William Newsom
William Newsom is a former US Appeals Court Judge and father of California Democrat governor Gavin Newsom.
Newsom served on the board of directors of Trans-International Computer Investment Corporation (TCI), a Silicon Valley computer firm with ties to military-intelligence fronts under its president Otto von Bolschwing, SS officer and early associate of Adolf Eichmann. Newsom also acted as the company's attorney. The two traveled together extensively in Europe to secure business deals with Bolschwing contacts in banking and industry.
TCI had intelligence-linked activities, such as monitoring the 1967 Arab-Israeli War and was connected to broader networks involving the Gehlen Organization and CIA through von Bolschwing's ongoing status as an asset. TCI filed for bankruptcy in 1971 amid a stock fraud scandal. Von Bolschwing obtained US citizenship in 1959 under Operation Paperclip, which was revoked in 1981 upon revelation of his Nazi past.