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Kerry Burgess
Monday, July 09, 2018 at 4:29 pm
from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: 9/28/2006 3:14 PM
I wonder if I remember living in McAlester, OK,
We lived there while James Nevells was in the U.S. Marines and assigned to a nearby military base. We lived in base housing, which I think was just off base. I had a girlfriend named Stacy Graham, whose father was also in the Marines. I got in trouble one time for pouring a bucket of blue paint down a slide in a playground. We had a bicycle race through the neighborhood which I won. I remember Stacy and I watched Evel Knievel attempt to jump over the Snake River and I knew he wasn’t going to make as soon as he blasted off.
From 12/28/1911 ( the debut of the United States Army M1911 pistol ) To 10/18/1993 ( the launch of the US space shuttle Columbia orbiter vehicle mission STS-58 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-58 pilot astronaut and my 2nd official United States National Aeronautics Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) is 29880 days
29880 = 14940 + 14940
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 9/28/2006 is 14940 days
From 1/19/1993 ( in Asheville North Carolina as United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess I was seriously wounded by gunfire when I returned fatal gunfire to a fugitive from United States federal justice who was another criminal sent by Bill Gates-Nazi-Microsoft-George Bush the cowardly violent criminal in another attempt to kill me the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 9/28/2006 is 5000 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/12/1979 ( premiere US TV series episode "Project U.F.O."::"Sighting 4025: The Whitman Tower Incident" ) is 5000 days
From 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 officially the United States Apache attack helicopter pilot ) To 9/28/2006 is 5733 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/14/1981 ( Max Hugel resigns after The Washington Post reports "CIA Spymaster Is Accused of Improper Stock Practices" ) is 5733 days
From 4/20/1950 ( Roscoe Hillenkoetter the director of United States of America Central Intelligence Agency initiates Project Bluebird ) To 3/16/1991 ( my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate ) is 14940 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 9/28/2006 is 14940 days
From 1/28/1915 ( Woodrow Wilson - Veto Message: H.R. 6060, "An act to regulate the immigration of aliens to and the residence of aliens in the United States" ) To 11/18/1996 ( premiere US film "Star Trek: First Contact" ) is 29880 days
29880 = 14940 + 14940
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 9/28/2006 is 14940 days
from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: 9/28/2006 6:50 PM
One day when I was in the gulag in Pioneer Square, there was a choir that came in and performed down in the cafeteria. It must have been a Tuesday because I think we had that weekly house meeting that day and they were still in there. I think they started during the dinner meal. It may have been around last Christmas. I remember thinking they had sure traveled a long ways to be there. Were they not from Princeton University??!!
9/28/2006 6:56 PM
I think it was this group. Whoever they were, they were very good.
http://www.princeton.edu/~choir/
http://www.tv.com/shows/project-ufo/sighting-4025-the-whitman-tower-incident-134345/
tv.com
Project UFO Season 2 Episode 12
Sighting 4025: The Whitman Tower Incident
Aired Sunday 10:00 PM Jul 12, 1979 on NBC
AIRED: 7/12/79
Homer Loves Flanders - The Simpsons television series episode
Original airdate in N.A.: 17-Mar-94
[Ned wakes up, gasping]
Maude: What's the matter, Ned?
Ned: I...I think I hate Homer Simpson.
[Homer wakes up, gasping]
Homer: Marge...I think I hate Ted Koppel! No, wait, I find him informative and witty. 'Night.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_1911
December 1911
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The following events occurred in December 1911:
December 28, 1911 (Thursday)
The first M1911 pistol, sidearm for the U.S. Army, was manufactured, part of a set of 40 made that day at the Colt firearms factory in Hartford.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1911_pistol
album: "We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank" (2007)
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/modestmouse/florida.html
AZ
MODEST MOUSE
"Florida"
Although we often wondered
It was no thing of wonder
The shit that flew from our minds
Grass stains and fresh fruit
Reminds our shoes of horse glue
On this ridiculous climb
With great tunnel vision
We built ourselves a mission
To ride out motives decide
Oh, with vague description
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic_trauma
Ballistic trauma
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The term ballistic trauma refers to a form of physical trauma sustained from the discharge of arms or munitions. The most common forms of ballistic trauma stem from firearms used in armed conflicts, civilian sporting and recreational pursuits, and criminal activity.
The degree of tissue disruption caused by a projectile is related to the size of the temporary versus permanent cavity it creates as it passes through tissue.
Non-fatal gunshot wounds frequently have severe and long-lasting effects, even after the victim has made a successful recovery. Typically, the consequences involve some form of major disfigurement and/or permanent disability.
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http://www.tv.com/shows/preacher/gonna-hurt-3514538/
tv.com
Preacher Season 3 Episode 3
Gonna Hurt
Aired Jul 08, 2018 on AMC
TV Show Episode Scripts > Preacher (2016) > Season 3 > Gonna Hurt
Preacher (2016) s03e03 Episode Script
Gonna Hurt
(from internet transcript)
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Preacher Jesse Custer: ( about Cassidy: ) He's not healing quite as fast as we thought.
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from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: 9/12/2006 11:27 AM
Was I part of the group that is known as Delta Force? That would make sense.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skycycle_X-2
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1981/07/14/cia-spymaster-is-accused-of-improper-stock-practices/360d5c67-b746-4792-bf65-10a50f1719d7/
The Washington Post
CIA Spymaster Is Accused of Improper Stock Practices
By Bob Woodward and Patrick E. Tyler
July 14, 1981
Max Hugel, who holds one of the most sensitive jobs in the Reagan administration as chief of the CIA's clandestine service, engaged in a pattern of improper or illegal stock market practices in the mid-1970s that was intended to boost the stock of the New York wholesale firm he headed, according to two former business associates who secretly tape-recorded Hugel's business conversations.
The allegations against Hugel, 56, are made by two former Wall Street brokers, Thomas R. McNell, 49, and his brother Samuel F. McNell, 47, who charge that they participated with Hugel in a series of prohibited practices which deceived other investors. Several securities experts, consulted about the case, agree that Hugel's participation in these activities, if true, would be at least improper and perhaps illegal.
The McNells' tapes and documents corroborate these accusations: Hugel provided them with "insider" information on the comapny he headed in advance of disclosure to other investors and the general public; Hugel improperly funneled funds to McNell Securities, the principal firm trading in his company's stock, Brother International Corp., through loans to Samuel McNell as a middleman.
The McNells, who admit their own culpability in these activities, further allege that Hugel, relying on a business associate, orchestrated the phased purchase of 15,000 shares of his company's stock to create the appearance of increased market interest in it.
As the Central Intelligence Agency's deputy director for operations, Hugel today has access to the U.S. government's most important secrets and directs the agency's worldwide network of covert intelligence agents. He emphatically denies any wrongdoing in his business relationships with the McNells and accuses them of threatening him with "blackmail" when he tried belatedly top sever the business connections and collect several hundred thousand dollars in loans.
Hugel, however, did not report any blackmail threats to the CIA's Office of Security which reviewed his past for the necessary security clearances. Hugel describes the McNells as "vindictive" people who, among other things, tried to swindle him. He dismissed all of their accusations as resentments left over from their ill-fated business connections in 1974 that ended in bankruptcy for Thomas McNell.
Beyond the accusations of improper behavior, the McNell tapes portray Max Hugel as a combative and volatile person, given to profanities and angry expressions. At one point, when the business relationship was souring, Hugel expressed his rage at the McNells' Wall Street lawyer. "I'll kill the bastard," he said. On another tape, Hugel suggests that Thomas McNell might be found "hanging by the balls" if the outstanding loans were not repaid.
These revelations of stock market irregularities confront the leadership at the CIA with special irony. Hugel was brought from the Reagan campaign organization into the sensitive job of spymaster by CIA Director William J Casey over the objections of some senior officials to his lack of experience. Casey is himself a former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission which policies Wall Street and he chose as CIA general counsel Stanley Sporkin who for many years was the chief enforcement officer at SEC and well known for his tough approach to shady practices in the stock market.
In an unusual four-hour session last Friday, Hugel, accompanied by his two lawyers, and Sporkin, representing the CIA, met with reporters and editors at The Washington Post to review the accusations and records. Hugel said he canceled a weekend trip on an important overseas "operation" in order to confront the charges.
"There isn't any question I won't answer," Hugel said. "This is a very serious matter, my friends. My personal reputation is at stake. I intend to see this thing through to its very end."
Hugel and his attorney requested a second meeting with Post reporters yesterday at which they presented some documents and repeated Hugel's denials. Hugel said some of his emphatic denials of last Friday may have appeared misleading, particularly in light of the tape recordings, but he had no intention of deceiving. Again he said he is innocent of any intent to conspire with the McNells or anyone else.
"I never profited one penny from the purchase or sale of Brother stock," Hugel said. Of his 20 years with Brother International, he said, "I'm proud of what I did and I'm proud of it now."
In Friday's response to point-by-point questions, Hugel denied ever sharing any "insider" information with the McNell firm while it was making a market in his company's stock as well as the other allegations. When several of the tape recordings were played for him and his lawyers, Hugel said he recognized his own voice but he didn't know what to make of the conversations. His lawyers advised him not to answer further questions until they could search his own records dealing with the seven-year-old transactions.
Thomas McNell acknowledges that he and his brother remain deeply bitter toward Hugel, who received the final loan repayments only last fall. McNell characterizes their mutual transactions in the strongest terms.
The brothers allege that in early 1974 their firm, McNell Securities Corp., agreed to become a "market maker" for over-the-counter stock in Brother International Corp. of which Hugel was president. Normally, a broker who agrees to trade in a stock, buying and selling to other investors, is supposed to keep an arm's length relationship with the company involved so it will give unbiased advise to investors. But, from the start, Hugel and the firm established closer ties, including inside tips and improper loans, according to the McNells, special ties never disclosed to investors.
The scheme provided potential business advantages to Hugel who owned 200,000 shares in his company, or 11 percent of the outstanding stock. But, according to the McNells, the arrangement did not succeed in providing the ultimate profits they originally envisioned because the economic recession of late 1974 put stock prices in a slump, including the shares of Brother International. Overextended on market credit, the McNell firm was forced to close and the McNells entered acrimonious negotiations with Hugel over repayment of the financing. At that point, Thomas McNell began making secret recordings of his telephone conversations with Hugel.
These transactions occurred when Hugel was president of Brother International Corp. and a stockholder in a second company, Centronics Data Computer Corp., which did business with Brother International. Brother was founded in 1954 by Hugel, an Army associate and an ex-patriate as the American affiliate of a Japanese manufacturing concern, Brother Industries, Ltd., which produces a line of sewing machines and typewriters. In addition, Hugel negotiated for the Japanese company a joint production agreement with Centronics in 1971 to manufacture components for Centronics' line of high speed computer printers. Hugel left Brother International in 1975 -- he was asked to leave, according to the current chief executive -- and joined Centronics where he worked until joining the Reagan campaign last year.
The allegations were made in a series of on-the-record interviews with Thomas McNell, whose story was in part corroborated by his brother and further supported with their personal business records and 16 secret tape recordings of their telephone conversations with Hugel in 1974 and 1975. In addition, certain allegations are supported by New Jersey stockbroker Robert T. Blair, who worked for the McNell firm in 1974.
The tapes, documents and McNell interviews include allegations that:
Hugel regularly disclosed confidential "insider" information about his company, Brother International, and about Centronics to Thomas McNell, who used that information to trade in the stocks of both companies. Securities law prohibits a chief executive officer from giving an unfair advantage in the marketplace by providing anyone with confidential, inside information. The tapes support this allegation.
Hugel arranged with the McNell brothers to funnel $131,000 into McNell Securities Corp., the brokerage firm owned by Thomas McNell, to ensure that McNell would continue to trade and promote Brother International's stock. Through the loans, never disclosed to other investors, Hugel effectively bankrolled trading activity in his own company's stock -- and fueled it with the "inside" information. The McNells then attempted to enhance the stock's image as a sought-after security.
In August, 1974, Hugel arranged for Centronics president Robert Howard to buy 15,000 shares of Brother stock in an attempt to spur trading activity in hopes that the stock's value would climb. Instead of a single purchase, the plan called for Howard to place orders for 3,000-share blocks of the stock with five different brokers on five separate days. Howard's purchase of Brother International stock followed by months a spurt of purchases by Hugel in the stock of Howard's company -- also totaling about 15,000 shares.
Hugel's personal feistiness, as revealed on the tapes, was also elaborated in his own unpublished autobiography, a copy of which was provided by Thomas McNell. In the manuscript, which Hugel says was ghost-written for him, he relates a series of episodes in which he engaged in deceptive practices in business and military pursuits, such as claiming to speak fluent Japanese in hopes of avoiding combat duty in World War II, making up intelligence reports when he was "platoon spy" for his commanding officer and lying in business deals.
In the moment of heated anger recorded by the McNells on Dec. 13, 1974, Hugel threatened their Wall Street attorney, James C. Sargent, who was a member of the Securities and Exchange Commission from 1956 to 1960.
Hugel explodes at Thomas McNell: "That sonofabitch lawyer of yours threatened me, will you imagine, threatened me with a goddammed lawsuit . . . what kind of s--- is that? What the f---, I'll kill that bastard."
Hugel acknowledged on Friday that the outraged voice on the tape was his, but said he did not specifically recall the matter.
In a tape-recorded interview with two Washington Post reporters last Wednesday, Thomas McNell said, "Everything that I've told you about Max Hugel, and I'm stating it for the record right now, is true." A stockbroker for 20 years, whose family held seats on either the New York or American Stock exchanges during most of the last two decades, McNell also expresses himself in strong terms.
Samuel McNell, in an interview covering the same allegations, told two reporters, "I can corroborate everything my brother has said."
Thomas McNell said that he came to The Post, which he first contacted on May 25, after unsuccessfully trying to notify White House personnel chief, E. Pendleton James, during the Reagan transition late last year. He said he telephoned James' office and left a message, warning the Reagan White House not to hire Hugel. He left his name and phone number but was never called back. James' said yesterday it is looking for a record of the call.
In Thomas McNell's initial contacts with the newspaper, he refused to reveal his identity as he listed his allegations against Hugel. Eventually, after a series of telephone conversations and two personal meetings, the brothers agreed to provide their materials to The Post and state their allegations for the record.
"I called the government, not the newspapers," McNell said, "just to say, 'Don't let him have the job. It's dangerous for this country.'"
Fueling their animosity, the McNells say they were forced to sell family real estate as well as their valuable seats on the New York and American Stock exchanges to pay off what Samuel McNell said "amounted to nearly half a million dollars when you include interest and legal fees" on their business debts to Hugel. In last week's interview, Hugel confirmed that the McNells repaid him about $400,000 over the last seven years.
Both McNells were successful stock traders and investors on Wall Street in the late 1960s and early 1970s with annual incomes, according to Thomas McNell, as high as $250,000. Today, they are running a small gas-and-oil drilling business from an office in lower Manhattan.
The CIA general counsel Sporkin contacted The Post early last Friday and said he had learned that the newspaper was asking questions about the allegations against Hugel. Sporkin requested a meeting with Post reporters and editors to review the allegations. Post editors declined Sporkin's request for a complete review of tapes and other materials, but Sporkin agreed to make Hugel available for an interview in which the allegations were presented and portions of the tape recordings were played. Sporkin said: "I have to make a recommendation," presumably to CIA Director Casey.
Hugel said that back in 1974 McNell threatened him with the revelation of unspecified tape recordings which Hugel characterized as "blackmail." But Hugel added that he never took such threats seriously and had invited the McNells to take whatever evidence of alleged wrongdoing they had to the SEC. In all, Hugel says, he was threatened five times.
Hugel emphatically denied all the allegations. Hugel also charged that McNell had "forged" Hugel's signature to obtain insurance money for a house that burned down. The house had been pledged as collateral for one of the loans owed to Hugel, who said he did not report this alleged forgery to the authorities. He said he used the check and the threat of reporting the alleged forgery as leverage against the McNells. The McNells have not been available for further comment since last week.
In the interview, Hugel denied ever giving confidential insider information about his company, Brother International, or about Centronics to Thomas McNell. "Number one, that's not true . . . I would say that I don't remember giving any detailed information although I'm sure he [Thomas McNell] probed the hell out of me."
The tape recordings show both Thomas McNell probing Hugel for information and Hugel voluntarily providing it.
On Nov. 22, 1974, according to a tape played for Hugel, the following exchange took place:
Thomas McNell: "Hi, Max."
Hugel: "Hey, got a pencil there? Get some pencil and paper, will you?"
McNell: "Yeah."
Hugel: "What I'm giving you is strictly confidential stuff, okay?"
McNeil: "Right."
Hugel: "We originally forecast sales in the U.S. $80 million in sales. We now forecast $70 million, okay, which is a $10 million swing. Now where does the swing come from? Okay . . . it's in three areas. . . ."
Hugel then detailed sales losses in four divisions and summed up with, "you're looking at a gross profit drop of a . . . you know, about $2,200,000 . . . . And that net income which we looked at -- $4,400,000 --- is now $1,900,000."
The year-end forecast, leaked to Thomas McNell three months before the company's fiscal year came to a close, was not the promising news that McNell had hoped for, news that would push Brother's earnings to $1.75 a share, the figure Hughel acknowledged on tape he had said would be a "safe" prediction in an earlier conversation not taped by the McNells.
Hugel said he hoped things would be better, and that "up until last night" he thought the company might earn $1.50 a share for its stockholders at year's end. But, he added, "This is where it all is. I mean, this is why we're off as much as we are."
At that time, and for subsequent weeks, the general trading public had little or no inkling that Brother International's earnings were sliding as fast as Thomas McNell had been told. In happier times, McNell says he had received positive information from Hugel and had rushed to buy Brother stock in anticipation of the public announcement of the good news and rise in the stock value. In this instance, he withheld the bad news from his own clients because he owned a large inventory of already depressed Brother International stock whose value could be further eroded by the release of bad news.
Several weeks after that late November conversation, Hugel delivered some good news to McNell. In a Dec. 5, 1974, tape recording, Hugel detailed a contract Brother had just completed to jointly produce with Centronics a new line of computer printers -- a fact that would not be announced to the public for months.
"Well, we finalized the whole thing," Hugel says in opening the conversation. ". . . It was a very, very rough negotiation, I want you to know, for about three days there . . . so that should be very, very strong for us the next year."
Thomas McNell: "Oh, good . . . That doesn't go into production until towards the end of the year, though, does it?"
Hugel: "No, I'm moving it up. We're moving it up real fast . . . trying to get it out in July."
McNell: "Fantastic."
Hugel: "Yeah, it's going to be really great. Now, I'm telling you confidential stuff, now. You understand that?"
McNell, who is taping the conversation: "Don't worry about me saying anything."
McNell told The Post that, armed with inside information, he bought more than 100,000 shares of Centronics through his brokerage firm during the fall of 1974. "I knew everything that was going on inside of both of those companies," he said, "and I was banging the hell out of it for my clients."
The steady flow of insider information from Hugel to Thomas McNell was confirmed by Robert T. Blair, the vice president of McNell Securities in 1974 and now a stock-broker in New Jersey. Blair, 43, said last week, "That's the salesman in Max. His enthusiasm for what he believed in kept him saying things he probably shouldn't have said."
Blair said Thomas McNell would tell him -- following conversations with Hugel -- precise figures on earnings projections and contracts won by Brother International weeks before the information was made available to the public.
"You have to understand that when you're dealing with a person like Max Hugel -- it may be wrong, but you'll see the stock move [as a result of leaked insider information] a couple of days before it hits the [public] tape -- it happens quite often," Blair said.
The financial relationship between the McNell brothers and Hugel began in early 1974.Thomas McNell had been a longtime trader in Centronics stock for his clients and was introduced to Brother International through its close relationship to Centronics.
Hugel and Thomas McNell each say that the other made the first approach, but regardless, McNell Securities Corp., a three-man brokerage firm owned exclusively by Thomas McNell, agreed to become a market maker and promoter of Brother International's stock. Making a market in a stock that is not listed on a major exchange and is traded over the counter means that a broker buys it up to maintain an inventory for sales to the public and to other brokers.
Thomas McNell alleges that his firm soon began to run low on capital and that Hugel indirectly invested at least $130,000 in McNell Securities to keep it in business and trading in the stock. Brother International, being a newcomer to the stock market at the time, had virtually no one but McNell Securities making a market in its stock. According to securities experts, at the very least Hughel's financial relationship with the securities firm ought to have been disclosed to all investors.
Hugel knew it would be illegal for him to put money directly into McNell's firm, Thomas McNell said, so a plan was allegedly devised to route two loans, $31,000 on July 17, 1974, and $100,000 on Aug. 7, 1974, through a meddleman into Thomas McNell's firm.
The middleman was Samuel McNell, in whose separate brokerage business Hugel was also investing $250,000, records show.
The scheme allegedly called for Hugel to loan the money to Samuel McNell, who in turn gave the money to Thomas McNell. To create a paper trail to show that Thomas McNell did not receive free money, he signed over two pieces of property in Vermont to his brother.
But the purpose of all this, says Thomas McNell, was for Hugel to pump new capital into the firm that was promoting his stock. "I never sold the houses to Sam," says Thomas McNell. "It was a paper transaction. sIt was a sham."
In a Dec. 8, 1974, tape recording, Hugel himself demonstrated that he knew the true destination of the money.
"As far as I'm concerned," he said to Thomas McNell, "I didn't lend you the money, I loaned it to him [Samuel McNell] on the basis that he was going to to buy the homes from you so that there could be no transaction whatsoever that I loaned you the money, which I didn't -- I lent it to him and he, in turn, was not lending it to you, he was buying homes from you."
In Friday's interview, Hugel states clearly that he kne it would have been wrong for him to put money into Thomas McNell's stock trading operation. "I wanted absolutely no point in hell that if he was making a market on my stock that I was loaning money to him directly, even for some personal reasons . . . that would be against every principle and whatever the laws were."
In the same interview, Hugel acknowledged that he knew the money, at least the $100,000, went directly from Samuel to Thomas McNell.
Hugel, however, makes a distinction by saying he was loaning the money to Thomas McNell "personally" to help him out of some unspecified tax problems, but not to help the firm. "I did not invest in McNell Securities. . . . I just learned today that that money went that way."
On several tape recordings provided by Thomas McNell, Hugel discussed the repayment of his loans directly with Thomas and shows broad knowledge about the stock losses that depleted McNell's capital.
Hugel shows specific knowledge that Thomas McNell is the sole owner of McNell Securities and says on a Dec. 13, 1974, tape, ". . . whether Tom McNell has it or McNell Securities, I can't see what the difference is, personally."
At one point, Thomas McNell assures Hugel that "my brother and I are just like Siamese twins."
Two other close associates who were part of Hugel's business circle at the time remembered the loan agreement differently. Robert Howard, president of Centronics, said last week, "There was some dealing where Max was investing in a brokerage firm. I know he was involved in the company [McNell Securities].
. . . I told Max after the fact, "There is no way you should be an investor.'"
Howard added, "Max was duped into some sort of a personal loan . . . . Max was guilty of trusting and a victim [of the McNell brothers.] In my view, there were some very serious things that were done wrong by the McNell brothers."
Blair, who was vice president of McNell Securities in 1974, recalled in a telephone interview last week that Hugel's investment in the foundering brokerage firm was the worst-kept secret in the office.
"The firm had reached the point where it needed a transfusion [of capital] and Max's money appeared to be available, for a price." The price, Blair said, was "working with the Brother situation, promoting the stock. . . ."
The pressure from Hugel to promote Brother International's stock was, according to the McNells, the driving force to create a false sense of active trading in the stock and to push up or try to maintain its value as the stock market declined that fall.
Hugel denied ever using the McNells to do this. "Absolutely not. Never, never," Hugel said last week.
But a tape recording on Dec. 6, 1974, tells a different story. On the tape, Hugel complained: "I don't think we got anybody trading. I mean, what could be a better buy right now than Brother at $3? . . . . Tom, maybe you're tapped out but I'm trying to get somebody out there that isn't tapped out . . . maybe we got to bring some new blood into the goddammed thing . . . new trade, doesn't have to be much.A thousand. Something like that. What the hell's the big deal here. At least trade, I don't care even if they trade it down. As long as they trade! A hundred shares [which was all that had been traded in Brother stock the previous day] -- Jesus Christ, that's an insult. That's an insult to knock my stock a half a point on a lousy hundred shares . . . that's $300. S---. We p--- that out every morning."
Hugel then said he wanted "the greatest PR exposure. . . . And I'm going to blow this thing right into China if I have to."
In a statement that appears to acknowledge the large role played by the McNells, Hugel said that Brother stock had "no support at all right now. I mean zero. So it's just floating, like in space. Like before you came to me. Remember before you came to me? We had nothing. . . ."
In a passage that strongly suggests Hugel's personal reason for wanting to raise the value of his stock, some of which was pleded as collateral for loans, Hugel told the McNells in the taped telephone conversation, "Christ almighty, Sam, I'm getting more f---ing headaches than I know what to do with the goddamn thing. Got my bank on my ass, 50,000 guys on my ass and it doesn't really take that much. . . . Maybe, Tom, we could work together with some other people . . . get them behind the goddamn thing, too . . . let 'em bang it all over the goddamn place, but let's get the action."
Howard, of Centronics, defended Hugel by saying, "Max was very, very unsophisticated and unknowledgable and he thought he was a lot smarter than he was . . . He was overenthusiastic about stock market things . . . and should have worried about earnings."
Part of the action that Thomas McNell alleges Hugel engineered was certain trading in Brother and Centronics stock. McNell maintains that in August, 1974, Hugel arranged to have Howard buy 15,000 shares of Brother stock in 3,000-share blocs through five brokers -- a plan designed to create high trading visibility for the Brother stock.
Of the allegation, Hugel said last week, "The answer is absolutely, unequivocably no."
The McNells have no tape recording to support this allegation, but Thomas McNell alleges: "I had a meeting at Max Hugel's office with Bob Howard and Max Hugel. An arrangement was made where Bob Howard would buy 3,000 shares of Brother International from each of these brokers on different dates, [thus] leading the credibility of Centronics to Brother International . . . [As if to say:] Things were going so great that even Bob Howard was buying in at 10 1/4, 10 1/2. It was stock manipulation."
"And the whole reasoning that Max had," continued Thomas McNell, "was that these people could tell their clients, 'Hey, Bob Howard is buying it.' . . . [and] there was buying of the stock as a result."
Howard said that if the purpose was to run up the price of the Brother stock and use him as a sales gimmick, then "that constitutes stock anipulation and I knew nothing about it." While acknowledging he bought the total 15,000 shares, he says it was Thomas McNell's idea: "He conned me into this."
Howard denies that he met with Hugel to concoct such a scheme. "I never discussed that purchase with Max." Howard says that until last week he had never heard that five brokers were used in the purchase and added, "I was used . . . this was the first I heard of five brokers."
Two of the five brokers named by Thomas McNell were reached last week, however, and both said they had received telephone calls from Bob Howard on Aug. 13, 1974, and Aug. 15, 1974, respectively and both said Howard placed an order for 3,000 shares of Brother stock with them at $10 1/2 per share. Both said that the order was the first and last they had ever taken from Bob Howard for Brother stock.
One of the brokers, Stuart Brown, research director at Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. in New York, said, "It was the only transaction I ever had in Brother International."
The second broker, Jack Fox, who works for Dean Witter Reynolds Inc. in Short Hills, N.J., said, "Yeah, I remember the trade . . . it came out of the blue." Fox says he recieved his call from Howard two days after Brown had received his. "This is the one trade I ever did with Howard," adding that he figured at the time that Howard was placing the order through his firm as "a kind of 'Thank you' for the help some of us had done in promoting Centronics."
Yesterday, Howard called again to say, "I've made some serious mistakes in my recollections. . . . I did buy Brother International shares directly; it was with several firms." Howard said he did not know why he conducted so many separate transactions. "I've been asking myself that . . . I really don't know why."
Howard said that he is still sure he was not involved in a meeting with Hugel and Thomas McNell in which the plan was devised. "I may have been talking with Tom and Max . . . but I know nothing wrong was done." Howard said he lost $94,000 on the Brother stock he bought for $125,000, according to his income tax filing for the year.
In late 1974, the financial relationship between Hugel and the McNells was deteriorating rapidly as the plummeting stock market eroded the value of McNell's stock inventory, bringing pressure from lenders and regulatory authorities on the McNells to put up more capital. One Sept. 13, the SEC closed the doors of McNell Securities and within days, Hugel had one of his lawyers contact Samuel McNell to seek cancellation of their partnership agreement, records show. But Thomas McNell continued to trade as a broker through another firm and continued his close contacts with Hugel even though Hugel was pressing for strong collateral for his loans and prompt payment of interest charges.
The McNells, in their own words, were "tapped out," out of cash.
As the loan payment negotiations heated up, the McNells said their lawyer, Sargent, suggested to Hugel's lawyer that Hugel could find himself in a shareholder lawsuit for having disclosed inside information to Thomas McNell.
A Dec. 13, 1974, tape recording shows Hugel's reaction upon learning of the threatened suit:
"And then he had the audacity, the nerve to threaten me with some goddam cocamamie lawsuit, that I, it's so distasteful to me that I'm ready to throw up. Did you [Samuel McNell] know that?"
Samuel McNell: "No."
Hugel: "That he threatened me, Sam, with a suit about giving confidential information on the company's earnings and this and that to Tom, after all we been through? What the f--- kind of s--- is that?"
McNell: "Hey Max, I didnt even hear about this."
Hugel: "He's threatening me with a suit? Let the f----- sue me."
McNell: "What he said to me, Max, he said that you had, that he had said that you hadn't talked to. . . ."
Hugel: "That's bull----, Sam, I've been at that c---sucker, I'll put that bastard in jail."
McNell: "Well, I'm just saying what he said, Max."
After several more minutes of heated conversation, Thomas McNell comes on the line and asks Hugel why the lawyers are so upset.
Hugel: "And that c---sucker, that sonofabitch lawyer of yours threatened me, will you imagine, threatened me with a goddamn lawsuit for revealing like secrets of the company to you. What kind of s--- is that?
Thomas McNell: "Hey, Max, I don't know what he said, okay?"
Hugel: "What the f--- -- I'll kill that bastard. . . . I've revealed nothing to you guys, all I did -- I did nothing wrong, and I'll stand up in any court . . . and I don't want to get in a legal battle with you guys."
Sargent, SEC commissioner during the Eisenhower administration and longtime partner at Whitman & Ransom in New York, said he did not recall threatening Hugel with a lawsuit.
In May, 1975, Thomas McNell recorded one of his last conversations with Hugel. At this point, Hugel is urging him to come up with additional cash for the loan payment schedule in what Hugel calls "the spirit of good will, friendship for a guy that needs the cash."
Thomas McNell replies, "Max, you know me."
"I know you," Hugel says, "I know you to take good care of me, because, you know, beyond what you own me, there's a few things you owe me, right?. . . . And I'm leaving it to you, and if you don't do anything, you don't do anything. What can I do. If you do, I'll kiss you on both cheeks. And if you don't, I'll cut your balls off. You got no choice, anyway. I'll get my Korean gang after you and you don't look so good when you're hanging by the balls anyway."
This is followed by strained laughter from Thomas McNell. Hugel: 'I Deny Any Wrongdoing'
Max Hugel issued the following statement through his attorney last night:
"I have considered the information which has been supplied to The Washington Post by two former securities brokers. I am deeply disappointed that this newspaper has determined to lend its credit and dignity to the accusations of two men such as the McNell brothers. I enjoy an excellent reputation as an energetic and aggressive executive. These are the skills that I have brought to my present position in a desire to further the interests of the United States.
"The fact of the matter -- and this is incontrovertible -- is that I have never made a penny of unlawful profit or done anything else to bring discredit upon my company, my family, myself, or the United States. I deny any wrongdoing, and I can demonstrate that none was intended or committed.
"I shall continue to serve my country as long as it requires my services, and long after these rantings from the past have ceased. I will leave the question of the accuracy of The Post's statements and the fairness of its comment to my associates.
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Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
[Enterprise-E armoury]
Captain PICARD: The first thing they'll do in engineering is establish a collective, a central point from which they can control the hive. The problem is if we begin firing particle weapons in engineering there's a risk we may hit the warp core. I believe our goal should be to puncture one of the plasma coolant tanks. Data?
DATA: Excellent idea. Plasma coolant will liquefy organic material on contact.
WORF: But the Borg are not entirely organic.
PICARD: True, but like all cybernetic lifeforms they cannot survive without their organic components.
WORF: I have ordered all weapons to be set on a rotating modulation. The Borg will adapt quickly.
See also other posts by me on this topic including possible future updates by me and including: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2018/05/first-contact.html
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Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
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James Cromwell ... Zefram Cochran
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Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
RIKER: Doctor, tomorrow morning when they detect the warp signature from your ship and realise that humans have discovered how to travel faster than light, they decide to alter their course and make first contact with Earth, right here.
COCHRANE: Here?
LAFORGE: Uh, actually over there.
RIKER: It is one of the pivotal moments in human history, Doctor. You get to make first contact with an alien race, and after you do, everything begins to change.
LAFORGE: Your theories on warp drive allow fleets of starships to be built and mankind to start exploring the Galaxy.
TROI: It unites humanity in a way no one ever thought possible when they realise they're not alone in the universe. Poverty, disease, war. They'll all be gone within the next fifty years.
RIKER: But unless you make that warp flight tomorrow morning before eleven fifteen, none of it will happen.
COCHRANE: And you people, you're all astronauts, ... on some kind of star trek?
LAFORGE: Look, Doc, I know this is a lot for you to take in, but we're running out of time here.
RIKER: We need your help. ...What do you say?
from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: 9/28/2006 7:37 PM
I think I even have memories of the graduate degree process. I am not sure of the terms to describe the process.
from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: 9/28/2006 7:47 PM
I actually do remember ... something ... I can’t explain it. It feels that I am holding an unmarked, undistinguishable book that I don’t know the name of or the contents but I know I have read it already.
9/28/2006 8:34 PM
A few minutes ago I started thinking that maybe I started at Princeton University in 1972. I would have been 13 at the time as Thomas Ray. I remember that Kerry Burgess started first grade in 1972. But then I decided that I probably started Princeton earlier than 1972 and maybe 1972 was the year I completed my first major degree. Or 1972 doesn’t really mean anything in particular to Thomas Ray; rather it is there for continuity sake for the life of Kerry Burgess.
from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: 9/28/2006 3:31 PM
I’ve noticed that when you hear George W. Bush casting blame on someone, it is actually about what he is guilty of. He points fingers at Democrats for being “cut and run” because he is guilty of not completing his Air National Guard commitment. I suspect that many of the accusations he makes are based on his own feelings of guilt about similar deeds. He points his finger and someone but he always has three other fingers pointing back at himself.
- posted by Kerry Burgess 6:05 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Monday 09 July 2018
