Family of Secrets
by Russ Baker
Bloomsbury Press (2009)
Book Review
Family of Secrets is about the Bush family and the Shadow Government responsible for all major domestic and foreign policy decisions over the last sixty years. For evidence, Baker relies partly on declassified documents and partly on face-to-face interviews of corporate executives, low level politicians and retired intelligence officers who have worked closely with the Bush family.
Two-thirds of the book is about George Herbert Walker Bush and CIA ties that date back to 1948 when he left Yale and went to work for Dresser Industries. Baker lays out strong evidence that Dresser and Zapata Petroleum, the oil services company Bush senior started in 1953, served the primary purpose of front companies for global industrial espionage and CIA intelligence gathering.
In this way Bush senior replicated the role his father Prescott Bush played in the World War II spy service Office of Strategic Services (OSS). Prescott was a friend and colleague of founding CIA Director Allen Dulles at the Wall Street law firm Brown Brothers Harriman. Brown Brothers Harriman bought Dresser in 1928.
According to Baker, Bush senior played a pivotal role in helping Dulles create “off- the-shelf” CIA operations – disguised as front companies – to circumvent federal legislation that prohibited the CIA from spying domestically.
For me, the high points of this book include the background Baker provides on Lee Harvey Oswald’s career as a covert CIA operative, the on-off relationship between Bush senior and Oswald’s Dallas control George de Mohrenschildt and the crucial role Bush senior played in setting up Nixon as the fall guy in the Watergate break-in and cover-up.
Baker, in essence, corroborates earlier research by Mae Brussell that the Watergate scandal was a CIA coup to remove Nixon from office.
A third of the book covers the hidden history of George W Bush, including his early alcohol and cocaine abuse, the abortion he organized for one his girlfriends, his purported Christian conversion and his AWOL from the Texas Air National Guard unit – a notorious scandal that would cost CBS anchor Dan Rather his job.
George W’s brothers Neil, Marvin and Jeb receive only brief mention related to their illegal diversion of savings and loan funds, leaving taxpayers on the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars when the savings and loan associations went bust in the late eighties and had to be bailed out.
Baker maintains a nonprofit investigative news service at http://whowhatwhy.org/
Below is a 2009 Ron Reagan radio interview with Russ Baker about Family of Secrets that someone tweeted me:
SO EXTREMELY TRUE. BUSH IS ALSO A DISTANT COUSIN TO OBAMA. ONE JUST PICKED UP WHERE THE OTHER LEFT OFF, ONLY ON A MORE EVIL NOTE.
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How quaint that after only 200 years, the US has developed its own political/financial aristocracy.
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http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/07/obama-cousins-senate-family-tree
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Reblogged this on UZA – people's courts, forums, & tribunals.
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Reblogged this on An Outsider's Sojourn II.
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Now yer talking
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Reblogged this on Puppet Master's Slave Market.
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http://wchildblog.com/2015/10/05/wage-apocalypse-for-the-american-man/
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It’s my impression that the wage apocalypse has already happened. Middle class. What middle class?
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I AGREE, IT IS JUST GETTING THAT MUCH WORSE, NOT ONLY BY DAYS NOW, BUT BY HOURS. ONE THING IS FOR CERTAIN, YOU CAN NOT APPLY FOR A JOB WITH A POOR PERSON AND EXPECT TO GET PAID. THOSE OF US WHO ARE ALREADY POOR, WERE AT THE FRONT LINES OF THIS POLICY POVERTY, THOSE WHO ARE STILL RICH ARE THE NEXT ONES FOR THE ATTACK. OUR ENTIRE GOVERNMENT AS DEFINITELY SIGNED A PACK WITH THE DEVIL. WE ARE JUST AS THROW AWAY CARTRIDGES TO BE USED. THEY WILL KEEP A FEW, BUT NOT TOO MANY.
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Thanks for reblogging Sojourner, UZ and JT.
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I’ve only read parts of book and its true Bush’s have long history with underground Financial and intelligence world but my research has me concluding that CIA had only minor roll in JFK Assassination. The Assassination was in fact a Military Coup d’état .
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I think it’s a complicated question, Gerry. There’s no question that it was a coup and the Joint Chiefs were involved, but so were Allen Dulles and the CIA officers running Operation Mongoose, which was training Cuban exiles to invade Cuba. According to the people Baker interviewed, Bush senior and Zapata petroleum was closely tied to Operation Mongoose.
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I think Operation Mongoose was superseded by Operation Northwood’s. Cuban missal crises changed JFK thinking about détente with Russia well Military got more hawkish. The fact that Colonels Pash and Robert Ellis Jones both lied under oath to US congress about there military carriers.the fact that know one in research world has pointed this out makes me believe that cover-up continues. General Ralph Osborne has never been put forth as a suspect ret he is in middle of plot
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John Hinckley was a CIA MKULTRA would be mind kontrol assassin whose family had close connections to the Bush family:
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John Judge also did a lot a research on links between Hinckley’s father and Bush senior. Hinckley senior ran World Vision at a time the CIA was using their refugee camps to recruit CIA mercenaries (though I have no reason to believe they ever stopped).
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I wonder if Reagan’s press secretary, James Brady, had a clue about the ties between the Bush family, CIA and Hinckley? Either way, the Brady Law got passed, with little effect, and the Brady Campaign is coming back into relevancy with all the mass shootings.
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I’m sure Brady knew.
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As an aside, the Brady bill had the reverse effect; the price of an AK47 dropped from $800 to less than $200 per copy. Why? Stupidity, ..the law excluded antiques and curios.
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Interesting factoid. I had no idea.
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Wow!
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