08-04-2018, 04:04 PM
Jim DiEugenio Wrote:Well, there's another irony for you.
In more than one source, I have read that Sullivan was a member of the secret committee that LBJ put together in 1964 to begin planning for his expansion of the Vietnam War.
Did Kissinger hold him over for that reason? And is that how he knew about the oil?
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Good questions. He had a long history in Southeast Asia and was LBJ's ambassador to Laos.
William H. Sullivan's name comes up less often in deep politics discussions than the FBI's William C. Sullivan, who made Penn Jones's list after
supposedly being mistaken for a deer during hunting season. William H. died quietly a day before his ninety-first birthday and
is best known for being ambassador to Iran during the hostage crisis there.