The mystery of George Bush Sr. as a possible covert operator hinges on four points, each one of which represents one of the great political and espionage scandals of postwar American history. These four cardinal points are:

1. The abortive Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, launched on April 16-17, 1961, prepared with the assistance of the CIA's "Miami Station" (also known under the code name JM/WAVE). After the failure of the amphibious landings of Brigade 2506, Miami station, under the leadership of Theodore Shackley, became the focus for Operation Mongoose, a series of covert operations directed against Castro, Cuba, and possibly other targets.

2. The assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963, and the coverup of those responsible for this crime.

3. The Watergate scandal, beginning with an April, 1971 visit to Miami, Florida by E. Howard Hunt on the tenth anniversary of the Bay of Pigs invasion to recruit operatives for the White House Special Investigations Unit (the "Plumbers" and later Watergate burglars) from among Cuban-American Bay of Pigs veterans.

4. The Iran-contra affair, which became a public scandal during October-November 1986, several of whose central figures, such as Felix Rodriguez, were also veterans of the Bay of Pigs.

A CIA contract agent, George DeMohranschildt, brought Oswald from New Orleans to Dallas and arranged a job for him at the Texas School Book Depository. (p. 32) DeMohranschildt was a wealthy white Russian Oil man than living in Texas. He was found died in Florida just as he was about to be questioned by the House Select Committee on Assassination. After his death, his personal address book was found to contain an entry which stated, “ Bush George H. W. (Poppy) 1412 W. Ohio, (and) also Zapata Petroleum Midland”. The Top Secret codename for the bay of pigs operation, was Operation Zapata. (p. 332) DeMohranschildt had also at some time been charged by the FBI as being a Nazi spy during world war II.

Joseph McBride, wrote two articles in The Nation and disclosed that George Bush had been involved with the CIA before JFK has been assassinated. He examined an FBI memo dated Nov. 29, 1963 from Hoover to the State Department, subject: “Assassination of President John F. Kennedy November 22, 1963”. It stated that Oswald was in police custody and available for interrogation about his affiliation with agencies of the US government. Also was stated that FBI SA W. T. Forsyth and Captain William Edwards of the Defense Intelligence Agency briefed “Mr. George Bush of the CIA“. McBride states, “A source with close connections to the intelligence community confirms that Bush started working for the Agency in 1960 or 1961, using his oil business as a cover for clandestine operations. (p. 331)

Zapata Drilling, the offshore oil company owned by George Bush Sr., has been repeatedly alleged by researchers to have been a CIA front, used to support the Bay of Pigs invasion. This indicates Bush Sr. was working for the CIA, before he became the CIA director.

Source: Daniel Hopsicker is the author of Barry & 'the boys: The CIA, the Mob and America's Secret History.

The Top Secret codename for the bay of pigs operation, was Operation Zapata. Zapata Petroleum or Zapata Offshore was a Midland, TX oil company headed by George Bush Sr. There is a lot of evidence that Zapata Petrolleum was a CIA front company used to support the Bay of Pigs invasion.

Then there is the question of the Brigade 2506 (Bay of Pigs) landing fleet, which was composed of five older freighters bought or chartered from the Garcia Steamship Lines, bearing the names of Houston, Rio Esondido, Caribe, Atlantic, and Lake Charles. In addition to these vessels, which were outfitted as transport ships, there were two somewhat better armed fire support ships, the Blagar and the Barbara. (In some sources Barbara J.) 8 The Barbara was originally an LCI (Landing Craft Infantry) of earlier vintage. Our attention is attracted at once to the Barbara and the Houston, in the first case because we have seen George Bush's habit of naming his combat aircraft after his wife, and, in the second case, because Bush was at this time a resident, booster, and Republican activist of Houston, Texas. But of course, the appearance of names like "Zapata," Barbara, and Houston can by itself only arouse suspicion, and proves nothing.

After the embarrassing failure of the invasion, Kennedy fired Allen Dulles, his deputy Bissell, and CIA deputy Director Charles Cabell (whose brother was the mayor of Dallas at the time Kennedy was shot). www.tarpley.net/bush8b.htm

Chuck Giancana wrote a biography of his brother, Double Cross. His borther Sam Giancana murdered his way to become the leader of the Chicago mafia and the whole US mafia or "Outfit" as it is called by the gansters themselves. He writes that Joe Kennedy was not just some bootlegger who got lucky in legitimate hard drink business. He says Kennedy was a "made-man", a part of the Outfit, or a man who paid the Outfit a percentage of his profits for protection from the cops and help make the Outfit bosses rich.

He writes that Jack Kennedy was corrupt and was killed by both the CIA and the Outfit because, Bobby and Jack went against the Outfit after being helped greatly to get Jack elected. Jack Ruby was more than just a bar owner in Dallas. He ran the mafia in Texas for Sam Giancana, the head of the US mafia/outfit. Sam Giancana had expanded his control of the US mafia/outfit and of the world drug trafficking in South East Asia and Europe. The CIA had equipped members of Sam Giancana’s outfit with botulinium-toxin pills to attempt to kill Castro. (p. 332) Source: Plausible Denial by Mark Lane) He says the CIA and the mafia are one and the same. (Source: Double Cross by Chuck Giancana) .

President George W Bush Sr's nominee, Republican Porter J Goss, to head the nation's flagship intelligence agency also appears to be visible in a photograph taken in 1963 in a Mexico City nightclub of members of the CIA’s secret assassination squad known as Operation 40.

In the book Deadly Secrets, by authors Warren Hinkle and William Turner, they name Rafael 'Chi Chi' Quintero, Lois Posada Carriles, Felix Rodriguez and Frank Sturgis as members of Operation 40 , under the overall control of E. Howard Hunt.

See the photos and the rest of the story:

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In Nov. 1963, Marita Lorenz traveled with group of seven people; among them were Frank Sturgis , Jerry Patrick Hemming, Novis and Pedro Diaz Lanz from Miami to Dallas, TX. They traveled in two cars and were transporting machine guns, M-16 and M-1 rifles, and hand guns. Marita Lorenz states that after arriving in Dallas on Nov 21, 1963, she and Sturgis met with E. Howard Hunt and he gave Sturgis an envelope of cash for “some so-called operation that I did not know the its nature” . Later that day, Jack Ruby visited the motel room where they were staying. (page 297) Orlando Bosch and Alexander Rorke jr were also at this motel room. Lorenz was question by the FBI in Nov 1963, and she told them this information at that time.

Francisco Fiorini, former chief of security for the Cuban air force under Castro, aka Frank Sturgis and aka Hamilton, was a CIA contract agent and had work on Operation 40 (anti-Castro organizations) run by Hunt for the CIA. Sturgis stated that “while I was in Cuba, I was recruited by the CIA station chief in Santiago de Cuba, to spy for the US government”. (p. 293) He admitted under oath that he was involved in CIA attempts to assassinate Castro and the President of Guatemala. He had a leadership role in Operation 40. (p. 3) Source: Plausible Denial by Mark Lane)
George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography
CHAPTER VIII-b - THE BAY OF PIGS AND THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION

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The covert-action, ENTERPRISE (operation BLACK EAGLE)

In 1972, with the coming fall of Saigon, Air America, as the group had come
to be known (complete with the cynical motto "We Fly Right") was officially
disbanded. But during their four years of existence, they had established
an important precedent. They had used an existing criminal infrastructure
to finance intelligence community operations that they never would have
received funding for had they gone through standard appropriations
channels, thus subverting the will of Congress and the American people.

Even after Ted Shackley was brought back to the United States to run the
western hemisphere operations of the CIA, his agents were still extorting
millions of dollars from Vang Pao and transferring it to a bank in
Australia called the Nugun Hand Bank. They also began to pilfer tons of
military equipment from depots around Asia and transfer it to a secret base
in Thailand. One of the men who flew the military hardware into Thailand
and made the odd smuggling run for Vang Pao was Adler Berrimen a.k.a. Berry
Seal.

In 1975 George Bush Sr. became director of the CIA and Ted Shackley receivedyet another promotion, this time to Deputy Director of Intelligence incharge of world wide covert operations. This was a major step towards the directorship of the CIA, which Shackley would have received had Ford won the election. www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ciadrugs/W_plane.html

October 5, 1999 | Newly released U.S. government documents reveal that George Bush's Sr. CIA knew more about Chile's role in an international assassination ring, code-named Condor, than Bush and the agency disclosed to FBI agents investigating a Condor terrorist bombing in Washington, D.C., in 1976.

The records show U.S. intelligence was well aware that Pinochet's government in Chile had organized seven South American military dictatorships into Operation Condor, a cross-border assassination ring to hunt down leftists. But instead of sharing that information with federal criminal investigators, Bush's CIA withheld it -- and even diverted suspicion away from Pinochet's junta.

www.globalpolicy.org/intljustice/general/2001/07condor.htm

In 1983, Vice President George Bush put the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency
(DEA) operations under the control of the "national security" apparatus. In
June 1983, the DEA office in Honduras was shut down.

After 1984, the contra operation was overseen by Donald Gregg, a long-time
CIA official who was reassigned to be top aide of Vice President George
Bush.

In 1984, the Enterprise was reorganized, and Noriega's contra-drug
operations shifted northward from Panama to Costa Rica, Honduras and El
Salvador. Between October 1984 and June 1985, the gun-for-drugs operation
run by Floyd Carlton alone moved at least four tons of cocaine through
northern Costa Rica.[1]
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Later, in 1991 trial testimony, the CIA and U.S. Army admitted paying
Noriega $322,336 since 1955. This is a very low estimate. Others report
that then-CIA director George Bush started paying Noriega $100,000 a year
in 1976.[4] During the '80s, Noriega deposited at least $33 million at the
Panama City branch of the BCCI bank. Some of these funds were being
laundered for the contras, others were Noriega's payoffs for the operations
passing through his territory.

Jackons Stephens (see below) was a financial angel to both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. He gave final impetus to Clinton’s cash-strapped presidential campaign with a large “loan” from his Worthen bank. Stephens (along with the Harvard University endowment) rescued one of Bush Jr's companies from bankruptcy with sizeable investments.

Another scandal suppressed by the “watchdogs of the press” was the cocaine smuggling aspects of the Iran/Contra affair. In return for arms smuggled to the Contras in Nicaragua, cocaine was being brought back to the U.S. and dropped off at a small airport at Mena, Arkansas. Pilot Barry Seal, a CIA asset and drug runner, was also dropping bales of cash in Mena. The drug money was laundered (among other channels) through Stephen’s Worthen bank and an Arkansas state agency set up by Governor Bill Clinton (the Arkansas Development Finance Authority). Overseer of the Iran/Contra operation was then Vice-President George H.W. Bush, as later proved with a memo from Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger.
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In 1986 that the board of Harvard Management, a subsidiary established by the university to manage its endowment. Harvard Management was led by Robert G. Stone Jr. Stone was in the Texas oil business and knew the elder Bush. Harvard Management directed that the endowment invest some 5 percent of its $5 billion in assets in private oil and gas companies.
Harken Energy in 1990, was the seventh-largest stock holding in Harvard's portfolio, about $50 million, bigger even than the university's stake in Exxon Corp. In all, Harvard Management risked 1 percent of the university's endowment in the small, struggling company, a surprisingly large bet by any measure, but particularly given Harken's dismal prospects.

Harvard bailed out Harken several times and poured millions into the company in 1989, 1990, and 1991, all while Bush's father was president and his son still a director of the firm.

In 1991 when Harvard University's prestigious endowment fund admitted it had just experienced its worst loss ever, of $92 million, in related to oil and gas investments, including ailing Harken.

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David Armstrong in the Observer, July 12, 1991, reported that Harken Oil Company “has direct links to institutions involved in drug smuggling, foreign currency manipulation, and the C.I.A.’s well-documented role in the destabilization of the Australian government. While it should be stressed that none of the players involved in Harken stand accused of any improper or illegal activity, the company’s association with these institutions raises serious questions.”

George W. used $600,000 from the Harken stock sale to buy a tiny slice of the Texas Rangers; and when the Rangers were sold last year for $250 million, the second-largest amount ever paid for a baseball team, George W. emerged with more than $14.9 million. What had made the ball club so valuable was a gift from the public — a $200 million stadium mostly paid for by a sales tax that the citizens of Arlington, Texas, had overwhelmingly voted to assume.

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Interesting footnote: I did a google search on "Robert G. Stone Jr"+"Jackson Stephens"+Harvard Management and got my own News and Views work show up on Google. And another one of my research articles I found during a hit on google. www.fourwinds10.com/news/01-business/C-corporate-fraud/2003/01C-05-17-03-news-views-you-dont-have-to-lose.html

FBI Director Robert Mueller, was the top honcho of the Justice Department's, Criminal Division, during the senior Bush's administration and was instrumental in suppressing and/or destroying evidence and scaring off and covering up about witnesses to protect the Bush Family connections with the Bank of Credit and Commerce International.(Source: New York Times, July 6, 2001, in a story by Neil A. Lewis). ----- FBI agents had wanted to check into two members of the bin Laden family, Abdullah and Omar (top Saudi Arabian royals), but were told to stay away by superiors -- until September 13, 2001. Less-than-happy FBI agents gave some 30 pages long, marked "SECRET" to reporters.

Report of this story won the California State University School of Journalism's Project Censored Award in 2002.

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Mary Jo White, Clinton-appointed U.S. Attorney for the southern district of New York. White was held over by George W. Bush long enough to deep six the investigation of Clinton’s pardon of Marc Rich. She also closed the investigation of Terry McAuliffe (who was on the verge of being indicted) in the Teamster/Democratic National Committee campaign money swap conspiracy.
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JACKSON STEPHENS, SR.

is a big-money man from Arkansas. A top donor to the Reagan and GEORGE H.W.BUSH campaigns, he suddenly switched to Clinton in 1990. He brought BCCI to US shores in 1979 and helped to launder cocaine profits from CIA drugsmuggling in Mena, Arkansas and elsewhere.

Mochtar Riady is the Indonesian billionaire who was a joint investor with
Little Rock billionaire Jackson Stephens in Worthen Bank

when an investor group that included Jackson Stephens took over First
American Bank in Washington, D.C.

Stephens, with the help of Bert Lance and others, brought in BCCI (Bank of
Credit and Commerce International) to wrest control of the bank from that
group, and to put it into the hands of friendlier partners.

The Stephens' software firm Systematics was to become the nation's biggest
supplier of back-office banking software, and would eventually work closely
with the National Security Agency to facilitate intelligence monitoring of
banking transactions.

Jackson Stephens, meanwhile, proposed, developed, and financed a plant for
hazardous waste facilities, called Waste Technology Inc., beginning in
1979. This project became a bottomless pit for the consumption of funds,
and at one point, the financially- strapped Stephens made a Faustian pact
with Indonesian Mochtar Riady to set up a money-laundering operation in
Arkansas. Stephens and Riady had previously formed Stephens Finance Ltd. inHong Kong in 1976.

Stephens bought 9.3 percent of Little Rock's Worthen bank from the John H.
Hendrix Corp. of Midland, Texas, while Lippo purchased 9.4 percent. Lippo
paid about $16 million for its share, and installed James Riady as a bank
director in 1984. Stephens-Lippo continued to increase their share of
Worthen stock, up to 36.7 percent.

over in Indonesia, the Riady family has stirred up consternation among the
minority shareholders in the Lippo Group by a planned restructuring that
would enable the family to extract cash to invest elsewhere. The deputy
chairman of Lippo Group is James Riady, a former director of Worthen Bank.

This propitious union came about just as the Mena, Arkansas, drug-and-arms
trade was creating a vast local demand for money-laundering services. At
the Asian end, with Mochtar Riady, Stephens purchased Seng Heng Bank in
Macao, the "Oriental Las Vegas", where gambling is the primary source of
government revenue. Stephens' Systematics supplied software to the Banco
Nacional Ultramarino, the cashier and treasury bank of the Macao government
and the bank that issues the local currency. (Macao is located less than 40
miles from Hong Kong, the center for heroin trade.)

Stephens Inc. one of the largest clearing firm for banks in the U.S. and
the nation's largest investment bank off Wall Street. It clears the
brokerage trades for around 200 banks--banks like Wells Fargo and First
Interstate Bancorp, which recently merged in California.

In 1994, Stephens Inc. was listed as one of the biggest institutional
shareholders in 30 large multinationals including the Arkansas based firms
Tyson Food (# 10), Wal-Mart (# 113) and Alltel (# 12).

After the news media began looking into the financial affairs of Jackson
Stephens, Stephens hired an international assassin, Pablo Vitale Rodriquez,
to kill the Angel of Death. When Pablo failed to do the job, Stephens then
teamed up with Don Tyson and Richard Mellon Scaife to purchase a $100,000
contract on the Angel of Death from the New Orleans mafia. The New Orleans
mafia gave the contract to two ex-CIA wet boys. Unfortunately, these two
men showed up one morning, wrapped in barbed wire and very dead, on Jackson
Stephens' lawn. Stephens had the bodies removed, but one of them was
subsequently recovered, having been stuffed down a capped oil well in
Louisiana.
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GETTING THE DOPE ON BUSH

Former CIA operative Terry Reed had worked closely with the late Barry Seal, a notorious drug smuggling pilot who also worked for the CIA. In his book "Compromised," written with veteran journalist John Cummings, Reed describes a conversation he had with Seal about his "insurance," i.e. blackmail, in case the Bush Family Crime Syndicate would try to double-cross him.

"Ever hear the old expression, it's not what ya know, it's who ya know? Well, whoever said that just hadn't caught the Vice President's [George Bush's] kids in the dope business, 'cause I can tell ya for sure what ya know can definitely be more important than who ya know," bragged Seal to his buddy.

Reed was incredulous. "... Barry, are you telling me George Bush's kids are in the drug business?" he asked.

"Yup, that's what I'm tellin ya. A guy in Florida who flipped for the DEA has got the goods on the Bush boys. Now I heard this from a reliable source in Colombia, but I just sat on it then, waiting to use it as a trump card if I ever needed it. Well I need to use it now. I got names, dates, places, even got some tape recordings. I even got surveillance videos catchin' the Bush boys redhanded. I consider this stuff my insurance policy," said Seal.

"It makes me and the mole on the inside that's feeding the stuff to me invincible. Now this is real sensitive shit inside of U.S. Customs and DEA and those guys are pretty much under control. It's damage control as usual. But where it gets real interestin' is what the Republicans will do to the Democrats in order to ditty up the people who might use this information against Bush."

Hinting at a high-level Mob War between the Bush Family and the Clinton Cadre, Seal told Reed "he was on a secret mission by none other than the Agency [CIA] to sort of dirty up some people real close to the Governor [Clinton]."

"Now I had been working on this through Dan Lasater," continued Seal. "Now Dan's a good ol boy and all that, but he's gotta drug problem and he's got the balls to be stealin' from the Agency too."

Imagine stealing cocaine profits from the CIA.

When Reed questioned him about the duffel bag Seal had taken to Skeeter Ward, Seal said, "Let's don't call it cocaine. Let's call it neutralizing powder. Least that's the way the Bush family saw it. This is just one family warrin' against another just like the Mob."

Reed claims he found these revelations "disquieting." Seal tried to reassure him by saying, "Terry, I told ya when I met ya. I'm in transportation and I transport what the government wants transported. In this case, the Republicans ... the Bush family... wanted some stuff transported into Mena and into Arkansas that would end up in the noses of some very prominent Democrats." Seal was later assassinated.
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