CIA DISPUTES REPORT BUSH WAS CIA OPERATIVE IN 1960S

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-01448R000401580066-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 25, 2012
• Sequence Number: 66
• Publication Date: July 20, 1988
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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(AP) The CIA departed from its usual practice of
staying nun on who it employs to dispute a report that vice
President George Bush was a CIA operative in the early 1960s.
CIA spokeswanan Sharron Basso said Tuesday that a George Will
Bush, who worked'the night shift at CIA headquarters during thatiam
period, apparently was the.`'Mr.-George Bush" referred to in a
recently discovered FBI memorandLIn.
The Nation magazine, in its July ],6. issue, the vice president, who was appointed CIA?direchad tor in 1975 g dby t
President Ford, may have been the person referred to in the 1963
memo by then-FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.
In that memo to the State Department, Hoover voiced the FBI's
concerns that anti-Castro groups in Miami might use the
assassination of President Kennedy as the rationale for undertaking
an unauthorized raid against Cuba,
furniThedof the foregoing information was orally
the Hoover mew stated. Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency
T~ magazine article
Texas Th ol speculated that the vice president used his
business as a cover for clandestine CIA activities in the
early 1960s. The vice president denied the report.
Ms. Basso said that while the agency deny employment or association with the CMA, ~ usually does this wee we) or
believe the record should be clarified.
Previously, the CIA would not ccmnent on the article or on the
possibility that Bush may have worked for the agency more than a
hj became its director.
Ms. Basso said the other George Bush not the George Herbert
Walker Bush who is vice president worked on the night watch at
CIA , headquarters . (This such an FBI would have been the appropriate place to have received
,, report. This was apparently the George Bush referred to
in (the orge Nation'') article,'' she said.
ig"Ics Bush left the CIA in 1964 to work for the Defense
IntGe1
His current , which he has since left.
whereabouts are unknown, the CIA official said.
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