Declassified Records Show Bush's Oil Business Was Probably a CIA Front (2018)

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"He only served as its director for 14 months in the 1970s"

This is utter ignorance. He served at a critical time. Ford installed him very early after Nixon's resignation. It was a low time for the CIA having been blamed for the all the terrible things they did at the previous President's explicit direction.

I don't actually think it is ignorance. This conspiracy-mongering website is intentionally "forgetting" to include anything that would detract from it's conspiracy theory. Theories about actual reality aren't afraid to mention inconvenient facts.

Yea, putting aside any other ties he may have had with the CIA, its hardly a mystery why the CIA would make a big deal out of the death of a former director who went on to be a US Prez.

This is putting aside all the weirdness around the same time frame with Barry Seal and 'the boys'.

Trevor Moore's "Kitty History" video comes to mind... the Russians have a saying that "every joke has truth in it"...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0-Lvv1f5Qu4

wtf is this doing on hn. flagged

At night and sometimes on weekends, the demographics shift on hn. Usually it's more of a subtle problem than this thread.

IMO Bush's biggest win was Gorbachev. Bush was the USSR station chief back in the day, and there's an outside chance the CIA orchestrated Gorbachev's rise to power.

how could that be? facebook wasn't even invented yet.

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