Russ Baker, Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces That Put
It in the White House, and What Their Influence Means for America (New
York, Berlin, and London: Bloomsbury Press, 2009 [publication date: Dec.
18, 2008]).
[Thesis: George H.W. Bush has led
what amounted to a double life (492; he
is a lifelong CIA asset involved in
orchestrating many of the scandals of
post-WWII American history, particulary
with respect to the Bay of Pigs (161) , the
JFK assassination (1963), and Watergate
(1972), not a Nixon operation at all, but
a deep, deep covert operation against
Nixon (236).]
Ch. 1: How Did Bush Happen? This
book chronicles the evolution of both
the Bush clan and the powerful interests
it represented over the last century (5;
1-6).
Ch. 2: Poppys Secret. In 1985 Joseph
McBride noticed a Nov. 29, 1963, memo
to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover identifying
George Bush of the CIA (7-9). In 1988
George H.W. Bush denied it was he; the
CIA identified a different George Bush
(who also denied) (9-12). In 1996,
another CIA memo came to light, linking
George H.W. Bush to the CIAs Thomas J.
Devine, Zapata co-owner (12-15). Bushs
connections to intelligence derive from
the intelligence communitys own origins
in the Anglo-American financial
establishment, especially Brown Brothers
Harriman (Prescott Bush had become
close friends of Roland Bunny Harriman
in 1916 at Yale and in Skull and Bones;
Prescott joined W.A. Harriman in 1926,
which merged with Brown Brothers in
1930) (15-17). George H.W. Bush worked
in an aerial intelligence program as a
WWII pilot, where learned the importance
of secrecy (18). The various accounts of
Bushs actions when shot down in a
torpedo bomber on Sept. 2, 1944, are
inconsistent; Bushs version was
challenged by tail gunner Chester