On Dec 26, 9:57 am, "Sam McClung" <
mccl...@newsguy.com> wrote:
>
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.crime/browse_thread/thread/d1d146f...
> <begin quote>
> The timeline of Bush’s movements are almost impossible to read without
> raising suspicions:
>
> 1. George Bush Sr. spent the night of November 21—and early the next
> day morning—in Dallas at the Sheraton Hotel. The next day, November
> 22, Bush flew out of Dallas on a friend’s private plane to nearby
> Tyler, Texas, AROUND 12:30 PM, the time of the shooting.
>
> 2. Surfacing in Tyler AROUND 1 PM, he begins a scheduled talk to a
> local KIWANIS CLUB. After being interrupted with the tragic news, he
> stoically halts the speech. At 1:45 he calls the FBI in Houston to
> claim that a local [Dallas] GOP employee, James Parrott, was acting
> suspiciously and might be JFK’s shooter. Parrott turns out to be
> harmless and childlike.
>
> 3. Later that same day he flies BACK to Dallas again, but leaves
> immediately—on a civilian flight—to return to Houston, where he lives.
> <end quote>
Jack Crichton
During the Second World War he served with the Office of Strategic
Services (OSS) in Europe. In 1946 Everette DeGolyer recruited
Crichton. According to Russ Baker: "He started and ran a baffling
array of companies, which tended to change names frequently. These
operated largely below the radar, and fronted for some of North
America's biggest names, including the Bronfmans (Seagram's liquor),
the Du Ponts, and the Kuhn-Loeb family of financiers
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/MDcrichton.htm
Jack Crichton also had a close association with George H. W. Bush.
According to Fabian Escalante (The Secret War: CIA Covert Operations
Against Cuba, 1959-62), in 1959, Crichton and Bush raised funds for
the CIA's Operation 40.
Excerpt
In 1963 Crichton was nominated by the Republican Party for the post of
Governor of Texas. He joined forces with George H. W. Bush, who was
the nominee for the U.S. Senate. As Crichton later recalled, he and
Bush "spoke from the same podiums" that year. However, Crichton was
defeated by John Connally and he later wrote a book about his failed
attempt to become governor, The Republican-Democrat Political
Campaigns: In Texas in 1964.
In November 1963 Crichton was involved in the arrangements of the
visit that President John F. Kennedy made to Dallas. His close friend,
Deputy Police Chief George L. Lumpkin, and a fellow member of the the
488th Military Intelligence Detachment, drove the pilot car of
Kennedy's motorcade. Also in the car was Lieutenant Colonel George
Whitmeyer, commander of all Army Reserve units in East Texas. The
pilot car stopped briefly in front of the Texas School Book
Depository, where Lumpkin spoke to a policeman controlling traffic at
the corner of Houston and Elm.
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Jack Alston Crichton was born on a cotton plantation in Crichton,
Louisiana, on 16th October, 1916. After leaving Byrd High School in
Shreveport in 1933 he attended the Texas A&M University. Fellow
students included Harvey Bright and Earle Cabell. He graduated with a
degree in Petroleum Engineering in 1937.
During the Second World War he served with the Office of Strategic
Services (OSS) in Europe. In 1946 Everette DeGolyer recruited
Crichton. According to Russ Baker: "He started and ran a baffling
array of companies, which tended to change names frequently. These
operated largely below the radar, and fronted for some of North
America's biggest names, including the Bronfmans (Seagram's liquor),
the Du Ponts, and the Kuhn-Loeb family of financiers."
In 1952 Jack Crichton joined a syndicate that included Everette
DeGolyer and Clint Murchison to use connections in the government of
General Francisco Franco to acquire rare drilling rights in Spain. The
operation was handled by Delta Drilling, which was owned by Joe Zeppa.
In August 1953 Crichton joined the Empire Trust Company. He eventually
became a vice-president of the organization. According to Stephen
Birmingham, the author of Our Crowd: The Great Jewish Families of New
York (1962) the company had a network of associates that amounted to
"something very like a private CIA". The Empire Trust was also a major
investor in the defence contractor General Dynamics.
In 1956 Crichton started up his own spy unit, the 488th Military
Intelligence Detachment. Crichton served as the unit's commander under
Lieutenant Colonel George Whitmeyer, who was in overall command of all
Army Reserve units in East Texas. In an interview Crichton claimed
that there were "about a hundred men in that unit and about forty or
fifty of them were from the Dallas Police Department."
In the 1950s Jack Crichton became involved with several oil men who
began negotiating with Fulgencio Batista, the military dictator of
Cuba. A key figure in this was George de Mohrenschildt, who at that
time worked for a company called Cuban-Venezuelan Oil Voting Trust
Company (CVOVT) that had been established by William Buckley Sr.
Crichton later remarked that "I liked George. He was a nice guy." It
is argued by Russ Baker that Crichton's Empire Trust Company played a
major role in the financing of the Cuban venture.
On 30th November, 1956, The New York Times reported that: "The Cuban
Stanolind Oil Company, an affiliate of the Standard Oil Company
(Indiana), has signed an agreement with the Cuban-Venezuelan Oil
Voting Trust and Trans-Cuba Oil Company for the development of an an
additional 3,000,000 acres in Cuba. This is in addition to the
original agreement covering 12,000,000 acres." George de Mohrenschildt
later told Albert E. Jenner that CVOVT had managed to obtain leases
covering nearly half of Cuba in the 1950s. As Russ Baker pointed out
in Family of Secrets (2008): "Though now almost completely forgotten,
on many days in the mid-1950s, it was one of the four or five most
actively traded issues on the American Stock Exchange."
On 1st January, 1959, Fulgencio Batista fled Cuba. The following day
Fidel Castro and his revolutionary army marched into Havana. The New
York Times reported on 22nd November 1959, that Castro's government
had approved a law that would reduce the size of claims for oil
exploration and halt large-scale explorations by private companies.
These claims were now limited to 20,000 acres. This was a major
problem for the Cuban-Venezuelan Oil Voting Trust Company that had
signed an agreement with Fulgencio Batista for 15,000,000 acres.
Jack Crichton also had a close association with George H. W. Bush.
According to Fabian Escalante (The Secret War: CIA Covert Operations
Against Cuba, 1959-62), in 1959, Crichton and Bush raised funds for
the CIA's Operation 40. Originally it was set up to organize sabotage
operations against Fidel Castro and his Cuban government. However, it
evolved into a team of assassins. One member, Frank Sturgis, claimed:
"this assassination group (Operation 40) would upon orders, naturally,
assassinate either members of the military or the political parties of
the foreign country that you were going to infiltrate, and if
necessary some of your own members who were suspected of being foreign
agents... We were concentrating strictly in Cuba at that particular
time."
The failure to assassinate or overthrow Fidel Castro caused tremendous
problems for the Cuban-Venezuelan Oil Voting Trust Company and other
foreign oil companies that had already invested more than $30 million
looking for oil in Cuba. In December 1960, CVOVT was de-listed from
the American Stock Exchange.
Critchton was appointed head of the intelligence component of the
Dallas Civil Defence. The conservative radio commentator Paul Harvey
wrote in his syndicated column in September 1960: "The Communists,
since 1917, have sold Communism to more people than have been told
about Christ after 2,000 years." He urged his readers to support the
"counter-attack that had been mounted in Dallas."
In 1961 Crichton joined forces with other right-wing figures in Dallas
to establish a program called "Know Your Enemy". This was to combat
communist influence that "was undermining the American way of life".
The following year Crichton opened an underground command post under
the patio of the Dallas Health and Science Museum that was intended
for "continuity-of-government" operations during a communist attack.
In 1963 Crichton was nominated by the Republican Party for the post of
Governor of Texas. He joined forces with George H. W. Bush, who was
the nominee for the U.S. Senate. As Crichton later recalled, he and
Bush "spoke from the same podiums" that year. However, Crichton was
defeated by John Connally and he later wrote a book about his failed
attempt to become governor, The Republican-Democrat Political
Campaigns: In Texas in 1964.
In November 1963 Crichton was involved in the arrangements of the
visit that President John F. Kennedy made to Dallas. His close friend,
Deputy Police Chief George L. Lumpkin, and a fellow member of the the
488th Military Intelligence Detachment, drove the pilot car of
Kennedy's motorcade. Also in the car was Lieutenant Colonel George
Whitmeyer, commander of all Army Reserve units in East Texas. The
pilot car stopped briefly in front of the Texas School Book
Depository, where Lumpkin spoke to a policeman controlling traffic at
the corner of Houston and Elm.
In the Warren Commission Report it stated that Crichton arranged for a
member of the local Russian community, Ilya Mamantov, to work for the
Dallas Police Department as a translator for Russian-born Marina
Oswald shortly after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Crichton's
volunteer translated for Oswald during her initial questioning by the
Dallas authorities in the hours immediately after her husband Lee
Harvey Oswald had been arrested. According to Russ Baker, the author
of Family of Secrets (2009), there "were far from literal translations
of her Russian words and had the effect of implicating her husband in
Kennedy's death."
Crichton was president of Nafco Oil and Gas. He also owned a company
called Dorchester Gas Producing. A fellow director was David Harold
Byrd who along with Clint Murchison, Haroldson L. Hunt and Sid
Richardson, was part of the Big Oil group in Dallas. Barr McClellan
(Blood, Money & Power) argues that "Big Oil would be during the
fifties and into the sixties what the OPEC oil cartel was to the
United States in the seventies and beyond". One of the main concerns
of this group was the preservation of the oil depletion allowance.
Jack Crichton who was President of the Dallas Petroleum Engineers
Club, also served as a Director to Florida Gas Company, Clark Oil and
Refining, Whitehall Corporation, Transco Energy and the Consolidated
Development Corporation.
Jack Alston Crichton died in Dallas on 10th December, 2007.