JUNIOR LOUSE WANTS ALL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000100320001-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 17, 2013
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: November 15, 1967
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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The President's Commission on Civil
Disorders, Senator Eastland's Judi-
ciary Committee and Senator Mc-
Clellan's Senate Permanent Investi-
S TAT
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IT'S
UNANIMOUS
gating Subcommittee have all declared that there is
no evidence of national conspiracy behind the riots in
137 cities. McClellan is still investigating with the
$150,000 that Congress gave him last August to
investigate the riots, and says he wants "to reach mean-
ingful conclusions." His conclusions can be better de-
termined after LBJ picks his next appointee to the
U.S. Supreme Court. Another vacancy is expected
very soon, and LBJ has let it be known that appoint-
ment to the high tribunal will go to the Southland.
Both Senators Eastland and McClellan have let their
good friend LBJ know that they would like to retire
on the Supreme Court.
FUNIOR LOUSE
WANTS ALL
Defense Secretary "Mack - the -
knife" McNamara has happily been
awarding juicy contracts to fa-
vored air cargo lines to haul sup-
plies to Vietnam, including Airlift International, Inc.
Columnist "Junior Louse" Jack Anderson owns 700
shares and was a director of Airlift International. In
1963, when Anderson was put on the board of directors,
haneed a block of shares and retained to do a publiein
relations job for the air line then known as Riddle AO'
line, the firm was on the brink of bankruptcy; at that
time the company reported revenues of $17.3 million
with a net loss of $1.3 million. In fiscal year ending
June 30, 1967, the company reported revenues of $69
million with net profit of 6.1 million for the year ?
double the profit of the previous year.
73% of the company's business is now government
contract work. Anderson was able to wangle some
lucrative ocean and air mail hauling contracts while
Drew Pearson's step-son, Tyler Abell, was Assistant
Postmaster General. Upon assuming the Presidency,
LBJ immediately appointed Abell to this high level
policy job as a personal favor to old Drew. Anderson
was already cultivating good contacts in the Postoffice
Department but the Presidential appointment of old
Drew's stepson made contracting simpler.
The Pearson-Anderson team have been champion
defenders of Bob McNamara. And Anderson's Air-
lift International has been lifting some fine contracts
at the Pentagon. On July 1, 1967, the Military Air
Command (MAC) signed a contract with Jack's firm
for $22.4 million for transporting personnel and cargo
to Vietnam. Already 56% of the firm's business was
with MAC.
But Junior Louse wants it all. Anderson has been
blasting the CIA for subsidizing Air America and Civil
Air Transport for hauling its cargo to Thailand, Laos
and Cambodia instead of awarding its contracts to Air-
lift International. What Anderson did not appreciate
was that General Charles P. Cabell, former Deputy
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Director of the CIA, was a director of the air line. Also,
the CIA-favored airlines had some good, strong Wall
Street connections that Anderson found hard to buck.
It was disclosed in the Bobby Baker investigation before
the Senate Rules Committee that Anderson had billed
?,\ Baker $16,000 for a chartered plane to transport a
group of Congressmen and Senators to Las Vegas to
attend a fund raising dinner for Senator Howard Can-
non (D-Nev) at the Sahara Club, where the drinks
were on the house at this notorious dasino owned by
gangster pals of Hank Greenspun and Anderson. The
Civil Aeronautics Board fined Airlift International the
minimum fine of $750 for hauling the free-loading Con-
gressional junketeering lawmakers at cut rate for Bobby
Baker. (Chartered rates are uniform to prevent unfair
competition.)
Airlift International, now operating on a global basis
since Anderson started promoting business, is currently
under investigation by the Securities and Exchange
Commission. Among other things, the SEC is trying
to find out who really holds controlling interest in Air-
lift International. At one time Anderson had a news-
paperman in West Virginia hold part of his stock hold-
ings for him. At that time Anderson feared that he
might be bounced out of the Capitol Press Gallery for,
conflict of interest since he was lobbying for an air line,
blasting a competitor and supposedly writing impartial
news stories and making purportedly objective news-
casts via radio and video tape.
Senator Tom Dodd (D-Conn) and other victims of
Anderson's "conflict-of-interests" allegations knew
about his own conflict-of-interests predicament but
ion j
were reluctant to have "Junior Louse" kicked out of
the Capitol Press Gallery.
FIERCE The long smouldering friction between
President Johnson and the Democratic
state Congressional and Senatorial com-
mittees is now coming to a crisis. LBJ is
keeping all the money collected by the Democratic Na-
tional committee and his President's $1,000 Clubs are
not divvying up funds with the hard-pressed Democrats 7
up for reelection next year. Previously, he used to toss
them a few dollars as a token of his good-will if they
"behaved themselves" and implicity obeyed his 'legis-
lative mandates.
LBJ apparently feels he needs all the money he can -
get for his upcoming '68 campaign. He has initiated
the biggest slush fund ever and he is not parting with
a dime.
Eight years ago, the National Committee and the
House and Senate campaign committees of the Demo-
cratic Party agreed the national committee would
handle all fund-raising.
Under the arrangement, the national was to supply
each congressional commitr with $10,000 a month
operating cash, plus lump sum payments totaling more? ?
than $500,000 a year to 60 candidates. But LW
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