GHWBush, CIA, and Zapata (and a good bit more)

[TomInTib]

Bush Senior Early CIA Ties Revealed
By Russ Baker and Jonathan Z. Larsen | The Real News Project

January 8, 2007

NEW YORK--Newly released internal CIA documents assert that former president George Herbert Walker Bush's oil company emerged from a 1950's collaboration with a covert CIA officer.

Bush has long denied allegations that he had connections to the intelligence community prior to 1976, when he became Central Intelligence Agency director under President Gerald Ford. At the time, he described his appointment as a 'real shocker.'

But the freshly uncovered memos contend that Bush maintained a close personal and business relationship for decades with a CIA staff employee who, according to those CIA documents, was instrumental in the establishment of Bush's oil venture, Zapata, in the early 1950s, and who would later accompany Bush to Vietnam as a “cleared and witting commercial asset” of the agency.

According to a CIA internal memo dated November 29, 1975, Bush's original oil company, Zapata Petroleum, began in 1953 through joint efforts with Thomas J. Devine, a CIA staffer who had resigned his agency position that same year to go into private business. The '75 memo describes Devine as an “oil wild-catting associate of Mr. Bush.” The memo is attached to an earlier memo written in 1968, which lays out how Devine resumed work for the secret agency under commercial cover beginning in 1963.

more at article:
http://realnews.org/rn/content/zapata.html

[Capn Amerika]

1. Two words: Skull & Bones

[goforit]

9. kick

[blm]

2. Bush1 has made a career out of pretending everything that happens is 'accidental' and

always beyond his control or his circle.

And for the last 14 years he has had Bill Clinton helping him pull it off.

No more secrecy and privilege. This nation's democracy cannot afford any more coverups.


http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/111106.html

[stillcool]

3. one spark please...

to light this path of deceit on fire, illuminating all those that turn in clusters... being connected by their roots.

[jwirr]

4. And where did he say he was on November 22, 1963? Him and

all the rest of his CIA buddies?

[NEOBuckeye]

5. So much destruction and blooshed has originated from GHWB

And to make matters worse, he had children.

[jobycom]

6. At least it avoids repeating the debunked myth about George Bush and the Bay of Pigs.

Other than that, it suggest conclusions (without actually stating those conclusions) based on George Bush knowing someone.

I've often said that my mother was connected to the JFK assassination. She dated a Cuban exile who returned to Cuba to fight in the Revolution. She lived a block away from Lee Harvey Oswald in New Orleans, on Magazine Street. And she married a man who worked for Zapata. With all that, how can I deny the fact that my mother was probably the go between of Oswald and Castro? I can no longer live this life of lies. I must come clean. My mother shot Kennedy, and she married a CIA operative! Oh, the sense of liberation I feel finally speaking the truth is overwhelming!

[lovuian]

7. Irony is Bush destroyed the CIA and outed Agents

when he was working for them

The ultimate Sin

[goforit]

8. OMG!!!......This is clarity.

The iceberg continues to crack.

The legend becomes reality. And GHWBush can be assumed the most dangerous man in US history.

[Initech]

10. I'm really curious as to what happened to Zapata's records.