During his political career, George Bush has claimed many different home '' states, includingTexas, Maine, Massachusetts and Connecticut. It has not been expedient for him to claim Florida, (^) though that state has a vital link to his role in the world, as we shall see. And George Bush's home base in Florida, throughout his adult life, has been Jupiter Island. The unique, bizarre setup on Jupiter Island began in 1931, fol& Co. with the British-American firm Brown Brothers. lowing the merger of W.A. Harriman The reader will recall Mr. Samuel Pryor, the Merchant of Death. '' A partner with the Harrimans,
Prescott Bush, George Walker and Nazi boss Fritz Thyssen in banking and shipping enterprises,
Sam Pryor remained executive committee chairman of Remington Arms. In this period, the Naziprivate armies (S.A. and S.S.) were supplied with American arms--most likely by Pryor and his
company--as they moved to overthrow the German republic. Such gun-running as an instrument of
national policy would later become notorious in the Iran-Contra '' affair. Samuel Pryor's daughter Permelia married Yale graduate Joseph V. Reed on the last day of 1927.Reed immediately went to work for Prescott Bush and George Walker as an apprentice at W.A. Harriman & Co. During World War II, Joseph V. Reed had served in the special services '' section of the U.S.
Army Signal Corps. A specialist in security, codes and espionage, Reed later wrote a book entitledFun with Cryptograms.@s2
Now, Sam Pryor had had property around Hobe Sound, Florida, for some time. In 1931, Joseph and
Permelia Pryor Reed bought the entirety of Jupiter Island.
This is a typically beautiful Atlantic coast barrier island, '' a half-mile wide and nine miles long. The middle of Jupiter Island lies just off Hobe Sound. The south bridge connects the island with the town of Jupiter, to the north of Palm Beach. It is about 90 minutes by auto from Miami--today, a few minutes by helicopter. Early in 1991, a newspaper reporter asked a friend of the Bush family about security arrangements on Jupiter Island. He responded, If you called up the White House, would they tell you how many
security people they had? It's not that Jupiter Island is the White House, although he [George Bush]
does come down frequently. ''
But for several decades before Bush was President, Jupiter Island had an ordinance requiring the
registration and fingerprinting of all housekeepers, gardeners and other non-residents working on
the island. The Jupiter Island police department says that there are sensors in the two main roads
that can track every automobile on the island. If a car stops in the street, the police will be there
within one or two minutes. Surveillance is a duty of all employees of the town of Jupiter Island.News reporters are to be prevented from visiting the island.@s3
To create this astonishing private club, Joseph and Permelia Pryor Reed sold land only to those who
would fit in. Permelia Reed was still the grande dame of the island when George Bush was
inaugurated President in 1989. In reare buried, President Bush appointed Permelia's son, Joseph V. Reed, Jr., chief of protcognition of the fact that the Reeds know where all the bodiesocol for the
U.S. State Department, in charge of private arrangements with foreign dignitaries.
Averell Harriman made Jupiter Island a staging ground for his 1940s takeover of the U.S. national
security apparatus. It was in that connection that the island became possibly the most secretive
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