Post-Watergate reporting:
-In November 1971, John Dean
recruited two private investigators to do a walk-through of Watergate.
-In January 1972, Dean
encouraged Gordon Liddy to incorporate eavesdropping on and infiltration of
Democratic campaigns.
-In April 1972, Dean - not John
Mitchell or H.R. Haldeman - who instigated Democratic National Committee
headquarters break-in.
-In June 1972, CIA Hunt's boss, Robert F. Bennett, claimed that Dean offered Hunt hush money during the Watergate cove-up.
Carter's Defeat for Re-election
President
Jimmy Carter posed a threat to the CIA for his attempt to reform the CIA.
Carter's enemies made great efforts to destabilize Carter's presidency. Poppy
on Reagan-Bush ticket used spycraft to ensure victory over Carter in the 1980
presidential election.
-Carter
faced the Iran-hostage crisis - Iranian revolutionaries seized 52 Americans
from the U.S. embassy in Tehran after the exiled shah was allowed entry to the
U.S. for medical treatment. (The shah was restored to dictatorial power by the
1953 CIA-sponsored coup.)
-In
1979, Shah's son was hiding out at Jim Bath's place. (Poppy Bush handpicked
pilot Bath to be his aviation business connection to the Saudis.)
-David
and Nelson Rockefeller, fearing the Iranians would withdraw the shah's looted
billions from the Chase Manhattan Bank in London, pressured Carter to seize all
of Iran's assets.
-After
hearing rumors that Carter had reached an agreement to free the hostages in the
final weeks of election, Poppy Bush instructed Richard Allen, Reagan's foreign
policy adviser, to pass the information to CIA covert operations specialist,
Theodore Shackley.
-Reagan-Bush
forces made a deal with the Iranians during the summer and fall of 1980 -
release the hostages AFTER the election in exchange for military arms and spare
parts. (This event occurred prior to the secret sale of arms to Iran in the 1986
Iran-Contra Scandal.) On January
20, 1981, 52 American hostages were released by Iran into
U.S. custody after Ronald Reagan was sworn in as President.
George W. Bush
The second half of the book
tries to complete Russ Baker's quest in understanding how the deeply flawed
Poppy Bush's son could have ascended to the highest office in the nation. Baker
delivers a compelling narrative in exposing the hypocrisies, deceptions, and
failures of George W. Bush.
Who haven't heard stories of
Bush's early years? Womanizing, bouts with alcohol and drugs, inability to fly
planes, and AWOL National Guard service? Throughout most of Bush's life, his
family, friends and associates pulled strings, engaged in cover-ups, and
basically repackaged him as anything but what he really is - a total loser.
Who haven't heard the
tragedy that Bush as president had inflicted on America? Dirty campaigns, two
election imbroglios, dubious religious epiphany, dangerous and corrupt
administration, economic collapse, disastrous domestic/international policies
and initiation of two wars and a global war on "terror"?
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