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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 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
“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
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 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
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
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
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
▶ 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…
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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…
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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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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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…