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The late prominent Attorney John C. Houlihan was the mayor of Oakland during the formative years of mass “Negro removal” federally funded under the veil of urban redevelopment.

Since 1964, the mass Negro removal in Oakland was masterminded, designed and developed by the military intelligence handmaiden, Stanford Research Institute (SRI) at Stanford University.

In 1964, the Oakland Redevelopment Agency (ORA) funded by the SRI’s collaborator Ford Foundation came under instant suspicion and exposed for its deception and hidden agenda in regards to the multi-million dollar mass redevelopment of West Oakland in the Oak Center Mass Redevelopment Project. Kaiser was the leading engineering firm for the money-spinning project.

The ORA executive director, Thomas C. Bell, and his top aide, Arthur Hoff, resigned following criticism by Robert McCabe, the regional federal urban renewal administrator. McCade charged that ORA was using “subterfuge” in its dealings with the government. McCade complained that the agency was telling the public, Black residents of West Oakland, that the project was to be mainly rehabilitation and at the same time was adopting standards that would make this impossible. They conspired secretly with SRI and the Ford Foundation to level most of West Oakland. At that time, West Oakland was densely populated with predominately Black, about 90%, homeowners.

McCabe charged that all of the members of the “Lilly-White” ORA should have been aware of the deception and misrepresentations made to the Federal Government to obtain federal redevelopment funding. Kenneth F. Smith was the agency chairman. Mrs. Edwin E. Huddleson, Jr., Lloyd V. Lindquist, Nat Frankel and Leslie K. Moore were the remaining body of ORA.

The resignations came after a series of meetings involving the Oakland Citizens Committee for Urban Renewal (OCCUR), Mayor Houlihan and the regional federal urban renewal administrator.
Sol Gilbert, head of OCCUR, met with McCabe, Mayor Houlihan, ORA to save the project. OCCUR was an advisory group required by the Federal government as part of the city’s workable redevelopment program.

Mayor Houlihan was not exactly excited by SRI’s federal redevelopment scheme. Mayor Houlihan publicly considered abandoning the Negro Removal Oak Center Project, entirely.

At the same time, SRI was developing the lucrative Bay Area Rapid Transit System (BART) the major bay area mass rapid transportation project. Again, Houlihan was not exactly excited and happy with SRI’s BART project, and its impact on residents of Oakland, in particular.

Mayor Houlihan firmly believed that SRI’s mass transit system wouldn’t benefit the citizens of Oakland. He saw the mass transit system as an unwarranted and expensive thoroughfare into San Francisco for people living outside of Oakland. Houlihan’s very vocal campaign slogan was “Oakland for Oaklanders”. He argued that SRI’s mass transit system and West Oakland’s Oak Center Project would destroy Oakland’s tax base by unnecessarily displacing thousandths of businesses, home owners and taxpayers.

BART from the beginning had been a special interest and lush project for the Bechtel International Group, and Kaiser, Inc. founded by the Bechtel and Kaiser Families of Oakland. The Bay Area Council (BAC), a group of San Francisco area fascist businessmen and industrialist, had begun as early as 1945 crusading for a subway system to make San Francisco the gateway to the Pacific Basin.

Bechtel family members, Stephen D. Bechtel, Sr., Stephen D. Bechtel, Jr., and Henry J. Kaiser, and his son Edgar Kaiser dominated BAC. Stephen Bechtel, Sr. was a member of the board of directors. Stephen D. Bechtel, Jr. bankrolled the campaign to finance BART.

In 1957, BAC hired its handmaiden SRI to prepare a study detailing the benefits that would accrue to the bay area from mass transit. On the basis of the study and a lavish public relations campaign heavily financed by Bechtel and its corporate confederates, a $792 million bond issue was narrowly approved.

The project had been delayed, and was just getting underway in 1966 when Mayor Houlihan began to rally against it. Bechtel was the leading engineering firm for BART project. Bechtel was set to collect at least $150 million for the job, and underhandedly displace thousands more of Oakland’s Black residents.

On January 30, 1966, Mayor Houlihan made it known publicly that he opposed BART, “Freeways have cut wide swarts through Oakland and rapid transit is taking more property. The devil with the suburbanite…Many cities and mayors are disenchanted with freeways. They are made for the convenience of the suburbanite, not the city. Official Oakland is deeply concerned whether it should continue with rapid transit program.” The mayor stated most firmly, “We may well kick out the rapid transit system.”

Unwittingly or wittingly Mayor Houlihan, a devout catholic Irishman, stood in the way of one of the most hidden fascist, vicious, powerful, and dangerous clan of New World Order businessmen, and medical-military-industrialist and war profiteers on the planet. They were also collaborators with the world greatness racial mass murderers, the Nazis.

By itself, SRI was a major CIA and pentagon contractor similar to SS Obergruppenfuhrer Dr. Ing Hans Kammler’s Sonderkommando (Special Unit) “think tank” of Nazi Germany.

SRI was founded in 1946 by the same group of fascist West Coast businessmen and war profiteers headed by Stephen D. Bechtel, Sr. and Henry J. Kaiser. SRI grew to be the second-largest corporate-government “think tank” in the United States. Its business was supplying government and industry with the latest in applied research, economic analysis and management techniques.

Among its many programs, SRI evaluated the U.S. strategic systems and played a leading role in developing the U.S. response to the launching of the Soviet Sputnik satellite. Its multimillion-dollar involvement in defense work, combined with its work for the Defense Department during the Vietnam War, provoked violent student demonstrations on the Stanford University campus, and led the university to sever its connections with the institute in 1969.

In 1921, the business partnership of Warren A. Bechtel, and Henry J. Kaiser, both of German descent, developed in Oakland to build major roads throughout California. Bechtel in concert with the Kaisers and other firms built the Hoover Dam, the San Francisco Bay Bridge, the Alaskan pipeline and the mass transit system in Washington D.C. Bechtel and Kaiser constructed major oil pipelines for Rockefeller’s Standard Oil of California in Saudi Arabia.

Bechtel was principal purveyor of nuclear power since the birth of commercial nuclear power industrial in the late 1950’s. Bechtel had a hand in the design and construction of 45 nuclear power plants in 22 states.

A list of Bechtel alumni and associates reads like a fascist Who’s Who of the CIA, Pentagon, and Washington: OSS veteran, John McCone, Atomic Energy Commission, CIA (Kennedy, Eisenhower), Bay of Pigs, Assassination of John F. Kennedy, Iran-Contra Affair, George Schultz, former Secretary of State, Caspar Weinberger, former Secretary of Defense, Richard Helms, CIA, UK-Ultra, UK-Search Mind Control Programs, William Casey, CIA, “The Phoenix Operation”, Phillip Habib, Middle East Envoy, Iran-Contra Affair.

President of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah, was ousted in 1966 by a military council subsidized by the CIA when Nkrumah’s Pan-Africanism ideas threatened Edgar Kaiser’s Volta Aluminum Company, and his Volta River Dam Project in Ghana. Bechtel have been directly involved in ousting governments by covert military operations in Indonesia and Iran.

On April 30, 1966, the City of Oakland was taken by surprise when Mayor Houlihan suddenly announced his resignation amidst allegations of embezzlement. The Alameda County Grand jury had produced and issued indictments against him. The grand jury complaint flimsy alleged that there was “reason to suspect” that Houlihan “may have embezzled, concealed, smuggled or fraudulently disposed of” some of Mrs. Whitlock’s assets or “misappropriated” assets under her estate.

Germanic clan collaborator, the villainous and fascist Edwin Meese III of Inslaw and Iran-Contra fame, was the chief deputy district attorney assigned to the grand jury and the moving force behind the indictment of Houlihan.
The complaint had been fabricated and planted on behalf of an Eva Velpel of Peoria, Ill.; Ms. Whitlock was a wealthy elderly heir to the Safeway Food Store chain. Velpal was Whitlock’s sister and sole beneficiary under her will. Velpel was represented by Alameda attorney Thomas Ferro. Ferro had his secretary, a Mrs. Novak, appointed administratrix to the estate.

The Alameda County District Attorney and Houlihan’s fellow Irishman, J. Frank Coakley, infamous Port Chicago Mutiny Trial Prosecutor, was obviously shaken, intimidated and fearful of the powerful and traitorous clan and said uncharacteristly, “Nobody made any complaint to me,” adding, “I’m not making any observation at all.” Coakley abandoned the rule of law, and left Houlihan to the wrath of the clan.

In his defense, Mayor Houlihan responded, “there’s a question of whether there was actually $96,000 in bonds” in the estate when he became conservator. That figure came from Mrs. Whitlock who was then 70 years old.” Houlihan further added, “the actual amount of the bonds can be verified by a check of registration information.”

On October 11, 1966, almost five months after he resigned, Houlihan was charged before Superior Court Judge Redmon C. Staats, Jr. that he systematically plundered the estate of the late Sarilla Whitlock, widow of Safeway Stores executive, James Whitlock. She died in 1965 at the age of 74. Extraordinarily, Judge Staats had Houlihan seized, taken away and jailed immediately.

On about October 24, 1966, the once bold, fiery, outspoken and domineering Irishman submissively pleaded guilty to the grand jury indictment. Amazingly, there were no bail hearings, no pretrial conferences, or discovery proceedings before Houlihan was indefinitely detained and jailed.

Houlihan was represented by attorney Stanley P. Golde. Houlihan had been publicly humiliated. He was jailed for approximately (thirteen) 13 days before he was succumbed and pleaded guilty to the charges.

At his hearing, the once prominent attorney and mayor of Oakland was described as appearing “wan” and “tired”. The former mayor had been huddled in a holding cell with six other prisoners awaiting hearings on charges ranging from assault with a deadly weapon to bail jumping. When his case was called, Houlihan conferred briefly with Golde and then the court ordered Houlihan committed immediately to the prison of horrors and mind control, Vacaville Men’s Medical Facility.

Judge Staats had Houlihan’s commitment papers and orders already opened, sealed and delivered. Judge Staats immediately signed commitment orders sending Houlihan to Vacaville Medical Facility for 85 days after he read a letter into the record from E. J. Reimer, chief of the Vacaville medical facility, who said that Houlihan was a “fit subject” for the diagnostic study, brainwashing and maybe one of Vacaville’s infamous psychosurgery procedures, a brain lobotomy mind flush for his insolence to the New World Order.

Houlihan left Alameda County jail with two other prisoners, Riley Bibray and James E. Martinez, also enroute to Vacaville for burglary convictions. Houlihan was dressed in white overalls with a large red “P” on the back and he wore shower clogs.

Houlihan shielded his eyes from the TV lights as a sheriff’s department placed a green airline type bag in the rear of the station wagon which had emblazoned on the side, “Irish Airplanes”, a final veiled humiliating insult by Oakland’s ruling fascist Germanic Clan also known as the Alameda County Mafia.

The medical military industrial medical complex and its handmaiden had removed the Mayor of Oakland in a power bloodless coup d’ etat. It destroyed John Charles Houlihan, because of his public opposition to their veiled plans to clandestinely destroy and level the Black communities of Oakland and handsomely profit from it.

Houlihan was swiped away to SRI’s covert CIA/NASA mind control and behavior modification projects at Vacaville Men’s Medical Facility headed by CIA MK Ultra Station chief, Stanford Psychiatrist Dr. James Alexander Hamilton , and Black collaborator Dr. Isaac Slaughter.

During the CIA’s covert MK-ULTRA program, Vacaville Men’s Medical Facility was used extensively as a secret virtual human guinea pig experimentation lab for the SS-Nazis, and the U.S. medical-military-industrial complex.

In 1963, Dr. William C. Keating, superintendent of Vacaville, reported that over 50 covert experimental programs were ongoing at Vacaville including National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) programs. NASA was a federal agency created, gift wrapped and presented to SS Stumbannfuhrer (Major) Wernher von Braun of Nazi Germany by the United States government. Dr. Keating and Dr. Ralph Urbino, a retired Air Force officer formed a nonprofit and shadowy Solano Institute for Medical and Psychiatric Research as a front for the CIA’s and von Braun’s human experimentation, behavior modification and drug testing projects at Vacaville.

The rest is history. BART became the New World Order lucrative autocratic mass transit system rip-off with its own intelligence and police force, and thousands of businesses and Black residents were displaced, and hundred of miles of Black West Oakland was leveled and destroyed.

Houlihan spent his entire term at the prison of horror and mind control. Houlihan must have been turned into a completely tamed brain flushed zombie. The California Adult Authority granted Houlihan’s release from prison, 2 1/2 months ahead of schedule.

Houlihan’s early release was granted so that he would accept a $15,000 a year position as a special assistant to the late CIA operative and spook, Edward J. Daly, president of Oakland’s World Airways, and the New (World Order) Oakland Committee.

The infamous South Korean Airlines 007 shot down on September 1, 1983 by Soviet fighter planes over the Sea of Japan was one of Daly’s rented planes allegedly loaded secretly with sophisticated CIA spy equipment.

It also carried to death along with 269 passengers, Dr. Lawrence Patton (Larry) McDonald. McDonald was a powerful and controversial 5-term U.S. Congressman, Democrat, from Georgia. He was also simultaneously Chairman of the John Birch Society and President of Western Goals Foundation.

McDonald was also the cousin of infamous General George S. Patton; and an alleged Nazi spy collaborator. According to the research of the late Mae Brussell, McDonald was a national leader of the John Birch Society, which was exceedingly active in Dallas preceding the Kennedy assassination. Western Goals has offices in Germany run by Eugene Wigner that fed data to the Reinhard Gehlen’s BND, Germany’s CIA. On Western Goals board were Cold War Warriors Edward Teller, Admiral Thomas Moorer and Dr. Hans Senholt, once a Nazi Luftwaffe pilot under the notorious SA-Gruppenfuhrer Hermann Wilhelm Goring.

Daly said that he intended to use Houlihan as a flunky and assign him to docile duties involving governmental and community relations, and said the former Oakland mayor would represent him at meetings of public service organizations Daly is unable to attend in person.

Oakland’s bloodless coup d’ etat was engineered, synchronized and arranged by a symphony of the Alameda County Mafia.

Judge Redmond Staats was one of them. He had been a longtime confederate of the political machine of Leland Stanford’s “Southern Pacific Republican Party” led by Oakland’s fascist old guard confederates, Joseph Knowland and Mike Kelly.

Houlihan’s attorney had also been one of them. Stanley P. Golde went on to represent Dr. Marcus Foster, Oakland’s Superintendent of Schools, for a February 1973 drunken driving case in South San Francisco. Dr. Foster had also defied Oakland’s ruling clans, and the Alameda County Mafia.

It is most likely that Marcus Foster was CIA Artichoked and drugged. Dr. Foster’s drugging was timed so that he should have been involved in a deadly freeway crash, but it so happened that he was caught on a freeway onramp traffic jam when the drug overtook and disabled him. Dr. Foster was assassinated before the case was resolved.
Also in 1973, Golde was appointed to Alameda Superior Court by the Nazi collaborating former California Governor Ronald Reagan.

In 1976, as a judge, Golde controlled and covered-up and veiled evidence in the criminal proceedings and cases to shield the cover of Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) members, Emily and Bill Harris, which were covert CIA-FBI collaborators and provocateurs.

Before Judge Golde died in 1999, he had sent more poor Oakland Black defendants to death row than any other judge in the state.

The 1966 secret bloodless coup of Oakland’s Mayor, the late John Charles Houlihan, is another one of Oakland’s Family Jewels that set the backdrop for the blowback, the continuing acts of murder, repression and oppression by the BART Police Department against people of color, and the cold-blooded extermination of the precious life of 22-year Oscar Grant III on January 1, 2009 .