James R. Bath

James Reynolds Bath ( born August 18, 1936) is the former director of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International ( BCCI) and also a former partner of Arbusto Energy, together with George W. Bush. With George Bush, he served together in the Air National Guard, Texas during the Vietnam War. He is economically active in the aviation industry and the trade in real estate.

Bath comes from Nachitoches, Louisiana. He moved to Houston in 1965 and served as a 29- year-old in the Texas Air National Guard.

After working for Atlantic Aviation, he was Merchant aircraft.

In the real estate industry, he joined in 1973 and formed a partnership to Lloyd Bentsen 's son, Lan. 1978 Bath director of the Main Bank of Houston, in Houston, Texas. His fellow investors were John Connally; Ghaith Pharaon, the Saudi financier. In addition, he founded JB & A Aviation.

1980 Bath Cotopax President of Investments, which has its headquarters in the Cayman Islands. Later the name was changed to: Skyway Aircraft Leasing Ltd.. Later, the Board resigned closed and Bath remained as the sole director.

Bath founded Southwest Airport Services to manage the Houston Gulf Airport. This was closed in 2002. Baths discharge from the National Guard and its relations with the Bin Laden family, the Bush family and Arbusto were in the book Dude, Where's My Country? and in the documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 theme by Michael Moore. With the same theme, the book Greg Palast The Best Democracy Money Can called Buy and whose film Bush Family Fortunes. Also Russ Baker's book Family of Secrets deals with the same subject.

Jim Bath was formerly 'm in River Oaks, Houston neighbor of Khalid Mahfouz, was accused of collaboration with Al- Qaeda.