Ode To Yamasaki – Was the WTC architect a CIA asset?

[JSanderO]

Yankee are you asserting that the towers were built simply to use them as a false flag 40 years in the future? Did the perps of the 60s know who they would accuse and what they would do... ie wars in the ME?

Why wouldn't they foment insurrections in the region as they were doing in South American and then support the side they wanted to win... proxy wars? I don't approve of that either but the notion of building the WTC as part of a 40 yr plot is not credible.

 

[Animal]

You said it. Fail.

The official story has it Yamasaki's family avoided internment thanks to the help of the architectural firm "Smith Hinchman and Grylls" from Detroit. The significance of this is that he wasn't working for them at the time, and like you said, no one needed to "assist" Yama's family to move east, considering Minoru was already placed in New York. From the article:

• Smith Hinchman and Grylls was in Detroit.
• Yama was in New York.
• Yama's family was in the slums of Seattle (the very neighborhood that coined the term "skid row").
• Any Japanese American with a place to go and bus fare could have traveled to New York.
• Smith Hinchman and Grylls "helped" Yamasaki's family avoid internment, although Yama had a good job with Shreve, Lamb and Harmon in New York.
• Internment ended by the time Yama started working for Smith, Hynchman and Grylls (1945).
• Smith, Hynchman and Grylls avoided bankruptcy by building ammunition plants for the Military during the Depression.
• Smith was also involved with the Manhattan project.
• Yama was involved with big Saudi Construction projects involving bin Laden construction and the CIA.
• Yama designed the US consulate in Kobe Japan, shortly after WWII.
• Smith, Hinchman and Grylls later went on to design the new CIA Headquarters Buiilding.

There is more in the article, links, etc.

If Yama wasn't a spook, he was certainly surrounded by them.

Wow - what a lot of connecting non dots. I guess that is all troofers have left.

 

[twinstead]

Why wouldn't they foment insurrections in the region as they were doing in South American and then support the side they wanted to win... proxy wars? I don't approve of that either but the notion of building the WTC as part of a 40 yr plot is not credible.

If by "not credible" you mean bat-crap crazy then I agree

 

[fuelair]

I'm knit sure I follow you.

I think it is something to do with having carnal knowledge of a sewing basket.

 

[SpitfireIX]

You said it. Fail.

The official story has it Yamasaki's family avoided internment thanks to the help of the architectural firm "Smith Hinchman and Grylls" from Detroit. The significance of this is that he wasn't working for them at the time, and like you said, no one needed to "assist" Yama's family to move east, considering Minoru was already placed in New York.

What "official story"? The link in your article goes to a single, unsourced newspaper item that asserts SH&G helped Yamasaki personally, and not his family, avoid internment. You take this claim as gospel, and then embellish it, while ignoring the very real possibility that the reporter simply got the facts (of which there is likely little or no record remaining) confused.

• Smith Hinchman and Grylls was in Detroit.
• Yama was in New York.
• Yama's family was in the slums of Seattle (the very neighborhood that coined the term "skid row").
• Any Japanese American with a place to go and bus fare could have traveled to New York.
• Smith Hinchman and Grylls "helped" Yamasaki's family avoid internment, although Yama had a good job with Shreve, Lamb and Harmon in New York.
• Internment ended by the time Yama started working for Smith, Hynchman and Grylls (1945).

Your errors in interpretation aside, all of the above strongly suggest that your source is mistaken. Are you willing to be intellectually honest and admit that?

• Smith, Hynchman and Grylls avoided bankruptcy by building ammunition plants for the Military during the Depression.

No. Your source doesn't say that.

But by 1932, the firm was reduced to four officers and two assistants. They survived the Great Depression with small jobs from existing clients, a major commission in 1935 from the University of Michigan, and, in the late 1930s, new corporate plants and municipal facilities. During World War II they built ammunition plants.

Fail.

• Smith was also involved with the Manhattan project.

Your source says the firm did some consulting work for the AEC, and that the method of awarding the consulting contract was later questioned. What of it?

• Yama was involved with big Saudi Construction projects involving bin Laden construction and the CIA.

You do realize that OBL's family disowned him long before the September 11 attacks, don't you? You are merely attempting to establish guilt by association. Fail.

• Yama designed the US consulate in Kobe Japan, shortly after WWII.

Hiring a Japanese-American architect to design an American building in Japan. Highly suspicious.

• Smith, Hinchman and Grylls later went on to design the new CIA Headquarters Buiilding.

And they also designed the DIA headquarters around the same time, which was long after Yamasaki had left the firm. So what?

There is more in the article, links, etc.

None of which provide any real support for your argument, such as it is.

If Yama wasn't a spook, he was certainly surrounded by them.

Your so-called evidence does not even come within shouting distance of proving this.

 

[MIKILLINI]

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If Yama wasn't a spook, he was certainly surrounded by them.

I suppose if there was "positron collider" available for use back then, the spook problem may have been addressed.

As far as the answer to the OP question; Was Yamasaki a CIA asset?

I say yes; Yamasaki was an architectural asset.