Thomas J. Devine

At 3 minutes of FTR# 711b

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1953 Overbey was a 'landman', skilled in scouting oil fields and obtaining drilling rights cheaply. Bush and Thomas J. Devine were oil-wildcatting associates.
1953 The company traces its origins to Zapata Petroleum Corporation, founded in 1953 by former-U.S. President George H. W. Bush, along with his business partners John Overbey, Hugh Liedtke, Bill Liedtke, and Thomas J. Devine.
1953-? Zapata Petroleum Corporation
1961-1962 During the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis, Zapata allowed its oil rigs to be used as listening posts.
1967 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.
1975 According to a CIA internal memo dated November 29, 1975, Zapata Petroleum began in 1953 through Bush's joint efforts with Thomas J. Devine, a CIA staffer who had resigned...
1975 CIA Internal Memo on Bush and Devine starting Zapata Petroleum
2010 FTR #711 Interview (#1) with Russ Baker, Author of "Family of Secrets"
Zapata Oil