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The Genesis of the Syndicate 17
It's a bit of a mystery to us (and historians still debate the question) as to
why it started. After all, there was no significant territorial dispute between
France, Germany, and Britain to account for it, let alone one to draw in the
USA and half the rest of the world. Dig underneath the surface politics,
the individuals, and it's oil that led to the First World War, in particular
Germany's attempt to seize British oil in the Near East. The German-
American Rockefellers were closely involved in it. In 1904 the Germans
had been given a concession by the Ottoman Turkish Sultan Abdul Hamid,
with an option to drill the Baghdad-Mosul oilfields, which had previously
been promised to Americans. Then in 1905 Britain, through the spy Sidney
Reilly, acquired the right to drill for oil there, beating off competition from
the French Rothschilds. 52 In 1912 the German government exchanged their
concession for a quarter interest in Turkish Petroleum Co., which was
75% owned by the British government through Royal Dutch Shell and the
Anglo-Persian Co. (thereby excluding "Rockefellers" from the Mosul field).
"Rockefellers" fanned German resentment at being outmaneuvered. 53 The
Kaiser then turned to "Rockefellers" and with their financial help built the
Berlin-to-Baghdad railway so he could drill the oilfields under Ottoman
control and wrest Near Eastern oil from his imperialistic competitor, the
British. 54 The Kaiser was thus threatening to seize Egypt and eliminate
British control of the Suez Canal and sever the British Empire's lifeline.
This aim put Germany on a collision course with Great Britain.
The Rockefellers' distant Turkish ancestry also enabled them to approach
the Ottomans. In 1914 Standard Oil loaned the Turkish government $35m,
and in return were permitted to drill for oil in Ottoman territory. Through
Chase National and Kuhn, Loeb, and in accordance with a deal they made
with the Kaiser via Warburgs, "Rockefellers" gave the Kaiser $300m to
finance the First World War through the Federal Reserve System, which
stipulated that any bank losses would be financed by the US Treasury. 55
Their Standard Oil interests made a deal with the German government
under which their holdings were taken over by the Reich with full
compensation, and they supplied the Germans with the oil they required
for the conduct of the war. 56 (A similar deal between "Rockefellers" and the
Germans took place at the beginning of the Second World War and led to
Senator Truman's charge of treason against Standard Oil.)