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Capsizing regimes all over—Guatemala, Iran—The CIA needed middlemen to support its preferred rebels and maintain its plausible deniability.

And by the late ’50s it’d exhausted using esoteric adventure travel as cover stories.

People will believe only so many quests for Yeti and Eurasian leprechaun gold.

So it routinely set up international businessmen as fronts.

The CIA would invest and sometimes outright own foreign-based corporations in Haiti or wherever.

The corporations mostly operated as legitimate businesses, the employees oblivious to the spies they provided cover for.

And the equation simple: Business + Politics + Friendship = Intel.

And with their global sales and acquisition efforts, Pops’s companies DrSSr and Zappatoes offered the perfect excuses for globe-trotting and question-asking.

Dullis was at Gulf Oil.

Same Dullis Bro that seduced The Queen of Greece or his brother?

Which one helped found The UN?

One is famed for having over 100 extramarital affairs and that’s probably the same one whose Cuban Task Force was created to exert psychological, economic, and diplomatic pressure on Cuba.

But I can never keep those two straight.

The Dullises aren’t Bloodline, but they and The Family conspired in investment Banking and Law for decades— generations even—before both turning to “Government.”

And whichever Dullis Bro that was—a master of assassinations, cozenage, and camouflage—after the hulking misadventure of The Korean War, he was made commander of The CIA.

Pops and his friend Divine had founded Zappatoes with money from Pops’s Grandfather, some from The Ruckafellas, and the rest from various Bonesmen.

And Gulf Oil leased a platform from Zappatoes and kept it parked in the most far-flung cluster of The Bahamans, 54 miles north of Cuba.

The CIA handed Young Pops a list of names of specific Cuban oil workers that they wanted him to hire and train.

In fact, the original code name for The Bay of Pigs Thing was “Operation Zappatoes.”

But realizing that was not the best cover, Pops changed the name of the secret ship that carried the contraband, naming it after My Mother George Washington, same as both planes he piloted in WWII.

Pops resigned and sold all his shares of Zappatoes when he realized that to become Prez someday, he needed to first get elected to “Government.”

That Dullis in charge at The CIA put Ruckafella in charge of The Psychological Strategy Unit.

This Ruckafella with his bright green office and bright red penthouse and pet tiger Esso was grandson of the Ruckafella that founded the Federal Reserve.

And this Psychological Strategy Unit he helmed recklessly and enthusiastically explored the use of psychotropic drugs, especially the truth serum Scopolamine, hoping to engineer unwitting assassins like The Manchurian Candidate.

But after the hulking misadventure of The Bay of Pigs Thing, King Arthur insisted that Dullis resign.

And all parties involved understood this move as King Arthur’s divorce papers from The Wall Street-TX-CIA nexus.