John Kenneth Galbraith person
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Richard M. Bissell Jr. briefed
John Kenneth Galbraith documented
“The JFK's man in India was a Harvard economist by the name of John Kenneth Galbraith, G-A-L-B-R-A-I-T-H. Before leaving his post on March 27, 1961, Galbraith was briefed on the CIA operations in India by Richard Bissell, B-I-S-S-E-L-L. Ther…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 9, continued @ 34:47
John Kenneth Galbraith discussed
CIA documented
“would be Harvard economist John Galbraith. Before leaving for his post on March 27th, 1961, Galbraith discussed CIA operations in India with Richard Bissell. There was an element of irony in this meeting. They were both economists, one perh…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (18) @ 9:33
John Kenneth Galbraith canceled
Project Cirrus documented
“He found Kennedy subdued and too busy with the CIA failure in Cuba. He argued with the president, Bobby Kennedy, and McGeorge Bundy and put his objections to Dulles and Bissell, telling them Kennedy had been sympathetic to ending the projec…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (18) @ 12:35
Averell Harriman sided_with
John Kenneth Galbraith documented
“lost most of what it had gained after India's 1962 border war with China when W. Avril Harriman made a diplomatic tour of the region and sided with the ambassador. Not even Desmond Fitzgerald, Jim Critchfield, or John Noss, who were among h…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (18) @ 21:56
John Kenneth Galbraith argued_with
John F. Kennedy book_quoted
“by other CIA failures. Galbraith argued his position energetically with the president, Robert Kennedy and McGeorge Bundy, the new NSD advisor. He then put his arguments in a memorandum he showed to Alan Dulles, Bissell, and other CIA offici…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 9, continued @ 36:40
John Kenneth Galbraith showed_to
Allen Dulles book_quoted
“by other CIA failures. Galbraith argued his position energetically with the president, Robert Kennedy and McGeorge Bundy, the new NSD advisor. He then put his arguments in a memorandum he showed to Alan Dulles, Bissell, and other CIA offici…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 9, continued @ 36:40
John Kenneth Galbraith ordered_assassination_of
Tibet book_quoted
“Galbraith determined to stop some of the spooky activities that he didn't like, one of them being Tibet, whose partisan fighters he calls deeply unhygienic tribesmen. In other words, they were dirty. One of Galbraith's first orders in the c…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 9, continued @ 35:40
John Kenneth Galbraith targeted_for_regime_change
Ngô Đình Diệm book_quoted
“When will your army people finally get going? But the Kennedy years had already proven that distinguished liberals given authority overseas could surmount their domestic principles. For example, as early as 1961, John Kenneth Galbraith had …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 5 @ 12:58
John Kenneth Galbraith invited
Paul Nitze host_asserted
“to serve as one of the officers of the strategic bombing survey that was initiated by OSS. And remember, that was the bombing apparatus that many people feel was used to protect any German industry that had U.S. connections. So that's...…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 9, continued @ 51:03
John Kenneth Galbraith succeeded_in_cutting_connection_with
Nepal book_quoted
“Galbraith believes that later in conjunction with Robert Kennedy, he succeeded in cutting the connection with Nepal and Tibet. But that didn't come about right away. So it says December 1961 demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt that it w…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 9, continued @ 38:49
Mentions (23)
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When will your army people finally get going? But the Kennedy years had already proven that distinguished liberals given authority overseas could surmount their domestic principles. For example, as early as 1961, John Kenneth Galbraith had …
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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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The JFK's man in India was a Harvard economist by the name of John Kenneth Galbraith, G-A-L-B-R-A-I-T-H. Before leaving his post on March 27, 1961, Galbraith was briefed on the CIA operations in India by Richard Bissell, B-I-S-S-E-L-L. Ther…
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of two economists, one perhaps foremost in American Keynesian economics. The other man, who had long resisted Keynesian arguments, had ended up administering Keynesian-style foreign and military aid, first for the Marshall Plan, then for th…
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Galbraith determined to stop some of the spooky activities that he didn't like, one of them being Tibet, whose partisan fighters he calls deeply unhygienic tribesmen. In other words, they were dirty. One of Galbraith's first orders in the c…
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made no special effort to defend the operations that were ongoing. As for himself, the economist wrote, quote, I was not troubled by an open mind. I was convinced that most of the projects proposed would be useless for their own anti-commun…
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by other CIA failures. Galbraith argued his position energetically with the president, Robert Kennedy and McGeorge Bundy, the new NSD advisor. He then put his arguments in a memorandum he showed to Alan Dulles, Bissell, and other CIA offici…
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he could not get the Tibet operation completely canceled. The partisans had achieved the status of a U.S. ally and had to be supported. When the CIA did end its network inside of India, the operation was merely reorganized to work from Nepa…
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a high mountain stronghold about 150 miles northwest of the Nepal capital, Kathmandu, where the soldiers of fortune began arriving. Everybody wants to call while I'm on the show. Galbraith goes on to say that I was especially disturbed by t…
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We're not doing open mics right now because I want to go over a couple of pieces of information for you guys, because I'm going to ask for your help over the next 24 hours with the homework assignment. So does anybody have anything about th…
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And that guy is all over the place, especially there in China, Nepal, India. I'm still trying to figure out, given his background, how he wound up in that position. In what way? Well, if you take a look at his background, according to his b…
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Did you notice that he's from Berkeley? Yes, I did notice Harvard. Yes, ma'am. Yeah. So I think obviously, again, without being able to see all of his underlying connections, he obviously connected with people. And again, they remember that…
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Sorry, Colonel, I didn't mean to interrupt. That makes sense when when you start talking about a wartime economy. Yeah, because because he's basically a fascist. Yeah. So they're all in on that. And also it says here that Galbraith had invi…
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There are just a few people that got in the way. Okay, great. Thank you so much for all you do. Sure, sure. All along, go ahead. Yeah, Colonel, regarding to John Kenneth Galbraith, I would urge people to keep an open mind on this character,…
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As SR71 points out, he seems to be in a lot of different areas, and JFK was kind of using him as a sort of, in some ways, a means of gaining actual oversight over what some of the CIA folks were doing as JFK began to increasingly feel that …
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be called like the CIA hardcore Riga group, anti-Soviet in the State Department, and almost the 100% opposite of today's Democrats who are, you know, 100% CIA, you know, pushing NATO ever further eastward, etc. And I think that the other gu…
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essence jfk was trying to rein in in my in my opinion right uh and galbraith i i would say to the extent that you're going to be you know you are going to be at that high level in my opinion he is almost like the opposite of nitsy but you k…
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That affected John Hoskins and Howard Bain, B-A-N-E, who were brought in to insulate Hoskins from the CIA station chief, who was Harry Ratisky. And again, he's another guy we come across all the time. He had taken a jaundiced look at Projec…
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would be Harvard economist John Galbraith. Before leaving for his post on March 27th, 1961, Galbraith discussed CIA operations in India with Richard Bissell. There was an element of irony in this meeting. They were both economists, one perh…
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Galbraith. The list of projects, many of which bothered the ambassador. A couple of weeks earlier, President Kennedy had authorized CIA airdrops to the Mustang location. Galbraith determined to stop these spooky activities. Tibet among them…
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He also ordered his country team to make a full investigation of the CIA activities. He wanted to be number one on his agenda item. He recalls that the CIA station chief, Harry Ratinsky, made little effort to defend the program. As for hims…
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He found Kennedy subdued and too busy with the CIA failure in Cuba. He argued with the president, Bobby Kennedy, and McGeorge Bundy and put his objections to Dulles and Bissell, telling them Kennedy had been sympathetic to ending the projec…
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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…