Alexis Johnson person
also: Deputy Undersecretary of State, Johnson, Alex Johnson, Ambassador Johnson, U. Alexis Johnson
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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
Alexis Johnson headed
Counterintelligence Corps documented
“against what they intended to do. So it set up a committee on police and police training. And as chairman, appointed a career diplomat by the name of U, that stands for Ural, U-R-A-L, the mountains in Russia, Alexis Johnson. Johnson resembl…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 2 @ 38:47
Alexis Johnson targeted_for_regime_change
Cheddi Jagan book_quoted
“Deputy Undersecretary of State Hugh Alexis Johnson took pains to say the U.S. feared chaos in a communist government, insisting on the need to work closely to avert a catastrophe. Code words to convince London to acquiesce to U.S. action, i…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy CIA Secret Wars Part 1 @ 31:12
Alexis Johnson targeted_for_regime_change
Cheddi Jagan book_quoted
“Johnson indicated that Washington saw Jagen in the same light that they saw Castro. We do not intend to be taken twice, he said. The British, on the other hand, reported that Guyana's large sugar corporations were not worried and mentioned …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy CIA Secret Wars Part 1 @ 31:41
Alexis Johnson member_of
Committee of 40 book_quoted
“of new covert actions, and it says a new covert action staff was replaced. They replaced the previous psychological and paramilitary operational staff, so it's going to have a new name. Having carefully set up the framework, Nixon and Kissi…”
▶ The Colonels corner president‘s secret wars, chapter 15 cont @ 1:06:32
Alexis Johnson member_of
National Police Board book_quoted
“The closer their ties to Brazil's business and military circles, the more strongly they believe that the coup was long overdue. It didn't trouble the military advisors that overnight there was a change in their role. There's another guy who…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 6 @ 3:20
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What Washington needed was an ironclad rule, especially when individual victims were likely to be well-known top echelon at state or working for the CIA. As Alexis Johnson said afterward, there would never have been an occasion for him to m…
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against what they intended to do. So it set up a committee on police and police training. And as chairman, appointed a career diplomat by the name of U, that stands for Ural, U-R-A-L, the mountains in Russia, Alexis Johnson. Johnson resembl…
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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…
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A State Department veteran, future Ambassador Johnson, found it easy to insist that training of police was a civil function and couldn't be done in the Department of Defense. Having won the battle, Johnson was concerned that the officials o…
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since he had already been responsible for training over 100,000 Japanese police in just under two months. Johnson talked with the CIA director and got permission for Engel to go into the job. Next came the setting of standards for recruits …
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as an office for his law offices. But they determined that the cellar would be the perfect place to have a firing range, and the other three floors would be used to train police. What Engle didn't know at the time is it was next door to Mic…
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Forrestal had served on Johnson's committee, the one that created the whole program. And Forrestal's home estate was next door to this place. I'm sure that's a coincidence. So, only then did Engle realize that the site he had chosen was nex…
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The closer their ties to Brazil's business and military circles, the more strongly they believe that the coup was long overdue. It didn't trouble the military advisors that overnight there was a change in their role. There's another guy who…
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the greatest single asset in all of Southeast Asia for the United States. And we ran across him before as well. With help from the ambassadors, Alexis Johnson and Kenneth Young, Janssen encouraged the TIE to assume a cooperative attitude. A…
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Alexis Johnson drafted a letter above presidential signatures to ambassadors dispatched in a cable in May in 1961. Kennedy's letter established country teams. CIA and other departments would sit on embassy senior councils, but the ambassado…
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of new covert actions, and it says a new covert action staff was replaced. They replaced the previous psychological and paramilitary operational staff, so it's going to have a new name. Having carefully set up the framework, Nixon and Kissi…
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Deputy Undersecretary of State Hugh Alexis Johnson took pains to say the U.S. feared chaos in a communist government, insisting on the need to work closely to avert a catastrophe. Code words to convince London to acquiesce to U.S. action, i…
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Johnson indicated that Washington saw Jagen in the same light that they saw Castro. We do not intend to be taken twice, he said. The British, on the other hand, reported that Guyana's large sugar corporations were not worried and mentioned …
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U. Alexis Johnson drafted a letter for JFK's signature dispatched in May of 1961. Kennedy's letter established a country team concept. CIA could sit on the ambassador's senior councils, but the ambassador had all of the authority. John Kenn…
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with how the special group could monitor implementation. But then they heard Max Taylor say his group had no such capability. A judgment seconded on another occasion by the State Department U. Alexis Johnson. Queried on September 1963 by La…
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But if the 303 committee could not agree or an operation involved great risk, LBJ would then convene what he referred to as the seniors, McNamara, Dean Rusk, and the CIA director to discuss them directly. Deputy Undersecretary of State Hugh…
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He writes that he always tried to put himself in the president's shoes. For his efforts, he acquired the nickname Dr. No. But the State Department backed many of the projects. And the 303 Committee approved a large share of the proposals. A…
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Alexis Johnson returned to Washington as Undersecretary of State. He sat on Richard Nixon's special group. He recalls hard work as the group kept track of the CIA orphans, as he called them, and sent budget proposals to Congress. Johnson be…
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ever formally considering the expenditure. The case proposal provided $30 million in 72 and temporary policy guidance from the State Department until the board became established. Hearings before the Fulbright Senate Foreign Relations Commi…
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talking about interfering in elections like it's no big deal, and you're supposed to believe they don't interfere in our elections. When the program came up for renewal in 66, American diplomats in Italy told Alex Johnson, State Department'…
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U. Alexis Johnson, back on the group again, writes, quote, it is true that during the Nixon administration, the president and CIA bypassed the committee on sensitive issues, unquote. When Nixon gave his first go-ahead on covert arms to Camb…
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group against Allende would have little success unless undertaken soon. The Pentagon nodded in agreement. To be effective, the action had to be immediate. Alex Johnson and Charlie Meyer warned that intervening against Allende's election mig…