His father, a Jewish doctor from Russia immigrated to the United States was a leader of the Socialist Labor Party of America (Socialist Workers Party in the U.S.). Armand makes the small fortune during Prohibition by selling a "medicine" that contains alcohol.
In 1921, Armand Hammer traveled to Russia, under cover of a humanitarian mission intended to recover a small fortune that the Soviets have a familiar drug company. His father's connections allow you to find Lenin, in the throes of the NEP (New Economic Policy). Lenin gives his blessing Hammer, who was nicknamed "the little path that leads to estadinense business world." Hammer obtained a concession since fictional asbestos (used to launder money), a wheat import business, Ford trucks agency, the national monopoly of lead pencils and fur concessions in Siberia. It also lets you catch the Russian museums of precious paintings. The FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover, wrote in his FBI file deel: "A gang of rotten" (a rotten bunch.) Lifetime remains close to Soviet power. Is friends with Nikita Khrushchev and serves as an intermediary between five Soviet leaders and their corresponding estadinenses up Michail Gorbachev.
In 1956 a small oil purchase ruined, Occidental Oil. Armed with its many political and financial contacts, the company quickly transformed into a giant tentacle. West called miracle growth, showing sales of 700 million dollars since 1966. This is the year that brings the grand prize with a concession in Libya, which is disclosed as one of the largest deposits of black gold in the world, estimated at three billion barrels. The oil is safe despite Khadafi coup, the first of September 1969.
Despite his obvious sympathy for the elites of the Soviet Union remained Hammer lifetime member of the Republican party earnest. It was one of the biggest supporters of Richard Nixon. Convicted of illegal campaign contributions to the latter, is eventually rewarded with a presidential pardon from George HW Bush. Also nearby is among the supporters of Al Gore, whose father, Al Gore Sr., had among its members. Al Gore Sr., The father of the great green leader, built his fortune and his influence as chairman of the coal division of Occidental Petroleum. In the course of the campaign of Bill Clinton, Ray Irani, Occidental Petroleum CEO, supports the Democratic National Committee with the sum of $ 470,000, plus 35,550 directly offer dollars at the same Al Gore. In 1995 he was invited to spend the night in the White House in the Lincoln bedroom. Then, Al Gore manages to federal oil reserves at Elk Hills is transferred to Occidental.
Hammer brags at the end of his life to be the only human being in history has been a friend of Vladimir Lenin and Ronald Reagan.
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* agent du Tsar Stalin, Roman Brackman * Dossier: The Secret History of Armand Hammer, Edward Jay Epstein * Hammer, Armand Hammer * Wikipedia * The Prize, Daniel Yergin * http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/armand_hammer.htm
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Traduction: Rolando Lequeux
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