The partner mentioned in that CIA link is the same partner who gave my dad a letter of recommendation for his work. In the CIA link that Cravath, Swaine and & Moore partner wrote a memo about someone in 1951 that was then forwarded onto the CIA Allen Dulles! Wow....
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80R01731R003000220118-9.pdf
Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP is a prestigious American "white-shoe" law firm founded in 1819, headquartered in New York City with offices in London and Washington, D.C. The firm is known for its top-tier corporate, litigation, and antitrust practices and is considered one of the most prestigious law firms, ranking No. 1 on the Vault Law 100 list for ten consecutive years.
That was back in 1956!! Wow.
70 years ago....
let's see how much CIA interaction is in the open records -
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP86B00269R000300010058-4.pdf
CIA calls one of their lawyers....John D. Calhoun
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80B01676R003900010074-0.pdf
The CIA director Allen Dulles thanks one of their lawyers, Cecil E. Goode, for recommending a book to read...
Well there's regular interaction by the CIA with the top law firm in the U.S. - not surprisingly since the CIA was formed out by elite lawyers....
$27,803.91
That was the financial value of my dad's scholarship for one year at NYU Law School - in 1955 it was $2300 but in today's value it is the above. Pretty pricey! Wow.
Nevertheless education costs have increased significantly since then! Below are the average yearly costs:
An IQ of 133 is considered very superior or moderately gifted, placing you in the top percentile of the population. Specifically, it's in the 98.6th percentile, meaning you have a score higher than approximately 98.6% of people your age
My guess is my Dad's IQ score on his undergraduate transmission record probably was the key factor in achieving the scholarship to NYU. He told me he was accepted to Harvard Law School but didn't get any scholarship....
Literally half of Mensa-eligibles are 133 or below.
Personally I don't believe in IQ tests and I would never take one. The San Bushmen score the lowest on IQ tests....but my dad was ranked 7th out of 209 of the NYU law school students in terms of his GPA. So that is what enabled him to score that swanky "Number 1" ranked law firm summer job after his first year of law school!
The scholarship was founded and funded by Elihu Root.
https://ballsandstrikes.org/legal-culture/elihu-root-imperialist-legacy/
The man in charge of subjugating the United States’ colonial possessions wasn’t a soldier at all, but a lawyer: New York City’s leading corporate attorney, Secretary of War Elihu Root. From his early years as a Manhattan trial lawyer to his time in the McKinley and Roosevelt Cabinets, Root zealously advocated for the interests of America’s Gilded Age Elites. He oppressed entire nations in the name of profit, with ramifications that linger to this day.
In 1873, Root joined the defense team of Boss Tweed, Tammany Hall kingmaker and New York City’s leading Democrat, who was on trial for embezzling public funds. The media frenzy surrounding the trial raised Root’s public profile, but his association with Tweed, whom the jury found guilty, tarnished his professional reputation. Ever mindful of his public image, Root distanced himself from Tweed and began aligning himself with the Republican Party instead.
Root fell in with the city’s elite commercial class and joined them in solving that most vexing of problems: competition. Gilded Age elites believed in free-market capitalism right up until it became a nuisance. They assessed that by cooperating rather than competing—either by merging their corporations or bundling them into trusts—they could dominate workers, streamline supply chains, and make more money with fewer headaches.
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and his efforts to professionalize the army’s officer corps did nothing to stop American forces from committing horrific atrocities, such as the infamous “water cure.” American soldiers would force Filipino prisoners to drink water until their bellies swelled, then expel the water by beating the prisoners’ stomachs with the butts of their rifles.
Philip C. Jessup, Root’s close friend and biographer, stressed that Root never explicitly commanded American forces to kill civilians, and ordered an end to the “water cure.” But according to the anti-imperialist lawyer Julian Codman, a contemporary of Root’s, the Secretary of War deliberately misled the public about the scale and nature of American atrocities, never meaningfully enforced his anti-torture orders, and tacitly approved of his forces’ ruthless conduct.
Root negotiated arbitration treaties with 24 nations, for which he eventually received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1912—a stupendously absurd honor considering his record as Secretary of War just a decade earlier. Later, he served as president of the American Bar Association, and briefly in the U.S. Senate, where he continued to oppose Philippine independence.
New York University Law School rewards top public interest students with Root-Tilden-Kern Scholarships. The school affectionately refers to recipients as “Roots.”
And Samuel J. Tilden?
A War Democrat who opposed slavery, Tilden opposed Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 presidential election, but later supported him and the Union during the Civil War. Afterward, he became the chairman of the New York State Democratic Committee and managed Horatio Seymour's campaign in the 1868 presidential election.
Tilden initially cooperated with the state party's Tammany Hall faction, but he broke with them in 1871 due to boss William M. Tweed's rampant corruption.........
In the Compromise of 1877, Democratic leaders agreed to accept Hayes as the victor in return for the end of Reconstruction.[2] Tilden is the only presidential candidate to win an absolute majority of the popular vote while losing the election.[a]
So the Chairman of the Minnesota Republican Party helped my dad apply for the Root-Tilden scholarship - his name was Bernhard LeVander:
- He was a lawyer and served as chairman of the Minnesota Republican Party from 1946 to 1950.
He was brother to another lawyer...Harold LeVander who had connections to Eisenhower!
Although unsuccessful in his bid for President, Stassen became a member of the Executive Cabinet as President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s “Secretary of Peace.”
Along come LeVander, Gillen and Miller ~ In 1935, Harold LeVander and Fallon Kelly joined the firm. Due to the obligations of the public offices held by Ryan and Stassen, LeVander and Kelly purchased the firm and changed its name to Kelly & LeVander.
Wow - fascinating. So Bernie LeVander (as my dad called him) secured a recommendation from "assistant attorney general Warren Burger" - who eventually became a Supreme Court Justice!
Warren E. Burger was from Minnesota; he was born in Saint Paul and spent his early years there. He attended local schools, including Johnson High School, and graduated from the St. Paul College of Law, now known as William Mitchell College of Law. After a successful career in Minnesota's legal and political scene, he later became the 15th Chief Justice of the United States
Wow!!
He was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 1955 and later nominated by President Nixon to become the Chief Justice of the United States in 1969.
OK so my dad was chairmen of the Minnesota College Republicans at the time - quite a nice connection to have.... his LSAT score was in the 88th percentile as he wrote down. It was a score of 603 out of 800. It must have been weighed somewhat since AI says that's 84th percentile...
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Ex-CIA officer Philip Agee considered that the ICJ was "set up and controlled by the CIA for propaganda operations."[3] The CIA funding became public in 1967, but the organization survived the revelations after a period of reform under Secretary General Seán MacBride, and through Ford Foundation funding.[1][2] MacBride himself was involved in CIA funding, according to information the US government reported.[4]
So the Ford Foundation was funding my dad's study in Sweden and they were used as a CIA front via Columbia University with my dad corresponding with a prominent Columbia University Professor also.
Strangely though Professor Cahn who praised my dad highly was then targeted by the McCarthy UnAmerican Committee as Cahn being a sponsor of the USA Communist Party.... and listed as a
List of Communist Party USA members
Regarding some case Professor Cahn gives his own opinion of what is right. He believes it is wrong to kill another even to save your own life (p. 71); that private fornication is morally right since contraceptives are now available (pp. 92-93); and that the fault concept has no place in the law of annulment of marriage and divorce.
National Committee on Taxation of the National Lawyers Guild was chaired by Edmond Cahn also....
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