Zapata Petroleum

GHWB was running the Zapata oil firm at the time, whose drilling platforms and vessels were being used as cover by his main employer, the CIA. He and his pet monsters were expecting to get the go ahead to knock off Castro once and for all. Instead, Kennedy canned all operations and made clear that ...

GHWB was running the Zapata oil firm at the time, whose drilling platforms and vessels were being used as cover by his main employer, the CIA. He and his pet monsters were expecting to get the go ahead to knock off Castro once and for all. Instead, Kennedy canned all operations and made clear that ...

During the early days of Dresser in Dallas — and of Zapata Petroleum — Dulles was just beginning to experiment with “off the books” operations. Eventually, by the seventies and eighties, when Poppy Bush ran the CIA and coordinated covert operations as vice president, hundreds, perhaps thousands, ...

As part of a series of Op Ed essays marking the centenary of the Russian Revolution, the New York Times published in its edition of June 19 a piece by Professor Sean McMeekin of Bard College. There is not one essay in this series, which oscillates between denunciations of the Revolution and timid ...

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With his victory in this week's U.S. presidential election, real-estate mogul Donald Trump is in line to become the latest U.S. president to bring business credentials to the White House. Here are other 20th century presidents who have been business executives — both successful and unsuccessful — before ...

During a Fox News telephone interview in which he criticized his fellow presidential aspirant Senator Ted Cruz, Donald Trump cut loose with potshot that Cruz's father, Rafael Cruz, was involved with Lee Harvey Oswald and the assassination of president John F. Kennedy. Shortly after this incident, Ted ...

CIA documents in the Kennedy assassination archive show that G.H.W.'s initial Zapata Oil partner and lifelong friend, Thomas J. Devine, ran covert CIA operations out of John Train's investment house as a partner there. The Train firm was described as a cover for such operations. The National Strategy ...

JM/WAVE was run by the psychotic and alcoholic William 'Bill' Harvey and employed hundreds of CIA staffers. It used Zenith Technical Enterprises as a front company to disguise covert ops. In Texas, the Zapata Oil company was another CIA front company co-owned by one George Herbert Walker Bush.

1951 - Establishes the Bush-Overbey Oil Development Company with John Overbey. 1953 - Forms Zapata Petroleum with William and Hugh Liedtke. 1964 - Runs unsuccessfully for the US Senate. 1967-1971 - US Representative from Texas' 7th District. 1971-1972 - Ambassador to the United Nations.