by dbeach » Wed Dec 07, 2005 3:24 pm
<br>another uncle of W<br>another homicidal maniac criminal<br>TRAITOR<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://demopedia.democraticunderground.com/index.php/Prescott_Bush_jr.">demopedia.democraticunder...t_Bush_jr.</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br>"Prescott Bush Jr. (born August 10, 1922) is the older brother of former President George H.W. Bush. <br><br>Prescott Bush Jr. is a good friend of Chinese President Jiang Zemin and has extensive business relations. <br><br>Table of contents [showhide] <br>1 Controversies<br><br>2 Prescott Bush jr. and Iran hostage<br><br>3 Prescott Bush, jr. and the Japanese mob<br><br>4 See also<br><br>5 External links<br> <br>[edit]Controversies<br>Along with access, the family name has also brought scrutiny to Prescott Bush's deals: <br><br>He was criticized in 1989 for visiting China to meet with business and government leaders just three months after the Tiananmen Square massacre, in which army troops fired at pro-democracy demonstrators. <br><br>His Shanghai partnership with the Japanese firm Aoki in 1988 proved embarrassing when revelations surfaced that Aoki at the same time was allegedly trying to get business contracts by bribing Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega, whom the first President George H.W. Bush later ousted from power. <br><br>His connections to an American firm, Asset Management, came into question in 1989, when the company was the only U.S. firm able to skirt U.S. sanctions and import communications satellites into China. <br><br>When Asset Management went bankrupt later that year, Bush's deal to arrange a buyout through West Tsusho, a Japanese investment firm, raised eyebrows. Newspapers reported that Japanese police were investigating West Tsusho's alleged ties to organized crime. <br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2002/02/19/usat-prescott-bush.htm">www.usatoday.com/news/was...t-bush.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <br><br>[edit]Prescott Bush jr. and Iran hostage<br>Like George Jr., Prescott combined business with secret operations. He offered his services to the covert operations of the Ronald Reagan-Bush campaign in 1980, and later to the Reagan administration. A September 3, 1980, letter from Prescott to James Baker indicates Prescott was part of the Reagan-Bush campaign's secret surveillance of the Carter administration's efforts to obtain release of U.S. hostages held in Iran. Prior to inauguration, the Reagan-Bush campaign recruited retired military and intelligence officers to monitor activities of the CIA, the Defense Department, the National Security Council, the State Department, and the White House. This operation later became known as the "October Surprise." <br><br>"Herb Cohen-the guy that offered help on the Iranian hostage situation-called me yesterday afternoon," Prescott wrote in a letter designated "PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL." "Herb has a couple of reliable sources on the National Security Council, about whom the [ Carter ] administration does not know, who can keep him posted on developments." <br><br>Prescott continued, "He cannot come out now and say that Carter is going to do something on Iran in October because he said everything is a contingency plan that is loose and fluid from day to day.... Herb says, however, that if he and others in the administration who really care about the country and cannot stand to see Carter playing politics with the hostages, see Carter making a move to politicize the release of the hostages, he and they will come out at that time and expose him." <br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3352.htm">www.informationclearingho...le3352.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <br><br>[edit]Prescott Bush, jr. and the Japanese mob<br>Other Bush Kinfolk Also Had Dealings In Projects Abroad By Jill Abramson and Peter Truell <br><br>12/06/1991 The Wall Street Journal PAGE A4 <br><br>Prescott Bush, 68, forged a lucrative but ill-fated alliance in 1989 with a company linked to the Japanese mob. Members of his family say he had no idea that West Tsusho Co. was part of the empire of Susumu Ishii, who headed Japan's second largest underworld syndicate before his death in September. Prescott Bush didn't return several messages left for him. <br><br>Mr. Bush set up a consulting business in 1984 after a long career with a New York insurance brokerage firm. In 1989 his Prescott Bush & Co. helped arrange two U.S. investments for West Tsusho . That firm paid $3.8 million for a stake in Quantum Access Inc., a Houston software firm headed by a nephew of Mr. Bush , Draper Kauffman; and it paid $5 million for a 38% stake in Assets Management International Financing & Settlement, a New York firm on whose advisory board Mr. Bush had served. <br><br>SNIP... (not web-based anymore) <br><br>Police Raid Sites In Greater Tokyo To Track Payments By Masayoshi Kanabayashi <br><br>07/11/1991 The Wall Street Journal Europe PAGE 12 <br><br>TOKYO -- Police raided three companies and one country club in the Greater Tokyo area in connection with the alleged illegal remittance of investment money to the U.S. by two Japanese companies that police say are linked to a local gangster group. <br><br>The two allegedly gangster-affiliated firms suspected of the illegal remittance are West Tsusho Co., a real-estate and trading company, and Hokusho Sangyo Co., a real-estate concern. Police say they are affiliated with Susumu Ishii, a former chairman of Japan's Inagawakai gangster organization. <br><br>As reported, West Tsusho had retained Prescott Bush , the 68-year-old brother of President George Bush , as an investment consultant for its various share purchases in the U.S. . . . "<br><br>ARCHIVE SOURCE: <br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.campaignwatch.org/refs2.htm">www.campaignwatch.org/refs2.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <br><br>[edit]See also<br>James A. Baker III <br>Manuel Noriega <br>October Surprise <br>[edit]External links<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.hierarchypedia.com/~hierarch/wiki/index.php/Prescott_Sheldon_Bush_Jr.">www.hierarchypedia.com/~h...n_Bush_Jr.</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2002/02/19/usat-prescott-bush.htm">www.usatoday.com/news/was...t-bush.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <br><br><br><br><br> <p></p><i></i>