Scoop Link: Bush Senior Early CIA Ties Revealed

Wednesday, 10 January 2007, 10:33 pm
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Bush Senior Early CIA Ties Revealed

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http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010907P.shtml
http://realnews.org/rn/content/zapata.html

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

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

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

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http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010907P.shtml
http://realnews.org/rn/content/zapata.html

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