Special Issue: Nixon & The Election
NACLA
2 NIXON'S INTERMEDIARIES TO ORGANIZED CRIME The following chart graphically illustrates the quantity and intensity of Nixon's relationship to Organized Crime. As the article explains, any...
...Their paths are similar...
...Watergate's tenants include former Attorney General John N. Mitchell, Madame Anna Chan Chennault (hostessqueen of the China Lobby and head of Asians for Nixon) and several other prominent Nixonites...
...Associated with both Martinez and Barker was a Miami locksmith, Virgilio R. Gonzales...
...Lucky Luciano LUCKY LUCIANO: one of the younger generation Mafioso who in the 1930's took control of the Mafia from the older "Moustache Petes", Luciano served for many years as the head of the U.S...
...MARY CARTER'S MANY FRIENDS In 1966, Groves entered into a joint venture with the Mary Carter Paint Co...
...The people brought in to manage the Paradise Island hotel and casino were all Lansky associates with records dating back to the 1920's and 1930's...
...In early 1967, Roy Talmo became a director of Major Realty and arranged for a $3 million loan from the First American Bank of Palm Beach, of which he is president...
...Here, too, the Syndicate was successful...
...Nelson Rockefeller...
...Captive City...
...Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations, United States Senate...
...Alabama's Income Tax Rate (dollars) Up to 999 1,000-2,999 3,000-4,999 5,000 or more 1.5% 2 4.5 5 Just as for all the other candidates, the workingman's advocate is a myth and his "populism" a smokescreen for a very different strategy of heeding the needs of businesses and the wealthy: under Wallace the corporate tax rate has remained the same and Alabama's property tax is still the lowest in the nation (34 per capita), Meanwhile, Wallace has raised the sales tax twice in spite of his campaign promises to the contrary...
...Richard Nixon The Watergate affair keeps raising more questions than it seems to settle...
...KEY (2) Major Realty Company...
...Each of its members had participated in the Bay of Pigs invasion and maintained close CIA connections...
...The $25,000 in cash was passed on April 8th to Kenneth H. Dahl- berg, a Minneapolis hearing aid manufacturer and regional finance chairman...
...One of the original stockholders in the bank is Thomas A. Butler, who bought 100 shares with his wife...
...Part of that success was due to his partner, Frank Mackle, also a friend of Nixon...
...Perhaps the least of these favors was the presence of Richard Nixon at promotional activities of the Cape Florida Development Co...
...Turkus, Burton, and Sid Feder...
...Despite the fact that the plant has never bottled one Pepsi it has been the recipient of U.S...
...One of Resorts' biggest coups was its acquisition of a large block of Pan American Airways stock...
...There was obviously another fear: that, in fact, the perceived interest of the majority of the electorate lay with McGovern...
...Ex-Johnson Administration officials John T. Conner, C.R...
...With the Washington law firm of Gall, Lane, Powell & Kilcullen, Caddy served as liaison between Robert R. Mullen & Co...
...As the article explains, any politician's relationship passes through a series of intermediaries or front men who are themselves personally involved in Mob operations...
...Several unsuccessful attempts were made, one on the eve of the Bay of Pigs invasion...
...MAX OROVITZ: has been used for many years as one of Meyer Lansky's respectable front men...
...He certainly appeared to be the right man to get things accomplished...
...Lazard Freres and Loeb, Rhoades) and Johnson- Humphrey fundraiser, threw his weight behind Nixon...
...There's one difference between the Reds and the Pinks...
...Cliff Jones, the ex-Lieutenant Governor of Nevada, would eventually become a business partner and front man of the Mob...
...The squad set up one discreet operation under the cover of a small Washington public relations firm, Robert R. Mullen & Co n Its offices are conveniently located across the street from the White House and down the block from the CRP...
...To insure his victory, the coalition would engineer the nomination of a phantom opponent in the Democratic Party...
...One of his major investments in the Florida area was in the General Development Company, with Frank Mackle and Max Orovitz...
...Arthur K. Watson (IBM) Thomas J. Watson Jr...
...John Edgar Hoover...
...When Lansky moved his operation over to Paradise Island, Ed went along and became the casino manager for Resorts International, the company with which Richard Nixon enjoys a cozy relationship...
...In 1965, as Rosenstiel's wife was testifying about his close association with Meyer Lansky in a divorce action, he contributed $1 million worth of Schenley stock to begin the J. Edgar Hoover Foundation...
...Today he is still a director of the City National Bank of Miami which once held the mortgage on Nixon's Key Biscayne property...
...Growing unemployment and inflation continue to hurt the working man...
...One of the companies used for his investments was the Polkin Corp...
...Any ultra-sensitive operation like this would require the sanction of the bipartisan coalitionDemocrats as well as Republicans...
...Both men shook hands and Lansky flew off to have $250,000 deposited in a Swiss bank account for the outgoing Cuban President.But Batista became impatient...
...Nixon's resurrection began in 1963 when he moved to New York and entered a Wall Street law firm (Mudge, Rose, Guthrie & Alexander...
...Lait, Jack, and Mortimer Lee...
...Maas, Peter...
...2 One purpose of the slush fund was to hide the names of contributors...
...Twenty-six years later, Chotiner still plays an important role in Nixon's political apparatus, though he has dropped out of public view...
...They range from lurid sexual scenes to behind-the-scenes Washington political life and they include a number on Latin America...
...The project is analyzing how the financial group structure of the U.S...
...The sheer cost of any serious campaign and the tight monopoly structure of the influential mass media gives the bourgeoisie far too much power to be effectively challenged through the electoral system...
...scldadito boliviano...
...He has worked his way up in the mob over a long period of time...
...This Act, however, was not to take effect until April 7, 1972, providing the Committee for the Re-Election of the President (CRP) with a convenient opportunity to rake in large untraceable sums...
...Berg, who became president of the new company, had been involved in the Florida area for several years...
...Trigger Mike first rose to fame when he drove the get-away car after the assassination of old Mafia Don Joe Masseria, whose death ushered in the era of the Americanization of the Mafia...
...The purpose is to kill a number of delegates...
...He had gone into hiding back in 1956 after a Senate rackets committee tagged him with influence peddling and cozy organized crime connections...
...Southern interests and the shipping industry...
...Howard Butcher III (Butcher and Sherrerd) Mr...
...Minnie Pearl) Mr...
...This period has been called the gestation stage of Organized Crime...
...Benson Ford (Ford Motor) Henry Ford II (Ford Motor) Charles Revson (Revlon) Mr...
...On the wall behind the handful of tellers' counters is a mural colorfully depicting the rather limited history of Key Biscayne: a Seminole Indian attack on the Cape Florida lighthouse, a runaway slaveturned-pirate named Black Caesar who sometimes hid out on the island, a few Spanish explorers...
...Furthermore, one of the Five, Frank Sturgis, was "among those questioned by the FBI after John Kennedy's assassination because of his activities...
...This is the company from which Richard Nixon bought two lots of Florida land...
...from Brown University in 1940...
...Shortly thereafter Nixon had Morgenthau removed from office...
...NACLA'S LATIN AMERICA EMPIRE REPORT Vol...
...23) Principal figure in the China Lobby which is central to the illicit importation of heroin from Southeast Asia...
...Much of the material has tended to either romanticize or sensationalize the subject and much of it has focused for the most part on the Mafia rather than the National Crime Syndicate, which in reality is the more important of the two and itself includes the Mafia...
...New York: Pocket Books, Inc., 1964...
...6) Grand Bahamian Port Authority or Grand Bahamian Development Company...
...12, 1969), Resorts International agreed to buy 1.5 million shares of Pan Am from an unidentified seller...
...Retiring" in 1970, he founded his own Maryland-based security consulting firm, McCord Associates, Inc...
...The Capitol's most In address, the Watergate complex was erected by Italy's largest real estate firm, Societa Generale Imobiliare...
...3 It is only one of the many ironic footnotes to this period of our history that as millions of Americans prepare to vote "law and order" President Richard Nixon into office for four more years, he socializes and does business with the world's largest association of criminals...
...This whole set-up resembled a classic CIA structure, from the use of a public relations outfit as a front to the channeling of untraceable funds through flyby-night conduits...
...LAS VEGAS AND LIQUOR-HOOVER'S FRIENDS J. Edgar Hoover (1935) NIXON MAKES HIS CONNECTION The man who orchestrated this transformation of Organized Crime into a nationwide conglomerate is Meyer Lansky, the chairman of the board of the National Crime Syndicate...
...Business group: The basic unit of modern capitalism...
...And, perhaps, the coalition is, after all, haunted by the possibility that, in terms of the election, it does not, in fact, have the numbers to put its man in office...
...WILLIE BIOFF: one of the key men in the mob's movie studio extortion racket...
...IV Con el cobre que te paga, soldadito bolivieno, que te vendes, quc te compare es lo que piensa el tirano, es lo que piensa el tirano, soldadito de Bolivia, es lo que piensa el tirano...
...Whatever her state, however, John Mitchell obviously used the situation to minimize the up-coming scandal...
...The Mary Carter Paint Co...
...In 1960 he interrupted his gambling and rackets career briefly to work with the CIA on attempts to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro...
...colony...
...Today Lansky is still involved in almost every aspect of the Syndicate's operations: he is still one of the most powerful men in Las Vegas, he maintains control of the banking network and most important, he has pioneered the Mob's move into "legitimate" business...
...As a small indication of their resources, they had built up a war chest of $27 million which would provide a base for new activities when Prohibition came to an end...
...I VI 32 (continued from p. 28) 24...
...That official speculated that Nixon, having been a good credit risk with a good law practice at the time, probably was borrowing from Rebozo's bank more as a "token of helpfulness" than out of need, since he could have borrowed as easily from a New York bank...
...Probably at this point, the CRP, through Hunt and Liddy, ordered a major raid to get the goods on the Senator from South Dakota...
...Most larger capitalists, controlling monopolized industries and organized into primary and secondary financial groups, think a military victory in Vietnam is essential and still possible...
...The Warren Commission Report raised more doubts than it dispelled...
...See Tom Kelly, "Power on the Potomac...
...Barker's other business associate is Miguel A. Suarez, another gusano'g lawyer, who represented the exile community (which includes Nixon's business pal, Bebe Rebozo) in its dealings with former Florida GOP Governor Claude Kirk, Jr...
...He has also become involved in a number of deals with Donald Berg, the president of Cape Florida Development...
...But Rosenstiel's most useful contact was none other than J. Edgar Hoover, the all-American crime fighter...
...It successfully challenged the power of these groups first inside the Democratic Party and then secured a run for the presidency...
...Florida's proximity to the Caribbean enables couriers to transfer profits from overseas operations to a complex of Mob-owned and -operated banks in the Miami area...
...Unity behind their representatives in both parties would guarantee their dominance and limit the power of insurgents backed by the independently wealthy...
...But can we expect anything else from a man who means war when he says peace and says life when he means death...
...Instead this weaker sector of the bourgeoisie wants to maintain that rule by making a tactical retreat to second lines of defense in order to regroup the bourgeoisie around new, more imaginative and subtle strategies...
...Liddy tried to coordinate this activity with Stans' more public collections...
...Nixon and Organized Crime first converge publicly during Nixon's 1946 anti-communist campaign for the House...
...According to Hank Messick in John Edgar Hoover"Roselli himself personally delivered several of the assassination teams to the shore of Cuba...
...In 1965, he showed his gratitude by contributing $1 million worth of Schenley stock to finance the J. Edgar Hoover Foundation...
...BUGSY SIEGEL: one of the earliest members of the National Crime Syndicate...
...It was Lansky who orchestrated the Mob's move into Cuba after establishing a close relationship with the dictator, Batista...
...L I23 I United States Bourgeoisie I~~I X Cultural Apparatus q Mass Media Educational System (c National Regional i Primary Financial Groups l Rockefeller ChaseChemical Bank \ Secondary Financial I Morgan Guara Guaranty Trust Groups First National City Bank \ Chicago Harriman-Newmont Texas Dillon, Read Los Angeles Manufacturers Hanover Florida Lehman-Goldman Sachs Minneapolis-St...
...THE INVASION INVESTMENT On New Year's Eve, 1958, the party ended...
...That, when the bank was built, the guest of honor at the groundbreaking ceremony was Sen...
...Shortly after that he was joined on the board by a director of another Lansky bank, Alan Kornblum...
...From his father he inherited the northern Florida area and a close relationship with the pre-revolutionary Cuban overnment...
...to pay Nixon for his stock...
...Caddy was the first executive director of the ultra-reactionary Young Americans for Freedom and a former leader of the Youth for Goldwater movement...
...Security and Exchange Commision (SEC) reports...
...In 1972, the power of the bipartisan coalition inside the Democratic Party was seriously weakened by rule changes coupled with a concerted Kennedy-McGovern drive for the presidential nomination...
...closely connected to Lou Chesler...
...In addition, it had made a deal with Gulf and Western Industries for two separate purchases of 900,000 shares each...
...Jacob Blaustein (Standard of Indiana) Republican Democrat $76,000 $169,000 54,900 38,750 30,000 20,500 5,000 24,500 6,750 9,500 10,500 10,000 63,066 53,500 44,000 27,297 1,000 17,000 ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTERS Sam Wyly (University Computing) Mr...
...Under Rockefeller guidance, all the groups reasoned that their primary objective, control of the federal government, superseded the demands of any one group...
...In 1967, Richard Nixon was a guest of honor at the grand opening of the hotel and casino on Paradise Island...
...The economy is in bad shape...
...Those Fabulous Greeks: Onassis, Niarchos and Li- vanos...
...The Syndicate has successfully bought the Florida government by providing the largest campaign contributions...
...Another friend of Hoover's was Lewis Rosenstiel, a one-time bootlegger who, after Prohibition, entered the legitimate liquor industry with the incorporation of Schenley Distilleries...
...Secaucus, N.J.: Lyle Stuart, Inc., 1972...
...The latter received its largest government subsidy in history under Nixon...
...Shortly afterward, Mary Carter changed its name to Resorts International...
...The National Crime Syndicate also belongs to the coalition as well as exerting influence directly on politicians in both parties...
...capital penetration, dating back to the beginning of the century...
...Humphrey's chances now rested on expropriating delegates pledged to McGovern from California, Illinois and several other states...
...and Mrs...
...While close enough to the United States to become a convenient tourist spot, it could also serve as a legal sanctuary outside U.S...
...Nixon lost the 1960 presidential election for the following reasons...
...The entire area was soon known as Lanskyville-and still is...
...both businessmen and politicians were hungry for cash, and the enriched...
...and Mrs...
...In 1959 the company, now called Lefcourt Realty, came under the control of Samuel Friedland, who, with his brother George, is a principal in the Food Fair supermarket chain...
...in particular involves assorted Lansky front men as well as Frank Smathers, brother of ex-U.S...
...The emergence of the Rockefeller group as the unchallenged leader of all the groups after World War II provided a solution to this dilemma...
...For many years he acted as a "bagman" or courier for the Mob...
...Historically, each group competed with the others for control over the parties and the nomination and election of its representative...
...Lansky flew over to Cuba to talk with the new President and discuss the possibilities for Batista's re-entry...
...known for harboring Organized Crime figures and investing in their operations...
...His son, WALTER ANNENBERG, was once indicted with his father for sending obscene literature through the mail...
...Al Polizzi, Meyer Lansky FINDING JOBS FOR EXILES The influx of gusanos into Miami following the defeat of the counter-revolutionary attempt provided fresh raw material for Organized Crime...
...borders to facilitate the importation of narcotics...
...Nixon also brought in a friend, Charles Allen, for a piece of the action...
...Recently, Attorney General Richard Kleindienst, an important figure in the 1964 Goldwater campaign, pledged "the most extensive, thorough and com- prehensive investigation (of Watergate) since the assas- sination of President Kennedy...
...1 Chase also held the mortgage on the Island Hotel Co., Ltd., a Resorts subsidiary operating the hotel...
...Somehow, all the way from Philadelphia, he reached Chotiner In Los Angeles to ask him to defend him...
...corporations also controlled the telephone and electric 5 systems...
...McCord's employment by the CRP and the RNC definitely blew the whistle...
...Until his death 10 years ago, Luciano remained one of the most important men in the Mafia...
...Polizzi is the owner of the Gold Key Island which is part of the same chain in which Bebe has investments...
...According to a former vice president and loan officer named Wilfred Neale, the amount of money in the Key Biscayne Bank's vaults ranged from $90,000 to an occasional $200,000...
...Donald Regan (Merrill Lynch) OIL Mr...
...Since Organized Crime is involved in many businesses and industries...
...of Florida in which George Smathers, Max Orovitz and Ben Siegelbaum all have investments...
...In the eyes of some people on the campaign staff and others close to the investigation of the Watergate incident, Liddy was probably the secondranking policy-maker in the Nixon fund-raising effort, next to finance chairman Maurice st an^:''^ In effect, a division of labor existed among Hunt, Liddy and Stans limiting possible embarrassment to high Nixon officials in case of public exposure...
...Preparatory information,,gleaned through their previous break-ins and the bugs, gave them a good idea of where to look for the most inflammatory material...
...Putnam's Sons, 1971...
...A number of Lansky people participated in the counter-revolutionary Bay of Pigs invasion...
...The relationship has been solidified in financial as well as personal matters...
...The process applies in reverse if you start with a corporation...
...is, according to Washington ADA lawyer Joseph Rauh, a "CIA agent" (Robert Sherrill, The Drugstore Liberal, p. 113...
...Looked at another way, many of the more lurid aspects of the case become commonplace and fall in line, in fact, appear as a part of an ongoing system...
...Word never came, so Rivers returned to Florida...
...He and John Roselli were in charge of both organizing the movie extras and shaking down the studios...
...A large amount of cash in consecutively numbered $100 bills was traced first to Barker's Miami bank account, then to CRP fund-raisers, including There is reason to believe, though still no conclusive proof, that this commando team carried out its first job on the night of May 16th in the law office of McGovern's eventual running mate, R. Sargent Shriver, and the Democratic Party's credentials committee chief, Patricia Harris...
...Nixon, in spite of his words, has not gotten us out of the war...
...8) Schenley Distilleries...
...There actually may have been earlier action on the weekend of May 13th to 14th when the chancery of the Chilean Embassy was burglarized...
...t Personal business with Nixon...
...This special series on Nixon, Rebozo and Smathers is available from Newsday, 550 Stewart Ave., Garden City, Long Island, NY 11530...
...Fix-it," Washingtonian, June 1972...
...and Mrs...
...1969...
...The company began building in 1964 when Vance Foster joined the board of directors...
...The hotels and condominiums which today line the roads northward from Miami were almost all built with funds generated from the profits of Prohibition days...
...These areas were relatively undeveloped in the 1940's, had the tourist attractions of sun and surf, and were close enough to the U.S...
...and Mrs...
...8. "Ken W. Clawson, current White House aide who until recently was a reporter, wrote in February, 1971, in The Washington Post that one source described Colson as one of the 'original back-room boys...
...On the latter occasion, he must have overlooked Frank Vitale, one of the biggest bootleggers on the West Coast, who accompanied Nixon to Moscow...
...exposure about Nixon-Humphrey complicity to stop McGovern would certainly doom HHH's chances, weaken Nixon and reveal the real nature of politics in America: that it isn't bipartisan in the accepted sense and that the financial strength of this business coalition is so overwhelming as to make a mockery out of the two-party system...
...Obviously, McGovern speaks to real social discontents...
...It turns out that his firm's only "clients" were the CRP and the RNC...
...government began deportation proceedings against him, a gang war was touched off in the area as various Mob members struggled to gain control of his rackets...
...Just at that point World Wide had overcome a serious financial crisis by securing a $5 million loan from the Teamster Union's pension fund...
...In 1969, he opened a large shopping center, the Centro Comercial Cubano, which catered to the Cuban population in Miami...
...Winter-Berger, Robert...
...Possibly, given the election of a McGovern, enough reforms might be instituted not necessarily to changethe system, but to threaten the power of the bipartisan business coalition...
...His role was to attract legitimate capital...
...Workers, especially young workers, are discontented...
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...Address all mail to Box 57, Cathedral Station, N.Y., N,Y...
...Another important piece of evidence also suggests his involvement in these plans...
...At this point Reginelli traveled across the country to obtain Murray Chotiner's services and get a reversal of the deportation order...
...At precisely this moment, Major Realty announced a joint venture with a group called Condev to develop land in the Orlando area while Condev purchased Fisher's Island for development...
...Despite Humphrey's admiration for him, David (Rockefeller) supported Richard Nixon in 1968 because he would be "willing to accept a somewhat higher level of unemployment in order to achieve a greater rate of price stability...
...1: Richard M. Nixon...
...It is organically connected to the aims of the bipartisan coalition and an accepted mode of operation...
...They realized early (back in 1968) that their only hope for capturing control of the Democratic Party and winning the election was to amass a broad popular following...
...The other basic source is hearings done by U.S...
...The two men certainly knew each other...
...Good luck...
...One of the original stockholders was the ubiquitous Max Orovitz...
...One of the tenants of the office building next door is a branch of a Smathers law firm...
...In fact, there is a conscious attempt by most of the bourgeoisie to sow serious divisions between working people through racism, male chauvinism and religious intolerance...
...Stanley Goldblum, chairman of the Los Angeles Equity Funding Corp., gave $50,000 to Humphrey "in an attempt to stop McGovern...
...and Mrs...
...you can work outward from these sources...
...The reference to JFK's assassination is ironic...
...The study of Organized Crime largely centers on the evolution of small and medium size capitalist groupings, based primarily in the California,Florida,Texas and New York areas...
...The details were left to the operatives but the idea of using political espionage had to be approved...
...The last partner, Max Kampelman, probably Hubert Humphrey's closest adviser...
...however gradual, is not only a farce, but is being abandoned...
...Condev proceeded to deposit $350,000 with Fisher's Island, Inc...
...Top officers of those banks have close ties to Nixon...
...Syndicate Abroad...
...The big coalition Democrats behind Humphrey who, en masse, had pledged their fortunes to Richard Nixon even before McGovern was nominated, surfaced...
...During the late 1940's and early 1950's one hotel after another appeared on the strip, and profits from the casinos multiplied with each passing day...
...of Agriculture, contains less than accepta- ble levels of 7 nutrients: Vitamins A and C, hemoglobin, plasma protein, sirum albumin, urinary riboflavin and thiamine...
...Butler was and is a Miami executive of the Small Business Administration, a federal agency whose concessions enabled Rebozo to get his bank going and later to build an adjoining office building...
...Long-time Minneapolis Hum- phrey campaign organizer and top financial backer Jeno F. Paulucci served as the committee's vice-chairman...
...Anxious Nixon backers set about hatching an elaborate set of contingency plans to stop the growing insurgent effort...
...that of two political parties contending with one another...
...The profits from bookmaking, lotteries, prostitution and abortions alone were $50 million a year...
...16) Mob-connected entertainer now heading Celebrities for Nixon...
...At its height, the Service was making $20 million over a three year period with operations in 223 cities...
...There are really few organized sources for this imformation and so one must rely heavily on interviews, local newspaper morgues and local government records...
...IX kl1 fue tu mejor amigo, soldadito boliviano...
...If the SEC has brought charges against them, this information and more is available in SEC literature or regional libraries...
...0 He also spent some time in Henry Kissinger's office on international narcotics traffic, a subject in which he is a reputed expert...
...He said that, by the time he resigned on Sept...
...Born in Canada, Lou first entered the Caribbean when he became a partner of WallaceGroves in the Grand Bahamian Development Co...
...Lansky accomplished his mission and Grau San Martin was elected President of Cuba...
...They had plenty of liquid capital and continued to make more every day...
...The ITT handout is typical of such deals which, if exposed, cause much embarrassing publicity...
...Nixon was more than willing...
...Senators George Smathers, Richard Russell, Earle Clements and Stuart Symington...
...DeWitt Wallace (Reader's Digest) William Benton (Encyclopaedia Britannica) Mr...
...For just as the great corporations like Boeing, ITT and the big grain dealers have demonstrated how effectively they are able to use friends in high places, there is another enormous conglomerate in this country that has clearly demonstrated its influence in the highest spheres of government...
...It was thus during the late thirties and forties that Organized Crime was able to forge an organic link with growing groups of regional capitalists...
...AID funds...
...a prominent Delaware banker The enormous concentration of business power presently arrayed behind Nixon is truly frightening...
...Washington Post, June 22, 1972...
...The Schenley distribution network was based on the Syndicate's Prohibition L.B.J...
...On January 16, 1946, the property which includes land now owned by Cape Floriaa Development was transferred to the Biscayne Beach Corp...
...9) Multi-millionaire with Mob connections in Southern California...
...The revamping proved extremely successful...
...He surfaced in 1971 as a part-time $100-a-day White House consultant to Charles W. Colson...
...In all likelihood, when disruption plans were placed on the back burner, he was switched to the espionage operation...
...FINANCE Mr...
...Scandal after scandal affects the Nixon Administration: ITT, Lockheed, Litton, the wheat deals, cost overruns, outright graft...
...He went on to become one of the official owners of the Exchange and Investment Bank of Switzerland, known as a "laundromat" for Lansky money...
...It had taken over most of the hotels and had built several new ones...
...New York: Pocket Books,1970...
...Hunt painstakingly erected 75 to 90 secret conduits with such Nixonian-fantasy names as "Supporters of the American Dream...
...Ollestad, Norman...
...NACLA Election Project (see footnotes on p.17) The Newsday report sums up the deal with extraordinary discretion: "Since Fisher's Island, Inc...
...Political conservatism is reflected in some of Hunt's detective, sex and science fiction novels and short stories...
...The plan failed but Roselli renewed his efforts several times over the years...
...At the same time primary results showed George McGovern, Kennedy's less menacing ally, overtaking the coalition's Democratic Party representative, Humphrey...
...and Mrs...
...3. Alfred McCoy, The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia, (New York, 1972) . The following contributed to the production of this special issue: Maggie Block, Rosa Bornstein, Penny Ciancanelli, Gay Ferguson, Alan Howard, Kathy Huenemann, Marta Sanchez, Bob Seltzer, Julio Velazquez and Sol Yurick...
...The building of an empire in Las Vegas was one of the enormous successes of Organized Crime...
...Lansky won...
...The details of the company's operations are not available but Washrite dissolved shortly after the invasion and Hedges moved to Puerto Rico...
...Rebozo did some of that work in the directors' room, according to another former vice president, George B. Grant...
...21) Multi-millionaire involved with the Mob in Las Vegas and the Bahamas...
...In 1960 Groves took in a partner named Lou Chesler...
...Besides, JFK was viewed by the bipartisan coalition as a reliable representative of their interests and not an independent threat...
...In the testimony before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, we find that Meyer Lansky "was involved in the attempted purchase of the Pan American Airlines, which was blocked by the government...
...Florida is still crucial...
...Sinatra sponsored him for membership in the exclusive Friar's Club but Roselli was forced to withdraw after being indicted for fixing gambling in the Club...
...From all indications, the real guiding force behind Mary Carter Paint Co...
...As Vice President in 1959, he was one of the originators of the Bay of Pigs invasion plan and pushed the hardest for its completion under Kennedy...
...More than simple embarrassment was stake...
...Fixit," and the ubiquitous Murray M. Chotiner in the "dirty tricks" department (intelligence parlance for covert action) 9 Hunt's tasks included work on "Operation Intercept" (an anti-marijuana campaign along the Mexican border that increased the use of heroin) and declassification of documents following the Pentagon Papers revelation...
...and Mrs...
...According to a 1966 report from a member of the Sheriffs Office of Dade County, the Syndicate had 87 corporate structures in operation and controlled 45 hotels and cocktail lounges...
...Hunt left to join the CIA in 1949, moving on to stations in a number of locations, including Paris, Vienna, Mexico City and Montevideo...
...the brokers, the guys who fix things when they break down and do the dirty work when it's necessary.' " (Washington Post, June 20, 1972...
...378-384...
...He was an original investor in the General Development Corporation and in Major Realty Co., in which George Smathers holds a large interest and is a director...
...Cohen was heavily implicated in the slaying of two associates...
...The last remaining obstacle to a GOP victory was the emergence of a charismatic candidate from the Kennedy organization...
...Special Report in Six Parts...
...It seems World Wide Realty's close connections with Organized Crime and Meyer Lansky, in particular, were too apparent...
...Attorney for the Southern District of New York...
...troops infuriated the invasion's organizers and aggressive supporters, who included the former vice president, Richard Milhous Nixon...
...Previous to the Bahamas deal, Mary Carter had been involved with Al Malnik, one of Lansky's attorneys...
...Years later, Friendly (who had since become a managing editor of the Washington Post) saw Hunt "in the lobby of the National Press Building where he blandly denied his identity...
...Roselli's job was to find someone to assassinate Castro...
...was off to a good start...
...5. Hunt was born in 1918 and received his A.B...
...He was very adamant and anti-coffee-break...
...The fund was put together in late 1971 when Congress passed a new Federal Election Campaign Act requiring the full disclosure of $100-and-over donors...
...It was an extremely lucrative racket...
...Bioff was finally indicted for the role which he played and served some time in jail...
...Some counter- Warren Commission studies implicate Bay of Pigs-related Cuban exiles in the actual assassination, asserting that the job was done by a CIA-trained commando team-a team bearing an uncanny resemblance to the Watergate Five...
...FROM THE FLORIDA BOOM . . . But most important of all, Las Vegas provided the cash base for the international expansion of the Mob during the 1950'sand 1960's...
...On the secondary side, the Texas group was accorded its due reward with the appointment of John B.Connally as Secretary of the Treasury...
...At Camp Columbia, where an electronic map had charted the movement of rebel troops and illuminated the positions still held by the dictatorship, all the lights went out...
...It should be noted that Kissinger is also a spook dating back to World War II when he served in the Army Counter-Intelligence Corps...
...Inside the Democratic Party, the coalition front-man most favored was Hubert Humphrey...
...They were raising issues challenging the ongoing system that the force Nixon represented had entrenched, re-rousing those very insurgent forces that the Nixon years seemed to have quieted by downgrading, withdrawing poverty funding or outright repression...
...Nurtured by an independent fortune and utilizing charismatic figures, the Kennedy machine has repeatedly threatened the political hegemony of established business groups...
...Even more frightening is the fact that this coalition will do whatever is necessary to maintain its control over the federal government...
...See Alfred McCoy, Politics of Heroin (Harper & Row, 1972...
...When they re- turned, only the parking lot in front of the building had not yet been built, so Nixon as guest of honor took a gilded shovel and broke the ground for the parking lot...
...From Cuba, Dino went on to the Lucayan Beach Hotel on Grand Bahama, until he was forced to leave there by the Bahamian Government...
...As one traces the personalities and their connections to various groups, a configuration of the real political forces begins to emerge which challenges our accepted notions of national politics...
...and Resorts International is Meyer Lansky...
...Newsday...
...3 For four months, from December 1971 through March 1972, this special fund-raising intelligence squad collected at least $10 million in secret contributions...
...continued from p. 12) 1. Securities and Exchange Commision, Registration State-- ment 2- 27552-1 , Oct...
...Humphrey went down to defeat...
...George Smathers REBOZO AND SMATHERS WHEEL AND DEAL Ever since Richard Nixon first turned up in Florida in 1952, he has grown increasingly close to a small network ofInter-Continental Hotels- a Pan Am subsidiary _ - - - LAHORE SANTO U0 II INTER-CONTINENTAL HOTELS IN OPERATION I I INTER-CONTINENTAL HOTELS UNDER CONSTRUCTION OR CONTRACT .: NEWLY ANNOUNCED INTER-CONTINENTAL HOTELS e. 9 H: ; e ) urrlcane Lots OWNERS 2 PRESIDENT NIXON 3 500-516 Boy Lone 4 Charles G. (Bebe) Rebozo 490 Bay Lane 5 Robert H. Abplanalp 478 Bay Lane 6 Edwin H. Underwood Jr...
...In the current presidential campaign, the historic defeat U.S...
...6 From this point on, it appears that Hunt and Nixon's careers were inextricably entwined...
...After working in several gambling joints in the United States, he was sent down to manage things for Lansky in Cuba...
...Cuba remained merely a promise for the future for Organized Crime...
...Lew Wasserman (MCA) Mr...
...Lou had gained his reputation as a developer through his involvement with the General Development Corporation which he founded with Frank Mackle (a friend of Nixon), Max Orovitz and Trigger Mike Coppola...
...We have divided these relationships into four categories and listed Nixon's intermediaries within each (some are found in more than one category...
...In the event of his nomination (or anyone equally as formidable) it appears very drastic action was contemplated...
...In effect, Kennedy's minimum support from non-Rockefeller primary groups, his large assistance from many important secondary groups and charisma constituted a winning power combination...
...It is also essential to gain thorough understanding of the local financial structure and the major industries of the region...
...0 In searching Hunt's abandoned White House desk, FBI agents found...
...Rossides was a partner in Secretary of State William P. Rogers' law firm, Royall, Koegall, Rogers & Wells...
...National Airlines) Mr...
...Congressional committees...
...If the law had not been changed, Schenley would have had to pay millions of dollars of taxes on excess liquor in its warehouses...
...31 The whole Watergate fiasco suggests a continuity between physical and character assassinations, two op- tions with the same objective-the elimination of charismatic candidates or presidents outside the bipartisan business coalition...
...Listed below are the contributions of ElI Mr (W Jo CHEMICALS AND PHARMACEUTICALS Republican mer H. Bobst $63,250 garner Lambert) r. and Mrs...
...Economic measures are immediately seen as a form of favoring the rich...
...Despite the fact that this proclamation was printed in numerous newspapers across the country, no libel suit was ever brought...
...A ready-made vehicle for accomplishing this delicate task existed in the form of a super-secret Nixon slush fund...
...According to law enforcement sources, his daughter is an active member of his organization.Small Bank With Big Connections The pace at Key Biscayne's only bank seems leisurely and the decor not too formal in the single-story, glass-facaded building...
...Yiddie is a long-time member of the Minneapolis Syndicate and is allied with Meyer Lansky...
...Payoff...
...Certainly, the quality of life in Washington alone, where anyone with a job of any degree of sensitivity is under surveillance, indicates that spying is a common mode of life...
...further, that the Democratic Party's commitment to social change,20 Some Conceptual Definitions Our Watergate study utilized some concepts which require definition...
...But when there appear deep cleavages within the bourgeoisie popular forces can effect some decisions through the electoral system...
...Over the last 40 years, newer but smaller secondary financial groups have emerged in the South and Southwest...
...His career continued with a screen-writing stint in Hollywood until one of his stories, published in The New Yorker, caught the eye of Alfred Friendly...
...What has not been fully understood is the relationship Lansky and a number of his close associates hold to Richard Nixon's career...
...favorable laws and regulations are always helpful...
...All figures for 1969 unless otherwise specified...
...There was already an economic infrastructure of U.S...
...III ,No sabes quin es el muerto, soldadito boliviano...
...Washington: Government Printing Office, 1971...
...He is also a major investor in Israel...
...Conflict in U.S...
...This list is what must be expanded on: extended both through the people and the corporations...
...Another close friend in the FBI was Louis B. Nichols, Hoover's assistant...
...They seek to monopolize sectors of the economy in opposition to or at times in conjunction with the primary groups...
...Primary and secondary financial groups work through an informal bipartisan business coalition to select and promote specific candidates for both major parties...
...Literally meaning worm, a derogatory term used by the Cuban government to describe those who left their country after the Revo- lution...
...One of the key figures in Continental Illinois was David Kennedy, who later served Nixon as secretary of the Treasury...
...17) Benguet Consolidated (bought out Grand Bahamian Port Authority...
...The trick was to gather support for such clandestine operations from Humphreyites without jeopardizing preconvention power inside the Democratic Party...
...More people than ever need welfare assistance...
...Attorney Morgenthau for wilfully violating stock registration laws-shortly before Nixon had Morgenthau removed...
...Confidential...
...When the U.S...
...Shortly thereafter the ruling was reversed and Reginelli was permitted to remain in the country.s15 Rebozo enjoys being a host...
...It assembled, in effect, an enormous slush fund quite similar to those other ventures so characteristic of Nixon's career...
...It appears likely that Hunt's rapid rise slowed down after the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, that massive CIA failure for which he served as chief operations officer under the code name, 21 "Eduardo...
...But, his formal resignation as chairman of the CRP did not remove him from the campaign, which he now handles through the Washington law offices of Mudge, Rose, Guthrie & Alexander, located just one floor below CRP headquaters...
...Lammot du Pont Copeland (E.I...
...Wealthy 55-year-old Barker, the son of a Cuban mother and American father, grew up in both the United States and Cuba...
...His brother Peter was arrested on a charge of possession of stolen securities...
...New York: Lancer Books, 1967...
...Years later another California Mob personality, Mickey Cohen, boasted he had contributed thousands of dollars to the early Nixon campaigns...
...One other Florida corporation, the Major Realty Co., links organized crime together with current national political figures, providing legitimacy and protection for the.former and payoffs for the latter...
...BUILDING A BASE DURING PROHIBITION During Prohibition days the Mob, or what was to become Organized Crime, accumulated a vast amount of wealth...
...Buttari set to work immediately and soon filled the Centro with many veterans of the Bay of Pigs invasion (Buttari himself is renowned for his contributions to that effort...
...more likely, he needed an excuse to step down from a high public position before a full disclosure unmasked his role...
...Barker, a Cuban-born Florida realestate broker, served as pay-master in the Bay of Pigs invasion under the code name, "~acho...
...Nixon's longest political crony, Chotiner, quietly surfaced after the 1968 victory and joined the Administration...
...It is the unit of politics, the real party...
...In 1968, he owed his political life to Johnson and his nomination to RFK's assassination...
...Murder, Inc...
...A credit agreement of $5.5 million was arranged with Chase Manhattan Bank, which also became the transfer agent for Class A and B common stock...
...Moreover, the entire U.S...
...So one of Organized Crime's most urgent needs today is a system of fronts-corporations and people-through whom enormous sums of illegitimate money can pass into the socially acceptable processes of exploitation...
...He is now making "substantial contributions to the Nixon campaign...
...He had defended the commitment to the war in Vietnam...
...Given that recent news dispatches report his resignation as taking place in 1970, we have an indication of what CIA resignations really mean...
...But, McGovern's California votes were restored and the challenges were beaten back...
...During the Prohibition days, he and Meyer Lansky organized the Bugs and Meyer Mob to protect shipments of bootlegged liquor...
...The men who manage the Teamster fund have made several loans to other Mob fronts through the years, including Lansky's Miami banks, which perhaps throws some light on Nixon's uncharacteristic burst of generosity last year in releasing Teamster Union president Jimmy Hoffa from prison...
...The primary base was once again the Caribbean and the prime mover was once again Meyer Lansky...
...The Lansky group was anxious to land casino concessions for Intercontinental's hotels in the Caribbean and Latin America...
...Senator from Florida and Nixon confidant George Smathers...
...The10 The Florida White House value of Key Biscayne land, a part of the larger Cape Florida area, soared suddenly in late 1965, thanks to legislation introduced by Florida Senator Robert Haverfield to turn part of the land into a state park...
...What really hurts is if you try to coer it up...
...It is important not to be bemused by the more covert and glamorous aspects of the intelligence community, particularly the CIA...
...After his 1968 election, Nixon decided to sell this stock...
...The United States government, however, has never attempted to extradite him, just as it made no attempt in the past 40 years to bring serious charges against him...
...He was a crucial figure in the Grand Bahamian Development Co., helping to map out plans for the casino and eventually becoming an officer of the company...
...Chesler was also known for his role in the field of land development...
...Many of these are discussed in the text...
...Mob was more than willing to buy its way into the mainstream of American economic and political life...
...In a forthcoming book, a nine-year Los Angeles undercover agent, Louis Tackwood, describes the formation of "Squad 19" by the LA police Criminal Conspiracy Section and the FBI.' The plan entailed planting a number of agent provocateurs both inside and outside the 1972 (San Diego) Republican Convention...
...BATISTA, LANSKY AND THE INVASION INVESTMENT This is not the only example of Rebozo's involvement with members of the gusano community...
...On the evening of June 20,1947, the dispute came to an end when Siegel was shot nine times as he lounged in the Beverly Hills home of his girl friend, Virginia Hill...
...In a 1969 letter to the Brown University Alumni Monthly, Hunt denounced student demonstrators against Kissinger as "hirsute know-nothings," a phrase which later popped up in one of Agnew's infamous speeches...
...15) Good friend of Willie Bioff and Gus Greenbaum...
...2 "I don't think Richard Nixon tells David Rockefeller what to do...
...Senator and a good friend of the President...
...Orders came directly from the State Department of Justice, District Attorney Evelle Younger, on these special squads...
...Lansky and Batista lost no time in working out profitable deals for themselves and by the mid 1950's Havana was booming for the Mob...
...His title, according to the official papers, was "manager" of the kitchen...
...After being released he moved to Arizona and became a good friend of conservative Senator Barry Goldwater...
...That same year he leased Havana's race track from the National City Bank of New York...
...New York: Harper & Row, 1972...
...Another person associated with the Cuban counter-revolutionary movement is Bebe Rebozo, a U.S...
...12) Controlled Teamster pension funds used for large investments in Mob companies...
...For instance foreign policy has been relegated to Henry Kissinger, a long-time Rockefeller associate who hardly knew Nixon before the election...
...Both murders took place in Cohen's store with no one else present...
...The June 17th break-in reads like a cheap pulp mystery novel...
...Peter Flanigan: Mr...
...And finally, Polizzi's construction company was awarded a $600,000 contract to build Rebozo's shopping center, the Centro Comercial Cubano...
...Reported to be well versed in plastic explosives and other undercover operations, he has since helped would-be exiles "escape" from Cuba...
...Florida's George Smathers, retired from the Senate, now lobbies for several giant corporations...
...According to the sworn testimony of Edward Wuensche before the Permanent Senate Subcommittee on Investigations, Chesler personally delivered stolen securities to him in the Bahamas...
...October 6-13, 1971...
...Unfortunately for Condev, the deal fell through and the deposit was forfeited...
...U.S.A...
...The man who was in charge of Nixon's security during the 1968 campaign, James Golden, was also employed by Mary Carter...
...Life and Casualty Insurance of Tennessee) John J. Hooker Jr...
...With their help, the drug flow into the United States was rerouted from Marseilles, France (where police pressure had made operations more difficult), through Latin America, primarily Paraguay...
...Senator Kefauver's hearings in the 1950's produced a large valuable body of material which is still useful today for reference work and investigations...
...II Nicolas Guillen No 11ora porque la hora, soldadito boliviano, no cs de lagrima y panuclo, sino de machete en mano, sino de machete en mano, soldadito de Bolivia, sino de machete en mano...
...New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1951...
...Santo Trafficante, Jr...
...Batista as President LANSKY'S DIPLOMATIC CAREER-FDR AND AFTER Lansky's relationship to Batista became so close that when President Franklin D. Roosevelt wanted to convince the Cuban dictator not to run in the 1944 election, Lansky was chosen as the U.S...
...MOBBING THE BAHAMAS The loss of Cuba, while important for Organized Crime, only served to hasten its expansion into new enterprises and new territories...
...18 Opening the Watergate Now this is the kind of thing you expect under a person like Hitler...
...Nowhere can the convergence of the interests of Organized Crime, the CIA and the business establishment be seen more clearly than in the case of Cuba, which for so long served as a U.S...
...He served as a well known lieutenant of the Vito Genovese family...
...Some 85% of this money came from businessmen selected business leaders to the Nixon-Humphrey contest...
...Richard Nixon, 1952 Rounding out the raider quintet was Washingtonian James W. McCord, full-time security chief for the CRP and the RNC (Republican National Committee...
...Siegelbaum is known as a courier for the Lansky organization...
...The immediate operations officers were recruited from a White House intelligence team of so-called "plumbers," originally used by the Administration to plug leaks to the media...
...citizen of Cuban parentage and probably Nixon's closest friend...
...While retaining the Los Angeles connections, he worked to broaden his base among the Eastern primary groups, particularly Rockefeller, as well as other regional groups...
...12 per year for institutions ($22 for two years...
...Financing for the center came from the U.S...
...But the idea for Las Vegas lived on to become one of the most important ventures for the Syndicate...
...Andreas, head of Archer-Daniels-Midland Co., also donated at least $75,000 to Humphrey's primary campaign...
...For example, in 1962, he trained a 23-man invasion force in Guatemala which landed east of Havana only to be wiped out?' Eugenio R. Martinez, an employee of Barker's real estate firm, was brought in...
...Messick, Hank...
...and Mrs...
...In 1952, he was placed on the Eisenhower ticket by the primary groups, particularly Rockefeller, to strengthen Republican relations with the South and Southwestern secondary interests...
...A high-powered White House team, composed of staunchly conservative, fully trustworthy Republicans, was put to work specifically for this purpose under the leadership of White House hatchetman Charles W. Colson, Attorney General John Mitchell and Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans...
...Shriver and Harris are partners in the Washington law firm of Freed, Drank, Harris, Shriver & Kampelman...
...On March 1, 1952, he initiated a coup d'etat and took over the government...
...and Mrs...
...Moreover, allthese areas could provide an ample supply of ambitious politicians who would be in need of additional funds...
...It was later revealed that the DA had received a $30,000 campaign contribution from Siegal...
...ED CELLINI: Dino's brother has enjoyed a very similar career...
...Each lead must be followed through completely to the end...
...and Mrs...
...intelligence operations really came into their own after the outbreak of World War 11, when the business groups needed a coordinating and tactical agency directly under their control to secure and maintain a world empire...
...New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1952...
...Other companies in which Uncle Lou had investments were Seven Arts (which could also boast of having Washington lawyer Max Rabb, one of Eisenhower's top advisors, as a director) and Universal Controls...
...Irving Trust was a client of a Nixon law firm, and the chairman of its board, George A. Murphy, is a close friend...
...Dwayne Andreas, the Minneapolis soybean magnate and the most important financial power in Humphrey's career, forked over $25,000!~~nother $89,000 was collected from four Texas Democrats and was laundered through the bank account of a Mexican lawyer with a big U.S...
...New York: Bantam Books, 1969...
...William Hoffman, David Despite this failure, the Nixon-Humphrey forces did not terminate their Machiavellian ploys to stop McGovern...
...An acquaintance of Barker's for 11 years, self-styled soldier-of-fortune Frank Sturgis joined Fidel Castro's Nixon effort, solidifying-their membership in the bipar- tisan coalition, while simultaneously preserving their power inside the Democratic Party...
...Methodology and Bibliography A great deal has been written in recent years on the Mafia and Organized Crime...
...In 1955 he was questioned in connection with the death of a key witness willing to testify against him in a prior case which had led to his conviction under the Mann Act...
...He had operated a weapons shuttle to Cuba and, with Barker, at various times was active in undercover work for the Defense Intelligence Agency and the CIA...
...Soldier of Fortune Held on High Bail,"Washington Post, June 25, 1972...
...Empire...
...plant...
...gambling spots, Ed went to Havana for a time and then wound up in the Bahamas as a manager of the Lucayan Beach Hotel...
...8 / October 1972 (formerly NACLA NEWSLETTER) Published monthly, except May-June and July-August, when it is published bi-monthly at 160 Claremont Ave., New York, N.Y...
...The Vatican owned 15 percent of Imobiliare which it sold to Michele Sindona in 1969...
...Hunt uses at least three pen names (including John Baxter, Gordon Davies and Robert Dietrich...
...To counter just such insurgent threats, the established business groups organized themselves long ago into a bipartisan coalition...
...NACLA Election Project Sources of Alabama's Tax Revenue (millions of dollars) General sales Gasoline Alcohol and tobacco Motor vehicle license Individual income Corporate Total I 197.4 34.3% 108.9 18.9 64.8 25.1 11.3 4.4 74.9 13.0 29.0 5.0 575.2 100 1. Includes amounts for types of taxes not shown seperately.Socio-Economic Statistics for Alabama Alabama Alabama National rank in rate rate nation Income per capita $2,567 $3,680 4 8 .-.--Production workers in manufacturing industries: I) weekly earnings $111.38 $129.51 37 2) hourly earnings 2.7 3.19 40 1 Public assistance expenditures (monthly payments) 1) aid to dependent children (per family) $ 64 $176 49 2) aid to the blind (per recipient) 7 0 99 44 3) aid to the permanently and totally disabled (per recipient) 50 90 50 4) general assistance (per case) 13 102 50 Estimated public school expenditures (per pupil) $112 $201 50 Estimated salary of elementary and secondary school teachers $6,817 $8,560 4 5 Years of school completed (1940-60 median) 9.1 10.6 4 1 W 0 Households with poor diets2 (percentage of total households, spring 1965) 23.6 19.1 47 Physicians (per 100,000 population) 86 163 50 Dentists (per 100,000 population) 29 47 4 5 Nurses (per 100,000 population) 168 313 47 Crime rate (known to police per 100,000 popuLati.on) I) murder and nonnegligent manslaughter 11.8 6.8 4th highest 2) aggravated assault 169 141 8th highest Population per lawyer 1,157 625 48 National Guard (total officers and enlisted men) 15,429 - 5th largest I 1. 75.5% of expenditures are from Federal funds...
...Berg has also been a close personal friend and occasional business associate of Lou Chesler, a Lansky front man...
...The fund provided a means through which they could secretly contribute to the 24 The cash traveled through the secret fund to the Miami bank account of Bernard L. Barker, an old CIA side-kick of E. Howard Hunt, Jr...
...3. "The Watergate Issue," Time, August 28, 1972...
...political apparatus...
...By way of comparison, he said, a typical Miami suburban bank might have $300,000 to $500,000 in the vaults and assets of about $50,000,000...
...The Reds want to socialize the world and make Moscow the world capital...
...2 In 1958 a real estate company called Desser & Garfield purchased the land for $13 million...
...In the process, it will try to preserve certain functional myths about a two-party democracy...
...Using money collected from right-wing Texas and California businessmen, he organized several counter-revolutionary exile invasions against Cuba...
...During the 1950's the Trafficante family had a dispute with Lansky over control of the lucrative Cuban territory...
...One of his corporations was involved in that...
...As in the case of any other large economic interest group, such a move increased its influence on the foreign policy of the United States...
...Nichols helped Schenley lobby for changes in the liquor laws after Rosenstiel mistakenly gambled on the coming of the third world war, just before the outbreak of the Korean conflict...
...his retirement date closely parallels that of our other leading spook, E. Howard Hunt, Jr...
...Goldwater is shown denying a report that he had close affiliations with one Willie Bioff...
...This additional economic power would also encourage its further penetration of the government and the U.S...
...House...
...It is tedious work but it is the only way by which to unmask the front companies and people used by Organized Crime...
...Among the donors were the traditional fat cat Republicans paying their dues for past business favors or future promises...
...Since the political process is the medium through which business controls the government, the Kennedy organization was able to challenge established business control of the White House, that vital command post for regulating the national and international economies...
...9. Several business scandals involving Flanigan have surfaced, in- cluding the ITT affair...
...J. Howard Pew (Sun Oil) Mr...
...Another former bank official recalls that Nixon held several accounts there, and also took several short-term loans before his election to the White House...
...When Mickey was finally convicted of tax evasion, the judge sentenced him to the lightest possible term...
...Although these contacts with national political figures were essential to the smooth operation of the National Crime Syndicate, it was also important to cultivate state and local contacts...
...20) Good friend and business associate of Bobby Baker...
...He was for many years the boss of the numbers racket in East Harlem,before moving down to Florida...
...Berg is the owner of the Jamaica Inn on Key Biscayne which was frequented by Richard Nixon until Secret Service reports about its connections to the Mob forced the President to find a more suitable restaurant...
...President Kennedy's refusal to save the mercenaries by sending in U.S...
...These groups were largely centered around the non-monopolized sectors of the economy and were based for the most part in service industries, such as restaurants and tourism...
...One is the Jamaica Inn where Nixon used to eat until the Secret Service did a background check on some of Berg's associates and informed the President that Berg was too obviously connected to organized crime figures...
...Heinz) MISCELLANEOUS Mr...
...Many of his deals concentrated on the Coral Gables area where Bebe Rebozo also got his start...
...and Mrs...
...The coalition of groups behind his 1968 campaign included all the primary and most of the secondary interests-the most powerful coalition of business forces ever assembled...
...The business groups have been increasingly dependent on the government to regulate the economy...
...But these revela- tions merely scratched the surface...
...El muerto es el che Guevara, y era argentino y cubano, y era argentino y cubano, soldadito de Bolivia, y era argentino y cubano...
...There is also a strong indication that Hunt served as a ghost writer for Vice-President Agnew...
...Bebe did not say just why these two men should have any special Knowledge of stolen stocks...
...It cannot lobby in its own name and public contact with politicians is discouraged...
...But no major irivestment was made at this point...
...The battle front shifted to legal maneuvering inside the Democratic Party credentials committee and the courts...
...In 1948, Friendly hired Hunt to work in Paris in the Public Information Office of the Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA)-at that time, under the direction of Averell Harriman...
...A Lansky associate, he moved down to Florida when the territory opened up to the Mob...
...30, 1968, the bank's total assets were about $5,000,000...
...Hearings on Organized Crime: Stolen Securities...
...The extent of Lansky's power has been well documented by Hank Messick in Lansky...
...One of the original back-room boys," Colson handled the Nixon Administration's most sensitive ultra-secret business and political assignments...
...Southern Florida has virtually become the headquarters of Organized Crime and of the National Crime Syndicate network that dominates its international operations...
...But the Rockefellerled coalition stayed with Nixon...
...and Cape Florida Development Co.-he was doing business with Organized Crime...
...Because of the reduction of commitments to the social overhead, law itself seems in danger...
...In 1955 Wallace Groves, a Canadian "businessman" who had served time in a U.S...
...At 2:30 a.m...
...seated) and, from left, U.S...
...welfare for the rich...
...The vast pool of cash created from the hotels and casinos accelerated the need for a corporate structure which could act as a legal front for the money and facilitated the distribution of funds...
...and Mrs...
...By May, the Nixon staff realized Kennedy wasn't going to run...
...Lester Avnet (Avnet) Mr...
...in return for an option to purchase its land...
...While poor people are held for months and even years under various forms of "preventive detention," friends of Richard Nixon caught dealing in hundreds of thousands of13 The Gang's All Here MOSES ANNENBERG: founder of the Nationwide News Service, a wire service which catered to bookies...
...He worked closely with Mickey Cohen, who was later to boast of contributions to Richard Nixon...
...Curiously, Sturgis has served as an informant for columnist Jack Anderson, who offered to vouch for him after the Watergate arrests...
...MARCO REGINELLI: a famous client of Murray Chotiner, Nixon's long-time political advisor...
...2 526 Where Businessmen Put Their Money It cost an estimated $100 million to elect a President in 1968, including all expenditures from the first primary to Election Day...
...His advancement ran parallel to the expansion of the Agency and its development into the most powerful weapon for constructing the U.S...
...He was almost dumped after the famous slush fund scandal because inter-primarysecondary group relations were still weak, untested and ill- defined...
...To look at this covert action as an aberration is wrong...
...More recently Chesler has been accused of dealing in stolen securities, one of the Mob's most lucrative current operations...
...Before the Revolution, he served in Cuban dictator Batista's secret police...
...Blatt has been identified in testimony before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations as an associate of Meyer Lansky...
...Many of the trusted lieutenants from Las Vegar were brought down to run the show, including Cliff Jones, the ex-Lieutenant Governor of Nevada...
...4 new regions of the country, it found plenty of ambitious but under-financed politicians to put on its payroll in return for protection for its illegal activity...
...In 1962, Nixon began buying shares in another Florida real estate development called Fisher's Island, Inc...
...and its client, General Foods...
...with Ed Torres and Ed Levinson, the two other Lansky associates...
...all of Messick's books are indexed, but they do not include corporations, which is a real failing...
...MEYER LANSKY: one of the most important figures in Organized Crime for the past 40 years...
...By keeping poorer elements disunited they can be more easily exploited and manipulated...
...Faced with this problem, the Nixon staff probably reasoned that if Humphrey backers were willing to actually finance the espionage work, their loyalty as well as absolute silence would be guaranteed...
...This would have given Resorts a total of 9.7 percent of the outstanding shares of Pan Am stock-a controlling interest...
...This bank is suspected of being used for the deposit of illegal "skim" money from casinos in the Bahamas...
...As the final touch Bebe hired the Polizzi Construction Co...
...London: Macmillan Co...
...Copyright 1971 by D.C...
...7) Resorts International...
...5 Since 1949, he had climbed up through the ranks of the CIA...
...Some of Lansky's closest associates became the main distributors of the liquor across the country...
...Demaris, Ovid and Ed Reid...
...In 1968, he was convicted in New York following prosecution by U.S...
...When Rebozo sought to raise money by pledging some of his stock in the bank, he went, not to the other Florida banks with which he had long been doing business, but to three major northern banks: Irving Trust, Continental Illinois National and Manufacturers Hanover...
...under the direction of a small number of men, the group seeks, through financial relations, to expand its national and international power, maximize profits and generate and maintain a climate of opinion favorable to its interests...
...Senator Barry Goldwater, as he spoke to reporters in a Pittsburgh press conference on November 15, 1963...
...and Mrs...
...At the moment, Lansky is about to be deported from Israel, where he has been living, to avoid prosecution in the United States...
...He also shares a law office with Ben Siegelbaum, identified in numerous sources as one of Lansky's main couriers for illegal money...
...He even offered the vice presidential slot on his ticket to the rock-ribbed Republican...
...citizenship back with the help of the then-Florida Senator George Smathers (dubbed the "Cuban Senator" during the 1950's...
...MICKEY COHEN: took over control of the Syndicate in California after the death of Bugsy Siegel...
...Martial law would be achieved...
...Meanwhile, agents inside the convention hall were to plant explosives timed to blow up coincidental with the riots in the streets...
...It was imperative that this be photographed and that their mission be accomplished, in the shortest period of time possible...
...His next stop m his international gambling career was London, where he opened a school to train casino dealers for the Mob's Caribbean enterprises...
...It was a poor and underdeveloped country, its politicians were in need of extra money and Batista, in particular, was more than willing to make an alliance with the Syndicate...
...14) Principal in Miami International Airport Hotel Systems, a Lansky related operation...
...TO A COLONIAL PLAYGROUND IN CUBA The first major international operation which Organized Crime undertook was its foray into Cuba...
...He is described as "the only person Nixon really trusts...
...Many other clients came cross-country seeking the services of Murray Chotiner...
...Fortunately for Richard Nixon, however, the forfeited deposit nearly matched the $371,782 needed by Fisher Island, Inc...
...Dorman, Michael...
...They had not put their money in banks nor had they invested in the stock market...
...Orovitz was later convicted in October 1968 for wilfully violating stock registration laws by Robert Morgenthau, U.S...
...When Willie was eventually killed by the mob for talking too much, Goldwater attended the funeral...
...At the same time, he began buying up land along highway AIA, the scenic coast road...
...He was finally convicted in the mid-1940's by New York Prosecutor Thomas Dewey and sent to prison...
...and not the more important figures or structure of Organized Crime...
...Real estate, probably one of its most important industries, is a perfect front for Mob money, lending itself to hidden interests through long strings of mortgages and trusts...
...to serve as a legal front for the distribution of illegal liquor...
...Later, his famous Harvard seminars were secretly funded by the CIA...
...Watergate Questions Abound," Washington Post, Sept...
...24) Dominican dictator who amassed a fortune...
...The fact that emerges in bold relief is that the President of the United States is virtually surrounded by men who are closely linked with the National Crime Syndicate...
...Obviously Reginelli had been correct in seeking Chotiner's help despite the fact that he had three other lawyers working for him at the same time...
...The Eastern primary groups, led by the Rockefellers, were reluctant to fully back his candidacy because of his secondary origins...
...Lucky Luciano, who wanted to be closer to his home base in the United States, had left Italy (where he had been deported a few years earlier by New York Governor Thomas Dewey) and ensconced himself in a Havana penthouse suite...
...The only obstacle to their full hegemonomy is the McGovern-Kennedy organization inside the Democratic Party (both Humphrey and Muskie were actively supported by the coalition...
...The Mafia Talks...
...Therefore, he received some primary support and significant secondary backing from the Texas, Florida and Minneapolis groups...
...11) Lum's and Ceasar's Palace, a Las Vegas resort-casino complex...
...The right-wing China Lobby lost its bid for an escalation of the Korean War-but Schenley was still able to maintain its profits...
...Source: Newsday, October 9, 1971During the years 1960-66, Major Realty made a series of land sales at large discounts which, according to corporate officials, were necessitated by a cash shortage...
...22) The PR man at Lansky's Lucayan Beach Hotel in the Bahamas...
...John S. Bugas (Ford) Mr...
...continued on p.32) 29 Wallace Figured Out Although Wallace has been removed from the presidential race, we feel the following information gives a useful and interesting picture...
...What we are searching for is the intermediaries or fronts used by the Mob...
...The arrows in the diagram indicate the lines of power between the various institutions...
...He never sat back and smoked a cigaret or read the newspaper...
...Inside the FBI...
...He ran for Congress against Hamilton Fish, on a law-and-order plat- form, losing by 1,000 votes out of a total 70,000 cast...
...Another important source for investigating smaller companies is U.S...
...Goldman, Sachs...
...A schematic view of the relationships between economic and political institutions of the bourgeoisie central to the current presidential election looks something like the following diagram...
...I I 2. A poor diet, as defined by the Dept...
...Barker-Hunt Links in Latin Deals Cited," New York Times, July 2, 1972...
...Batista temporarily retired to Daytona Beach, Florida...
...Racism is becoming more overt through Nixon's policy of "benign neglect...
...That's his gift, really-salesmanship...
...corporate clientele...
...The oil company lawyer and LBJ protege an- nounced the formation of Democrats for Nixon...
...to operate a gambling casino on nearby Paradise Island...
...Agents were to infiltrate the groups planning demonstrations against the war and poverty...
...For his role in this plan, developed through the combined efforts of Meyer Lansky and U.S...
...WOULD YOU BUY ANYTHING FROM THIS MAN...
...Murray consulted with the then Assistant Attorney General (now Secretary of State), William P. Rogers, and managed to get the order rescinded...
...He was instrumental in bringing about the birth of the National Crime Syndicate, which operates on a national level, incorporates various ethnic groups and utilizes the principles of "good" business as opposed to the old Mafia rituals...
...intermediary...
...Known as the most important gangster in the Philadelphia-South Jersey area, Reginelli was convicted at least six times during his checkered career...
...Customers come and go in small numbers to do business with the dozen or so employes, or make a deposit at the single drive-in window...
...Mr...
...The following is a list of core material that serves as a reference source for further work...
...New York: Cowles Book Co., Inc., 1970...
...In September, Attorney General Kleindienst, campaigning for Nixon, gave a major address at General Foods' Westchester, N.Y...
...jail for fraudulent dealings, came up with $378,000 to buy half the island of Grand Bahama...
...and Mrs...
...The mood of restlessness and cynicism prevalent in the country was, and is, very strong...
...Watergate embodied only one tactic in a much broader stop-McGovern strategy...
...and "W...
...Nixonites seem to have a real propensity for General Foods...
...The financial groups and the bipartisan coalition thereby stands at a distinct advantage since they control the national and regional mass media...
...Chotiner consulted with several Justice Department officials and with then Assistant Attorney General William Rogers...
...1~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~----13 Nixon and Organized Crime 'he follo wing articles are part of a much larger NA CLA i'a.vt research project on the U.S...
...Mr...
...In February 1967, Nixon visited Florida to attend the wedding of Florida Governor Claude Kirk...
...The cover-up began almost immediately when a lawyer friend of Hunt's, Douglas Caddy, showed up at the jail...
...Lansky, in Cuba on that memorable night, also boarded a plane and headed across the Caribbean for the shores of his home base, Florida...
...Arthur Krim (United Artists) Democrat 14,000 $102,754 40,000 19,500 16,000 41,000 7,250 15,500 6,500 30,000 10,500 17,000 20,000 20,000 19,500 18,300 11,000 200,000 103,500 54,096 51,000 35,000 25,000 27,000 11,000 SOURCE: Financing the 1968 Election, by Herbert Alexander...
...While Julie and Pat Nixon say that they are willing to die for the "freedom of the South Vietnamese," the largest heroin factory in all of Southeast Asia is located in a Pepsi Cola factory which Richard Nixon, as a representative of Pepsico, helped set up years ago...
...The company was soon the largest real estate outfit in all of Florida...
...As organized crime expanded its base of operations into The same pattern of Organized Crime and politicians was also evident in the liquor and entertainment industries in California, as well as the hotel, gambling and construction industries in Nevada...
...From this position he maintained a close relationship with Happy Meltzer who was eventually convicted of running a multimillion dollar drug ring...
...The other key slush fund organizer, G. Gordon Liddy, operated in a more public capacity as finance counsel to the CRP.2 A former FBI agent, he was originally hired in 1969 by the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Eugene Rossides!3 In late 1971, Liddy was shipped over to the White House to work on Operation Intercept (alongside Hunt...
...Copyright O 1972 by the North American Congress on Latin America, Inc...
...Because the middle level capitalists are at the stage the larger capitalists were at in the 1920's, they are involved in stock manipulations, false annual reports, the use of shell or dummy corporations and the like...
...His backers knew a Rockefeller would swing GOP coalition members behind HHH and sew up the election...
...2. A slush fund, that old U.S...
...According to the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, he is still one of the most influential figures in the underground world...
...Humphrey (of whom LBJ had said, "Boys, I've got Hubert's balls in my pocket") had proven his loyalty to the business groups as LBJ's VP...
...and Mrs...
...imperialism has suffered at the hands of the Indochinese people has significantly split the bourgeoisie...
...they have the same bible-the teachings of Karl Marx...
...The target became the Grand Bahamas...
...Talmo has been called before several grand juries in Florida to explain several peculiarities about his bank, and is suspected by law enforcement authorities of having ties to organized crime...
...and a suspected Lansky associate...
...Jack Dreyfus Jr...
...When Repeal came, he helped Meyer Lansky and Lucky Luciano set up the Molaska Corp...
...Another sector of the bourgeoisie, composed of some independent capitalists controlling smaller concerns and not organized into financial groups, are behind McGovern-Kennedy...
...his asking price was three dollars a share...
...5) Successor to Bugsy Siegel for the National Crime Syndicate in California...
...Names and corporations mentioned in these books are by now firmly connected to the Mob...
...On this prediction Rosenstiel had stockpiled a large supply of liquor...
...Walter was president of Triangle Publications, publisher of the PHILADELPHIA ENQUIRER, SEVENTEEN, TV GUIDE, etc...
...VII Te lo di6 el senior Barrientos, soldadito boliviano, regalo de mister Johnson para matar a tu hermano, para matar a tu hermano, soldadito de Bolivia, para matar a tu hermano...
...Nichols eventually went on to become an officer of the corporation...
...David Rockefeller (Chase Manhattan Bank) Mr...
...Berg asked Rebozo, his friend and partner in Cape Florida Development, to have Nixon visit the company's offices and pose for a picture...
...He worked with Peter Flanigan, better known as "Mr...
...There had been elections again in 1948 and Carlos Prio Socarras had won...
...New York Times, August 25, 1972...
...For example, he invested $100,000 in Major Realty, the company in which George Smathers is a director...
...Parlioned oflices Conference 0 V) File cabinets jimmied and ceiling tiles removed Rebel Army in 1958, according to an FBI report, at the behest of Batista's military intelligencefO Sturgis defected from the Revolution in 1960, getting his U.S...
...While Nixon sets up commissions on narcotics, he himself depends financially and politically on the very people who run a multi-billion-dollar-ayear drug trade that somehow continues to flourish at such tragic cost to the youth of our country...
...2. Probate File No.14989 - - Estate of Marshall F. Sanders...
...Grant recalled that an around-the-world trip with Nixon delayed Rebozo's plans for a groundbreaking ceremony for the office building next to the bank...
...While being openly racist, George Wallace claims to represent and defend the interests of the white worker...
...Nixon, Business Groups, and the Bipartisan Coalition: As a representative of the small but expanding Los Angeles group, Nixon's rapid advance rested on forging an alliance with the bigger Eastern financial groups...
...On the inside jacket of one of his books, A Gift for Gomala (1962), we are informed that- Baxter (Hunt) joined the "Foreign Service" in 1949 and "resigned" in 1960...
...The Nixon Administration seems dedicated to obliterating com- mitments which would pay for the social overhead, poverty and welfare programs...
...AL POLIZZI: "Big Al", as he is known to his friends, was one of the founders of theMayfield Road Gang in Cleveland during the Prohibition days...
...Through the good graces of Humphrey, Kampelman has also been involved in several shady business deals...
...In return for this favor Nixon got the land for his Key Biscayne vacation home...
...Film processed in a Miami photo shop on June 10th for Barker and Sturgis showed correspondence bearing the DNC letterhead and the signature of Lawrence O'Brien...
...Together, the two spooks have invested in unsuccessful real estate ventures in Nicaragua, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic!* This was all part of the murky CIA-businessright-wing network deeply penetrating the Caribbean...
...Nixon was the overwhelming choice of this coalition for the 1972 election...
...and Mrs...
...John M. King (King Resources) Robert O. Anderson (Atlantic Richfield) Robert P. McCulloch (McCulloch Oil) Mr...
...Crime is an industry with its own particular form of development...
...Ferrer was also registered at the Watergate the night of June 17th...
...This does not mean McGovern wants to end imperialist rule at home or abroad...
...Many books do not contain indexes which make them difficult to use for reference work...
...Many of the buyers have been identified, however, as Lansky associates...
...The Mob took advantage of the situation and began to expand quickly, moving into new areas of the country-California, Florida, Texas-and buying up real estate and small companies...
...Trafficante, Sr., was one of the most important Mafia men in Florida for many years...
...The other key slush fund organizer, G. Gordon Liddy, operated in a more public capacity as finace counsel to the CRP...
...The Spies Who Came in For the Heat," Newsweek, September 18, 1972...
...the profits of Prohibition days look like nothing compared to what was made in the ensuing decades...
...i j ii iii i _ _ -"I believe in the American dream because I have seen it come true in my own life...
...que no se mata a un hermano...
...He had formed the General Development Corp...
...After consulting with the Mob's National Council he began construction of the Flamingo Hotel which paved the way for an entire complex of luxury-hotel casinos...
...Specifically, Organized Crimehas close contact with the tourist,liquor,real estate and construction industries...
...Raid Figure Wanted to Bug The Times," New York Post, August 31, 1972...
...It also provides a look at the complexity and breadth of Organized Crime's influence and sophistication...
...He had served its interests faithfully and "deserved" another term...
...The tax structure is more and more inequitable...
...Amid all the talk of scandal and corruption surrounding the Nixon Administration, there has been a strange silence concerning one very important group associated with Richard Nixon...
...In October 1971 a team of investigative reporters from Newsday documented some of the connections between organized crime and the Smathers-Rebozo crowd...
...More recently, Siegelbaum has played a prominent role in the 16 reinvestment of already laundered money in Florida real estate...
...The job bore the same trademarks as later actions...
...The methodology for doing this is to build outward from the reliable information found in the books listed below...
...The groups who benefitted from Nixon's leadership are in no mood to put up with another threat from the Kennedy machine...
...Despite rather convincing evidence of his guilt, Cohen was never charged with murder...
...in 1965 when Bebe was trying to get rezoning for some land he owned in the area, Polizzi was one of the small number of people who signed a petition favoring Rebozo's request...
...Our analysis has been based on the explanation of financial groups provided by S. Menshikov in Millionaires and Managers, Moscow, n.d...
...Nixon has tried hard to keep his own name out of the various deals made between the government and private Florida interest groups...
...What begins to stand out is the normal mode of operation of the bipartisan business coalition (see box) which sanctioned the act...
...Address books of two defendants listed Hunt's name along with the notations "W.H...
...I Kev Hum~hrev fat cats from Minneapolis and Texas L " were huietly approached by slush fund agents and simply asked to demonstrate their loyalty to the plan in the form of cold cash...
...Over the past year Nixon's chances had been looking good...
...If you have the name of a person whom you suspect of Organized Crime activities, try to collect some information on every corporation with which they are connected...
...Plisco, one of the partners in the firm, is married to LeVonne Bloom, the daughter of Yiddie Bloom...
...In the process of building the hotel, he formed a close friendship with Del Webb, owner of the construction company erecting the edifice...
...John Roselli, a notorious Mob figure, was hired by the CIA to find someone to assassinate Prime Minister Fidel Castro the night before the invasion...
...This had to be prevented by any means necessary, including covert action...
...in Florida and turned it into the largest real estate operation in the state...
...To continue to exist and grow Organized Crime must have protection--this is where politicians and government officials come in...
...Nevertheless, a look at the conditions in Alabama during Wallace's reign (1962 on) indicates the exact opposite...
...The Pinks want to socialize America...
...John L. Loeb (Loeb, Rhoades) Howard Stein (Dreyfus Fund) Mr...
...Given the evidence uncovered recently by Alfred McCoy on the CIA's involvement in heroin traffic, some legitimate questions could be asked about Hunt's narcotics work for the CIA and the White House...
...aunque liorar es humano, soldadito de Bolivia, aunque llorar es humano...
...The dirtiest and most controversial contributions passed through Hunt's conduits...
...Their power over the parties is exercised through campaign contributions, advisers and presidential candidates as well as the use of the most organized U.S...
...BEN SIEGELBAUM: a long time associate of Meyer Lansky's, he was one of the people used by the Mob to establish contact with Bobby Baker, Lyndon B. Johnson's protege...
...This would guarantee the nomination and election of a favorable candidate...
...He is a very sophisticated operator...
...At this PR firm, Caddy shared an office with Hunt...
...The two most important books giving a clear conception of the National Crime Syndicate are Lansky and John Edgar Hoover, both by Hank Messick...
...Chesler was a contributor to Nixon's 1968 campaign...
...Several months before the invasion, Bebe and his friend Burke Hedges, who had been the Cuban Ambassador to Brazil under Batista, set up a small Miami company called Washrite, Inc., which operated a laundromat...
...Batista arrived at the camp and quickly boarded a chartered plane to fly to the Dominican Republic for refuge...
...There were also rumors circulating in 1969 of a secret RAND Corporation study on various ways of cancelling elections during times of social unrest...
...9 However, the Five's cover aliases were quickly blown and the unraveling of their connections to the top Republican leadership began...
...and Mrs...
...In short, most leaders of the business groups backing Humphrey scurried into the Nixon camp...
...Today, George Smathers, one of its largest stockholders, owns nearly $1 million worth of Major Realty stock and sits on the board of directors...
...If by chance such a maverick should secure the nomination in one party, the coalition members would cross party lines in order to win the election...
...This friendship proved to be most profitable when the Justice Department threatened to bring an anti-trust action against the liquor industry...
...The result would be to create a nationwide hysteria that would then provide President Nixon with the popular support necessary to declare a state of National Emergency...
...Liddy, a New York City lawyer from 1962 to 1965, served as assistant district attorney in Dutchess County, New York from 1965 to 1968...
...Nixon is clearly their favored candidate...
...The president of Manufacturers Hanover is Gabriel Hauge, another close Nixon friend, and a past president is Horace Flanigan, the father of top presidential assistant Peter Flanigan...
...Heath & Co.27 finance chairman, Maurice Stans, and from there to Democratic fat cats...
...As one of the mainstays of the Organization in Havana, he remained after the Revolution to check out the developments and as a result was briefly jailed by the Revolutionary government...
...10) Well-known Mob-controlled lawyer...
...This became particularly important in Las Vegas where local officials issued casino gambling certificates and also obligingly overlooked the police records of most of the people who owned and operated hotels...
...5 Held in Plot to Bug Democrats' Office Here," Washington Post, June 18, 1972...
...McGovern's chances vastly improved on June 6th when he won the winner-take-all California primary...
...Pan Am is controlled by First National City Bank of New York which is a rival of the Rockefeller Group...
...He was on the planning of the Lucayan Beach Hotel Casino which took place in Max Orovitz's Florida office with Meyer Lansky present...
...Dana Smith, Pasadena lawyer and head of Nixon's 1952 slush fund In 1970, Hunt reputedly "left" the Agency...
...The most obvious, of course, is non-prosecution of its important members, but there are others...
...After a stint at local U.S...
...George McGovern What really hurts in matters of this sort is not the fact that they occur, because overzealous people in campaigns do things that are wrong...
...The law firm which first assembled the tracts of land for Major Realty was Levy, Plisco, and Zalla of West Palm Beach, Florida...
...Their principal source of anxiety was Senator Edward Kennedy...
...In the years to come both Thomas Dewey, once Governor of New York and Republican presidential candidate, and Louis Nichols, Hoover's assistant and 'Nixon's advisor on law and order, would go on the Schenley payroll...
...and Mrs...
...Siegel was put in charge of California and was responsible for coordinating the narcotics trade, bookmaking operations, the movie rackets and political contacts...
...Economic threats from abroad, the monetary crisis and the inability to compete on favorable terms drains funds ear-marked for other sectors...
...Mitchell also had the Rockefellers' blessing for Attorney General since Nelson had worked closely with the bond lawyer in Albany...
...Honor Thy Father...
...Other established agencies (like the FBI or military intelligence) were not able to fulfill this function because of lack of direct corporate control, provincial bureaucracies and Congressional scrutiny...
...By 1947, the times were already changing and Cuba once again began to assume an important role in the international scheme of Organized Crime...
...Barker introduced Siegelbaum to John Gates of Intercontinental Hotel Corp., a subsidiary of Pan American Airways...
...The man who presented the Condev proposal to Fisher's Island was William Rebozo, Bebe's nephew...
...Richard Nixon also took a special interest in Cuba...
...Recently, Trafficante, Jr., made an extensive trip to Southeast Asia--now the major narcotics source for the United States...
...Hand-picked to run this quasi-public make-shift slush fund operation was E. Howard Hunt, Jr., a leading CIA spook...
...In early 1965, World Wide Realty purchased a piece of Cape Florida land for which the Miami Beach First National Bank acted as trustee...
...New York: Bantam Books, 1970...
...Thus the post-war boom was the second major development stage for Organized Crime...
...Allen went on to become president of Pepsico, a strong supporter of Nixon since the days he worked as the company's lawyer...
...AMAZING SURGE IN LAND VALUES AFTER ELECTION The paths of Major Realty and Richard Nixon cross under the most dubious circumstances...
...They know what sources are accessible, contain what information, and can possibly give you access to their own papers' files on the subject...
...VI, No...
...His investment bank, Allen & Co., boughta 25 percent interest in the Bahamian Port Authority...
...New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1972...
...To these rather mundane crimes we would have to add those of war and genocide for which history will surely judge him...
...The aspiring young Californian's campaign manager was Murray Chotiner...
...command structure-the modern corporation...
...John M. Schiff (Kuhn Loeb) Mr...
...He could in- voke special emergency powers leading to the detention of political activists...
...Thomas Mellon Evans (Crane Co...
...Liddy came next-dropped by Mitchell on June 28th for failing to answer questions from his former employer, the FBI...
...military and economic assistance...
...6 the head of the company, used to be the head of the Mayfield Road Gang in Cleveland...
...They seek, therefore, to control the country's political life, especially at the federal level, through both major parties...
...What was not acceptable was the possibility that Kennedy or any Kennedy-backed man with any charisma at all might win the nomination...
...So the business groups built the Office of Strategic Services, which evolved into the CIA, and staffed it, at the top, with scions from the business groups...
...He then established the Grand Bahama Port Authority to develop the land...
...It was a courtship of convenience and a marriage of profit...
...But competition increased the chance for losing control of one or both parties to businessmen outside the established groups...
...The lawyers used in various deals are often the key link between Organized Crime and "legitimate Demaris, Ovid...
...political institution, is composed of secret contributions from fat cats given to a particular candidate for past and-or future business favors involving government regulations and contracts...
...The merger of large industrial and banking family fortunes leads to the formation of a group...
...Inn (Bahamian hotel, owned jointly by Ludwig and San Cohen, a known Lansky associate...
...Among the principals in Cape Florida Development were Senator Haverfield, Bebe Rebozo and Donald Berg...
...The next day a smiling picture of Berg and Nixon appeared in several Florida newspapers and tie Cape Florida Development Co...
...Meyer Lansky, one of the first to get into the Florida market, set up operations in the early 1940's by opening the plush Colonial Inn...
...Albert Gordon (Kidder Peabody) Bernard Cornfeld (Investors Overseas Services) Mr...
...To begin to decipher the political connections there are several things which one can look at: lists of campaign contributors, fund raisers, the doling out of Government contracts and concessions (who was responsible and who benefited), the awarding of Small Business Administration loans...
...The final touch needed to make a real killing on the land was effective promotion...
...They soon formed an alliance with Lucky Luciano and following the Americanization of theMafia, merged with him to form the National Crime Syndicate...
...On August 10th, the most recent contingency plan was unveiled by Texas-Democrat-turned-Nixonite John B. Connally...
...bourgeoisie affects the political process, especially the presidential election...
...and Mrs...
...For instance, the casino was put under the supervision of Ed Cellini, who had worked for Lansky over many years in other gambling operations...
...Trustee) 468 Bay Lane people around former Senator George Smathers and Bebe Rebozo...
...center) SANTO TRAFFICANTE, JR.: today probably the most important man in the international narcotics traffic...
...7. Revelations about the CIA's domestic operations came to light in 1966-67 and showed that it penetrated and manipulated several aspects of the student, cultural and labor world...
...At one time his Miami house was an arsenal, complete with 20 millimeter cannons...
...The standard sources used for studies of multi-national corporations and the ruling elite, such as Standard and Poor's and Who's Who in America, do not contain much information on regional corporations or middle size capitalists...
...The use of Swiss bank accounts was another topic Morgenthau was investigating when Nixon had him removed...
...In late 1971, Liddy was shipped over to the Treasury, Eugene Rossides...
...As a friend of Angel Ferrer, president of the Cuban exile group, ExCombatientes de Fort Jackson, Gonzales moved freely within the CIA-backed counter-revolutionary networkZ2 25 "The most devastating thing that can be said about the Truman administration is that he (Truman) has lost 600 million people to the Communists (in China...
...He was appointed Ambassador to England by Richard Nixon...
...John M. Loeb, Sr., unofficial overseer of several New York banking houses (Lehman Brothers...
...CollierMacmillan, Ltd...
...But he recalled that one of the Nixon accounts once reached five figures, including shortterm loans from the bank as a substantial part of the amount...
...The loans were handled by Rebozo personally, and the official said that they were in four figures but could not list the amounts...
...10027...
...Webb was also a close friend of J.Edgar Hoover...
...Four of the eight directors of this company were at one time or another also directors of Lansky's two major Miami banks-the Miami National Bank and the Bank of Miami Beach...
...Within the past several months a number of narcotics rings have been broken up which are based on the Paraguay-Miami axis, all involving elements of the Miami gusano community...
...The tentacles of the Mob network in real estate, restaurants, hotels and resorts, the construction industry, the liquor industry and entertainment are by now both extensive and very deep...
...then investigate all the people who are involved in each of those corporations...
...Las Vegas was also the launching ground for the close relationship between certain Teamster Union leaders and the Syndicate...
...4 Ten days later, on May 26th, five men checked-in at the Watergate Hotel for the Memorial Holiday under now famous aliases...
...Joe Rivers, another faithful Lansky man, was waiting in the Bahamas on the eve of the invasion to return to the island and re-establish Mob operations...
...To select merchants for the storefronts, Bebe hired Edguardo Buttari, who in 1968 had headed Cubans for Nixon nationally...
...This company also entered into a joint venture with Major Realty Co...
...From there, he controlled illegal gambling throughout Dade County, Florida...
...They were bent on securing embarrassing material on McGovern through less public sources and more sinister meansespionage...
...The report also uncovered a number of governmental decisions related to defense contracts, Small Business Administration loans and state park land that resulted in millions of dollars in windfall profits for corporations associated with Smathers and Rebozo...
...Certainly, in choosing Hunt the White House had selected not any old CIA agent, but an embodiment par excellence of the spook generation...
...To understand this bank, it might be well to remember that the bank is partly owned and largely controlled by Bebe Rebozo...
...and Mrs...
...The hotel began to run into trouble as building costs soared and soon Siegel and the Syndicate were involved in a dispute over how much money to sink into Bugsy's project...
...His Treasury duties cover the areas of customs, engraving and printing as well as law enforcement...
...Smith, Leonard Marks and George Christian are all members of Democrats for Nixon along with Sammy Davis, Jr., Frank Sinatra, Mickey Mantle and the mayors of Miami and Houston...
...The continued growth of organized crime has depended on the formation of an elaborate banking structure designed to "launder" illegal money and the creation of corporations into which this cleansed cash can be funnelled...
...in which Wallace Groves held the controlling interest...
...Siegel had also become too independent and was refusing to listen to orders...
...The numbers following each name correspond to the Key where the specific Mob operations are enumerated...
...More investigation will link the names mentioned here with more legitimate areas of business and politics...
...Shortly thereafter, Cape Florida Development Co., from which Richard Nixon bought his Key Biscayne property, was incorporated...
...But the Trafficantes went on to become the most important family in the drug trade...
...and Mrs...
...18) King's...
...Roselli, on behalf of the crime syndicate" paid most of the expenses of the mission other than those of the two CIA operatives assigned to work with him...
...Prio finally agreed to the dictator's return on the condition that he be allowed to finish out his term of office...
...During World War II, he served in the OSS in China, for which he won a presidential citation and the China Star...
...capitalism, the East Coast aristocracy of wealth combined its fortunes into what are today the largest and most powerful financial interest groups: the Rockefeller Chase Manhattan-Chemical Bank Group, the First National City Bank Group, the Morgan Group, the Boston Group, etc...
...For decades the owner of Schenley Distilleries, one of the largest liquor concerns in the country, Rosenstiel was first able to enter the legitimate liquor industry after the Palmer raids in the 1920's broke the power of the German brewers...
...This structure has been protected over the past 40 years by one of the most corrupt local political systems in all the United States...
...Thus the McGovern-Kennedy movement seeks to compensate for its inferior position within the bourgeoisie by gathering popular support around ending the war...
...In Miami, Barker recruited a three-man commando team from the well-heeled part of the Cuban exile com- munity...
...6. Richard M. Nixon, Six Crises, pp...
...From Italy, Luciano was able to control the narcotics traffic, whose major source of supply was the Middle East...
...Greenwich, Connecticut: Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1969...
...But when he was there, he was working intensely...
...A former Air Force Lieutenant, McCord was employed by the CIA since 1951...
...BATISTA-LANSKY, INC...
...Beginning as a bootlegger in Chicago, he was closely associated with Longie Zwillman and Al Capone...
...His strategic position, in charge of security for the Republican Convention, makes it highly likely he was programmed for the more drastic contingency plans described by Tackwood, such as the major Convention disruptions...
...X Pero aprenderas seguro, soldadito boliviano, que a un hermano no se mata, que no se mata a un her mano, que no :-e mata a un hcrmano, soldadito de Bolivia...
...The company is considered by law enforcement agencies as the primary Meyer Lansky real estate front in Florida...
...electoral system...
...But they are serious about ending the war by recognizing the liberation forces' military victory...
...Annenberg was finally convicted of tax evasion and sentenced to three years in jail...
...Bureau of the Census...
...While certain lawyers necessarily associate with people suspected of criminal activity, Chotiner has specialized in defending Organized Crime figures, with no less than 267 such cases to his credit...
...According to the Wall Street Journal (Feb...
...Nixon would then sail through the election and the myth of the two-party system would be sustained...
...all are referred to in the source material listed in the bibliography...
...The Grim Reapers...
...Unable or unwilling to attract Wall Street financing for their economic growth, they turned instead to the National Crime Syndicate...
...Bipartisan Business Coalition: The informal political directorate of the business groups...
...1) Cape Florida Development Company...
...and Mrs...
...But all of that easy-going ambience could be misleading...
...Between the larger and smaller groups there exist medium size groups located primarily around Cleveland, Chicago, Minneapolis and San Francisco...
...Volz, Joseph, and Peter Bridge...
...and Mrs...
...While regional gambling centers in the Midwest and South were extremely profitable it was the moves into California, Florida and the Southwest which were to become the real economic bases for Organized Crime...
...6l fue tu amigo de a pobre del Oriente al altiplano, del Oriente al altiplano, soldadito de Bolivia, del Oriente al altiplano...
...McCoy, Alfred...
...New York: David McKay Co., Inc., 1972...
...that it was the Republicans who bugged the Democrats...
...McGovern not only seemed appealing, he seemed to have the organizational know-how and practical ability to speak to and rouse forces which were not content to operate through the established channels of power, with its convenient arrangements...
...After some customary haggling, the corporation decided on two dollars per share, but the question was where to find the cash to make payment...
...Nixon's Mr...
...More firings and resignations ensued...
...4. The firm had done some PR work for Nixon in 1968, handles a few lucrative accounts, like General Foods, and is headed by Robert F. Bennett, son of a late Mormon Republican senator from Utah...
...If anything, it's the other way around...
...In some plants, they are challenging the very system of production.28 And these discontents at home can be taken advantage of by any charismatic figure who speaks to them, including those not controlled by the bipartisan coalition...
...That conglomerate, with an annual income of over $20 billion, is called the National Crime Syndicate...
...The investigation did not continue...
...An added note of interest-four days earlier, a class of Ex- Combatientes graduated from a refresher commando paratroop course in Florida (El Tiempo, June 14, 1972...
...to construct the Centro...
...Mickey has boasted several times about his donations to Nixon's early California campaigns: no libel suit has ever been brought against him...
...Duncan of Bryant, Texas, an oil and real estate operator who gave $300,000 to Humphrey during the 1972 primaries is now shelling out to Nixon's campaign...
...In 1955 a deportation order was filed against Reginelli...
...Meshulam Riklis (Rapid American) Lewis B. Maytag Jr...
...jurisdiction...
...Still maintaining his close contact with numerous mobsters, Rosenstiel built Schenley into one of the major liquor companies...
...It is possible this corporate shell was used as a CIA conduit for invasion funds...
...In the development of U.S...
...From these sources it is possible to glean a rather large list of known Mob people and corporations...
...But the capitalists behind McGovernKennedy have only limited control over the cultural apparatus that so significantly influences voting behavior...
...Martha Mitchell freaked out, apparently over her husband's role in Watergate and his less than gentlemanly associates...
...between the bourgeoisie and the working class...
...Communication with the government must be extremely discreet...
...As a member of a special 16-man Military Reserve unit under the President's Office of Emergency Planning & Preparedness, McCord dealt with the specific steps for rounding up radicals in a national emergency...
...Reid, Ed...
...but, where myths stand in the way, goon squads are unleashed to wreak havoc on the body politic...
...Therefore, it is truly remarkable that in the two cases in which he has publicly acknowledged a personal financial stake-Fisher's Island Corp...
...And the man who runs a major heroin network, Marshall Ky, is totally supported by U.S...
...Above, aboard an earlier Cocolobo, his guests for a late '50s trip were the then Senate Majority Leader JOHN ROSELLI:his career is one of the best examples of the multi-faceted connections which the Mob has made over the years...
...Kissinger, of course, enjoys a very close relationship to the Rockefeller group having served as foreign political advisor to Nelson for many years...
...The idea for the Mob's move into Las Vegas originated with Siegel...
...He was still not ready to give up on Cuba, however...
...Senator McClellan's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations has more recently held hearings on Organized Crime, but they have concentrated primarily on lower level people involved in thefts, etc...
...Perhaps the most important factor was the presence in the company of Max Orovitz and Trigger Mike Coppola, well-known Lansky cronies...
...That combination is reflected in the Administration's key appointments...
...12 dollars of stolen stock are not arrested...
...This expansion took the form of increased activities in already profitable spheres such as gambling, prostitution and drug traffic, and a highly organized move into new geographic areas as well as non-monopolized sectors of the economy...
...On June 22nd, she phoned a UPI reporter saying, "Politics is nothing but a cops and robbers game," "I saw dirty things," and "I am not going to stand for those dirty tricks that go on...
...He then moved on to Las Vegas...
...There are other features that make this tiny bank of more than passing interest to the world outside Key Biscayne: * One of the directors is Robert Abplanalp, a millionaire friend of the President, the owner of a Bahamas island that Nixon often uses as a retreat, a presi- dential "landlord" who owns one of the houses in the official Key Biscayne compound and rents it to the government...
...In the 1940's, he moved his base of operations down to Florida and began investing in real estate...
...After the loss of Cuba, it was he who began the further internationalization of Organized Crime and set up the banking structure which facilitated the smooth running of the organization...
...A former FBI agent, he was originally hired in 1969 by the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Eugene Rossides...
...He specialized in super-secret covert operations in Latin America...
...Much of his other work was done in his office, where the principal decoration was several photographs, including those of the late President Eisenhower and favorite customer Nixon...
...As working people were hit by the Depression and the upper class blithely enjoyed the excitement of the speakeasies and wore themselves out dancing the Charleston, a new breed of men grew up...
...du Pont) CONGLOMERATES Robert W. Dowling (City Investing) Martin Stone (Monogram Industries) Charles B. Thornton (Litton) David N. Judelson (Gulf & Western) OTHER MANUFACTURING Mr...
...They further correctly saw that ending the Indochina war was the primary concern of most North Americans...
...He serves as Humphrey's main link to the bi-partisan business coalition's intelligence community...
...V Esta mi guitarra cntera, soldadito boliviano, de luto, pero no Hlora, aunque Ilorar cs humano...
...was also filled with Nixon cronies, including stockholder Tom Dewey (who nominated Nixon for Vice President in 1952), Richard Pistell, another major stockholder who contributed $17,500 to Nixon's 1968 campaign, and company President James Crosby...
...The post-war boom and the money already pouring in from Las Vegas made it clear that the time was ripe to begin building another empire in Cuba...
...All the way back in 1937, Lansky opened his first Cuban operation, a casino in the Hotel Nacional...
...We must not forget the timing of the bugging: McGovern, winning primary after primary, was beginning to look like an unbeatable force inside the Democratic Party, putting together a grass roots organization which operated outside of the established Party structures of political control, and what was more, was defeating candidates who would be acceptable to the coalition, Humphrey, Muskie, Jackson...
...Another wave of anxiety must have passed through the bipartisan business coalition...
...Batista's methods as a dictator were already well known and the United States couldn't risk a rebellion on the island at that point in the war...
...7 "Our thinking (behind the slush fund) was that we had to fight selling with selling, and for that job Dick Nixon seemed to be the best salesman against socialization available...
...companies...
...and Mrs...
...But, an alert Watergate guard, spotting tape on the doors, notified the police who, at gunpoint, apprehended the Watergate Five inside the DNC headquarters...
...Hugh Hefner (Playboy) William S. Paley (CBS) 100,000 15,064 49,672 54,875 7,875 21,000 13,000 11,000 1,000 35,900 57,000 12,538 12,500 10,000 10,000 and their families...
...The coalition dropped its support and vowed to oppose any future Kennedy candidates...
...Parts 1-4...
...17 business" or the government...
...To his credit, Lansky had the foresight to understand that Cuba could be a perfect base for Mob operations...
...TRIGGER MIKE COPPOLA: he died in 1966...
...James A. Linen III (Time Inc...
...W. Clement Stone (Combined American Insurance) J. Willard Marriott (Marriott Corp...
...There is a chance that Martha's actions were a sincere reaction to the Watergate operation...
...Bebe claimed that he had attempted to verify the stock's legitimacy by calling two people-James Crosby, president of the Mary Carter Paint Co., and Donald Nixon, brother of the President...
...His release was obtained a few years later as a result of an intricate government plan called Operation Underworld...
...Colson was an active member with Hunt in the Brown University Alumni Club in Washington...
...He had headed up security for Nixon on his trips to Asia, Latin America and Russia...
...LJUl I Mellon I Detroit I Cleveland l I McGovern- Muskie Humphrey Nixon l "~J Kennedy i : Democratic Party Republican Party Some Independent Organized Crime Capitalists National Crime Syndicate - - -- -- w--w--w- - -----I W ~ ~ ~ ~ ~,NW~ ~ ~ ~ ~ AW W A ~MWAW W ~ ~AMWAWA AWPapers, Liddy reportedly asked Justice Department at- torneys to bug The New York Times' offices to discover who had slipped the secret documents to the new~paper!~ According to the Washington Post, Liddy "was the chief adviser to the Nixon campaign staff on the new Congressional statute requiring stricter reporting of campaign contributions...
...13) Son of bookie news service owner whose fortune rested on Mob connections...
...The secret of his success was revealed briefly in 1956, in the case of Marco Reginelli, described by Philadelphia police as a Mob leader in the South Jersey-Philadelphia area...
...Under various aliases, Sturgis has been associated with many Cuban exile groups...
...so is Organized Crime...
...2 3 Although nothing was stolen, documents might have been photographed and the office, located across the street from the Watergate, could have been bugged...
...Early floor votes left no doubt about HHH's defeat...
...John resigned on July 1st, for "personal reasons...
...The young remain discontented and a potential source of revolution, obviously looking for a new leader, if not yet a new system...
...LEWIS ROSENSTIEL: well known for his connections to the Mob and the right wing...
...New York: G.P...
...The main crop of the region, sugar, was largely owned by U.S...
...He was eventually indicted for his role in the movie extortion racket and spent time in prison...
...To dredge the harbors he hired Daniel K. Ludwig's firm, National Bulk Carriers, which is represented by Richard Nixon's New York law firm Mudge, Rose, Guthrie and Alexander...
...Every year hundreds of millions of dollars accumulate from illegal operations-gambling, the sale of narcotics, stolen securities and other goods: Every year-obeying an iron law of capital-these funds must be invested to assure expansion...
...Richard Nixon, 1960 -NACLA Election Project I. Louis Tackwood, The Glass House Tapes as quoted in Mae Brussel, "Why Was Martha Mitchell Kidnapped?," The Realist, August 1972...
...He owned stock in Baker's Serv-U Corp...
...As his own prize Lansky built the Riviera Hotel at the cost of $14 million...
...Washington Post, June 22, 1972...
...Florida tourism is another field which has yielded enormous profits...
...7 During the summer of 1968, Nixon took a cruise on Resorts' yacht and the same boat was once again placed at his disposal during the Republican Convention...
...One of the bank's directors is Max Orovitz, Lansky's old friend who was convicted of stock fraud in New York...
...Santo Trafficante, Jr., the Mob's narcotics czar, recruited many gusanos into his organization...
...The president and chairman of the board was George Friedland, who was mentioned previously as the head of Food Fair, Inc...
...10025 or to Box 226, Berkeley, California 94701...
...A careful study of this corporation and its history gives us real insight into the investments and business operations associated with the President...
...At the time of the demonstrations, these agents were to provoke street battles with police surrounding the convention hall...
...In the early to mid-I 950's, he served as a consultant to the top White House Intelligence coordinating boards...
...3) General Development Company...
...In 1940, the same year Nixon became police prosecutor in Whittier, California, murder charges against leading Mob figure Bugsy Siegal were suddenly dropped by the District Attorney in neighboring Los Angeles...
...Coge cl camino derecho...
...He was in charge of security at the CIA's super-secret Langley headquarters...
...PENSIONS SAVE MOB FROM EARLY RETIREMENT In the following months Cape Florida Development proceeded to buy over $1 million worth of Key Biscayne land from World Wide Realty at a considerable profit to World Wide...
...What is significant about these facts is not the specific details of each deal but rather the patterns of association, of payoffs and protection, that they suggest...
...Its author, Hunt, is, in fact, a prolific writer of just such material, producing 42 titles in his life-time...
...The list of Johnson and Humphrey supporters now behind Nixon is staggering...
...With this intricate structure at their command, Hunt and Liddy went after Humphrey backers to finance antiMcGovern political espionage...
...The Valachi Papers...
...Group members, Republicans and Democrats, agreed to formulate an overall strategy for action within and between their parties...
...2 6 After several secret meetings and telephone calls as well as the acquisition of money and espionage equipment, the four Miamians flew to Washington on that day and, with McCord, registered at the elegant Watergate Hotel, all using aliases out of Hunt's books...
...Organized Crime is a peculiar form of capitalist organization, faced with certain restrictions to which its "legitimate" counterparts on Wall Street and in board rooms around the world are not subject...
...A business or financial group is a coalition of many diverse corporations centrally coordinated and controlled through a leading commercial bank...
...4) Investors Overseas Services, a European financial operation used for hidden Mob money...
...During that time, there were two attempted break-ins at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters and, according to Lawrence O'Brien, an aborted attempt to plant an eavesdropping device in Senator McGovern's pre-convention headquarters...
...The first important step was to insure the return of Batista...
...The Washington Payoff...
...He is a businessman par excellence...
...party politics, over the last decade, has centered around the ambitious Kennedy organization...
...What distinguishes Major Realty is that one of its big stockholders and directors, George Smathers, is a former U.S...
...And that there was a favorite customer, a man who in fact long held Savings Account No...
...Another Resorts backer was Investors Overseas Services (IOS), a Geneva-based financial empire which has been accused of concealing the true identity of its investors to protect Mob figures...
...SUBSCRIPTIONS: $6 per year for individuals ($11 for two years...
...New York Times, August 8, 1972...
...Just as big business is in constant need of favors from the government...
...LOU CHESLER: "Uncle Lou" to his friends, he has been around the Florida and Caribbean scene for many years...
...His specialty is overseeing gambling operations...
...Richard Nixon would then arrest all militants and left-wing revolutionaries and cancel the 1972 elections...
...19) Polizzi Construction Company...
...Talese, Gay...
...Robert Galvin (Motorola) Mr...
...It could cover other secrets as well...
...What then are the "dangers" McGovern represents to elicit such actions as those seen in June...
...The following social and economic statistics clearly show that the entire working class and unemployed population (black and white, although the blacks more so than the whites) suffer from low income, lack of services, poor health conditions, a deficient educational system and a regressive tax structure...
...Like other members of the Watergate team, he participated in the Bay of Pigs invasion and maintained associations with exile groups which desperately need a McGovern defeat to survive...
...Needless to say, he was fired immediately...
...David Packard (Hewlett-Packard) COMMUNICATIONS Norman Cousins (Saturday Review) Mr...
...Mafia,acting as its liason with the National Crime Syndicate...
...Smathers still pulls a lot of weight and keeps the channels open to organized crime which has shown tremendous growth over the last ten years...
...New York: Norlo Publishing, 1971...
...Here Richard Nixon was able to play a crucial role...
...Over the next six years Nixon bought 185,891 shares of the company at one dollar each, a price from which the stock has never deviated-with one exception...
...Another corporation, Cape Florida Development Co., had to be constructed by the same interests to buy the land from World Wide when it became obvious that real estate values would jump...
...according to testimony before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Peter "has operated in all phases of stock fraud and has used stolen securities many times as underlying collateral...
...He is a friend of Lou Chesler who, like Rebozo, has been implicated in stolen stock deals but never prosecuted...
...Robert I. Wishnick 32,625 litco) hn M. Olin 31,500 (Olin Corp...
...The lawyer in several cases was Gerson Blatt, who purchased over 450 acres from the company for his own portfolio...
...Humphrey was financially dependent on contributions from the Minneapolis, Texas and Jewish banking groups (all part of the coalition...
...According to Burt Turkus, the former assistant New York City D A, the Los Angeles police were told by the sheriffs office to lay off Cohen's bookie joints...
...had never more than token cash in its bank account, Condev's sudden decision to put up $350,000," and Major Realty's timely intervention in the case, "just at the time when the corporation decided to pay the President two dollars a share, was opportune...
...This untraceable money is then used for shady activities, including pay-offs and planted publicity to aid the victory of the candidate...
...The Politics of Heroin in South East Asia...
...3) John M. King (4) Huntington Hartford (7) MAJOR CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTORS Mickey Cohen (5) Lou Chesler (3) (6) C. Arnholdt Smith (9) Richard Pistell (7) James Crosby (7) Howard Hughes (21) Lewis Rosenstiel (8) John M. King (4) POLITICAL SUPPORTERS OR GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS Murray Chotiner (10) Max Rabb (14) William Rogers (11) Barry Goldwater (15) George Smathers (2) (20) Frank Sinatra (16) Thomas Dewey (7) (8) Madame Chennault (23) Herbert Kalmbach (I) James Golden (7) Roy Cohn (8) Louis B Nichols (8) James Hoffa (12) William Saffire (22) Walter Annenberg (13) BUSINESS ASSOCIATES t Donald Berg (I) t Bebe Rebozo (1) (19) *Daniel K. Ludwig (6) (18) *Charles Allen (6) (17) t George Smathers (2) (20) *Trujillo Family (24) *Client of Nixon's law firm...
...structure...
...DINO CELLINI: an old Lansky associate...
...DONALD BERG: one of the founders and president of the Cape Florida Development Company, in which Bebe Rebozo has an investment...
...Rauh's statement is supported by Kampelman's involvement in several CIA-funded outfits, including Operations & Policy Research in Washington...
...By 1960 over $50 million in Teamster pension funds would be invested in Mob-controlled hotels and casinos...
...Siegelbaum was also one of the key people used by the Mob for the illegal movement of funds across borders...
...The act revealed, rather than concealed, a certain desperateness, a fear that McGovern, if nominated, could unleash forces that would unseat this bipartisan business coalition with dire consequences for their interests...
...Small Business Administration, which guaranteed rents on all the stores for 25 years, and from Rockefeller's Equitable Trust Company...
...The seller was later identified as Rockefeller's Chase Manhattan Bank...
...During the crash the old rum runners were among the only people who had ready cash...
...He befriended Thomas Dewey, who received large campaign contributions from him, as did many other politicians of the period...
...Source: U.S...
...Many Cuban exiles were integrated into the numbers rackets and prostitution, but their greatest value to the Mob was in the realm of the narcotics trade...
...It was a perfect time for the move...
...One month after Foster arrived at Lefcourt Realty, the company changed its name to World Wide Realty and Investing Co...
...Alabama ranks fifth in the nation for which the average rate is 52.6...
...And the very extremity of the Watergate action implied that this new force constituted a viable danger to Nixon's power and the power behind Nixon, that of the bipartisan business coalition...
...26, 1967...
...Now that an insurgent had seized the Democratic Party, to win the election it was imperative to unite behind the only coalition representative...
...After Repeal, he left Chicago and moved to California where he specialized in racketeering...
...Berg has several investments in the Key Biscayne area...
...A meeting of the National Crime Syndicate was called to discuss the problem...
...Foster is named in the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations as having been involved in stolen securities in New York City in 1967 and 1968...
...I will repeat that over and over...
...After JFK took power, business groups were dissatisfied with some of his policies, particularly the Bay of Pigs fiasco, the Civil Rights movement and the CIA overthrow of Diem...
...a loaded pistol and a walkie-talkie...
...The history of Cape Florida Development Co...
...The groups agreed to place their common economic necessity to control the White House19 ahead of party loyalty...
...These are in actuality but a few examples of the connections which exist between Richard Nixon's close friends and Organized Crime, not to mention the network that links Organized Crime to "legitimate business...
...Hunt and Liddy, forewarned in time by a lookout, fled into the night...
...George A. Smathers (D-Fla...
...The FBI once turned up at Bebe Rebozo's Key Biscayne Bank to question him about $300,000 worth of stolen IBM stock that had passed through his bank without being reported...
...no White House luncheons or conferences are open to the press...
...One of the Mob's favorite construction contractors for its lavish hotels and gambling casinos in Las Vegas was a company owned by Del Webb, one of J. Edgar Hoover's closest friends for many years...
...At the same time Rosenstiel was maintaining close relations with the Mob, he began building contacts in the political world...
...Second-class postage paid at New York, N.Y...
...This route is still one of the main conduits for the importation of drugs into the United States...
...Lilly, Doris...
...Statistical Abstract of the United States: 1970...
...It should be noted that the mortgage on one of Nixon's Cape Florida lots was transferred in 1968 to the City National Bank of Miami...
...Simply enough, as demonstrated in Robert Winter-Berger's Washington t.'ayol/: you pay for what you want and everything is for sale, so long as it is not in conflict with the overriding interests and priorities of the dominant and senior members of the bipartisan business coalition...
...He was rousing youth, Blacks, Chicanos, peace people, women who were going out and getting out the primary vote...
...William Clay Ford (Ford Motor) Mr...
...Dreyfus Fund) Mr...
...CLOSE PERSONAL FRIENDS Bebe Rebozo (1) (19) George Smathers (2) (20) Frank E. Mackle, Jr...
...he was entirely predictable, despite his liberal image...
...no es sicrnprc camino f6cil, no es ficil siempre ni ilano, no es fiAcil siempre ni llano, soldadi:o de Bolivia, no es ficil siempic ni llano...
...Guilford Dudley Jr...
...The government bureaucracy being a fairly small world, in 1949 it happened that Friendly served in the same ECA information depart- ment as Robert R. Mullen, founder of the Washington PR firm which Hunt used as a fund-raising front...
...Luciano, from 14 prison, helped organize New York City dock workers to prevent sabotage of cargoes during World War Two...
...To bolster HHH's chances, the Nixon staff activated a less drastic contingency, intelligence gathering...
...To imply, as many periodicals and newspapers have, that it was a moment of Nixonian over-eagerness (a sin that Nixon has long suffered from: overkill) that ordered this act of political espionage answers too little, in fact hides the forces that were behind this act...
...VIII Despierta, que ya es de dia, soldadito boliviano, esta en pie ya todo el mundo, porque el sol sali6 temprano, porquc el sol sali6 temprano, soldadito de Bolivia, porque el sol saii6 temprano...
...A bipartisan coalition was organized to try and maintain control over the parties and preserve the important myth of a two-party system...
...Paul q U U,,,, all ~~~ '.4 JlQ*W t4A~~~ C. 1T : | oU4IIIl U 1 -1 l-illu I Marine Midland k Boston k Bank of America k at...
...Naval Intelligence, Dewey pardoned Luciano and had him released to Italy...
...Polkin" was an acronym for Polizzi and John "King" Angersola, another mob figure who was made a partner in this company...
...Golden had long been a personal friend of the President...
...Another director is Frank B. Rackley, who was the president of Jessop Steel Co., a major subcontractor supplying steel used in the space program, another friend of the President, a former client of Nixon law firms...
...and Mrs...
...In recent years Roselli has returned to California and struck up a close relationship with Frank Sinatra, now the head of Entertainers for Nixon...
...7 Finishing off a hearty lobster dinner, they proceeded to break in to the DNC headquarters to repair alreadyplanted bugging devices and rummage the files to photograph key documents 3 8 The group was equipped with walkie-talkies set for frequencies assigned to McCord by the FCC and transmitting to Hunt and Liddy, reported to be somewhere inside the Watergate complex (across the street, a suite of rooms in a Howard Johnson's motel had been rented to serve as a listening post...
...The closest thing to this type of research is done by local investigative reporters...
...Rebozo "spent a lot of time on outside, time-consuming things," Neale said...
...One year after its founding in 1959, Major Realty valued its holdings at $25 million worth of Florida land, making it the third largest real estate company in the state...
...1970...
...McCord's close ties to the CRP and the RNC immediately distinguished him from the other members of the Watergate Five...
...3, 1972...
...BOURGEOISIE Established politics in the United States is primarily limited to intra-class conflicts within the bourgeoisie (those who own and control the means of production) and excludes inter-class struggle (i.e...
...Washington, D.C...
...When probing the publication of the Pentagon __ C I22 THE ECONOMIC-POLITICAL STRUCTURE OF THE U.S...
...Lansky...
...Amory Houghton (Corning Glass) Thomas B. McCabe (Scott Paper) Henry J. Heinz II (H.J...
...The Green Felt Jungle...
...Drug usage, particularly of heroin, has escalated...
...legalpolitical structure places most electoral power in the hands of the wealthy...
...Instead, relations are carried out through a series of intermediaries-businessmen operating in that gray sphere between legitimacy and illegitimacy and masked by a veil of legal corporate structures...
...Cellini was last reported organizing gambling junkets to the Colony Club in Lisbon, Portugal...
...and Mrs...
...IBM) Mr...
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