>>14241609 pb, >>14241632 pb, >>14241852 pb, >>14241935 pb

Dig No. 1: Admiral Rickover, with a special appearance of Jimmy Carter, and eventually, Spy Jonathan Pollard enters the picture right about the time Rickover was being investigated, which resulted in his forced retirement, or else. It is in 14 posts.

(Dig No. 2, very loosely related, on the murder of Elsie Paroubek, and the involvement of Henry Darger, with a special appearance of Rod Blegoyavich, will follow this one.)

Admiral Rickover Dig:

Part 1 of 14

January 27, 1900: Chaim Godalia Rickover (the future Adm. Rickover under whom Jimmy Carter served while in the Navy) was born to Abraham and Rachel (Unger) Rickover, a Polish Jewish family from Makow Mazowiecki in Congress Poland. His parents would change his name to "Hyman" which is derived from Chayyim, meaning "life", likely after their move to the U.S. He did not use his middle name Godalia (a form of Gedaliah), but substituted "George" when at the Naval Academy. At some point after this, Abraham returned to the U.S. to await his family to join him. In Russian-occupied Poland, he was not allowed to attend public schools because Jews had raised a rebellion there. Starting at the age of four, he attended a religious school where the teaching was solely from the Tanakh, in Hebrew. The pogroms against the Jews had begun in the late 1800's, fueled by the Russians being especially zealous Russian Orthodox, superstitious in the belief Sunday was a "holy" day; while to Jews, it was a regular day of work. To the superstitious Russians, it wasn't because they hated Jews generally, it's just that they feared Sunday being "disrespected" and thus incurring the wrath of God. Abraham Rickover had emigrated first to the U.S. in 1897 due to the pogroms which had resulted in a number of high level Jews taking part in Marxist ideologies and subversion, worsening their plight.

March, 1906: Chaim Godalia Rickover (the future Adm. Rickover under whom Jimmy Carter served while in the Navy) made passage to NYC with his mother and sister, having fled more Russian pogroms during the Revolution of 1905. It was likely at this point, they changed Chaim's name to Hyman. Rickover's family lived initially on the East Side of Manhattan but moved two years later to North Lawndale, Chicago, a heavily Jewish neighborhood at the time, where his father continued work as a tailor. Rickover took his first paid job at age nine, earning three cents an hour for holding a light as his neighbor ran a machine. Later, he delivered groceries. He graduated from grammar school at 14, then attended John Marshall Metropolitan High School in Chicago.

1918: Hyman Godalia Rickover (the future Adm. Rickover) graduated with honors from John Marshall Metropolitan High School in Chicago. He then held a full-time job as a telegraph boy delivering Western Union telegrams, through which he became acquainted with Congressman Adolph J. Sabath, a Czech Jewish immigrant. Western Union was/is notorious in aiding of money laundering, or providing cash to foreign families or friends and associates, or perhaps, as dual citizens, to other nations. Sabath nominated Rickover for appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy. He was only a third alternate for appointment, but he passed the entrance exam and was accepted, entering in this same year, beginning his naval career. Once there, or maybe after being accepted before going, he changed his middle name Godalia to George.

>>14245729

Dig No. 1: Admiral Rickover, and eventually, Spy Jonathan Pollard enters the picture right about the time Rickover was being investigated, which resulted in his forced retirement.

(Dig No. 2, loosely related, on the murder of Elsie Paroubek, and the involvement of Henry Darger, will follow this one.)

Part 2 of 14

As for Congressman Sabath, he was born in Zabori, Austrian Empire (now the Czech Republic), so he was actually an Austrian, not a Czech. He immigrated to America at 15, and became active in real estate, and receiving his LL.B. degree in 1891 from the Chicago College of Law (now Chicago-Kent College of Law). He served in local offices including justice of the peace (1895-1897) and police magistrate (1897-1906) until election to Congress from the Jewish West Side in 1907. He was active in state and national Democratic party affairs, attending many conventions. In 1911, he received much positive attention in the Austrian/Czech community in Chicago for his fundraising efforts in the search for Elsie Paroubek, and paid for the child's funeral when her body was discovered. Eliška "Elsie" (1906–1911) was a victim of kidnapping and murder in the spring of that year. Her disappearance and the subsequent search for her preoccupied Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota (Great Lakes states) law enforcement for six weeks. The story of the girl's death, and especially her photograph in the Chicago Daily News, were inspirations for Henry Darger's immense fantasy novel The Story of the Vivian Girls. All of this will be the subject of Dig No. II to follow.

June 2, 1922: Hyman Rickover graduated 107th out of 540 midshipmen and was commissioned as an ensign.

September 5, 1922: Ens. Hyman Rickover joined the destroyer La Vallette, and impressed his commanding officer with his hard work and efficiency. It was homeported in San Diego, California.

June 21, 1923: Ens. Hyman Rickover was made engineer officer, becoming the youngest such officer in the squadron. Afterward, he served on board the battleship Nevada, then entered Columbia University.

1929: Ens. Hyman Rickover preferred life on smaller ships, and he also knew young officers in the submarine service were advancing quickly, so he went to DC and volunteered for submarine duty. His application was turned down due to his age, at that time 29 years. Fortunately for Rickover, he ran into his former commanding officer from Nevada while leaving the building, who interceded successfully on his behalf. From 1929 to 1933, Rickover qualified for submarine duty and command aboard the submarines S-9 and S-48.

>>14245729, >>14245734

Dig No. 1: Admiral Rickover, and eventually, Spy Jonathan Pollard enters the picture right about the time Rickover was being investigated, which resulted in his forced retirement.

(Dig No. 2, loosely related, on the murder of Elsie Paroubek, and the involvement of Henry Darger, will follow this one.)

Part 3 of 14

1930: Hyman Rickover earned a Master's in Science in electrical engineering, graduating from Columbia University by way of a year at the Naval Postgraduate School and further coursework at Columbia. Rickover had a high regard for the quality of the education he received at Columbia, and among others, credited Professors Morecroft, Hehre, and Arendt. "Much of what I have subsequently learned and accomplished in engineering is based on the solid foundation of principles I learned from them."

At Columbia, Rickover met Ruth D. Masters, a graduate student in international law, who then went for her doctoral studies at the Sorbonne in Paris. Following his formal education, he developed a decades-long and outspoken interest in the educational standards of the U.S. as being a national security issue, particularly as compared during the Cold War era to Soviet Russia. Had he been trained by Jewish professors with dual loyalties, and had he himself also had dual loyalties? Based on this, he would know it was a national security issue. However, his concern was with Soviet infiltration, and by infiltrating, they were a national security issue for Israel. Double meanings exist, and often such persons will speak the truth couched to appear as if another intent were the focus. An example of his "passion for education" from his 1959 Report on Russia in the context of comparative educational systems, but consider his true meaning as referring to the danger against Israel, and the U.S. as secondary:

"There is no room here (in nuclear powerplant development) for lofty theories which do not work out in practice. We would not get anywhere if we had the loose, hazy thinking you encounter when you bring out the obvious failures of the American educational system. … there are times when it is irresponsible to avoid criticizing something which one knows to be wrong and dangerous for the Nation as a whole. I feel that every one who has a position of responsibility in this country and who can see and understand what is happening not only has the right, he has the obligation and the duty to speak. … This is why I feel so strongly about education—about our failure to give our children as good an education as they deserve and need. … It is my considered opinion that there is no problem that faces the Congress or the country that is as important."

Rickover believed U.S. standards of education were unacceptably low. This is true. Was his concern that so many Jewish children were being educated under this standard, foreseeing not simply sub-par education, but the traditional fierce dual loyalty disappearing with future generations of Jews? His first book centered on education was a collection of essays calling for improved standards of education, particularly in math and science, entitled Education and Freedom (1959). In it, he stated "education is the most important problem facing the United States today" and "only the massive upgrading of the scholastic standards of our schools will guarantee the future prosperity and freedom of the Republic." A second book, Swiss Schools and Ours (1962) was a scathing comparison of the educational systems of Switzerland and America. He argued the higher standards of Swiss schools, including a longer school day and year, combined with an approach stressing student choice and academic specialization produced superior results. Obviously, school choice was vital so that any Jew living anywhere could choose a superior school for their children. Recognizing "nurturing careers of excellence and leadership in science and technology in young scholars is an essential investment in the United States national and global future", following his retirement, he founded the Center for Excellence in Education in 1983. Additionally, the Research Science Institute (formerly the Rickover Science Institute), founded by Rickover in 1984, is a summer science program hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for high school seniors from around the world.

>>14245729, >>14245734, >>14245738

Dig No. 1: Admiral Rickover, and eventually, Spy Jonathan Pollard enters the picture right about the time Rickover was being investigated, which resulted in his forced retirement.

(Dig No. 2, loosely related, on the murder of Elsie Paroubek, and the involvement of Henry Darger, will follow this one.)

Part 4 of 14

1931: Hyman Rickover married Ruth D. Masters after she returned from her doctoral studies at the Sorbonne in Paris. Shortly after marrying, Rickover wrote to his parents of his decision to become an Episcopalian, remaining so for the remainder of his life. (Did this aid him in rising higher in ranks? He may have perhaps been finding his being Jewish may have been impediment to the plan involving submarines.) Together, they had one child.

1933: While at the Office of the Inspector of Naval Material in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Naval Officer Hyman Rickover translated Das Unterseeboot (The Submarine) by WWI German Imperial Navy Admiral Hermann Bauer. His translation became a basic text for the U.S. submarine service.

July 17, 1937: Naval Officer Hyman Rickover reported aboard the minesweeper Finch at Tsingtao, China, and assumed what would be his only ship-command with additional duty as Commander, Mine Division Three, Asiatic Fleet. The Marco Polo Bridge Incident had occurred ten days earlier, and in August, Finch stood out for Shanghai to protect American citizens and interests from the conflict between Chinese and Japanese forces. The beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War was engaged, as the Chinese theater of the wider Pacific Theater of WWII, with the Marco Polo Bridge Incident. Following the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, the Japanese scored major victories, capturing Beijing, Shanghai, and the Chinese capital of Nanjing in 1937, resulting in the Rape of Nanjing. American mercenaries such as the Flying Tigers (led by a Catholic priest and OSS), provided extra support to China directly during the war.

September 25, 1937: Naval Officer Hyman Rickover was promoted to lieutenant commander, retroactive to July 1.

October 5, 1937: Lt. Cdr. Hyman Rickover's designation as an engineering duty officer became effective, and he was relieved of his three-month command of Finch at Shanghai. He was assigned to the Cavite Navy Yard in the Philippines, and was transferred shortly thereafter to the Bureau of Engineering in DC.

August 15, 1939: At the Bureau of Engineering in DC, Lt. Cdr. Hyman Rickover took up duties as assistant chief of the Electrical section of the Bureau of Engineering.

January 1, 1942: Lt. Cdr. Hyman Rickover was promoted to commander.

>>14245729, >>14245734, >>14245738, >>14245748

Dig No. 1: Admiral Rickover, and eventually, Spy Jonathan Pollard enters the picture right about the time Rickover was being investigated, which resulted in his forced retirement.

(Dig No. 2, loosely related, on the murder of Elsie Paroubek, and the involvement of Henry Darger, will follow this one.)

Part 5 of 14

April 10, 1942: After America's entry into WWII, Cdr. Hyman Rickover flew to Pearl Harbor to organize repairs to the electrical power plant of USS California.

Late June, 1942: Cdr. Hyman Rickover was made a temporary captain.

Late, 1944: Cap. Hyman Rickover appealed for a transfer to an active command. He was sent to investigate inefficiencies at the naval supply depot at Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.

July, 1945: Cap. Hyman Rickover was appointed to command of ship repair facility on Okinawa. Shortly thereafter, his command was destroyed by Typhoon Louise, and he subsequently spent some time helping teach school to Okinawan children. Later in the war, his service as head of the Electrical Section in the Bureau of Ships brought him a Legion of Merit and gave him experience in directing large development programs, choosing talented technical people, and working closely with private industry. Time magazine featured him on the cover of its January 11, 1954, issue. The accompanying article described his wartime service how the sharp-tongued Hyman Rickover spurred his men to exhaustion, ripped through red tape, and drove contractors into rages. He went on making enemies, but by the end of the war he had won the rank of captain. He had also won a reputation as a man who gets things done.

December, 1945: Capt. Hyman Rickover was appointed Inspector General of the 19th Fleet on the west coast, and assigned to work with General Electric at Schenectady, NY, to develop a nuclear propulsion plant for destroyers.

1946: An initiative was begun at the Manhattan Project's Clinton Laboratory (now the Oak Ridge National Laboratory) to develop a nuclear electric generating plant. Realizing the potential nuclear energy held for the Navy, Capt. Hyman Rickover applied, and was sent to Oak Ridge through the efforts of his wartime boss, Rear Admiral Earle Mills, who became the head of the Navy's Bureau of Ships that same year. Rickover became an early "convert" to the idea of nuclear marine propulsion, and was the driving force for shifting the Navy's initial focus from applications on destroyers to submarines. His vision was not initially shared by his immediate superiors. He was recalled from Oak Ridge and assigned "advisory duties" with an office in an abandoned ladies' room in the Navy Building. He subsequently went around several layers of superior officers. Also this year, in recognition of his wartime service, he was invested as an Honorary Commander of the Military Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire by King George VI.

>>14245729, >>14245734, >>14245738, >>14245748, >>14245752

Dig No. 1: Admiral Rickover, and eventually, Spy Jonathan Pollard enters the picture right about the time Rickover was being investigated, which resulted in his forced retirement.

(Dig No. 2, loosely related, on the murder of Elsie Paroubek, and the involvement of Henry Darger, will follow this one.)

Part 6 of 14

1947: Capt. Hyman Rickover, still trying to push making nuke subs, and having tried each level of officers, now went directly to the Chief of Naval Operations, Fleet Admiral Chest Nimitz, also a former submariner. Nimitz immediately understood the potential of nuclear propulsion in submarines and recommended the project to the Secretary of the Navy, John L. Sullivan. Sullivan's endorsement to build the world's first nuclear-powered vessel, USS Nautilus, later caused Rickover to state Sullivan was "the true father of the Nuclear Navy." Subsequently, Rickover became chief of a new section in the Bureau of Ships, the Nuclear Power Division reporting to Admiral Mills, and began work with Alvin M. Weinberg, the Oak Ridge director of research, to initiate and develop the Oak Ridge School of Reactor Technology and to begin the design of the pressurized water reactor for submarine propulsion. This also required a Q clearance.

February, 1949: Capt. Hyman Rickover was assigned to the Atomic Energy Commission's Division of Reactor Development, and then assumed control of the Navy's effort within the AEC as Director of the Naval Reactors Branch. This twin role enabled him to lead the effort to develop Nautilus. The decision to originally select Rickover as head of development of the nation's nuclear submarine program ultimately rested with Admiral Mills. According to Lieutenant General Leslie Groves, director of the Manhattan Project, Mills was anxious to have a very determined man involved. He knew Rickover was "not too easy to get along with" and "not too popular," but in his judgement Rickover was the man on whom the Navy could depend "no matter what opposition he might encounter."

1952: Ltjg. Jimmy Carter began an association with the Navy's fledgling nuclear submarine program, then led by Captain Hyman George Rickover. Rickover's demands on his men and machines were legendary, and Carter later said, next to his parents, Rickover was the greatest influence on his life. Carter was sent to the Naval Reactors Branch of the Atomic Energy Commission in DC for a three month temporary duty, while Rosalynn moved with their children to Schenectady, NY. Carter may have picked of exposure to radiation at this point (see below Dec. 12), but Rosalynn and the children weren't with him. At some point, he may have visited his family in Georgia with possible exposure to radiation, perhaps after the three month deployment. His whole family would die with pancreatic cancer. He himself would have cancer, including melanoma in the brain, while his wife would end up with a tumor on her uterus.

>>14245729, >>14245734, >>14245738, >>14245748, >>14245752 , >>14245757

Dig No. 1: Admiral Rickover, and eventually, Spy Jonathan Pollard enters the picture right about the time Rickover was being investigated, which resulted in his forced retirement.

(Dig No. 2, loosely related, on the murder of Elsie Paroubek, and the involvement of Henry Darger, will follow this one.)

Part 7 of 14

December 12, 1952: An "accident" with the experimental NRX reactor at Atomic Energy of Canada's Chalk River Laboratories caused a partial meltdown resulting in millions of liters of radioactive water flooding the reactor building's basement. This left the reactor's core ruined. Ltjg. Jimmy Carter was ordered to Chalk River to lead a U.S. maintenance crew joining other American and Canadian service personnel to assist in the shutdown of the reactor. The painstaking process required each team member to don protective gear and be lowered individually into the reactor for a few minutes at a time, limiting their exposure to radioactivity while disassembling the crippled reactor. During and after his presidency, Carter said "this" experience had shaped his views on atomic energy, leading him to cease development of a neutron bomb. He may have been exposed to radiation, and it may have been after this when he had exposed his family in Georgia to radiation, visiting perhaps on leave after the cleanup. It would appear they likely worked over the holidays, and the men were given leave after the hazardous duty.

1953: While his team and industry were completing construction of the world's first nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus (SSN 571), Capt. Hyman Rickover was promoted to the rank of rear admiral, however this was anything but routine, and occurred only after an "extraordinary" chain of events:

"[Rickover's] peers in the Navy’s engineer branch thought to get rid of him through failure of promotion above captain. This would entail automatic retirement at the thirty-year mark. But someone made the case to the U.S. Senate, charged by the Constitution with formal confirmation of military promotions. In that year, 1953, two years before Nautilus first went to sea, the Senate failed to give its usual perfunctory approval of the Navy admiral promotion list, and the press was outraged because Rickover’s name was not on it. … Ultimately an enlightened Secretary of the Navy, Robert B. Anderson, ordered a special selection board to sit. With some shuffling of feet it did what it had been ordered to do…. Ninety-five percent of Navy captains must retire regardless of how highly qualified because there are only vacancies for 5 percent of them to become admirals, and although vindictiveness has sometimes played a part in determining who shall fail of selection for promotion (thus also violating the system), never before or since have pressures from outside the Navy overturned this form of career-termination."

Regardless of the challenges faced in developing and operating brand-new technology, Rickover and the team did not disappoint. The result was a highly reliable nuclear reactor in a form-factor fitting into a submarine hull with no more than a 28-foot (8.5 m) beam. This became known as the S1W reactor.

1954: The first nuke sub, Nautilus was launched and commissioned with the S1W Reactor. Later RAdm. Hyman Rickover oversaw the development of the Shippingport Atomic Power Station, the first commercial pressurized water reactor nuclear power plant. Kenneth Nichols of the AEC decided the Rickover-Westinghouse pressurized-water reactor was "the best choice for a reactor to demonstrate the production of electricity" with Rickover "having a going organization and a reactor project under way that now had no specific use to justify it." This was a reference to the first core used at Shippingport originating from a cancelled nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. This was accepted by Lewis Strauss of the AEC and the Commission in January.

>>14245729, >>14245734, >>14245738, >>14245748, >>14245752, >>14245757, >>14245762

Dig No. 1: Admiral Rickover, and eventually, Spy Jonathan Pollard enters the picture right about the time Rickover was being investigated, which resulted in his forced retirement.

(Dig No. 2, loosely related, on the murder of Elsie Paroubek, and the involvement of Henry Darger, will follow this one.)

Part 8 of 14

1958: RAdm. Hyman Rickover was promoted to vice admiral, the same year he was awarded the first of two Congressional Gold Medals, for exceptional public service. He exercised tight control for the next three decades over the ships, technology, and personnel of the nuclear Navy, interviewing and approving or denying every prospective officer considered for a nuclear ship. Over the course of Rickover's career, these personal interviews numbered in the tens of thousands. Over 14,000 interviews were with recent college-graduates alone. The interviewees ranged from midshipmen and newly commissioned ensigns destined for nuclear-powered submarines and surface combatants, to very senior combat-experienced Naval Aviator captains seeking command of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. The content of most of these interviews has been lost to history, though some were later chronicled in several books on Rickover's career, as well as in a rare personal interview with Diane Sawyer in 1984. (Think of this. He was essentially a door keeper, all during the time the Israelis were secretly working on and using Dimona, with scientists who had been trained in, and/or worked in the U.S., especially in the AEC, and who personally knew the top scientists, including Rickover, and the previous chairman of the board of AEC, Lewis Strauss.)

1972: RAdm. Hyman Rickover's wife, Ruth, died.

1973: Though his role and responsibilities remained unchanged, Vice Admiral Hyman Rickover was promoted to the rank of four-star admiral. This was the second time (after Samuel Murray Robinson) in the history of the U.S. Navy, an officer with a career path other than an operational line officer achieved that rank. Also fairly uniquely—and because his responsibilities did not include direct command and control of combatant naval units—technically he was appointed to the grade of admiral on the retired list so as to provide some clarity on this issue. This was also done to avoid affecting the maximum-authorized number of admirals (0-10) on the "active list." As head of Naval Reactors, Rickover's focus and responsibilities were dedicated to reactor safety rather than tactical or strategic submarine warfare training. However, this extreme focus was well known during Rickover's era as a potential hindrance to balancing operational priorities. One way this was addressed after Rickover retired was, only the very strongest, former at-sea submarine commanders have held his now unique eight-year position as NAVSEA-08, the longest chartered tenure in the U.S. military. From Rickover's first replacement, Kinnaird R. McKee, to today's head of Naval Reactors, James F. Caldwell, Jr., all have held command of nuclear submarines, their squadrons, and ocean fleets, but none have been a long-term Engineering Duty Officer as Rickover. In keeping with his promotion to four-star admiral, those subsequently selected for assignment to Director, Naval Reactors are promoted to this same rank, but also on active duty status. Historian Francis Duncan, who for over eight years was granted generous access to diverse numbers and levels of witnesses—including U.S. presidents—as well as Rickover himself, came to the conclusion the man was best understood with respect to a guiding principle he invoked foremost for both himself and those serving in the U.S. Navy's nuclear propulsion program: "exercise of the concept of responsibility." This is further evidenced by Rickover listing responsibility as his first principle in his final-years paper and speech, Thoughts on Man's Purpose in Life.

>>14245729, >>14245734, >>14245738, >>14245748, >>14245752, >>14245757, >>14245762, >>14245771

Dig No. 1: Admiral Rickover, and eventually, Spy Jonathan Pollard enters the picture right about the time Rickover was being investigated, which resulted in his forced retirement.

(Dig No. 2, loosely related, on the murder of Elsie Paroubek, and the involvement of Henry Darger, will follow this one.)

Part 9 of 14

1974: VAdm. Hyman Rickover married again, this time to a Jewish woman, Eleonore A. Bednowicz.

June, 1976: Candidate for President, Jimmy Carter published Why Not the Best? (a question asked him by Adm. Hyman Rickover when he worked under him) to help introduce himself to the American public.

By the late 1970's: VAdm. Hyman Rickover's position seemed stronger than it had ever been. Over many years, powerful friends on both the House and Senate Armed Services Committees ensured he remained on active duty long after most other admirals had retired from their second careers. However, Secretary of the Navy John Lehman (later under Reagan) felt Rickover was hindering the well-being of the navy (had they perhaps realized a certain dual loyalty on Rickover's part, among others, after finally knowing the full capability of Israel's nuke weaponry, and now wanted to remove him from controlling the Nuke Navy, seeing it as a national security threat? It appears as if he knew this before serving under Reagan, and that now the Nuke Navy's "weakness" was the very man who had built it, and everyone noticed that there were "too few ships", which is why Reagan sought for a 600-ship Navy during his term). As Lehman stated in his book, Command of the Seas:

One of my first orders of business as Secretary of the Navy would be to solve … the Rickover problem. Rickover's legendary achievements were in the past. His present viselike grip on much of the navy was doing it much harm. I had sought the job because I believed the navy had deteriorated to the point where its weakness seriously threatened our future security. The navy's grave afflictions included loss of a strategic vision; loss of self-confidence, and morale; a prolonged starvation of resources, leaving vast shortfalls in capability to do the job; and too few ships to cover a sea so great, all resulting in cynicism, exhaustion, and an undercurrent of defeatism. The cult created by Admiral Rickover was itself a major obstacle to recovery, entwining nearly all the issues of culture and policy within the navy.

Those are certainly, undoubtedly, loaded words, understood fully, when seen from the perspective Rickover may have been placed in his position for a "Israel first" secret policy. Lehman eventually attained enough political clout to enforce his decision to retire Rickover. To do that, Lehman would dig up dirt to make his case.

>>14245729, >>14245734, >>14245738, >>14245748, >>14245752, >>14245757, >>14245762, >>14245771, >>14245779

Dig No. 1: Admiral Rickover, and eventually, Spy Jonathan Pollard enters the picture right about the time Rickover was being investigated, which resulted in his forced retirement.

(Dig No. 2, loosely related, on the murder of Elsie Paroubek, and the involvement of Henry Darger, will follow this one.)

Part 10 of 14

March 28, 1979: VAdm. Hyman Rickover's stringent standards are largely credited with being responsible for the U.S. Navy's continuing record of zero reactor accidents (defined as the uncontrolled release of fission products to the environment resulting from damage to a reactor core). He made it a point to be aboard during the initial sea trial of almost every nuclear submarine completing its new-construction period. On this day, the Three Mile Island "accident" occurred. Afterward, Rickover was asked to testify before Congress in the general context of answering the question as to why naval nuclear propulsion had succeeded in achieving a record of zero reactor-accidents, as opposed to the dramatic one that had just taken place. Could it be it was no accident, and occurred because Carter had given the Israelis access to satellite intelligence, that the Israelis were really using to spy on Russia? Did Russia know this, thus, the "accident"? The accident-free record of U.S. Navy reactor operations stands in some very stark contrast to those of the Soviet Union, which had fourteen known accidents. As stated in a retrospective analysis in October, 2007: U.S. submarines far outperformed the Soviet ones in the crucial area of stealth, and Rickover's obsessive fixation on safety and quality control gave the U.S. nuclear Navy a vastly superior safety record to the Soviet one. Rickover has been called "the most famous and controversial admiral of his era." He was hyperactive, blunt, confrontational, insulting, and a workaholic (he had to be, there was a timeline), always demanding of others without regard for rank or position. Moreover, he had "little tolerance for mediocrity, none for stupidity." Even while a captain, he did not conceal his opinions, and many of the officers whom he regarded as unintelligent eventually rose to be admirals and were assigned to the Pentagon. Rickover frequently found himself in bureaucratic combat with these senior naval officers, to the point he almost missed becoming an admiral. Two selection boards passed him over for promotion, and it took the intervention of the White House, U.S. Congress, and the Secretary of the Navy before he was promoted. His military authority and congressional mandate were absolute with regard to the U.S. fleet's reactor operations, but his controlling personality was frequently a subject of internal Navy controversy. He was head of the Naval Reactors branch, and thus responsible for signing off on a crew's competence to operate the reactor safely, giving him the power to effectively remove a warship from active service, which he did on several occasions. The view became established he sometimes exercised power to settle scores. But was that the real reason? Was he playing the chess board to keep Israel on an even keel with the U.S. at best, or above at worst? Author and former submariner Edward L. Beach, Jr., referred to him as a "tyrant" with "no account of his gradually failing powers" in his later years. Rickover didn't give a damn. He was in his role for one thing. He accomplished it, and once that was done, he was done. That "power" no longer mattered.

>>14245729, >>14245734, >>14245738, >>14245748, >>14245752, >>14245757, >>14245762, >>14245771, >>14245779, >>14245786

Dig No. 1: Admiral Rickover, and eventually, Spy Jonathan Pollard enters the picture right about the time Rickover was being investigated, which resulted in his forced retirement.

(Dig No. 2, loosely related, on the murder of Elsie Paroubek, and the involvement of Henry Darger, will follow this one.)

Part 11 of 14

In the 80's: Structural welding flaws in submarines under construction were covered up by falsified inspection records, and the resulting scandal led to significant delays and expenses in the delivery of several submarines being built at the General Dynamics Electric Boat Division shipyard in Groton, Connecticut. The yard tried to pass on the vast cost overruns to the Navy, while VAdm. Hyman Rickover demanded the yard make good on its "shoddy" workmanship. The Navy settled with General Dynamics in 1981, paying out $634 million of $843 million in Los Angeles-class submarine cost overrun and reconstruction claims. Secretary of the Navy John Lehman was partly motivated to seek the agreement in order to continue to focus on achieving President Reagan's goal of a 600-ship Navy. But Rickover was extremely bitter over the General Dynamics yard being paid hundreds of millions of dollars, and he lambasted both the settlement and Lehman (and maybe because Lehman was investigating him). This was not Rickover's first clash with the defense industry.

He was historically harsh in exacting high standards from defense contractors. It was later publicly announced by a former General Dynamics employee on 60 Minutes with Mike Wallace Rickover was right General Dynamics was lying to the Navy, but by then Rickover's public image was already damaged beyond repair. A Navy Ad Hoc Gratuities Board determined Rickover had received gifts from General Dynamics over a 16-year period valued at $67,628, including jewelry, furniture, exotic knives, and gifts Rickover had in turn presented to politicians. Charges were investigated that gifts were provided by General Electric and the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock, both major nuclear ship contractors for the Navy. Lehman admonished him in a non-punitive letter and stated his "fall from grace with these little trinkets should be viewed in the context of his enormous contributions to the Navy." (Was he offering him a retirement without charges?) Rickover released a statement through his lawyer saying his "conscience is clear" with respect to the gifts. "No gratuity or favor ever affected any decision I made." (Was it because of other reasons, though?) Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin, a longtime supporter of Rickover, later publicly associated a debilitating stroke suffered by the admiral to his having been censured and "dragged through the mud by the very institution to which he rendered his invaluable service." This investigation was what Lehman needed, in part, to retire Rickover, and it was an investigation having likely been run by Lehman himself, perhaps with the CIA. The admiral's nearly insubordinate stance against paying the General Dynamics submarine construction claims, as well as his advanced age, and waning political leverage, was what pushed it over the edge. In 1980, President Carter presented Admiral Hyman Rickover with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the U.S.'s highest non-military honor, for his contributions to world peace.

July 27, 1981: Secretary of the Navy Lehman, now knowing getting rid of VAdm. Hyman Rickover was urgent since Israel's destruction of Iraq's nuke plant, was handed the final impetus for ending Rickover's career by way of an operational error on the admiral's part: a "moderate" loss of ship control and depth excursion while performing a submerged "crash back" maneuver during the sea trials of the newly constructed USS La Jolla. Rickover was the actual man-in-charge during this specific performance test, and his actions and inactions were judged to have been the causal factor. Was this due to his advanced age at 81? Or was it to sabotage things on his way out?

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Dig No. 1: Admiral Rickover, and eventually, Spy Jonathan Pollard enters the picture right about the time Rickover was being investigated, which resulted in his forced retirement.

(Dig No. 2, loosely related, on the murder of Elsie Paroubek, and the involvement of Henry Darger, will follow this one.)

Part 12 of 14

October, 1981: Jonathan Jay Pollard was recruited by Israeli intelligence, three years earlier than he and the Israeli government have admitted. He was then working as an intelligence specialist with the Navy's Field Operations Intelligence Office. Israel had hesitated to recruit him as he had openly spoken of his loyalty to Israel, even making claims of having served in the Israeli military. He had been the exact opposite of anyone they would have recruited, or was he? He may have been the exact model upon which to offer as the scape goat. But now they needed somebody with access to KH-11 information (satellite imagery), so they loosened their rules, or at least somebody working for Ariel Sharon had. Pollard had been part of a Navy team having visited Israel to coordinate the exchange of intelligence with the Israeli Navy. Each American was invited to an Israeli officer's home for dinner, classic divide and conquer. It was the officer who had had Pollard for their dinner who recruited him. Was Pollard really working alone? Maybe he thought he was, but he seems to have been purposely placed in his position, on the U.S. side. Despite his openly pro-Israel views, he had been given access to the most sensitive intelligence in the U.S. government, and would use his office in Navy intelligence to place orders with abandon to classified archives throughout the DC area. No way this was an oversight. No way. Wonder if VAdm. Rickover would help Pollard? Rickover would have had a Q clearance, the highest level. Certain people at the CIA were convinced there were others helping Pollard as there was so much stuff he sent, they didn't think he could have possibly accessed so many departments/agencies. A Q clearance could have done that, and only one person was needed for that. Could be Rickover was planning on going out with a bang, a last hurrah, and a "fuck you"?

1982: Given VAdm. Hyman Rickover's single-minded focus on naval nuclear propulsion, design, and operations, it came as a surprise to many that now, near the end of his career, when he testified before the U.S. Congress, were it up to him what to do with nuclear powered ships, he "would sink them all." (Could it be, that since Israel felt threatened, though he had been at his post in the crucial time of the build up of their nuke weaponry, and that it was in that the U.S. was a threat to Israel that he was "not proud", so the safety of the country to which he really referred was to Israel's?) At a congressional hearing Rickover testified:

I do not believe that nuclear power is worth it if it creates radiation. Then you might ask me why do I have nuclear powered ships. That is a necessary evil. I would sink them all. I am not proud of the part I played in it. I did it because it was necessary for the safety of this country'. That's why I am such a great exponent of stopping this whole nonsense of war. Unfortunately limits—attempts to limit war have always failed. The lesson of history is when a war starts every nation will ultimately use whatever weapon it has available. … Every time you produce radiation, you produce something that has a certain half-life, in some cases for billions of years. … It is important that we control these forces and try to eliminate them.— Economics of Defense Policy: Hearing before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, 97th Cong., 2nd sess., Pt. 1 (1982)

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Dig No. 1: Admiral Rickover, and eventually, Spy Jonathan Pollard enters the picture right about the time Rickover was being investigated, which resulted in his forced retirement.

(Dig No. 2, loosely related, on the murder of Elsie Paroubek, and the involvement of Henry Darger, will follow this one.)

Part 13 of 14

A few months later, following his retirement, Rickover spoke more specifically regarding the questions, "Could you comment on your own responsibility in helping to create a nuclear navy? Do you have any regrets?". But now read this with his really having Israel in mind:

"I do not have regrets. I believe I helped preserve the peace for this country. Why should I regret that? What I accomplished was approved by Congress—which represents our people. All of you live in safety from domestic enemies because of security from the police. Likewise, you live in safety from foreign enemies because our military keeps them from attacking us. Nuclear technology was already under development in other countries. My assigned responsibility was to develop our nuclear navy. I managed to accomplish this."

January 31, 1982: Four days after his 82nd birthday, VAdm. Hyman Rickover was forced to retire from the Navy after 63 years of service under 13 presidents, Wilson through Reagan. According to Rickover, he first learned of his firing when his wife told him what she heard on the radio. According to former President Jimmy Carter, several weeks following his retirement, Rickover "was invited to the Oval Office and decided to don his full dress uniform. He told me that he refused to take a seat, listened to the president [Reagan] ask him to be his special nuclear advisor, replied 'Mr. President, that is bullshit,' and then walked out." They both knew. Maybe Reagan wanted to place him in a position to get intel from Israel? Maybe Rickover knew this? The Navy's official investigation of General Dynamics' Electric Boat division was ended shortly afterward. According to Theodore Rockwell, Rickover's Technical Director for more than 15 years, more than one source at that time stated General Dynamics officials were bragging around DC they had "gotten Rickover."

February 28, 1982: A post-retirement party honoring Admiral Hyman Rickover was attended by all three living former U.S. Presidents at the time: Nixon, Ford, and Carter, all formerly officers in the U.S. Navy. President Reagan did not attend.

1983: VAdm. Hyman Rickover was awarded his second Congressional Gold Medal, becoming one of only three persons to be awarded more than one.

July 8, 1986: Hyman Rickover died at his home in Arlington, Virginia, at age 86. He was buried on July 11 in a small, private ceremony at Arlington National Cemetary, section 5. Spy Jonathan Pollard had just been arrested the previous November.

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Dig No. 1: Admiral Rickover, and eventually, Spy Jonathan Pollard enters the picture right about the time Rickover was being investigated, which resulted in his forced retirement.

(Dig No. 2, loosely related, on the murder of Elsie Paroubek, and the involvement of Henry Darger, will follow this one.)

Part 14 of 14

July 14, 1986: Memorial services for Hyman Rickover were led by Admiral James D. Watkins at the Washington National Cathedral, with President Carter, Secretary of State George P. Shultz, Secretary Lehman, senior naval officers, and about 1,000 other people in attendance. At the request of the admiral's widow, President Carter read Milton's sonnet When I Consider How My Light is Spent. Secretary of the Navy Lehman said in a statement:

"With the death of Adm. Rickover, the Navy and this nation have lost a dedicated officer of historic accomplishment. In his 63 years of service, Adm. Rickover took the concept of nuclear power from an idea to the present reality of more than 150 U.S. naval ships under nuclear power, with a record of 3,000 ship-years of accident-free operations."

And the then-Chief of Naval Operations:

"Most important," Admiral Watkins said, "he was a teacher. He set the standards. They were tough. That is the legacy and the challenge he left to all who study his contributions."

His first wife Ruth was buried with him and the name of his second wife Eleonore is inscribed on his gravestone. He is survived by Eleonore and by Robert Rickover, his sole son by his first wife.

>>14245729, Dig on Rickover

Dig No. 2, very loosely related to Rickover, on the murder of Elsie Paroubek, and the involvement of Henry Darger.

Part 1 of 10

1918: After graduating high school, Hyman Godalia Rickover (the future Adm. Rickover) held a full-time job as a telegraph boy delivering Western Union telegrams, through which he became acquainted with Congressman Adolph J. Sabath, a Czech Jewish immigrant. Sabath nominated Rickover for appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy. Congressman Sabath was born in Zabori, Austrian Empire (now the Czech Republic), so he was actually an Austrian, not a Czech. He immigrated to America at 15, and became active in real estate, and receiving his LL.B. degree in 1891 from the Chicago College of Law (now Chicago-Kent College of Law). He served in local offices including justice of the peace (1895-1897) and police magistrate (1897-1906) until election to Congress from the Jewish West Side in 1907. He was active in state and national Democratic party affairs, attending many conventions. In 1911, he received much positive attention in the Austrian/Czech community in Chicago for his fundraising efforts in the search for Elsie Paroubek, and paid for the child's funeral when her body was discovered. Eliška "Elsie" (1906–1911) was a victim of kidnapping and murder in the spring of that year. Her disappearance and the subsequent search for her preoccupied Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota (Great Lakes states) law enforcement for six weeks. The story of the girl's death, and especially her photograph in the Chicago Daily News, were inspirations for Henry Darger's immense fantasy novel The Story of the Vivian Girls.

Darger, a writer and artist, was a hospital custodian in Chicago. His aforementioned book, "discovered" just before his death, was a 15,145-page, single-spaced manuscript, the full name of which was The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What Is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion, along with several hundred drawings and paintings to illustrate. Besides the idyllic and fantasy portions, there are scenes of horrific terror and carnage depicting young children being tortured and massacred. A Chicago native born on April 12, 1892, his parents were Henry Darger, Sr., and Rosa Fullman. When he was four years old, his mother died after giving birth to a daughter, probably around 1900, who was purportedly given up for adoption. Given the fact the elder Darger took shelter in a Catholic home in 1900, the child may have been given to a Catholic orphanage. One of Henry's biographers, the art historian and psychologist John M. MacGregor, discovered Rosa, Henry's mother, had two children before Henry, but did not discover their whereabouts. His father been a tailor (as Rickover's father had been), and had taken shelter at the Catholic Little Sisters old folks home in 1900, while Darger, at 8 years old, was sent to a Catholic boys home, the Mission of Our Lady of Mercy, a Roman Catholic orphanage, thereafter becoming an ardent Catholic, but that zealousness was a disturbing, perverted obsession. For "bad behavior", at 12 years of age, he was sent to the Illinois Asylum for Feeble-Minded Children, although they had said he was a bright boy, in Lincoln, Illinois, at the Lincoln State School (today the Lincoln Developmental Center), with the diagnosis, according to Stephen Prokopoff, that "little Henry's heart is not in the right place". According to John MacGregor, the diagnosis was actually "self-abuse", better known as masturbation. He made unusual noises, perhaps from Tourette syndrome, or he was maybe autistic, or he had undergone such abuse as to alter his personality. He would receive no better treatment at the next facility, probably worse.

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>>14245831

Dig No. 2, very loosely related to Rickover, on the murder of Elsie Paroubek, and the involvement of Henry Darger.

Part 2 of 10

The Lincoln asylum's practices included forced child labor and severe punishments, which he incorporated later into his writings. He escaped the asylum twice, or several times, the first time after the death of his father in 1908, succeeding with his last escape in early 1909 when he was 16, so he was definitely not in the asylum in 1911 when Elsie was murdered, and she was kidnapped on April 8, while he was still 18, before his birthday on the 12th of that month. His godmother got him a job in a Catholic hospital as a custodian, and he would work at hospital in menial labor until his retirement in 1963, with a brief time in the Army during WWI. At some point in 1911 or after, he repeatedly tried and failed to adopt a child, but purportedly, that wasn't until he had met a William Schloeder who joined him in the endeavor. His short time in the Army was, in 1917, after he was drafted and sent to Camp Logan, Texas, however, he was soon honorably discharged due to "eye trouble". He purportedly began writing his manuscript during WWI, which started in 1914, in his early 20's, after he had met Schloeder. He apparently returned to the hospital job, St. Joseph's in Chicago, after his discharge, but quit that hospital in 1922 because of a stern nun, "Sister De Paul". He soon found other employment as a dishwasher at Grant Hospital, on the corner of Lincoln and Webster, at which point he moved into his first apartment at 1035 Webster Avenue in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood, his old slum haunt where his family had lived. In 1932, fearing "a new landlord might install a still for making illegal liquor in his building", Darger moved to his final room, "two blocks away", having been "terrified" "the still might explode". He attended Mass daily, often for as many as five services a day. He was a street picker, finding shoes, eyeglasses, medicine bottles, and balls of string, to add to artwork displayed in his room, and he was generally asocial, except for William Schloeder.

His close friend of 48 years, William Schloeder, was a Luxembourg immigrant, and also interested in the protection of abused and neglected children. The duo wanted to found a "Children's Protective Society", an adoption center. Since he was friends with Schoeder for 48 years until the latter's death in 1959, this would mean he met him in 1911, the same year Elsie was murdered. (Keep in mind, child abusers often form establishments to "help" children as a cover for finding vulnerable, needy children less likely to be missed by society, and easier to manipulate.) He and Schloeder would "go together to the Riverview amusement park at Belmont and Western Avenues. Schloeder left Chicago sometime in the mid-1930's, but he and Darger stayed in touch through letters until Schloeder's death in 1959. One source, says Schloeder, just before his death, had relocated to Texas. This may mean he had moved on more than one occasion between Chicago and Texas, perhaps having moved to Texas after retiring. Darger's biographer Jim Elledge speculates Darger and Schloeder may have had a romantic relationship while Schloeder lived in Chicago, and Darger had referred to Schloeder as his "special friend." However, what if Schloeder had been a doctor, from Darger's asylum? What if Darger were Schloeder's subject, out in the field, using him to experiment on mind control, and how far such a subject could be induced to go, such as kidnapping and murdering a child?

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>>14245831, >>14245835

Dig No. 2, very loosely related to Rickover, on the murder of Elsie Paroubek, and the involvement of Henry Darger.

Part 3 of 10

In 1930 (or 1932), Darger moved into the boarding house (the one two blocks from his first apartment) on Chicago's North Side at 851 W. Webster Avenue in the Lincoln Park section of the city, near the DePaul University campus, a room he kept for the next 43 years. The boarding house was owned by Police Captain Walter Gehr. Darger's area was on the third floor, and was a large room with an attached smaller one. It shared a bathroom with three other roomers. Gehr's two children would sneak into his room to look at his toys and pictures of children on the walls, none of which bothered Gehr. So, apparently, Gehr was aware of this "art" work, and would have been aware of the shrine to Elsie. It's possible he may have not known about that murder, but he was a Chicago police captain, and the case had never been solved. Now here is another odd thing, according to the author of the link. "Darger never had any visitors, but guests of the Gehr family, as well as the other three tenants who lived in the boardinghouse, would remark about hearing all sorts of people conversing behind Darger’s closed door. However, all those people were just Henry — who was a superb mimic — reenacting and possibly amending exchanges that took place that day or earlier in his life. Mary Catherine and her brother would often sit on the stairway leading up to the third floor landing and listen to him speaking in strange voices and dialects." This could have been a combination of Schloeder speaking to him, who would have had a European accent, perhaps German, and Darger's personalities expressing themselves.

A new supervisor at Grant Hospital told him to take a hike in 1936, as which point he returned to St. Joseph’s Hospital as a dishwasher where he worked until 1947, fired "because the work had become too difficult for him". He got a job at "Alexian Brothers Hospital, at Belden and Racine, as a dishwasher, but transferred to the bandage room in 1951." In 1963, he had to quit that job due to "leg pains", forcing him to retire. In 1969, he was hit by a car, injuring his leg and hip, at which point he climbed the stairs to his room with difficulty. In 1972, his new landlord, Nathan Lerner, got him into a nursing home late that year, where he remained until his death, at St. Augustine's Home for the Aged, operated by the Little Sisters of the Poor, on April 13, 1973, one day after his 81st birthday. It was the same home in which his father had died in 1908. He is buried in a plot called "The Old People of the Little Sisters of the Poor Plot". His headstone is inscribed "Artist" and "Protector of Children". Darger's landlords, Nathan and Kiyoko Lerner, discovered his work after he went to the home, shortly before his death in 1973. Another roomer who had helped Lerner clean it out, astonished with the collections Darger had, visited him in the home to ask about it before his death. The Lerners took charge of his "estate", publicizing his work and contributing to projects such as the 2004 documentary In the Realms of the Unreal. (More on that later.) Darger's work became internationally recognized. After Nathan Lerner's death in 1997, Kiyoko continued controlling Darger's "estate", as well as her husband's, both of whom had made big money with the Darger stuff, founding organizations and museum exhibits throughout the world, all so very odd. His work has inspired comic book writers and artists, and he has a cult following. Literally. More on that later. Even his boarding house was dismantled and moved to be reassembled and displayed at "Intuit", the Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, a Chicago-based nonprofit organization.

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>>14245831, >>14245835, >>14245842

Dig No. 2, very loosely related to Rickover, on the murder of Elsie Paroubek, and the involvement of Henry Darger.

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This is important and very odd, and even Blegoyavich enters the picture:

Now for the Illinois institution to which Darger was sent when he was 12. The school was first located in Jacksonville, Illinois, in 1865, and was the state’s “Experimental School for Idiots and Feeble-Minded Children”. In 1875, the state spent $7,500 to buy 40 acres near Lincoln for the Illinois Asylum for Feeble-Minded Children after need outgrew the Jacksonville facility, where 681 applications were on file. Not all of these children were "idiots" or "feeble-minded". Many were simply orphaned or indigent. The building on sprawling grounds of many acres, had the usual tunnel system underneath the buildings and grounds. In 1877, the first subjects arrived at Lincoln, and added to the "feeble minded", were children from county poorhouses. In 1901, the Boys’ Cottage was completed, followed by the Girls’ Cottage a year later. By 1903, the population grew to 1,400 with fewer than 30 staff, and a year later, the year 12-year old Darger was sent there, 109 children purportedly died from "exhaustion due to epileptic seizures". Epilepsy makes a good cover for all those bruises. In 1910, the year after Darger made his successful last "escape" at 16, the experimental facility's name changed to Lincoln State School and Colony.

(Note: 1911, the same year Elsie was murdered, is when Darger met his "close" friend, Schloeder. Was Schloeder his handler/researcher? Maybe Darger, at 16, was ready to be "let loose" for outside experimentation of mind control.)

In 1915, a change in the state law allowed placement of old, sick, paralyzed, and babies in developmental facilities. In 1930, facility subjects worked on the farm and residential grounds, which included 850 acres of state-owned and leased lands.

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>>14245831, >>14245835, >>14245842, >>14245846

Dig No. 2, very loosely related to Rickover, on the murder of Elsie Paroubek, and the involvement of Henry Darger.

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(Note: Sometime in the mid-1930's is when Schloeder no longer visited Darger, but kept in touch through letters:)

In 1936, the facility had 3,600 subjects with 265 employees working three shifts. In 1937, Smith Cottage was built for “incorrigible inmates". In 1941, the facility superintendent cautioned Illinois was developing a “concentration camp complex” and too many people were sent needlessly to state mental hospitals. In 1942, Nine of thirteen doctors were on military leave. Nine of these doctors, having conducted experiments on these children, were now in the military! Three guesses as to what they were doing, and the first two don't count. Horrifying. Would be willing to bet, one of those doctors was Schloeder, who continued his correspondence with Darger. In 1949, the state law shifted discharge of residents from the courts to the superintendent. In 1954, the facility's name changed to Lincoln State School. In 1958, subject population was at its peak at 5,408. (Schloeder died in 1959.) In 1973, the subjects’ forced labor ended after the Supreme Court said they had to be paid the same as regular employees. Many shifted to sheltered workshops, or were transferred to smaller institutions, group homes, nursing homes. In 1975, the facility's name changed again to Lincoln Developmental Center with a reduced population of 1,680. In 1978, the farm-annex closed, becoming the Logan Correctional Center. In 2001, a consortium of Illinois Disability Advocates asked Gov. Ryan to close LDC, and recent inspection revealed a shortage of workers, lack of training, and three incidents in which residents’ health was endangered. September 1, 2002, the facility officially closed, but it had been the town’s No. 1 employer. LDC housed nearly 400 developmentally disabled residents and employed about 700 people.

In 2003, under Gov. Blagojevich, a task force recommended reopening one building to house 20 residents, and construction of four, 10-bed units at a cost of $7 million. In 2004, the governor’s budget had money for construction, but not for operations. Blagojevich promised to find the money. In 2006, the state built four, 10-bed homes for $4 million. The homes were never used. In 2010, the Illinois State Police conducted a tactical weapons training exercise at the facility. IDOC uses part of LDC as a warehouse for its prison inmate labor program.

https://herald-review.com/news/local/be … 73d88.html

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>>14245831, >>14245835, >>14245842, >>14245846, >>14245854

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On April 8, 1911, Elsie was kidnapped, she had last been seen watching an organ grinder on a street undergoing a lot of construction, and subsequently, Romani, were blamed simply because one of the children among a group having been also watching the organ grinder before the group left Elsie behind, had seen a Gypsy wagon, and later, added two women were holding the girl. The Press repeated the story and embellished it for sensation. The police then theorized it was the work of "the Black Hand". After searches, and drainage of a canal (where she would later be found despite the drainage and search), one of the children who had been in the group watching the organ grinder, said she had seen Elsie with the organ grinder. The police then searched the Italian quarter.

On the second week after her disappearance, another girl, 11, offered to help as she herself had been kidnapped by gypsies and found four years earlier. There were many false sightings, many other children joining in the search, and the girl's father even consulted a psychic (what a laugh as she was likely a Gypsie), and yes, when Chicago politician Charles J. Vopicka sent officers to the place she indicated, no dice. The search spread to Wisconsin, then to Minnesota, and back to Illinois. Other politicians became involved, including the above mentioned Judge Sabath, and rewards were declared. On May 7, Sabath ordered an investigation of the parents, Frank and Karolina, themselves, in search of anything in their past perhaps having caused someone to kidnap Elsie.

Two days later on May 9, 1911, electrical engineer George T. Scully and other employees of the Lockport power plant near Joliet, thirty-five miles outside of Chicago, saw a body floating in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal. Undertaker William Goodale, examining the body, said it appeared to fit Miss Paroubek's description, "The description tallied to the shade of the hair, the texture of the stockings, and the stuff and tint of the dress of little Elsie." He thought the body had been in the water for several weeks, although only slightly decomposed. But there were contradicting versions. Another report indicated her body was "badly decomposed", but there were "no marks of violence" on her body. There was no water in her lungs, so drowning was certainly not the cause. Along with "deep cuts" on the left side of her face, there was evidence of suffocation. Although the Coroner Peter Hoffman said there were no marks of violence to her body, others said there was evidence of abuse. The coroner declared it a death of unknown causes. The parents' meager savings exhausted, Judge Sabath was among those contributing to a fund for them. Officials provided flowers for her funeral, including Sabath.

>>14245729

>>14245831, >>14245835, >>14245842, >>14245846, >>14245854, >>14245858

Dig No. 2, very loosely related to Rickover, on the murder of Elsie Paroubek, and the involvement of Henry Darger.

Part 7 of 10

A hermit peddler was next to be pegged for the crime as his hangout was in the area where the body was found, of whom it was claimed he would "entice little girls" to go to the canal, and that he had been seen in the vicinity of the victim's home. A search of his shack, produced a green hair ribbon as well as "indications of a small hole dug in the ground" and "an old hemp sack, which might have contained the body." The owner of the shack, Mrs. David Shaughnessy advised police she had complained to Konesti about his "bringing children around the house," and had evicted him on May 9. Konesti "threw himself in front of a train" on May 10. Five days later he was cleared of any wrongdoing because…..on May 13, the body of a well-dressed man was found in the canal at Willow Springs, 20 miles from Lockport, 14 miles from Albany Avenue. There was no ID, only a Catholic religious card with a prayer in Polish, with the words "Sig. Hoff" written on it. Detectives theorized this man also may have had some connection with Elsie's death. An anonymous letter was said to have been received by the detectives. The writer described having seen a little girl walking along the canal with a young man the day Elsie disappeared (Darger was 18 at that time, just before his birthday). On the same day, another loner living in a shack by the canal was identified as a possible suspect. Mr. Kinsella, described as a "religious enthusiast," was "supposed to be demented." When he saw Detectives Gormley, Slad, and Froenicke approaching, he ran, "making a move as if to draw a revolver." Firing a warning shot in the air, they chased him for three miles through gullies and underbrush, but he was lost in a the forest.

Darger had kept a picture of Elsie from the newspapers at the time. According to his autobiography, Darger believed it was among several items stolen from his locker at work, since he never found it again. He claimed to have searched in the newspaper archives point later, but purportedly couldn't remember the date of the article. That sounds fishy, since the date of the murder would have been easily used as reference. He undertook novenas and other prayers for the return of the picture. An earlier draft of the novel before he discovered the photo was missing, he claimed, was also lost or stolen. Maybe his handler had removed them?

The character modeled after Elsie, Annie Aronburg, was the leader of the child slave rebellion, who ended up assassinated, in turn resulting in a war. What if these characters were splinters of himself, including the evil creatures who murdered her, as a way of disassociation, and indicating a "split personality" created as a protection against long exposure to abuse or to mind altering control experiments, using psychotic drugs? What if Darger hadn't "escaped" the asylum on his own, but was a subject of doctor(s) mind control experiments, who then released him to watch the results of how they could control him to do any act thereafter? What if Schloeder were his handler to record and control the findings and results of the experiment? What if Darger's job as custodian in the hospital was to steal certain drugs for this purpose? What if Darger were manipulated into writing and art work as part of the analysis?

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>>14245831, >>14245835, >>14245842, >>14245846, >>14245854, >>14245858, >>14245862

Dig No. 2, very loosely related to Rickover, on the murder of Elsie Paroubek, and the involvement of Henry Darger.

Part 8 of 10

Darger provided two endings to the story, one in which the Vivian Girls and Christianity are triumphant, the other in which they are defeated and the godless, evil Glandelinians who were reigning. Darger's human figures were rendered largely by tracing, collage, or photo enlargement from popular magazines and children's books (much of the "trash" he collected was old magazines and newspapers, which he clipped for source material). Some of his favorite figures were the Coppertone Girl and Little Annie Rooney, a takeoff of Little Orphan Annie, both orphans. The child victims of his manuscript are heroic martyrs like the early saints, perhaps alluding to their possible role as sacrifices. Art critic Michael Moon explains Darger's images of tortured children in terms of popular Catholic culture and iconography. These included martyr pageants and Catholic comic books with detailed, often gory tales of innocent female victims. He depicted many of these girls as having penises, revealed by various levels of nudity. Several are depicted with butterfly wings and goat horns. (Go to link below for pics.)

Another manuscript of Darger's, Crazy House, gets even more detailed. Having the same Vivian girls along with a boy, a secret companion named Penrod, it's about a house possessed by demons and haunted by ghosts, or having an evil consciousness of its own. It would seem as if these seven sisters, and the one boy, may have been split personalities of Drager? Children disappear into the house and are later found brutally murdered. That they "disappear", evokes the allusion of personalities that go away, to be replaced with another, after they are "murdered". Were he the murderer of Elsie and the subject of mind control experimentation, he could have been induced to believe Elsie was one of his personalities needing to be "murdered". The Vivian girls and Penrod are sent to investigate the haunted house and discover the murders are the work of evil ghosts. These "ghosts" may be the evil splits of Drager. The girls attempt to exorcise the house, even conducting "Holy Mass" in each room, repeatedly, but failing. This is why his "novels" are so massive, as he may have been attempting to cast out his demons, but they remained. The story could never end. The narrative ends mid-scene, with Darger himself in the story having just been rescued from the Crazy House, leaving an unfinished conclusion. Perhaps the "house" was not just himself, but also his memories of the asylum from where his splits originated through mind control.

Elsie's murder may have been the product of an experiment, to show how a mind-controlled subject could be induced to commit murder or other crimes. In 1968, Darger became interested in tracing some of his frustrations back to his childhood and began writing The History of My Life. In eight volumes, the work only devotes 206 pages detailing his early life, while taking up 4,672 pages about a huge twister called "Sweetie Pie". He was also very into the weather, writing daily journals on that subject, and indicated he had seen a tornado in 1908, the very year he had "escaped" the asylum the first time when his father had died. Lots of pics at this site and the sauce.

http://www.jackdogwelch.com/?p=30096

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Dig No. 2, very loosely related to Rickover, on the murder of Elsie Paroubek, and the involvement of Henry Darger.

Part 9 of 10

Not surprisingly, Unholywood made a film about the subject of Darger's manuscript, which was likely the aforementioned Lerner collaboration of 2004. In 2005, it made the "12-strong Oscar shortlist for best documentary feature", described at this link (below) as one among other "curious contenders". The article author, Shawn Thomas, describes the documentary as an "80-minute biography In the Realms of the Unreal. Directed by Jessica Yu", telling "the story of a friendless Chicago janitor called Henry Darger, who spent most of his life building a collection of string balls and medicine bottles, to go with his compulsive drawings of naked girls with tiny penises being strangled, blown up, beheaded and disembowelled." Thomas: "it's hard to see what Yu's film is doing on any screen anywhere," adding Darger has disturbingly "become one of America's most famous artists," and that his art "can sell for millions of dollars". According to Thomas, William Schloeder, was "a neighbor", and Darger also had a dog. The antagonist in the Darger Vivian Girls saga is a "General Manley" with his "troops". Darger himself is in the tale as various characters, among which is a "vulcanologist". Thomas provides this quote from the epic:

"Children were dispatched in the most horrible manner. Their intestines were cut out, the Glandelinians even pelting their victims with them. Children were commanded to eat the hearts of dead children, and those who refused were tortured beyond describing."

Furthermore, Thomas says, Darger "painted so many infant girls nude" depicted with penises. Thomas concludes, this art work and writings were "the obsessive refashioning of his own early traumas. Seen in this light, what Darger was trying to do was cleanse the world of its indelible darkness and pain." But was it "the world" he was trying to cleanse, or his own "demons"?

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesig … jan/12/art

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Dig No. 2, very loosely related to Rickover, on the murder of Elsie Paroubek, and the involvement of Henry Darger.

Part 10 of 10

As a result of Judge Sabath's aid in the events surrounding the search for Elsie and afterwards, he gained politically. He was a leading opponent of prohibition, denouncing their faction, the Anti-Saloon League, "and their allied forces and co-workers, the Ku Klux Klan fanatics." Although Prohibition was passed in 1920, the League was protesting long before that, and especially in the years just before passage, for instance, including 1918, exactly when Sabath had recommended Rickover for the U.S. Naval Academy. For Sabath to have recommended Rickover, his father would have at least been a contributor. Chicago was a notorious center for the Mob centering at that time around illicit selling of alcohol once Prohibition was passed. Perhaps also contributors? The Mob wasn't merely those of Italian heritage, but there was also a Jewish Mob. Every year from 1925 to 1933, Sabath consistently submitted bills in the House of Representatives, to amend the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Act to allow commerce in beer and wine. In 1929, he came to the defense of his large immigrant constituency by countering claims they were responsible for the surge in criminal activity during the 1920's, ie, that would be the Mob, Italian and Jewish. "The bootlegging and gang killings…are not the by-product but the direct product of the Volstead Act, and the supporters of this crime breeding legislation must claim the new cult of American criminals entirely as their own." As a leading Democrat he chaired the powerful House Rules Committee after 1937, but he was an ineffective leader having a small staff, and was frequently at odds with the House leadership, inclined to write the President little letters "informing" on House Speakers William B. Bankhead and Sam Rayburn. Beginning on April 1, 1934, he was the Dean (longest-serving member) of the House, serving for over 18 years. Sabath was an avid New Dealer and an interventionist strongly supporting the war against Nazi Germany. He died of liver disease on November 6, 1952. Too much drinking, perhaps?