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Townsend Walter Hoopes (S&B 1944)

Phillips Academy.* Yale University. Skull and Bones. National War College. Council on Foreign Relations

President, Association of American Publishers, Inc, DC.[2]

Vice President, Director Cresap, McCormick & Paget Inc, International Management Consultant.[2]

1967 to 1969 - Under Secretary, Air Force. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara by President Gerald Ford (Freemason) / VP Nelson Rockefeller.[2]

1973 to 1986 - President of the Association of American Publishers.

1 Jul 1971 - In a telephone conversation between Richard Nixon (Bohemian) and Charles “Chuck” Colson, taped on July 1, 1971, Colson relates the news that Lyndon Johnson privately believed that Hoopes [S&B 1944] had played a role in releasing the Pentagon Papers to the press, and that he would have liked to see Hoopes [S&B 1944] taken to court by the government alongside various newspapermen. A 1996 article in The New York Times said that the Pentagon Papers had demonstrated, among other things, that the Johnson Administration “systematically lied, not only to the public but also to Congress.”

17 Nov 1969 to May 1972 - Co-chairman of Americas for SALT 1 (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) by President Richard Nixon (Bohemian)

1967 to 1969 - Under Secretary of the Air Force at the Pentagon to Secretary Robert McNamara (Bohemian) by President Lyndon B. Johnson

1966 to 1967 - Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Defense for International Security Affairs to Secretary Robert McNamara (Bohemian) by President Lyndon B. Johnson.[2]

1965 to 1966 - Deputy Assistant Secretary, Defense / ISA Near East-South Asia to Secretary Robert McNamara (Bohemian) by President Lyndon B. Johnson.[2]

1964 - Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Affairs to Secretary Robert McNamara by President Lyndon B. Johnson.[2]

1958 to 1964 - Partner, Cresao, McCormick & Paget.[2]

1957 to 1958 - Secretary, Military Panel, Rockefeller Bros Fund, Spec Studies project.

1955 to 1957 - Associate, JH Whitney & Co.[2]

1954 - Consultant, White House on Organization of National Security Council by Dwight D. Eisenhower.[2]

1954 - Consultant, State, Defense on overseas military bases.[2]

1953 to 1955 - Assistant to President, Spencer Chemical Co.[2] (became world’s biggest ammonium nitrate producer. Contacted by War Dept in 1941 for weapon-grade ammonia nitrate)

1948 to 1953 - Assistant to Secretary of Defense by President Harry Truman (Freemason).[2]. Staff aid to James Forrestal (MJ12 “Fell”), General George Marshall “Marshall Plan” (Freemason) and Robert A Lovett (S&B 1950).

1947 to 1948 - DC Editorial Writer, Buffalo Evening News.[2]

1947 to 1948 - Assistant to Chairman, Communication on Armed Services, House of Rep by President Harry Truman (Freemason) [2] (starts just after Operation High Jump ends early … Search mind map)

1943 to 1946 - Lt, US Marine Corp.[2] (ends just around the time of operation high jump)

Married Marion C Schmidt , Ann (Cunningham) Merrifield

1944 - Graduated Yale, Skull and Bones Patriarch.[1]

Died 20 Sep 2004, from complications of melanoma. Age 81.

Note:

Edwin Lyon Dale Jr. (S&B 1945) - NY Times Journalist - got the scoop relating to a faction of the Pentagon that was forming to resist a troop buildup in Vietnam.

[1] - America’s Secret Establishment. An Introduction to the Order of Skull and Bones by Antony C. Sutton (2004)

[2] - Fleshing Out Skull & Bones - Investigations into America’s Most Powerful Secret Society 2008 by Antony Sutton, Howard Altman, Kris Millegan, Dr Ralph Bunch, Anton Chaitkin and Webster Griffin Tarpley

[3] - FYI - Wiki - Townsend Hoopes S&B 1944

[4] - The Inventory of the Townsend Hoopes Collection #51 - Howard Archival Research Center - ref review of the Pentagons …. and / or did he release them ?

[5] - NIXON TAPES: LBJ, Pentagon Papers, & “Friendly” Juries (Colson)