Laurance Rockefeller, the middle brother of the five prominent and philanthropic grandsons of John D. Rockefeller, who concentrated his own particular generosity on conservation, recreation, ecological concerns and medical research, particularly the treatment of cancer, died today at his home in Manhattan. He was 94.
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Mr. Rockefeller's career began on Wall Street almost 70 years ago, where he became a trailblazer of modern venture capitalism, compounding his inherited wealth many times over. In the decades since he first took his seat on the New York Stock Exchange, he often used his native instinct for identifying the next big thing, not content simply to make more money but to make the money produce something of lasting value.
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"Aviation more or less knocked at my door," Mr. Rockefeller once commented referring specifically to a day in 1939 when he first met J. S. McDonnell Jr., an engineer who had a small engineering shop in St. Louis. "He walked in with a briefcase which almost literally contained all there was to McDonnell Aircraft Corporation." Mr. Rockefeller bought his first shares in the company when it had not yet produced a single plane, spending $10,000. Once again within a decade he would become one of the major shareholders in the company that was quickly turning into a leading supplier of military aircraft.
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"When you consider the risks involved, we haven't done so much better," said Mr. Rockefeller. "But we do feel gratified because of the contributions we made in areas which other types of capital neglected." In the course of his pursuit of trends Mr. Rockefeller sought out not only experts in science and technology but also figures like the medical missionary Albert Schweitzer, Alan Watts, the Asian scholar, and Joseph Campbell, the student of myths. He also consulted with people who took seriously the possibility of extra-terrestrial life and supported some of their research.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/11/nyregion/11CND-ROCK.html?ex=1090209600&en=5b47566336302c66&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLEWho is Laurance Rockefeller?by Alex Constantine
Laurance may have been less visible than his brothers, but he was equally steeped in the sordid world of covert intelligence and disinformation. In the 1950s, he served on a panel that released a report penned by Henry Kissinger, International Security - The Military Aspect, calling for successive escalations in defense spending of $3 billion per year to 1965. In 1973 he was named a director of Reader's Digest, a fount of CIA cold war black propaganda. (To indulge in a bit of necessary guilt by association, Melvin Laird, a Digest officer, is also a director of SAIC, the "remote viewing" sponsor.) Rockefeller is a trustee of M.I.T., a director of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Olin Mathieson, etc., etc.
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Laurance and his namesake progeny have been lavish godfathers to UFOlogy organizations that attribute saucer overflights and abductions to the "alien" invasion. A panoply of aircraft defense firms swelled with an infusion of funds from Laurance Rockefeller. The most imposing is McDonnell-Douglas, founded in 1930 by a prodigy of aircraft design, James S. McDonnell of St. Louis. McDonnell shares with Laurance Rockefeller the taint of war profiteering. Periodic postwar investigations of his aircraft company by the General Accounting Office have exposed a deep, chronically overfunded well of fraud. In 1967 the company merged with Douglas Aircraft, the primary subcontractor of Western Electric, a subsidiary of AT&T.
Howver cerebral, James McDonnell had one foot firmly planted in the occult. He was a principal donor to the famed J.B. Rhine psychic research center at Duke University, a forerunner of Psi-Tech, and supported psychic experimentation at Washington University in St. Louis. Professor Rhine and his wife Louisa joined the faculty of Duke University in 1927 to explore the paranormal with Dr. William McDougall, chairman of the psychology department. In a few years, according to Parapsychological Institute literature, "Dr. Rhine was conducting the groundbreaking research that demonstrated under rigorous, scientific conditions that certain persons could acquire information without the use of the known senses. He introduced the term extrasensory perception (ESP) to describe this ability and adopted the word parapsychology to distinguish his experimental approach from other methods of psychical research."
Among the key early supporters of the Rhine ESP center was Medtronics, a medical technology firm in Minneapolis. The connection is chilling in the context of forced human experimentation. Bear in mind the horrors of the surgical table described by abductees, circled by "alien" doctors, when paging through the Medtronics catalog: "The company's neurological business produces implantable systems for spinal cord stimulation and drug delivery.... The Itrel II spinal cord stimulation system is the most advanced and flexible implantable neurostimulation device on the market today."
http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/hambone/rock.htmlFrom 1999:US billionaire funds crop circle researchUS billionaire Laurance Rockefeller is to fund the UK's biggest survey of crop circles.
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Mr Rockefeller has given his financial backing to the UK's largest and most scientific study.
One of Mr Rockefeller's areas for charitable giving is what he calls "spirituality", which includes research into UFOs and other unexplained phenomena.
Work funded by the billionaire has already built up the biggest crop circle database.
http://www.lightnet.co.uk/informer/mysteries/19990520.htm
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