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Claims (104)
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed
Allen Dulles documented
“to be on the Justice Earl Warren's commission to investigate Kennedy's assassination. While both Dulles and Kennedy had worked together, obviously their differences were known to everyone since he openly fired him from being the CIA directo…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Indonesia Part 2 @ 56:09
Lyndon B. Johnson ordered_assassination_of
Radio Free Europe documented
“So there really wasn't any private funding coming in at all. When the news appeared, CIA's Radio Free Europe connection garnered wide attention. By November, the president had had his bill. After one of his Tuesday lunches, LBJ talked priva…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 32 (34) @ 7:51
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed
Robert Komer documented
“A year later, President Johnson decided that a top-level Saigon command for pacification was needed, and he chose Comer for the job and promised him anything that he needed for the job to be done well. The Saigon unit was called CORDS, and …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Presidents’ Secret Wars, chapter 15 @ 43:08
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed
Alexis Johnson documented
“When Lyndon Johnson became president, he sent Ambassador Johnson to South Vietnam as deputy ambassador to Taylor. Alexis Johnson's committee recognized immediately that there was a new central and more powerful police office, and that decis…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 2 @ 39:18
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed
John McCone documented
“even if the California mostly a stranger to the clubby, blue-blooded world of men like Dulles, who had always run the spy agency, faced a steep learning curve. After JFK's assassination in Dallas in November 1963, President Lyndon Johnson k…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 6 @ 2:56
John F. Kennedy appointed
Lyndon B. Johnson host_asserted
“In 1960, LBJ was selected by JFK as his running mate.…”
▶ 1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden @ 1:09:42
Lyndon B. Johnson succeeded
John F. Kennedy documented
“particularly the Soviet Union, and had been an officer in charge of security for the atomic bomb project. In Vietnam, he was called on to preside over the escalation of paramilitary activities. Escalation was mandated by LBJ, Kennedy's sudd…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Presidents_ Secret Wars Chap 13 @ 33:37
Lyndon B. Johnson funded
Gulf of Tonkin incident documented
“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…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Presidents_ Secret Wars Chap 13 @ 41:12
Lyndon B. Johnson succeeded
John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“The assassination happens. This committee is then basically, because Johnson becomes president, is…”
▶ 1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden @ 1:01:08
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed
Bobby Baker host_asserted
“Two men came very close when Johnson became the Senate Majority Leader in 1955. He made Baker the Secretary for the Majority.…”
▶ 1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden @ 1:07:17
Lyndon B. Johnson founded
Johnson Amendment host_asserted
“the, you know, the 501c3s and losing your 501c3 status as a, what that was, if I remember correctly, it was the Johnson Amendment, because Johnson, LBJ, almost lost his senatorial re-election campaign, I want to say 1954 or 56, and what he …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 14 @ 1:34:46
Lyndon B. Johnson ordered_assassination_of
Vietnam book_quoted
“At the insistence of the chief of naval operations, he also authorized accompanying escorts of fighters. These were ordered not to bomb or strafe Laotian installations until or unless U.S. planes were fired upon. When a Navy RF-8 was shot d…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 11 @ 1:06:50
Lyndon B. Johnson member_of
U.S. Navy documented
“who was stoking the flames by quietly feeding damaging information to the press. Lyndon Johnson had entered the 1960 Democratic presidential sweepstakes with a cocky self-assurance. He had run the U.S. Senate like it was his own personal fi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 20:21
Lyndon B. Johnson supplied_arms_to
Israel book_quoted
“to help their nuclear program as well in the 1950s and 60s. In 1964, Lyndon Johnson had given James Angleton permission to assist Israel in further developing its nuclear program. Now, the Reagan administration was leveling the playing fiel…”
▶ The Colonels corner Prelude to terror final chapter @ 32:12
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
Allard Lowenstein associated_with
Lyndon B. Johnson host_asserted
“He was the key pivot man in a sort of dump Lyndon Johnson movement that was first went for what I consider a CIA bait divider candidate, namely Eugene McCarthy. Those children were too damn clean for Gene, if you know what I agency mean, Co…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 9 @ 1:24:39
Hubert Humphrey member_of
Lyndon B. Johnson host_asserted
“So I was paying attention to the 68 Convention a lot because of the Vietnam War, because of Humphrey, which was Lyndon Bain Johnson VP. And so, yeah, I can interject if you want. Oh, that'd be awesome. Absolutely. Yeah, I know a lot about t…”
▶ Operation Gladio - 1968 parallels_ Assassins, political theater, etc @ 1:28:38
Clark Clifford member_of
Lyndon B. Johnson host_asserted
“Clifford was in a law practice together. And Clark Clifford was in the whole story that we just told about the election in 1968 because he was a political advisor to Lyndon B. Johnson. He was all tied up in LBJ's criminality. He was on the …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Is it the Octopus of Danny Casalaro’s writings_ @ 51:49
Lyndon B. Johnson spied_on
Vietnam documented
“It was not a happy outcome, even though a non-communist government was preserved. The war was very unpopular and ended in an armistice, not a peace agreement. America's involvement was plagued by mismanagement and dereliction. The whole aff…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Korea Part 4 @ 29:03
Office of Economic Opportunity founded
Lyndon B. Johnson documented
“His dad was a bureaucrat. He's the child of a bureaucrat. That's the beginning of this pattern. What did his job do? His dad do for a job? No, he worked at the Office of Economic Opportunity, which we've spoken about before. That was the on…”
▶ The Shadow State 43 Secret Societies 26; The Praetorian Guard @ 3:44
Lyndon B. Johnson opposed
Mike Mansfield documented
“The McCarthy bill posed a challenge to the existing minimal legislative oversight, and now Mike Mansfield was the majority leader in the Senate. Lyndon B. Johnson, as majority leader in 1956, had helped oppose Mansfield's original bill, but…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner president’s secret wars chapter 16 @ 12:13
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed
Robert Komer host_asserted
“President Lyndon Johnson had sent Comer to South Vietnam to provide an impetus to nation building efforts. Comer was known for his broke management style. I mean, he was a bully. That's the best way to say it, which endeared himself to the …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Relook at Robert Komer (Phoenix) as a Ritchie Boy @ 11:21
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed
Robert Komer book_quoted
“during and after this particular episode. So it says that this view had prevailed and now it was up to Comer to carry out the president's commitment in the face of the bureaucratic resistance from the civilian agencies. So Comer is basicall…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Relook at Robert Komer (Phoenix) as a Ritchie Boy @ 36:45
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed
William Porter book_quoted
“Porter had been designated to improve the management of the U.S. support of the pacification efforts as Comer's counterpart in Saigon, and together they would use the authority of the president over the resistance in the bureaucrats that th…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Relook at Robert Komer (Phoenix) as a Ritchie Boy @ 40:12
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed
William Leonard book_quoted
“would assure that the civilian pacification efforts were coordinated with military operations. Further, he would support the U.S. mission in Saigon on matters under his purview. Comer administered a White House bureaucratic coup d'etat as w…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Relook at Robert Komer (Phoenix) as a Ritchie Boy @ 43:00
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed
James Wadsworth Jr. host_asserted
“That's basically the way, you know, there's some other power centers in Europe and Asia, what have you, but they all play the same game. And they could tell us about a democracy. No, not enough of that. Becomes full ambassador of the UN in …”
▶ The Shadow State 26 Secret Societies 10; The Heinz Connection @ 39:45
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. documented
“LBJ saw it as putting his first team in place. Bill Sullivan could hardly refuse the summons. Taylor was the president's man in LBJ, much as for JFK, while Sullivan was the State Department officer chairing the Washington interagency meetin…”
▶ The Colonel’s corner President’s secret wars Chap 14 @ 1:02:41
Lyndon B. Johnson removed_from_power
United States documented
“Their activities were paid for, as noted above, by heroin and coordinated by the CIA. At the height of the Vietnam War, with inflation threatening to wreck the domestic program for a great society, Lyndon Johnson relaxed the import quota sy…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Drugs,Oil, and War Part 3 @ 49:12
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed
Earl Warren book_quoted
“We're talking about the Warren Commission. As we all know, the Warren Commission was named after Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren. And he basically had to be strong-armed by President Johnson into chairing it because he didn't want t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 26 @ 2:18
Lyndon B. Johnson removed_from_power
Allen Dulles book_quoted
“as a deflection because of the questions being asked about Dulles' involvement after his firing by JFK. Although the Chief Justice was a former Republican governor of California and the Eisenhowers appointee to the bench, he had a sterling …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 26 @ 3:21
Lyndon B. Johnson involved_in
Robert Kennedy assassination host_asserted
“And I've covered a lot of that. And that's where I think a lot of the parallels do come between our work. You know, you've talked a lot about how Lyndon Johnson and so on was involved quite heavily in the JFK assassination. I've got a movie…”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Mr Truthbomb @ 6:29
Bobby Baker laundered_money_for
Lyndon B. Johnson documented
“In September, lurid stories about Baker's wide network of corruption began appearing in the press, including the campaign slush fund and Capitol Hill party houses, stocked with young call girls who catered to every sexual whim, with which B…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 19:21
John F. Kennedy appointed
Lyndon B. Johnson documented
“on his 1960 ticket to win votes in the South. But as the 1964 campaign approached, LBJ had lost so much clout below the Mason-Dixon line, largely because of his subservient role in Kennedy's liberal pro-civil rights presidency that he could…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 17:55
Lyndon B. Johnson founded
Civil Operations and Rural Development Support host_asserted
“and it was going to report to General William Knowlton. Announced in May 1967, the Military Assistance Command for Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development, that's a long word, it's called CORDS, C-O-R-D-S, was to be the bureaucratic …”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Part 8 Phoenix Program @ 59:02
Lyndon B. Johnson founded
Office of Operations host_asserted
“President Johnson gave the civilians one last shot. The result was the Office of Civil Operations, OCO. It was formed in October 1966. OCO combined the field operation units of AID, the U.S. Information, the propaganda arm, and the CIA, whi…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Part 8 Phoenix Program @ 57:01
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed
Allen Dulles book_quoted
“Who one would think would be more skeptical considering the exhaustive detail with which he documented JFK's habitual deceit in his multi-volume work. In his 1971 memoir, Johnson wrote that he appointed Dulles and John McCloy to the Warren …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 25 @ 43:00
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed
John J. McCloy book_quoted
“Who one would think would be more skeptical considering the exhaustive detail with which he documented JFK's habitual deceit in his multi-volume work. In his 1971 memoir, Johnson wrote that he appointed Dulles and John McCloy to the Warren …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 25 @ 43:00
Lyndon B. Johnson removed_from_power
Ernesto Oliva book_quoted
“For Joseph Califano, the consequence would be very painful on February 24th, 1964, with Ernesto Oliva, who made the last of many appeals to use the Cuban assault brigade against Castro. Oliva slumped in his chair when Califano rejected the …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 28 (29) @ 16:54
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed
Robert Komer host_asserted
“So it kind of was like a dual hat, have one of the civilian NGO kind of people here and then the commander up top. Although the civilians continued to object, Johnson wanted quick results, the kind the military could provide. And therefore,…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Part 8 Phoenix Program @ 51:33
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed
Bill Moyers documented
“A few weeks later, when Richard Helms succeeded to the top of the CIA job, advice continued to flow from the White House political assistant, Bill Moyer. You know, the guy that pretends to be a reporter? That Bill Moyer was LBJ's White Hous…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 32 (34) @ 20:37
Lyndon B. Johnson ordered_assassination_of
Vietnam host_asserted
“It started to mount and mount and mount. But everything came to a peak with the Gulf of Tonkin affair. Suddenly, LBJ, Lyndon B. Johnson, appeared on national TV, and he said, I have an earth-shaking announcement to make. We have to become i…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Interview w_Paul Williams author of Operation Gladio @ 1:05:09
Lyndon B. Johnson recommended
Richard Helms documented
“Richard Nixon pulled Helms aside and told him that Nixon had asked and that he, Johnson, had recommended Helms as an effective spy boss. Later, Nixon summoned Helms to New York's Hotel Pierre for a lookover. Henry Kissinger, already with th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 32 (34) @ 59:30
John F. Kennedy removed_from_power
Lyndon B. Johnson documented
“On November 14th, the day after the White House strategy session on the 1964 campaign, the president privately confirmed that Johnson would not be on the ticket. While conversing with his secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, JFK told her that he was …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 25:19
Lyndon B. Johnson funded
Bobby Baker documented
“Vice President took it as one more sign that he was going to be dumped. If the Kennedys were indeed looking to get rid of Johnson, they were given the perfect opportunity by a growing Washington scandal that fall involving Bobby Baker, the …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 18:54
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed
Bobby Baker documented
“Vice President took it as one more sign that he was going to be dumped. If the Kennedys were indeed looking to get rid of Johnson, they were given the perfect opportunity by a growing Washington scandal that fall involving Bobby Baker, the …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 18:54
Lyndon B. Johnson traded_network_to
CIA documented
“calling it, frankly, the most presumptuous document any VP has ever sent to a president. Despite the White House rebuff, LBJ continued to enjoy a special bond with national security hardliners during Kennedy's reign, often embracing their a…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 30:44
Lyndon B. Johnson covered_up
RAND Corporation documented
“they tried to do a merger with them that, interestingly, got blocked by the Department of Justice by Lyndon Johnson's administration. It is kind of interesting, though, how this big conglomerate is trying to stick all of its fingers in all …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 19 @ 1:29:44
Lyndon B. Johnson ordered_assassination_of
Vietnam host_asserted
“So in retaliation for selective terror attacks against Americans in South Vietnam, President Johnson ordered in 1965 a bombing campaign of the North. The raids continued until 1968, the idea being to deal with the communists through punishm…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Part 7 @ 50:41
Lyndon B. Johnson ordered_assassination_of
Laos host_asserted
“And LBJ also ordered the bombing of Laos and Cambodia, which, again, were supposed to be completely neutral. They weren't even in it. But we had already infiltrated them as well and set up these stupid interrogation places. SOG launched a s…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Part 7 @ 51:38
Lyndon B. Johnson ordered_assassination_of
Cambodia host_asserted
“And LBJ also ordered the bombing of Laos and Cambodia, which, again, were supposed to be completely neutral. They weren't even in it. But we had already infiltrated them as well and set up these stupid interrogation places. SOG launched a s…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Part 7 @ 51:38
Lyndon B. Johnson withdrew_indictment_against
William Corson book_quoted
“Risking a court-martial, he capped his military career by writing a damning expose on the Vietnam War called The Betrayal. Lyndon Johnson withdrew an Article 39 indictment against Corson when reminded of the embarrassing secrets Corson coul…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 9:50
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed
Maxwell D. Taylor book_quoted
“President Johnson had prevailed on Taylor to assume the ambassadorship at Saigon, leaving his post as chairman. That's kind of where we left off yesterday. So Bill Sullivan could hardly refuse the summons. Taylor was President Johnson's lik…”
▶ The Colonels corner president, secret wars chapter 14 continued @ 1:53
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed
Pop Buell book_quoted
“having security there to protect the poppy, they wanted a distraction for the North in order to be able to do what they wanted in the South. Apparent success in 1964 and 65 pleased Washington. The Hmong program was something of a showcase. …”
▶ The Colonels corner president, secret wars chapter 14 continued @ 18:53
Lyndon B. Johnson approved
Operation 40 book_quoted
“On December 19, 1963, the Pentagon's planning branch in the Pacific, CINCPAC, presented a plan to a special group. Two weeks later, LBJ approved O-Plan 34A, and Major General Victor Krulik, and I have actually met him, handed the operationa…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Vietnam Part 5 Phoenix Program @ 22:09
Lyndon B. Johnson funded
Huberto Castelo Branco documented
“sent a wire to the new government congratulating them from saving the country from communism. If that's not a crock of crap, I don't know what is. When Gordon returned to Washington, he found the prevailing mood jubilant. Everyone wanted to…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 5 @ 46:12
Thomas Massie member_of
Lyndon B. Johnson documented
“And just so happens to be there when all of the shenanigans of the JFK assassination happened, as was just pointed out. LBJ reappoints Mann back to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, and he also made him in charge …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 5 @ 1:09:59
Lyndon B. Johnson covered_up
Martin Luther King Jr. host_asserted
“Floor manager in 1960 at Los Angeles was the governor of Tennessee. And boy, did LBJ and CIA work very well with that particular state government to manipulate the MLK trial and manipulate and conclude the framing of James Earl Ray for not …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 5 @ 1:18:13
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed
Frank Church host_asserted
“You find out that he was a protege of Lyndon B. Johnson, which for everybody that's been following us should make the hair on the back of your neck stand up because Lyndon B. Johnson got to the Senate by killing a bunch of people and cheati…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Loose ends and our new friend Cartwright @ 27:18
Lyndon B. Johnson ordered_assassination_of
1965 Dominican Republic Intervention book_quoted
“who told him approvingly about the contributions of other U.S. companies because, in his words, it was to ensure civil peace. In 1965, another development helped to reinforce the interest of Brazil's military in the quote-unquote communist …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 6 @ 17:28
Lyndon B. Johnson funded
Operation Plan 34A documented
“like the Plan 6 strikes against North Vietnam, for which Walt Rostow had argued in 1961. Four days after assuming office, LBJ approved National Security Action Memorandum 273, which called for a study of different levels of increased activi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Presidents_ Secret Wars Chap 13 @ 34:04
Lyndon B. Johnson founded
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
Lyndon B. Johnson funded
Operation Farm Gate documented
“He favored action, but only after waiting until December to see if the Vietnamese political situation stabilized. Like Kennedy before him, LBJ accepted other recommendations involving less than maximum options. To resume the DeSoto patrols …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Presidents_ Secret Wars Chap 13 @ 42:33
Lyndon B. Johnson funded
Operation Desoto documented
“Thus, operations like DeSoto and 34-A, which could be considered provocative, were suddenly approved not on the merits, but on alternatives to even greater provocation. President Johnson specifically approved resumption of the naval patrols…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Presidents_ Secret Wars Chap 13 @ 42:56
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed
Katzenbach Committee host_asserted
“No firings, no prosecutions, no punishments. Nobody was held accountable at the CIA, which of course we know. But he says, yes, there was something done about it. President Johnson, because he was president when this all got revealed, he im…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot Part 5 @ 3:16
Lyndon B. Johnson lied_about
Gulf of Tonkin incident host_asserted
“You have Johnson announcing that the North Vietnamese had attacked the American fleet in the Gulf of Tonkin. There were hundreds of dead soldiers on the shores, and that this was an act of horrible aggression, and therefore we had to deploy…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner interview with Paul Williams (Operation Gladio) Part 2 @ 1:01:49
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed
William Raborn book_quoted
“John McComb over disputes with the president, William Rayburn, perhaps for lack of them. But in 1965, when President Johnson appointed Admiral Rayburn, he simultaneously made Richard Helms deputy director of the CIA. His departure for the s…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 29 (30) @ 9:13
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed
Richard Helms book_quoted
“John McComb over disputes with the president, William Rayburn, perhaps for lack of them. But in 1965, when President Johnson appointed Admiral Rayburn, he simultaneously made Richard Helms deputy director of the CIA. His departure for the s…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 29 (30) @ 9:13
Lyndon B. Johnson retitled
208 Committee book_quoted
“the CIA's clandestine services. Covert action. Helms exacted the promise that Desmond Fitzgerald would weed out useless covert operations. The Cuba Project was one of the first to take a hit. Subtle changes came to the special group as well…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 29 (30) @ 10:11
Lyndon B. Johnson removed_from_power
John McCone documented
“increasingly cut out FaceTime in the Oval Office for him. This annoyed McCone. By early 65, John McCone was at loggerheads with LBJ over Vietnam access, and he'd had enough, so he quit. A few days later, Johnson's aide, Marvin Watson, telep…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 36:34
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed
Sam Rayburn documented
“The startled spook that John McComb had resigned. LBJ appointed Vice Admiral Rayburn as the successor. But Rayburn, a Navy rocket specialist, knew nothing about the intelligence agency. Johnson wanted someone to back him up. Richard Helms w…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 37:06
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed
Richard Helms documented
“The startled spook that John McComb had resigned. LBJ appointed Vice Admiral Rayburn as the successor. But Rayburn, a Navy rocket specialist, knew nothing about the intelligence agency. Johnson wanted someone to back him up. Richard Helms w…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 37:06
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed
Richard Helms documented
“The CIA director was not helped by a low-level campaign of gutter sniping from the agency people who didn't want him there. Then LBJ gives Richard Helms another admiral as a deputy, Rufus Taylor. Johnson appointed Helms on June 18, 1966. Te…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 38:03
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed
Harry McPherson Jr. documented
“Wasn't Johnson just in the Senate? Yeah, but he doesn't want the Senate to know what the CIA is doing. Mansfield developed a further compromise that added a couple members of the Foreign Relations Committee to existing CIA subcommittees. Si…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 32 (34) @ 18:39
John L. McClellan exposed
Lyndon B. Johnson host_asserted
“continued looking into the activities of Billy Estes and Bobby Baker. During the investigation, it emerged that LBJ had been involved in political corruption.…”
▶ 1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden @ 1:00:08
Douglas Caddy exposed
Lyndon B. Johnson host_asserted
“In August 1984, Estes' lawyer, Douglas Caddy,…”
▶ 1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden @ 42:20
Lyndon B. Johnson covered_up
Robert Kennedy assassination book_quoted
“In this book, he argues that LBJ and Edward Clark were involved in the planning and cover-up of the assassination of JFK.…”
▶ 1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden @ 43:47
Lyndon B. Johnson covered_up
USS Liberty attack guest_asserted
“John McCain and, of course, LBJ, Lyndon Baines Johnson, the snake, to say it was mistaken identity when all the facts point the other way.…”
▶ ColonelTowner-Watkins-USS Liberty meets Operation Gladio-Regime Change in Egypt @ 42:42
Lyndon B. Johnson ordered_assassination_of
Henry Marshall host_asserted
“Catty added, Mr. Estes is willing to testify that LBJ ordered these killings and that he transmitted his orders through Cliff Carter to Mack Wallace, who executed the murders.…”
▶ 1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden @ 43:20
Lyndon B. Johnson recruited
Bobby Baker host_asserted
“that he approached this young page saying, Mr. Baker, I understand that you know where all the bodies are buried in the Senate. I would appreciate it if you would come to my office.…”
▶ 1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden @ 1:05:56
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed
Thomas Massie host_asserted
“The Panama Canal Treaty actually negotiated because, remember, Panama never signed the original treaty. So Johnson finally agreed to begin renegotiating that. He was involved in Bolivia during their destabilization efforts. Mann also commen…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 5 @ 1:14:29
Lyndon B. Johnson installed
Fred Korth host_asserted
“Korth not only got the job after strong lobbying from LBJ, a few weeks after taking the post, Korth overruled top Navy officers that had proposed the X-22 contract be given to Douglas Aircraft.…”
▶ 1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden @ 57:19
Lyndon B. Johnson overbilled_or_diverted
General Dynamics documented
“During the investigation, it emerged that LBJ had been involved in political corruption. This included the award of the $7 billion contract to General Dynamics.…”
▶ 1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden @ 1:00:08
Lyndon B. Johnson funded
Cam Ranh Bay host_asserted
“When Martin Luther King opposed the war, when he rallied people to oppose the war, he was threatening the bottom lines of some of the largest defense contractors in this country. This was about money. When he threatened to bring the war to …”
▶ MLK’s Conspiracy Trial thru Gladio Glasses @ 13:17
Lyndon B. Johnson removed_from_power
James O'Reilly book_quoted
“He was of all the Southern governors closest to LBJ, among other things. And now this book, The Deep State Assassination of MLK, is written by a sixth generation Tennessean. And his uncle actually ran the Bureau of Prisons for the state of …”
▶ The Colonel’s corner president‘s secret wars chapter 8 cont @ 1:33:24
Lyndon B. Johnson headed
Phoenix Program host_asserted
“for johnson but maybe he changed later in life i'm not passing judgment on him i was talking about the phoenix program and his role in it as part of the johnson administration i didn't pass judgment on him i'm providing no i was saying that…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Relook at Robert Komer (Phoenix) as a Ritchie Boy @ 1:31:04
Lyndon B. Johnson founded
East-West Center host_asserted
“Many people speculate that that's for it. But here's one of the most interesting aspects of the center. Guess when it was founded? In 1960. And guess who founded it? It was done by a mutual security act, Lyndon B. Johnson, when he was the m…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Relooking at Indonesia Coup, Ann Soetoros, Subud.. @ 31:12
Lyndon B. Johnson targeted_for_regime_change
Harold Wilson host_asserted
“Johnson was outright hostile to him on many occasions. So there's strike three. His positions and advocacy made him a target as a result. The prior trips to the Soviet Union and him not being a war hawk basically led to guess what? He was c…”
▶ Operation Gladio - UK and Harold Wilson @ 16:19
Lyndon B. Johnson funded
CIA host_asserted
“have ever thought about this because when I was first doing the research into the JFK and the assassination as it related to Operation Gladio, one of the things that's very distinctive to me, which almost never happens, is Johnson left all …”
▶ The Colonels corner president, secret wars chapter 14 continued @ 2:24
Walter Mischer funded
Lyndon B. Johnson host_asserted
“He was a fundraiser for LBJ, Lloyd Benson, Ronald Reagan, George Bush and many others.…”
▶ Colonels Corner_ Mafia, CIA & GHWB Part 1 @ 36:57
Clifton Carter laundered_money_for
Lyndon B. Johnson host_asserted
“Bobby Baker, along with Walter Jenkins, Ed Clark, Clifford Carter, were Johnson's bag men.…”
▶ 1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden @ 1:08:43
Edward Clark laundered_money_for
Lyndon B. Johnson host_asserted
“Bobby Baker, along with Walter Jenkins, Ed Clark, Clifford Carter, were Johnson's bag men.…”
▶ 1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden @ 1:08:43
General Dynamics paid
Lyndon B. Johnson documented
“he saw a suitcase of money, which Baker described as a $100,000 payoff, to Johnson for his role in the Fort Worth contract.…”
▶ 1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden @ 1:01:08
Bobby Baker laundered_money_for
Lyndon B. Johnson host_asserted
“Bobby Baker, along with Walter Jenkins, Ed Clark, Clifford Carter, were Johnson's bag men.…”
▶ 1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden @ 1:08:43
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed
Richard Russell guest_asserted
“He talks to Richard Russell and Earl Warren to try to get them to serve on the commission. And they both say no.…”
▶ ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast @ 1:31:02
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed
Earl Warren guest_asserted
“He talks to Richard Russell and Earl Warren to try to get them to serve on the commission. And they both say no.…”
▶ ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast @ 1:31:02
Lyndon B. Johnson ordered_assassination_of
John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“Catty added, Mr. Estes is willing to testify that LBJ ordered these killings and that he transmitted his orders through Cliff Carter to Mack Wallace, who executed the murders.…”
▶ 1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden @ 43:20
Lyndon B. Johnson member_of
Murchison family host_asserted
“Interesting. Yes, I thought it was when I ran across it and went, what the heck? Nobody's talking about the LBJ connections to the Murchison family as well as Hoover's connections. I searched the book Devil's Chessboard for it. The Murchiso…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 1:07:50
Lyndon B. Johnson ordered_assassination_of
Gamal Abdel Nasser host_asserted
“And he did it despite the opposition to doing it. And there is the flip side of that, that if all of the Zionist presidents that we've had and we know that Johnson was a hardcore Zionist, he offered up the USS Liberty to be sunk by Israel a…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Deep Dive into @AAnon55_ video post 1030 ET @ 1:18:50
Lyndon B. Johnson covered_up
Robert Kennedy assassination guest_asserted
“he tells Russell, like, look, I need you to lie to your country to avoid a conspiracy because we got to put it on Oswald that it's just him…”
▶ ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast @ 1:31:46
Lyndon B. Johnson ordered_assassination_of
John F. Kennedy guest_asserted
“on yellow security paper with a purple bond marked top secret. The memo disappeared. While the Miami co-conspirators made it clear that Bill Harvey was playing a central role in the big event, they assured Hunt that the chain of command wen…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 57:19
Lyndon B. Johnson assisted_in_assassination_of
John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“Americans did not take it. They refused to take those files. And it was extensive. And we knew in Moscow that it was kind of open secret that who was participated and they have documentation to prove that Lyndon Johnson with Israeli Mossad …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 6 @ 2:06:20
Fred Korth installed
Lyndon B. Johnson host_asserted
“He's a member of the Democrat Party. He worked with John Conley to get LBJ.…”
▶ 1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden @ 45:18
Lyndon B. Johnson reassigned
Henry Marshall host_asserted
“Johnson suggested that Marshall be promoted, and they tell him, hey, we already tried that, he won't take the job.…”
▶ 1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden @ 26:56
Lyndon B. Johnson ordered_assassination_of
Martin Luther King Jr. host_asserted
“as far as the summer of 2020 after George Floyd. It was every large city on fire, riots everywhere. And in the aftermath, you begin to see, and this is years later, you begin to see that there was an underlying agitation going on, like some…”
▶ Operation Gladio - 1968 parallels_ Assassins, political theater, etc @ 17:53
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RFK's dad, sees Eugene McCarthy being able to gain traction against LBJ because of the Vietnam War, which we're going to touch on, and was able to significantly challenge LBJ in the New Hampshire primary. And so RFK decides to throw his hat…
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The March 12th New Hampshire primary, where LBJ is the incumbent, barely squeaks it out over McCarthy. That vulnerability is like blood in the water, and RFK jumps in a few days later. As we're going to see, there's other extenuating circum…
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As within a month and a half, the continued momentum of McCarthy and RFK is just it's on steroids. So Humphrey, he can't compete because he missed the registration. RFK is on a roll. He wins California, which basically seals the deal for hi…
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revolving around the letting of contracts that LBJ was involved in. LBJ, and it's funny because most people don't talk about this since we have so many after him like the Clintons, LBJ had a lot of dead bodies around him. A lot of dead bodi…
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And that's when he begins working at the Department of Agriculture in Texas. So in this story, Wallace began having an affair with LBJ's sister, Josepha Johnson. And she also was having a relationship with John Kinzer at the golf course. So…
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And he mentions it to Mack Wallace, and Mack Wallace goes and shoots him and kills him. And then Wallace gets charged with murder. He gets released on bail after Edward Clark, same guy that introduced him to Johnson, arranges for two of Joh…
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Kinzer's parents and apologized for the fact that they weren't able to come to an agreement. And they basically announced to everybody, to include the family and the police, that they received death threats from serving on that jury. So Edw…
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According to Billy Estes, they had a meeting with a guy by the name of Clifton Carter, LBJ, about Mr. Marshall, the investigator. Johnson suggested that Marshall be promoted, and they tell him, hey, we already tried that, he won't take the …
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Mack Wallace is given the hit job to assassinate this government investigator. So on the 3rd of April, 19, or excuse me, 3rd of June, 1961, Marshall is found dead on his farm beside his truck. There's a rifle laying beside him. He was shot …
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Estes claims that Mack Wallace murdered them too. All of these dead bodies to protect LBJ. And just in case you guys don't know, LBJ used all of these same people, which is the irony of this, to cheat in order to get into the Senate to begi…
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because they needed to have their accountant, you know, out of the way so he couldn't testify against him. So when Estes appears before his grand jury, he's accompanied by John Coffer, the lawyer that represented LBJ, when he was accused in…
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wrote to a man named Stephen Trott of the U.S. Department of Justice. In the letter, Cady claimed that Wallace, Billy Estes, LBJ, and Cliff Carter had been involved in the murders of Henry Marshall, George Krutelich, Harold Orr, Ike Rogers,…
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Catty added, Mr. Estes is willing to testify that LBJ ordered these killings and that he transmitted his orders through Cliff Carter to Mack Wallace, who executed the murders. In May 1998, Walt Brown called a press conference in Dallas to d…
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had been identified as belonging to Wallace. In 2003, Barr McClellan published a book called Blood, Money, and Power, How LBJ Killed JFK. In this book, he argues that LBJ and Edward Clark were involved in the planning and cover-up of the as…
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Texas. And this is, I've watched this happen. This is literally how it happens. Korth not only got the job after strong lobbying from LBJ, a few weeks after taking the post, Korth overruled top Navy officers that had proposed the X-22 contr…
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continued looking into the activities of Billy Estes and Bobby Baker. During the investigation, it emerged that LBJ had been involved in political corruption. This included the award of the $7 billion contract to General Dynamics. And when …
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and that's just the initial, Everett Jordan and his Senate Rules Committee, that he saw a suitcase of money, which Baker described as a $100,000 payoff, to Johnson for his role in the Fort Worth contract. John McKellen was the chairman of t…
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And that's the reason why they assassinated JFK. Whether or not Wallace and those people did it, because we also have found out that there was OAS assassins from NATO in Dallas that night, too. But it's kind of like all hands on deck moment…
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that he approached this young page saying, Mr. Baker, I understand that you know where all the bodies are buried in the Senate. I would appreciate it if you would come to my office. When he arrived at the new senator's office, he says, I wa…
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And close to a typical performance, politics simply consumed the man, unquote. So it became Baker's job to compile background on all the rest of the politicians who basically whined them and dined them using oil money, let their hair down, …
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Two men came very close when Johnson became the Senate Majority Leader in 1955. He made Baker the Secretary for the Majority. Mr. Baker proved especially adept at what they referred to as Senate math, and that's basically going around buyin…
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His friend, Fred Black Jr., in exchange for him to intervene and help Jones and Levinson obtain casino contracts with the Intercontinental Hotel System, so basically the CIA. Bobby Baker, along with Walter Jenkins, Ed Clark, Clifford Carter…
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In 1960, LBJ was selected by JFK as his running mate. This upset Senator Robert Kerr, who didn't want Johnson going anywhere because Johnson was their money machine. And he basically, through a tissy fit, basically threatening to kill all o…
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Perfuma, all of those accusations stems from this guy right here. The guy that is JFK's butt boy. He's the one that generates all of those accusations of, and I'm not saying that he wasn't promiscuous. I don't know, but I want all of you to…
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And the embezzlement of money and the I mean, to me, the LBJ one's even worse because of all of the assassinations. I'm sure there's been people assassinated as part of the Biden crime syndicate. But I just kind of felt we needed to bring t…
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I wanted to put that. And I also want to point out that during these things in the past, there's never just one assassination. If you go back and you look at the JFK assassination, you had Charles de Gaulle being assassinated. You had the D…
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The extent to which generals, when they thought they were talking classified conversations that have later been declassified, the extent to which military general officers were rabidly advocating nuclear attacks. So when you come to underst…
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the Republican nominee and Benson, the Democrat nominee for vice president, were both part of the scam. Even if the Democrats lost the presidential election, which they did, Benson would still win re-election to his Senate seat under what w…
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He was a fundraiser for LBJ, Lloyd Benson, Ronald Reagan, George Bush and many others. OK, I think that was because we already know about Barry Seale. What it's what the author says about him is he was a.…
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Russia, Soviet Union and Cuba, so that it could look like, you know, they did it. And then we could we could have our our, you know, logic for domestic politics to allow us to do a first strike. LBJ came in and he famously said right after …
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But, yeah, so LBJ kind of got cold feet when he came in. He decided, hey, we're not going to do a nuclear first strike, but I will give you guys Vietnam. Go ahead and do Vietnam. Let's just put all this on Oswald, and we're going to forget …
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So I can, you know, take a poop and make the journalist listen to me. Or maybe he led them on that he was going to do it. And once they did what he needed them to do, he decided that he wasn't going to do that. And now I'm in charge and I'm…
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the best orchestration and they do this to people, which we now have the name Patsy's for in the case of Lee Harvey Oswald, because they tell them just enough to seal their own grave. Yeah. I mean, preach. I'm with you. Here's one thing on …
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A phone call the day after the assassination from J. Edgar Hoover to Lyndon Johnson. Now, most of these phone calls were recorded. We've got some great recorded phone calls. But this particular phone call, the original recording of it has b…
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But the part that is transcribed is really interesting. And that is where Johnson asks Hoover, he goes, what about Mexico City? What do we know about Oswald's trip down to Mexico City? And he goes, well, it seems that Oswald was visiting th…
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talking to enemies and look, he's just killed Kennedy and he was talking to the Soviets. So it looks pretty bad. But then J. Edgar Hoover tells LBJ the headline, which is, but our agents in Dallas who have spoken to Oswald at the interrogat…
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in Mexico City. So in other words, Hoover tells LBJ, yeah, Oswald's meeting with the Soviets. It looks bad. Now it's not the real Oswald. So now LBJ then, and LBJ doesn't follow up on that question. He doesn't go, what do you mean it's not …
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and dislike of the CIA ends up being a corner of the carpet that we can pull up because it's not defensible from a defending the official record position. So anyway, so what's LBJ do? He talks to Richard Russell and Earl Warren to try to ge…
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All right. So he he tells Russell, like, look, I need you to lie to your country to avoid a conspiracy because we got to put it on Oswald that it's just him. But what he and he specifically says that Hoover told him this and we have the tra…
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So to me, that was so LBJ knows some stuff going on. Now, the counterpoint to that is that LBJ knew that that Hoover was wrong and Hoover was mistaken. Good luck making that argument. Hoover's got memo after memo of all these agents that we…
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And Captain Engen of the America, the USS America, launched again their ready aircraft to come help us, to drive off, because we didn't know who was attacking us, and they didn't either. They probably thought it was the Arabs as well. Befor…
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actually asked that that one, because it was the second denial, that it be bumped up the chain, which when it was McNamara, was Johnson. And then it was Johnson that said exactly what Phil just said. So they did question the recall and the …
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And that would have been Nasser. They hated Nasser. So did LBJ. So what's interesting about that is if you guys kind of just pick up, and I'm so glad we started off with the history and how important Africa was to these bastards to keep the…
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John McCain and, of course, LBJ, Lyndon Baines Johnson, the snake, to say it was mistaken identity when all the facts point the other way. And Admiral Kidd nor Boston ever said a word till later in life. Admiral Kidd died before Boston came…
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June the 8th, 1967. It was a case of mistaken identity. It would take a complete idiot to believe that. I just, how they come up with that one, I don't know. But they did. And the whole country bought it. Every president since LBJ to Trump …
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When Martin Luther King opposed the war, when he rallied people to oppose the war, he was threatening the bottom lines of some of the largest defense contractors in this country. This was about money. When he threatened to bring the war to …
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genuinely opposed to the war. And they're having a lot of effect on the Johnson presidency. They're very articulate. If you listen to some of the newscasters interviewing them, and it was making a huge difference in the feelings of the peop…
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but they're getting more and more visible. And President Johnson, the more visible they got, the more, and a lot of this has been declassified since, Johnson and the Attorney General starts telling the FBI that they need to be more involved…
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And when you go back and you look at 1968, a lot of the commentary dubbed that year, year of tragedy. And I was unaware of all of the different people that was involved in the 1968 race. There was people I had no idea was involved in that r…
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LBJ, Senator McCarthy, RFK on the Democrat side. On the Republican side, you had Romney's dad, Nelson Rockefeller, and Reagan, who at some point during the 1968 season had either officially declared they were running,…
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announces that he's running against LBJ. Now, keep in mind, LBJ is the sitting president. So that's not unlike what RFK Jr. did to Biden, right? He announced he's running against him. And LBJ, in some cases, like in New Hampshire,…
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which isn't exactly what happened at all. And the police chief was basically on the dole of the CIA. So you can kind of see, we start the Tet Offensive, Nixon announces, and then right away, we've got something to do with the Vietnam explod…
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March the 12th is when LBJ wins the narrow victory in New Hampshire against McCarthy. And that's kind of his holy shit moment. That McCarthy has way more traction. Wallace being in the game.…
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He announces he's running. Rockefeller, a few days later, who's running on the Republican side, drops out. And within 10 days of Rockefeller dropping out, LBJ is out. So on March 31st, he drops out, not unlike Biden just did. Keep in mind, …
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inside the United States, moving us all towards the candidates that, in my opinion, they've probably already chosen at this point. And I'm going to tell you why I think that in a little bit. Then you have, okay, so that's April 4th, MLK is …
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successful midterms that he had helped arrange so i want to talk about um all right so every other day there's basically um in 1968 a protest and um johnson was accused of being a murderer anti-civil rights even though um johnson some of th…
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was passed during that time. The majority of what was passed that was good is all of the stuff that the Democrats had fought for decades. But Johnson saw most of that as crafting a noose around Black people's neck in order to be able to con…
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LBJ also got on television constantly saying that we were winning the war in Vietnam, which of course we were not, which is exactly what Bush did with Iraq and what Obama was doing with Afghanistan. And then it was in 1968 that the embassy …
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During the eight years that he had been the vice president for Eisenhower and the eight years that the Democrats were in office, that Nixon was always in the wings as part of a government, a shadow government. RFK's major platform plank is …
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people's input on all of the different aspects of what's going on. Go ahead, Miles. Colonel, sorry to be late for a roll call, but yeah, I've been pretty busy with everything that's going on lately. I just wanted, I'll be in here tomorrow b…
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And if the CIA has overthrown our government and installed something that is not a constitutional authority, which is exactly what they did when they installed Johnson and assassinated the president, then something has to be done about that…
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Right. He created that. And the USAID. But I have noticed in my research of Operation Gladio that it is very strange for someone to be assassinated in office and then all of his cabinet be kept on through a like Johnson finished.…
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his term and then did a second term. And he didn't change out any of the cabinet, which is weird. You know, like McNamara and all of the people that would have been involved in all of these regime change things all basically stayed on, whic…
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Nixon ran against JFK and lost because Eisenhower's vice president was Richard Nixon. So Nixon lost to JFK. You fast forward, Kennedy's killed in 1963, Johnson gets reelected, and then he decides that he's not going to run in the 1968 elect…
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and its ongoing official history of American foreign policy. This was prepared by the State Department's Office of Historian. The latest volumes reflect the overt diplomacy and covert actions of LBJ's administration from 1964 to 1968. Thoug…
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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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who first joined the White House as a member of President Kennedy's NSC staff, had worked as a CIA analyst for 15 years, which means he's still a CIA asset. In 1967, Johnson tapped him to win the hearts and minds of Vietnam. Yeah, that didn…
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The story related to Dean illustrates how this attitude was little changed, and thus the Paparandros position was very precarious. During one of the disputes between Greece and Turkey over Cyprus, which was now spilling over into NATO, Pres…
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Asked the Greek ambassador to come to the White House to basically tell him what the Washington solution to the Greece problem was going to be. The ambassador protested that it would be unacceptable to the Greek parliament and the Greek con…
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If these two fleas continue itching the elephant, they may just get whacked by the elephant's trunk. And I mean whacked good. We pay a lot of good American dollars to the Greek, Mr. Ambassador. If your prime minister gives me talk about dem…
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wishing to purge it of its most dictatorial, royalist-minded senior officers. Andrus was more of a centrist than he was a leftist or even on the right, as his presidency was to demonstrate because he eventually does get elected president. H…
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But he, too, showed stirrings of independence from the Western superpower. He refused to buckle to Johnson's pressure to compromise with Turkey over Cyprus. He accepted an invitation to visit Moscow. And when his government said that it wou…
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partly because of its association with Kennedy and partly because he considered it a dangerous triumph of idealism over reality. He feared by promoting reform, especially land redistribution, it would undermine right-wing governments that w…
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during one of the most crucial operations there is. The author goes on and talks about how Dulles started his intelligence well before JFK was even born and that he was obviously still in that business when in 1964, he was the first person …
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Under Lyndon Baines Johnson, of course, all the way up to the Mossad and the CIA working hand in hand there, get us involved in a war in Egypt, of course. Operation Gladio involvement in any of that? Wouldn't be surprised. The same pattern …
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Clifford was in a law practice together. And Clark Clifford was in the whole story that we just told about the election in 1968 because he was a political advisor to Lyndon B. Johnson. He was all tied up in LBJ's criminality. He was on the …
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But I wanted to kind of tie all those pieces together because it kind of starts with 1968 and another assassination of a priest over in Vietnam. And of course, we know the whole reason Johnson, one of the reasons of many that he dropped out…
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It was not a happy outcome, even though a non-communist government was preserved. The war was very unpopular and ended in an armistice, not a peace agreement. America's involvement was plagued by mismanagement and dereliction. The whole aff…
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I don't know what in the hell, dot, dot, dot, it took me, it looks like to me, we are getting into another Korea. I don't see what we can ever hope to get out of there. I don't think it was worth fighting. And I don't think we can get out. …
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That tells you right there everything about what we've been saying about the international syndicate and the control. Johnson has no control of Vietnam. Everybody talks about Johnson being the one picking targets. He's not the one that deci…
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is so telling. And this book makes that very clear. I needed to know more about this conflict. I had no idea anyone in the Johnson administration was even thinking about Korea before the decision to put boots on the ground of Vietnam. U.S. …
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and get her ass kicked like we did in Korea at the end. That was my part. Growing up during the 60s, I had always thought of Korea as a victory or at least a draw. As I delved into the history of the Vietnam War, it became obvious there wer…
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You find out that he was a protege of Lyndon B. Johnson, which for everybody that's been following us should make the hair on the back of your neck stand up because Lyndon B. Johnson got to the Senate by killing a bunch of people and cheati…
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And I've covered a lot of that. And that's where I think a lot of the parallels do come between our work. You know, you've talked a lot about how Lyndon Johnson and so on was involved quite heavily in the JFK assassination. I've got a movie…
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He wasn't the second president. He wasn't the third president. He was the fourth president to negotiate with Panama. The original negotiation, renegotiation of the treaty from the early 1900s started with President Johnson. President Johnso…
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that we did on Panama, that the Pandemanians never signed the original treaty. That was a document that was drafted in Washington, D.C. and shoved down their throat. They felt it was unfair. They wanted a treaty that actually represented Pa…
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The only reason he was ever indicted was the D.A. Morgenthau followed this up for years and put all of the pieces together without any help from the Department of Justice at all. This this this dude was involved in quite a few things. Look …
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that works with Reverend Moon in the Unification Church and the setting up of the World Anti-Communist League with Chiang Kai-shek out of Taiwan. Park makes multiple trips to the United States. He meets with Johnson multiple times, very muc…
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four star generals not being in charge. I mean, that's their go to, you know, hey, let's go do this kind of thing. But at the end of the day, even Johnson wouldn't do it. He was too squeamish about because he's getting ready to run for reel…
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It was worded in a way that allowed Israel to do whatever they wanted. So Comer then shows up in 1967 in South Vietnam. Now, keep in mind, there are so many of these stories that we've uncovered, so much of history, I should say, that pivot…
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President Lyndon Johnson had sent Comer to South Vietnam to provide an impetus to nation building efforts. Comer was known for his broke management style. I mean, he was a bully. That's the best way to say it, which endeared himself to the …
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He, during Dwight Eisenhower's administration, which we know is when they were setting up Operation Gladio in 1960, he ran as the vice president on the Richard Nixon ticket that got derailed by JFK. And it says that he later served as a dip…
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It says that Comer would later work for Jimmy Carter's administration as well. And in the 80s, he became a vocal critic of basically building up our Navy. And he died in, let's see, when did he die? He died in 2000, but not before he was gi…
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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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Now, after responding to several reporters' questions, Johnson announced that Comer would assume the new position. Johnson had earlier summoned Comer to the Oval Office to discuss his new role. Bob, this is a quote, I'm going to put you in …
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Well, the president replied, that's part of the problem. I want to have a war to build as well as destroy. So I want to put you in charge of generating a massive effort to do more for the people of South Vietnam, particularly the farmers in…
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I've got too many people who claim to be longstanding experts. What we need is some fresh blood, unquote. Comer knew that there was no argument he could muster to dissuade Johnson. Johnson's leadership style was simple. Pick the right man f…
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Robert Comer understood the president's determination to strengthen pacification as an element of U.S. policy in Vietnam. Johnson wanted to make Vietnam a showcase of economic, social, and political development in Asia. Pacification was the…
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of the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Rural Electrification Administration. Johnson had made a personal commitment to pacification when he met with the Chief of Staff Tho and Prime Minister Cai of the Republic of Vietnam in Honolulu two…
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during and after this particular episode. So it says that this view had prevailed and now it was up to Comer to carry out the president's commitment in the face of the bureaucratic resistance from the civilian agencies. So Comer is basicall…
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With terrier-like determination, he had a reputation among Washington insiders for being prickly, abrasive, brash, impatient, and intolerant of bureaucratic foot dragging. As a longtime central intelligence analyst and NSC staff member, he …
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that he was to manage and supervise an authority Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara wanted included would have to be in writing for a bureaucrat to believe. Even then, the bureaucrats would challenge Comer's authority and cooperation may …
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and developing new programs to eliminate those problems as, quote, it was the president's determination that the program be speeded up, given priority over military operations, and conducted in a wartime urgency, unquote. So basically, John…
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Comer had completed and cleared with the relevant civilian agencies a presidential directive designed to centralize the management of the pacification program in Washington under his direction. The State Department had put up a fight, but p…
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convinced the Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, to yield. President Johnson signed this directive, which later came out as National Security Action Memorandum 343, and created a special assistance for peaceful construction in Vietnam. Another …
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The directive spilled out clearly Comer's mandate to carry the responsibility for the direction, coordination, and supervision in Washington of the U.S. non-military programs for peaceful construction relating to Vietnam. The document also …
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would assure that the civilian pacification efforts were coordinated with military operations. Further, he would support the U.S. mission in Saigon on matters under his purview. Comer administered a White House bureaucratic coup d'etat as w…
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It was the first of more than a dozen trips that he would take over the next year from his perch in Washington, D.C. He sent his official trip report by message to LBJ Ranch in Texas. It began with a self-deprecatory statement that his view…
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They are talking about taking over the ports for the control of the drug trade. So just want to throw that in. A month later in a cable to Johnson, Comer apologized to the president for the long period in which he had not provided him an up…
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providing a frank assessment to Johnson. The civil side was a mess. Again, he pointed out that the military dominance in Saigon, the weak and apathetic South Vietnamese government, the inability of the U.S. civilian agencies to operate at t…
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The president acted as Comer requested when Lodge returned to Washington for consultations. Comer reiterated his concern at a National Security Council meeting a few days later, going as far as to say that the pacification has been outrun b…
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On Vietnam, he outlined for the president his concern and recommendation to have DOD take steps to reduce the inflationary impact of military outlies and take over port operations from USAID to move material. Johnson's response was simply t…
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the president's direction. Comer understood Johnson's psychological need for information on the progress of the past vacation program. He would send a flurry of memoranda to Johnson in May and June outlining the issues. The president's resp…
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that these memoranda were what they were, merely a device to keep Johnson informed. Johnson never issued any orders via the memoranda. Comer kept pressing Porter for more progress, and he kept the pressure on by sending Leah Hard and other …
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Many people speculate that that's for it. But here's one of the most interesting aspects of the center. Guess when it was founded? In 1960. And guess who founded it? It was done by a mutual security act, Lyndon B. Johnson, when he was the m…
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but Mamrara and other Cuban leaders nevertheless insisted on liberal Democrats that betrayed their cause. After 1964, the Johnson administration and the CIA started to pull support from the Cuban exile group bent on retaking the island and …
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And he was the first prime minister to meet an American president. He met Dwight D. Eisenhower, JFK, and he visited Truman as well, and Lyndon B. Johnson. And in 1948, Sweden was one of the first countries to recognize Israel. And in 1951, …
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international syndicate. So there's two strikes right there. He was actually caring about the African countries and not the industrialists. However, his most problematic position while he was in office was his stance on the Vietnam War. He …
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Johnson was outright hostile to him on many occasions. So there's strike three. His positions and advocacy made him a target as a result. The prior trips to the Soviet Union and him not being a war hawk basically led to guess what? He was c…
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all U.S. advisors from Vietnam. Three days after Kennedy's death, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed NSA Memorandum 273 authorizing an increase in covert military operations in North Vietnam. Conceived in secrecy, the ensuing policy of prov…