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    The exoneration of Lyndon Johnson?

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    Joan Mellen's book, Faustian Bargains: Lyndon Johnson and Mac Wallace in the Robber Baron Culture of Texas, is 360 pages in length.
     
    To me, the most instructive part of her book appears on page 14:
     
    "Max Wallace is a case in point, his history with Lyndon Johnon a window into Johnson's methods. Wallce's story is so intriguing because unlike other of Johnson's acolytes, it is difficult to prove what he did for Lyndon Johnson and what Lyndon Johnson in turn did for him. More than any other of Johnson's proteges and acolytes, Wallace's connection to him remains cloaked in secrecy."

    The Assassination, the CIA, Nixon and Ford

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    On 11/30/2023 at 10:58 PM, James DiEugenio said:

    The CIA brought down Nixon with an almost fiendishly clever plot that, as Doug  Caddy mentions, began with Hunt at the Mullen Company.  And with McCord at the CREEP.

    Jim Hougan brilliantly outlined how this was done, including the lies Hunt and McCord told to hide the fact that they did know each other in advance.

    From the information I know of, Nixon did not buy the official story on the JFK case.

    And I  find it interesting that two persons involved in the JFK case--Hunt and McCord-- ended up dropping the bomb on Nixon. In fact, Hougan begins his milestone book with a chapter called "Of Hunt and McCord."

    And the information is that they were both in Dallas on the day Kennedy was killed.

    The Senate Watergate Committee never requested that I appear before it in executive session or in public session.

    Had this happened what really happened in Watergate would have been revealed. It would have changed everything. 

    Jim Hougan never asked to interview me. By failing to do so, his book, Secret Agenda, missed the real story.

    Hougan has repeatedly attacked Government Confidential Informant Robert Merritt, claiming that he did interview him but found him to be an insignificant, low-level informant whose information was of little value. If this is true, why does the witness list of those who appeared before the Senate Watergate Committee contain Robert Merritt's name. He appeared twice in executive session.

    Merritt's key role in Watergate is detailed in the 2011 book, Watergate Exposed: How the President of the United States and the Watergate Burglars Were Set-up as told to me. It is further detailed in my 2018 autobiography, Being There: Eyewitness to History. Hougan missed the real story there also.

    Two weeks ago, Bob Woodward appeared on MSNBC and alluded to the book that I am writing, In the first Hour of Watergate. Woodward knows the real story of Watergate. 

    Watergate Exposed by Douglas Caddy, Robert Merritt - Ebook | Everand

     

    Being There: Eye Witness To History | San Francisco Book Review

     

     

     

     

    The Assassination, the CIA, Nixon and Ford

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    Jim Hougan in Secret Agenda on page 329 reproduced the infamous "Memorandum for the Record by Martin Lukoskie," whose opening sentence is "Subject: Meeting with Robert Foster Bennett and his Comments Concerning E. Howard Hunt, Douglas Caddy and the 'Watergate Five' Incident." 

    Bennett's statements in the interview were entirely self-serving. He repeatedly tried to throw Hunt and me under the bus. He asserted falsehoods again and again, stating at one time that the money for the Watergate operation "came from a 'RiGHTIST' group Caddy being 'far far right' and Hunt also 'conservative and far right.'"

    Bennett "related that he has now 'established a 'back door entry' to Edward Bennett Williams law firm which is representing the Democratic Party in its suit for damages resulting from the Watergate incident."

    Another CIA "Memorandum for the Depuy Director for plans by Eric Eisenstadt" reported that "Mr. Bennett said also that he had been feeding stories to Robert Woodward of the Washington Post with the understanding that there be no attribution to Bennett. Woodward is suitably grateful for the fine stories and by-lines which he gets and protects Bennett and the Mullen Company." 

    Here I need to note that one of the stories Bennett fed to Woodward was about me and contained many falsehoods. When I read it in the Washington Post I knew immediately that Bennett was the undisclosed source. The next day I received a letter from Bennett attempting to explain away how the article came to be written. He knew that I knew he was the article's actual source.

    Bennett was an evil piece of work. I only met the man once and for a brief time and yet he later used me in nefarious ways to advance his own personal and business interests. 

    The Bennett Mystery - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

    The Assassination, the CIA, Nixon and Ford

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    10 hours ago, James DiEugenio said:

    Doug is that the firm from where you ended up in court for Hunt, or were you in private practice then?

    Yes, I went to work for Gall, Lane, Powell and Kilcullen in 1971. It did only labor law work. It did not do criminal defense. Hunt awakened me with a phone call on June 17, 1972, at 3:05 AM, saying he was calling from his White House office and needed to see me immediately about an important matter. I told him to come ahead. I lived about a mile from the White House and as it turned out about a mile from Watergate.

    Hunt arrived at 3:40 AM and told me what had occurred at Watergate. I recognized immediately that the emerging scandal would pose a dire threat to Nixon's survival as president. I informed Hunt that we were a labor law firm and did no criminal defense. I said I needed to call a partner of the law firm to get guidance. The only partner that was in town that weekend was Robert Scott. I called him and told him what had happened. His immediate reaction was, "They must have been set up, they must have been set up." He then told me that he would telephone a criminal defense attorney he knew who would work with on the case and would also call his nephew, who I did not know. He called back about twenty minutes later and told me I would be working with Joseph Rafferty, who specialized in criminal defense. He told me where to meet Rafferty at 9 A.M. He also said that he had talked to his nephew.

    Robert Scott turned out to be a crucial figure in Watergate but was never interviewed by anyone. His shocking story has never been told publicly. It is among the revelations in my forthcoming book.

    The Assassination, the CIA, Nixon and Ford

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    4 hours ago, James DiEugenio said:

    Doug:

    I thought you were offered the company?

    Robert Mullen called Howard Hunt and me into his office in 1971 after he decided to retire and offered us ownership of the Mullen Company. Both Hant and I told him that we needed time to consider the offer before making a decision. Under the arrangement we would pay Mullen for the purchase of the company from the profits over the years. Then suddenly a few days later Mullen again called us into his office and told us he was selling the company to Robert Bennett, the son of Senator Bernett of Utah. The transfer took place a few days later. On that same day I accepted an offer to go to work as an associate attorney with the law firm of Gall, Lane, Powell and Kilcullen. The firm specialized in labor law. I only met Bennett once and that was on the day he took control of the company and I departed to the law firm. 

    In one of his autobiographies, Hunt wrote that Bennett was named an unindicted co-conspirator in Watergate for the key background role he played in the scandal. He was a CIA asset. Years later he was elected Senator from Utah. I have often wondered what the other 99 senators thought of him in their midst, a CIA asset who was an informer, hypocrite and opportunist. 

     

    The Assassination, the CIA, Nixon and Ford

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    On 12/1/2023 at 12:55 AM, James DiEugenio said:

    Dave:

    Nice to hear from you.

    I think what you are saying is essentially what Morley's thesis was in Scorpion's Dance.

    In retrospect it is incredible how well disguised the war was between the two.  I blame a lot of this on Woodward, Bernstein and Bradlee.

    Their stories had an inordinate  influence over Sam Ervin.  Which completely overshadowed the work being done by Howard Baker and Fred Thompson on the CIA angle.  And Thompson's book  At That Point in TIme was all but ignored. Another source that Hougan used was the Lucien Nedzi Report in the House.  And that was pretty much deep sixed also. Woodward and Bernstein and Bradlee created a huge whirlpool that simply sucked everything into it, including Robert Redford and Alan Pakula. And it was that film that pretty much placed an imprimatur on The Three Amigos version of the scandal.

    And to me that was the worst part. Helms must have been laughing his butt off.  After all he was getting reports about how Caddy's boss at the Mullen Company, Robert Bennett--a secret CIA asset-- was getting Woodward off the CIA angle and on to Nixon.

    Robert Bennett was never my boss at the Mullen Company. I was never an employee of the Mullen Company. I worked for General Foods Corporation that transferred me to Washington in 1969 where I was to have an office inside the Mullen Company to represent General Foods, which was a client of the Mullen Company. My departure from General Foods/Mullen Company to join a law firm came on the same day that Bennett became president of the Mullen Company. That was the only time that I had any contact with him.

    MAINSTREAM COOLER - For those who believe mainstream contemporary facts.

    in Water Coolers

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    1 minute ago, Steve Thomas said:

    There is much wailing and gnashing of teeth tonight among the Maga crazies in the House.

    "Oh woe is us! We've been betrayed and stabbed in the back by our fellow spineless Republicans, the dirty low-down jelleyfish scoundrels!"

    Donald Trump wanted to keep this guy.

    Not only was Geprge Satos repudiated. The entire Republican House Leadership was repudiated. Johnson, Scalise, Stefanik and Emmer all voted not to expel Santos. Over 100 Republicans said, 'We don't care what you want. We're going to go our own way."

    The Leadership has lost control of its Conference. Chaos reigns in the House of Representatives tonight.

    Steve Thomas

    Wow! Quite an interesting development.

    MAINSTREAM COOLER - For those who believe mainstream contemporary facts.

    in Water Coolers

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    13 hours ago, W. Niederhut said:

           What a strange story, indeed -- especially since Shin Bet and the Mossad have such sterling reputations.

           It reminds me of those pre-9/11 intelligence reports given to Condoleezza Rice and the Bush-Cheney administration about, "Osama Bin Laden" and "Al Qaeda" planning to attack the U.S. with hijacked airplanes.

           We also know, from Sibel Edmonds' work, that Louis Freeh's FBI buried pre-9/11 FBI warnings about Muslims taking flying lessons in the U.S. -- almost as if the Bush-Cheney FBI was deliberately concealing legend formations for a false flag op involving nefarious Muslim "hijackers."

           (At the time, the CIA and U.S. military already had the Raytheon technology to remotely-pilot Boeing jetliners without Muslim pilots.)

           

         

    You are right-on in recalling these past suspicious events.

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