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Allen Dulles proposed Lyndon B. Johnson documented document
“Dulles recommended to the President that a substantial increase be made in the number of FBI agents in Mississippi…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.477
Lyndon B. Johnson ordered_assassination_of FBI documented document
“During the first urban ghetto riots in the summer of 1964 President Johnson instructed the FBI to investigate their origins and extent…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.481
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
J. Edgar Hoover met_with Lyndon B. Johnson documented document
“The following day Director Hoover met with the President to discuss this matter…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.489
Walt Rostow worked_for Lyndon B. Johnson documented document
“...a report was sent on Scheer to Walt W Rostow Special Assistant to President Johnson…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.193
Lyndon B. Johnson founded Katzenbach Committee documented document
“Johnson organized a committee composed of Undersecretary of State Nicholas Katzenbach Secretary of HEW John Gardner and CIA Director Richard Helms to review government activities that may 'endanger the integrity and independence of the educ…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.194
Lyndon B. Johnson proposed U.S. Department of Justice documented document
“President Johnson's June 30 1965 directive to all federal agencies which formally prohibited all wiretapping except in connection with 'national security investigations' and then only with the prior approval of the Attorney General…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.304
Lyndon B. Johnson met_with Martha DeLoach documented document
“On March 14 1966 then President Lyndon B Johnson informed Mr DeLoach Martha DeLoach former Assistant Director of the FBI…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.319
FBI worked_for Lyndon B. Johnson documented document
“As a result of the President's request the FBI prepared a chronological summary based in part on existing electronic surveillances of the contacts of each Senator Representative or staff member who communicated with selected foreign establi…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.319
Lyndon B. Johnson proposed United States Department of Justice documented document
“From 1965until 1968 both wiretapping and microphonesurveillances were governed by the 'national security' standard established by President Johnson and Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.322
Lyndon B. Johnson proposed United States government documented document
“Several cases from the period 1960 to 1965 (when the 'domestic security standard was replaced by President Johnson's 'national security standard) suggest the ease with which the term 'domestic security was stretched...…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.339
Walter Jenkins worked_for Lyndon B. Johnson documented document
“Walter Jenkins an Administrative Assistant to President Johnson who was present at the Convention and the recipient of information developed by the Bureau stated that he was unaware that any of the intelligence was obtained by wiretapping o…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.353
Martin Luther King Jr. met_with Lyndon B. Johnson documented document
“disclosed Martin Luther King's strategy in connection with a meeting to be attended by President Johnson…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.355
Lyndon B. Johnson ordered_assassination_of William C. DeLoach alleged document
“They told me they had instructions from the President to put a direct line in my home…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.186
Bill Moyers worked_for Lyndon B. Johnson documented document
“This copy states that Bill Moyers Special Assistant to the President requested a special check of the FBI's files concerning persons employed in Senator Goldwater's office…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.549
Lyndon B. Johnson founded Katzenbach Committee documented document
“President Lyndon Johnson moved by public and congressional uproar over the 1967 disclosure of the CIA's covert funding of the National Student Association (NSA) and other domestic private institutions established the Katzenbach Committee…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.188
Lyndon B. Johnson ordered_assassination_of Anna Chennault documented document
“President Johnson asked the Bureau to conduct physical surveillance of Mrs Anna Chennault a prominent woman Republican leader on October 30 1968…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.174
Bobby Baker worked_for Lyndon B. Johnson documented document
“investigation of former Johnson Senate aide Bobby Baker…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.172
Robert F. Kennedy met_with Lyndon B. Johnson documented document
“Assistant Attorney General Marshall prepared a memorandum for the Attorney General to send to President Johnson in June 1964…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.476
Lyndon B. Johnson met_with Allen Dulles documented document
“President Johnson called on former CIA Director Allen Dulles to evaluate the situation…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.477
Lyndon B. Johnson ordered_assassination_of Ku Klux Klan reported document
“President Johnson directed J Edgar Hoover 'to put people after the Klan and study it from one county to the next'…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.477
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Nicholas Katzenbach documented document
“Johnson organized a committee composed of Undersecretary of State Nicholas Katzenbach...…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.194
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed John Gardner documented document
“Johnson organized a committee composed of... Secretary of HEW John Gardner...…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.194
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Richard Helms documented document
“Johnson organized a committee composed of... CIA Director Richard Helms...…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.194
Lyndon B. Johnson worked_for United States documented document
“An assistant to President Johnson also requested that the FBI monitor the televised hearings of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Vietnam policy…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.495
Ramsey Clark did_business_with Lyndon B. Johnson documented document
“A similar request was channeled through Attorney General Ramsey Clark who supplied a Presidential aide (at the latter's request) with a summary of information concerning the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.495
Lyndon B. Johnson did_business_with Federal Bureau of Investigation documented document
“During the first small-scale Northern ghetto disturbances in the summer of 1964 President Johnson ordered the FBI to investigate their origins and extent.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.496
Nicholas Katzenbach did_business_with Lyndon B. Johnson documented document
“Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach advised President Johnson that the FBI would only investigate 'directly' the possible 'subversive' involvement.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.496
Lyndon B. Johnson founded Kerry Commission documented document
“In late July 1967 President Johnson created the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders to investigate and make recommendations with respect to The origins of the recent major civil disorders in our cities…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.497
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed J. Edgar Hoover documented document
“The President directed the FBI in particular to "provide investigative information and assistance to the Commission…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.497
Joseph Califano worked_for Lyndon B. Johnson documented document
“Joseph Califano who was President Johnson's assistant in 1967 has testified that the Newark and Detroit riots were a "shattering experience for Justice Department officials and "for us in the White House.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.501
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Ramsey Clark documented document
“Attorney General Ramsey Clark was appointed chairman of a committee to review the Presidential Emergency Action Documents (PEADs) prepared under the Emergency Detention Program…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.519
Lyndon B. Johnson did_business_with J. Edgar Hoover documented document
“President Johnson and Director Hoover had been seeking proof that Communists were behind the antiwar movement since 1965…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.526
Marvin Watson worked_for Lyndon B. Johnson documented document
“Presidential aide Marvin Watson informed the FBI that President Johnson was quite 'exercised'…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.172
Federal Bureau of Investigation worked_for Lyndon B. Johnson documented document
“At the direct request of President Johnson to FBI executive Cartha DeLoach the Bureau passed purely political intelligence about U.S Senators to the White House…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.172
Lyndon B. Johnson worked_for CIA documented document
“In testimony before this Committee Mr Katzenbach said that his committee was designed by President Johnson not only to deal with the relationship of the CIA to educational and voluntary organizations but to head off a full-scale congression…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.194
Lyndon B. Johnson ordered_assassination_of Federal Bureau of Investigation documented document
“At the direct request of President Johnson to FBI executive Cartha DeLoach the Bureau passed purely political intelligence about U.S Senators to the White House…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.172
Lyndon B. Johnson member_of Senate Committee on the Armed Services documented document
“Subsequently Senators Lyndon Johnson and Styles Bridges were ap…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.60
Lyndon B. Johnson proposed Katzenbach Committee documented document
“Moreover although President Johnson adopted the Patzenbach report as policy it was not issued as an executive order or enacted as a statute…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.196
Lyndon B. Johnson relationship_with John McCone documented document
“McCone resigned in 1965 because Lyndon Johnson had not accorded him the stature and access he had enjoyed under Kennedy…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.72
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Katzenbach Committee documented document
“The revelations resulted in President Johnson's appointment of a three-person committee to examine the CIA's covert funding of American educational and private voluntary organizations operating abroad…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.75
Lyndon B. Johnson worked_for Richard Helms documented document
“it was Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon who limited the roles of Richard Helms and William Colby…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.101
Lyndon B. Johnson worked_for William Colby documented document
“it was Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon who limited the roles of Richard Helms and William Colby…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.101
Marvin Watson worked_for Lyndon B. Johnson documented document
“Honora!;le :Iarvinatsoa... Special Assistant to the President…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.520
Lyndon B. Johnson targeted_for_regime_change Salvador Allende documented document
“I was aware that the Administrations of President Kennedy and President Johnson expended approximately four million dollars on behalf of Mr Allende's opponents and had prevented Mr Allende from becoming President…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.166
Lyndon B. Johnson met_with Richard Helms documented document
“On the very day President Johnson received the FBI reports of these allegations he met with CIA Director Richard Helms…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.12
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Warren Commission documented document
“On November 29 1963 President Johnson told Director Hoover that although he wanted to 'get by on just the FBI report the only way to stop the 'rash of investigations was to appoint a high-level committee to evaluate that report.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.29
John McCone met_with Lyndon B. Johnson 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
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Federal Bureau of Investigation documented document
“who told him that the FBI had responsibility for investigating the President's death…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.34
Lyndon B. Johnson ordered_assassination_of CIA documented document
“and directed him to make CIA resources available to assist the Bureau…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.34
CIA met_with Lyndon B. Johnson documented document
“On November 30 Director McCone met with the President at 11 a.m…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.36
J. Edgar Hoover met_with Lyndon B. Johnson documented document
“On November 23 1963 J Edgar Hoover forwarded an FBI memorandum to President Johnson…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.38
Lyndon B. Johnson founded Warren Commission documented document
“The Warren Commission established by President Johnson's Executive Order on November 29 1963 preempted the field…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.51
Lyndon B. Johnson instructed Marvin Watson documented document
“Marvin Watson who informed him that 'The President had instructed that...'…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.88
Richard Helms met_with Lyndon B. Johnson documented document
“CIA Director Helms met with the President at the White House on the evening of March 22 1967…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.91
Lyndon B. Johnson ordered_assassination_of Fidel Castro alleged document
“Although the Select Committee has not been able to establish through direct evidence that President Johnson asked CIA officials about the lawyer's allegations…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.91
William D. Moyers worked_for Lyndon B. Johnson documented document
“Special Assistant to the President... Thankyou for your very thoughtfuland generous note concerning our operation in Atlantic City…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.520
Lyndon B. Johnson ordered_assassination_of Joseph Kraft documented document
“The staff has determined that President Johnson asked for similar name check reports on at least seven other journalists including NBC commentator David Brinkley Associated Press reporter Peter Arnett who at about that time won a Pulitzer P…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.171
Lyndon B. Johnson ordered_assassination_of Lee Harvey Oswald documented document
“The President tells him the FBI has responsibility for the investigation of the President's death…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.109
Lyndon B. Johnson directed CIA documented document
“and directs him to make CIA resources available to assist the FBI's investigation…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.109
Lyndon B. Johnson met_with J. Edgar Hoover documented document
“after discussing other possibilities with Director Hoover…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.109
Lyndon B. Johnson ordered_assassination_of FBI documented document
“Presidential Assistant Marvin Watson advises DeLoach that President Johnson has instructed the FBI to interview the lawyer concerning any knowledge he had in the assassination of Kennedy…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.112
Lyndon B. Johnson asked Richard Helms documented document
“The President also asked Helms for information concerning possible United States involvement in the assassinations of Trujillo and Diem…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.17
Lyndon B. Johnson met_with Marvin Watson reported document
“Marvin Watson called me late last night and stated the President had told him in an off moment that he was now convinced that there was a plot in connection with the assassination…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.192
Lyndon B. Johnson ordered_assassination_of Peter Arnett documented document
“The staff has determined that President Johnson asked for similar name check reports on at least seven other journalists including NBC commentator David Brinkley Associated Press reporter Peter Arnett…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.171
Lyndon B. Johnson headed Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board documented document
“While President Johnson maintained the Board under its 1961 mandate…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.280
Lyndon B. Johnson ordered_assassination_of Federal Bureau of Investigation reported document
“In the aftermath of the American intervention in the Dominican Republic crisis in 1965 there were reports that President Johnson had assigned FBI agents to certain missions on that island…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.290
Lyndon B. Johnson targeted_for_regime_change Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party reported document
“Through a highly confidential source we learned that CORE and SNCC had been advised that the President was bringing pressure to bear on the delegates of 15 states to preclude their support of a move to bring the Mississippi Delegates to the…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.188
Lyndon B. Johnson ordered_assassination_of David Brinkley documented document
“The staff has determined that President Johnson asked for similar name check reports on at least seven other journalists including NBC commentator David Brinkley…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.171
Lyndon B. Johnson linked_to Operation Chaos documented document
“The excessive suspicions of Presidents Johnson and Nixon that anti-war dissent was controlled from abroad led to the CHAOS program…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 5: National Security Agency and Fourth Amendment Rights · p.137
Walter Jenkins worked_for Lyndon B. Johnson documented document
“Walter Jenkins Special Assistant to the President…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.189
Lyndon B. Johnson proposed United States Department of Justice documented document
“Present Departmental practice adopted in July 1063in conformity with the policiesdeclared by the President on June 30 1065 for the entire Federal establishment prohibits the use of such listening devices…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 5: National Security Agency and Fourth Amendment Rights · p.92
Lyndon B. Johnson ordered_assassination_of Special Squad at Democratic National Convention documented document
“in connectionwith the assignment of the special squad in Atlantic City at the direction of the President…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.518
Lyndon B. Johnson ordered_assassination_of Fidel Castro documented document
“A McCone memorandum indicated that in reaching that decision President Johnson had abandoned the objective of Castro's overthrow…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.191
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Richard Helms documented document
“Drew Pearson's newspaper article in the spring of 1967 alleging United States involvement in plots to assassinate Fidel Castro prompted President Johnson to direct Helms who was then DCI to conduct an investigation…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.193
Lyndon B. Johnson proposed U.S. Department of Justice documented document
“President Johnson announceda policy for federal agenciesin June 1965which required that the interception of telephoneconversationswithout the consent of one of the parties be limited to investigations relating to national security and that …”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 5: National Security Agency and Fourth Amendment Rights · p.72
Lyndon B. Johnson succeeded John F. Kennedy documented document
“Helms was asked if the Agency regarded whatever marching orders they had obtained prior to the death of President Kennedy as still being valid and operative when President Johnson succeeded to the office…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.193
J. Edgar Hoover met_with Lyndon B. Johnson documented document
“A memorandum of March 30 1965 from Director Hoover to the Attorney General states that "[iln line with your suggestionthis morning I have already set up the procedure similar to requesting of authority for phone taps to be utilized in reque…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 5: National Security Agency and Fourth Amendment Rights · p.72
Richard Helms worked_for Lyndon B. Johnson documented document
“I served under him [President Johnson]…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 4: Mail Opening · p.96
Lyndon B. Johnson met_with Leo Janis reported document
“In an interview with Leo Janis in 1971 former President Johnson was reported to have said that when he had taken office he had discovered that we had been operating a damned Murder Inc. in the Caribbean.…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.193
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Richard Helms documented document
“I was appointed sir by President Johnson…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 4: Mail Opening · p.96
Rufus Taylor met_with Lyndon B. Johnson documented document
“he wrote a letter to President Johnson…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.105
Richard Helms worked_for Lyndon B. Johnson documented document
“I want to say that generally at least Presidents Kennedy Johnson and Nixon for whom I worked most closely usually left it to me as to how the order was to be carried out within the Agency…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.115
Lyndon B. Johnson ordered_assassination_of Federal Bureau of Investigation documented document
“the FBI greatly resented President Johnson ordering the military intelligence into the domestic collection area in 1967 because that was their charter…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.39
Lyndon B. Johnson removed_from_power Huston Plan documented document
“the President rescinded his approval after Mr Hoover went to the Attorney General…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.75
Lyndon B. Johnson pardoned J. Edgar Hoover documented document
“And I believe that was waived by President Johnson which virtually then called for the Director to be renewed as Director of the FBI on an annual basis…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.103
Lyndon B. Johnson relationship_with J. Edgar Hoover reported document
“President Johnson also was posed a further question as to whether or not he intended to keep Mr Hoover on…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.145
Richard Helms relationship_with Lyndon B. Johnson alleged document
“it was an item that I mentioned to President Johnson on one occasion when I was going over some sensitive thing the Agency was doing…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 4: Mail Opening · p.92
Richard Helms met_with Lyndon B. Johnson reported document
“if I discussed it with President Johnson it would have been in the context of a particular private meeting…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 4: Mail Opening · p.93
Lyndon B. Johnson met_with Rafael Trujillo documented document
“It should be noted that Johnson attended post-Trujillo assassination meetings which assessed United States involvement in that killing…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.193
Lyndon B. Johnson met_with Leonard Boudin reported document
“Vice Prosldert said :;c was j ceneeraod the contlaukteIsfia-arnatory pro rrource:aeatsof Rar. b.-Aberntiti:y Tcoraeieated LIEShe is one of the worst…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.500
Lyndon B. Johnson worked_for United States documented document
“Following the assassination there were several high-level meetings in Washington attended by President Kennedy Vice President Johnson…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.228
Lyndon B. Johnson spied_on Richard Nixon reported document
“the apparent reason the White House was interested in the activities of Mrs Chennault and Spiro Agnewwas to determine whether the South Vietnamese had secretly been in touch with supporters of Presidential candidate Nixon…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.494
Lyndon B. Johnson ordered_assassination_of Justice Department Criminal Division documented document
“the FBI was ordered to conduct a discrete 'run-down' on the head of the Criminal Division in 1965 and four persons in Treasury and the Narcotics Bureau…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.488
Lyndon B. Johnson lived_in Washington, D.C. documented document
“Mr Johnson instructed that about 65 telephones be placed around Washington…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.186
William C. DeLoach worked_for Lyndon B. Johnson documented document
“The President was trying to get me to discuss a matter concerning an applicant type investigation…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.186
Lyndon B. Johnson worked_for FBI documented document
“he therefore was asking the FBI to supplement Secret Service…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.186
Richard Helms met_with Lyndon B. Johnson documented document
“Helms Briefing of President Johnson on the 1967Inspector General's Report…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.8
Lyndon B. Johnson ordered_assassination_of Embassy of South Vietnam documented document
“Smith advised that he was speaking on behalf of President Lyndon B Johnson requested a telephone surveillance be installed on the Embassy of South Vietnam…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.261
J. Edgar Hoover relationship_with Lyndon B. Johnson documented document
“Mr Hoover's capitulation to personal pique stemming from public criticism of the FBI was particularly reprehensible and clearly contrary to the interest of Presidents Kennedy and Johnson…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.229
Lyndon B. Johnson ordered_assassination_of FBI documented document
“In the 1960's President Johnson asked the FBI to compare various Senators statements on Vietnam with the Communist Party line 32and to conduct name checks on leading antiwar Senators 33…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.24
Federal Bureau of Investigation worked_for Lyndon B. Johnson documented document
“In acquiescence with a judgment already expressed by President Johnson the Bureau's reports on demonstrations against the War in Vietnam emphasized Communist efforts to influence the anti-war movement and underplayed the fact that the vast …”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.33
Robert F. Kennedy met_with Lyndon B. Johnson documented document
“Attorney General Kennedy advised President Johnson that because of the unique difficulty presented by a situation where lawless activities had the sanction of local law enforcement agencies, the FBI should apply to the Klan the same techniq…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.90
Allen Dulles met_with Lyndon B. Johnson documented document
“The President asked former CIA Director Allen Dulles to evaluate the situation in Mississippi…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.90
Joseph Califano worked_for Lyndon B. Johnson documented document
“Joseph Califano President Johnson's assistant in 1967 testified that the Newark and Detroit riots were a 'shattering experience for Justice Department officials and 'for us in the White House.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.94
Lyndon B. Johnson ordered_assassination_of Federal Bureau of Investigation documented document
“President Johnson ordered the FBI to investigate and report on the origins and extent of the first small-scale Northern ghetto disturbances in the summer of 1964.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.99
Nicholas Katzenbach worked_for Lyndon B. Johnson documented document
“After the FBI submitted a report on the Watts riot in Los Angeles in 1965 however Attorney General Katzenbach advised President Johnson that the FBI should investigate 'directly only the possible 'subversive involvement.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.99
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Ramsey Clark documented document
“By 1967 new Attorney General Ramsey Clark reversed the Department's position on such limitations…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.99
Lyndon B. Johnson founded Kerry Commission documented document
“This announcement accompanied the creation of a National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders to investigate the 'basic factors and causes leading to the riots including the 'influence of groups or persons 'dedicated to the incitement or …”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.99
Lyndon B. Johnson ordered_assassination_of Kerry Commission documented document
“The President ordered the FBI in particular to 'provide investigative information and assistance to the Commission.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.99
Lyndon B. Johnson ordered_assassination_of Ku Klux Klan reported document
“The expansion of Klan investigations in response to pressure from President Johnson and Attorney General Kennedy...…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.102
Lyndon B. Johnson proposed Emergency Detention Program documented document
“After a large-scale March on the Pentagon against the Vietnam War in October 1967 President Johnson ordered a comprehensive review of the government's emergency plans…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.107
Lyndon B. Johnson did_business_with CIA documented document
“In the late 1960s the CIA increasingly was drawn into collecting intelligence about domestic political groups particularly the anti-war movement in response to FBI requests and to pressure from Presidents Johnson and Nixon…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.114
Lyndon B. Johnson ordered_assassination_of Operation Chaos reported document
“Former CIA Director Richard Helms testified that he established the program in response to President Johnson's persistent interest in the extent of foreign influence on domestic dissidents…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.116
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Allen Dulles documented document
“The President in total agreement with the Attorney General directed a full-scale FBI investigation of the murders of Goodman Chaney and Schwerner Working closely with Mr Kennedy and using all the powers of his office he asked Allen Dulles t…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.224
Lyndon B. Johnson worked_for Federal Bureau of Investigation documented document
“President Johnson Attorney General Kennedy Mr Allen Dulles myself and others urged the Bureau to developan effectiveinformant program…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.217
CIA worked_for Lyndon B. Johnson documented document
“The CIA at all times was acting within the law or had every reason to believe it was acting legally in taking action on the behalf of Presidents Eisenhower Kennedy Johnson and Nixon…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.357
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed A. H. Belmont documented document
“it was for that reason President Johnson asked me to coordinate all matters before the Long Committee as reflected in Mr Belmont's memorandum to Mr Tolson of February 27…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.214
Lyndon B. Johnson proposed United States documented document
“Upon Katzenbach's recommendation President Johnson issued a directive in June 1965 forbidding all federal government wiretapping 'except in conjunction with investigations related to national security.'…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.121
Lyndon B. Johnson met_with Nicholas Katzenbach documented document
“In February 1965 President Johnson asked Attorney General Katzenbach to coordinate all matters relating to the investigation…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.125
Lyndon B. Johnson worked_for Trump administration documented document
“Johnson aides requested such reports on critics of the escalating war in Vietnam…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.133
Walter Jenkins worked_for Lyndon B. Johnson documented document
“Walter Jenkins an Administrative Assistant to President Johnson…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.134
Lyndon B. Johnson worked_for Federal Bureau of Investigation documented document
“the Bureau's coverage in Atlantic City which included two electronic surveillances undeniably provided useful political intelligence to the President as well.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.135
Lyndon B. Johnson ordered_assassination_of Spiro Agnew documented document
“Also as part of this investigation President Johnson personally ordered a check of the long distance toll call records of Vice Presidential candidate Spiro Agnew.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.136
Richard Helms met_with Lyndon B. Johnson reported document
“The only claim that any President may have known about the project was made by Richard Helms who testified that "there was a possibility that he "mentioned it to President Lyndon Johnson in 1967 or 1968.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.166
Nicholas Katzenbach met_with Lyndon B. Johnson documented document
“They further stated that they informed President Johnson of the FBI's oilers…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.175
Burke Marshall met_with Lyndon B. Johnson documented document
“They further stated that they informed President Johnson of the FBI's oilers…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.175
Lyndon B. Johnson ordered_assassination_of CIA documented document
“Presidents Johnson and Nixon subjected the CIA to intensive pressure to find foreign influence on the domestic peace movements resulting in the establishment of Operation CHAOS…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.188
Lyndon B. Johnson headed National Security Council documented document
“Presidents Truman Kennedy and Johnson found a loose and informal NSC structure to their liking…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.50
Lyndon B. Johnson worked_for United States documented document
“Directive from President Johnson to Heads of Agencies 6/30/65…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.203
FBI worked_for Lyndon B. Johnson documented document
“Under the Johnson administration the FBI was used to gather and report political intelligence on the administration's partisan opponents...…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.243
Lyndon B. Johnson spied_on Spiro Agnew documented document
“This investigation also included an FBI check of Vice Presidential candidate Spiro Agnew's long distance telephone call records apparently at the personal request of President Johnson.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.244
Lyndon B. Johnson spied_on Richard Nixon documented document
“According to DeLoach the request was 'to find out who either Mr Agnew or Mr Nixon when they had been in Albuquerque (New Mexico) several days prior to that had called from Albuquerque while they were there.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.244
Jake Jacobsen worked_for Lyndon B. Johnson documented document
“Presidential aide Jake Jacobsen asked for name checks on persons whose names appeared in the Congressional Record as signers of a letter to Senator Wayne Morse expressing support for his criticism of U.S Vietnam policy.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.246
Ramsey Clark worked_for Lyndon B. Johnson documented document
“On at least one occasion a request was channeled through Attorney General Ramsey Clark who supplied Watson (at the latter's request) with a summary of information on the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.246
Lyndon B. Johnson spied_on David Brinkley documented document
“Other individuals who were the subject of such name check requests under the Johnson Administration included NBC Commentator David Brinkley…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.246
Lyndon B. Johnson spied_on Peter Arnett documented document
“Other individuals who were the subject of such name check requests under the Johnson Administration included ... Associated Press reporter Peter Arnett…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.246
Lyndon B. Johnson spied_on Joseph Kraft documented document
“Other individuals who were the subject of such name check requests under the Johnson Administration included ... columnist Joseph Kraft…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.246
Lyndon B. Johnson spied_on Richard Stolley documented document
“Other individuals who were the subject of such name check requests under the Johnson Administration included ... Life magazine Washington bureau chief Richard Stolley…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.246
Lyndon B. Johnson spied_on Peter Lisagor documented document
“Other individuals who were the subject of such name check requests under the Johnson Administration included ... Chiago Daily News Washington bureau chief Peter Lisagor…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.246
Lyndon B. Johnson spied_on Ben W. Gilbert documented document
“Other individuals who were the subject of such name check requests under the Johnson Administration included ... Ben W Gilbert of the Washington Post.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.246
Lyndon B. Johnson met_with J. Edgar Hoover reported document
“Mr Jenkins or the President to the best of my recollection later called Mr Hoover and asked that this be done…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.250
Martin Luther King Jr. met_with Lyndon B. Johnson documented document
“An unsigned White House memorandum disclosing Dr King's strategy in connection with a meeting to be attended by President Johnson suggests that there was political use of these FBI reports…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.251
Lyndon B. Johnson relationship_with Edward M. Kennedy reported document
“A friend of one of the targets said he had spoken to former President Johnson and 'Johnson would not back Senator Muskie for the Presidency as he intended to stay out of politics.'…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.252
Marvin Watson worked_for Lyndon B. Johnson documented document
“To Marvin Watson Special Assistant to President Johnson…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.254
Lyndon B. Johnson met_with J. Edgar Hoover reported document
“Mr Jenkins or the President to the best of my recollection later called Mr Hoover and asked that this be done…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.185
Lyndon B. Johnson funded Chile documented document
“The certain knowledge that the Kennedy Administration had perceived the threat no differently than I and that it and the Johnson Administration had acted covertly on the ease premisesae I recommended but in a far more pervasive riskier and …”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.122
J. Edgar Hoover met_with Lyndon B. Johnson documented document
“In April 1965 President Johnson met with Director Hoover to discuss Johnson's 'concern over the anti-Vietnam situation.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.267
J. Edgar Hoover worked_for Lyndon B. Johnson documented document
“Hoover instructed however 'What I want to get to the President is the background with emphasis upon the communist influence therein so that he will know exactly what the picture is.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.267
Bill Moyers worked_for Lyndon B. Johnson documented document
“Bill Moyers an Assistant to President Johnson testified that he learned sometime in early 1964 that an FBI agent twice offered to play a tape recording for Walter Jenkins…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.292
John A. Korry appointed Lyndon B. Johnson documented document
“as a Johnson appointee…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.48
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Nicholas Katzenbach documented document
“In response to the storm of public and congressional criticism engendered by a press account of CIA support for a student organization President Johnson appointed a Committee chaired by then Under Secretary of State Nicholas Katzenbach to r…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.301
Lyndon B. Johnson 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
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed William C. DeLoach documented document
“Mr Johnson became President and requested Mr Hoover through Mr Hoover that I assume the responsibility of liaison with the White House in addition to my other duties…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.181
Lyndon B. Johnson ordered_assassination_of Spiro Agnew documented document
“On November 13 1968 at the instruction of President Johnson the FBI checked the toll call telephone records in Albuquerque N Mex. to determine if Vice Presidential Candidate Spiro Agnew had called Mrs Chennault or the South Vietnamese Embas…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.174
Marvin Watson worked_for Lyndon B. Johnson documented document
“On September 2 1965 letters were sent to the Honorable Marvin Watson Special Assistant to President Johnson…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.72
Bill Moyers worked_for Lyndon B. Johnson documented document
“Bill Moyers President Johnson's assistant testified that sometime around the spring of 1965 President Johnson...…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.98
U.S. Department of Justice worked_for Lyndon B. Johnson documented document
“The Attorney General rejected the FBI's request for authority to wiretap Dr King…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.100
Lyndon B. Johnson proposed Trump administration documented document
“This directive formally issued by President Johnson on June 30 1965 forbade the nonconsensual interception of telephone communications by Federal personnel...…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.120
Walter Jenkins worked_for Lyndon B. Johnson documented document
“Walter Jenkins President Johnson's Special Assistant…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.127
Martin Luther King Jr. met_with Lyndon B. Johnson reported document
“inasmuch as King is seeking an appointment with President Johnson.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.146
Carl Rowan met_with Lyndon B. Johnson documented document
“he had been invited to the White House for a Sunday evening dinner with the President and Mrs Johnson…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.146
Nicholas Katzenbach met_with Lyndon B. Johnson documented document
“On that occasion he and I informed the President of our conversation with the news editor and expressed in very strong terms our view that this was shocking conduct…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.158
Burke Marshall met_with Lyndon B. Johnson documented document
“On that occasion he and I informed the President of our conversation with the news editor and expressed in very strong terms our view that this was shocking conduct…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.158
Richard Korry worked_for Lyndon B. Johnson documented document
“In 1966 I was brought home by President Johnson to write a new policy for Africa…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.47
Cartha DeLoach did_business_with Lyndon B. Johnson documented document
“DeLoach's version is summarized in a letter that he sent to President Johnson on November 30 1964…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.168
Lyndon B. Johnson proposed FBI documented document
“Former Attorney General Katzenbach testified that the use of intelligence informants in the mid-1960s to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan a technique urged upon the FBI by President Johnson Attorney General Robert Kennedy and Mr Katzenbach was a…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.233
Robert F. Kennedy worked_for Lyndon B. Johnson documented document
“Attorney General Robert Kennedy had suggested to President Johnson an intensified use of FBI informants in the Klan…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.246
Lyndon B. Johnson proposed Federal Bureau of Investigation documented document
“President Johnson Attorney General Kennedy Mr Allen Dulles myself and others urged the Bureau to develop an effective informant program…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.246
Lyndon B. Johnson proposed Federal Bureau of Investigation documented document
“Nor until President Johnson's directive of June 30 1965 was there any similar control over wiretaps by agencies other than the FBI…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.209
Lyndon B. Johnson proposed Nicholas Katzenbach documented document
“This directive formally issued by President Lyndon Johnson in slightly modified form on June 30 1965, revoked Attorney General Tom Clark's wiretapping standard...…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.292
Lyndon B. Johnson removed_from_power Tom C. Clark documented document
“This directive formally issued by President Lyndon Johnson in slightly modified form on June 30 1965, revoked Attorney General Tom Clark's wiretapping standard...…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.292
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
Clark Clifford member_of Lyndon B. Johnson documented
“worked in the Truman administration, the JFK administration, the Lyndon B. Johnson administration, and the Jimmy Carter administration. He was one of the most well-placed Democrat party bosses that has ever been created. And as you said, he…”
▶ COLONEL TOWNER OPERATION GLADIO DIG INTO Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster PART 1 @ 36:00
Eugene McCarthy targeted_for_regime_change Lyndon B. Johnson documented
“Once, um, the, let's, let me get my timeline here so I don't screw it up. You had late 1967 McCarthy, um, Eugene McCarthy out of nowhere kind of announces his presidency, um, run. Um, and he was actually going to, um, run against the incumb…”
▶ Operation Gladio and the 1968 Election PART 2 @ 1:41
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 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 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
Robert Baer did_business_with Lyndon B. Johnson documented
“the Bobby Baker scandal. In 1962, Robert Bobby Baker, a close political advisor to Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and organizer for the Democrat Party, became the Senate Secretary to the Majority Leader. Behind the scenes, Baker handled p…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 20 @ 14:22
Robert F. Kennedy targeted_for_regime_change Lyndon B. Johnson documented
“RFK decides to throw his hat in the ring. And basically, the two of them are kind of the runaway, gaining lots of traction. At the end of January, the Tet Offensive, which I'm going to cover, happens and blows LBJ's chance of re-election, a…”
▶ Operation Gladio and the 1968 Election PART 2 @ 2:40
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 appointed John McCone documented
“Lyndon Johnson kept McCone in place at the CIA and he became the most important witness for the Warren Commission, the panel Johnson created to investigate Kennedy's murder. Now, a couple of things stick out about that. The fact that he's a…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilght of the Shadow Government Part 6 @ 1:25
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 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 exposed Oxcart Program documented
“They publicly tried Francis Gary Powers four years later at a press conference in February and July of 1964. President LBJ revealed the existence of the Oxcart-type aircraft, although only in its military form, an interceptor, and SR-71 str…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The U2 Program @ 10:17
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
Lyndon B. Johnson installed CIA documented
“Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson swearing in on the aircraft. The coffin was left unattended. Even against Attorney General and Jacqueline's wishes, LBJ made preparations for a swearing in ceremony to take place aboard the aircraft in the s…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Kill Zone Part 6 @ 24:42
Lyndon B. Johnson relationship_with Ralph Yarborough book_quoted
“in his Cadillac, and Senator Ralph Yarborough would ride with Kennedy. Kennedy vetoed that and finally told Johnson that Conley was going to accompany him, and Johnson would have to accommodate Yarborough. Yarborough, LBJ hated Yarborough. …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Kill Plot Part 5 @ 21:07
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
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
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 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
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 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 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
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
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
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
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
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 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 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 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 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 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
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
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
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 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 targeted_for_regime_change Cyprus host_asserted
“Not sure exactly how to say that. I think it's Papadum Papado, who had basically tried to stand up to Lyndon Johnson when he had plans to dismember Cyprus. And he was all but assassinated. He was imprisoned. There was a military junta that …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with COLONEL TOWNER -NATO's Dagger at the Heart of Europe PART 1 @ 54:26
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
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
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

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1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden
▶ 1:59 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…
1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden
▶ 4:00 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…
1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden
▶ 5:33 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…
1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden
▶ 12:59 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…
1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden
▶ 21:10 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…
1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden
▶ 22:08 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…
1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden
▶ 24:04 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…
1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden
▶ 26:56 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 …
1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden
▶ 27:26 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 …
1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden
▶ 32:21 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…
1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden
▶ 38:27 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…
1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden
▶ 42:49 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,…
1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden
▶ 43:20 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…
1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden
▶ 43:47 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…
1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden
▶ 57:19 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…
1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden
▶ 1:00:08 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 …
1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden
▶ 1:01:08 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…
1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden
▶ 1:03:36 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…
1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden
▶ 1:05:56 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…
1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden
▶ 1:06:50 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, …
1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden
▶ 1:07:17 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…
1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden
▶ 1:08:43 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…
1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden
▶ 1:09:42 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…
1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden
▶ 1:17:15 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…
1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden
▶ 1:18:37 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…
Assassination_Operation Gladio W_Brady, GofBPH, Alpha, CannCon&Brian
▶ 51:08 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…
Colonel’s Corner-Book Review-Prelude to Terror Chap 22
▶ 1:35:21 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…
Colonels Corner_ Mafia, CIA & GHWB Part 1
▶ 5:41 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…
Colonels Corner_ Mafia, CIA & GHWB Part 1
▶ 36:57 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.…
ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast
▶ 1:12:52 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 …
ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast
▶ 1:13:20 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 …
ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast
▶ 1:13:46 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…
ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast
▶ 1:28:15 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 …
ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast
▶ 1:29:10 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…
ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast
▶ 1:29:40 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…
ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast
▶ 1:30:04 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…
ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast
▶ 1:30:33 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 …
ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast
▶ 1:31:02 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…
ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast
▶ 1:31:46 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…
ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast
▶ 1:32:14 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…
ColonelTowner-Watkins-USS Liberty meets Operation Gladio-Regime Change in Egypt
▶ 25:55 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…
ColonelTowner-Watkins-USS Liberty meets Operation Gladio-Regime Change in Egypt
▶ 27:38 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 …
ColonelTowner-Watkins-USS Liberty meets Operation Gladio-Regime Change in Egypt
▶ 28:10 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…
ColonelTowner-Watkins-USS Liberty meets Operation Gladio-Regime Change in Egypt
▶ 42:42 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…
ColonelTowner-Watkins-USS Liberty meets Operation Gladio-Regime Change in Egypt
▶ 43:41 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 …
MLK’s Conspiracy Trial thru Gladio Glasses
▶ 13:17 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 …
Operation Gladio - 1968 parallels_ Assassins, political theater, etc
▶ 7:23 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…
Operation Gladio - 1968 parallels_ Assassins, political theater, etc
▶ 8:20 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…
Operation Gladio - 1968 parallels_ Assassins, political theater, etc
▶ 10:15 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…
Operation Gladio - 1968 parallels_ Assassins, political theater, etc
▶ 10:47 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,…
Operation Gladio - 1968 parallels_ Assassins, political theater, etc
▶ 12:47 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,…
Operation Gladio - 1968 parallels_ Assassins, political theater, etc
▶ 14:47 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…
Operation Gladio - 1968 parallels_ Assassins, political theater, etc
▶ 15:51 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.…
Operation Gladio - 1968 parallels_ Assassins, political theater, etc
▶ 16:48 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, …
Operation Gladio - 1968 parallels_ Assassins, political theater, etc
▶ 18:55 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 …
Operation Gladio - 1968 parallels_ Assassins, political theater, etc
▶ 38:41 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…
Operation Gladio - 1968 parallels_ Assassins, political theater, etc
▶ 39:18 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…
Operation Gladio - 1968 parallels_ Assassins, political theater, etc
▶ 40:06 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 …
Operation Gladio - 1968 parallels_ Assassins, political theater, etc
▶ 41:23 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 …
Operation Gladio - 1968 parallels_ Assassins, political theater, etc
▶ 1:28:11 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…
Operation Gladio and a look back at 9_11
▶ 1:48:49 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…
OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 43 - 'Exposed - The USAID Deception' - EP.382
▶ 19:07 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.…
OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 43 - 'Exposed - The USAID Deception' - EP.382
▶ 19:37 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…
OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 60 - 'CIA MOSSAD SO'AK SHAH MULLAHS IRGC' - EP
▶ 41:45 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…
Operation Gladio - Ghana 1966
▶ 7:17 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…
Operation Gladio - Ghana 1966
▶ 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…
Operation Gladio - Ghana 1966
▶ 18:46 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…
Operation Gladio Greece 1964-1974
▶ 8:39 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…
Operation Gladio Greece 1964-1974
▶ 9:07 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…
Operation Gladio Greece 1964-1974
▶ 9:36 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…
Operation Gladio Greece 1964-1974
▶ 12:51 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…
Operation Gladio Greece 1964-1974
▶ 15:35 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…
Operation Gladio in Chile
▶ 29:58 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…
Operation Gladio - Indonesia Part 2
▶ 55:41 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 …
'Operation Gladio is Alive and Well' NATO_s secret terrorist army EXPOSED
▶ 1:06:39 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 …
Operation Gladio - Is it the Octopus of Danny Casalaro’s writings_
▶ 51:49 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_
▶ 54:09 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…
Operation Gladio - Korea Part 4
▶ 29:03 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
▶ 29:33 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. …
Operation Gladio - Korea Part 4
▶ 30:01 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…
Operation Gladio - Korea Part 4
▶ 31:00 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. …
Operation Gladio - Korea Part 4
▶ 31:29 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…
Operation Gladio-Loose ends and our new friend Cartwright
▶ 27:18 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 meets Mr Truthbomb
▶ 6:29 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 - PART 39 - _JIMMY CARTER & PANAMA CANAL_ - EP.372
▶ 35:11 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…
OPERATION GLADIO - PART 39 - _JIMMY CARTER & PANAMA CANAL_ - EP.372
▶ 35:41 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…
OPERATION GLADIO - PART 39 - _JIMMY CARTER & PANAMA CANAL_ - EP.372
▶ 57:02 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 …
Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 19
▶ 56:17 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…
Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chapter 11_12
▶ 1:25:33 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…
Operation Gladio - Relook at Robert Komer (Phoenix) as a Ritchie Boy
▶ 8:24 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…
Operation Gladio - Relook at Robert Komer (Phoenix) as a Ritchie Boy
▶ 11:21 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
▶ 12:20 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…
Operation Gladio - Relook at Robert Komer (Phoenix) as a Ritchie Boy
▶ 27:10 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…
Operation Gladio - Relook at Robert Komer (Phoenix) as a Ritchie Boy
▶ 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…
Operation Gladio - Relook at Robert Komer (Phoenix) as a Ritchie Boy
▶ 30:56 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 …
Operation Gladio - Relook at Robert Komer (Phoenix) as a Ritchie Boy
▶ 31:25 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…
Operation Gladio - Relook at Robert Komer (Phoenix) as a Ritchie Boy
▶ 31:56 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…
Operation Gladio - Relook at Robert Komer (Phoenix) as a Ritchie Boy
▶ 34:48 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…
Operation Gladio - Relook at Robert Komer (Phoenix) as a Ritchie Boy
▶ 35:17 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…
Operation Gladio - Relook at Robert Komer (Phoenix) as a Ritchie Boy
▶ 36:45 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
▶ 37:43 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 …
Operation Gladio - Relook at Robert Komer (Phoenix) as a Ritchie Boy
▶ 38:13 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 …
Operation Gladio - Relook at Robert Komer (Phoenix) as a Ritchie Boy
▶ 39:07 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…
Operation Gladio - Relook at Robert Komer (Phoenix) as a Ritchie Boy
▶ 41:04 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…
Operation Gladio - Relook at Robert Komer (Phoenix) as a Ritchie Boy
▶ 41:31 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 …
Operation Gladio - Relook at Robert Komer (Phoenix) as a Ritchie Boy
▶ 42:32 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 …
Operation Gladio - Relook at Robert Komer (Phoenix) as a Ritchie Boy
▶ 43:00 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
▶ 44:53 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…
Operation Gladio - Relook at Robert Komer (Phoenix) as a Ritchie Boy
▶ 47:37 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…
Operation Gladio - Relook at Robert Komer (Phoenix) as a Ritchie Boy
▶ 48:36 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…
Operation Gladio - Relook at Robert Komer (Phoenix) as a Ritchie Boy
▶ 51:03 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…
Operation Gladio - Relook at Robert Komer (Phoenix) as a Ritchie Boy
▶ 51:26 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…
Operation Gladio - Relook at Robert Komer (Phoenix) as a Ritchie Boy
▶ 51:55 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…
Operation Gladio - Relook at Robert Komer (Phoenix) as a Ritchie Boy
▶ 52:25 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 …
Operation Gladio - Relooking at Indonesia Coup, Ann Soetoros, Subud..
▶ 31:12 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-Revolutionaries for the Right Part 4
▶ 56:18 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 …
Operation Gladio - Sweden
▶ 31:33 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, …
Operation Gladio - UK and Harold Wilson
▶ 15:50 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 …
Operation Gladio - UK and Harold Wilson
▶ 16:19 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- Vietnam Part 5 Phoenix Program
▶ 21:40 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…
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