Operation Texas was an alleged undercover operation to relocate European JewstoTexas, USA, away from Nazi persecution, first reported in a 1989 Ph.D. dissertation by Louis Stanislaus Gomolak at the University of Texas at Austin titled Prologue: LBJ's foreign-affairs background, 1908-1948.[1] The following are some of the key arguments of the dissertation:
Various details of Gomolak's dissertation have been cited by other historians.[2][3][6] In 2008, Larry Ben David began an online campaign to collect documentation to submit to Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem to have LBJ awarded the title of Righteous Among the Nations, often referred to as a Righteous Gentile.[7]
Additional primary research on Operation Texas was done for a 1998 Houston Chronicle article[8] and a 2016 article on the aish.com website.[9]
More recently, many of the arguments of Gomolak's thesis have been disputed following extensive research by Claudia Wilson Anderson, an archivist at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum.[10][11] Although his research materials (e.g., written interview notes, interview recordings and primary documents not located in archives) could support his arguments, Gomolak has not made them available for external review.[11]
