Alice Glass and Her Marriages

 

Ralph Ingersoll in 1952 was in the process of retiring. He'd spent years heading Luce publications like Time and Fortune before he formed his own magazine called PM. 

 

He bought a 426-acre tract at Castleton, Virginia, in May1951 from Alice Glass Marsh Skolovsky--for only $16,000. This tract was fifteen miles from the home Charles  Marsh had built for Alice called Longlea at Boston, Virginia.

The beautiful Alice had been married in New York in August 1947, not to an old white-haired conductor, but to a vibrant pianist born in Vancouver, B.C. in 1923 to Russian immigrants. Photos of the Zadel Skolovsky in newspapers in 1947 and 1953 showed an attractive man with dark hair and a sensitive face--a total opposite of her former husband and lover. But  the marriage ended in divorce in 1953. It was finalized in Tallahassee, Florida.

In 2001, a collection of tens of thousands of documents made by POND organization were discovered in a barn in a small Virginia town in safes at a site of the American Security Council Foundation's former Freedom Studies Center. Clare Boothe Luce ran the Freedom Studies Center from her Farm estate in Virginia. [As shown in the news clipping below, this farm had previously been the home of Charles E. Marsh, Lyndon Johnson's friend and handler, the man who gave the future President access to Marsh's wife, LBJ's alleged mistress, Alice Glass.]

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Clare Boothe Luce was twice elected to Congress as a Republican and supported Republican Barry Goldwater for President in 1964. After Goldwater lost to Lyndon  Johnson, Luce founded what was called the "Cold War College" (aka United Freedom Academy) to train young men and women to suppress popular leftist movements in non-aligned Third World nations.

The Cold War College was to be part an anti-Communist operative training center established with the assistance of 63 higher education institutions and other organizations in 1966 to counter what Luce called "various schools run by the Communist Party, the Black Panthers, and other revolutionary groups."

The Freedom Studies Center was headed by John M. Fisher, a former FBI special agent under J. Edgar Hoover, another center supporter, who became head of security for Sears, Roebuck & Company in Chicago to bust up communist infiltration of Sears' affiliated labor unions.  Sears, of course, was controlled by Gen. Robert E. Wood, who had interesting connections to Texas oil interests. His daughter had married W. S. Farish, Jr., deceased in 1943, son of William Stamps Farish, chairman of Standard Oil of New Jersey. Will Farish III married the daughter of a du Pont heir, whose parents owned the Gasparilla Inn at Boca Grande, Florida, where they often entertained the family of George H. W. Bush. In fact, Will Farish was trustee of George Bush's blind trust.

 

In 1958 Fisher founded the American Security Council Foundation, originally known as the Institute for American Strategy. The New York Times reported that the American Security Council had gathered files of more than one million supposedly subversive US citizens and that the group was collecting names of rate of 20,000 per month.  (Source:  Old Nazis, The NewRight and the Republican Party, by Russ Bellant).

 

American Security Council

 

Among the American Security Council's original file collectors were several right-wing activists who had actively opposed US participation in World War Two. These included Sears Roebuck Chairman Robert E. Wood and publishing magnate William Regnery, both involved with the America First Committee; Harry Jung of the American Vigilant Intelligence Federation (an anti-Semitic group); and John Trevor of the pro-Nazi American Coalition of Patriotic Societies.  (Roads to Dominion, Sara Diamond, pgs. 46-47)

American Legion

 

Excerpt from  Deep Politics and the Death of JFK, Peter Dale Scott, pgs. 244-245):

 

"During World War Two the American Legion built up a network of confidential information contacts. The key man in this effort was FBI agent Lee Pennington, Jr.  

 

"In 1953 he resigned from the FBI to work for the Legion where he began to develop a massive library of information on alleged subversives. CIA officer James McCord who searched for subversives made his first contacts in the 1950s with Pennington, his library, and Lou Russell of US House of Representatives' Un-American Activities Committee.

"Pennington thus became a CIA consultant, a status which continued when he transferred his by-now massive files in September 1954 on Americans from the American Legion to the American Security Council. However, the principal users of his library were large corporations, including defense contractors and large oil companies, which consulted the American Legion file-card index when screening employees as part of their industrial-security program."

It has been learned from these files that POND spied on such domestic organizations as the Civil Rights Congress and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). The POND produced some reports pertaining to domestic security.

Grombach banked on his close connections with Senators Joseph McCarthy, William Jenner, and other members of the extreme Republican right to propel him to national power.  Grombach used his networks primarily to gather political dirt, sexual dirt, and any kind of compromising information at all. Grombach collected scandal, cataloged it, and used it carefully.

Sources:

1. Christopher Simpson,  Blowback - America's recruitment of Nazis, and its disastrous effect on our domestic and foreign policy by Collier / Macmillan, 1988 
2. Col James W. McLendon, USAF, Information Warfare: Impacts and Concerns
3.   Mark Stout, The Pond: Running Agents for State, War, and the CIA: The Hazards of Private Spy Operations