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Richard Russell met_with Benjamin Gilman documented document
“In the Armed Services Committee Russell appointed Senators Saltonstall and Byrd both of whom had been meeting informally with Russell on Agency activities to a CIA subcommittee…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.60
Lionel de Rothschild met_with Richard Russell documented document
“Small wonder he hesitated, spending fully a year trying to persuade Russell to bring in another bill.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. ONE Charlotte’s Dream (1849-1858)
House of Lords removed_from_power Richard Russell documented document
“it was once again (as he had foreseen) thrown out by the Lords by 95 votes to 25.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. ONE Charlotte’s Dream (1849-1858)
Richard Russell headed United States Congress documented document
“For several years Senator Richard Russell was chairman of both subcommittees…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.158
Richard Russell worked_for House of Commons documented document
“Although another bill was brought forward by Russell in the summer of 1849 and approved in the Commons…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. ONE Charlotte’s Dream (1849-1858)
Richard Russell member_of The Coefficients documented document
“(This was the point at which Russell, for all the fact that he had been keen on the war, decided to resign.)…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.345
Richard Russell relationship_with Beatrice Webb reported document
“Yet while resisting an interpretation of Beatrice's personality which is cast within some ready-made and tidy scheme, it remains a fact that Russell must have been referring - in some sense - to her divided self.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.175
Nicholas Katzenbach met_with Richard Russell documented document
“Senator Richard Russell of Georgia who had also inquired of the FBI about Dr King was orally briefed by Nicholas Katzenbach and Courtney Evans on November 1 1963…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.106
Courtney Evans met_with Richard Russell documented document
“Senator Richard Russell of Georgia who had also inquired of the FBI about Dr King was orally briefed by Nicholas Katzenbach and Courtney Evans on November 1 1963…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.106
Richard Russell linked_to Federal Bureau of Investigation documented document
“Senator Richard Russell of Georgia who had also inquired of the FBI about Dr King…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.106
Richard Russell met_with Allen Dulles documented document
“the most frequent form of interchange with the CIA remained personal communications between the subcommittee's chairman Richard Russell and Allen Dulles…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.61
Richard Russell headed House Armed Services Committee documented document
“the most frequent form of interchange with the CIA remained personal communications between the subcommittee's chairman Richard Russell and Allen Dulles…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.61
Richard Russell met_with David Howard Byrd documented document
“In the Armed Services Committee Russell appointed Senators Saltonstall and Byrd both of whom had been meeting informally with Russell on Agency activities to a CIA subcommittee…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.60
Richard Russell headed Senate Committee on the Armed Services documented document
“In 1955 Russell assumed the chairmanship and held the position until 1968…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.45
Richard Russell appointed Benjamin Gilman documented document
“In the Armed Services Committee Russell appointed Senators Saltonstall and Byrd both of whom had been meeting informally with Russell on Agency activities to a CIA subcommittee…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.60
Richard Russell appointed David Howard Byrd documented document
“In the Armed Services Committee Russell appointed Senators Saltonstall and Byrd both of whom had been meeting informally with Russell on Agency activities to a CIA subcommittee…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.60
Richard Russell member_of Warren Commission documented
“It was a conflict of interest, obviously, to select someone in Dulles' position to investigate a murder of a man that had just fired him. The three remaining members, Senators Richard Russell and John Sherman Cooper and Congressman Hale Bog…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Kill Zone Part 6 @ 48:31
Richard Russell member_of United States documented
“Mansfield met the Armed Services Committee chair, Senator Richard Russell, a Democrat from Louisiana, who also headed the Intelligence Subcommittee and, with Fulbright, made it clear that if a compromise were avoided, he would back the McCa…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner president’s secret wars chapter 16 @ 12:45
Richard Russell member_of Warren Commission documented
“So who sits on the Warren Commission? The seven main members. Obviously, Chief Justice Earl Warren, who doesn't appear to have done a whole lot of work, just lent his name to it. He was hardly ever there. What's that? He was hardly ever the…”
▶ JFK ASSASINATION WITH COLONEL TOWNER with Special Guest WARHAMSTER BRADY @ 26:23
Richard Russell pardoned CIA documented
“but he understood the rationale and believed that they had headed off a full-scale congressional investigation by taking these steps. He would nonetheless be called to testify. Georgia Senator Richard Russell, a member of the CIA subcommitt…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 57:10
Richard Russell member_of Warren Commission documented
“Literally people eating out of his hands. I cannot overstate how popular he was. He was so popular that he was also a member of the Warren Commission. Okay. So he's in there big, big time. So all he had to do is stand up and say that and ev…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31B @ 1:09:19
Richard Russell member_of House Armed Services Committee documented
“but he understood the rationale and believed that they had headed off a full-scale congressional investigation by taking these steps. He would nonetheless be called to testify. Georgia Senator Richard Russell, a member of the CIA subcommitt…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31B @ 1:01:30
Richard Russell funded CIA documented
“but he understood the rationale and believed that they had headed off a full-scale congressional investigation by taking these steps. He would nonetheless be called to testify. Georgia Senator Richard Russell, a member of the CIA subcommitt…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31B @ 1:01:30
Richard Russell member_of Pulver Group documented
“What? Seymour Lazar was banking at Castle Bank? Lazar, who was an investor and an attorney in Palm Springs, California, had gotten in trouble with the SEC in 1973 during an attempted takeover of Armor Corporation by General Host. One of Laz…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA&Bush Part 5 @ 21:48
Richard Russell member_of Warren Commission documented
“Richard Russell, no relation to the – I don't think he's related to the founder of Skull & Bones, Russell. I could not find a link there. But it's interesting about him. He also sat on the Warren Commission with some other interesting peopl…”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies (Bush family) with War Hamster Brady @ 53:33
Richard Russell member_of Warren Commission book_quoted
“Following the release of the Warren report, there are still a few murmurs of doubt, including some within the commission itself. Senator Russell, who strongly suspected that Oswald had been backed by others, seemed eager to distance himself…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 26 @ 37:56
Richard Russell headed Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board documented
“Creating Operation Gladio with all of his counterparts over there. So just to put that in perspective. Now, that's good. It's very good stuff. So I got lost my notes for a second. So we're on the PIAB. The chairman of the PIAB is worth ment…”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies (Bush family) with War Hamster Brady @ 53:00
Richard Russell member_of Skull and Bones host_asserted
“Because remember Mr. Ellsworth? His descendant was Russell. So you can kind of count him as part of the Bonesman lineage as well. Right? Yeah. Absolutely amazing. I didn't realize it was quite that bad. Here's my stop share. Wow. That's cra…”
▶ The Shadow State #18 Secret Societies Pt. 2; Skull & Bones @ 1:02:17
Richard Russell member_of Suite 8F Group host_asserted
“Richard Russell, who is from Georgia and also part of the Military Industrial Complex.…”
▶ 1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden @ 53:25
Richard Russell exposed Gerald Ford host_asserted
“And Wade Boggs go to the press and say, you know, we were not told about this changing of the wording, making it seem like a neck wound when we all knew it was a back wound. They had seen what was done with the magic bullet. So Russell dies…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 1 @ 1:15:38
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Richard Russell guest_asserted
“He talks to Richard Russell and Earl Warren to try to get them to serve on the commission. And they both say no.…”
▶ ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast @ 1:31:02

Mentions (35)

1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden
▶ 53:25 was on the Finance Committee in the Congress. Richard Russell, who is from Georgia and also part of the Military Industrial Complex. James Eastland, part of the Judiciary Committee. Benjamin Jordan, part of the Senate Rules Committee. Fred …
1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden
▶ 55:21 the company that should have gotten the contract. But they wanted Lockheed to get it because Lockheed was in the Georgia guys, Richard Russell's district. They also did this with another one for General Dynamics. And it soon became clear th…
ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast
▶ 1:31:02 and dislike of the CIA ends up being a corner of the carpet that we can pull up because it's not defensible from a defending the official record position. So anyway, so what's LBJ do? He talks to Richard Russell and Earl Warren to try to ge…
ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast
▶ 1:31:27 which is, he goes, I'm going to tell you a little, he goes, he told me he wasn't going to serve. And then I brought up to him a little incident in Mexico City that Hoover told me about that we got to take this out of the arena of talking ab…
ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast
▶ 1:31:46 All right. So he he tells Russell, like, look, I need you to lie to your country to avoid a conspiracy because we got to put it on Oswald that it's just him. But what he and he specifically says that Hoover told him this and we have the tra…
Operation Gladio loose ends
▶ 26:41 The CIA money to help Negro voting, and I'm just quoting this, so registration and militant civil rights groups was funneled through private foundations right under the nose of the Central Intelligence Watchdog Committee headed by Senator R…
Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies (Bush family) with War Hamster Brady
▶ 53:00 Creating Operation Gladio with all of his counterparts over there. So just to put that in perspective. Now, that's good. It's very good stuff. So I got lost my notes for a second. So we're on the PIAB. The chairman of the PIAB is worth ment…
Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies (Bush family) with War Hamster Brady
▶ 53:33 Richard Russell, no relation to the – I don't think he's related to the founder of Skull & Bones, Russell. I could not find a link there. But it's interesting about him. He also sat on the Warren Commission with some other interesting peopl…
The Colonel's Corner Kill Zone Part 6
▶ 48:31 It was a conflict of interest, obviously, to select someone in Dulles' position to investigate a murder of a man that had just fired him. The three remaining members, Senators Richard Russell and John Sherman Cooper and Congressman Hale Bog…
The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA&Bush Part 5
▶ 21:48 What? Seymour Lazar was banking at Castle Bank? Lazar, who was an investor and an attorney in Palm Springs, California, had gotten in trouble with the SEC in 1973 during an attempted takeover of Armor Corporation by General Host. One of Laz…
The Colonel’s Corner president’s secret wars chapter 16
▶ 12:13 The McCarthy bill posed a challenge to the existing minimal legislative oversight, and now Mike Mansfield was the majority leader in the Senate. Lyndon B. Johnson, as majority leader in 1956, had helped oppose Mansfield's original bill, but…
The Colonel’s Corner president’s secret wars chapter 16
▶ 16:04 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…
The Colonel’s Corner president’s secret wars chapter 16
▶ 16:34 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…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33)
▶ 57:10 but he understood the rationale and believed that they had headed off a full-scale congressional investigation by taking these steps. He would nonetheless be called to testify. Georgia Senator Richard Russell, a member of the CIA subcommitt…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33)
▶ 1:00:47 Thank you, Colonel. Thank you, everyone, for being here on Rumble and on Spaces today. There's still something mulling through my mind. I'll hold off on fire with Richard Helms because there's going to be a lot more about him, I'm sure. Yes…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33)
▶ 1:01:41 They had a sub-panel. This is before the actual stand-up of the Intelligence Committee. So the intelligence budgets were classified under the Armed Forces budget during budgetary negotiations. And so by him standing up and saying that he kn…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33)
▶ 1:02:06 He's basically speaking for the entire committee because to your point, SR, at no time in any of the budget process does only one senator get briefed. Now, could there have been a limited number? Yes, but everybody on the subcommittee for i…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33)
▶ 1:02:36 he somehow drew the short straw to be the one that did it. But let me just tell you, Richard Russell is an icon in the military for his support of the military. And if they were, he was, he had impeccable standing.…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33)
▶ 1:03:01 If you understand the dynamics of how that works, he was like Strom Thurmond, like the current day, the older version of Mitch McConnell. When he spoke, everybody else just shut up because he spoke on behalf of everybody. And that's the sta…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33)
▶ 1:03:28 That's why he was selected to be the one to say that because no one was going to question him. Thank you, Colonel. Appreciate that. Sure. Let me, I'm going to look something up real quick here. Yeah. So just so that you guys know, Richard R…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33)
▶ 1:04:05 You know, Lockheed Martin, Marietta, those guys, the C-130. And so I first came across Richard Russell when I got to Warner Robins on my last assignment. And I'm not kidding. From I-75 to the base, at the time I got there, there was one roa…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33)
▶ 1:04:36 that went from I-75 to the base. It's called Russell Parkway for a reason. The museum is named after him. He is the icon of military. He was the Southern Democrat. He had literally people eating out of his hands. I cannot overstate how popu…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 32 (34)
▶ 9:06 and enlist their support. Helms then informed LBJ. Of course, Richard Russell was one of the primary targets. He was a close friend of LBJ's. He became one of the strongest backers. The Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty issue consumed alm…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 32 (34)
▶ 10:06 They're just, it's a sleight of hands. It's like a magic act. So a new era dawned for the radios. Helms testified for the budgets before the CIA subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee. He encountered opposition from the chairma…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 32 (34)
▶ 17:39 William Fulbright offered the compromise of setting up another secret subcommittee under the Foreign Relations Committee. If the private citizen who comprised the Intelligence Board could be told about the secrets, he insisted, how could th…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 32 (34)
▶ 21:00 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…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 32 (34)
▶ 21:28 Russell came out strongly against the bill, and once Russell and McPherson determined that they had the votes to defeat it, they insisted on bringing it up for a vote. When Dirksen's Republican minority put the weight Russell threw into the…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 26
▶ 4:54 who was then an ambitious Republican congressman from Michigan with ties to the FBI. While the rest of the commission, Congressman Hale Boggs from Louisiana and Senators Richard Russell from Georgia, along with John Sherman Cooper of Kentuc…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 26
▶ 5:24 Dulles, McCloy, and Ford took control of the investigation. Now keep in mind, Hale Boggs, we've talked about before, and his corrupt running of Louisiana. Richard Russell, of course, is most notorious in Georgia for his relationship with th…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 26
▶ 10:45 Oswald got permission to come back into the United States with a Russian wife. Dulles offered that he would like to get these aspects of the inquiry into the hands of the CIA as soon as possible to explain the Russia part, you know, to his …
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 26
▶ 11:13 I think they'll doctor anything they hand to us. Yes, yes, they do that. Russell was edging painfully close to a fundamental problem at the core of the Warren Commission. How could the board run a credible inquest when it had limited invest…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 26
▶ 37:56 Following the release of the Warren report, there are still a few murmurs of doubt, including some within the commission itself. Senator Russell, who strongly suspected that Oswald had been backed by others, seemed eager to distance himself…
The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39)
▶ 7:49 In his memoirs, Helms speculates that Fulbright was trying to push his way into an oversight role in intelligence, previously denied by Senator Russell and President Johnson, as shown earlier. Helms is probably right that Fulbright's desire…
The Shadow State #18 Secret Societies Pt. 2; Skull & Bones
▶ 1:02:17 Because remember Mr. Ellsworth? His descendant was Russell. So you can kind of count him as part of the Bonesman lineage as well. Right? Yeah. Absolutely amazing. I didn't realize it was quite that bad. Here's my stop share. Wow. That's cra…
The Shadow State 19 Secret Societies 3; The Bush Dynasty
▶ 53:17 creating Operation Gladio with all of his counterparts over there. So just to put that in perspective. Now, that's good. And it's very good stuff. So I got lost my notes for a second. All right. So we're on the PIAB. The chairman of the PIA…
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