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*** An interesting connection between President Bush Sr.; the CIA; and the two wealthy Jewish families, the Meyers (the owners and publishers of the Washington Post before its purchase by Mr. Jeff Bezos), and billionaire Glazers, who own Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Manchester United (and were major shareholders of Zapata).

: "The destruction of [Zapata's] records occurred either in October 1983 (according to the records officer), or in 1981 shortly after Bush became Vice President of the United States (according to, Wison Carpenter, a record analyst with the commission).[17]

"During the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis, Zapata allowed its oil rigs to be used as listening posts.[18] In 1988, Barron's said Zapata was "a part time purchasing front for the [Central Intelligence Agency]."

: "Eugene Isaac Meyer (October 31, 1875 – July 17, 1959) was an American banker, businessman, financier, and newspaper publisher. Through his public career, he served as the 5th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1930 to 1933 and was the first president of the World Bank Group from June to December 1946. Meyer published The Washington Post from 1933 to 1946, and the paper stayed in his family throughout the rest of the 20th century". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Meyer_(financier)

HRG Group, Inc., formerly Harbinger Group Inc. and Zapata Corporation,[3] was a holding company based in Rochester, New York,[4] having originated from an oil company started by a group including future U.S. president George H. W. Bush. In 2009, it was renamed the Harbinger Group Inc.[5]
Early business history
The company traced its origins to Zapata Petroleum Corporation, founded in 1953 by future U.S. President George H. W. Bush, along with his business partners John Overbey, Hugh Liedtke, Bill Liedtke, and Thomas J. Devine. Overbey was a "landman"[clarification needed] skilled in scouting oil fields and obtaining drilling rights cheaply. Bush and Thomas J. Devine were oil-wildcatting associates.[6][better source needed] Their joint activities culminated in the establishment of Zapata Oil.[7] The company was named for Viva Zapata!, a 1952 biographical film starring Marlon Brando as Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata.[8] The initial $1 million (equivalent to $10,900,000 in 2022) investment for Zapata was provided by the Liedtke brothers and their circle of investors, by Bush's father Prescott Bush and his maternal grandfather George Herbert Walker, and their family's circle of friends. Hugh Liedtke was named president, Bush was vice president; Overbey soon left.
According to a CIA internal memo dated November 29, 1975,[7] Zapata Petroleum began in 1953 through Bush's joint efforts with Thomas J. Devine, a CIA staffer who had resigned his agency position that same year to go into private business, but who continued to work for the CIA under commercial cover. Devine would later accompany Bush to Vietnam in late 1967 as a "cleared and witting commercial asset" of the agency, acted as his informal foreign affairs advisor, and had a close relationship with him through 1975.[9]

In 1954, Zapata Off-Shore Company was formed as a subsidiary of Zapata Oil, with Bush as president of the new company. He raised some startup money from Eugene Meyer, publisher of the Washington Post, and his son-in-law, Philip Graham.[10][11] [For more, please see:] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HRG_Group
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