Harry McPherson Jr. person
also: McPherson
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Lyndon B. Johnson appointed
Harry McPherson Jr. documented
“Wasn't Johnson just in the Senate? Yeah, but he doesn't want the Senate to know what the CIA is doing. Mansfield developed a further compromise that added a couple members of the Foreign Relations Committee to existing CIA subcommittees. Si…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 32 (34) @ 18:39
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The president opposed broadening the CIA's reporting to Senate. Significantly, LBJ assigned his political aide, Harry McPherson Jr., to handle the matter, not NSC advisor Roth Doe or the NSC staff. On intelligence, Peter Jessup. A few weeks…
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was given advice from the White House and basically was having communications with Bill Moyers, the same Bill Moyers that ends up being a journalist. The strategy was worked out in meetings and phone calls between McPherson and Senator Russ…
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its provisions for a staff and a budget and a report by a certain date and became just another addition to a secret subcommittee. In response to the further letter from Fulbright, the CIA again refused to provide any information to the Fore…
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Wasn't Johnson just in the Senate? Yeah, but he doesn't want the Senate to know what the CIA is doing. Mansfield developed a further compromise that added a couple members of the Foreign Relations Committee to existing CIA subcommittees. Si…
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the NSC staffer on intelligence, Peter Jessup. McPherson asked Johnson to stay out of the matter. Although advised to still clear, LBJ, like Eisenhower, worked behind the scenes for the status quo. As early as the fall of 65, a presidential…
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The strategy worked out in meetings and phone calls between McPherson and Senator Russell involved watering down McCarthy's resolution, which lost its provision for a staff and a budget and action by a certain date and became merely an addi…