Asked by Congressman Diggs to pinpoint where decisions on Rhodesian policy and related issues
were made, Bush replied: "That is something you cwent on to describe his relations to machinery of polan never do in the State Department." He thenicy making: "I would be happy to take
responsibility for it [the Rhodesian vote], if you are looking for somebody to do that, because I am
the President's representative to the United Nations, and the buck stops with some of these things
with me. But I don't profess to be that big a deal that I can say this is the way it is going to be, and
that is the way it happens. But in terms of responsibility for this position, I would be happy toaccept it." Then Bush added: "I do think that there is room for some criticism about the kind of (^)
facelessness of the process, but I would say for these resolutions, or anything that we have done in
terms of policy, whether it is subcontinent, or Middle East, or China, I have been in accord with
these major decisions, and I take the responsibility for them as the presidentially appointed
representative to the United Nations. Yet I sometimes am frustrated by the machinery, I must say."
One senses that this is Bush's pledge of personal allegiance to the Kissinger policies that dominated
in the areas he mentions, and that his frustration is reserved for the passive resistance that still from
time to time merged from the Rogers State Department. Among other things, Bush was endorsing
the Nixon-Kissinger regime's support for the military junta of the Greek colonels, a matter whichbecame a minor issue in the 1988 presidential campaign.
As the former Guyana Foreign Minister Fred Wills has pointed out in several speaking
engagements for the Schiller Institute over recent years, the United States Ambassador to the United
Nations presides over an immense covert apparatus of espionage, arm-twisting, intimidation,entrapment, and blackmail, all directed against foreign delegates whom the US is seeking to
compromise, bribe, or turn. The gambits habitually employed in this brutal and squalid game range
from baskets of fruit delivered to the hotel rooms and residences of ambassadors and ministers, to
the deployment of a stable of male and female sex operatives to entrap unwary foreign diplomats, to
black-bag operations and occasional wetwork. It may also be relevant that the Mayor of NCity during these years was John V. Lindsay, a Yale graduate and Skull and Bones member, withew York
whom Bush had dealings on matters of police and security policy affecting the UN diplomatic
community.
In the course of the many CongreWatergate period, attention was called to a number of mysterious and unsolved break-ins related tossional investigations of domestic covert operations during the (^)
United Nations functions which took place in the New York area during the approximate time that
George Bush was UN ambassador, which was from February 1971 until January 1973. These
included a break-in at the home of Victor Rioseco, an economic counselor for the Chilean mission
to the United Nations, on February 10, 1971;the Chilean Ambassador to the United Nations, on April 5, 1971, a a break-in at the home of Humberto Diaz-Casaneuva,nd another burglary at the New
York apartment of Javier Urrutia, the chief of the Chilean Development Corporation, on April 11,
- It will be noted that one common denominator of these break-ins was a targetting of Chilean
representatives; the Chilean government at this time was that of President Salvador Allende
Gossens, later toppled by a US-directed coup in September, 1973. TWashington was the scene of yet another break-in on May 13-14, 1972. he Chilean Embassy in
Naturally, Bush's authorized biography and campaign autobiography say nothing about any of these
interesting events. Fitzhugh Green describes the "gracious, professional teamwork" of Barbara and
George at diplomatic receptions, with Bush's personal assistant Rudolph "Foxy" Cadiplomats and wives to be buttonholed by Mrs. Bush and then taken over to meet George. It wasrter fingering
also during these UN years that Bush consolidated his habit of writing large quantities of short
personal longhand notes and cards to friends and acquantainces. Bush's habit was to personally sit
though the long speeches of diplomats representing US allies and others whom Bush wished to
propitiate. But in order to use the time, Foxy Carter would make sure that he had a sufficient supply