Talk:Thomas H. McKittrick

BIS WWII Emil Puhl

There is little reference to McKittrick's stewardship of the BIS and his involvement with the likes of Emil Puhl and transfer of Czechoslovakian gold and Belgium gold in UK bank vaults!

Here are a few short clips from Tabletmag http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/143053/hitlers-american-banker

Here is a small part (fair use):

McKittrick was a lawyer by training with no direct experience of central banking McKittrick a graduate of Harvard University and a graduate of the St. Louis University School of Law McKittrick close to Emil Puhl, the Reichsbank vice-president, whom McKittrick described as his friend When visiting the USA in Dec 1942 McKittrick was denied permission to return to Basel. While waiting for his passport he was debriefed by OSS about intelligence gleaned Nazi contacts. McKittrick was able to reveal Hitler, had become indecisive. McKittrick detailed his role as a back-channel between anti-Nazi Germans and the United States. McKittrick returned to Basel in April 1943. Despite his lobbying and John Foster Dulles’ legal advice, the BIS’s bank’s funds in the United States remained frozen McKittrick’s old friend Allen Dulles ran the Swiss branch of the OSS. McKittrick, also known as OSS codename 644, regularly met with Dulles and American Ambassador Leland Harrison. The three men, McKittrick recalled, talked more freely “in those meetings than at any other time.” Dulles and Harrison wanted to know everything McKittrick knew, especially about Nazi money channels. McKittrick, they discovered, knew a lot. For example, the BIS held gold for the Reichsbank, so sometimes, when the interest was due on the bank’s investments, the BIS simply helped itself to the Nazi gold it held to make up the payments. At other times, the Germans borrowed BIS gold for their dealings with Swiss banks. This cozy arrangement caused no concern at the BIS, said McKittrick, as “we knew that they’d replace it.” McKittrick’s close relationship with Emil Puhl, the vice president of the Reichsbank, was especially valued by Dulles and the OSS. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.172.99.4 (talk) 20:34, 10 September 2016 (UTC)