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In reply to the discussion: Anyone else old enough to remember when COINTELPRO was murdering citizens by the dozen? [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)51. Poppy Bush told the FBI he was in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.
George Herbert Walker Bush was in Dallas that day, according to what he told the FBI.
Here's a transcript of the text:
TO: SAC, HOUSTON DATE: 11-22-63
FROM: SA GRAHAM W. KITCHEL
SUBJECT: UNKNOWN SUBJECT;
ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT
JOHN F. KENNEDY
At 1:45 p.m. Mr. GEORGE H. W. BUSH, President of the Zapata Off-Shore Drilling Company, Houston, Texas, residence 5525 Briar, Houston, telephonically furnished the following information to writer by long distance telephone call from Tyler, Texas.
BUSH stated that he wanted to be kept confidential but wanted to furnish hearsay that he recalled hearing in recent weeks, the day and source unknown. He stated that one JAMES PARROTT has been talking of killing the President when he comes to Houston.
BUSH stated that PARROTT is possibly a student at the University of Houston and is active in political matters in this area. He stated that he felt Mrs. FAWLEY, telephone number SU 2-5239, or ARLINE SMITH, telephone number JA 9-9194 of the Harris County Republican Party Headquarters would be able to furnish additional information regarding the identity of PARROTT.
BUSH stated that he was proceeding to Dallas, Texas, would remain in the Sheraton-Dallas Hotel and return to his residence on 11-23-63. His office telephone number is CA 2-0395.
Which, of course, makes me wonder about this memo, from a week later:

Here's a transcript of the above:
Date: November 29, 1963
To: Director
Bureau of Intelligence and Research
Department of State
From: John Edgar Hoover, Director
Subject: ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY
NOVEMBER 22, 1963
Our Miami, Florida, Office on November 23, 1963, advised that the Office of Coordinator of Cuban Affairs in Miami advised that the Department of State feels some misguided anti-Castro group might capitalize on the present situation and undertake an unauthorized raid against Cuba, believing that the assassination of President John F. Kennedy might herald a change in U. S. policy, which is not true.
Our sources and informants familiar with Cuban matters in the Miami area advise that the general feeling in the anti-Castro Cuban community is one of stunned disbelief and, even among those who did not entirely agree with the President's policy concerning Cuba, the feeling is that the President's death represents a great loss not only to the U. S. but to all of Latin America. These sources know of no plans for unauthorized action against Cuba.
An informant who has furnished reliable information in the past and who is close to a small pro-Castro group in Miami has advised that these individuals are afraid that the assassination of the President may result in strong repressive measures being taken against them and, although pro-Castro in their feelings, regret the assassination.
The substance of the foregoing information was orally furnished to Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency and Captain William Edwards of the Defense Intelligence Agency on November 23, 1963, by Mr. W. T. Forsyth of this Bureau.
# # #
Professor Donald E. Wilkes, Jr. has more on Milteer:
"Everything ran true to form. I guess you thought I was kidding you when I said he (Kennedy) would be killed from a window with a high-powered rifle."
http://www.law.uga.edu/dwilkes_more/jfk_4did.html
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Anyone else old enough to remember when COINTELPRO was murdering citizens by the dozen? [View all]
NNN0LHI
Feb 2013
OP
Malcolm X, Viola Liuzzo, Fred Hampton, Mark Clark, Greensboro '79 (5 dead), plus about 50 Native
leveymg
Feb 2013
#5
As I understand it, COINTELPRO was a series of FBI operations starting in the 1950s. The victims
leveymg
Feb 2013
#34
Thank you for the excellent observation, leveymg. I stand corrected re COINTELPRO.
Octafish
Feb 2013
#36
A couple of prominent people were in Dallas that day or in the days previous....
OldDem2012
Feb 2013
#49
He appears to be carrying something under a white coat or towel. FBI, SS knew about his threat,
leveymg
Feb 2013
#54
I've never thought that those operations were as compartmentalizes..........
socialist_n_TN
Feb 2013
#44
They rarely shared info with each other unless they absolutely had to do so....
OldDem2012
Feb 2013
#46
The day James Rector was killed, Reagan went on TV & said the shooting had been done by protesters
NBachers
Feb 2013
#26
"Richard Aoki, admits to his role" = ? richard aoki is dead, and was a panther. he 'admitted'
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#56
Wasn't the covert policy to kill leftists south of the border, but not U.S. citizens?
Coyotl
Feb 2013
#3
The Chicago police who killed Mark Clark and Fred Hampton helped 'investigate' plot against JFK.
Octafish
Feb 2013
#4
church commission was investigation of the intelligence agencies. i think you mean the
HiPointDem
Jun 2013
#60
Have you been formally denied a security clearance? What makes you think it was the PETA work?
leveymg
Feb 2013
#10
seriously? agents were sent to your workplace for something you wrote at DU? If so, that is
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#57
I, too, was surprised. But, it is was strangely gratifying and confirms what I already knew.
leveymg
Feb 2013
#58
Obviously, if they hack CIA Director David Petraeus' email, EVERYONE is being watched . . .
leveymg
Feb 2013
#23
CISPES. No need to break in, really, the org was penetrated at multiple levels.
leveymg
Feb 2013
#22
The longest media show on TV was "60 Minutes" back then. Not the may 24 hour cable now.
napi21
Feb 2013
#27
Yeah, I was old enough then to remember some of it ... I remember Joseph McCarthy and
RKP5637
Feb 2013
#29
My educated guess is that it still operates under a different name or names. nt.
OldDem2012
Feb 2013
#48