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Claims (31)
Dean Rusk headed
Rockefeller Foundation documented
“million dollars at the time. The Rockefellers had direct influence over the Kennedy administration through his Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, who had been the former head of the Rockefeller Foundation, and Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon,…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 57 - 'INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE - WHO ARE THEY' PART 2 @ 1:14:37
Dean Rusk member_of
Rockefeller Foundation host_asserted
“The Rockefellers had direct influence over the Kennedy administration through Dean Rust, who was the Secretary of State, the former head of the Rockefeller Foundation, and Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, who was a close friend of John Ro…”
▶ Operation Gladio- US Foreign Policy in Africa @ 1:00:13
Dean Rusk ordered_assassination_of
Cheddi Jagan book_quoted
“made clear that the British must not leave behind a country with a quote-unquote communist government. Again, as a reminder, there's no communists there. That London must unseat Jagen before independence. On June 30th, Kennedy and Macmillan…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 3 (2) @ 1:58
Dean Rusk member_of
CFR host_asserted
“who in 1961 held positions in the government. Dean, I'm not gonna read them all. I'll read the most notorious ones. Dean Rusk, Douglas Dillon, Adelaide Stevenson, W. Avril Harriman, John McCloy, General Lyman Lemitsker. I have to say that w…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner_ The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot Part 1 @ 40:33
Dean Rusk member_of
208 Committee book_quoted
“The people who made the choices, of course, were the members of the 303 Committee, LBJ's renamed special group. Secretary of State Dean Rusk may not speak for all the principals who participated, but his remarks are eyebrow-raising. Quote, …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 32 (34) @ 26:56
Dean Rusk expressed_doubts
Operation Night Bolt documented
“As Richard Helms pointed out to Walt Ristow, Russ worried about the fallout in Congress if the operation was blown, not the project itself or its objectives. That December, Nick Krachenbach told the 303 Committee that Dean Rusk had not been…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 32 (34) @ 43:03
Dean Rusk member_of
CFR book_quoted
“in Operation Sunrise. Kennedy's choice for Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, was well known to the Dulles brothers as well from their membership in the Council of Foreign Relations, as well as the Rockefeller Foundation, where Rusk served as p…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 17 @ 18:49
Dean Rusk served_as_president_of
Rockefeller Foundation book_quoted
“in Operation Sunrise. Kennedy's choice for Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, was well known to the Dulles brothers as well from their membership in the Council of Foreign Relations, as well as the Rockefeller Foundation, where Rusk served as p…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 17 @ 18:49
Dean Rusk targeted_for_regime_change
Cheddi Jagan book_quoted
“We are not inclined to give people like Jagen the same credit or the benefit of the doubt, which was given to Castro three years ago. The British foreign secretary replied that any action would only make things worse and that London had no …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy CIA Secret Wars Part 1 @ 14:17
Dean Rusk targeted_for_regime_change
Cheddi Jagan book_quoted
“that any specific move would be subjected to high-level U.S. consideration and British approval. Secretary Russ told Bruce, we should keep in mind the possibility of Jagen is a communist-controlled sleeper who will establish a Castro-like g…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy CIA Secret Wars Part 1 @ 16:47
Dean Rusk targeted_for_regime_change
Cheddi Jagan book_quoted
“I must tell you now that I have reached the conclusion that it is not possible for us to put up with an independent British Guyana under Jagen, Rusk wrote. He saw him as a quote-unquote Marxist-Leninist paralleling Castro. They have literal…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy CIA Secret Wars Part 1 @ 24:37
Dean Rusk targeted_for_regime_change
Cheddi Jagan book_quoted
“It seems to me clear that new elections should now be scheduled, and I hope we can agree that Jagen should not be allowed to compete. There remained dissenting voices in the Kennedy administration. One of them was Adelaide Stevenson, Washin…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy CIA Secret Wars Part 1 @ 25:07
Adlai Stevenson II exposed
Dean Rusk book_quoted
“It seems to me clear that new elections should now be scheduled, and I hope we can agree that Jagen should not be allowed to compete. There remained dissenting voices in the Kennedy administration. One of them was Adelaide Stevenson, Washin…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy CIA Secret Wars Part 1 @ 25:07
Dean Rusk removed_from_power
Guyana Project book_quoted
“But the president personally signed this one. A week later, Secretary Rusk talked with the British in Geneva. In his report, Rusk noted that the London did not exclude action, but was not willing to go down that road until every avenue was …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy CIA Secret Wars Part 1 @ 29:10
Dean Rusk ordered_assassination_of
Frank Wisner book_quoted
“Russ ended by asking the department to use diplomatic channels and to ask CIA Frank Wisner to stop. One thing President Kennedy demanded as a prerequisite for his decision had been analysis of the possibility and limitations of action. Marc…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy CIA Secret Wars Part 1 @ 29:41
Dean Rusk framed
Cheddi Jagan documented
“summarized the concept. Schlesinger was impressed with Burnham, not knowing he was already on the CIA's payroll in a Washington's visit. He told JFK in a memo dated June 21st, I agree that the evidence shows increasingly that Jagen's heart …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy CIA Secret Wars Part 1 @ 51:35
Dean Rusk ordered_assassination_of
Kwame Nkrumah host_asserted
“and impairing any good relations that could exist between the two governments. Johnson, in turn, reassured that both the CIA and his ambassador was on the same sheet of music. But Washington's record was not innocent. As early as February 6…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 28 (29) @ 55:18
John F. Kennedy ordered_assassination_of
Dean Rusk book_quoted
“President Kennedy tamped down the next round of CIA bombings to avoid a UN debacle. Then he directed McBundy to issue fresh orders to Dulles, Rusk, and McNamara, prohibiting any employment of U.S. forces. In addition, the specific plan for …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 47:26
Charles Cabell spied_on
Dean Rusk book_quoted
“At this point, Richard Bissell entered. The DDO demanded reconsideration. He and Cabell rushed to Russ' office, appealing to him. General Cabell knew air like a cook knows beans and advanced a series of reasons why Castro's airfields should…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 52:14
Dean Rusk spied_on
John F. Kennedy book_quoted
“Russ finally phoned the president and put their arguments to him. Cabell concedes that Russ rendered his points accurately. JFK again rejected the airstrike. In history, this refusal became the third factor in assigning Kennedy full blame f…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 52:45
Charles Cabell spied_on
Dean Rusk book_quoted
“With the strikes, he believed the operation was risky, but still he thought it was feasible. Now the president wanted to reject a measure Cabell considered vital. Yet he declined Russ' offer to speak directly to the president to make his ow…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 53:41
Charles Cabell spied_on
Dean Rusk book_quoted
“By 4 a.m., he and Bissell were speaking to Rusk again on the phone, begging for authorization to have the U.S. Navy aircraft fly cover for the invasion fleet and support the beachhead. Cabell met Rusk in the later's apartment. Rusk opened t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 55:44
Dean Rusk spied_on
John F. Kennedy book_quoted
“By 4 a.m., he and Bissell were speaking to Rusk again on the phone, begging for authorization to have the U.S. Navy aircraft fly cover for the invasion fleet and support the beachhead. Cabell met Rusk in the later's apartment. Rusk opened t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 55:44
Dean Rusk member_of
U.S. State Department book_quoted
“in order to help Cuba overthrow a communist regime. The Pentagon State Department and CIA were to designate representatives to help Lansdell, and each should have effective operational control over all aspects of their department operations…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 17:26
Dean Rusk member_of
Joint Chiefs of Staff book_quoted
“They wanted to identify countries where propaganda gains against Castro were possible and issues the CIA could use to that end. For all the work built to a meeting with Kennedy in the Oval Office on March 14th, 1962, everyone was there. The…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 21:53
Robert Lovett recommended
Dean Rusk host_asserted
“He actually advised JFK to offer him any, quote, any cabinet position he wanted. Lovett declined 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 actual…”
▶ Secret Societies Skull and Bones with War Hamster Brady @ 44:58
Dean Rusk recruited
Roberto D'Aubuisson documented
“articulating, this was Operation Gladio in this area called Operation Condor, engaging in drug smuggling and arms smuggling, which we've talked about repeatedly, via paramilitary units. And in 1983, he and his advisors were invited by Ameri…”
▶ Operation Gladio- El Salvador Part 2 @ 43:50
Dean Rusk ordered_assassination_of
Cheddi Jagan book_quoted
“Castro-aligned state. On a previous occasion, Rusk had urged Gordon Walker's conservative predecessor, Lord Holm, to suspend the Constitution and revert to a direct colonial government. So you have the United States representative telling a…”
▶ Operation Gladio-British Guiana (Guyana) 1953-1964 @ 40:38
Dean Rusk recruited
Allen Dulles book_quoted
“that he had been sent on a wild goose chase. Quote, it is entirely possible I was sent on an assignment which would go nowhere. Alan Dulles had a lot to hide, unquote. Among those urging Johnson to give Dulles the Warren Commission job were…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 25 @ 47:42
Dean Rusk ordered_assassination_of
Cheddi Jagan book_quoted
“Bowing to the United States' wishes, the Labour Party ruled out early independence for the British Guyana and was going ahead with the proportional representation elections. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, it was reported, had left the new Br…”
▶ Operation Gladio-British Guiana (Guyana) 1953-1964 @ 40:08
Dean Rusk ordered_assassination_of
Chiang Kai-shek book_quoted
“I am, though. However, it is clear the elements of the U.S. government were prepared to work with the KMT troops long after their drug activities were obvious. In 1949, even the relative moderate and cautious Dean Rusk argued at a State Dep…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 5 @ 53:25
Mentions (71)
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Bowing to the United States' wishes, the Labour Party ruled out early independence for the British Guyana and was going ahead with the proportional representation elections. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, it was reported, had left the new Br…
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Castro-aligned state. On a previous occasion, Rusk had urged Gordon Walker's conservative predecessor, Lord Holm, to suspend the Constitution and revert to a direct colonial government. So you have the United States representative telling a…
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million dollars at the time. The Rockefellers had direct influence over the Kennedy administration through his Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, who had been the former head of the Rockefeller Foundation, and Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon,…
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articulating, this was Operation Gladio in this area called Operation Condor, engaging in drug smuggling and arms smuggling, which we've talked about repeatedly, via paramilitary units. And in 1983, he and his advisors were invited by Ameri…
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Comer had completed and cleared with the relevant civilian agencies a presidential directive designed to centralize the management of the pacification program in Washington under his direction. The State Department had put up a fight, but p…
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convinced the Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, to yield. President Johnson signed this directive, which later came out as National Security Action Memorandum 343, and created a special assistance for peaceful construction in Vietnam. Another …
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a passing judgment on the South Vietnamese, but I think they wouldn't mind my saying that the world will be a much better place if it's not Mr. Rusk explaining what this is all about, but either their president or their vice president, or b…
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The Rockefellers had direct influence over the Kennedy administration through Dean Rust, who was the Secretary of State, the former head of the Rockefeller Foundation, and Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, who was a close friend of John Ro…
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In the bomb attack, that was the former ambassador's aide. So, FYI. Eventually, seven of those arrested were condemned to death for the alleged plot, including some CIA agents. Seven were acquitted and 27 were given prison sentence. No Amer…
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was ordered to leave the country. And Zaire recalled its ambassador from Washington. So, of course, the first thing we're going to do when we talk about one of these ambassadors is we're going to look up the ambassador. And when you look up…
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Now, keep in mind, this whole network has been set up in the mid-1940s. In 1949, while serving at the U.S. Embassy in Syria, he became aware of a U.S. plan to support a coup overthrowing the democratically elected government in Syria.…
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I want, he's quoted as saying, I want to go on record as saying that this is the stupidest, most irresponsible action a diplomatic mission like ours could ever get involved in. And that we've started a series of these things that will never…
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Al-Zaym did the U.S.'s bidding and allowed the Trans-Syrian oil pipeline to be built. It instigated talks with Israel and imprisoned trade unionists and basically anybody the CIA said they didn't like. He was executed in his pajamas within …
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Moving on. The expelled American ambassador, Hinton, was no ordinary Foreign Service career diplomat. And William Bloom goes on to tell us a little bit about what he found as well with Hinton. It says he worked closely with the CIA since th…
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In 67 to 69 in Guatemala and the following two years in Chile against Allende, Hinton, under the cover of working with USAID, had played a role in the CIA operation. He then served on a subcommittee of the National Security Council before t…
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He actually advised JFK to offer him any, quote, any cabinet position he wanted. Lovett declined 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 actual…
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a destroyer of people. By destroying the opium crops, they removed the chief source of the world's opium supply and eliminated a major source of income for the Chinese nationalists. In response to the Chinese Civil War, the Truman administr…
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Hawk and the U.S. State Department argued that America should employ whatever means necessary. Arms here, opium there, bribery, propaganda, anything that it took. Rusk advice was thus implemented through strategies of propaganda and covert …
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McModern pointed out, notice this, war on drugs, more war, more drugs, war on poverty, more war, more poverty. Correct. Every single one of them. Right. War on terror, more terror. Right. Colombian initiative conformed to the alliance empha…
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The push for an additional CETO, which is that treaty organization, and U.S. troops in Laos is now clear from released documents. Senator Mansfield asked the Senate on September 7th whether the president and secretary of state Harder still …
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November 21st, officially authorized planes and funds to Fumi's rebel cause. Hearing from the Secretary of State Harder that it was time to make the wraps off of, oh, sorry, to take the wraps off of Fumi.…
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The United States at that time denied responsibility, though the State Department revealed that the Thai pilots also flew the T-28s and had been involved, but they weren't Thai pilots. They were CIA people. In May 21, 1964, the U.S. admitte…
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I am, though. However, it is clear the elements of the U.S. government were prepared to work with the KMT troops long after their drug activities were obvious. In 1949, even the relative moderate and cautious Dean Rusk argued at a State Dep…
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Two days later, Rusk and Kennedy announced the first of a series of measures to strengthen U.S. military commitment in South Vietnam. The timing suggests that the advocates of a showdown with China in one country had been placated by a quid…
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After all, Otero's methods had not worked. Once he had been standing beside Secretary of State Dean Rusk on a ceremonial platform and his squad had allowed a young man to rush up and spit in Rusk's face. The Tupomaros had been spitting in t…
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had slowed down his promotion and other assignments. Goliard listened to the ambassador's report, interrupting only to say, I thought Rusk said lately that those arms were purely defensive. Gordon thought, so he's aware of what's going on? …
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In Washington, an array of top representatives of the U.S. government were edgy. The March 31st telecon to Gordon came from Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara, the General of the Army Maxwell Taylor, General Andrew Amaro, CIA Director John McCone, …
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barely tried to tell Cabell that everything was fine. But Cabell wanted to check with Secretary of State Dean Rust. Within a few minutes, McGeorge Bundy, alerted by Rust, called in to report that the president had decided no further airstri…
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So at this point, Richard Bissell was called in and he and Cabell appealed directly to Rusk, who rejected their arguments. Both the CIA officials, all of them actually, protested vigorously and now basically tell lies to American people, as…
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In a feat of Laotian daredevilish, Soup converted his guards and walked out of the jail free. President Kennedy did not feel Laos was the place for a major war. In office, he used the U.S. military forces, briefly converting the PEO into an…
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seizures were intended as lessons to the exiles to follow the orders of their CIA controllers. Independent raids in March 1963 caused serious damage to the Soviet merchant ship, leading to a diplomatic protest. Secretary of State Dean Ruff …
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By now, the British were less convinced that Jagen was a political extremist. In late May, U.S. officials met with the British to agree on a program of action, but London refused to join a joint operation. They did not want America doing a …
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that any specific move would be subjected to high-level U.S. consideration and British approval. Secretary Russ told Bruce, we should keep in mind the possibility of Jagen is a communist-controlled sleeper who will establish a Castro-like g…
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It is true that the U.S. officials used those riots to write off Jagen. On February 19th, while the smoke was still rising, Dean Russ sent a strong message to the British Foreign Secretary declaring it mandatory that they take concerted rem…
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I must tell you now that I have reached the conclusion that it is not possible for us to put up with an independent British Guyana under Jagen, Rusk wrote. He saw him as a quote-unquote Marxist-Leninist paralleling Castro. They have literal…
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which might be inferred from the last sentence of your letter, unquote. Stevenson ended by asking to be briefed on any CIA plans. Lord Hume was not persuaded. The foreign secretary replied to Rusk and declared that Great Britain would not g…
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Hume met Russ' declaration head on. Quote, you say it is not possible for you to put up with an independent British Guyana under Jagen and that Jagen should not accede to power again. How would you suggest this be done in a democracy? Unquo…
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But the president personally signed this one. A week later, Secretary Rusk talked with the British in Geneva. In his report, Rusk noted that the London did not exclude action, but was not willing to go down that road until every avenue was …
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Deputy Undersecretary of State Hugh Alexis Johnson took pains to say the U.S. feared chaos in a communist government, insisting on the need to work closely to avert a catastrophe. Code words to convince London to acquiesce to U.S. action, i…
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Johnson indicated that Washington saw Jagen in the same light that they saw Castro. We do not intend to be taken twice, he said. The British, on the other hand, reported that Guyana's large sugar corporations were not worried and mentioned …
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summarized the concept. Schlesinger was impressed with Burnham, not knowing he was already on the CIA's payroll in a Washington's visit. He told JFK in a memo dated June 21st, I agree that the evidence shows increasingly that Jagen's heart …
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premised on Jagen being a communist. We still have zero evidence of that, by the way. But the CIA announced Schlesinger is in JFK's ear. In a covering note forwarding Russ' memo plus intelligence reports to the president, National Security …
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Equally important, there was no evidence Alan Dulles did anything to ensure that it did. Two days after the inauguration, Project ATE received its first airing before a gaggle of officials of Kennedy's men. National Security Advisor McGeorg…
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No one wanted to think of the consequences of that. Jack Esserlein, years later, recorded that no one from JFK on down ever asked the WH4 task force to develop a stand down plan. At the February 17th meeting, Bissell stressed the need to de…
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On March 11th, Dean Rusk asked, again, voiced objections. Rusk wanted an airfield there big enough to handle the B-26 bombers so that strikes against Castro bases could be said to be coming from Trinidad. Told the field was not long enough,…
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President Kennedy tamped down the next round of CIA bombings to avoid a UN debacle. Then he directed McBundy to issue fresh orders to Dulles, Rusk, and McNamara, prohibiting any employment of U.S. forces. In addition, the specific plan for …
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Aware of the UN embarrassment, Cabell wanted to check with Dean Rusk, even though Barrow insisted everything was fine. About 9.30 p.m., McGeorge Bundy, alerted by Rusk, called with JFK's decision that no further strikes be launched until Br…
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At this point, Richard Bissell entered. The DDO demanded reconsideration. He and Cabell rushed to Russ' office, appealing to him. General Cabell knew air like a cook knows beans and advanced a series of reasons why Castro's airfields should…
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By 4 a.m., he and Bissell were speaking to Rusk again on the phone, begging for authorization to have the U.S. Navy aircraft fly cover for the invasion fleet and support the beachhead. Cabell met Rusk in the later's apartment. Rusk opened t…
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Have we ever had a military general as an ambassador, an actual ambassador to a country? Weird, right? That possibility evaporated, however, with objections from people like Dean Rusk and Robert McNamara. Certainly, the 53-year-old quote-un…
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They wanted to identify countries where propaganda gains against Castro were possible and issues the CIA could use to that end. For all the work built to a meeting with Kennedy in the Oval Office on March 14th, 1962, everyone was there. The…
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Dean Russ spoke to a few senior members privately, a measure increasingly common with covert operations. Through all of this, the CIA air unit remained absolutely vital. Agency officers determined the missions. The unit would have been fami…
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and impairing any good relations that could exist between the two governments. Johnson, in turn, reassured that both the CIA and his ambassador was on the same sheet of music. But Washington's record was not innocent. As early as February 6…
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the Ghana government. The two men speculated on the possibility of concocting a covert operation with MI6. When the State Department proposed an action program, it had the explicit purpose of thwarting any activity that the current presiden…
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But if the 303 committee could not agree or an operation involved great risk, LBJ would then convene what he referred to as the seniors, McNamara, Dean Rusk, and the CIA director to discuss them directly. Deputy Undersecretary of State Hugh…
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and briefly converting the program evaluation office into an advisory group. But he wanted to stay within the international guidelines of how to deal with that. With the help of Avril Harriman, Roger Hilsman, and Dean Russ, Kennedy achieved…
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Where we left off, we're on page 15, and in Safe for Democracy. So where we left off is the union's involvement and everybody else's involvement in Guyana. Dean Rusk flew to London in advance of a meeting. His goal was to make...…
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The people who made the choices, of course, were the members of the 303 Committee, LBJ's renamed special group. Secretary of State Dean Rusk may not speak for all the principals who participated, but his remarks are eyebrow-raising. Quote, …
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LBJ sometimes called them together, but that happened when their surrogates on the 303 could not agree. The secret war, Russ believes, should have been a focus for we permanent National Security Council members, not our substitutes. Russ hi…
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have already been recounted. In the summer of 68, the Presidential Advisory Board asked what the 303 procedures prevented it from simply being a rubber stamp. Clearly, the board aimed to discover how well the 303 reviewed the projects, what…
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Sometimes the 303 matters were kicked upstairs to the president. In 67, controversies over CIA funding, for example, these items came before the 303 committee. That July, Russ signaled his desire to bring one of LBJ's Tuesday lunch national…
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As Richard Helms pointed out to Walt Ristow, Russ worried about the fallout in Congress if the operation was blown, not the project itself or its objectives. That December, Nick Krachenbach told the 303 Committee that Dean Rusk had not been…
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My heart sank over this meeting because the possibility of bringing off something like this seemed to me at the time very remote. Nixon also told Helms to keep the whole project secret. Secretary Rogers and Laird, Ambassador Corey, Station …
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in Operation Sunrise. Kennedy's choice for Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, was well known to the Dulles brothers as well from their membership in the Council of Foreign Relations, as well as the Rockefeller Foundation, where Rusk served as p…
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Then Attorney General Bobby Kennedy, his brothers, tracked down Eleanor Dulles at the State Department and fired her. Well, he got Rusk to do it, who was the Secretary of State, and basically told Rusk they didn't want any more Dulleses aro…
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Schlesinger urged Kennedy to replace Dean Rusk, who was a bland mouthpiece at the CFR and basically was acting out their wisdom, or lack thereof, and that he needed a new Secretary of State. Kennedy glanced up at his advisor from a sheet of…
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But by 1963, the president himself was telling his brother in Phil Graham that he was seriously considering replacing Rusk with Robert McNamara, who had proven to be a smart ally in Kennedy's battles with the Pentagon warlords. Yeah, he tur…
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that he had been sent on a wild goose chase. Quote, it is entirely possible I was sent on an assignment which would go nowhere. Alan Dulles had a lot to hide, unquote. Among those urging Johnson to give Dulles the Warren Commission job were…
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who in 1961 held positions in the government. Dean, I'm not gonna read them all. I'll read the most notorious ones. Dean Rusk, Douglas Dillon, Adelaide Stevenson, W. Avril Harriman, John McCloy, General Lyman Lemitsker. I have to say that w…
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We've talked about him before. So of those 22 people, 12 of them, including the chairman, were CFR members. Heads of the Ford and Rockefeller Foundation attended the White House luncheon when the committee was formed. Vice President Johnson…
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Almost every member, Dean Rusk, John D. Rockefeller, Charles Bowles, Richard Bradfield, Detlev Brunk, John Dickey, Lewis Douglas, Arthur Houghton, Robert Lovett. Another guy we come across a lot. Of the 20.…