C. Douglas Dillon, neighbor of Bush on Jupiter Island, became Undersecretary of State
in 1958 after the death of John Foster Dulles. Dillon had been John Foster Dulles's
ambassador to France (1953-57), coordinating the original U.S. covert backing for the
French imperial effort in Vietnam, with catastrophic results for the world. Dillon was
Treasury Secretary for both John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson.
Ambassador to Britain Jock Whitney, extended family member of the Harrimans and
neighbor of Prescott Bush on Jupiter Island. Whitney set up a press service in London
called Forum World Features, which published propaganda furnished directly by the CIA
and the British intelligence services. Beginning in 1961, Whitney was chairman of the
British Empire's `` English Speaking Union. ''
Senator Prescott Bush, friend and counselor of President Eisenhower
Bush's term continued on in the Senate after the Eisenhower years, throughout most of
the aborted Kennedy presidency.
In 1962, the National Strategy Information Center was founded by Prescott Bush and his
son Prescott, Jr., William Casey (the future CIA chief) and Leo Cherne. The center came
to be directed by Frank Barnett, former program officer of the Bush family's H. Smith
Richardson Foundation. The center conduited funds to the London-Based Forum World
Features, for the circulation of CIA-authored `` news stories '' to some 300 newspapers
internationally.
`` Democrat '' Averell Harriman rotated back into official government in the Kennedy
administration. As Assistant Secretary and Undersecretary of State, Harriman helped
push the United States into the Vietnam War. Harriman had no post in the Eisenhower
administration. Yet he was perhaps more than anyone the leader and the glue for the
incredible evil that was hatched by the CIA in the final Eisenhower years: a half-public,
half-private Harrimanite army, never since demobilized, and increasingly associated with
the name of Bush.
Following the rise of Castro, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency contracted with the
organization of Mafia boss Meyer Lansky to organize and train assassination squads for
use against the Cuban government. Among those employed were John Rosselli, Santos
Trafficante and Sam Giancana. Uncontested public documentation of these facts has been
published by congressional bodies and by leading Establishment academics.
But the disturbing implications and later consequences of this engagement are a crucial
matter for further study by the citizens of every nation. This much is established:
On Aug. 18, 1960, President Eisenhower approved a $13 million official budget for a
secret CIA-run guerrilla war against Castro. It is known that Vice President Richard M.
Nixon took a hand in the promotion of this initiative. The U.S. military was kept out of
the covert action plans until very late in the game.