The Real ‘X-File’ Revealed: It Was LBJ’s Secret Dossier On Nixon [View all]

[Galraedia]

Over the years, conspiracy theorists have speculated about the existence — and possible contents — of an X-File, also referred to as an X-Envelope. The name even became attached to a popular TV franchise which spawned numerous spin-offs into other media over the years. There has always been a curiosity about what the X-envelope actually was.

It has been revealed, thanks to Robert Parry of Consortium News, that the file was actually President Johnson’s dossier on Richard Nixon’s dirty tricks and subterfuge operations during the 1968 campaign. Consolidated by former national security adviser Walt W. Rostow, it detailed Nixon’s sabotage of the Vietnamese peace talks in order to undermine the campaign of Hubert Humphrey, his Democratic opponent.

In October of 1968, Johnson had secured favorable standing from the North Vietnamese, but the South Vietnamese suddenly became unreasonable. The X-File reveals that the President of South Vietnam, Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, placed into power by a military coup in 1964, was in talks with Alexander Sachs. Sachs was a Lehman Brothers board member and very close to the Nixon campaign.

Per Parry:

These investment bankers were colluding over how to make money with their inside knowledge of Nixon’s scheme to extend the Vietnam War. Such an image of these “masters of the universe” sitting around a table plotting financial strategies while a half million American soldiers were sitting in a war zone was a picture that even the harshest critics of Wall Street might find hard to envision.
Yet, that tip – about Nixon’s Wall Street friends discussing his apparent tip on the likely course of the Vietnam War – was the first clear indication that Johnson’s White House had that the sudden resistance from South Vietnamese President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu to Paris peace talks may have involved a collaboration with Nixon, the Republican candidate for president who feared progress toward peace could cost him the election.

Read more: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/09/23/the-x-file-revealed/