J. Edgar Hoover headed the Federal Bureau of Investigation for 48 years, from 1924 until his death in 1972. In the book Official and Confidential, by Anthony Summers, he presents evidence that Hoover had been blackmailed by both the Mafia and the CIA.
Meyer Lansky obtained hard proof of Edgar's homosexuality and used it to neutralize the FBI as a threat to his own operations. Lansky had some pictures of Hoover in some kind of gay situation with Clyde Tolson. Lansky and Frank Costello seem to be untouchable. There was no serious federal effort to indict Lansky until 1970, just two years before Edgar died. Then, it was the IRS rather than the FBI that spearheaded the investigation. Even the tax evasion charges collapsed, and Lansky lived on at liberty until his own death in 1983.
Johnny Roselli, the West Coast representative of the Chicago mob, spoke specifically of the occasion in the late twenties when Edgar had been arrested on charges of homosexuality in New Orleans. Edgar could hardly have chosen a worse city in which to be compromised. New Orleans police and city official were notoriously corrupt, puppets of an organized crime network run by Mafia boss Carlos Marcello.
* J. Edgar Hoover, Summers establishes, was a closet homosexual and transvestite. Mafia bosses obtained information about Hoover's sex life and used it for decades to keep the FBI at bay. Without this, the Mafia as we know it might never have gained its hold in America.
* J. Edgar Hoover shamelessly accepted gifts and free lodging from millionaire oilmen, and appropriated FBI facilities for his personal use.
* J. Edgar Hoover ignored an early warnings that the Japanese were going to attack Pearl Harbor.
* J. Edgar Hoover used his knowledge of John F. Kennedy's womanizing to ensure that Lyndon Johnson became Vice President. He relied on dirty tricks to stay in office under Kennedy and subverted the Warren Commission's probe into the investigation of his death.
* J. Edgar Hoover himself was the target of a Watergate-era burglary attempt - and perhaps even a murder plot.
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The Dark Side of Camelot by Seymour Hersh, Little Brown. 1997, defines JFK as a lout, a cad, a boor, an oaf, a schemer, a liar, a blackmailer and a reckless gambler with the nation's security, its integrity and its institutions. Kennedy was a man thoroughly out of control, thoroughly out of his depth, and maybe thoroughly out of his mind.
JFK got shots of speed from Dr. Max Jacobson, aka Dr. Feelgood.
JFK had an affair with Judith Campbell Exner. She made some twenty visits starting in May 1961. Exner carried cash bribes to JFK from California defense contractors. When she called JFK and told him that he had made her pregnant, he asked "What are you going to do about it?" She had an abortion at a Chicago hospital in January 1963. She was never invited back to the Whitehouse. She was also the lover, of mob boss, Sam Giancana.
It is likely that General Dynamics blackmailed JFK to give them the TFX fighter contract (Boeing had the better plane), 6.5 billion dollars, the largest in history to that point, after bugging Exner's apartment.
Sam Giancana (Chicago mafia boss) told Judith Campbell Exner, "Listen, honey, if it wasn't for me, your boyfriend wouldn't even be in the White House." JFK had sent 250,000 dollars with Exner to Giancana for the mob to get out the union vote and make corrupt unions contribute to JFK's campaign.
One of the reasons the mafia was so upset with Kennedy is that they had spent a lot of money and influence, especially in Chicago, to get him elected and then he and Bobby Kennedy turned on them. Particularly Jimmy Hoffa and the Chicago and Louisiana families were upset.
In early 1961 JFK planted family friend Carmine Bellino in the IRS with the title "special consultant to the president "and demanded that he have access to tax returns. They turned the IRS into a lending library. Quoting from the Wall Street Journal of January 28, 1997: "the Kennedys were far worse than Nixon in their manipulation of the IRS...The documents show that the Kennedys targeted non-exempt activist groups. And the auditing was done at the behest of politicians, not the professionals at the IRS...On December 20, 1961, Rogovin (assistant IRS Commissioner) forwarded to Dean J. Barron, the IRS audit director at the time, a list of 18 organizations to investigate.
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The groups the IRS audited ranged from strongly anticommunist organizations such as the John Birch Society to traditional conservative organizations such as the National Education Program of Harding College. Bits and pieces of this targeting of conservatives have surfaced over the years, but Andrew shows it was an operation similar in scale to Nixon's infamous Special Services Staff. Called the "Ideological Organizations Project," the covert Kennedy scheme lasted through the Johnson years into the mid-1960s. In late 1963, just before Kennedy was assassinated, the IRS was prepared to audit 10,000 organizations.
Source: In Power to Destroy: The Political Uses of the IRS from Kennedy to Nixon, by John A. Andrew III - http://findarticles
Who Killed Martin Luther King? : The Coverup
J. Edgar Hoover, FBI director, hated King intensely and wanted him "neutralized" by almost any means. When King won the Nobel Peace Prize, Hoover publicly called him, "the most notorious liar in the country." A Senate report stated in 1976 that the FBI tried "to destroy Dr. Martin Luther King." William Sullivan, FBI assistant director, considered King "the most dangerous and effective negro leader in the country." King's phones were tapped, his movements watched, his rooms bugged and his entourage infiltrated. The FBI threatened him, blackmailed him, launched a media disinformation campaign to discredit him, and sent him a letter suggesting that he commit suicide. A main goal of the FBI's Counterintelligence Program (COINTELPRO) which was aimed at eliminating black nationalist groups.
In its surveillance of King, the FBI collaborated with Army Intelligence which had been spying on the King family for three generations, since 1917. There were seven U.S. Army Military Intelligence Groups (MIGs) spread out over the U.S., and six of them surveilled King as he toured the country. The Army maintained a massive domestic spy system which included 304 intelligence offices in the U.S. and national security dossiers on 7 million Americans. In a series of articles in the "Memphis Commercial Appeal" in March 1993, reporter Steve Tompkins detailed the "increasing hysteria"of Army intelligence chiefs over the national security threat they thought King posed. Tompkins stated that army intelligence was "...desperately searching for a way to stop him..." Particularly alarming was King's opposition to the Vietnam War which he denounced as On April 4, 1967, as an "imperialist assault on Third World peasants." He equated the use of new weapons against the Vietnamese to the testing of "new tortures in the concentration camps of Europe" by the Nazis. King's condemnation of the Vietnam War made him the leader who could merge the anti-war and civil rights movements. He announced his intention to lead a Poor Peoples' March (of all races) to Washington D.C. in the spring of 1968 and shut down the government if it did not stop the war in Vietnam and take steps to end poverty in the U.S. The Army received reports stating that "King will create massive civil disobedience in [Washington] and in ten to fifteen major cities in the U.S. in the spring of 1968." The Army was not prepared for such upheaval. According to Major General William Yarborough, assistant chief of staff for army intelligence, there were "too few reliable troops to fight in Vietnam and hold the line at home."
Army surveillance of King continued until his assassination. Carthel Weeden, a former captain with the Memphis Fire Department, testified at the Jowers trial that on the afternoon of April 4, 1968, two men approached him at the fire station across from the Lorraine Motel, and showed the identification of U.S. Army officers. The men carried photographic equipment and positioned themselves on the rooftop of the fire station which gave them a clear view of King and the assassin. Any photographs could be in Pentagon archives. According to former National Security Council operative, Jack Terrell, the army went beyond surveillance. Terrell testified that his close friend J.D. Hill who was part of the 20th Special Forces Group confessed to him that he had been a member of an Army sniper team in Memphis ordered to shoot an "unknown" target on April 4. The snipers were being transported to Memphis when their mission was suddenly cancelled. Hill stated that upon learning of King's murder the next day, he realized that the team must have been part of a backup operation to kill King if another sniper failed.
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The 20th Special Forces Group was a rather extraordinary unit. When it was discovered that the Birmingham-based 20th had sent a detachment of Green Berets to Memphis to carry out an unknown mission on the day Martin Luther King was assassinated, the local paper, The Memphis Commercial Appeal had investigated. They discovered that the 20th was chockfull of veterans of CIA assassination ops in Southeast Asia. The paper quoted a former army counterintelligence major as stating that the 20th had even had a domestic intelligence network, operated for them by the Ku Klux Klan and `Klan Special Forces.' The major said, `The rural South was `in-country' to these guys, and at times things got out of hand.'" (Ibid.; pp. 137-138.)
This series analyzes the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In addition to analyzing the FBI's extended efforts to politically neutralize King, the series discusses the combination of national security and organized crime elements that appear to have performed the assassination. Based on the book Orders to Kill by William Pepper (published by Carroll and Graff in 1995), the series discusses, among other things: an organized crime arms-smuggling ring, which maneuvered accused assassin James Earl Ray into position to take the fall for the crime; the member of that arms-smuggling ring who boasted of actually done the shooting; the Army intelligence program to surveil and neutralize black American leaders (including King); the 20th Special Forces Group "A team" that,according to Pepper, served as a backup sniper team poised to kill Dr. King and his then-aide Andrew Young (in case the organized crime marksman missed); and the apparent role of elements of the National Security Agency in helping to set Ray up for the assassination.
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White House travel-gate?
The CIA and the Pentagon have a history of placing intelligence operatives in low-level staff positions at the White House.* Tripp was originally hired by the Bush administration and, under Clinton, was one of the few holdovers, serving as an assistant to the White House Counsel, the office of Vince Foster. Given what is now known about Tripp's exploits, it is likely that she was a mole in the Counsel office, passing information to the Pentagon and/or the CIA.
With Vince Foster's "suicide" in 1993, right-wing pundits -- notably Christopher Ruddy and his employer, CIA-connected billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife -- began to circulate stories that Foster's death was not a suicide, but rather a murder and that President Bill Clinton and his wife, Hillary were behind it.
In early 1993, as the president's wife, Hillary Clinton was putting together her Health Task Force, details of the plan began to leak to the press. The First Lady regarded such leaks as an attempt by conservative forces to derail health care reform. Hillary Clinton suspected that the source of the leaks was the White House travel office and, in response, summoned her former law office partner, Vince Foster to investigate.
As Vince Foster began examining the affairs of the travel office and its director Billy Dale, Foster discovered that Dale had secured a no-bid contract from the charter airline company, UltrAir. Indeed, Dale told aviation broker Harry Thomason that "no combination of price or service" could convince him to accept bids from any other charter firm, even though the GAO suggested that as many as fourteen airlines would have been interested in bidding for the travel office business.
UltrAir -- which allegedly shipped weapons to the Afghan mujaheddin in the 1980s -- was financed by Geneva-based Potomac Capital, a front company created by George H. W. Bush when he was CIA Director in 1976. After UltrAir fell into financial difficulties, President Bush leased the planes for White House use in a highly questionable deal.
Given Billy Dale's special relationship with UltrAir, and UltrAir's CIA dealings, Hillary Clinton's suspicions about moles in the travel office appeared to be on firm ground. In May 1993, Billy Dale and the travel office's six other employees were discharged.
Right-wing pundits were outraged by the travel office firings, including columnists at the Wall Street Journal, who attacked Vince Foster in a series of editorials.
In August 1994, Linda Tripp left the White House and immediately landed a job at the Pentagon as a "public affairs specialist," a position that curiously had no job description. The Pentagon paid Tripp an annual salary of $69,427, an increase of $20,000 a year over her old White House salary. Two years later, the Pentagon increased Tripp's salary to $88,000.
*Another documented case of Pentagon spying on the White House occurred during the Nixon administration. It "...involved a young enlisted Navy man named Charles Radford, who shuttled between offices in the Pentagon and the Old Executive Office Building (OEOB) as an admiral's assistant. Unbeknownst to White House staff, he had been collecting countless documents from White House wastebaskets, burn bags, and mailroom sources and passing them on to his superior [Admiral Rembrandt Robinson] at the Pentagon.... A little more than a year later, thousands of pages of material -- photocopied and returned to the desks or burn bags from whence they came -- lay in Pentagon safes. They ranged from NSC policy papers and minutes of confidential meetings to information about White House plans for troop withdrawals from Vietnam. [Admiral] Robinson felt the spying was warranted.
Richard Lamb, "Tale of the Shadow Chaser," George magazine, October 1998
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Adler Berriman "Barry" Seal
He was supposedly murdered by Medellin cartel members, but a 6-month investigation by Sam Dalton, attorney for three of the accused murderers, into Mr. Seal's life and death uncovered some interesting points. The accused's cartel connections were well known, but not their association with Oliver North's enterprise. Mr. Seal was a drug smuggler, up to his armpits in smuggling cocaine for the CIA.
From 1980 till 1984, I flew about 25 successful illegal flights from South America and airdropped the loads averaging 300 kilos of cocaine each into Louisiana. Seal retrieved the loads and sent them to the cartel owners in Miami and Los Angeles. The cocaine was owned by the Medellin Cartel and they paid Seal a fee 5,000 dollars per kilo. After being caught in Operation Screamer, Seal turned informant and performed two undercover stings for the government.
The Louisiana based Federal Government double-crossed Seal in Louisiana and placed him on a silver platter for the Medellin Cartel to carry out a contract hit by placing Seal unprotected in a Salvation Army halfway house in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Seal was machine gunned to death at six p.m. while sitting in his car in the parking lot of the halfway house on Feb. 19, 1986.
One of his first tasks was to catch the Sandinistas in the act. So he took his C-123K cargo plane to the CIA, which installed a hidden camera in it. Seals flew the wired plane to Nicaragua and allegedly took some pictures - he said the camera malfunctioned and he had to operate it by hand - of a purported Sandinista official loading cocaine onto the plane. The CIA and Oliver North decided to blow Seal's cover and use the pictures as anti-Sandinista propaganda. The story appeared in the Washington Times, and President Reagan displayed the picture on national television in an attempt to get Congress to restore aid to the Contras.
Seal had been busy training Contras at his new base of operations in Mena, Arkansas. At least seven pilots have told reporters of Seal's work with the Contras. The last one to go public, Terry Reed, said he was introduced to Seal by Oliver North.
The federal government also went after Bill Duncan, an agent with the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division, who was investigating the flow of drug money through Barry Seal's operations. When Duncan was called to testify before the House Subcommittee on Crime regarding federal interference in Arkansas and Louisiana police investigations of Seal, he was ordered by one of his IRS superiors to perjure himself if he were asked questions about Seal's relationship to then-Attorney General Ed Meese and whether Meese had ordered evidence withheld from a federal grand jury investigating activities at Mena, Arkansas. Duncan resigned over the matter, after 17 years with the IRS.
Another investigator probing into Seal's operations was Gene Wheaton, the former Pentagon criminal investigator who went to work for the Christic Institute after parting company with Oliver North and Richard Secord. Wheaton said he tracked Seal's C-123K cargo plane flying from Mena to William Blakemore's Iron Mountain Ranch in West Texas. (There is also an Iron Mountain in Arkansas near Seal's Contra training grounds.)
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All three of the Colombians who went on trial always told us—their lawyers—that they were being directed, after they got into this country, on what to do and where to go by an `anonymous gringo,' a United States Military officer, who they quickly figured out was Oliver North,' Sharpstein says." (Ibid.; p. 438.)
21. " `Say that again?' we asked. We were sure we'd heard it right the first time; we just needed confirmation. . . `Once they rendezvoused together in the States,' explained Sharpstein, `they, the Colombians, were being directed, by phone, by a man who insisted on remaining anonymous, but who did identify himself as being an officer in the American military. . . They were put in touch with this officer through Rafa (a Colombian smuggler) who was the guy my client worked for. And they all believed that it was Oliver North.'" (Idem.)
In the official version of events recounted in newspapers, the killers were always described as a `three-man hit team of Colombian nationals.' Even a cursory reading of the headlines revealed, to our amazement, there weren't, hadn't been, three men involved. . .there had been eight. Three men may be a hit `team. Eight is a hit `squad.'
In addition to the Colombian execution team, Jose Coutin was implicated in the murder. (For more about Coutin, see http://www.spitfire
Testimony at the trial of the three accused of killing Seal revealed that Renteria had been the cut-out between Coutin, known to be linked to Oliver North, and the shooters, to whom he delivered the weapons from Coutin.
One of the most dramatic of the disclosures in Barry and the Boys concerns what Seal's lawyer Lewis Unglesby revealed about who was controlling Barry Seal's operations—then Vice-President George Bush! " `Barry pushed the phone across the desk to me and said, `You wanna know what's going on? Here. Dial this number. Tell `em you're me,' Unglesby related. `When I did what he requested,' he continued, `A female voice answered the phone, saying, `Vice President Bush's office, may I help you?' `I said, `This is Barry Seal.' She asked me to wait while she transferred the call, which was immediately picked up by a man who identified himself as Admiral somebody or other, who said to me, `Barry! Where you been?'" (Ibid.; p. 442.)
Seal was trying to get George H.W. Bush to get the IRS off his back. He allegedly threatened to blow the whistle on the whole Contra scheme, including the complicity of the US government and the Reagan administration in the massive cocaine influx that bedeviled the US in the 1980's. " `That's when I told him that I wasn't Barry Seal, I was his lawyer,' said Unglesby. `Immediately he slammed down the phone.' `So why was Barry Seal murdered?' we asked Miami attorney Richard Sharpstein,
. `Unglesby said he had been with Seal when the IRS came and seized all his property,' Sharpstein related. `The IRS man said, `You owe us $30 million for the money you made in drug dealing.' `Hey, I work for you,' was Seal's reply. `We work for the same people.' `You don't work for us,' the IRS agent stated. `We're the IRS.'"
" `Unglesby was with Seal when he retired to a back room,' Sharpstein. `He watched as Seal placed a call to George Bush. He heard Barry Seal tell Bush: `If you don't get these IRS assholes off my back I'm going to blow the whistle on the Contra scheme.' Sharpstein spoke solemnly, aware of the gravity of his words. . . `That's why he's dead,' is what Unglesby said.'"
"One week after the phone conversation between Barry Seal and George Bush, Seal was sentenced to a half-way house. Two weeks later he was dead. `But they were fed information by the assholes in our government who wanted him dead.'" (Ibid.; pp. 442-443.)
Two weeks before he died, Barry Seal had hired a private investigator in Miami, Steve Dinerstein, to run FAA title searches on 15 different airplanes he had used in his smuggling Enterprise. . .Seal was getting ready to talk about who had owned his smuggling fleet fifteen years ago." (Ibid.; pp. 444-445.)
"Barry Seal was assassinated because he was getting ready to talk. . . He had even contacted a Paramount Studios production vice-president about making a movie. While the killers approached Barry Seal's Cadillac in the Baton Rouge twilight, Seal had been on his car phone with a CIA aircraft procurement executive in Arizona, Bill Lambeth, who will himself be murdered in Phoenix seven years later.
Hopsicker's account concludes with discussion of a stunning negotiation between the Attorney General of Louisiana—William J. Guste, Jr. and then Vice President George H.W. Bush. They were arranging for Seal to escape prosecution for drug smuggling in Louisiana and for Seal to move his operation to Mena, Arkansas. " .
"We learned that Seal had not attended this meeting. Instead, he sent the Attorney General for the state of Louisiana., William J. Guste, Jr., to argue on his behalf. The Vice President of the United States, George Bush, sat down and cut a deal with the Attorney General of the State of Louisiana—in what amounted to state-to-state-
Source: Barry and the Boys by Daniel Hopsicker
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It is also interesting to note that a lot of money was used in the effort and that a right-wing, CIA-connected Pittsburgh billionaire, Richard Mellon Scaife--heir to the Mellon family banking fortune--was behind much of it. Steve Kangas, a journalist and former intelligence analyst, gives some background on Scaife:
One of [the CIA's 1973] recruits was billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife. During World War II, Scaife's father served in the OSS, the forerunner of the CIA. Scaife was encouraged by CIA agent Frank Barnett to begin investing his fortune to fight the "Soviet menace." From 1973 to 1975, Scaife ran Forum World Features, a foreign news service used as a front to disseminate CIA propaganda around the world.(1)
At Forum World Features, Scaife conducted what his CIA friend, Frank Barnett calls "political warfare." Barnett explains:
Political warfare in short, is warfare--not public relations. It is one part persuasion and two parts deception...
Scaife has carried his political warfare campaign into the present day. His instrument of dissemination is no longer a foreign news service. Instead Scaife utilizes two Internet websites (NewsMax and WorldNetDaily), a newspaper (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review), along with conservative foundations and think tanks. Steve Kangas writes:
Today [Scaife] owns the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and oversees the Sarah Scaife, Carthage and Allegheny Foundations. Scaife assigned one of his newspaper's reporters, Christopher Ruddy, to a full-time, ongoing investigation into the deaths of Vince Foster and Ron Brown, trying to find evidence that the Clintons murdered them.(3)
Ruddy was persuasive when he pointed out that Ron Brown had been involved in various controversies during his term as Commerce Secretary. However, Ruddy was deceptive when he omitted the fact that the biggest controversy had to do with Ron Brown's fight with the military establishment.
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Steve Kangas: His web site, Liberalism Resurgent, was meticulously researched and presented such a problem to the "real boss" of George Bush, Richard Scaife, that he hired a private detective to look into Kangas' past. Steve Kangas was found in a 39th-floor bathroom outside of Scaife's offices at One Oxford Centre, in Pittsburgh, an apparent suicide. Mr. Kangas, a very prolific writer, left no note. He had brought a fully-packed suitcase of clothes with him to Pittsburgh. He bought a burglar alarm shortly before he left for Pittsburgh. Why did he need a burglar alarm if he was going to commit suicide? An avowed advocate of gun control, he nevertheless bought a gun. What was he afraid of? Why did he go to Pittsburgh? After his death, his computer was sold for $150 and its hard drive wiped clean. Everything in his apartment was thrown away.
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