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Claims (49)
Robert McNamara relationship_with
John A. McCone documented
document
“In the protracted negotiations over the national reconnaissance program McNamara became McCone's ally against the Air Force in order to maintain the independence of his own position…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.81
John McCone met_with
Robert McNamara reported
document
“Mr McCone states that he went to see Mr McNamara in connection with this August 1962 affair…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.119
Robert McNamara worked_for
Kennedy Administration documented
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“The Committee has taken testimony from all living officials high in the Kennedy Administration who dealt with Cuban affairs…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.133
Roswell Gilpatric worked_for
Robert McNamara documented
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“Roswell Gilpatric Deputy Secretary of Defense under McNamara said that killing Castro was not within the mandate of the Special Group…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.133
John F. Kennedy met_with
Robert McNamara documented
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“President Kennedy and other Administration officials including Secretary of Defense McNamara and General Lyman L Lemnitzer Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff met with a translator and several members of Cuban groups involved in the Bay o…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.138
Robert McNamara relationship_with
Fidel Castro documented
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“McNamara stated that 'we were hysterical about Castro at the time of the Bay of Pigs and thereafter'…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.155
Robert McNamara headed
United States Department of Defense documented
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“McNamara served as Secretary of Defense throughout the Kennedy Administration…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.171
Robert McNamara member_of
5412 Group documented
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“He represented the Department on the Special Group and the SGA during the MONGOOSE operations…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.171
Robert McNamara member_of
Special Group (Augmented) documented
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“He represented the Department on the Special Group and the SGA during the MONGOOSE operations…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.171
Robert McNamara met_with
Roswell Gilpatric documented
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“Robert McNamara testified before the Committee on July 11 1975 that he had spoken with Gilpatric on May 30 1975…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.173
Robert McNamara ordered_assassination_of
Fidel Castro reported
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“It was Harvey's recollection that the question of assassination was raised by Secretary McNamara as one of 'shouldn't we consider the elimination or assassination of Castro…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.178
Fritz B. Burns relationship_with
Robert McNamara reported
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“Goodwin was quoted as stating that at one of the meetings of a white House task force on Cuba it was McNamara who said that 'Castro's assassination was the only productive way of dealing with Cuba.'…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.179
Robert McNamara member_of
NSC Standing Group documented
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“Members of the Standing Group included Robert Kennedy Robert McNamara John McCone McGeorge Bundy and Theodore Sorensen…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.184
Robert McNamara proposed
NSC Standing Group documented
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“McNamara said that sabotage would not be "conclusive and suggested that "economic pressures which would upset Castro be studied…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.186
Robert McNamara member_of
5412 Group documented
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“a meeting of the Special Group was held with Messrs McNamara Gilpatric Bowles Bundy Dulles Bissell and General Cabell ha attendance…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.216
Robert McNamara worked_for
5412 Group documented
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“Robert McNamara one of the new members of the Special Group in attendance for the briefing had no recollection as to the specificity in which the Dominican Republic was discussed at the February 14 meeting…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.217
Robert McNamara worked_for
United States documented
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“Following the assassination there were several high-level meetings in Washington attended by... Secretary of Defense McNamara…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.228
Robert McNamara met_with
Maxwell D. Taylor documented
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“It was decided to adopt the first proposal and to send Secretary of Defense McNamara and General Taylor on a fact-finding mission to Vietnam…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.234
Robert McNamara operated_in
Vietnam documented
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“It was decided to adopt the first proposal and to send Secretary of Defense McNamara and General Taylor on a fact-finding mission to Vietnam…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.234
Robert McNamara met_with
National Security Council documented
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“On October 2 McNamara and Taylor returned to Washington and presented their findings to the National Security Council…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.234
Robert McNamara proposed
Fidel Castro reported
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“Harvey testified that Robert McNamara raised the subject of assassination by stating at the August 10 meeting "shouldn't we consider the elimination or assassination of Fidel"…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.335
Robert McNamara met_with
John McCone documented
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“Walter Elder testified that although he was not present at the August 10 meeting he was present when McCone returned to the Agency and "called McNamara on the phone and * * * took exception to the discussion of assassination as improper.…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.337
Robert McNamara met_with
John F. Kennedy documented
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“other members of Cuban groups and Secretary of Defense McNamara and General Lemnitzer were present…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.345
Robert McNamara met_with
General McKee documented
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“Present were Mr McNamara and General McKee Mr Harriman Mr McCone and Mr Fitzgerald and Mr Bundy…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.351
Robert McNamara met_with
W. Averell Harriman documented
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“Present were Mr McNamara and General McKee Mr Harriman Mr McCone and Mr Fitzgerald and Mr Bundy…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.351
Robert McNamara met_with
Jennifer Fitzgerald documented
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“Present were Mr McNamara and General McKee Mr Harriman Mr McCone and Mr Fitzgerald and Mr Bundy…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.351
Robert McNamara met_with
McGeorge Bundy documented
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“Present were Mr McNamara and General McKee Mr Harriman Mr McCone and Mr Fitzgerald and Mr Bundy…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.351
Robert McNamara founded
Defense Intelligence Agency documented
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“disparate estimates of future Soviet strategic power from each of the Armed Services led Secretary Robert McNamara to establish the Defense Intelligence Agency…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.34
Robert McNamara member_of
Special Group (Augmented) documented
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“Its membership included in addition to the regular Special Group members Attorney General Kennedy and General Taylor Secretary of State Rusk and Secretary of Defense McNamara occasionally attended meetings…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.60
Robert McNamara member_of
Tuesday Lunch group documented
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“The Tuesday Lunch began as an informal meeting of President Johnson Secretary of State Rusk Secretary of Defense McNamara and Bundy…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.61
Robert McNamara worked_for
United States Department of Defense documented
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“By 1962 Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's dissatisfaction with the quality of military estimates led him to begin tapping the Agency's analytic capabilities…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.127
Robert McNamara did_business_with
CIA documented
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“Specifically McNamara requested special estimates from the Agency and included Agency personnel in community-wide exercises in long-term Soviet force projections…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.127
Robert McNamara worked_for
United States Department of Defense documented
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“Memorandum from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Lemnitzer to Secretary of Defense McNamara 3/2/61…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.374
Robert McNamara headed
Ford Motor Company documented
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“Succeeding Gates was another rising star of the corporate world, Robert McNamara, who was president of Ford Motor Company at the time of his nomination to be secretary of defense.…”
source: book — Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making · p.219
Robert McNamara proposed
Fidel Castro reported
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“Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara suggested at that meeting that the Special Group "consider the elimination or assassination of Fidel."…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.119
Executive Committee worked_for
Robert McNamara documented
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“The EXCOM reported to the Secretary of Defense who was assigned primary administrative authority for overhead reconnaissance…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.81
Robert McNamara founded
Defense Intelligence Agency documented
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“The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) was created by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in 1961…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.82
Robert McNamara founded
Joint Analysis Group documented
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“In 1962 McNamara established the Joint Analysis Group (JAG)…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.87
Robert McNamara relationship_with
John McCone documented
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“While Kennedy and McNamara provided McCone with consistent backing in a variety of areas Nixon and Laird failed to provide Helms with enough support to give him the necessary bureaucratic leverage…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.97
Robert McNamara headed
United States Department of Defense documented
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“Defense Secretary Robert McNamara adopted these proposals…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.274
Robert McNamara met_with
United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee documented
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“I remember one time in the Foreign Relations Committee questioning Secretary MacNamara…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 4: Mail Opening · p.120
Robert McNamara removed_from_power
Edwin Walker documented
“presenting a high-profile political dilemma for the new chief executive. The article led Secretary Robert McNamara to relieve General Walker of his command and directed a military inquiry to investigate the accusation. Ultimately, the inves…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 20 @ 54:11
Lawrence Levy appointed
Robert McNamara documented
“he launched a company called Allied Research Associates. Over the years, he established himself as a leading defense industry executive. In 61, President Kennedy appointed Dr. Levy as the senior civilian representative for the Defense Secre…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 20 @ 1:12:21
Robert McNamara proposed
United States book_quoted
“of the way the U.S. should be moving and of the need for the majority of the rest of the world to be moving in the same direction if we are to achieve our national objective. The role we have inherited and have chosen for ourselves for the …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 3 @ 53:42
Robert McNamara removed_from_power
Pentagon Office of Special Operations documented
“Office of Special Operations were reassigned other military tasks. According to some officers at the same time, there were fears that the Office of Special Operations, that Lansdell might succeed in taking over as special assistant of this …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 12 @ 47:15
Lyman Lemnitzer presented_to
Robert McNamara host_asserted
“go all out war on cuba when lyman minutes it worked repeatedly i would say it was probably the basis of 9 11. but this this plan when presented to mcnamara did not even provoke a are you crazy from mcnamara mcnamara says hey let's go presen…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 16 JFK Assassination - w Colonel Towner-Watkins @ 18:24
Lyman Lemnitzer proposed
Robert McNamara host_asserted
“to offshore our jobs to these foreign countries. And that was done on scale after the destabilization and the overthrow of Latin American countries. So timing is definitely important to that entire operation. So what happens after he drafts…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner OPERATION GLADIO 101 (Updated) @ 1:06:29
Robert McNamara covered_up
Peterson Field Incident book_quoted
“The secrecy of the operation, Army soldiers held 47 American citizens at gunpoint in the name of national security and then told them it would be a federal offense if they talked about it. The story was in the Colorado Springs Gazette the n…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 9 cont @ 34:32
Robert Lovett appointed
Robert McNamara host_asserted
“quote, any cabinet position he wanted, Lovett could decline due to his health. That's crazy. What he did do is he recommended that Dean Rusk become Kennedy's Secretary of State, and he did. And he actually recommended McNamara to be the new…”
▶ The Shadow State 24 Secret Societies 8; The Wise Men @ 45:16
Mentions (5)
▶ 4:48
The M151 manufacturer, Ford Motor Company, had direct ties to former Ford executive and Edsel proponent, Robert Strange McNamara, as company president prior to his move into the government service as SECDEF under Kennedy and Johnson. It is …
▶ 45:16
quote, any cabinet position he wanted, Lovett could decline due to his health. That's crazy. What he did do is he recommended that Dean Rusk become Kennedy's Secretary of State, and he did. And he actually recommended McNamara to be the new…
▶ 22:46
And he was Robert McNamara's legal counsel when he was the SecDef during Vietnam. Yeah, he was the general counsel of the SecDef in 67. He actually had some pretty good positions. He opposed expansion of Vietnam War. And when Clark Clifford…
▶ 23:46
counsel for the secretary of defense in 1967 when the uss liberty was fired upon by the israeli air force and his quote go ahead here's his quote i found it hard to believe that it was in fact an honest mistake on the part of israeli air fo…
▶ 15:26
I have periodically went back and pulled one of those books off the shelf and you begin looking at it and you're like, what? Because now none of it makes any sense. And there are so many holes like Condoleezza Rice's biography, McNamara's b…