Zapata Petroleum organization

“acquaintance by the name of John Overby. It is spelled O-V-E-R-B-E-Y. Bush's namesake and uncle, Herbert Walker, financed Bush Overby's oil development company. That's what the name of it was. He gave them $350,000 of not his own money, Bri…”

“He was the publisher of the Washington Post who invested $50,000 for himself and $25,000 for his daughter, Catherine Graham. Now, isn't that an interesting relationship that the Washington Post publisher is in bed with the CIA and them sett…”

“With Bush's success in raising funds, he and Overby joined forces with two Oklahoma brothers, Hugh and William Leitke. It's L-I-E-D-T-K-E. They created a company called Zapata Petroleum. Now, keep in mind, the timing of this is so interesti…”

“So each pair of the Oklahoma brothers and William Leichty put up half a million dollars. And it was Hugh Leichty that was going to serve as the president and Bush was going to be vice president of the company. Once again, Bush used his fami…”

“And George H.W. Bush would start a company called Zapata Energy, which was down. We will get into Zapata here in a second. Zapata was a basically function in South and Central America. George H.W. Bush didn't know the first thing about oil …”

“One of George Bush's closest friends with whom he started Zapata Petroleum back in 1950 is Hugh Ledeck, the chairman of Pennzoil. Ledecky is mentioned in this book in connection to a Houston bank. He is also a member of the board of directo…”

“They created a company called Zapata Petroleum. Now, keep in mind, the timing of this is so interesting because Zapata was the name of the bay where they discovered oil in Cuba. And we're going to find out that Zapata Oil initially did oil …”

“One of George Bush's closest friends with whom he started Zapata Petroleum back in 1950 is Hugh Ledeck, the chairman of Pennzoil. Ledecky is mentioned in this book in connection to a Houston bank. He is also a member of the board of directo…”

“about Cuba since we just brought that up. Does everybody know that Bush Sr. started an oil company called Zapata Oil when he was in Texas? Supposedly, he left all of his family wealth and he's striking out on his own. I don't believe any of…”

“The son, like his father, named their businesses after Spanish names. Elder Bush named his firm Zapata Petroleum, later also having Zapata Offshore, with 600 locations worldwide that were outposts to be used by the American CIA. Hold on a s…”

“Pennzoil Place in Houston, which leased space to Bush Family Connected Company's Pennzoil and Zapata Petroleum, which was Bush Sr.'s company. Always that tight cluster of people. Hines also had been an investor in Houston's Fantasy Island, …”

“Richard Russell, no relation to the – I don't think he's related to the founder of Skull & Bones, Russell. I could not find a link there. But it's interesting about him. He also sat on the Warren Commission with some other interesting peopl…”

“I don't remember. It's a company called Harkin Energy, which was controlled by the BCCI. Yes. Yeah. So Bush. But we found out that Bush had an account at BCCI too, by the way. Okay. Which would make perfect sense. They're doing business tog…”

“So the dog's having a fit. So the Zapata Petroleum was being used as a front and the offshore, which had never drilled an offshore site at all, and immediately got all of these contracts with no experience in doing anything offshore. He had…”

“was for the oil, not necessarily, I mean, they used it as a drug hub and all that other stuff, but that within 12 months of the geology study saying that Zapata Bay had oil under it, George Bush Sr., who was in the CIA at the time, formed Z…”