Final_Judgment

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security policy and Perle's longtime associate, Stephen Bryen, a former
Senate staff member who was forced to resign his post after it was
discovered that he had passed U.S. defense secrets to Israel's Mossad. 802
That Bush should have been affiliated so closely with this select group
of devotees of Israel is intriguing, particularly in light of Bush's subsequent
conflicts with Israel's Mossad, which we first examined in Chapter 2.
THE COVER-UP
For his own part, it was while Bush served as CIA Director that the
Senate Intelligence Committee was probing the connections between Jack
Ruby, Lee Harvey Oswald, the CIA, organized crime and the anti-Castro
operations conducted by the CIA and its mob collaborators. As Anthony
Kimery comments: "With his own ties to those operations, Bush was now
in charge of what the CIA would and wouldn't divulge."
"As DCI [Bush] frustrated committee investigator's requests for specific
information in the Agency's files on Oswald and Ruby and downplayed
revelations about CIA involvement. Memoranda written by Bush on the
intelligence committee's investigation of Oswald's and Ruby's links to the
CIA and organized crime show he was especially interested in the
committee's probing not only of what the CIA knew about the events in
Dallas and didn't report to the Warren Commission, but to what extent, if
any, the Agency was complicit in Kennedy's murder." 803
Kimery quotes an ex-CIA contract agent and Bay of Pigs veteran who
claims to have been associated with Bush in the CIA's anti-Castro
operations in the early 1960's: "Bush was worried about something during
those investigations when he was DCI, all right. He was worried it was
going to be found out that he worked for the Company and was tied right
into all the messes the CIA was in during the late 50s and early 60s." 804
David Robb, writing in Spy magazine points out that although Bush
was asked in January of 1992 whether or not he had looked into the JFK
assassination during the time he was CIA director that Bush said, "No, I
didn't have any curiosity . . ." 805 However, Robb has pinpointed a
September 15, 1976 memo to the Deputy Director for Central Intelligence
which reads as follows:
"A recent Jack Anderson story referred to a November 1963 (?) CIA
cable, the subject matter of which had some UK journalist observing Jack
Ruby visiting [Santo] Trafficante in jail. Is there such a cable? If so I would
like to see it. This is the same cable that Mike Hadigan, Minority Counsel
for the SSC [Senate Select Committee] had asked for." 806
The memo was signed "GB" above the typewritten name "George
Bush." Clearly, George Bush was just a bit more curious about the
inquiries into the JFK assassination than he would have us believe.
A THREAT AGAINST JFK?