McGeorge Bundy person
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Claims (17)
McGeorge Bundy used_post_to_recruit_for
CIA book_quoted
“He used his post to identify prospects for CIA recruitment, the student's body's best and brightest, which is still done today. Dulles could be assured that Mac Bundy in the White House and his brother Bill moving to Kennedy's Defense Depar…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 17 @ 17:48
John F. Kennedy appointed
McGeorge Bundy book_quoted
“The press was filled with stories about all the fresh new faces in Washington, but many of the Kennedy appointments had closer ties to Dulles than they did to the new president. Among them was McGeorge Bundy, the Harvard dean who Kennedy ap…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 17 @ 16:51
Robert Komer reported_to
McGeorge Bundy documented
“which his assistant, John Bross, distributed in November of 21, or on the 21st. Although Comer assured Bissell that his summary changes changed nothing in the paper, he told his boss, McGeorge Bundy, quote, I took advantage of Walt's immine…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Chap 24 (25) @ 43:22
McGeorge Bundy headed
NSC Standing Group documented
“its role as prime manager to the National Security Council Standing Group, which was chaired by McGeorge Bundy. The Standing Group worked as Kennedy's utility infielders. In 1962, it had handled the delicate matter of Katanga in the Congo. …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 27 (28) @ 31:30
McGeorge Bundy headed
Ford Foundation host_asserted
“So it said he served on the staff of the National Security Council under McGeorge Bundy. And understanding who McGeorge Bundy is, you have to know that he was president of the Ford Foundation, i.e. a CIA front. And he also was part of the C…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Relook at Robert Komer (Phoenix) as a Ritchie Boy @ 5:37
McGeorge Bundy member_of
United States host_asserted
“I've got it in front of me. So, yes. What's the subject of it? Message to President Sadat. Okay. Bundy's report on Simon. Talk with Mac Bundy. These are the subject matters. Instructions from Secretary. Meeting with Dobrivin.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner president’s secret wars chapter 16 @ 1:33:20
McGeorge Bundy member_of
CFR host_asserted
“So it said he served on the staff of the National Security Council under McGeorge Bundy. And understanding who McGeorge Bundy is, you have to know that he was president of the Ford Foundation, i.e. a CIA front. And he also was part of the C…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Relook at Robert Komer (Phoenix) as a Ritchie Boy @ 5:37
McGeorge Bundy ordered_assassination_of
Cheddi Jagan book_quoted
“If Great Britain resumed direct control, there would be more scope for the new party. On December 6th, Mac Bundy convened Helms and others and determined to put pressure on British and Canadian diplomats on the direct rule question. It fail…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 3 (2) @ 5:43
McGeorge Bundy ordered_assassination_of
Cheddi Jagan book_quoted
“When Gordon Chase approached him on the matter at the end of July, McBundy returned the memo with a handwritten reply, I'd Stonewall for now. When Jagen's political opponent came to Washington toward the end of August, Gordon Chase advised …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 3 (2) @ 14:01
McGeorge Bundy member_of
Skull and Bones documented
“There's a few other notable winners of that prize that I thought were worth mentioning. How about Skull and Bonesman McGeorge Bundy? What? Yeah, he was an Alfreus Henry Snow Prize. I guess he was a good student, too. And a gentleman by the …”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies with War Hamster Brady 250418 @ 7:46
McGeorge Bundy member_of
Yale University documented
“There's a few other notable winners of that prize that I thought were worth mentioning. How about Skull and Bonesman McGeorge Bundy? What? Yeah, he was an Alfreus Henry Snow Prize. I guess he was a good student, too. And a gentleman by the …”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies with War Hamster Brady 250418 @ 7:46
McGeorge Bundy member_of
CFR host_asserted
“George Kennan, Julius Holmes, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., George Ball, McGeorge Bundy, Paul Nitz, Adolph Burrell. Those are just some of the notable ones. Is Warhamster here? He'd be going, skull and bones, skull and bones. Okay, that's just cr…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner_ The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot Part 1 @ 41:03
McGeorge Bundy headed
208 Committee documented
“DeSoto patrols were approved by a special group, renamed the 303 Committee by Johnson, which is basically the 4512-2 special group that we keep renaming every time we get a different president. Bundy was chairman of that group and should ha…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Presidents_ Secret Wars Chap 13 @ 41:36
McGeorge Bundy headed
208 Committee book_quoted
“Primacy of the National Security Advisor as chairman of this 303 committee had become established. Until February 1966, this would be Mac Bundy. For a month or so after Robert Comer, then the chairman became Walt Rostow. The chairman inform…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 29 (30) @ 11:11
McGeorge Bundy member_of
Skull and Bones host_asserted
“which is a skull and bones guy. And we're doing that whole series on skull and bones.…”
▶ AlphaWarrior - ColonelTowner-Watkins OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 52 - _SUPER COMPUTERS @ 43:42
McGeorge Bundy succeeded
Lincoln Gordon host_asserted
“He also wanted the job of Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, which George Ball got. And the only one left that he wanted was the National Security Advisor, which McGeorge Bundy got. Bundy was not only six years younger than Gordon, he…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 2 @ 1:00:14
McGeorge Bundy headed
Control Data Corporation documented
“he's in charge of this meeting that all these people are at and control data corporations there, one of their people are there…”
▶ AlphaWarrior - ColonelTowner-Watkins OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 52 - _SUPER COMPUTERS @ 43:42
Mentions (91)
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Warrant Hamsters bagel. So there's a document on Princeton EDU that is titled Technology and again, because we're talking supercomputers, right? Technology and East West Trade Advisory Panel. There's a guy, the chairman of New York Universi…
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which is a skull and bones guy. And we're doing that whole series on skull and bones. And so I was like, as soon as I saw the guy, he's in charge of this meeting that all these people are at and control data corporations there, one of their…
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business with Cuba, okay? That pissed off everybody. As much as they think that they want, they did not want it under Castro because they didn't control Castro. So that was not going to be allowed to happen. He used a couple of people. He u…
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He's a skull and bones. He's toes so deep state. It's not even funny. And these are the guys that would have been working with Alan Dulles behind the scenes to out JFK fact that he's trying to undermine their rifle operation to overthrow Ca…
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ever let them see a tear. You never, ever let them see you sweat. These people are evil. On May 27, 1965, Robert Comer, K-O-M-E-R, a national security staffer, briefed his boss, George Bundy, President Johnson's Special Assistant for Nation…
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There's a few other notable winners of that prize that I thought were worth mentioning. How about Skull and Bonesman McGeorge Bundy? What? Yeah, he was an Alfreus Henry Snow Prize. I guess he was a good student, too. And a gentleman by the …
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So it said he served on the staff of the National Security Council under McGeorge Bundy. And understanding who McGeorge Bundy is, you have to know that he was president of the Ford Foundation, i.e. a CIA front. And he also was part of the C…
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He was on the group for the implementation of the Marshall Plan, which we found out later was primarily used not for basically rebuilding Europe, but to create the stay behind units. He also was a professor at Harvard. And, you know, you gu…
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part of the executive branch problem that we've had in the past. He's definitely part of the international syndicate. All right. So it says after Bundy's departure, Comer briefly served as the national security advisor before he was then re…
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I'm going to read just a little bit of it. At 44 years old, Robert Comer felt the tug of the string of memories appointed by Johnson as the interim National Security Advisor when McGeorge Bundy left for a few weeks before to head the Ford F…
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where he had invested in diamond mines. And see, that didn't come out when we were talking about Ghana. I didn't even know this part. That's why this fascinated me when I found this article. You know it's there. You just have trouble trying…
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and has been an investment banker ever since. But now he gets named as a special assistant of air affairs for the Secretary of War, Henry Stimson, who we featured earlier as one of the bonesmen. In that same hiring class was McGeorge Bundy,…
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to strengthen their security. By late 1963, when President Kennedy asked for plans to land paramilitary teams in the North, NSC advisor McGeorge Bundy, who Warhamster and I were just talking about the other day, warned him that the operatio…
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McNamara had the mistaken impression that CIA drops proceeded at a rate of one of a week. Instead, McGeorge Bundy told Johnson on July 24th that there had been a total of eight CIA drops so far, and they had been very modest, basically with…
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or 10 torpedoes, impelled Johnson to go to Congress and ask for the congressional action approved called the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, August 7th, 1964. This resolution was then used to declare war in South Vietnam. McGeorge Bundy's immedi…
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DeSoto patrols were approved by a special group, renamed the 303 Committee by Johnson, which is basically the 4512-2 special group that we keep renaming every time we get a different president. Bundy was chairman of that group and should ha…
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McGeorge Bundy was in his office on 9.15 a.m. on Friday morning, September 18th, when DeSoto had another false alarm. The new patrol in the Tonkin Gulf consisted of the U.S. destroyer Morton and Parsons, which reported they had opened fire …
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Considering that the 303 committee normally met only once a week and that the proposals were submitted in advance for discussion in the departments before the department heads came to the meeting, that was a lot of work to be staffing all o…
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quote, in 1961, I listened with a beginner's incredulity to the arguments of an eager operatives who promoted what became the Bay of Pigs. Through the next two years and more, I watched with increasing skepticism as the Kennedy administrati…
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His own learning from experience was much more important in President Kennedy's growing recognition that covert action simply did not work and caused more trouble than it was worth. Kennedy's demise and the replacement by Johnson ended the …
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Harvard University, the dean of the faculty, was understood to have been referring to Latin America when he remarked, second-rate subjects attract second-rate minds. Six months after Dan Mitterrand arrived in Brazil, the dean of Harvard, Ge…
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as an office for his law offices. But they determined that the cellar would be the perfect place to have a firing range, and the other three floors would be used to train police. What Engle didn't know at the time is it was next door to Mic…
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He also wanted the job of Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, which George Ball got. And the only one left that he wanted was the National Security Advisor, which McGeorge Bundy got. Bundy was not only six years younger than Gordon, he…
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President Kennedy was embarrassed at the turn of events. He determined to send McGeorge Bundy to New York to give a full account to Stevenson, but could do little about the next portion of the CIA plan. A diversionary landing was scheduled …
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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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signing things to, for example, one of them is a memorandum to Mr. McGeorge Bundy in order to give a copy of something to McNamara for the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff that was dated in early 1961, which would have been right after…
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work behind the scenes to preserve the status quo. As early as the fall of 65, a presidential directive reaffirmed the role of the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board had been prepared, which McGeorge Bundy put it, we plan to use as ap…
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Precisely because the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board was being given material that had been denied Congress. Interestingly enough, excuse me, I got a sneeze. All right. Remember the guy that I was talking about yesterday, Walt Rus…
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I've got it in front of me. So, yes. What's the subject of it? Message to President Sadat. Okay. Bundy's report on Simon. Talk with Mac Bundy. These are the subject matters. Instructions from Secretary. Meeting with Dobrivin.…
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OK, so that's McGeorge Bundy, which obviously you're talking about. And for those of you who don't know, these are diplomatic cables. They're messages. So they always refer to messages between diplomatic stations like our embassies out in t…
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by other CIA failures. Galbraith argued his position energetically with the president, Robert Kennedy and McGeorge Bundy, the new NSD advisor. He then put his arguments in a memorandum he showed to Alan Dulles, Bissell, and other CIA offici…
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which his assistant, John Bross, distributed in November of 21, or on the 21st. Although Comer assured Bissell that his summary changes changed nothing in the paper, he told his boss, McGeorge Bundy, quote, I took advantage of Walt's immine…
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in a National Security Action Memorandum, which is a directive. I can't tell you how unusual that is. It was also striking in that where action memorandums were supposed to dictate action, this one mandated inaction. Many Kennedy National S…
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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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In particular, Bundy said, I think it is unproven that the CIA knows how to manipulate an election in Guyana without a backfire. Schlesinger also joined the choir telling JFK the plan made him nervous, especially with prospects rated at les…
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There literally is no difference in what is going on in the United States and what the CIA has done everywhere else. This is the point I want to drive home. This is not foreign government. Meanwhile, McBundy followed up Kennedy's meeting wi…
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later inducing the political parties to accept a formula of proportional representation in the National Assembly. This improved Washington's odds for a favorable outcome. When NSC staffer Carl Kaysen told McBundy the latest news on October …
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So we're building up the reputation of the union that we're going to use to overthrow your government by building houses in your country. The agency's progress report circulated in mid-January 1963. Sending this to Kennedy for his weekend r…
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married to the daughter of a Yale trustee. He was in the lawn club and the graduate club. But you can't find basically anything on a regular search engine. But if you use Yandex, you can find a little bit more. I'm going to use some of my o…
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And a pair of them had already taken place, even as the new ambassador prepared to leave for his new post. One dropped equipment over Mustang. The other one moved CIA teams inside Tibet. The new ambassador persisted in his negative view. He…
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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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Dulles said, and I told him I was certain our Guatemalan operation would succeed. And Mr. President, the prospects for this plan are even better than they were for that one. And that's a bold-faced lie as far as them being more apt to succe…
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Henry Raymont, the UPI reporter in Havana, saw the attack planes and confirmed they had no markings on them at all. Exposed as a fabrication, Stevenson's statements flopped. The ambassador realized that Tracy Barnes had deceived him. Embarr…
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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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found that from 61 to 62, the special group considered only about 16% of operations actually initiated. 16% ever came to be briefed at the White House out of hundreds. The gains from these activities were very limited. On one hand, Kennedy …
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recalls quote in 1961 I listened with a beginner's thought to the arguments that the ear operate operatives who promoted what became the bay of pigs through the next two years and more I watched with increasing skepticism as the Kennedy adm…
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His own learning from experience was much more important in President Kennedy's growing recognition that covert action simply did not work and caused more problems than it was worth, unquote. Kennedy's demise ended the potential for a polic…
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a comment on the Congo there. To placate them, McCone told Killian he had spoken to the president and JFK agreed with him. Killian shot back that he had talked to him himself, and that was not true. National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy,…
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Bundy's doodles and notes reveal that the special group talked over a number of the Cuban exiles ready to fight teams necessary for various operations, their transportation needs, hardware, and then the point when the U.S. might intervene. …
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Facing the horrifying prospect of nuclear war, suddenly ceased being gung-ho for covert action. Bobby Kennedy later recorded an oral history in which he recounts looking into this matter to find that top CIA officials were unaware of many o…
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its role as prime manager to the National Security Council Standing Group, which was chaired by McGeorge Bundy. The Standing Group worked as Kennedy's utility infielders. In 1962, it had handled the delicate matter of Katanga in the Congo. …
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would be hashing out the issue. Both the CIA and Pentagon were present in force, Helms and Fitzgerald for the agency, Vance and Califano for the Department of Defense. McGeorge Bundy guarded the president's interest. Observers included Tom …
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Kennedy actually didn't mind. He said as long as the exiles stopped their incessant press conferences where they fought for credit in the U.S. Seems a bit odd. Bundy added that the special group had decided that the raids weren't worth the …
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During April, the standing group began meeting weekly in the White House. But Bundy plunged into the project with the typical skepticism beyond surveillance of Cuba to monitor Soviet forces and weapons, the covert action damage to Castro's …
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the subversion. Bundy at least allowed for the possibility of improving relations with Castro, but deliberations never went there. Instead, Kennedy had full NSE consider other options. Four days later, McNamara told the group that Castro's …
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Conditions without Castro, assuming Castro would die or be assassinated. A few days later, on the agenda for the standing group meeting, the death of Castro was listed as a contingency. At the meeting, Robert McNamara, taking McCone's point…
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assets claim credit on behalf of the fake group. According to Shackley, this device worked like a charm, but Gordon Chase, Bundy's NSC staffer for intelligence, told security advisors, quote, even in Miami, it seemed to pay relatively no at…
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And Chase wrote a paper for the special group on the continued need for secrecy using the August raids as an example. Ted Shackley's unit made only three more raids on Cuba. By now, McGeorge Bundy wore many hats. Among them was chairman of …
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That's the reason why Taylor had to go be the chairman because Lyman Lemesger gets fired for writing Operation Northwood. That's why it's good to read many books. On October 3rd, Bundy's special group adopted a memo of nine additional CIA m…
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Soon the U.S. terminated its support to the exiles, but it would go on, just not overtly. Especially Ray's group, the secret warrior, anticipated that the groups would be ready to become active in two or three months. On April 7th, LBJ held…
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About the same time, Our Times Group conducted its first significant raid on a sugar mill and Ray tried a highly publicized infiltration. Ray never made it. Mechanical breakdowns on boats and a variety of other excuses were advanced as a re…
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been left behind on the agenda. Scattered data indicates at least one CIA infiltration operation that year, but not much else. The special group deliberations on Cuba took place during the summer and Mac Bundy forwarded a CIA paper to LBJ. …
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Primacy of the National Security Advisor as chairman of this 303 committee had become established. Until February 1966, this would be Mac Bundy. For a month or so after Robert Comer, then the chairman became Walt Rostow. The chairman inform…
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This is exactly what happened in Eastern Europe. They don't care. These people are all expendable to them. Just keep throwing bodies. McGeorge Bundy warned Kennedy in 63 that the missions involved most of the danger common to those in denie…
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the legislature approved the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. Johnson then relied on that for a declaration of war. McGeorge Bundy immediately got involved with DeSoto. As a reconnaissance project, DeSoto patrols were approved by the special grou…
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In the Central Highlands, the DIDG effort continued to expand. In June of 64, Mac Bundy asked Director McComb to turn back the clock to before switchback to have the CIA re-enter Vietnam, as it were. Of course, they're already there. Lots o…
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If Great Britain resumed direct control, there would be more scope for the new party. On December 6th, Mac Bundy convened Helms and others and determined to put pressure on British and Canadian diplomats on the direct rule question. It fail…
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in strong showings of public support. Continuing PPP marches and demonstrations coincided with the early 1964 Pandemonium Revolt against the U.S. authority in the Panama Canal Zone. That too led Washington to fear the security of Guyana. Ma…
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But whatever. Jaden wanted to send an emissary to Washington to discuss the proposal, but he was turned down. The standard working group on Guyana convened at the State Department on June 30th to include Mac Bundy, Richard Helms, William Ty…
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When Gordon Chase approached him on the matter at the end of July, McBundy returned the memo with a handwritten reply, I'd Stonewall for now. When Jagen's political opponent came to Washington toward the end of August, Gordon Chase advised …
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that even with proportional representation, Jagen might still be elected prime minister. Washington told the British this would be unacceptable. By late August, the CIA announced itself cautiously optimistic about the election, but in truth…
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Desmond Fitzgerald, sitting in the agency, continued the discussion. Bundy pressed for a contingency paper on measures if Jagen won. The CIA drafted a paper not long after, and Bundy discussed it with Helms and the State Department on Septe…
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Senior officials remained upbeat like they do on all of these coups, even ones that stand no chance of success. Burnham's campaign buttons produced in the U.S. and doubtlessly paid for by the CIA were appearing everywhere in Georgetown. Gor…
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Capitalizing on communist dissension, which could have revealed the Radio Free Europe CIA propaganda mission, had been crossed out of a speech and replaced with source of block information, meaning the Soviet bloc. In November of 1964, Cord…
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the NSC staffer on intelligence, Peter Jessup. McPherson asked Johnson to stay out of the matter. Although advised to still clear, LBJ, like Eisenhower, worked behind the scenes for the status quo. As early as the fall of 65, a presidential…
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When the NSC aide, Rostow, who replaced Bundy, told Johnson that Fulbright was unhappy and didn't understand why the foreign relations should be denied access, the president scrolled at the bottom of his copy of the report. Because they lea…
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The two meetings that month, the special group considered another year's subsidy, complicated by Italy's multi-party political system, making it necessary for the CIA to approach different groups, sometimes cross-cutting interests. The secr…
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He demanded a review of the Italian program, LBJ did. Early in August, Bundy reported back that LBJ had thought all of those payments were excessive, that the CIA's political action specialist believed the U.S. was not getting its money's w…
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The subsidies were nevertheless significant and Italians had been telling CIA contacts they needed a lot more money to interfere with their own election. Bundy recommended funding what the 303 committee had already approved with the CIA to …
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The White House viewed this with caution. Ralph Dugan, a Kennedy holdover and political advisor whose special interest was Latin America and who would soon go to Santiago as ambassador, told Mac Bundy that he would not balk at three quarter…
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and find out exactly how much cash was at stake. The CIA now said it had no money for this project. The special group would have to approve the use of their contingency fund. Bundy convened the group in the White House sit room on April 2nd…
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to ensure the Sandinistas lost. Election interference, anybody? That's what we know of. The Sandinista loss was an outcome most U.S. officials had believed Managua would not permit. That says something about the Sandinistas, too. Internatio…
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working in England as part of the Ultra operation that cracked Nazi codes. Dulles was close to Bundy's father, Harvey, a top diplomat who had helped oversee the Marshall Plan, as well as the younger brother, McGeorge, another product of Sku…
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The press was filled with stories about all the fresh new faces in Washington, but many of the Kennedy appointments had closer ties to Dulles than they did to the new president. Among them was McGeorge Bundy, the Harvard dean who Kennedy ap…
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rescued Mac Bundy's brother, CIA officer Bill Bundy, from Joseph McCarthy's grasp. Mac Bundy regarded Dulles as an uncle. Maintaining a warm correspondence with him, that lasted until the end of the elder man's life. When Bundy became dean …
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He used his post to identify prospects for CIA recruitment, the student's body's best and brightest, which is still done today. Dulles could be assured that Mac Bundy in the White House and his brother Bill moving to Kennedy's Defense Depar…
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in a day that Kennedy had been laboring patiently and successfully to build in three months. Dulles knew that JFK was maneuvering to dump him, but he made it clear that he was not going to go without a fight. On May 23rd, Schlesinger discus…
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There would be serious difficulties about procuring the resignation of Alan Dulles. According to Bundy, Dulles believed that his only mistake was not in having persuaded the president to send in the Marines. As JFK's national security advis…
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He told Schlesinger that Dulles actually had more misgivings about the project than he ever expressed to the president and that he had not done so out of loyalty to Bissell. These people are so evil. Bundy added he personally would not be a…
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George Kennan, Julius Holmes, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., George Ball, McGeorge Bundy, Paul Nitz, Adolph Burrell. Those are just some of the notable ones. Is Warhamster here? He'd be going, skull and bones, skull and bones. Okay, that's just cr…