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Member Vidchat Update from Captain PSYOP: Hey guys. I found that connection between Bernard Baruch and the Guggenheims in the book “Mr. Baruch”… Baruch apparently was on hard times as a young man and could not find a job. He scanned the records of his father’s patients at the hospital and found one Daniel Guggenheim and saw an opportunity. He was given an opportunity by the Guggenheim’s to become an ore buyer in Mexico for them, but alas… his mother would not let him go. He had to stay working at the glass factory… And yet he ended up owning a significant portion of their “American Smelting and Refining Company” while the majority was held by the surviving Guggenheim brothers. Baruch apparently had aims to “break into the circle” and participated in some corporate warfare against the Rockefellers when they started dabbling in mining and smelting a la Selby Smelting and Lead Company of California and Tacoma Smelting of Washington. Baruch acted as a sort of covert middle man for Guggenheim interests in keeping the Rockefellers out of the mining business by keeping up relations with these companies and not divulging whose interests he represented. One of the men he schmoozed with was Darius Ogden Mills, at one time, the richest man in California. “…Not until both companies were transferred did public learn that it was the Guggenheims who had checkmated the Rockefellers.” The story proceeds into a whole drama about stock prices and becoming known on wall street for essentially raiding the Guggenheims holdings and apparently giving them back in an effort to prove his friendship to which Daniel Guggenheim purportedly took him in as one of the brothers? They also apparently worked on sourcing new rubber during the war. Baruch definitely looks like Guggenheim’s chief money launderer. Evidence FOUND