THE REAL JOHN TRAIN
Russ Baker, in his book “Family
of Secrets” (Bloomsbury, 2009, p.
12-13) notes that it was researcher Jerry Shinley who discovered a Nov. 29,
1975 CIA memo that details George Bush Sr.’s
association with former CIA officer Thomas
J. Devine.
In New York city
in late April 1963 Thomas Devine, as CIA
operative code named WUBRINY/1, met with George deMohrenschildt, the “best
friend” of Lee Harvey Oswald, who a week earlier, was exposed by
deMohrenschildt as having taken a pot shot at General Walker.
When Devine had ostensibly “retired” from the CIA
he formed the Zapata corporation with Bush, and when they sold it, Bush went
into politics while Devine joined the investment firm of Train, Cabot and
Associates, whose primary partner was John Train.
Train is described by Baker as “a longtime enthusiast of
foreign intrigues,” who worked for three presidents.
The 1975 CIA memo reads:
“Through Mr. Gale Allen…I learned that Mr. George Bush, DCI
designate, has prior knowledge of the now terminated project WUBRINY/LPDICTUM which was involved in
propriety commercial operations in Europe . He became
aware of this project through Mr. Thomas
J. Devine, a former CIA Staff Employee and
later, oil-wildcatting associate with Mr. Bush. Their joint activities culminated in the establishment of Zapata Oil [sic] which they
eventually sold. After the sale of
Zapata Oil, Mr. Bush went into politics, and Mr. Devine became a member of the investment firm of Train, Cabot and Associates,
New York …The attached memorandum
describes the close relationship between Messrs. Devine and Bush in 1967-68
which, according to Mr. Allen, continued while Mr. Bush was our ambassador to
the United Nations.”
Russ Baker (p. 14) writes: “The writer of the
above-mentioned CIA memo had appended an
earlier memo from agency files, describing Thomas Devine’s role in a CIA
project codenamed WUBRINY. Devine was ‘a cleared and witting contact in the
investment banking firm which houses and manages the proprietary corporation
WUSALINE.” (BRINY was actually a Haiti-based operation engaged by a
corporation, code-named SALINE, that was a whole owned by the CIA .
SALINE, like many CIA proprietaries, was in turn operating
inside a ‘legitimate’ corporation, whose employees were generally unaware of
the spies in their midst.) In this case, the cover corporation was run by investment banker, John
Train, a sponsor and longtime enthusiast of foreign intrigues, backing
the Afghan rebels during the Regan-Bush years. 9 Train was enormously well
connected, and received appointments from president Reagan, Bush Senior, and
even Bill Clinton.”
Note 9: “An article by Richard Cummings (“An American in Paris ”
American Conservative, February 16, 2004 ) asserts that Paris Review cofounder and editor Peter
Matthiessen was a CIA agent whose literary
activities served as a cover for his intelligence work. Also, the Review’s longtime editor George Plimpton
‘was an agent of influence’ for the CIA ….invariably
paid for (his) services.’”
Also see: Hugh Wilford, The
Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played
America (Cambridge , MA ,
Harvard U. Press, 2008)., p. 106, and Francis Stoner Saunders, Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War (London,
Granta, 1999)
(Baker, R. p. 105)
Note 42: “Members of this club include David Rockefeller and
John Hay Whitney, publisher of the New York Herald Tribute.”
“There were two others present. One was C. Frank Stone III ,
chief of operations for the European section of the CIA ’s
clandestine wing. The other was M. Clemard Joseph Charles, the general manager
of the Banque Commerciale D’ Haiti .”
“This ‘contact report’ was declassified in 1998 but went
unnoticed at the time. The purpose of the 1963 meeting, it said, was to prepare
for the impending arrival from Dallas of George de Mohrenschildt, who was
described as a business contact of Haitian banker…’Mr. Charles.’”
According to Baker, de Mohrenschildt arrived the next
afternoon, “at the New York
offices of the investment banking firm of Train, Cabot, inside an entity
code-named SALINE, 44.”
Note 44: “HSCA Segregated CIA
Collection, box 14 ‘Contact Report WUBRINY Haitian Operations (NARA
record number 104-10436-10014 and 104-10070-10076). Available at Mary Ferrell
Foundation.”
“This was in fact the covering organization for operation
WUBRINY, and WUBRINY’s chief agent and operator, WUBRINY/1 - who was none other
than Thomas Devine. 45”
Note 45: “Though Devine is not identified by name in this
document, he is in another CIA document,
‘Memornadum: MESSRS. George Bush and Thomas J. Devine,’ January 30, 1968 (NARA
record number 104-10310-10271). Available through Mary Ferrell Foundation. That
document identifies Devine specifically as working in operation BRINY and
claims that he began working in this capacity that June. No documents have
surfaced showing anyone else being part of the very small operation WUBRINY.
Indeed, all the available evidence indicates that Devine was the main or even
only member of WUBRINY, and therefore the person code-named WUBRINY/1, the
designated top dog of the operation. If, in fact, Devine and WUBRINY/1 were
synonymous, then the CIA memo noting that
Devine joined WUBRINY in June was in itself an attempt to hide the involvement
of Poppy’s business associate in the April meeting with deMohrenschildt.”
In January 1968, Devine (WUBRINY1) and George Bush Senior
went to Vietnam .
So the real John Train was an investment banker who ran CIA
propriety companies and was associated with both Bush’s partner at Zapata
Thomas Devine and Oswald’s good friend George deMohrenschildt.
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