Harken Energy is likely a CIA front, according to well-known left-wing rag (haha), Fortune Magazine:
Harken, which is engaged in oil and gas exploration, development, and production in Texas and the Gulf of Mexico, as well as in Colombia, Peru, Panama, and Costa Rica, soldiered on after Bush left. CEO Mikel Faulkner and COO Bruce Huff, CPAs who have been with the Harken since 1980 and 1990 respectively, pursued a variety of deals to jump-start its operations. But without much luck. The company’s Latin American operations in particular were a drag, and Harken lost some $263 million over the past five years. And in a complex series of transactions, Harken recently moved its South American operations into a British company called Global PLC, of which Harken owns 92%. “It was always suspected that something was fishy, but not because of the Bush connection,” says Gheit of Fahnestock. “That for a small company like Harken to be involved in foreign drilling operations getting concessions from foreign governments, things just didn’t add up. A lot of people had suspected that this was a CIA front.” That particular point, of course, is just a rumor.
Of course, only rumor.