Final_Judgment

370 Where Was George? [309]
of a consulting petroleum geologist specializing in making deals between
U.S. oil companies and the East-bloc nations to which [DeMohrenschildt]
was remarkably well-connected." 792
As a consequence, then, it is thus not surprising that CIA asset George
Bush, working in the Eastern bloc in the oil business and CIA asset George
DeMohrenschildt, working in the Eastern bloc in the oil business, would
have ultimately come together. According to former CIA official Victor
Marchetti (who specialized in Soviet affairs for the CIA), "It's inconceivable
that the CIA didn't debrief Bush after each and every meeting [Bush had
with East bloc representatives]. "Businessmen with dealings like [Bush had]
were routinely debriefed." 793
All of these dealings between Bush and DeMohrenschildt would appear
to be innocent behind-the-scenes intrigue between two spies named George if
it weren't for the fact that the more one traces Bush's connections, the
more one finds that the CIA man is enmeshed all the more deeply in the
circumstances surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
THE ANTI-CASTRO OPERATIONS
For instance, the evidence strongly suggests that Bush, in fact, was a
major player in the CIA's drive to destroy Fidel Castro. According to
Anthony Kimery, "Veteran CIA operatives in the war against Castro say
Bush not only let the CIA use Zapata as a front for running some of its
operations (including the use of several off-shore drilling platforms), but
assert that Bush personally served as a conduit through which the Agency
disbursed money for contracted services." 794
Kimery contends that he has several sources who contend,
independently, that Bush was indeed deeply involved in CIA operations,
particularly in the Caribbean and in the campaign against Castro. This
seems to jibe with information provided by Col. Fletcher Prouty who
points out that not only was the CIA's top-secret code name for the Bay of
Pigs invasion "Operation Zapata" (as in Bush's company) but that two of
the ships utilized in the operation were christened the Houston (Bush's
home base) and the Barbara (Bush's wife's name). 795
Bush's connections to the CIA's operations against Castro go even
deeper, however. According to Kimery, "There is evidence that prior to
Bush's appointment as DCI in 1976, he was well-acquainted with legendary
spook Theodore George "Ted" Shackley who joined the Agency in 1951.
When Bush arrived on the scene at Langley, it was clear to longtime Agency
insiders that there was a bond between these two men that went back many
years. " 796
This, of course, is the same Theodore Shackley whom we first met in
Chapter 8 as a friend of Israel's secret nuclear development program. It was
Shackley who served as CIA Station Chief in Miami, then the largest CIA
station in the world, and the base of the CIA's operations against Castro
being jointly conducted with Meyer Lansky's syndicate henchmen.