I also know that I walked in here 24 years ago untutored in the arts of intelligence. I see my first Deputy, Dick Walters, sitting there. He will certainly attest to that And he helped me. You had every reason to be suspicious of this untutored outsider who had - though he came out of a non-political post in China, spent a lot of my time in partisan politics. I understood the anxiety and concerns on Capitol Hill about that, but this Agency gave me their trust from day one.

With these words he made it clear that the agency had been better for him than he had been for the agency. At least one other former CIA employee agrees. 26 year veteran CIA Case Officer Leutrell Osborne recently said that then Director George Bush went through the CIA with a personal agenda and took some of the most talented people with him when he left. One of these was Donald Gregg who afterwards became a Bush adviser. Gregg was an ex-CIA official who had served as chief of station for the CIA in South Korea from 1973 to 1975. President George H.W. Bush appointed him as U.S. ambassador to South Korea from 1989 to 1993 and then he was appointed as President Bush's National Security Adviser. He was one of those involved in the arms for hostages Iran-Contra scandal and known to have sent Felix Rodriquez to El Salvador who was vouched for by the army as being one who was acquainted with then Vice President Bush going back to when Bush was Director of the CIA.  President George H W Bush has waffled on the Gregg-Rodriquez thing but did admit he had met with Rodriquez 3 times. Gregg had denied the meetings but later Bush said that Gregg had just forgot. Eventuallyhandwritten note to Oliver North would surface. It was from George Bush and recognized "North's dedication and tireless work with the hostage thing with Central America" thus making it clear that then Vice President Bush in Ronald Reagan's administration knew more than he wanted to make known.

Bush had been Ambassador to the United Nations, appointed by President Richard Nixon and then Chairman of the Republican National Committee, again an appointment by President Nixon. It was in this position that he asked for President Nixon to resign, which Nixon did, and then was appointed by the new President Ford as Ambassador to China before getting put in charge of the CIA in 1976 and 1977.

It was in 1977 that I first heard about his possible connection to the assassination of JFK in that Bush had been an informer who brought notice of a possible death threat against President John F Kennedy. The best information that I could develop then or find now is that the notice of the threat came too late. President Kennedy was already shot and killed by the time the information was given and it related to a possible action in Houston and not Dallas. The most interesting thing about President George H W Bush to me now is that he was head of the CIA during a period of time which ended in January of 1977, just as I was beginning to investigate the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. The House Select Committee on Assassinations was formed and started it's work in the twilight of Bush's CIA Directorship. I worked as a Special Investigator in the case of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. beginning in early 1977.

I can say for sure that President George H W Bush was not helpful at any time in the investigation as far as I knew then and have learned since then. There is no doubt in my mind that there was much that he knew and even knows today that would be helpful in the investigations of both the JFK and the MLK assassinations. Knowing what I know now from what I have learned since 1977 to the present it is very possible that not only could we have solved the JFK and MLK assassinations but possibly even the assassination of Presidential Candidate Robert F. Kennedy and that of Malcolm X. What if we had gotten to the bottom of the Arab/Muslim matter related to Sirhan Sirhan and RFK's murder. Is it possible that with the knowledge we gained from truly investigating and finding the real killers in these cases we could somehow have managed to prevent the most horrific and recent tragedy of September 11, 2001.

The new CIA Director, Admiral Stansfield Turner, had demanded of Chief Counsel Richard Sprague a secrecy agreement before he would attempt any kind of effort to help in the investigation. Sprague went to him with a request to help us uncover and prosecute the real killers of Martin Luther King Jr. and President John F. Kennedy. There was evidence that members of the FBI and the CIA may have been involved to some degree in both assassinations. Beyond that the CIA had had a Domestic division created by President Lyndon Baines Johnson that would possibly have facts and details of the assassinations that could be found nowhere else in the world. How could we investigate an agency or department of the United States Government if we were agreeing with those we were investigating that if we found anything incriminating we would keep it a secret. It is quite clear today that President George H W Bush and Admiral Stansfield Turner could have been more helpful if they had so desired to be.