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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 10 Num. 12
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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DWAYNE ANDREAS AND ARCHER-DANIELS-MIDLAND
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"Mr. Nice Guy" and the "Corporate Citizen"
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In CN 10.10 it was noted how "...prominent GOP supporter Dwayne
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Andreas of Archer Daniels Midland... donated $100,000 to Bill
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Clinton's inaugural in 1993." It was also noted how
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Archer-Daniels-Midland (ADM) funds the ultra-boring yet
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oh-so-educational Jim Lehrer Newshour on PBS.
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Not seen to my knowledge on the "public" television "news"
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program has been major coverage of what's been going on for
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several decades with Dwayne Andreas, Michael Andreas, ADM, and
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others. (If PBS won't do it, Conspiracy Nation will.)
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According to several articles in the New Federalist (7/29/96),
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ADM and friends are quite a story. Here are excerpts from the
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articles:
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In 1878, John W. Daniels began selling flaxseed to produce
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linseed oil and in 1902 formed Daniels Linseed Company in
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Minneapolis. George A. Archer, another experienced
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flaxseed crusher, joined the company in 1903. In 1923, the
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company bought Midland Products and adopted the name Archer
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Daniels Midland (ADM).
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Dwayne Andreas, born in Decatur, Illinois in 1918, joined
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his father's R.P. Andreas firm in the mid-1930s. In 1936,
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the Andreas family changed the name of the firm to the
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Honeymead Company. In 1945, [Dwayne Andreas] sold 60
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percent of the family's Honeymead to Cargill [another food
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giant].
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From 1946 through 1952, Dwayne Andreas worked for Cargill,
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learning how to hedge and speculate [a.k.a. rob farmers] in
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commodities. In 1945, Dwayne Andreas met Hubert Humphrey.
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Andreas contributed $1,000 to Humphrey's first senatorial
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campaign in 1948. Humphrey and Andreas became intimate.
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Humphrey was godfather to Andreas's son. In 1977,
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Humphrey, then on the Senate Agriculture Committee, wrote
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legislation to establish government supports for sugar,
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which saved Andreas from huge losses. In the 1980s,
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Andreas funded a Hubert Humphrey Room at the
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Anti-Defamation League's new headquarters at U.N. Plaza in
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New York City. While Humphrey lived, Andreas and Humphrey
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took 85 trips together.
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New Federalist has recently reported on the connections
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between 1948 GOP presidential candidate and governor of New
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York Tom Dewey and Republican Party judge-fixer Roy Cohn.
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According to a July 14, 1996 cover story in the magazine
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section of the Sunday Washington Post, Dewey, working
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during the 1950s as Andreas's lawyer, set up the Andreas
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Foundation, to spread Andreas's influence through
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charitable and political contributions. Andreas provided
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the funds, and Dewey decided where to distribute the
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foundation's largesse. "Give money to both sides
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[Democratic and Republican]. And give to the people your
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friends ask you to give to," is how the Post described the
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foundation's policy.
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What did Andreas get in return? For one thing, when Dewey
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became the governor of New York, he saw to it that ADM was
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awarded a lucrative contract to provide soy-based food
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products to the state's prison system.
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Over the decades, working "both sides of the fence" also
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netted ADM a change in the Food for Peace legislation of
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the 1960s to allow that federal program to sell processed
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food (from ADM and other cartel companies), and action by
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Richard Nixon to open China's wheat markets to ADM-supplied
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grain, to mention only a few of the good turns done for
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ADM.
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In 1974, ADM entered into a price-fixing scheme that
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overcharged the U.S. government $19 million in sales of
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soy-fortified food to the Food for Peace program. ADM was
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convicted. In 1976, the company pleaded no contest to
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federal charges that it had systematically short-weighted
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and misgraded federally subsidized grain that was being
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shipped abroad.
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In 1984, Andreas met Mikhail Gorbachov for the first time.
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In 1990, Andreas contributed $1 million to create a
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Gorbachov Institute in the United States and Russia.
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Andreas was always close, as a result of his friendship
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with Hubert Humphrey, to the organized crime-linked
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Anti-Defamation League of the B'nai B'rith. During the
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1980s, Andreas was persuaded by another major grain trader,
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Burton Joseph, of the Minneapolis-based S.I. Joseph
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Company, to contribute $1 million to the ADL. Andreas made
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the payments in amounts of $50,000 to $100,000 per year.
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In 1995, the U.S. Justice Department launched an
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investigation into fraud and anti-competitive price-fixing
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in ADM's handling and marketing of corn sweeteners and
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lysine -- a livestock feed supplement.
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Key personnel connected with ADM are: Howard Buffett, vice
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president of ADM and son of Warren Buffett; Robert Strauss,
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George Bush's ambassador to Russia, 1991-1993; Brian
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Mulroney, former prime minister of Canada; Michael Andreas,
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son of Dwayne Andreas and heir-apparent to the empire.
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Dwayne Andreas sits on the Hollinger International Advisory
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Board, headed by Lady Margaret Thatcher, Henry Kissinger,
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and Lord Peter Carrington. Also on the Hollinger board are
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Evelyn de Rothschild, Giovanni Agnelli of FIAT, and former
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Fed chief Paul Volcker.
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(For a related story, see CN 10.02, "The Soybean Cases and
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Judicial Bribery" by Sherman H. Skolnick.)
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