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JPJones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-20-04 08:38 PM
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Don't forget that Watergate was partially funded out of Houston
On April 3, 1972 (75 days before the Watergate arrests), $100,000 was transferred by telephone from a bank account of Gulf Resources and Chemical Corp. into a Mexico City account of an officially defunct subsidiary of Gulf Resources. Gulf Resources' Mexican lawyer Manuel Ogarrio Daguerre withdrew it and sent back to Houston the package of four checks and cash, which Liedtke forwarded for the CIA burglars. Reference: New York Times, August 26, 1972, and Nov. 1, 1972.

'Smoking Gun' Watergate tapes -
H: Ken Dahlberg.
P: Who the hell is Ken Dahlberg? He gave $25,000 in Minnesota and, ah, the check went directly to this guy Barker.
P: It isn't from the committee though, from Stans? Yeah. It is. It's directly traceable and there's some more through some Texas people that went to the Mexican bank which can also be traced to the Mexican bank-- they'll get their names today. And (pause)
P: Well, I mean, there's no way--I'm just thinking if they don't cooperate, what do they say? That they were approached by the Cubans. That's what Dahlberg has to say, the Texans too, that they...


And what was GHWB's reaction upon hearing that the Texans were fingered in the 'Smoking Gun' tape?

"He broke out in assholes and shit himself to death," was Burch's answer. Woodward & Bernstein, The Final Days, p. 369

Primary source: http://davidicke.www.50megs.com/icke/magazine/vol5/bush/bush12.htm
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