Final_Judgment

[308] Final Judgment 369
It was while a student at Yale, of course, that Bush was a member of the
secret Skull and Bones fraternity which has been well-known as a CIA
recruiting ground for many years.
(One of Bush's fellow "Bonesmen" is Yale man, William F. Buckley, Jr.,
himself a former CIA man whose own peculiar links to key players in the
JFK assassination conspiracy were examined in Chapter 9.)
GEORGE'S FIRST CIA JOB?
What's more, it was another Bonesman, Henry Neil Mallon, longtime
chairman of the board of Dresser Industries, based in Houston, who gave
Bush his first job in the oil business. Mallon, a classmate and close family
friend of Bush's father, Senator Prescott Bush, set young Bush up as a
salesman for International Derrick and Equipment Company (IDECO), a
subsidiary of Dresser.
However, as Anthony Kimery comments, "Bush's job, peddling
IDECO's services, including behind the Iron Curtain, was a curious
responsibility, considering Bush's inexperience in either the oil industry or
international relations." 790 All of this, together, of course, suggests that
Bush, in fact, was operating as a CIA asset under the cover of Dresser
Industries, which, according to Kimery's sources, "routinely served as a CIA
cover." 791
THE TWO GEORGES
It was Henry Mallon who apparently introduced Bush to an
international petroleum engineer who later emerged as one of the genuine
"mystery men" in the JFK assassination: Lee Harvey Oswald's friend—and
suspected "CIA handler"—George DeMohrenschildt whose CIA connections
we examined in Chapter 9.
The two Georges became so well acquainted, in fact, that
DeMohrenschildt's address book not only included Bush's home address and
telephone number in Midland, Texas where Bush lived from 1953 until
1959, but also the oilman's youthful nickname, "Poppy." Kimery says that
his sources contend that Bush and DeMohrenschildt continued to meet
secretly in Houston after Bush had left Midland to set up the Houston office
of his Zapata Off-Shore Oil Company.
(Kimery points out that in his testimony to the Warren Commission
DeMohrenschildt admitted that he made frequent trips to Houston beginning
in the late 1950's but that he gave vague explanations as to the purpose of
the trips.)
Kimery's research suggests that the Bush-DeMohrenschildt relationship
stemmed from not only their mutual interests in the oil business, but also
from their mutual background in intelligence work.
According to Kimery, DeMohrenschildt was part of a spy network OSS
man (and later CIA Director) Allen Dulles ran inside the Nazi intelligence
community and later began working for the CIA "operating under the guise