[This set of three articles has some repeated pieces and ends mid-sentence - it really needs cleaned up and finished, but I didn't originate it. It's fascinating, though, both historically and in terms of our current situation. - mhr] Bush Theories Part One One of world famous Conspiracy Theorist Barry' Chamish's interesting theories is that the late JFK Jr. was interested in the Rabin Assassination. I wonder why that would be so. One would think that the assassination JFK Jr. would Most be interested in would be that of his own father, then US President John F. Kennedy on November 22nd, 1963 in Dallas Texas. Perhaps there is a connection however: Rabin is alleged to have been in Dallas on November 22nd, 1963. Please see http://pnews.org/boards/csboard/messages/33.html for that allegation.. If true Rabin would have been lured to Dallas by someone seeking to blame Israel, & Jews in general for the JFK assassination. Here below some pure speculation on such matters: Mr.A. Harriman was the partner in Brown Brothers Harriman, with Prescott Bush, the father of former President Bush & with former President Bush's grandfather George Herbert Walker. The W. in George W. Bush stands for Walker. Former President Bush's father Prescott Bush was a US Senator from Connecticut. Former President Bush was not a Senator himself, having been narrowly defeated by Incumbent Democratic Party Senator Ralph Yarborough of Texas in 1964 when George Herbert Walker Bush ran for the US Senate. Interestingly enough Yarborough's bitter enemy, then Democratic Governor of Texas ,John Connally, http://c-spanstore.com/c-spanstore/10319.html later to become a Republican, and a close friend of Republican US President Richard M. Nixon, was the other person shot If Connally had died as a result of his wounds a suspicion which would be hard to prove might have surfaced: that Connally's arch -enemy, Yarborough, was someone behind the assassination-Things in Texas often get "settled" with guns.- Connally managed to survive being shot. http://www.jfkassassination.net/jbchit.htm in Dallas,Texas on November 22nd, 1963 while riding in the same car as then US Democratic Party President John F. Kennedy. Kennedy had come to Texas to try heal the infamous "Yarborough/Connally Feud". Yarborough was riding with LBJ in the same motorcade. Connally had been then US President Richard M. Nixon's first choice to replace him as Vice President When then US Vice President Sprio T. Agnew resigned. Unable to get Connally past the US Republican Party, then headed by Bush Sr. Nixon settled on Gerald R. Ford as his Vice President, Ford would later succeed Nixon after the infamous last cabinet meeting Which was attended by Bush Sr. in his role as head of the US Republican party, who told Nixon : "Mr. President, you HAVE to resign." This was the culmination of the so-called "Watergate Scandal" in which the telephone number of former A.Harriman Press Secretary , E. Howard Hunt, at the White House, was "discovered" in the address book of one of the alleged " Watergate burglars" who comprised a mixed bunch of "ex"- CIA, "ex" -FBI, professionals ,and others who had been involved in the Bay of Pigs fiasco, the invasion of Cuba, which had allegedly been managed at least in part by alleged Harriman former Press Secretary E. Howard. Hunt, and long time alleged Harriman friend Bissell.. Called "Operation Zapata", the invasion of Cuba took place at a time in which Bush Sr. had allegedly been involved in an oil company named "Zapata Oil." The 2 ships in the Cuban harbor at the time of the Bay of Pigs invasion were named "The Barbara" & "The Houston". By another interesting "coincidence" George Bush Sr. lived in Houston & was married to Barbara. What an interesting coincidence it was for this bunch to take along an address book on their "burglary" at the Watergate which "happened" to have E. Howard Hunt's address in it. Hunt is also alleged by some to have been one of the so-called "Three Tramps" in Dallas on November 22nd, 1963 http://www.konformist.com/jfkland/tramps.htm http://www.weberman.com/ A.Harriman is of course the person who was the former partner of Bush Sr.s Father & Grandfather in Brown Brothers Harriman. It certainly is a small world. Harriman actually gave Jackie Kennedy his house in Georgetown to move into after JFK was assassinated. It was Harriman who chaired the only US Government meeting in Washington, D.C. on November 22nd, 1963. Harriman served in the State Department under JFK handling South East Asian affairs. On November 1st, 1963, three weeks to the day before Roman Catholic President JFK was assassinated, the Roman Catholic regime in South Vietnam of Ngo Dinh Diem, Madame Nhu, et.al was removed in a bloody coup. No longer would a 90% Buddhist country have to deal with a repressive regime from the minority 10% of the country which was Roman Catholic. The removal of the Catholic US President who had escalated the Vietnam War from 800 US Advisers under then US President Eisenhower to 40,000 troops would make it easier for the US to "win the hearts & minds of the Vietnamese people". Bush Sr. allegedly called the FBI 2 hours before the JFK Assassination to report that a friend of his planned to assassinate JFK in Houston that week. Richard M. Nixon was in Dallas on that day, November 22nd, 1963, which probably explains why The JFK trip was scheduled then. Should something go wrong the real conspirators could blame Nixon, JFK's obvious enemy for the assassination. Had Nixon really had anything to do with It he would have been at the other end of the earth on that day. One of the most despicable things the Iran/Contra plotters did was to attempt to cover US involvement in Iran/Contra by muddying the waters through the use of Israelis who, could be fall-guys, or "patsies", there to take the blame should anything go wrong. Whoever masterminded the assassination of JFK was obviously working from the same play book if allegations that Yitzhak Rabin was in Dallas on November 22nd ,1963 are true. Please see http://pnews.org/boards/csboard/messages/33.html for that allegation. If true Rabin would have been lured to Dallas by someone seeking to blame Israel, & Jews in general for the JFK assassination. Thus cover story after cover story would have been prepared by the real gang behind the JFK assassination. Someone who described himself as "just a patsy", Lee Harvey Oswald, the presumed assassin, allegedly was provided with his job at the Texas School Book Depository through the efforts of an alleged former Nazi agent, alleged former CIA agent, named George De Morenschildt, http://jfkassassination.net/death2.txt Two key elements, time & space must be considered in the JFK Assassination. JFK was allegedly shot from the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas where Oswald worked. Someone who have had to have a) placed Oswald in his job at the Texas School Book Depository & b) arranged the route of JFK's motorcade to pass the Texas School Book Depository to make the assassination work, particularly if Oswald was to become the "patsy", or "fall-guy" for the assassination. Oswald worked at a top-secret U-2 spy plane base in Asia before he allegedly "defected" to the then Soviet Union. Some feel he was working for the CIA or others perhaps, and that his alleged "defection" to the USSR was part of a wider plot. Oswald allegedly was working for the CIA at that base & allegedly reporting ultimately to one Desmond "Dizzy Fits" Fitzgerald at the CIA according to a book titled: The Man Who Knew Too Much: Richard Case Nagell & the Assassination of JFK Trade Paperback, 824 Pages, Carroll & Graf Publishers, Incorporated, October 1993 ISBN: 0786700297 whose author is Dick Russell. One wonders if Jennifer Fitzgerald, alleged mistress of former President Bush, was a relative of Desmond "Dizzy Fits" Fitzgerald. For that matter, perhaps John Fitzgerald Kennedy was a relative? JFK certainly benefited from Oswald's alleged "defection" to Moscow. Oswald allegedly provided the Soviets with the information on the U-2 spy plane. With that information Moscow was allegedly able to shoot down the U-2 spy plane over the then Soviet Union. That torpedoed the planned summit between then US President Eisenhower & Soviet leader Nikita S. Krushchev. http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/ST/STchp20.html It was long time Harriman family attorney Allen Dulles, then CIA director, who "suggested that the administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, T. Keith Glennan, release a pre-prepared cover story" on the U-2 which soon fell apart. Another long time Harriman buddy, Richard M. Bissell, Jr. was the CIA person "in charge of the U-2 project". Bissell also allegedly ran the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961, allegedly along with alleged former press secretary to A. Harriman E.Howard Hunt of Watergate "fame". With the summit shot down along with the U-2 the way was paved for JFK to defeat Nixon in 1960.Some years later George De Morenschildt was scheduled to meet with former federal investigator GAETON FONZI, who was investigating JFK's assassination, when De Morenschildt was found dead from a shot-gun blast. A description of the scene follows: "Also found in the case was a two- page personal affidavit which indicated it was written on March 11, 1977, in Brussels, Belgium, which made reference to his friendship with LEE HARVEY OSWALD, who assassinated President John F. Kennedy, in Dallas, Texas, on 22 November, 1963. Found in the deceased's pants pocket was a newspaper article from the March 20, 1977 edition of the Dallas Morning News, which indicated that the deceased may possibly have been involved in, or have knowledge of, some type of conspiracy in the above-mentioned assassination. This, coupled with the fact that an investigator from the U. S. House of Representatives Committee on Assassinations had been at the residence earlier looking for the victim, indicated to this writer that the death of this individual could possibly be of major importance." "During this time, between 1000 hours and 1100 hours, an investigator for the House Committee on Assassinations, named GAETON FONZI, appeared at the Tilton residence inquiring about the victim and his whereabouts." Fonzi claims that Bush Sr.'s name & phone number were found In De Morenschildt's address book. Fonzi is the author of Last Investigation: A Former Federal Investigator Tells What Insiders Know About the Assassination of JFK Trade Paperback, 464 Pages, Thunder's Mouth Press, October 1994 ISBN: 1560250798 What is your opinion of these amazing coincidences? What books have you read on JFK? What are your opinions on that who-done-it? Clearly with strong opposition from many of the 90% of South Vietnamese who are Buddhist to the harsh regime of Roman Catholic South Vietnamese leaders Ngo Dinh Diem, & Madame Nhu having a Roman Catholic American President attempting to "win the hearts & minds of the Vietnamese people" would be more than a tough sell. In fact it would be impossible. As Buddhist opposition to Diem & Nhu grew it was clear that Diem & Nhu would have to be replaced with a regime in Saigon that was not headed by Roman Catholics. Three weeks to the day before the JFK Assassination a coup toppled the Diem/Nhu regime. On the day of the JFK Assassination the only high level US Government meeting held in Washington ,D.C. was chaired by the former partner in Brown Brothers, Harriman, of the father of former President Bush, Prescott Bush, (Prescott Bush was busted for "trading with the enemy" Adolf Hitler during World War Two) & former President Bush's grandfather, George Herbert Walker, (the W in George W. Bush stands for Walker.) , one A. Harriman. Harriman was not acting in his role as a top US State Department official on South East Asian affairs. Harriman, was chairing a meeting of Latin American oil company executives. The bulk of JFK's cabinet was on a plane over the Pacific Ocean on November 22nd, 1963. Also on November 22nd, 1963, 2 hours BEFORE JFK was shot, one George Herbert Walker Bush, later to become President of the United States, allegedly called the FBI (not the Secret Service) to warn that a friend of his was allegedly planning to shoot JFK in Houston (not Dallas) later that week Bush Sr. was not a Senator himself, having been narrowly defeated by incumbent Democratic Party Senator Ralph Yarborough of Texas in 1964 when Bush Sr. ran for the US Senate. Interestingly enough Yarborough's bitter enemy, then Democratic Governor of Texas, John Connally, http://c-spanstore.com/c-spanstore/10319.html later to become a Republican, and a close friend of Republican US President Richard M. Nixon, was the other person shot If Connally had died as a result of his wounds a suspicion which would be hard to prove might have surfaced: that Connally's arch -enemy, Yarborough, was someone behind the assassination. (Sadly things in Texas often get "settled"with guns. Texas Governor George W. Bush even signed a concealed carry weapons law in Texas.) Connally managed to survive being shot. http://www.jfkassassination.net/jbchit.htm in Dallas,Texas on November 22nd, 1963 while riding in the same car as then US Democratic Party President John F. Kennedy. Kennedy had come to Texas to try heal the infamous "Yarborough/Connally Feud". Yarborough was riding with LBJ in the same motorcade. Connally had been then US President Richard M. Nixon's first choice to replace him as Vice President When then US Vice President Sprio T. Agnew resigned. Unable to get Connally past the US Republican Party, then headed by Bush Sr. Nixon settled on Gerald R. Ford as his Vice President, Ford would later succeed Nixon after the infamous last cabinet meeting Which was attended by Bush Sr. in his role as head of the US Republican party, who told Nixon : "Mr. President, you HAVE to resign." This was the culmination of the so-called "Watergate Scandal" in which the telephone number of former A.Harriman Press Secretary , E. Howard Hunt, at the White House, was "discovered" in the address book of one of the alleged " Watergate burglars" who comprised a mixed bunch of "ex"- CIA, "ex" -FBI, professionals ,and others who had been involved in the Bay of Pigs fiasco, the invasion of Cuba, which had allegedly been managed at least in part by alleged Harriman former Press Secretary E. Howard. Hunt, and long time alleged Harriman friend Bissell.. Called "Operation Zapata", the invasion of Cuba took place at a time in which Bush Sr. had allegedly been involved in an oil company named "Zapata Oil." The 2 ships in the Cuban harbor at the time of the Bay of Pigs invasion were named "The Barbara" & "The Houston". By another interesting "coincidence" George Bush Sr. lived in Houston & was married to Barbara. What an interesting coincidence it was for this bunch to take along an address book on their "burglary" at the Watergate which "happened" to have E. Howard Hunt's address in it. Hunt is also alleged by some to have been one of the so-called "Three Tramps" in Dallas on November 22nd, 1963 http://www.konformist.com/jfkland/tramps.htm http://www.weberman.com/ A.Harriman is of course the person who was the former partner of Bush Sr.s Father & Grandfather in Brown Brothers Harriman. It certainly is a small world. Harriman actually gave Jackie Kennedy his house in Georgetown to move into after JFK was assassinated. It was Harriman who chaired the only US Government meeting in Washington, D.C. on November 22nd, 1963. Harriman served in the State Department under JFK handling South East Asian affairs. On November 1st, 1963, three weeks to the day before Roman Catholic President JFK was assassinated, the Roman Catholic regime in South Vietnam of Ngo Dinh Diem, Madame Nhu, et.al was removed in a bloody coup. No longer would a 90% Buddhist country have to deal with a repressive regime from the minority 10% of the country which was Roman Catholic. The removal of the Catholic US President who had escalated the Vietnam War from 800 US Advisers under then US President Eisenhower to 40,000 troops would make it easier for the US to "win the hearts & minds of the Vietnamese people". Bush Sr. allegedly called the FBI 2 hours before the JFK Assassination to report that a friend of his planned to assassinate JFK in Houston that week. Richard M. Nixon was in Dallas on that day, November 22nd, 1963, which probably explains why The JFK trip was scheduled then. Should something go wrong the real conspirators could blame Nixon, JFK's obvious enemy for the assassination. Had Nixon really had anything to do with It he would have been at the other end of the earth on that day. One of the most despicable things the Iran/Contra plotters did was to attempt to cover US involvement in Iran/Contra by muddying the waters through the use of Israelis who, could be fall-guys, or "patsies", there to take the blame should anything go wrong. Whoever masterminded the assassination of JFK was obviously working from the same play book if allegations that Yitzhak Rabin was in Dallas on November 22nd ,1963 are true. Please see http://pnews.org/boards/csboard/messages/33.html for that allegation. If true Rabin would have been lured to Dallas by someone seeking to blame Israel, & Jews in general for the JFK assassination. Thus cover story after cover story would have been prepared by the real gang behind the JFK assassination. Someone who described himself as "just a patsy", Lee Harvey Oswald, the presumed assassin, allegedly was provided with his job at the Texas School Book Depository through the efforts of an alleged former Nazi agent, alleged former CIA agent, named George De Morenschildt, http://jfkassassination.net/death2.txt Two key elements, time & space must be considered in the JFK Assassination. JFK was allegedly shot from the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas where Oswald worked. Someone who have had to have a) placed Oswald in his job at the Texas School Book Depository & b) arranged the route of JFK's motorcade to pass the Texas School Book Depository to make the assassination work, particularly if Oswald was to become the "patsy", or "fall-guy" for the assassination. Oswald worked at a top-secret U-2 spy plane base in Asia before he allegedly "defected" to the then Soviet Union. Some feel he was working for the CIA or others perhaps, and that his alleged "defection" to the USSR was part of a wider plot. Oswald allegedly was working for the CIA at that base & allegedly reporting ultimately to one Desmond "Dizzy Fits" Fitzgerald at the CIA according to a book titled: The Man Who Knew Too Much: Richard Case Nagell & the Assassination of JFK Trade Paperback, 824 Pages, Carroll & Graf Publishers, Incorporated, October 1993 ISBN: 0786700297 whose author is Dick Russell. One wonders if Jennifer Fitzgerald, alleged mistress of former President Bush, was a relative of Desmond "Dizzy Fits" Fitzgerald. For that matter, perhaps John Fitzgerald Kennedy was a relative? JFK certainly benefited from Oswald's alleged "defection" to Moscow. Oswald allegedly provided the Soviets with the information on the U-2 spy plane. With that information Moscow was allegedly able to shoot down the U-2 spy plane over the then Soviet Union. That torpedoed the planned summit between then US President Eisenhower & Soviet leader Nikita S. Krushchev. http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/ST/STchp20.html It was long time Harriman family attorney Allen Dulles, then CIA director, who "suggested that the administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, T. Keith Glennan, release a pre-prepared cover story" on the U-2 which soon fell apart. Another long time Harriman buddy, Richard M. Bissell, Jr. was the CIA person "in charge of the U-2 project". Bissell also allegedly ran the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961, allegedly along with alleged former press secretary to A. Harriman E.Howard Hunt of Watergate "fame". With the summit shot down along with the U-2 the way was paved for JFK to defeat Nixon in 1960. Some years later George De Morenschildt was scheduled to meet with former federal investigator GAETON FONZI, who was investigating JFK's assassination, when De Morenschildt was found dead from a shot-gun blast. A description of the scene follows: "Also found in the case was a two- page personal affidavit which indicated it was written on March 11, 1977, in Brussels, Belgium, which made reference to his friendship with LEE HARVEY OSWALD, who assassinated President John F. Kennedy, in Dallas, Texas, on 22 November, 1963. Found in the deceased's pants pocket was newspaper article from the March 20, 1977 edition of the Dallas Morning News, which indicated that the deceased may possibly have been involved in, or have knowledge of, some type of conspiracy in the above-mentioned assassination. This, coupled with the fact that an investigator from the U. S. House of Representatives Committee on Assassinations had been at the residence earlier looking for the victim, indicated to this writer that the death of this individual could possibly be of major importance." "During this time, between 1000 hours and 1100 hours, an investigator for the House Committee on Assassinations, named GAETON FONZI, appeared at the Tilton residence inquiring about the victim and his whereabouts." Fonzi claims that Bush Sr.'s name & phone number were found In De Morenschildt's address book. Fonzi is the author of Last Investigation: A Former Federal Investigator Tells What Insiders Know About the Assassination of JFK Trade Paperback, 464 Pages, Thunder's Mouth Press, October 1994 ISBN: 1560250798 http://search.borders.com/fcgi-bin/db2www/search/s earch.d2w/Details?&m ediaType=Book&prodIDC13587 What is your opinion of these amazing coincidences? What books have you read on JFK? What are your opinions on that who-done-it? Clearly with strong opposition from many of the 90% of South Vietnamese who are Buddhist to the harsh regime of Roman Catholic South Vietnamese leaders Ngo Dinh Diem, & Madame Nhu having a Roman Catholic American President attempting to "win the hearts & minds of the Vietnamese people" would be more than a tough sell. In fact it would be impossible. As Buddhist opposition to Diem & Nhu grew it was clear that Diem & Nhu would have to be replaced with a regime in Saigon that was not headed by Roman Catholics. Three weeks to the day before the JFK Assassination a coup toppled the Diem/Nhu regime. On the day of the JFK Assassination the only high level US Government meeting held in Washington ,D.C. was chaired by the former partner in Brown Brothers, Harriman, of the father of former President Bush, Prescott Bush, (Prescott Bush was busted for "trading with the enemy" Adolf Hitler during World War Two) & former President Bush's grandfather, George Herbert Walker, (the W in George W. Bush stands for Walker.) , one A. Harriman. Harriman was not acting in his role as a top US State Department official on South East Asian affairs. Harriman, was chairing a meeting of Latin American oil company executives. The bulk of JFK's cabinet was on a plane over the Pacific Ocean on November 22nd, 1963. Also on November 22nd, 1963, 2 hours BEFORE JFK was shot, one George Herbert Walker Bush, later to become President of the United States, allegedly called the FBI (not the Secret Service) to warn that a friend of his was allegedly planning to shoot JFK in Houston (not Dallas) later that week "Looking behind the Bushes" (With the exception of Notes) Excerpted from: "Looking behind the Bushes" http://prorev.com/bush.htm " 1937 Prescott Bush's investment firm sets up deal for the Luftwaffe so it can obtain tetraethyl lead. 1942 Three firms with which Prescott Bush is associated are seized under the Trading with the Enemy Act. 1953 George Bush and the Liedtke brothers form Zapata Petroleum. Zapata's subsidiary, Zapata Offshore, later becomes known for its close ties to the CIA. 1954 The Bush family buys out the Liedtke brothers. 1961 According to the Realist, CIA official Fletcher Prouty delivers three Navy ships to agents in Guatemala to be used in the Bay of Pigs invasion. Prouty claims he delivered the ships to a CIA agent named George Bush. Agent Bush named the ships the Barbara, Houston and Zapata. 1963 John F. Kennedy is assassinated. Internal FBI memo reports that on November 22 "reputable businessman" George H. W. Bush reported hearsay that a certain Young Republican "has been talking of killing the president when he comes to Houston." The Young Republican was nowhere near Dallas on that date. According to a 1988 story in The Nation, a memo from J. Edgar Hoover states that "Mr. George Bush of the CIA" had been briefed on November 23rd, 1963 about the reaction of anti-Castro Cuban exiles in Miami to the assassination of President Kennedy. George says it ain't him, admits he was in Texas but can't remember where. 1964 George Bush runs as a Goldwater Republican. Campaigns against the Civil Rights Act." Note: Bush lost narrowly to Democratic US Senator Ralph Yarborough in 1964 . It was the Yarborough-Connally Feud, between then Liberal Democrat Ralph Yarborough & then Conservative Democrat John Connally (Governor of Texas at the time) that had brought JFK to Texas in 1963 in attempt to heal the Yarborough -Connally Feud. Yarborough rode with LBJ in the motorcade in Dallas on November 22nd, 1963. Connally, riding with JFK in the same car was also shot. Had Connally been killed suspicion, which would have remained unproven, but remained nonetheless, would have focused on Yarborough among some in Texas. Had that suspicion been great enough Yarborough might have lost his US Senate seat to George Herbert Walker Bush in the 1964 election. Bush was already running for the Republican nomination for that Senate seat in the fall of 1963. Now to return to excerpts from the material sourced above: "1968 George W. Bush joins Skull & Bones at Yale 1973 Bush is named GOP national chair. Brings into the party the Heritage Groups Council, an organization with a number of Nazi sympathizers. 1976 Bush writes internal CIA memo asking to see cable on Jack Ruby visiting Santos Trafficante in jail. In 1992, Bush will deny any interest in the JFK assassination while CIA head. Bush claims nuclear war is winnable. 1978 Bush, Mosbacher and Jim Baker become partners in an oil deal. George W. Bush begins operations of his oil firm, Arbusto Energy. With the help of Jonathan Bush, he assembles several dozen investors in a limited partnership including Dorothy Bush 1982 After $3 million is poured into Arbusto with little oil and no profits, just tax shelter George W. Bush changes the company name to Bush Exploration Oil Co. Subsequently he is kept afloat by an investment from Philip Uzielli, a Princeton friend of James Baker III. For the sum of $1 million, Uzielli bought 10% of the company at a time in 1982 when the entire enterprise was valued at less than $400,000. Subsequently, to save the company George W. Bush merges with Spectrum 7, a small oil firm owned by William DeWitt and Mercer Reynolds. DeWitt had graduated from Yale a few years earlier than Bush and was the son of the former owner of the Cincinnati Reds. Bush becomes president of Spectrum 7. He also gets 14% of the Spectrum's stock. Meanwhile, 50 original investors in Arbusto get paid off at about 20 cents on the dollar. 1983 Bush presents an autographed photo to a WWII Ukrainian leader under the Nazis, whose regime killed 100,000 Jews. 1985 CIA starts using BCCI as a conduit. 1986 Bush may have made several secret visits to Damascus between 1986-88 according to a 1992 report in Time, which said two senior GOP senators were pressing for a probe. George W. Bush and partners receive more than $2 million of Harken Energy stock in exchange for a failing oil well operation, which had lost $400,000 in the prior six months. After Bush joined Harken, the largest stock position and a seat on its board were acquired by Harvard Management Company. The Harken board gave Bush $600,000 worth of the company's publicly traded stock, plus a seat on the board plus a consultancy that paid him up to $120,000 a year. When Harken runs short of cash it hooks up with investment banker Jackson Stephens of Little Rock, Arkansas, who arranges a $25 million stock purchase by Union Bank of Switzerland. Sheik Abdullah Bakhsh, who joins the board as a part of the deal, is connected to the infamous BCCI. 1987 Harken Energy project gets rescued by aid from the BCCI-connected Union Bank of Switzerland in a deal brokered by Jackson Stephens 1988 Fred Malek, ex-Nixon aide, resigns from the Bush campaign after it's revealed that he compiled a list of Jews in the Labor Dept. as part of a Nixon investigation of a "Jewish cabal." A few days before the supposedly surprise arrest of five BCCI officials, some of the world's most powerful drug dealers quietly withdraw millions of dollars from the bank. Some government investigators believe the dealers were tipped off by sources within the Bush administration." Bush Theories Part Two "1989 President Bush signs a top-secret directive ordering closer ties with Iraq, which opens the way for $1 billion in new aid just a little more than a year before Bush goes to war against that country. The agricultural credit allows Saddam Hussein to use his hard currency for a massive military buildup. 1990 January: Bahrain awards exclusive offshore drilling rights to Harken Oil. This is a surprise as Harken is in very shaky financial condition, has never drilled outside of Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma and had never drilled undersea at all. The Bass brothers are brought in by Harken for sufficient equity to proceed with the effort. Harken's stock price increases from $4.50 to $5.50. George W. Bush sells two-thirds of his Harken Energy stock at the top of the market for $850,000, a 200% profit, but makes no report to the SEC until March 1991. Bush Jr. says later the SEC misplaced the report. An SEC representative responds: "nobody ever found the 'lost' filing." One week after Bush's sale, Harken reports an earnings plunge. Harken stock falls more than 60%. Bush uses most of the proceeds to pay off the bank loan he had taken a year earlier to finance his portion of the Texas Rangers deal. August: Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait. Harken's stock price drops substantially. Two months after Bush sells his stock, Harken posts losses for the 2nd quarter of well over $20 million and is shares fall another 24%, by year end Harken is trading at $1.25. Bush has insisted that he did not know about the firm's mounting losses and that his stock sell-off as approved by Harken's general counsel. George W. Bush is asked by Carlyle Group to serve on the board of directors of Caterair, one of the nation's largest airline catering services which it had acquired in 1989. The offer is arranged by Fred Malek, long time Bush associate who is then an advisor to Carlyle. October: Fred Malek returns to power with ambassador status to head up planning for the economic summit. Bush's attorney general, Richard Thornberg, is warned about BCCI but does nothing. 1991 Former top aide to White House Chief of Staff John Sununu goes to work for a prominent figure in the BCCI scandal less than a month after leaving the Bush administration. Edward Rogers Jr. signs a $600,000 contract to give legal advice to Sheik Kamal Adham, an ex-Saudi intelligence officer who is being investigated for his role in BCCI's takeover of First American Bancshares. The Miami acting US Attorney is allegedly rebuffed by the Justice Department in his efforts to indict BCCI and some of its principal officers on tax fraud charges. Justice Department later denies this occurred. Danny Casolaro, a reporter is found dead in a motel room bathtub, the day after he met a key source. The death was ruled a suicide. Perhaps he is despondent over the loss of his briefcase, which is missing from the room. 1992 First of Harken Energy's wells off Bahrain comes up dry. George W. Bush takes a leave of absence from the firm to work in his father's campaign, saying "I don't want to involve this company in any kind of allegations of conflicts or whatever may arise." Jew hunter Fred Malek is back as Bush's campaign manager. Bush says: "I will do what I have to do to be reelected." http://mediafilter.org/caq/BushFamilyPreys.html Article directly below from url directly above SENT FOR PURPOSES OF DISCUSSION "The Family That Preys Together by Jack Colhoun GEORGE JR.'S BCCI CONNECTION "This is an incredible deal, unbelievable for this small company," energy analyst Charles Strain told Forbes magazine, describing the oil production sharing agreement the Harken Energy Corporation signed in January 1990 with Bahrain. Under the terms of the deal, Harken was given the exclusive right to explore for gas and oil off the shores of the Gulf island nation. If gas or oil were found in waters near two of the world's largest gas and oil fields, Harken would have exclusive marketing and transportation rights for the energy resources. Truly an "incredible deal" for a company that had never drilled an offshore well. Strain failed to point out, however, the one fact that puts the Harken deal in focus: George Bush, Jr., the eldest son of George and Barbara Bush of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC, is a member of Harken's board of directors, a consultant, and a stockholder in the Texas-based company. In light of this connection, the deal makes more sense. The involvement of Junior-George Walker Bush's childhood nickname-with Harken is a walking conflict of interest. His relationship to President Bush, rather than any business acumen, made him a valuable asset for Harken, the Republican Party benefactors, Middle East oil sheikhs and covert operators who played a part in Harken's Bahrain deal. In fact, Junior's track record as an oilman is pretty dismal. He began his career in Midland, Texas, in the mid-1970s when he founded Arbusto Energy, Inc. When oil prices dropped in the early 1980s, Arbusto fell upon hard times. Junior was only rescued from business failure when his company was purchased by Spectrum 7 Energy Corporation, a small oil firm owned by William DeWitt and Mercer Reynolds. As part of the September 1984 deal, Bush became Spectrum 7's president and was given a 13.6 percent share in the company's stock. Oil prices stayed low and within two years, Spectrum 7 was in trouble. In the six months before Spectrum 7 was acquired by Harken in 1986, it had lost $400,000. In the buyout deal, George "Jr." and his partners were given more than $2 million worth of Harken stock for the 180-well operation. Made a director and hired as a "consultant" to Harken, Junior received another $600,000 of Harken stock, and has been paid between $42,000 and $120,000 a year since 1986. Junior's value to Harken soon became apparent when the company needed an infusion of cash in the spring of 1987. Junior and other Harken officials met with Jackson Stephens, head of Stephens, Inc., a large investment bank in Little Rock, Arkansas (Stephens made a $100,000 contribution to the Reagan-Bush campaign in 1980 and gave another $100,000 to the Bush dinner committee in 1990.) In 1987, Stephens made arrangements with Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) to provide $25 million to Harken in return for a stock interest in Harken. As part of the Stephens-brokered deal, Sheikh Abdullah Bakhsh, a Saudi real estate tycoon and financier, joined Harken's board as a major investor. *5 Stephens, UBS, and Bakhsh each have ties to the scandal-ridden Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). It was Stephens who suggested in the late 1970s that BCCI purchase what became First American Bankshares in Washington, D.C. BCCI later acquired First American's predecessor, Financial General Bankshares. At the time of the Harken investment, UBS was a joint-venture partner with BCCI in a bank in Geneva, Switzerland. Bakhsh has been an investment partner in Saudi Arabia with Gaith Pharoan, identified by the U.S. Federal Reserve Board as a "front man" for BCCI's secret acquisitions of U.S. banks. Stephens, Inc. played a role in the Harken deal with Bahrain as well. Former Stephens bankers David and Mike Edwards contacted Michael Ameen, the former chief of Mobil Oil's Middle East operations, when Bahrain broke off 1989 talks with Amoco for a gas and oil exploration contract. The Edwardses recommended Harken for the job and urged Ameen to get in touch with Bahrain, which he did. "In the midst of Harken's talks with Bahrain, Ameen-simultaneously working as a State Department consultant-briefed the incoming U.S. ambassador in Bahrain, Charles Hostler," the Wall Street Journal noted, adding that Hostler, a San Diego real estate investor, was a $100,000 contributor to the Republican Party. Hostler claimed he never discussed Harken with the Bahrainis. Harken lacked sufficient financing to explore off the coast of Bahrain so it brought in Bass Enterprises Production Company of Fort Worth, Texas, as a partner. The Bass family contributed more than $200,000 to the Republican Party in the late 1980s and early 1990s. *9 On June 22, 1990, George Jr. sold two-thirds of his Harken stock for $848,560-a cool 200 percent profit. The move was well timed. One week after Junior sold his stock, Harken announced a $23.2 million loss in quarterly earnings and Harken stock dropped sharply, losing 60 percent of its value over the next six months. On August 2, 1990, Iraqi troops moved into Kuwait and 541,000 U.S. forces were deployed to the Gulf. "There is substantial evidence to suggest that Bush knew Harken was in dire straits in the weeks before he sold the $848,560 of Harken stock," asserted U.S. News & World Report. The magazine noted Harken appointed Junior to a "fairness committee" to study possible economic restructuring of the company. Junior worked closely with financial advisers from Smith Barney, Harris Upham & Company, who concluded "only drastic action could save Harken." George "Jr." also violated Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regulations which require "insider" stock deals to be reported promptly, in Bush's case by July 10, 1990. He didn't file the stock sale with the SEC until the first week of March 1991. Meanwhile, a cloak-and-dagger aura surrounds Junior's business dealings. James Bath, a Texas entrepreneur who invested $50,000 in Arbusto Energy, may be a business cutout for the CIA. Bath also acted as an investment "adviser" to Saudi Arabian oil sheikhs, linked to the outlaw BCCI, which also has ties to the CIA. Bill White, a former Bath partner, claims that Bath has "national security" connections. White, a United States Naval Academy graduate and former fighter pilot, charges that Bath developed a network of off-shore companies to camouflage the movement of money and aircraft between Texas and the Middle East, especially Saudi Arabia. Alan Quasha, a Harken director and former chair of the company, is the son of attorney William Quasha, who defended figures in the Nugan Hand Bank scandal in Australia. Closed in 1980, Nugan Hand was not only tied to drug-money laundering and U.S. intelligence and mi- litary circles, but also to the CIA's covert backing for a "constitutional coup" in Australia that caused the fall of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam. The Harken deal with Bahrain raises another troubling question: Did the Bahrainis and the BCCI-linked Saudi oil sheikhs use the production sharing agreement with Harken to curry favor with the Bush administration and influence U.S. policy in the Middle East? Talat Othman's sudden rise to prominence in Bush administration foreign policy circles is a case in point. Othman, who sits on the Harken board as Sheikh Bakhsh's representative, didn't have access to President Bush before Harken's Bahrain agreement. "But since August 1990, the Palestinian-born Chicago investor has attended three White House meetings with President Bush to discuss Middle East policy," the Wall Street Journal pointed out. "His name was added by the White House to a select list of 15 Arab-Americans chosen to meet with President Bush, [then White House Chief of Staff John] Sununu and National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft in the White House two days after Iraq's August 1990 invasion of Kuwait." Let us Learn Some Things from This "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." George Santayana Material referred to,(other than Notes) is from: THE SECRET WAR AGAINST THE JEWS, Secret War Against the Jews Trade Paperback, 672 Pages, Edition Number 01, Saint Martin's Press, LLC, April 1997 ISBN: 0312156480 "Some of our sources agree with the Israelis that George Bush was the last, & the worst, of the Dulles clique that brought the CIA into discredit.-at some point Bush's defense of ignorance wears a bit thin. A joke going around during the Iran-Contra scandal said that 'the 2 biggest lies in Washington are that Ronald Reagan was in the loop & George Bush was out of it.' Because of the importance of Bush's role in the history of covert operations against Israel, we discuss his background in some detail. It is a history that has never been revealed fully before. Consider the allegations-Bush's father & grandfather worked with Allen Dulles(Note: the Dulles Brothers were also the private family attorneys for Harriman,who was in turn partners with Bush & Walker) to finance the Third Reich & then , when war broke out, cloaked their activities under the cover of intelligence operations.George Bush established an oil leasing business in Texas, the biggest client of which was Edwin Pauley, Dulles's confidant,& a front man for CIA money laundering. Bush himself played a role in CIA covert operations from the early 1960s. Bush was definitely anti-Israeli & pro-Arab, a bias that colored American oil & arms policy in the Middle East. The real story of George Bush starts well before he launched his own career. It goes back to the 1920s, when the Dulles brothers & the other pirates of Wall Street were first making their deals with the Nazis. To understand Bush's role as a senior official of the Republican Party, as head of the CIA, as US vice president & then ultimately in White House it is important to trace the Bush Family s right back to the beginning of the secret espionage war against the Jews. George Bush's problems were inherited from his namesake & maternal grandfather, George Herbert "Bert" Walker, (Note the W. in George W. Bush stands for Walker, George W. Bush is named for George Herbert "Bert" Walker, as is his father, the former US President George Herbert Walker Bush.)a native of St. Louis, who founded the banking & investment firm of G.H.Walker and Company in 1900. Later the company shifted from St.Louis to the prestigious address of 1 Wall Street."Grandfather Walker" came from a devout Catholic family. 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. Some Americans made their connections to Germany through Allen Dulles's firm of Sullivan & Cromwelll cause they supported fascism. The Dulles brothers arranged American investments in Nazi Germany in the 1930s to ensure that their clients did well out of the German economic recovery. "Dulles clearly emphasized projects for Germany & for Mussolini's fascist state. All told, these & more than a dozen similar transactions had a combined value in excess of a billion dollars.Sullivan & Cromwell was not the only firm engaged in funding Germany. According to THE SPLENDID BLOND BEAST, Christopher Simpson's seminal history of the politics of genocide & profit, Brown Brothers,Harriman was another bank that specialized in investments in Germany. The key figure in the firm was Averill Harriman, some of his allies who also served on the firm's board included Robert Lovett, who worked closely with James Forrestal to lead the State Department's revolt against Truman's pro-Zionist policy during the UN debate on the partition of Palestine, & George Bush's father Prescott, who later became a US Senator. The firm originally was known as W.A. Harriman & Company.The link between Harriman & Company's American investors & Thyssen started in the 1920s,through the Union Banking Corporation, which began trading in 1924. In just 1 three year period the Harriman firm sold more than $50 million of German bonds to American investors. In 1926 Bert Walker made Prescott (Bush) vice president of W.A. Harriman.Walker's specialty was companies that traded with Germany.As Thyssen & the other German industrialists consolidated Hitler's political power in the 1930s,an American financial connection was needed. Union Banking became an out & out Nazi money laundering machine. (Prescott) Bush specialized in British investors in Nazi Germany, while Walker handled the Americans. Walker also set up a deal to take over the North American operations of the Hamburg-Amerika line, a cover for I.G. Farben's Nazi espionage unit in the United States. The shipping line smuggled in German agents, propaganda, & money for bribing American politicians to see things Hitler's way.The holding company was Walker's American Shipping & Commerce, which shared the offices at 39 Broadway with Union Banking.Harrimnan & Company merged to become Brown Brothers, Harriman, Prescott Bush became one of the senior partners of the new company, which relocated to 59 Broadway, while Union Banking remained at 39 Broadway. In 1934 Walker arranged to put his son-in-law (Note Prescott Bush,father of former President Bush is the son-in-law referred to.) on the board of directors of Union Banking. Harriman's stock in American Shipping & Commerce was controlled by yet nother holding company, the Harriman Fifteen Corporation, run out of Walker's office. The directors of this company were Averill Harriman, Bert Walker & Prescott Bush. A 1934 congressional investigation alleged that Walker's 'Hamburg-Amerika Line subsidized wide range of pro-Nazi propaganda efforts both in Germany & the United States'. Standard Oil of New Jersey had completed a major stock transaction with Dulles's Nazi client I.G. Farben. By the end of January 1937 Dulles had merged all his cloaking activities into one client account:'Brown Brothers Harriman-Schroeder Rock'. Schroder of course, was the Nazi bank on whose board Dulles sat. The 'Rock'were the Rockefellers of Standard Oil, who were already coming under scrutiny for their Nazi deals. The US Government charged (former President Bush's ) father(Prescott Bush) with running Nazi front groups in the United States . Under the Trading with the Enemy Act all the shares of the Union Banking Corporation were seized, including those held by Prescott Bush as being in effect held for enemy nationals. Union Banking, of course, was an affiliate of Brown Brothers, Harriman, & Bush handled the Harrimans' investments as well. Once the government had its hands on Bush's books the whole story of the intricate web of Nazi front organizations began to unravel. A few days later 2 of Union Banking's subsidiaries Holland American Trading Corporation & the Seamless Steel Equipment Corporation-also were seized. The government went after the Harriman Fifteen Corporation, which Bush shared with his father-in-law Bert Walker, the Hamburg-Amerika line, & the Silesian-American Corporation. The US Government found that huge sections of Prescott Bush's empire had been operated on behalf of Nazi Germany & had greatly assisted theGerman war effort." "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." George Santayana Source for material below: SPIDER'S WEB: THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOW THE WHITE HOUSE ILLEGALLY ARMED IRAQ by Alan Friedman ASIN: 0553096508 "In June 1982, a White House meeting was called to discuss the Iran-Iraq war. The prevailing view was that Washington- would- share some of its more sensitive intelligence photography with Saddam. A few weeks later the first US satellite photographs were passed to Baghdad. What was kept deeply secret-and has remained so until now-(1993)-was that it was no spy, no courier, no special agent, but rather King Hussein himself who was used by Washington to hand-carry & present the intelligence data to Baghdad to ensure that it wasn't lost or stolen. Then as the covert intelligence-sharing became more frequent, arrangements were made for an Iraqi liaison to travel along the dusty road from Baghdad to Amman in order to pick up the material. At times, thanks to the White House's secret backing for the intelligence-sharing, US intelligence officers were actually sent to Baghdad to help interpret the satellite information. As the White House took an increasingly active role in secretly helping Saddam direct his armed forces, the United States even built an expensive high-tech annex in Baghdad to provide a direct down-link receiver for the satellite intelligence and better processing of the information. At the end of February 1987 Vice President George Bush, in a repeat of what he had done in 1984, picked up his telephone & asked the chairman of Eximnbank to assist Iraq.-a few weeks after Bush's intervention some $200 million of new Eximbank loan credits to Iraq were approved. Bush had other good news for (Iraq's ambassador Nizar) Hamdoon as well: Some US export licenses that would allow Saddam to buy some militarily very sensitive American technology had just been approved by the government. These licenses, including one that would allow American technology to be shipped directly to Iraq's Space & Astronomical Research Center, had been held up at the Pentagon by a zealous official in charge of reviewing defense technology exports. The official had been convinced that one of the licenses would give Saddam the kind of advanced equipment that could be used to relay satellite information to ground stations & thereby watch Iranian troop movements or perform other aerial spying. PC2 was to be the pride of the Iraqi military establishment because it had the support of contractors from the US, Japan, Italy, France & Britain. More significant, as Western intelligence agents knew, although PC2 would manufacture normal petrochemicals upon completion, like many of Saddam's disguised operations, it would be dual-use. This meant it would be able to generate chemical compounds needed to make mustard gas & nerve gas as well.-The general contractor on PC2 was the Bechtel Corporation, a familiar name when it came to Iraqi business. Bechtel was the company that had been ready to handle the Aqaba pipeline project back in 1984, the project for which George Bush had lobbied Eximbank so hard. The pipeline project had never worked out, but in the summer of 1988 Iraq asked Bechtel's London office to mange the entire PC2 petrochemicals project.-The contractor on the (1984) project was the Bechtel Corporation, a multibillion-dollar-a year California company. Bechtel, which provided employment to Caspar Weinberger & George Shultz when they were not in government was the biggest engineering & construction firm in the US, with interest in 135 countries; in fact Schultz had left Bechtel to become secretary of state.The company was an unofficial expediter of US policy, so close to Washington's thinking were its executives.-While many saw evidence that Baghdad was no less a menace then before, Bush & Baker wanted to emphasize the positive. So on Monday, October 2nd, 1989, with all the necessary information available to him, President George Bush lifted a pen & with one stroke set in motion a secret presidential policy to help Saddam. He signed his name to a secret order that would become known by the acronym of NSD 26 , for National Security Directive 26.-'When you look at NSD 26, you find it was the Administration's sole desire & policy to aid & abet Saddam Hussein' said Congressman Sam Gejdenson, a Connecticut Democrat who became one of Bush's harshest critics.-By the autumn of 1989,Iraq had been off the US terrorist list for 7 years, yet Baker had been told that terrorists such as Abu Abbas were still moving in & out of Baghdad. Bush had been among those in the Reagan administration who resisted congressional efforts to levy sanctions on Iraq that were intended to punish Saddam for gassing the Kurds in August 1988. In his directive Bush laid out a pro-Iraqi agenda that even decreed that the US should consider various forms of military assistance to Iraq on a case-by-case basis.Within weeks, the Joint Chiefs of Staff had prepared a set of proposed US-Iraqi military initiatives ranging from military officer exchange programs to aerial reconnaissance training. The policy of enhancing Washington's relationship with Baghdad had been dictated directly from the Oval Office, & it was now official, though still classified a state secret. James Baker wasted no time at all in implementing it. On October 3rd, 1989, just 1 day after NSD 26 was signed, officials from the Departments of State, Agriculture Commerce & Treasury, the Federal Reserve & other agencies gathered to discuss a new proposal to offer a $1l billion loan guarantee for Iraq.-Nothing it appeared would stop Bush & Baker's policy of giving overwhelming & unequivocal support to Saddam Hussein. Warnings about-Baghdad's drive to develop unconventional weapons did not matter.'The US granted scores of licenses,' commented Gary Milhollin, a leading expert on Iraq's nuclear weapons program. 'The government knew very well that Saddam was running a big missile & nuclear program & that the exports were almost certainly going to help both.But the State,Commerce & Energy departments acted like the 3 little monkeys:'See no evil, hear no evil, & speak no evil.' It had been that way, Milhollin recalled, from the beginning of the Bush administration. In February 1989, the month after it took office, for example, the Du Pont company of Delaware was cleared to supply nuclear-grade vacuum pump oil to the 'State Organization for Oil Production' a state company involved in both civilian & military projects. UN inspectors would later discover that the DuPont product ' was used or intended for use in Iraqi efforts to establish a centrifuge production & operation capability.' The nuclear-grade oil was vital to atomic bomb production because it lubricated the centrifuges that created the weapons-grade uranium that forms the core of the bomb.""Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." George Santayana BUSH BACKGROUNDER In the 1980s, the decade of the Iran Contra Scandal, Theresa Le Pore, the person who designed the infamous Butterfly Ballot in Palm Beach, Florida,. had another job. " Butterfly Ballot Designer Le Pore Khashoggi Bush The Wall Street Journal of December 1st, 2000 page one states: " 'Madame Butterfly' , Theresa Le Pore, wasn't always an embattled Palm Beach ballots chief. In the 1980s she moonlighted as a flight attendant on private planes owned by Saudi weapons dealer Adnan Khashoggi, a middleman in Reagan administration arms sales to Iran" The Plot Thickens as they say, or does it, time will tell. Pamela Harriman was married to Randolph Churchill before she married Averell Harriman. Averell Harriman was the partner in Brown Brothers, Harriman, with Prescott Bush, the father of former President Bush, & with George Herbert Walker, former President Bush's grandfather. The W in George W. Bush stands for Walker. Pamela's son was named after his grandfather, Winston Churchill. Pamela's son ,Winston's alleged former mistress was Soraya Khashoggi, who was the former wife of arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi. Small world isn't it. Khashoggi was also allegedly deeply involved with former President Bush in the Iran-Contra Affair. "The Churchill Society London... Mr Churchill, whose former mistress Soraya Khashoggi, the former wife of arms dealer Adnan http://www.churchill-society-london.org.uk/wscminor.html "THE TIMES NEWSPAPER 19th February 1997 By Andrew Pierce & Tom Rhodes WINSTON CHURCHILL who spent most of his life living in the shadow of his glamorous mother Pamela Harriman, was left $10 million (6.2 million pounds) in her will it was disclosed yesterday." Of course there are more alleged links to come between Geogre W. Bush & Iran-Contra . To understand Iran-Contra one must understand how it worked. The key player, by far allegedly was George Herbert Walker Bush , who, while Reagan's Vice President in the 1980s allegedly sent messages to Saddam Hussein via Mubarka & via King Hussein of Jordan to start bombing Iran. Soon after the messages were received by Saddam Iraq launched hundreds of bombing raids against Iran in a single weekend. Bush then allegedly offered Iran missiles to defend itself from Saddam. The same ploy would be used again during the Gulf War, when Israel was denied the IFF, Identification Friend or Foe, codes by Cheney, Bush's Secretary of Defense, that would have permitted Israel to take out Saddam's Scud missiles that were then falling on Israel. Instead Bush offered Israel worthless Patriot missiles, incapable of stopping the Scuds, in exchange for Bush arm-twisting against Israel. Cheney was later to imply,. Falsely, that Israel had provided Patriot Missile Technology to China. http://www.consortiumnews.com/121900b.html Colin Powell & the Iran-Contra scandal, from url directly above."As for his own notebooks, Powell announced that he had destroyed them." The Middle Eastern oil links of Bush & Company are neither few nor far between. CONDOLEEZA RICE, BUSH, ET.AL ET..OIL http://www.evote.com/features/bushcampaignstaffers.asp "The Bush Campaign: The Brains Behind The Smirk" "Condoleeza Rice - Rice, Bush's foreign policy advisor" Speaking of Condoleeza Rice, http://www.usmm.org/socalships.html "Ships of Standard Oil of California "SoCal," [now Chevron] -- since 1895 The Pacific Coast Oil Company, later known as Standard Oil of California or "SoCal", and now known as Chevron, was founded in 1895 Condoleeza Rice 1993 Bahamian" Yes, that is right she has an oil company ship named after her. "Professor Condoleeza RICE | Political Interviews | TIES WEBZINE "I am a corporate director of the Chevron Corporation " http://www.tiesweb.org/interviews/rice.htm Speaking of Standard Oil: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~arch/Info/fg.html Speaking of Standard Oil The year was 1941. Standard Oil of New Jersey, Rockefeller owned, had as its President William S. Farish. Standard's Chairman Walter C. Teagle had long shown "a marked admiration for Germany's enterprise" . TEAGLE "early established a friendship with the dour & stubby Herman Schmitz of I.G. Farben , entertaining him frequently at the Cloud Room in the Chrysler Building". Another Teagle pal was " pro-Nazi Sir Henri Deterding of Royal Dutch-Shell". All three hunted grouse together often. "Teagle's love of hunting deer & wild birds was to earn him the admiration of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goring." Henry Ford was another Teagle pal. Teagle had visited Berlin frequently in the 1930s.Teagle was also "a director of American I.G. Chemical Corp. the giant chemicals firm that was a subsidiary of I.G. Farben. Edsel Ford was another I.G. board member. With Hitler's takeover in Germany Ivy Lee "the notorious New York publicity man who had for some years worked for the Rockefellers" was given a special assignment by Teagle & Hermann Schmitz. "They engaged Lee for the specific purpose of economic espionage. He was to supply I.G. Farben & through it the Nazi government,with intelligence on the American reaction to such matters as the German armament program….and the organization of the Gestapo. He was also to keep the American public bamboozled by papering over the more evil aspects of Hitler's regime…After a short period Lee's salary was increased to $25,000 per year & he began distributing inflammatory Nazi propaganda in the United States on behalf of I.G. Farben, including virulent attacks on Jews & the Versailles Treaty." Teagle "remained in partnership with Farben in the matter of tetraethyl lead, an additive used in aviation gasoline.Goring's air force couldn't fly without it. Only Standard, Du Pont, & General Motors had the rights to it. Teagle helped to organize a sale of the precious substance to Schmitz, who in 1938 traveled to London & 'borrowed' 500 tons from Ethyl, the British Standard subsidiary."In 1939 "Schmitz & his partners returned to London & obtained $15 million worth. The result was that Hitler's air force was rendered capable of bombing London…also by supplying Japan with tetraethyl, Teagle helped make it possible for the Japanese to wage World War II. " William Stamps Farish "shared with Teagle a mania for salmon fishing, dog training, bird-dogging, quail shooting, & fox hunts…Farish, like Teagle , was mesmerized by Germany & spent much time with Hermann Schmtiz…he staffed the Standard Oil tankers with Nazi crews. When war broke out in Europe he ran into trouble with British Intelligence, which boarded some of his vessels outside territorial waters on the Atlantic & Pacific seaboards & seized Nazi agents who were passengers. When the British began interrogating Nazi crews on the Hitler-Standard connection, Farish fired The Germans en masse & changed the registration of the entire fleet to Panamian to avoid British seizure of search. His vessels carried oil to Tenerife in the Canary Islands, where they refueled & siphoned oil to German tankers for shipment to Hamburg .They also fueled U-boats even after the American government called such shipments morally indefensible.Standard tankers supplied the self-same submarines which later sank American ships…..It was important for the Nazis to convert the oil in the Canaries to aviation gasoline for the Luftwaffe. Once again Farish proved helpful. As early as 1936 his associate Harry D. Collier of California Standard had built units for conversion in the Canaries. Simultaneously Teagle had built a refinery in Hamburg that produced 15,000 tons of aviation gasoline for Goring every week….As the war continued in Europe before America's entry, Germany grew more & more desperate for oil. Her domestic supplies were minimal. But for many years Teagle & Farish had exploited the resources of Rumania, setting up extensive oil exploration in the Ploesti fields & netting millions from Germany in the process. I.G. Farben financed the notorius Rumanian Iron Guard, a fascistic military organization led by General Ion Antonescu. Hermann Schmitz, through Antonescu & in league with Standard, held an exercising control over the oil fields…Goring paid $11 million in bonds for the use of the oil, whether or not America came into the war. Farish now proceeded to make another deal with Goring. Hungary was second only to Rumania as an oil source for the Nazi war machine. Teagle had started drilling there in 1934. In July 1941,Farish & Frank Howard filed an application with Treasury for a license to sell its Hungarian subsidiary to I.G. Farben….Treasury refused…Farish protested bitterly. The British blockade ran the length of the Americas upon the Atlantic seaboard, stopping shipments to Nazi Germany wherever possible. Given the problem how could Farish go on supplying Herman Goring & Hermann Schmitz with oil in time for war? He soon found the solution. He sent large amounts of petroleum to Russia" (which was at the time a German ally through the notorious Hitler-Stalin Pact) "and thence by Trans-Siberian Railroad to Berlin long after Roosevelt's moral embargo. He shipped to Vichy North Africa . In May 1940 British authorities captured a French tanker in U.S. territorial waters that was sailing to Casablanca with 16,000 tons of Standard Oil, allegedly for reshipment to Hitler. Cordell Hull demanded the British government yield up the tanker. Restricted by maritime law,the British agreed. The tanker sailed on to Africa, followed by 6 more. Farish fueled the Nazi- controlled L.A.T.I. airline from Rome to Rio via Madrid, Lisbon & Dakar. The airline flew spies, patents, & diamonds for foreign currency. Only Standard could make this shipment possible. Only Standard had the high-octane gasoline that enabled the lumbering clippers to make the 1,680-mile hop across the Atlantic."Source for material quoted above Trading with the Enemy: The Nazi-American Money Plot, 1933-1949 Charles Higham ISBN: 0760700095 Publisher Barnes & Noble Books "William Stamps Farish was a co-founder of the Humble Oil and Refining Company and Chairman of the Board and President of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey." "Bush and Farish When George Bush was elected vice president in 1980, Texas mystery man William Stamps Farish III took over management of all of George Bush's personal wealth in a "blind trust." Known as one of the richest men in Texas, Will Farish keeps his business affairs under the most intense secrecy. Only the source of his immense wealth is known, not its employment. Will Farish has long been Bush's closest friend and confidante President Bush can count on Farish not to betray the violent secrets surrounding the Bush family money. For Farish's own family fortune was made in the same Hitler project, in a nightmarish partnership with George Bush's father. On March 25, 1942, U.S. Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold announced that William Stamps Farish (grandfather of the President's money manager) had pleaded "no contest" to charges of criminal conspiracy with the Nazis. Farish was the principal manager of a worldwide cartel between Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey and the I.G. Farben concern. The merged enterprise had opened the Auschwitz slave labor camp on June 14, 1940, to produce artificial rubber and gasoline from coal. The Hitler government supplied political opponents and Jews as the slaves, who were worked to near death and then murdered. Arnold disclosed that Standard Oil of New Jersey (later known as Exxon), of which Farish was president and chief executive, had agreed to stop hiding from the United States patents for artificial rubber which the company had provided to the Nazis. A Senate investigating committee under Senator (later U.S. President) Harry Truman of Missouri had called Arnold to testify at hearings on corporations' collaboration with the Nazis. The Senators expressed outrage at the cynical way Farish was continuing an alliance with the Hitler regime that had begun back in 1933, when Farish became chief Of Jersey Standard. Didn't he know there was a war on? The Justice Department laid before the committee a letter, written to Standard president Farish by his vice president, shortly after the beginning of World War II (September 1, 1939) in Europe. The letter concerned a renewal of their earlier agreements with the Nazis: The Bush-Farish axis had begun back in 1929. In that year, the Harriman bank bought Dresser Industries, supplier of oil-pipeline couplers to Standard and other companies. Prescott Bush became a director and financial czar of Dresser, installing his Yale classmate Neil Mallon as chairman. George Bush would later name one of his sons after the Dresser executive. William S. Farish was the main organizer of the Humble Oil Co. of Texas, which Farish merged into the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. Farish built up the Humble-Standard empire of pipelines and refineries in Texas. In 1933, as what Hitler called his "New Order" appeared, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. appointed William S. Farish the chairman of Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey (in 1937 he was made president and chief executive). Farish moved his offices to Rockefeller Center, New York, where he spent a good deal of time with Hermann Schmitz, chairman of I.G. Farben; his company paid a publicity man, Ivy Lee, to write pro-I.G. Farben and pro-Nazi propaganda and get it into the U.S. press. Now that he was outside of Texas, Farish found himself in the Shipping business-like the Bush family. He hired Nazi German crews for Standard Oil tankers. And he hired "Emil Helfferich," chairman of the Walker/Bush/Harriman Hamburg-Amerika Line, as chairman also of the Standard Oil Company subsidiary in Germany. Karl Lindemann, boardmember of Hamburg-Amerika, also became a top Farish-Standard Executive in Germany. This interlock between their Nazi German operations put Farish together with Prescott Bush in a small, select group of men operating from abroad through Hitler's "revolution," and calculating that they would never be punished. In 1939, Farish's daughter Martha married Averell Harriman's nephew, Edward Harriman Gerry, and Farish in-laws became Prescott Bush's partners at 59 Broadway. Both Emil Helfferich and Karl Lindemann were authorized to write checks to Heinrich Himmler, chief of the Nazi SS, on a special Standard Oil account. This account was managed by the German-British-American banker, Kurt von Schroeder. According to U.S. intelligence d ocuments reviewed by author Anthony Sutton, Helfferich continued his payments to the SS into 1944, when the SS was supervising the mass murder at the Standard-I.G. Farben Auschwitz and other death camps. Helfferich told Allied interrogators After the war that these were not his personal contributions-they were corporate Standard Oil funds. After pleading "no contest" to charges of criminal conspiracy with The Nazis, William Stamps Farish was fined $5,000. (Similar fines were levied against Standard Oil -- $5,000 each for the parent company and for several subsidiaries.) This of course did not interfere with the millions of dollars that Farish had acquired in conjunction with Hitler's New Order, as a large stockholder, chairman, and president of Standard Oil. All the government sought was the use of patents which his company had given to the Nazis-the Auschwitz patents-but had withheld from the U.S. military and industry. But a war was on, and if young men were to be asked to die fighting Hitler .. something more was needed. Farish was hauled before the Senate committee investigating the national defense program. The committee chairman, Senator Harry Truman, told newsmen before Farish testified: "I think this approaches treason." Farish began breaking apart at these hearings. He shouted his "indignation" at the senators, and claimed he was not "disloyal." After the March-April hearings ended, more dirt came gushing out of the Justice Department and the Congress on Farish and Standard Oil. Farish had deceived the U.S. Navy to prevent the Navy from acquiring certain patents, while supplying them to the Nazi war machine; meanwhile, he was supplyin--- ? [That's all I have, but it's pretty interesting so far, dontchathink? - mhr]