Any takers on why Bob Strauss dropped the DNC suit against Nixon, "even though the depositions in it were a main source — perhaps the single best source — of news about the scandal at the time," according to Sussman.
Note Strauss took over DNC after Watergate; as Connelly's man, had organized Dallas trip in '63.
Maybe Strauss knew fellow Texan James McCord or Lou Russell when they were FBI agents in the 1940s. Interesting that Bob Strauss
memoir The Man to See was originally going to be ghost-written by Peter Ross Range, who was a roommate of Maxie Wells at the time of the Watergate break-ins. Range helped arrange Jimmy Carter’s October 1976 Playboy interview.
Bob Strauss knew football scout and businessman George Owen, the first husband of Maureen Dean. Maureen was a stewardess for American Airlines and worked the Dallas to Phoenix run. “Mo” had a rich boyfriend in Arizona for a time. Strauss owned at least one radio station in Arizona as part of his Strauss Broadcasting network. In a very interesting interview w Len Colodny, George Owen casually referred to Strauss and Cowboys owner Clint Murchison wrt to Owen’s ties to mystery lady Maureen Dean that surfaced in a Maxine Cheshire column. In the interview w Colodny, Owen refers to lobbyist/fixer/bagman Irv Davidson in a scheme to influence John Dean wrt to the Jimmy Hoffa pardon.
The evidence is overwhelming that Dean ordered the break-ins, launched the coverup, destroyed and manufactured evidence, paid off Hunt and Lou Russell, used Heidi and her girls to get political dirt etc, As early as July 7, 1972 in a NYT Tad Szulc piece, Howard Hunt requested assistance from Dean. Somehow nobody picked up on that item. The funds embezzled from the WH polling fund matched payments to Lou Russell who was then living high and wide w Heidi Rikan in a Nesline owned Penthouse. Recently I came across an oral history by WH Fellow David Miller:
***
Q: Today is February 3, 2003. In 1971 you had been with the Fellows Program in the White House. Whither?
MILLER: Well, there is a story as to why I went then. I was working half time for John Dean and half time as the director of the Fellows Program because they didn't really need me
to do that full-time. I had known John at the Justice Department before he moved over
to be White House Counsel. The seminal event in my departure from the White House came when John Dean asked me if I would set up a safe house here in Washington for
the use of the President. I asked John why we needed to do that. He said, “Well, the President might have meetings with people that would be completely off the record and so on,” which seemed understandable. Then I said, “Well, you know, the CIA does this for a living. There is no reason to have me involved in anything like this.” John said, “Well, the President doesn't want the CIA involved. He wants this to be a completely covert White House operation.” I knew at that point that I was going to have to leave.
It is obvious, like so much of what Dean did, that he invoked Nixon or the name of a superior to get somebody to do his dirty work. This incident w Miller was right around the time Dean ordered Tony Ulasiwicz to case the DNC and shortly after he met with Liddy to develop an Intel plan. Dean was likely the figure who got the NY bachelor pad safe house established as mentioned in various accounts. And the Xaviera Hollander scandal erupted around that time.
You're closer than you may realize. And don't lose track of Bush here, either, who comes into WH as Moynihan leaves. Then the two of them are more or less intertwined frequently at UN, with Moynihan as DCI GHWB's executive assistant in '75-'76.
William Cotter married Virginia Alicia McMahon, a cryptanalyst at Arlington Hall (VENONA), 1949. Spousal immunity? Did Soviets know we had broken their code BEFORE so far publicly acknowledged? I.e. NOT from Weisband but from McMahon/Cotter? IMPORTANT. (Would explain need for mail opening program from '51-'73.
Shils called for a “functional secrecy” that would protect the society from “genuine external danger.”[9] What he feared was secrecy that was not functional but symbolic.
[P]art of the war of fantasy which the pure and good conduct incessantly with corruption and evil until the Last Judgment. The secrecy demanded by ideological extremism in the United States and in Soviet Russia, in Soviet China and in the Soviet satellites is not connected with national security except by the occasion which crises provide for fanatics to focus their excited fantasies.[10]
What Shils did not know, something none of us knew until John M. Deutch in his role as Director of Central Intelligence and a member of the Secrecy Commission made the archive public, was that the United States had by then intercepted and decrypted the text of Soviet cables going back to World War II: the VENONA project. The first such cable was broken by Meredith Gardener in a requisitioned girls’ school, Arlington Hall, not far from the Pentagon on December 20, 1946. It contained a list of the principal scientists at Los Alamos. Looking over Gardner’s shoulder was one William W. Weisband, an Army corporal, a cipher clerk, a spy. By the time Shils published (1956) the United States military and law enforcement agencies knew all about the Soviet attack, or all that they needed to know, and had pretty much rolled up the entire operation.
"Before joining the Department of Justice in November 2000, he served as Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s legislative assistant for foreign affairs and intelligence matters and as his last legislative director. He co-drafted the legislation that established the Public Interest Declassification Board."
"... We have come a long way from those days of frenzied speculation in August 2022 when the news was that the nation's intelligence mavens would conduct a "damage assessment" of the Mar-a-Lago situation. Now, with the benefit of months of experience and hindsight, we know...nothing."
"FYI: Thought you and your source might be interested in the attached extract from John's open hearing. This was John's response to Biden that I mentioned. who walked into the hearing with John was Vicky Toensing, SSCI Counsel."
With Trump and Biden both trapped in secret document scandals, we're witnessing the self-destruction of the Secrecy system, like Hal9000 in Kubrick's 2001, conflicted by its programming instructions to process information accurately on the one hand and lie and cover-up on the other.
Surely this is some ChatGPT-like bot posting nonsense claiming Moynihan & McMahon are the same guy. Heck, you're not even using the term 'cut out' correctly.
Historically they did not care who won the election since they controlled both parties(Rinos) from the top.
America is "ruled by a single political party:
The CFR has only 3000 members yet they control over three-quarters of the nation's wealth. The CFR runs the State Department and the CIA. The CFR has placed 100 CFR members in every Presidential Administration and cabinet since Woodrow Wilson.
The Council Of Foreign Relations has gained a virtual lock-hold on the U.S. government, regardless of which party is in office. No other organization comes close to boasting the kind of clout that the CFR members have held:
Eight presidents of the U.S.; seven vice presidents; 17 secretaries of state; 20 secretaries of war/defense; 18 secretaries of the Treasury; 15 directors of the CIA. And it has gone throughout the Cabinets, in seriatim — through Democrat and Republican administrations — with hundreds of deputy secretaries, assistant secretaries, etc.
They work together to misinform the President to act in the best interest of the CFR not the best interest of the American People. At least five Presidents (Eisenhower, Ford, Carter, Bush, and Clinton) have been members of the CFR. The CFR has packed every Supreme court with CFR insiders.
The CFR Group on the Biden Team :
Historically they did not care who one the election since they controlled both parties(Rinos) from the top.
Kamala Harris, Vice President (CFR through family; Harvard; DLA Piper; Uber through family)
Antony Blinken, Secretary of State (CFR member; Harvard and Columbia; WestExec)
Janet Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury (CFR member; Yale and Harvard; Brookings)
Lloyd Austin, Secretary of Defense (CFR member; WestExec; Raytheon)
Linda Thomas-Greenfield, UN Ambassador (CFR member; Albright Stonebridge)
Cecilia Rouse, Council of Economic Advisors (CFR director; Princeton; Rowe Price)
Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security (CFR member; Wilmer Hale)
Jake Sullivan, National Security Advisor (CFR author; Yale and O
Ron Klain, Chief of Staff (CFR through family; Harvard; O’MelvOxford; Carnegie)eny and Meyers)
John Kerry, Special Envoy for Climate (CFR member; Yale)
Susan Rice, Chief of Domestic Council (CFR member; Harvard, Oxford, and Stanford)
William J. Burns, Director of Central Intelligence (CFR member; Oxford; Carnegie)
Kurt M. Campbell, Indo-Pacific Tsar (CFR member; Harvard and Oxford; Asia Group)
Thomas Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture (CFR member; Dairy Export Council)
Gina Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce (CFR member; Oxford; Point Judith Capital)
Eric S. Lander, Director of Office of Science and Technology (CFR member; Harvard)
Jeffery Zients, Counselor to the President (CFR member; Cranemere)
Below is a list of the Council on Foreign Relations members in the last three Presidential administrations, including Cabinet members, advisers and nominations.
John Kerry – Secretary of State (Teresa Heinz Kerry wife of John Kerry is also CFR member)
Timothy Geithner – Secretary of Treasury
Jacob J (Jack) Lew – Secretary of Treasury
Robert Gates – Secretary of Defense
Chuck Hagel – Secretary of Defense (resigned)
Ashton Carter – Secretary of Defense
Tom Vilsack – Secretary of Agriculture
John Bryson – Secretary of Commerce
Penny Pritzker – Secretary of Commerce
Sylvia Burwell – Secretary of Health and Human Services
Ernest Moniz – Secretary of Energy
Janet Napolitano – CFR Staff bio – Secretary of Homeland Security
Jeh Charles Johnson – Secretary of Homeland Security
William Daley – Chief of Staff
Peter Orszag – Director of Office of Management and Budget
Susan Rice – Ambassador to the UN (prior member Trilateral Commission)
Michael Froman – US Trade Representative
Michael Chertoff – US Secretary of Homeland Security (Trilateral Commission member)
Thomas E. Donilon – National Security Adviser (Bilderberg Group)
Cecilia Rouse – Council of Economic Advisers
David Howell Petraeus – 4 star Army General, Director of the CIA 2011 – 2012 (resigned), Commander of United States Central Command 2008 – 2010, Commander of the International Security Assistance Force
Janet Louise Yellen – Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System nominated by Barack Obama
Paul A. Volcker – Chair of the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board, prior Chair of Federal Reserve – (member Trilateral Commission)
Henry Kissinger – Secretary of State for President Richard Nixon, adviser to every President since, and a close friend and adviser to Hillary Clinton.
Steve Preston – Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Henry Paulson – Secretary of the Treasury (and worked at Goldman Sachs Founders corporate member)
Robert Gates – Secretary of Defense
Mary Ann Peters – Secretary of Transportation
Condoleeza Rice – Secretary of State
Tommy G. Thompson – Secretary of Health and Human Services
Elaine L Chao – Secretary of Labor
Colin Powell – Secretary of State
Susan C. Schwab – US Trade Representative
Robert Zoellick – US Trade Representative (also Trilateral Commission) – been President of The World Bank, also a managing director of Goldman Sachs, steering committee Bilderberg Group (was a Deputy Secretary of State)
Michael Chertoff – US Secretary of Homeland Security (Trilateral Commission member)
Richard Holbrook – United States Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan (Bilderberg Group)
John Wolfowitz – United States Deputy Secretary of Defense (Bilderberg Group) – President The World Bank
Karen Parfitt Hughes – Councilor to the President
John Bolton – US Ambassador to the United Nations
Brent Scowcroft – United States National Security Advisor
Note: not listed as a member, speaks at meetings and called New York City branch “The Mothership”. Hillary Clinton – First Lady to President Clinton, Senator, ran for President twice
Lawrence Summers – Secretary of Treasury (also member Trilateral Commission)
Togo D. West – Secretary of Veteran Affairs
William B. Richardson – Secretary of Energy
William M. Daley – Secretary of Commerce
Madeleine Albright – Director Emerita CFR – Secretary of State (also member Trilateral Commission)
William Cohen – Secretary of Defense
Federico F. Peña – Secretary of Energy, Secretary of Transportation
Mickey Kantor – Secretary of Commerce, US Trade Representative
Daniel Glickman – Secretary of Agriculture
Robert Rubin – CFR staff bio – Secretary of the Treasury
William J. Perry – Secretary of Defense
Donna Shalala – Secretary of Health and Human Services
Charlene Barshefsky – US Trade Representative
Lloyd Bentsen (deceased past member – no longer listed)
Richard Holbrook – United States Ambassador to the United Nations (Bilderberg Group)
George Stephanopoulos – White House Director of Communications, Senior Adviser to the President (now major media pundit)
Sidney Blumenthal – Senior Adviser to the President
Rahm Emanuel – Senior Adviser to the President (not listed as CFR member, but his brother, Ezekiel Jonathan “Zeke”, is a member) (later Mayor of Chicago where Barack Obama was from)
Cecilia Rouse – National Economic Council 1998 to 1999
Zoë Baird – CFR Staff bio – nominated by President Bill Clinton as the first woman to be Attorney General of the United States, but she withdrew her nomination over “nannygate”
Bobby Inman – nominated by President Bill Clinton for Secretary of Defense, but he withdrew from consideration
Stephen Gerald Breyer – US Supreme Court Justice nominated
Buchanan stayed loyal to his old school mate R Spencer Oliver and his buddies in the CIA-sponsored American Council of Young Political Leaders like Maxie Wells mentor Hodding Carter.
"Chris Whipple, who wrote a book about WH chiefs of staff, said Klain ranks among 'the best chiefs in recent history,' putting him in the same category as James Baker, for Ronald Reagan, and Leon Panetta, who held the job under Bill Clinton."
"By 1971, Nixon's staff were receiving a cursory intelligence report from Haldeman's assistant, Gordon C. Strachan; Strachan's reports essentially collated information about political rallies and campaign groups that had already been gathered by the police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Nixon's initial re-election bid had already involved planting rumors and false information about his opponents as a dedicated strategy; these tactics had been dubbed "political hardball" by Nixon's opposition researcher, Pat Buchanan."
You mean you're a real person who can have a real conversation instead of just ChatGPT-like bot? In the same post you said it was a cover, then you use slash between their names like they're the same person, followed by a similar pattern using parentheticals. Moynihan & McMahon - 100% two separate people, and both extensively knew who the other person was, who they worked for, etc. Zero evidence either was deep throat, let alone both being deep throat. I'm still not convinced you're not a bot.
Operation Mockingbird......CIA the Gatekeeper of the media.
See Senate Report 94-755: The Church Committee was the United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities.
The CIA began a secret project called Operation Mockingbird, with the intent of buying influence behind the scenes at major media outlets and putting reporters on the CIA payroll, which has proven to be a stunning ongoing success.
The CIA effort to recruit American news organizations and journalists to become spies and disseminators of propaganda, was headed up by Frank Wisner, Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, and Philip Graham (publisher of The Washington Post). Wisner had taken Graham under his wing to direct the program code-named Operation Mockingbird and both have presumably committed suicide.
CIA Media assets will eventually include ABC, NBC, CBS, Time, Newsweek, Associated Press, United Press International (UPI), Reuters, Hearst Newspapers, Scripps-Howard, Copley News Service, etc. and 400 journalists, who have secretly carried out assignments according to documents on file at CIA headquarters, from intelligence-gathering to serving as go-betweens.
Operation Mockingbird Still At Play - New Report Shows Spy Agencies Still Control Media Content And Allowed To Disseminate Fake News Without Verification Or
I see Epstein on the Upper East Side from time to time out on the sidewalk or in the subway, someday I will get the balls to say hello, I don't like to disturb.
Ask him why his account of of his 1986 LIFE magazine piece on Yurchenko, as posted on his website, is so different from what LIFE put out on newsstands. (No mention of McMahon in the latter.)
Note however that as this page is "blowing up" according to RS, I expect cover denials are being frantically prepared as we type. And, difficult for many, even those wishing to do so, to turn around and say the history they offered then was a lie. To say nothing of their security clearance agreements. Those who know CANNOT say. Highest classification. "Nuclear" secrets.
Ben Wickham. a CIA station chief in Managua ‘82-84 who was enmeshed in this and quit the CIA to work w Oliver North has quite a background with involvement in things like Watergate, Iran w Helms, aide to Casey and Iran-Contra and even the 2016 campaign. His wife Julie Schlessinger was a secretary to DNC chair Lawrence O’Brien 1970-73 and was named as a member,of the DNC call-girl ring by Philip Mackin Bailley in interviews w Phil Stanford and Len Colodny and probably Jim Hougan.
"So, trapped in Roosevelt House, I sat in the garden with Pat, and, over a few beers, had a discussion about the evolution of drug policy under Nixon. Pat said that when he joined the Nixon's Administration in 1969, "the country was mesmerized with urban riots and street crime. They [Ehrlichman and Halderman] were also talking about a heroin epidemic they thought was about to explode. So they sent me to Turkey and France to look into the supply route. I came back and told Nixon we could temporarily disrupt the supply. I was surprised an anyone when they turned my suggestion into the war on heroin."
Moynihan suggested that the White House take a more direct role in the treaty negotiations in Turkey, even if it meant recalling the ambassador. "The next thing I know people in the White House were threatening Turkey."
He said he was now getting telegrams from "the boy scouts in the White House" telling him shut down the production of opium in India. "Its idiotic," he explained. Although India was the world's largest producer of opium, it went to pharmaceutical companies to manufacture codeine. Codeine was an anti tussac. "If they shut down Indian opium, they are going to cause a global coughing crises."
Matt Cloud, Hurry up and open your Substack please, you have the best take I have read since Ed Epstein.
Any takers on why Bob Strauss dropped the DNC suit against Nixon, "even though the depositions in it were a main source — perhaps the single best source — of news about the scandal at the time," according to Sussman.
Note Strauss took over DNC after Watergate; as Connelly's man, had organized Dallas trip in '63.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?179007-1/kennedy-assassination-40th-anniversary
@2:09:40 and 2:15:40
Strauss discussing Trade Mart security arrangements.
Maybe Strauss knew fellow Texan James McCord or Lou Russell when they were FBI agents in the 1940s. Interesting that Bob Strauss
memoir The Man to See was originally going to be ghost-written by Peter Ross Range, who was a roommate of Maxie Wells at the time of the Watergate break-ins. Range helped arrange Jimmy Carter’s October 1976 Playboy interview.
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/%28est%20pub%20date%29%20cia%20invest%5B15132508%5D.pdf
see p. 11 re Robert Bennett of Mullen & Co. having E.B. Williams "kill off" revelations of Agency affiliation in the DNC lawsuit.
Bob Strauss knew football scout and businessman George Owen, the first husband of Maureen Dean. Maureen was a stewardess for American Airlines and worked the Dallas to Phoenix run. “Mo” had a rich boyfriend in Arizona for a time. Strauss owned at least one radio station in Arizona as part of his Strauss Broadcasting network. In a very interesting interview w Len Colodny, George Owen casually referred to Strauss and Cowboys owner Clint Murchison wrt to Owen’s ties to mystery lady Maureen Dean that surfaced in a Maxine Cheshire column. In the interview w Colodny, Owen refers to lobbyist/fixer/bagman Irv Davidson in a scheme to influence John Dean wrt to the Jimmy Hoffa pardon.
The Sandinistas linked Wickham and Murchinson directly to the CIA
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1986-03-14-8601160382-story.html
https://twitter.com/JohnWDean/status/1617020913920376833
John W. Dean
@JohnWDean
WRONG!! Trucker has absolutely no idea of what he is talking about! He is playing way out of his league!
The evidence is overwhelming that Dean ordered the break-ins, launched the coverup, destroyed and manufactured evidence, paid off Hunt and Lou Russell, used Heidi and her girls to get political dirt etc, As early as July 7, 1972 in a NYT Tad Szulc piece, Howard Hunt requested assistance from Dean. Somehow nobody picked up on that item. The funds embezzled from the WH polling fund matched payments to Lou Russell who was then living high and wide w Heidi Rikan in a Nesline owned Penthouse. Recently I came across an oral history by WH Fellow David Miller:
***
Q: Today is February 3, 2003. In 1971 you had been with the Fellows Program in the White House. Whither?
MILLER: Well, there is a story as to why I went then. I was working half time for John Dean and half time as the director of the Fellows Program because they didn't really need me
to do that full-time. I had known John at the Justice Department before he moved over
to be White House Counsel. The seminal event in my departure from the White House came when John Dean asked me if I would set up a safe house here in Washington for
the use of the President. I asked John why we needed to do that. He said, “Well, the President might have meetings with people that would be completely off the record and so on,” which seemed understandable. Then I said, “Well, you know, the CIA does this for a living. There is no reason to have me involved in anything like this.” John said, “Well, the President doesn't want the CIA involved. He wants this to be a completely covert White House operation.” I knew at that point that I was going to have to leave.
It is obvious, like so much of what Dean did, that he invoked Nixon or the name of a superior to get somebody to do his dirty work. This incident w Miller was right around the time Dean ordered Tony Ulasiwicz to case the DNC and shortly after he met with Liddy to develop an Intel plan. Dean was likely the figure who got the NY bachelor pad safe house established as mentioned in various accounts. And the Xaviera Hollander scandal erupted around that time.
http://www.loc.gov/item/mfdipbib001416
We had Connelly running Democrats for Nixon in 72 and Strauss, a Connelly man, atop the DNC ...
And US Ambassador to USSR at end of Soviet Union, when files were leaking over there ... (early 90s) ... Yakovlev accused of being CIA
You're closer than you may realize. And don't lose track of Bush here, either, who comes into WH as Moynihan leaves. Then the two of them are more or less intertwined frequently at UN, with Moynihan as DCI GHWB's executive assistant in '75-'76.
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP99-01448R000401580057-9.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwXOEFK6Swo @ approx minute 25:22
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp79m00467a002700060016-0
p. 10, 13, 21
Outstanding. McCord debriefed Powers as well.
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp88-01350r000200460018-5
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80-01601R000200190001-2.pdf
Circle here of McMahon, McCord, William Cotter ...
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp75-00001r000400130017-2
William Cotter married Virginia Alicia McMahon, a cryptanalyst at Arlington Hall (VENONA), 1949. Spousal immunity? Did Soviets know we had broken their code BEFORE so far publicly acknowledged? I.e. NOT from Weisband but from McMahon/Cotter? IMPORTANT. (Would explain need for mail opening program from '51-'73.
https://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/11/obituaries/william-cotter-74-ex-official-in-cia-and-postal-service-dies.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1949/09/04/archives/virginia-mmah___-on-bride-married-to-william-j-cotter-department-of.html
Shils called for a “functional secrecy” that would protect the society from “genuine external danger.”[9] What he feared was secrecy that was not functional but symbolic.
[P]art of the war of fantasy which the pure and good conduct incessantly with corruption and evil until the Last Judgment. The secrecy demanded by ideological extremism in the United States and in Soviet Russia, in Soviet China and in the Soviet satellites is not connected with national security except by the occasion which crises provide for fanatics to focus their excited fantasies.[10]
What Shils did not know, something none of us knew until John M. Deutch in his role as Director of Central Intelligence and a member of the Secrecy Commission made the archive public, was that the United States had by then intercepted and decrypted the text of Soviet cables going back to World War II: the VENONA project. The first such cable was broken by Meredith Gardener in a requisitioned girls’ school, Arlington Hall, not far from the Pentagon on December 20, 1946. It contained a list of the principal scientists at Los Alamos. Looking over Gardner’s shoulder was one William W. Weisband, an Army corporal, a cipher clerk, a spy. By the time Shils published (1956) the United States military and law enforcement agencies knew all about the Soviet attack, or all that they needed to know, and had pretty much rolled up the entire operation.
https://politicalanthro.wordpress.com/the-science-of-secrecy-daniel-patrick-moynihan/
...because the dems used the office to buy hookers and order mob hits? I thought EVERYONE knew that as we in the JBS do.
Presidential Records Act/Archives/NARA.
https://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2017/nr17-14
Press Release ·
Monday, December 5, 2016
"Before joining the Department of Justice in November 2000, he served as Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s legislative assistant for foreign affairs and intelligence matters and as his last legislative director. He co-drafted the legislation that established the Public Interest Declassification Board."
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/open-datatransparency/2022/11/isoo-director-to-step-down-next-summer/
Nov. 3, 2022: "ISOO director to step down next summer."
When were those classified docs at Biden's found? Nov. 2?
Biden classified doc "discovery" has now served its purpose: to shut down enquiry into the Trump raid.
DOJ reserves right to not cooperate with certain House GOP requests
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/20/doj-gop-house-investigations-00078805
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/whatever-happened-to-the-trump-classified-documents-damage-assessment
"... We have come a long way from those days of frenzied speculation in August 2022 when the news was that the nation's intelligence mavens would conduct a "damage assessment" of the Mar-a-Lago situation. Now, with the benefit of months of experience and hindsight, we know...nothing."
Are we starting to connect?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/11/14/trump-motive-mar-a-lago-documents/
"The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand."
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp86b00885r000800990007-4
"FYI: Thought you and your source might be interested in the attached extract from John's open hearing. This was John's response to Biden that I mentioned. who walked into the hearing with John was Vicky Toensing, SSCI Counsel."
Seeing where this goes?
With Trump and Biden both trapped in secret document scandals, we're witnessing the self-destruction of the Secrecy system, like Hal9000 in Kubrick's 2001, conflicted by its programming instructions to process information accurately on the one hand and lie and cover-up on the other.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/biden-trump-classified-documents-moynihan/
Once you understand that Moynihan was Deep Throat and, more importantly, that he was John N. McMahon, you've unlocked the vault.
Surely this is some ChatGPT-like bot posting nonsense claiming Moynihan & McMahon are the same guy. Heck, you're not even using the term 'cut out' correctly.
https://substack.com/profile/124414478-ret
Historically they did not care who won the election since they controlled both parties(Rinos) from the top.
America is "ruled by a single political party:
The CFR has only 3000 members yet they control over three-quarters of the nation's wealth. The CFR runs the State Department and the CIA. The CFR has placed 100 CFR members in every Presidential Administration and cabinet since Woodrow Wilson.
The Council Of Foreign Relations has gained a virtual lock-hold on the U.S. government, regardless of which party is in office. No other organization comes close to boasting the kind of clout that the CFR members have held:
Eight presidents of the U.S.; seven vice presidents; 17 secretaries of state; 20 secretaries of war/defense; 18 secretaries of the Treasury; 15 directors of the CIA. And it has gone throughout the Cabinets, in seriatim — through Democrat and Republican administrations — with hundreds of deputy secretaries, assistant secretaries, etc.
https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/esp_sociopol_cfr.htm
https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_cfr_00.htm
They work together to misinform the President to act in the best interest of the CFR not the best interest of the American People. At least five Presidents (Eisenhower, Ford, Carter, Bush, and Clinton) have been members of the CFR. The CFR has packed every Supreme court with CFR insiders.
The CFR Group on the Biden Team :
Historically they did not care who one the election since they controlled both parties(Rinos) from the top.
Kamala Harris, Vice President (CFR through family; Harvard; DLA Piper; Uber through family)
Antony Blinken, Secretary of State (CFR member; Harvard and Columbia; WestExec)
Janet Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury (CFR member; Yale and Harvard; Brookings)
Lloyd Austin, Secretary of Defense (CFR member; WestExec; Raytheon)
Linda Thomas-Greenfield, UN Ambassador (CFR member; Albright Stonebridge)
Cecilia Rouse, Council of Economic Advisors (CFR director; Princeton; Rowe Price)
Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security (CFR member; Wilmer Hale)
Jake Sullivan, National Security Advisor (CFR author; Yale and O
Ron Klain, Chief of Staff (CFR through family; Harvard; O’MelvOxford; Carnegie)eny and Meyers)
John Kerry, Special Envoy for Climate (CFR member; Yale)
Susan Rice, Chief of Domestic Council (CFR member; Harvard, Oxford, and Stanford)
William J. Burns, Director of Central Intelligence (CFR member; Oxford; Carnegie)
Kurt M. Campbell, Indo-Pacific Tsar (CFR member; Harvard and Oxford; Asia Group)
Thomas Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture (CFR member; Dairy Export Council)
Gina Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce (CFR member; Oxford; Point Judith Capital)
Eric S. Lander, Director of Office of Science and Technology (CFR member; Harvard)
Jeffery Zients, Counselor to the President (CFR member; Cranemere)
https://monthlyreview.org/2021/05/01/the-council-on-foreign-relations-the-biden-team-and-key-policy-outcomes/
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Below is a list of the Council on Foreign Relations members in the last three Presidential administrations, including Cabinet members, advisers and nominations.
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President Barack Obama (Democrat)
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John Kerry – Secretary of State (Teresa Heinz Kerry wife of John Kerry is also CFR member)
Timothy Geithner – Secretary of Treasury
Jacob J (Jack) Lew – Secretary of Treasury
Robert Gates – Secretary of Defense
Chuck Hagel – Secretary of Defense (resigned)
Ashton Carter – Secretary of Defense
Tom Vilsack – Secretary of Agriculture
John Bryson – Secretary of Commerce
Penny Pritzker – Secretary of Commerce
Sylvia Burwell – Secretary of Health and Human Services
Ernest Moniz – Secretary of Energy
Janet Napolitano – CFR Staff bio – Secretary of Homeland Security
Jeh Charles Johnson – Secretary of Homeland Security
William Daley – Chief of Staff
Peter Orszag – Director of Office of Management and Budget
Susan Rice – Ambassador to the UN (prior member Trilateral Commission)
Michael Froman – US Trade Representative
Michael Chertoff – US Secretary of Homeland Security (Trilateral Commission member)
Thomas E. Donilon – National Security Adviser (Bilderberg Group)
Cecilia Rouse – Council of Economic Advisers
David Howell Petraeus – 4 star Army General, Director of the CIA 2011 – 2012 (resigned), Commander of United States Central Command 2008 – 2010, Commander of the International Security Assistance Force
Janet Louise Yellen – Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System nominated by Barack Obama
Paul A. Volcker – Chair of the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board, prior Chair of Federal Reserve – (member Trilateral Commission)
Henry Kissinger – Secretary of State for President Richard Nixon, adviser to every President since, and a close friend and adviser to Hillary Clinton.
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President George W Bush (Republican)
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Richard (Dick) Cheney – Vice President
Steve Preston – Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Henry Paulson – Secretary of the Treasury (and worked at Goldman Sachs Founders corporate member)
Robert Gates – Secretary of Defense
Mary Ann Peters – Secretary of Transportation
Condoleeza Rice – Secretary of State
Tommy G. Thompson – Secretary of Health and Human Services
Elaine L Chao – Secretary of Labor
Colin Powell – Secretary of State
Susan C. Schwab – US Trade Representative
Robert Zoellick – US Trade Representative (also Trilateral Commission) – been President of The World Bank, also a managing director of Goldman Sachs, steering committee Bilderberg Group (was a Deputy Secretary of State)
Michael Chertoff – US Secretary of Homeland Security (Trilateral Commission member)
Richard Holbrook – United States Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan (Bilderberg Group)
John Wolfowitz – United States Deputy Secretary of Defense (Bilderberg Group) – President The World Bank
Karen Parfitt Hughes – Councilor to the President
John Bolton – US Ambassador to the United Nations
Brent Scowcroft – United States National Security Advisor
Marc Alexander Thiessen – Speech writer for GWB
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President Bill Clinton (Democrat)
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Bill Clinton – President (current member 2016)
Chelsea Clinton – daughter (current member 2016)
Note: not listed as a member, speaks at meetings and called New York City branch “The Mothership”. Hillary Clinton – First Lady to President Clinton, Senator, ran for President twice
Lawrence Summers – Secretary of Treasury (also member Trilateral Commission)
Togo D. West – Secretary of Veteran Affairs
William B. Richardson – Secretary of Energy
William M. Daley – Secretary of Commerce
Madeleine Albright – Director Emerita CFR – Secretary of State (also member Trilateral Commission)
William Cohen – Secretary of Defense
Federico F. Peña – Secretary of Energy, Secretary of Transportation
Mickey Kantor – Secretary of Commerce, US Trade Representative
Daniel Glickman – Secretary of Agriculture
Robert Rubin – CFR staff bio – Secretary of the Treasury
William J. Perry – Secretary of Defense
Donna Shalala – Secretary of Health and Human Services
Charlene Barshefsky – US Trade Representative
Lloyd Bentsen (deceased past member – no longer listed)
Richard Holbrook – United States Ambassador to the United Nations (Bilderberg Group)
George Stephanopoulos – White House Director of Communications, Senior Adviser to the President (now major media pundit)
Sidney Blumenthal – Senior Adviser to the President
Rahm Emanuel – Senior Adviser to the President (not listed as CFR member, but his brother, Ezekiel Jonathan “Zeke”, is a member) (later Mayor of Chicago where Barack Obama was from)
Cecilia Rouse – National Economic Council 1998 to 1999
Zoë Baird – CFR Staff bio – nominated by President Bill Clinton as the first woman to be Attorney General of the United States, but she withdrew her nomination over “nannygate”
Bobby Inman – nominated by President Bill Clinton for Secretary of Defense, but he withdrew from consideration
Stephen Gerald Breyer – US Supreme Court Justice nominated
Vernon Jordan – Presidential adviser..
Links:..for each person found here.
http://www.rummagingglobalism.com/2017/01/19/cfr-members-in-past-presidential-administrations/
Elaborate.
cutout
noun
cut·out ˈkət-ˌau̇t
3
: an intermediary in a clandestine operation
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cutout
https://www.newsmax.com/us/pat-buchanan-columnist-retiring/2023/01/20/id/1105287/
Columnist Pat Buchanan Retiring
Buchanan stayed loyal to his old school mate R Spencer Oliver and his buddies in the CIA-sponsored American Council of Young Political Leaders like Maxie Wells mentor Hodding Carter.
"Chris Whipple, who wrote a book about WH chiefs of staff, said Klain ranks among 'the best chiefs in recent history,' putting him in the same category as James Baker, for Ronald Reagan, and Leon Panetta, who held the job under Bill Clinton."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/01/21/ron-klain-white-house-chief-staff-plans-step-down/
#PANICINDC
"By 1971, Nixon's staff were receiving a cursory intelligence report from Haldeman's assistant, Gordon C. Strachan; Strachan's reports essentially collated information about political rallies and campaign groups that had already been gathered by the police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Nixon's initial re-election bid had already involved planting rumors and false information about his opponents as a dedicated strategy; these tactics had been dubbed "political hardball" by Nixon's opposition researcher, Pat Buchanan."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sandwedge
You mean you're a real person who can have a real conversation instead of just ChatGPT-like bot? In the same post you said it was a cover, then you use slash between their names like they're the same person, followed by a similar pattern using parentheticals. Moynihan & McMahon - 100% two separate people, and both extensively knew who the other person was, who they worked for, etc. Zero evidence either was deep throat, let alone both being deep throat. I'm still not convinced you're not a bot.
Moynihan's marginalia:
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp81m00980r000600080073-8
The question why are you trusting the CIA?
Operation Mockingbird......CIA the Gatekeeper of the media.
See Senate Report 94-755: The Church Committee was the United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities.
The CIA began a secret project called Operation Mockingbird, with the intent of buying influence behind the scenes at major media outlets and putting reporters on the CIA payroll, which has proven to be a stunning ongoing success.
The CIA effort to recruit American news organizations and journalists to become spies and disseminators of propaganda, was headed up by Frank Wisner, Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, and Philip Graham (publisher of The Washington Post). Wisner had taken Graham under his wing to direct the program code-named Operation Mockingbird and both have presumably committed suicide.
CIA Media assets will eventually include ABC, NBC, CBS, Time, Newsweek, Associated Press, United Press International (UPI), Reuters, Hearst Newspapers, Scripps-Howard, Copley News Service, etc. and 400 journalists, who have secretly carried out assignments according to documents on file at CIA headquarters, from intelligence-gathering to serving as go-betweens.
Source links:
https://archive.org/details/finalreportofsel03unit/page/n3/mode/2up?view=theater
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird
https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/94755_I.
https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/94755_I
https://allnewspipeline.com/Operation_Mockingbird_Still_At_Play.php
Operation Mockingbird Still At Play - New Report Shows Spy Agencies Still Control Media Content And Allowed To Disseminate Fake News Without Verification Or
Confirmation.
As I said to that other troll on here: ask direct questions and you will get direct answers.
Folks, don't feed the bots.
Thank you. I'm trying. Epstein and I had the same tutor.
https://www.nytimes.com/1974/03/31/archives/daniel-moynihans-passage-to-india-he-didnt-realize-the-depths-of.html
Was your shared tutor John Taylor Gatto?
Get out!
I see Epstein on the Upper East Side from time to time out on the sidewalk or in the subway, someday I will get the balls to say hello, I don't like to disturb.
Ask him why his account of of his 1986 LIFE magazine piece on Yurchenko, as posted on his website, is so different from what LIFE put out on newsstands. (No mention of McMahon in the latter.)
https://www.edwardjayepstein.com/archived/spy2.htm
Just reread this link, I will! I will be on him like white on rice and get back to you!
Great job, I read all your posts here, just great work, thank you!
Note however that as this page is "blowing up" according to RS, I expect cover denials are being frantically prepared as we type. And, difficult for many, even those wishing to do so, to turn around and say the history they offered then was a lie. To say nothing of their security clearance agreements. Those who know CANNOT say. Highest classification. "Nuclear" secrets.
You might say there would be a lot of very pissed-off people, on all sides, at all levels.
Read: https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp90-00965r000201530005-9
Then compare:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1986/12/02/senate-panel-quizzes-ex-nsc-aides/4371eb62-070e-4f83-b31b-e294235bc9da/
Watch out for the "memory-holing."
Ben Wickham. a CIA station chief in Managua ‘82-84 who was enmeshed in this and quit the CIA to work w Oliver North has quite a background with involvement in things like Watergate, Iran w Helms, aide to Casey and Iran-Contra and even the 2016 campaign. His wife Julie Schlessinger was a secretary to DNC chair Lawrence O’Brien 1970-73 and was named as a member,of the DNC call-girl ring by Philip Mackin Bailley in interviews w Phil Stanford and Len Colodny and probably Jim Hougan.
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP91-00901R000100010001-8.pdf
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp90-00552r000404440043-0
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp90-00552r000201660041-3
Here's the newsstand version of the LIFE piece by Epstein on Yurchenko: https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP90-00965R000301860001-6.pdf
Thank you!
@Jwalk:
"So, trapped in Roosevelt House, I sat in the garden with Pat, and, over a few beers, had a discussion about the evolution of drug policy under Nixon. Pat said that when he joined the Nixon's Administration in 1969, "the country was mesmerized with urban riots and street crime. They [Ehrlichman and Halderman] were also talking about a heroin epidemic they thought was about to explode. So they sent me to Turkey and France to look into the supply route. I came back and told Nixon we could temporarily disrupt the supply. I was surprised an anyone when they turned my suggestion into the war on heroin."
Moynihan suggested that the White House take a more direct role in the treaty negotiations in Turkey, even if it meant recalling the ambassador. "The next thing I know people in the White House were threatening Turkey."
He said he was now getting telegrams from "the boy scouts in the White House" telling him shut down the production of opium in India. "Its idiotic," he explained. Although India was the world's largest producer of opium, it went to pharmaceutical companies to manufacture codeine. Codeine was an anti tussac. "If they shut down Indian opium, they are going to cause a global coughing crises."
https://www.edwardjayepstein.com/diary/moynihan.htm