Sam Rayburn person
also: Stan Rayburn, Vice Admiral Rayburn
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Lyndon B. Johnson appointed
Sam Rayburn documented
“The startled spook that John McComb had resigned. LBJ appointed Vice Admiral Rayburn as the successor. But Rayburn, a Navy rocket specialist, knew nothing about the intelligence agency. Johnson wanted someone to back him up. Richard Helms w…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 37:06
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He stayed there until 1949. He was part of the Berlin Airlift. And let's see. He also, his dad was a U.S. Senator. He was a close associate of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Stan Rayburn.…
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The startled spook that John McComb had resigned. LBJ appointed Vice Admiral Rayburn as the successor. But Rayburn, a Navy rocket specialist, knew nothing about the intelligence agency. Johnson wanted someone to back him up. Richard Helms w…
▶ 37:34
Returning from the LBJ ranch after the appointments were announced, the president told Helms that he and Rayburn was going to shake up the agency. LBJ liked what he saw. Little more than a year later, when Johnson decided that he wanted no …