'Watergate', Daddy Bush and Kissinger

"It was the leading Anglo-American financier factions who decided to dump Nixon, and availed themselves of the pre-existing Watergate affair in order to reach their goal. The financiers were able to implement their decision all the more easily thanks to the numerous operatives of the intelligence community who had been embedded within the Plumbers from the moment of their creation in response to an explicit demand coming from George Bush's personal mentor, Henry Kissinger... Preponderant power during the last years of Nixon and during the Ford years was in any case exercised by Henry Kissinger, the de facto president, about whose pedigree and strategy something has been said above... in retrospect there can be no doubt that Watergate was a coup d'etat, a creeping and muffled cold coup in the institutions which has extended its consequences over almost two decades. The roots of the administrative fascism of the Reagan and Bush years are to be found in the institutional tremors and changed power relations set off by the banal farce of the Watergate break-in... The Plumbers were created at the demand of Henry Kissinger, who told Nixon that something had to be done to stop leaks in the wake of the 'Pentagon Papers' affair of 1971. But if the Plumbers were called into existence by Kissinger, they were funded through a mechanism set up by Kissinger clone George Bush. A salient fact about the White House Special Investigations Unit (or Plumbers) of 1971-72 is that the money used to finance it was provided by George Bush's business partner and lifelong intimate friend, Bill Liedtke, the president of Pennzoil... Cancelling the Patman probe meant that there would be no investigation of Watergate before the 1972 Presidential election. The Washington Post virtually ended reference to the Watergate affair, and spoke of Nixon's opponent, George McGovern, as unqualified for the Presidency. The Republican Party was handed another four year Administration. Bush, Kissinger, Rockefeller and Ford were the gainers."
"George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography"
by Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin

"Kissinger was not a target of the [Watergate] Special Prosecution Force....'There was incredible ambivalence about the whole thing,' one Watergate attorney recalls. 'Do you want to go up against him? Kissinger was being promoted by everybody as the one guy in the administration who's solid—and he's threatening to resign. I got a sense that if we found something that finished Henry, the country was going to be in bad shape.' Kissinger escaped any serious investigation during Watergate, as those attorneys who had some doubts soon found themselves immersed in various other matters."
Kissinger and Nixon in the White House
The Atlantic Monthly, May 1982

"Mr. Kissinger's government career was marked by significant lapses of judgment and calculated efforts to circumvent bureaucratic and even constitutional limits on the use of force and power.... The secret bombing of Cambodia avoided constitutional checks and balances in order to expand the war in Southeast Asia, using a clandestine dual reporting system that was hidden from Congress, the public and most of the Pentagon for nearly five years. The secret bombing nearly became an issue in Mr. Nixon's impeachment inquiry in 1974, when the Senate Armed Services Committee conceded that it still had not learned how the dual bookkeeping system originated. The same week that the government of Prince Sihanouk was overthrown in Cambodia, a direct result of the secret bombing, Mr. Kissinger approved a covert action to undermine the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende in Chile."
Choice of Kissinger Discredits 9/11 Probe
Baltimore Sun, 5 Dec 2002

"During these years Bush, serving his apprenticeship in diplomacy and world strategy under Kissinger, became a virtual Kissinger clone in two senses. First, to a significant degree, Kissinger's networks and connections merged together with Bush's own, foreshadowing a 1989 administration in which the NSC director and the number two man in the State Department were both Kissinger's business partners from his consulting and influence-peddling firm, Kissinger associates. Secondly, Bush assimilated Kissinger's characteristic British-style geopolitical mentality and approach to problems, and this is now the epistemology that dictates Bush's own dealing with the main questions of world politics. The Kissinger networks in question can be summed up here under four headings. Kissinger was at once British imperialist, Zionist, Soviet, and Red Chinese in his orientation, all wrapped up in a parcel of greed, megalomania, and perversion. Kissinger was one of the few persons in the world who still had anything to teach George Bush in any of these categories....Kissinger was also dedicated to economic, diplomatic, and military support of Israeli aggression and expansionism to keep the Middle East in turmoil so as to prevent Arab unity and Arab economic development...Kissinger's soul-mates were figures like Gen. Ariel Sharon, the harbinger of endless wars in the Middle East."
"George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography"
by Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin

"In early fall of 1976 [during the Kissinger era, nlpwessex], after a Chilean government assassin had killed a Chilean dissident and an American woman with a car bomb in Washington, D.C., George H.W. Bush’s CIA leaked a false report clearing Chile’s military dictatorship and pointing the FBI in the wrong direction...Bush, who later became president of the United States and is the father of the current Republican nominee for the presidency, has never explained his role in putting out the false cover story that diverted attention away from the real terrorists. The bogus CIA assessment, spread through Newsweek magazine and other U.S. media outlets, was planted despite CIA’s now admitted awareness at the time that Chile was participating in Operation Condor, a cross-border campaign targeting political dissidents.... In a 21-page report to Congress on Sept. 18, [2000] the CIA officially acknowledged for the first time that the mastermind of the terrorist attack, Chilean intelligence chief Manuel Contreras, was a paid asset of the CIA.... As a Newsweek correspondent in 1988, a dozen years later, when the elder Bush was running for president, I prepared a detailed story about Bush’s handling of the Letelier case.... After the assassination, Bush promised the CIA’s full cooperation in tracking down the Letelier-Moffitt killers. But instead the CIA took contrary actions, such as planting the false exoneration and withholding evidence that would have implicated the Chilean junta.... When I submitted my story draft – with its exclusive account of Contreras’s role as a CIA asset – Newsweek’s editors refused to run the story.... Now, 24 years after the Letelier assassination and 12 years after Newsweek killed the first account of the Contreras-CIA relationship, the CIA has admitted that it had paid Contreras as an intelligence asset and consulted with him about the Letelier assassination... With CIA headquarters now officially named the George Bush Center for Intelligence and with veterans of the Reagan-Bush years still dominating the CIA’s hierarchy, the spy agency might be hoping that the election of Texas Gov. George W. Bush will free it from demands to open up records to the American people."
George H.W. Bush, the CIA & a Case of State Terrorism - Robert Parry
Robert Parry is an investigative reporter who broke many of the Iran-contra stories for The Associated Press and Newsweek
Consortium News, 23 September 2000

Kissinger and Chile - 'Kissinger may face Chilean court over coup killing' - Guardian, 29 March 2002

"By the mid-1970s, [i.e the Kissinger Era, nlpwessex]Project X material was being shared with armies all over the world. In reviewing these training programs, the Pentagon acknowledged that Project X was the source for some of the 'objectionable' lessons taught at the School of the Americas, where Latin American officers were trained in blackmail, kidnapping, murder and spying on non-violent political opponents. But the full story of Project X – and the precise techniques taught to the Third World armies – will never be told. In the final days of the Bush administration, Dick Cheney’s Defense Department ordered the collection of all Project X documents. The manuals and other materials were brought to a central location and systematically destroyed."
Covering Up Iran-Contra
Consortium News, 5 November 2000
Robert Parry is an investigative reporter who broke many of the Iran-contra stories for The Associated Press and Newsweek

"An honest accounting of American history from the Cold War [including Kissinger era, nlpwessex] has not been an issue in Campaign 2000. But recent disclosures of human rights abuses and other crimes – especially from the bloody front lines of Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Chile and Argentina – could slow to a trickle or be stopped outright with a victory by Texas Gov. George W. Bush and his running mate, Dick Cheney. For one, the Bush family’s legacy could suffer greatly from anything approaching full disclosure of this Cold War history. Indeed, if the American people understood the already documented role of the Republican candidate’s father in a wide range of scandals, it is hard to believe that the younger George Bush could have ridden his father’s 'good name' to the GOP nomination, let alone to the gates of the White House. But much of that history remains in the shadows, ironically because Democrats chose to limit critical investigations in the name of bipartisanship in the late 1980s and early 1990s. More recently, national security agencies have frustrated timely release of information, seemingly with an eye toward the election and possible restoration of the Bush dynasty. The Cold War history now in the balance includes evidence implicating the elder George Bush – at least for negligence and possibly worse – in the double homicide of Chilean dissident Orlando Letelier and American co-worker Ronni Moffitt in a 1976 car-bombing in Washington, D.C.... The American people would have known more about the elder Bush’s role in this terrorist incident by now, except that the CIA dragged its heels long enough to push back release of CIA documents to Nov. 13, a week after the election. "
History will be on the ballot Nov. 7 - Robert Parry
Consortium News, 5 Nov 2000
Robert Parry is an investigative reporter who broke many of the Iran-contra stories for The Associated Press and Newsweek

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