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Claims (124)
Richard M. Bissell Jr. met_with
McGeorge Bundy documented
document
“Bissell and Bundy have discussion concerning an "executive action capability…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.306
Richard M. Bissell Jr. met_with
McGeorge Bundy documented
document
“He worked closely with McGeorge Bundy the White House liaison for Cuban affars and formerly one of Bissell's…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.132
McGeorge Bundy worked_for
Trump administration documented
document
“He worked closely with McGeorge Bundy the White House liaison for Cuban affars…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.132
David Bissell met_with
McGeorge Bundy documented
document
“Bissell and Bundy were also personal friends but Bissell testified that he never told Bundy about the plot…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.133
McGeorge Bundy worked_for
Kennedy Administration documented
document
“McGeorge Bundy stated that it was his 'conviction that 'no one in the Kennedy Administration in the White House or in the cabinet ever gave any authorization approval or instruction of any kind for any effort to assassinate anyone by the CI…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.133
McGeorge Bundy proposed
U.S. State Department documented
document
“National Security Action Memorandum 100 (NSAM 100) directed the State Department to assess the potential courses of action open to the United States should Castro be removed from the Cuban scene…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.150
McGeorge Bundy met_with
John F. Kennedy reported
document
“Bundy testified that the contingency referred to in NSAM 100... Bundy emphasized that NSAM 100 represented an effort to assess the effect should Castro be removed from power...…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.151
McGeorge Bundy proposed
Operation Mongoose documented
document
“On August 23 McGeorge Bundy issued NSC Memorandum No 181 which stated that at the President's directive 'the line of activity projected for Operation MONGOOSE Plan B plus should be developed with all possible speed.…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.161
McGeorge Bundy worked_for
John F. Kennedy documented
document
“Bundy served as President Kennedy's Special Assistant for National Security Affairs throughout the Kennedy Administration…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.170
McGeorge Bundy member_of
Special Group (Ad Hoc) documented
document
“He was also a member of the SGA…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.170
McGeorge Bundy worked_for
Robert F. Kennedy documented
document
“Let me say one other thing about these two men and that is that there was somethingthat they really wanted done they did not leave peoplein doubt…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.171
McGeorge Bundy met_with
Executive Action documented
document
“He said that he had heard about "Executive Action * * * some time in the early months of 1961…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.171
McGeorge Bundy headed
5412 Group documented
document
“...the Special Group chaired by McGeorge Bundy reassumed responsibility for reviewing and approving covert actions in Cuba…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.184
McGeorge Bundy member_of
NSC Standing Group documented
document
“Members of the Standing Group included Robert Kennedy Robert McNamara John McCone McGeorge Bundy and Theodore Sorensen…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.184
McGeorge Bundy worked_for
NSC Standing Group documented
document
“In the spring of 1963 Bundy submitted to the Standing Group a memorandum entitled 'Cuba Alternatives'...…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.184
McGeorge Bundy worked_for
United States documented
document
“Bundy (Special Assistant for National Security and Chairman of the Special Group)…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.190
McGeorge Bundy met_with
Richard M. Bissell Jr. documented
document
“Bundy also testified to a conversation with Bissell during which the Executive Action capability was discussed…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.200
McGeorge Bundy worked_for
CIA documented
document
“Bundy was responsible to a new President for national security affairs and Bissell was his principal source of information about covert operations at the CIA…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.202
McGeorge Bundy member_of
5412 Group documented
document
“a meeting of the Special Group was held with Messrs McNamara Gilpatric Bowles Bundy Dulles Bissell and General Cabell ha attendance…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.216
McGeorge Bundy worked_for
5412 Group documented
document
“Mr Bundy asked that a memorandum be prepared for higher authority on the subject of what plans can be made for a successor government to Trujillo…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.217
McGeorge Bundy met_with
5412 Group documented
document
“Mr Bundy said that this point is covered in the Cuba paper which will be discussed at a high level in the very near future…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.222
McGeorge Bundy met_with
Richard Goodwin documented
document
“On May 15 1961 Bundy forwarded to Goodwin another memorandum…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.225
Chester Bowles met_with
McGeorge Bundy documented
document
“A May 26 1961 memorandum from Bowles to Bundy 'begins Followingup on our discussionof the DominicanRepublicat yesterday's meeting of the SpecialGroup…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.226
McGeorge Bundy ordered_assassination_of
CIA reported
document
“while Bundy was either affirmatively ordering the CIA to set up an assassination capability or at least implicitly approving it…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.332
Robert McNamara met_with
McGeorge Bundy documented
document
“Present were Mr McNamara and General McKee Mr Harriman Mr McCone and Mr Fitzgerald and Mr Bundy…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.351
McGeorge Bundy headed
5412 Group documented
document
“With the inauguration of President Kennedy in January 1961 Special Group meetings were transferred to the White House under the chairmanship of the President's Special Assistant for National Security Affairs McGeorge Bundy…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.60
McGeorge Bundy member_of
Special Group on Counter Insurgency documented
document
“General Maxwell Taylor chaired this group and McGeorge Bundy and Robert Kennedy served on it among others…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.60
McGeorge Bundy headed
Committee of 40 documented
document
“During the Johnson Administration the Special Group which was renamed the 303 Committee,19 continued to be chaired by the President's Assistant for National Security Affairs first McGeorge Bundy…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.61
McGeorge Bundy member_of
Tuesday Lunch group documented
document
“The Tuesday Lunch began as an informal meeting of President Johnson Secretary of State Rusk Secretary of Defense McNamara and Bundy…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.61
McGeorge Bundy worked_for
National Security Council documented
document
“McGeorge Bundy a former Special Assistant for National Security Affairs to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson has Stated While in principle it has always been the understanding of senior government officials outside the CIA that no covert opera…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.165
Fritz Bissell met_with
McGeorge Bundy documented
document
“Conversation Between Bisselland Bundy…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.8
J. Edgar Hoover met_with
McGeorge Bundy documented
document
“Memorandum from J Edgar Hoover Chairman Interdepartmental Intelligence Conference to McGeorgeBundy Special assistant to the President for National Security 7/25/61 enclosingIIC Report Status of U.S Internal Security Programs…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.65
Richard M. Russell Jr. met_with
McGeorge Bundy documented
document
“Memorandum from Richard M IRissellJr to McGeorgeBundy 2/17/61…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.81
William H. Brubeck met_with
McGeorge Bundy documented
document
“Memorandum from William H Brubeek to McGeorgeBundy and Myer Feldman 6/23/62…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.81
FBI spied_on
McGeorge Bundy documented
document
“In October 1966 the FBI learned that Dr King had met with McGeorge Bundy…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.184
McGeorge Bundy headed
Ford Foundation documented
document
“McGeorge Bundy then Director of the Ford Foundation…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.184
McGeorge Bundy met_with
Martin Luther King Jr. documented
document
“Dr King had met with McGeorge Bundy…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.184
J. Edgar Hoover met_with
McGeorge Bundy documented
document
“In 1961 Director Hoover submitted a report to President Kennedy's Special Assistant for National Security McGeorge Bundy on the status of the internal security programs of the Interdepartmental Intelligence Conference…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.471
McGeorge Bundy worked_for
Lyndon B. Johnson documented
document
“President Johnson's Assistant for National Security Affairs McGeorge Bundy asked the FBI for information…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.489
McGeorge Bundy met_with
FBI documented
document
“McGeorge Bundy asked the FBI for information concerning the Communist role in criticism of American policy in Vietmum…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.489
McGeorge Bundy member_of
5412 Group documented
document
“As a result of the report the standing members of the Special Group included McGeorge Bundy the Special Assistant for National Security Affairs as Chairman…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.57
Walt Rostow succeeded
McGeorge Bundy documented
document
“Bundy (later his successor Walt Rostow)…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.77
5412 Group headed
McGeorge Bundy documented
document
“At this time review and approval of covert operations against Cuba were the responsibility of the National Security Council's Special Group chaired by McGeorge Bundy…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.21
John McCone met_with
McGeorge Bundy documented
document
“On the morning of November 23 Director McCone met with President Johnson and his national security advisor McGeorge Bundy to brief them on the information CIA Headquarters had received from its Mexico Station…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.30
McGeorge Bundy worked_for
National Security Council documented
document
“The Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs McGeorge Bundy also played an important role in the national security process Not only was he a top presidential adviser but as overall director of the NSC staff he partic…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.254
McGeorge Bundy met_with
John F. Kennedy documented
document
“In this work Bundy and the NSC staff coordinated closely with other parts of the presidential staff and the Budget Bureau performed whatever liaison was necessary and met frequently with the President at regular White House staff meetings…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.254
McGeorge Bundy worked_for
John F. Kennedy documented
document
“There was another kind of Presidential order and that is the kind that would be issued via his Assistant for National Security Affairs be it Dr Kissinger or be it McGeorge Bundy or whoever was acting in that capacity…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.114
McGeorge Bundy worked_for
United States Executive Branch documented
document
“I think that what he has told you comes out of a profound knowledge and experience in the executive branch…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.76
McGeorge Bundy worked_for
Executive Branch of the United States Government documented
document
“Mr CLIFFORDSenator I think they have changed somewhat but I think the context at that time had to do with efforts that were being made in some areas by some members of the Congress to bring the Bay of Pigs into such focus that it brought it…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.91
McGeorge Bundy member_of
Committee of 40 documented
document
“To manage the election effort an electoral committee was established in Washington consisting of ... McGeorge Bundy from the White House…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.167
McGeorge Bundy worked_at
Harvard University documented
“Yeah, yeah. That changed. It changed when one of our favorite skull and bones men, a guy by the name of McGeorge Bundy, became the faculty dean at Harvard in charge of their admissions. The Bundy family shows up again. Well, Bundy's also tw…”
▶ SECRET SOCIETIES COLONEL TOWNER with Special Guest WARHAMSTER BRADY #35 @ 26:13
McGeorge Bundy headed
Ford Foundation documented
“Apparently to fight communism and support democracy. That's the hypocrisy right there. And we can point out that the Ford Foundation was the president of the Ford Foundation in 1966 was McGeorge Bundy. Yes. You also have several other…”
▶ The Shadow State 53 Wag the Dog @ 39:14
McGeorge Bundy member_of
Groton School documented
“Yeah, yeah. That changed. It changed when one of our favorite skull and bones men, a guy by the name of McGeorge Bundy, became the faculty dean at Harvard in charge of their admissions. The Bundy family shows up again. Well, Bundy's also tw…”
▶ SECRET SOCIETIES COLONEL TOWNER with Special Guest WARHAMSTER BRADY #35 @ 26:13
McGeorge Bundy member_of
Bush family host_asserted
“Well, I mean, he's just obviously intimately involved in Vietnam and all of the chaos. He was intimately involved in the USS Liberty and all of that other stuff based on the jobs that he had during that time. He's definitely not a good guy.…”
▶ SECRET SOCIETIES COLONEL TOWNER with Special Guest WARHAMSTER BRADY #35 @ 39:12
McGeorge Bundy relationship_with
Adlai Stevenson II book_quoted
“called Bender, B-E-N-D-E-R. On Monday afternoon, for the second time in 48 hours, Adelaide Stevens rose and denied the Cuban allegations. Stevenson had not left New York over the weekend. He had not seen Kennedy. However, the president had …”
▶ Book Review The Invisible Government Chapter 4 @ 25:56
McGeorge Bundy carried_out_attack
Vietnam host_asserted
“He becomes the national security advisor. He was in charge of the Vietnam escalation. Yeah. He was actually kind of behind the whole Gulf of Tonkin issue and drafting the resolution to commit military forces afterwards. So they set up the f…”
▶ The Shadow State 49 Skull & Bones Finale Pt. 2 @ 1:22:55
McGeorge Bundy founded
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution host_asserted
“He becomes the national security advisor. He was in charge of the Vietnam escalation. Yeah. He was actually kind of behind the whole Gulf of Tonkin issue and drafting the resolution to commit military forces afterwards. So they set up the f…”
▶ The Shadow State 49 Skull & Bones Finale Pt. 2 @ 1:22:55
McGeorge Bundy appointed
Ford Foundation host_asserted
“Basically, it was the mechanism to coordinate covert operations. Very good. He'd leave that and become the president of the Ford Foundation because, of course, he did. I'm making the assumption that all of this, he never got out of Intel. N…”
▶ The Shadow State 49 Skull & Bones Finale Pt. 2 @ 1:24:01
McGeorge Bundy member_of
Skull and Bones host_asserted
“And of course, Andrew Yang. That's quite a lineup. Yeah. So that is Mr. Charles Spofford. Quite a career. All right. Back to one of our other favorites, Mr. McGeorge Bundy. Pictured here is the fifth National Security Advisor. He is classed…”
▶ The Shadow State 49 Skull & Bones Finale Pt. 2 @ 1:21:06
McGeorge Bundy appointed
Harvard University host_asserted
“Yeah, go ahead. At 34 years old, the youngest dean of Harvard ever. Outstanding. So in 49, he joins the Council of Foreign Relations as a Marshall Plan analyst on the covert side. And he worked on that subcommittee with Eisenhower, Allen Du…”
▶ The Shadow State 49 Skull & Bones Finale Pt. 2 @ 1:22:21
McGeorge Bundy member_of
CFR host_asserted
“Yeah, go ahead. At 34 years old, the youngest dean of Harvard ever. Outstanding. So in 49, he joins the Council of Foreign Relations as a Marshall Plan analyst on the covert side. And he worked on that subcommittee with Eisenhower, Allen Du…”
▶ The Shadow State 49 Skull & Bones Finale Pt. 2 @ 1:22:21
McGeorge Bundy founded
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“Yeah, go ahead. At 34 years old, the youngest dean of Harvard ever. Outstanding. So in 49, he joins the Council of Foreign Relations as a Marshall Plan analyst on the covert side. And he worked on that subcommittee with Eisenhower, Allen Du…”
▶ The Shadow State 49 Skull & Bones Finale Pt. 2 @ 1:22:21
McGeorge Bundy appointed
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace host_asserted
“had tentacles to the CIA. Yeah, and that's where the Ford Foundation comes in. Yes. Then, of course, he testifies to the Court Committee and lies his ass off. Yes, he did. And then he would then be employed by none other than the Carnegie C…”
▶ The Shadow State 49 Skull & Bones Finale Pt. 2 @ 1:24:33
McGeorge Bundy appointed
John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“He was a national security advisor to both Kennedy and LBJ. He was the driving force behind the U.S. getting involved in the Vietnam War, which was basically done to benefit the CIA and the narcotics trafficking. Yeah, because if I remember…”
▶ The Shadow State 33 Secret Societies 17; Freemason Preview @ 58:12
McGeorge Bundy member_of
Skull and Bones host_asserted
“do something with Vietnam and then the French got utterly annihilated. Yeah, they got routed. They left in an embarrassment. They left a mess and we tried to clean it up. He's actually the son of the guy we named earlier, Robert Lovett. The…”
▶ The Shadow State 33 Secret Societies 17; Freemason Preview @ 58:43
McGeorge Bundy member_of
Skull and Bones documented
“How about Skull and Bonesman McGeorge Bundy? What? Yeah, he was an Alfredus Henry Snow Prize. I guess he was a good student, too. And a gentleman by the name of Strobe Talbot. No. Yeah. We'll get to Strobe a bit more later. All right, so Ja…”
▶ The Shadow State 35 Secret Societies 19; Jake Sullivan @ 8:06
McGeorge Bundy member_of
Skull and Bones documented
“Yeah, yeah. That changed. It changed when one of our favorite skull and bones men, a guy by the name of McGeorge Bundy, became the faculty dean at Harvard in charge of their admissions. The Bundy family shows up again. Well, Bundy also, fou…”
▶ The Shadow State 36 Secret Societies 20; The Groton School @ 26:31
Skull and Bones member_of
McGeorge Bundy host_asserted
“played pretty important stories, pretty important roles in the stories we've been telling. There was Stimson, who I know you've talked about. There was Bundy, who was the assistant sex state. A guy by the name of Lord, who was the assistant…”
▶ The Shadow State #18 Secret Societies Pt. 2; Skull & Bones @ 41:28
McGeorge Bundy member_of
Bush family host_asserted
“I've never taken that thought all the way down that trail. Here, wait a minute. This is my Gladio glasses. All right. Well, that's all I've got on Bill Bundy. All right. Let's move on. He's got a brother who just seems to pop up everywhere …”
▶ The Shadow State 22 Secret Societies 6; The Bundy Family @ 35:53
McGeorge Bundy appointed
John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“she's got bundy you know she can just from memory she'd go for hours on mcgeorge bundy so he would be the national security advisor for both jfk and lbj from 1961 to 66 and what's his brother doing at the time yeah um after he leaves that b…”
▶ The Shadow State 22 Secret Societies 6; The Bundy Family @ 36:30
McGeorge Bundy appointed
Lyndon B. Johnson host_asserted
“she's got bundy you know she can just from memory she'd go for hours on mcgeorge bundy so he would be the national security advisor for both jfk and lbj from 1961 to 66 and what's his brother doing at the time yeah um after he leaves that b…”
▶ The Shadow State 22 Secret Societies 6; The Bundy Family @ 36:30
McGeorge Bundy member_of
CFR host_asserted
“Basically, I go to the past. He selected this Council of Foreign Relations in 1949 at the age of 29 years old. He would then work on implementing the Marshall Plan. This guy's involved in Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis. One of the big ar…”
▶ The Shadow State 22 Secret Societies 6; The Bundy Family @ 37:01
McGeorge Bundy member_of
Marshall Plan host_asserted
“Basically, I go to the past. He selected this Council of Foreign Relations in 1949 at the age of 29 years old. He would then work on implementing the Marshall Plan. This guy's involved in Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis. One of the big ar…”
▶ The Shadow State 22 Secret Societies 6; The Bundy Family @ 37:01
McGeorge Bundy member_of
Bay of Pigs host_asserted
“Basically, I go to the past. He selected this Council of Foreign Relations in 1949 at the age of 29 years old. He would then work on implementing the Marshall Plan. This guy's involved in Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis. One of the big ar…”
▶ The Shadow State 22 Secret Societies 6; The Bundy Family @ 37:01
McGeorge Bundy member_of
Operation Overlord host_asserted
“Basically, I go to the past. He selected this Council of Foreign Relations in 1949 at the age of 29 years old. He would then work on implementing the Marshall Plan. This guy's involved in Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis. One of the big ar…”
▶ The Shadow State 22 Secret Societies 6; The Bundy Family @ 37:01
McGeorge Bundy headed
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“operation gladio overlord for both jfk administration and then follow on lbj everything that happened the committee that we just reviewed guys the 5412 in this book here the president's secret wars that we're reviewing right now that book i…”
▶ The Shadow State 22 Secret Societies 6; The Bundy Family @ 38:27
Walt Rostow succeeded
McGeorge Bundy host_asserted
“All right. And his successor was Walt Rostow, R-O-S-T-O-W. He was the national security advisor when the liberty went down. And I remember reading about him. All right. So very important, the Ford Foundation. The Ford Foundation and many of…”
▶ The Shadow State 22 Secret Societies 6; The Bundy Family @ 41:48
McGeorge Bundy member_of
Groton School host_asserted
“Very, very, very connected. You mentioned his connection to the Bush family. And I love the fact, how many times, here's another connection. How many times does that Groton school come up in the childhoods of these people being prepped to g…”
▶ The Shadow State 22 Secret Societies 6; The Bundy Family @ 45:08
McGeorge Bundy member_of
Yale University host_asserted
“Very, very, very connected. You mentioned his connection to the Bush family. And I love the fact, how many times, here's another connection. How many times does that Groton school come up in the childhoods of these people being prepped to g…”
▶ The Shadow State 22 Secret Societies 6; The Bundy Family @ 45:08
McGeorge Bundy member_of
Harvard University host_asserted
“Very, very, very connected. You mentioned his connection to the Bush family. And I love the fact, how many times, here's another connection. How many times does that Groton school come up in the childhoods of these people being prepped to g…”
▶ The Shadow State 22 Secret Societies 6; The Bundy Family @ 45:08
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
Henry Stimson host_asserted
“on Henry Stimson's book called On Active Service in War and Peace, which is basically about the same crap. However, it was the same crap prior to the CIA because this was the way we did takeovers before. So in doing so, and the reason why I…”
▶ The Shadow State 22 Secret Societies 6; The Bundy Family @ 47:00
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 headed
Vietnam host_asserted
“He's not just a member of the CIA. He's the national security advisor orchestrating them. I just can't make that a point enough. Yeah, I think the thing to hammer home with that is he wasn't just a CIA officer. This guy is the chief archite…”
▶ The Shadow State 22 Secret Societies 6; The Bundy Family @ 47:58
McGeorge Bundy ordered_assassination_of
Coup against Ngo Dinh Diem host_asserted
“program and they developed something called the southeast asia development corporation and was it bridges or roads or a dam or something like that and vietnam is supposed to bring all kinds of trade and to basically democratize vietnam and …”
▶ The Shadow State 22 Secret Societies 6; The Bundy Family @ 48:27
McGeorge Bundy member_of
Bay of Pigs host_asserted
“And so McGeorge Bundy's there for that. McGeorge Bundy is making sure it gets escalated by planning the coup of the current Vietnam stooges that they had already installed. And McGeorge Bundy was there at the Bay of Pigs, which is how Alan …”
▶ The Shadow State 22 Secret Societies 6; The Bundy Family @ 49:28
McGeorge Bundy removed_from_power
Paul Harkins host_asserted
“in 1964, advised Johnson to dismiss the one general, General Paul Harkins, that wasn't on board with securing poppy fields and gets him replaced. He advised Johnson to replace him with General Wes Moreland, who was a soulless bastard who wa…”
▶ The Shadow State 22 Secret Societies 6; The Bundy Family @ 51:52
McGeorge Bundy appointed
William Westmoreland host_asserted
“in 1964, advised Johnson to dismiss the one general, General Paul Harkins, that wasn't on board with securing poppy fields and gets him replaced. He advised Johnson to replace him with General Wes Moreland, who was a soulless bastard who wa…”
▶ The Shadow State 22 Secret Societies 6; The Bundy Family @ 51:52
McGeorge Bundy covered_up
Henry Kissinger host_asserted
“for the military side of all of the killing in Vietnam. But Bundy is the one that set that entire thing up. It's funny, right? At that same time, during the Kennedy administration, there's another Harvard professor who was trying to get a j…”
▶ The Shadow State 22 Secret Societies 6; The Bundy Family @ 52:19
McGeorge Bundy appointed
Ford Foundation host_asserted
“We're getting close to an hour. You know, I always like to end on a mic drop moment. Do you have anything else you want to talk about, McGeorge? So I'll end you with my mic. I'll give you my mic drop. Okay. So after all this, he actually tr…”
▶ The Shadow State 22 Secret Societies 6; The Bundy Family @ 57:14
McGeorge Bundy headed
Groton School documented
“Yeah, yeah. That changed. It changed when one of our favorite skull and bones men, a guy by the name of McGeorge Bundy, became the faculty dean at Harvard in charge of their admissions. The Bundy family shows up again. Well, Bundy also, fou…”
▶ The Shadow State 36 Secret Societies 20; The Groton School @ 26:31
McGeorge Bundy conveyed_decision_of
John F. Kennedy book_quoted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 @ 55:35
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 removed_from_power
John F. Kennedy book_quoted
“He forms a Cuban study group. The study group consists of Alan Dulles, General Maxwell Taylor, who was a personal military advisor to Kennedy. So that was his guy on the inside. Admiral Arleigh Burke and Attorney General Robert Kennedy. The…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 7 @ 35:05
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 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
McGeorge Bundy founded
BCCI Gladio operation host_asserted
“Outstanding. So in 49, he joins the Council of Foreign Relations as a Marshall Plan analyst on the covert side. And he worked on that subcommittee with Eisenhower, Allen Dulles, CIA's Richard Ripple Jr. and George Kennan. Setting up Operati…”
▶ Operation Gladio Meets Secret Societies Summary Part 2 @ 1:22:05
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
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
McGeorge Bundy headed
Ford Foundation host_asserted
“Basically, it was the mechanism to coordinate covert operations. Very good. He'd leave that and become the president of the Ford Foundation because, of course, he did. I'm making the assumption that all of this, he never got out of intel. O…”
▶ Operation Gladio Meets Secret Societies Summary Part 2 @ 1:23:39
McGeorge Bundy member_of
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace host_asserted
“Yeah, and that's where the Ford Foundation comes in. Yes. Then, of course, he testifies to the court committee and lies his ass off. Yes, he did. And then he would then be employed by none other than the Carnegie Corporation until he died i…”
▶ Operation Gladio Meets Secret Societies Summary Part 2 @ 1:24:13
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 member_of
Committee of 40 host_asserted
“um it's rumble's not letting me use my mic so i'm going straight off the laptop and it's i'm doing the best i can so i apologize um i don't know if i can get edited out but we're doing the best we can all right he would then become the chai…”
▶ Operation Gladio Meets Secret Societies Summary Part 2 @ 1:23:05
McGeorge Bundy member_of
Skull and Bones host_asserted
“Yeah, yeah. That changed. It changed when one of our favorite skull and bones men, a guy by the name of McGeorge Bundy, became the faculty dean at Harvard in charge of their admissions. The Bundy family shows up again. Well, Bundy's also tw…”
▶ SECRET SOCIETIES COLONEL TOWNER with Special Guest WARHAMSTER BRADY #35 @ 26:13
McGeorge Bundy member_of
Skull and Bones host_asserted
“Mr. Charles Spofford. Quite a career. All right. Back to one of our other favorites, Mr. McGeorge Bundy. Pictured here as the fifth National Security Advisor. He is classed up in 1940. His name was Odin. Of course, he went to the Grove of t…”
▶ Operation Gladio Meets Secret Societies Summary Part 2 @ 1:20:52
McGeorge Bundy covered_up
CIA documented
“Wait, I got a quote from his church committee testimony. He says, and listen to the words because this is precise. As far as I ever knew or know now, no one in the White House or at the cabinet level ever gave any approval of any kind to an…”
▶ The Shadow State 22 Secret Societies 6; The Bundy Family @ 55:13
McGeorge Bundy appointed
United States host_asserted
“mcgeorge bundy was the national security assistance to kennedy and johnson so the bundys um supported the u.s um european policy basically which gave us um nato yet the bundys have been linked to activities that would on its face seem very …”
▶ The Shadow State 53 Wag the Dog @ 1:08:42
McGeorge Bundy member_of
CFR host_asserted
“Outstanding. So in 49, he joins the Council of Foreign Relations as a Marshall Plan analyst on the covert side. And he worked on that subcommittee with Eisenhower, Allen Dulles, CIA's Richard Ripple Jr. and George Kennan. Setting up Operati…”
▶ Operation Gladio Meets Secret Societies Summary Part 2 @ 1:22:05
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
John F. Kennedy directed
McGeorge Bundy book_quoted
“President Kennedy tamped down the next round of CIA bombings to avoid a U.N. 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 fo…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 @ 51:47
John F. Kennedy appointed
McGeorge Bundy documented
“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 …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 11 @ 40:52
John F. Kennedy sent
McGeorge Bundy book_quoted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 @ 51:20
McGeorge Bundy carried_out_attack
Gulf of Tonkin incident host_asserted
“Yeah. He was actually kind of behind the whole Gulf of Tonkin issue and drafting the resolution to commit military forces afterwards. So they set up the false flag so they could go into Vietnam to secure the opium to supply Operation Gladio…”
▶ Operation Gladio Meets Secret Societies Summary Part 2 @ 1:22:40
McGeorge Bundy covered_up
Bay of Pigs Invasion book_quoted
“as the threat to be able to justify a full-scale invasion of Cuba and, as heard with Operation Northwood, to use American casualties to justify that. Kennedy's order for the airstrike on Castro's jets would be canceled by Special Assistance…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 7 @ 33:34
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 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 studied_at
Groton School host_asserted
“Yeah, yeah. That changed. It changed when one of our favorite skull and bones men, a guy by the name of McGeorge Bundy, became the faculty dean at Harvard in charge of their admissions. The Bundy family shows up again. Well, Bundy's also tw…”
▶ SECRET SOCIETIES COLONEL TOWNER with Special Guest WARHAMSTER BRADY #35 @ 26:13
McGeorge Bundy carried_out_attack
Vietnam War host_asserted
“He was a national security advisor to both Kennedy and LBJ. He was the driving force behind the U.S. getting involved in the Vietnam War, which was basically done to benefit the CIA and the narcotics trafficking. Yeah, because if I remember…”
▶ The Shadow State 33 Secret Societies 17; Freemason Preview @ 58:12
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 (120)
▶ 43:14
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…
▶ 43:42
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…
▶ 59:22
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…
▶ 59:47
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…
▶ 18:15
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…
▶ 7:46
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 …
▶ 5:37
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…
▶ 6:05
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…
▶ 6:35
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…
▶ 30:26
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…
▶ 15:04
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…
▶ 28:15
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,…
▶ 23:11
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…
▶ 34:58
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…
▶ 41:12
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…
▶ 41:36
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…
▶ 43:21
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 …
▶ 46:29
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…
▶ 46:55
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…
▶ 47:24
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 …
▶ 24:26
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…
▶ 45:50
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…
▶ 1:00:14
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…
▶ 43:43
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 …
▶ 45:41
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…
▶ 1:06:36
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…
▶ 13:12
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…
▶ 13:49
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…
▶ 1:33:20
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.…
▶ 1:33:40
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…
▶ 36:40
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…
▶ 43:22
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…
▶ 28:36
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…
▶ 52:13
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 …
▶ 52:45
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…
▶ 55:06
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…
▶ 56:24
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 …
▶ 1:01:42
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…
▶ 1:26:04
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…
▶ 12:03
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…
▶ 6:40
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…
▶ 20:53
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…
▶ 46:59
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…
▶ 47:26
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 …
▶ 51:14
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…
▶ 28:57
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 …
▶ 29:31
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…
▶ 30:04
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…
▶ 36:18
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,…
▶ 20:52
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. …
▶ 25:50
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…
▶ 31:30
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. …
▶ 41:17
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 …
▶ 41:47
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 …
▶ 42:24
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 …
▶ 42:55
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 …
▶ 44:25
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…
▶ 52:05
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…
▶ 52:35
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 …
▶ 53:09
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…
▶ 18:21
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…
▶ 20:20
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…
▶ 22:48
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. …
▶ 11:11
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…
▶ 57:06
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…
▶ 12:37
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…
▶ 15:05
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…
▶ 5:43
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…
▶ 6:13
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…
▶ 12:26
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…
▶ 14:01
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 …
▶ 14:30
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…
▶ 15:00
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…
▶ 17:38
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…
▶ 5:25
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…
▶ 19:09
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…
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played pretty important stories, pretty important roles in the stories we've been telling. There was Stimson, who I know you've talked about. There was Bundy, who was the assistant sex state. A guy by the name of Lord, who was the assistant…
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A guy named Spofford. We've got McGeorge Bundy, a national security advisor. You remember him? Yeah, he's dirty. Oh, yeah. Yeah, there's a couple of Bundys in Skull and Bones. And that's a very old American family. And we've got an undersec…
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That'd be a great idea. We're going to jump in starting in 1908 or 9 next week. And one of the families that's going to come up is one of your favorites. And I'll just say the last name is Bundy. Oh, George Bundy. Well, he's not the one we'…
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More about Bundy before we go on. He's the grandson of a guy named Sullivan Bundy, who was a New York congressman from 1877 to 79. His great-great-grandfather was, I'm sorry, he's the great-great-great-grandfather of Jake Auchincloss, there…
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I've never taken that thought all the way down that trail. Here, wait a minute. This is my Gladio glasses. All right. Well, that's all I've got on Bill Bundy. All right. Let's move on. He's got a brother who just seems to pop up everywhere …
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she's got bundy you know she can just from memory she'd go for hours on mcgeorge bundy so he would be the national security advisor for both jfk and lbj from 1961 to 66 and what's his brother doing at the time yeah um after he leaves that b…
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Basically, I go to the past. He selected this Council of Foreign Relations in 1949 at the age of 29 years old. He would then work on implementing the Marshall Plan. This guy's involved in Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis. One of the big ar…
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the coordination oversight of the CIA, and he wasn't allowed to see anything that they do. So this is the guy. This is the guy that was overviewing everything. Now, national security advisors during this time and after all ran the covert op…
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operation gladio overlord for both jfk administration and then follow on lbj everything that happened the committee that we just reviewed guys the 5412 in this book here the president's secret wars that we're reviewing right now that book i…
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And that for he had his representative and that representative couldn't write anything down. He could only come talk to Eisenhower about it because they didn't want anything in writing that he knew, like when he ordered the killing of Lumum…
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This is the guy that would have known all about the USS Liberty. Okay. Probably gave the order. Hold on. He left in 66. Liberty 67. Yeah. Although the plan could have been done well in advance. You would think so. So they do plan these thin…
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as you mentioned, was an intelligence officer in World War II. And the Operation Overlord, if you guys don't know what that is, go look that up. He also was a ghostwriter for Henry Stimson.…
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He's not just a member of the CIA. He's the national security advisor orchestrating them. I just can't make that a point enough. Yeah, I think the thing to hammer home with that is he wasn't just a CIA officer. This guy is the chief archite…
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program and they developed something called the southeast asia development corporation and was it bridges or roads or a dam or something like that and vietnam is supposed to bring all kinds of trade and to basically democratize vietnam and …
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That was, was that 60, I'm trying to remember what year that is. 63. Okay, so that's, was that right after JFK? Right before. Right before, okay. He approved it right before. And that's when JFK was starting to push back against escalation,…
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And so McGeorge Bundy's there for that. McGeorge Bundy is making sure it gets escalated by planning the coup of the current Vietnam stooges that they had already installed. And McGeorge Bundy was there at the Bay of Pigs, which is how Alan …
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in 1964, advised Johnson to dismiss the one general, General Paul Harkins, that wasn't on board with securing poppy fields and gets him replaced. He advised Johnson to replace him with General Wes Moreland, who was a soulless bastard who wa…
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for the military side of all of the killing in Vietnam. But Bundy is the one that set that entire thing up. It's funny, right? At that same time, during the Kennedy administration, there's another Harvard professor who was trying to get a j…
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The CIA director, George Bush. I didn't know that. I did not know that story. Yes. So, again, McBundy or McBundy, they called him Mac Bundy because of his name being George Bundy. Obviously involved. He testified in the church committee and…
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We're getting close to an hour. You know, I always like to end on a mic drop moment. Do you have anything else you want to talk about, McGeorge? So I'll end you with my mic. I'll give you my mic drop. Okay. So after all this, he actually tr…
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He flew in the Navy for a year or two 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. And tha…
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I would say Luce, Henry Luce, the Time Magazine one. That's one I didn't know. When I first found that out, I go, okay, that makes a lot of sense. I'll skip to some other good ones. Potter Stewart, who ended up being a Supreme Court justice…
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He was a national security advisor to both Kennedy and LBJ. He was the driving force behind the U.S. getting involved in the Vietnam War, which was basically done to benefit the CIA and the narcotics trafficking. Yeah, because if I remember…
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How about Skull and Bonesman McGeorge Bundy? What? Yeah, he was an Alfredus Henry Snow Prize. I guess he was a good student, too. And a gentleman by the name of Strobe Talbot. No. Yeah. We'll get to Strobe a bit more later. All right, so Ja…
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Yeah, yeah. That changed. It changed when one of our favorite skull and bones men, a guy by the name of McGeorge Bundy, became the faculty dean at Harvard in charge of their admissions. The Bundy family shows up again. Well, Bundy also, fou…
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And he's urging for diversification. So since then, it is not as effective of a feeder school. And they're taking kids from all over the place. The ones who can't afford it, they give scholarships out of their huge endowment. Now they're ta…
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Well, I mean, he's just obviously intimately involved in Vietnam and all of the chaos. He was intimately involved in the USS Liberty and all of that other stuff based on the jobs that he had during that time. He's definitely not a good guy.…
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And of course, Andrew Yang. That's quite a lineup. Yeah. So that is Mr. Charles Spofford. Quite a career. All right. Back to one of our other favorites, Mr. McGeorge Bundy. Pictured here is the fifth National Security Advisor. He is classed…
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Yes. But do you have when he became the dean of Harvard? I can get that here real quickly. I got it.…