If the American people knew what we have done, they would string us up from the lamp posts.

Before he became president George H W Bush was a Texas oil man and a director of the CIA. He was son of a US Senator, Prescott Bush, and a decorated pilot from his World War II days. After his Ivy League education he formed Bush-Overby Oil Development in 1951. Later he created Zapata Oil with former CIA agent Thomas Divine.

In 1960, Bush formed a new company, Perforaciones Marinas del Golfo (Permargo). His partner in this effort was Edwin Pauley of Pan American Petroleum. Pauley worked with Allen Dulles during World War II., and in this capacity it is believed helped the Dulles brother's law firms Nazi clients sneak their assets out of Germany when the fall was imminent.

In January of 1976 became the 11th director of the CIA with the task of resurrecting the morale of the organization. It had been beaten about by the revelations of abuses of it's almost absolute power such as secret programs like MKULTRA. People like James Angleton operated under the assumption that national security was more important than following laws of America.

He seemed to bring the CIA a better public image, however the nature of the interventionist covert operations means it is next to impossible to know if the CIA became a better citizen in the world of alphabet agencies.

Among the associations he developed was one George de Mohrenschildt – Lee Oswald's apparent handler in Dallas. The relationship was so close that de Mohrenschildt addressed him as “Poppy” - a form of address used only by his closest friends and family. That is the way de Mohrenschildt wrote when he asked Bush for help when investigators were closing in on him. The relationship was apparently close enough to warrant a response of best wishes but not such that any help was forthcoming.

A short time later de Mohrenschildt died of an officially declared suicide.

The Bush Crime Family: The Inside Story of an American Dynasty
by Roger Stone and Saint John Hunt

Roger Stone smashes through the layers of lies and secrecy that have surrounded and protected our country’s most successful political dynasty for nearly two centuries. Here is a blistering indictment, exposing the true history and monumental hypocrisy of the Bushes. In Stone’s usual “go for the jugular” style, this is a no-holds-barred history of the Bush family, comprised of smug, entitled autocrats who both use and hide behind their famous name. They got a long-overdue taste of defeat and public humiliation when Jeb’s 2016 presidential bid went down in flames.

Besides detailing the vast litany of Jeb’s misdeeds — including receiving a $4 million taxpayer bailout when his father was vice president as well as his startlingly-close alignment with supposed “enemy” Hillary Clinton — Stone travels back to Bush patriarchs Samuel and Prescott, right on through to presidents George H. W. and George W. Bush to weave an epic story of privilege, greed, corruption, drug profiteering, assassination, and lies. A new preface to this paperback edition features explosive information, including the family’s Machiavellian plan to propel Jeb’s son George Prescott Bush forward as the family’s next political contender.


You can find more by Roger Stone here.

Texas Titans: George H.W. Bush and James A. Baker, III: A Friendship Forged in Power
by Charles Denyer

The friendship between George H.W. Bush and James A. Baker, III began over fifty years ago on the tennis courts of the Houston Country Club when they found themselves paired as a doubles team, winning back-to-back championships in 1966 and 1967. While both men were admittedly weak servers, Bush was the net-and-volley guy, with Baker holding down the baseline with his groundstroke skills. That same approach of complementary skill sets and teamwork spilled over into their political careers for decades to come.

Both men's résumés were legendary. Bush served as a United States congressman, ambassador to the United Nations, chair of the Republican National Committee, US liaison to China, director of Central Intelligence, 43rd vice president, and 41st president of the United States.

Baker served as undersecretary of commerce, secretary of the treasury, secretary of state, and White House chief of staff — twice, while also chairing or playing a lead role in five successive presidential elections for three different candidates from 1976 to 1992.

Texas Titans is a story of George Herbert Walker Bush and James Addison Baker, III, two of America's most consequential statesmen of the past fifty years. Two men from opposite areas of the country who found friendship on the tennis courts at the Houston Country Club. Two men who helped transform a world during an era of immense challenges and change. Two men who became — and still are — Texas titans.