"In January,1985 JEB had met with Felix Rodriguez,the former CIA operative who served as the chief supply officer for North's illegal scheme to supply arms to the contras.Later,it was SUGGESTED that JEB was his father's Florida contact in the secret resupply operation.
'That's crap,' JEB told the "Boston Globe"."I believe the freedom fighters should be supported to the maximum and that their cause is noble and just.But I know the difference between proper and improper behavior because I was brought up well.I would never do anything to jeopardize my dad's career.That would be a dagger in my heart.'
The secret Ira-contra skein started unraveling on October 5, 1986,when the Sandinistas in Nicaragua shot down a cargo plane carrying military supplies with three Americans aboard.One American survived --Eugene Hasenfus.He claimed he worked for a CIA man named 'Max Gomez',the code name for Felix Rodriguez.
Rodriguez,whose home proudly displayed two autographed pictures of himself with Vice President Bush,called his contact Donald Gregg who went to work fr George HW Bush in 1982 as his national security adviser,to report the shot-down plane.Gregg, a former CIA operative,had met Rodriguez in Vietnam about the same time he net Bush.
Upon hearing Rodriguez's report,Bush quickly called a press conference and denied having any connection with the plane that crashed in Nicaragua,although he did admit knowing the man whose code name was Max Gomez."
excerpted from "The Family" by Kitty Kelley (More)
'That's crap,' JEB told the "Boston Globe"."I believe the freedom fighters should be supported to the maximum and that their cause is noble and just.But I know the difference between proper and improper behavior because I was brought up well.I would never do anything to jeopardize my dad's career.That would be a dagger in my heart.'
The secret Ira-contra skein started unraveling on October 5, 1986,when the Sandinistas in Nicaragua shot down a cargo plane carrying military supplies with three Americans aboard.One American survived --Eugene Hasenfus.He claimed he worked for a CIA man named 'Max Gomez',the code name for Felix Rodriguez.
Rodriguez,whose home proudly displayed two autographed pictures of himself with Vice President Bush,called his contact Donald Gregg who went to work fr George HW Bush in 1982 as his national security adviser,to report the shot-down plane.Gregg, a former CIA operative,had met Rodriguez in Vietnam about the same time he net Bush.
Upon hearing Rodriguez's report,Bush quickly called a press conference and denied having any connection with the plane that crashed in Nicaragua,although he did admit knowing the man whose code name was Max Gomez."
excerpted from "The Family" by Kitty Kelley (More)