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The Mafia, the CIA and George Bush: Business Ties, the Crimes of
Bush’s Sons, BCCI Scandal (1992)
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Paul Lional Edward Helliwell (1915 – 24 December 1976) was an
American lawyer, banker, OSS official, and CIA officer. While
serving in this capacity he became director of Sea Supply, Inc.
and president of Castle Bank & Trust. Helliwell was instrumental
in setting up Civil Air Transport and Castle Bank & Trust, both
of which were CIA proprietary companies. According to The Wall
Street Journal, he was “deeply involved” in financing covert
actions against Cuba from 1964 to 1975. Helliwell was reported to
have played a key role in the purchase of the site for Disney
World.
Helliwell joined the United States Army during World War II.
Later he transferred to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS).
In 1943, with the rank of Colonel, he became head of the Secret
Intelligence Branch of the OSS in Europe. Future CIA director
William Casey eventually replaced him in 1945.
From Europe, Helliwell moved on to head the Secret Intelligence
branch in the OSS China command. While in China, Helliwell
commanded, among others, future CIA officer E. Howard Hunt.
According to the Seagraves, Edward Lansdale found a large cache
in caves and tunnels in the Philippines after World War II ended.
Ray Cline believes that both Paul Helliwell and Robert Anderson
created 176 “black gold” banking accounts in 42 countries after
moving loot from The Philippines by ship to support future United
States operations.
In 1947, Helliwell joined the CIA.
In 1951, he formed a CIA front the Sea Supply Corporation which
ran arms to Thailand police and Nationalist Chinese forces in
Burma for ten years.
He formed Castle Bank & Trust in the Bahamas in January 1962 to
provide a financial channel to support CIA operations against
Cuba and Latin America including the Bay of Pigs Invasion in 1962
for which he was one of the pay masters.
Helliwell continued to work as a lawyer in Miami and served as
legal counsel to a Panamanian holding company that controlled a
Bahamian gambling casino connected with Meyer Lansky.
Beginning in 1965 by the IRS, “Operation Tradewinds” was an
investigation into offshore tax havens primarily involving Castle
Bank & Trust due to its association with suspected drug
trafficking.
Helliwell suffered from emphysema in his later years. He died of
a collapsed lung at his home in Coral Gables, Florida on December
24, 1976.[5] He was survived by his wife, Marjorie, and a
daughter, Anne.[5]
Just after his death, two banks, Mercantile Bank Freeport and
another Mercantile Bank in the Cayman Islands, which were both
closely associated with Castle Bank & Trust, along with Castle
Bank & Trust in both the Bahamas and Cayman Islands collapsed.
The two Merchantile Banks were subsidiaries of George Olmsted’s
International Bank (IB) of Washington, D.C., which he had
purchased in 1955. IB held a two thirds share of the banks
beginning in December 1972.
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Pete Brewton teaches journalism and law at Texas Tech University
in Lubbock, Texas. Brewton is best known for an investigative
journalism series he wrote for the Houston Post that were the
basis of a book, The Mafia, CIA and George Bush. He is a
journalist with 15 years reporting experience at the Houston
Chronicle and the Houston Post. He practiced law in Houston for
five years.
Pete Brewton holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Rice
University, a master’s degree in astronomy from New Mexico State
University, a master’s degree from the American Graduate School
of International Management, and a law degree from the University
of Texas. He travels frequently to help with his mother’s working
cattle ranch in Lampasas County. He is author of a 2006 novel,
Lone Star Law.”
In 1986 he co-won 2 Matrix Awards for his story on “Hermann
Hospital Estate” with Mary Flood, and for his story with John
Mecklin on County Commissioner Bob Eckels, both in the
investigative/interpretive category.
He is the author of the book The Mafia, CIA and George Bush,
which is based on his investigations of powerful Texas
businessmen, politicians, and their connections to the savings
and loans scandals of the 1980s. The book grew out of an 8-part
investigative reporting series that ran in the Houston Post, a
series that the Seattle Times columnist John Hinterberger
described as “a bombshell series backed up by eight months of
investigation.” The series won the Galvaston Press Club award for
best investigative series. In 1991 PEN awarded the Journalism
prize to Brewton, “Awarded for his series on the Savings & Loan
scandal,” in the Houston Post.
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