Lyndon Johnson was extremely close friends with the owners of Newsweek and Saturday Evening Post which in 1967 helped to smash the Jim Garrison investigation into the JFK Assassination into little pieces

 

Lyndon Johnson was extremely close friends with the owners and executives of both Newsweek and the Saturday Evening Post. Both magazines worked to smash the Jim Garrison investigation into little pieces in spring and summer of 1967

 

Two reporters in 1967 who did their very best to bash in the brains of the Jim Garrison investigation into the JFK assassination were Hugh Aynesworth who worked for Newsweek and James Phelan who worked for the Saturday Evening Post. Hugh Aynesworth and James Phelan were both working with the Johnson Administration to smash the Jim Garrison investigation into little pieces.

 Hugh Aynesworth had personally been to LBJ’s home during the Cuban Missile Crisis to brief LBJ on Cuban Affairs because Aynesworth had just gotten back from personally visiting Fidel Castro in 1962. In fact, LBJ was in his pajamas when Aynesworth briefed/interviewed Lyndon Johnson at that time.

 Lyndon Johnson was very close friends with Katherine Graham who owned both the Washington Post and the widely nationally distributed Newsweek. 

Lyndon Johnson was also extremely close friends with Richard Berlin, the CEO of the Hearst Corporation which owned the Saturday Evening Post. One of LBJ’s closest friends and most prominent NY fundraisers was Ed Weisl, who was the counsel for Hearst Corportation.

 The Saturday Evening Post was a Hearst paper. The corporate counsel for the Hearst Organization was ED WEISL, one of Lyndon Johnson's absolute closest friends and biggest fundraiser in the Wall Street/NYC/Jewish community for LBJ. LBJ and Ed Weisl were friends since the 1930s when LBJ was a newly elected Congressman. When I toured the LBJ Ranch there was a framed letter on the wall from Ed Weisl saying to LBJ that his friendship with LBJ was his most cherished possession. 

Another Ed Weisl letter boasting of his friendship with Lyndon Johnson

https://www.historyforsale.com/edwin-l-weisl-typed-letter-signed-01-07-1964-co-signed-by-louis-sobol/dc76322 

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Typed Letter signed: "Ed", 1 page, 8½x11. New York, N.Y., 1964 January 4. On letterhead of the Simpson Thatcher and Bartlett (law firm) to Louis Sobol, New York Journal American, New York, N. Y. In full: "I very much appreciate the warm and gracious paragraph you wrote about me and my friendship with the President. Your reference to our mutual departed friend, Bill Curley, recalled many happy memories. Incidentally, when Lyndon Johnson was a Congressman he had dinner with Bill Curley, Alice and myself on many occasions. Bill Curley always liked him. As you perhaps know, President Johnson is also a warm friend of Dick Berlin. With love to Peggy and yourself from us all, and wishing you every blessing for the New Year, I am, Sincerely". Ink note in upper left corner: "File/LS". Edwin L. Wiesl, Sr. (1897-1972), a lawyer and longtime executive of Paramount Pictures (1938-1961), was indeed a long standing friend of Lyndon Johnson. Johnson arranged Wiesl's selection as Democratic National Committeeman from New York State (without consulting the State's Democratic Senator, Robert Kennedy). Louis Sobol (1896-1986) wrote a gossip-oriented entertainment column for 40 years, initially focused on the Broadway stage but also covering film and TV personalities,for the New York Journal American. William "Bill" Curley had been Sobol's editor at the Journal American, while Richard "Dick" Berlin was longtime board chairman of the Hearst newspaper chain. Multiple mailing folds. Fine condition.

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https://www.c-span.org/person/?richardberlin 

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On the C-SPAN Networks:
Richard E. Berlin was a President and CEO for the Hearst Corporation with one video in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1967 Compiled Program.

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LBJ pal Ed Weisl mentions this in his January, 1964 letter to Louis Sobol

 

https://www.historyforsale.com/edwin-l-weisl-typed-letter-signed-01-07-1964-co-signed-by-louis-sobol/dc76322 

 

Now do you know WHY the Hearst Corporation had a sharp dagger pointed at the heart of the Jim Garrison investigation? It is coming from not merely CIA, FBI but also Lyndon Johnson personally.

https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/secret-white-house-tapes/conversation-richard-berlin-november-4-1967 

 

I should also point out to you that Newsweek in the 1960s was owned by the WASHINGTON POST and Katherine Graham was also a VERY CLOSE FRIEND of Lyndon Johnson. Phil Graham (later death by suicide) was the one at the 1960 Democratic convention who was demanding that JFK put LBJ on the 1960 Democratic presidential ticket. Phil Graham was literally in LBJ’s suite at the Biltmore Hotel was was telling him what to do. 

 

https://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/cia_garrison.htm

 

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Journalistic Spooks?

There was Texas newsman and "CIA lackey"⁽²³⁾ Hugh Aynesworth, who had reportedly "volunteered his services" to the CIA in 1962, and even "expressed interest in employment with the Agency" (Bill Davy's emphasis);⁽²⁴⁾ and who repeatedly inserted himself into the events unfolding in New Orleans.

Then there was "CIA-White House lackey"⁽²⁵⁾ James Phelan, the Saturday Evening Post writer who caused the DA and his men such headaches. "Phelan even went so far," Bill Davy writes, as to submit NODA documents, supplied to him by Garrison himself, to the FBI. "But the FBI was not the first to see the documents," Davy asserts. "CIA cutout Robert Maheu was the first person Phelan called, ostensibly to see if Maheu could Xerox the documents for him."⁽²⁶⁾

And no list of CIA Garrison saboteurs is complete without Walter Sheridan, the point man for NBC's in-depth examination of the District Attorney's case, which culminated in the White Paper broadcast of June 1967. The DA relates in his Playboy interview that, according to star prosecution witness Perry Russo, Sheridan had threatened "that both NBC and the CIA were out to scuttle my case" and to "destroy Garrison."

Earlier in his remarkable career, Sheridan had logged time as an FBI agent, a member of RFK's infamous "Get Hoffa" squad in the Justice Department, an employee of the ultra-secret National Security Agency,⁽²⁷⁾ and reportedly had connections to the CIA⁽²⁸⁾ and Office of Naval Intelligence.⁽²⁹⁾ As Jim DiEugenio sums it up, "Sheridan's ties to the intelligence community . . . were wide, deep, and complex,"⁽³⁰⁾ including an alleged stint as "liaison" to a private detective agency ostensibly "owned lock, stock, and barrel by the CIA."⁽³¹⁾

Although numerous journalists have been accused by Garrison and his followers of unholy alliances with the CIA, the above-mentioned trio has often been singled out for special attention. DiEugenio blames the media's "almost universal negative view of [Garrison's] inquiry" on "people like James Phelan, Hugh Aynesworth, and Walter Sheridan," who, "contrary to their public pronouncements . . . were working with the government: Phelan with the FBI, Sheridan with the CIA, and Aynesworth with both.

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Hugh Aynesworth: https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKaynesworth.htm

 

James Phelan - https://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/1664-mcadams-on-garrison/

 

Jim DiEugenio on James Phelan - https://kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/james-phelan

James Phelan and Clay Shaw - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Journalist_James_Phelan_and_Clay_Shaw.jpg

 Saturday Evening Post - CEO Richard Berlin, pal of LBJ   ---- James Phelan 

Newsweek - owned by the Washington Post’s Katherine Graham, pal of LBJ  --- Hugh Aynesworth

 Get the drift?