private place in America.
Let us briefly survey the neighborhood, back then in 1946-48, to see some of the uses various of the
residents had for the Harriman clique.
Residents on Jupiter Island
Jupiter Islander Robert A. Lovett,@s4, Prescott Bush's partner at Brown Brothers Harriman, had
been Assistant Secretary of Wadvocate of the policy of terror-bomar for Air from 1941 to 1945. Lbing of civilians. He organized the Strategic Bombing Survey,ovett was the leading American (^)
carried out for the American and British governments by the staff of the Prudential Insurance
Company, guided by London's Tavistock Psychiatric Clinic.
In the postwar period, Prescott Bush was associated with Prudential Insurance, one of Lovett'sintelligence channels to the British secret services. Prescott was listed by Prudential as a director of (^)
the company for about two years in the early 1950s.
Their Strategic Bombing Survey failed to demonstrate any real military advantage accruing from
such outrages as the fire-bombing of Dresden, Germany. But the Harrimanites neverthelesspersisted in the advocacy of terror from the air. They glorified this as psychological warfare, '' a (^) part of the utopian military doctrine opposed to the views of military traditionalists such as Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Robert Lovett later advised President Lyndon JBush revived the doctrine with the bombing of civilian areas in Panama, and the destruction ofohnson to terror-bomb Vietnam. President George Baghdad. On Oct. 22, 1945, Secretary of War Robert Patterson created the Lovett Committee, chaired by Robert A. Lovett, to advise the government on the post-World War II orgaintelligence activities. The existence of this committee was unknown to the public until an officialnization of U.S. (^) CIA history was released from secrecy in 1989. But the CIA's author (who was President Bush's prep school history teacher; see chapter 5) gives no real details of the Lovett Committee's functioning, claiming: The record of the testimony of the Lovett Committee, unfortunately, was
not in the archives of the agency when this account was written. ''@s5
The CIA's self-history does inform us of the advice that Lovett provided to the Truman cabinet, as
the official War Department intelligence proposal.
Lovett decided that there should be a separate Central Intelligence Agency. The new agency wouldconsult '' with the armed forces, but it must be the sole collecting agency in the field of foreign espionage and counterespionage. The new agency should have an independent budget, and its appropriations should be granted by Congress without public hearings. Lovett appeared before the Secretaries of State, War and Navy on Nhighly of the FBI's work because it had the best personality file in the world. '' Lovett said theovember 14, 1945. He spoke
FBI was expert at producing false documents, an art `` which we developed so successfully during
the war and at which we became outstandingly adept. '' Lovett pressed for a virtual resumption of
the wartime Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in a new CIA.
U.S. military traditionalists centered around Gen. Douglas MacArthur opposed Lovett's proposal.
The continuation of the OSS had been attacked at the end of the war on the grounds that the OSS
was entirely under British control, and that it would constitute an American Gestapo.@s6