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Bush Senior Early CIA Ties Revealed
By Russ Baker and Jonathan Z. Larsen
The Real News Project

Monday 08 January 2007

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

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