Special Issue: Nixon & The Election
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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...
...1: Richard M. Nixon...
...The extent of Lansky's power has been well documented by Hank Messick in Lansky...
...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...
...imperialism has suffered at the hands of the Indochinese people has significantly split the bourgeoisie...
...They know what sources are accessible, contain what information, and can possibly give you access to their own papers' files on the subject...
...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...
...The profits from bookmaking, lotteries, prostitution and abortions alone were $50 million a year...
...He is a friend of Lou Chesler who, like Rebozo, has been implicated in stolen stock deals but never prosecuted...
...In the 1940's, he moved his base of operations down to Florida and began investing in real estate...
...electoral system...
...At this point Reginelli traveled across the country to obtain Murray Chotiner's services and get a reversal of the deportation order...
...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...
...In the development of U.S...
...He worked with Peter Flanigan, better known as "Mr...
...This route is still one of the main conduits for the importation of drugs into the United States...
...Berg asked Rebozo, his friend and partner in Cape Florida Development, to have Nixon visit the company's offices and pose for a picture...
...For instance foreign policy has been relegated to Henry Kissinger, a long-time Rockefeller associate who hardly knew Nixon before the election...
...and Mrs...
...The $25,000 in cash was passed on April 8th to Kenneth H. Dahl- berg, a Minneapolis hearing aid manufacturer and regional finance chairman...
...McCord's close ties to the CRP and the RNC immediately distinguished him from the other members of the Watergate Five...
...What has not been fully understood is the relationship Lansky and a number of his close associates hold to Richard Nixon's career...
...Fix-it," Washingtonian, June 1972...
...DeWitt Wallace (Reader's Digest) William Benton (Encyclopaedia Britannica) Mr...
...By keeping poorer elements disunited they can be more easily exploited and manipulated...
...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...
...The investigation did not continue...
...At the time of the demonstrations, these agents were to provoke street battles with police surrounding the convention hall...
...The Nixon Administration seems dedicated to obliterating com- mitments which would pay for the social overhead, poverty and welfare programs...
...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...
...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...
...Agents were to infiltrate the groups planning demonstrations against the war and poverty...
...House...
...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...
...and Cape Florida Development Co.-he was doing business with Organized Crime...
...Statistical Abstract of the United States: 1970...
...Under Rockefeller guidance, all the groups reasoned that their primary objective, control of the federal government, superseded the demands of any one group...
...5. Hunt was born in 1918 and received his A.B...
...Each of its members had participated in the Bay of Pigs invasion and maintained close CIA connections...
...Here Richard Nixon was able to play a crucial role...
...closely connected to Lou Chesler...
...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...
...At the same time Rosenstiel was maintaining close relations with the Mob, he began building contacts in the political world...
...But the Rockefellerled coalition stayed with Nixon...
...and Mrs...
...Many other clients came cross-country seeking the services of Murray Chotiner...
...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...
...Perhaps the least of these favors was the presence of Richard Nixon at promotional activities of the Cape Florida Development Co...
...George A. Smathers (D-Fla...
...Unity behind their representatives in both parties would guarantee their dominance and limit the power of insurgents backed by the independently wealthy...
...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...
...Somehow, all the way from Philadelphia, he reached Chotiner In Los Angeles to ask him to defend him...
...There was already an economic infrastructure of U.S...
...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...
...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...
...During World War II, he served in the OSS in China, for which he won a presidential citation and the China Star...
...It was a courtship of convenience and a marriage of profit...
...Murder, Inc...
...Therefore, it is truly remarkable that in the two cases in which he has publicly acknowledged a personal financial stake-Fisher's Island Corp...
...The Mafia Talks...
...There had been elections again in 1948 and Carlos Prio Socarras had won...
...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...
...He is also a major investor in Israel...
...and Mrs...
...and Mrs...
...Unable or unwilling to attract Wall Street financing for their economic growth, they turned instead to the National Crime Syndicate...
...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...
...The arrows in the diagram indicate the lines of power between the various institutions...
...One of his corporations was involved in that...
...New York: Lancer Books, 1967...
...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 seller was later identified as Rockefeller's Chase Manhattan Bank...
...Rauh's statement is supported by Kampelman's involvement in several CIA-funded outfits, including Operations & Policy Research in Washington...
...There were also rumors circulating in 1969 of a secret RAND Corporation study on various ways of cancelling elections during times of social unrest...
...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...
...Polizzi is the owner of the Gold Key Island which is part of the same chain in which Bebe has investments...
...He owned stock in Baker's Serv-U Corp...
...Naval Intelligence, Dewey pardoned Luciano and had him released to Italy...
...Lew Wasserman (MCA) Mr...
...After Repeal, he left Chicago and moved to California where he specialized in racketeering...
...Ex-Johnson Administration officials John T. Conner, C.R...
...He had gone into hiding back in 1956 after a Senate rackets committee tagged him with influence peddling and cozy organized crime connections...
...Rebozo did some of that work in the directors' room, according to another former vice president, George B. Grant...
...and a suspected Lansky associate...
...Over the last 40 years, newer but smaller secondary financial groups have emerged in the South and Southwest...
...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...
...See Alfred McCoy, Politics of Heroin (Harper & Row, 1972...
...Santo Trafficante, Jr...
...The company began building in 1964 when Vance Foster joined the board of directors...
...Nixon has tried hard to keep his own name out of the various deals made between the government and private Florida interest groups...
...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...
...Lansky flew over to Cuba to talk with the new President and discuss the possibilities for Batista's re-entry...
...New York: Bantam Books, 1969...
...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...
...6l fue tu amigo de a pobre del Oriente al altiplano, del Oriente al altiplano, soldadito de Bolivia, del Oriente al altiplano...
...London: Macmillan Co...
...Heinz) MISCELLANEOUS Mr...
...He had formed the General Development Corp...
...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...
...The trick was to gather support for such clandestine operations from Humphreyites without jeopardizing preconvention power inside the Democratic Party...
...According to Hank Messick in John Edgar Hoover"Roselli himself personally delivered several of the assassination teams to the shore of Cuba...
...Anxious Nixon backers set about hatching an elaborate set of contingency plans to stop the growing insurgent effort...
...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...
...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...
...1 Chase also held the mortgage on the Island Hotel Co., Ltd., a Resorts subsidiary operating the hotel...
...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...
...For many years he acted as a "bagman" or courier for the Mob...
...Hunt left to join the CIA in 1949, moving on to stations in a number of locations, including Paris, Vienna, Mexico City and Montevideo...
...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...
...a loaded pistol and a walkie-talkie...
...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...
...Turkus, Burton, and Sid Feder...
...in which Wallace Groves held the controlling interest...
...MEYER LANSKY: one of the most important figures in Organized Crime for the past 40 years...
...New York Times, August 25, 1972...
...In 1960 Groves took in a partner named Lou Chesler...
...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...
...On this prediction Rosenstiel had stockpiled a large supply of liquor...
...SUBSCRIPTIONS: $6 per year for individuals ($11 for two years...
...One of the original stockholders was the ubiquitous Max Orovitz...
...This friendship proved to be most profitable when the Justice Department threatened to bring an anti-trust action against the liquor industry...
...From all indications, the real guiding force behind Mary Carter Paint Co...
...welfare for the rich...
...Condev proceeded to deposit $350,000 with Fisher's Island, Inc...
...Roselli's job was to find someone to assassinate Castro...
...Greenwich, Connecticut: Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1969...
...In October 1971 a team of investigative reporters from Newsday documented some of the connections between organized crime and the Smathers-Rebozo crowd...
...What begins to stand out is the normal mode of operation of the bipartisan business coalition (see box) which sanctioned the act...
...The next day a smiling picture of Berg and Nixon appeared in several Florida newspapers and tie Cape Florida Development Co...
...The battle front shifted to legal maneuvering inside the Democratic Party credentials committee and the courts...
...Over the past year Nixon's chances had been looking good...
...Mr...
...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 reference to JFK's assassination is ironic...
...Messick, Hank...
...Ferrer was also registered at the Watergate the night of June 17th...
...New York: Pocket Books, Inc., 1964...
...A Lansky associate, he moved down to Florida when the territory opened up to the Mob...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...MARY CARTER'S MANY FRIENDS In 1966, Groves entered into a joint venture with the Mary Carter Paint Co...
...The Green Felt Jungle...
...Trafficante, Sr., was one of the most important Mafia men in Florida for many years...
...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...
...2. A slush fund, that old U.S...
...Jack Dreyfus Jr...
...The entire area was soon known as Lanskyville-and still is...
...Albert Gordon (Kidder Peabody) Bernard Cornfeld (Investors Overseas Services) Mr...
...Through the good graces of Humphrey, Kampelman has also been involved in several shady business deals...
...Nixonites seem to have a real propensity for General Foods...
...Southern Florida has virtually become the headquarters of Organized Crime and of the National Crime Syndicate network that dominates its international operations...
...Allen went on to become president of Pepsico, a strong supporter of Nixon since the days he worked as the company's lawyer...
...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...
...Any ultra-sensitive operation like this would require the sanction of the bipartisan coalitionDemocrats as well as Republicans...
...14) Principal in Miami International Airport Hotel Systems, a Lansky related operation...
...Fortunately for Richard Nixon, however, the forfeited deposit nearly matched the $371,782 needed by Fisher Island, Inc...
...Inside the FBI...
...bourgeoisie affects the political process, especially the presidential election...
...Trustee) 468 Bay Lane people around former Senator George Smathers and Bebe Rebozo...
...In early 1965, World Wide Realty purchased a piece of Cape Florida land for which the Miami Beach First National Bank acted as trustee...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...Watergate embodied only one tactic in a much broader stop-McGovern strategy...
...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...
...New York: Bantam Books, 1970...
...There is also a strong indication that Hunt served as a ghost writer for Vice-President Agnew...
...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...
...New York: G.P...
...This bank is suspected of being used for the deposit of illegal "skim" money from casinos in the Bahamas...
...It had taken over most of the hotels and had built several new ones...
...There was obviously another fear: that, in fact, the perceived interest of the majority of the electorate lay with McGovern...
...Retiring" in 1970, he founded his own Maryland-based security consulting firm, McCord Associates, Inc...
...When Mickey was finally convicted of tax evasion, the judge sentenced him to the lightest possible term...
...Known as the most important gangster in the Philadelphia-South Jersey area, Reginelli was convicted at least six times during his checkered career...
...In late 1971, Liddy was shipped over to the Treasury, Eugene Rossides...
...scldadito boliviano...
...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...
...The primary base was once again the Caribbean and the prime mover was once again Meyer Lansky...
...He never sat back and smoked a cigaret or read the newspaper...
...Murray consulted with the then Assistant Attorney General (now Secretary of State), William P. Rogers, and managed to get the order rescinded...
...12 per year for institutions ($22 for two years...
...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...
...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...
...In 1960 he interrupted his gambling and rackets career briefly to work with the CIA on attempts to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro...
...Some of Lansky's closest associates became the main distributors of the liquor across the country...
...Siegelbaum was also one of the key people used by the Mob for the illegal movement of funds across borders...
...KEY (2) Major Realty Company...
...Chesler was also known for his role in the field of land development...
...John L. Loeb (Loeb, Rhoades) Howard Stein (Dreyfus Fund) Mr...
...however gradual, is not only a farce, but is being abandoned...
...Word never came, so Rivers returned to Florida...
...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...
...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...
...Today he is still a director of the City National Bank of Miami which once held the mortgage on Nixon's Key Biscayne property...
...Annenberg was finally convicted of tax evasion and sentenced to three years in jail...
...WILLIE BIOFF: one of the key men in the mob's movie studio extortion racket...
...That's his gift, really-salesmanship...
...Golden had long been a personal friend of the President...
...They further correctly saw that ending the Indochina war was the primary concern of most North Americans...
...in Florida and turned it into the largest real estate operation in the state...
...This structure has been protected over the past 40 years by one of the most corrupt local political systems in all the United States...
...After his 1968 election, Nixon decided to sell this stock...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...Dreyfus Fund) Mr...
...MICKEY COHEN: took over control of the Syndicate in California after the death of Bugsy Siegel...
...Primary and secondary financial groups work through an informal bipartisan business coalition to select and promote specific candidates for both major parties...
...In 1962, Nixon began buying shares in another Florida real estate development called Fisher's Island, Inc...
...The purpose is to kill a number of delegates...
...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...
...The process applies in reverse if you start with a corporation...
...18) King's...
...New York: Pocket Books,1970...
...But can we expect anything else from a man who means war when he says peace and says life when he means death...
...Winter-Berger, Robert...
...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...
...David Packard (Hewlett-Packard) COMMUNICATIONS Norman Cousins (Saturday Review) Mr...
...Using money collected from right-wing Texas and California businessmen, he organized several counter-revolutionary exile invasions against Cuba...
...His specialty is overseeing gambling operations...
...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...
...Mitchell also had the Rockefellers' blessing for Attorney General since Nelson had worked closely with the bond lawyer in Albany...
...What we are searching for is the intermediaries or fronts used by the Mob...
...then investigate all the people who are involved in each of those corporations...
...After being released he moved to Arizona and became a good friend of conservative Senator Barry Goldwater...
...Lansky...
...LEWIS ROSENSTIEL: well known for his connections to the Mob and the right wing...
...Guilford Dudley Jr...
...Lansky accomplished his mission and Grau San Martin was elected President of Cuba...
...According to the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, he is still one of the most influential figures in the underground world...
...troops infuriated the invasion's organizers and aggressive supporters, who included the former vice president, Richard Milhous Nixon...
...Meanwhile, agents inside the convention hall were to plant explosives timed to blow up coincidental with the riots in the streets...
...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...
...16) Mob-connected entertainer now heading Celebrities for Nixon...
...Our analysis has been based on the explanation of financial groups provided by S. Menshikov in Millionaires and Managers, Moscow, n.d...
...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...
...Goldwater is shown denying a report that he had close affiliations with one Willie Bioff...
...Another important piece of evidence also suggests his involvement in these plans...
...Shriver and Harris are partners in the Washington law firm of Freed, Drank, Harris, Shriver & Kampelman...
...III ,No sabes quin es el muerto, soldadito boliviano...
...and Mrs...
...Since Organized Crime is involved in many businesses and industries...
...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...
...Watergate Questions Abound," Washington Post, Sept...
...National Airlines) Mr...
...6. Richard M. Nixon, Six Crises, pp...
...It is tedious work but it is the only way by which to unmask the front companies and people used by Organized Crime...
...Hunt painstakingly erected 75 to 90 secret conduits with such Nixonian-fantasy names as "Supporters of the American Dream...
...MARCO REGINELLI: a famous client of Murray Chotiner, Nixon's long-time political advisor...
...W. Clement Stone (Combined American Insurance) J. Willard Marriott (Marriott Corp...
...Part of that success was due to his partner, Frank Mackle, also a friend of Nixon...
...VI, No...
...The oil company lawyer and LBJ protege an- nounced the formation of Democrats for Nixon...
...Senator Barry Goldwater, as he spoke to reporters in a Pittsburgh press conference on November 15, 1963...
...John S. Bugas (Ford) Mr...
...Talese, Gay...
...This does not mean McGovern wants to end imperialist rule at home or abroad...
...Inn (Bahamian hotel, owned jointly by Ludwig and San Cohen, a known Lansky associate...
...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...
...The list of Johnson and Humphrey supporters now behind Nixon is staggering...
...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...
...and Mrs...
...The Schenley distribution network was based on the Syndicate's Prohibition L.B.J...
...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...
...Lait, Jack, and Mortimer Lee...
...Those Fabulous Greeks: Onassis, Niarchos and Li- vanos...
...Syndicate Abroad...
...Secaucus, N.J.: Lyle Stuart, Inc., 1972...
...The Grim Reapers...
...Prio finally agreed to the dictator's return on the condition that he be allowed to finish out his term of office...
...Robert Galvin (Motorola) Mr...
...More recently Chesler has been accused of dealing in stolen securities, one of the Mob's most lucrative current operations...
...The last remaining obstacle to a GOP victory was the emergence of a charismatic candidate from the Kennedy organization...
...More people than ever need welfare assistance...
...At its height, the Service was making $20 million over a three year period with operations in 223 cities...
...To counter just such insurgent threats, the established business groups organized themselves long ago into a bipartisan coalition...
...New York: Cowles Book Co., Inc., 1970...
...Shortly after that he was joined on the board by a director of another Lansky bank, Alan Kornblum...
...The coalition dropped its support and vowed to oppose any future Kennedy candidates...
...New York: Harper & Row, 1972...
...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...
...1) Cape Florida Development Company...
...The Spies Who Came in For the Heat," Newsweek, September 18, 1972...
...John M. Loeb, Sr., unofficial overseer of several New York banking houses (Lehman Brothers...
...There's one difference between the Reds and the Pinks...
...They range from lurid sexual scenes to behind-the-scenes Washington political life and they include a number on Latin America...
...President Kennedy's refusal to save the mercenaries by sending in U.S...
...From this position he maintained a close relationship with Happy Meltzer who was eventually convicted of running a multimillion dollar drug ring...
...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...
...Richard Nixon The Watergate affair keeps raising more questions than it seems to settle...
...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...
...From his father he inherited the northern Florida area and a close relationship with the pre-revolutionary Cuban overnment...
...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...
...Humphrey was financially dependent on contributions from the Minneapolis, Texas and Jewish banking groups (all part of the coalition...
...In 1965, he showed his gratitude by contributing $1 million worth of Schenley stock to finance the J. Edgar Hoover Foundation...
...It was imperative that this be photographed and that their mission be accomplished, in the shortest period of time possible...
...He had headed up security for Nixon on his trips to Asia, Latin America and Russia...
...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...
...Lilly, Doris...
...This untraceable money is then used for shady activities, including pay-offs and planted publicity to aid the victory of the candidate...
...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...
...James A. Linen III (Time Inc...
...William Clay Ford (Ford Motor) Mr...
...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...
...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...
...30, 1968, the bank's total assets were about $5,000,000...
...He was appointed Ambassador to England by Richard Nixon...
...jurisdiction...
...2 In 1958 a real estate company called Desser & Garfield purchased the land for $13 million...
...Polkin" was an acronym for Polizzi and John "King" Angersola, another mob figure who was made a partner in this company...
...The Vatican owned 15 percent of Imobiliare which it sold to Michele Sindona in 1969...
...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...
...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...
...But all of that easy-going ambience could be misleading...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...But these revela- tions merely scratched the surface...
...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...
...The merger of large industrial and banking family fortunes leads to the formation of a group...
...The company is considered by law enforcement agencies as the primary Meyer Lansky real estate front in Florida...
...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...
...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...
...He even offered the vice presidential slot on his ticket to the rock-ribbed Republican...
...The Mary Carter Paint Co...
...Inside the Democratic Party, the coalition front-man most favored was Hubert Humphrey...
...In 1968, he owed his political life to Johnson and his nomination to RFK's assassination...
...Senator from Florida and Nixon confidant George Smathers...
...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...
...The revamping proved extremely successful...
...Captive City...
...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...
...Another important source for investigating smaller companies is U.S...
...Mr...
...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...
...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...
...It is organically connected to the aims of the bipartisan coalition and an accepted mode of operation...
...There are really few organized sources for this imformation and so one must rely heavily on interviews, local newspaper morgues and local government records...
...Just as big business is in constant need of favors from the government...
...Associated with both Martinez and Barker was a Miami locksmith, Virgilio R. Gonzales...
...But the idea for Las Vegas lived on to become one of the most important ventures for the Syndicate...
...Listed below are the contributions of ElI Mr (W Jo CHEMICALS AND PHARMACEUTICALS Republican mer H. Bobst $63,250 garner Lambert) r. and Mrs...
...In all likelihood, when disruption plans were placed on the back burner, he was switched to the espionage operation...
...A bipartisan coalition was organized to try and maintain control over the parties and preserve the important myth of a two-party system...
...and Mrs...
...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...
...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...
...Address all mail to Box 57, Cathedral Station, N.Y., N,Y...
...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...
...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...
...But when there appear deep cleavages within the bourgeoisie popular forces can effect some decisions through the electoral system...
...He has also become involved in a number of deals with Donald Berg, the president of Cape Florida Development...
...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...
...But Rosenstiel's most useful contact was none other than J. Edgar Hoover, the all-American crime fighter...
...Drug usage, particularly of heroin, has escalated...
...Therefore, he received some primary support and significant secondary backing from the Texas, Florida and Minneapolis groups...
...It cannot lobby in its own name and public contact with politicians is discouraged...
...Ollestad, Norman...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...That, when the bank was built, the guest of honor at the groundbreaking ceremony was Sen...
...Political conservatism is reflected in some of Hunt's detective, sex and science fiction novels and short stories...
...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...
...Alabama ranks fifth in the nation for which the average rate is 52.6...
...The lawyers used in various deals are often the key link between Organized Crime and "legitimate Demaris, Ovid...
...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...
...seated) and, from left, U.S...
...His brother Peter was arrested on a charge of possession of stolen securities...
...Blatt has been identified in testimony before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations as an associate of Meyer Lansky...
...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...
...The groups agreed to place their common economic necessity to control the White House19 ahead of party loyalty...
...they have the same bible-the teachings of Karl Marx...
...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...
...The president and chairman of the board was George Friedland, who was mentioned previously as the head of Food Fair, Inc...
...Richard Nixon also took a special interest in Cuba...
...Security and Exchange Commision (SEC) reports...
...As the final touch Bebe hired the Polizzi Construction Co...
...His advancement ran parallel to the expansion of the Agency and its development into the most powerful weapon for constructing the U.S...
...In the early to mid-I 950's, he served as a consultant to the top White House Intelligence coordinating boards...
...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...
...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...
...favorable laws and regulations are always helpful...
...Historically, each group competed with the others for control over the parties and the nomination and election of its representative...
...All the way back in 1937, Lansky opened his first Cuban operation, a casino in the Hotel Nacional...
...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...
...IX kl1 fue tu mejor amigo, soldadito boliviano...
...Putnam's Sons, 1971...
...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...
...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...
...There is a chance that Martha's actions were a sincere reaction to the Watergate operation...
...3. "The Watergate Issue," Time, August 28, 1972...
...to serve as a legal front for the distribution of illegal liquor...
...More investigation will link the names mentioned here with more legitimate areas of business and politics...
...The Capitol's most In address, the Watergate complex was erected by Italy's largest real estate firm, Societa Generale Imobiliare...
...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...
...The Eastern primary groups, led by the Rockefellers, were reluctant to fully back his candidacy because of his secondary origins...
...LOU CHESLER: "Uncle Lou" to his friends, he has been around the Florida and Caribbean scene for many years...
...and Mrs...
...He is a businessman par excellence...
...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...
...Beginning as a bootlegger in Chicago, he was closely associated with Longie Zwillman and Al Capone...
...Shortly afterward, Mary Carter changed its name to Resorts International...
...The young remain discontented and a potential source of revolution, obviously looking for a new leader, if not yet a new system...
...The methodology for doing this is to build outward from the reliable information found in the books listed below...
...One of his major investments in the Florida area was in the General Development Company, with Frank Mackle and Max Orovitz...
...Parts 1-4...
...For example, he invested $100,000 in Major Realty, the company in which George Smathers is a director...
...To continue to exist and grow Organized Crime must have protection--this is where politicians and government officials come in...
...The two men certainly knew each other...
...more likely, he needed an excuse to step down from a high public position before a full disclosure unmasked his role...
...is, according to Washington ADA lawyer Joseph Rauh, a "CIA agent" (Robert Sherrill, The Drugstore Liberal, p. 113...
...Empire...
...Congressional committees...
...Orders came directly from the State Department of Justice, District Attorney Evelle Younger, on these special squads...
...all are referred to in the source material listed in the bibliography...
...que no se mata a un hermano...
...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...
...It was Lansky who orchestrated the Mob's move into Cuba after establishing a close relationship with the dictator, Batista...
...Among the donors were the traditional fat cat Republicans paying their dues for past business favors or future promises...
...Source: U.S...
...From there, he controlled illegal gambling throughout Dade County, Florida...
...Bioff was finally indicted for the role which he played and served some time in jail...
...He surfaced in 1971 as a part-time $100-a-day White House consultant to Charles W. Colson...
...2. Probate File No.14989 - - Estate of Marshall F. Sanders...
...that it was the Republicans who bugged the Democrats...
...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...
...Amory Houghton (Corning Glass) Thomas B. McCabe (Scott Paper) Henry J. Heinz II (H.J...
...The National Crime Syndicate also belongs to the coalition as well as exerting influence directly on politicians in both parties...
...between the bourgeoisie and the working class...
...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...
...Reid, Ed...
...The emergence of the Rockefeller group as the unchallenged leader of all the groups after World War II provided a solution to this dilemma...
...Even more frightening is the fact that this coalition will do whatever is necessary to maintain its control over the federal government...
...Many of his deals concentrated on the Coral Gables area where Bebe Rebozo also got his start...
...Soldier of Fortune Held on High Bail,"Washington Post, June 25, 1972...
...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...
...This special series on Nixon, Rebozo and Smathers is available from Newsday, 550 Stewart Ave., Garden City, Long Island, NY 11530...
...The mood of restlessness and cynicism prevalent in the country was, and is, very strong...
...Chotiner consulted with several Justice Department officials and with then Assistant Attorney General William Rogers...
...Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations, United States Senate...
...He then established the Grand Bahama Port Authority to develop the land...
...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...
...It was an extremely lucrative racket...
...Southern interests and the shipping industry...
...The two most important books giving a clear conception of the National Crime Syndicate are Lansky and John Edgar Hoover, both by Hank Messick...
...To select merchants for the storefronts, Bebe hired Edguardo Buttari, who in 1968 had headed Cubans for Nixon nationally...
...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...
...But no major irivestment was made at this point...
...Shortly thereafter, Cape Florida Development Co., from which Richard Nixon bought his Key Biscayne property, was incorporated...
...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...
...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...
...V Esta mi guitarra cntera, soldadito boliviano, de luto, pero no Hlora, aunque Ilorar cs humano...
...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...
...For his role in this plan, developed through the combined efforts of Meyer Lansky and U.S...
...The Washington Payoff...
...Siegel was put in charge of California and was responsible for coordinating the narcotics trade, bookmaking operations, the movie rackets and political contacts...
...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...
...Honor Thy Father...
...TO A COLONIAL PLAYGROUND IN CUBA The first major international operation which Organized Crime undertook was its foray into Cuba...
...Luciano, from 14 prison, helped organize New York City dock workers to prevent sabotage of cargoes during World War Two...
...1970...
...He is described as "the only person Nixon really trusts...
...Furthermore, one of the Five, Frank Sturgis, was "among those questioned by the FBI after John Kennedy's assassination because of his activities...
...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...
...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...
...Nixon lost the 1960 presidential election for the following reasons...
...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...
...party politics, over the last decade, has centered around the ambitious Kennedy organization...
...If the law had not been changed, Schenley would have had to pay millions of dollars of taxes on excess liquor in its warehouses...
...Its author, Hunt, is, in fact, a prolific writer of just such material, producing 42 titles in his life-time...
...6) Grand Bahamian Port Authority or Grand Bahamian Development Company...
...Colson was an active member with Hunt in the Brown University Alumni Club in Washington...
...A ready-made vehicle for accomplishing this delicate task existed in the form of a super-secret Nixon slush fund...
...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...
...Nevertheless, a look at the conditions in Alabama during Wallace's reign (1962 on) indicates the exact opposite...
...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...
...Each lead must be followed through completely to the end...
...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...
...One of the original back-room boys," Colson handled the Nixon Administration's most sensitive ultra-secret business and political assignments...
...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...
...9 However, the Five's cover aliases were quickly blown and the unraveling of their connections to the top Republican leadership began...
...13) Son of bookie news service owner whose fortune rested on Mob connections...
...Address books of two defendants listed Hunt's name along with the notations "W.H...
...During the 1950's the Trafficante family had a dispute with Lansky over control of the lucrative Cuban territory...
...By 1947, the times were already changing and Cuba once again began to assume an important role in the international scheme of Organized Crime...
...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...
...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...
...and Mrs...
...Nixon's resurrection began in 1963 when he moved to New York and entered a Wall Street law firm (Mudge, Rose, Guthrie & Alexander...
...1969...
...Thomas Mellon Evans (Crane Co...
...With this intricate structure at their command, Hunt and Liddy went after Humphrey backers to finance antiMcGovern political espionage...
...That same year he leased Havana's race track from the National City Bank of New York...
...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...
...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...
...Berg has also been a close personal friend and occasional business associate of Lou Chesler, a Lansky front man...
...He is now making "substantial contributions to the Nixon campaign...
...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...
...Nixon's Mr...
...His backers knew a Rockefeller would swing GOP coalition members behind HHH and sew up the election...
...A business or financial group is a coalition of many diverse corporations centrally coordinated and controlled through a leading commercial bank...
...AID funds...
...12) Controlled Teamster pension funds used for large investments in Mob companies...
...Florida is still crucial...
...and Mrs...
...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...
...Washington Post, June 22, 1972...
...New York: David McKay Co., Inc., 1972...
...6 the head of the company, used to be the head of the Mayfield Road Gang in Cleveland...
...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...
...In recent years Roselli has returned to California and struck up a close relationship with Frank Sinatra, now the head of Entertainers for Nixon...
...Senators George Smathers, Richard Russell, Earle Clements and Stuart Symington...
...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...
...and its client, General Foods...
...Webb was also a close friend of J.Edgar Hoover...
...all of Messick's books are indexed, but they do not include corporations, which is a real failing...
...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...
...his asking price was three dollars a share...
...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...
...Minnie Pearl) Mr...
...5 Since 1949, he had climbed up through the ranks of the CIA...
...IBM) Mr...
...When Repeal came, he helped Meyer Lansky and Lucky Luciano set up the Molaska Corp...
...The latter received its largest government subsidy in history under Nixon...
...At the same time, he began buying up land along highway AIA, the scenic coast road...
...Today, George Smathers, one of its largest stockholders, owns nearly $1 million worth of Major Realty stock and sits on the board of directors...
...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...
...His release was obtained a few years later as a result of an intricate government plan called Operation Underworld...
...New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1951...
...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...
...Cliff Jones, the ex-Lieutenant Governor of Nevada, would eventually become a business partner and front man of the Mob...
...John M. King (King Resources) Robert O. Anderson (Atlantic Richfield) Robert P. McCulloch (McCulloch Oil) Mr...
...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...
...Liddy came next-dropped by Mitchell on June 28th for failing to answer questions from his former employer, the FBI...
...known for harboring Organized Crime figures and investing in their operations...
...and Resorts International is Meyer Lansky...
...Benson Ford (Ford Motor) Henry Ford II (Ford Motor) Charles Revson (Revlon) Mr...
...To insure his victory, the coalition would engineer the nomination of a phantom opponent in the Democratic Party...
...he was entirely predictable, despite his liberal image...
...17 business" or the government...
...The man who presented the Condev proposal to Fisher's Island was William Rebozo, Bebe's nephew...
...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...
...To look at this covert action as an aberration is wrong...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...The right-wing China Lobby lost its bid for an escalation of the Korean War-but Schenley was still able to maintain its profits...
...The law firm which first assembled the tracts of land for Major Realty was Levy, Plisco, and Zalla of West Palm Beach, Florida...
...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...
...In September, Attorney General Kleindienst, campaigning for Nixon, gave a major address at General Foods' Westchester, N.Y...
...7) Resorts International...
...Second-class postage paid at New York, N.Y...
...That conglomerate, with an annual income of over $20 billion, is called the National Crime Syndicate...
...Cellini was last reported organizing gambling junkets to the Colony Club in Lisbon, Portugal...
...and Mrs...
...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...
...and Mrs...
...This company also entered into a joint venture with Major Realty Co...
...18 Opening the Watergate Now this is the kind of thing you expect under a person like Hitler...
...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 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...
...It successfully challenged the power of these groups first inside the Democratic Party and then secured a run for the presidency...
...aunque liorar es humano, soldadito de Bolivia, aunque llorar es humano...
...BATISTA, LANSKY AND THE INVASION INVESTMENT This is not the only example of Rebozo's involvement with members of the gusano community...
...Maas, Peter...
...In addition, it had made a deal with Gulf and Western Industries for two separate purchases of 900,000 shares each...
...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 first important step was to insure the return of Batista...
...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...
...They had plenty of liquid capital and continued to make more every day...
...3 For four months, from December 1971 through March 1972, this special fund-raising intelligence squad collected at least $10 million in secret contributions...
...Communication with the government must be extremely discreet...
...and "W...
...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...
...The other key slush fund organizer, G. Gordon Liddy, operated in a more public capacity as finace counsel to the CRP...
...Several unsuccessful attempts were made, one on the eve of the Bay of Pigs invasion...
...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...
...Nichols eventually went on to become an officer of the corporation...
...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...
...A former Air Force Lieutenant, McCord was employed by the CIA since 1951...
...This additional economic power would also encourage its further penetration of the government and the U.S...
...FINANCE Mr...
...This had to be prevented by any means necessary, including covert action...
...But they are serious about ending the war by recognizing the liberation forces' military victory...
...After some customary haggling, the corporation decided on two dollars per share, but the question was where to find the cash to make payment...
...t Personal business with Nixon...
...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...
...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...
...McCoy, Alfred...
...Hearings on Organized Crime: Stolen Securities...
...that of two political parties contending with one another...
...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...
...Business group: The basic unit of modern capitalism...
...To these rather mundane crimes we would have to add those of war and genocide for which history will surely judge him...
...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...
...Between the larger and smaller groups there exist medium size groups located primarily around Cleveland, Chicago, Minneapolis and San Francisco...
...Coge cl camino derecho...
...Previous to the Bahamas deal, Mary Carter had been involved with Al Malnik, one of Lansky's attorneys...
...When the U.S...
...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...
...Batista temporarily retired to Daytona Beach, Florida...
...Rossides was a partner in Secretary of State William P. Rogers' law firm, Royall, Koegall, Rogers & Wells...
...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...
...There actually may have been earlier action on the weekend of May 13th to 14th when the chancery of the Chilean Embassy was burglarized...
...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...
...21) Multi-millionaire involved with the Mob in Las Vegas and the Bahamas...
...For instance, the casino was put under the supervision of Ed Cellini, who had worked for Lansky over many years in other gambling operations...
...He certainly appeared to be the right man to get things accomplished...
...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...
...He was very adamant and anti-coffee-break...
...Still maintaining his close contact with numerous mobsters, Rosenstiel built Schenley into one of the major liquor companies...
...citizenship back with the help of the then-Florida Senator George Smathers (dubbed the "Cuban Senator" during the 1950's...
...New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1952...
...The plan failed but Roselli renewed his efforts several times over the years...
...5) Successor to Bugsy Siegel for the National Crime Syndicate in California...
...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...
...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...
...Literally meaning worm, a derogatory term used by the Cuban government to describe those who left their country after the Revo- lution...
...Las Vegas was also the launching ground for the close relationship between certain Teamster Union leaders and the Syndicate...
...It turns out that his firm's only "clients" were the CRP and the RNC...
...The relationship has been solidified in financial as well as personal matters...
...The aspiring young Californian's campaign manager was Murray Chotiner...
...Berg, who became president of the new company, had been involved in the Florida area for several years...
...A careful study of this corporation and its history gives us real insight into the investments and business operations associated with the President...
...In 1967, Richard Nixon was a guest of honor at the grand opening of the hotel and casino on Paradise Island...
...On January 16, 1946, the property which includes land now owned by Cape Floriaa Development was transferred to the Biscayne Beach Corp...
...Given that recent news dispatches report his resignation as taking place in 1970, we have an indication of what CIA resignations really mean...
...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...
...Martha Mitchell freaked out, apparently over her husband's role in Watergate and his less than gentlemanly associates...
...in return for an option to purchase its land...
...Nurtured by an independent fortune and utilizing charismatic figures, the Kennedy machine has repeatedly threatened the political hegemony of established business groups...
...Florida tourism is another field which has yielded enormous profits...
...12, 1969), Resorts International agreed to buy 1.5 million shares of Pan Am from an unidentified seller...
...His role was to attract legitimate capital...
...At this PR firm, Caddy shared an office with Hunt...
...He was almost dumped after the famous slush fund scandal because inter-primarysecondary group relations were still weak, untested and ill- defined...
...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...
...Lansky, in Cuba on that memorable night, also boarded a plane and headed across the Caribbean for the shores of his home base, Florida...
...Siegelbaum is known as a courier for the Lansky organization...
...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...
...Florida's George Smathers, retired from the Senate, now lobbies for several giant corporations...
...intermediary...
...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...
...CLOSE PERSONAL FRIENDS Bebe Rebozo (1) (19) George Smathers (2) (20) Frank E. Mackle, Jr...
...The Reds want to socialize the world and make Moscow the world capital...
...Moreover, the entire U.S...
...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...
...Cuba remained merely a promise for the future for Organized Crime...
...12 dollars of stolen stock are not arrested...
...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...
...It also provides a look at the complexity and breadth of Organized Crime's influence and sophistication...
...They soon formed an alliance with Lucky Luciano and following the Americanization of theMafia, merged with him to form the National Crime Syndicate...
...If the SEC has brought charges against them, this information and more is available in SEC literature or regional libraries...
...gambling spots, Ed went to Havana for a time and then wound up in the Bahamas as a manager of the Lucayan Beach Hotel...
...Chesler was a contributor to Nixon's 1968 campaign...
...In Miami, Barker recruited a three-man commando team from the well-heeled part of the Cuban exile com- munity...
...The Valachi Papers...
...Special Report in Six Parts...
...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...
...The idea for the Mob's move into Las Vegas originated with Siegel...
...It is the unit of politics, the real party...
...He had served its interests faithfully and "deserved" another term...
...In February 1967, Nixon visited Florida to attend the wedding of Florida Governor Claude Kirk...
...This would have given Resorts a total of 9.7 percent of the outstanding shares of Pan Am stock-a controlling interest...
...of Florida in which George Smathers, Max Orovitz and Ben Siegelbaum all have investments...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...Nelson Rockefeller...
...Bipartisan Business Coalition: The informal political directorate of the business groups...
...The company was soon the largest real estate outfit in all of Florida...
...Reported to be well versed in plastic explosives and other undercover operations, he has since helped would-be exiles "escape" from Cuba...
...and Mrs...
...of Agriculture, contains less than accepta- ble levels of 7 nutrients: Vitamins A and C, hemoglobin, plasma protein, sirum albumin, urinary riboflavin and thiamine...
...It was later revealed that the DA had received a $30,000 campaign contribution from Siegal...
...To understand this bank, it might be well to remember that the bank is partly owned and largely controlled by Bebe Rebozo...
...6 From this point on, it appears that Hunt and Nixon's careers were inextricably entwined...
...It is important not to be bemused by the more covert and glamorous aspects of the intelligence community, particularly the CIA...
...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...
...legalpolitical structure places most electoral power in the hands of the wealthy...
...Liddy tried to coordinate this activity with Stans' more public collections...
...Bureau of the Census...
...He also shares a law office with Ben Siegelbaum, identified in numerous sources as one of Lansky's main couriers for illegal money...
...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...
...Newsday...
...plant...
...3) General Development Company...
...Copyright 1971 by D.C...
...But, an alert Watergate guard, spotting tape on the doors, notified the police who, at gunpoint, apprehended the Watergate Five inside the DNC headquarters...
...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...
...9. Several business scandals involving Flanigan have surfaced, in- cluding the ITT affair...
...But competition increased the chance for losing control of one or both parties to businessmen outside the established groups...
...But when he was there, he was working intensely...
...In the process of building the hotel, he formed a close friendship with Del Webb, owner of the construction company erecting the edifice...
...If anything, it's the other way around...
...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...
...What distinguishes Major Realty is that one of its big stockholders and directors, George Smathers, is a former U.S...
...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...
...Payoff...
...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...
...Because of the reduction of commitments to the social overhead, law itself seems in danger...
...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...
...Santo Trafficante, Jr., the Mob's narcotics czar, recruited many gusanos into his organization...
...Obviously, McGovern speaks to real social discontents...
...John M. Schiff (Kuhn Loeb) Mr...
...citizen of Cuban parentage and probably Nixon's closest friend...
...Racism is becoming more overt through Nixon's policy of "benign neglect...
...23) Principal figure in the China Lobby which is central to the illicit importation of heroin from Southeast Asia...
...Before the Revolution, he served in Cuban dictator Batista's secret police...
...Hand-picked to run this quasi-public make-shift slush fund operation was E. Howard Hunt, Jr., a leading CIA spook...
...Barker, a Cuban-born Florida realestate broker, served as pay-master in the Bay of Pigs invasion under the code name, "~acho...
...and Mrs...
...His title, according to the official papers, was "manager" of the kitchen...
...Nixon was the overwhelming choice of this coalition for the 1972 election...
...The Pinks want to socialize America...
...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...
...One of Resorts' biggest coups was its acquisition of a large block of Pan American Airways stock...
...3, 1972...
...0 In searching Hunt's abandoned White House desk, FBI agents found...
...The Warren Commission Report raised more doubts than it dispelled...
...to operate a gambling casino on nearby Paradise Island...
...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...
...This would guarantee the nomination and election of a favorable candidate...
...Barker-Hunt Links in Latin Deals Cited," New York Times, July 2, 1972...
...Here, too, the Syndicate was successful...
...Until his death 10 years ago, Luciano remained one of the most important men in the Mafia...
...Dana Smith, Pasadena lawyer and head of Nixon's 1952 slush fund In 1970, Hunt reputedly "left" the Agency...
...From Italy, Luciano was able to control the narcotics traffic, whose major source of supply was the Middle East...
...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...
...U.S.A...
...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...
...20) Good friend and business associate of Bobby Baker...
...On the secondary side, the Texas group was accorded its due reward with the appointment of John B.Connally as Secretary of the Treasury...
...Crime is an industry with its own particular form of development...
...One of the original stockholders in the bank is Thomas A. Butler, who bought 100 shares with his wife...
...More than simple embarrassment was stake...
...378-384...
...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...
...Their paths are similar...
...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...
...Economic threats from abroad, the monetary crisis and the inability to compete on favorable terms drains funds ear-marked for other sectors...
...and Mrs...
...Recently, Trafficante, Jr., made an extensive trip to Southeast Asia--now the major narcotics source for the United States...
...MOBBING THE BAHAMAS The loss of Cuba, while important for Organized Crime, only served to hasten its expansion into new enterprises and new territories...
...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...
...I will repeat that over and over...
...One month after Foster arrived at Lefcourt Realty, the company changed its name to World Wide Realty and Investing Co...
...Conflict in U.S...
...22) The PR man at Lansky's Lucayan Beach Hotel in the Bahamas...
...Under various aliases, Sturgis has been associated with many Cuban exile groups...
...The history of Cape Florida Development Co...
...Lester Avnet (Avnet) Mr...
...corporations also controlled the telephone and electric 5 systems...
...BATISTA-LANSKY, INC...
...Nixon would then sail through the election and the myth of the two-party system would be sustained...
...He was rousing youth, Blacks, Chicanos, peace people, women who were going out and getting out the primary vote...
...Whatever her state, however, John Mitchell obviously used the situation to minimize the up-coming scandal...
...Life and Casualty Insurance of Tennessee) John J. Hooker Jr...
...Perhaps the most important factor was the presence in the company of Max Orovitz and Trigger Mike Coppola, well-known Lansky cronies...
...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...
...Early floor votes left no doubt about HHH's defeat...
...Long-time Minneapolis Hum- phrey campaign organizer and top financial backer Jeno F. Paulucci served as the committee's vice-chairman...
...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...
...Now that an insurgent had seized the Democratic Party, to win the election it was imperative to unite behind the only coalition representative...
...CollierMacmillan, Ltd...
...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...
...During the Prohibition days, he and Meyer Lansky organized the Bugs and Meyer Mob to protect shipments of bootlegged liquor...
...From these sources it is possible to glean a rather large list of known Mob people and corporations...
...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...
...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...
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...Lansky won...
...Economic measures are immediately seen as a form of favoring the rich...
...NACLA'S LATIN AMERICA EMPIRE REPORT Vol...
...10025 or to Box 226, Berkeley, California 94701...
...Plisco, one of the partners in the firm, is married to LeVonne Bloom, the daughter of Yiddie Bloom...
...and Mrs...
...Arthur K. Watson (IBM) Thomas J. Watson Jr...
...In 1968, he was convicted in New York following prosecution by U.S...
...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...
...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...
...Another wave of anxiety must have passed through the bipartisan business coalition...
...Rebozo "spent a lot of time on outside, time-consuming things," Neale said...
...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...
...you can work outward from these sources...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...Despite the fact that the plant has never bottled one Pepsi it has been the recipient of U.S...
...Thus the McGovern-Kennedy movement seeks to compensate for its inferior position within the bourgeoisie by gathering popular support around ending the war...
...According to the Wall Street Journal (Feb...
...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...
...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...
...Scandal after scandal affects the Nixon Administration: ITT, Lockheed, Litton, the wheat deals, cost overruns, outright graft...
...Twenty-six years later, Chotiner still plays an important role in Nixon's political apparatus, though he has dropped out of public view...
...The final touch needed to make a real killing on the land was effective promotion...
...He was finally convicted in the mid-1940's by New York Prosecutor Thomas Dewey and sent to prison...
...Walter was president of Triangle Publications, publisher of the PHILADELPHIA ENQUIRER, SEVENTEEN, TV GUIDE, etc...
...Certainly, in choosing Hunt the White House had selected not any old CIA agent, but an embodiment par excellence of the spook generation...
...This list is what must be expanded on: extended both through the people and the corporations...
...This period has been called the gestation stage of Organized Crime...
...In 1955 a deportation order was filed against Reginelli...
...Batista arrived at the camp and quickly boarded a chartered plane to fly to the Dominican Republic for refuge...
...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...
...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...
...I VI 32 (continued from p. 28) 24...
...McGovern's chances vastly improved on June 6th when he won the winner-take-all California primary...
...2 "I don't think Richard Nixon tells David Rockefeller what to do...
...Moreover, allthese areas could provide an ample supply of ambitious politicians who would be in need of additional funds...
...and Mrs...
...BUGSY SIEGEL: one of the earliest members of the National Crime Syndicate...
...We have divided these relationships into four categories and listed Nixon's intermediaries within each (some are found in more than one category...
...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...
...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...
...On the latter occasion, he must have overlooked Frank Vitale, one of the biggest bootleggers on the West Coast, who accompanied Nixon to Moscow...
...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...
...John resigned on July 1st, for "personal reasons...
...Nixon and Organized Crime first converge publicly during Nixon's 1946 anti-communist campaign for the House...
...THE INVASION INVESTMENT On New Year's Eve, 1958, the party ended...
...A number of Lansky people participated in the counter-revolutionary Bay of Pigs invasion...
...Names and corporations mentioned in these books are by now firmly connected to the Mob...
...Nixon was more than willing...
...WOULD YOU BUY ANYTHING FROM THIS MAN...
...both businessmen and politicians were hungry for cash, and the enriched...
...Berg has several investments in the Key Biscayne area...
...Copyright O 1972 by the North American Congress on Latin America, Inc...
...He befriended Thomas Dewey, who received large campaign contributions from him, as did many other politicians of the period...
...The ITT handout is typical of such deals which, if exposed, cause much embarrassing publicity...
...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...
...In the current presidential campaign, the historic defeat U.S...
...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...
...Born in Canada, Lou first entered the Caribbean when he became a partner of WallaceGroves in the Grand Bahamian Development Co...
...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...
...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...
...A former FBI agent, he was originally hired in 1969 by the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Eugene Rossides...
...10027...
...From Cuba, Dino went on to the Lucayan Beach Hotel on Grand Bahama, until he was forced to leave there by the Bahamian Government...
...He served as a well known lieutenant of the Vito Genovese family...
...New York Times, August 8, 1972...
...He is a very sophisticated operator...
...du Pont) CONGLOMERATES Robert W. Dowling (City Investing) Martin Stone (Monogram Industries) Charles B. Thornton (Litton) David N. Judelson (Gulf & Western) OTHER MANUFACTURING Mr...
...Martial law would be achieved...
...He specialized in super-secret covert operations in Latin America...
...Caddy was the first executive director of the ultra-reactionary Young Americans for Freedom and a former leader of the Youth for Goldwater movement...
...He was still not ready to give up on Cuba, however...
...from Brown University in 1940...
...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...
...Washington Post, June 22, 1972...
...Cohen was heavily implicated in the slaying of two associates...
...and Mrs...
...Later, his famous Harvard seminars were secretly funded by the CIA...
...Unfortunately for Condev, the deal fell through and the deposit was forfeited...
...capital penetration, dating back to the beginning of the century...
...17) Benguet Consolidated (bought out Grand Bahamian Port Authority...
...Among the principals in Cape Florida Development were Senator Haverfield, Bebe Rebozo and Donald Berg...
...31 Guitarra en duelo mayor Soldadito de Bolivia, soldadito boliviano, armado vas de tu rifle, que es un rifle americano, que es un rifle americano, soldadito de Bolivia, que es un rifle americano...
...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...
...i j ii iii i _ _ -"I believe in the American dream because I have seen it come true in my own life...
...Pan Am is controlled by First National City Bank of New York which is a rival of the Rockefeller Group...
...It assembled, in effect, an enormous slush fund quite similar to those other ventures so characteristic of Nixon's career...
...The dirtiest and most controversial contributions passed through Hunt's conduits...
...Siegel had also become too independent and was refusing to listen to orders...
...One of the key figures in Continental Illinois was David Kennedy, who later served Nixon as secretary of the Treasury...
...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...
...But the capitalists behind McGovernKennedy have only limited control over the cultural apparatus that so significantly influences voting behavior...
...But the Trafficantes went on to become the most important family in the drug trade...
...The main crop of the region, sugar, was largely owned by U.S...
...and Mrs...
...A meeting of the National Crime Syndicate was called to discuss the problem...
...Dorman, Michael...
...Orovitz was later convicted in October 1968 for wilfully violating stock registration laws by Robert Morgenthau, U.S...
...In the process, it will try to preserve certain functional myths about a two-party democracy...
...He then moved on to Las Vegas...
...He was eventually indicted for his role in the movie extortion racket and spent time in prison...
...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...
...Another person associated with the Cuban counter-revolutionary movement is Bebe Rebozo, a U.S...
...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...
...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...
...That combination is reflected in the Administration's key appointments...
...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...
...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...
...They were bent on securing embarrassing material on McGovern through less public sources and more sinister meansespionage...
...political apparatus...
...but, where my