by
Paul Kangas
Nixon's hiring by Prescot Bush
highlited in maroon midway in article
According to a biography of Richard Nixon, his
close personal and political ties with the Bush family go back to 1941 when
Nixon claims he read an ad in an L A. newspaper, placed by a wealthy group of
businessmen, led by Prescot Bush, the father of George Bush. They wanted a
young, malleable candidate to run for Congress. Nixon applied for the position
and won the job. Nixon became a mouthpiece for the Bush group. (Source:
Freedom Magazine, 1986, L.F. Prouty).
A newly discovered FBI document reveals that George Bush was directly involved in the 1963 murder of President John Kennedy. The document places Bush working with the now-famous CIA agent, Felix Rodriguez, recruiting right-wing Cuban exiles for the invasion of Cuba. It was Bush's CIA job to organize the Cuban community in Miami for the invasion. The Cubans were trained as marksmen by the CIA. Bush at that time lived in Texas. Hopping from Houston to Miami weekly, Bush spent 1960 and '61 recruiting Cubans in Miami for the invasion. That is how he met Felix Rodriguez.
You may remember Rodriguez as the Iran-contra CIA agent who received the first phone call telling the world the CIA plane flown by Gene Hasenfus had crashed in Nicaragua. As soon as Rodriguez heard that the plane crashed, he called his long-time CIA supervisor, George Bush. Bush denied being in the contra loop, but investigators recently obtained copies of Oliver North's diary, which documents Bush's role as a CIA supervisor of the contra supply network.
In 1988 Bush told Congress he knew nothing about the
illegal supply flights until 1987, yet North's diary shows Bush at the first
planning meeting Aug. 6, 1985. Bush's "official" log placed him
somewhere else. Such double sets of logs are intended to hide Bush's real role
in the CIA; to provide him with "plausible deniability." The problem
is, it fell apart because too many people, like North and Rodriguez, have kept
records that show Bush's CIA role back to the 1961 invasion of Cuba. (Source:
The Washington Post, 7/10/90).
That is exactly how evidence was uncovered placing George Bush working with
Felix Rodriguez when JFK was killed. A memo from FBI head J. Edgar Hoover was
found, stating 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. (Source: The Nation, 8/13/88).
On the day of the assassination Bush was in Texas, but he denies knowing
exactly where he was. Since he had been the supervisor for the secret Cuban
teams, headed by former Cuban police commander Felix Rodriguez, since 1960, it
is likely Bush was also in Dallas in 1963. Several of the Cubans he was
supervising as dirty-tricks teams for Nixon, were photographed in the Zagruder
film.
In 1959 Rodriguez was a top cop in the Cuban government under Batista. When
Batista was overthrown and fled to Miami, Rodriguez went with him, along with
Frank Sturgis and Rafael Quintero. Officially, Rodriguez didn't join the CIA
until 1967, after the CIA invasion of Cuba, in which he participated, and the
assassination of JFK. But records recently uncovered show he actually joined
the CIA in 1961 for the invasion of Cuba when he was recruited by George Bush.
That is how Rodriguez claims he became a "close personal friend of
Bush."
Then "officially" Rodriguez claims he quit the CIA in 1976, just
after he was sent to prison for his role in the Watergate burglary. However,
according to Rolling Stone reporters Kohn & Monks (11/3/88),
Rodriguez still goes to CIA headquarters monthly to receive assignments and
have his blue 1987 bulletproof Cadillac serviced. Rodriguez was asked by a Rolling
Stone reporter where he was the day JFK was shot, and claims he can't
remember.
George Bush claims he never worked for the CIA until he was appointed director
by former Warren Commission director and then President Jerry Ford, in 1976.
Logic suggests that is highly unlikely. Of course, Bush has a company duty to
deny being in the CIA. The CIA is a secret organization. No one ever admits to
being a member. The truth is that Bush has been a top CIA official since before
the 1961 invasion of Cuba, working with Felix Rodriguez. Bush may deny his
actual role in the CIA in 1959, but there are records in the files of Rodriguez
and others involved in the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba that expose Bush's
role. The corporations would not put somebody in charge of all the state
secrets held by the CIA unless he was experienced and well trained in the CIA.
(Source: Project Censored Report, Feb 1989, Dr Carl Jensen, Sonoma State
College).
Recently I interviewed former CIA liaison officer L. Fletcher Prouty. He is a
consultant for the excellent new movie on how the CIA killed JFK, being made by
Oliver Stone. He told me that one of the projects he did for the CIA was in
1961 to deliver US Navy ships from a Navy ship yard to the CIA agents in
Guatemala planning the invasion of Cuba. He said he delivered three ships to a
CIA agent named George Bush, who had the 3 ships painted to look like they were
civilian ships. That CIA agent then named the 3 ships after: his wife, his home
town and his oil company. He named the ships: Barbara, Houston & Zapata.
Any book on the history of the Bay of Pigs will prove the names of those 3 ships.
Again, this is more finger prints of George Bush's involvement in the Bay of
Pigs invasion. Yet Bush denies his role in this great adventure. Why would Bush
be so shy about his role in this war? What is the secret? Is there something
dirty about this war that Bush & Nixon don't want the public to know about?
Answer: Yes there is. The same people involved in the Bay of Pigs were the
people involved in the Watergate burglary. Why was the Watergate burgalarized
[sic]? The CIA was trying to plug up a possible news leak. They were trying to
stop the Democrats from publishing the photos of Hunt & Sturgis under
arrest for the murder of JFK (May 7, 1977, SF Chronicle.)
Presently, there is a law suit attempting to force the government to release
the records about the Bay of Pigs invasion. Why are those documents still
secret? Why are they locked in the National Archives along with all the photos
from [the] Dallas assassination of JFK? Why are the 4000 hours of Watergate
tapes in which Nixon is babbling about the mysterious connections between the
Bay of Pigs, Dallas and Watergate also being sealed in the National Archives?
Is it because all three incidents are connected?
Yes. We must demand the secret files on these 3 cases be released now. For a
copy of the petition to release the files, please write to: Paul Kangas,
private investigator, POB 422644, SF, Ca 94142. Thanks to Oliver Stone's
blockbuster new movie on JFK there is now sufficient national movement to
reopen all these cases. The White House fears Stone's new movie so much that
they have hired more CIA journalists to slander the movie & Stone. Don't
fall for it. Every serious investigator now agrees that Oswald did not shoot
JFK. That James Earl Ray did not shoot Dr. Martin Luther King and that Sirhan
Sirhan did not shoot Robert Kennedy. These cases must be reopened so that
Sirhan and Ray can be set free. The only bar that keeps Sirhan in prison is the
tremendous anti-arab racism in Americans: in both blacks & whites.
According to a biography of Richard Nixon, his close personal and
political ties with the Bush family go back to 1941 when Nixon claims he read
an ad in an L A. newspaper, placed by a wealthy group of businessmen, led by
Prescot Bush, the father of George Bush. They wanted a young, malleable
candidate to run for Congress. Nixon applied for the position and won the job.
Nixon became a mouthpiece for the Bush group. (Source: Freedom Magazine,
1986, L.F. Prouty).
In fact, Prescot Bush is credited with creating the winning ticket of Eisenhower-Nixon
in 1952.(Source: George Bush, F. Green, Hipocrene, 1988).
Newly discovered FBI documents prove that Jack Ruby has been an employee of
Richard Nixon since 1947. That that [sic] FBI document Ruby is listed as
working as a spy & hit man for Nixon. On Nov. 22, 63 Ruby was seen by a
women who knew him well, Julian Ann Mercer, approximately an hour before the
arrival of JFK's motorcade, unloading a man carrying a rifle in a case at the
Grassy Knoll from his car. Ruby later was seen on national TV killing a witness
who could link Nixon & Bush to the killing of JFK: Oswald. On the Trail
of the Assassins, Garrison, p xiii.
Richard Nixon was Vice President from 1952 until
1960. In fact, Nixon was given credit for planning Operation 40, the
secret 1961 invasion of Cuba, during his 1959 campaign for President After
Batista was kicked out by the starving people of Cuba, and Fidel Castro came to
power, Castro began telling American corporations they would have to pay Cuban
employees decent wages. Even worse, Pepsi Cola was told it would now have to
pay world market prices for Cuban sugar.
Pepsi, Ford Motor Co., Standard Oil and the Mafia drug dealers decided Fidel
had to be removed since his policies of requiring corporations to pay market
wages was hurting their profits. So the corporations asked then Vice-President
Nixon to remove Fidel. Nixon promised he would, just as soon as he'd won the
1960 elections against some underdog, an unknown Democrat named John Kennedy.
It would be an easy victory for Nixon. The polls had Nixon winning by a
landslide. Besides, Kennedy was a Catholic, and Americans would no more elect a
Catholic President than they would elect a woman, a black or a Jew. This was
1959.
Nixon told Pepsi, Standard Oil and other
corporations who lost property given back to the farmers of Cuba, that if they
would help him win, he would authorize an invasion to remove Castro. To further
impress contributors to his campaign, then Vice-President Nixon asked the CIA
to create Operation 40, a secret plan to invade Cuba, just as soon as he
won.
The CIA put Texas millionaire and CIA agent George Bush in charge of recruiting
Cuban exiles into the CIA's invasion army. Bush was working with another Texas
oilman, Jack Crichton, to help him with the invasion. A fellow Texan, Air Force
General Charles Cabel, was asked to coordinate the air cover for the invasion.
Most of the CIA leadership around the invasion of Cuba seems to have been
people from Texas. A whole Texan branch of the CIA is based in the oil business.
If we trace Bush's background in the Texas oil business we discover his two
partners in the oil-barge leasing business: Texan Robert Mosbacher and Texan
James Baker. Mosbacher is now Secretary of Commerce and Baker is Secretary of
State, the same job Dulles held when JFK was killed. (Source: Common Cause
magazine, 3-4/90).
On the Watergate tapes, June 23, 1972, referred to in the media as the
"smoking gun" conversation, Nixon and his Chief of Staff, H.R.
Haldeman, discussed how to stop the FBI investigation into the CIA Watergate
burglary. They were worried that the investigation would expose their conection
to "the Bay of Pigs thing." Haldeman, in his book The Ends of
Power, reveals that Nixon always used code words when talking about the
1963 murder of JFK. Haldeman said Nixon would always refer to the assassination
as "the Bay of Pigs."
On that transcript we find Nixon discussing the role of George Bush's partner,
Robert Mosbacher, as one of the Texas fundraisers for Nixon. On the tapes Nixon
keeps refering to the "Cubans" and the "Texans." The
"Texans" were Bush, Mosbacher and Baker. This is another direct link
between Bush and evidence linking Nixon and Bush to the Kennedy assassination.
In the same discussion Nixon links "the Cubans," "the Texans,"
"Helms," "Hunt," "Bernard Barker," Robert
"Mosbacher" and "the Bay of Pigs." Over and over on the
Watergate tapes, these names come up around the discussion of the photos from
Dallas that Nixon was trying to obtain when he ordered the CIA to burglarize
the Watergate. (Source: Three Men and a Barge", Teresa Riordan, Common
Cause magazine, March/April 1990, and San Francisco Chronicle, May 7,1977,
interview with Frank Sturgis in which he stated that "the reason we
burglarized the Watergate was because Nixon was interested in stopping news
leaking related to the photos of our role in the assassination of President
John Kennedy.")
After Nixon's landslide victory in 1972, he knew he had to centralize all power
into the White House to keep his faction in power, not only to hold power, but
to prevent the media from digging into how he secretly shot his way into the
White House, just like Hitler shot his way into control of Germany. The first
thing Nixon did was to demand signed resignations of his entire government.
"Eliminate everyone," he told John Ehrlichman about reappointment,
"except George Bush. Bush will do anything for our cause." (Source: Pledging
Allegiance, Sidney Blumenthal.)
The reason why Bush will 'do anything" is because his hands have as much
of Kennedy's blood on them as do Nixon's, Hunt's, Sturgis's, Felix Rodriguez's
and Gerald Ford's. This White House gang fears that if the public ever realizes
how they shot their way into power it could set off a spark that would destroy
their fragile fraud and land them in jail.
Other famous Watergate members of the CIA invasion that Bush recruited were
Frank Sturgis, E. Howard Hunt, Bernard Barker and Rafael Quintero. Quintero has
said publicly that if he ever told what he knew about Dallas and the Bay of
Pigs, "It would be the biggest scandal ever to rock the nation."
Meanwhile, in 1960, Prescot Bush was running Nixon's
campaign. Nixon was sent to South Vietnam to assure the French- connection
government there that if France pulled out, the U.S. would step in to protect
the drug trade from the GoIden Triangle. (Source: Frontline, 1988,
"Guns. Drugs and the CIA"; Alexander Cockburn; "Cocaine, the CIA
and Air America," S.F. Examiner, Feb. 2, '91; The Politics of Heroin in
Southeast Asia, Alfred McCoy, 1972.)
In 1959, Vice President Nixon was flying all over the world, acting just like
presidential material. It was an easy race for Nixon. Congressman Jerry Ford
was doing a great job fundraising for Nixon, as was George Bush. The rich loved
Nixon. The media picked up every bone Nixon tossed out to them. The biggest
problem was that Nixon was afraid to speak openly of his plan to invade Cuba.
The plan was a secret. No sense in alerting Cuba to the coming invasion. But
Kennedy was taking a harder line on Cuba than Nixon, because Kennedy was not
aware of the corporate/CIA planned invasion.
Nixon lost the 1960 race by the smallest margin in history. At first Bush,
Nixon, Cabel and Hunt decided to just go ahead with the invasion, without
informing President Kennedy. Then, at the last second, at 4 a.m., just two
hours before the invasion was set to go, General Cabel called JFK and asked for
permission to provide U.S. air cover for the CIA invasion. Kennedy said no.
The CIA was furious with JFK but decided to go ahead with their private
invasion anyway. Due to poor intelligence, the CIA landed at the worst possible
beach. A swamp. The invasion failed. The CIA lost 15 of its best men, killed,
with another 1100 in Cuban prisons. It was the worst single blow the CIA ever
suffered. (Source: F. Howard Hunt, Give Us This Day.)
Bush, Nixon and Hunt blamed Cabel for asking Kennedy and blamed Kennedy for
saying no. They were livid with anger. Nixon's corporate sponsors ordered JFK
to make any deal necessary to recover the 1100 CIA agents imprisoned in Cuba.
JFK did. Once the CIA had its well-trained Cubans back, they decided to
continue the invasion of Cuba just as soon as they could get rid of that S.O.B.
Kennedy.
The 1964 election was fast approaching. Nixon was running against Kennedy
again. Bush, Ford and Nixon knew that they had to get rid of JFK now, or else
the Kennedy clan, with Robert and Ted in the wings, could control the White
House until 1984. They decided not to wait until '84 to get back in the White
House. The Cuban teams of "shooters" began following Kennedy from
city to city looking for a window of opportunity to shoot from. They came close
in Chicago, but couldn't get the cooperation of Mayor Daley.
But in Dallas they had an ace. The mayor was the brother of General Cabel, whom
the CIA blamed for the failure of the invasion. The general prevailed on his
brother, Earl, and the motorcade was changed to pass the grassy knoll at 7
m.p.h. Hunt and Sturgis shot JFK from the grassy knoll. They were arrested,
photographed and seen by 15 witnesses. But the media turned a blind eye to the
photos, and for 25 years the world has been searching for the truth.
On the day JFK was murdered, Nixon, Hunt and some of the Watergate crew were
photographed in Dallas, as were a group of Cubans, one holding an umbrella up,
like a signal, next to the President's limo just as Kennedy was shot. The
Cubans can be seen holding up the signal umbrella in the Zapruder film and
dozens of stills taken during the assassination. After the murder they can be
seen calmly walking away.
Nixon denied he was in Dallas that day, but new photos and stories prove he was
there. Nixon claimed to the FBI he couldn't remember where he was when JFK was
killed. (Source: FBI memo, Feb. 23, 1964, published in Coup d'etat in
America, Weberman & Canfield). Bush, too, claims he can't remember
where he was. Jack Anderson did a TV special in 1988 proving beyond any shadow
of doubt that two of the tramps arrested in Dallas behind the grassy knoll were
Hunt and Sturgis.
After the murder, former Vice President Nixon asked President Lyndon Johnson to
appoint Nixon's friend, former FBI agent Jerry Ford, to run the Warren
Commission. Nixon also asked LBJ to appoint Nixon's long-time supporter, Judge
Earl Warren, to head the Commission. LBJ agreed. Ford interviewed all the
witnesses and decided which ones would be heard and which ones eliminated. It
is no coincidence that Nixon selected Ford as his Vice President after Spiro
Agnew was ousted. When Nixon himself got busted in the Watergate scandal, Earl
Warren offered to set up another special commission if it would help get him
out of trouble again. Ford, of course, pardoned Nixon for the Watergate
burglary but Nixon is still not out of the woods. There are 4000 hours of
Watergate tape. On the June 23, 1972, discussions with John Ehrlichman and
Haldeman there is clear evidence that Nixon is openly "confessing" to
hiring Hunt to kill JFK. That is why the Watergate "investigation"
went into secret session after Congress heard some of the tapes. This is why
only 12 hours of 4000 hours have been released to the public.
Did Congress realize that Nixon and Bush had openly discussed killing JFK for
stopping the air cover for the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba? Remember, Nixon
taped virtually every discussion he had with anyone in his inner circle,
including Bush, in order to blackmail people later. There is a photo of Bush
reporting to Nixon in the White House in 1968. It will be interesting to see
what they were talking about on that day, when the full 4000 hours are finally
released. The key to unlocking the secrets behind the 1963 murder of JFK is
hidden in the 3988 hours of unreleased White House tapes. Bush was in Dallas
the day Reagan was shot. (Source: George Bush, F. Green, 1988.) That
must have given Bush a flashback to November 22,1963.
Paul Kangas is a private investigator in California. This article is reprinted from The Realist with permission.