ship with a long, flat stern section where helicopters could land....
The reader may have already surmised that Vice President Bush (with his background in oilfield service '' and his control of a top-level committee of the National Security Council '') sat in his
Washington office and planned these brilliant schemes. But such a guess is probably incorrect--it is
off by about 800 miles. On Jupiter Island, Florida, where the Bush family has had a seasonal
residence for the past several decades (see Chapter 4) is the headquarters of ContAssociates, Inc. (CSA).@s1@s4 inental Shelf
This company describes itself as `` an environmental consulting firm specializing in applied marine
science and technology ... founded in 1970.... The main office ... is located in Jupiter, Florida,
approximately 75 miles north of Miami. '' CSA has Offshore and Onshore divisions. '' It listsamong its clients Exxon Company, U.S.A.; Military Sealift Command; Pennzoil Company; U.S. (^) Department of Defense/Army Corps of Engineers; and other oil companies and government agencies. CSA's main advertised concern is with underwater engineering, often involving oil or nuclear facilities. It has many classified '' projects. It employs the world's most sophisticated
subsurface vehicles and monitoring equipment. The founder and chief executive of CSA is RobertStretch '' Stevens. A former lieutenant commander in naval special operations, Stevens has been a (^) close associate of CIA officer Theodore Shackley, and of Bush agent Felix Rodriguez since the early 1960s, when Stevens served as a boat captain in the invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs, and through the Vietnam War. During the period 1982-85, CSA was contracted by the U.S. intelligence community, including the CIA, to carry out coastal and on-the-ground resupport work in the eastern Mediterranean in support of the U.S. Marine deployment into Lebanon;connaissance and logistical and coastal mapping and reconnaissance of the Caribbean island of Grenada prior to the October 1983 U.S. military action. Beginning in approximately the autumn of 1983, CSA was employed to design and execute a program for the mining of several Nicaraguan harbors. After the U.S. Senate restricted such activities to non-Ufacility located on El Bravo Island off the eastern coast of Nicaragua. Acta Non Verba (Deeds Not.S. personnel only, CSA trained Latin American nationals '' at a
Words) is a subsidiary '' of CSA, incorporated in 1986 and located at the identical Jupiter address. Rudy Enders, the head of the CIA's paramilitary section--and deployed by George Bush aide Donald Gregg--is a minority owner of Acta Non Verba (ANV). ANV's own tough-talking promotional literature says that it concentrates on counter-terrorist activities in the maritimeenvironment. '' A very high-level retired CIA officer, whose private interview was used in
preparation for this book, described this Fish Farm '' in the following more realistic terms:
Assassination operations and training company controlled by Ted Shackley, under the cover of a
private corporation with a regular board of directors, stockholders, etc., located in Florida. They
covertly bring in Haitian and Southeast Asian boat people as recruits, as well as Koreans, Cubans,and Americans. They hire out assassinations and intelligence services to governments, corporations, (^)
and individuals, and also use them for covering or implementing `Fish Farm' projects/activities. ''
The upshot of the attack from Jupiter--the mining of Nicaragua's harbors--was that the Congress got
angry enough to pass the Boland II '' amendment, re-tightening the laws against this public- private warfare (see entry for OApril 3, 1984: ct. 3, 1984). Another subcommittee of the Bush terrorism apparatus was formed, as President Reagan signed National Security Decision Directive 138. The new Terrorist Incident Working Group '' reported
to Bush's Special Situation Group. The TIWG geared up government agencies to support militant
counterterrorism assaults, on the Israeli model.@s1@s5 How Can Anyone Object? '' June 25, 1984: The National Security Planning Group, including Reagan, Bush and other top officials, met secretly in the White House situation room at 2:00 P.M. They discussed whether to risk seeking third-
country aid '' to the Contras, to get around the congressional ban enacted Dec. 21, 1982. George