Pickled in hair gel and leering like an unscrupulous mortgage salesman, California Governor Gavin Newsom is conducting a stealth campaign for the Presidency, hoping to position himself as the least worst substitute for the doddering Joe Biden. A leading coronafascist and a prime specimen of Bay Area politics — which requires posturing as left-liberal while quietly cutting lucrative deals for the ultra-wealthy — Newsom is so repellent that it’s hard to take him seriously as a candidate.
However, the Democratic primaries are now rigged to ensure that the DNC’s choice becomes the nominee. And his likely Republican opponent is equally loathsome. So it’s entirely plausible that Newsom will become the next Oval Office figurehead, charged with bamboozling the people through escalating attacks by the ruling class on our lives, liberty, and happiness.
Therefore, at some risk of nausea, I’m going to take a close look at the checkered background and lavishly-financed career of Grusesome Newsome. Part One follows below.
The family fortune of Presidential hopeful Gavin Newsom can be traced back to a CIA-sponsored Nazi genocidaire who, apparently in collaboration with the billionaire Getty family, set up Newsom’s father in the wine business.
Newsom family friend Otto Bolschwing — formerly SS-Hauptsturmführer Otto von Bolschwing —was no mere soldier or functionary "following orders." He was a Nazi zealot, a war criminal, and an architect of the Holocaust, cynically rehabilitated by the CIA due to his intelligence value. Working under Adolph Eichmann, he helped devise programs to persecute and terrorize Germany's Jewish population.
In a 1937 report to the Nazi Jewish Affairs Office, he proposed a comprehensive economic, social, and legal attack on Germany's Jews:
Propaganda would be necessary to help the German people understand “the pernicious impact of the Jews.” Subsequently popular anger could be exploited to:
By 1942, Bolschwing was empowered to put his convictions about pogroms into practice. He organized a massacre in Bucharest carried out by the fascist Iron Guard under SS leadership. Christopher Simpson’s Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Effects on the Cold War (1988) supplies the sickening details:
Iron Guardists stormed into the Jewish sector of Bucharest on January 20, 1941, burning synagogues, looting stores, and destroying residences. Hundreds of innocent people were rounded up for execution. Some victims were actually butchered in a municipal meat-packing plant, hung on meathooks, and branded as “kosher meat” with red-hot irons. Their throats were cut in an intentional desecration of kosher laws. Some were beheaded. “Sixty Jewish corpses [were discovered] on the hooks used for carcasses,” U.S. Ambassador to Romania Franklin Mott Gunther wired back to Washington after the pogrom. “They were all skinned . . . [and] the quantity of blood about [was evidence] that they had been skinned alive.” Among the victims, according to eyewitnesses, was a girl no more than five years old who was left hanging by her feet like a slaughtered calf, her body bathed in blood.
Bolschwing’s horrific crimes were no bar to developing a cozy relationship with U.S. intelligence agencies, which he contacted in 1945 once it became clear that the Nazis had lost the war. By 1947 he was engaged full-time by the CIA in anti-Soviet espionage operations. He was later granted asylum and US citizenship under the auspices of Operation Paperclip, the notorious secret program through which thousands of Nazis, many of them war criminals, were illegally taken in hand by the spook apparatus and granted cushy careers in the United States.
In exchange for ongoing services that remain mysterious, the CIA secured executive positions for Bolschwing at the Warner-Lambert pharmaceutical business (now Pfizer). In 1969 he assumed a high-level role with Trans-International Computer Investment Corporation (TCI), a Sacramento investment firm that was probably a CIA front. The company traded in technology that was used to monitor troop movements in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and carried out various secret contracts for the Department of Defense. All employees were issued national security clearances.
One of such employee was TCI’s attorney, one Willam A. Newsom III, father of Gavin Newsom and later a judge for the 1st District Court of Appeals in San Francisco. Bolschwing and the elder Newsom worked closely together, traveling through Europe in 1969-70 on a business junket to exploit Bolschwing’s “extremely valuable connections and information in Germany, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, the Netherlands, Antilles and South America.” Presumably these connections included former Nazis.
As it happened, Bolschwing had a profitable side gig importing wine from Argentina and was able to set up Newsom in the same business, thus planting the seeds that would later make Gavin a winery multi-millionaire.
In another respect, TCI was an invaluable connection for both the Nazi and the judge. Among TCI’s directors was J. Paul Getty Jr., son of the oil billionaire who was then the world’s richest man. Getty “thought enough of von Bolschwing to make him the firm’s president in 1970.”
For CIA operative Bolschwing, Getty would have been a prized source of intel, leverage, and connections. For Newsom, who soon became the Getty family lawyer, the billionaire dynasty would provide his mediocre, academically challenged son with wealth and a political career.
To be continued …