Front Companies- like the one the cia setup to buy Titanium from the Ruskies to send to The Skunkworks for them to build the SR-71/A-12 Program ?
The Russkies had something we needed and the CIA etc all worked together to get it for the military.
I am sure that there were no Christmas cards (it was the 60’s then) with a few Franklins in them.
The Dems were in power, cooperating with their friends in the military.