Zapata Offshore Company organization
also: Zapata offshore years, Zapata Offshore, Zapata, Zapata Offshore Oil Company, Bush oil company Zapata, Zapata Offshore Oil Drilling Company
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George H.W. Bush secretly_owned
Zapata Offshore Company documented
“Read this. An FBI memo that was released in 1988, but it's dated November 22nd, 1963. At 1.45, George H.W. Bush, president of Zapata Offshore Oil Drilling Company, Houston, Texas, and it lists his residence, telephonically furnished the fol…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #7 @ 41:14
Zapata Offshore Company funded
Cuba host_asserted
“that one of the things that we've discovered in this whole exercise is that the oil platforms off the coast of the United States was part of the Bush oil company Zapata's staging of supplies for the attack on Cuba. They were actually using …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner A Gladio Glasses look at Ted Cruz @ 23:04
George H.W. Bush headed
Zapata Offshore Company book_quoted
“Bush later established an offshoot of his company called Zapata Offshore Oil Company. The offshore had begun with Bush's uncle, Herbert Walker, selling bonds to finance the construction of portable drilling platforms. Around 1956, the compa…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror by Joe Trento Chap 2 @ 13:44
George H.W. Bush financed_via
Zapata Offshore Company host_asserted
“That was Zapata Oil was in any way an actual business, a legitimate business, because it absolutely was not. It was 100 percent a CIA front. Nobody was running it as a business. It was money laundering to pay off Mexican officials. And I wi…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror by Joe Trento Chap 2 @ 48:55
George H.W. Bush sold
Zapata Offshore Company book_quoted
“Bush soon received a rude awakening about the value of his company. Gow told the Washington Post in 1988, there weren't really a lot of people who wanted to buy it. Bush and Gow tried selling Zapata back to the Leichtys, but because they we…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror by Joe Trento Chap 2 @ 46:32
D. Doyle Mize bought
Zapata Offshore Company book_quoted
“bought Zapata Oil on a three-year note for $3.2 million, less than half of the value of the assets that they were carrying on their books at the time. It was interesting. And really, if you looked at it from a business perspective, there's …”
▶ Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror by Joe Trento Chap 2 @ 47:02
CIA front_for
Zapata Offshore Company host_asserted
“shore invasions into Cuba and other Latin American countries. Yeah, same thing. Zapata Offshore was a CIA front company. Back to the book. On his visits here, Robert Crowley said, agency management made Turkay welcome, knowing full well tha…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 13 @ 45:43
Harvey McLean member_of
Zapata Offshore Company documented
“He just happened to be a real estate developer from Shreveport, Louisiana. Shreveport, Louisiana. You mean where Herman Beebe runs the show? Yes, the mafia guy. McLean's father was in the oil business in Shreveport. And at one time, he had …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA &George Bush Part 12 @ 12:53
CIA front_for
Zapata Offshore Company host_asserted
“basically kind of just tread in water. But as soon as this Zapata offshore was set up, then, you know, all of a once they make lots of money because of course it's being used as a front for the CIA, which I had heard allegations of that, bu…”
▶ Operation Gladio and a look back at 9_11 @ 40:00
Zapata Offshore Company funded
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“He just happened to be a real estate developer from Shreveport, Louisiana. Shreveport, Louisiana. You mean where Herman Beebe runs the show? Yes, the mafia guy. McLean's father was in the oil business in Shreveport. And at one time, he had …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA &George Bush Part 12 @ 12:53
Mentions (37)
▶ 39:01
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…
▶ 39:33
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…
▶ 40:00
basically kind of just tread in water. But as soon as this Zapata offshore was set up, then, you know, all of a once they make lots of money because of course it's being used as a front for the CIA, which I had heard allegations of that, bu…
▶ 13:44
Bush later established an offshoot of his company called Zapata Offshore Oil Company. The offshore had begun with Bush's uncle, Herbert Walker, selling bonds to finance the construction of portable drilling platforms. Around 1956, the compa…
▶ 18:54
What they mainly helped us with was give us a place to park people that was discreet, unquote. The support system melded American business and undercover intelligence network together. Specifically, Bush found work for Cuban anti-Castro, qu…
▶ 20:58
In 1960, George Bush did not know, but yeah, he did know that he was giving the CIA and the role that he was about to play was going to expand considerably. Although he was never privy to the overall plan, the CIA continued to use Zapata of…
▶ 21:54
Bush's company was used as a conduit for these funds under the guise of oil business contracts. So, they're funneling money to corrupt government officials in Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, among many others. And they are using Bush's compa…
▶ 23:53
of Pemex, only to be convicted later of stealing tens of millions of dollars from the company. So, of course, he was friends with Bush. In 1960, at the time when Zapata Offshore was barely making ends meet and giving very little to their sh…
▶ 25:50
who had a decade-long relationship with the CIA, just like his brother, asked Zabata Offshore to subcontract some drilling to Mexico in Mexico's waters for his company called Pan American Petroleum. So Edwin Pauly owned Pan American Petrole…
▶ 29:23
official business front company to do exactly that. To conceal Bush's role, the shares in Bush and Diaz-Serrero's company, Permargo, were held not in Bush's name, but by a guy by the name of Wayne H. Dean and T.J. Falgott, F-A-L-G-O-U-T, Sr…
▶ 29:54
with Bush. In the case of Dean, Zapata Offshore Records revealed that his shares were bought with money lent to him by a holding company from the Bush family. So again, this is a shell game. They are hiring these people to be fronts for the…
▶ 31:21
20-year-old SEC filings having to do exactly with that case. And do you know when they did it? Right after Vice President Bush and Reagan took office. The record spanned from 60 to 66, the very years when the CIA relationship with Bush and …
▶ 32:14
David Armstrong, a former Texas-based investigative reporter and now National Security News Service top correspondent, managed to secure copies of other SEC filings of Zapata offshore. What they demonstrated is that Bush in 1960 made a deal…
▶ 32:42
which is illegal under American security law. One reason Bush may have been hesitant to reveal his secret interest in Primarco. You guys are so good. What's the matter? Nothing. I accidentally bumped my mic. Okay. So one reason that he was …
▶ 33:11
on leasing of drilling rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. Bush never revealed to his shareholders how this extra activity might actually hurt Zapata because Permargo was their competition. So basically, he's in this other company making money behi…
▶ 34:10
before years. Until 1964, when Bush sold one of Zapata oil rigs, which the name of it was NOLA-1. So he owns the oil rig in Zapata, the company that he's using as a front company. He sells one of their rigs to the competitor that he secretl…
▶ 35:41
Because it can only be used in the summer. What? You're in the Gulf of Mexico. It's a mobile unit. It doesn't freeze in the Gulf of Mexico. Sorry, Charlie. They are just so evil, right? Right. So obviously evil. Yeah. So in fact, NOLA 1 ope…
▶ 45:07
Then he got $3 million by reporting it missing in the hurricane and another $8 on top of that. So that's how George Bush was paid back for all of his work for the CIA. In his annual report to shareholders in 1965, Bush wrote that the loss w…
▶ 45:34
After 65, the CIA wanted to use Zapata Oil offshore to absorb a host of smaller companies connected to the anti-Castro, again, indicating that it's just an umbrella for CIA operations. The CIA had little use for Zapata offshore unless they …
▶ 46:05
and who eventually joined the board of Zapata offshore after it was sold, said big money was needed quickly. Rigs grew bigger by the day, and Bush was left with outdated equipment in the struggle. Bush wasn't raised to be a businessman. Yea…
▶ 46:32
Bush soon received a rude awakening about the value of his company. Gow told the Washington Post in 1988, there weren't really a lot of people who wanted to buy it. Bush and Gow tried selling Zapata back to the Leichtys, but because they we…
▶ 47:02
bought Zapata Oil on a three-year note for $3.2 million, less than half of the value of the assets that they were carrying on their books at the time. It was interesting. And really, if you looked at it from a business perspective, there's …
▶ 48:02
F-A-R-I-S-H III, an heir to the Standard Oil fortune, meaning he married into the Rockefellers, who agreed to bail out George. Farish put up the $3.2 million for Mize to reinforce his note and was quickly rewarded. Under Mize, Zapata boomed…
▶ 48:55
That was Zapata Oil was in any way an actual business, a legitimate business, because it absolutely was not. It was 100 percent a CIA front. Nobody was running it as a business. It was money laundering to pay off Mexican officials. And I wi…
▶ 41:30
deep ties to Saudi Arabia through his father and grandfather. During George Bush's Zapata offshore years, which was his oil company, he had met most of the Gulf region's royal family and had developed close personal relationships with them.…
▶ 45:16
They are using BCCI to orchestrate the drug deals, the weapons deals, and all of that. So you have to keep that in the back of your mind. And also, the Zapata Offshore Company of Bushes, remember, that's the one that had the mobile oil dril…
▶ 23:04
that one of the things that we've discovered in this whole exercise is that the oil platforms off the coast of the United States was part of the Bush oil company Zapata's staging of supplies for the attack on Cuba. They were actually using …
▶ 12:53
He just happened to be a real estate developer from Shreveport, Louisiana. Shreveport, Louisiana. You mean where Herman Beebe runs the show? Yes, the mafia guy. McLean's father was in the oil business in Shreveport. And at one time, he had …
▶ 41:14
Read this. An FBI memo that was released in 1988, but it's dated November 22nd, 1963. At 1.45, George H.W. Bush, president of Zapata Offshore Oil Drilling Company, Houston, Texas, and it lists his residence, telephonically furnished the fol…
▶ 44:31
Mr. George Bush of the CIA, unquote. 1963. On the reaction of Cuban exiles in Miami to the assassination, the magazine article written by Joseph McBride also quoted an unidentified source with close connections to the intelligence community…
▶ 45:02
for clandestine activity, unquote. Now, just in case you guys didn't hear that section of stuff that we've covered before, Zapata Oil had bought some of the Mexican state-owned oil platforms. Those oil platforms was put out into the Gulf an…
▶ 47:00
Texas School Book Depository. By the way, Bush says he can't remember where he was when JFK was murdered, despite several FBI memos relating his interest in the case. Also, if that isn't Bush standing on the steps of the depository, whoever…
▶ 47:31
At the time all of this was going on, there were preliminary indications that that was one of the largest oil fields in the Gulf. And people believe that Bush set up Zapata Oil, believing that they were going to get back into Cuba in order …
▶ 52:32
is vague to the point of being cryptic about his activities in the early 60s when he was running the Houston-based Zapata offshore company. Running an offshore oil company, he writes, would mean days spent on or over the water, not only the…
▶ 58:24
I think that gets us up to a good stopping point. We're not done with the chapter, but it is a good stopping point. So that's a lot of material. Southern, go ahead. Yeah, my favorite, George Walker Bush. Shackley, they set up Zapata because…
▶ 59:24
Yeah. Now, I've never heard of this program, but I knew there was an assassination program in the CIA. Z-R-R, like rifle. Z-R-R. Yeah, we talked about it. Okay. I must have missed that space. But when they went into Zapata, because there we…
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with Vang Pao that we talked about before, but George Walker Bush has been involved in the assassination program. He has been all across, and he would say he never formally was there. The reason he left the Zapata oil is when he ran and bec…