President's death represents a great loss not only to the US
but to all Latin America. These sources know of no plans for
unauthorized action against Cuba.An informant who has furnished reliable information in the
past and who is close to a small pro-Castro group in Miami
has advised that those individuals are afraid that the
assassination of the President may result in strong
repressive measures being taken against them and,
although pro-Castro in their feelings, regret the
assassination.The substance of the foregoing information was orally
furnished to Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence
Agency and Captain William Edwards of the Defense
Intelligence Agency on November 23, 1963, by Mr. W.T.
Forsyth of this Bureau.William T. Forsyth, since deceased, was an official of the FBI's Washington
headquarters; during the time he was attached to the Bureau's subversive control
section, he ran the investigation of Rev. Martin Luther King. Was he also a part of
the FBI's harassment of Dr. King? The efforts of journalists to locate Captain
Edwards have not been successful.
This FBI document identifying George Bush as a CIA agent in November, 1963
was first published by Joseph McBride in The Nation in July, 1988, just before
Bush received the Republican nomination for president. McBride's source
observed: "I know [Bush] was involved in the Caribbean. I know he
was involved in the suppression of things after the Kennedy assassination. There
was a very definite worry that some Cuban groups were going to move against
Castro and attempt to blame it on the CIA." 20 When pressed for confirmation or
denial, Bush's spokesman Stephen Hart commented: "Must be another George
Bush." Within a short time the CIA itself would peddle the same damage control
line. On July 19, 1988 in the wake of wide public attention to the report published
in The Nation, CIA spokeswoman Sharron Basso departed from the normal CIA
policy of refusing to confirm or deny reports that any person is or was a CIA
employee. CIA spokeswoman Basso told the Associated press that the CIA
believed that "the record should be clarified." She said that the FBI document
"apparently" referred to a George William Bush who had worked in 1963 on the
night shift at CIA headquarters, and that "would have been the appropriate place
to have received such an FBI report." According to her account, the George
William Bush in question had left the CIA to join the Defense Intelligence
Agency in 1964.