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Jeff Zucker kept the NBC network at Rockefeller Center ahead of the pack by airing the gross out show Fear Factor, negotiating for the cast of the hit series Friends to take the series up to a tenth season, and signing Donald Trump for the reality show The Apprentice.

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The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English-language commercial broadcast television and radio network owned by Comcast. The network is headquartered at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City.

Founded in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), then

owned by General Electric (GE), NBC is the oldest major broadcast network in the United States.

John D. Rockefeller, Jr., founder and financier of Rockefeller Center, arranged the deal with GE chairman Owen D. Young and RCA president David Sarnoff. When it moved into the

complex in 1933, RCA became the lead tenant at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, known as the "RCA Building" (later the GE Building, now the Comcast Building), which housed NBC's production studios as well as theaters for RCA-owned RKO Pictures.

In 1959 Sarnoff was a member of the

Rockefeller Brothers Fund panel to report on U.S. foreign policy.

From 1956 to 1960, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund financed a study conceived by its then president, Nelson Rockefeller, to analyze the challenges facing the United States. Henry Kissinger was recruited to direct

the project.

The military subpanel's report was rush-released about two months after the USSR launched Sputnik in October 1957.

DARPA originally known as the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), the agency was created on February 7, 1958, by President Dwight D. Eisenhower

in response to the Soviet launching of Sputnik 1 in 1957.

Jeff Zucker went on to Harvard University. He was president of the school newspaper, The Harvard Crimson, during his senior year. As such, he encouraged the Crimson's decades-old prank rivalry with the Harvard Lampoon,

then headed by future NBC employee Conan O'Brien, which culminated in Zucker having O’Brien arrested.

Conaco, LLC is the television production firm owned by entertainer Conan O'Brien. It has produced programs primarily for NBCUniversal and WarnerMedia, including O'Brien's Late

Night, Tonight Show and Conan. David Kissinger, former NBCU executive and the son of Henry Kissinger, has been president since 2005.

The BSC was registered by the State Department as a foreign entity. It operated out of Room 3603 at Rockefeller Center and was officially known

as the British Passport Control Office from which it had expanded. BSC acted as administrative headquarters more than operational one for SIS and the Special Operations Executive (SOE) and was a channel for communications and liaison between US and British security and

intelligence organisations.

The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in July 1942. The OSS replaced the former American intelligence system, Office of the Coordinator of Information (OCI) that was considered to be ineffective.

Roosevelt selected Colonel William Donovan as the first director of the organization, who had spent some time studying the Special Operations Executive (SOE), an organization set up by the British government in July 1940. Allen Dulles was recruited to run the New York City

office. His address was Room 3603, 630 Fifth Avenue. The address of British Security Coordination was Room 3603, 630 Fifth Avenue.

After the war in Europe, Dulles served for six months as the OSS Berlin station chief. In 1947, Congress created the Central Intelligence Agency

and Dulles was closely involved with its development. His translator at this time was Henry Kissinger, who worked for Army Intelligence and was later to become Secretary of State in the early 1970s.

In 1953, Dulles became the first civilian Director of Central Intelligence,

which had been formed in 1947 as part of the National Security Act; earlier directors had been military officers. The Agency's covert operations were an important part of the Eisenhower administration's new Cold War national security policy known as the "New Look."
Under Dulles'

direction, the CIA created MK-Ultra, a top secret mind control research project that experimented with psychiatric drugs as tools for interrogation. Dulles also personally oversaw Operation Mockingbird, a program which influenced American media companies as part of the "New Look"

The headquarters of the United Nations occupies a site beside the East River between 42nd and 48th Streets, on land purchased from the real estate developer William Zeckendorf Sr. At the time, the site was part of Turtle Bay, which contained slaughterhouses and tenement

buildings, as well as the original Eberhard Faber Pencil Factory.

Nelson Rockefeller purchased an option for Zeckendorf's waterfront land in Turtle Bay. The purchase was funded by Nelson's father, John D. Rockefeller Jr. The Rockefeller family owned the Tudor City Apartments

across First Avenue from the Zeckendorf site.

In December 1958, Zeckendorf entered into a deal with Spyros Skouras, head of 20th Century-Fox, to purchase Fox's project to develop its historic backlot in Los Angeles, California, into Century City.

Developer William Zeckendorf

founded Trizec Properties in order to build Place Ville Marie. He lost a bet to then Royal Bank President Earle McLaughlin, making payment in full (US$0.10) in an elaborate dime encased in acrylic. Exactly what the bet concerned is unknown.

In the 1970s, the Toronto branch of

the Bronfman family acquired a 50.1% controlling interest in Trizec through its holding company, Edper Investments.

In 1994, it was acquired by Peter Munk and in October 2006, it was acquired by Brookfield Properties and The Blackstone Group.

Munk was the founder and chief

executive officer of a number of high-profile business ventures, including the hi-fi electronics company Clairtone, real estate company Trizec Properties, and Barrick Gold, the world's largest gold-mining corporation.

Kamal Adham along with Adnan Khashoggi was one of the

founders of the gold company, Barrick Gold Corporation that was established in 1983.

Adham was also one of the major shareholders of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI)

Adham signed the charter of the Safari Club.

The United States was not a formal member of the group, but was involved to some degree, particularly through its Central Intelligence Agency. Henry Kissinger is credited with the American strategy of supporting the Safari Club implicitly — allowing it to fulfill American

objectives by proxy without risking direct responsibility. This function became particularly important after the U.S. Congress passed the War Powers Resolution in 1973 and the Clark Amendment in 1976, reacting against covert military actions orchestrated within the government's

Executive branch.

The Pennsylvania Railroad optioned the air rights of New York Penn Station to real estate developer William Zeckendorf in 1954. He had previously suggested that the two-block site of the main building could be used for a "world trade center".

Plans for the new

Madison Square Garden above Penn Station were announced in 1962 by Irving M. Felt, the president of Graham-Paige, the company that purchased the air rights to Penn Station. In exchange for the air rights, the Pennsylvania Railroad would get a brand-new, air-conditioned, smaller

station completely below street level at no cost, and a 25 percent stake in the new Madison Square Garden Complex.

The core of the World Trade Center complex was built between 1966 and 1975. The idea was suggested by David Rockefeller to help stimulate urban renewal in Lower

Manhattan, and his brother Nelson signed the legislation to build it. The buildings at the complex were designed by Minoru Yamasaki. In 1998, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey decided to privatize it by leasing the buildings to a private company to manage. It

awarded the lease to Silverstein Properties in July 2001.

The idea of establishing a World Trade Center in New York City was first proposed in 1943. The New York State Legislature passed a bill authorizing New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey to begin developing plans for the

project, but the plans were put on hold in 1949. During the late 1940s and 1950s, economic growth in New York City was concentrated in Midtown Manhattan. To help stimulate urban renewal in Lower Manhattan, David Rockefeller suggested that the Port Authority build a World Trade

Center there.

Yamasaki's design for the World Trade Center, unveiled to the public on January 18, 1964. He was also inspired by Islamic architecture, elements of which he incorporated in the building's design, having previously designed Saudi Arabia's Dhahran International

Airport with the Saudi Binladin Group.

Minoru Yamasaki designed the new headquarters for the Michigan Consolidated Gas Company in 1962. The Michigan Consolidated Gas Building was his first skyscraper, and he used elements from this design for the original World Trade Center in

New York City.

DTE's earliest direct corporate ancestor, the Edison Illuminating Company of Detroit, was founded in 1886. By the turn of the century, it split responsibility for commercial electric power in the fast-growing city of Detroit with the Peninsular Electric Light

Company; the latter company controlled the city's electric distribution network.
In 1903, the two companies merged as the Detroit Edison Company, which began trading on January 17. That same year, construction began on the Delray 1 Power Plant, and Henry Ford, who had left

Edison Illuminating four years earlier, founded Ford Motor Company.

In 1893 Alex Dow was appointed the first plant manager of the first municipally-owned power plant in Detroit, and electrical engineer for the city of Detroit. The power plant had been built as a result of Hazen

Pingree's efforts to break the power of corporations over Detroit City politics.
It was during this time that Henry Ford worked under Dow at one of the Detroit Edison substations. Dow took Ford with him to the 1896 annual convention of the Association of Edison Illuminating

Companies being held that year in New York City. It was at this convention that Dow introduced Ford to Thomas Edison, the meeting with, and encouragement from, the great scientist becoming a great inspiration to Ford in completing his first car.

In the 1980s, the building became

the American Natural Resources Building when that company was formed as the parent of Michigan Consolidated Gas. At this time, a pedestrian bridge was added over West Larned Street at the 14th floor to connect the ANR offices to Michigan Consolidated, which had relocated to the

adjacent Guardian Building.

The skyscraper was built by the Union Trust Company, founded in Detroit in 1890 by Senator James McMillan, and Dexter M. Ferry, along with investments from Russell A. Alger, Col. Frank J. Hecker, and Christian H. Buhl. During World War II, the

Guardian Building served as the U.S. Army Command Center for war time production.

Sometime in 1930 a drain approaching the proportions of a run began on the large banks in Detroit. In a period of about two and one-half years prior to February 11, 1933, about $250,000,000 was

withdrawn from the First National Bank of Detroit, and large sums were also withdrawn from the Union Guardian Trust Company and the Guardian National Bank of Commerce. In order to meet these withdrawals, the First National Bank was compelled to liquidate practically all of its

liquid and unpledged assets, and the Union Guardian Trust Company was compelled to borrow from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) and from the Ford interests. Mr. Edsel Ford was Chairman of the Board of the Union Guardian Group.

Thus on February 14 at 1:32 in the

morning a general banking holiday was declared in Michigan by Governor William Comstock. The prompt action was in direct response to the threats of Henry Ford.

Roosevelt declared a federal banking holiday. Within a week he had pushed the drastic Emergency Banking Act through

Congress to provide some semblance of stability. His first Fireside Chat was dedicated to explaining these measures, and most Americans approved heartily.

"Hitler was invited to a meeting at the Schroder Bank in Berlin on January 4, 1933. The leading industrialists and bankers

of Germany tided Hitler over his financial difficulties and enabled him to meet the enormous debt he had incurred in connection with the maintenance of his private army. In return, he promised to break the power of the trade unions. On May 2, 1933, he fulfilled his promise."

Present at the January 4, 1933 meeting were the Dulles brothers, John Foster Dulles and Allen W. Dulles of the New York law firm, Sullivan and Cromwell, which represented the Schroder Bank. The Dulles brothers often turned up at important meetings. They had represented the

United States at the Paris Peace Conference (1919); John Foster Dulles would die in harness as Eisenhower's Secretary of State, while Allen Dulles headed the Central Intelligence Agency for many years. Their apologists have seldom attempted to defend the Dulles brothers

appearance at the meeting which installed Hitler as the Chancellor of Germany, preferring to pretend that it never happened. Obliquely, one biographer Leonard Mosley, bypasses it in Dulles when he states,

"Both brothers had spent large amounts of time in Germany, where Sullivan

and Cromwell had considerable interest during the early 1930's, having represented several provincial governments, some large industrial combines, a number of big American companies with interests in the Reich, and some rich individuals."
Allen Dulles later became a director

of J. Henry Schroder Company. Neither he nor J. Henry Schroder were to be suspected of being pro-Nazi or pro- Hitler; the inescapable fact was that if Hitler did not become Chancellor of Germany, there was little likelihood of getting a Second World War going, the war which

would double their profits.*

In 1938, the London Schroder Bank became the German financial agent in Great Britain. The New York branch of Schroder had been merged in 1936 with the Rockefellers, as Schroder, Rockefeller, Inc. at 48 Wall Street.

J. Henry Schroder Trust Company.

became a partner of Schroder-Rockefeller Company when that investment trust backed a construction company which became the world's largest, the firm of Bechtel Incorporated. John Lowry Simpson was chairman of the finance committee of Bechtel Company, Bechtel International, and

Canadian Bechtel.
Simpson states he was consultant to the Bechtel-McCone interests in war production during World War II. He served on the Allied Control Commission in Italy 1943-44. He married Margaret Mandell, of the merchant family for whom Col. Edward Mandell House was named,

and he backed a California personality, first for Governor, then for President. As a result, Simpson and J. Henry Schroder Company now have serving them as Secretary of Defense, former Bechtel employee Caspar Weinberger. As Secretary of State they have serving them George Pratt

Schultz, also a Bechtel employee, who happens to be a Standard Oil heir, reaffirming the Schroder-Rockefeller company ties. Thus the "conservative" Reagan Administration has a Secretary of Defense from Schroder Company, a Secretary of State from Schroder-Rockefeller, and a vice

president whose father was senior partner of Brown Brothers Harriman.

Henry Kaiser’s most important partner was likely Warren “Dad” Bechtel, founder of one of the world’s biggest construction and engineering firms. Bechtel was so impressed by the younger Kaiser that he began

inviting him to share in big projects. Between 1930 and 1933, Bechtel and Kaiser laid almost one thousand miles of pipeline in contracts totaling about $4 million.

In 1931, Henry Kaiser and Dad Bechtel formed a partnership that joined five other big construction firms to form

the “Six Companies” group to bid on the huge Hoover Dam project on the Colorado River.