Reply #14: Dulles needed to play Prescott, so he enlisted Poppy.

[Octafish]

Sometimes, I feel sorry for the Bush family.

Their minds have been washed by pros.

Recruiting George H.W. Bush

GEORGE H.W. BUSH’S ENTIRE early life was devoted to winning the affection and approval of his father. George’s success in sports at Yale and as a World War II hero never seemed to be enough for Prescott. That need for his father’s approval was at the heart of how and why George H. W. Bush was drawn to overseas adventures. Americans know about his public life as a businessman, presidential appointee, politician, and family man. This is, in large part, a public-relations illusion. The real George h.W. Bush probably would have been happiest as a career intelligence officer, according to Rocerick Hills, an old Bush supporter and friend. Bush’s secret history as an intelligence asset is buried in his early career.

There is a myth that George Bush struck off for the Texas oil fields in 1948 to seek his fortune on his own. In reality, his father, with his long-standing connections with Dresser Industries, arranged a job for George with henry Neil Mallon, a fellow Bonesman from Yale and chairman of Dresser. According to another fellow Bonesman of Bush’s, who later rose to a high-level job at the CIA and asked that he not be identified because of his membership in Skull and Bones (and not because of his work for the CIA), Dresser “had long provided cover jobs for the Agency.” Confirming Mallon’s cooperation with the Agency was Robert T. Crowley, who was in charge of relations with corporations providing cover for the Agency. Another former CIA official explained that agents were trained as Dresser salesmen and eventually sent to operate overseas. Because the company sold drilling equipment all over the world, ti was the perfect cover job. But Bush was not on track to be a CIA case officer. The role Dulles had in mind for him, according to William Corson, was that “Bush would operate overseas and meet people who could be targeted for recruitment by the Agency.” Bush was officially considered a CIA business asset, according to Crowley and Corson.

“George’s insecurities were clay to someone like Dulles,” William Corson said. To recruit young George Bush, Robert Crowley explained, Dulles convinced him that “he could contribute to his country as well as get help from the CIA for his overseas business opportunities. Of course it was all nonsense. Dulles could care less about helping the kid. It really was a tool to help give him a wedge with Prescott if he needed it.”

SOURCE: Joseph Trento, Prelude to Terror, pp13-14.

For those new to this subject: Allen Dulles is the same fellah who was in business with Prescott Bush, dealing with the Nazis, in the days before World War II. Dulles is also the same hold-over DCI who advised President John F. Kennedy the Bay of Pigs thing would work. For lying and incompetence, Kennedy sacked Dulles. His career was resurrected after Dallas as a member of the Warren Commission.

Thanks for giving a damn, starroute. It's great reading ya.