Excerpt from Trading with the Enemy (Page 223, Charles Higham, 1983):

"As for General Aniline and Film, that indestructible organ of The Fraternity, all efforts against it by Hans Morgenthau and his successors in the Treasury proved futile. Robert F. Kennedy as Attorney General protected the company from dissolution " in his father's tradition. On 9 March 1965, GAF was sold in the largest competitive auction in Wall Street history. The buyer, offering 5340 million, was an affiliate of I.G. Farben in Germany.

Those who had opposed The Fraternity were not so fortunate. In 1948 the House Un-American Activities Committee, in one of its unbridled smear campaigns, named Morgenthau's trusted associates Harry Dexter White and Lauchlin Currie as communist agents. Based on the uncorroborated testimony of one Elizabeth Bentley, a self-confessed Soviet spy who was turning state's evidence, the Morgenthau Treasury administration was smeared in the eyes of the public.

White and Currie, those deeply loyal enemies of fascism, those investigators of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), of Standard Oil, the Chase, the National City Bank, the Morgans, William Rhodes Davis, the Texas Company, ITT, RCA, SKF, GAF, Ford, and General Motors, were effectively destroyed by the hearings. Currie disappeared into Colombia, his US citizenship canceled in 1956, and White died of a heart attack on 16 August 1948, aged fifty-six, after returning home from an investigative session.

While the surviving Fraternity figures flourished again, helping to form the texture of postwar technology, those who had dared to expose them were finished. The Fraternity leaders who had died could sleep comfortably in their graves " their dark purpose accomplished."