Jack Alston Crichton

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Person.png Jack Alston Crichton   SpartacusRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(spook, businessman)
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 Crichton also had a close association with George H. W. Bush. Fabian Escalante states that in 1959, Crichton and Bush raised funds for the CIA's Operation 40.[1][2]

Business

Crichton was a co-director of Dorchester Gas Producing with David Harold Byrd.

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


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