The connections between Nazi Otto Skorzenzy, Allen Dulles, Bill Donovan, Robert Maxwell, World Commerce Corporation, and UFOs: Part One
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Recently, my friend Jason Samosa, who has quickly garnered a name for himself in digging into the UFO Legacy Program and especially the Collins Elite, uncovered the World Commerce Corporation, which was established in August 1945:
I followed up Jason’s video with a post of my own about how the establishment of the WCC on August 13, 1945, was literally at exactly the same time as the term ‘MAJESTIC’ was first coined and as Truman ordered the development of our nuclear propulsion program. This was pulled together from various lines of research folks on the small team I’m a part had found themselves, and now with Jason and how much overlap there is between what he’s finding and what we’ve all been digging into, it feels like we’re genuinely getting close to the heart of it all:
Last week Jesse Michels released a new interview with Jason in which they went over the WCC among many other things:
For anyone who’s been following this Medium account and my research, you’ll that my research partner Michael Armentor and I with the help of our friends have spent the last almost three years putting together the connections between OSS Chief and CIA Director Allen Dulles and OSS X-2 Head of Counterintelligence and later CIA Head of Counterintelligence James Angleton, starting with the 1933 Magenta, Italy crash-retrieval and its retrieval later immediately following the Liberation of Rome in June of 1944.
But even after all this work, somehow the World Commerce Corporation had never crossed our paths after spending so much time on Dulles and Bill Donovan. Otto Skorzenzy was only introduced to me fairly recently by my friend and fellow researcher Geoff Cruikshank, who’s well-known in these circles for his outstanding work. Here’s a clip of Jason and Jesse Michels talking about the WCC and its connection to the work of Thomas Townsend Brown in the Bahamas, and how Trump became controller of Resorts International in the 1970s.
According to Whitney Webb, Resorts International was used by Allen Dulles and John Foster Dulles in their day to essentially act as a transnational crime syndicate, something we’ve heard Danny Sheehan bring up quite often as well.
I decided to cross-reference Jason and Jesse’s interview about WCC through our Moongraph tool and the 8000+ documents I have uploaded and connected in it:
Jason Samosa and Jesse Michels on the World Commerce Corporation — Alignment with the Documentary Record
In the American Alchemy episode “The UFO Cover-Up Leads to One Secret Society — and One Final Event,” Jesse Michels lays out an extended investigation into the World Commerce Corporation (WCC) to Jason Samosa, tracing it from its 1945 founding through the Bahamas, Resorts International, InterTel, Robert Maxwell, and finally to a claim about UFO secrecy attributed to Lockheed’s Ben Rich. Below is a breakdown of what the two discuss, checked against the independent documentary sources in the knowledge base.
The WCC’s founding board — closely matches the documented record
Michels tells Samosa the WCC “was created initially in 1945… On the board, Donovan, Stevenson, [Allen] Dulles doing the legal counsel. You’ve got papal aristocracy on the board as well”. This aligns closely with the primary documentary sourcing: the WCC was incorporated August 13, 1945, directed by Sir William Stephenson and General William Donovan, with Allen Dulles serving as counsel alongside Frank Wisner. The interview’s board description is essentially a compressed, accurate restatement of the documented structure.
Ricardo Sicre, Otto Skorzeny, and the “secret society” thread
Michels goes further than the summary-level WCC document by naming WCC vice president Ricardo Sicre, describing him as a Spanish OSS-linked figure who lived in the same Spanish apartment complex as Otto Skorzeny and oil magnate Jake Hamon, and citing writer Robert Rourke’s account of the three being part of “a secret society which strides the world.” This is consistent with the documentary record’s identification of Sicre as a WCC officer and OSS veteran, and with the broader Skorzeny literature’s placement of Skorzeny within postwar Spanish intelligence-adjacent business circles, as included in Major Ralph P Ganis’s The Skorzenzy Papers:
Aline Griffith’s account: Skorzeny “taking over” WCC operations
The most direct interview claim tying Skorzeny to the WCC is Michels’s account of Aline Griffith’s memoirs: she worked for WCC president Frank Ryan, describing the organization as functioning like a CIA front that was “its own thing,” a precursor to Iran-Contra-style arms and drug smuggling through shell companies — and that roughly eight or nine years in, “Otto Skorzeny came in and took over the operation,” after which she gained access to resources and information she “didn’t even want to know” about.
This directly parallels the documentary account of Skorzeny’s absorption into WCC-adjacent structures: SOFINDUS assets (run by Johannes Bernhardt, under the same Reich security apparatus that controlled Skorzeny’s commandos) were folded into the WCC, and upon Skorzeny’s arrival in Madrid in 1950 he partnered directly with Bernhardt, giving him “a covert paramilitary capability within the WCC structure”. The interview’s testimony-based account and the document-based institutional account converge on the same essential claim: Skorzeny moving from peripheral to operational control of WCC-linked business — even though they draw on different sourcing (Griffith’s memoir versus the SAFEHAVEN/SOFINDUS paper trail).
The Bahamas, Resorts International, and InterTel — independently corroborated
Michels traces the WCC forward to the Bahamas via the Hawksbill Creek Agreement (50,000 acres purchased from the Bahamian government to create an autonomous shell-company zone), a subsidiary called DEVCO he says was “controlled by the World Commerce Corporation,” and William Stephenson’s meetings there with Thomas Townsend Brown. He then connects this to the Mary Carter Paint Company’s conversion into Resorts International, whose subsidiary InterTel became “a private intelligence agency” employing former CIA and MI6 personnel, and notes Donald Trump briefly served as controller of Resorts International. This Resorts International/InterTel narrative is independently corroborated in the knowledge base by Jim Hougan’s Spooks, which documents in detail how Resorts International president James Crosby’s Intertel functioned as a private intelligence outfit tied to Howard Hughes’s custodianship, Nixon-era political operatives, and organized-crime-linked casino operations on Paradise Island:
The Spooks material does not itself draw an explicit line back to the WCC’s 1945 board, meaning that specific WCC-to-Resorts linkage in the interview is Michels’s own synthesis rather than a claim repeated verbatim in that source.
Robert Maxwell, PROMIS, and the transnational network
Michels extends the network further to Robert Maxwell, arguing that “if you keep looking at the connection of all these companies, Robert Maxwell very quickly comes into frame” alongside Resorts International, Permindex, and the WCC, and links this to the PROMIS software scandal (Maxwell allegedly selling backdoored software to Sandia Labs). Samosa responds by noting this would mean Maxwell “is systematically automatically siphoning off American nuclear secrets”. The knowledge base’s FBI files on Maxwell document intensive Bureau surveillance of his international travel and contacts as early as 1954
This supports the general premise of Maxwell being an intelligence-monitored figure, though the FBI file chunks retrieved do not themselves reference the WCC, Permindex, or PROMIS directly.
The UFO connection: Ben Rich’s alleged “international corporate board” remark
The explicit UFO tie-in comes when Samosa recounts a claim about Lockheed Skunk Works chief Ben Rich: “at the end of his life, he was talking about UFOs and he was lamenting the fact that the UFO issue was governed by this international corporate board and was hoping that it would be taken under the kind of umbrella of… American intel and aerospace world.” Michels frames this as the pivot point connecting the entire WCC/Resorts/Maxwell network to UFO secrecy specifically.
This aligns thematically with the separate WCC/UFO document in the knowledge base, which argues that Allen Dulles’s WCC role fed into his later custodianship of MJ-12 classification, citing a 1961 document signed by Dulles discussing withheld UFO intelligence and a 1960 re-affirmation of secrecy by Dulles and NSA Director Samford.
Assessment of alignment
The interview’s account of the WCC’s founding board (Donovan, Stephenson, Dulles as counsel) is well-corroborated by primary documentary sourcing.
Peter Levenda and Dick Russell lay out the entire timeline of Allen Dulles and John Foster Dulles and their ties to Nazi money in Sinister Forces:
This is plenty of information for now, thanks for reading. Jumping right ahead to Part Two.
