(Two 30-minute segments)

This pro­gram details some of the inter­est­ing con­nec­tions of the Bush fam­ily and George “W.” begin­ning with a review of the Bush/James R. Bath/Bin Laden fam­ily con­nec­tion (excerpted from FTR-182). Bush’s Arbusto Energy com­pany was begun, in part, with money from one James R. Bath. Bath’s reputed asso­ci­a­tions run from the Cen­tral Intel­li­gence Agency to the failed BCCI. The lat­ter was a finan­cial insti­tu­tion involved in drug-dealing, ter­ror­ism and arms traf­fick­ing. (It was used by Oliver North for some of his Iran-Contra machinations.)

Bath was the Texas busi­ness rep­re­sen­ta­tive for Saudi ter­ror­ist Osama Bin Laden’s fam­ily and the money he used to help start Arbusto may very well have come, in part, from the Bin Laden fam­ily. (Bath appears to have had lit­tle or no cap­i­tal of his own at this time.) Bath told a busi­ness asso­ciate that he had been per­son­ally recruited into the CIA by George H.W. Bush, when he was direc­tor of the Agency. Bath also claimed that his involve­ment with his Saudi clients was under­taken at the spe­cific request of the senior Bush. (Pre­sum­ably, this would have included his work on behalf of the Bin Laden fam­ily.) The pro­gram details George W’s disin­gen­u­ous state­ment that nei­ther he nor his father had any sig­nif­i­cant busi­ness deal­ings with Bath. In late Novem­ber of 1999, “W” unveiled some of his for­eign pol­icy agenda. Inter­est­ingly (and per­haps sig­nif­i­cantly), Bush advo­cates pres­sur­ing Rus­sia to desist in its attempt to crush the Chechen rebels. Mr. Emory notes that Bush is a petro­leum indus­try pro­fes­sional and that the Chechen fight­ers have been sig­nif­i­cantly influ­enced by Wah­habi­ism. (For more on Wah­habi­ism in the for­mer Soviet Union, see FTR-103.) A con­ser­v­a­tive Islamic sect based in Saudi Ara­bia, the Wah­habis have been mak­ing their pres­ence felt in many parts of the world in recent years. The Wah­habi attack on Dages­tan threat­ened a key petroleum-producing region in Rus­sia, pro­vok­ing the retal­i­a­tion that fol­lowed. In light of the his­tory of Wah­habi­ism, the pos­si­bil­ity that the Chechen gueril­las are being manip­u­lated by ele­ments asso­ci­ated with the petro­leum indus­try, inter­na­tional fas­cism and/or the intel­li­gence com­mu­nity should not be too read­ily cast aside. As dis­cussed in FTR-103, per­haps the best known expo­nent of con­tem­po­rary Wah­habi­ism is the afore­men­tioned Osama Bin Laden. (Like the Chechen war­lord Khat­tab, Bin Laden got his mil­i­tary train­ing fight­ing with the CIA backed anti-Soviet gueril­las in Afghanistan.) Mr. Emory rumi­nates about the pos­si­bil­ity that Bush’s desire to pres­sure Rus­sia in con­nec­tion with Chech­nya may be related to the Wah­habi attempts to con­trol this key Russ­ian petroleum-producing region, as well as Bush’s own involve­ment with the oil indus­try. Next, the dis­cus­sion sets forth the back­ground of Robert Zoel­lick, a key for­eign pol­icy adviser of W’s and a for­mer State Depart­ment offi­cial in his father’s admin­is­tra­tion. Zoel­lick is asso­ci­ated with the Ger­man Mar­shall Fund of the United States. Begun in 1972, the lat­ter is a pub­lic rela­tions vehi­cle for the Ger­man com­pa­nies that funded Hitler and (after the war) became involved with the remark­able and deadly Bor­mann flight cap­i­tal orga­ni­za­tion. (For more on the Bor­mann group, an insti­tu­tion that Mr. Emory feels will prove deci­sive in human affairs, see also: FTR #‘s 87, 90, 99, 102, 120, 122, 123, 125, 127, 134, 145, 152, 155, 158, 177, 179.) Excerpt­ing FTR-177, the broad­cast reviews the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing the with­drawal of the For­tu­nate Son biog­ra­phy of “W.”

This book (which alleges cocaine use by George W.) was pulled from the mar­ket after it was dis­closed that its author had a seri­ous crim­i­nal record. The editor-in-chief of St. Martin’s Press resigned over the book, on which he appar­ently had lit­tle or no input. The book project was highly secre­tive, being referred to in house by the code-word “M.J”.

St. Martin’s Press is owned by Von Holtzbrinck (the other Nazi-linked firm which, with Ber­tels­mann, con­trols Amer­i­can pub­lish­ing.) With the Bush family’s long his­tory of involve­ment with Nazism, Mr. Emory spec­u­lates that the For­tu­nate Son project may have been delib­er­ately under­taken to neg­a­tively stig­ma­tize the George W/cocaine story. With alle­ga­tions sur­fac­ing about W’s alleged involve­ment in an on-camera DEA sting oper­a­tion in 1985 (in which both W and Jeb Bush allegedly picked up a kilo of cocaine each), Mr. Emory won­ders if the Von Holtzbrinck firm was clear­ing the way for the Under­ground Reich’s can­di­date by ren­der­ing the story untouch­able. (See more on the Bush cocaine story.)

The sec­ond half of the pro­gram directly answers the ques­tion posed in the program’s title. (The “W” stands for Walker, the last name of Bush’s great grand­fa­ther, one of Hitler’s most pow­er­ful Amer­i­can finan­cial backers.)

The broad­cast high­lights the pro­found involve­ment of George Her­bert Walker and his son-in-law Prescott Bush in the financ­ing of the Ger­man indus­trial con­cerns that backed Hitler. (Prescott Bush Sr. is the father of the for­mer Pres­i­dent and CIA Direc­tor and the grand­fa­ther of “W.”) In par­tic­u­lar, the pro­gram focuses on the Hamburg-Amerika line, one of the Bush-connected com­pa­nies that played a key role in Nazi espi­onage before and dur­ing World War II. In addi­tion to help­ing to fund the oper­a­tions of the SS, the Hamburg-Amerika line also played a sig­nif­i­cant role in the Bor­mann flight cap­i­tal program.

The dis­cus­sion under­scores the strong con­nec­tions between Walker, Prescott Bush Sr. and Fritz Thyssen, the Ger­man steel maker and one of Hitler’s ear­li­est and most promi­nent finan­cial back­ers. The gen­e­sis of the Walker-Thyssen rela­tion­ship was in 1924, the year after Thyssen began to develop the long rela­tion­ship with Mar­tin Bor­mann, a famil­ial rela­tion­ship that has spanned the gen­er­a­tions. (See more on Bormann-Thyssen rela­tion­ship. Mr. Emory spec­u­lates that the Bush fam­ily may very well be deeply involved with the Bor­mann group.)

The pro­gram con­cludes with a look at George Sr.‘s involve­ment with the Nazi emi­gre milieu that spawned the Repub­li­can Eth­nic Her­itage Orga­ni­za­tion, lit­er­ally a Nazi wing of the Repub­li­can party. A close polit­i­cal ally of Richard Nixon’s, George Bush mid­wived the for­mal inclu­sion of the Nazi “eth­nics” in the GOP, uti­liz­ing his posi­tion as chair­man of the Repub­li­can National Com­mit­tee. Bush later used this same Nazi emi­gre net­work in his 1988 pres­i­den­tial cam­paign. (Recorded on 12/12/99.)