the head of texaco, one of the major u.s. oil companies was a man named reber who was a freshist sympathize ser. he happily supplied franco and his nationalists with most of their oil. he shipped it there, in text ka so tankers. and they left for amsterdam and they would open sealed orders and redirecting them to sports. he supplied franco with all of this oil, on credit. violating u.s. law in another way and he supplies franco with the oil at at huge discount, something that he never told texaco share holders about. or, as far as we can tell he never told his own board about it. he did something else as well, which is only come to light in recent years, the school lar shared his documents with me. texaco being the national oil company had imports all over the words. and, agents, and, huge network of people, in ports everywhere. he sent out instructions to all these folks saying, keep ire eyes out for any information about oil shipments going to the spanish republic. and send us any data you have. this was passed onto nationa

texaco and gulf were formed around oil found in texas, and in europe there were two other companies. i'm going to call all these companies by their modern names because with the mergers and acquisitions through history, they've gone through dozens of changes. so we're talking about some very important companies that have done a lot of lobbying and have a big impact on where we are today. so the european companies are shell and bp, the u.s. companies were formed after rockefeller's standard oil was broken up. and at -- you'll remember from history that teddy roosevelt challenged the oil industry under rockefeller, and there was a proceeding, and they ended up breaking up standard oil, rockefeller's company, into about 30 companies. now, that's usually the end of the story. but, actually, that should be the beginning of the story because standard oil wasn't really broken up. standard oil got to write its own plan, and each of those 30 companies with exxon actually getting about half the value of the original standard oil, rockefeller maintained an interest in each one. and the three ro

video shows a black dodge charger parked at the texaco station on lee street in atlanta's oakland cityghborhood sunday night around 8-30. >> pam:a young woman is in the passenger seat. the driver walks out the front door, where a second suspect, who atlanta police say has a handgun in his waistband, approaches and confronts him. >> pam:walking away, he gets to his driver's side door, opens it, and pulls out an a-k style pistol. >> pam:the suspect at the back of the car immediately reacts reaching for his gun and diving for cover. the suspect with the large gun points it at him over the roof, and the one of the ground can be seen putting his hand up, apparently pleading. >> pam:he retreats to the front of the car, then can be seen firing three shots, all hitting the winshield the other shooter takes cover, before popping up and firing back-- then fires off more shots from the side of the car. >>"the video is from this this camera pointed this direction where the car was parked here at the pump. but there are other angles, other cameras this one up here captured one shooter running away.

the three rockefeller companies were exxon, chevron and mobile and exxon and mobile merged and texaco and gulf merged into chevron as well. we are talking about four companies but for a good chunk of the century there were seven companies that were almost dictating public policy and the american companies had a huge impact on our tax policies, the research that was actually done for the oil and gas industry, the whole system of energy and this got very dramatic in 1928. kind of the beginning of the oil and gas industry drilling in the middle east. you will remember that the middle east was created at the break up of the ottoman empire by france and britain and the oil industry was already there and interested in the resources. in 1928, when oil was found in iraq the big oil companies, they are called the seven sisters named after a greek mythological story of atlas' daughters who fought amongst themselves but if there was every n attack on one of them they all gathered around and protected her so they were nicknamed the seven sisters and that is how they behaved. so when this oil was