Ailsa Mellon Bruce
<p >Bush's predecessor in China, David K.E. Bruce, had married Ailsa Mellon Bruce, daughter of former Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon. Mellon had been in Woodrow Wilson's cabinet at the same time the Dulles' uncle Robert Lansing was Secretary of State. Ailsa's cousin, Margaret Mellon, had married Tommy Hitchcock, a polo-playing investment banker who on the same polo team with Averell Harriman, Prescott Bush's senior partner at Brown Brothers Harriman. Their son, Billy Mellon Hitchcock, was a friend of <a href="http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/history/aof/aof3.html" target="blank">LSD guru Timothy Leary</a>, and during the same time that the heroin coup was in the works, Billy was caught up in a scandal involving the <a href="http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/lsd/marks7.htm" target="blank">CIA-tested hallucinogen</a>, LSD. In 2002 I wrote a series called "<a href="http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0205/S00063.htm" target="_blank">Follow the Yellow Brick Road</a>," about the collapse of Enron, in which the following paragraph appeared:
The Mellon family had close ties with the O.S.S. London station chief David K.E. Bruce was married to Andrew Mellon’s daughter. Also, the Mellon uncles were social friends of CIA director Richard Helms during the late 60s and early 70s. Bobby Lehman, who gave Billy Mellon Hitchcock a job at Lehman Brothers in 1961 also had participated with W.A. Harriman and Co. in aviation issues (Lehman, Billy's father Tommy Hitchcock and Averell Harriman were on the same polo team). Lehman Brothers also financed David Sarnoff’s Radio Corporation of America, which served as Sir William “Intrepid” Stephenson’s headquarters in New York until the O.S.S. was established. Like Drexel & Co., Lehman Brothers would also be bought out by European old-money families. It first merged with Kuhn Loeb and later with the company formed by the merger between Shearson Hayden Stone and Loeb Rhoades--forming Shearson Lehman American Express, which in 1992 was controlled by Edmund Safra and Carl Lindner (each with about 4%). This leads us to wonder who Lindner was fronting for. Could it have been the same old-world aristocrats, heavily involved in the global drug trade?...
[Paul] Helliwell also set up the Castle Bank in the Bahamas to launder money flowing from the sale of drugs from Burma and Thailand used to finance [Claire] Chennault's airline. Castle Bank would eventually be connected to Billy Mellon Hitchcock's profits from selling LSD to California college students....In 1967 Hitchcock left his job at Lehman Brothers to become a partner in Delafield and Delafield, based on the institutional account he brought in from IOS. It was the Delafield bank which handled the stock for the conversion of Mary Carter Paint to Resorts International. In 1969 Hitchcock left Delafield. By then he was living in Sausalito, California and already enmeshed in operations to spread the use of LSD among the youth of California. To learn more about Billy Mellon Hitchcock's role in bringing LSD to America, see Chapter 2 of <i>Acid Dreams, The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond,</i> New York: Grove Weidenfeld. ©1985 by Lee & Shlain at <a href="http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/lsd/dreams2.htm">http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/lsd/dreams2.htm</a>.
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