Angelic Visions

Don't Get Side Tracked

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Let me ask you people here a question: when you read a post here on this subreddit that gets your attention and 'makes it click' for you, what do you do after? Let's say two days after reading it, do you remember what it said? Do you have these lessons present (really present) everyday?

I'm telling you this because it seems people usually forget things and get caught up on other everyday stuff so they get sidetracked. Or maybe they go down a rabbit hole of techniques, videos, posts, etc.

You better understand that we've all been programmed in different ways that are not compatible with how the law works, so your default state is probably not the most optimal for conscious manifesting. The only way to reprogram your mind and change your life is consistency. So especially in the beginning is very important to have the key ideas present in your everyday life, at least until it's integrated in your mind and your way of life. Not trying to push an assumption here but I do believe you can't do this overnight, or after reading a post or watching a video, it needs consistent mind work. It needs trial and error too, it's a process, it's an art that can be mastered. It probably needs motivation too, the most amazing changes in people's lifes come after they get fed up with their lifes, or after some events that lit a fire in their hearts, if you really grasp the idea that you can get everything you've ever wanted with the law and you're still not motivated, then I don't know what to tell you. Wait a minute, I do know: discipline. Discipline conquers what motivation doesn't, but you still need to put in the consistent work. Once it's mastered and really integrated, you'll not be sidetracked anymore since it becomes your default state.

So my tip here is to get these key ideas, these posts that made it click for you, and save them. Make a list, a diagram, a drawing, recording, whatever you want, make it simple and keep it short, and read it, watch it, hear it everyday. As many times as necessary, so it gets into your skull, because you'll probably forget it otherwise. Hell I even have a small tattoo that says I AM on my wrist, and I see it everyday. Do it until you no longer need reminders because it's part of you.

So to end this post I'll list some of those key ideas that I have saved in my own journey, feel free to add some of your own if you like:

• It's all about you and your mind, 3D is just an output of your mental state.
• Every thing or person that is relevant to you (especially if you put them on a pedestal) shows you something about yourself, use them to be conscious and realize what you need to work on.
• Circumstances don't matter since they are not set in stone, they change as you change.
• Don't focus on getting things, focus on giving yourself the wish fulfilled.
• Creation is finished, you don't have to force anything, you can't lose anything, just connect to the reality where you already have it.
• You can have bad days or low moments, don't repress them, but observe them from a distance and let them pass, they always pass if you let them.
• You don't need permission to live your best life and your wish fulfilled, forgive and forget to be free. A God is boundless.
• People will act the way you expect them to (EIYPO), not the way you like to, unless it becomes an expectation, you can't fool yourself with this one.

The Volkswagen Spy: American's cold war story about espionage

      In 1961, Marvin Makinen was a chemistry student at Free University in West Berlin, Germany. He pulled up to the border crossing between West and East Berlin and told them, “I am about to begin a weeks-long road trip through the U.S.S.R.” (Chapple, 2021) was in the Ukraine taking a photo of what the Soviets determined was a military object. So, he was arrested at Kyiv.

 Photo one

   Before he stopped at the border, he had being engaged by American Intelligence to travel through the Soviet country side as a tourist to gather military and civilian structure information for the U.S. government.

      Though he appeared like a benign student, the Soviets were watching his every move as he drove through Ukrainian countryside. He was arrested in Kyiv and imprisoned in a Soviet prison. The penalty in USSR at that time for his crime was imprisonment or death by shooting. A body belt with film, a notebook and a copy book with intelligences records were taken from him at his arrest.

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       Makinen (Also referred to as MacKinnon by Soviets) was tried by a closed military tribunal and sentenced to 8 years in a Soviet prison. There was an article in the NY Times stating, “The Soviet Foreign Ministry made a protest at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow against what it described as the continuing use by the U.S. intelligence agencies to use tourists for espionage in the Soviet Union.” (Topping, 1961) Though he only served 2 years in Vladimir Prison, one year was in solitary confinement. Then moved to a labor camp called Mordovian ASSR (autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic). It is the same as an oblast or close to what we in the U.S. call states, Canadians call provinces. Makinen and Rev. Walter Ciszek were later traded to the U.S for two Soviet spies.

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Makinen went back to work in the U.S. upon return. During WWII he was sent to Budapest and worked on a committee in the Swedish foreign ministry to save Raoul Wallenberg’s life. Wallenberg saved tens of thousands of Jews from death, but Wallenberg was arrested on January 17, 1945 and disappeared. There was a big controversy when Wallenberg was brought to Moscow and was said to have died in a Soviet prison, and several inmates of Vladimir prison testified he was there in the 1950s.  Makinen found staff members who identified Wallenberg from photographs and Makinen determined he was under special treatment in the prison. Sweden declared him dead in abstenia dated for 1952. It is said he rescued over 100,000 jews but that is a story for another time. Makinen continued to work on his case as part of his life’s work.

 Photo 5- copy of Soviet investigation in Ukraine of Marvin Makinen.

Makinen is still thriving to this day at 83, is married, has two children and at least one grandchild. He has a PhD from University of Oxford, and is still the president of an organization called the “Independent Investigation in Raoul Wallenberg’s Fate, Inc.”

Citations

Photo one-https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-kgb-american-spy-captured-volkswagen/31621210.html

Photo two-https://sofmag.com/how-the-kgb-caught-americas-volkswagen-spy/

Photo three-https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-marvin-makinen-1939-namerican-professor-photographed-with-his-mother-95872560.html

Chapple, Amos, (2021), How the K.G.B. caught America’s ‘Volkswagen Spy’, Radio free Europe, https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-kgb-american-spy-captured-volkswagen/31621210.html

Chapple, Amos, (2021) How the K.G.B. caught America’s ‘Volkswagen Spy’; A story of cold war espionage, Soldier of fortune, https://sofmag.com/how-the-kgb-caught-americas-volkswagen-spy/

Topping, Seymour, (September 5, 1961), Soviet jails U.S. tourist as spy; to try him as a western agent, NY Times, https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1961/09/05/97243631.html?auth=login-smartlock&pageNumber=1

Conspiracy theory? No the Business Plot

    This story is about an attempt to over throw the U.S. government, and a extreme division between the left and the right politically. It discusses the benefits of capitalism versus socialism. The story attempts to provide solutions for poverty and the shrinking middle class. It features issues about racism and white supremecy. The story discusses the fears about old age pensions, and corruption in capitalist policies. Sounds familiar right? It is right off the internet, these topics appear in social media and news outlets on a daily basis. Except my story takes place in the 1930s.

Photo one-www.quotemaster.org

This is the story of the "business plot". With the depression underway, people were literally starving on the streets of the United states. In 1933 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt stepped right into the mess. President Roosevelt’s family were wealthy, though not as wealthy as the Astors, Vanderbilts or Rockefellers. As he took office, he became focused on improving life for entire population of the U.S. not just his wealthy companions.  Which brought criticism from those with wealth, who feel he abandoned his own people. Why? The first 100 days Roosevelt enacted:

• Emergency Banking Act(March 9, 1933)
• Cullen–Harrison Act(March 16), modifying the Volstead Act
• Economy Act(March 20)
• Civilian Conservation Corps(March 31)
• Federal Emergency Relief Act(May 12)
• Agricultural Adjustment Act(May 12)
• Emergency Farm Mortgage Act(May 12)
• Tennessee Valley Authority(May 18)
• Securities Act(May 27)
• abrogation of gold clausesin public and private contracts (June 5)
• Homeowners Refinancing Act(June 13)
• Glass-Steagall Act(June 15)
• Farm Credit Act(June 15)
• Emergency Railroad Transportation Act (June 15)
• National Industrial Recovery Act(June 16)

Photo two President Roosevelt-northcountrypublicradio.org

      Though Roosevelt was part of the elite as he campaigned on an 'us against them' philosphy, the wealthy came to despise him. They labeled him as a liar, a thief, a madman given to great burst of manical laughter, an alcoholic, a syphilitic, and a bolshevik. (Denton, 2019) When he removed the gold standard in 1933, their quest to remove him from office began. Though this plot is drastic during the time it was more common. President McKinley was assassinated in office and there were plots to assassinate Herbert Hoover. I think it is not understood how close to danger our presidents live.

Photo three-slideserve.com

On my first podcast I will discussing each of these programs in depth. They served as programs to assist put men back to work on government projects like Hoover Dam in Nevada.

     The business plot came about as a group of wealthy and well-connected men formed a group called the American Liberty League in 1934. These wealthy elites, politicians, military leaders, and businessmen were conservative. They were opposed to President Roosevelt and the “New Deal” programs he set up. They believed a leader in the style of a dictator needed to take charge during the depression and help get the country upright. It was the government’s responsibility to support business and encourage citizens to work hard to get going again. Work, earn, save, and acquire property was the way through the depression. Prescott Bush, father of President H.W. Bush was one of those men, as was Huey Long, Arthur P. Sloan of General Motors and Howard Pew of Sun Oil Company, President Calvin Coolidge, and General McArthur to name a few.

Photo four-Smedley Butler-www.theIrishsentinel.com

A bond salesman by the name of Gerald MacGuire approached retired Marine Corp Major General Smedley Butler. He told Butler that the Liberty League wanted him to lead 500,000 veterans in a coup to overthrow President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. They thought upon the show of force Roosevelt would quietly become a puppet president for the league or leave office. They approached Butler several times and the last time he told MacGuire, “If you get 500,000 soldiers advocating anything smelling of fascism, I am going to get 500,000 more and kick the hell out of you, and we will have a real war right at home.” (Denton, 2012)

       First Butler went to the press, Tom O’Neil of the Philadelphia record and the New York Evening Post. He asked O’Neil to assign reporter Paul Comly French to the story. French investigated Butler first discovering he was a whistleblower so he moved forward with the interviews. He also discovered Butler was frequently in hot water for speaking the truth, which gave credibility to his accusations. French was shocked when the truth of the plot was uncovered. Then Butler went to J. Edgar Hoover at the FBI. Roosevelt and Hoover were already looking into assassination rumors, though they did not reveal it to Butler.

     The U.S. House Un-American Activities Committee called Butler (At the behest of Hoover) to speak to congress on what he knew. As Smedley recounted the story, once it was researched congress believed he was telling the truth. It was strategic play by the Liberty League, hoping midterm elections would sway the position, creating more support for their cause. Turns out that Franklin Delano Roosevelt won his term easily and it was a sweep for congress too. In Fact, Roosevelt was the only president to serve as president for three consecutive terms. The coup had been thwarted and more will be covered in detailed in my first podcast. That will be released September 15, 2022.

 

 

 

photo one-www.quotemaster.org

photo two-https://northcountrypublicradio.org/news/npr/247155522/roosevelt-s-polio-wasn-t-a-secret-he-used-it-to-his-advantage

photo three-https://www.slideserve.com/neith/roosevelt-and-the-new-deal

photo four- https://theirishsentinel.com/2020/02/23/where-have-you-gone-smedley-butler-the-last-general-to-criticize-us-imperialism/

Denton, Sally, (2019) The plot against the president, Nevada Smith Press.

Rudolph, F. (1950). The American Liberty League, 1934-1940. The American Historical Review, 56(1), 19–33. https://doi.org/10.2307/1840619

Brockell, Gillian, (2021), Wealthy bankers and businessmen plotted to overthrow FDR. A retired general foiled it, Washingtonpost.com, https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/01/13/fdr-roosevelt-coup-business-plot/

Amadeo, Kimberley, (2022), Franklin D. Roosevelt's economic policies and accomplishments, www.thebalancemoney.com, https://www.thebalancemoney.com/fdr-economic-policies-and-accomplishments-3305557

Garai, Neith, (2014), Roosevelt and the New Deal, www.slideserve.com, https://www.slideserve.com/neith/roosevelt-and-the-new-deal

Staff, (2013), Roosevelt's polio wasn't a secret: He used it to his advantage, northcountrypublicradio.org,  https://northcountrypublicradio.org/news/npr/247155522/roosevelt-s-polio-wasn-t-a-secret-he-used-it-to-his-advantage

 

Hacienda Arms Apartments: Hollywood and the Sunset Strip

      They called it the “house of Francis” in the 1930’s. A luxurious Mediterranean style hotel owned by the Hollywood studios to house temperamental Hollywood artists and their decadent lifestyles. The Hacienda Arms Hotel (aka Coronet apartments) was located on Sunset Blvd. in Los Angeles. That parcel of land was bought in 1926 by Alexander R. Gallos and within a year the Hacienda Arms was finished. It cost e parcel of land, on what would become the Sunset Strip, was purchased by Alexander R. Gallos in 1926. Less than one year later, the building, which was designed by architect Charles Sherman Cobb, was complete and ready to make its debut. By 1927 it opened its doors to the Hollywood elite, a few mobsters and the artists who lived there. It originally resembled an Italian villa, but The Hacienda arms featured luxury living with all the amenities.

Photo One-White building on the right

      The Hacienda offered clients/residents the experience of being among the nouveau riche of Hollywood. The apartments had either four or six rooms which according to the needs of the residents were furnished or unfurnished. It also had housekeeping and laundry services. It housed celebrities like Loretta Young, Jeannette McDonald, and Marie Dressler. Marie Dressler won an academy award for best actress in 1931 for her role in Min and Bill. `

       In 1935 there was a murder in the building. On April 25, 1935, Paul Wharton, a dress designer who lived with his mother was murdered, shot in their apartment. The media coverage created a scintillating tale about sex and deceit. Billy Williams shot Paul Ivar Wharton, and Henry Bolte. Then he turned the gun on himself. It was determined by the police that the motive was monies owed by both Bolte and Wharton. The story became more sensationalized because of the tale underneath. The stranger men blog will come out later this week. Paul was a gay person at a time where it was not accepted nor permitted in society. This tale seems to have as much to do with Paul’s sexuality as his financial issues.

Photo 2 Hacienda Arms 1978

      In the next four years another scandal would break out. Not only did the building cater to the stars of Hollywood, but also their appetites. In 1939 Lee Francis was arrested for running brothels around the L.A. area. Francis insisted that she had been involved in the “industry” but had retired and left the business behind. Francis was accused of running the classiest brothel on the Sunset Strip at the Hacienda Arms Hotel. She allegedly catered to the likes of Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy (who was once almost banned from the brothel), and Errol Flynn. The same allegations revealed women used her services. The “House of Francis” had the prettiest women in town. Women like Barbara Stanwyck, Marlene Dietrich and Jean Harlow spent time with the women. Harlow would take the women home with her and was accused of having a rough sexual appetite. MGM was said to have an account with “House of Francis” under an alias of course. Francis had a good relationship with the police and politicians at the time with bribes of up to 40% of her take.

Photo three- Lee Francis

The building was also sold that year to Phil Goldstone and changed its name to the Coronet Apartments. Within the next year Ciro’s club opened close by and during the 1940s and 1950’s it was a hotspot for celebrities and like Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, Cary Grant, and Jimmy Stewart. If you were photographed there, Hedda Hopper or some other Hollywood columnist would provide the free gossip/publicity.

The apartments were sold many times between 1940 and the 1970’s. In the late 1970s Rod Stewart bought the Coronet apartments with a partner to renovate the entire building. The partnership split up and the build went empty for a time, home to squatters and derelicts. 1983 Rod Stewart was robbed at gunpoint and his Porsche Carrera stolen. The building then mysteriously burned down in 1983. Before the fire, Westcap Financial Group had agreed to purchase the building for $4.2 million dollars (Citron, 1983). They went on with the sale and renovated the property. The name was changed to Piazza Del Sol. It is rebuilt and today it is full of offices. Several movie production companies rent space there. Tori Spelling and Ryan Seacrest have a hip Japanese restaurant called Katana on premises. The area that was a full of celebrities from the 1930s until the 1960’s went downhill, but today construction is going on and the area again is making a comeback. Stay tuned for the “Stranger men” story next about the murder at Hacienda Arms.

  Photo three- Piazza Del Sol 2008

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References

Deutschmann, Jennifer, (2021), The scandalous history of Hollywood’s Hacienda Arms Hotel, grunge.com, https://www.grunge.com/472778/the-scandalous-history-of-hollywoods-hacienda-arms-apartments/

Alan Citron (August 21, 1983). "Facade Survived Fire: Historic Site Status Sought for Coronet". Los Angeles Times.

William A. Gordon (2006). The Ultimate Hollywood Tour Book. pp. 124-125. North Ridge Books.

E.J. Fleming (2005). The Fixers: Eddie Mannix, Howard Strickling, and the MGM Publicity Machine. McFarland. 

Turner, Gustavo, (2019), The Sunset Strip: Story of an L.A. Icon, discoverlosangeles.com, https://www.discoverlosangeles.com/things-to-do/the-sunset-strip-the-story-of-an-la-icon

Photo one- Pinterest-https://www.pinterest.com/pin/358036239133861795/

Photo two-https://wehoville.com/2019/04/01/hacienda-park-and-the-origins-of-the-sunset-strip-out-of-the-ashes/

Photo three- https://aventurasnahistoria.uol.com.br/noticias/reportagem/o-historico-hacienda-arms-o-mais-famoso-bordel-que-ja-existiu-na-california.phtml

Photo four-https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hacienda_Arms_%28Piazza_del_Sol%29,_West_Hollywood.JPG

Operation Mincemeat: The man that never was

     It is 1943 and WWII was raging in North Africa. Off the coast of Spain, a young fisherman discovered the body of man with briefcase attached to his wrist by a chain. The man was dressed in a British officer’s uniform, so the fisherman believed the man was victim of the ongoing war in Europe. This is how Operation Mincemeat began, a British strategy that changed the war.

     In 1939 Rear Admiral John Godfrey along with his personal assistant, Lieutenant Commander Ian Fleming put in motion a deception operation based on a suggestion in the “Trout Memo”. The ‘trout memo’ came from a novel and compared the use of deception in war time to fly fishing. It stated, "The Trout Fisher patiently casts all day. He frequently changes his venue and his lures. If he has frightened a fish he may 'give the water a rest for half-an-hour,' but his main endeavor, is to attract fish by something he sends out from his boat, is incessant.” (Macintyre, 2010) The memo lists 54 ways that the enemy like fish can be lured or hooked. On the list was number 28. Put false papers on a dead body to mislead the enemy. No. 28 was adapted to Fleming’s own list of ideas. He helped write of methods for confusing an enemy at sea. (Smyth, 2010) Ian Fleming would go on to create the famous character spy James Bond, write successfully popular books that were turned into movies.

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     In 1943 during WWII, Germany occupied Sicily. They had a source of raw materials for the German military, including copper, bauxite, chrome, and oil. Hitler had a fear of losing the island to the allies. During the Casablanca Conference in January of 1943, it was decided the allies would invade Sicily, take it back and do it by July. That is when Operation Husky was born. Since it was such an obvious choice the allies had to produce a plan to distract the Germans. That is when Operation Mincemeat was born.

     Britain decided that the Eastern seaboard of the Mediterranean was the target. They staged an area in Cairo, Egypt to practice maneuvers and set up troops, so it appeared as if they were organizing for a mission. They even placed military equipment like tanks to make it appear it was larger than it was. They hired Greek interpreters, gathered maps and currency in Greek. Then communications were set up with telephones, radio transmissions all so the Germans were certain they were headed to Greece. Finally with the ideas of Fleming and Godfrey, they just needed one more item, a dead body. They would use a corpse with a British uniform and identity. The body would be attached by a chain to a brief case with fake secret documents pointing to Greece and Sardinia as the targets of the British invasion. This is where Major William Martin played his role.

      In my previous blog about Glyndwr Michael, it tells the story of how a homeless man became a hero in WWII. This is where he went on stage. Michael died of white phosphorous poisoning (rat poison) in an abandoned warehouse in England. Pathologist Bernard Spilsbury determined he was the perfect actor for the part. The British military erased all traces of Glyndwr Michael and recreated him as Maj. William Martin. They dressed him in a British uniform, provided him a wallet with his new identification, even a picture of a girlfriend. He had the appropriate wallet litter including a letter from his girlfriend Pam. Who was in the steno pool at MI5. The briefcase was attached to his wrist with a chain, and the dead man was placed in the water off the coast of Spain. It was there he was discovered by the fisherman.

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      Two British intelligence officers from MI5 conducted the plan, Ewan Montagu, and Charles Cholmondeley. Montagu stated there should be three criteria for the documents in Martin/Michael:

• Clearly but casually identify the target
• Name locations as cover
• It should be in casual correspondence that would not be carried officially by diplomatic courier or encoded signal

     The body of Major William Martin was discovered by the fisherman at 9:30 am on April 30, 1943. Spanish officials called in Francis Haselden the local British vice-consul. Within days the British authorities called around frantically looking for the contents of the briefcase, creating some backstory. Major Martin was autopsied on May 1^st and the cause of the death was listed as ‘death by asphyxiation due to drowning’. The intel about the fictious Major Martin got back to German intelligence in the area. Though neutral Spain was mostly pro German, and they became convinced the intel they received was real.

     Hitler met with Grand Admiral Karl Donitz and was convinced the evidence gathered revealed the targets for the allies’ invasions were, Sardinia and the Peloponnesus, not Sicily. Hitler moved the experienced 1^st Panzer Division from France to Salonika, Greece. The invasion took place on July 9, 1943, when the allies invaded Sicily in what was called Operation Husky. By the time the Germans realized what happened it was too late.

      Though Germany and Italy had a pseudo relationship during the war, Hitler never trusted the Italians. He refused to join with the Italian military or to waste to many troops, so the area was poorly manned. Though the British expected to lose 10,000 during the campaign, the actual loss was about a seventh of that amount. The losses in Sicily were far less that calculated because of Operation Mincemeat. The operation went off with ease. Historian Michael Howard, while describing Mincemeat as "perhaps the most successful single deception operation of the entire war", (Smyth, 2010)    

      As a result of the campaign Cholmondeley and Montagu were made members of the ‘officers of the order of the British Empire.’  Hitler suspended the Kursk offensive 13 July. He was afraid the ally’s invasion of Sicily was a beginning that would result in them going after the Balkans. He wanted his troops on the ready. The Kursk offensive was a campaign in the Kursk Oblast region in USSR against the Soviets. Germany gave up the campaign to the Soviets.

1. Macintyre, Ben, (2010), Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory, Crown Publishing,
2. NPR staff, (2010), Dead man floating: World War II’s oddest invasion, org, https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127742365
3. Smith, Denis,(2010). Deathly Deception: The Real Story of Operation Mincemeat. London: Oxford University Press. 

Photo one- By Jrryjude - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=112684003

Photo two- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Glyndwr_Michael.jpg

Weekly Horoscopes 5 for 7 May 29, 2022

Glyndwr Michael: The Hero who never was

       This another story from the 20^th century that will be part of another blog. This story deserved its own blog. The story comes from Great Britain and tells the tale of a man named Glyndwr Michael who was born in Aberbargoed, Wales, on January 4^th, 1909. He was a gardener and a laborer. He grew up in a town that at one point had a mine, but it was closed. So, he took the work he could get.

      His father Thomas committed suicide when he was 15 years old, and he had to identify the body. His mother died 16 years later. At that point Glyndwr was 31 and alone, so he left his town and travelled to London. He did not appear to faire much better in London. He was living in abandoned buildings, not finding work, and starving. He found himself squatting in an abandoned warehouse near Kings Cross.

      At that time, they poisoned the rats in London with white phosphorus in a spread they put on bread. They left the pieces of bread around for the rats to eat. Glyndwr being so hungry, it is surmised he found it and ate it. It could have been a suicide attempt also. There is no direct evidence to draw a conclusion. It did not kill him fast, so he ended up in St. Pancras hospital. Glyndwr Michael died on January 24, 1943, during WWII. He was homeless. penniless and Glyndwr died from ingesting rat poison. His story could have well ended there, what comes next takes this homeless man and demonstrates how the universe can utilize everyone.

      Great Britain was in the middle of WWII and were rolling out Operation Mincemeat which will be my next blog topic. Abbreviating the operation Britain was going to place a note, and some faked documents in briefcase, and handcuff them to a dead man. The man’s body would be placed in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Spain. The documents were placed in the ocean so that Germany would have access to the information. It would outline a fake invasion of Greece and Sardinia avoiding Sicily. It was a diversion that ended up with some success.

Photo One

      British intelligence officer Charles Cholmondeley along with Naval officer Ewen Montagu were assigned to execute the plan. They enlisted the help of pathologist Bernard Spilsbury to find an appropriate corpse. Spilsbury told them that men that died in an air crash usually died of shock not drowning, so he did not need water in his lungs. Also said that Roman Catholics would not ask for an autopsy unless the person was of note.…. This is where Mr. Michael would help Britain in the war. He fit their criteria and immediately they went to work at once setting up his new identity. They defined Glyndwr Michael as a ne’er do well and a homeless tramp. The British government erased all traces of Glyndwr Michael as if he never existed. They named the corpse Captain (acting Major) William Martin of the Royal Marines. They also provided elaborate details of Martin.

     Martin was said to be an avid hunter of partridges with a revolver. That he had a fictious girl friend who wrote him letters he kept in his wallet. They got a girl named Pam from MI5 steno pool with a photo and put the photo in his wallet along with other bits of “wallet litter”. His fake girlfriend Pam wrote letters to her boyfriend. They found a look alike soldier and photographed him in uniform for I.D. They went as far as to find underwear (heavily rationed at the time) from a professor at New College Oxford that was run over by a car and killed. This made it appear Martin was well provided for. They dressed up the corpse, put his well-stocked wallet in his pocket and placed him in the Mediterranean Sea near Spain, where a fisher discovered him.

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    The operation was completed as a successful mission; Major Martin was discovered by a local fisherman. His body was taken by the authorities who of course went through his belongings. They began to cable the military. The cables were intercepted by the Germans as the British knew they would be.

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       So, this man from Wales, who would have gone unknown forever, served his nation during war time as any hero would have. It was a closely regarded secret until 1998. He is buried under a grave in Spain as ‘Glyndwr Michael as Major William Martin.’ He was honored in first a book and a then a movie in 1956 under the title, “The Man that Never Was.”

Photos one, two and three- https://dirkdeklein.net/2017/01/28/the-bizarre-case-of-glyndwr-michael-the-wwii-hero-who-never-was/

1. Deklein, Dirk, (2017), The bizarre case of glyndwr Michael: the wwii hero that never was, history of sorts, https://dirkdeklein.net/2017/01/28/the-bizarre-case-of-glyndwr-michael-the-wwii-hero-who-never-was/

2. Macintyre, Ben (14 January 2010). "Operation Mincemeat: full story of how corpse tricked the Nazis". The Times.

3. Curtis, Nick (19 January 2022). "Operation Mincemeat review: a larky fringe hit with surprising depths". www.standard.co.uk.

4. Operation Mincemeat Documentary,  (2017),  War Department Film Club, You Tube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh2e6sE6YXA

 

The Plutonium Files: US Government tests radiation on citizens

    Before the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, doctors in the U.S. were experimenting on their people injecting them with plutonium and irradiating them. Only the people never knew or gave consent. The U.S. has tested radiation and atomic radiation on citizens for decades during the cold war. They have conducted these experiments to understand the effects of radiation and radioactive contamination on the human body.

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     I discovered something called the Plutonium Files and the book is difficult to get and an expensive read. It talks about the period in 1945 when the U.S. was getting ready to launch the first atomic bomb. The book relates the stories of those who were injected with radiation by the United States Atomic Energy Commission and the Manhattan project.

      18 men, women and children were injected between 1945 and 1947 and none of them knew what was being done to them nor gave informed consent. They were chosen because it was believed (Or so they claimed) the people were mortally ill. Though many lived years after the experiment. There were other experiments going on with radiation too:

• Nashville, Tennessee pregnant women were given radioactive cocktails-Vanderbilt University
• Prisoners from Washington and Oregon had their testicles irradiated
• University of Cincinnati irradiated 200 people over 15 years
• 74 boys at Dickensian State school fed oatmeal with radioactive iron or calcium. Homeless or unwanted boys
• University of Chicago, one of three sites for plutonium injections
• University of Chicago fed strontium and cesium to 102 people in solutions with Argonne National Laboratory

     All these were done to the people without consent. While developing the atomic bomb as a weapon the doctors in the United States who participated violated the Hippocratic oath, the Nuremberg Code the American Medical Association guidelines, and US Government Regulations. (1) The people used in the experiments according to author Eileen Welsome, “were the poor, the powerless and the sick—the very people who count on the government to protect them.” A collaborator on the project (Clarence Lushbaugh) told Welsome the director in Cincinnati Eugene Saenger picked the people from the ‘slums’ because, “these persons don’t have any money and they’re Black and they are poorly washed.” (2)

     Examples of the judgement of the medical staff deciding to administer the radiation is as follows:

A man in a car accident in Oakridge, Tennessee the medical staff label him elderly and in poor health. The staff did not expect him to live that long, or so they stated. He was 55 and other than partially blind was in good condition. He lived another 8 years with the radiation in his blood stream, died of a heart attack.

 Another subject Albert Stevens from San Francisco, California was injected at University of California hospital. They said he had terminal cancer, turns out he was misdiagnosed and lived with radiation in his blood for 21 more years.

Then there was Eda Schultz Charlton, a 49-year-old who went to the University of Rochester hospital. She was not terminally ill, even not seriously ill. But she was injected with plutonium. Over the next few years, she suffered with depression, fatigue, arthritis, nausea, spasms, and other illnesses. She had a file with 314 pages of doctor’s reports. Her doctor Dr. Christine Waterhouse was recruited by Dr, Samuel Bassett the overseer of the plutonium injections. She cared for Eda for 29 more years, Eda lived 37 more years. Dr. Waterhouse never told her she was injected with plutonium.

      The experiments remained secret until 1993, when President Clinton ordered a congressional investigation. In 1995 the reports came down, refusing to blame those who injected their patients. Clinton spoke out against the passive report saying, “the actions failed both the test of our national values and the test of humanity.” No one paid attention, two hours later the O.J. verdict was in and that was the louder noise.

1. Longworth, R.C., (1999), Injected! (Review of the Plutonium Files), Sagepub, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.2968/055006016
2. Welsome, Eileen, (1999), The Plutonium Files: America’s Secret Medical Experiments During the Cold War, Delacorte Press
3. Moss, William, and Roger Eckhardt. (1995). "The human plutonium injection experiments." Los Alamos Science. 23: 177-233.
4. Photo One: www.allthatsinteresting.com

The C.I.A and L.S.D.

       L.S.D. stands for lysergic acid diethylamide. The common day usage began popular in the 1960s and 1970’s. It was a psychedelic drug used to ‘trip’ causing hallucinations. It is a drug made from lysergic acid, created from a fungus that grows on rye and other grains. The ‘high’ gotten from L.S.D. is referred to as a ‘trip.’ It can be a spiritual awakening, psychological breakthrough, or trip to hell (bad trip).

        It is also known as “Lucy” or “dots.” Remember The Beatles “Lucy in the sky with diamonds”? Though that seemed like an LSD song, both Lennon and McCartney who admitted to taking the drug a couple of times said no. It was a combination of a drawing from Lennon’s three-year-old son Julian, and Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland that the fantasies of the book.

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       “The U.S. government was secretly evaluating the effects of the drug on hundreds of unsuspecting American civilians and military personnel.” (1) MK Ultra project was run from 1953-1967. It is reported by Time Magazine that the C.I.A. ran the program because they did not want to be obsolete, or behind their enemy’s technology. The government believed the Soviet Union, North Korea and China were using the drugs on captured Americans.

      So, the C.I.A. was slipping mickeys or in this case L.S.D. into people’s drinks in bars, on the beach, and in restaurants. Giving the drug to unsuspecting people in an uncontrolled environment. Then they followed the people and monitored how they reacted, but never intervened. They were not the only people unknowingly used in the experiments.

     Sidney Gottlieb the C.I.A. operative that ran MKUltra (also a chemist) directed the protocol for the program. He admitted to covertly administering the drug and other hallucinogens to unknowing subjects that would crush the human psyche. His idea was that you stripped the personality and then built the client a new one. One that could be used for mind control. One such person was his colleague was Frank Olson. Olson was a bacteriologist and was at an MKUltra retreat. His mental state continued to deteriorate after taking the drug and nine days later, Olson Jumped to his death from the window of the Hotel Statler in N.Y.C. The C.I.A. experimented on their own employees.

       Sidney Gottlieb arranged for the C.I.A. to pay $240,000 to buy up the world’s supply of L.S.D. in the 1950’s. It was all brought to the U.S. and spread through hospitals, clinic, prisons, and other institutions. Much in the way pharmaceutical companies hand out samples of drugs, Gottlieb asked the institutions to try it out on the patients and see how they responded to the drug. In one case, a mental patient in Kentucky was dosed with LSD continuously for 174 days.

       About 7,000 people participated in the U.S. Army’s secret testing program with L.S.D. The real name of the program was the Medical Research Volunteer Program (MRVP). The C.I.A. believed it could be used also as a truth serum. Administer enough of the drug and the subject would admit to anything.

      It had enormous potential in the psychiatric field in helping people recover from mental issues and find peace. From the 1950’s on it was used therapeutically to evaluate behavioral and personality changes, as well as remission of psychiatric symptoms in various disorders. (3) It was used to treat anxiety, depression, addictions, and psychosomatic disorders. In the 1950’s it was marketed by Sandoz Labs as Delysid. Then and now it is one of the most potent hallucinogens. It is taken on things, a tab of paper infused with the drug, in tablets (“microdots”), capsules or gelatin squares (“windowpanes”) and even sugar cubes. It is also referred to as ‘acid.’ Trips are said to last about 12 hours.

       Timothy Leary stated the kind of trip you had was all about “set” and “setting.” Set is a person’s mindset: mood, background, physiology, and everything else unique to them at the time they take the drug. Setting is the physical and cultural environment. (Szalavitz, 2012) He was convinced it expanded the mind and help you work out personal issues.

       Many famous people were known to drop acid, The Beatles, Steve Jobs, George Carlin, Cary Grant, Jack Nicholson, and Dennis Hopper to name a few. There was another issue with the drug, is that it could create an unpredictable flashback, years later.

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      None of these benefits or issues would be worked out as it gained a reputation as a ‘hippie drug’ with the counterculture of the 1960’s. The C.I.A. sabotaged the use of L.S.D. for therapeutic applications, causing the government to state the drug was dangerous and they were against it. They made illegal for all usage, including the beneficial purpose. Because it was illegal it was never developed and administered in a fashion that could be psychologically helpful to people.

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1. Aldridge, Alan,(14 January 1968), "Paul McCartney's Guide to the Beatles' Songbook", Los Angeles Times Magazine. Los Angeles. pp. 19–24.
2. Szalavitz, Maia, (2012), The Legacy of the CIA’s Secret LSD Experiments on America, Time Magazine, https://healthland.time.com/2012/03/23/the-legacy-of-the-cias-secret-lsd-experiments-on-america/
3. Fuentes, Juan Jose et al, (2020), The therapeutic use of LSD in psychiatry: A systematic review of randomized controlled clinical trials, Frontiers in Psychiatry, https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00943/full
4. Junker, Howard (July 5, 1965). "LSD: 'The Contact High'". The Nation. Archivedfrom the original on September 24, 2017
5. Shelton, Jacob, (2021), Celebs that owe their careers to psychedelics, com, https://www.ranker.com/list/celebrities-who-owe-careers-to-substances/jacob-shelton
6. Rosetti, Chris, (2019), “We Dissolve Minds”: Sidney Gottlieb and His Horrific Experiments, National Vanguard,

7. Terry Gross, (2019), The CIAs secret quest for mind control: Torture, LSD and a poisoner in Chief, NPR, https://www.npr.org/2019/09/09/758989641/the-cias-secret-quest-for-mind-control-torture-lsd-and-a-poisoner-in-chief

8. Weiner, Tim, (1999), Sidney Gottlieb, 80, Took LSD to the CIA, New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/10/us/sidney-gottlieb-80-dies-took-lsd-to-cia.html
9. Staff, (2021), LSD experiments by the US Government, The Infographics show, https://www.theinfographicsshow.com/lsd-experiments-by-u-s-government/
10. Photo one- https://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/health/a26621431/what-is-acid/
11. Photo two-https://www.retroreport.org/articles/lsd-like-drugs-are-out-of-the-haze-and-back-in-the-labs/

V-E Day, or Victory Day in Europe

     On May 8, 1945, German General Wilhelm Keitel on behalf of Germany surrenders to the allies. The war is ended in Europe, it is called VE day or Europe day.

      Germany attacked the USSR on June 22, 1941. The code name was Operation Barbarossa and was the largest invasion in history. There were millions of troops, thousands of tanks, and artillery systems, 5000 aircraft and hundreds of thousands of combat vehicles. The German attack almost defeated the Soviet Red Army, but they rallied back.

      The weather conditions here freezing, snowy blizzard like conditions. The Soviet Union was used to fighting in these weather conditions, Germany was not. By 1942 the Nazi’s invasion of Soviet Union ground to a halt. The Soviets rallied, worked on an atomic bomb, and started pushing back. 1945 The Red Army took over Berlin, Germany.

       The Yalta Conference took place in in Crimea, Ukraine in February 1945 with US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin. During the conference Belgium and France were liberated from German forces. Also, during the conference, it was promised that the people of Europe could, “Create democratic institutions of their own choice.” (1)

      At the end of April 1945 Adolf Hitler married Eva Braun his long-time girlfriend. On April 30, in a bunker they committed suicide. It was at that point the war was over for Germany. The allies agreed that Germany should surrender simultaneously, to not rile Stalin. As surrender was negotiated Germany transferred 1.8 million troops in the east to Britain-US custody or zone of control to avoid Soviet capture.   Even so around the days of surrender the Soviets still captured 2 million German troops.

May 7, Alfred Jodl Donitz chief of staff signed an unconditional surrender at the Reims headquarters of U.S Dwight D. Eisenhower. He stated, “With this signature the German people and the German armed forces are for better or worse, delivered into the victors’ hands.” (2) General Eisenhower was the commander of allied forces in Europe. The surrender documents were completed (It took 20 hours) on May 8, 1945. Soviet forces continued to fight through the 8th. Which is why they celebrate on May 9^th.

      In honor of the 6 million Jews that were slaughtered, I am posting some pictures and stories for the next couple of days.

8 May 1910 | A Czech Jew, Hanuš Hitschmann, was born in Prague. He was deported from #Theresienstadt Ghetto to #Auschwitz on 6 September 1943. He did not survive.

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7 May 1904 | A Slovak Jewish woman, Irena Holzmanová, was born in Močidľany. On 15 September 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.

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7 May 1934 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Leon Zwaap (bottom), was born in Hilversum. In September 1944 he was deported to the #Theresienstadt ghetto and on 6 October to #Auschwitz. He was murdered after selection in a gas chamber together with his brother Edward.

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Photo one-https://twitter.com/AuschwitzMuseum/status/1523075228762472450?s=20&t=4SWlqolAdKHz3Ed0OoyYAg

Photo two-https://twitter.com/AuschwitzMuseum/status/1523014841127952385?s=20&t=4SWlqolAdKHz3Ed0OoyYAg

Photo three-https://twitter.com/AuschwitzMuseum/status/1522939443933556738?s=20&t=4SWlqolAdKHz3Ed0OoyYAg

 

1. Staff, (archived from original 2019), Soviet Satellite States, .org.uk, https://schoolshistory.org.uk/topics/world-history/cold-war-1945-1972/soviet-satellite-states/
2. Pruitt, Sarah, 2022, What V-E Day looked like around the world, The History Channel, https://www.history.com/news/v-e-day-around-the-world
3. Maranzani, Barbara, (2022), 5 Facts about V-E Day, The History Channel, https://www.history.com/news/remembering-v-e-day
4. Diana Preston, (2019), Eight Days at Yalta: How Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin Shaped the Post-War World, Atlantic Monthly Press
5. Beevor, Antony (2012). The Second World War. New York: Little, Brown and Company. 
6. Kramer, Mark, (2020), The Soviet Role in WWII; realities and myths, Harvard University: Davis Center, https://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/insights/soviet-role-world-war-ii-realities-and-myths

 

 

Hal Roach and the Mysterious Death of Thelma Todd

     She was called “Hot Toddy” and the “Ice cream blonde.” Thelma Todd was one of Hollywood’s stars during the golden years. Working both in silent films and ‘the talkies,’ Thelma appeared in 120 films in a career that spanned 1926-1935. She was to go home for the holidays in 1935 to Massachusetts, but on December 16, 1935, her body was found at her home. She was 29 years old.

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       Ms. Todd started out in Massachusetts. She was born in 1906 in Lawrence Massachusetts. Her father was an alderman and a superintendent of streets, her mother a homemaker. She dreamed of an exciting life beyond her upbringing. Thelma attended a teacher’s training school after she finished high School, Lowell State Normal School (Now part of Lowell University). She also began to enter beauty pageants and acting contests hoping to have a more glamorous career. She was crowned Miss Massachusetts in 1925 and Hollywood agents took notice of her.

     She went to Hollywood where she was part of the Paramount school for the Stars. They praised her ability and told her to watch her weight. During silent films with the likes of Jimmy Durante she was an it girl, used for her pretty face. When film utilized sound, she was afforded more variety. She did comedy with the Marx Brothers and later drama with John Barrymore. She began an affair with director Roland West. She was a popular star, and by 1932 she married Pasquale DiCicco, a movie producer and hoodlum. The marriage lasted two years.

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     In 1934 she opened a sidewalk café; it was to be her hedge against the fickle Hollywood’s preference for young women. Todd and lover Roland West opened the café on the first floor and dance club on the second floor at 17575 Pacific Coast Highway. It was in the Castellammare housing tract, now known as Pacific Palisades. The property that housed the café recently (2015) sold for $6 million dollars. The café was on the bottom floor. Todd and West lived in separate apartments on the second floor. In the back on the second floor was a dance club, called Joya, named for Roland West’s ex-wife Jewel Carmen. There was a speakeasy on the third floor during the prohibition.

        Thelma Todd ran with a difficult group. At one point she dated mob man Lucky Luciano who got her addicted to amphetamines. Roland West was a low-level hood, as well as a film noir director/producer from 1920s. His filmed career dried up after the movie he produced with Thelma Todd Corsair in 1931. It was rumored he was having an affair with Todd, but his wife Jewel Carmen and Roland were estranged. Also known Carmen was ok with Todd. She helped with money when Todd and West bought the building that housed Thelma Todd’s Sidewalk Café and Joya Supper Club in 1932. West and Carmen eventually divorced in 1938.

      Todd and West began their relationship after meeting on a yachting excursion to Catalina Island in 1930. The relationship was said to be volatile; West was said to be abusive, possessive and controlling. (2) He is also one of the suspects of her mysterious death. West and Todd both had apartments at the Sidewalk Café next to each other at the front of the second floor.

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      On the morning of December 16, 1935, Todd was found dead inside a garage of the residence owned by the couple (Jewel Carmen and Roland West). A chef Rudy Schafer and his wife were living there at the time. Jewel lived elsewhere. The home was nestled in the hills above the building that housed the café, the supper club, and the ballroom. To get to it you would have to walk up 271 steps.

      Roland West said he locked Todd out that Saturday night. It is thought she walked up the steps to her car in the garage above the building. Monday her housekeeper Mae Whitehead drove her car up residential streets to Posetano Rd, where the garage was located above the building. Each day she had the same routine, move the 1933 Lincoln Phaeton out of the garage, parked her car there, and moved Thelma’s car to the restaurant so she had access to it during the day.

      This day she discovered Thelma Todd in her chocolate-colored Lincoln Phaeton convertible, dead. She had blood around her nose and mouth. Mae ran to the house, summoned the Schafers, and called Roland West. Ms. Todd was not exactly sitting up, but not completely slumped over, hands in her lap. The door on the driver’s side was open, Roland West stated he believed she was trying to get out when she died. She was turned toward the door. He also said the ignition was turned to the on position, though he did not mention if he found the key. Schafer took a handkerchief and wiped some of the blood off her nose, and some came off. Rudy Schafer then drove into West Los Angeles to call the police to stave off the press and fans.

      Thelma Todd was still dressed beautifully from the Saturday night in a mauve and silver gown, mink wrap and expensive jewelry. (3)  The garage was about one block from the Sidewalk Café,  up the hill. Her mother Alice showed up later, took one look at Thelma and said “My daughter has been murdered.

     The Saturday night before Thelma Todd was discovered, she was at the Trocadero restaurant in Hollywood. She was at a party thrown by Stanley Lupino and his actress daughter Ida Lupino. Roland West told the police he locked her out, and it was surmised she went to the car for warmth. She also had a brief argument with her ex-husband Pasquale DiCiccio while out Saturday night. She was seen by all in good spirits. I relate this because it was thought, she committed suicide. There was no evidence of that.

    The coroner, A. P. Wagner determined there was no sign of foul play no marks on her body except for a contusion on her lip. Her death was ruled an accident, but the report requested further investigation. A grand jury was formed to decide if she had been murdered but did not have enough conclusive evidence to follow up. Her murder was ruled "accidental with suicidal tendencies".

      Some additional pieces of information she was discovered Monday morning at the garage on the top of the hill, the gas was not running. It had 2.5 gallons of gas in it. So why was the car not running? It was ruled she died of carbon monoxide poisoning. Her apartment key was found in her purse on the seat next to her. She was last seen Saturday night. She was not dead all Sunday though, she spoke with a friend on the phone. There was no phone in the garage. Jewel Carmen saw Thelma in her car with a man on Sunday. Thelma had recently told friends she had a new love; it was a man from San Francisco. He was never located.

      Within 3 months of her passing law enforcement had been involved with Todd due to the arrest of two men from New York. They were accused of sending extortion notes and calling Ms. Todd on the telephone demanding $10,000. There was no evidence of violence discovered at the scene.

     When her blood was evaluated, it was ruled an overdose of carbon monoxide and she may have been drunk. Also, there was damage to her throat. That could have been cause by shoving something down her throat like a hose. One time while Lucky Luciano and Todd were out, she refused champagne because she was dieting. He shoved the bottle down her throat and forced her to drink.

      There were rumors that her restaurant was doing poorly, and she committed suicide. An eerie coincidence to another story. The joint was always packed with celebrities and people. Yet it never made money. When Thelma asked Roland why, he said that Luciano forced him to buy supplies from other mobsters who charged extremely high rates for supplies. Pasquale De Ciccio, her ex-husband was an associate of Luciano and introduced his wife to the mobster. Luciano and Todd began an affair shortly afterward.

      Finally, there is Hal Roach. He gave her the first major break. In 1931 Roach cast Thelma Todd in a series of shorts attempting to turn her into a comedy team with ZaSu Pitts. They were to be the new Laurel and Hardy. Author Marvin J. Wolf revealed that when detectives interviewed Hal Roach, he told them to let it go. The man that did would have the best lawyers and would end up getting off. There was no evidence or witnesses.

        In 1912 Roland West teamed up with a man named Joe Schenk to open a movie business. In 1917 Schenck took the company to Los Angeles. In 1921 their strongest talent was Fatty Arbuckle. It was over Labor Day that a scandal broke out around Arbuckle when he was accused of the rape and murder of Virginia Rappe. Later Schenck became the chairperson of United Artists and then left to start 20^th Century Productions with Louis B. Mayer's son-in-law, William Goetz, and Darryl F. Zanuck. Schenck became a powerful player in Hollywood and the boss of producer and director Hal Roach. Roach was the man who made Todd a star and the one with a story about her death. Here is the story Roach told to Marvin J. Wolf in 1987: 

     Roach started by saying that Roland West was very controlling and possessive around Thelma Todd. He knew she was at a party on Saturday and told her to be home by 2 a.m. West got a call letting him know she was leaving the party at 2:30, she turned up at 4 a.m. It was known that she loved to drink and to socialize. West was angry with her went into her apartment and locked her out. She must have anticipated some problem because normally her chauffer walked her to her door. That night she asked him not to. West said he yelled through the door, she yelled back she could do what she wanted to and left. It was surmised she walked up the 271 steps to the garage and got in her car. West told Roach he wanted to teach her a lesson, so Roach followed her to the garage and blocked her in.

      The effects of carbon monoxide were not that widely known, and West said he did not realize what he had happened until he went up to check on her a few hours later. It was West who discovered she had died, and he was horrified. So, he did not do anything, he closed the door, but left it unlocked and went back to the café. Roland West died in 1952; his career never recovered. Schenck died in 1961. Until the interview in 1987 the secrets stayed safe. It was feared that because the IRS was investigating Schenck. If Schenck knew about Todd, that if either man talked to law enforcement they could be compromised to the point of prison.

 

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1. Staff, The Mysterious Death of Massachusetts movie star Thelma Todd,New England Historical Society. May 17, 2017. Archived from the original on August 27, 2018. 
2. Donati, William (2014-01-10). The Life and Death of Thelma Todd. 
3. Welkos, Robert W. (May 29, 2002). "A Mystery Revisited". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the originalon August 15, 2020
4. Staff, (2018), The mysterious death of the Massachusetts movie star Thelma Todd, New England Historical Society, https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/the-mysterious-death-of-massachusetts-movie-star-thelma-todd/
5. Donati, William, (2012) The Life and Death of Thelma Todd. McFarland & Company, Inc., p. 368 and p. 174 *cause of death
6. https://www.indiewire.com/2015/10/this-exclusive-book-excerpt-unearths-the-mysterious-dead-body-of-the-golden-age-film-star-thelma-todd-56059/
7. Wolf, Marvin J., (1987), Thelma Todd’s Death—Solved, Marvin J. Wolf’s Blog, https://www.marvinjwolf.com/blog/thelma-todds-death-solved

Photo One https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelma_Todd

Photo Two  https://www.marvinjwolf.com/blog/thelma-todds-death-solved

Photo Three  https://calisphere.org/item/aa09fa86b8aeccb7d9117619af42dddc/