Barker, a CIA operative since the Bay of Pigs invasion, was the $100,000 sent in by
Texas CREEP chairman William Liedtke, longtime business partner of George Bush. The
money was sent from Houston down to Mexico, where it was "laundered" to eliminate its
accounting trail. It then came back to Barker's account as four checks totalling $89,000
and $11,000 in cash. A smaller amount,an anonymous $25,000 contribution, was sent in
by Minnesota CREEP officer Kenneth Dahlberg in the form of a cashier's check.
Patman relentlessly pursued the true sources of this money, as the best route to the truth
about who ran the break-in, and for what purpose. CREEP national chairman Maurice
Stans later described the situation just after the burglars were arrested, made dangerous
by "...Congressman Wright Patman and several of his political hatchet men working on
the staff of the House Banking and Currency Committee. Without specific authorization
by his committee, Patman announced that he was going to investigate the Watergate
matter, using as his entry the banking transactions of the Dahlberg and Mexican checks.
In the guise of covering that ground, he obviously intended to roam widely, and he
almost did, but his own committee, despite its Democratic majority, eventually stopped
him." [fn 16]
These are the facts that Patman had established--before "his own committee...stopped
him."
The anonymous Minnesota $25,000 had in fact been provided to Dahlberg by Dwayne
Andreas, chief executive of the Archer-Daniels- Midland grain trading company.
The Texas $100,000, sent by Liedtke, in fact came from Robert H. Allen, a mysterious
nuclear weapons materials executive. Allen was chairman of Gulf Resources and
Chemical Corporation in Houston. His company controlled half the world's supply of
lithium, an essential component of hydrogen bombs.
On April 3, 1972 (75 days before the Watergate arrests), $100,000 was transferred by
telephone from a bank account of Gulf Resources and Chemical Corp. into a Mexico City
account of an officially defunct subsidiary of Gulf Resources. Gulf Resources' Mexican
lawyer Manuel Ogarrio Daguerre withdrew it and sent back to Houston the package of
four checks and cash, which Liedtke forwarded for the CIA burglars. [fn 17]
Robert H. Allen was Texas CREEP's chief financial officer, while Bush partner William
Liedtke was overall chairman. But what did Allen represent? In keeping with its strategic
nuclear holdings, Allen's Gulf Resources was a kind of committee of the main
components of the London-New York oligarchy. Formed in the late 1960's, Gulf
Resources had taken over the New York-based Lithium Corporation of America. The
president of this subsidiary was Gulf Resources executive vice president Harry D.
Feltenstein, Jr. John Roger Menke, a director of both Gulf Resources and Lithium Corp.,
was also a consultant and director of the United Nuclear Corporation, and a diretor of the
Hebrew Technical Institute. The ethnic background of the Lithium subsidiary is of
interest due to Israel's known preoccupation with developing a nuclear weapons arsenal.
Another Gulf Resources and Lithium Corp. director was Minnesotan Samuel H. Rogers,