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Bush calls fbi on jfk assasination cia briefing { December 21 1991 } Copyright 1991 The Houston Chronicle Publishing Company The Houston Chronicle December 21, 1991, Saturday, 2 STAR Edition SECTION: A; Pg. 8 LENGTH: 353 words HEADLINE: Bush called FBI when JFK died; Records show contact was made on day of assassination BYLINE: Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau; Staff DATELINE: WASHINGTON WASHINGTON -- Confirming a tidbit that conspiracy theorists have been chewing over for years, the White House said Friday that President Bush, as a private citizen, called the FBI the day President Kennedy was assassinated to pass on some possibly relevant ""hearsay. '' Bush has said he does not remember making such a call, but White House spokeswoman Judy Smith said a search of FBI records indicates Bush telephoned the agency's Houston office on Nov. 22, 1963. The call, Smith said, was to pass on a report about a Young Republican in Houston who had been active in picketing Kennedy administration figures when they visited Texas and reportedly had talked of killing Kennedy. Smith said the FBI file indicated the agency checked out the person Bush mentioned and found nothing improper White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater was asked recently about Bush's reported call and said he was unfamiliar with the matter but would look into it, apparently precipitating an inquiry by the White House counsel. The FBI report was released in 1977 and the issue was discussed at length in a San Francisco Examiner story in August 1988, during the presidential campaign. The inquiry also found, Smith said, that there was no basis for reports that Bush, shortly after the assassination, was briefed by federal agents on recent developments in the anti-Castro movement -- yet another loose end for conspiracy theorists because Lee Harvey Oswald had been involved with pro-Castro groups. The ""George Bush'' listed as receiving the briefing was a CIA official and not the man who is currently president, Smith said. President Bush was CIA director in the late 1970s but was in Houston in the oil business in the early 1960s. The call to the FBI and the report regarding the CIA official have fueled the continuing controversy over the Warren Commission finding that Oswald acted alone in shooting Kennedy. Conspiracy theorists, depending on their theory, believe the FBI or CIA or some combination of federal agencies and private groups, such as Cubans or the Mafia, had a role in Kennedy's assassination. LOAD-DATE: December 23, 1991

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