The Nation, McBride and George William Bush Saga
Peter Fokes
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"Date: November 29, 1963
"To: Director of Intelligence and Research Department of State
"From: John Edgar Hoover, Director
"Subject: ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY, NOVEMBER 22,
1963
"Our Miami, Florida Office on November 23, 1963 advised that the
Office of Coordinator of Cuban Affairs in Miami advised that the
Department of State feels some misguided anti-Castro group might
capitalize on the present situation and undertake an unauthorized
raid against Cuba, believing that the assassination of President John
F. Kennedy might herald a change in U.S. policy, which is not true.
"Our sources and informants familiar with Cuban matters in the Miami
area advise that the general feeling in the anti-Castro Cuban
community is one of stunned disbelief and, even among those who did
not entirely agree with the President's policy concerning Cuba, the
feeling is that the President's death represents a great loss not only
to the U.S. but to all Latin America. These sources know of no plans
for unauthorized action against Cuba.
"An informant who has furnished reliable information in the past and
who is close to a small pro-Castro group in Miami has advised that
those individuals are afraid that the assassination of the President
may result in strong repressive measures being taken against them and,
although pro-Castro in their feelings, regret the assassination.
"The substance of the foregoing information was orally furnished to
Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency and Captain William
Edwards of the Defense Intelligence Agency on November 23, 1963, by
Mr. W.T. Forsyth of this Bureau."
William T. Forsyth, since deceased, was an official of the FBI's
Washington headquarters; during the time he was attached to the
bureau's subversive control section, he ran the investigation of Dr.
Martin Luther King. Was he also a part of the FBI's harassment of Dr.
King?
The efforts of journalists to locate Captain Edwards have not been
successful.
This FBI document identifying George Bush as a CIA agent in November
1963 was first published by Joseph McBride in "The Nation" in July
1988, just before Bush received the Republican nomination for
President. McBride's source observed: "I know [Bush] was involved in
the Caribbean. I know he was involved in the suppression of things
after the Kennedy assassination. There was a very definite worry that
some Cuban groups were going to move against Castro and attempt to
blame it on the CIA." When pressed for confirmation or denial, Bush's
spokesman Stephen Hart commented: "Must be another George Bush."
Within a short time, the CIA itself would peddle the same damage
control line. On July 19, 1988, in the wake of wide public attention
to the report published in "The Nation," CIA spokeswoman Sharron Basso
departed from the normal CIA policy of refusing to confirm or deny
reports that any person is or was a CIA employee. CIA spokeswoman
Basso told the Associated Press that the CIA believed that "the record
should be clarified." She said that the FBI document "apparently"
referred to a George William Bush who had worked
in 1963 on the night shift at CIA headquarters, and that "would have
been the appropriate place to have received such an FBI report."
According to her account, the George William Bush in question had left
the CIA to join the Defense Intelligence Agency in 1964.
For the CIA to volunteer the name of one of its former employees to
the press was a shocking violation of traditional methods, which are
supposedly designed to keep such names a closely guarded secret. This
revelation may have constituted a violation of federal law. But no
exertions were too great when it came to damage control for George
Bush.
George William Bush had indeed worked for the CIA, the DIA, and the
Alexandria, Virginia Department of Public Welfare before joining the
Social Security Administration, in whose Arlington, Virginia office he
was employed as a claims representative in 1988.
George William Bush told "The Nation" that while at the CIA he was
"just a lowly researcher and analyst"who worked with documents and
photos and never received interagency briefings. He had never met
Forsyth of the FBI or Captain Edwards of the DIA. "So it wasn't me,"
said George William Bush.
Later, George William Bush formalized his denial in a sworn statement
to a federal court in Washington, D.C. The affidavit acknowledges that
while working at CIA headquarters between September 1963 and February
1964, George William Bush was the junior person on a three- to
four-man watch which was on duty when Kennedy was shot. But, as George
William Bush goes on to say, "have carefully reviewed the FBI
memorandum to the Director, Bureau of Intelligence and Research,
Department of State dated November 29, 1963 which mentions a Mr.
George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency.... I do not recognize
the contents of the memorandum as information furnished to me orally
or otherwise during the time I was at the CIA. In fact, during my time
at the CIA, I did not receive any oral communications from any
government agency of any nature whatsoever. I did not receive any
information relating to the Kennedy assassination during my time at
the CIA from the FBI.
"Based on the above, it is my conclusion that I am not the Mr. George
Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency referred to in the
memorandum."
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Peter Fokes,
Toronto
Anthony Marsh
Just after the assassination the CIA was using its elite media assets to
push the theory that Castro was behind it.
Peter Fokes
<anthon...@comcast.net> wrote:
I forgot to include the source of my quote:
http://www.padrak.com/alt/BUSHBOOK_3.html#BCK
PF
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