Points of Interest:
-Poppy Bush enlisted the Saudi Royal family to provide secret financing for CIA covert operations that Congress had barred or refused to fund.
-CIA was deeply involved in removing leaders in Central and South Americas, Asia and Africa. CIA failed many attempts to assassinate Cuban leader, Fidel Castro.
-CIA used Newsweek magazine for cover purposes.
-Now defunct Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), which was essentially an international crime syndicate involved in financing assassinations, drug traffic, illegal arm sales, had aided the CIA, British MI-6, the Israeli Mossad, Saudi and Iranian intelligence together with the North Koreans, the Chinese, and above all the Pakistani military.
George "Poppy" H. W. Bush
The first half of the book covers George H.W. Bush's double life - working as an oil businessman and later as a political figure, but all the while discreetly participating in covert operations of the CIA. Much of Poppy Bush's petroleum enterprises served as "cover" for covert operations. Hiding his secrets, Poppy had a problem with story discrepancies that would resurface time and again throughout his life.
Points of Interest:
-Poppy worked for Naval
Intelligence in WWII.
-Poppy's war hero record was
challenged by Chester Mierzejewski whose plane was in front of Poppy's plane
shot down in Japan on September 2, 1944. Contrary to Poppy's inconsistent versions
of the incident, Mierzejewski told New York Post that Poppy's plane was
never on fire and only the pilot, Poppy himself, had bailed out (while his two
crewmen remained on board).
-CIA memo, dated Nov. 29,
1975, placed Poppy's involvement with the agency in 1953 when Thomas J. Devine
(widely believed to have been a career CIA offi cer) and Poppy established
Zapata Oil.
-Memo from FBI director J.
Edgar Hoover, dated November 29, 1963, briefed two persons after the
assassination of President Kennedy: Captain William Edwards of the Defense
Intelligence Agency and George Bush of the CIA.
-Iran-Contra Affair: Oliver
North's diaries released showing meeting between North and Poppy on August 6,
1986 - at the height of North's activities in coordinating the secret illegal
and unauthorized war in Nicaragua.
-Poppy as Chairman of the Republican National Committee investigated Karl Rove's dirty tricks in electoral espionage in 1973. He cleared Rove of all charges and then hired him as a special assistant.
Removing Presidents
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
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