SKULL AND BONES

PRESCOTT BUSH STOLE GERONIMOS REMAINS

William Huntington Russell (1809-85): Graduated Yale 1833. Founder of Skull and Bones
Society (or Russell Trust Association), which came to dominate Yale. Founded prep school for
boys, 1836. His secret organization spread in the 1870s to Phillips Academy (AUV and the
secret societies), the Andover, Massachusetts prep school.
 http://www.kmf.org/williams/bushbook/bush7.html

from a Skull and Bones Society internal history, entitled Continuation of the History of Our Order for the
Century Celebration, 17 June 1933, by The Little Devil of D'121.

From the war days [W.W. I] also sprang the mad expedition from the School of Fire at
Fort Sill, Oklahoma, that brought to the T[omb] its most spectacular ``crook,'' the skull of
Geronimo the terrible, the Indian Chief who had taken forty-nine white scalps. An
expedition in late May, 1918, by members of four Clubs [i.e. four graduating-class years
of the Society], Xit D.114, Barebones, Caliban and Dingbat, D.115, S'Mike D.116, and
Hellbender D.117, planned with great caution since in the words of one of them: ``Six
army captains robbing a grave wouldn't look good in the papers.'' The stirring climax was
recorded by Hellbender in the Black Book of D.117: ``... The ring of pick on stone and
thud of earth on earth alone disturbs the peace of the prairie. An axe pried open the iron
door of the tomb, and Pat[riarch] Bush entered and started to dig. We dug in turn, each on
relief taking a turn on the road as guards.... Finally Pat[riarch] Ellery James turned up a
bridle, soon a saddle horn and rotten leathers followed, then wood and then, at the exact
bottom of the small round hole, Pat[riarch] James dug deep and pried out the trophy
itself.... We quickly closed the grave, shut the door and sped home to Pat[riarch] Mallon's
room, where we cleaned the Bones. Pat[riarch] Mallon sat on the floor liberally applying
carbolic acid. The Skull was fairly clean, having only some flesh inside and a little hair. I
showered and hit the hay ... a happy man....''
George Bush's crowning as a Bonesman was intensely, personally important to him.
These men were tapped for the Class of 1948:

• Thomas William Ludlow Ashley

• Lucius Horatio Biglow, Jr.
• George Herbert Walker Bush
• John Erwin Caulkins
• William Judkins Clark
• William James Connelly, Jr.
• George Cook III
• David Charles Grimes
• Richard Elwood Jenkins
• Richard Gerstle Mack
• Thomas Wilder Moseley
• George Harold Pfau, Jr.
• Samuel Sloane Walker, Jr.
• Howard Sayre Weaver
• Valleau Wilkie, Jr.
Bush's Own Bones

Among the traditional artifacts collected and maintained within the High Street Tomb are human
remains of various derivations. The following concerns one such set of Skull and Bones.

Geronimo, an Apache faction leader and warrior, led a party of warriors on a raid in 1876, after
Apaches were moved to the San Carlos Reservation in Arizona territory. He led other raids against U.S.
and Mexican forces well into the 1880s; he was captured and escaped many times.

Geronimo was finally interned at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. He became a farmer and joined a Christian
congregation. He died at the age of 79 years in 1909, and was buried at Fort Sill. Three-quarters of a
century later, his tribesmen raised the question of getting their famous warrior reinterred back in
Arizona.

Ned Anderson was Tribal Chairman of the San Carlos Apache Tribe from 1978 to 1986. This is the
story he tells@s8:

Around the fall of 1983, the leader of an Apache group in another section of Arizona said he was
interested in having the remains of Geronimo returned to his tribe's custody. Taking up this idea,
Anderson said that the remains properly belonged to his group as much as to the other Apaches. After
much discussion, several Apache groups met at a kind of summit meeting held at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
The army authorities were not favorable to the meeting, and it only occurred through the intervention
of the office of the Governor of Oklahoma.

As a result of this meeting, Ned Anderson was written up in the newspapers as an articulate Apache
activist. Soon afterwards, in late 1983 or early 1984, a Skull and Bones member contacted Anderson
and leaked evidence that Geronimo's remains had long ago been pilfered--by Prescott Bush, George's
father. The informant said that in May of 1918, Prescott Bush and five other officers at Fort Sill
desecrated the grave of Geronimo. They took turns watching while they robbed the grave, taking items
including a skull, some other bones, a horse bit and straps. These prizes were taken back to the Tomb,
the home of the Skull and Bones Society at Yale in New Haven, Connecticut. They were put into a
display case, which members and visitors could easily view upon entry to the building.

The informant provided Anderson with photographs of the stolen remains, and a copy of a Skull and
Bones log book in which the 1918 grave robbery had been recorded. The informant said that Skull and
Bones members used the pilfered remains in performing some of their Thursday and Sunday night
rituals, with Geronimo's skull sitting out on a table in front of them.

Outraged, Anderson traveled to New Haven. He did some investigation on the Yale campus and held
numerous discussions, to learn what the Apaches would be up against when they took action, and what
type of action would be most fruitful.

Through an attorney, Ned Anderson asked the FBI to move into the case. The attorney conveyed to him
the Bureau's response: If he would turn over every scrap of evidence to the FBI, and completely
remove himself from the case, they would get involved. He rejected this bargain, since it did not seem
likely to lead toward recovery of Geronimo's remains.
 Skeleton in the Bush Family Cupboard
by Alec Russell, London Telegraph, May 09, 2006

One of America's great historical controversies intensifed yesterday with

the publication of fresh evidence that members of an elite secret society
may have dug up the remains of the Indian leader Geronimo and displayed
his skull in their headquarters.

Rumours that half a dozen members of the Skull & Bones society at Yale
University - including President George W Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush -
dug up the grave of the legendary Apache leader during the First World War
have exercised historians for years.

"Bonesmen", as senior members of the society are known, and the Bush family have long
refused to comment on the claims.

The society, founded in 1832 and famous for its strange rituals centred on symbols of death,
has over the years been accused of obtaining the skulls of a range of famous figures, including
the former president Martin Van Buren and Che Guevara.

Its members include President Bush and his defeated rival in the last presidential election,
Senator John Kerry.

Now contemporary evidence has been unearthed backing the theory that a group of young
Bonesmen, based at an artillery school at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, desecrated Geronimo's grave.

The Apache leader had died while in custody at Fort Sill in 1909, 23 years after he finally
surrendered to US troops.

In a letter written in 1918, one society member tells another that Geronimo's skull had been
exhumed and was being kept in the "Tomb" - the society's headquarters in New Haven,
Connecticut.

"The skull of the worthy Geronimo the Terrible, exhumed from its tomb at Fort Sill by your
club... is now safe inside the T- [Tomb] together with his well-worn femurs, bit & saddle horn."
The letter was unearthed in Yale University archives by a historian writing about First World
War Yale pilots, and published in the Yale Alumni Magazine.

The letter names only one member of the alleged raiding party, a Charles Haffner, and makes
no mention of Prescott Bush, who become a senator and is seen as the founder of the Bush
political dynasty.

He was first linked to the saga in 1986, 14 years after his death, when documents from the
society's archives were leaked purportedly showing that six Bonesmen - identifiable by their
nicknames and including Prescott Bush - unearthed Geronimo's skull.

Some historians insist that the grave was never disturbed and that if there is a skull in the
Tomb it is not the Apache leader's.

David Miller, a history professor from Cameron University, Oklahoma, said that until 1920
Geronimo's grave was unmarked. "My assumption is that they did dig up somebody at Fort Sill,"
he told the Yale Alumni Magazine. "But it probably wasn't Geronimo."

But society members have long believed that they do have Geronimo's skull in their
headquarters.

"Many talked about a skull in a glass case by the front door that they call Geronimo," Alexandra
Robbins, the author of Secrets of the Tomb, an exposé on the society, told the magazine.

Apache leaders seized on the news yesterday as further evidence that America's elite treated
Indian tribes as a subspecies into the 20th century.

"Who in the hell would do such a thing?" asked Raleigh Thomson, a former branch leader who
has campaigned to transfer Geronimo's remains to the tribe's Arizona reservation.

He told the Wall St Journal: "I guess it's the way my elders used to explain to me that white
people are."

Soruce:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=MKQ3Z2WCJWLKFQFIQMFSFGGAVCBQ0IV0?
xml=/news/2006/05/09/wbush09.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/05/09/ixnewsnew.html

http://www.illuminati-news.com/Geronimo.htm

Great-grandson wants Geronimo's bones

Associated Press (Rothschild Owned and Operated)
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070618.wgeronimo0618/BNS
tory/Science/home

June 18, 2007 at 12:53 PM EST

SANTA FE, N.M. — Legend has it that Yale University's secretive Skull and Bones
society swiped the remains of American Indian leader Geronimo nearly a century ago
from an Army outpost in Oklahoma.

Now, Geronimo's great-grandson wants the remains returned.

Harlyn Geronimo, 59, of Mescalero, N.M., wants to prove the skull and bones
purportedly taken from a burial plot in Fort Sill, Okla., are indeed those of his great-
grandfather. They are now said to be in a stone tomb that serves as the club's
headquarters.

If they are proved to be those of the Apache warrior, his great-grandson wants them
buried near the Indian leader's birthplace in southern New Mexico's Gila Wilderness.

Chiricahua Apache leader Geromino. (AP files)

“He died as a prisoner of war, and he is still a prisoner of war because his remains were
not returned to his homeland,” Mr. Geronimo said. “Presently, we are looking for a
proper consecrated burial.”

Mr. Geronimo grew up hearing stories about his great-grandfather and other Apache
warriors who fought the Mexican and U.S. armies.

After their families were captured and sent to Florida, Geronimo and 35 warriors
surrendered to General Nelson Miles near the Arizona-New Mexico border in 1886.
Geronimo was eventually sent to Fort Sill, where he died of pneumonia in 1909.

If the bones at Yale are not those of his great-grandfather, Harlyn Geronimo believes they
belonged to one of the Apache prisoners who died at Fort Sill. He said they should still be
returned.
He wrote last year to U.S. President George W. Bush, seeking his help in recovering the
bones. He thought that since the President's grandfather, Prescott Bush, was allegedly one
of those who helped steal the bones in 1918, Mr. Bush would want to help return them.

But, Harlyn Geronimo said, “I haven't heard a word.”

The White House did not respond to messages seeking comment.

Mr. Bush and his father, former president George H.W. Bush, both attended Yale and
joined the elite club. Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, the Democratic presidential
nominee in 2004, is also a Bonesman, as are many other men in powerful government
and industry positions.

Members are sworn to secrecy – one reason they will not say whether the club has
Geronimo's bones.

“The reason there's all these conspiracy theories around Skull and Bones is because their
loyalty to one another goes beyond their public differences,” historian and former Yale
Alumni Magazine editor Marc Wortman said.

Skull and Bones is one of a dozen secret Yale societies, according to Yale spokeswoman
Gila Reinstein.

“If it's true about the bones, that's disrespectful and disturbing,” she said.

John Fryar, a retired Bureau of Indian Affairs special agent in antiquities recovery and a
member of Acoma Pueblo, said if the secret society does have remains, they should be
returned to Fort Sill.

“To ignore a request like this for the return of human remains is totally uncalled for.
Look at our guys going to Vietnam to recover remains. It's the same thing,” he said.

A Nazi in the (pocket) is worth four in the Bush (family)

Part One - Part II ‘Frauds-R-Us’
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3255.htm

Prescott Bush, granpa of Dubya

The Nazi’s American Banker

What is interesting about the history of the Bush family are the connections; Avril
Harriman, Allen Dulles, the Rockefellers (the start of the oil connection), James Baker
III, Gulf Oil, Pennzoil, Osama bin Laden…on and on it goes.

A lapse of memory?

By William Bowles

05/07/03: (Information Clearing House) It’s as well to remember that the Web never
forgets, at least the US pres should take note of this fact and be careful of his utterances
and how they can come back to haunt him. In fact four generations of Bush family
history and too many skeletons in too many closets to count are to be found on the Web.

And given all the ‘pullpit pounding’ (more of which below) by ol’ Duyba and his
minions, over the dubious moral character of Saddam and his cronies, much of which has
underpinned the justification for the invasion and occupation of Iraq, it’s as well to
compare the two sets of rogues. Not surprisingly, there’s little to choose between the two
except that, in the case of the Bush gang, they have a ‘pedigree’ in perfidy which extends
back almost a century and four generations that makes Saddam look positively angelic by
comparison.

Prescott Bush – setting a family example

In a previous piece (http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3243.htm) a quote I

used mentioned Prescott Bush the present pres’s granpa
(http://www.americanpolitics.com/20030210Koop.html) so I decided to do a little
researching to see what other dirty little secrets the Bush family have hidden in the dark
recesses of the WWW and lo and behold, there’s a load of stuff out there (7,630 links to
be precise, according to good ol’ google just on granpa Prescott Bush).

Geronimo!

It’s 1918 and, well you know students, they’re always up to innocent pranks. It seems
Grandpa Bush set his grandson some fine family precedents starting with digging up
Geronimo’s skull,

"In 1918, Prescott Bush and two companions crept into the cemetery near Fort Sill and
pried open the grave of Geronimo.

The head was taken out, spiffed up and forwarded to New Haven, where it was given
pride of place for goofy rituals that have been attended by generations of Bushes and a
veritable army of powerful types."

http://www.post-gazette.com/columnists/20000923roddy.asp

The Apache nation (what was left of it anyway) was not amused. Okay, we’ll forgive
granpa Bush his ‘juvenile pranks’ but it seems that this set the scene for the rest of his
miserable life until his death in 1972 from carcinoma of the lung.

From skulls to Zyklon B (and back again)

But it seems that great-granpa George Walker was also in on the business of making
money out of death (like great-granpa like great grand-son),

"George Walker, GW's great-grandfather, also set up the takeover of the Hamburg-
America Line, a cover for I.G. Farben's Nazi espionage unit in the United States. In
Germany, I.G. Farben was most famous for putting the gas in gas chambers; it was the
producer of Zyklon B and other gasses used on victims of the Holocaust. The Bush
family was not unaware of the nature of their investment partners. They hired Allen
Dulles, the future head of the CIA, to hide the funds they were making from Nazi
investments and the funds they were sending to Nazi Germany, rather than divest."

Source: http://www.disinfo.com/pages/dossier/id195/pg1/

Banking on Fascism

It just doesn’t stop does it, as Prescott Bush, son of George continued in the ‘grand
tradition’ of skullduggery by also doing deals with the Nazis,
"On October 20, 1942, the US Alien Property Custodian, under the "Trading With the
Enemy Act," seized the shares of the Union Banking Corporation (UBC), of which
Prescott Bush was a director and shareholder. The largest shareholder was E. Roland
Harriman. (Bush was also the managing partner of Brown Brothers Harriman, a leading
Wall Street investment firm.)

"The UBC was established to send American capital to Germany to finance the
reorganization of its industry under the Nazis. Their leading German partner was the
notorious Nazi industrialist Fritz Thyssen, who wrote a book admitting much of this
called "I Paid Hitler."

"Among the companies financed was the Silesian-American Corporation, which was also
managed by Prescott Bush, and by his father-in-law George Herbert Walker, who
supplied Dub-a-Ya with his name. The company was vital in supplying coal to the Nazi
war industry. It too was seized as a Nazi-front on November 17, 1942. The largest
company Bush's UBC helped finance was the German Steel Trust, responsible for
between one-third and one-half of Nazi iron and explosives.

"Prescott Bush was also a director of the Harriman Fifteen Corporation, (this one owned
largely by Roland's brother, Averell Harriman), which owned about a third of the
Consolidated Silesian Steel Corporation, the rest owned by Friedrich Flick, (a member of
Himmler's "Circle of Friends" who donated to the S.S.)."

Source: http://www.lpdallas.org/features/draheim/dr991216.htm

What is interesting about the history of the Bush family are the connections; Avril
Harriman, Allen Dulles, the Rockefellers (the start of the oil connection), James Baker
III, Gulf Oil, Pennzoil, Osama bin Laden…on and on it goes. It looks like this’ll have to
be part one of an on-going series on the Bush dynasty and their dirty dealings.

Double Dutch?

The story of steel magnate and billionaire bankroller of the Nazis, Fritz Thyssen and his
Bush family connection is so incredible, that it deserves to be turned into a movie
(obviously not by Hollywood). It all starts with John Loftus, a former U.S.Department of
Justice Nazi War Crimes prosecutor who is the source of the following,

"From 1945 until 1949, one of the lengthiest and, it now appears, most futile
interrogations of a Nazi war crimes suspect began in the American Zone of Occupied
Germany…. [The interrogation of] [m]ultibillionaire steel magnate Fritz Thyssen-the
man whose steel combine was the cold heart of the Nazi war machine."

They were trying to find out what had happened to Thyssen’s billions but without
success. Why?
"What the Allied investigators never understood was that they were not asking Thyssen
the right question. Thyssen did not need any foreign bank accounts because his family
secretly owned an entire chain of banks. He did not have to transfer his Nazi assets at the
end of World War II, all he had to do was transfer the ownership documents - stocks,
bonds, deeds and trusts--from his bank in Berlin through his bank in Holland to his
American friends in New York City, Prescott Bush and Herbert Walker. Thyssen's
partners in crime were the father and father-in-law of a future President of the
United States [my emph. WB].

"The British and American interrogators may have gravely underestimated Thyssen but
they nonetheless knew they were being lied to. Their suspicions focused on one Dutch
Bank in particular, the Bank voor Handel enScheepvaart, in Rotterdam. This bank did a
lot of business with the Thyssens over the years. In 1923, as a favor to him, the
Rotterdam bank loaned the money to build the very first Nazi party headquarters in
Munich.

"If the investigators realized that the US intelligence chief in postwar Germany, Allen
Dulles, was also the Rotterdam bank's lawyer, they might have asked some very
interesting questions. They did not know that Thyssen was Dulles' client [my emph.
WB] as well. Nor did they ever realize that it was Allen Dulles's other client, Baron
Kurt Von Schroeder who was the Nazi trustee for the Thyssen companies which
now claimed to be owned by the Dutch [my emph. WB]. The Rotterdam Bank was at
the heart of Dulles' cloaking scheme, and he guarded its secrets jealously.

"[T]he Dutch connection remained unexplored until 1994 when I published the book
"The Secret War Against the Jews." As a matter of historical curiosity, I mentioned that
Fritz Thyssen (and indirectly, the Nazi Party) had obtained their early financing from
Brown Brothers Harriman [my emph. WB], and its affiliate, the Union Banking
Corporation. Union Bank, in turn, was the Bush family's holding company for a number
of other entities, including the "Holland American Trading Company."

Source: http://www.baltech.org/lederman/bush-nazi-fortune-2-09-02.html

There are so many twists and turns to this story, that this is not the place to to go into all
the labyrinthine links between the Nazis, the Bush Family and the CIA (via Allen Dulles)
or indeed, a host of other corporate connections. But this final quote from the same
source, gives you an idea of just how much money is involved,

"The enormous sums of money deposited into the Union Bank prior to 1942 is the best
evidence that Prescott Bush knowingly served as a money launderer for the Nazis.
Remember that Union Banks' books and accounts were frozen by the U.S. Alien Property
Custodian in 1942 and not released back to the Bush family until 1951. At that time,
Union Bank shares representing hundreds of millions of dollars worth of industrial stocks
and bonds were unblocked for distribution. Did the Bush family really believe that such
enormous sums came from Dutch enterprises? One could sell tulip bulbs and wooden
shoes for centuries and not achieve those sums. A fortune this size could only have come
from the Thyssen profits made from rearming the Third Reich, and then hidden, first
from the Nazi tax auditors, and then from the Allies."

For the full story please go to the link above.

Crocodile tears

All of which makes the following quote from Dubya all the more sickening,

"In April 1999, [then] Texas Governor George W. Bush proclaimed a week of
remembrance for the Holocaust. He said, "I urge Texans to never forget the inhumanity
of those who perpetrated the Holocaust, and reflect upon our own humanity and our
responsibility to respect all peoples."

Source: http://www.disinfo.com/pages/dossier/id195/pg1/

Like granpa like grand-son? Well given where Dubya got his money from, and his
continuing in the ‘grand tradition of the Bush gang, I’m feeling quite biblical about
things, so I thought following,

Short diversion

Would be useful. I know there will be some among you who think I’ve just got it in for
the Bushes, so in my wanderings over the Web, I came across this little gem from
http://www.townhall.com/bookclub/herskowitz.html

"Duty, Honor, Country

The Life and Legacy of Prescott Bush

By Mickey Herskowitz

This paean to the life of Prescott Bush, by a conservative writer is a salutory warning to
us all. I quote,

"He [Prescott Bush] was a unifier, not a divider. And he was of such high integrity [sic]
that behind the scenes was where he was at his best. He was a man of great faith. His
grandfather was a minister whose faith and integrity were fully ingrained in the Bush
family. Prescott always emphasized honesty, charity, fairness and proactive dedication to
God, family and country."

From a review by Susan Kurz.

I could go on quoting, but I’m afraid I’ll throw up. Check it out for yourself at
http://www.townhall.com/bookclub/herskowitz.html. Townhall.com is, by the way, "the
first truly interactive community on the Internet to bring Internet users, conservative
public policy organizations, congressional staff, and political activists together under the
broad umbrella of "conservative" thoughts, ideas and actions."

There’s none so blind as those that refuse to see.

From Eugenicist to anti-abortionist

Not content with digging up the ancestors, supporting Fascism,laundering Nazi money
through a Dutch-based bank, selling weapons to the mullahs of Iran, trading guns for
drugs, doing business deals with Osama bin Laden, the Bush family in the form of ol’
granpa Prescott was an early supporter of the Eugenics movement (or racial purity, to
give it its real name). And a rather embarassing connection it is too, as Bush Snr
discovered,

"…And the Birth Control League was there, which had long trumpeted the need for
eugenical births--fewer births for parents with "inferior" bloodlines. Prescott [Bush’s]
partner Tighe was a Connecticut director of the league, and the Connecticut league's
medical advisor was eugenics advocate Dr. Winternitz of Yale Medical School.

Now in 1950, people who knew something about Prescott Bush knew that he had very
unsavory roots in the eugenics movement. There were then, just after the anti-Hitler war,
few open advocates of sterilization of "unfit" or "unnecessary" people. (That would be
revived later, with the help of General Draper and his friend George Bush

Then, very late in the 1950 senatorial campaign, Prescott Bush was publicly exposed for
being an activist in that section of the old fascist eugenics movement. Prescott Bush lost
the election by about 1,000 out of 862,000 votes

In his foreword to a population control propaganda book, George Bush wrote about that
1950 election: "My own first awareness of birth control as a public policy issue came
with a jolt in 1950 when my father was running for United States Senate in Connecticut.
Drew Pearson, on the Sunday before Election day, ‘revealed’ that my father was involved
with Planned Parenthood.... Many political observers felt a sufficient number of voters
were swayed by his alleged contacts with the birth controllers to cost him the election...."
Source: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Exhibit/2412/eugenics/Bush.html

The Bush story is such a fascinating history of capitalist corruption and power that it
needs to be presented to a public that is consistently lied to, not only by the corporate
media but by our so-called leaders. In Part Two, I’m going to give you the low-down on
the Bush family’s involvement in the scams and dealings of the Reagan years, the Iran-
Contra scandal and one of the biggest rip-offs in history, the savings and loan scandal,
which cost the US taxpayer literally trillions of dollars. Yeah, you read right, trillions!

‘Frauds-R-Us’
The Bush Family Saga
Part II

By William Bowles

Neil Jeb George Snr Marvin George Jnr.

"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and those are the ones you have to focus
on" – GW Bush

"You have to look at the entire Bush Family in this context -- as if the family ran a
corporation called ‘Frauds-R-Us,’

George Jr.’s specialty was insurance and security fraud.

Jeb’s specialty was oil and gas fraud.

Neil’s specialty was real estate fraud.

Prescott’s specialty was banking fraud.

And George Sr.’s specialty? All of the above." -- Lt. Cmdr. Al Martin, US Navy,(Ret)

"While opportunism isn’t new in U.S. politics, never did so many in one family extract so
many dollars from taxpayers as when George Bush senior was president a decade ago" --
David E. Scheim, author of Contract on America.

"What you’ve got with Bush [George senior] is absolutely the largest number of siblings
and children involved in what looks like a never-ending hustle." -- Republican pundit
Kevin Philips

"Texas businessmen [are] not crooks, "they just have an over-developed sense of the
extenuating circumstance."" -- Molly Ivins

Just too many jinks, links

Updated - 05/12/03: (Information Clearing House) I started this second part with the
objective of extending the dossier on the Bush Gang, but I quickly realised that short of
writing a (very long) book, I’d never be able to encapsulate all of it in the easy-to-digest
form of an essay, hence the external pages, so that if you want to pursue a particular
character or company, all you need do is click on a particular link. You'll find that many
of the names and companies are cross-linked, pointing to the intricate network of
associates that the Bush clan have built up over the years. No doubt if one were to do the
same thing with Rockefeller, you'd end up with the same rats nest of associations (pun
intended).

Gangster Capitalism
And in any case, the critical issue is not so much the individual goings-on of these ne’er
do wells, but that they are typical of a system, which since its foundation (one built on
slavery, genocide, continental land theft and gangster capitalism) has utterly corrupt
institutions which it nevertheless claims make it the bastion of the ‘free world’! As the
saying goes, they have ‘no shame’.

Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil

The other really important question to ask is how can one family which has so many
skeletons in the family closet, get away with such dirty dealings and over such a long
period of time without being called to task? It’s as if the mass media goes deaf, dumb and
blind when the name Bush comes up. For no matter what your politics are, left, right or
indifferent, a family which has its fingers in so many dirty dealings has surely got to get
you thinking about exactly what kind of country it is you live in (if you’re an American)
and what kind of world is it that’s dominated by a country with a media (not to mention a
legal system) that’s quite content not to challenge its president or his lying, thiefing
family and their tenticular network of associations which includes: the Mafia, the Chinese
Communist Party, Japanese Triads, the Vatican, Central American drug smugglers and
gun runners, international arms dealers, the Ayotollah Khomeini (RIP), Cuban-American
terrorists, money laundering, illegal arms sales, countless conflicts of interests, nepotism,
coverups, tax avoidance, SEC fiddles and banking scams? A veritable ‘school for
scoundrels’.

The fact that this litany of evil is effectively left unscrutinised and unquestioned by the
dominant media, or, on the few occasions when it is mentioned, it’s only ‘in passing’,
reveals the cynical, opportunistic attitude toward not only the concept of access to
information, but acting on it. The system also makes a complete mockery of the so-
called moral approach used by the leaders of the ‘free world’ when they accuse others of
the same behaviour. Is it any wonder that we have populations who have ‘dropped out’ of
the political process. Where is the accountability? Where indeed?

It’s a shell game

In recent years the problem has been excerbated by the ‘gutting’ of the government
through wholesale deregulation and privatisation, which has enabled those with the
‘right’ connections to gain access to vast gobs of money in the form of subsidies and
lucrative contracts (eg Marvin Bush’s Ignite corporation, or the Kuwaiti Harken Oil
deals, Choicepoint’s Homeland Security contracts and the software company it uses,
Sybase Inc which has Bush family connections). The effect has been to turn various and
sundry government agencies into hollow shells. Companies can then effectively write
themselves blank cheques or simply ignore the toothless edicts issued by the regulators
(eg the SEC over the Silverado S&L scandal).

Assault on Liberty
The assault on the rights of citizens, won at great cost and over generations of struggle,
has since the 1970s, been steadily eroded to the point that we are now left with a façade
of the original, a cardboard mockup that has all the appearances democracy, civil rights
and so forth but virtually no substance. Our cynical leaders would have us believe that,

"Failure to vote, as Britain’s Chancellor remarked after the last UK

election,
is the mark of the satisfied citizen."
Perry Anderson

Satisfied or cynical? Or perhaps fatalistic about a system which has systematically

encouraged its citizens to disenfranchise themselves?

Ultimately of course, it exposes the real nature of the political class and who it really
serves – the rich and powerful and their utter disdain for those without any real power.
With ‘elections’ being reduced to no more than tokenised democracy (only about a
quarter of the electorate actually bother to vote in US national elections and a fraction
more in the UK), it’s no surprise that firstly, there is no genuine representation ‘of the
people, for the people, by the people’, but just as importantly, the total lack of
representation or accountability encourages an arrogance and bravado on the part of the
power elite that they can get away with anything, because they we let them (and they do)!

The 4th Estate – Absentee Landlords

A comparable process is at work in the ‘4th Estate’ who have reduced journalism (when
they bother to actually cover the real stories) to another hollow shell, where the act of
merely reporting is now considered sufficient to fulfill their obligations as ‘watchdogs’ of
the nation’s affairs. The thought of actually leading with a story, and pursuing it, day
after day, until someone actually takes notice and says, ‘enough is enough’ is simply not
permitted because the same corporations that own the media are also part and parcel of
the same power elite that’s busy ripping off the nation and holding the world to ransom.

Par for the Course

Forget ‘Dynasty’, although maybe they got the idea for the programme from the Bush
posse. Staggering, is all I can say about the Bush family saga. Yet actually it’s par for the
course as they say and not at all exceptional in the annals of the US power elite. The
history of US capitalism is made up of family dynasties of one kind or another, from the
robber barons of the Du Ponts, Mellons, Morgans, Rockefellers, Carnegies and
Kennedys, through to the newcomers like Enron, Worldcom, Halliburton, Bechtel,
Harken, Carlyle and so forth. And, like the landed aristocracies of England, they marry
into each other’s families, go to the same schools and universities, sit on each other’s
corporate boards and invest in each other’s business dealings. Importantly, they watch
each other’s backs and for obvious reasons.

The Actors
Below are the sections in alphabetical order, of some of the companies and individuals
connected to the Bush family (or vice versa). Clicking on the bold link at the start of each
section will take you to a page of additional links.

Arbusto Oil and the bin Laden Connection

Oh what a tangled Web we weave. Salem bin Laden, one of 57 children their father
Mohammed sired with his 12 wives, and Bush were founders of the Arbusto Energy oil
company in Texas (I assume not with the 12 wives as well).

He died in a plane crash -- like his father -- but not before the Arbusto Energy Oil
Company, founded in 1978, had become hugely successful. Later, Spectrum 7 Corp
bought out Arbusto (now called Bush Exploration Co). In 1986, with the company on the
verge of bankruptcy, it was purchased by Harken, and even though Bush Exploration Co
had debts of $3 million, Harken paid Bush $2 million for his stock.

See also the BCCI (Bank of Credit & Commerce) connection below, another murky
international scandal involving drug money laundering etc which one of the original
investors in Arbusto, James R. Bath, a Houston businessman and old friend of GWB was
involved in.

"Time magazine described Bath in 1991 as "a deal broker whose alleged
associations run from the CIA to a major shareholder and director of the
Bank of Credit & Commerce." BCCI, as it was more commonly known,
closed its doors in July 1991 amid charges of multibillion-dollar fraud and
global news reports that the financial institution had been heavily involved
in drug money laundering, arms brokering, covert intelligence work,
bribery of government officials and—here's the kicker—aid to terrorists."
James Hatfield

John Ashcroft: Attorney General And Defender Of The Confederacy

Corporate Connections:

AT&T; Microsoft; Schering-Plough; Enterprise Rent-A-Car; Monsanto

As a senator from Missouri, John Ashcroft received generous campaign contributions

from companies, including Enterprise Rent-A-Car and Monsanto, which were based in
his home state. But a company didn’t have to be from Missouri to get some attention
from the senator. Ashcroft was one of only a handful of senators sponsoring a bill that
extended the patent on Schering-Plough’s ultra-profitable allergy pill, Claritin. Extending
the patent, which expires in 2002, would save the company billions of dollars in potential
revenue. The bill died in committee, but Schering-Plough still gave Ashcroft $50,000 for
his failed 2000 Senate bid. Schering-Plough donated the money to Ashcroft’s joint
fundraising committee, which Ashcroft set up with the National Republican Senatorial
Committee to encourage unlimited soft money contributions from corporations that could
not legally contribute to his main campaign committee. (Check out Schering-Plough's
campaign contributions to other candidates.) Besides Schering-Plough, Ashcroft’s joint
committee logged contributions from AT&T ($25,000) and Microsoft ($10,000).
Microsoft, of course, is hoping the new attorney general drops the justice department’s
antitrust suit against the company."

Baker & Botts

James Baker III

"He says the government shouldn't overreact to corporate scandals. He led the campaigns
of the last four Republican presidents. He watched the September 11 attacks at the Ritz-
Carlton with the Bin Laden family. He's defending the Saudi's against a trillion-dollar
lawsuit brought forth by the September 11 families.

BCCI (Bank of Credit & Commerce)

"BCCI defrauded depositors of $10 billion in the '80s in what has been
called the "largest bank fraud in world financial history" by former
 Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau."
Wayne Madsen

The BCCI-Bush connection is, it could be argued an ‘accidental’ one, but it’s highly
unlikely even if it is difficult to track, But the seeds are all there, including GW Snr’s
CIA connection (as head of it) in the 1970s and the links to BCCI as well as his long time
association with James R. Bath an investor in Arbusto. Bath, was a Houston businessman
and old friend was also an investor in BCCI. Essentially, BCCI was a convenient
‘channel’ for moving money through to fund the various illegal enterprises being
undertaken at the time including, Iran-Contra, the Iranian arms sales, CIA money
laundering operations, connections to powerful Middle Eastern businessmen, the Vatican
and its right-wing connections through BNL.

Perhaps this extract from "Texas Connections"

http://www.thedubyareport.com/txconnect.html gives you an idea of the reach:

"… Sheikh Abdullah Bahksh of Saudi Arabia, a 16% shareholder in

Harken Energy at the time, was represented by a Palestinian-born Chicago
investor named Talat Othman, who served with George W. Bush on the
board of Harken Energy. Othman made at least three separate visits to the
White House to discuss Middle East affairs with then President George
Bush. At about the same time, and just prior to the Gulf War, Harken
Energy, with no previous international or offshore drilling experience, was
awarded a 35-year petroleum exploration contract with the emirate of
Bahrain.

Sheikh Bahksh emerged as a co-investor in the Bank of Commerce and

Credit International (BCCI), a criminal enterprise since dissolved, that
existed primarily as a mechanism for obtaining political influence using
Middle Eastern oil money. Bahrain's prime minister, Sheik Khalifah bin-
Sulman al-Khalifah, was a major investor in BCCI's parent company,
BCCI Holdings, of Luxembourg. Through its commodities affiliate,
Capcom, BCCI was used as a money laundering service by drug
traffickers, arms dealers, etc. BCCI's front man in the U.S., and the person
chiefly responsible for its takeover of First American Bank in the U.S.,
was Kamal Adham. Adham is referred to in the Kerry Committee report
on BCCI as having been "the CIA's principal liaison for the entire Middle
East from the mid-1960's through 1979." He was also the head of
intelligence for Saudi Arabia during the time George Bush Sr. was
Director of the CIA."

Carlyle Connection – There’s no business like war business

There are so many connections between the Bushes, the ‘Defence’ establishment, the
global trade in arms, that the mind boggles. That it barely gets a mention in the
mainstream media (except of course, to simply ‘report’ it) is a scandal of the grandest
proportions. But it only goes to show the power of big business and the political class
they have installed in both the US and the UK (after all, John Major is employed by the
Carlyle Group and BAE Systems, the major arms supplier to the UK, is part-owned by
Carlyle). Not only the connections beggar belief but the sheer hypocrisy of the Bush
government should put it in a new category in the Guinness Book of Records. As you’ll
see from just a few of the links to information on Carlyle below, their tentacles extend to
many of the armed conflicts going on in the world. There’s no business like war business!

Elliot Abrams
Unless you were around and following events in the 1980s, especially Central American
affairs and later, the Iran-contra scandal, you probably won’t know who Elliot Abrams is.
More’s the pity too. As Reagan's Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and
Humanitarian Affairs he used to oversee US foreign policy in Latin America, and was
active in covering up some of the worst atrocities committed by the US-sponsored
Contras. According to congressional records, under Abram's watch, the Contras "raped,
tortured, and killed unarmed civilians, including children," and that "groups of civilians,
including women and children, were burned, dismembered, blinded and beheaded."

His partners-in-crime include John Negroponte, the new ambassador to the UN, who
served under Reagan as ambassador to Honduras from 1981-1985. He is known for his
role in the cover up of human rights abuses by CIA trained paramilitaries throughout the
region. Coincidentally? Honduran exiles associated with the paramilitary forces that had
been living in the US, were exported to Canada prior to Negroponte's Senate
confirmation hearing, thus rendering their testimony unavailable.

Another partner from the ‘good ol’ days is Otto Reich who has been appointed as
Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs (which includes Latin
America). The Bush administration used a "recess appointment" during January 2002 to
side step the Senate confirmation hearing otherwise required of the appointment.
Democrat opposition to Reich's nomination had been predicted.

But they are still up to their old tricks:

"The coup in Venezuela against Hugo Chavez sports the sticky

fingerprints of all three men and the modus operandi of a long line of US-
led cold war interventions.

But if these covert ops were tragedy, the Chavez plot was farce. The rapid
unraveling of the coup suggested that the Venezuelan plotters would have
done better seeking advise from Supreme Court Justice Rehnquist rather
than from Reich. It soon became public that Bush officials maintained a
web of connections with the conspirators and appeared to have
foreknowledge of the plot. Using the same conduit Reagan used to fund
the contras, the National Endowment for Democracy, the administration
had funneled money to Venezuelan opposition.
 According to British media, Abrams gave a nod to the plotters; Otto
Reich, a former ambassador to Venezuela, met repeatedly with Pedro
Carmona and other coup leaders. The day Carmona seized the presidency,
Reich summoned ambassadors from Latin America and the Caribbean to
his office and endorsed the new government.

Abrams pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of withholding

information from Congress in 1991, for which George Bush senior
subsequently pardoned him in December 1992."

Terry Allen

Enron Connection
As there’s so much information on the Bush-Enron connection (over a quarter of a
million links on Google), rather than attempt to show the bankruptcy side of things, I’ve
sifted through a number of stories and tried to find the ones which show the bigger
picture, starting wuth the Argentine connection between Enron, the Bushes, George Snr,
Jeb and Neil.

Fresh Del Monte and IAT Group: Rotten Fruit? It just doesn’t stop…
Let’s start with January 2003.

From the report below:

"The new year begs for a fresh start. But business accusations of international bribery,
nefarious investors and a Bush brother awkwardly involved in a troubled company all
have a too-familiar ring.

Here's the latest Robert Ludlum-style financial spat.

…. Marvin Bush, the brother of President Bush and Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, joined the
board of directors of Fresh Del Monte in 1998, after the alleged events took place.
Marvin Bush was re-elected to the company's board this year for a term ending in 2005,
and served on the board's critically important audit and compensation committees.

In October, Bush decided to resign from the board at the end of 2002. Without any public
notice of Bush's planned departure by Fresh Del Monte, news of his pending resignation
was not reported until last month."

The Harken Connection

Taken from Covert Action Quarterly "The Family That Preys Together

Issue No. 41, Summer, 1992 by Jack Colhoun

This a consummate piece on the Bush family from a magazine, now sadly defunct.
"This is an incredible deal, unbelievable for this small company," energy analyst Charles
Strain told Forbes magazine, describing the oil production sharing agreement the Harken
Energy Corporation signed in January 1990 with Bahrain.

Under the terms of the deal, Harken was given the exclusive right to explore for gas and
oil off the shores of the Gulf island nation. If gas or oil were found in waters near two of
the world's largest gas and oil fields, Harken would have exclusive marketing and
transportation rights for the energy resources. Truly an "incredible deal" for a company
that had never drilled an offshore well.

Strain failed to point out, however, the one fact that puts the Harken deal in focus:
George Bush, Jr., the eldest son of George and Barbara Bush of 1600 Pennsylvania
Avenue, Washington, DC, is a member of Harken's board of directors, a consultant, and a
stockholder in the Texas-based company. In light of this connection, the deal makes more
sense. The involvement of Junior-George Walker Bush's childhood nickname-with
Harken is a walking conflict of interest. His relationship to President Bush, rather than
any business acumen, made him a valuable asset for Harken, the Republican Party
benefactors, Middle East oil sheikhs and covert operators who played a part in Harken's
Bahrain deal.

In fact, Junior's track record as an oilman is pretty dismal. He began his career in
Midland, Texas, in the mid-1970s when he founded Arbusto Energy, Inc. When oil prices
dropped in the early 1980s, Arbusto fell upon hard times. Junior was only rescued from
business failure when his company was purchased by Spectrum 7 Energy Corporation, a
small oil firm owned by William DeWitt and Mercer Reynolds. As part of the September
1984 deal, Bush became Spectrum 7's president and was given a 13.6 percent share in the
company's stock. Oil prices stayed low and within two years, Spectrum 7 was in trouble.

In the six months before Spectrum 7 was acquired by Harken in 1986, it had lost
$400,000. In the buyout deal, George "Jr." and his partners were given more than $2
million worth of Harken stock for the 180-well operation. Made a director and hired as a
"consultant" to Harken, Junior received another $600,000 of Harken stock, and has been
paid between $42,000 and $120,000 a year since 1986.

Junior's value to Harken soon became apparent when the company needed an infusion of
cash in the spring of 1987. Junior and other Harken officials met with Jackson Stephens,
head of Stephens, Inc., a large investment bank in Little Rock, Arkansas (Stephens made
a $100,000 contribution to the Reagan-Bush campaign in 1980 and gave another
$100,000 to the Bush dinner committee in 1990.)

In 1987, Stephens made arrangements with Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) to provide
$25 million to Harken in return for a stock interest in Harken. As part of the Stephens-
brokered deal, Sheikh Abdullah Bakhsh, a Saudi real estate tycoon and financier, joined
Harken's board as a major investor. *5 Stephens, UBS, and Bakhsh each have ties to the
scandal-ridden Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI).
It was Stephens who suggested in the late 1970s that BCCI purchase what became First
American Bankshares in Washington, D.C. BCCI later acquired First American's
predecessor, Financial General Bankshares. At the time of the Harken investment, UBS
was a joint-venture partner with BCCI in a bank in Geneva, Switzerland. Bakhsh has
been an investment partner in Saudi Arabia with Gaith Pharoan, identified by the U.S.
Federal Reserve Board as a "front man" for BCCI's secret acquisitions of U.S. banks.

Stephens, Inc. played a role in the Harken deal with Bahrain as well. Former Stephens
bankers David and Mike Edwards contacted Michael Ameen, the former chief of Mobil
Oil's Middle East operations, when Bahrain broke off 1989 talks with Amoco for a gas
and oil exploration contract. The Edwardses recommended Harken for the job and urged
Ameen to get in touch with Bahrain, which he did.

"In the midst of Harken's talks with Bahrain, Ameen- simultaneously working as a State
Department consultant-briefed the incoming U.S. ambassador in Bahrain, Charles
Hostler," the Wall Street Journal noted, adding that Hostler, a San Diego real estate
investor, was a $100,000 contributor to the Republican Party. Hostler claimed he never
discussed Harken with the Bahrainis.

Harken lacked sufficient financing to explore off the coast of Bahrain so it brought in
Bass Enterprises Production Company of Fort Worth, Texas, as a partner. The Bass
family contributed more than $200,000 to the Republican Party in the late 1980s and
early 1990s. *9 On June 22, 1990, George Jr. sold two-thirds of his Harken stock for
$848,560-a cool 200 percent profit. The move was well timed. One week after Junior
sold his stock, Harken announced a $23.2 million loss in quarterly earnings and Harken
stock dropped sharply, losing 60 percent of its value over the next six months. On August
2, 1990, Iraqi troops moved into Kuwait and 541,000 U.S. forces were deployed to the
Gulf.

"There is substantial evidence to suggest that Bush knew Harken was in dire straits in the
weeks before he sold the $848,560 of Harken stock," asserted U.S. News & World
Report. The magazine noted Harken appointed Junior to a "fairness committee" to study
possible economic restructuring of the company. Junior worked closely with financial
advisers from Smith Barney, Harris Upham & Company, who concluded "only drastic
action could save Harken."

George "Jr." also violated Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regulations which
require "insider" stock deals to be reported promptly, in Bush's case by July 10, 1990. He
didn't file the stock sale with the SEC until the first week of March 1991.

Meanwhile, a cloak-and-dagger aura surrounds Junior's business dealings. James Bath, a

Texas entrepreneur who invested $50,000 in Arbusto Energy, may be a business cutout
for the CIA. Bath also acted as an investment "adviser" to Saudi Arabian oil sheikhs,
linked to the outlaw BCCI, which also has ties to the CIA.
Bill White, a former Bath partner, claims that Bath has "national security" connections.
White, a United States Naval Academy graduate and former fighter pilot, charges that
Bath developed a network of off-shore companies to camouflage the movement of money
and aircraft between Texas and the Middle East, especially Saudi Arabia.

Alan Quasha, a Harken director and former chair of the company, is the son of attorney
William Quasha, who defended figures in the Nugan Hand Bank scandal in Australia.
Closed in 1980, Nugan Hand was not only tied to drug-money laundering and U.S.
intelligence and mi- litary circles, but also to the CIA's covert backing for a
"constitutional coup" in Australia that caused the fall of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam.

The Harken deal with Bahrain raises another troubling question: Did the Bahrainis and
the BCCI-linked Saudi oil sheikhs use the production sharing agreement with Harken to
curry favor with the Bush administration and influence U.S. policy in the Middle East?
Talat Othman's sudden rise to prominence in Bush administration foreign policy circles is
a case in point. Othman, who sits on the Harken board as Sheikh Bakhsh's representative,
didn't have access to President Bush before Harken's Bahrain agreement. "But since
August 1990, the Palestinian-born Chicago investor has attended three White House
meetings with President Bush to discuss Middle East policy," the Wall Street Journal
pointed out. "His name was added by the White House to a select list of 15 Arab-
Americans chosen to meet with President Bush, [then White House Chief of Staff John]
Sununu and National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft in the White House two days
after Iraq's August 1990 invasion of Kuwait."

Ignite!
This maybe small potatoes by comparison with all the other Bush clan scams, but
nevertheless Ignite! Learning has made Neil Bush $20 million over the past three years.
Not bad for a guy who ran Silverado S&L into the ground. With accusations of nepotism
flying around all over the place, especially now that Neil Bush is trying to get the Florida
school system to buy into his learning software (at $30 a pop per student per year), the
state that his brother Jeb is governor of, it’s no wonder. Connected is the wholesale
privatisation of state services, which opens such areas as education to the predations of
people like Neil Bush and indeed, the whole issue of influence peddling and nepotism.

International Medical Centers

The Jeb Bush Connection

This is a murky story with connections to the Nicaraguan Contras, the Mafia, Cuban-
American terrorists, Iran-Contra, bribery and corruption, coverups and the CIA.
Essentially, IMC was contracted to give medical assistance to the Nicaraguan Contras but
the story is in fact, a lot more complex and gives you some idea of just how inter-
connected events really are, especially when you’re dealing the Bush clan. Perhaps this
review of a book by Duncan Campbell The Bush Dynasty and the Cuban Criminal, will
give you some idea:
"The Bush family connections go back to 1984 when Jeb Bush began a close association
with Camilo Padreda, a former intelligence officer with the Batista dictatorship
overthrown by Fidel Castro.

Jeb Bush was then the chairman of the Dade county Republican party and Padreda its
finance chairman. Padreda had earlier been indicted on a $500,000 (£320,000)
embezzlement charge along with a fellow exile, Hernandez Cartaya, but the charges were
dropped, reportedly after the CIA stated that Cartaya had worked for them.

Padreda later pleaded guilty to defrauding the housing and urban development
department of millions of dollars during the 1980s.

The president's younger brother was also on the payroll in the 80s of the prominent
Cuban exile Miguel Recarey, who had earlier assisted the CIA in attempts to assassinate
President Castro.

Recarey, who ran International Medical Centers (IMC), employed Jeb Bush as a real
estate consultant and paid him a $75,000 fee for finding the company a new location,
although the move never took place, which raised questions at the time. Jeb Bush did,
however, lobby the Reagan/Bush administration vigorously and successfully on behalf of
Recarey and IMC. "I want to be very wealthy," Jeb Bush told the Miami News when
questioned during that period.

In 1985, Jeb Bush acted as a conduit on behalf of supporters of the Nicaraguan contras
with his father, then the vice-president, and helped arrange for IMC to provide free
medical treatment for the contras.

Recarey was later charged with massive medicare fraud but fled the US before his trial
and is now a fugitive.

Jeb Bush sealed his popularity with the Cuban exile community by acting as campaign
manager for another prominent Cuban-American, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, when she ran
successfully for Congress.

George Bush Sr famously appeared with her during her campaign in Miami declaring: "I
am certain in my heart I will be the first American president to step foot on the soil of a
free and independent Cuba."

She has since lobbied successfully for the release of several exiles convicted of terrorist
offences held in US jails but who now live freely in Miami.

Most controversially, at the request of Jeb, Mr Bush Sr intervened to release the

convicted Cuban terrorist Orlando Bosch from prison and then granted him US residency.

According to the justice department in George Bush Sr's administration, Bosch had
participated in more than 30 terrorist acts. He was convicted of firing a rocket into a
Polish ship which was on passage to Cuba. He was also implicated in the 1976 blowing-
up of a Cubana plane flying to Havana from Venezuela in which all 73 civilians on board
were killed.

CIA memorandums strongly suggest, according to Bardach's book, that Bosch was one of
the conspirators, and quotes the then secretary of state, Henry Kissinger, as writing that
the "US government had been planning to suggest Bosch's deportation before Cubana
airlines crash took place for his suspected involvement in other terrorist acts and violation
of his parole".

Bosch's release, often referred to in the US media as a pardon, was the result of pressure
brought by hardline Cubans in Miami, with Jeb Bush serving as their point man. Bosch
now lives in Miami and remains unrepentant about his militant activities, according to
Bardach.

In July this year, Jeb Bush nominated Raoul Cantero, the grandson of Batista, as a Florida
supreme court judge despite his lack of experience. Mr Cantero had previously
represented Bosch and acted as his spokesman, once describing Bosch on Miami radio as
a "great Cuban patriot"".

Source: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/1202-05.htm

Lynne Cheney, champion of democracy?

"Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Dick Cheney, Frank Gaffney, James Woolsey,
and William Bennett, former Secretary of Education in the Reagan Administration, all
play prominent roles in domestic suppression of criticism of the War on Terrorism. A
group founded by Lynne Cheney, the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, recently
released a report titled "Defending Civilization." It listed 127 "unpatriotic" statements
made on U.S. college campuses since September 11."
http://www.publiceye.org/foreign_policy/just-fp.html

National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty

This takes us back to the 1980s although as the article below informs, like a bad meal, the
sins of the past keep coming back, in this case it’s Otto Reich who was part of the
original Contra force funded and supported by the Reagan/Bush government with its
links to drugs for guns and connections to the CIA and the Iran-Contra affair. I have also
included links to the official CIA version of events.

"Bush nominee linked to Latin American terrorism" By Bill Vann 24 November 2001
Source: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/nov2001/reic-n24.shtml

"As the Bush administration exhorts governments throughout the world to line up behind
its "war on terrorism," it is pressuring the US Senate to push through confirmation of a
nominee to a key foreign policy position whose own links to terror and an illegal CIA
propaganda operation have raised concerns even among the usually docile Democratic
leadership.
Otto Reich
Who is Otto Reich? Well basically, he's a friend of terrorists, there's no other way to
describe him.

"Otto Reich came to prominence during the Reagan administration when

he was appointed head of the office of public diplomacy within the state
department. According to the national security archives, Reich used this
role to pursue his own agenda to such an extent that in 1987 the
Comptroller-General of the US, a Republican appointee, found that some
of the efforts of his office were "prohibited, covert propaganda activities ...
beyond the range of acceptable agency public information activities". A
letter of September 30 1987 concluded that Reich's office had violated "a
restriction on the state department's annual appropriations prohibiting the
use of federal funds for publicity or propaganda purposes not authorised
by Congress"".
Duncan Campbell - The Guardian
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/FoT.html

He is now George Bush's assistant secretary of state for western hemisphere affairs. The
central point is that Bush is filling his government with characters like this, people who
have broken the law, an enemy of human rights, a thoroughly unsavoury character.

Richard Armitage – another Iran-Contra figure come back to haunt us

"On March 23, after being recommended in a unanimous 18-0 vote by the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, former Vietnam-era covert operative and Contra-era figure Richard
Armitage was confirmed as Deputy Secretary of State in a voice vote on the Senate Floor.
The unchallenged confirmation of a figure who had previously been investigated by
President Reagan's Commission on Organized Crime (1984) for alleged links to gambling
and prostitution was totally ignored by the major American media. Armitage has already
begun work at the State Department and is deeply involved in negotiations over a US spy
plane recently captured by the Chinese government."
From the Wilderness

Source: http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/politics/armitage_SS.html

The Silverado Savings and Loan Scandal

The savings and loans crashes of the 1980s, themselves directly the result of Reagan’s
deregulation of the banking industry, is more interesting because of how it reflects the
rapacious nature of unbridled capitalism than of Neil Bush himself. Who by the way, is
now embroiled in another scam with his latest venture, educational software, Ignite
(turnover $20 million, much of it from educational subsidies obtained in the state of
Florida ,where, ‘coincidentally’ of course, his bro Jeb, is governor).

Altogether, it’s been calculated that bailing out the failed S&Ls countrywide cost the US
taxpayer around $1.4 trillion!
There are nowhere as many digital sources on the S&L debacle because it predates the
Web. Much of it is contained in pages that refer to the numerous scandals and
malfeasances of the Bush clan at large. Even so, I’ve managed to uncover a number of
dedicated sources.

Stratesec/Securacom, KuAm (Kuwait-American Corporation), HCC Insurance

The links between these companies is strange. All have a Bush connection as well as a
World Trade Centre, United Airlines, Dulles International Airport security, aviation and
Kuwaiti connection. What is known, is that SEC regulations were breached by Marvin
Bush in filings submitted to the SEC.

Who is Marvin P. Bush?

The public rarely sees Marvin P. Bush, brother of President Bush II.

Marvin P. Bush is the founder (1993) and Managing Partner of Winston Partners Group
of Vienna, Virginia. It's a private investment company. He is also the Managing General
Partner of Winston Growth Fund, LLP; Winston International Growth Fund, LP; Winston
Small Cap Growth Fund, LP; all related companies.

Before this, he spent 12 years in the investment business with the firms of Mosley,
Hallgarten, Estabrook and Weeden, Shearson Lehman Brothers, and John Stewart Darrel
& Company.

In January, 1998, Marvin Bush was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Fresh Del
Monte Produce company, the giant fruit company (major product bananas) that makes the
canned goods we buy in our markets. Del Monte is owned by a very wealthy family from
Kuwait, the Abu-Ghazaleh family. Mohammed Abu-Ghazaleh is the CEO and he has
several family members on the Board alongside Marvin Bush. Another member of the
Fresh Del Monte Board of Directors is Stephen Way, who is a major Bush fundraiser.
Way is the head of the Houston-based HCC Insurance Holdings Company. In early 2000,
Stephen Way acquired the appointment of Marvin Bush to the Board of Directors of
HCC. In that transaction, Bush not only landed a very large salary, but a sweet stock
option deal. He purchased about $130,000 worth of HCC stock which is now valued at
close to $600,000, not even one year later.

Marvin Bush is also on the Board of Directors of something called the Kerrco Company.

Marvin also was named to the Board of Directors of the Stratesec Company, another
large publicly-traded firm. This company is very secretive and you can find virtually
nothing about it. Their website does not allow entry to several links unless one has a
password. Virginia-based Stratesec is a provider of high-tech security systems. Two of
the major customers for which they provide security are the Dulles International Airport
at Washington, D.C. and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Stratesec's revenues
recently went up by 60%, due to what the company describes as "new customers"
Prominent people at Stratesec also include former Reagan operatives including Barry
McDaniel and Air Force General James A. Abrahamson (who was involved in the
Reagan "Star Wars" project). Stratesec is a company is heavily inter-related with the
Kuwam Corporation ("Kuw" = Kuwait; "am" = America). Kuwam is a major Kuwaiti
Company into many, many activities including the aircraft business. Stratesec's Chief
Executive is also the Managing Director of Kuwam Corporation and Kuwam's Chairman
Mishal Yousef Saud Al Sabah sits on Stratesec's Board of Directors. Stratesec is
providing the primary security for one of the most sensitive airports in the world. Dulles
in D.C., has a heavy middle eastern airline connection.

Winston Partners, Sybase, Choicepoint, H.R. 3162, called "The Uniting and
Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and
Obstruct Terrorism Act" (or USA Patriot)

Another can of worms. Actually, I’m getting fed up with the Bush clan. It’s like the only
life they have is screwing up everybody else’s! Sybase software is part of the Choicepoint
system which is part of the Patriot Act which part of the whole damn system for keeping
track of everybody and everything we do, read, visit, buy, and no doubt think about.

Viva Zapata!
Zapata is the story of oil and the Bush clan and of course, Texas. This is the company
GW Bush Snr founded in 1953 and, depending on your predilictions for conspiracies, the
Bush connection can take you all the way to the Kennedy assassination and back, and
given the scale and scope of the Bush saga, it doesn’t surprise me at all, if indeed there
are links between all the goings on of the Bush clan, oil, Texas, the FBI, the CIA, the
Rockefellers, the Tri-Lateral Commission, the Nugan-Hand Bank,the Mob, The Pope (or
at least the Vatican, I think the current uncumbent is a little too doddery) and the
assassination of JFK. Of one thing I am sure, when billions and governments are at stake,
anything is possible.

Other important sources

Federation of American Scientists Website http://www.fas.org/index.html

The FAS Website contains probably the most complete record of the US dealings with
the Iraqi regime, arms sales and related information, including Congressional records. For
example I did a search on "iraqi arms sales" and pulled up 882 locations including:

"1992 Congressional Record Documents"

A particularly useful set of documents, because they are the official record of US
congressional representative Henry B. Gonzalez and his longstanding investigations into
a range of related dealings which included BCCI, Banco Nazionale Lavoro (BNL), Iraq-
gate, illicit arms dealings, and especially attempts by the Bush government to block his
investigations. http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/congress/1992/index.html
Other Bush family -connected Companies & Institutions
Amsec Corp, Global Strategies LLC, Bass Enterprises Production Co, Asset
Management International Financing and Settlement Ltd, Palmer National Bank

Other Bush Men (and the odd woman) that at some point, I'll get around to adding to
this dossier.
Dick Cheney, Ari Fleisher, Asa Hutchinson, Robert Mueller, John Negroponte, Paul
O'Neil, Theodore Oison, Richard Perle, John Poindexter, Colin Powell, Michael Powell,
Otto Reich, Orlando Bosch, Leonel Martinez, Robert Reilly, Donald Rumsfeld, Karl
Rove, John Walters, Eduardo Noriega, Richard M Nixon, Robert Mosbacher, Ferdinand
Marcos, John Erlichman, Robert McFarlane, Brent Scowcroft, Donald Regan, Jim Baker,
William Casey, Santos Trafficante, Miguel Recarey, Jr, Oliver North, Manucher
Ghorbanifar, Sheik Abdullah Bakhsh, Tongsun Park, Sargis Soghnalian, Dan Quayle,
Salem bin Laden, Prince Mohammed Ben Abdullah, King Fahd of Saudi Arabia.

A final word; I’m all Bushed out as the saying goes, but if I’ve learned one thing in
putting this testimony together (because that’s what it is), it’s the awesome power of US
capitalism to corrupt and to corrupt totally. Defeating a juggernaut of this size is going to
be a long struggle, probably not in my lifetime but what the hell!

Geronimo Descendant Will Ask Bushes to Help Return Warrior's Remains

by Emily Esterson Monday June 05, 2006 at 08:13 PM
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/print.php?id=114036&comments=yes

In the days of science, when Billy the Kid gets his own lawyer to fight for his
exhumation so his DNA can be tested, Harlyn Geronimo says he's willing to
provide a DNA sample to Yale University historians. Geronimo is the great
grandson of the Chiricahua Apache warrior Geronimo the Terrible. This past
week, the story broke from the Yale Alumni Magazine that the famously secret
Skull and Bones society stole Geronimo's skull and has it in its secret tomb.

from NewWest.net.

http://www.newwest.net/index.php/main/article/8438/

Geronimo Descendant Will Ask Bushes to Help Return Warrior's Remains

By Emily Esterson, 5-12-06

Geronimo, and great grandson Harlyn. Courtesy Roy Lohrart

In the days of science, when Billy the Kid gets his own lawyer to fight for his exhumation
so his DNA can be tested, Harlyn Geronimo says he's willing to provide a DNA sample
to Yale University historians. Geronimo is the great grandson of the Chiricahua Apache
warrior Geronimo the Terrible. This past week, the story broke from the Yale Alumni
Magazine that the famously secret Skull and Bones society stole Geronimo's skull and
has it in its secret tomb.
Harlyn says he has been getting calls from lawyers who want to help him sue the U.S.
Government, which owns Fort Sill, Oklahoma where Geronimo's remains were
supposedly buried, then stolen by the Skull and Bones Society, of which Prescott Bush
(grandfather to George W.) was a member. But while the story recently received national
play, Harlyn has been working on the repatriation from Ft. Sill of his great grandfather's
remains for about six months. An active member of the Mescalero Apache Tribal Council
until he retired five years ago, an artist and an actor who has played Geronimo senior in
several documentaries, he was responsible for pushing for a memorial to the warrior in
the Gila Wilderness, New Mexico, supposedly Geronimo's birthplace. Harlyn says he
wants to bring the bones there, too, to accompany a bronze sculpture and a memorial the
Apache leader.

There is doubt, of course, the Skull and Bones society did indeed steal the great warrior's
skull -- which is why Harlyn offered up his DNA. But Yale unearthed this letter, written
in 1918 by Winter Mead '19 to F. Trubee Davison '18. Writes the magazine: It announces
that the remains dug up at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, by a group that included Charles C.
Haffner Jr. '19 (a new member, or "Knight"), have been deposited in the society's
headquarters (the "Tomb"): "The skull of the worthy Geronimo the Terrible, exhumed
from its tomb at Fort Sill by your club & the K -- t [Knight] Haffner, is now safe inside
the T -- [Tomb] together with his well worn femurs[,] bit & saddle horn."

If Harlyn's DNA does match, "I would like the Bushes to look into this and return what
was stolen," he says.

In the meantime, Harlyn says that Monday, when the Yale story broke in the national
news, he got about 150 phone calls from people who were concerned about the
desecration of Geronimo's grave -- some calls came from the general public, others came
from those who claimed to be descendents. While he has not yet formally requested help
from the presidential family, he has called on Native American medicine people (he and
his wife Claudine are both medicine people) to gather for a prayer session to seek
guidance on how best to proceed.

www.newwest.net/index.php/main/article/8438/
 Prescott Bush
Birth: May 15, 1895
Death: Oct. 8, 1972

US Senator. The son of Samuel Prescott

Bush, he was elected as a Senator from
Connecticut to the United States Senate,
serving from 1952 to 1963. He was the
father of 41st United States President
George H. W. Bush and Grandfather of 43rd
United States President George W. Bush.

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Burial::
Putnam Cemetery
Greenwich
Fairfield County
Connecticut, USA

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Record added: Jul 26 1999
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