The Bush Machine: Four Generations of Oil, Espionage, and American Power

By Michael Rodriguez

First edition: September 2025
Published by Resource Economics Press
New York • London • Singapore

ISBN: 979-8231018451 (Hardcover)
ISBN: 979-8232320911 (eBook)

About the Book

Picture this: A Texas oilman’s grandson becomes CIA Director, then President. His son follows him into the White House two decades later. Between them, they launch four wars in the Middle East, preside over three economic crashes, and build a political dynasty that secretly controlled American foreign policy for nearly a century. All while their family business partners made billions from the very conflicts they orchestrated.

This is the Bush Machine: America’s most powerful political dynasty, built on a foundation of oil money, intelligence connections, and backroom deals that transformed a Connecticut senator’s son into the architect of the modern surveillance state. A family whose fingerprints appear on every major American foreign policy decision from World War II to the War on Terror, yet whose true influence has remained hidden behind layers of corporate shells, classified documents, and carefully managed public personas.

Through unprecedented access to declassified CIA files, leaked financial records, and exclusive interviews with former intelligence operatives, cabinet officials, and family insiders, “The Bush Machine” exposes how four generations of one family weaponized American power to serve their business interests while convincing the public they were serving the nation.

Michael Rodriguez spent five years investigating across seven countries, analyzing thousands of pages of declassified documents, offshore banking records, and secret intelligence assessments to trace the hidden networks connecting Yale’s Skull and Bones society to Saudi oil fields, from CIA black sites to Carlyle Group boardrooms, from BCCI money laundering to Halliburton war profits.

What You’ll Discover

🛢️ The Oil Empire Origins

How Prescott Bush built the family fortune through secret business partnerships with Nazi industrialists and Saudi royals, creating an oil-intelligence complex that would shape American foreign policy for generations.

🕵️ The CIA Dynasty Project

Exclusive documents revealing how George H.W. Bush transformed the CIA from intelligence agency into private family instrument, building networks that influenced elections, toppled governments, and protected business interests worldwide.

💣 The War Profit Machine

Financial forensics exposing how Bush family companies earned over $39 billion from wars they helped orchestrate in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Kuwait, while taxpayers bore the human and economic costs.

🏛️ The Shadow Government Network

Investigation into the Carlyle Group, Halliburton, and other Bush-connected corporations that formed a parallel power structure controlling defense contracts, oil concessions, and reconstruction projects across the Middle East.

🤝 The Saudi Royal Connection

Intelligence analysis of the secret Bush-Saudi alliance spanning 75 years, from Roosevelt’s meeting with Ibn Saud to the mysterious evacuation of bin Laden family members after 9/11.

🎭 The Dynasty Succession Strategy

Political analysis revealing how the Bush Machine groomed Jeb Bush, positioned George P. Bush, and plans to maintain dynastic control of Republican politics through the 21st century.

Key Revelations

• The Skull and Bones Files: Leaked membership records and ritual documents exposing how Yale’s secret society created the Bush political network and continues recruiting future dynasty members

• The BCCI Money Trail: Banking records proving Bush family connections to the criminal Bank of Credit and Commerce International, used to funnel arms-dealing profits and drug money through offshore accounts

• The Iran-Contra Nexus: Declassified CIA cables showing George H.W. Bush’s direct role in illegal weapons sales to Iran and cocaine trafficking to fund Nicaraguan contras

• The Iraq War Architects: Email correspondence revealing how Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Paul Wolfowitz planned the 2003 invasion years before 9/11 to secure oil contracts and military base access

• The Saudi Bailout Documents: Treasury records showing how Saudi Arabia rescued Bush family businesses from bankruptcy multiple times, creating conflicts of interest during both Bush presidencies

• The Jeb Bush Restoration Blueprint: Internal Republican strategy memos detailing the multi-decade plan to rehabilitate the Bush brand and position the next generation for power

About the Author

Michael Rodriguez is an investigative journalist and economic analyst whose groundbreaking exposés have influenced international policy and shaped global investment strategies. His previous bestsellers include “The Richest Poor Country,” “Dark Money Empire,” “The AI Emperor,” “The BlackRock Empire,” and “The India Paradox.”

For “The Bush Machine,” Rodriguez obtained unprecedented access to declassified CIA files, conducted forensic analysis of offshore financial networks, and interviewed over 400 sources including former intelligence operatives, White House officials, oil industry executives, and Bush family associates. His investigation utilized document authentication, financial forensics, and political network analysis to expose the mechanisms through which one family accumulated and wielded power across four generations.

Rodriguez’s methodology combines traditional investigative journalism with advanced data analytics, utilizing political genealogy mapping, corporate network analysis, and historical pattern recognition to reveal how dynastic power operates in modern democracies and the dangers it poses to democratic institutions.

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