John Foster and Allen Dulles both worked for Sullivan and Cromwell, the New York law firm that oversaw the handling first, of the German Government after WW I and then of the National Socialist Party and Government after Hitler rose to power. They handled the interests of the Ford, DuPont, Firestone, Rockefeller and Watson families and their businesses in the Reich. Prescott Bush, father of G.H.W. Bush and grandfather of W. also worked for Sullivan and Cromwell in their dealings with Germany and German interests. See The Nazi Hydra.

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