CIA Presidents

George Bush and Bill Clinton have long-standing ties to the Central
Intelligence Agency, and while in office, both expanded the power of
the Agency while helping cover up its wrongdoings.

From R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.:
   In the months before Mr. Brown's flights, Mr. Clinton reminded Mr.
   Brown that Mr. Bush had once headed the CIA. Mr. Clinton's mention
   of Mr. Bush's old position was made while he was helping Mr. Brown
   with his application for employment with the CIA. I have copies of
   the correspondence that took place at this time between Mr. Brown
   and the agency. More importantly, an essay Mr. Brown submitted to
   the CIA bears Mr. Clinton's handwritten interpolations. Mr. Brown's
   testimony that Mr. Clinton told him about Mr. Bush's knowledge of
   Mena is to be included in a corrected version of Mr. Brown's recent
   deposition. The deposition results from a false arrest and
   defamation suit against, among others, the former chief of security
   to then-Gov. Clinton. Similar testimony by Mr. Brown has been given
   to the independent counsel probing Whitewater, Kenneth Starr.

     ***Bill Clinton's CIA History***


Consider this:
(From Terry Reed / John Cummings <authors of  *Compromised: Clinton,
Bush and the CIA*> interviewed on April 27, 1994, on Tom Donahue's now
defunct shortwave radio program, "America's Town Forum." )

   REED:
   Well actually, I think if people will study it closely, there's a 
   rumor circulating that Bill [Clinton] was actually working for 
   the CIA station chief out of London, a man by the name of Kurt 
   Meyer(sp?), and during his trips to the USSR (which, you know, 
   became a matter of public debate during the '92 campaign on what 
   he was doing there). But I don't find it shocking at all to find 
   politicians involved with intelligence operations, since that's 
   typically how the CIA is trained to penetrate and subvert foreign 
   governments, is, you compromise politicians and get them on your 
   side, normally through blackmail.

(From J. Orlin Grabbe, "Allegations Regarding Vince Foster, the NSA, and
Banking Transactions Spying, Part XXIX"
  
        The degree of Bill Clinton's knowledge of, and participation in, 
   this operation is not always clear.  Certainly CIA secrecy is not in itself 
   sufficient to defend a supposed lack of knowledge on Clinton's part. 
   Clinton was recruited into the CIA by Cord Meyer while Clinton was a student 
   in London. This itself gave him a somewhat symbiotic relationship with
   George Bush, both while Bush was CIA director and later while Bush was
   Vice President.

The CIA on its Web site promotes Cord Meyer's book, FACING REALITY:
FROM WORLD FEDERALISM TO THE CIA (New York: Harper & Row, 1980.)   The
Agency describes it as "The story of the career of a Yale graduate and
World War II Marine hero whose postwar idealism finally brought him to
CIA, where he became a senior operations officer."

It is interesting that it was Cord Meyer, Jr. who in 1972 visited
Harper & Row to ask that it not publish Alfred McCoy's THE POLITICS OF
HEROIN because it represented a threat to National Security.  Historian
McCoy had chronicled CIA involvement in heroin trafficking out of
Southeast Asia.

From WEDGE : THE SECRET WAR BETWEEN THE FBI AND CIA by Mark Riebling
(pages 121 & 122)
   First there was the case of CIA officer Cord Meyer Jr. 

   Meyer became active during the late 1940s in the World Federalist
   movement, a leftist group which proposed putting all mankind under
   one government.

   He happened to know many communists, because he moved in
   intellectual circles and had been in with the World Federalists; he
   had worked to weaken communism in that organization and he was now
   trying to do the same in the international labor movement.

(page 302)
(Speculation that Meyer was Deep Throat of Watergate fame)
   But perhaps more important, Meyer had extremely intimate connections
with Ben Bradlee, Woodward's boss at the (WASHINGTON) POST.  Indeed,
they were in-laws, having both married sisters from the socially
prominent Pinchot family.  Meyer's interface with Bradlee could have
had a close professional aspect as well, since Meyer's main duty at CIA
was to penetrate and influence leftist but anticommunist organs of
opinion.

Though this does not prove that Cord Meyer recruited Clinton when he
was a RhodesScholar, it does show that Meyer's case officer profile
fits as someone trying to recruit an anti-war protester like Clinton.

What is more interesting are Meyer's connections to the WASHINGTON
POST.  He also was a columnist for the WASHINGTON STAR.  This is
tangible proof that a CIA operative had influence on Washington, DC
newspapers.

Bottom-line, by the 1980s, Governor Bill Clinton was knowledgeable and
involved in CIA covert operations out of Mena, Arkansas, according to
L.D. Brown and Terry Reed.

Since assuming the Presidency, he has kept the CIA skeletons safely in
the closet.  Examples of cover ups include the stolen Inslaw PROMIS
software, BCCI, U.S. support to Iraq of chemical, biological, nuclear,
ballistic missile and cluster bomb weapons technologies -- and of
course, the CIA drug trafficking.

According to conservative NEW YORK TIMES columnist and former
speechwriter for President Richard Nixon, William Safire, "George Bush
privately assured Bill Clinton that he would not criticize the new
President during the first year of his term.  ...  In what may be an
unspoken quid pro quo, the Clinton Administration has moved to quash
any revelations about Bush's Iraqgate scandal." (NEW YORK TIMES,
9/9/93, pg. A15, "Is the Fix In?" by William Safire)

I always found it odd, that after Governor Bill Clinton made a speech
in November, 1991 before the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, he
came out of nowhere to be regarded by these opinion-leaders as the
front-runner.  He stayed in that position, no matter how many bimbo
eruptions or other sleazy scandals became public.

Consider this:

From former CIA analyst Ralph McGehee <rmcgehee@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: alt.politics.org.cia
Subject: Haass - Unleashing the CIA

    Richard N. Haass, principal author of a study on the future of 
    U.S. Intelligence published by the Council on Foreign Relations, 
    has op-eds in both todays Washington Post and the Washington Times. 
    The Post's op-ed is entitled "Don't Hobble Intelligence Gathering." 
    In the article, Haass argues to abolish restraints on the CIA.

    Haass argues for allowing the intelligence community to use the cover of 
    the press, the clergy and the Peace Corps. He decries rules that 
    discourage preemptive attacks on terrorists or support for individuals 
    of unsavory reputation. He asks that orders prohibiting conspiring to 
    engage in assassinations be repealed. Haass as the spokesperson for the 
    Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), has immense influence derived from 
    that organization.

    The CFR is at the apex of the corporate, academic, foundation, government 
    structure and John Deutch, the current CIA Director is a member of the CFR 
    as has been most CIA directors. CIA officers regularly brief CFR meetings 
    that are more secret than even the Agency's own sessions. 

Haass was also a member of President Bush's National Security Council.

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     ***George Bush's CIA History***

George Bush was Director of Central Intelligence under President Ford.
He was cast as a "reformer" to end CIA involvement in assassinations of
foreign leaders, interference in foreign elections, staging coups
against democratic governments, training foreigners in the art of
torture, human guinea pig drug research, and working with the Mafia.
History does not give any examples of Bush implementing any reform,
except making CIA crimes more difficult to detect.

Officially, this was Bush's first CIA assignment.  Much evidence
indicates his involvement in the Agency from much earlier on.

From "The Man Who Wasn't There, 'George Bush,' C.I.A. Operative,"
Joseph McBride, THE NATION, July 16/23, 1988

   The F.B.I. memorandum, dated November 29, 1963, is from Director J. 
   Edgar Hoover to the State Department and is subject-headed "Assassination 
   of President John F. Kennedy November 22, 1963."  In it, Hoover reports 
   that the Bureau had briefed "Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence 
   Agency" shortly after the assassination on the reaction of Cuban exiles 
   in Miami.  A source with close connections to the intelligence community 
   confirms that Bush started working for the agency in 1960 or 1961, 
   using his oil business as a cover for clandestine activities.

But it is the ties that the CIA and George Bush had with Latin American
drug traffickers most worth exploring.

From CASEY: THE LIVES AND SECRETS OF WILLAIM J. CASEY: FROM THE OSS
TO THE CIA by Joseph E. Persico (page 480)
   Beyond dispute, drug money was aiding the contras.  General Paul
   Gorman served until 1985 as the chief of the U.S. Southern Command
in Panama.  When Gorman was asked directly if the contras benefited
from drug money, he answered, "The most ready source of money, big
money, easy money, sure money, is the narcotics racket...particularly
if they (the contras) had been on somebody's payroll and had their
funds cut off.  It would be the natural recourse of these people"

   And the motive of the drug dealers?  Generosity?  Hatred of
   communism? The advancement of free enterprise?  Felix Rodriguez was
a former CIA official involved in the contra supply operation with
(Oliver) North.  Rodriguez was suspected of obtaining drug money for
the contras.  Vice-President Bush had known Rodriguez for years, going
back to Bush's leadership of the CIA.  Rodriguez was said to have had
frequent contact with Bush's staff, and three meetings with Bush
himself, after he became Vice-President.  And so if the lords of the
drug cartel dealt with a man like Felix Rodriguez, they drew the
conclusion that they were buying goodwill for themselves from the
Reagan administration - - maybe even immunity.  The money they gave the
contras was an insurance policy, and cheap insurance at that. 

____

And there is this disturbing testimony from an American on the front
lines fighting the War on Drugs.

 "America fights phony 'War on Drugs'"
 by Roberto Rodriguez and Patrisia Gonzales (co-authors of "Latino 
 Spectrum," a syndicated column focusing on Latinos and Latin American)   
 
   Celerino Castillo wrote to President Clinton, " In the 1980's, I 
   spent six years in Central America as a special agent with the DEA. On 
   January 14, 1986, I forewarned then Vice President George Bush of the U.S. 
   government involvement in narcotics-trafficking (Oliver North)....but to 
   no avail...."          

   Had Castillo testified at the Iran-Contra hearings, he says North would
   have gone to jail and both Bush and President  Reagan would have  been
   impeached. "But nobody ever subpoenaed me," he says, and notes that the
   DEA claimed no files ever existed.

   "It was Bush's operation. In fact, it was impossible for President Reagan
    not to have known about it," says Castillo.
_____

Castillo's book, POWDERBURNS, tells his first hand experiences fighting
cocaine trafficking protected by the CIA.  For some reason, no American
publisher will print it.  Write to Mosaic Press, 1252 Speers Road,
Units #1&2, Oakville, Ont. L6L 5N9  ISBN 0- 88962-578-6

In conclusion, isn't it incredibly odd that two Presidents in a row
have such deep ties with the Central Intelligence Agency, especially
those covert operations engaged in crimes such as narcotics smuggling
into the United States of America?

Can we have three CIA Presidents in a row?  There are allegations that
Bob Dole helped cover up investigations into the cocaine of Mena.  He
is now receiving the big bucks from Jackson Stephens, a man close to
BCCI, the ADFA money laundering and Clinton.  Steve Forbes has close
ties to Caspar Weinberger, the publisher emeritus of his magazine.
Weinberger faced criminal prosecution perjury regarding Iranian arms
shipments.  He never faced justice because President Bush pardoned
him.

I end with this quote from COMPROMISED: CLINTON, BUSH AND THE CIA by
Terry Reed and John Cummings. (page 308)

   In private meetings that included Reagan, Bush, Casey, Defense
   Secretary Caspar Weinberger, White House Chief of Staff Donald
Regan, National Security Advisor John Poindexter and CIA official
George Cave, (Sec. of State George) Shultz was learning to his dismay
that the CIA was running foreign policy and possibly controlling the
President.  Unlike Shultz, they were telling Reagan what he wanted to
hear, namely that his goals were correct and he should continue
pursuing them despite everything.  The end justified the means.

Larry