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(84,711 posts)Pam and Russ Martens at "Wall Street on Parade" have some good links and updates on these Banker's deaths)
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JPMorgan Vice Presidents Death in London Shines a Light on the Banks Close Ties to the CIA
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: February 12, 2014
The nonstop crime news swirling around JPMorgan Chase for a solid 18 months has started to feel a little spooky they do lots of crime but never any time; and with each closed case, a trail of unanswered questions remains in the publics mind.
Just when the public was numbing itself to the endless stream of financial malfeasance which cost JPMorgan over $30 billion in fines and settlements in just the past 13 months, we learned on January 28 of this year that a happy, healthy 39-year old technology Vice President, Gabriel Magee, was found dead on a 9th level rooftop of the banks 33-story European headquarters building in the Canary Wharf section of London.
The way the news of this tragic and sudden death was stage-managed by highly skilled but invisible hands, turning a demonstrably suspicious incident into a cut-and-dried suicide leap from the rooftop (devoid of eyewitnesses or motivation) had all the hallmarks of a sophisticated covert operation or coverup.
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If JPMorgans CEO, Jamie Dimon, needed a little crisis management help from operatives, he has no shortage of people to call upon. Thomas Higgins was, until a few months ago, a Managing Director and Global Head of Operational Control for JPMorgan. (A BusinessWeek profile shows Higgins still employed at JPMorgan while the New York Post reported that he left late last year.) What is not in question is that Higgins was previously the Senior Officer and Station Chief in the CIAs National Clandestine Service, a component of which is the National Resources Division. (Higgins bio is printed in past brochures of the CIA Officers Memorial Foundation, where Higgins is listed with his JPMorgan job title, former CIA job title, and as a member of the Foundations Board of Directors for 2013.)
According to Jeff Stein, writing in Newsweek on November 14, the National Resources Division (NR) is the biggest little CIA shop youve never heard of. One good reason youve never heard of it until now is that the New York Times was asked not to name it in 2001. James Risen writes in a New York Times piece: [the CIAs] New York station was behind the false front of another federal organization, which intelligence officials requested that The Times not identify. The station was, among other things, a base of operations to spy on and recruit foreign diplomats stationed at the United Nations, while debriefing selected American business executives and others willing to talk to the C.I.A. after returning from overseas.
Stein gives us even less reason to feel confident about this situation, writing that the NR knows some titans of finance are not above being romanced. Most love hanging out with the agencys top spies James Bond and all that and being solicited for their views on everything from the streets latest tricks to their meetings with, say, Chinas finance minister. JPMorgan Chases Jamie Dimon and Goldman Sachs Lloyd Blankfein, one former CIA executive recalls, loved to get visitors from Langley. And the CIA loves them back, not just for their patriotic cooperation with the spy agency, sources say, but for the influence they have on Capitol Hill, where the intelligence budgets are hashed out.
More...Interesting Background that's more detailed than copyright snips here at:
http://wallstreetonparade.com/2014/02/jpmorgan-vice-president%E2%80%99s-death-in-london-shines-a-light-on-the-bank%E2%80%99s-close-ties-to-the-cia/