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Johnson has also been a good friend of the C.I.A. In 1956
Johnson, as Majority leader of the Senate, brought tremendous
pressure against a bill sponspred by Mansfield and supported by
John F. Kenne dy to put the C.I.A. under surveillance. The defeat
of the bill owed much to the opposition of Johnson. In 1966
President Johnson again stood in strong opposition to efforts to
put the C.I.A. under surveillance.
The point is, if the purpose of the assassination was a
change in foreign policy, one need not regard Johnson as involved
He could be counted upon to behave subsequently in the "right" way
Powerful interests trust him. Extreme rightest and oil billionaire
H.L. Hunt claims, "I personally intervened to get Lyndon Johnson
to take the Vice Presidency. (Robert G. Sherrill, "H.L. Hunt,
Portrait of a Super-Patriot, The Nation; Feb. 24, 1964, p. 186.)
And I. Irving Davidson, influential Washington lobbyist
representing Latin American dictatorships, told Fulbright in
Congressional hearings:
and I wanted to do everything in my
power that a man like Lyndon would get the
Democratic nomination because I knew he under-
stood the threat of Communism in the Western
Hemisphere I F. Stone's Weekly, June
21, 1965)
In the same issue I.F. Stone informs us that Davidson worked
on behalf of the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua and was a Washing-
ton representative for the Murchison's of Texas, who have inter-
ests in Haiti and Nicaragua. What is interesting is that when
the Justice Department asked Davic son to register as an agent for
Joaquin Balaguer, he claimed he was working for the State Depart-
ment. He said he had been promised a house-cleaning in the Central
American section of the State Department to get rid of elements not
sufficientl; anti-communist. In 1966 he tried to get the Republicar
nomination for Nixon and the Democratic for Johnson. (Ibid) We
suppose ; that's really faith in the two party system;
-71- 71
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