George Bush:
World Class
Monster
“George Bush is a satanic,
sadistic, brutal monster.
Compared to George Bush, Adolf
Hitler was a true gentleman.”
- Michael Boren Williams, former
Campaign Manager for Senator Gary Hart and Bush murder attempt
victim
“For the record, if I had my
choice as to which one of the two (Clinton or Bush) represented the greater
evil, I would say George Bush - in the blink of an
eye....”
- Michael Ruppert, former LAPD
Narcotics detective
True evil does not develop in a vacuum.
Evil is arrogant. It has no conscience.
It is utterly self-serving. It hides from the light and will attack, even
destroy others to preserve its own demented delusions. It is an unrestrained
sociopath, wallowing in the murky darkness of its own psychosis while endlessly
rationalizing its terrible deeds. It infiltrates the weak-minded and subverts
the weak of character.
Evil... creates a world of
shadows - shadow play - shadow government. It lives by the lie.
“The Big Lie,” once thought
to be the exclusive purview of the Nazis, has become canonized in our form of
government. And it is growing more perverse—more insidious. Like the Nazis
before the fall of the Third Reich, we are a nation wallowing in the murky
darkness of our own psychosis.
I can think of no contemporary American
family more twisted and evil than the Bush dynasty.
The Bush family’s rapacious greed
and depravity can trace its lineage to New England’s Pierce family. Both
George Herbert Walker Bush and his wife Barbara Pierce (of Merrill, Lynch,
Pierce, Fenner and Smith), as was President Franklin Pierce, are descended from
this same family. Originally the powerful Percy family, they changed their name
to Pierce and quickly emigrated to America when Thomas Percy’s involvement
in the Gun Powder Plot to assassinate King James I was
revealed.[*]
Bush’s membership in the shadowy
Yale secret society of Skull and Bones (S&B) has likewise not been widely
reported. S&B is made up of members recruited exclusively from the ranks of
the wealthy Eastern
Establishment.[*]
As Hoover Institute professor Antony Sutton
writes in America’s Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order
of Skull and Bones:
“Those on the inside know it as
The Order. Others have known it for more than 150 years as Chapter 322 of a
German secret society. More formally for legal purposes, The Order was
incorporated as The Russell Trust in 1856. It was also known as the Brotherhood
of Death....”[1]
Many historians claim that S&B
sprung up as a direct extension of America’s oldest Greek-letter college
secret society, Phi Beta Kappa. As Sutton writes:
“The Order is not just another
campus Greek letter fraternal society with passwords and handgrips, common to
most campuses.... Chapter 322 is a secret society whose members are sworn to
silence. It only exists on the Yale campus. It has rules. It has ceremonial
rites. It is not at all happy with prying probing citizens.... Above all the
Order is powerful, unbelievably
powerful....”[2]
S&B members occupy key positions in
commerce, media, diplomacy, education, espionage, finance, law and
politics—having a profound impact on world events. As Sutton
adds:
“Among academic associations, the
American Historical Association, the American Economic Association, the American
Chemical Society and the American Psychological Association were all started by
members of the Order or persons close to the Order.... These are key
associations for the conditioning of society.... The phenomenon of The Order as
the first on the scene is found especially among
foundations.”[3]
Regarding the Order’s influence on
historical events as portrayed by the media, Sutton notes
that...
“...During the past one hundred
years any theory of history or historical evidence that falls outside a pattern
established by the American Historical Association and the major foundations
with their grant making power has been attacked or rejected—not on the
basis of any evidence presented, but on the basis of the acceptability of the
argument of the so-called Eastern Liberal Establishment and its official
historical line. There is an Establishment history, an official history, which
dominates history textbooks, trade publishing, the media and library shelves.
The official line always assumes that events such as wars, revolutions,
scandals, assassinations are more or less random unconnected events. By
definition events can never be the result of a conspiracy. They can never result
from premeditated planned group action. An excellent example is the Kennedy
assassination when, within 9 hours of the Dallas tragedy, TV networks announced
the shooting was not a conspiracy regardless of the fact that a negative
proposition can never be proven and that the investigation had barely
begun.”[4]
The American chapter of the German Order
was founded in 1833 at Yale University, established by General William
Huntington Russell and Alphonso Taft—father of President and U.S. Supreme
Court Justice William Taft. It was during the Taft presidency that the bills
which forever altered the Constitution were passed into law. These included the
17th Amendment, calling for the direct election of senators, guaranteeing that
elections could be purchased by big money interests; and the Income Tax and
Federal Reserve Act (16th Amendment). The Act was quietly pushed through
Congress by Senator Nelson Aldridge—maternal grandfather of Trilateral
Commission founder David Rockefeller—in the days immediately before
Christmas, assuring that most lawmakers, who were home for the holidays, would
not be available to
vote.[*]
During a break-in by a rival Yale
society in 1876 into the S&B “Tomb,” they found a small room,
with an “always-burning lamp” and “a dilapidated human
skull.” Upstairs they found a lodge room with its walls covered in black
velvet, a table with skull and crossbones, and the “sanctum
sanctorum”—room number 322—“furnished in red
velvet” and on the wall a star with a finger pointing to it.
They also found “an old engraving
representing an open burial vault, in which on a stone slab, rest four human
skulls, grouped around a fool’s-cap and bells, an open book, several
mathematical instruments, a beggar’s scrip, and a royal crown. On the
arched wall above the vault are the explanatory words, in Roman letters,
‘We War Der Thor, Wer Weiser, We Bettler Oder Kaiser?’ and below the
vault is engraved, in German characters, the sentence; ‘Ob Arm, Ob Beich,
im Tode gleich.’’ “Who was the fool, who the wise man, beggar
or king? Whether poor or rich, all’s the same in death.” This
closely resembles the initiation into the Degree of Regent for the Bavarian
Illuminati. Some researchers assert that Phi Beta Kappa is simply the
“Bavarian Illuminati... spread to
America.”[5]
S&B was also the recruiting grounds
for the Russell Trust Company, which managed S&B’s treasury. Founded
in 1824, Russell Trust became the dominant opium trafficking syndicate in the
U.S.[*] Russell
Trust merged with the number one US trader, J&T.H. Perkins in 1829. By the
mid-1830s the opium trade had become “the largest commerce of its time in
any single commodity, anywhere in the
world.”[6]
Russell partner Warren Delano,
Jr.—Chief of Russell Trust operations in Canton, China—was
grandfather to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a Bush cousin. Other Russell
partners include John Cleve Green, whose opium fortunes financed Princeton
University, Abiel Abbott Low, whose opium money financed the construction of
Columbia University, Joseph Coolidge, whose son organized the United Fruit
Company (later under the ownership of the Rockefellers, and which provide the
impetus for the CIA’s replacement of the democratically elected government
of Guatamela with a brutal military dictatorship), and his grandson, Archibald
Cary Coolidge, who was a founding executive officer of the Council On Foreign
Relations (CFR).
The black flag with the white skull and
crossbones, which was the corporate flag gracing all Russell Trust ships, became
the emblem of S&B—an emblem that even to this day it symbolizes
piracy.
Antony Sutton’s scholarly works on
this secret society, The Order and How The Order Creates War and
Revolution, reveal that half of the board of directors of J.P. Morgan and
Company—who profited handsomely from the bloody carnage of World War
I—were S&B graduates. As Sutton notes:
“College textbooks present war and
revolution as more or less accidental results of conflicting forces.... The
decay of political negotiation into physical conflict comes about, according to
these books, after valiant efforts to avoid war. Unfortunately, this is
nonsense. War is always a deliberate creative act by
individuals....”[7]
Bush and the
Nazis
“The real menace of our
republic is this invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its
slimy length over city, state and nation. Like the octopus of real life, it
operates under cover of a self created screen.... At the head of this octopus
are the Rockefeller Standard Oil interests and a small group of powerful banking
houses generally referred to as international bankers. The little coterie of
powerful international bankers virtually run the United States government for
their own selfish purposes. They practically control both political
parties.” - New York City Mayor John F. Hylan, 1922
Eventually, Brown Brothers
Harriman—the largest private investment bank in America at the
time—came to be dominated by S&B members. George Bush’s
grandfather, George Herbert Walker, served as the bank’s President. His
father, Prescott, served as the bank’s Vice
President.[8*]
Brown Brothers Harriman was helped to
ascension by the powerful Warburg “Jewish” banking
monopoly—one of the principle controlling interests behind the German
conglomerate I.G. Farben, which, ironically, provided not only the gas, but much
of the funds used to effect Hitler’s “final solution.” Brown
Brothers had funded American slave plantations during the Civil War, and former
Brown Brothers partner, Bank of England Governor Montagu Collet Norman, was
known as the most avid supporter of Hitler within British ruling circles. Brown
Brothers-Harriman would become the largest and most politically influential
private banking house in the United
States.[9]
The elder Bush was also director of the
Holland-American Trading Corporation and the Seamless Steel Equipment
Corporation—both Nazi front companies. Like father like son, George
Herbert Walker Bush would later go on to form similar business alliances with
Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, taking in personal oil kickbacks, and arming that
country with conventional, biological and chemical weapons, both in violation of
his own Arms Control and Armaments Amendments Act, and as a prelude to a
war which he would instigate and precipitate.
The Warburgs and the Sulzbergers, owners
of the New York Times, used various committees and religious
organizations to protect the Harriman-Bush deals with Mussolini and Hitler.
Although the government would later seize several of the Bush/Harriman/Nazi
assets—most importantly the Thyssen family-owned Union Bank, which played
one of the largest roles in financing Hitler—American entrepreneurs such
as Bush would be left unscathed.
Bush was Union’s
Director.
As Webster Griffin Tarpley and Anton
Chaitkin note in George Bush: The Unauthorized
Biography:
“The 1942 U.S. government
investigative report said that Bush’s Nazi-front bank was an interlocking
concern with the Vereinigte Stahlwerke (United Steel Works Corporation or
“German Steel Trust”) led by Fritz Thyssen and his two brothers....
Germany’s largest industrial corporation, [it] was organized in 1926 by
Wall Street banker Clarence Dillon. Dillon was the old comrade of Prescott
Bush’s father Sam Bush from the “Merchants of Death” bureau in
World War
I.”[*]
The authors write that George
Bush’s maternal grandfather, George Herbert Walker, founded the banking
and investment firm of G. H. Walker and Company. “Walker was one of
Hitler’s most powerful financial supporters in the United States. The
relationship went all the way back to 1924, when Fritz Thyssen, the German
industrialist, was financing Hitler’s infant Nazi
party.[10]
The link between Harriman and Thyssen
came through Walker’s Union Banking Corporation, located in Averill
Harriman’s offices at 39 Broadway in New York.
“According to our sources,”
write Tarpley and Chaitkin, “Union Banking became an out-and-out Nazi
money-laundering machine....”
Walker’s American Shipping &
Commerce became the holding company for the North American operations of the
Hamburg-Amerika Line, a cover for I.G. Farben’s Nazi espionage unit.
“In an elaborate corporate paper
trail, Harriman’s stock in American Shipping & Commerce was controlled
by yet another holding company, the Harriman Fifteen Corporation, run out of
Walker’s office. The directors of this company were Averill Harriman, Bert
Walker, and Prescott
Bush....”[11]
Another example of the perverse
interlocking nature of the Bush/Harriman-Brown interests was the Consolidated
Silesian Steel Corporation of Poland, two thirds of the stock of which was owned
by Friedrich Flick, a leading German industrialist, and Bush/Harriman-Brown.
Given the fact that most of the company’s output was being directed to
Germany’s war machine at the time, the Polish government decided that the
Nazi and American stockholders should pay their fair share of taxes. The
stockholders didn’t agree, and responded with a lockout. Fortunately the
crises was solved when Nazi tanks invaded Poland in September of 1939, rescuing
their investment, which would now be aided with the introduction of slave
labor.[12]
Baron Kurt von Schroder, of the Schroder
banking family, was co-director of the Thyssen-Huette foundry along with Johann
Groeninger, Prescott Bush’s New York bank partner. Schroder, who also had
the personal blessings of the Rockefellers, was Hitler’s banker.
John Foster Dulles (brother of future
CIA director Allen Dulles), of the law firm, Sullivan and Cromwell, was
Bush’s lawyer. According to Tarpley and Chaitkin:
“Throughout the 1930s, John Foster
Dulles arranged debt restructuring for German firms under a series of decrees
issued by Adolf Hitler. In these deals, Dulles struck a balance between the
interest owed to selected, larger investors, and the needs of the growing Nazi
war-making apparatus for producing tanks, poison gas,
etc.”[13]
John Foster Dulles, later appointed
Secretary of State, was also the attorney for I.G. Farben. By 1933, I.G. Farben
and Rockefeller’s Standard Oil were effectively a single firm, merged in
hundreds of cartel arrangements. Dulles, who was related to Avery Rockefeller,
was the attorney for a new investment firm, set up by him in 1936, called the
Schroder-Rockefeller Company.
[14]
Another lawyer in the employ of I.G.
Farben, John J. McCloy, would later become president of Rockefeller’s
Chase Manhattan Bank, chairman of the CFR, and serve on the Warren Commission,
which effectively covered up the Kennedy assassination, which George Bush would
allegedly play a minor role in (See Chapter
XX).[*] After
the war, McCloy would pardon hundreds of Nazis accused of war crimes, while
establishing the “Ratlines” which brought Nazi doctors and
scientists (and spies) into the U.S. to conduct scientific and medical
experiments on Americans that had formerly been conducted on concentration camp
victims.[15]
In 1940, I.G. Farben began construction
of their huge plant at the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp. Utilizing
slave labor, I.G. Farben and their SS guards worked the approximately 25,000
prisoners literally to their deaths. Standard Oil/Germany president Emil
Helfferich later testified that Rockefeller’s Standard Oil funds helped
pay for the SS guards at Auschwitz.
As Russel S. Bowen, a retired U.S. Army
Brigadier General who served in the OSS and reported directly to William Casey,
writes about George Bush in his book, Immaculate Deception: The Bush Crime
Family Exposed, the “inheritor of the Auschwitz death camp
fortune,” Texan William Stamps Farish III, is George Bush’s
“closest friend and confidant.”
“As President and Chief Executive
Officer of Standard Oil of New Jersey, Farish was the controller of the global
cartel between Standard Oil and the German I.G. Farben
concern.”[16]
Farish, one of the richest men in Texas,
managed George Bush’s personal wealth.
One example of Brown Brothers-Harriman
Bank’s assistance to the Nazi war machine was their underwriting of
Standard Oil’s agreement, in cooperation with General Motors, to supply
ethyl lead to the Nazis. The Bush bank also arranged collateral security for a
shipment of tetraethyl lead for the German Luftwaffe in 1938, shortly before the
outbreak of the war. The Ethyl came from the Ethyl Export Corporation of New
York, administered by the Reich Air Ministry along with I.G.
Farben.[17]
On October 24th, 1942, the U.S.
Government ordered the seizure of Nazi German banking operations in New York
City which were conducted by Prescott Bush. Under the Trading with the Enemy
Act, all the shares of the Union Banking Corporation were seized, as were those
of the Holland American Trading Corporation and the Seamless Steel Equipment
Corporation. Harriman’s Fifteen Holding Company, the Hamburg-Amerika Line,
and the Silesian-American Corporation quickly
followed.[18]
Possibly in an attempt to save the
family’s honor, George H. W. Bush abandoned his plans to enter Yale and
enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve. While serving on the aircraft carrier San
Jacinto, Bush’s Avenger torpedo-bomber, piloted by young George, was
shot down by anti-aircraft fire. Eventhough the plane was built to withstand
ocean crash-landings, Bush-the-war-hero bailed out, leaving his two crewmates
behind. While Bush was rescued by the U.S. submarine Finback, Jack
Delaney and Ted White, his companions, died in the plane.
Bush was given a medal for
heroism.[19]
Like father, like son, former Speaker of
the Texas House of Representatives testified under oath that he was contacted by
Houston businessman “Sid Adger and asked to recommend George W. Bush, Jr.
for a pilot position with the Air National Guard,” and that he called
General James Rose and “did
so.”[20]
Yet Bush, Jr. our current
Commander-in-Chief, reportedly never even bothered showing up for drills.
General William Turnipseed and his aide Kenneth Lott both flatly deny that Bush
ever appeared for duty—a violation of the Texas Code of Military Justice
(a State Statute and a version of the U.S. Code of Military Justice)—a
court martial
offense.[21]
Neither did our chief flag-waver appear
for his training at the 187th Tactical Recon Group at Dannelly ANG Base in
Alabama.[22]
Bill Burkett, a former Lieutenant
Colonel in the Guard, said, “As the State Plans Officer for the Texas
National Guard, I was on full-time duty at Camp Mabry when [Bush aide] Dan
Bartlett was cleansing the George W. Bush file prior to G.W.’s
presidential announcement.... The archives were closely scrutinized to make sure
that the Bush autobiography plans and the record did not directly contradict
each other.”[23]
Government documents do note, however,
that Jr.’s flying privlidges were suspended for failure to take his annual
medical exam, even though he stated that he was perfectly healthy. Michael
Dannenhauer, former Chief of Staff to the elder Bush, states that
Jr.’s cocaine and alcohol habit was “out of control” and that
he experienced “lost weekends in Mexico” during that
time.[24] This
is not surprising, considering that Jr. would offer free beer to college
students to garner their votes during his 1987 congressional
race.[25]
When it was time to leave the National
Guard, the prodigal son and future President received an honorable
discharge.
Daddy Bush would have another
opportunity to display both his love of freedom and democracy and his
“family values” when it was revealed in September of 1988 that seven
members of his presidential campaign were fascist, pro-Nazi, anti-Semites. The
seven, who later resigned or were fired, were part of the Republican
Party’s Heritage Groups Council—a funding clique made up of extreme
right-wing Eastern European émigrés. In 1976, Heritage Groups
Council Director Colonel Jay Neimczyk wrote a memo to the RNC’s
Co-Chairman Robert Carter praising Bush’s leadership of the ethnic
recruitment effort, reportedly including a number of war
criminals.[26] One
of Bush’s allies, Yaroslav Stetsko, had collaborated with the Nazis as
their puppet prime minister of Galicia in the western Ukraine. Captured Nazi
records revealed that over 100,000 Jews were murdered within two years of
Yaroslav’s reign.
As John Loftus and Mark Aarons write in:
The Secret War Against The Jews:
“It was Bush who fulfilled
[President Richard] Nixon’s promise to make the “ethnic”
emigres a permanent part of Republican politics. Bush’s tenure as head of
the Republican National Committee exactly coincided with Laszlo Pasztor’s
1972 drive to transform the Heritage Groups Council into the party’s
official ethnic arm. The groups Pasztor chose as Bush’s campaign allies
were the émigré Fascists whom Dulles had brought to the United
States....
Nearly twenty years later, and after
exposé’s in several respectable newspapers, Bush continued to
recruit most of the same ethnic Fascists, including Pasztor, for his own 1988
ethnic outreach program when he first ran for President.”
Fugitive Nazi war criminal Otto von
Bolschwing, U.S. head of the notorious Nazi Gehlan Org spy apparatus, was
himself a Republican Party activist and reportedly a friend of Richard
Nixon’s.
Another group of suspected Nazi war
criminals, the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations, participated in a 1983 White
House meeting with George Bush and Ronald Reagan. One photo of the meeting was
signed: “To the Honorable Yaroslav Stetsko, With Best Wishes, George
Bush.” [27]
Reagan himself, formerly part of Allen
Dulles’s Office of Policy Coordination, had been the front man back in the
1950s for the Crusade for Freedom, a money-laundering organization which was
part of Dulles’s fascist “freedom fighters”
program.[28]
President Reagan—perhaps
demonstrating his own alignment with Nazis—visited the Bittburg Waffen SS
cemetery to pay his respects during a controversial but well-publicized trip to
Germany.
One of CIA Director Allen Dulles’s
covert agents inside the Roosevelt and Truman administrations was Edwin Pauley,
who would become the U.S. representative to the Allied Reparations Committee and
the industrial advisor to the Potsdam Conference. Pauley later became George
Bush’s partner in the Mexican government’s oil monopoly Pemex. The
CIA used Pemex as a cover and as a money laundering operation for Pauley’s
campaign contributions. As Tarpley and Chaitkin write:
“Pauley, say several of our
sources, was the man who invented an intelligence money-laundering system in
Mexico, which was later refined in the 1970s as part of Nixon’s Watergate
scandal.”
As for Watergate, burglar Frank Sturgis
told the San Francisco Chronicle that “the reason we burglarized
the Watergate was because Nixon was interested in stopping news leaking relating
to the photos of our role in the assassination of President John
Kennedy.”[29]
Former CIA operative Trenton Parker, who
was part of a special unit named “Pegasus,” states that Lyndon
Johnson, Richard Nixon and George Bush all knew of the intended assassination
plot.[30]
Bush reportedly coordinated Frank
Sturgis, as well as Watergate team members Rafael “Chi Chi”
Quintero, E. Howard Hunt, and Bernard Barker for the Cuban Bay of Pigs
invasion—using Pemex and Bush’s Zapata Oil as a staging point (the
operation was codenamed OPERATION ZAPATA). Nixon, as Vice President, had
supervised Allen Dulles’s planning of the invasion.
Quintero worked under CIA coordinator
William F. Buckley, Jr. in an assassination unit Buckley supervised under the
cover of Pemex. Bush had a keen financial interest in turning Cuba back into a
playground for ultra-capitalist interests, as Bush’s Zapata Oil was one of
the key suppliers to Cuba under Batista.
As Richard Nixon told John Ehrilchman
shortly after his election: “Eliminate everyone except George Bush. Bush
will do anything for our cause.” Nixon and Bush had openly discussed
killing Kennedy for his failure to provide air cover at the Bay of
Pigs.[31*]
Nixon’s relationship to the Bush
family goes back to 1946, when Nixon answered an ad placed by the Orange County
Republican Party in a Los Angeles newspaper. Key funding for the ad was provided
by Prescott Bush, who was looking for a puppet to run for Congress. Nixon got
the job, landing a seat in the Senate and then progressing to the
Vice-Presidency. In 1960 George Bush became a protégé of
Nixon’s, who was then running for President.
Bush described Nixon as his mentor.
However Bush denies his connections with
the CIA. Yet a November 29, 1963 memo from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to the
State Department’s Director of Intelligence and Research uncovered through
the Freedom of Information Act describes a briefing given to “George Bush
of the Central Intelligence Agency.” The memo was written after Lee Harvey
Oswald was interrogated about his connections to the Cuban exile community and
the CIA.[32]
For his part, Bush claims he never
worked for the Agency until he was appointed Director in 1975, and CIA spokesman
Bill Devine would “neither confirm nor deny” Bush’s role to
reporter Joseph McBride of The Nation. Yet when the memo was published,
the CIA did an about-face when Agency spokeswoman Sharon Basso told Associated
Press that the memo actually referred to a George William Bush, who was a
CIA night watchman at the time (hardly a man who would be given such a
briefing!). When located and contacted by McBride and Nation editor
Victor Navasky, William Bush confirmed that he was definitely not the
Bush referred to in the memo. He had simply worked for the CIA for about six
months as a coast and landing beach analyst—not a night watchmen—at
the time, with a rank of GS-5. In response to questions about the Hoover memo,
he replied, “Is that the other George
Bush?”[33]
Yet Bush had maintained a personal
relationship with Lee Harvey Oswald’s alleged handler, CIA
“asset” George DeMohrenschildt, who carried Bush’s name and
telephone in his address book until his supposed suicide. DeMohrenschildt gave
only the vaguest explanations for his frequent trips to Bush’s home town
of Houston in his testimony before the Warren
Comission.[34*]
Now deceased Army Colonel, CIA operative
and NYPD detective “Big Al” Carone stated
that
“George Bush was CIA prior to the
assassination of John Kennedy in 1963.” Carone told his subordinate
William Tyree that he “had taken money to a female named Ruth Paine in
late 1956 on orders from William Casey (OSS/CIA operative who was CIA Director
from 1981 to 1987).”
According to a lawsuit filed by Tyree,
“Carone said that Paine was approached by the CIA to find and recruit an
individual that was expendable, with communist ties and some type of
anti-American background...
“Carone said that when Ruth Paine
found the individual, she notified her CIA contact, identified as George de
Mohrenschildt, who in turn contacted his CIA supervisor, identified as George
Bush. Carone said that George Bush was the same George Bush that was CIA
Director. Carone said the individual located by Ruth Paine was identified as a
Mr Lee Harvey Oswald.
“FBI records/reports within 14
days after the assassination of President Kennedy will reflect that Mr George
Bush met with J. Edgar Hoover, as Bush was trying to ascertain what the FBI
might have stumbled onto by mistake in regards to the Ruth Paine - Oswald
connection.”[35*]
When appointed CIA Director in 1975 by
President Gerald Ford (a former member of the Warren Commission), Bush
conveniently headed off inquiries by Senator Frank Church into the CIA’s
various assassination plots which DCI William Colby had been cooperating with.
Colby would later wind up dead under suspicious circumstances. (See Chapter
XX)
In fact, Bush had been a top agent of
the CIA since at least 1960, when he recruited Cubans for the Bay of Pigs
invasion. Given the Bush family’s oil interests in the region, this is
hardly surprising. As Anthony Kimery writes in Covert Action
Quarterly:
“Veteran CIA operatives in the
war against Castro say Bush not only let the CIA use Zapata as a front for
running some of its operations (including the use of several off-shore drilling
platforms), but assert that Bush personally served as a conduit through which
the Agency disbursed money for contracted
services.”[36]
It was at that time that Bush met Felix
Rodriguez, part of a CIA shooter team coordinated out of a training base in
Mexico supervised by the FBI’s Division Five (domestic
counter-intelligence).[*]
Rodriguez would later become Bush’s main liaison to Oliver North’s
Contra drugs-for-guns pipeline when Bush served as Vice
President.
Pedophilia
“For seven and-a-half years
I’ve worked alongside Reagan, and I’m proud to be his partner.
We’ve had triumphs, we’ve made mistakes, we’ve had sex... uh,
I mean setbacks....” - Vice President George Bush, May 6,
1987
As researcher Sherman Skolnick of the
Citizens’ Committee to Clean Up the Courts states: “Not only George
“Poppy” Bush but also Chief Smirker (and current President) G.W.
Bush, Jr., as well as brothers Jeb AND Neil, are all tightly implicated in the
staggering array of absolutely filthy, vicious, gutter-level activities carried
on by this family and their closely connected allies in organized crime and
intelligence
agencies....”[37]
President George Herbert Walker Bush
continuously lauded himself before the public as the “family values”
president. Bush should know about family values. One of his favorite pastimes,
allegedly, is having sex with children—including girls and boys.
According to child pedophile victims in Nebraska and former self-described
mind-control sex slave Cathy O’Brien, he is also a kidnapper and a drug
fiend. As O’Brien writes:
“It was late evening when [George]
Bush and [Dick] Cheney finished programming me with numerous messages pertaining
to the immediate opening of the Juarez, Mexican border to free [the drug and
slave] trade. They then took me downstairs to the living quarters of the
western cedar and redwood structure where Kelly soon joined us. George Bush, Jr.
deposited my obviously traumatized and withdrawn child at the door....
“Centered between two facing black
leather sofas was a coffee table littered with drugs and paraphernalia....
Heroin, Bush’s drug of choice, was in abundance and Cheney joined him in
using it. The smorgasbord of drugs laid out supposedly included opium, cocaine,
and Wonderland Wafers (MDMHA-XTC, AKA: Ecstasy), which indicated to me they
intended to celebrate their vacation with abandon. I had seen Cheney stumbling
drunk before, but this was the only time I saw him use heroin and give it to me.
Kelly, too, was subjected to the drugs.
“Bush attempted to sell Cheney on
the idea of pedophilia through graphic descriptions of having sex with Kelly.
Both were already sexually aroused from drugs and anticipation. Cheney
demonstrated to Bush why he did not have sex with kids by exposing himself to
Kelly and saying, “Come here.” Upon seeing Cheney’s unusually
large penis, Kelly reeled back in horror and cried, “No!” which made
them both laugh. Bush asked Cheney for his liquid cocaine atomizer as he got up
to take Kelly to the bedroom. When Cheney remarked how benevolent it was of Bush
to numb her with it before sex, Bush replied, “The hell it is. It’s
for me.” He described his excited state in typical vulgar terms and
explained that he wanted it to spray cocaine on his penis to last longer. Cheney
said, “I thought it was for the kid.” Bush explained, “Half
the fun is having them squirm.” He took Kelly’s hand and led her off
to the bedroom.
“Cheney... burned my inner thigh
with the fireplace poker, and threatened to throw Kelly in the fire. He
hypnotically enhanced his description of her burning to traumatize me deeply. As
he sexually brutalized me, I heard Kelly’s whimpers coming from the
bedroom. As her cries grew louder, Cheney turned on classical music to drown out
her cries for help.
“At 4:00 am, as ordered, Bush Jr.
(and his helicopter pilot) came to retrieve Kelly and me. We were flown (by
helicopter) back to the Lake Shasta area where Houston and the motor home
awaited us. Bush’s assault of Kelly proved to be a mind shattering
experience for me, and physically devastating to Kelly. She was in dire need of
medical attention and was unable even to move. Houston threatened to stop the
motor home in the Yosemite area and throw me from a steep cliff if I
didn’t settle down. His threats and commands could not control my
hysteria, as much of his control programming had inadvertently shattered.
Fearful he would lose both his ‘money-makers,’ Houston permitted me
to telephone Kelly’s doctor and begin administering medicines. As for me,
he arranged for assistance in picking up the pieces in order that I complete my
primary purpose in traveling to California, i.e., meet with Mexican President
Miguel de la Madrid and finalize plans to open the Juarez
border.”
According to a trusted source of this
author’s who got drunk with O’Brien, her story never wavered, but
became more intimate in detail. He told me he felt that she was telling the
truth.
While many of O’Brien’s
allegations remain controversial, similar allegations have been documented by
the author via other, independent sources.
Michael Boren Williams, who was Senator
Gary Hart’s 1988 presidential campaign manager, tried to expose
“George Bush’s rampant criminal activity” when Bush
“sought revenge” against him. He believes Bush personally ordered
the FBI to terrorize him and his family. As Williams states: “I met a
young lady named Jennifer Dingle who was working as a bartender in Freiburg im
Breisgau, Germany at the Hotel Victoria’s very elegant bar. As it turns
out, she was raised next-door to the Cohens, and William Cohen’s son was
her close friend.... Yes, William Cohen is most definitely a pedophile.... Now,
what is going to surprise you is that Bush and Cohen are, indeed,
friends.”[38]
Other sources backing up the pedophile
allegations are Kay Pollard Griggs, wife of high-ranking “insider”
Marine Colonel George Griggs—tied to Oliver North, Ted Shackley and
Colonel Michael Aquino, an Army PSYOPS specialist and self-avowed Satanist
investigated by the SFPD for child molestation, and the Nebraska State Senate
Franklin investigative
committee.[39]
The Franklin allegations centered around
one Larry E. King, Jr. a prominent black Nebraska Republican fund-raiser, CEO of
the Franklin Credit Union and friend of former DCIs William Casey and George
Bush.[*]
When the FBI raided King’s offices
in November of 1988 to probe $40 million dollars in embezzlements, they
discovered a large quantity of child
pornography.[*]
Witnesses, including social workers and
numerous children, told the Franklin Committee and the FBI that King was running
a child prostitution ring that served prominent officials, including members of
the Republican and Democratic parties.
King sang the national anthem at both
the 1984 and 1988 Republican conventions, where President Reagan was the guest
of honor. As Senator John DeCamp, who investigated the allegations as part of
the Franklin Committee and who attended one party thrown by King in Dallas,
writes in his book, The Franklin Cover-Up: Child Abuse, Satanism and
Murder in Nebraska: “I saw Maureen Reagan draped over King all evening
like a big blanket.”[40]
A June 29, 1989 Washington Times
article entitled, “Homosexual Prostitution Probe Ensnares Official of
Bush, Reagan,” states:
“A homosexual prostitution ring is
under investigation by federal and District authorities and includes among its
clients key officials of the Reagan and Bush administrations, military officers,
congressional aides and U.S. and foreign businessmen with close ties to
Washington’s political
elite.’”[41]
One of King’s associates in
Washington, D.C. was political lobbyist Craig Spence, who maintained a call-boy
ring for Washington’s elite, specializing in children. A Republican
powerbroker, Spence was known for his lavish “power cocktail’’
parties. As authors Tarpley and Chaitkin write in George Bush: The
Unauthorized Biography:
“Spence was well connected. He
celebrated Independence Day 1988 by conducting a midnight tour of the White
House in the company of two teenage male prostitutes among others in his party.
Rumors circulated that a list existed of some 200 Washington prominents who had
used the call boy service. The Number Two in charge of personnel affairs at the
White House, who was responsible for filling all the top civil service posts in
the federal bureaucracy, and Secretary of Labor Elizabeth Dole’s chief of
staff, were two individuals publicly identified as patrons of the call boy ring.
Two of the ring’s call boys were allegedly KGB operatives, according to a
retired general from the Defense Intelligence Agency interviewed by the press.
But the evidence seemed to point to a CIA sexual blackmail operation instead.
Spence’s entire mansion was covered with hidden microphones, two-way
mirrors and video cameras, ever ready to capture the indiscretions of
Washington’s high, mighty and perverse.... Months after the scandal had
died down, and a few weeks before he allegedly committed suicide, Spence was
asked who had given him the “key’’ to the White House.”
The Washington Times reports that
“Mr. Spence hinted the tours were arranged by ‘top level’
persons, including Donald Gregg, National Security Advisor to Vice President
Bush’s #1 and later U.S. Ambassador to South Korea.” ... Gregg
indignantly denied any connection to Spence, yet it is public record that Spence
had sponsored a dinner in Gregg’s honor in the spring of 1989 at
Washington’s posh Four Seasons Hotel.
On Spence’s guest list were such
names as Reagan’s CIA director William Casey and Attorney General John
Mitchell, who once co-hosted a party with Spence, Ted Koppel and Eric Severeid.
Spence’s mansion was found to be
full with hidden surveillance equipment, including hidden cameras and two-way
mirrors. It was alleged that the ring was part of a CIA sexual blackmail
operation (see “The Finders” case, below), gathering compromising
evidence on Washington politicos and foreign dignitaries. Following his arrest
on weapon and drug charges, Spence gave an interview to the Washington Times
in which he claimed to work with both the CIA and high-ranking members of
the Reagan/Bush administrations.
The paper trail would be quickly
covered-up - some 20,000 documents sealed by court order. Spence turned up dead
in a Boston hotel room five months later. The UK’s Independent reported
that: “Boston police said he was found lying on his bed at the
Ritz-Carlton Hotel, dressed in evening clothes, with no obvious signs of injury.
The police refused to comment on the cause of death.” The Post had earlier
reported that Spence had told a friend: “I may be disappearing soon. It
will be sudden. It may appear to be a suicide, but it won’t
be.”[42]
In Nebraska, at least several
victim-witnesses fingered Omaha Police Chief Robert Wadman, FBI agents Mickey
Mott, Gerry Wahl and Alan Baer, Harold Andersen, publisher of the Omaha
World-Herald and several other political associates of King’s.
King and Wadman, along with FBI agents
Mott and Baer, were accused of pedophilia and drug usage (and drug dealing) with
boys as young as 12 years
old.[*] The
allegations were made by numerous children interviewed by private investigator
and former law-enforcement officer Gary Caradori who was working for the
Franklin Committee. Caradori would later wind up dead, along with his 8 year-old
son, in a highly suspicious plane crash. The crash occurred several days after
he told Senator Loren Schmit that he had just discovered information that
“would blow this case wide
open.”[43*]
The Franklin Committee documented how
King and his associates were involved in drug-running, child kidnapping,
prostitution, satanism, and murder—involving numerous prominent state and
federal officials, including, according to several child victim-witnesses,
George Herbert Walker
Bush.[44*]
As DeCamp writes: “... George Bush
and Larry King were linked in multiple ways, including eyewitness reports
placing Bush at King’s sex
parties.[45]
Youth care worker Julie Walters
substantiates these allegations. As she writes in her report regarding her
interview with a girl named Nelly Patterson-Web:
“Nelly accompanied Mr. and Mrs.
King and their son Prince on trips to Chicago, N.Y. and Washington, D.C.,
beginning when she was 15 years old.... Nelly was taken along on the pretense of
being Prince’s babysitter. Last year she met V.P. George Bush and saw him
again at one of the parties Larry gave while on a Washington, D.C. trip. At some
of the parties there are just men (as was the case at the party George Bush
attended)—older men and younger men in their early twenties. Nelly said
she has seen sodomy committed at those parties At other parties during
Larry’s trips, Larry had local prostitutes. (in their 20’s &
30’s) there to entertain his male
guests....”[46]
As Tarpley and Chaitkin add about the
“Pro-Life,’’ “Anti-Drug,’’ “Family
Values” President:
... “Paul Bonacci directly accused
President Bush of being implicated’’ in the affair when he testified
before the Franklin Committee. Bonacci, who had been one of the child
prostitutes, is identified by leading child-abuse experts as a well-informed,
credible witness. Lawrence King was no stranger to President Bush. And Lawrence
King was no stranger to Craig Spence. Several of the Omaha child prostitutes
testified that they had traveled to Washington, D.C. with King in private planes
to attend political events which were followed by sex parties.
“King and Spence had much in
common. Not only were they both Republican Party activists but they had gone
into business together procuring prostitutes for Washington’s elite.
Bush’s name had repeatedly surfaced in the Nebraska scandal. But his name
was first put into print in July 1989, a little less than a month after the
Washington call boy affair had first made headlines. Omaha’s leading daily
newspaper reported, “One child, who has been under psychiatric care, is
said to believe she saw George Bush at one of King’s parties.”
[47]
Journalist Steve Bowman writes:
“We do have some credible witnesses who say that ‘Yes, George Bush
does have a problem,’” Bowman told Gentleman’s Quarterly.
One of Bowman’s sources is a retired CIA psychiatrist. He added that
drug trafficking and political corruption were intertwined with
pedophilia.[48]
As far back as 1985, victim-witness
Eulice (Lisa) Washington told Andrea Carener of the Nebraska Department of
Social Services how she was regularly taken to Washington by plane, with other
children, to attend parties hosted by King involving many prominent people,
including businessmen and politicians. Lisa specifically named George Bush as
being in attendance on at least two separate
occasions.[49]
Walters told Tarpley and Chaitkin that
in 1986 she interviewed Lisa and her sister, who were temporarily living at the
home of Kathleen Sorenson, who, like Caradori, would subsequently die in a
suspicious car crash. Walters explained that Lisa, who came from an
underprivileged background with no knowledge of political affairs, gave minute
details of her attendance at political meetings. As Walters’ report
states:
“3/25/86. Met with Kathleen and
Lisa for about 2 hours in Blair [Nebraska] questioning Lisa for more details
about sexual abuse.... Lisa admitted to being used as a prostitute by Larry King
when she was on trips with his family.... Lisa said she first met V.P. George
Bush at the Republican Convention and saw him again at a Washington, D.C. party
that Larry hosted.... Last year she met V.P. George Bush and saw him again at
one of the parties Larry gave while on a Washington, D.C.
trip....”[50]
A Franklin Committee report further
states:
“Apparently she [Lisa] was
contacted on December 19 [1988] and voluntarily came to the FBI offices on
December 30, 1988. She was interviewed by Brady, Tucker and Phillips. She
indicates that in September or October 1984, when [Lisa] Washington was fourteen
or fifteen years of age, she went on a trip to Chicago with Larry King and
fifteen to twenty boys from Omaha. She flew to Chicago on a private plane....
She indicates that she was coerced to going on the trip by Barbara Webb. She
indicates that she attended a party in Chicago with King and the male youths.
She indicated George Bush was present. She indicates that she set [sic] at a
table at the party while wearing nothing but a negligee. She stated that George
Bush saw her on the table. She stated she saw George Bush pay King money, and
that Bush left the party with a nineteen year old black boy named Brent. Lisa
said the party George Bush attended was in Chicago in September or October 1984.
According to the Chicago Tribune of October 31, 1984, Bush was in
Illinois campaigning for congressional candidates at the end of October. Lisa
added more details on the Chicago trip, and told why she was sure it was George
Bush she had seen. According to a May 8, 1989 report by investigator Jerry Lowe,
“Eulice [Lisa] indicated that she recognized George Bush as coming to the
party and that Bush had two large white males with him. Eulice indicated Bush
came to the party approximately 45 minutes after it started and that he was
greeted by Larry King. Eulice indicated that she knew George Bush due to the
fact that he had been in political campaigns and also she had observed a picture
of Bush with Larry King at Larry King’s house in Omaha.”
In keeping with the pattern of cover-up,
a Washington County, Nebraska judge in December 1990 dismissed all charges
against two of the girls’ abusers, Jarrett and Barbara Webb. The judge
ignored testimony of the 1986 report by Julie Walters which states:
“Lisa was given four polygraph
tests administered by a state trooper at the State Patrol office on Center
Street in Omaha. The state trooper, after Lisa’s testing was completed,
told [another foster parent] he tried to ‘break Lisa down,’ but he
was convinced she was telling the
truth.”[51]
As Kathleen Sorenson writes in a report
dated May 1, 1989, “This was long before he [Bush] was President. It seems
like there were more exciting people to ‘lie’ about if that’s
what they were doing.’’
Ritual
Abuse
Victims of King and his associates also
charged him with participating in at least one satanic ritual murder of a child.
As DeCamp reports, victim-witness Paul
Bonacci was at one point taken to a retreat for political elites such as George
Bush and Henry Kissinger in Northern California called Bohemian Grove, where
they were forced to participate in sex and to consume parts of a child whom they
had watched being murdered by the cultists. As DeCamp writes:
“A ‘snuff” pornography
film was made of these events; it was directed by a man the party had picked up
in Las Vegas whom Paul identified as “Hunter Thompson”—the
same name as a well known sleaze-culture figure.
“Paul has told investigators that
the ring which plunged him into Satanism was centered at Offutt U.S. Air Force
Base near Omaha; that he was taken to Offutt to be sexually victimized by a
babysitter’s boyfriend when he was about three years old, around 1970.
Offutt is the headquarters for the Strategic Air Command, and has had a cadre of
thousands of intelligence personnel.
“At Offutt, and later at other
military installations, Paul says this ring “trained” him by
tortures, heavy drugging, and sexual degradation, while instructing him in
military arts including assassination. In fact, his personal knowledge in these
realms can scarcely be accounted for other than by crediting the indictments he
has made.”
While these allegations may strike the
uninitiated as bizarre, a similar case of CIA involvement in child kidnapping,
satanism, pedophilia and mind-control—the “Finders”
case—was revealed in a 1987 U.S. Customs report obtained by the author.
When D.C. police and Customs agents raided a Washington, D.C. warehouse being
used by the group, they found “a set of instructions which appeared to be
a broadcast via a computer network which advised participants to move ‘the
children’ and keep them moving through different jurisdictions, and
instructions on how to avoid police attention.” (The children were headed
for Mexico, tending to confirm Cathy O’Brien’s allegations.) As
Customs Agent Ramon Martinez writes in his report:
“Cursory examination of the
documents revealed detailed instructions for obtaining children for unspecified
purposes. The instructions included the impregnation of female members of the
community known as Finders, purchasing children, trading, and kidnapping. ...
One of the officers presented me with a photo album for my review. The album
contained a series of photos of adults and children dressed in white sheets
participation in a ‘blood ritual.’ “The ritual centered around
the execution of at least two goats. The photos portrayed the execution,
disembowelment, skinning and dismemberment of the goats at the hands of the
children. This included the removal of the testes of a male goat, the discovery
of a female goat’s ‘womb’ and the ‘baby goats’
inside the womb, and the presentation of a goats head to one of the
children.”
The CIA-connected Finders were never
prosecuted. The report adds that...
“... the activity of the FINDERS
had become a CIA internal matter. The MPD report has been classified
SECRET and was not available for review. I was advised that the FBI had
withdrawn from the investigation several weeks prior and that the FBI Foreign
Counter Intelligence Division had directed MPD not to advise the FBI Washington
Field Office of anything that had
transpired.”[52*]
The head of the FBI’s Counter
Intelligence Division at the time was Oliver “Buck” Revell—a
crony of Oliver North and George Bush who would allegedly play a role in the
cover-up of numerous crimes, including Iran-Contra, drug-running at the
CIA/NSA/DoD proprietary E-Systems, and the bombing of Pan Am
103.[53*] (See
Appendix)
A member of Nebraska’s Concerned
Parents group reported hearing from two North Omaha witnesses that “King
used to send limousines down to Offutt Air Base to pick up CIA agents for
parties.”
King, FBI agents Gerry Wahl and Alan
Baer, Omaha World-Herald publisher Harold Andersen, and former Omaha
Police Chief Robert Wadman were all reported as collaborators in this satanic
military-based ring. King reportedly told Paul’s captors at Offutt,
“He’s young—but you trained him good.” Some say King
provided the CIA with information garnered from his pimping activities for
America’s perverted elite.
Victim-witness Paul Bonacci also
described one of his “commanders” at Offut Air Force Base—Bill
Plemmons and Lieutenant Colonel Michael Aquino.
Until recently, Aquino was a Colonel in
the U.S. Army and a national commander of the Eagle Scouts Honor Society.
Ironically, Aquino is a publicly avowed Satanist. In 1975, while still in the
Army, Aquino founded the Temple of Set—an offshoot of the Church of Satan,
started in 1966 by Anton LaVey. Set is the Egyptian God of the underworld and
the dead.[54]
Aquino made a pilgrimage to Heinrich
Himmler’s “Hall of the Dead” at Wewelsburg Castle in 1984,
where the SS practiced their black magic rituals, so he could allegedly
“cleanse” the Temple of Set of its corrupt vibes.
Although Aquino’s membership has
dwindled in recent years, members of The Temple of Set have included
high-ranking military and police officers.
Although no cases of ritual murder or
abuse have been directly linked to either group, in numerous cases of ritual
murder, Church of Satan and Temple of Set material such as LaVey’s The
Satanic Bible, have been found among suspects’ paraphernalia.
In 1987, San Francisco was shaken by a
scandal at the Amy’s Presidio day care center, in which Aquino and a day
care worker were accused by [the parents] of a three year old girl, (and
subsequently several other parents) of being subjected to bizarre satanic
rituals at Aquino’s home. Although there proceeded a lengthy investigation
by the San Francisco Police Department, the FBI and the Army CID, no charges
were ever brought against Aquino. As recently as 1995, the SFPD detective in
charge, who I interviewed, was still too frightened to reveal details of the
case.[55]
As for Larry King, he reported his own
adoring relationship to the late CIA Director William Casey in a September 7,
1988, interview in the Omaha publication
Metropolitan.[56]
The
Cover-Up
As they would do with Iran-Contra, the
FBI and the majority of the mainstream press covered up the scandal. Harold
Andersen’s Omaha World-Herald, along with the local FBI office
under the leadership of Nick O’Hara, played a major role in covering up
these activities. Andersen was seen at numerous parties by several children who
gave statements to Franklin investigators.
Roy Stephens, a private investigator and
head the Missing Youth Foundation who worked on the case “says there is
reason to believe that the CIA is directly implicated,’’ and that
the “FBI refuses to help in the investigation and has sabotaged any
efforts’’ to get to the bottom of the
story.[57]
As tearful victim-witness Troy Boner
told Sandie Caradori, wife of investigator Gary Caradori on the evening of his
death, “Sandie, I tried, I tried. I went to [FBI Agent] Mickey Mott
and.... They laughed at
me....”[58]
When DeCamp and Senator Loren Schmit
confronted Senior Agent in Charge of the Omaha office Nick O’Hara,
O’Hara, a friend of Police Chief Robert Wadman’s, blurted out,
“You fuck with Bob Wadman, you fuck with the FBI!” DeCamp and Schmit
left O’Hara’s office in a state of
shock.[59]
So began the cover-up.
Indeed. The FBI threatened and
intimidated numerous witnesses, approximately 15 of whom wound up dead under
highly suspicious circumstances. Victim-witness Alisha Owen, then still a
teenager, was threatened by FBI agents Mott and Baer to change her story. When
she refused, she was sentenced to 20 years in jail.
Senator Bernice Labedz recounted her
conversation with former Franklin employee Noel Seltzer:
“One of the most important things
that I thought he told me was the fact that when they first went into the
investigation of Larry King, he was talked to by the FBI and he told them mostly
everything that he told me about the sexual abuse and so forth. And then he said
he was told by the FBI, ‘we’re going to advise you it’s best
for you that you keep your mouth shut.’ And I said, ‘say that
again,’ and he repeated it so I could write it
down.”[60]
Victim-witness Terry Muller told Gary
Caradori “that the FBI and a member of the State Patrol were harassing her
brother and trying to get him to talk about things that he just didn’t
know about.”[61]
Department of Social Services worker
Joanie Gregory, who discovered evidence of wrongdoing in the homes of foster
parents Jarrett and Barbara Webb, themselves involved in the abuse ring, was
told by the FBI “that it would probably be in her best interest if she
‘forgot this
information.’”[62]
As Caradori himself told the Franklin
Committee: “I think they (the grand jury) are being misled by the
influence of the State Patrol investigator and various people in the
FBI.”[63]
DeCamp writes that “the
legislative investigator found that the FBI interfered with material even before
he got to it.”
As Troy Boner states in a sworn
affidavit: “... I was carefully rehearsed by the FBI as to what I would
say and what questions would be asked and then after rehearsing everything with
the FBI I was taken over to Mr. Moran the prosecutor to go through the rehearsal
again.”[*]
Boner claims the FBI threatened him, and
had in fact killed his brother Shawn as a
warning.[64]
The
Murders
Kathleen Sorenson, the social worker who
assumed foster care for Nelly and Kimberly Webb after they fled the home of
Larry King’s relatives Barbara and Jarrett Webb, died in a suspicious
head-on car crash. Retired FBI Senior Agent Ted Gunderson, who investigated the
crash, believes Sorenson was killed as a satanic contract suicide. The belief in
such a murder/suicide is that the murderer will reincarnate with more power
granted by Satan.
Sorenson, a vocal anti-Satanist, whose
itinerary was known to at least several people, was traveling on a long, narrow
stretch of road between Fremont and Blair, Nebraska. Both the women who rammed
into her head-on and her husband had prior arrest records for cruelty to
animals—a common sign of satanic activity.
“Not long after Sorenson’s
death, a teenager in a youth care facility told a worker, “You better
watch out or we will get you like we got that lady from Blair.” The youth
went on to describe a ceremony of drawing lots for the
privilege.”[65]
On July 11, 1990, during the course of
his investigations, Franklin Senate Committee investigator Gary Caradori, 41,
died in the crash of his small plane, together with his 8-year-old son Andrew,
after a mid-air explosion. Caradori told friends repeatedly in the weeks before
his death that he feared his plane would be sabotaged. As previously mentioned,
just days before he died, he called Senator Schmit and announced that he had
obtained information that would “blow this case wide open.”
Shawn Boner, brother of victim-witness
Troy Boner, would die from a gunshot wound allegedly resulting from
“Russian Roulette.”
Aaron Owen, brother of victim-witness
Alisha Owen, was found hanged in his cell in Lincoln, Nebraska hours before his
sister was to testify.
Bill Baker, a restaurant owner and
pornography partner of King’s, was found shot in the back of the
head.
Newt Copple, a confidential informant
for Caradori, died in his sleep.
Clare Howard, former secretary of Alan
Baer who arranged many of Baer’s pedophile trysts, died in her sleep the
same year.
Mike Lewis, a former caregiver for
victim-witness Loretta Smith, died of a “severe diabetic reaction.”
Joe Malek, an associate of King’s
and owner of Peony Park, where homosexual galas were held, died from a gunshot
that was ruled a “suicide.”
Charlie Rogers, a homosexual partner of
King’s who stated he feared for his life, found his head blown off with a
shotgun.
Dan Ryan, another associate of
King’s, was found suffocated in his car.
Bill Skoleski, an Omaha police officer
believed to have been keeping a file on King, died of a
heart-attack.
Curtis Tucker, an associate of
King’s, was found on the sidewalk beneath the window of his room at the
Holiday Inn in Omaha.
Harmon Tucker, a Nebraska and Iowa
school superintendent and a known homosexual, was found dead near the plantation
which Omaha World-Herald publisher and Nebraska-Iowa FBI chief Nicholas
O-Hara used for hunting. His murder had signs of a satanic ritual
killing.[66]
Darlene Novinger, an FBI operative,
discovered during an FBI investigation that George Herbert Walker Bush and two
of his sons were using drugs and prostitutes in a Florida hotel while Bush was
Vice President. She was warned not to report her findings to FBI officials. Four
hours after she appeared on Tom Valentine’s July, 1993 Radio Free America
show, her father was found dead. A white canary was placed on his grave as a
warning. Her husband was also beaten to death. Novinger has since gone into
hiding.[67]
Donald Gregg’s friend, Craig
Spence, was found dead in a Boston hotel room shortly after his sordid affairs
were published in the Washington Times.
As one lady stated during a town hall
meeting in Omaha in December of 1990: “I think George Bush is involved
in this child abuse case, and that is why all these people have been
dying.”[68*]
Drugs
“Since the end of World War
II, the United States has spent a thousand billion dollars—one trillion
dollars—furnished by the American people, who have been colonized by these
men and their hunger for power. Could the CIA kill a president to keep such an
operation going? Kings have been beheaded for infinitely
less.”
- Judge Jim Garrison, A Heritage of
Stone (1970)
As for Bush’s friend Larry King,
it was reported that he was a top contributor to a Contra support
committee—the Citizens for America. Contra organizer Oliver North was seen
by at least one witness at one of King’s parties.
King’s public relations firm was
also used by the drug-running Contras. Sources told John DeCamp that Omaha
Police Chief Bob Wadman “was protecting the expansion of the Cryps and the
Bloods into Omaha—far from their home turf of Los Angeles. As DeCamp
writes:
“One of Caradori’s
informants stated that Wadman was instrumental in bringing the drug-trafficking
gangs, the Los Angeles Bloods and Cryps, into Omaha. According to a June 19 1989
report by Caradori’s predecessor at the Franklin committee, Jerry Lowe,
members of the Bloods and Cryps were identified by local police as driving Larry
King’s car....”
San Jose Mercury News
investigative reporter Gary Webb has meticulously documented how the LA street
gangs were intimately tied in with Contra liaisons in the U.S. George Bush,
Oliver North’s boss, was essentially running the Contra show, or at least
the drug angle. As DeCamp writes:
“So, was Larry King’s buddy
George Bush the country’s ‘drug kingpin’ in the 1980s? I
don’t know. But what I do know, is that if Bush were running
the Contra affair, and drugs were a big part of it, that would certainly jibe
100% with everything known or rumored about Bush, Larry King, and the Franklin
Credit Union....”[69]
As Lieutenant Colonel Bo Gritz, the most
highly decorated Special Forces officer of the Vietnam War and later head of
Special Forces in Central America, adds in his book, Called To
Serve:
“George Bush was head of the CIA
in 1975-76, appointed by President Gerald Ford; as Vice President under Ronald
Reagan, he was our top drug cop for eight years; one of his chief aides, Donald
Gregg, was a direct contact in the Contra line of communication to the White
House. Ollie North’s personal diary has more than 550 entries citing drug
money being used to support contra operations. If George Bush didn’t know
about the drug smuggling, he wasn’t doing his job. If he did know
about it, then he is clearly culpable. Either way, it doesn’t stand as a
credit for a man who would represent the best interests of the United
States.”[70]
Like Richard Nixon, Bush publicly
claimed to be a strong anti-drug president, escalating the so-called “war
on drugs” begun by his mentor Richard Nixon. Nixon had first brought Bush
into his “war on drugs” in 1971-77 when Nixon appointed him to the
White House Cabinet Committee on International Narcotics
Control.
In his first formally scheduled prime
time television address to the nation as President in September of 1989, Bush
again reiterated his plan to rid the nation of its devastating drug scourge.
Bush held up a bag of crack cocaine for the camera and announced with mock
incredulity that it had been purchased right across the street from the White
House, in Lafayette Park. In fact, the drug bust of the dealer had been a
set-up.
During his 1988 election campaign, Bush
had hawked himself as President Reagan’s number one drug fighter. In his
acceptance speech before the 1988 Republican National Convention, Bush stated:
“I want a drug-free America. Tonight, I challenge the young people of our
country to shut down the drug dealers around the world.... My Administration
will be telling the dealers, “Whatever we have to do, we’ll do, but
your day is over. You’re history.’”
Bush was telling the truth, in a sense.
At least small drug dealers would be out of business—replaced by the
Medellin Cartel which Bush, along with Ted Shackley, allegedly helped organize.
The CIA reportedly arranged at least two meetings with Colombian drug
smugglers—first in Buenaventura, Colombia in September of 1981, then in
December of that same year, with approximately 200 dealers in attendance. The
meeting, according to former FAA investigator Rodney Stich’s
(Defrauding America and The Drugging of America ) CIA sources, was
held at the Hotel International in Medellin. The CIA set up a
“crisis” situation to compel the dealers to consolidate under the
protection of the CIA by kidnapping drug kingpins Carlos Lehder and Jorge
Ochoa’s sister. The CIA reportedly paid a group known as M-19 three
million dollars to carry out the kidnapping. As CIA operative Trenton Parker
told Stich, “...Bush knew the whole goddamn
thing.”[71]
According to Russell S. Bowen, a highly
decorated World War II P-38 ace and former OSS agent imprisoned for smuggling
cocaine into the U.S. from Colombia (and other sources), Noriega and the Israeli
Mossad worked hand-in-hand with the CIA in the drug traffic from Central and
South America.[72]
Bowen was a friend of Shackley’s,
having worked with him from the early 1950s until 1984. In 1959, Shackley was a
passenger onboard a C-46 piloted by Bowen when the plane crashed in the Bolivian
Andes. As Bowen told Stich: “It was loaded with drugs!”
“[Bowen] stated that this trip
occurred several years before Shackley was made CIA station chief in Miami, and
that Shackley was instrumental in setting up the CIA drug trafficking into the
United States from South America....
“Bowen described the conflict
between different CIA factions. “At that time, “ Bowen said,
“Shackley was the leader of the CIA faction bringing the drugs in. The CIA
team I worked for did not want the drugs
in.”[*]
“I asked who set up that initial
drug operation. Bowen, referring to Shackley, said, “He was the mastermind
of the drug operation. he had full authority to set it
up.”[73]
Another pilot maintained in voluminous
correspondence from prison with Senator John Kerry’s Iran-Contra Committee
(and since his release in 1990) that “Bob Haynes” was the alias used
by Shackley during their close interaction between 1979 and 1984. As Harry
Martin reports in the Napa Sentinel:
“[The pilot] also has a number of
documents in safekeeping which prove the presence of Shackley in Medellin, not
only directing the cocaine cartel, but orchestrating many of the activities in
Panama and Costa Rica related to the contra war in Nicaragua, and the
large-scale smuggling of cocaine into the United States. Included among them are
a handwritten note from Haynes/Shackley directing him to deliver a DC-6A
aircraft from the Dominican Republic to Floyd Carlton in Panama “for Col.
Robert.”
“The pilot has claimed that he
functioned as one of an elite group of military intelligence agents with service
dating back to World War II, who reported, until his imprisonment in 1984,
directly to [former OSS agent and CIA DCI] William Casey, and maintains that he
was directly involved with Theodore Shackley in the establishment of the arms
network to the contras through Panama in the early 1980s. Among the letters
received from Haynes/Shackley was one directing him to acquire a number of
planes in the Dominican Republic and Aruba for the network. The list has been
verified by the special U.S. Customs team in Miami investigating Munitions
Control Board violations as planes they are familiar with having been used in
such
activities.”[74]
“Haynes” also furnished the
pilot with his business card for INTERKREDIT, with offices in Medellin, Ft.
Lauderdale and Amsterdam. INTERKREDIT was the corporate cover under which
Shackley conducted business with General Noriega during
1983.[75]
In addition to the pilot, witnesses
allege Shackley maintained a home in Medellin, Colombia at one point, where he
lived with his Colombian wife, Leona Ochoa, sister of cartel kingpin Jorge
Ochoa.[76]
It was a convenient spot to manage the
CIA’s drug business. As previously mentioned, the CIA, through DCI George
Bush and Deputy Director for Operations Ted Shackley, virtually set up the
Medellin Cartel. The meetings were held at the Hotel International in Medellin.
Two CIA operatives: Trenton Parker and Gunther Russbacher, confirmed the
meetings to
Stich.[77]
Ramon Milian Rodriguez, an accountant
and money launderer who had laundered $1.5 billion for the Medellin cartel,
testified before a Senate committee that he had given Bush-Shackley CIA
associate Felix Rodriguez $10 million from the cocaine profits to fund the
Contras.
Rodriguez told journalist Martha Honey
that Rodriguez had offered that “in exchange for money for the Contra
cause he would use his influence in high places to get the cartel U.S.
‘good
will.’”[78]
The CIA would eventually eradicate top
leaders of the Medellin Cartel, killing Medellin founders Pablo Escobar and
Jorge Ochoa. Medellin co-founder Carlos Lehder and his associate Manuel Noriega
would be sentenced to life terms. During Operation “Just Cause” in
Panama, Bush replaced many Medellin allied bankers with political and financial
leadership more closely allied with the rival Cali Cartel.
Trenton Parker said he secretly gave
evidence of CIA criminality from 1976 to 1982 to Congressman Larry McDonald of
the Joint Armed Services Committee. The files revealed corrupt activities of
several presidents, numerous federal officials and the CIA. Immediately after
McDonald let it be known that he was going to reveal the information, including
information on the CIA’s drug smuggling activities, his plane was shot
down.
Bush’s Zapata Petroleum Co. (later
Zapata Offshore), with upwards of 600 branches worldwide, is reportedly used for
the CIA’s intelligence gathering. (Bush had begun his career working for
International Derrick and Equipment Company, a subsidiary of the Houston-based
Dresser Industries—a long-time CIA cover. Dresser’s Chairman, Henry
Neil Mallon, who offered Bush the job, was a friend of Prescott’s and a
fellow Skull and Bonseman.) Some sources, including covert operatives
interviewed by Stich, contend that Zapata’s offshore drilling rigs,
located beyond the U.S. jurisdictional limit, are centers for transferring large
quantities of illicit drugs and other contraband. CIA cable analyst Michael
Maholy told Stich that he personally witnessed numerous drug flights while
working on Zapata rigs, and was told to forget what he had seen. The operation
was run through Rowan International. “Rowan International was a cover for
a branch of Zapata Oil,” says Maholy. Three of the propietaries involved
were the CIA-connected Evergreen (owned by Raytheon; see Chapter XX),
Southern Air Transport, and Pacific Seafood.
Maholy says he worked directly under
George Bush and Marine Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North. These people and their
accomplices and agents, made hundreds of millions of dollars bringing drugs into
the U.S. over the
years.[*]
Implicated in the Venezuelan operation
were naval officer Lizardo Marquez Perez, Mossad agent Michael Harari, CIA
officer Dewy Duane Clarridge, Army lieutenant General Paul Gorman, Commander of
the U.S. Southern Command, Washington DEA Chief Ron Caffrey, Oliver North,
Pacific Seafood’s Russell Hebert and others.
Maholy says Bill Clinton was also in the
loop. “...not only was I arrested four blocks from the then-Governor of
Arkansas, Bill Clinton’s mansion,” says Maholy, “but I was
also involved in the ‘Mena, Arkansas’ incident. Our drugs were going
to many of the high-ranking state and government officials in Arkansas. Roger
Clinton (Clinton’s brother) was one of our better
customers.”[79*]
Former CIA operatives Russell Bowen,
Tosh Plumlee, Gunther Russbacher, Chip Tatum and others confirmed much of
Maholy’s story.[80]
Some of the money, according to former
CIA operative Richard Brenneke, was banked at the infamous Nazi-connected Brown
Brothers-Harriman Bank. Brenneke testified under oath that he opened an account
there for Bush’s operation in 1980. The money was funneled through the
John Gotti organized crime
family.[81]
Another bank used for hiding
Bush’s secret accounts was the Hawaii-based Bishop, Baldwin, Rewald,
Dillingham and Wong—a CIA propietary that in part took over the failed CIA
Nugan-Hand Bank of Australia. Agency operative Ronald Rewald told Stich that he
personally set up accounts for Bush under the aliases “Irwin M.
Peach” and “Mr.
Bramble.”[82]
According to former LAPD Narcotics
detective Michael Ruppert, two key men in the drug pipeline were Ted Shackley
and George Bush. Shackley, a CIA Deputy Director, had reportedly played the key
role in smuggling heroin out of South-East Asia when he was Saigon Station
Chief, as popularized by the movie “Air
America.”[*]
In 1976, Bush would appoint his friend
Shackley as Associate Deputy Director of Operations—the third most
powerful position in the CIA. Shackley had been in charge of the Miami CIA
station that had been running the Agency’s anti-Castro activities, and was
a key architect of the CIA’s “low intensity conflict”
operations in Central America (death squads modeled after the Agency’s
murderous Phoenix Operation in Viet Nam). Fired by the Agency in 1979, Shackley
would re-emerge in the early 1980s as an integral player in Iran-Contra, meeting
frequently with Bush at his Arlington, VA
home.[83]
As Ruppert states: “Both men are
central to the drug trafficking by CIA and NSC which became epidemic in the
Iran-Contra era.”
A report by the Costa Rican government
states that Oliver North, John Hull, and a number of other Americans were deeply
involved in the drug trafficking in the
area.[84]
When DEA agent Celerino
“Cele” Castillo naively tried to inform Bush of the high-level drug
running at a cocktail party in Guatemala City in 1986, he said, “Bush just
smiled, shook my hand and walked
away.”[85]
As former CIA operative Phillip Agee
told the Associated Press in January of 1990: “Bush is up to his neck in
illegal drug running on behalf of the
Contras.”[86*]
These allegations would be repeated by
numerous others. One man who decided to blow the whistle was former CIA
operative Richard Brenneke. As Brenneke stated in a sworn deposition before
Congressman William Alexander, Jr., and Chad Farris, Chief Deputy Attorney
General of Arkansas:
A. ...As far back as 1968 and early
‘69, we had begun to launder money from organized crime families in New
York. At that time, Mr. Gotti was an up-and-coming member of the families. I got
to know them at that time. We used to wash their money out overseas and put it
in Switzerland in nice, safe places for them.
Q. So you worked for Mr. Gotti as well
as for the CIA?
A. Actually the CIA told me to do that
on his behalf.
Q. So the CIA was in, would you say,
partnership or association with Mr. Gotti?
A. Yes, sir. I would say a partnership.
Q. And can you describe the nature of
that partnership?
A. Sure. The organized crime members had
a need for two things: they needed drugs brought into the country on a reliable,
safe basis; they needed people taken out of the country or people brought into
the country without alerting customs or INS to the fact that they were being
brought into the country; they also needed their money taken offshore so that it
would not be subject to United States tax where they might have to declare its
source. And so we performed these kinds of functions for them.
Q. Mr. Brenneke, are you saying that the
CIA was in the business of bringing drugs into the United States?
A. Yes, sir. That’s exactly what
I’m saying.
(snip)
Q. Can you recall any conversations you
had with any of the CIA agents about the money, and tell us the nature of that
conversation, the scope of it?
A. Sure. When I found that we were
bringing drugs into the United States, and that we were receiving money which
was being put into accounts which I knew to belong to the United States
Government, as I’d set them up specifically for that purpose, I called Mr.
Don Gregg, who was a CIA officer with whom I was acquainted, and complained
about the nature of what we were doing.
Q. Now, who is Mr. Don Gregg?
A. At that time, he was... Vice
President George Bush’s National Security Advisor....
Q. And can you tell us what you remember
about that conversation?
A. I surely can. I was told that it was
not my business, what I was flying in and out of the country. That I was hired
to do specific things, and if I would do those things and not pay any attention
to anything else, we would all be very happy. I didn’t like that.
Q. Well, what else did he say?
A. Shut up and do your
job.[87]
Bob Martinez, after his defeat as
Florida’s governor, was picked as Bush’s drug czar. Sources in Tampa
told Russell Bowen that Martinez was under investigation for smuggling
activities. But Attorney General Richard Thornburgh removed the Assistant U.S.
Attorney before the indictments could be handed
down.[88]
Two Assistant U.S. Attorneys in charge
of drug prosecutions in Miami—R. Jerome Stanford and Richard
Gregorie—resigned in disgust because of CIA stonewalling and cover-ups.
Gregorie told a Senate subcommittee that the CIA’s lack of cooperation
resulted in a “constitutional
crisis.”[89]
As Stich’s CIA sources told him,
the Agency was shipping arms to both sides in the Contra war to keep the war
going, while publicly stating that the Sandinistas were the ones trafficking in
drugs. As in Miami, the CIA set up another fake drug sting using their main drug
pilot, Barry Seal. Seal’s plane was rigged with a hidden video camera
which ostensibly recorded Sandinistas loading drugs onto the plane. In reality,
they were Contras. The “evidence” was subsequently shown to Congress
to justify the continued
war.[*]
To maintain his position as anti-drug
czar, Bush along with CIA, DEA and Customs, set up a fake drug sting at Miami
International Airport in March of 1980 using 4,000 pounds of bad cocaine donated
by Jorge Ochoa. DEA and Customs agents were on-hand at the airport to make the
drug “bust” to insure George Bush’s public
heroism.[90]
On January 28, 1982, Bush created the
South Florida Task Force to coordinate the efforts of various federal agencies
to stem the tide of illegal narcotics. According to local and federal
law-enforcement sources, radar balloons and other systems used along the
southern U.S. border were not even operational much of the time.
As Tarpley and Chaitkin
write:
“On February 16, 1982, in a speech
on his own turf in Miami, Florida, Bush promised to use sophisticated military
aircraft to track the airplanes used by smugglers. Several days later, Bush
ordered the U.S. Navy to send in its E2C surveillance aircraft for this purpose.
If these were not available in sufficient numbers, said Bush, he was determined
to bring in the larger and more sophisticated AWACS early warning aircraft to do
the job....
“By May, two of the four E2C
aircraft that originally had been in Florida were transferred out of the state.
By June, airborne surveillance time was running a mere 40 hours per month, not
the 360 hours promised by Bush, prompting Rep. Glenn English to call hearings on
this topic. By October, 1982 the General Accounting Office issued an opinion in
which it found “it is doubtful whether the [south Florida] task force can
have any substantial long-term impact on drug availability.”
“But the headlines were grabbed by
Bush, who stated in 1984 that the efforts of his task force had eliminated the
marijuana trade in south Florida. That was an absurd claim, but it sounded very
good. When Francis Mullen. Jr., the administrator of the Drug Enforcement Agency
(DEA) criticized Bush for making this wildly inaccurate statement, he was soon
ousted from his post at the DEA.”
This data supports information provided
to this author by law-enforcement officers [who wish to remain anonymous].
According to numerous sources, the drug flow actually increased during
Bush’s tenure as drug czar. As former CIA pilot Tosh Plumlee told Rodney
Stich: “From the time that the money was appropriated to start [the drug
war] we saw a 400 percent increase in the illegal drugs that were coming into
this country.”[91]
On March 23, 1983, Bush would be
cleverly placed in charge of the National Narcotics Border Interdiction System,
which was supposed to stem the tide of drugs into the U.S.
Plumlee, who witnessed decades worth of
drug smuggling by the CIA, the NSC, and the military, said that his government
handlers tried to cover up for their smuggling activities by claiming that the
shipments were to be used in law-enforcement “sting” operations. As
he states: “We were documenting the loads and the routes and waiting for
the big busts. But the busts never seemed to add up to the amount of cocaine we
were bringing in.”[92]
The Consolidation of
Power
How did George Bush assume such enormous
powers over the law enforcement and covert operations of this country (not to
mention the Presidency)? This was done through a series of Executives Orders and
National Security Decision Directives (NSDDs) engineered by former CIA Director
Bush signed by President Reagan.
On December 14, 1981, Reagan signed
NSDD-2 on “Crisis Management,” which designated Vice President Bush
Chairman of the Special Situation Group (SSG), responsible for crisis
management.
On January 12, 1982, Reagan signed
NSDD-3, which reaffirmed the existence of various interagency groups to deal
with intelligence and covert operations. Under the interpretation of this
document promoted by Bush, the SSG superseded and pre-empted the powers of the
NSC in areas of “crisis management,” which encompassed covert
operations and counter-terrorism.
On January 28, 1982, Bush was put in
charge of the South Florida Task Force on drugs.
On May 14, 1982, a standing Crisis
Pre-Planning Group (CPPG 1 and 2) was established under the SSG. Thus Bush
was given responsibility for any area in which a “potential crisis”
could emerge, and was charged with developing “preemptive policy
options” for dealing with such a crisis.
On April 10, 1982, NSDD-30, on
“Managing Terrorist Incidents,” was issued, giving Bush control over
the convening of the SSG, and creating the “Terrorist Incident Working
Group” (TIWG).
On March 23, 1983, Bush took charge of
the National Narcotics Border Interdiction System.
In July 1985, the Vice President’s
Terrorism Task Force was created, headed by Bush.
In February 1986, the Terrorism Task
Force created the Operations Sub-Group, officially a sub-group of the TIWG, and
also created a permanent counter-terrorism office located in the NSC staff,
headed by Oliver North, but ultimately controlled by Bush.
In August 1986, Bush became the chief of
“Operation Alliance,” an “anti-narcotics” effort to be
conducted in cooperation with Mexico.
Thus from December 1981 to August 1986,
Bush had consolidated his control over virtually aspect of U.S. covert
operations, as well as every agency dealing with drug interdiction. Never
before in peacetime in our country’s history had one man assumed as much
power as Bush exercised while Vice
President.[93]
George Jr would follow on the heals of
his father’s silent coup de etat through his blatent manipulation of the
U.S. Supreme Court in stealing the 2,000 Presidency via fraudulent vote
tallies.
One year later, on January 4, 1984, Bush
would travel to Miami to deliver one of his well-rehearsed “war on
drugs” speeches at the Omni International Hotel. Later in the day Bush
rendezvoused with boat builder and former racer Don Arnow at Islamorada in the
Florida Keys. Bush’s high-priced “Cigarette” speedboat
Fidelity was purchased from Arnow, his friend and fishing partner. As one local
resident said, “everyone in Miami knew that if you needed a favor from
Bush, you spoke to
Arnow.”[94]
Arnow was reportedly a drug smuggler and
suspected money launderer linked to the Genovese Purple Gang of New York through
Frankie Viserto, one of the largest heroin smuggling kingpins, and the Meyer
Lansky organized crime syndicate. Lansky had close ties to Israel and the
Mossad, who played their own role in smuggling drugs out of Central and South
America.[*]
Arnow’s role in marijuana smuggling was reportedly confirmed by Bill
Norris, head of the Major Narcotics Unit at the Miami U.S. Attorney’s
office.[95]
USA Racing, the company operated by
Arnow was owned by Jack J. Kramer, President of Super Chief South Corporation.
Kramer had married Lansky’s niece. On March 28, 1990 Jack and Ben Kramer
were found guilty of 23 and 28 counts respectively of federal money laundering
charges. Ben had previously been sentenced to life imprisonment for having
imported half-a-million pounds of marijuana.
Nevertheless, a result of his favoritism
with Bush, Arnow received a contract to build his “Blue Thunder”
catamarans at $150,000 apiece for the U.S. Customs Service. As Tarpley
and Chaitkin write:
“Bush had thus given a prime
contract in waging the war on drugs to one of the leading drug-smuggling and
money-laundering crime families in the US.... This was the same George Bush who
in March, 1988 had stated: “I will never bargain with drug dealers on US
or foreign soil.”
As Thomas Burdick and Charlene Mitchell
add in Blue Thunder:
“Ultimately by awarding Arnow the
Blue Thunder contract, Bush allowed not one, but two, drug smuggling arms of the
mob to penetrate the government’s anti-drug
program.”
Probably by design, the Blue Thunder
catamarans were unseaworthy and practically unusable for chasing down high-speed
craft, including Arnow’s Cigarette boats. Blue Thunder was capable of a
top speed of only 56 miles per hour, and most of the boats spent more time
undergoing repairs than chasing drug runners.
Ex-convict Tommy Teagle told author
Thomas Burdick that he possessed information that implicated Bush’s son
Jeb in cocaine smuggling. Teagle stated that Arnow and Jeb Bush had been
partners in cocaine trafficking and were $2.5 million in debt to their Colombian
suppliers.
According to former CIA operative Terry
Reed, current President George Bush, Jr. and his brother Jeb were videotaped at
Tamiami airport outside of Miami. They had arrived on the Bush family King Air
from Texas, presumably piloted by George W., to pick up two kilos of cocaine
which was delivered by Barry Seal from the Intermountain Regional airport in
Mena Arkansas. Reed was the unwitting co-pilot. At the time he made his public
statements, Reed indicated that he had both the tail number of the Bush Aircraft
and the DEA (NADDIS) file number of the
investigation.[96*]
Dr. Robert Magoon, a friend of Arnow, is
quoted as having heard a similar report. Teagle said he feared that George Bush
would have him killed, and rapidly changed his story.
But Arnow wouldn’t be around to
testify. Ultimately, an imprisoned convict was indicted for Arnow’s
murder—a murder that remains highly suspect.
According to an article by Joe Cuomo in
Penthouse entitled “Family Ties,” one of Jeb’s business
partners was Colombian “coffee” magnate Alberto Duque
Rodriguez.
Federal prosecutors in Miami have a
photo of Jeb and Leonel Martinez, a Miami-based Cuban-American drug trafficker,
shaking hands, but won’t release the photo. Martinez and his wife made a
$2,000 contribution to the Dade County Republican Party four months after Jeb
became chair of the local GOP. Martinez also wrote $5,000 checks to then Vice
President Bush’s Fund for America’s Future, and made a $2,000
contribution to the Bush for President campaign. This was during the time that
Bush was serving as head of the South Florida Drug Task Force, then later as
chair of the National Narcotics Interdiction System. While Bush was drug czar,
the volume of cocaine smuggled into the U.S.
tripled.[97]
Former CIA helicopter pilot Chip Tatum
backs up allegations of Bush’s involvement in drug smuggling. On March 30,
1985, Tatum says he flew his helicopter to La Cieba, Honduras, where he picked
up Bush Contra liason Felix Rodriguez, Honduran General Alvarez and Mossad agent
Amirm Nir.
“We flew into several villages on
the Nicaragua/Honduras border to recon for a later mission. I recorded actual
village locations for cargo drops by CH-47’s scheduled later in April.
Three of the villages were Rus Rus, Waspam and Santa Anna. Mr. [Oliver] North
was pleased with the operations. He stated that Vice President Bush appreciated
the extra effort I was giving. General Alvarez told Mr. North of my ability to
sneak into his airfield under their radar. He asked North if I could instruct
some of his security team and pilots for future use. North declined stating that
I was a national secret, laughing. We landed at Santa Anna and met with Enrique
Bermudez and other Contra leaders. We were then taken to a processing area of
some sort. As we approached, there was a strong smell of jet fuel and acetone.
There were several tactical bladders, used for carrying fuels, sitting around
the area. Six large fuel pods were on the ground but had the tops torched off.
Inside there was fuel and ground-up coca leaves. Mr. North stated the following
to the other passengers, “One more year of this and we’ll all
retire.” He then made a remark concerning Barry Seal and Governor Clinton.
“If we can keep those Arkansas hicks in line, that is,” referring to
the loss of monies as determined the week prior during their meeting in Costa
Rica. I stood silently by the vat of leaves, listening to the conversation.
General Alverez had gone with the Contra leader to discuss logistics. The other
three—North, Rodriguez, and Ami Nir—continued through the wooden
building, inspecting the cocaine. North continued, “...but he (Vice
President Bush) is very concerned about those missing monies. I think he’s
going to have Jeb (Bush) arrange something out of Colombia,” he told his
comrades, not thinking twice of my presence. What Mr. North was referring to
ended up being the assassination of Barry Seal by members of the Medellin Cartel
in early 1986. “How about ‘Pineapple’?” Rodriguez asked.
(Speaking of General Noriega.) “Naw,” North answered,
“something’s up there.” Bush later insured Noriega was
indicted and imprisoned for drug trafficking. I recalled the mysterious army
officers remarks in Ojo de Agua, “Tell no one. There’s no one big
enough in your chain of command.” I just heard North tell Rodriguez that
the Vice President, the Governor of Arkansas and the three of them are
manufacturing
cocaine.”[98]
As a liason to the Contra/Anti-Castro
Cuban community in Florida, Jeb Bush was responsible for freeing Cuban-American
terrorist Orlando Bosch from prison. Bosch was responsible for a wave of
bombings against Cuba, including the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner that
killed 73 people. Bosch received his financing from a Florida company called the
World Finance Corporation—the subject of one of the largest drug-smuggling
investigations in the 1970s. The investigation was eventually dropped due to CIA
interference. Bush was CIA Director during much of the company’s
anti-Castro activities.
Westword, a Denver newspaper,
reported Bush’s son Neil—who played a role in the bilking of
Denver’s Silverado Savings & Loan, for which he walked away
unscathed—being referred to as the “godfather” of a drug
dealer who kept Neil’s photograph on his wall. According to the article,
Neil let him know when “something was coming
down.”[99*]
Silverado’s third largest borrower
(Neil was on the Board), E. Trine Starnes, Jr., defaulted on $77.5 million in
loans from the S&L, some of which went to the Contra arms and funding
conduit the National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty, directed by Carl
“Spitz” Channell, a close crony of Oliver North. Silverado was shut
down soon after Bush became President, and the American taxpayers picked up the
$1 billion tab.[100]
By October of 1990, the S&L industry
was losing money at the rate of $3 million a minute. The total cost was
estimated at $325-500 billion. As President Bush commented, “The economy
is headed in the right direction.”
Neil Bush would soon be back in the
swindler’s circle through his west Florida Gulf Stream Realty land fraud
company - a prelude to Bill Clinton’s Arkansas Whitewater land fraud
scheme.
As Sherman Skolnick reports, Giorgio
Pelossi, a prominent Swiss accountant and reputed cocaine bank money launderer
for George Bush and two of his sons, was arrested in Chicago on January 20, 2000
after INS officials found he was wanted on an arrest warrant in Italy.
Journalists in Spain wrote about Bush and two of his sons, George W. and Jeb,
being reportedly implicated in billions of dollars of dope money laundered
through banks in Spain, Italy, Mexico, and the U.S. The cocaine banking cartel,
for which Pelossi reportedly was the brains, was centered in Milan and
Barcelona. The Pelossi-Marcinkus-D’Onofrio ring reportedly, through the
Vatican Bank and other financial institutions, trafficked in smuggled gold,
osmium nuclear bomb triggers, high quality counterfeit foreign currencies, and
other illicit goods and services. With the connivance of top officials of the
IRS Chicago Regional office, Pelossi reportedly arranged the laundering of
billions of dollars through concealed and dummy accounts, at the Harris Bank of
Chicago, and their Foreign Exchange section, called ForEx, a unit of Bank of
Montreal, and Republic National Bank of New York, for the
Bushs.[101]
On May 15, 1984 Bush visited Pakistani
President Gen. Zia ul-Haq in Islamabad. Bush praised the alleged successes of
Zia’s anti-drug program which, Bush stated, was a matter of great
“personal interest” to him. Among those present at the banquet where
Bush made these statements were, reportedly, several of the officials most
responsible for Pakistan’s narcotics trafficking. Pakistan had been
responsible for approximately 70 percent of the world’s heroin supply at
the time. Most of the dope was managed by an elite military unit that protected
the truck convoys of CIA arms to
Afghanistan.[102]
In August, 1986 Bush, working with
Mexican officials, formally christened “Operation Alliance”, a new
border enforcement initiative that followed on the heels of the South Florida
Task Force. Bush was appointed chief of Operation Alliance, which involved 20
federal agencies, 500 federal officers, and a budget of $266 million. Bush even
sought to obtain a cameo role for a brief appearance on the television series
Miami Vice. As Tarpley and Chaitkin write:
“Bush had no intention of
seriously pursuing such goals. For him, the war on drugs was a cruel hoax, a
cynical exercise in demagogic self-promotion, designed in large part to
camouflage activities by himself and his networks that promoted drug
trafficking.”
In 1988, Congressman Glenn English
stated that Bush’s war on drugs was “little more than lip service
and press releases.”
CIA pilot Tosh Plumlee, who flew many
drug flights, said he was provided with codes that allowed him to avoid drug
interdiction planes. As Plumlee said: “I have seen interdiction planes
turn away after we squawked our transponders, and let us into the country,
[un]molested, and not have Customs waiting for us when we
land.”[103]
Bush’s final act as
“anti-drug” czar would come in 1990 with the invasion of Panama
known as “Operation Just Cause.” The ostensible excuse was to shut
down President Manuel Noriega’s drug trafficking (an operation run with
Bush and CIA complicity). The real reason was to remove Noriega, who had gotten
“out of control,” threatening to nationalize Bush’s extensive
family investments in that country, and replace him with officials more loyal to
Bush and the
Agency.[*]
On this pretext, the U.S. invaded the
small sovereign country, killing thousands of people, mostly civilians.
Twenty-six U.S. servicemen also lost their lives to protect Bush’s drug
trafficking operation and the $350,000,000 worth of Bush financial investments,
laundered through the Bush-connected Japanese Aoki Corporation with the help of
brother Prescott. The puppets installed by Bush included President Gullermo
Endura, head of a Panamanian bank used extensively by the Medellin Cartel, Vice
President Gullermo Ford, part owner of Dadeland Bank of Florida, reportedly
involved in drug money laundering, and Attorney General Rogello Cruz, allegedly
a Cali drug Cartel boss.
As ex-CIA field officer John Stockwell
noted: “[Bush] used to work with Noriega the drug-dealer. He has worked
with a lot of other drug-dealers, in fact, but this one was screaming
publicly.... In 1988, Noriega told Newsweek or a Newsweek
interviewer that, quote: ‘I have George Bush by the balls!’
because he had the information on George Bush’s connections and ties and
knowledge of drug smuggling. So Bush had to get rid of
him!”[104*]
Frederick Kempe, a former Wall Street
Journal diplomatic correspondent, wrote Divorcing the Dictator:
America’s Bungled Affair with Noriega in 1990. This documents the
Israeli connections with the CIA in the contra-cocaine program in Central
America:
“Noriega, the new Comandante, made
clear he was willing to be more cooperative than his predecessors. He was also
feeling more heat for Panama’s role in laundering money for international
drug traffickers, and he interpreted a George Bush visit in December 1983 as an
appeal for more help for the Contras.... In Noriega’s mind, he thought
Bush was saying that if Panama helped the Contras it could defuse criticism
about money laundering. He passed this interpretation to a trusted
adviser.”
Coincidentally, perhaps, in December
1983 the Israelis reportedly started using a CIA front company in Panama to
start funneling support to the Contras. That company was IFMA Management
Company, which had originally been created in 1969 in Panama as a conduit for
CIA ‘black’
funds.[105]
While Noriega now languishes in a U.S.
prison, the amount of drug money laundered through Panamanian banks is
two-thirds higher than it was prior to the invasion (which, at the time, was
approximately 70 percent of the CIA’s drug take). For those Panamanians
who survived Operation “Just Cause,” 60 percent now live in poverty,
with 17 percent in extreme poverty, and 24 percent of the population suffers
from malnutrition. According to Olga Mejia of the Panama Human Rights
Commission: “Now you can find 1,000 children begging in central Panama
City.”[106]
The CIA/NSC/DoJ complicit smugglers and
pilots who testified against Noriega, including pilot Floyd Carlton, Roberto
Striedinger, and Ricardo Bilonick, were released or had their sentences greatly
reduced. Carlton was paid several hundred thousand dollars by the
“Justice” Department and given permanent U.S.
residency.[*]
Striedinger had his seized bank accounts returned, along with his 40-foot yacht,
an airplane, his AK-47, Uzi and MAC-10 submachine guns and his Mercedes-Benz.
Carlos Lehder was released from prison in 1996.
Noriega wasn’t the only person to
be silenced in the wake of the Iran-Contra revelations. Floyd Carlton testified
that he offered information to the DEA in Panama in July of 1987, which refused
to take the information. Carlton had frequent contacts with the Medellin and
Cali cartels, as well as taped phone conversations, documents and information
about money laundering, drugs, weapons and assassinations. Instead of accepting
the evidence, the “Justice” Department, as they would do with
hundreds of other whistleblowers over the years, had Carlton arrested.
When the FBI raided the home of Senator
Gary Hart’s presidential campaign manager Michael Boren Williams,
“the first item that was seized was a file pertaining to my investigation
of Bush’s ordering CIA Costa Rica Station Chief Joe Hernandes to blow up a
commercial civilian airliner he thought to be carrying Senators [Gary] Hart and
[William] Cohen to Managua, Nicaragua on an Iran-Contra fact-finding mission.
(Oh, just for good measure, the Managua Airport was blown up,
too).”[107]
As Williams told this author:
“[Cohen] was the co-author of a spy novel, along with Gary Hart. George
Bush (the big daddy fascist, not the creep who the New World Order’s
ordained as their next 4-year dictator) ordered the assassination of Hart and
Cohen.... Fortunately for them, they took an earlier
flight....”[108*]
As Tosh Plumlee told Rodney Stich:
“We’ve lost a lot of people that’s been killed or assassinated
or discredited because for whatever reasons, they were going to blow the whistle
on current operations they were involved with. Elements within the agencies that
are involved would definitely put hitmen out, if it was going to jeopardize
their ongoing
operation.”[109]
As Chip Tatum, one of the alleged
hitmen, says: “During the next few years, I would be tasked by Mr. Bush
with the neutralization of a Mossad agent in 1988, an army Chief of Staff in
1989, the President of a third-world country in 1989, and the leader of a
revolutionary force in Central America in 1991. [Mossad Agent] Ami Nir was
killed in 1988. General Gustavo Alverez was killed in 1989. Enrique Bermudez,
Contra leader and overseer of the cocaine kitchens, was killed in
1991.”[110]
Operation Desert
Massacre
“We are not going to achieve
a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and
money.”
- Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Foreign
Affairs (July/August 1995)
“The world can therefore
seize the opportunity (Persian Gulf crisis) to fulfill the long-held promise of
a New World Order where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause to
achieve the universal aspirations of mankind.”
- President George Herbert Walker
Bush
In January of 1990, the U.S. Government
under George Bush would again have the opportunity to demonstrate the
“universal aspirations of mankind” when it attacked Iraqi forces in
the Persian Gulf, driving them out of the oil-rich kingdom of Kuwait. President
Bush immediately rallied to the cause of “freedom and democracy” for
the tiny Arab sheikdom, where Iraqi forces were actively engaged in violating
“the rights of the free world” by pillaging the populace and
“pulling babies out of incubators.” Or so the White House and the
State Department would have us
believe.[*]
Thus, under the guise of creating a
“New World Order,” the U.S., with George Bush as the helm, once
again heeded the call to “defend the free world.”
In reality, Kuwait was little more than
a feudal kingdom ruled by a few immensely wealthy royal families, where such
“freedoms” included being stoned to death for adultery (for women
that is), having your hand cut off for thievery, and being arrested for
practicing any religion except Islam. It is a place that Amnesty International
reported torture is routine, and where 111 people were executed in one year
alone by beheading, 16 of whom were political
prisoners.[111]
So much for freedom and
democracy.
What tiny Kuwait did have going for it
was its vast oil reserves, whose ownership was in dispute with Iraq.
Iraq’s Rumaila field, which dips into its disputed border with Kuwait, was
being pumped for all its worth by the Kuwaitis—while Iraq, with the
encouragement of both Kuwait and the U.S.—was fighting a bloody and costly
war with Iran. The U.S. assisted Iraq in this endeavor by supplying them with
detailed intelligence enabling their forces to bomb Iran’s oil terminals
and power plants. As Jeffrey T. Richelson writes in The U.S. Intelligence
Community:
“In 1984, when some feared that
Iran might overrun Iraq, the United States began supplying Iraq with
intelligence that reportedly enabled Iraq to calibrate mustard gas attacks on
Iranian ground
troops.”[112]
At the same time as Kuwait was stealing
oil from Iraq, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, by exceeding their
production quotas, were driving down the price of oil. Iraq, saddled with a $70
billion debt from its war with Iran, was losing billions of dollars in
revenues.
Iraq’s demands were simple. They
wanted payment for the oil taken from the Rumaila field (whose ownership had
been in dispute ever since Britain had withdrawn from Kuwait), forgiveness of
Kuwaiti loans during their war with Iran, and access to the Gulf ports for
export of their oil. After negotiators failed to reach agreement over the
thefts, the loans, and the access, Iraq
invaded.[113]
As in Vietnam, President Bush attacked
this “naked aggression,” rallying to the cause of freedom:
“America stands where it always has,” declared Bush (whose family
made its fortune backing Adolf Hitler), “against aggression, against those
who would use force to replace the rule of law.”
So spoke King George, who, only months
earlier, had imposed illegal sanctions against Nicaragua to prevent free
elections there—a continuation of his and Reagan’s covert bloody war
against that sovereign nation. As a result, Bush became the only head of state
publicly condemned by the World Court for the “unlawful use of
force.”[114]
Such a condemnation is hardly
surprising, since barely two years earlier, Bush had invaded Panama to silence
Manuel Noriega and install “democracy” in the U.S.-controlled banana
republic.[115]
Not to tarnish Bush’s reputation
as a champion of human rights. Bush was CIA Director when Argentine secret
police launched their “Dirty War” in 1976, resulting in the
“elimination” of tens-of-thousands of political
dissidents.
On September 21, 1976, a bomb ripped
apart the car carrying former Chilean Foreign Minister Orlando Letelier and two
American co-workers on Embassy Row in Washington, D.C.. Letelier and a woman,
Ronni Moffitt, died in the blast.
Letelier was a staunch critic of
Chile’s murderous military dictatorship under General Augusto Pinochet, a
CIA puppet. Represtnative James Abourezk, a personal friend of Letelier’s,
asked DCI Bush to commit the CIA to the search “to find the bastards who
killed” Letelier. Bush appeared concerned and responded, “I’ll
see what I can do. We are not without assets in Chile.”
As Robert Parry writes:
“The problem with Bush’s
promise, however, was that some of the CIA’s top “assets” in
Chile were implicated in the murder. According to U.S. intelligence sources, one
of those CIA assets was Gen. Manuel Contreras, the head of the intelligence
agency, DINA, and the architect of the Letelier assassination. The other trouble
with Bush’s pledge was that the assassination had been carried out almost
literally under the CIA’s nose—and Bush had little interest in
exposing his own failings.... There was also the darker possibility that
Bush’s CIA had granted DINA license to hunt down and neutralize a Chilean
dissident on American
soil.”[116]
Bush was also CIA director when
Indonesian General Suharto, with support from President Gerald Ford and
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, invaded the small island nation of East
Timor. Suharto had come to power in 1965, during a U.S.-backed genocidal coup
that resulted in over a million
deaths.[117]
By comparison, Suharto’s invasion of
East Timor merely resulted in a quarter-of-a-million deaths. According to the
Australia East Timor Association:
“The atrocities of the Indonesian
Military Junta are absolutely barbaric, torturing and killing thousands.
Even women have been killed very slowly by stabbings.... Hundreds have been
burnt to death.... Indonesian soldiers took hold of the legs of little
children and threw them around in the air a number of times and smashed
their tiny heads and bodies against a rock. A women asked that one of the
children be given to her after it’s mother had been stripped naked
and killed, but the soldier grabbed the child and killed it
[instead]...”[118]
The Timorese massacres would continue
with George Bush in the White House, as the Timor Gap Treaty was signed, giving
Indonesian and Australian mining companies authority to begin joint oil
exploration with major oil companies—resulting in a new wave of genocidal
terror—all the while revealing the real reason behind U.S.-backed
policies.[119*]
Ramos Horta, special representative of
the National Council of Maubere Resistance, described how President Ford and
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger visited Suharto shortly before the
invasion and gave him the green light to invade, while assuring the
benevolent tyrant that his supply of American weapons wouldn’t be
affected. Kissinger told reporters at the time that “the United
States understands Indonesia’s
position.”[*]*
Fifteen years later, George Bush would
give his own green light to Saddam Hussein. On July 25, 1990, with Iraqi troops
massed along the border, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie met with
Hussein and informed him that the U.S. had “no opinion” on
Iraq-Kuwait border disputes. When Glaspie asked Hussein what his intentions
were, he replied that Kuwait’s actions amounted to “an economic
war” and “military action against us.” Hussein said he
hoped for a peaceful solution, but if not, he said, “it will be
natural that Iraq will not accept
death...”[*]
As former CIA officer Phillip Agee
notes, “A clearer statement of his intentions would be hard to
imagine.”
“Glaspie gave no warning
from Bush or Secretary of State [James] Baker that the U.S. would oppose an
Iraqi takeover of Kuwait. On the contrary she said, “I have
direct instructions from the President to seek better relations with
Iraq.” On the same day Assistant Secretary of State Kelly killed a
planned Voice of America broadcast that would have warned Iraq that the
U.S. was “strongly committed” to the defense of its friends
in the Gulf, which included, of course, Kuwait. During the week between
the Ambassador’s meeting with Hussein and the invasion, the Bush
administration forbade any warning to Hussein against invasion...
Assistant Secretary Kelly, two days before the invasion, again testified
publicly before Congress to the effect that the U.S. had no commitment to
defend
Kuwait.”[120]
While Bush was publicly condemning Iraq
for its invasion of Kuwait on the one hand, he was secretly pursuing a policy of
encouraging it on the other. “Big countries cannot invade small neighbors
and get away with it,” Bush sanctimoniously announced to the world.
Il Sabato, a Catholic weekly in Rome, noting Bush’s shameful
hypocrisy, wrote that Bush is the “surly master of the
world,” who deserves “the Nobel War Prize” for ignoring
opportunities for peace in the Gulf. Bush “had the very concrete
possibility of a just peace and he chose
war.”[121]
While conspicuously avoiding all
opportunities for a peaceful settlement, Bush arrogantly insisted that
Iraq’s capacity for aggression be eliminated—a curious position
considering that the U.S. had shared intelligence with Iraq right up to the
start of the war, and Bush had encouraged Iraq’s bloody ten-year war with
Iran as a bulwark against what he perceived as that state’s (and
Israel’s) aggressive tendencies (Bush’s “Level Playing Field
Doctrine”).
What was not mentioned however was the
CIA’s role just a decade earlier in fomenting Kurdish rebellion
inside Iraq, with arms supplied by the CIA’s good friend the Shah
of Iran. That rebellion led to Iraq’s loss of the Shat al Arab,
Iraq’s only access to Basra, its upriver port, and ultimately led to
Iraq’s invasion of Iran which cost nearly a million lives.
All the while, the U.S. was building up
huge military installations in Saudi Arabia in anticipation of a Gulf War
scenario, one that had been gamed-out in Pentagon war rooms. It was easy to
anticipate such a scenario, since Bush, like his father before him, had
illegally armed Iraq with both conventional and biological weapons, paid for by
U.S.
taxpayers.[122]
According to a 1995 deposition by Reagan
national security aide Howard Teicher, CIA Deputy Director Robert Gates was part
of a secret operation in the 1980s to funnel sophisticated military equipment to
Iraqi Dictator Saddam Hussein via Carlos Cardoen, a Chilean arms dealer with
close ties to the murderous General Pinochet. “Under CIA director Casey
and Deputy Director Gates, the CIA authorized, approved and assisted Cardoen in
the manufacture and sale of cluster bombs and other munitions to Iraq,”
Teicher wrote in the affidavit submitted as part of an arms-smuggling case in
federal court.[123]
Some of those weapons passed through
Customs disguised as agricultural loans funded by the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro
(BNL, which was connected to the CIA’s BCCI: “Bank of Crooks and
Criminals International”), and approved by the Department of
Agriculture’s Commodity Credit
Corporation.[124*]
Of course, not all these technological
transfers were so open. Iraqi arms dealer Ishan Barbouti, who, with the help of
Richard Secord (of Iran-Contra fame) and Wackenhut Security (an FBI/CIA/DoD
proprietary), was secretly siphoning off huge quantities of cyanide from Product
Ingredient Technologies, a food flavoring plant in Florida, which was
subsequently shipped to Iraq to be used in Hussein’s chemical weapons
production (Cyanide is a necessary ingredient in the development of nerve gas).
Barbouti was also friends with Hussein’s brother-in-law—Hussein
Kamil, who directed the flow of over $2 billion in BNL commercial loans to
various high-profile Iraqi weapons projects.” Many of the biologicals sold
to Iraq had the blessing of both President Bush and Secretary of State James
Baker—both oil men. It is rumored that both men made a substantial amount
of money from these deals, as did much of the U.S. military-industrial
establishment.[*]
But “smart bombs” and
bullets weren’t the only killers of this Mid-East holocaust. Approximately
20 to 25 percent of the inhabitants of the Persian Gulf are now afflicted with
Gulf War Syndrome (GWI), a deadly disease that has claimed 250,000 lives in Iraq
alone, with another million sick, including those of other Gulf states.
According to Dr. Nancy Nicholson of the Rhodon Foundation for Biomedical
Research and her husband, Dr. Garth Nicholson, one of the most highly regarded
scientists in biomedical research, more babies are being born deformed in Iraq
than are being born normal.
This debilitating man-made disease has
also claimed approximately 15,000 American lives (as of 1997), with another
100,000 to 200,000 veterans severely ill. This doesn’t include family
members, friends and associates who are sick, disabled, or dead as a result of
being infected with this highly communicable disease. (Unlike AIDS, GWI can
reportedly be spread not only through sex, but by casual contact, through
perspiration, or by being close to someone who coughs.) It is estimated that
over 50,000 National Guardsmen who served in the Gulf have reported illnesses.
According to the British Gulf War
Veterans Association, over 1,233 British veterans have died so far and thousands
more are sick—17 percent of those committing suicide due to lack of
treatment and intolerable pain levels. Thousands of babies have been born to
vets with horrible deformities—missing limbs, eyes, and ears, and
incomplete or missing
organs.[125]
While the origins of GWI stem mainly
from Iraqi biologicals launched from SCUDs and fall-out from destroyed Iraqi
chemical depots, the effects—which include fatigue, vomiting, weight loss,
joint pains, headaches, sleeplessness, memory loss, paralysis, tumors, and not
least of all, death—were exacerbated by dangerous and experimental drugs
administered to U.S. troops by the DoD. A Senate committee that surveyed 150
veterans discovered they were ordered, under threat of Article 15 or court
martial, not to discuss their vaccinations with anyone, not even with doctors
who were attempting to treat their adverse
reactions.[126*]
Court records uncovered by Sherman
Skolnick also reveal that Bush and Hussein engaged in private oil deals
involving the splitting of $250 billion worth of oil profit
kickbacks.[*] As
Skolnick reports:
“The records demonstrate private
transactions involving $250 billion in oil money kickbacks from the entire Gulf
region paid to Saddam Hussein. The Federal Reserve Board wanted Congressman
[Henry] Gonzales (D-TX) to agree to never use these records in any of his
congressional reports. He was only allowed to look at the records. But the
Congressman refused to sign the secrecy oath that the Fed
demanded.
“Following the May 19 hearing I
told the attorneys that I had heard what the records were about. I spelled out
these huge private transactions between Bush and Saddam.... One of the lawyers
said, “Well, that’s true. I want you to know that what is involved
here are non-bank records that the ‘Justice’ Department
[doesn’t want released].”...
“Saddam got kickbacks to the tune
of $250 billion arranged by George Bush and oil companies such as Penzoil which
are connected to Bush [one of the heads of
Penzoil]....”[*]
According to Skolnick, the
“Justice” Department used an investigation of a Court of Appeals
Judge in order to blackmail the judge not to release the information.
Representative Gonzales’ investigation was sabotaged by people on his own
committee. After BCCI’s records were seized by the Reagan/Bush
“Justice” Department, Gonzales tried, via congressional subpoena, to
acquire them. Judge Brian Duff, who has connections with the Federal Reserve,
impounded the records and chased Gonazles’ attorney out of court. As
Skolnick writes:
“On the Senate side the
investigation is also being hampered. On June 13 the Wall Street Journal
pointed out that Senator John Kerry (D-MS) who is investigating BCCI became
chairman of the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee which received large
contributions from
BCCI.”[*]
In fact, Bush had a long-standing policy
of supporting the Iraqi dictator. In 1987, Bush pressured the federal Export
Import bank to give hundreds of millions in loans to Iraq. In a manner similar
to what President Bill Clinton (and Bush) would do with Communist China, Bush
had met with Iraqi ambassador Nizar Hamdoon to assure him that Hussein could
import more dual-use technology.
At least $1 billion in military aid,
disguised as Agriculture commodity loans, were funneled to Iraq through BNL.
Under Bush’s Presidential Security Directive NSD 26, he overrode other
government agency concerns about lending money to Saddam Hussein. In October of
1989, Secretary of State James Baker III intervened with Agriculture Department
Secretary Clayton Yeutter to drop Agriculture’s opposition to the $1
billion in food credits for Hussein. This was a man who bragged in the spring of
1990 that he possessed enough chemical weapons to “burn half of
Israel,” and attacked his own Kurdish population with poison gas,
murdering thousands of men, women and children.
As late as July of 1990, the NSC pushed
for the second installment of the $1 billion package despite evidence that Iraq
was using the money for its ballistic missile program and other
weapons.[127] As
Congressman Gonzalez stated in a July 27 speech: “The Bush administration
sent U.S. technology to the Iraqi military and to many Iraqi military factories,
despite overwhelming evidence showing that Iraq intended to use the technology
in its clandestine nuclear, chemical, biological, and long-range missile
programs.”[128]
Yet by June of 1990, George Bush, Jr.
sold his stock in Harken Energy, which had exclusive oil drilling rights with
the island of Bahrain off the coast of Saudi Arabia. (Bush had been rescued by
Harken in 1986 when Bush’s Specturm 7 Energy Corporation was in financial
trouble. Harken made “Jr.” a director, and he and his partners were
given more than $2 million in stock, while George received another $600,000 in
stock as a “consultant,” not including his lucrative salary.) The
Bahrain deal was brokered by David Edwards, a close pal of Bill Clinton’s
and a former employee of the shady Arkansas-based bond brokerage house Stephens
Inc.[129]
Industry analysts were amazed that such
a small, unknown company won such a lucrative contract. Research by the
Observer reveals, unsurprisingly, that Harken has links to institutions
that are involved in drug smuggling, foreign currency manipulation and the CIA.
(In 1987, Jackson Stephens of Stephens, Inc. would arrange a $25 million cash
infusion to George Jr’s Harken through Switzerland’s Union
Bank—both tied to the notorious scandal-ridden BCCI. Stephens was a large
doner to both the Reagan/Bush ticket and to Bill Clinton’s presidential
campaign. Stephens’ wife Mary Anne managed George Herbert Walker
Bush’s 1988 presidential campaign in Arkansas.) As his pals at Enron would
later do, George Jr. successfully dumped his Harken stock for $848,560—a
nice 200 percent profit—just in time for Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait,
conveniently forgetting to notify the Securities and Exchange Commission as
required by
law.[130*]
Illegal-insider-trader-Jr. avoided
prosecution, thanks to some well-connected lawyers and Daddy-Bush-the-President
who pulled the appropriate SEC strings. This, as Enron employees lost their
pensions (or were “suicided”) as a result of illegal insider stock
sales—another company directly connected to the Bushes.
As Iran-Contra insider Al Martin told
journalist Uri Dowbenko, “Harken was one of those deals that was a
combination fraud as well as a manipulation. There’s different types of
fraud when you get into securities. When George Jr. was put in charge of Harken
Energy by his father, he essentially took it down the tubes. You have to realize
that every business that George Jr. has ever had has failed. That’s the
man’s business record.
“George Bush, Sr. and James Baker
and Senator Tower would heavily short Harken stock. I have a list of everybody
because I was one of them but to a much smaller extent. Harken stock was trading
at 7-3/4 or 8, when George Jr, was put in charge of it. A year later, the stock
was trading at 1-1/8 bid, 3/8 offer. They pumped the stock back up through a lot
of bogus press releases and by using essentially worthless leases in Bahrain and
essentially worthless South American oil leases and through sympathetic
geologists making them appear to be really worth something and making it appear
that Harken’s about to make a strike when in fact it’s all made up.
It’s all fictitious. And through carefully crafted broker releases and
broker statements and press releases, you can pump the stock back up. This has
happened sixteen times to my knowledge. Harken would get pumped back up from the
dead, from say a buck, buck and a half, back to seven, seven and a half, then it
would get dumped again. Originally George Jr. had control of the company. He
stayed on the board.
“You have to look at the entire
Bush Family in this context—as if the entire family ran a corporation
called ‘Frauds-R-Us.’ Each member of the family, George Sr., George
Jr., Neil, Jeb, Prescott, Wally, etc., have their own specialty of
fraud.
“George Jr.’s specialty was
insurance and security fraud. Jeb’s specialty was oil and gas fraud.
Neil’s specialty was real estate fraud. Prescott’s specialty was
banking fraud. Wally’s specialty was securities fraud. And George Bush
Sr’s specialty? All of the
above.”[131]
According to the National
Journal, 43 percent of President George Bush Jr.’s top 300 appointees
had worked for Bush Sr.
But Iraq wasn’t the only
“enemy” doing business with the Bush family. George Bush’s
brother Prescott was a consultant to Asset Management International Financing
& Settlement, a New York firm with a contract to provide communications for
2,000 professional and university offices in China. After the Tienaman Square
massacre of pro-democracy demonstrators in June of 1989, Bush publicly expressed
his outrage, while quietly sending National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft to
China to make sure the Bush family assets were secure. Asset Management likewise
enlisted Prescott’s help after his father imposed economic sanctions
against China (which he would later lift for Hughes Aircraft). For this Prescott
received a handsome $250,000 consulting fee from Asset
Management.[132]
Prescott would go on to broker a deal
between Asset Management and West Tsusho, a Tokyo-based investment firm linked
to the Japansese mob—the Yakuza, for which he received a $250,000
finder’s fee and a $250,000 yearly “consultant” retainer.
Unfortunately West Tsusho filed a $2.5 million lawsuit against Prescott claiming
that he reneged on his promise to protect the firm’s $5 million
investment.[133]
Like his brother George, Prescott would
play his own role in illegal covert activities, as a spy for the Reagan/Bush
presidential campaign against President Jimmy Carter. A September 3, 1980 letter
from Prescott to James Baker (soon to become Secretary of State) offers his help
in monitoring the activities of the Carter White House in their efforts to
obtain the release of the American hostages being held in Iran. As the letter
states:
“Herb Cohen—the guy that
offered help on the Iranian hostage situation—called me yesterday
afternoon. Herb has a couple of reliable sources on the National Security
Council, about whom the [Carter] administration does not know, who can keep him
posted on
developments....”[134]
The Reagan/Bush plan to delay the
release of the hostages until after the defeat of Jimmy Carter came to be known
as “October Surprise.” (See Chapter XX) With George
Bush’s tenure in the White House now secure, Prescott would help his
brother funnel illegal aid to the Contras through his position on
Americares’ board, the U.S.-based “relief” organization with
ties to prominent right-wing Republicans and the CIA.
The late J. Peter Grace, chair of
AmeriCares from 1982 to 1995, was a key participant in Project Paperclip, a
covert operation which recruited Nazi scientists to work in the U.S. after World
War II. Many of those Nazis had been found guilty of experimentation on humans.
Grace also played a prominent role in organizing the fascist coup that overthrew
the popular democratically elected government of Salvador Allende in Chile.
Comfortingly, AmeriCares presents itself as the “humanitarian arm of
Corporate
America.”[135]
Americares also provided an undisclosed
$680,000 to the Nicaraguan Miskito Indian guerrillas, and $91,383 in food and
medicine (and $5,750 cash) to Mario Calero, the New Orleans-based quartermaster
for the
Contras.[136]
Bush, Sr’s wife, Barbara, is
AmeriCares Ambassador-at-Large. Former Carter National Security Advisor and CFR
member Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski is its Honorary
Chairman.[137]
The Miami link to the Contras would come
through George Bush’s son Jeb, who acted as one key liason between the
Contras and then-Vice President Bush—helping to set up an arms pipeline
through friendly contacts in Guatemala. That contact, a right-wing politician
named Dr. Mario Castejon, would have his CIA funding proposals hand-delivered to
Ted Shackley himself.
The military-industrial complex was
apprehensive as the 1990s dawned with the break-up of the Soviet Union and a
consequential peace dividend. With their continuing shady arms deals in Central
America, and with Bush’s Gulf War, the establishment no longer had to
worry. “The war itself has done the most to stir interest in the
acquisition of high-tech weapons,” stated the New York
Times.
Ironically, 28 American soldiers killed
by Iraqi SCUD missiles during the Gulf War came from Pennsylvania, where
Greenburg-Latrobe had manufactured parts for those very weapons. SCUD launchers
were manufactured in Connecticut, with other manufacturers being scattered
throughout the country. As Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Peter Mantius wrote
in Shell Game, following the war, “President Bush [used] the vast
power of his office... to stall [Congressional] probes long enough for the
American companies that supplied Iraq to blend quietly into the
crowd.”[138]
Some of companies were tied to Brown Brothers-Harriman Bank, managed by
Bush’s father, the late Senator Prescott Bush, who, as discussed earlier,
had not only financed Adolph Hitler, but had armed the Nazis during the war in
violation of the Trading with the Enemy Act.
Ironically, Bush would later compare
Saddam Hussein, his own former business partner, to Hitler, while condemning the
Iraqi dictator for invading Kuwait and attacking the Kurds. At the same time,
Bush’s friend, Turkish president Turgut Ozal (who was former director of
the International Monetary Fund) was murdering his own Kurdish population by the
thousands. Turkish-occupied Kurdistan resembled El Salvador during the 1980s,
with imprisonment, torture, and mass-murder commonplace. At least 22,000 have
died since the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) struggle against Turkey which began
in 1984. But the government-controlled press wasn’t allowed to focus on
that slaughter because Turkey was a client state of the
U.S.[139]
In speaking about the so-called
atrocities committed by Hussein, Bush stated: “No one can see the pictures
or hear the accounts of this human suffering, men, women, and most painfully of
all, innocent children, and not be deeply moved.... we must do everything in our
power to save innocent life, and this is the American tradition and we will
continue to live up to that
tradition.”[140]
This “American tradition”
employed by Bush and his murdering minions like General Collin Powell (later to
become Secretary of State) and “Stormin’ Norman” Schwarzkopf,
amounted to the unleashing of more bombs on both the military and the civilian
population of Iraq than was dropped by the Allies during WWII; by burying
thousands of Iraqi soldiers alive in their trenches with tanks equipped with
plows; by openly machine-gunning thousands of unarmed surrendering troops; and
by imposing severe economic sanctions on a civilian population, at least a
million of whom—mostly children—have died as a result of
malnutrition and disease. The Wall Street Journal quoted UN sources as
saying that at least 560,000 Iraqi children have died since the war ended in
1991. That was in 1995.
“The foreign editor of
Brazil’s major daily wrote that “What is being practiced in
the Gulf is pure barbarism—ironically, committed in the name of
civilization....”[141]
Conclusion
“George Bush, he’s bad
on drugs, he’s sick mentally and physically,
if he was a dog he’d be shot.
He’s a scumbag. That’s why he won’t be re-elected. He’s
not morally, physically or mentally fit to be
President.”
- Christopher Hitchens, columnist
for The Nation,
Washington Editor for
Harpers
These activities are just a sampling of
the Bush family endeavors. What can one say about a man who makes brutal war on
a soverign country, killing thousands, just to protect his own drug trade? Or
murders a million innocent children in another country through war (read
slaughter), starvation and disease to protect his and his cronies’ oil
interests? Or participate in perverted sexual activities with prostituted
children? Or illegally smuggle tons of narcotics into the United States while
publicly declaring to be “anti-drug”—releasing major drug
traffickers while ordinary people possessing a little marijuana are sentenced to
long jail terms? Such a man could only be considered the most evil of
creatures—on a scale rivaling that of a
Hitler.[*]
While George Bush slaughtered hapless
millions in Iraq through war, starvation and disease (not to mention the
devastation he caused in Panama, Central America and at home), President Clinton
would be all too happy to take up the slack—bombing Baghdad with cruise
missiles (killing 8 innocent civilians) to punish Saddam Hussein for an alleged
assassination plot against Bush.
It is only too bad the plotters
didn’t succeed.
[*]
Approximately 19 U.S. presidents descended from royal bloodlines. As researcher
Brian Downing Quig writes: “John Galt (a pen name of a researcher fearing
to be identified), in an unpublished manuscript (now in my possession), The
Genealogy of the New World Order, has traced the royal ancestry of George
Bush, which traces from Charlemagne and Alfred the Great, all the way down
through George Bush’s 32 presidential cousins!”
[*] There
have been three S&B Presidents; at least ten Senators; two Chief Justices of
the Supreme Court and many U.S. representatives and state governors.
“Bonesmen” have held a myriad of lesser appointed posts and
positions, with a particular affinity for Secretary of War/Defense; diplomatic
posts to Europe, Russia, China and the Philippines; and in the national security
state/intelligence apparatus. Some examples of Bonesmen: Time-Life
publisher Henry Luce, New York Times General Manager Amory H. Bradford,
CIA officers William F. Buckley, William P. Bundy, McGeorge Bundy, and Richard
Bissel, Senator and David Bowen, Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Oversight
Committee. Other members include: Lord (1635, Cambridge, Mass), Phelps (1630,
Dorchester, Mass), Whitney (1635, Watertown, Mass), Perkins (1631, Boston,
Mass), Stimson (1635, Watertown, Mass), Wadsworth (1632, Newtown, Mass), Gilman
(1638, Hingham, Mass), Payne (Standard Oil), Davison (JP Morgan), Pillsbury
(Flour Milling), Sloane (Retail), Weyerhaeuser (Lumber), Harriman (Railroads)
and Rockefeller (Standard Oil).
[1].
Antony C. Sutton, America’s Secret Establishment: An Introduction to
the Order of Skull and Bones (Billings, MT: Liberty House Press), quoted in
“‘The Skulls’ - Insider Secrets Of The New World
Orderlies,” review by Uri Dowbenko, 4/5/00.
[*] Of
course the Federal Reserve is not federal, but merely a consortium of private
central banks. With profits exceeding 150 billion per year, no corporation in
the world comes anywhere close. Interestingly, if the profits of the Federal
Reserve were compounded from its inception, a sum roughly equivalent to the
national debt results. Wall Street interests originally “fought”
this bill while all along they were its authors.
[5].
“The Boodle Boys,” RA Kris Millegan, 1999, courtesy of Newshawk,
3/16/99. Millegan’s father entered was an OSS agent and G-2. During the
early 19502 he was the CIA’s Branch Chief, Head of East Asia Intelligence
Analyst Office.
[*] The
shipping manifests from those days have survived intact to make this claim
solid.
[7].
Antony C. Sutton, America’s Secret Establishment: An Introduction to
the Order of Skull and Bones (Billings, MT: Liberty House Press), quoted in
“‘The Skulls’ - Insider Secrets Of The New World
Orderlies,” Review By Uri Dowbenko, 4/5/00.
[8].
Max Warburg, who had been the Kaiser’s banker, was not exiled with him to
Holland after the 1918 Armistice, but instead became the advisor to the latter
government under the Nazis. Paul Warburg of the Wall Street investment house
Kuhn, Loeb Company had also participated in the drafting of the Federal Reserve
Act at Jekyll Island, and headed the U.S. banking system during the war. Warburg
was Rockefeller’s partner in banking at the same time his brother Max was
financing the Nazi war machine. Another principal Rockefeller partner, Jacob
Schiff of Kuhn, Loeb, had been born in the Rothschild house in Frankfurt and was
now the principal Rothschild representative in the U.S.
[*]
Contrary to popular opinion, Jews like the Rothschilds aren’t really
Jewish, having forsaken their birthright and converted in order to move freely
within the gentile business world. In Yiddish such Jews are known as
“Hofjudn.”
[9].
Webster Griffin Tarpley and Anton Chaitkin, George Bush: The Unauthorized
Biography. (Washington, DC, Executive Intelligence Review, 1992); Bowen,
Op. Cit., p. 10.
[*]
“During the war, that Trust produced a massive 50.8% of Nazi
Germany’s pig iron, 45.5% of their pipes and tubes, 22.1% of their wire,
and 35% of their battlefield explosives. At the time, this information stunned
the American public, and revealed the Bush family’s central role in
financing and arming Adolf Hitler for his domination of Europe. But since then,
the media has virtually buried all such reports.” (Webster Griffin Tarpley
and Anton Chaitkin, George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography. (Washington,
DC, Executive Intelligence Review, 1992.)
[10].
John Loftus and Mark Aarons, The Secret War Against The Jews: How Western
Espionage Betrayed The Jewish People (New York, NY: St. Martin’s
Press, 1994.), quoted in Tarpley and Chaitkin, pp. 357-361 2. Ibid., pp.
362-364.
[11]. A
1934 congressional investigation alleged that Walker’s Hamburg-Amerika
Line subsidized a wide range of pro-Nazi propaganda efforts both in Germany and
the United States.
[12].
Tarpley and Chaitkin, Op Cit.
[14].
Gyeorgos C. Hatonn, Rape of The Constitution; Death of
Freedom.
[*] As
Lieutenant Colonel Bo Gritz writes in his book, Called to Serve, the man
who wrote the Warren Commission report “was Dr. Rudolph August
“Otto” Winnaker, who was described in “Who’s Who in the
CIA” as an analyst for the wartime OSS, historian in the U.S. War
Department from 1945-49, and then Chief of the Historical Division of the
Pentagon. What is not listed is that Dr. Winnaker was once of 26 official
historians for Hitler’s Third Reich!” Quite
fitting.
[15].
Christopher Simpson, Blowback: America’s Recruitment of Nazi’s
and Its Effect on the Cold War (New York, NY: Weidenfeld & Nicolson,
1988.)
[16].
Russell S. Bowen, The Immaculate Deception: The Bush Crime Family Exposed
(Carson City, NV: America West Publishers, 1991), p. 2.
[18].
John Loftus and Mark Aarons, The Secret War Against The Jews: How Western
Espionage Betrayed The Jewish People (New York, NY: St. Martin’s
Press, 1994.), quoted in Tarpley and Chaitkin, pp. 357-361 2. Ibid., pp.
362-364.
[19].
George Bush with Victor Gold, Looking Forward (New York, NY: Doubleday,
1987), pp. 36-39, quoted in Bowen, Op. Cit., pp. 15-16.
[20].
Dallas Morning News, 9/28/99; Dallas Morning News,
10/30/99.
[21].
The Boston Globe, 5/23/00.
[22].
Martin Heldt, “Isikoff manages to make gone with 9 of the 12 months G.W.
Bush was missing from Air Guard duty,” On-Line Journal,
7/13/00.
[23].
Linda L. Starr and Bev Conove, “Former National Guard officer says Bush
aide scrubbed military records,” On-Line Journal, 11/4/00.
“This effort was further involved by General Daniel James and Chief of
Staff William W. Goodwin at Camp Mabry,” said Burkett.
[24].
“Texas National Air Guard grounded George W. for failure to take medical
exam,” On-Line Journal, 2/7/00.
[25].
According to Patricia Kilday Hart’s article on Dubya, he came under attack
in the University Daily, a Texas Tech newspaper, for promising free beer
at a campaign rally. Linda Starr, “Despite Yale diploma, George W. was
rejected by U of Texas Law School,” 10/12/99, cited in On-Line
Journal.
[26].
The Heritage Groups Council was also tied to Richard Nixon.
[28].
Loftus and Aarons, Op. Cit., pp. 365-371.
[29].
San Francisco Chronicle, 5/7/77, quoted in Bowen, pp.
30-31.
[30].
Stich, Op. Cit., p. 28. Parker was a Marine Colonel assigned to Naval
Intelligence.
[*]
According to Bush’s account, Nixon told him that “the place I really
need you is over at the National Committee running things.” In 1972, Nixon
appointed Bush as head of the Republican National Committee. He later appointed
Bush Ambassador to China.
[33].
Ibid., pp.35-36; The memo addressed the possible reaction of Cubans in Miami who
might have believed Fidel Castro was responsible for the plot.” (Harry V.
Martin, “French Connection, The Smoking Gun If Bush went to Paris, the
French and U.S. have documents to prove it,” Napa Sentinel, 1991
Sixth in a Series.)
[34].
Anthony L. Kimery, “George Bush and the CIA: In the Company of
Friends,” Covert Action Quaterly, Summer, 1992.
[*]
When he was found riddled with bullet holes fired by Colombian drug cartel
hitmen, drug-smuggler Barry Seal would have George Bush’s telephone number
in his pocket.
[35].
Uri Dowbenko, “Up Against the Beast,” Nexus magazine,
April-May, 2000.
[*]
This author met with Carone’s daughter, Dee Ferdinand, and was presented
with her revealing depositions, plus a number of her fathers affidavits. In
fact, a national radio interview I did with Dee Ferdinand caused Ted Shackley to
go ballistic.
[*]
Bush would play another role in domestic counter-intelligence. In 1962,
Bush’s father Prescott, along with William Casey, founded the National
Strategy Information Center, a right-wing think-tank which used CIA funds to
publish anti-left tracts.
[37].
“Reputed Cocaine Bank Money Laundry Wizard for George Bush Family
Arrested,” Skolnick Report, 1/28/00. Sherman Skolnick founded the
Chicago-based Citizens’ Committee to Clean Up the Courts in 1961. He is an
expert in tracking money flows.
[38].
Cathy O’Brien & Mark Phillips, Trance Formation of America, pp.
196-197.
[39].
Confidential interview with author. The Colonel told his wife about having sex
with Bush and wrote about it in his diary. He was one of Oliver North’s
bosses.
[*]
Casey had also been a friend of Bush’s father, Prescott.
[*]
King is now serving a 15-year federal prison sentence for
fraud.
[40].
John DeCamp, The Franklin Cover-Up: Child Abuse, Satanism and Murder in
Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska: AWT, Inc., 1992), p. 164.
[41].
“Homosexual Prostitution Probe Ensnares Official of Bush, Reagan: Call
Boys Took Midnight Tour of White House.,” Washington Times ,
6/29/89, quoted in: Webster G. Tarpley and Anton Chaitkin write in George
Bush: The Unauthorized Biography (Washington, DC: EIR,
[42].
John Lichfield, “White House ‘Great Gatsby’ Lands in a New
York Jail Cell,” The Independent (UK), 8/10/89; John Lichfield,
“White House Midnight Rambler Found Dead,” The Independent,
11/13/89; John Mintz, Martha Sherill and Elsa Walsh “The Shadow World
of Craig Spence,” Washington Post, 7/18/89.
[*] FBI
Agent Donald Rochon, in a lawsuit against the Bureau filed in 1989, states that
he had observed Special Agent Dillon “French kissing” SA Agent Terry
Bohle and had “personally witnessed” Dillon “exposing himself
in the Omaha office during a regular work day to numerous employees, both male
and female.” Rochon also heard reports, substantiated by another agent,
that Dillon had allowed Bohle to urinate in his mouth and to “urinate into
a beer bottle [from] which he subsequently drank.” For his part, Dillon
said that the urinating in his mouth was an “accident.” (John
DeCamp, The Franklin Cover-Up: Chile Abuse, Satanism and Murder in
Nebraska [Lincoln, NE: AWT, 1996], pp. 198-199.)
[*]
Witnesses saw explosions in the air. Naturally, the NTSB covered it up, as they
would do in numerous other cases.
[44].
King was appointed to the Reagan/Bush re-election committee by National
Republican Council Chairperson LeFree Daniels.
[*]
Some of the allegations involving the CIA’s mind-control “Monarch
Project,” involving children, were confirmed by DeCamp’s long-time
friend William Colby, former Director of the CIA, who wound up dead shortly
after the publication of DeCamp’s book.
[45].
DeCamp, Op. Cit., p. 322.
[47].
Omaha World-Herald, 7/23/89.
[48].
Gentleman’s Quarterly, December 1991.
[49].
Peter Sawyer, “The Original Allegations: Bush First Named in
1985,’’ Inside News, November, 1991, quoted in Tarpley and
Chaitkin. “The newsletter reproduces several documents on Lisa’s
case, including a Nebraska State Police report, a State of Nebraska Foster Care
Review Board letter to the Attorney General, an investigative report prepared
for the Franklin Committee of the Nebraska Senate, and a portion of the
handwritten debriefing by Mrs. Julie Walters.”
[50].
Report, by Julie Walters, 3/25/86; authenticated by her in an interview in 1990
with authors Tarpley and Chaitkin.
[51].
Report, early 1989, compiled by Jerry Lowe, the first investigator for the
Franklin Committee of the Nebraska State Senate, quoted in Tarpley and Chaitkin.
“The March 1986 report on Bush was incorporated into the Foster Care
Review Board’s official report presented to the Senate Franklin Committee
and to law enforcement.”
[52].
“Department of the Treasury, United States Customs Service, Report of
Investigation, Subject: ‘Finders,” 2/12/87, copy in author’s
possession.
[53].
“Department of the Treasury, United States Customs Service, Report of
Investigation, Subject: ‘Finders,” 2/12/87, copy in author’s
possession. Italics mine.
[*]
Revell would later sue this author, my publisher, Feral House, and several other
parties for libel in federal court for what I wrote about him regarding his
involvement in Pan Am 103 in my book, The Oklahoma City Bombing and the
Politics of Terror. A federal judge ruled in our favor. Revell also sued the
Columbia Journalsm Review over the same matter.
[54].
According to Aquino, Set visited him in 1975 and anointed him “Magus V of
the Age of Set,” thereby terminating LaVey’s “Age of
Satan.” To spruce himself up for the role, Aquino plucked his eyebrows,
had the number “666” tattooed on his scalp, and cut his hair into a
severe widow’s peak. He christened his wife Lilith as
“Magistra” in the new Temple of Set.
[55].
David Hoffman, “Do What Thou Wilt, Satanism and The Temple of Set,”
Haight Ashbury Free Press, September-October, 1995. Why do people join
satanic groups? Sociologist Gini Graham Scott, who studied the group in the
early 1980s and published her findings in a book titled The Magicians, described
the average member as people frustrated with everyday problems who are led to
want power. Scott ended by concluding that the Setians contributed, via their
philosophy, to a “growing climate of fear and hatred in America,” a
position which Acquino virulently denies, terming Satan[ism] “a champion
of anti-hypocrisy - a crusader against the corruption and moral bankruptcy of
society.” Such philosophies have sometimes led to brutal and bizarre
deaths at the hands of disturbed teenagers eager to experiment with the occult.
Said LaVey, the Heavy Metal kids who talk about Satan are usually not affiliated
with either organization. “They make the sign of the horns at
concerts,” “and they don’t know why they are doing it. But
it’s good that they’re doing it.” (Raising Hell, Michael
Newton, Avon Books, 1993) According to spokespersons, neither The Church of
Satan nor The Temple of Set have ever practiced human or animal sacrifice. Anton
LaVey once said, “I will have no mercy on people who are cruel to
animals.” The use of magick, however, to harm ones enemies, is acceptable
in these organizations. When Jane Mansfield died in a car accident, LaVey said
it was because she had asked him to put a curse on her boyfriend. He did, it
worked, and Jane unfortunately just happened to be in the car. When busybody
neighbors made authorities evict LaVey’s pet lion, Tagore, LaVey put a
curse on them. Before long, most of the culprits had died, disappeared or moved
away.
[56].
Ibid., pp. 326-327.
[57].
Giovanni Caporaso and Massimilino Cocozza Lubisco, Pronto (Barcelona,
Spain), 8/3/91 and 8/10/91.
[58].
DeCamp, Op. Cit., p. 188.
[*]
This is a pattern that would be repeated by the FBI and the
“Justice” Department at the Oklahoma City bombing trials. A tearful
Daina Bradley—a bombing witness and victim—would be coerced into
changing her story about her sighting of John Doe Two, a federal government
agent, at the scene of the crime.
[65].
Ibid., pp. 210-211.
[66].
Ibid., pp. 250-251.
[67].
Stich, Op. Cit., p. 442; Former NYPD Detective Jim Rothstein, interview
with author.
[68].
DeCamp, Op. Cit., p. 175.
[69].
DeCamp, Op. Cit., p. 240, pp. 322-323.
[70].
Bo Gritz, Called to Serve (Sandy Valley, NV: Lazarus Publishing, 1991),
p. 403.
[71].
Stich, Op. Cit., pp. 23-28. Stich’s sources are all former CIA
operatives: Trenton Parker, Gunther Russbacher, and Russell
Bowen.
[72].
See Russell S. Bowen, Immaculate Deception (Carson City, NV: America West
Publishers, 1991). The pilot has visited and worked in Colombia and much of the
rest of South America for over three decades, establishing several national
airlines in the process in conjunction with the State Department. Shackley has
also been placed in meetings concerning the sale of TOW missiles to Iran with
Iran-contra arms dealer Manucher Ghorbanifar in Hamburg, Germany in 1984. (Harry
V. Martin, Lars C. Hansson, “Noriega,” Napa Sentinel series,
1995.)
[*]
When Bowen became disenchanted with the operations, he contacted U.S. Customs in
Miami. Nothing happened. Then during a 1982 flight in which Shackley and CIA
operative Henry Meierhoffer ferried 800 pounds of cocaine from Medellin to
Miami, Bowen blew the whistle by landing the plane at a different
airport—an airport heavily monitored by the authorities. The plan
backfired and Bowen was arrested and denied his rights to defend himself at
trial.
[73].
Stich, Op. Cit., p. 34.
[74].
Harry V. Martin, Lars C. Hansson, “Noriega,” Napa Sentinel
series, 1995.
[75].
His letters arrived in envelopes with stamps and postmark clearly indicating
they had been mailed from Medellin, Colombia. In was also conveyed to Snepp that
the pilot claimed the company was tied directly to Interarms, the world's
largest supplier of small-arm/automatic weapons, run by longtime CIA asset
Samuel Cummings, brother-in-law of the late Senator John Tower of
Texas.(Ibid.)
[76].
Martin and Hansson, Op Cit.
[77].
Stich, Op. Cit., pp. 23-28. Stich’s sources are all former CIA
operatives: Trenton Parker, Gunther Russbacher, and Russell
Bowen.
[78].
Tarpley and Chaitkin, Op. Cit.
[*]
“They also had government contracts with large U.S. steel companies, such
as the steel foundry in Granite City, Illinois, located across from St. Louis,
Mo,” says Maholy. “They were licensed by the U.S. government, to
melt down and destroy confiscated weapons that various government, state and
local law agencies acquired, during their raids on people in the drug and or
other illegal businesses.” Maholy says the better weapons were not melted
down, but traded for drugs. “A common tactic for the transfer of these
weapons,” says Maholy, “would be to take the highly desired
automatic weapons down to some South or Central American country, where there is
little or no money, but large amounts of drugs. They would tell the militia
groups that they can possess state-of-the-art weapons and ammunition, for
whatever drugs they can produce. Since they have little, if any, money, the
militia would cultivate large quantities of the drugs. They are easily swayed
and convinced into doing business with agents of the CIA who are trained
specially for this huge money making scam that benefits those few wealthy
defrauders on Capitol Hill.”
[79].
Michael Maholy, e-mail to author.
[*]
Maholy was ultimately set up to take the fall. “People like Russell Bowen,
and Basil Abbott, and the infamous and now deceased Barry Seal, whose brother is
a co-defendant of mine, were taken out of the game also, along with
me.”
[82].
Ibid., p. 100. Other accounts were set up for William Casey and Richard
Armitage.
[*] The
code names for the smuggling operations were: Short Flight, Burma Road, Morning
Gold and Triangle. General Khun Sa, the source of approximately 40 percent of
the heroin to the U.S., offered to replace his poppy production with other crops
in exchange for financial aid. The State Department refused. Shackley’s
chief aide was Thomas Clines.
[84].
“Special Select Commission Appointed to Investigate Drug Traffic
Crimes,” 7/20/89, quoted in Stich, Op. Cit., p. 7.
[85].
Texas Observer, 6/17/94.
[86].
Stich, Op. Cit., p. 3.
[*]
Some of the code names for the Central and South American operations were Snow
Cone, Black Eagle, Toilet Seat and Watchtower.
[87].
“Joint Investigation by the Arkansas State Attorney General’s Office
and the United States Congress,” 6/21/91, printed in the Portland Free
Press, January/February, 1997.
[88].
Bowen, Op. Cit., p. 97.
[*]
Seal was killed on February 19, 1986. The FBI seized his personal belongings,
successfully hiding evidence of his involvement with CIA/NSC drug running,
including a card with George Bush’s phone number.
[90].
The allegations were reported by Mike Ruppert and Terry Reed.
[91].
Stich, Op. Cit., p. 93.
[93].
“Kingpin Indictment of George Bush,” excerpted from a draft
indictment of George Bush prepared by former DEA agent Celerino Castillo and the
editors of Executive Intelligence Review. All the evidence contained in
this draft indictment has been thoroughly documented. Most of it has been
taken either from the Kerry Report of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, or
the Final Report on Iran-Contra.
[94].
Thomas Burdick and Charlene Mitchell, Blue Thunder (New York, NY: 1990),
p. 34, quoted in Tarpley and Chaitkin.
[*]
According to CIA operative Richard Brenneke, Bush’s National Security
Advisor, Donald Gregg, became Bush’s aide specifically to coordinate
Israel’s Contra account. Brenneke claims he phoned Gregg’s office
often in early 1983 for instructions to be given to his Israeli suppliers. It
was known as Operation Tipped Kettle. As Gregg would later state regarding
himself and George Bush: “We never discussed the contras. We had no
responsibility for it. We had no expertise in it.” Bush mimed his
oft-repeated mantra that he was “out of the loop.”
[95].
Stich, Op. Cit., p. 229.
[96].
Michael Ruppert, From the Wilderness, 7/28/99; “Bush Sting Witness
Speaks Out Evidence that Could Burn Bush Campaign,” Nitro News, no
date provided.
[*]
As Governor of Texas, Bush aggressively incarcerated ordinary citizens for
relatively minor amounts of drug possession—invoking some of the
country’s harshest sentences—at the same time he was reportedly
involved with major drug smugglers! J.H. Hatfield, author of Fortunate Son,
published by St Martins Press, quotes unnamed sources as saying that George
W. Bush, Jr. was arrested for cocaine possession in 1972. The book said a
Republican state judge had the record expunged in exchange for community service
as a favor to Bush’s father, who had helped him get elected. Bush
sanctimoniously said that he views himself as a “lowly sinner” but
his religious faith brings him solace and reconciliation. “It’s
where I find my strength and my solace and my comfort as a person.”
(“Bush Finds Solace in Religious Faith,” Reuters,
1/28/00.)
[97].
Joe Conason and John Kelly, “Bush as Drug Czar, Village Voice,
10/11/88, quoted in Kimery, Op. Cit.
[98].
D.G. “Chip” Tatum and Nancy J. Tatum, “PEGASUS An American Spy
Story Book Two,” 1996.
[99].
Bowen, Op. Cit., p. 194.
[*]
Some contend Silverado, at the hands of Neil Bush, was a money laundry for
illicit funds including reportedly narcotics trafficking.
[100].
Jack Colhoun, “Contra Backer Dipped Into S&L’s Deep
Pockets,” Guardian (New York), 10/31/90, quoted in Kimery, Op.
Cit.
[101].
Skolnick, Op. Cit.
[102].
Bowen, Op. Cit., pp. 108-109; “Bush, Drugs, and Pakistan,”
The Nation, 11/14/88, quoted in Tarpley and Chaitkin, Op.
Cit.
[103].
Stich, Op. Cit., p. 90.
[*]
As CIA Director Stansfield Turner said: “I will affirm Bush had him
(Noriega) on the CIA payroll.” (Bo Gritz, Called to Serve, p.
404)
[104].
John Stockwell, interview on the Pacifica Radio Network, quoted in John DiNardo,
“Part 10, Lure To War: Bush Sucks Saddam Into Kuwait,” The
Peoples’ Spell Breaker, 6/28/97. According to USA Today of
5/22/90, Noriega “will suspend potentially embarrassing subpoenas for CIA
and other records the defense says show at least $11 million of the assets came
from the U.S. government.”
[*]
Noriega had at least once been a house guest of Vernon Walters, DCI Bush’s
Deputy Director.
[105].
Frederick Kempe, Divorcing the Dictator: America’s Bungled Affair with
Noriega (1990), p. 162.
[106].
“Mejia made that assessment three days before the fourth anniversary of
the U.S. invasion of Panama. Mejia spoke at a Dec. 17 meeting at the
International Action Center in New York.” -Workers World Service,
12/27/93. “[The announcement came] less than six hours before H. Hour,
making it impossible for reporters to make it to Panama in time for the start of
JUST CAUSE.” - The Commanders - Bob Woodward
p.178.
[*]
Carlton testified that he offered information to the DEA in Panama in July of
1987, who refused to take the information. Carlton had frequent contacts with
the Medellin and Cali cartels, as well as taped phone conversations, documents
and information about money laundering, drugs, weapons and assassinations.
Instead of accepting the evidence, the “Justice” Department, as they
would do with hundreds of other whistleblowers over the years, had Carlton
arrested to silence him.
[107].
Michael Williams, e-mails to author.
[*]
As Congressman Larry McDonald’s stated before his plane was shot down:
“The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies (Bush, et. al.) is to
create a one-world government combining supercapitalism and Communism under the
same tent, all under their control.... Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am
convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in
planning, and incredibly evil in intent.”
[*]
This testimony was given by the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador, and was
later proven to be a lie. In fact, no babies were pulled out of incubators. This
is, however, similar to what George Creels’ American Alliance for Labor
and Democracy did to stir up public emotions just prior to America’s
involvement in WWI. As Professor Noam Chomsky writes: “...there was a good
deal of fabrication of atrocities by the Huns, Belgian babies with their arms
torn off, all sorts of awful things that you still read in history books. They
were all invented by the British propaganda ministry, whose own commitment at
the time, as they put it in their secret deliberations, was ‘to control
the thought of the world.’” (Alternative Press Review, Fall
1993.)
[112].
Jeffrey T. Richelson, The U.S. Intelligence Community,
p.356.
[113].
Time, in fact, went so far as to say that Iraq’s claims to Kuwait
were “without any historical basis.” - Agee
[114].
Agee, Op Cit. (author’s note: George Bush is actually the 13th
cousin (twice removed) of Queen Elizabeth.)
[115].
For references to Noriega’s role in drug trafficking and laundering
proceeds for the CIA through Panamanian banks, see the affidavit of Colonel
Edward P. Cutolo, commander of the 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne), 1st
Special Forces, 3/11/80.
[116].
Robert Parry, “Clouds Over George Bush,” The Consortium,
12/29/98.
[117].
Amnesty International figures.
[118].
Australia East Timor Association, “Tortures by Suharto’s
Ratbags,” posted on website.
[119].
Noam Chomsky, “End The Atrocity In East Timor,” 3/22/95, posted on
Internet. Australia also trains Indonesia's elite Kopassus troops, the very
troops occupying East Timor.
[*]
General Suharto would make another concession on behalf of George Bush in 1996
when he allowed Bush’s favorite mining company, Barrick Goldstrike of
Canada, owned by Peter Munk, to take over mining rights from geologist Mike de
Guzman. De Guzman had announced the discovery of what was believed to be the
world’s richest gold field. He was later told he would have to turn over
68 per cent of his claim to Barrick. Fortunately, De Guzman’s problems
were solved when he fell out of a helicopter courtesy of Freeport-McMoRan Mining
Company (owned by Louisianan Jim-Bob Moffett), who had his own stake in the
deal. As for Munk, he was capitalized by Saudi arms dealer Adnan
Khashoggi—a key supplier in Bush’s Iran-Contra pipeline. In 1996
Bush had a quiet chat with Mobutu Seko, then dictator of Zaire. Mobutu
subsequently granted Barrick exclusive diamond mining rights. In a manner that
would make General Suharto proud, Barrick’s operation in neighboring
Tanzania was accused by Amnesty International of carrying out
“extra-judicial killings.” Amnesty reports that 50 independent
miners who refused to move off Barrick’s concessions were buried alive in
the pits by company bulldozers. In 1992, in the final hours of the Bush
Presidency, Barrick took control of U.S. government-owned property containing an
estimated $10 billion in gold. For the works, Barrick paid the U.S. Treasury
only $10,000. Barrick would subsequently reward Bush by donating $148,000 to the
Republican Party while Bush was campaigning for President. (Gregory Palast,
“Best democracy money can buy,” The Guardian [UK], 11/26/00.)
[**]
The U.S. Oil companies which participated include Phillips Petroleum, Chevron,
Oryx Energy, and USX/Marathon. In the next few years the American military
doubled their supplies to Indonesian armed forces. “In December 1989 after
he was exposed as having secretly violated his own announced sanctions against
China over the Tiananmen massacre, Bush emphasized that ‘I think we were
positioned in the forefront of human rights.’” - Michael Duffy and
Dan Goodgame, Marching in Place, p.182.
[*]
In March of 1991, Glaspie testified before the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, insisting the Iraqis had lied about her conversation with Hussein. In
July, however, the Committee obtained copies of the secret cables she had sent
from Iraq summarizing the meeting. They showed that the Iraqis had not lied. In
September of 1991, a subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee
revealed that State Department official Margaret Tutwiler and Assistant
Secretary of State for Near Eastern and Far Eastern Affairs John H. Kelly had
both repeated the identical “no commitment to defend Kuwait” stance
when questioned by House members.
[120].
Agee, Op Cit.; Elaine Sciolino, “Envoy’s Testimony on Iraq is
Assailed, Senators Say Glaspie Misled Them on Hussein Talks,” New York
Times, 7/13/91; Elaine Sciolino with Michael R. Gordon, “U.S. Gave
Iraq Little Reason Not to Mount Kuwait Assault,” New York Times, 9/
23/91, quoted in John McManus, The Insiders (Appleton, WI: Western
Islands, 1992).
[122].
Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian, Chronicles of Dissent, p. 305; Both the
Bush and Clinton administrations Justice Departments agreed not to prosecute
these big name American corporations for trading with the enemy. Such trading
with the enemy is tantamount to treason.
[124].
Jack Colhoun, “Bush Administration Uses CIA To Stonewall Iraqgate
Investigation,” Covert Action Quarterly, date unknown. “The
administration’s pro-Baghdad policy, spelled out in National Security
Directive-26, adopted on October 2, 1989, was based on promoting U.S. trade with
Iraq. The Commerce Department routinely approved applications from U.S.
companies for the export to Iraq of “dual-use” technology, which has
civilian and military applications.”
[*]
BCCI financed both Republicans and Democrats. The bank was formed with money
from the Bank of America, the largest shareholders of which are the Rothschilds
of Chicago, Paris, London and Switzerland. On Columbus Day weekend of 1988,
BCCI’s U.S. offices were seized by the Reagan/Bush administration. One of
the reasons was to stop BCCI’s funding of the Dukakis
campaign.
[*]
Following the war, Bush wrote to the Oil Minister of Kuwait on behalf of Chevron
Oil Corporation. Bush says he “had no stake in the Chevron
operation.” “Following this selfless use of his influence, the oil
company put $657,000 into Republican Party coffers.... Not all of the elder
Bush’s work is voluntary. His single talk to the board of Global Crossing,
the telecoms start-up, earned him $13m in stock. The company also kicked in
another million for [Dubya’s Presidential] run. (Palast, Op.
Cit. )
[125].
Donald S. McAlvany, “Germ Warfare Against America. Part I. Overseas
Infections,” McAlvany Intelligence Advisor, August 1996, quoted in
S.A.F.A.N. Internet Newsletter, No. 88, October 4, 1996. “In a
New York Times article (5/22/91) entitled, ‘Health Crisis Said to
Grip Iraq In Wake of War’s Destruction,’ It was reported that child
mortality soared in the first four months of 1991, up 55,000 over the same
period in 1990.”
[126].
As Captain Joyce Riley, a nurse and GWI activist testified: “They were
given medications—they didn't know what they were.... Everybody was
incredibly sick afterwards.... We don’t know what pills the troops took.
We don’t know what we were subjected to. ”
[*]
Like the thousands of U.S. soldiers who were intentionally exposed to nuclear
radiation during the 1950s—many of whom died of cancer, or the thousands
exposed to Agent Orange during Vietnam, these veterans were just another
casualty in the Federal Government’s long list of crimes against its own
people—the same crimes it prosecuted Nazi doctors for at Nuremberg. The
code that resulted from those trials was a 10-point declaration stating
that voluntary and informed consent is essential from all human subjects who
participate in research, whether during war or peace.
[*]
The Iraqi dictator received 25 percent of the proceeds of oil shipped to the
West. When oil was 20 dollars per barrel, Hussein split the 5 dollar per barrel
kick-back with Bush. A trillion dollars of oil was shipped from the Gulf during
the decade 1980 to 1990. The corrupt rake-off amounted to 25 billion dollars per
year, making Saddam Hussein and Bush the richest men on the planet. (Sherman H.
Skolnick, “What is Whitewater Really All About?” Skolnick Report, no
date provided.)
[*]
According to the Chicago Tribune, “In the 1950s [the Liedtke
brothers] teamed up with then-oilman George Bush and John Overby to form Zapata
Oil Co. Then they went on to form Penzoil.” BCCI also has records showing
joint business ventures between Bush and Manuel Noriega.
[*]
Kerry would go on to play a role in covering up CIA/NSC’s drug running,
including the frame-up of William Tyree, a Special Forces soldier who
participated in drug-running operations under orders from his superiors (See
Chapter XX). Other people, such as Clark Gifford, would be framed to take the
fall for Bush.
[127].
Bowen, Op. Cit., pp. 152-154.
[128].
Jack Colhoun, “Bush Administration Uses CIA To Stonewall Iraqgate
Investigation,” Covert Action Quarterly, date unknown. “The
administration’s pro-Baghdad policy, spelled out in National Security
Directive-26, adopted on October 2, 1989, was based on promoting U.S. trade with
Iraq. The Commerce Department routinely approved applications from U.S.
companies for the export to Iraq of “dual-use” technology, which has
civilian and military applications.”
[129].
Rick Wiles, “Bush Family’s Dirty Little Secret,” American
Freedom News, September, 2001.
[130].
Thomas Petzinger, Jr., Peter Truell, and Jill Abramson, “How Oil Firm
Linked to a Son of Bush Won Bahrain Drilling Pact,” Wall Street
Journal, 12/6/91; Johathan Beaty and S. G. Gwynne, “A Mysterious
Mover of Money and Planes, Time, 10/8/91, quoted in Kimery, Op. Cit.
According to the company’s 1989 proxy statement, Bush held 345,426
shares of Harken’s common stock, or less than 1.1 percent of the total.
Bush, Jr.’s involvement with Harken was first revealed by Houston Post
investigative reporter Pete Brewton.
[*]
The future President completed his key insider trade eight days before Harken
announced a $23 million second quarter loss and about six weeks before the
invasion. The chairman of the SEC at the time of the “investigation”
was Richard Breedon, former lawyer with the Houston firm of Baker and Botts, who
served as Deputy Counsel to Bush Sr. in the Reagan (read Bush) administration.
The SEC investigation of George Jr. was led by General Counsel James R. Doty
who, according to a UPI report, mysteriously neglected to interview any of the
Harken directors, including Jr. himself. Doty had previously served as
Jr.’s personal lawyer during his purchase of the Texas Rangers. (Tom
Flocco and Michael C. Ruppert, “All Roads Lead to Deustchebank And Harken
Energy, W’s Own 1991 Insider Trading Scam – The Mother of All
Enrons, From the Wilderness, 2002.)
[131].
Uri Dowbenko, “The Man Who Knows Too Much: An Interview with Al Martin,
author of “The Conspirators: Secrets of an Iran Contra Insider”
(PART 1).
[133].
Jack Colhoun, “Prescott Bush and the Gangsters,” Lies of Our
Times, April, 1992; and Robert J. McCartney, “Japanese Company Sues
Bush Brother,” Washington Post, 6/16/92, quoted in
Ibid.
[135].
“Censored 1999: The News That Didn’t Make The News,” Seven
Stories Press, 1999, reported in, Carla Binion, “Anti-Semitism, racism and
a Bush Family organization,” On-Line Journal, no date
provided.
[136].
John Spicer Nichols, “La Prensa: The CIA Connection,” Columbia
Journalism Review, July-August, 1988, quoted in
Ibid.
[137].
AmeriCares website.
[138].
Quoted in the New American, 9/16/96.
[139].
Husayn Al-Kurdi, “What Really Happened in the ‘Safe
Haven?’” Portland Free Press, November/December,
1996.
[140].
Bush’s April 16 Press Conference.
[*]
Cathy O’Brien—claiming to have personally witnessed this, paranormal
researcher and author David Icke and others—say that Bush and some other
top leaders are actually reptilian aliens masquerading as
human-beings.