Zapata

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Zapata was George Bush Sr.'s oil company, who was supported heavily in the CIA's early covert operations aimed at toppling Cuba's Fidel Castro. Bush supplied two Zapata Oil exploration ships--the Zapata and the Barbara J.--for the CIA's abortive 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. George Bush Sr. made millions during the '50s and '60s Texas oil boom, and he made many friends, most notably James Baker, who became Bush's company lawyer in 1963 after Zapata merged with Penn to become Pennzoil. Pennzoil has ties with Halliburton from 1994, as Wayne Madsen, investigative journalist based in Washington, found out: http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/article_lai.phtml?section=A3ABCL&object_id=9051

"..pumping the oil from the Caspian Sea's Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli fields would not have been possible without the help of KelloggBrownAndRoot, a subsidiary of Halliburton that provides infrastructure and logistics support around the world to customers ranging from oil companies to the Pentagon. Indeed, some of Ramco's top officials are veterans of Halliburton and close Cheney associates--such as Senior Executive Vice President Dan Stover, Halliburton's former vice president for global operations under Cheney.

In 1994, Ramco partnered in the Azerbaijan operation with Pennzoil, a company that was created when South Penn Oil Company was bought by Dubya's daddy's Zapata Petroleum Company (which itself had been launched with the help of a $50,000 investment from James Gammell). In 1999, PennzEnergy company--the new incarnation of Pennzoil--was bought by Devon Energy of Oklahoma City. Although Ramco has sold its concessions in Azerbaijan to Amerada Hess (directors of which have included Bush I Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady), Devon continues to play an important role in oil production in the Caspian fields..."