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Vice President Bush about his activities as head of the secret air supply
operation that lost a cargo plane to Nicaraguan missile fire....
"Gomez has said that he met with Bush twice and has been operating in
Nicaragua with the Vice President's knowledge and approval, the sources
said....
"Asked about these matters, a spokesman for Bush, Marlin Fitzwater, said:
'Neither the vice president nor anyone on his staff is directing or
coordinating an operation in Central America.'
"... The "San Francisco Examiner", which earlier this week linked [Bush
adviser Donald] Gregg to Gomez, reported that Gomez maintains daily contact
with Bush's office...." / Note #7 / Note #6
George Bush's career was now on the line. News media throughout the world
broke the story of the Hasenfus capture, and of the crewman's fingering of
Bush and his underlings Rodriguez and Posada Carriles.
Bush was now besieged by inquiries from around the world, as to how and why
he was directing the gun-running into Latin America.
Speaking in Charleston, South Carolina, George Bush described Max
Gomez/Rodriguez as "a patriot." The vice president denied that he himself
was directing the illegal operations to supply the Contras: ""To say I'm
running the operation ... it's absolutely untrue.""
Bush said of Rodriguez: "I know what he was doing in El Salvador, and I
strongly support it, as does the President of El Salvador, Mr. Napoleon
Duarte, and as does the chief of the armed forces in El Salvador, because
this man, an expert in counterinsurgency, was down there helping them put
down a communist-led revolution [i.e. in El Salvador, not Nicaragua]." /
Note #7 / Note #7
Two days later, Gen. Adolfo Blandon, armed forces chief of staff in El
Salvador, denied Bush's contention that Felix Rodriguez worked for his
country's military forces. / Note #7 / Note #8
"October 12, 1986:"
Eugene Hasenfus gave and signed an affidavit in which it was stated: "About
Max Gomez [Felix Rodriguez], Hasenfus says that he was the head Cuban
coordinator for the company and that he works for the CIA and that he is a
very close friend of the Vice-President of the United States, George
Bush....
"About Ramon Medina [escaped airplane bomber Luis Posada Carriles],
Hasenfus says that he was also a CIA agent and that he did the 'small work'
because "Max Gomez" was the 'senior man.' He says that "Ramon" took care of
the rent of the houses, the maids, the food, transportation and drivers,
and also, coordination of the fuel for the aircraft, etc." [emphasis in the
original]. / Note #7 / Note #9
His cover being blown, and knowing he was still wanted in Venezuela for
blowing up an airliner and killing 73 persons, Posada Carriles now
"vanished" and went underground. / Note #8 / Note #0
"October 19, 1986:"
Eugene Hasenfus, interviewed in Nicaragua by Mike Wallace on the CBS
television program "60 Minutes," said that Vice President Bush was well
aware of the covert arms supply operation. He felt the Reagan-Bush
administration was "backing this 100 percent."
Wallace asked Hasenfus why he thought that Gomez/Rodriguez and the other
managers of the covert arms resupply "had the blessing of Vice President
Bush." Hasenfus replied, "They had his knowledge that he was working [on
it] and what was happening, and whoever controlled this whole organization
-- which I do not know -- Mr. Gomez, Mr. Bush, I believe a lot of these
other people. They know how this is being run. I do not." / Note #8 / Note
#1
Cover-Up of Bush Role
"November 3, 1986:"
The Lebanese newspaper "Al-Shiraa" revealed that the U.S. government was
secretly dealing arms to the Khomeini regime. This was three weeks after
the Eugene Hasenfus expose of George Bush made world headlines.
"November 22, 1986:"
President Reagan sent a message, "through Vice President George Bush," to
Secretary of State George Shultz, along the lines of "Support me or get off
my team." / Note #8 / Note #2
"December 18, 1986:"
CIA Director William Casey, a close ally of George Bush who knew everything
from the inside, was operated on for a "brain tumor" and lost the power of
speech.
That same day, associates of Vice President George Bush said that Bush
believed White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan should resign, but claimed
Bush had not yet broached the issue with the President. Donald Regan said
that he had no intention of quitting. / Note #8 / Note #3
"February 2, 1987:"
CIA Director William Casey resigned. He soon died, literally without ever
talking.
"February 9, 1987:"
Former National Security Director Robert McFarlane, a principal figure in
the Reagan-Bush administration's covert operations, attempted suicide by
taking an overdose of drugs. McFarlane survived.
"February 26, 1987:"
The President's Special Review Board, commonly known as the Tower
Commission, issued its report. The commission heavily blamed White House
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