The History of Wirt Dexter Walker: Russell & Company, the CIA and 9/11
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World Trade Center (WTC) security company
Stratesec has been a topic of considerable discussion among independent
9/11 investigators. One point of discussion has been the
possible familial relationship between Stratesec’s CEO, Wirt Dexter
Walker III, and its director Marvin Bush, whose brother was President of
the United States on 9/11. Although Wirt and Marvin are
distant relatives, these ties are inconsequential relative to each man’s
family connections to old drug money, deep state operatives, and the
wealthy, powerful people who have controlled such money and operatives
over the last two centuries.[1]
Stratesec was a company that provided security services for several facilities that were central to the crimes of 9/11. In
the years leading up to 9/11, the company had security contracts with
the organization that managed Dulles Airport, where Flight 77 took off
that day, and with United Airlines, which owned two of the other three
hijacked planes.[2]
Stratesec had also run security for Los Alamos National Laboratories,
where, at the time, scientists were developing super-thermite explosives
of the type that have been found in the WTC dust.[3],[4] Stratesec
worked at the WTC and was developing the security system for the
buildings in the period leading up to, and including, the day of 9/11. These connections are important considering the substantial evidence that insiders were involved in the 9/11 attacks.
Investigation into this company has revealed that
the Chief Operating Officer, Barry McDaniel, came to Stratesec from a
subsidiary of The Carlyle Group called BDM International, which
specialized in “black projects.”[5] The
Carlyle Group was managed by several Bush cabal insiders including
James Baker and former deputy director of the CIA, Frank Carluccci. Carlyle was funded by investors that included the bin Laden family.[6] Prior
to working for BDM, McDaniel had worked as a military ordnance
distributor at Fort Belvoir, a facility with many links to 9/11
including the terrorist tracking program Able Danger and the terrorist
trainer Ali Mohammed.[7]
McDaniel was not the only former Carlyle Group
employee at Stratesec, as the company’s director of information
technology was also formerly with BDM.[8] Additionally,
the vice president of finance at Stratesec came there from Anadac
Molybdenum Corporation, a company where the chairman, Roger Taylor, was
also the president of Zapata Granby, a subsidiary of Zapata Corporation. This is the same Zapata Corporation that was founded by George H.W. Bush in the 1950s. George H.W. Bush’s son, Marvin, was a director at Stratesec from 1993 to 2000.
Probably the most interesting person associated with Stratesec was Wirt Dexter Walker III. Despite the “III”, Wirt is actually the fourth Wirt Dexter Walker in the same line. To
keep the notations clear, however, in this article we will refer to the
Stratesec CEO, Wirt Dexter Walker III, as “Wirt Three.” Given
the remarkable connections between Wirt Three and the facilities and
aircraft compromised on 9/11, a review of all the Wirts, and where they
came from, is worthwhile.
Solomon Walker
Wirt Three’s great-great-great grandfather, Solomon Walker, appeared in Claremont, New Hampshire in the early 1800s. Exactly where he came from, no one knows. The first reports of Solomon were that he was a selectman in Claremont and was married to an heiress named Charity Stevens. Charity
was the granddaughter of Elihu Stevens, a justice of the peace who
shared in large land grants given to certain people in New Hampshire by
the King of England.[9] Charity’s cousin, Paran Stevens, later became a famous hotel mogul in New York City and throughout New England.[10]
Nearly one hundred years after Solomon appeared in
Claremont, people were still searching for answers as to his parentage
and origination.[11] It
is unclear how he came to Claremont and, even today, Solomon’s
descendants have not been able to determine where their forefather
originated.[12]
Much evidence suggests, however, that Solomon Walker of Claremont was the son of Solomon Walker and Sylvia Delano, of Maine. The recorded history of their youngest son, Solomon, is vague and suggests that he married twice to women much older than him. His
second marriage was said to be to Sophia Delano (16 years older), whom
he supposedly married a day after his 82-year old father had married
her.[13] Although Charity Stevens was 15 years older than Solomon, she was not his stepmother.
For a number of other reasons, it is likely that
Solomon “Delano” Walker and/or his father, also named Solomon Walker,
made the short journey from Maine to Claremont. Solomon’s father’s hometown was Berwick, ME, which is one hundred miles straight east of Claremont. Berwick is very near Kennebunkport, the long-time home of the Walker side of the Bush family. Coincidentally,
Dick Cheney’s great-grandfather, Samuel Fletcher Cheney, was born at
about the same time, halfway between Berwick and Claremont, in Boscawen,
NH.
Sylvia Delano, Solomon’s mother, was a cousin of
Warren Delano, who was a partner of Russell & Company, a China
trading firm whose leaders made fortunes through the opium trade. Warren Delano was also the grandfather of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Another reason to believe that Solomon Walker was
the son of a Delano is that his wife’s cousin, Mathilda Stevens, married
the son of Mary Delano. Mary's dad, Abisha Delano, was also a first cousin of Warren Delano. Abisha and Mary were among the many Delanos who lived in Sullivan County, New Hampshire, where Claremont is located.[14] Banker and railroad executive, Francis R. Delano (1842 to 1892), attended Kimball Union Academy in Sullivan County.
The clearest indication that Solomon Walker was a
Delano is that one of his sons was treated very generously by Warren
Delano and his colleagues. When their son, James Monroe Walker, was a boy, Solomon and Charity moved from Claremont to Oakland County, Michigan. James went to school at Oberlin College initially, before moving to the University of Michigan to study law. After that, James’ fortunes grew exponentially.
James Monroe Walker
Solomon Walker’s son, James Monroe Walker, was an
attorney who was President and Solicitor for the Chicago, Burlington
& Quincy (C,B&Q) Railroad, the Michigan Central Railroad, the
Wilmington Coal Company, the Kansas City Stockyards, and the Union
Stockyard and Transit Company.[15] James
M. Walker ran these businesses for the opium traders at Russell &
Company, who invested their money in these railroads and other major
infrastructure in the US during the mid-1800s.[16]
Russell & Company was started in 1818 by Samuel
Russell, cousin of the founder of the “secret society” called Skull
& Bones at Yale University, William Huntington Russell. Samuel had gotten his start through merchant companies like Whittlesley & Alsop of Boston, MA. The
Alsops were also major investors in the businesses run by James Monroe
Walker, and Russell & Company partner John N. Alsop Griswold was a
director of the C,B&Q as well as president of the Illinois Central
railroad. Many years later, in the 1960s, Washington Post
columnist Joe Alsop, a descendant of the Whittlesley & Alsop owners,
convinced President Johnson to create the Warren Commission, which was a
cover-up for the assassination of President Kennedy.[17]
In 1828, Russell & Company merged with another drug smuggling syndicate run by John Perkins Cushing.[18] Cushing brought in his cousins, Robert Bennet Forbes and John Murray Forbes. Robert Bennet Forbes was Senator John F. Kerry's great-grandfather. John
Murray Forbes attended school at Phillips Academy in Andover, the alma
mater of George H.W. Bush, and his sons Jeb and George W.
John Murray Forbes coordinated much of the US
investment of the Russell & Company partners, and he was the one who
hired James Monroe Walker.[19] Walker was first hired as Solicitor for the Michigan Central, and later as Solicitor and President of the C,B&Q. While
running these railroads, Walker worked with Nathaniel Thayer Jr, a
distant relative of George W. Bush, who was general counsel for the
C,B&Q and other Russell & Company businesses that Walker was
involved in. Walker worked closely with Sidney Bartlett as well, who was another legal representative for the C,B&Q.
At the same time, Bartlett and Thayer were legal
representatives for the railroads owned by Edward H. Harriman, including
the Union Pacific.[20] Harriman was a director of the Illinois Central, along with Russell & Co partner John N. Alsop Griswold. Harriman
is well known for being the father of William Averell Harriman and
Roland Harriman, two Skull & Bones members who founded the Brown
Brothers Harriman Co., whose employees included George Herbert Walker
and his son-in-law, Prescott Bush. Eugene Delano and his son, Moreau Delano, were partners in Brown Brothers Harriman as well.
The fortunes that Russell & Company invested in
US railroads and other infrastructure were the spoils from The Opium
Wars, among the most inhumane and socially devastating events in human
history. These wars, which occurred between 1839 and 1858,
were brought upon the Chinese people by the British government acting
on behalf of merchants like Russell & Company, who intended to defy
the Chinese government’s ban on opium trading. It was
Russell & Company’s business partner, William Jardine of Jardine
Matheson, who successfully persuaded the British Foreign Minister, Lord
Palmerston, to wage war on China.[21]
As a result of these devastating
attacks, the British merchants were able to force Turkish opium upon
China, thereby making enormous fortunes paid in silver. By 1906, after several generations of this forced drug trade, opium victims in China were estimated to number 100 million.[22]
China ceded Hong Kong to the British in 1842 as part of an early defeat. Jardine
Matheson was one of the opium trading companies that survived for much
longer in Hong Kong, being taken over by Chinese tycoon Li Ka-shing in
1980. Li Ka-shing later invested in firms owned by Winston
Partners, and has also employed Winston Partners cofounder Marvin
Bush's brother, Neil Bush, as a consultant.[23]
As opium traders before, during and after the Opium
Wars, Russell & Company were agents of merchant banks like Baring
Brothers and N.M. Rothschild.[24],[25] Initially,
the merchant banks funded the purchase of the opium, and Russell &
Company sailed to make the purchase and subsequently smuggled the drugs
into China, making tremendous fees for their work as operatives in the
drug trade. The company’s biggest client, Baring Brothers,
was agent for the US government between 1843 and 1871, and actually
sold the Louisiana Purchase to the US. Baring Brothers was
later agent for the British government and had a close relationship
with the British monarchy from 1891 to 1995.
The names of the partners of Russell & Company are well known in the history of US power circles. Partner Abiel Abbot Low fathered a mayor of New York City, Seth Low, who was also president of Columbia University. The
descendents of the Forbes brothers, Robert Bennet and John Murray, are
US powerbrokers to this day, and include the owners of Forbes magazine
as well as Senator John Forbes Kerry. The Delanos fathered many powerful people including President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
President Roosevelt’s grandfather, Warren Delano,
was the head of Russell & Company from 1840 to 1842, after which
time Russell Sturgis, another relative of John Perkins Cushing, became a
partner. Sturgis later became the head of Baring Brothers. Warren's
son, Frederic Adrian Delano, eventually took James Monroe Walker’s
position as president of the C,B&Q, and was there for twenty years. Frederic was also the first vice-chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank.
It was at the time that James Monroe Walker was
president of the C,B&Q, in the 1870s, that these drug dealing
investors began to create a vast railroad network that controlled the
transport of goods throughout the United States. Controlling the delivery of goods was the same as controlling the price of goods. Additional
power over the country was gained through control of the stockyards
that fed the masses, and the coal that drove the trains and heated
homes. James Monroe Walker was right in the middle of this
massive power grab, and served as a trusted operative for these
merchant investors from the east.[26]
James Monroe Walker married Elia A. Marsh, of Kalamazoo, Michigan. Elia came from an old New England family as well, as a child of Ransoms and Fletchers and Meigs. Her cousin Betsey Ransom married Claghorn Robinson, who is a member of the Lathrop side of the Bush family. Elia’s brother, Wells Ransom Marsh, was a member of the secret society called Alpha Delta Phi.[27], [28]
James and Elia had a son named James Ransom Walker, and a daughter named Mary Louise Walker. Mary died shortly after her marriage to John Wellborn Root, a noted architect of the time. Root’s
uncle was Elihu Root, attorney for prominent Skull & Bones member
William Collins Whitney, and early employer of Bonesman Henry Stimson,
who later became Secretary of War (twice) and Secretary of State.
The first child born to James and Elia was the
original Wirt Dexter Walker, named for James’ law partner Wirt Dexter,
the grandson of US Secretary of the Treasury, Samuel Dexter. Since the original Wirt Dexter Walker was not the “first”, in this article we will call him Wirt Zero.
Wirt Zero
It’s fair to say that Wirt Zero’s family was well-connected. That’s a good reason why Wirt went to Yale and was a member of the University’s second oldest secret society, Scroll & Key. Other
notable Scroll & Key members have included the famous statesman
Dean Acheson, who in 1969, as one of his final acts, passed along his
sophisticated knowledge of Washington and his expertise on American
policy to Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle.[29] Scroll
& Key members also included a number of famous CIA agents and the
founder of WTC impact zone tenant Marsh & McLennan, Donald R.
McLennan. President Bush’s relative, Joseph Walker Wear, was Scroll & Key in 1899.
Moreover, Wirt Zero was a member of the Yale
fraternity called Delta Kappa Epsilon (DeKEs), like George W. Bush,
George H.W. Bush, Dan Quayle, New York Governor George Pataki, and
former President Gerald Ford (of the Michigan Omicron chapter). When
George W. Bush was president of the DeKEs, he defended the fraternity's
practice of branding its pledges with a red-hot coat hanger.[30]
Delano family connections with Yale are strong. [31] Yale
graduates among the Delanos include Eugene Delano Jr., William Adams
Delano (Scroll & Key 1895), and Moreau Delano (Scroll & Key
1898).
When Wirt Zero was only 21 years old, and had just graduated from Yale, his father died. Young Wirt was made the executor of the estate and he suddenly became a very rich man. Wirt
Zero then attended the Union College of Law in Chicago (now
Northwestern), became a lawyer in 1883, and joined his father’s
partner’s law firm. He worked in Chicago and belonged to the Union League Club, and the Chicago Club. Wirt
appears to have most enjoyed traveling to the area from where his
mother’s family hailed, the Berkshires in western Massachusetts, and he
built an estate there called Blythewood Farms.
Wirt began having trouble with his eyesight around 1887. During
this time, he and his brother James Ransom Walker had the distinction
of having financed the first steel-framed “skyscraper” in history, the
14-story Tacoma Building in Chicago. But by 1890, Wirt was totally blind and had to abandon much of his work. He then spent a number of years traveling to specialists in the east and in Europe. [32]
Despite being blind, Wirt married Marie Winston in December, 1894. Marie was the daughter of General Frederick Winston, an attorney and founder of the Chicago law firm Winston and Strawn. Coincidentally,
this law firm is now run by 9/11 Commission member James R. Thompson,
and, in a further coincidence Winston & Strawn represented
Underwriters Laboratories in its recent legal battle with the author of
this article. [33]
Two of Wirt Zero’s brothers-in-law were members of Yale’s Skull & Bones society. Both Dudley Winston and Frederick Seymour Winston were Bonesman. Dudley Winston became a banker and also served as secretary to his father when his father was US Minister to Persia. Frederick
Seymour Winston and his father were both lawyers for the C,B&Q
railroad and, along with Marie, they are listed as American descendants
of the “Magna Charta Barons.”[34]
Wirt Zero died at New York City’s Waldorf Astoria Hotel on April 24, 1899, at the age of 39. He was preparing for another trip to Europe when he contracted a sudden pneumonia while traveling from Chicago to New York.
Wirt Zero’s will, drawn up at the time of his marriage in 1894, became something of a national story. That’s
partly because Wirt was totally blind as of 1890 and, more importantly,
because his fortune was to be distributed based on Marie’s willingness
to remain unmarried after his death. If she chose to marry
again, the will said that the majority of Wirt’s estate, minus a small
annual allowance for Marie, would go to the creation of an art
foundation in Chicago. Marie did decide to remarry a few
years later, after newspaper stories decried her financial loss, and the
Wirt Walker Gallery was born.[35]
Wirt Zero fathered a child that was never again
mentioned other than in early discussions over his controversial will
and testament.[36] The child was almost certainly Wirt Dexter Walker I (Wirt One), and we must assume the mother was Marie Winston Walker.
The commonly accepted history, however, suggests that Wirt One was the son of Wirt Zero’s brother, James Ransom Walker. Apart
from the never-again-mentioned child of Wirt Zero, there are several
other reasons to believe that Wirt One was the son of Wirt Zero. First, in family documents created four years after his birth, Wirt One was not listed as one of the sons of James and Louise.[37] Secondly,
the other sons of James and Louise were given the middle name “Meeker”
but Wirt One was named precisely after James’ brother, Wirt Dexter
Walker. Additionally, Wirt One was born eleven days
before the sudden and unexpected death of Wirt Zero, and it seems
unlikely that James would give his son the exact name of his living
brother.
Wirt One
In any case, Wirt Dexter Walker I (Wirt One) was
born on April 13, 1899, eleven days before the sudden and unexpected
death of Wirt Zero. Born into a very affluent, “high
society” environment that included regular travels between Chicago and
the Berkshires, he was raised by Wirt Zero’s brother, James Ransom
Walker, and his wife Louise (Meeker) Walker. Wirt One was a
boy tennis champion in the Berkshires and also played baseball with
James and Louise’s other sons, James Meeker Walker and Arthur Meeker
Walker.
Like his brothers (or cousins), Wirt One attended Williams College.[38] Graduates
of Williams College have included some of the most prominent CIA
employees in history, including Director of the CIA, Richard Helms
(1935), who later specifically recruited Williams graduates for the
agency.[39] Another famous CIA veteran from Williams was former Bush advisor and Iran-Contra conspirator Donald Gregg (1951). CIA
legend Russell Jack Smith taught at Williams until the attack on Pearl
Harbor, after which he joined the Office of Strategic Services (OSS),
and began a lengthy career in intelligence.
Williams College connections to the Bush family
include Lucy Woodruff Walker, daughter of Williams graduate and trustee,
William Perrin Walker. Lucy was the wife of Judge David
Davis, who was the cousin and benefactor of David Davis Walker, George
H.W. Bush’s great-grandfather. Another Williams College
alumnus, and close associate of George H.W. Bush, is Carlyle Group
advisor and former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission
(from 1993 to 2001), Arthur Levitt.
Brown Brothers Harriman executive, Eugene Delano, graduated from Williams College in 1866. Delano was also a trustee of Williams College, for twenty-five years, and died two years after Wirt One entered the college.
Wirt One left Williams College to join the Army in the summer of 1918, and was located temporarily at Camp Custer. He served in “Base 14” as a private and returned in April 1919.[40] It’s
not clear if he ever returned to graduate from Williams, but soon after
his return he married Susan Cramer Stephenson, whose guardian was her
uncle Ambrose Cramer of Lake Forest, IL.[41] Susan and Wirt lived for the first two years of their marriage in Buffalo, New York and then moved back to Chicago permanently. Susan and Wirt had one son together, Wirt Dexter Walker II, before Susan sued for divorce in 1924 on grounds of “cruelty.”
In 1929, Wirt One married again, this time to Gertrude Reich. While married to Wirt, Gertrude was sued for stealing the affections of another woman’s husband, in a well-publicized scandal. Wirt later sued Gertrude too, for divorce, based on the claim that she deserted him.[42]
Wirt married a third time, in 1937, to Mildred Walker. They were married for twelve years until Mildred sued for divorce, accusing Wirt of cruelty again, and also of nonsupport.[43] At the time, Mildred claimed that Wirt had an income of over $100,000 per year in 1949.[44]
Aside from the ladies, Wirt One’s endeavors
included working for the Arcady Farms Milling company, at first as an
employee of his uncle, Arthur Meeker, and eventually as president and
chairman of the company. Arcady Farms Milling was a manufacturer of feedstock for turkeys and other livestock.
In 1943, Wirt One was attacked by six men after a dinner party attended by political leaders. The
motive for the attack was unclear and Wirt was taken to the hospital
with a broken nose, a fractured jaw, and internal injuries. No clues to the identity of the attackers were found.[45]
Like his father, Wirt One was a member of the
Chicago Club which was, since its inception in 1869, a highly selective
and secretive group of Chicago powerbrokers. In fact, the Chicago Tribune dubbed it the “center of power in Chicago.”[46] Wirt
One appears to simply have been a lucky, rich kid amongst a membership
list that at one time or another included the likes of Marshall Field,
George Pullman and Abraham Lincoln. But perhaps there was more to Wirt than we know.
Immediately after his divorce from Mildred, in April 1949, Wirt One married Rosalie Cohen, “former model and secretary.”[47] Rosalie was twenty years younger than Wirt.
Wirt One died August 8, 1953, the week of the CIA’s famous coup in Iran. His obituary lists private services and no report of how he died.
Wirt Two
Wirt Dexter Walker II (Wirt Two) was born to Wirt
One and his first wife, Susan Cramer Stephenson during the two years
that they lived in Buffalo.
Like his father, Wirt Two went to Williams College. He graduated and then immediately joined the Army Air Corps during World War II and became a pilot.[48] Just before leaving for duty in 1942, Wirt Two married Margaret Elizabeth Ross, of North Adams, MA.[49] They eventually had three children: Wirt Dexter Walker III (Wirt Three), Wendy Margaret Walker, and William Ross Walker. Both Wendy and William, along with their brother Wirt Three, were shareholders in Stratesec.[50]
In 1954, Wirt Two was in a legal battle with three of his father’s four wives, over his father’s substantial estate.[51] His
daughter Wendy later remarked on Wirt One’s exploits, suggesting that
her grandfather’s work at Arcady Farms was only one of several of his “ventures.”[52]
Wirt Two became a career officer in the Army Air Corps and then the US Air Force, serving until 1962. He flew combat missions with the Eighth Air Force while stationed in England during the war, and was later stationed in Germany. After the war he was assigned to “various government agencies involved in reconnaissance intelligence.”[53] The
Lockheed-made U2 reconnaissance aircraft was assigned to the Eighth Air
Force, a part of Strategic Air Command, where U2 operations started in
1956 and involved flights over the Soviet Union and the Middle East.[54] In
May 1960, while Wirt Two was working on reconnaissance intelligence, an
American U2 was shot down by the Soviets, initiating a worldwide
controversy over espionage.
Wirt Two is also listed as an ex-employee of the
National Photographic Interpretation Center (NPIC), an agency of the CIA
that analyzed aerial spy photographs.[55] The significance of the NPIC to major intelligence activities during the twentieth century cannot be overstated. NPIC was the agency that was responsible for the intelligence that originated the Cuban missile crisis.[56] NPIC
was also central to the analysis of the photographic evidence related
to the Kennedy assassination, including the Zapruder film. Whether or not Wirt Two participated in these historic activities is not publicly known.
In his obituary, Wirt Two is listed as having been
an employee of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), for which it is
said he worked until 1977. He died of leukemia in 1997.
Wirt Three
Wirt Three lives in McLean, Virginia, home of the CIA. He graduated from Lafayette College in 1968 and in 1971 he married Sally Gregg White, a Washington DC debutante. Sally
is a descendant of architectural ironwork magnate George White, whose
son “Doc” White was a World Series winning pitcher for the Chicago White
Sox. “Doc” was actually a dentist but his brother,
Charles Stanley White, was a famous Washington DC surgeon and
grandfather to Sally. Sally’s father, Charles White Stanley Jr, was a surgeon too and, like Wirt Two, he was an officer in the Army Air Corps. [57]
Wirt was fortunate to land a position, right out of college, as a broker for an “investment” firm called Glore Forgan.[58] Originally
a company called Field Glore, financed by Marshall Field III, Glore
Forgan was renamed in 1937 for its new partner, James “Russ” Forgan. Russ
was one of the most influential men in the history of US intelligence,
having led the European division of the CIA’s predecessor organization,
the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). In the OSS, Forgan focused on infiltrating the German intelligence apparatus with the help of William J. Casey. Casey later became SEC chairman under Nixon and the director of CIA under Reagan. Before going back to work in the “investment” business, Forgan helped to write the documents that created the CIA.
While Wirt Three worked there, William Casey was House Counsel for Glore Forgan. It was at this time that the firm was at the center of a near collapse of Wall Street. In
1970, it began to be clear that Glore Forgan had somehow sold many
millions of dollars more in securities than what its customers thought
they owned. As a result, the company was expected to fail
and, due to a cascading effect, its failure was projected to take down
dozens of other firms causing a panic and huge losses on Wall Street. [59] These
projections compelled President Nixon to ask Ross Perot, through
Treasury Secretary John Connally, to intervene and save Glore Forgan. Perot
suffered dramatic losses in an attempt to save the company (the only
business loss of his career) and Glore Forgan went bankrupt anyway. The US government created the Securities Investor Protection Corp (SIPC) in response.[60]
A few years later, Wirt Three went from being a
broker at Glore Forgan to running a series of other companies that went
bankrupt. Yet somehow, Wirt Three always had cash flow. That could have been due to the fact that, by 1982, Wirt Three was a director of the Kuwaiti-American Company (or Kuwam).
Stratesec started off in 1987 as Burns & Roe Securacom, founded by Nelson Rockefeller assistant, Sebastian Cassetta. The company changed its name to Securacom when it was taken over by Kuwam in 1992, at which time Wirt Three became CEO. When
Wirt Three was sued by the president of an existing company with an
identical name, Wirt became abusive and told the other businessman that
he “would bury him financially and take everything he had “ by “filing a barrage of frivolous arguments...in multiple jurisdictions."[61] Wirt
lost the case and had to change his company’s name to Stratesec. While
this incident suggested that Wirt Three was abusive, it also indicated
that he had the kind of deep pockets that allowed for frivolous
lawsuits.
Kuwam also owned two companies called Commander
Aircraft and Aviation General, both of which had Wirt Three as CEO, and
both of which went bankrupt shortly after 9/11.
As CEO of Stratesec, Wirt Three did business with some shady characters. For
example, Stratesec owed money to a company called Bankest Capital,
which appeared to be a money-laundering operation or similar fraud. Wirt
Three transferred seven million dollars in shares of his Stratesec
stock to Bankest as a way to reduce that debt ($1.75 MM).[62] Bankest
‘s owners, brothers Eduardo and Hector Orlansky, were later convicted
of conspiracy and bank fraud when $185 million went missing due to "hug
overadvances."[63] Apparently
$2 billion was "flowed through the Orlansky's two businesses from 1998
to 2003 to create the appearance they were healthy and growing."[64]
A company called Hanifen Imhoff was the underwriter for Wirt’s company, Commander Aircraft.[65] This
gives further evidence that the companies Wirt Three was running were
not only bound for bankruptcy, but were probably CIA fronts all along. Hanifen Imhoff was "nailed for Correspondent's fraud" in December 2000.[66] Hanifen
Imhoff also happens to be a division of Stifel Nicolaus & Company,
whose long term chairman was George W. Bush’s first cousin, Yale Skull
& Bones member George Herbert Walker III.[67],[68]
In any case, Wirt Three has a tendency to show up when airplanes crash into tall buildings. The
only other such occurrence since 9/11 led to Wirt Three being
interviewed because the plane that crashed was related to his company,
Aviation General. [69]
Conclusion
It appears that Wirt Three manages CIA front companies and that Stratesec was one of them. There
are many ways to see this, including Wirt’s shady business dealings and
his tendency to run companies into bankruptcy while still maintaining
cash flow. Wirt is, at a minimum, a child of the CIA (and
the DIA), but he also worked with William Casey for Russ Forgan’s
company, making him an associate of some of the most influential deep
state operatives of the last sixty years.
Wirt’s family has been connected to drug money and
Yale’s secret societies for over 150 years, and these connections
include many links to the Bush family. Of course, George
H.W. Bush was a CIA director and other Bush family members were
operatives, like Louis Walker (Skull & Bones 1936). Another institution with many links to prominent CIA veterans is William College, where two of the Wirts went to school.
Wirt Three is also a distant relative of the Bush
family, through the intermarriage of Ransom and Robinson family members
and through the Mayflower passenger Francis Cooke, who is an ancestor of
both the Delanos and the Bush clan. Such distant
relations are not of importance to most people today, although they are
quite important for the Bush family as indicated by how that family
chooses its relationships, including its business partners. For example, George H.W. Bush and his wife Barbara are distant cousins along four different lines.
Marvin Bush is but one of several Bush family links
to Stratesec, in that several of Stratesec’s directors and employees
came from Bush-connected companies, and at least one of Wirt Three’s
ventures was underwritten by George Herbert Walker III’s company. Add to this the fact that the COO of Stratesec , Barry McDaniel, came from a subsidiary of The Carlyle Group that conducted “black projects,” and Stratesec seems worthy of a detailed investigation.
After 9/11, the Securities and Exchange Commission
(SEC) recommended that Stratesec be investigated for insider trading
related to the crimes of that day. Oddly enough, the FBI
and SEC never followed through with the investigation, claiming it was
unnecessary because the officers of Stratesec had no “ties to terrorism
or other negative information.” [70] That
assessment does not appear to be valid for many reasons, including that
The Carlyle Group was financed in part by Osama bin Laden’s family and
that Stratesec director James Abrahamson was the business partner of
Mansoor Ijaz, who claimed on several occasions to be able to contact
Osama bin Laden.[71]
Maybe the investigation didn’t happen because no
one wanted to embarrass the President, who was busy making tremendous
political and personal profit from 9/11, and whose family was deeply
connected to The Carlyle Group, and whose brother was a Stratesec
director. But it’s likely that Stratesec was not
investigated simply because it would have resulted in discoveries that
no one in a position of power wanted to make.
Ultimately though, we know that Stratesec was a
security contractor for several of the facilities that were compromised
on 9/11, including the WTC buildings, Dulles airport where Flight 77
took off, and also United Airlines which owned two of the ill-fated
planes. We also know that the CEO of Stratesec came from a
background of deep-state connected, opium-funded wealth, and that the
many Wirt Dexter Walkers were thereafter steeped in a culture of power
and secrecy that has ruled the United States for many years.
[1] Peter Dale Scott, in The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America (University of California Press, 2007) defines
the “deep state” as the covert part of government that responds to
wealthy private influences as those influences shape government policy
outside of normal democratic processes.
[2] Margie Burns, Bush-Linked Company Handled Security for the WTC, Dulles and United, Prince George's Journal (Maryland), February 4, 2003, http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0204-06.htm
[3] Super-thermites are known as “nanothermites”. See W.C. Danen et al, "Los Alamos Nanoenergetic Metastable Intermolecular Composite (Super Thermite) Program," 221st ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA, April 2001.
[4] Niels H. Harrit, et al, Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe, The Open Chemical Physics Journal, Volume 2, http://www.bentham-open.org/pages/content.php?TOCPJ/2009/00000002/00000001/7TOCPJ.SGM
[5] Dan Briody, The Iron Triangle: Inside the Secret World of The Carlyle Group, Wiley publishers, 2003, p35
[6] History Commons, Complete 911 Timeline, Bin Laden Family, http://www.historycommons.org/timeline.jsp?financing_of_al-qaeda:_a_more_detailed_look=binladenFamily&timeline=complete_911_timeline
[7] Peter Dale Scott, 9/11, JFK, and War: Recurring Patterns in America’s Deep Events, Journal of 9/11 Studies, http://www.journalof911studies.com/volume/2007/ProfScottJFK,911,andWar.pdf
[8] STRATESEC Incorporated Appoints Dr. Amos Lu To Head Information/Network Security Business, Business Wire, March 29, 2000, http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2000_March_29/ai_60865231/
[9] Otis Frederick Reed Waite, The early history of Claremont, New Hampshire: A paper read before the New Hampshire Historical Society, September 29, 1891
[10] New York Times, Mrs. Paran Stevens Dead, April 4, 1895
[11] The Washington Herald, Genealogical Department, December 23, 1906, http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045433/1906-12-23/ed-1/seq-7/;words=HERALD+Washington
[12] DAWSON-L Archives, Rootsweb, Dawson DNA testing, October 23, 2004, http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/th/read/DAWSON/2004-10/1098549985
[13] Dave Utzinger's Database, Entry for Solomon Walker (2nd of three), http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=michelotti&id=I504940
[14] Genealogy Trails History Group, DELANO FAMILY of Sullivan County, NH, http://genealogytrails.com/newham/sullivan/bios_delano.html
[15] Josiah Seymour Currey, Chicago: its history and its builders, a century of marvelous growth, Volume 5, The S,J, Clarke Publishing Company, Chicago, 1912
[16] Ed. By Ernest R. May and John King Fairbank, America's China trade in historical perspective: the Chinese and American Performance, President and Fellows of Harvard College, 1986
[17] Mary Ferrell Foundation, LBJ Phone Calls, http://www.maryferrell.org/wiki/index.php/LBJ_Phone_Calls
[18] William P. Litynski, An Illustrated History of The China Trade & The Opium Wars
[19] John N. Ingham, Biographical Dictionary of American Business Leaders, Greenwood Press, 1983
[20] New York Times, Funeral of Sidney Bartlett, March 9, 1889
[21] Wikipedia page for William Jardine, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jardine_(1784%E2%80%931843)
[22] New York Times, China Decrees death to the Use of Opium, December 30, 1906
[23] National Corruption Index webpage for Li Ka-Shing, http://www.nationalcorruptionindex.org/pages/profile.php?profile_id=16
[24] William C. Hunter, The 'fan kwae' at Canton before treaty days, 1825-1844, Kegan Paul, Trench & Co, 1882
[25] Robert B. Forbes's autobiography, Personal Reminiscences(1882), http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg35515.html
[26] Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company, Record book of trust mortgages and agreements; also, leases, conveyances, contracts, agreements, and articles of consolidation, A. Mudge & son, printers, 1882
[27] The Peninsular Chapter History, Peninsular Chapter of Alpha Delta Phi, http://peninsular.alphadeltaphi.org/Default.aspx?tabid=952
[28] Wikipedia page for Alpha Delta Phi, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Delta_Phi
[29] James Mann, Rise of the Vulcans, Viking Penguin, 2004, p 31
[30] Yale Daily News, reproduced at DailyKos, Dec 10, 2005, http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/12/10/233039/84
[31] Yale University. Class of 1908, History of the class of 1908, Yale College, Volume 1
[32] Chicago Daily Tribune, Wirt D. Walker’s Death, April 26, 1899
[33] Website for Winston & Strawn, page for James R. Thompson, Partner and Senior Chairman, http://www.winston.com/index.cfm?contentid=24&itemid=10873
[34] Charles H. Browning, The Magna Charta Barons and Their American Descendants, Genealogical Publishing Co. Baltimore, 1969
[35] Bevier-Elting Family Association, The $15,000 Misunderstanding, http://www.b-efa.org/elting/misunderstanding.htm
[36] Chicago Daily Tribune, To Found Art Gallery: Will of Wirt Dexter Walker Plans a Public Collection, June 13, 1899
[37] Wyllys Cadwell Ransom, Historical outline of the Ransom family of America, The Richmond & Backus Company, 1903
[38] Williams College, Catalogue 1917-1918, Williamstown, MA
[39] Jack Davis, Improving Intelligence Analysis at CIA: Dick Heuer's Contribution to Intelligence Analysis, Central Intelligence Agancy, https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/psychology-of-intelligence-analysis/art3.html
[40] Chicago Daily Tribune, Many Chicagoans Who Served In Base 14 Return, April 21, 1919
[41] Chicago Daily Tribune, Marriage Announcement 1, May 56, 1918
[42] Chicago Daily Tribune, Wirt D. Walker Sues to Divorce Gertrude Reich, March 19, 1935
[43] Chicago Daily Tribune, Wife Sues W.D. Walker, Miller, For Separation, February 18, 1949
[44] Chicago Daily Tribune, Asks $3,500 a Month Temporary Alimony from Milling Head, February 24, 1949
[45] Chicago Daily Tribune, Firm President Slugged By Six At Club’s Door, December 30, 1943
[46] Wikipedia page for The Chicago Club, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Club
[47] Chicago Daily Tribune, Wirt D. Walker, Head of Milling Company, Married Fourth Time, April 9, 1949
[48] Chicago Daily Tribune, 89 Illinois Men Awarded Wings As Army Pilots, July 4, 1942
[49] Chicago Daily Tribune, Lieut. Wirt D. Walker Jr. Weds Eastern Girl Today, July 4, 1942
[50] Securities and Exchange Commission, FORM S-3 filing for Stratesec Incorporated, June 12, 2000, http://yahoo.brand.edgar-online.com/EFX_dll/EDGARpro.dll?FetchFilingHTML1?ID=1091163&SessionID=Md2THqRGPhOZT77
[51] Chicago Daily Tribune, Flyer’s Share of Fortune to Hinge on Court, May 17, 1954
[52] Wendy Walker, Re: Wirt Dexter of Chicago History Fame, GenForum presented by Genelogy.com, October 9, 2001, http://genforum.genealogy.com/dexter/messages/444.html
[53] The Washington Post, obituary for WIRT D. WALKER - Intelligence Analyst, June 15, 1997
[54] The Citizen’s Compendium, U-2 Dragon Lady, http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/U-2_Dragon_Lady
[55] NPIC Reunions Database, List of Deceased NPIC Employees, http://npicreunions.blogspot.com/
[56] Wikipedia page for Arthur C. Lundahl, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Lundahl
[57] The Washington Post, Times Herald, Dr. C.S. White Jr., 48, Surgeon, Chief of Staff, April 13, 1964
[58] The Washington Post, Times Herald, White-Walker wedding announcement, April 29, 1971
[59] Alec Benn, The Unseen Wall Street, of 1969 to 1975: And Its Significance for Today, Quorum Books, 2000
[60] Donald Morrison, Ambush on Wall Street, Texas Monthly, April 1974
[61]
Securacomm Consulting Inc. v. Securacom Incorporated, United States
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, January 20, 1999, 49 U.S.P.Q.2d
1444; 166 F.3d 182, http://altlaw.org/v1/cases/1099498
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[63] Reuters, Former exec to pay $165 million in fraud case, Aug 28, 2007, http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2829063820070828
[64] Peter Zalewski, The Accounting: Indictments, receiver’s report on Bankest Capital present picture of a $170 million mystery, Daily Business Review, November 22, 2004, http://lbfmiami.com/pdfs/press_accounting_indictments.pdf
[65] SEC News Digest, Issue 93-47, March 12, 1993, http://www.sec.gov/news/digest/1993/dig031293.pdf
[66] Dan Jamieson, Hanifen Imhoff/Fiserv Nailed for Correspondent's Fraud, Registered Rep., Dec 1, 2000, http://registeredrep.com/mag/finance_hanifen_imhofffiserv_nailed/
[67] St. Louis Business Journal, Webster U. names business school for Bert Walker, April 22, 2010, http://stlouis.bizjournals.com/stlouis/stories/2010/04/19/daily52.html
[68] Bloomberg Businessweek, Stifel Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated Hanifen Imhoff Division, http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=20865
[69] UK Mail Online, Plane crashes into Milan tower, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-110475/Plane-crashes-Milan-tower.html
[70] FBI Memorandum released by 9/11 Commission, “FBI Briefing on Trading”, Prepared by: Doug Greenburg, 8/18/03, http://media.nara.gov/9-11/MFR/t-0148-911MFR-00269.pdf
[71] Sourcewatch webpage for Mansoor Ijaz/Sudan, http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mansoor_Ijaz/Sudan
Walker, the son of a CIA and DIA agent, was managing director for the Kuwait-American Corporation (KuwAm). This led to his management of Stratesec as well as other KuwAm subsidiaries that have surprising connections to 9/11. Stratesec had contracts to provide security services not only for the World Trade Center (WTC), but also for United Airlines, which owned two of the planes hijacked on 9/11, and Dulles Airport, where American Airlines Flight 77 took off that day.
Walker’s employee Barry McDaniel, the Chief Operating Officer of Stratesec, went from providing security at the WTC to starting a business with one of Dick Cheney’s closest colleagues. The fact that McDaniel is now working with an old partner of Cheney, who as vice president on 9/11 oversaw the failure of the nation’s defenses, raises many interesting questions.
The same kinds of questions can be asked about Walker’s current coworkers. Today, Walker runs Ecohawk Tech Services, an “applied technology company.” The company shares the same address in Leesburg, Virginia as Walker’s other company, Vortex Asset Enhancement. And as with the many other firms registered by Walker, it’s not really clear what the company actually does.
The only other director of Ecohawk Tech is David W. Hearding, a former military officer. Like other associates of Walker and McDaniel, Hearding has a top secret/SCI security clearance, sometimes called “above top secret.” Why Walker and McDaniel, presumably simple businessmen, are associated with so many secretive individuals can only be guessed.
Until August 2001, Hearding served as the liaison between the commander of U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM) and the Joint Staff Office of the Secretary of Defense. Just weeks after Hearding left for a job at SRS Technologies, his STRATCOM office was in the midst of coordinating coincidental military exercises, President Bush’s flight on 9/11, and dispatches of the “doomsday plane.” It appears that, due to the exercises, STRATCOM experienced communications problems and confusion that hindered the air defenses.
EcoHawk is a subsidiary of Walker’s company Eigerhawk. At Eigerhawk, Walker works with Peter H. B. Lejeune, who has been called an expert on terrorism. Lejeune lectures on terrorism and consequence management at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Emergency Management Institute.
In the years before and after 9/11, Lejeune contributed to several books on terrorism and was considered to be among the nation’s foremost experts. One of his books included a chapter from George Tenet, who was director of the CIA on 9/11. Another contributor to the same book, which had a photo of the smoking WTC towers on the cover, was Michael Sheehan, National Security Council advisor to George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Lejeune’s chapter in the book quoted 9/11 suspect Brian Michael Jenkins as saying, “Terrorists want a lot of witnesses, not a lot of dead.” Jenkins, who designed the WTC security system that Stratesec implemented, is also known to have a history with Miles Kara, who produced the ever-changing stories about the air defense failures on 9/11.
Another surprising thing about Walker’s new partner Lejeune is that he was the Director of Emergency Planning and Response for New York City. From 1978 to 1982, Lejeune ran the City’s emergency response office that later evolved into the Office of Emergency Management under 9/11 suspect Rudy Giuliani. Of course, Lejeune holds top-secret security clearances too so it’s unlikely that he can say much about it.
Lejeune has worked with many of the military contractors that benefited from 9/11. He has also worked directly with the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, and U.S. intelligence communities. Additionally, he is a Fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies. Coincidentally, one of Lejeune’s fellow Fellows there, former SEAL Ken Hamilton, “served as the Air Defense Officer reporting to Commander, U.S. Second Fleet in response to the terrorist attacks of 9/11.”
Walker and Lejeune have other coworkers at Eigerhawk but it’s difficult to find out much about them. It’s almost as if they were trying to keep a low profile. For example, Aharon Zer, an Israeli financier, is said to have “managed the United States investment activities for an international private business, investment, and trading company.” That seems intentionally vague and therefore details about Zer and his past should draw the attention of 9/11 researchers.
The directors of WTC security companies were an interesting bunch, to be sure. People may remember that Terry McAuliffe, current governor of Virginia, was a director for a WTC security company. However, considering Stratesec’s role “up to the day the buildings fell down,” as McDaniel attested, its leaders and their colleagues are of most interest. Since Walker’s new business partners Hearding and Lejeune have strong links to organizations that were impacted on 9/11, as well as top-secret security clearances, investigators should seek more information about them. If another major terrorist attack occurs, it should not be surprising to find many of the same people in the vicinity of the crime.
Stratesec’s Walker and His Top Secret Business Partners
Recently it was noticed that Wirt Walker, a 9/11-insider trading suspect who ran security for several of the impacted facilities, now works with men who were, prior to 9/11, key players in national defense and terrorism response. Given the role that Stratesec played and the relationships between suspects already revealed, this seems more than coincidental. Moreover, these men have top-secret clearances, which further suggests that Walker is a covert operative.Walker, the son of a CIA and DIA agent, was managing director for the Kuwait-American Corporation (KuwAm). This led to his management of Stratesec as well as other KuwAm subsidiaries that have surprising connections to 9/11. Stratesec had contracts to provide security services not only for the World Trade Center (WTC), but also for United Airlines, which owned two of the planes hijacked on 9/11, and Dulles Airport, where American Airlines Flight 77 took off that day.
Walker’s employee Barry McDaniel, the Chief Operating Officer of Stratesec, went from providing security at the WTC to starting a business with one of Dick Cheney’s closest colleagues. The fact that McDaniel is now working with an old partner of Cheney, who as vice president on 9/11 oversaw the failure of the nation’s defenses, raises many interesting questions.
The same kinds of questions can be asked about Walker’s current coworkers. Today, Walker runs Ecohawk Tech Services, an “applied technology company.” The company shares the same address in Leesburg, Virginia as Walker’s other company, Vortex Asset Enhancement. And as with the many other firms registered by Walker, it’s not really clear what the company actually does.
The only other director of Ecohawk Tech is David W. Hearding, a former military officer. Like other associates of Walker and McDaniel, Hearding has a top secret/SCI security clearance, sometimes called “above top secret.” Why Walker and McDaniel, presumably simple businessmen, are associated with so many secretive individuals can only be guessed.
Until August 2001, Hearding served as the liaison between the commander of U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM) and the Joint Staff Office of the Secretary of Defense. Just weeks after Hearding left for a job at SRS Technologies, his STRATCOM office was in the midst of coordinating coincidental military exercises, President Bush’s flight on 9/11, and dispatches of the “doomsday plane.” It appears that, due to the exercises, STRATCOM experienced communications problems and confusion that hindered the air defenses.
EcoHawk is a subsidiary of Walker’s company Eigerhawk. At Eigerhawk, Walker works with Peter H. B. Lejeune, who has been called an expert on terrorism. Lejeune lectures on terrorism and consequence management at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Emergency Management Institute.
In the years before and after 9/11, Lejeune contributed to several books on terrorism and was considered to be among the nation’s foremost experts. One of his books included a chapter from George Tenet, who was director of the CIA on 9/11. Another contributor to the same book, which had a photo of the smoking WTC towers on the cover, was Michael Sheehan, National Security Council advisor to George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Lejeune’s chapter in the book quoted 9/11 suspect Brian Michael Jenkins as saying, “Terrorists want a lot of witnesses, not a lot of dead.” Jenkins, who designed the WTC security system that Stratesec implemented, is also known to have a history with Miles Kara, who produced the ever-changing stories about the air defense failures on 9/11.
Another surprising thing about Walker’s new partner Lejeune is that he was the Director of Emergency Planning and Response for New York City. From 1978 to 1982, Lejeune ran the City’s emergency response office that later evolved into the Office of Emergency Management under 9/11 suspect Rudy Giuliani. Of course, Lejeune holds top-secret security clearances too so it’s unlikely that he can say much about it.
Lejeune has worked with many of the military contractors that benefited from 9/11. He has also worked directly with the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, and U.S. intelligence communities. Additionally, he is a Fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies. Coincidentally, one of Lejeune’s fellow Fellows there, former SEAL Ken Hamilton, “served as the Air Defense Officer reporting to Commander, U.S. Second Fleet in response to the terrorist attacks of 9/11.”
Walker and Lejeune have other coworkers at Eigerhawk but it’s difficult to find out much about them. It’s almost as if they were trying to keep a low profile. For example, Aharon Zer, an Israeli financier, is said to have “managed the United States investment activities for an international private business, investment, and trading company.” That seems intentionally vague and therefore details about Zer and his past should draw the attention of 9/11 researchers.
The directors of WTC security companies were an interesting bunch, to be sure. People may remember that Terry McAuliffe, current governor of Virginia, was a director for a WTC security company. However, considering Stratesec’s role “up to the day the buildings fell down,” as McDaniel attested, its leaders and their colleagues are of most interest. Since Walker’s new business partners Hearding and Lejeune have strong links to organizations that were impacted on 9/11, as well as top-secret security clearances, investigators should seek more information about them. If another major terrorist attack occurs, it should not be surprising to find many of the same people in the vicinity of the crime.
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