Russ Baker - Bush and the JFK Hit

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Bush and the JFK Hit

Part 1: George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency

By Russ Baker

What possible connection could there have been between George H.W. Bush and the assassination

of John F. Kennedy? Or between the .!.". and the assassination? Or between Bush and the

.!.".? For so#e people$ apparently$ #a%ing such connections was as dangerous as letting one livewire touch another.

!n his boo%$Fa#ily of &ecrets' (he Bush )ynasty$ "#erica*s !nvisible Govern#ent and the Hidden

History of the +ast Fifty ,ears$ -uss Ba%er$ editor of WhoWhatWhy$ docu#ents so#e of the

strangest and least %nown events relating to the assassination$ whose /thanniversary falls this

0ove#ber 11.

(his is a ten2part series$ featuring e3cerpts fro# relevant chapters of the boo%.

0otes' 456 "lthough these e3cerpts do not contain footnotes$ the boo% itself is heavily footnoted and

e3haustively sourced. 416 (o distinguish between George Bush$ father and son$ George H.W. Bush is

so#eti#es referred to by his nic%na#e 7oppy$ and George W. Bush by his$ W.

Poppys ecret

When Joseph McBride came upon the document about George H. W. Bushs double life, he as notlooking for it. !t as "#$%, and McBride, a former )aily 8arietyriter, as in the library of&alifornia 'tate (ni)ersity 'an Bernardino, researching a book about the mo)ie director *rank&apra. +ike many good reporters, McBride took off on a slight,- if timeconsuming, tangent /spending day after day poring o)er reels of microfilmed documents related to the *B! and the J*0assassination. McBride had been a )olunteer on 0ennedys campaign, and since "#12 had beenintrigued by the unansered 3uestions surrounding that most singular of 4merican tragedies.

4 particular memo caught his eye, and he leaned in for a closer look. 5ractically 6umping off thescreen as a memorandum from *B! director J. 7dgar Hoo)er, dated 8o)ember 9#, "#12. (nder
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the sub6ect heading 4ssassination of 5resident John *. 0ennedy,- Hoo)er reported that, on the dayafter J*0s murder, the bureau had pro)ided to indi)iduals ith briefings. :ne as &aptainWilliam 7dards of the ;efense !ntelligence 4gency.-


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the true identity of Mr. George Bush of the &!4- took on ne meaning, as George H. W. Bushprepared to assume his role as Reagans heir to the presidency. Joe McBride decided to make theleap from entertainment reportage to politics. He picked up the phone and called the White House.

May ! speak ith the )ice president- he asked

McBride had to settle for 'tephen Hart, a )ice presidential spokesman. Hart denied that his boss had

been the man mentioned in the memo, 3uoting Bush directly. ! as in Houston,


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as a claims representati)e for the 'ocial 'ecurity 4dministration. He eDplained to McBride that hehad orked only briefly at the &!4, as a G'% probationary ci)il ser)ant, analy@ing documents and

photos during the night shift. Moreo)er, he said, he had ne)er recei)ed interagency briefings.

'e)eral years later, in "##", former (e3as Observereditor ;a)id 4rmstrong ould track don theother person listed on the Hoo)er memo, &aptain William 7dards. 7dards could confirm that hehad been on duty at the ;efense !ntelligence 4gency the day in 3uestion. He said he did not

remember this briefing, but that he found the memo plausible in reference to a briefing he mightha)e recei)ed o)er the phone hile at his desk. While he said he had no idea ho the George Bushas ho also as briefed, 7dards rank and eDperience as certainly far abo)e that of the nightclerk George William Bush.

'hortly after McBrides article appeared in the 0ation, the maga@ine ran a folloup oped, inhich the author pro)ided e)idence that the &entral !ntelligence 4gency had foisted a lie on the4merican people.


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operations in 7urope. He became aare of this pro6ect through Mr.


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opportunities abroad. 'o it as only to be eDpected that many of the first :'' recruits ere takenfrom the ranks of oil companies, Wall 'treet banking firms, and !)y +eague uni)ersities and oftene3uated the interests of their highpoered business partners ith the national interest. 'uchrelationships like the one beteen George H. W. Bush and


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:ut of Lale, Bush ent directly into the employ of ;resser !ndustries, a peculiar, familyconnectedfirm pro)iding essential ser)ices to the oil industry. ;resser has ne)er recei)ed the scrutiny itdeser)es. Beteen the lines of its official story can be discerned an alternate )ersion that couldsuggest a corporate double life . . .


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!f the young George H.W. Bush understood anything about the larger game and his eDpected role init, he and his ife Barbara certainly did not let on to the neighbors in those early days in dusty West


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&ouncils of 4merica ere a locali@ed e3ui)alent of the Rockefellerbacked &ouncil on *oreignRelations, the presidency of hich 4llen ;ulles had 6ust resigned to take his post at the &!4.

4 'eptember "#%" organi@ing meeting at Mallons home featured a group ith suggesti)econnections and affiliations. !t included *red *lorence, the founder of the Republic 8ational Bank,hose ;allas office toer as a co)ert repository for &!4connected )enturesK


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e)en mentions his on papers history ith the agency, though he does not fully probe the 7ostsintelligence connections . . .


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Mongoose, the program to o)erthro &astro.


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for all his troubles may ha)e come in "#1%, hen one of the companys rigs as ostensibly lost inHurricane Betsy. *or the first time in its history, the insurance giant +loyds of +ondon paid out anoilplatform disaster claim ithout physical e)idence. Napata recei)ed eight million dollars for a rigthat had cost only three million.


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ithout detection.

'o hat, eDactly, as Napata Was it &!4 Go ont say. 4lthough in his memoirs he freelyadmits that he ser)ed the &!4 later on, he stri)es mightily to a)oid eDtensi)e discussion of the Bushclan . . .


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head3uarters ninety miles off the *lorida 0eys, as an embarrassing foreign policy failure.&ertainly in terms of li)es lost and men captured, it as also a human disaster. But ithin the ruling4merican elite it as seen primarily as a 6olt to the old boys netork / a humiliating debacle, and arebuke of the supposedly infallible &!4. *or John 0ennedy it also presented an opportunity. He had

been impressed ith the &!4 at first, and depended on its counterinsurgency against &ommunistsand nationalists in the third orld. But the Bay of 5igs disaster ga)e him pause. Whate)er

0ennedys on role in the in)asion fiasco, it had been planned on ;ight 7isenhoers atch.0ennedy had been asked to greenlight it shortly after taking office, and in retrospect he felt theagency had decei)ed him in se)eral key respects.


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When the 0ennedy assassination is mentioned, the in3uiry tends to focus on the almost impossibletask of determining ho fired ho many shots and from here. *B! director? Hoo)er told me about a little incident in MeDico&ity . . . 4nd he started crying and he said, ! ont turn you don. !ll 6ust do hate)er you say.-

4nd that got WarrenQ and the public trust he broughtQ on board.

4llen ;ulles, the member ho asked the most 3uestions, ould ha)e been himself considered aprime suspect by any standard police methodology. Moreo)er, he as eDpert not only inassassinations but also in deception and camouflage.

;ulless animus toard 0ennedy as ne)er o)ert, but it as incontro)ertible. !n ousting him,0ennedy as shoing the door to a man ho had spent his entire adult life in spy ork. Behind the

pipesmoking, professorial mien, 4llen ;ulles as a ruthless, calculating man ith blood on hishands. &ertainly, the )eteran master spy, director since "#%2, could not ha)e eDpected to stay onunder 0ennedy indefinitely. But to be forced out after hat seemed to him a glorious decade ofco)ert operations Fincluding successful coups in Guatemala and !ran / and on account of hat heconsidered 0ennedys failure of ner)e regarding the Bay of 5igs in)asion / must ha)e been galling.;ulles as, according to his subordinate 7. Hoard Hunt, a remarkable man hose long career ofgo)ernment ser)ice had been destroyed un6ustly by men ho ere laboring unceasingly to preser)etheir on public images.-


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I have never forgiven them.

4mong those infuriated ith the 0ennedys as none other than ;ulless good friend 'enator5rescott Bush. !n "#1", hen ;ulles brought his successor, John Mc&one, to a dinner at 5rescottshome, the senator recalled that he tried to make a pleasant e)ening of it, but ! as sick at heart, andangry too, for it as the 0ennedys >sic? that brot >sic? about the >Bay of 5igs? fiasco.-

He eDpressed this anger in a condolence letter to 4llen ;ulless ido in "#1#, disco)ered among;ulless papers at 5rinceton (ni)ersity. 5rescotts neDt line is particularly memorable= ! ha)e ne)erforgi)en them.-


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Clearing the (ay for Poppy

!n the spring of "#19, about siD months after ;ulless departure from the 0ennedy administration,both 5rescott Bush and his son 5oppy made some considerable and rather abrupt changes to theirli)es. 5rescott Bush, ha)ing already begun his reelection campaign and opened his head3uarters,surprised )irtually e)eryone by re)ersing himself and announcing that he ould not seek a neterm after all.


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5oppy and Barbara, 8o)ember 2, "#1

Another !e)ory 2apse

Jack 0ennedys death in ;allas on 8o)ember 99, "#12, as one of the most tragically memorable

moments in the li)es of those ho li)ed through it. 'o 5oppy Bushs inability or unillingness tosay here he as on that day is eDtremely odd, to say the least.

His ha@iness became an issue a 3uarter century after the assassination / hen there emerged yetanother good reason for Bush to ha)e recalled that day )i)idly. :n


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Part : Bar"aras Hair;9aising &ayBloc,0 Bridge0 and Beautify

!n the art of propaganda, and in the daily business of public relations, a cardinal rule is that if aproblem emerges, it must be managed immediately. #y (e3as > #y God > let*s hope it*s not true. ! a# sic% at heart as we all are. ,es$ the story is true

and the Governor also. How hateful so#e people are.

. . . &ince the Beauty 7arlor the 7resident has died. We are once again on a plane. (his ti#e a

co##ercial plane. 7oppy pic%ed #e up at the beauty parlor > we went right to the airport$ flew to

Ft. Worth and dropped 9r. eppo off 4we were on his plane6 and flew bac% to )allas. We had to

circle the field while the second presidential plane too% off. !##ediately 7op got tic%ets bac% to

Houston and here we are flying ho#e. We are sic% at heart. (he tales the radio reporters tell of

Jac%ie Kennedy are the bravest !*ve ever heard. (he ru#ors are flying about that horrid assassin.

We are hoping that it is not so#e far right nut$ but a @co##ieA nut. ,ou understand that we %now

they are both nuts$ but ust hope that it is not a (e3an and not an "#erican at all.

! a# a#aCed at the rapid2fire thin%ing and planning that has already been done. +.B.J. has been the

president for so#e ti#e now > 1 hours at least and it is only D.E/.

9y dearest love to you all$

Bar

A 3ap on the houlder


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@! re#e#ber it was a beautiful fall day$A recalled "ubrey !rby$ the for#er Kiwanis vice president.

@George had ust started to give his speech when itty$ head bellhop$ tapped #e on the shoulder

to say that 7resident Kennedy had been shot. ! gave the news to the president of the club$ Wendell

herry$ and he leaned over to tell George that wires fro# )allas confir#ed 7resident Kennedy had

been assassinated.@George stopped his speech and told the audience what had happened. !n view

of the 7resident*s death$* he said$ ! consider it inappropriate to continue with a political speech at

this ti#e. (han% you very #uch for your attention.* (hen he sat down. ! thought that was rather#agnani#ous of hi# to say and then to sit down$ but !*# a -epublican of course$ and ! was all for

George Bush. Kennedy$ who was bigger than life then$ represented e3tre#ely opposite views fro#

Bush on everything.A

!n a 9EEC inter)ie ith me, !rby described George H. W. Bush at the time of the nes as matteroffact and supremely ell composed. !t as not unlike his on sons composure in anothermoment of crisis, hen, after being told about the #"" attacks, he calmly returned to reading


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5hoto taken in the early "#1Es

'o the letter home- more logically ould ha)e been to her otherhome, that is, to her parents li)ingin the house she had left nearly to decades before. But that scenario really doesnt make much

sense either. Her mother had died in a "## auto accident, and her father had remarried. Barbaraas knon not to be especially close to her family during a period of many years and had notattended her mothers funeral. Was lo)e to you all- intended for her father and stepmother Hersiblings had also long since left the nest, but perhaps she circulated correspondence among them.Besides, ho did Barbara happen upon such a letter that she had purportedly ritten thirty yearsearlier Had she kept a copy and recently disco)ered it Had relati)es unearthed itWhether or notthe letter as an authentic contemporaneous document, one can assume that many of the particularsof that day ere in the letter because they ere true and )erifiable. Hence, they are of interest here.

5oppys call to the *B! about 5arrott being the potential assassin ob)iously did nothing to assist the*B! in any meaningful ay. But it clearly did something else= !t established in go)ernment

in)estigati)e files that, at the time of the assassination in ;allas, 5oppy and Barbara ere in


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When J*0 forced ;ulles out of the &!4 folloingthe Bay of 5igs debacle, (lmer left as ell. He ent to ork for the Greek shipping magnate'ta)ros 8iarchos.


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donton +o)e *ield, dropped Neppa off at *ort Worths municipal airport, and then backtrackedto ;allas, 0eating Neppa said that as not something that his father ordinarily ould ha)e done.


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'he also mentioned another person ho could pro)ide an alibi.

9rs. 7arrott advised that shortly after 5'// p.#. a 9r. -eynolds ca#e by their ho#e to advise the#

of the death of 7resident Kennedy$ and tal%ed to her son Ja#es 7arrott about painting so#e signs

at -epublican Headuarters on Waugh )rive.

!n reality, both Reynolds and James 5arrott put the )isit beteen "=2E and "=% p.m.


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5arrott don to the office of the 'ecret 'er)ice=

(here was a young #an who ca#e around headuarters . . . and so#ebody said that he had #ade a

threat against Kennedy and this was$ ! believe$ this ca#e up after the assassination . . . (he end

result was$ it was suggested that ! contact the &ecret &ervice$ the local &ecret &ervice$ and !

acco#panied this young #an . . . "nd we went down$ and this was %ind of a strange %id$ #ild2

#annered$ uiet$ %ind of see#ed to be living in another world$ and ! too% hi# down one day$

escorted hi# down there.

4t that point in our con)ersation, ! shared ith Reynolds the details of the *B! report Fincluding5arrotts name, hich stated eDplicitly that Reynolds had actually )isited 5arrott at home at around"=2E p.m. on 8o)ember 99, or precisely the time that 5oppy Bush as calling the *B!.

Well ! never went to the guy*s house because$ as ! re#e#ber$ the little episode that ! #entioned > as

! recall$ ! #et hi# at the headuarters$ and we went on downtown to the &ecret &ervice office.

4sked hy he ould e)en be accompanying a man hom he said he did not kno ell / andhom his on boss belie)ed to ha)e threatened the life of the president / to the 'ecret 'er)ice

office, Reynolds replied that he did not kno, but only perhaps because Bush himself as out ofton= ! orked a great deal ith the )olunteers and the precinct chairman, and probably on a facetoface, nametoname basis, probably kne more of them than almost anybody else.-

4t that point, Reynolds said his memory had been refreshed. ! kne him by name and sight . . . !tas 6ust sort of a casual >ac3uaintance? ithin the conteDt of orking at the head3uarters.-Reynolds mentioned that many of the )olunteers ere omen, so presumably 5arrott stood out.

4fter ! read him a portion of the *B! memo, more recollections came back.

! see# to re#e#ber that so#e of this did brew up before the Kennedy assassination.Kennedy

ca#e to Houston$ ! thin% on a (hursday night$ and he was assassinated on Friday #orning.

Reynolds says he as asked to attend an e)ent


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J. 7dgar Hoo)er=


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4s for the reference to the (lmers in Barbaras letter, hy risk introducing so contro)ersial aperson +ike Bushs use of Joe Neppas plane, it helped establish that Bush had in fact spent timeith 4l (lmer. Better to include (lmers ifes name Fbut not his and Neppas name Fmisspelledso that should a rare hardy in)estigator bother to figure out the se3uence of e)ents, Bush couldclaim that he ob)iously had nothing to hide / after all, there it as Fin a ay in Barbaras letter.

!n fact, 5oppy Bush had good reason to obfuscate the details of his relationships and his conduct

because they ould, at minimum, lead to further in3uiry at a time hen an in)estigation into thedeath of a president as or should ha)e been / openended. : 3he !ysterious !r' de !ohrenschildt

George de Mohrenschildt

Must have angered a lot of eole

!n "#C1, more than a decade after the assassination of 5resident John *. 0ennedy, a letter arri)ed atthe &!4, addressed to its director, the Hon. George Bush.


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George and Jeanne de Mohrenschildt

7)en the Warren &ommission counsel ho 3uestioned George de Mohrenschildt appeared toacknoledge that the Russian migr as hat might euphemistically be called an international

businessman.- *or most of his adult life, de Mohrenschildt had tra)eled the orld ostensiblyseeking business opportunities in)ol)ing a )ariety of natural resources / some, such as oil anduranium, of great strategic )alue.


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found a phenomenal and baro3ue backstory that conteDtuali@es de Mohrenschildt ithin theeDtended petroleumintelligence orbit in hich the Bushes operated.

Getting A)erica Into (orld (ar I


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5rescott Bush

5rescott Bush, ;orothy Walker Bush

!n 3uick succession, the (nited 'tates entered World War !, and the nelyed *erdinanduneDpectedly died.


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What the )on Mohrenschildts escaped.

Bush and de !ohrenschildt Fa)ilies: &eeply Intertined

!n "#9E, *erdinands nephe ;imitri )on Mohrenschildt, the older brother of George, arri)ed in the(nited 'tates and entered Lale (ni)ersity. His admission as likely smoothed by the connections ofthe Harriman family, hich soon persuaded the Bolshe)ik Russian go)ernment to allo them toreacti)ate the Baku oilfields. 4t that point, the Harriman operation as being directed by the

brilliant international moneyman George Herbert Walker, the grandfather of 5oppy Bush.

Baku :il Rigs by 0onstantin Bogae)sky


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the !mperial Russian 4rmy.

While ;imitri )on Mohrenschildt clearly en6oyed the highsociety glamour, in reality his life asheading underground. ;imitris lengthy co)ert resum ould include ser)ing in the :ffice of'trategic 'er)ices artime spy agency and later cofounding Radio *ree 7urope and Radio +iberty.!n "#", ;imitri also founded a maga@ine, the -ussian-eview, and later became a professor at;artmouth.

When the Hooker marriage unra)eled, ;imitri began seeing Betty Hooker. !n the summer of "#21,immigration records sho that ;imitri tra)eled to 7urope, folloed a eek later by Betty Hookerith her young daughter and adolescent son.

Bettys son, 7dard Gordon Hooker, entered prep school at 5hillips 4cademy in 4ndo)er,Massachusetts.


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go)ernment ser)ice and Wall 'treet layering ith the firm 'ulli)an and &romell, hose clientsincluded (nited *ruit and Bron Brothers Harriman.


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5rince 'erge :bolensky and Jac3ueline 0ennedy :nassis, "#C%


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William *. Buckley, Jr.

George de Mohrenschildts foreign trips / and some of his domestic anderings as ell / dre theinterest of )arious 4merican la enforcement agencies.


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:il Girls- by Jerry Byaters!n the ensuing years, George de Mohrenschildt bounced frenetically around e)ery corner of the

burgeoning energy landscape. !n "#%E, together ith 5oppy Bushs old friend and former roommate7ddie Hooker, he launched a modest oil in)estment firm, Hooker and de Mohrenschildt, ithoffices in 8e Lork, ;en)er, and 4bilene.- 4t this time West


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against the Red 4rmy. 4fter the Bolshe)ik )ictory, Raigorodsky came to the (nited 'tates ith thehelp of the Red &ross and the LM&4. +ike many of the other migrs, he married into 4mericansociety at a high le)el= his ne fatherinla had set up the ;allas *ederal Reser)e Bank. Beforelong, he as on the oil and military track, ith important assignments in ar and peace, includingsome from poerful figures in the Bush;resser orbit. 'ome accounts ha)e him ser)ing in the :'',the forerunner of the &!4. He also became an acknoledged friend of *B! director J. 7dgar Hoo)er.

Raigorodsky as a director of the


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:ne of the first e)ents it funded as a nationide radio address by

General ;ight ;. 7isenhoer, urging 4mericans to support it.


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a direct pipeline to 4llen ;ulles. 5rescott Bush noted in a letter around this time that Mallon asell knon to 4llen ;ulles, and has tried to be helpful to him in the &!4, especially in the

procurement of indi)iduals to ser)e in that important agency.-

Meanhile, George de Mohrenschildt, thricemarried bon )i)ant, finally met his match, literallyand figurati)ely in "#%C hen he became in)ol)ed ith Jeanne +eGon, ho ould become hisfourth ife. +ike George, Jeanne as Russian, and she had come to the (nited 'tates and settled in

8e Lork &ity in the same year he did. !n one of many eDtraordinary coincidences, they claimed toha)e li)ed neDt door to each other yet did not meet until years later. Jeanne had been born 7ugenia*omenko in "#" in Harbin, &hina, near the Russian border, to Russian parents. Her father, Mikhail+. *omenko, had run the *ar 7astern Railroad for the &hinese go)ernment until it sold the railroadto the Russian &ommunist go)ernment in "#9%.

*omenko had needed scouts and informants to keep him uptodate about his competitors and aboutregional intrigues. Jeannes subse3uent secret ork in 4merica / and that of her brother 'ergei /may ha)e emerged from that milieu. 'he ould later tell the Warren &ommission that she and herfirst husband, Robert +eGon, had fled Manchuria hen it as under Japanese control because theyfeared that he ould be killed due to his knoledge of a secret Japanese airfield he had orked on.

7)entually they made their ay to 8e Lork, here brother 'ergei as orking on the topsecretManhattan 5ro6ect ith J. Robert :ppenheimer.

Jeanne de Mohrenschildt

!n "#%2 Jeanne and Robert 6oined the Russian elites mo)e to ;allas. Her first 6ob there as as adesigner ith 8ardis 'portsear, hich as oned by Bernard +. Benny- Gold, a toughtalking

Russianborn Je ho had started out as a Brooklyn cabdri)er and ended up as a titan of the ;allasfashion scene. By "#%E, splashy ;allas fashions ere all the rage, gobbled up by stores all o)er the(nited 'tates, and 8ardis as the top of the heap.


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;uring the "#%Es, as petroleum reser)es in the 'outhest declined, oilmen there ere looking tothe southern hemisphere for ne opportunities. George de Mohrenschildt, ho alays seemed tomo)e at the behest of people of higher rank than himself, turned to &uba. He later told the Warren&ommission that he left the Buckleys 5antepec :il back in "#1 after a fallingout ith a company)ice president. Let by "#%E he as orking ith his former boss, 5antepec president Warren 'mith,on the latters ne firm called the &ubanIene@uelan :il Ioting


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7mpire


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By "#%1, in addition to his other duties, &richton started a

military intelligence reser)e unit on the side. :n the day of 0ennedys assassination, as ill beelaborated upon in chapter C, he ould arrange for a member of the ;allas Russian community torush to Marina :salds side and pro)ide translations for in)estigators / hich ere far from literaltranslations of her Russian ords and had the effect of implicating her husband in 0ennedys death.'hortly after the assassination, &richton ould become the G:5 nominee for go)ernor of


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oriented &uban go)ernment refused to eDtend its concession to eDplore for oil.


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!n his memoirs former &uban intelligence official *abian 7scalante asserted that 8iDon had metith an important group of


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Part : 8)pire tri,es Bac,

J*0 learns that +umumba has been killed.

2ittle is 8.er (hat it ee)s


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&!4- on the day after the assassination. ! also had to take into account the )isit from 7ngland thateek by 4l (lmer, the &!4 coup eDpert / and that (lmer had spent time ith 5oppy.


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suspects in an 4gatha &hristie mystery.


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populace. 4nti&ommunist haks ere skeptical of 0ennedys moti)es. 'ome e)en issuedpreempti)e arnings= !f Jack turns soft on communism, (i#eill cut his throat,- said Henry +uce,the maga@ines publisher, and a friend of 5rescott Bush and fello Bonesman.

0ennedys economic policies ere draing additional heat. !n +atin 4merica, for eDample, heantagoni@ed 4merican businessmen, including 8elson Rockefeller, hen he interfered ith their oiland mineral plans in Bra@ils )ast 4ma@on basin.


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oil riches and 7astern entitlement, combined iththe miD of intelligence and defense, ga)e rise to an atmosphere of intrigue.


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Robert *. 0ennedy

!f Jack 0ennedy angered people accustomed to being treated ith deference by mere officeholders,his brother Bobby turned them apoplectic. Where Jack as charming, Bobby as blunt. Where Jackas cautious, Bobby as aggressi)e. Bobbys innumerable in)estigations into fraud and corruptionamong military contractors, politicians, and corporate eminences / including a Greek shippingmagnate named 4ristotle :nassis / made many enemies. His determination to take on organi@edcrime angered *B! director Hoo)er, ho had longstanding friendships ith mob associates anden6oyed spending time at resorts and racetracks in the company of these indi)iduals. Hoo)erroutinely bypassed the 0ennedys and dealt ith Iice 5resident Johnson instead. !n fact, the0ennedys ere hoping that after the "#1 election, they ould ha)e the clout to finally retire

Hoo)er, ho had headed the *B! since its inception four decades before.Alloance for Greed

5resident 0ennedy demonstrated his illingness to buck big money during the steel crisis- of4pril "#19, hen he forced a price rollback by sending *B! agents into corporate offices. But0ennedys gutsiest / and arguably his most dangerous / domestic initiati)e as his administrationscrusade against the oil depletion alloance, the taD break that selled uncounted oil fortunes. !tga)e oil companies a large and automatic deduction, regardless of their actual costs, ascompensation for dindling assets in the ground. Robert 0ennedy instructed the *B! to issue3uestionnaires, asking the oil companies for specific production and sales data.


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0errs company to become Bushs top eDecuti)es.

0err today is almost completely forgotten, eDcept perhaps in his nati)e :klahoma. But he as fordecades one of the most poerful men in 4merican politics. He played a significant role in thecareer of Harry '.


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pioneer in technologies that became central to the industry, such as aerial eDploration and the use ofseismographic e3uipment in prospecting. His career spanned the terms of eight 4merican

presidents, many of hom he kneK he as also on close terms ith many 4nglo7uropean oilfigures and leaders of the 4rab orld. He sat on the board of ;resser !ndustries for many years,and, as e shall see in chapter "2, played a central role in cementing the (.'.'audi oil relationship.(ntil he died in "#%1, ;eGolyer as the man you ent to if you anted to get into the oil and gasgame.


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George McGhee

McGhee became a protg of 'enator +yndon B. Johnson, e)en ser)ing in "#%# as chairman of the

;allas &ounty +BJ for 5resident &lub. When +BJ became )ice president, he o)ersa McGheesappointment as undersecretary of state for political affairs. McGhees ele)ation to one of the topposts in the 'tate ;epartment particularly annoyed Robert 0ennedy, ho managed to get himreassigned as ambassador to West Germany. McGee as useless,- said R*0. !n e)erycon)ersation you had ith him, you couldnt possibly understand hat he as saying.- 8eedless tosay, McGhee did not become a member of the Bobby 0ennedy fan club.

!n many respects, Bobby became the lightning rod for the hostility that Jack deflected ith hischarm. Bobby did not shrink from the role of enforcer. *or as long as Jack remained president / andin "#12 a second term seemed likely / Bobby ould ha)e the sheriffs badge. 4nd e)en orse asthe prospect that the 0ennedys could become a dynasty. 4fter Jack there might be Bobby, and afterBobby,


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;ominican Republic hen the instability of ci)il ars and unaccountable go)ernments threatenedto destabili@e the peace.- 'ome years before McGhees death, a J*0 assassination researcher askedhim in riting if he had had a role in


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Jim Garrison

When +ee Har)ey :sald told the press after his first interrogation, ! am a patsy,- many dismissedit as the predictable disclaimer of the guilty. But hat if it ere true What if +ee Har)ey :saldreally had been set up as the fall guy to deflect attention from the real plotters Most other lonenuts- ho ha)e killed presidents or celebrities ha)e proudly claimed responsibility for their crime,not tried to blame others.

!f any group of plotters weresetting up +ee Har)ey :sald, they ould ant him to appear as bothdarkly mysterious and an ob)ious suspect.


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5eter ;ale 'cott

!f :sald ere connected to the go)ernment in any ay, he ould not ha)e been highle)el. +ikemany foot soldiers in the intelligence ars, he ould not necessarily ha)e knon precisely homhe as orking for, or hy. Rather, he could ell ha)e thought he as on one mission hile heas actually being used for another. !f that ere so, it might not ha)e been until the assassinationand his arrest that he finally grasped the situation. !n that case, his ords at his arrest might ha)e

been the most candid statement in the hole affair.

4ll this might seem a mere eDercise in speculation, but certain facts are clear= :sald as a youngman ho cra)ed guidance and purpose. His father died before he as born, and he li)ed for a spellin an orphanage until his mother remarried Fbriefly and reclaimed him at the age of three. 8ot

surprisingly, he seemed eager to find a father figure, escape from his dominating mother, andestablish some stability in a peripatetic life that included nineteen mo)es before the age ofse)enteen.

His as an upbringing that can often lead to the military, and at thirteen, :sald became a cadet inthe +ouisiana &i)il 4ir 5atrol F&45. 4ccording to &ollin B. Hamer Jr., ho ser)ed as cadetad6utant of &45s Moisant '3uadron in "#%C, and later headed the &ity 4rchi)es collection of the+ouisiana 5ublic +ibrary, :sald as a student of one ;a)id *errie / a protg of 8e :rleansmob boss &arlos Marcello. 4 number of :salds fello cadets told the House 'elect &ommitteeon 4ssassinations the same thing. :sald and *errie can also be seen together in a group

photograph from a "#%% &45 training camp.

&ircled, ;a)id *errie and +ee Har)ey :sald. &45 camp, "#%%.
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4llen ;ulless interest in


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J. Walton Moore on the left.

!n the summer of "#19, ;e Mohrenschildt heard more about this defector. :ne of Mooresassociates handed him the address of +ee Har)ey :sald in nearby *ort Worth and then suggestedthat ;e Mohrenschildt might like to meet him. He added, as if it as an inducement, that this eDMarine had returned from Minsk ith a pretty 'o)iet ife.

;e Mohrenschildt and Moore had met a number of times prior to that, first in "#%C folloing alengthy stay by de Mohrenschildt in Lugosla)ia, and again after other de Mohrenschildt trips.


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they been knon to take such an interest in managing the details of other peoples li)es. 4ndcertainly not people as contentious and purportedly difficult- as the :salds. 8either +ee norMarina as easy to be around / and neither eDhibited much gratitude. !t certainly appeared a laborof obligation rather than of lo)e.

A 2egend in the !a,ing

More than anything, George de Mohrenschildt helped +ee Har)ey :sald secure employment.4pparently ith :salds full cooperation, he sub6ected the returnee to a kind of re)erselaundering. With each pass through the machine, another layer of soil stuck to him.

4n improbable se3uence of 6obs and li)ing arrangements made :sald seem more and moreunstable / not unlike the classic misfits ho throughout history ha)e attempted to assassinatenational leaders. 4nd because :sald as in)ol)ed in such a range of acti)ities in so short a timeFless than a year and a half, in)estigators ould later find it difficult to follo all the tists andturns.

(nder de Mohrenschildts tutelage, 4gent :sald,- ha)ing claed his ay out of the 'o)iet(nion, began dropping hints e)eryhere that he as a &ommunist stooge, 4s Bouhe ould tell the

Warren &ommission=:sald had a little table in his apartment on Mercedes 'treet in *ort Worth. ! cannot remember theeDact names, but certainly 0arl MarD, +enin and his orks, and similar things hich ! do notremember. 4nd ! positi)ely, being aghast at such an assortment, flipped o)er the first tothree

pages, and ! think in to out of three ! sa the stamp of the *ort Worth 5ublic +ibrary.

4 false image of a possibly false defector

:sald orked for a spell at a mapmaking company that handled classified ork, includingmilitary diagrams of &uba.


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Mohrenschildt had climbed the stairs of their house, calling out, +ee, ho did you miss GeneralWalker-

Ruth 5aine, "#1Es

*or his part, de Mohrenschildt insisted that he had not actually knon hether his friend as thetriggermanK he shrugged off his role in the incident as an illtimed 6oke.-

'hortly after this, de Mohrenschildt handed :sald off to yet another person, Ruth 5aine, a Tuakerhouseife ho ould e)en chauffeur Marina from ;allas to 8e :rleans and back. By passing:sald along to 5aine, de Mohrenschildt could truthfully assert that he had been neither the first

person in contact ith :sald upon his return from Russia nor the final person in his life before theassassination.


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4nd, to make it more confusing still, this co)er story ould be layered o)er another one that ase)en more intriguing, and that ould itself lead to a dead end.

4llen ;ulles once called &!4 documents hieroglyphics.- +ike the old lion surrounded by hisadoring cubs, ;ulles used to eDpound on such elements of tradecraft to his fello Warren&ommission members. :n one occasion, he told them that no one ould be able to grasp anintelligence memo eDcept for those in)ol)ed in its creation and their colleagues.


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Were this &!4 report to pass into the hands of, say, a congressional committee, the staffer likelyould skim it and mo)e on. 8othing much seems to be happening. !ndeed, one almost has theimpression that the &!4 officer and de Mohrenschildt ere performing a piece of theater, ith deMohrenschildt hamming it up a bit ith the o)ertheshoulder glance.

:r perhaps the officer made that up to enhance the o)erall effect, hich is to establish distancebeteen the agency and this supposed sisal in)estor.

;e Mohrenschildt comes off as a bit of a rube, fooled by the &!4 mans co)er and belie)ing that alegitimate business deal is on the table.


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prospect of meeting +BJ himself.

4s noted in correspondence dated 4pril "$, "#12=

;ear Mr. Mohrenschildt=

Lour letter has come in the Iice 5residents absence from the office . . . ! ould like to suggest thatyou see &olonel Hoard Burris, 4ir *orce 4ide to the Iice 5resident, hen you come to

Washington. 'hould Mr. Johnson happen to ha)e any office hours here during our stay, e ill behappy to see if a mutually con)enient time can be found for you to meet . . . With arm ishes,'incerely, Walter Jenkins, 4dministrati)e 4ssistant to the Iice 5resident.


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Co.er for the &o)estic /perations &i.ision


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Let this as indeed de Mohrenschildts co)er, and it pro)ed effecti)e.


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building ould be on the ultimate route of the motorcade.

Iie of 7lm 'treet from the


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created a con)enient eDcuse for de Mohrenschildt to ha)e been interacting ith her husband duringthis period. :ther board members included 5aul Raigorodsky, J. 7dgar Hoo)ers good friend andthe White Russian communitys godfather.

:n May 9, "#12, in ;allas, the (.'. 4ir *orce presented to ;. Harold Byrd its 'croll of4ppreciation for his ork ith the &i)il 4ir 5atrol Fhere :sald as a cadet. 4mong the 4ir*orce generals he counted as friends as &harles &abell, 4llen ;ulless &!4 deputy director, key

Bay of 5igs figure, and brother of ;allas mayor 7arle &abell, also a good friend of Byrds.

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out of another location before it mo)ed into the building on ;ealey 5la@a in the spring of "#12.(ntil then, the structure as knon as the 'eDton Building.


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&ulles &oes &allas

4s far as e kno, on 8o)ember 99, "#12, George de Mohrenschildt as far aay from ;allas too,managing his business )entures- in Haiti. 4ccording to the record, de Mohrenschildt and :saldhad no contact during the prior siD months.

!t as this hiatus, and de Mohrenschildts physical absence from the (nited 'tate, that enabled the

Warren &ommission to discount his otherise glaring relationships ith :sald and :salds preassassination handlers- in ;allas. 8ot to mention his many links to members of the


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;ulles appears to ha)e made no bookrelated appearances outside the Washington8e Lorkcorridor eDcept for ;allas, to hich he tra)eled at the in)itation of 8eil Mallon to speak at the&ouncil on World 4ffairs.


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&ommissions conclusions. 4s of late 9EE$, the latest attempt to back up the lone gunman theoryas historian MaD Hollands tel)eyearsinthemaking study of the assassination. &iting theNapruder film, Holland argues that a careful study of it shos that :sald actually fired the firstshot earlier than pre)iously calculated.


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another 3uestion mark on a day full of perpleDing coincidences.

(here (as Poppy% Part II

!f indeed it can be established that :sald as being guided to his destiny / either because heould become the shooter or because he ould be framed for the shooting / then hoe)er asrunning him, and hoe)er as controlling :salds controller, ere integral parts of a plot.

By no, e ha)e enough information to sho, fairly conclusi)ely, that :sald as being managedby 5oppys old friend de Mohrenschildt. We also ha)e others connected ith 5oppy closelyassociated ith the e)ents of 8o)ember 99. 4nd e ha)e 5oppy creating an alibi for himself.

;etails on ho fired the gun, hose gun it as, and ho many shots ere fired from here remainrele)ant, but become of secondary importance.


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Jack Ruby

R(BL= 7)erything pertaining to hats happening has ne)er come to the surface.


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G:5 candidate as a key figure in a eb of military intelligence figures ith deep connections tothe ;allas 5olice ;epartment / and as pre)iously noted, to the pilot car of J*0s motorcade.

&richton came back into the picture ithin hours of 0ennedys death and the subse3uent arrest of+ee Har)ey :sald, hen a peculiar cordon sanitaire ent up around Marina :sald.


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&lint Murchison 'r.

4 typical eDample of this corporate cronyism came in "#%9, hen &richton as part of a syndicate/ including Murchison, ;eGolyer, and the ;u 5onts / that used connections in the fascist *rancoregime to ac3uire rare drilling rights in 'pain.


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5aul Har)ey singled it out for special praise in his syndicated column in 'eptember "#1E=


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hours after 0ennedys death.


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A Cri)e of Co))ission


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4s he did ith se)eral other key itnesses, Jenner had pri)ate con)ersations ith George deMohrenschildt both inside and outside the hearing room. 5erhaps to ensure that he ould not beaccused of something underhanded, he ent out of his ay to state the fact of those outsideconsultations for the record. 4side from asking de Mohrenschildt, on the record, to )erify thate)erything they had discussed pri)ately as reiterated in the public session, Jenner ne)er madeclear hat the sub6ect matter of those pri)ate con)ersations as.

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9-. ): 9OH-:0&H!+)(' ,es$ sir.

9-. J:00:-' "nd you are an outdoors#an?

9-. ): 9OH-:0&H!+)(' ,es. ! have to tell you > ! never e3pected you to as% #e such

uestions.

Why as Jenner e)en on the commission staff &hairman Warren offered an obli3ue 6ustification

for his hiring that perhaps as more re)ealing than the chief 6ustice intended. He as a layerslayer,- Warren said, and a businessmans layer- ho had gotten good marks from a couple ofunnamed indi)iduals.

&ommission member John Mc&loy timidly in3uired hether they shouldnt hire people ith deepeDperience in criminal in)estigations. ! ha)e a feeling that maybe somebody ho is dealing ithgo)ernment or federal criminal matters ould be useful in this thing.-

Warren then implied that this as unnecessary because the attorney general FRobert 0ennedy and*B! director FJ. 7dgar Hoo)er ould be in)ol)ed, totally ignoring the strong personal stakes of

both officials in the outcome / and the strong animosity beteen them. 4llen ;ulles said littleduring this discussion of Jenner.

Al"ert Jenner0 Co)pany !an

4lbert Jenner as truly a curious choice for the commission staff. He as fundamentally a creatureof the anti0ennedy milieu / a corporate layer hose principal ork as defending largecompanies against go)ernment trustbusting Fhich came under the aegis of the slain presidents

brother Robert. His partner speciali@ed in trust accounts on behalf of the superrich.

Jenners most important client as &hicago financier Henry &ron, ho as the principalshareholder in General ;ynamics, then the nations largest defense contractor and a ma6or employerin the *ort Worth area.


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&e !ohrenschildt: Jac,ies $=ncle George#

When the Warren commission released transcripts of its inter)ies ith George de Mohrenschildt,the 4ssociated 5ress remarked on the strange coincidence,- particularly that de Mohrenschildt asa friend of both +ee Har)ey :sald and the family of 5resident 0ennedy.-


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headed for Washington.

3he PhoeniE Progra): $Pacification# of -D0DDD People

&ongress as a great place for a spy / e)en better, in some ays, than the &!4. &ongressmen ereeDpected to tra)el the orld, looking into matters of interest to the (nited 'tates. !n ;ecember"#1C, less than a year after Bush as sorn in, he as off to !ndochina, ith his &!4 partner


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!n any case, hile in Washington, 5oppy had a arm relationship ith Johnson, notithstandingBushs persistent attacks on the ;emocratic 5arty, especially back in

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