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Sept. 19, 2007 -- The CIA's "Houston files" shed light on Bush's
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publication date: Sep 19, 2007
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Sept. 19, 2007 -- The CIA's "Houston files" shed light on Bush's
backyard
WMR has discovered a Rotary Club of Houston letter, [second page]
dated April 21, 1976, written to George H. W. Bush's deputy director
of the CIA General Vernon Walters inviting him to address the Rotary
Club of Houston. The letter indicates that Walters had, a few weeks
earlier, addressed the Rotary Club of River Oaks, Houston's most
affluent community. WMR has learned that the Bank of River Oaks was
"Bush's bank" in the 1970s. The bank reportedly catered to wealthy
customers, many of whom were Bush's closest friends and business
associates.
The letter to Walters from the Rotary's program chairman also states:
"I am sure Director George Bush would recommend our rostrum highly
for its excellent coverage of influential Houstonians." [emphasis added]
Walters later became the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in the
Reagan administration.
The senior Bush lives in Tanglewood, near River Oaks. And River Oaks
was the residence of the late Enron chairman Ken Lay, a longtime Bush
financial backer. The River Oaks Country Club has long been a hangout
for Bush Sr. and Barbara Bush.
The presence of Bush's number two man at the CIA in River Oaks is an
indicator that Bush was linking the intelligence agency to the
business elite in Houston, particularly the oil industry. It is
likely a major reason why Bush was perturbed that President Jimmy
Carter did not keep Bush on as his CIA director in 1977, an event
that infuriated Bush with Carter and likely led to the October
Surprise "arms-for-no-hostages" deal that Bush, William Casey, Robert
Gates and others engineered with the Ayatollah Khomeini's government
to ensure that Carter was embarrassed by his failure to secure the
release of the U.S. hostages in Iran before the 1980 election.
It is believed that Bush, Casey, and others, including active CIA
agents, conspired to illegally transport weapons to Iran in October
1980 to hold a hostage release until after the election. According to
a November 16, 1986 Washington Post article, CIA Director Stansfield
Turner, who had sent many of Bush's cronies packing after taking over
at Langley, was negotiating through middlemen, including independent
presidential candidate John Anderson, the possible provision of spare
F-4 and F-14 parts to Iran in return for the hostages' release before
the election. The deal was being worked out with Iranian President
Abol Hassan Bani-Sadr and would entail Iran's release of U.S. charge
d'affaires Bruce Laingen as a show of good faith before the spare
parts delivery.
However, the Bush conspiracy beat Carter to the Iranians. It is now
believed that the SS Poet sailed from Philadelphia to Iran carrying
weapons in its rear cargo hold. And the weapons may have included
Phoenix missiles for Iran's F-14s, a shipment the Carter
administration flatly refused to send to Iran. After delivering its
cargo, the Poet and its crew of 34 American merchant mariners was
reportedly "disappeared" to eliminate any traces of the secret Bush
weapons shipment. The Coast Guard maintained that the Poet simply
vanished at sea without a trace.
The close proximity of the Navy's Aviation Supply Office in northeast
Philadelphia to Girard Point Piers, from where the Poet sailed on
October 24, 1980, is a possible explanation for the choice of
Philadelphia as the point of departure. The Poet suspiciously spent
three days at another Girard Point pier before moving to the grain-
loading Pier 3 to take on the cargo of corn, allegedly destined for
Port Said, Egypt. The Poet's rear cargo hold was welded shut making
it impossible for customs inspectors to examine its contents before
departure.
The CIA maintained a copy of a UPI report from May 25, 1984 that
stated: "Telephone logs from the 1980 Reagan campaign suggest the
Republican camp may have obtained military intelligence on the
movement of U.S. hostages in Iran from a Senate aide, a House
subcommittee report says."
The report continues: "The hostage information, found in the logs of
Reagan campaign adviser Richard Allen, is mentioned in the same notes
in which Allen scrawled the telephone number of Angelo Codevilla, a
Republican aide to the Senate Intelligence Committee." The
information contained in the notes on the U.S. hostages in Iran was
"Secret." Codevilla worked for Republican Wyoming Senator Malcolm
Wallop.
The UPI report suggests that the Reagan campaign was trying to "head
off an 'October Surprise' by President Carter."
The UPI report also quotes a House subcommittee report: "In an
interview with House subcommittee investigators, Codevilla
acknowledged being aware that active agents of the CIA worked for
George Bush's primary presidential campaign, before he became
Reagan's running mate."
WMR has previously reported on the links between Oceaneering
International, the firm that helped the senior Bush spirit Philippine
President Ferdinand Marcos' gold out of the Philippines to Bush
financial tranches in the United States, Switzerland, and the Isle of
Man. The Houston-based firm, in which Federal Judge Mark Fuller of
Alabama, has a vested interest, was also of interest to the former
Soviet Union. A CIA Foreign Broadcast Information Service translation
of a Soviet paper titled "World Ocean Exploration and Engineering
Problems," edited by A. I. Voznesensky and dated October 2, 1980,
states that "thousands of divers are engaged in underwater
engineering operations. In the North Sea alone about 2000 divers are
engaged in marine extraction of petroleum and gas." The paper then
cites one of the firms of interest: "Oceaneering International
(United States)."
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