From: Daniel Hopsicker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> After publishing a chapter of our work in progress in the DrugMoney Times, we got an interesting call from Nixon Cabinet member Myles Ambrose, responding finally to requests for clarification of his relationship with Texas Rancher Richmond Harper... "Frank is dead now. we can talk." "We tried to warn him [Ambrose],� stated one Customs official at the time. �Tell him that this guy [Harper] is bad. He wouldn't listen." (Ambrose's visits to Harper were also discovered in 1976 by the House banking subcommittee investigating the Texas rent-a-bank scandal.) When we reached him to ask him about this, Ambrose was emphatic in telling us he had only ever visited the Harper ranch once. He related the background of how it had indeed been he who had shepherded the establishment of the DEA through Congress. �I got to Top o�Neill,� he told us. �And that kept the partisan stuff out.� Oh, to have been a fly on the wall in that negotiation, we thought to ourselves. A former Customs Agent who had worked for him described Ambrose as a fearsome autocrat. �I was the top graduate in my class at the Tressury Department,� he told us. �I wasn�t afraid of anyone or anybody. But my first day in Washington I learned just how much fear Ambrose had instilled in people. He was an Orangeman�you know what that is�a follower of William of Orange? Well he took it so seriously that no one in Customs was allowed to wear green. And my first day on the job�not knowing this�I had on a green tie, and he came over and read me the riot act.� This agent�s anecdote came to mind as we found ourselves, in our interview with him, feeling Mr. Ambrose�s displeasure at the thrust of certain of our questions. Then, finding himself out of sympathy with our speculations about the true nature of the pie being carved up, Mr. Ambrose became eager to share with us his thoughts on the involvement in the drug trade by the folks on the other side of the aisle. �I was with Treasury back in the late Fifties, when Bobby Kennedy was running the Kefauver Committee Hearings on Organized Crime,� he told us. �and I know for a fact that there was a yellow sheet (investigative report) done on a meeting in Havana where Meyer Lansky gave two kilos of heroin to Frank Sinatra to bring back to the States so he (Sinatra) would have a little �walking-around� money.� �But because Sinatra was helping Kennedy get elected, his brother removed all reference to this from the Committee�s report.� -- Daniel Hopsicker The Drug Money Times http://www.MadCowProd.com "All the news that's ripped from print!" Scandal in contemporary U.S. life is an institutionalized sociological phenomenon. It is not due primarily to psychopathological variables, but is due to the institutionalization of elite wrongdoing which has occcurred since 1963." "Many of the scandals that have occurred in the U.S. since 1963 are fundamentally interrelated: that is, the same people and institutions have been involved." --Prof.David Simon, "Elite Deviance 6th edition --------------------------- ONElist Sponsor ---------------------------- ONElist: the best place to EXPLORE topics, SHARE ideas, and CONNECT to people with the same interests. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
