By John Donovan
The Shell brand is so well known in the USA that most Americans probably believe that it is as American as apple pie, rather than what it actually is – a foreign owned company: Royal Dutch Shell Plc.
In the wake of the still unfolding BP/Transocean catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, Shell is currently trying to reassure the US government and other parties, including environmentalists, that they can all trust Shell to commence drilling for oil in offshore Alaska. Shell, which has already invested billions of dollars in obtaining the drilling rights, has recently released information about its plans to tackle any consequential oil spills.
So can Shell be trusted?
Since it is deeds, not words, which count, Americans would be wise to carefully consider Shell’s environmental track record and whether it is a company which is open and honest.
Just days ago, The Wall Street Journal revealed in an article “Oil Trade With Iran Thrives, Discreetly“, the tricks that Shell has been up to disguise oil purchases from the fanatical Iranian regime supplying munitions, including roadside bombs, which have maimed and killed large numbers of American and British solders in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Extract from the article:
“One tanker industry executive speculated that Shell might want to disguise its Iranian purchases so as not to suggest that the gasoline it sells in the U.S. is refined from Iranian oil, which would violate U.S. law.”
Shell has continued to do business in Iran despite American sanctions against the Country. It is also doing business with the supposedly reformed Libyan state sponsor of terrorism, Muammar al-Gaddafi. The man behind the bombing of Pan American flight 103.
“The discussions and plans for increasing synthetic aviation fuel production and particularly the Shell scheme of mid-late 1939 (for replacing one of the Air Ministry’s projected synthesisation plants with one to he built, managed and updated by the company itself in return for government financial assistance24) showed a close level of mutual dependence and co-operation. This was underlined by the private letter of 2 September 1939 from Frederick Godber (later Lord Godber) a managing director of Shell, to the Director of the Petroleum Department, F. C. Starling, explaining how, if the United States were to be unfriendly’, his company could still supply British needs from American sources simply through the device of purchasing through one of its American companies, ‘losing’ the oil in its huge stocks at Curacao, and reshipping it from there to England.”
Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
