

UPI Reports: At a farewell reception at Blair House for the retiring chief of protocol, Don Ensenat, who was President Bush's Yale roommate, the president shook hands with Washington Life Magazine's Soroush Shehabi. "I'm the grandson of one of the late Shah's ministers," said Soroush, "and I simply want to say one U.S. bomb on Iran and the regime we all despise will remain in power for another 20 or 30 years and 70 million Iranians will become radicalized."



"I know," President Bush answered.



"But does Vice President Cheney know?" asked Soroush.



President Bush chuckled and walked away. This interaction reminds me of a story Cele Castillo once told about his meeting with George H. W. Bush. Cele Castillo was a top DEA Agent in Latin America and he witnessed massive amounts of cocaine being smuggled by the CIA.

As DEA man Castillo began to compile reports on cocaine smuggling in El Salvador, he had an unexpected opportunity to alert Vice President George Bush to what was going on. Bush arrived in Guatemala City on January 14, 1986, and Castillo was among those at a US Embassy reception. Spotting Castillo's badge, Bush asked what he was up to, and Castillo replied that he was investigating cocaine trafficking in El Salvador. He advised the vice president that "there's some funny things going on with the Contras at Ilopango." Bush, Castillo says, smiled at him knowingly and walked away. You know what they say, like father like son.







