Death of JFK: Bush and De Mohrenshildt

There is also a well-known picture of a young George H.W. Bush standing to the right of the main entrance of the Texas School Book Depository that gives pause because the resemblance is so strong. Like Nixon, Bush has offered different stories of where he was that day. According to a memorandum written by SAC Grasham W. Kitchel, Bush was in Dallas on November 22 and stayed at the Sheraton-Dallas Hotel. However Kitchel’memorandum was based on a November 21 Bush telephone call to his acquaintance Kitchel. Bush said he was in Tyler and that he heard there was a young man talking about killing President Kennedy. Bush added that he would arrive in Dallas on November 22 and would stay at the Sheraton. Oddly, Bush made the call and then flew via private plane to Dallas where he stayed that night. He gave a talk to some oil drillers the next dday nad then flew to Houston. For some reason he wanted the record to show that he arrived in Dallas on the 22nd and would stay there that night. He the language of the intelligence trade, he was establishing a cover story or “legend.” A Bush aid was with the accused young man at the time of the shooting. Years later, he could not remember where he was on November 22. A November 29, 1963 J. Edgar Hoover memo refers to George Bush as a C.I.A. man.

Bush had ties to George DeMohrenschildt, a fervent anti-Communist and Texas oil man , was one of Oswald’s close friends and possibly a C.I.A. handler. Count George de Mohrenshildt, a murky figure tied to the intelligence world, also had the senior Bush’s phone number on him when he committed suicide in 1978. George DeMohrenschildt was to later admit that a C.I.A. man suggest he befriend Oswald. He helped Oswald find apartments and jobs and sponsored him in Houston Society. DeMohrenschildt shot himself before being called to talk to the House Select Committee on Assassinations.

His father was the big man in the Nobel oil fields in Russia and helped form the Trans-Siberia Railroad. The family escaped Soviet Russia, moving to Germany. There they were tied up with the White Russian Solidarists and the Nazis. His cousin was Baron Constantine Maydell was part of the Brown Network that went all over the world spying for the Nazis. George spied for the Nazis in France and was caught spying in Corpus Christi, but wass saved by one of the Rockefellers Later he was spying in Mexico with General Douglas McArthur’s nephew and was booted out of the country. . He was a close friend of Oswald’s after the accused assassin’s return from the USSR. He was heard to praise Heinrich Himmler and was employed in 1956 by Pantepec Oil Company, owned by the William Buckley family. De Mohrenshildt wwas about to testify before Congress about what he knew about the assassination. Jeanne de Mohrenschildt, his wife, said he had been a Nazi spy.

At the time, De Mohrenschildt was on the payroll of Brown and Root. For some reason, he wrote to Vice President Lyndon Johnson on April 17, 1963 and Walter Jenkins, LBJ’s chief aid, answered a day later. Five days later, Colonel Howard Burris, wrote to Jenkins, saying that LBJ should be kept “informed to the maximum to assume the reigns og government in case he is called upon to do so. Then on the 28th Burris and DE Mohrenschildt met in Washington. LBJ and DeMohrenschildt met on May 20. In 1964, the C.I.A. destroyed its files on DeMohrenschildt.

DeMohrenschildt’s son-in-law told the Warren Commission that it was likely he was somehow involved in Kennedy’s death. A November 29, 1963 J. Edgar Hoover memo refers to George Bush as a C.I.A. man. De Mohrenschildt was identified by the F.B.I. in 1942 as having Nazi asso C.I.A.tions, but he probably also worked for France and the US at different times. Hoover thought he was a Nazi spy, and De Mohrendschildt’s cousin movie producer Baron Constantine Maydell was a top Abwehr agent in the US. After the war, the Maydell operation was used to assist East European anti-communist émigrés in the US.

DeMohrenschildt’s son-in-law told the Warren Commission that it was likely he was somehow involved in Kennedy’s death. . A November 29, 1963 J. Edgar Hoover memo refers to George Bush as a C.I.A. man. De Mohrenschildt was identified by the F.B.I. in 1942 as having Nazi asso C.I.A.tions, but he probably also worked for France and the US at different times. Hoover thought he was a Nazi spy, and De Mohrendschildt’s cousin movie producer Baron Constantine Maydell was a top Abwehr agent in the US. After the war, the Maydell operation was used to assist East European anti-communist émigrés in the US.

George De Mohrenschildt was a Dallas socialite and befriended Lee Harvey Oswald. He has been the object of much speculation, and his comments about Oswald and the assassinations of John F. Kennedy have often contradictory. The House Select Committee on Assassinations buried his most remarkabale claims about the assassination.

Jay Epstein was the last writer to see George DeMohrenschildt alive. Epstein, on behalf of Readers’ Digest, had paid him $4000 for a four day interview. At the time of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, De Mohrenschildt was in Haiti, where he would remain for ten years. He claimed that Division Five of the F.B.I. was behind the assassination, and probably suspected that he would have been tied to shooting had he been in Dallas that day. He testified in 1964 that aside from working for the French in the late 1930s, he had never been an intelligence agent.