'63 F.B.I. MEMO TIES BUSH TO INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-01448R000401580073-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 25, 2012
• Sequence Number: 73
• Publication Date: July 11, 1988
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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The Washington Post
The New York Times
The Washington Times
The Wall Street Journal
The Christian Science Monitor
New York Daily News
USA Today The Chicago Tribune
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Mr. Bush
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spokesman
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The Nation magazine, in its current
Vs quotes a memo of Nov. 29, 19g,
from J. Edgar Hoover, the bureau's Di-
rector at the time, to the State Depart.
menu about the assassination of Presi.
dent John F. Kennedy.
In the memo, according to the maga.
tine, Mr. Hoover stated that the bureau
had briefed "Mr. George Bush of the
Central Intelligence Agency" on the
reaction of Cuban exiles in Miami , to
the assassination.
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possibility that Mr. Bush,, or
someone else with that name, worked
for the agency in the I9N
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