After forging documents that gave Hughes’ land holdings (including some mines) to the clique of Mormons, And a few months after Hughes’s disappearance, Eckersley, after years of laboring anonymously as Chief of Staff Executive for Hughes, showed up in Montreal touting a new mining stock called Pan American Mines Ltd. and implying that it was a Hughes venture, The stock quickly shot up 500 percent before Toolco announced that the venture was not backed by Hughes. The Canadian government indicted Eckersley for stock fraud. He remained in his position in the Hughes organization.
1/20/1971