West Papua Information Kit

1936: American businessmen learn of West Papua's gold and wealth

The Dutch granted an exploration licence to their oil company Shell which created a new exploration company, Netherlands New Guinea Petroleum Mats (NNGPM).
But Shell allowed Standard Oil (the Rockefeller family) to buy a 60% interest (Chevron 40%, ExxomMobil 20%).
The NNGPM geologist Jean Dozy discovered the mountain homelands of the Amungme people was a mountain of metal ores, gold, copper, silver. etc.; he named his discovery Ertsberg (Mountain of Ore).
According to Greg Poluian in Brisbane, he interviewed Jean Dozy around 1981 and Jean Dozy said he had been most excited by the gold content, and that he had completed surveys estimating the extent of the deposits before the company had the equipment dismantled and flown back out of Papua leaving no evidence of the survey work that had been completed.

1940s: An American scheme to create Indonesia for easy access to the wealth of South-East Asia.

Adolph Hitler use to read and draw inspiration from articles Henry Ford wrote in the 1920s, and Henry Ford believed profitable businesses are always good for society. The Ford Foundation was created by Henry Ford in 1938 for the purpose of advancing the welfare of corporate America. The Foundation during the 1970s began trying to distance itself from the Ford Family, but a writter David Ransom had already gained access to the Foundations records and written a book titled "" which includes an insightful chapter titled "Ford Country..."

In 1935 the Shell company was granted an exploration license but it allowed Standard Oil (Rockefeller family) to buy a 60% interest and when it discovered that West Papua had the world's richest gold and copper deposits in a mountain their geologist called Ertsberg (Mountain of Ore) the company concealed the discovery and geology reports from the government. Twenty three years later in March 1959 the Dutch began searching to identify which mountain was the source of gold seen across the southern beaches of West New Guinea; then, in August 1959 an American company Freeport Sulphur flew Forbes Wilson to establish a claim on the Ertsberg area as a "possible copper reserve" instead of admiting knowledge of the previous surveys.

Freeport was a joint interest between the Rockellers and Robert Lovett who was the grandson of the Union Pacific empire, a bonesman, a founding partner in the infamous Brown Brothers Harriman private bank, the man who with fellow bonesman Harvey Bundy converted Corporate America to World War II war production, who then served as the US deputy Secretary of State, and then as Secretary of Defense; and is often credited as the architect of the Cold War.

Inside the United States Department of State plans were proposed for misusing the United Nations as a tool to in effect sell the people of West Papua to Indonesia. Although it is not legally possible to trade people or a colony, it is possible for the United Nations to accept responsibility and to begin sending its choice of foreign powers to occupy (administrate) a colony.

The Dutch tried to evade the American ambitions and prepared an application to the UN General Assembly in 1961, but the UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold was killed eight days before the Assembly's vote which without benefit of Hammarskjold's advice did not provide the 2/3rd majority support that the Dutch motion required. An opposing motion which the U.S. had secretly written and asked another member to present asking the Assembly to instead send a committee to West Papua and report back to the Assembly the following year also failed.