Fox News has reported that recently declassified material reveals that the 4,000 Union Banking shares owned by the Dutch bank were registered in the names of the seven US. directors, according to a document signed by Homer Jones, chief of the division of investigation and research of the Office of Alien Property Custodian, a World War II-era agency. By 1941 Thyssen no longer had control over his banking empire, which was in the hands of the Nazi government. • E. Roland Harriman – 3991 shares (managed and under voting control of Pres- cott Bush) • Cornelis Lievense – 4 shares (He was the New York banker of the Nazi Party) Harold D. Pennington – 1 share (Employed by Prescott Bush at Brown Brothers Har- riman) • Ray Morris – 1 share (a business partner of the Bush and Harriman families) • Prescott S. Bush – 1 share (director of UBC, which was co-founded and sponsored by his father-in-law George Walker senior managing partner for E. Roland Harri- man and Averell Harriman) • H.J. Kouwenhoven – 1 share (organized UBC for Von Thyssen, managed UBC in Nazi occupied Netherlands) • Johann G. Groeninger – 1 share (German Industrial Executive, a not unimportant member of the Nazi party)
