OSS in Turkey: Hospital Gangsters
Readers may be aware that on August 7th the US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. decertified an organ procurement organization named “Network for Hope” after they were caught trying to harvest organs from living people. Sadly this is not the type of thing that only happens in China, and today I’m going to detail how organ harvesting in the USA became mob business on the back of OSS connections with the Galician Gang, particularly in Turkey.
Organ harvesting is very big business and it’s hard to miss that our Midwestern Galician Gang members first became interested in supporting hospitals with charitable donations in the 1950s. Henry Crown, Conrad Hilton, Charles Ward… all the big names in Midwestern crime began channeling money into hospitals, or getting their wives appointed to hospital boards, during the 1950s-60s window when organ transplant technology first made the procedures viable. How much would you pay to stay alive?
Minneapolis Star, February 9, 1962. Charles Allen Ward, who had died three years prior, was the boss of the Galician Gang in the Twin Cities and Western Wisconsin. He and his wife were active supporting the local hospital in Hudson, WI.
Art Mahar, ultimately employed by Henry Crown at Swift & Co. in Nebraska, was a colleague of Larry King before Swift & Co. handed the “Franklin Community Federal Credit Union” to King’s son, Larry King Jr., of the Franklin Scandal. An old OSS man name William Colby helped squash the investigation in the Franklin Scandal, protecting an Epstein-like network of pedophiles in Washington D.C..
As this big business grew, the medical community adapted to meet market demands. Remember that “organ donor” option on your driver’s license?
Many of the medical mobsters, of whom I’ve just given a sample above, were also Zionists. Unfortunately Israel plays an outsized role in organ trafficking, as described in the 2015 European Parliament report “Trafficking in Human Organs”:
However, since the year 2000 trafficking in organs has seemingly started to spread globally, to a large extent driven by Israeli doctors and patients who explore opportunities to seek transplantation in Eastern European countries and Russia. Today, partly as a result of tougher law enforcement against trafficking in Eastern Europe, the Philippines and on the Indian subcontinent, organ commercialism and trafficking of human beings for the removal of organs (THBOR) has started shifting to Latin America, North Africa and other regions where the economic crisis alongside social and political instability create opportunities for traffickers.
…Due to the transnational nature of trafficking in organs, the key players in such operation can easily switch their base from one country to another, making it difficult for prosecutors to investigate cases and arrest perpetrators. Several Israeli brokers (e.g. in the Kosovo case) have repeatedly escaped prosecution in this way and started their operations again in a different country.
The report highlights an Israel-Turkey nexus in the trade, with Israeli brokers matching organ sellers (USD 10,000 - 20,000) to organ buyers (USD 100,000 -200,000) and Turkish doctors performing the surgery in Istanbul. Until 2008, Israeli health insurance outfits would reimburse for such procedures and Israeli military veterans were encouraged to pursue this unethical option.
But these horrors don’t just happen in third world countries, take the Rabbi Levy Izhak Rosenbaum organ trafficking case in the United States, for example:
Rosenbaum agreed to find a matching ‘donor’ who would be presented to the transplant centre as a close relation, in order to pass the screening procedure. To this end fraudulent identity papers would have to be forged. The procedure would be performed at the cost of USD 160 000 to the recipient (half paid up-front and the other half shortly before the transplant). …
During the prosecution it was established that Rosenbaum had acted as an organ trafficking broker already since 2001. He contacted his associates in Israel to locate suitable suppliers, based on blood/tissue matching. Suitable ‘donors’ would be looked after during the pre-transplant screening procedure. Rosenbaum would coach the recipient in the USA to make up a cover story to mislead the hospital staff performing the screening.
Initially both the recipients and the suppliers came from Israel under the flag of the Jewish charity organisation that Rosenbaum had established. Later on the recipients were mainly US citizens from orthodox Jewish communities in New Jersey and New York. The suppliers were Israeli nationals (mainly impoverished immigrants to Israel from Eastern Europe).
Rabbi Rosenbaum got 30 months in prison.
European Parliament, Trafficking in Human Organs, 2015. Look at the special place of the USA, the only country where buyers travel both “to” and “from”.
But why? Why would organized crime gangs working out of Israel have such a leg up in international organ trafficking? One answer comes from dear old Packy MacFarland, not an Israeli, but rather the Kentucky Colony’s OSS man in Istanbul.
MacFarland was appointed by William “Wild Bill” Donovan to manage the OSS’s operations in Istanbul. This was an important position because Istanbul was a way point for well-connected Jewish emigres leaving Europe. Istanbul should have been an intelligence goldmine: since 1933 Austrian refugees had flocked there. These Austrian emigres, largely Jewish, were the driving force for modernizing Turkey’s hospitals, medical schools, private medical practices, as well as many other social services. However, MacFarland’s dilettantism and reliance on the “CEREUS” informant network— which was probably the old journalist/Galician Gang network of Vienna’s Ringstrasse community— left American intel entirely at the hands of the Nazis. The USA’s intelligence gathering capacity in Istanbul was null until sometime in 1944 when Packy was sent to do his thing in Yugoslavia.
Lanning MacFarland in Serbia, circa 1919. Library of Congress.
But let’s be fair! Over his 1941-44 period in Istanbul, Packy had a punishing social schedule to maintain back in Chicago. Not only was he vice president of the “Beef Trust” Armour Family’s money laundering outfit Northern Trust, but he was also a trustee of Chicago’s Memorial Hospital:
Chicago Tribune, November 23, 1941.
And less than two months after readers learned about Memorial Hospital, Chi-Town saw Packy organizing the care of Canadian welfare cases at the Palmer House Hotel…
Chicago Tribune, January 30, 1942.
And three months after the above, Packy MacFarland was busy setting up a network of “Troops in Transit” lounges for tired servicemen in train stations … entertaining them with coin-operated arcade machines from the underworld Bally Manufacturing Company, maybe? (Also, free checking! $$$)
Chicago Tribune, April 18, 1942.
And a month after those lounges, Packy was organizing a war party at Chicago’s Union League Club, the hangout for Chicago’s shady real estate barons….
Chicago Tribune, May 14, 1942.
… where The Pack also served as director until September, 1942! Good gracious!
Chicago Tribune, September 18, 1942.
Then by early 1943, Packy MacFarland became an officer of the “Beef Trust” Swift Family’s “Orphan Asylum”…
Chicago Tribune, November 18, 1943.
Packy’s orphange work is somewhat ironical, given that his own boy became delinquent earlier that year:
Chicago Tribune, January 7, 1943.
When you add regular gambling and womanizing to the family drama and public service, can anybody blame Lanning MacFarland for not having time for OSS work?!
But in all honesty, I don’t think the OSS office in Istanbul was ever Packy’s real job. I’m confident that William “Wild Bill” Donovan thought CEREUS would run itself, after all, they had in the espionage business for far longer than Donovan. Rather, Packy’s charitable work in Chicago was the main event, with the prospect of 10-to-1 profits on the horizon. Why do I say that? Look what Donovan found time for in 1952:
Suburbanite Economist, April 9, 1952
Let that sink in a minute. The OSS chief was stumping for cancer drugs, that’s the big cure which the American Cancer Society has always plugged. Donovan had a cheer-squad of Chicago OSS men behind him.
Donovan was terraforming the Midwestern medical landscape for the monstrous profit engine of cancer research and ‘treatment’, one of the most contentious areas of medicine in our time. Read the headlines: “Cancer Drugs Bring in the Most Pharma Revenue”; “Pharma Makes Billions from Cancer Drugs. Do They Work?”; “Public Dollars, Private Profits? Cancer Drug’s Cost Sky High Despite Taxpayer Funding”. If any readers have experienced cancer themselves, or have a loved one who has, you’ll know that these treatments sometimes work, and if there’s a even 10% chance that they will, the chems are up-sold shamelessly. Donovan was onto a real moneymaker, and because Packy neglected Istanbul, the ground in Chicago was fertile for Donovan’s ‘medical’ message.
Now I’m going to share something rather tragic about the psychology of Packy’s friends, the Galician Gang honchos: many of them were desperate to shake the stigma of the ghetto. They looked to their WASP social superiors with bitterness, envy and an intense desire to beat them at their own elegant game. To that end, you’ll often find that Galician gangsters encouraged their sons to become doctors. Of course, the leaders of the Galician Gang before WWI were medical doctors, but there was also the cultural memory of shadlanut class doctors back in Austria-Hungary. (Think Sigmund Freud and his peers.) In fact, the military and medical profession were the first two avenues opened to Jews by Emperor Joseph II. I argue that there is evidence of this “inferiority complex” among Lanning MacFarland’s gangland comrades.
For example, I can tell you now that in the early 1950s Charles Ward got the “cowboy” bug: every year he’d get his photo taken in silky shirts and tight chaps and even bought a ranch down in Arizona. Why? The old money was doing it:
Chicago Tribune, August 4, 1948.
And Henry Crown, Chicago’s macher on Eisenhower’s team, aped the old families from Division Street:
Chicago Tribune, January 13, 1962.
And perhaps the strongest evidence of all, look at the “auxiliary officers” next to MacFarland and the Swifts on the board of Memorial Hospital by 1950:
Chicago Tribune, January 22, 1950.
Readers, if you, like myself, have looked with horror at the collapse of trust in doctors worldwide, if you’ve watched hospitals turn into death-factories and pharmaceutical companies drop their masks, you may take some solace in at least knowing why. Terrible things happen when the inmates are running the asylum.
