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.
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:
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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.
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/