Massachusetts, the center of some of the most brutal MK-Ultra tortures. These outrages
have been graphically portrayed in the movie, Titticut Follies.
During 1990, an investigator for this book toured H. Smith Richardson's Center for
Creative Leadership just north of Greensboro, North Carolina. The tour guide said that in
these rooms, agents of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Secret Service are trained.
He demonstrated the two-way mirrors through which the government employees are
watched, while they are put through mind-bending psychodramas. The guide explained
that virtually everyone who becomes a general '' in the U.S. armed forces also goes through this training '' at the Richardson Center.
Another office of the Center for Creative Leadership is in Langley, Virginia, at the
headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency. Here also, Richardson's Center trains
leaders of the CIA.
Prescott Bush worked throughout the Eisenhower years as a confidential ally of the
Dulles brothers. In July 1956, Egypt's President Gamel Abdul Nasser announced he
would accept the U.S. offer of a loan for the construction of the Aswan Dam project.
John Foster Dulles then prepared a statement telling the Egyptian ambassador that the
U.S.A. had decided to retract its offer. Dulles gave the explosive statement in advance to
Prescott Bush for his approval. Dulles also gave the statement to President Eisenhower,
and to the British government.
Nasser reacted to the Dulles brush-off by nationalizing the Suez Canal to pay for the dam.
Israel, then Britain and France, invaded Egypt to try to overthrow Nasser, leader of the
anti-imperial Arab nationalists. However, Eisenhower refused (for once) to play the
Dulles-British game, and the invaders had to leave Egypt when Britain was threatened
with U.S. economic sanctions.
During 1956, Senator Prescott Bush's value to the Harriman-Dulles political group
increased when he was put on the Senate Armed Services Committee. Bush toured U.S.
and allied military bases throughout the world, and had increased access to the national
security decision-making process.
In the later years of the Eisenhower presidency, Gordon Gray rejoined the government.
As an intimate friend and golfing partner of Prescott Bush, Gray complemented the Bush
influence on Ike. The Bush-Gray family partnership in the `` secret government ''
continues up through the George Bush presidency.
Gordon Gray had been appointed head of the new Psychological Strategy Board in 1951
under Averell Harriman's rule as assistant to President Truman for national security
affairs. From 1958 to 1961, Gordon Gray was national security chief under President
Eisenhower. Gray acted as Ike's intermediary, strategist and hand-holder, in the
President's relations with the CIA and the U.S. and allied military forces.