Bush Senior Early CIA Ties Revealed

By Russ Baker and Jonathan Z. Larsen | The Real News Project - NEW YORK--Newly released internal CIA documents assert that former
president George Herbert Walker Bush's oil company emerged from a
1950's collaboration with a covert CIA officer.

Bush
has long denied allegations that he had connections to the intelligence
community prior to 1976, when he became Central Intelligence Agency
director under President Gerald Ford. At the time, he described his
appointment as a 'real shocker.' But the freshly uncovered memos contend that Bush maintained a close
personal and business relationship for decades with a CIA staff
employee who, according to those CIA documents, was instrumental in the
establishment of Bush's oil venture, Zapata, in the early 1950s, and
who would later accompany Bush to Vietnam as a “cleared and witting
commercial asset” of the agency..........More