by Texe Marrs
In 1977, CIA chief George Bush resigned to devote his energies full-time to a very special, upcoming political campaign some 2-1/2 years in the future. For the leaders of the Secret Brotherhood it was time. Their man had just the right resumé. He was primed and ready to run for America’s highest office: the office of President of the United States of America.
To make sure that their chosen servant would have all the money needed to run an effective campaign, immediately after leaving the CIA, George Bush was appointed as a director of Texas’ largest banking corporations and holding companies—International Bankshares, Inc.
In 1980, George Bush went head-to-head with Ronald Reagan in the race to be the Republican Party’s nominee for the White House. To the chagrin of the financial wizards who comprise the Brotherhood, George was soundly defeated by the former Hollywood actor from California in the primary campaigns. Reagan, the Great Communicator, was not to be denied. The common people rallied to his side and for a fleeting moment, George Bush’s future looked bleak.
Selection as Vice President: A Backroom Deal?
But like every good field general staff, the boys who head-up the secret societies had a new back-up plan ready to go. Surprise of surprises: the high-flying Reagan, a political novice, was quickly brought down to earth by his campaign advisors and managers. Led by William Casey, the persuasive political strategist who had Reagan’s respect—and his ear—the future president was told that he “needed” George Bush as his running mate. Why? Well, for two good reasons: First, the big boys, Casey related, wanted their fair-haired boy to have the job; and second, if they didn’t get their way, Ronald Reagan was told, the Great Communicator’s political campaign against the incumbent president, democrat Jimmy Carter, could become a miserable affair.
“They” are willing to give you their full financial support, confided Casey, but only if George Bush is on the ticket.
Besides, the wily Casey argued, George Bush will add some real expertise and credibility to the Republican ticket. Look at that impressive resumé of his. Plus, he hails from one of the biggest states, Texas, a bastion of electoral votes. It’s good politics, Casey concluded.
When the Reagan forces announced that George Bush would be the vice presidential choice, conservatives almost fell over. Wasn’t this the internationalist who had pumped for the United Nations, the man who, as a Congressman, had voted for gun control and who had vigorously supported population control and abortion? How, they reasoned, could Ronald Reagan, a patriotic man supposedly devoted to down-home, conservative policy options, who seemingly was against everything that George Bush and the internationalists stood for, suddenly up and pick this man to be his vice president and sidekick?
The ultra conservatives and grass roots organizers who made Ronald Reagan’s surprising nomination possible had no earthly idea of what had occurred behind closed doors in the inner sanctum of Reagan’s campaign headquarters. Nor could they have known that William Casey was an intimate and vital link to the upper ranks of the Secret Brotherhood.
William Casey, George Bush, and the October Surprise
In reality, Casey was a Brotherhood mole, a special undercover agent inside the Reagan campaign organization.
It was William Casey who would later see to it that the Reagan Administration was packed with appointees from the internationalist Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission. But first, to make sure that his man, Ronald Reagan, then leading in the polls, would not be defeated in November by incumbent Jimmy Carter, it was necessary that William Casey and his good friend, George Bush, carry out a most important global mission. Thus was hatched the “October Surprise” plot in which Casey and Bush negotiated with the ayatollahs of Teheran, Iran. The objective: to guarantee the release of the U.S. hostages being held by Iranian revolutionaries who had seized the U.S. Embassy some nine months prior. 6
Flying to Paris in 1987 during the height of the Presidential campaign, Casey and Bush offered a secret deal to the Iranian emissaries: millions of dollars in military arms to the Iranians (then engaged in a bitter and bloody conflict with madman Saddam Hussein of neighboring Iraq) in exchange for the American hostages. But only under one condition—that the hostages not be released until after the election and Ronald Reagan’s inauguration! 7
The essence of the October Surprise plot, therefore, was the strategy that to insure a Reagan victory in November, Jimmy Carter must be prevented from pulling a “surprise” winning the release of the hostages just prior to the election. That, Casey reasoned, could result in a rapid upturn in Carter’s election chances, as an overjoyed and gratified American electorate might well reward the incumbent President who had gotten our hostages out of the evil grip of Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini.
Such an outcome had to be prevented at all costs. So, using their international centers and agents of influence, Casey and the Brotherhood dispatched word to Teheran: they were willing to “make a deal.”
The October Surprise predated and set a precedent for the Iran Contra scandal plot of Lt. Colonel Oliver North, John Poindexter, Caspar Weinberger, and associates that was to come later in the Reagan era. This embarrassing “arms for hostages” arrangement was covered up for almost a decade until a few courageous people decided to step forth and tell the whole story. But in late 1979, the plot proved to be an unqualified success. Jimmy Carter was trounced at the polls by Reagan, mainly because of the “wimp” and “incompetent” labels pinned on the hapless President as a result of the unresolved Iranian hostage crisis.
Meanwhile, a victorious Ronald Reagan became an instant national hero when, literally within minutes of the opening of his inauguration ceremony, it was announced that the U.S. hostages had been released!
Reagan’s clever advisors and handlers claimed that it was their man’s macho Hollywood, gun-slinging cowboy image that won the day. They suggested that perhaps the ayatollahs over in Iran were scared stiff by the prospect that Ronald Reagan had become president. Instead of chancing an “O.K. Corral” shoot-out situation with six-gun Ronald Reagan, the Iranians, they said, had wisely opted to let the hostages go.
The media either fell for it—or simply went along with the charade—naturally, since most of America’s media establishment is owned lock, stock, and barrel by the Brotherhood.
The CIA: That “Old Black Magic!”
Once Reagan was in the White House, campaign manager William Casey took for himself the key post of Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, the very same job his pal George Bush had held earlier. In the intelligence driver’s seat, Casey, also a member of the Knights of Malta secret society, was able to continue his wondrous working of magic and illusion for the Brotherhood. It was only after his death in the last years of Reagan’s second term that Casey’s more sinister machinations and maneuvering came to light.
For example, congressional testimony has revealed that CIA Director William Casey supervised Ollie North’s contra operation in Nicaragua. Casey also worked undercover with Pope John Paul II and with the Pope’s secretive worldwide organizations, the Knights of Malta, the Jesuits, and Opus Dei, as well as with the insiders of the Pope’s Vatican Chancery—to fund and assist Polish labor leader Lech Walesa (a loyal Catholic) in his successful attempt to subvert and replace Poland’s communist military regime led by General Jaruzelski.
Casey not only convinced President Reagan to take the historic step of appointing a U.S. ambassador (the first ever) to the Vatican, but he made sure that the new diplomat selected for the job was a Knights of Malta brother to boot!
“Your Time Will Come,” Bush was Told
During this same time period, Vice President George Bush bided his time—and bit his tongue—over at the White House. Administration insiders have reported that in cabinet and other meetings in the oval office, George Bush typically sat, silent and attentive, not actively participating in the goings-on and deliberations. This was George Bush’s worst nightmare—a supreme test of patience.
Normally energetic and hyperactive, he was forced to discreetly stay in the background. His mentors gave him very specific instructions not to rock the boat, not to upstage the President.
“Your time will come,” Bush was told, “when Ronald Reagan leaves office.”
Finally, on January 20, 1989, eight years later, George Bush stood on a platform set up in front of the White House and before a global audience via television, was inaugurated as President of the United States. And ever since, he has devoted every working moment to insure that the long cherished dreams of the Brotherhood for a New World Order, a globally integrated economy, and a unified (if diverse) one world religious system become a reality.
What a dazzling career George Bush has had! Surely, on the surface of things, it appears that he is possibly the most qualified individual ever to run for and win election to the high office of President. Consecutively, Bush has been oilman; congressman; UN ambassador; envoy to Red China (a nuclear power and the World’s most populous country); director of the CIA (the world’s premier intelligence network); and vice-president of the United States, standby to the top man for eight long years. Wow!
About That Old Studebaker
But nagging doubts remain. A few questions beg to be answered. First, about that old and decrepit Studebaker that the Bushes supposedly drove down to Midland, Texas, after George’s graduation from Yale. My own research has uncovered a radically different story. One reliable source claims that it was actually a new Studebaker (1948—those were the days before the Mercedes, BMW’s, Jaguars, Lexus’, and other foreign makes invaded the continental U.S.). It seems that George’s dad, Prescott, gave the shiny and sporty new car to son George as a graduation gift. 8
Then, about that trip down to Texas: Well, my sources allege that George and Barbara flew to Midland in an airplane owned by Dresser Industries. As we shall discover, Dresser was then run by a Skull & Bones brother, and it was this same bonesman brother who first set George up in the oil industry. George was enamored of aircraft, having been a bomber pilot for a brief spell in World War II. He would never drive, my sources indicate, when he could fly. What really happened, they explain, is that the new Studebaker followed the Bushes, driven down to Texas by a paid employee. 9
And that first “entry-level job” in the oil business? Seems that tales take on heroic—and mythical—proportions when chosen members of the Secret Brotherhood are involved. Here are the facts as I’ve been able to document them:
Months before George Bush graduated from Yale, his father, Prescott Sheldon Bush, arranged with a fellow bonesman, from Prescott’s own Yale class, for son George to be mentored by that gentleman in the oil business. It had no doubt been predetermined by the Brotherhood’s elite that George’s best bet for a political future lay in a large electoral state like Texas. And the oil business offered the young man the perfect opportunity to learn the ropes and to make contacts. In Texas, oilmen have run the show in state politics since the days of the Spindletop oilfield gushers back at the turn of the century.
George Bush’s Skull & Bones Mentor and Guide
It was Neil Mallon, Prescott Sheldon Bush’s fellow bonesman and Yale, classmate, who was chosen to be young graduate George’s senior guide and mentor as he entered the dog-eat-dog real world. Mallon had stayed in close contact with George Bush’s father, Prescott, for some 30 years, since the two had been initiated into the Order on the same night at the Tomb. Like other bonesmen, Neil Mallon had done well for himself since leaving the Yale campus. Eventually, he took over as chief executive officer of Dresser Industries, a giant in the oil service and drilling equipment business.
When George Bush (Skull & Bones, class of ’47) went down to Texas to start a career in the oil business, he didn’t begin in some low, entry-level job as his public relations writers would have us believe. Instead, his career began in high style, personally managed by Neil Mallon, an elder blood brother (Skull & Bones, class of ’17).
To give you, the reader, a little color and a bit more insight into the George Bush-Neil Mallon connection, reprinted below is a story from Walter Scott’s “Personality Parade” column (Parade magazine, Jan. 21, 1990). Keep in mind as you read this that Walter Scott’s columns indicate that he is consistently an apologist for the establishment crowd. Still, his feature in Parade is enlightening:
Q. I’ve heard that the man most responsible for George Bush’s wealth—that is, other than what he may have inherited from his father’s estate—was Neil Mallon of Dallas. Just what was the connection between the two? Mallon must have been an important figure in George Bush’s life, since one of the President’s sons is named for him. Some background on Mr. Mallon, if you can. J.D.R., Dallas, Texas
A. Henry Neil Mallon (1895-1983) was chief executive officer of Dresser Industries of Dallas. When he died, George Bush, then Vice-President of the U.S., said of him: “Neil Mallon shaped my whole life from the time I was a boy ... and when I started my first business he was at my side, sharing his vast experience. One of our sons, Neil Mallon Bush, was named for this wonderful man, and he was loved by our whole family.” Mallon, a native of Cincinnati, was a member of Skull and Bones at Yale and a crack athlete. Upon graduation in 1917, he enlisted in the U.S. Army, served in the Field Artillery in France during World War I and became a major at 23, reportedly the Army’s youngest.
Some 30 years later, young George Bush seemed to follow in Mallon’s footsteps. He volunteered for service in World War II, reportedly became the youngest pilot in the Navy at that time and was graduated from Yale, where he too was tapped for Skull & Bones. After the war, Bush and his bride, Barbara, migrated to Texas, where Mallon got him an entry job at an oil-equipment company in Odessa and, with many others, taught him something about the oil business.
Eventually, Bush and a neighbor in Midland, Tex., John Overbey, launched their own business, buying mineral rights from farmers and selling them to larger companies. Subsequently, the two merged with Hugh and Bill Liedtke, founders of Pennzoil, to form Zapata Petroleum Corp.
According to intimates, Bush used Mallon as a role model for many years, convinced that he could find no better one...
A Little Help From Yet Another High-Powered Friend
According to the White House’s public relations brigade, George Bush followed-up his stint with Neil Mallon’s Dresser Industries by co-founding Zapata Petroleum Corporation (sometimes called Zapata Oil Company), an oil exploration business. Joining him in this venture, say the White House communications experts, was a man named Hugh Liedtke. Together, this crew made a mint by finding new oil.
What Bush’s people don’t tell the public, however, is far more significant. They don’t, for example, volunteer the fact that Hugh Liedtke was not just your average Texas oil wildcatter. Liedtke was a principal stockholder and founder of Pennzoil Corporation, a huge oil company on Wall Street’s New York Stock Exchange.
In other words, a young novice, George Bush, went into business with an older man who headed up one of America’s top oil producing firms! Again we see proof that George’s success was never in question. His ticket had already been punched in advance by the good old boys of the Secret Brotherhood.
Was it Shakespeare who wrote that the whole world is a theater, and all of us are but bit players on the great stage of life? George Bush’s biography gives evidence that playwright Shakespeare was a man of unusual insight. Some of the richest and most powerful men on earth have been involved in writing the script for George Bush’s life. In George’s case, that script for success led straight to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and residence at the White House.
CHAPTER TEN: The Skull & Bones Lineup—A Rogues’ Gallery of Questionable Characters
The Skull & Bones numbers in its ranks some of the world’s most powerful men. Known members include U.S. Senators, members of the U.S. House of Representatives, university presidents, ambassadors and diplomats, and corporate CEO’s. In this chapter, we’ll first take a close-up snapshot of some
of the more prominent bonesmen. Then we’ll examine the influence of the Skull & Bones on four major components, or areas, of world power: foreign policy, Wall Street and finance, education, and religion. After reviewing who the top bonesmen are and how they have so vastly affected our society, I believe you will agree wholeheartedly with me: The Order of Skull & Bones must be unmasked for what it is—a great and present danger to our freedoms and to our constitutional rights.
Who’s Who in the Skull & Bones
J. Hugh Liedtke: Oil Man. One of the founders of Pennzoil Oil Corporation, the elder Liedtke took a young George Herbert Walker Bush under his wings in Midland, Texas, and together they and a few associates set up Zapata Petroleum Corporation. It was with that firm, Bush’s press agents claim, that the future President first made his mark as an astute oilman and business tycoon.
In reality, with one of America’s top oilmen, J. Hugh Liedtke, watching over his shoulder and pointing the way to “high potential” oil drilling sites, oil wildcatting for young Bush was not so risky and “wild” an occupation after all.
John Kerry: U. S. Senator and Cover-up Artist. This tall, liberal democrat, who is U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, is considered a “publicity hound” by his Senate colleagues. However, having a penchant for getting one’s face frequently on television does not always a hero make. Kerry was given the job by his Senate colleagues in 1989 of looking into a slew of allegations that an international bank named “BCCI” was heavily involved in racketeering, money laundering, bribery, terrorism, and a variety of other crimes.