George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography - Get a Free Blog

Another office of the Center for Creative Leadership is in Langley, Virginia, at the
headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency. Here also, Richardson's Center trains
leaders of the CIA.
Prescott Bush worked throughout the Eisenhower years as a confidential ally of the
Dulles brothers. In July 1956, Egypt's President Gamel Abdul Nasser announced he
would accept the U.S. offer of a loan for the construction of the Aswan Dam project.
John Foster Dulles then prepared a statement telling the Egyptian ambassador that the
U.S.A. had decided to retract its offer. Dulles gave the explosive statement in advance to
Prescott Bush for his approval. Dulles also gave the statement to President Eisenhower,
and to the British government.@s1@s6
Nasser reacted to the Dulles brush-off by nationalizing the Suez Canal to pay for the dam.
Israel, then Britain and France, invaded Egypt to try to overthrow Nasser, leader of the
anti-imperial Arab nationalists. However, Eisenhower refused (for once) to play the
Dulles-British game, and the invaders had to leave Egypt when Britain was threatened
with U.S. economic sanctions.
During 1956, Senator Prescott Bush's value to the Harriman-Dulles political group
increased when he was put on the Senate Armed Services Committee. Bush toured U.S.
and allied military bases throughout the world, and had increased access to the national
security decision-making process.
In the later years of the Eisenhower presidency, Gordon Gray rejoined the government.
As an intimate friend and golfing partner of Prescott Bush, Gray complemented the Bush
influence on Ike. The Bush-Gray family partnership in the `` secret government ''
continues up through the George Bush presidency.
Gordon Gray had been appointed head of the new Psychological Strategy Board in 1951
under Averell Harriman's rule as assistant to President Truman for national security
affairs. From 1958 to 1961, Gordon Gray was national security chief under President
Eisenhower. Gray acted as Ike's intermediary, strategist and hand-holder, in the
President's relations with the CIA and the U.S. and allied military forces.
Eisenhower did not oppose the CIA's covert action projects; he only wanted to be
protected from the consequences of their failure or exposure. Gray's primary task, in the
guise of `` oversight '' on all U.S. covert action, was to protect and hide the growing mass
of CIA and related secret government activities.
It was not only covert projects which were developed by the Gray-Bush-Dulles
combination; it was also new, hidden structures of the United States government.
Senator Henry Jackson challenged these arrangements in 1959 and 1960. Jackson created
a Subcommittee on National Policy Machinery of the Senate Committee on
Governmental Operations, which investigated Gordon Gray's reign at the National
Security Council. On January 26, 1960, Gordon Gray warned President Eisenhower that a