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368 Where Was George? [307]
but to all of Latin America. These sources know of no plans
for unauthorized action against Cuba.
An informant who has furnished reliable information in
the past and who is close to a small pro-Castro group in
Miami has advised that these individuals are afraid that the
assassination of the President may result in strong repressive
measures being taken against them and, although pro-Castro
in their feelings, regret the assassination.
The substance of the foregoing information was orally
furnished to Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence
Agency a nd Captain Willia m Edw a rds o f the Defense
Intelligence Agency on November 23, 1963, by Mr. W. T.
Forsyth of this Bureau. 787
Copies of Mr. Hoover's memorandum were circulated to a number of
individuals including, among others, the director of the CIA (John McCone)
and marked to the attention of "Deputy Director, Plans." (This was Richard
Helms).
Needless to say, the existence of this memorandum presented a problem
for George Bush who had claimed to have had no prior service with the CIA
prior to his appointment as director of the agency in 1976. However, Bush's
spokesmen suggested that there must have been another "George Bush"
working for the CIA at the time in question and that it was he who was
referenced in the controversial Hoover memorandum.
Richard McBride, the author of the Nation articles, did some checking,
only to find out that there was indeed a George William Bush who had
worked for the CIA at the time—and for a very short time—and only as a
low-level researcher and analyst. George William Bush told McBride that he
was never part of any inter-agency briefing and knew neither of the other
people referred to in the memorandum. In short, this George Bush was not
the George Bush in the memorandum. 788
INITIATION
So where was George Herbert Walker Bush on November 23, 1963?
Evidently working, as he had been for some time, as an operative for the
Central Intelligence Agency. New research suggests that Bush was with the
CIA as long ago as his college days at Yale.
Anthony Kimery, an investigative reporter who has been researching
George Bush's relationship with the CIA, notes that: "The CIA's full-time
salaried headhunter at Yale was crew coach Allen 'Skip' Waltz, a former
naval intelligence officer who had a good view of Bush. As a member of
Yale's Undergraduate Athletic Association and Undergraduate Board of
Deacons, Bush had to have worked closely with Waltz on the university's
athletic programs from which the coach picked most of the men he steered
to the CIA. It is inconceivable Waltz didn't try to recruit Bush, say former
Agency officials recruited at Yale." 789