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Was George H.W. Bushs Zapata Oil a cover for the Bay of Pigs operation?

April 26, 2017Bay cover george h.w. bush government Oil operation Pigs politics zapata

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Was George H.W. Bushs Zapata Oil a cover for the Bay of Pigs operation?

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well, it was called operation zapata, after all… . The CIA codename for the Bay of Pigs invasion of April 1961 was “Operation Zapata”. Through his work with Zapata Off-Shore, Bush is alleged to have come into contact with Felix Rodriguez, Barry Seal, Porter Goss, and E. Howard Hunt, around the time of the Bay of Pigs operation. John Loftus writes: “Zapata [Off-Shore] provided commercial supplies for one of [Allen] Dulles’ most notorious operations: the Bay of Pigs invasion.