Jack Alston Crichton

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Person.png Jack Alston Crichton   SpartacusRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(soldier, spook, businessman)
Jack Alston Crichton.jpg
BornOctober 16, 1916
Crichton community, Red River Parish, Louisiana, USA
DiedDecember 10, 2007 (Age 91)
Dallas, Texas
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
ReligionPresbyterian
Children • Catherine C. Morris
• Anne C. Crews
SpouseMarilyn Berry Crichton
PartyRepublican

Jack Alston Crichton was a spook who had a close association with George H. W. Bush.

Business

Crichton was a co-director of Dorchester Gas Producing with David Harold Byrd. Fabian Escalante states that in 1959, Crichton and Bush raised funds for the CIA's Operation 40.[1][2]

JFK Assassination

Full article: John F. Kennedy/Assassination

In November 1963 Crichton was involved in the arrangements of the visit that US President John F. Kennedy made to Dallas.[2]

 

Related Quotation

PageQuoteAuthorDate
Fabian Escalante“In his memoirs, Cuban intelligence official Fabian Escalante asserted that Nixon had met with an important group of Texas businessmen to arrange funding for the operation [to assassinate JFK]. Escalante, whose service was vaunted for its U.S. spy network, claimed that the Texas group was headed by George H. W. Bush and Jack Crichton.”Russ Baker
Fabian Escalante
2009
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References

  1. The Secret War: CIA Covert Operations Against Cuba, 1959-62)
  2. a b http://spartacus-educational.com/MDcrichton.htm