R.K. Locke Wrote:A quick bit of research dug up this:

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yAijBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA289&lpg=PA289&dq=%22hubertus%22+knights+of+malta&source=bl&ots=h7GRPb_3WY&sig=pUyyr4mqwZfw-hcKDYGi-Lw9Hms&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi-n7TWxJPLAhUFWhQKHVBSAqAQ6AEITTAI#v=onepage&q=%22hubertus%22%20knights%20of%20malta&f=false


I was looking to see if they were/are tied to SMOM in any way.

Ralf Anders Wrote:Thank you. I have now seen that this topic is discussed elsewhere on this site. Sorry about this.

Only a few remarks:

The Safari Club is not de Marenches' but the hunting group, of course. Judging from its coat of arms, if that is the right word, which contains a Maltese Cross, the Hubertus Order seems to be linked to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta -- as is the Order of Saint John of which Poindexter also is a member.

Which reminds me of something Seymour Hersh once said in a speech and also of William Casey, i. e. the deep political significance of the SMOM.

If I have further comments, I will post them on the other thread.

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Mr. Ekern was one of the first to be invited to be a member of the restituted Order along with Llewellyn E. Thompson, the American Ambassador, General Mark W. Clark, Commanding General of the Allied Forces in Austria, George Wood, British Ambassador Baron Harold Craccia and others.















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Harold Caccia, Baron Caccia

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Caccia in 1962

Harold Anthony Caccia, Baron Caccia GCMG GCVO GCStJ (21 December 1905 Pachmarhi, India - 31 October 1990 Builth Wells, Wales) was a British diplomat.
He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Oxford and won a Blue at rugby union, playing at centre for Oxford in The Varsity Match in 1926.[SUP][1][/SUP] He played cricket for Oxfordshire in the Minor Counties Championship between 1928 and 1938.[SUP][2][/SUP] In 1932 he married Anne Catherine Barstow, daughter of George Lewis Barstow and Enid Lillian Lawrence.
Caccia entered the diplomatic service in 1929 and was posted to Peking (Beijing) and then to Athens and London where, in 1936, he became assistant private secretary to Anthony Eden. He was back in Athens early in World War II, but was then attached to the staff of Harold Macmillan, Britain's representative at Allied headquarters in North Africa. The Greek civil war once again saw him in that country, and by 1945 his services earned him recognition on the Birthday Honours List.
Caccia was Ambassador to Austria from 1951 to 1954, and from 1956 to 1961 Ambassador to the USA. He was sent to Washington to repair relations badly damaged by the Suez crisis of 1956. The breakdown in mutual confidence arose when Britain and France joined an Israeli invasion of Egypt and sent military forces to capture the Suez Canal, which had been nationalized by President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt. In the years that followed, he was instrumental in restoring and nurturing the "special relationship" between London and Washington.[SUP][3][/SUP]
In 1961, he became Permanent Under-Secretary of State, an office he held until 1965. He was Provost of Eton 1965-78 and President of MCC in 1973-74.
He was knighted in 1950, and was created a life peer with the title Baron Caccia, of Abernant in the County of Breconshire, on 11 May 1965. Caccia was appointed a Bailiff Grand Cross of the Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order and a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George.

Quote:Nor is the work of Kim Philby, "SIS's worst traitor", in Jeffery's words, in any way glossed over or toned down. We don't have in MI6 SIS's damage assessment of Philby's treachery (which is a pity) because it was compiled after Jeffery's cut-off date. Philby was not interrogated until after the defection of Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess in May 1951. But what Harold Caccia, the chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, called in 1946 "the difficulty of piercing the iron ring of Russian controlled territory" from the Baltic to the Adriatic, was nearly impossible in terms of successful operations until Philby was removed from SIS, which happened in 1951 (though he was not confirmed as the "third man" until 1963).

Quote:Thomas D. Cabot, honorary chairman of Cabot Corp. was director of Office of Inter-American affairs for the State Dept. 1951, president of United Fruit, and set up Radio Swan on Swan Island for the CIA; he went on a special mission to Egypt in 1953. His brother John was in the foreign service from 1926, served as Consul Gen. Shanghai; ambassador to Pakistan, Finland and Colombia, Brazil and Poland; he was U.S. delegate to Dumbarton Oaks in 1944, and was secretary to the United Nations organization (conference) in San Francisco in 1945 under Alger Hiss.
Paul Cabot is director of J.P. Morgan Co., Ford, Continental Can, Goodrich, and M.A. Hanna Co. Lord Harold Caccia is also a director of Cabot Corp. He served on the Allied Control Commission in Italy 1943-44 as political advisor, Ambassador to Austria 1951-54, Ambassador to U.S.(?) 1956-61; he is also on the board of Orion Bank, National Westminster Bank and Prudential Assurance. He is chmn of Standard Telephone & Cable.