Interview · moment 8 of 23
Poppy Bush as Deep Cover CIA Officer
from Incompetence and Ruthlessness · #8
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4 minGuest
Baker explains his central claim that George H.W. Bush was effectively a deep-cover intelligence officer for decades using oil and diplomacy as cover, why the public conflates this with his one-year CIA directorship, and compares the CIA's takeover to Putin's post-USSR Russia.
- 19:43George H.W. Bush was a deep cover intelligence officer for the majority of his life, according to the author's research.
- 20:08Bush claimed he didn't know where he was the day JFK was shot, which the author found particularly striking.
- 20:42Family of Secrets has nearly solid five-star reviews on Amazon, but critics claim they already knew everything in it.
- 21:28People confuse Bush's one year as CIA director with the claim he was a deep cover officer for 30 or 40 years using diplomat and oil man covers.
- 22:15The author argues Bush was actually put in place because he was an insider essential to an ongoing cover-up, not as a clean break for troubled CIA leadership.
George H. W. BushFamily of SecretsCIAJohn F. KennedyVladimir PutinAmazon