Alright, so this is from way out in left field, but randomness is part of the hive mind thing here.

So I'm watching "Hunting Nazi Treasure" on AHC, hosted (funded?) by auto industry heir Robert Edsel. The show is an offshoot of the Monuments Men organization. He's written 3 nonfiction books and been working on this project for years, long before Clooney made a movie out of one of the books. It's a good cause.

Also, it goes back to something Q told us long ago (over a year, I'd have to check archives to be sure, likely 2017), about how the elite launder money and dodge taxes by trading/smuggling art on the black market.

In the episode "Stealing Italy", they go to Florence and the Italian mountains to talk with a member of law enforcement about the enormous amount of art stolen by the Nazis during WWII.

The man points out the fact that art trails only guns and drugs as far as items moved on the black market. He said that in 2018 alone, Italian law enforcement recovered over 20,000 paintings. That's just paintings, and doesn't include every other type of art and antiquity. It all backs up exactly what Q hinted at, and what we learned while digging.

"Tonight! It's "Stealing Italy" on American Heroes Channel.

In Florence, Rome and Switzerland, Robert Edsel is on the trail of the missing Florentine treasures. In the summer of 1944, the Nazis looted dozens of storage depots around Florence containing over 700 works of art. Most were recovered in 1945, but three remain missing to this day, including a painting worth approximately $5 million.

Outside Rome, Conor Woodman explores the incredible underground bunker complex of Mount Sorrate. During the Cold War, this impregnable fortress was the designated shelter for the Italian President in case of nuclear war. During the Second World War it was German military headquarters and a storage depot for 60-80 tons of looted Italian gold. Intelligence reports released just three years ago reveal the Italian government still believes the gold could be hidden in the complex, and Conor meets a 92-year-old man who says he has a map showing where the cache is hidden.

In Tuscany and South Tyrol, James Holland is on the trail of Nazi SS General Karl Wolff. In 1945, Wolff held Top Secret negotiations with American OSS officer Allan Dulles, future head of the CIA. Dubbed Operation Sunrise, Wolff offered the Americans early surrender of Nazi forces in return for immunity from post-war prosecution. To sweeten the deal, Wolff also told Dulles he would reveal where the Nazis were hiding thousands of stolen art treasures. James investigates the deal, whether or not Wolff lived up to his side of the bargain, and if Wolff made off with some treasure to finance his lavish post-war life.

It all starts at 10e/9c. American viewers can catch up on past episodes on the AHC website: https://www.ahctv.com/tv-shows/hunting-nazi-treasure/full-episodes/stealing-italy

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(Free - log in with JSTOR, several free articles per month)

https://www.jstor.org/stable/4383422?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

Journal Article:

Why No One Could Find Mengele: Allen Dulles and the German SS

Author: Peter Dale Scott

The Threepenny Review

No. 23 (Autumn, 1985), pp. 16-18

Just a quick hat-tip to the cabin and ground crew of Air Force One.

Anon crew members, thank you for your hard work, talents, and dedication.

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In case you missed the glorious NY Post article earlier

https://nypost.com/2019/02/25/sanders-demanded-private-jets-while-campaigning-with-clinton-staffer/

A spokesman for Bernie Sanders lashed out at Hillary Clinton’s ex-staffers Monday for leaking a story about how the Vermont Socialist had demanded fossil fuel-guzzling private jets while campaigning for Clinton in 2016.

Michael Briggs, Sanders’ 2016 campaign spokesman who often traveled with Sanders on the private flights, told Politico that Clinton and her staff were “total ingrates” in light of the Herculean effort the Vermont senator put in to try to help her win.

“You can see why she’s one of the most disliked politicians in America. She’s not nice. Her people are not nice,” he said.

“[Sanders] busted his tail to fly all over the country to talk about why it made sense to elect Hillary Clinton and the thanks that [we] get is this kind of petty stupid sniping a couple years after the fact,” he continued.

“It doesn’t make me feel good to feel this way but they’re some of the biggest assholes in American politics.”

What fueled Briggs’ rage was a story the website published earlier Monday that said Sanders’ environmental hypocrisy became “a running joke in the office,” and cited numerous former Clinton staffers as sources.

More than two years later, still-bitter Clintonistas, including some working for Sanders’ Democratic rivals in the 2020 presidential race, have not forgotten his demands, the website reported.

“I’m not shocked that while thousands of volunteers braved the heat and cold to knock on doors until their fingers bled in a desperate effort to stop Donald Trump, his Royal Majesty King Bernie Sanders would only deign to leave his plush DC office or his brand new second home on the lake if he was flown around on a cushy private jet like a billionaire master of the universe,” Zac Petkanas, director of rapid response for the Clinton campaign, told Politico.

After Sanders endorsed Clinton and agreed to campaign for her, it quickly became clear that Sanders liked to fly in style, the website reported, citing six ex-Clinton staffers and another source.

Sanders’ camp wanted privately chartered jets, which Team Clinton thought were a waste of money.

But the Vermont senator wound up flying private on three separate multiday trips in the final two months of the campaign.

Sanders’ flights — usually on a Gulfstream plane — cost the Clinton-Kaine campaign at least $100,000 in total, according to three sources familiar with the cost, the website reported.

“We would try to fight it as much as possible because of cost and availability of planes, but they would request [a jet] every time,” one of the sources said.

“We would always try to push for commercial. At the campaign, you’re constantly trying to save like 25 cents.”

Sanders spokeswoman Arianna Jones said it was impossible to get to all of the events in such a short time without chartered flights, especially since the senator was traveling to smaller markets with limited commercial options.

“That’s why chartered flights were used: to make sure Sen. Sanders could get to as many locations as quickly as possible in the effort to help the Democratic ticket defeat Donald Trump,” she said.