22-01-2018, 05:10 PM
Quote:It would seem to me that if Textron did any of these deals, it would have been a financial and accounting-oriented deal and not any kind of use of influence to foment the Vietnam War. In fact, at least in 2001, such a plot would have been not even on the same planet as the ho-hum Textron management
James... I feel you underestimate what was the world's first conglomerate. TEXTRON was formed to attack the New England textile manufacturing industry... and did an amazing job.
It was after that when TEXTRON began buying up companies...
I suggest you look again at the key players...
Specifically the Sun Life Montreal/London connection and the entire Bank of Boston; Hancock/Prudential Life Insurance and the Cravath law firm connections.
JFK wanting to pull out of SE Asia meant the loss of BILLIONS to a group which had been on the attack for decades.
As for the BADDEST of the Wise Men... I'm going to agree with Cliff and say Harriman had more pull, more power and more of everything other than specific positional influence that McCloy enjoyed.
Bundy completes that circle IMO.
Ike's MIC was starting to be threatened by JFK. War was the single most profitable thing the MIC could engage within other than Drugs, which SE Asia also represented. (Just think Pepsi & Laos)
The Korean war was giving way and the US/CIA was losing it's reason for being there...
Enter TEXTRON, Cabell, McCloy, Glipatrick, Bundy, Harriman... Who benefitted the most from the years 1964 - 1972?
Once in a while you get shown the light
in the strangest of places if you look at it right..... R. Hunter
in the strangest of places if you look at it right..... R. Hunter