that the British secret service could be thoroughly trusted. The leader of this expert '' team, Gordon GAdvisory Boaray, was the head of the counterespionage section of the President's Foreign Intelligencerd for Presidents John Kennedy through Gerald Ford. Robert Lovett, Bush's Jupiter Island neighbor and Brown Brothers Harriman partner, from 1956 on a member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. Lovett later claimed to have criticized--from the inside ''--the plan to invade Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. Lovett was asked to
choose the cabinet for John Kennedy in 1961.CIA Director Allen Dulles, Bush's former international attorney. Kennedy fired Dulles after the Bay
of Pigs invasion, but Dulles served on the Warren Commission, which whitewashed President
Kennedy's murder.
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 cFeatures, which published propaganda furnished directly by the CIA and the British intelligencealled Forum World (^)
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 directedby 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.@s1@s8
`` Democrat '' Averell Harriman rotated back into official government in the Kennedyadministration. 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 byleading Establishment academics.@s1@s9
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.