/32122-pompeo-vatican-china-agreement-endangers-church-s-moral-authority

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8758453/Vatican-China-prepare-renew-historic-deal-US-anger.html

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/international/much-displeasure-to-us-vatican-china-prepare-to-renew-historic-deal/videoshow/78250043.cms

https://www.ucanews.com/news/vatican-china-agreement-pompeo-enters-the-debate/89607

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/cardinal-zen-church-is-losing-credibility-to-evangelize-china-32444

https://ricochet.com/803964/if-i-were-the-pope-id-deal-with-china-differently/

https://angelusnews.com/news/world/trumps-top-envoy-urges-vatican-to-challenge-china-on-religious-freedom/

https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/pompeo-warns-pope-dont-renew-china-deal

https://www.inquisitr.com/6290274/mike-pompeo-pope-francis-china/

https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2020/09/19/mike-pompeo-urges-vatican-call-out-china-religious-freedom-violations/

https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2020/09/18/u-s-commission-urges-vatican-to-prioritize-religious-freedom-in-deal-with-china/

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/pope-francis-naive-in-deal-with-china-to-name-bishops-df8qjvhtx

http://www.heraldmalaysia.com/news/human-rights-concerns-raised-as-vatican-extends-agreement/55617/1

https://fsspx.news/en/news-events/news/vatican-gives-green-light-extending-agreement-china-60363

Q DROP #189

The Cult Runs the World

Q !ITPb.qbhqo 21 Nov 2017 - 11:52:02 PM

Identify symbolism (Owl / Y).

Which performers/celebs supported HRC during the election?

Who performed during her rallies?

What jewelry and/or tattoos present?

What other events do they attend together?

What does HRC represent to them?

What celebrities have owl / Y head symbols?

What politicians have owl / Y head symbols?

What powerful people have owl / Y head symbols?

What powerful groups have owl / Y head symbols?

Why are they worn/shown openly?

Their need for symbolism will be their downfall.

MSM role?

Push conspiracy theory.

Social media role?

Push conspiracy theory and institute new rules allowing for ban.

Censorship.

The graphic is key.

Re-read graphic (ex: what family did Soros replace (Y)).

Part II – How were they ‘adopted’ into the cult (as children).

What were they provided for obeying and staying silent (brainwashed)?

All that you know to be right is wrong.

The ‘cult’ runs the world.

Fantasy land.

The world is fighting back (& destroying the cult).

20% public.

80% private.

The world would otherwise collapse.

40,000ft. v. (again) and need to decrease altitude to avoid ‘conspiracy’ label.

Was necessary.

GODFATHER III.

For God & Country.

Q

>>10768771

Q DROP #714

Q Threat to Clowns

Q !UW.yye1fxo 10 Feb 2018 - 5:46:19 AM

Mess with the best, die like the rest.

[2] highly classified clown ops exposed.

[44] remaining.

Wizards & Warlocks.

Save the best for last.

[P]

Q

What is a CLOWN?

Who are the CLOWNS historically?

I thought we were saving Israel for last?

Is Disinformation Necessary?

What is [P]?

Q DROP #936

The Nazi Order

Q !UW.yye1fxo 10 Mar 2018 - 6:07:05 PM

Nazis and the Vatican Photo

935

Q !UW.yye1fxo 10 Mar 2018 - 5:57:14 PM

EFABC59D-40D3-4570-81E3-5….jpeg

>>617965

The Nazi order.

NWO [N does not refer to “New”].

The Sum of All Fears.

NK.

POTUS.

Hostage.

Threat.

DISARM.

Stage SET.

FREEDOM.

Q

The Vatican and the Nazi's were working together from the

very beginning.

A Catholic Jesuit Priest edited and wrote most of Mein Kampf

Hitler praised the Catholic church and especially the

Jesuit order

Q DROP #997

Pope will have a Terrible May

Q !xowAT4Z3VQ 3 Apr 2018 - 8:45:50 PM

Anonymous

3 Apr 2018 - 8:43:05 PM

>>884736

P = pope?

>>884748

[Pope] will be having a terrible May.

Those who backed him will be pushed into the LIGHT>

Dark to LIGHT.

TRUTH.

Q

Q DROP #1002

The BITE that has no CURE

Q !xowAT4Z3VQ 3 Apr 2018 - 9:18:12 PM

Anonymous

3 Apr 2018 - 9:15:43 PM

d8d6d1795849f4f868f17e2eba79d663bcafebec5982a0a2907188e2d9dd8796.png

>>885429

Symbolism will be their downfall.

MONEY.

POWER.

INFLUENCE.

The BITE that has no CURE - NSA.

Q

Q DROP #1413

Guardian of the Pope Owl Photo

Q !4pRcUA0lBE 17 May 2018 - 8:15:27 PM

Guardian_P.png

Guardian of the Pope.

[Personal]

Q

Q named the image file "Guardian_P" in a drop that was about

the Guardian of the Pope yet somehow other smart anons

reckon P = Payseur because some Alex Jones flunky multiple

felon anti semite white supremacist told them so

CAREFUL WHO YOU FOLLOW

Q DROP #1763

Sex Abuse in the Church

Q !CbboFOtcZs 30 Jul 2018 - 12:16:47 PM

Those you are taught to TRUST the most…..

https://apnews.com/amp/eb96fb3a70b9415884c945711fb5b783?__twitter_impression=true

https://apnews.com/amp/f7ec3cec9a4b46868aa584fe1c94fb28?__twitter_impression=true

https://www.justice.gov/psc

Dark to LIGHT.

Q

Q DROP #1831

POTUS Roasts Corrupt & Evil Hillary Clinton at Catholic Charity

Event

Q !A6yxsPKia. 10 Aug 2018 - 12:00:09 PM

Does POTUS make statements that are false?

Knowing what you know now…..

[Start @ 12:00]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOUFsCS7xYE📁

Think Haiti [14:40]

Think Watergate Commission [removed_why_investigate].

Listen very carefully.

TRUTH.

Surrounded by EVIL.

NEVER STOP PRAYING.

WWG1WGA!!!!!!

Q

Q DROP #1879

100s of Priests in PA Molested 1000s of Children

Q !!mG7VJxZNCI 15 Aug 2018 - 12:05:27 AM

https://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/08/14/stunning-findings-on-report-catholic-church-abuse-pa-priests-molested-more-than-1000-children.html

House of GOD?

Only the beginning.

Those who you are taught to trust the most….

Expect MANY MANY MANY similar reports to surface from around the world.

IT GOES A LOT DEEPER.

Connected.

The choice to know will be yours.

Q

HOUSE OF GOD?

Q DROP #1916

Priest Hits Crying Baby at Baptism

Q !!mG7VJxZNCI 16 Aug 2018 - 4:08:05 PM

https://www.reddit.com/r/greatawakening/comments/97v4mg/these_people_are_sick_catholic_priest_hits_crying/

Man of God?

See something.

Say something.

PEOPLE must unite to clean out these old institutions.

Q

MAN OF GOD?

PEOPLE must unite to clean out these old institutions.?

Q DROP #1950

Holy See Corrupt Universal Government of the Catholic Church

Q !!mG7VJxZNCI 28 Aug 2018 - 4:12:23 PM

U.S.-HOLY SEE RELATIONS

"The Holy See is the universal government of the Catholic Church and operates from Vatican City State, a sovereign, independent territory. The Pope is the ruler of both Vatican City State and the Holy See. The Holy See, as the supreme body of government of the Catholic Church, is a sovereign juridical entity under international law."

https://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/3819.htm

Wealth?

Power?

Sanctuary against criminal prosecution?

Recipe for …….

Q

Q DROP #2152

Pope Francis Compares Vatican Whistleblower to Satan

Q !!mG7VJxZNCI 11 Sep 2018 - 6:40:05 PM

https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/09/11/pope-francis-compares-vatican-whistleblower-satan/

Q

Q DROP #2590

Australian Cardinal George Pell Found Guilty of Sexual Abuse

Q !!mG7VJxZNCI 12 Dec 2018 - 11:00:11 AM

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6487315/High-profile-figure-convicted-suppression-orders-prevent-publication-persons-identity.html?

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/why-the-media-is-unable-to-report-on-a-case-that-has-generated-huge-interest-online-20181212-p50lta.html?

https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/nsw/an-awful-crime-the-person-is-guilty-but-we-cant-publish-the-story-ng-4be7ee27075d4fb302aae9989c40ad34?

[Cardinal Pell]

Dark to LIGHT.

Q

Q DROP #2594

Cardinal George Pell 3rd in Command at Vatican

Q !!mG7VJxZNCI 12 Dec 2018 - 11:29:43 AM

Anonymous

12 Dec 2018 - 11:14:08 AM

>>4272203

He was the vatican treasurer I'm sure that carries some weight

>>4272374

#3 in the pecking order.

Define 'pecking' [animals].

Q

Q DROP #2894

Vatican Treasurer Cardinal George Pell Found Guilty of Child Sex

Charges

Q !!mG7VJxZNCI 25 Feb 2019 - 8:08:29 PM

Screenshot_1-32.png

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/02/25/australia/cardinal-george-pell-vatican-conviction-intl/index.html📁

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-47366113📁

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-abuse-pell/vatican-treasurer-pell-found-guilty-of-abusing-two-choir-boys-22-years-ago-idUSKCN1QF009📁

Many more to come?

Dark to LIGHT.

Q

>>10768921

Q DROP #3565

Q Links to Pope's Tweet on Human Trafficking

Q !!mG7VJxZNCI 30 Jul 2019 - 8:23:13 PM

https://twitter.com/Pontifex/status/1156165039545606144

Godfather III

It's going to be BIBLICAL.

Q

Q DROP #3709

Vatican Ambassador to France Resigns after Molestation

Allegations

Q !!Hs1Jq13jV6 17 Dec 2019 - 2:44:46 PM

Anonymous

17 Dec 2019 - 2:40:00 PM

Screenshot_2019-12-17 The Jerusalem Post on Twitter #Vatican ambassador to #France resigns after molestation allegations ht….png

#Vatican ambassador to #France resigns after molestation allegations

4:20 AM - 17 Dec 2019

https://twitter.com/Jerusalem_Post/status/1206911991702577153📁

>>7536127

Godspeed Q

>>7536145

Dark Light.

Those you are taught to trust most….

Q

Q DROP #4303

CIA's Use of Journalists and Clergy in Intelligence Operations

Q !!Hs1Jq13jV6 21 May 2020 - 10:53:12 AM

https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/hearings/ciasuseofjournal00unit.pdf?

Logical thinking.

CIA coming back into the news [soon]?

Q

>>10768993

Q DROP #4408

We Are in the Middle of Another Enlightenment Approaching the

Precipice

Q !!Hs1Jq13jV6 4 Jun 2020 - 3:48:02 PM

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/enlightenment/📁

The Enlightenment is often associated with its political revolutions and ideals, especially the French Revolution of 1789. The energy created and expressed by the intellectual foment of Enlightenment thinkers contributes to the growing wave of social unrest in France in the eighteenth century. The social unrest comes to a head in the violent political upheaval which sweeps away the traditionally and hierarchically structured ancien régime (the monarchy, the privileges of the nobility, the political power of the Catholic Church). The French revolutionaries meant to establish in place of the ancien régime a new reason-based order instituting the Enlightenment ideals of liberty and equality.

…enlightenment with the process of undertaking to think for oneself, to employ and rely on one’s own intellectual capacities in determining what to believe and how to act.

Q

Q DROP #3749

Democrat Party Threatened Representative Jeff Van Drew

(NJ) to Vote Yes for Impeachment

Q !!Hs1Jq13jV6 23 Dec 2019 - 11:48:57 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OB_l9wb0dz0

Watch and listen carefully.

[D]s threaten and cull 'independently elected' officials to fall-in-line [follow orders] or face being ousted?

Who controls the [D] party?

Who really controls the [D] party?

Threat: If a major political party can be [controlled] does that represent a clear and present danger to the United States of America?

[GS]

Q

[GS] = GEORGE SOROS

You have to hover over the [GS] in order to see “GEORGE SOROS”

GEORGE SOROS CONTROLS THE DEMOCRAT PARTY

Q DROP #416

Soros Takes Orders from P

Anonymous 21 Dec 2017 - 8:31:58 PM

Soros takes orders from P.

You have no idea how sick and evil these people are.

Fight, fight, fight.

Day of days.

Game over.

Q

GEORGE SOROS TAKES ORDER FROM P

Who or what isP?

Q DROP #1413

Guardian of the Pope Owl Photo

Q !4pRcUA0lBE 17 May 2018 - 8:15:27 PM

Guardian_P.png

Guardian of the Pope.

[Personal]

Q

In a drop concerning the “GUARDIAN OF THE POPE” Q names the image file

“GUARDIAN_P”

Pope/Vatican/RCC/Papal Royal Families Controls

Soros Controls the Democrats

Why would your guru Q decoder lie to you?

P = PAYSEUR because some Alex Jones Flunky

multiple Felon, White Supremacist told you so?

Careful who you follow.

Anonymous ID: cS8cMPVQ No.148033178 📁

Nov 5 2017 02:17:24 (EST)

What happened in SA will happen here, Asia, and EU.

Keep digging and keep organizing the info into graphics (critical).

God bless.

Hillary & Saudi Arabia

Snow White

Godfather III

Q

5:5?

>>10769111

Meet Timothy Dolan Archbishop of New York

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_M._Dolan

"In June 2012 it was revealed that Dolan "authorized payments of as much as $20,000 to sexually abusive priests as an incentive for them to agree to dismissal from the priesthood when he was the archbishop of Milwaukee"

and that "the archdiocese did make such payments…, thereby allowing the church to remove them from the payroll."[19]""

"In July 2013, documents made public during bankruptcy proceedings for the Archdiocese of Milwaukee showed that Dolan had sought permission to move $57 million in church funds to protect the assets from victims of

clerical abuse. In a 2007 letter to the Vatican requesting permission to move the funds, Dolan wrote "By transferring these assets to the trust, I foresee an improved protection of these funds from any legal claim

and liability."[75][77] Dolan had previously denied that he tried to conceal assets from child sex abuse victims claiming compensation, calling the accusations "old and discredited" and "malarkey."[78]

The Vatican approved the request in five weeks.[75]"

>>10769150

==FILE CIA DISNEY CONNECTIONS==

The CIA Spies Behind Disney World’s Secretive, Fake Cities

https://knowledgenuts.com/2015/07/08/the-cia-spies-behind-disney-worlds-secretive-fake-cities/

How the CIA Helped Disney Conquer Florida

https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-the-cia-helped-disney-conquer-florida

Revealed: How the CIA helped Disney conquer Florida and

buy super-cheap land that is 'above the law'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2309291/How-CIA-helped-Disney-conquer-Florida-buy-super-cheap-land.html

Disney World and Its Tangled Web With CIA Ops

https://adventure.howstuffworks.com/destinations/theme-parks/disney-world-and-its-tangled-web-with-cia.htm

Disney Employee Returning after working for CIA

After #WWII, Broughton returned to @Disney as an assistant to legend Ub Iwerks—co-creator of Mickey Mouse. #OSS75

https://twitter.com/cia/status/871410652560142337

CIA and Disney' magic kingdom club

https://www.spyculture.com/cia-where-are-our-passes-to-disneys-magic-kingdom-club/

CIA Vault file: WALT DISNEY'S MAGIC KINGDOM CLUB

https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/document/cia-rdp85-00375r000300110007-1

Why the CIA got into the Animated film business

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/29843/why-cia-got-animated-film-business-and-other-dc-hollywood-tales

CIA DISNEY TRAPWIRE

This Is How We Know The Shocking Facts About Spy Campaign 'TrapWire' Are True

https://www.businessinsider.com/this-is-how-we-know-that-the-shocking-revelations-about-trapwire-spying-are-true-2012-8

The time the CIA took a terrorist to Disneyland

https://www.jpost.com/opinion/the-time-the-cia-took-a-terrorist-to-disneyland-615012

Blackwater worked for Disney

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/blackwaters-black-ops/

Popular Mechanics is a Clown Operation

https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a15155208/disney-world-government/

Washington DC’s role behind the scenes in Hollywood goes deeper than you think

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/hollywood-cia-washington-dc-films-fbi-24-intervening-close-relationship-a7918191.html

Disney link to FBI and Hoover

https://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/06/movies/disney-link-to-the-fbi-and-hoover-is-disclosed.html

The forgotten British rivals to Disney whose cheery shorts

helped win the war

From Animal Farm to iconic adverts, Halas & Batchelor turned out animations on a shoestring

and changed the history of British film

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2020/05/18/forgotten-british-rivals-disney-whose-cheery-shorts-helped-win/

Do Not Trust The Medical Or The National Security

Establishment!' With Guest Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

123,836 views • Aug 14, 2020

RonPaulLibertyReport

Amazing and very revealing interview with RFK Jr. where he basically says that the CIA killed both his Uncle JFK and his Father RFK yet he did not believe that his father's death

was a conspiracy before 1985 when he learned that his father was shot in the back of the head 4 times.

RFK jr. starts right out of the gate revealing this stuff and goes on for 10 minutes until Ron tries to get him to focus on the pressing issue of Vaccines.

Notice the look in his eyes as he reveals these things.

>>10769344

Revealing look at the Director of the CIA when J.F.K.

was assassinated, John A McCone.

Part I

List Of CIA Directors - from Britannica.com

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Central-Intelligence-Agency/List-of-CIA-directors

John A McCone - Wikipedia entry

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_A._McCone

"Background

John A. McCone was born in San Francisco, California, on January 4, 1902. His father ran iron foundries across California, a business founded in Nevada in 1860 by McCone's grandfather.

He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1922 with a BS in Mechanical Engineering, beginning his career in Los Angeles' Llewellyn Iron Works.[1] He rose swiftly and in 1929,

when several works merged to become the Consolidated Steel Corporation, he became executive vice president. He also founded Bechtel-McCone.[3]

He also worked for ITT. In 1946, Ralph Casey of the General Accounting Office implied that McCone was a war profiteer, testifying that McCone and his associates of the California Shipbuilding Corporation

had made $44,000,000 on an investment of $100,000."[4] McCone's political affiliation was with the Republican Party.[3]

McCone served for more than twenty years as a governmental adviser and official, including head positions at the Atomic Energy Commission in the Eisenhower Administration in 1958–1961 and with

the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the Kennedy Administration and the Lyndon B. Johnson Administration in 1961–1965.

However, it would be his service in 1950–1951, as the 2nd United States Under Secretary of the Air Force that John McCone got his first taste of duty in the senior levels of the U.S. Government

during the Truman Administration."

"After the disaster of the Bay of Pigs Invasion, President John F. Kennedy[6] forced the resignation of CIA director Allen Dulles and some of his staff.

McCone replaced Dulles as DCI on November 29, 1961.[7]

He married Theiline McGee Pigott on August 29, 1962, at St. Anne's Chapel of the Sacred Heart Villa in Seattle, Washington.[8]

McCone was not Kennedy's first choice; the President had tentatively offered the job to Clark Clifford, his personal lawyer, who politely refused (Clifford would later serve as Secretary of Defense

for Lyndon Johnson); and then to Fowler Hamilton, a Wall Street lawyer with experience in government service during the Roosevelt and Truman administrations. Hamilton accepted, but when a problem

developed at the Agency for International Development, he was shifted there.[9] Thus Kennedy, urged on by his brother Robert, turned to McCone.[9]

He was a key figure in the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (EXCOMM) during the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. In the Honeymoon telegram of September 20, 1962,

he insisted that the CIA remain imaginative when it came to Soviet weapons policy towards Cuba, as a September 19 National Intelligence Estimate had concluded it unlikely that nuclear missiles

would be placed on the island. The telegram was so named because McCone sent it while on his honeymoon in Paris, France, accompanied not only by his bride, Theiline McGee Pigott but by a CIA cipher team.[10]

McCone's suspicions of the inaccuracy of this assessment proved to be correct, as it was later found out the Soviet Union had followed up its conventional military buildup with the installation of

MRBMs (Medium Range Ballistic Missiles) and IRBMs (Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles), sparking off the crisis in October when they were later spotted by CIA's Lockheed U-2 surveillance flights.

While McCone was DCI, the CIA was involved in many covert plots; according to Admiral Stansfield Turner (who himself later served as DCI from 1977 to 1981, under President Jimmy Carter), these included:[11]

In the Dominican Republic, the CIA had armed an assassination plot to take out President Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina. After the Bay of Pigs, Kennedy wanted the project stopped because

it was too soon for another debacle. The problem is that once you encourage and arm a group of highly motivated locals, you can't just turn them off. Trujillo's enemies gunned him down dramatically,

though technically speaking without U.S. help.

In Laos, the CIA backed the Hmong (then known by the derogatory name Meo) people of the highlands to fight a counterinsurgency. This set off a complicated three-way civil war that hit the Hmong hard.

In Ecuador, the CIA helped overthrow President José Velasco Ibarra. His replacement didn't last long before the CIA turned on him, looking for greater stability and allegiance.

In British Guiana, the CIA stirred up trouble through the labor unions to take down the democratically elected Cheddi Jagan.

In Cuba, there was Mongoose, a secret campaign against Castro."

Much more basic info at wiki link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_A._McCone

>>10769404

Revealing look at the Director of the CIA when J.F.K.

was assassinated, John A McCone.

Part II

Inspired by the following Notable

>>10716666 Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: The CIA Killed My Father & Uncle

John McCone - Spartacus Education File

American History >The Assassination of JFK >John McCone

https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKmccone.htm

Part 1

"John Alex McCone was born in Los Angeles on 4th January, 1902. A child of Scotch-Irish parents, he was raised a devout Roman Catholic.

McCord studied engineering at Berkeley, where he met Stephen D. Bechtel, his future business partner. Following graduation, McCone found work at the Llewellyn Iron Works.

He started off as a riveter but by the age of 26 he had become construction manager.

In 1931 McCone was appointed sales manager for Consolidated Steel. The company was in financial difficulty but McCone came to the rescue when he sold 55 million tons of steel to a

group of Californian businessmen building the Boulder Dam (later renamed the Hoover Dam). This group of businessmen included Henry J. Kaiser and Stephen D. Bechtel.

In 1937, McCone left Consolidated Steel to join Bechtel and Kaiser. Initially they established the Bechtel-McCone Corporation. Over the next few years the three men formed several

companies with them taking it in turn to become the front man. In some cases, they remained silent partners in these business ventures.

The first major customer of Bechtel-McCone was Standard Oil of California (Socal). The company obtained a contract to build Socal’s new refinery in Richmond. It was the first of many

refineries built by Bechtel-McCone. By 1939 the company had more than 10,000 employees and was building refineries, chemical plants and pipelines all over the world.

In the summer of 1940 McCone and Stephen D. Bechtel had a meeting with Admiral Howard L. Vickery of the U.S. Maritime Commission. Vickery told the men he “had received a telegram from

the British Purchasing Commission (BPC) urgently requesting that the Maritime Commission arrange the building of 60 tankers to replace the ships the British had lost to German torpedoes”.

At another meeting a few weeks later, Maritime Commission chairman, Admiral Emory S. Land, told Bechtel and McCone that: “Besides building ships for the British,

they would have to build them for the Americans as well. Not merely tankers, but Liberty and Victory cargo ships, troop transports, the whole makings of a merchant navy.”

Admiral Land confidently added that thousands of vessels would be needed as “America was headed into war.”

As a result of these two meetings, Bechtel, McCone and Kaiser built shipyards at Richmond and Sausalito. Several of their companies were involved in this project that became known as

“Operation Calship”. This included Kaiser Company (78 ships), Kaiser-Swan Island (140 ships) and Kaiser-Vancouver (118 ships).

It was a terrible gamble because at that time they were relying on the predictions of Admiral Emory S. Land. However, Land was right and only a month after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,

the Maritime Commission awarded Calship its first shipbuilding contract. Within a year, Calship was employing over 42,000 workers at its shipyards.

In 1942 McCone and Stephen D. Bechtel obtained a contract to build aircraft at Willow Run in Alabama. The War Department agreed to pay all the company’s costs plus 5 percent on work estimates

presented by Bechtel-McCone every six months. A 300-acre factory was built and 8,000 employees hired to staff it. However, no aircraft were built. Employees were paid for doing nothing.

A local man, George P. Alexander, discovered details of this scam and collected affidavits from workers who admitted that they “went in every day at 9.00, punched the time clock, then went home”.

They then returned to the factory at 5.00 to “punch out”.

Alexander filed suit against Bechtel-McCone in federal district court on 31st July, 1943. He claimed that the company had made “many and various claims against the government of the United States,

or a department or officer thereof, knowing such claims to be false, fictitious or fraudulent.” However, the judge dismissed the case. The problem was with the contract, not the claims by Bechtel-McCone.

As John McCone admitted to Fortune Magazine on 17th May, 1943: “Every six months, we estimate how much work we expect to do in the next six months and then we get a fee of five percent of the estimated

amount of work regardless of how much work we actually do turn out.”