from: http://pages.about.com/search/chapter4.htm Click Here: <A HREF="http://pages.about.com/search/chapter4.htm">Preserving the legacy</A> ----- There is one thing that John Mohr and I would disagree on. I think the truth should go out to the American public, no matter how ugly and no matter how unpleasant, if for no other reason than to prevent another J. Edgar Hoover from ever gaining that much power again, and always abusing it the way he did. 1 don't think he'll tell you the whole ugly truth on it.39 In 1977, Sullivan was in the process of completing a book on his 30 year career inside Hoover's FBI. In November of 1977, press reports indicated that he was accidentally shot in the neck by a man who was hunting with a rifle equipped with a telescopic sight. Sullivan's posthumously published book reads like a rather trivial narration for a veteran insider who, according to common knowledge within the FBI, had a whole bunch of confidential files within his possession after his retirement in 1971. The battle-scarred, FBI critic fortunately survived two motor vehicle accidents but the consequence of a third accident, a bullet in the throat, proved impossible to swallow. When Sullivan reached the FBI, Hoover was already an institution that defied every authority except his own. Hoover became a national hero early in his career when his famous C-men targeted notorious criminals like Machine Gun Kelly, Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby Face Nelson. The pursuit of disorganized hillbilly gangsters established Hoover's reputation as a relentless crimebuster. Since then, Hoover maintained the image through the Crime Records Division of the FBI. The Division was simply a publishing house that produced crime-fighting books and articles credited to America's so-called top crimebuster, J. Edgar Hoover. The best writers within the FBI worked for the Crime Records Division, and the propaganda effort was honed to the point where FBI agents submitted reviews of their own books to friendly newspapers for publication. According to Sullivan, the Crime Records Division was a "huge public relations and propaganda operation which no government Bureau should have."40 Theoretically, the FBI was the investigative arm of the Justice Department, but as long as Hoover was in charge, the FBI was essentially a private army that combated Communism. Indeed, Hoover was even the investigative force behind Senator Joseph McCarthy's vulgar crusade. According to William Sullivan: "We were the ones who made the McCarthy hearings possible. We fed McCarthy all the material that he was using".41 Sullivan is unequivocal about FBI involvement: "I know what we were doing, I worked on it myself. At the same time, we were telling the public that we had nothing to do with it."42 McCarthyite witch-hunts millions of faultless Americans who were victims of illegal FBI intrusion. And while the lives and careers of ordinary American citizens were disrupted, dislocated and destroyed without cause, Hoover fraudulently maintained the image that he was fighting crime. Sanford Ungar, who has meticulously analyzed Hoover's FBI, exposed the charade in the following terms: For nearly half a century headquarters was run as J. Edgar Hoover's showpiece, his personal 'seat of government' which tended to confuse law enforcement with policymaking. Sometimes consciously and sometimes not, headquarters was the master of the charade. In military fashion, it overstaffed the Bureau's rolls in order to have enough manpower available for when a real crisis occurred. But it never said it was doing that; it justified the overload with artificial "cases" that consisted only of pieces of paper but looked good in the statistics. It created rules to govern everything, rules that were intended more to anticipate and answer criticism than to help agents with their work.43 The campaign to promote an infallible image was exhaustive. Indeed, Hoover recruited hand-picked, clean-cut, small-town American boys whose mainstream values inspired uncritical admiration. Trained to be loyal and obedient to J. Edgar Hoover, new recruits were closely watched and monitored to assure compliance. Hoover demanded absolute obedience and even "assumed the right to set standards for his agents' personal lives, and sexual taboos... Not only would young unmarried male and female clerks be dismissed if it were learned that they had illicit sexual relations, but the same punishment would be dealt to a fellow clerk who knew about any such indiscretion and failed to report it."44 Hoover essentially established a built-in spy network where every single FBI agent was assigned the responsibility to keep an eye out and to report even the slightest sign of dissent from within. Anyone who refused or failed to adapt to Hoover's excessive demands resigned, was fired or committed suicide, save for the probability that all the hushed up suicide verdicts were more likely the disguised murders of "dissidents." According to the terms of the peculiar world that J. Edgar Hoover created, every citizen in the United States was either a "true American" or a "Communist". In his own words: "America's emblem is the soaring eagle-not the blind and timid mole. Fear, apologies, defeatism, and cowardice are alien to the thinking of true Americans! As for me, I would rather be dead than red!"45 Always true to his single-minded obsession to fight "Reds", Hoover enthusiastically cultivated and protected the ruthless, anti-Communist resources that the Mafia offered. According to FBI sources, ruthless murderers like Mafia Crime Boss Carlos Marcello was a "legitimate businessman." According to the FBI field office in New Orleans, he was a simple "tomato salesman." Carlos Marcello was a valued ally in the war against Communism and Hoover did everything in his power to make his existence as comfortable as possible. The resources that J. Edgar Hoover devoted to the task of fighting organized crime illustrates the nature of Hoover's FBI. In 1959, the FBI New York office had over four hundred agents who worked on communism while only four were assigned to organized crime and their responsibility was not to prosecute mobsters but to perform "in-office bookkeeping" chores collating such routine information as the whereabouts of known racketeers.46 With allies as powerful as J. Edgar Hoover, the Mafia commonly evaded criminal prosecution. In 1962, Attorney General Robert Kennedy "sent his federal prosecutors a list of gangsters to be investigated, stipulating that the list be held in strict secrecy within the Department of Justice." Despite Kennedy's instructions, a copy of the list turned up in a Michigan Avenue office used by Mafia boss Sam Giancana and his associates.47 J. Edgar Hoover, who had joined the Justice Department when he was 22 years old, was the obvious source of the leak. Obsessed with maintaining an absolute level of control, a damaging departmental leak could never escape the notice of J. Edgar Hoover. Indeed, Hoover's entire Justice Department was "wired" with an army of spies and informants, not to mention electronic surveillance. Given the absolute control that Hoover maintained, the leak that landed on Giancana's desk was clearly a direct courtesy from Czar Hoover himself. Under the circumstances another conceivable possibility does not exist. Since 1918, when Hoover controlled the head of the General Intelligence Division of the then Bureau of Investigation, the supreme bureaucrat cultivated an impregnable network that surveyed impropriety to the point where a Justice Department leak was simply a Hoover-directed bulletin. And it is because J. Edgar Hoover is directly responsible for cultivating unfettered Mafia operations that his legacy is exceedingly felonious and sinsiter. In the 1950's, Hoover actually formed a committee to determine and document the nonexistence of organized crime.48 Is it even remotely possible to produce a fraud which is more obvious and more transparent than the paranoid obsession to document something that allegedly does not even exist? J. Edgar Hoover routinely deployed every conceivable tactic to the task of protecting Mafia interests. When the Justice Department launched an anti-organized crime campaign in the late 1950's, Hoover deliberately thwarted efforts to secure prosecutions. The police arrested 60 mobsters who were meeting at Apalachin in 1957, but "Hoover systematically undermined Justice Department efforts to build criminal prosecutions against the mobsters netted at Apalachin. It was whispered at headquarters that Hoover had deliberately impeded the Justice Department investigation, and in any event agents clearly understood that any failure experienced on that assignment would not jeopardize career prospects." 49 It is all very obvious in retrospect, but Hoover's relationship with the mob was steeped in absolute secrecy and obscured by the image that "infallible" FBI agents granted. The image-conscious Director kept his loyal, tarnish-free agents on a tight leash, and frequent transfers made it more difficult for them to unravel his secrets. Indeed, by discouraging comprehensive, long-term criminal investigations, Hoover effectively transferred the responsibility to combat crime away from the individual, resourceful FBI agent and towards FBI Headquarters. Despite the roadblocks, Hoover's alliance with the mob did not entirely escape the notice of individual FBI agents who noted that Hoover would sometimes travel to Manhatten, where he would meet mobster Frank Costello in Central Park.50 A relationship between Hoover and Costello, the reputed "prime-minister" of the Mafia, cemented the wider alliance which included Carlos Marcello. Groomed by Costello, Marcello inherited as well as cultivated the incredible degree of power that stemmed from corrupt law enforcement officials like Hoover. In the 1940's the two mobsters moved Costello's illegal slot machine operation from New York to New Orleans where their comprehensive payoff schemes had produced a safe haven for organized crime. The pervasive payroll of Costello and Marcello secured such an unprecedented level of prosecutorial immunity that law enforcement officials ignored their Mafia links and called them legitimate businessmen. Unimpeded rackets provided Carlos Marcello the opportunity to create a huge criminal empire through the power to terrify, to murder and to corrupt. His reputation as a brutal killer who decomposed his victims in a tub of lye before pouring them into his own 178-acre tract of swampland, produced a long-term inducement to cooperate with Marcello because if greed initially attracted corruptible authorities, fear kept them eternally loyal. Marcello certainly exploited his political influence. In 1970, Life magazine exposed the fact that he had acquired a huge 6400 acre swampland property known as Churchill farms and had convinced Louisiana state to dike and drain the land at the taxpayers expense. The hand-to-pocket set up between Mafia Boss Carlos Marcello and state authorities was practically unchallangeable. The Kennedy Justice Department tried to undermine the "Fix" or the cosy relationship between the Mafia and corrupt public officials, but the power of secretive adversaries like J. Edgar Hoover was very difficult to overcome. Indeed, Robert Kennedy had to practically force Hoover to declare war on organized crime, and the Director of the FBI simply paid lip service to the call, to get the Kennedys off his back. Hoover certainly never intended to declare war against his own [secret] allies and when Johnson became President, the war against organized crime died. Johnson's crime commission certainly determined that corruption at every level of government was a fact of life, but instead of declaring war on crime, powerful political pressure moved in to censor rather than to expose evidence of corruption. Chicago, the focus of the crime commission, was evidently a city where the well established "Fix" was maintained because "there were protests from officeholders in Chicago and enormous pressure on us [investigators] not to be specific." Among the items which were deliberately suppressed: "The success of the Chicago group [of the mob] has been primarily attributable to it's ability to corrupt law enforcement processes, including police officials and members of the judiciary..."51 The sinister consequence of corruption is that it shifts the focus away from legitimate law enforcement policy and towards the ongoing need to cover up the truth, because: "If the Fix is the Mob's most useful tool, the Cover-Up is of equal importance to public officials who allow themselves to be Fixed or who ignore Fixes."52 When we assess the vein that corruption spawns, Kennedy assassination controversy is due to excessive censorship, distortion and outright fraud. Despite deceit and the zeal to distort the Kennedy record, history survives tyrants and the monolithic societies they seek to create. J. Edgar Hoover was ultimately betrayed because history legitimizes individual initiative and rejects mob rule. Despite J. Edgar Hoover, the resourceful efforts of individual FBI agents discovered and exposed the existence of organized crime. In 1959, the eavesdropping of young, enthusiastic FBI agents who were not corrupted secured a host of information on the criminal activity of Chicago Mafia Boss Sam Giancana. The installation of a microphone at a tailor's shop gave the FBI concrete facts about Mafia operations. The source of the information, Sam Giancana himself, proved to be extremely authoritative as he blurted out "about a dozen names in different cities across the country."53 If Giancana and his violent cohorts evaded criminal prosecution, it is because Hoover did whatever he could to protect Mafia associates who were helping him wage war against Castro. Clearly, as far as Hoover was concerned, Giancana was a friend: Hoover despised the Kennedys. Carlos Marcello embodied the war between the Kennedys and Hoover's Mafia. In the fall of 1963, the unimpeded rackets of Carlos Marcello, the violent, the anti-Communist zealot who generously funded the effort to oust Castro, were temporarily sidetracked by the need to fight deportation charges initiated by Attorney General Robert Kennedy. Former FBI agent Guy Banister, who was reputed to have maintained contact with Hoover's FBI, was helping Marcello fight the charges. Mary Brengel, a secretary who worked for Banister at the time, discovered this relatively unreported scandal. Brengel's recollection is very definite because she was taking dictation when, in a letter, Banister referred to his efforts to assist Marcello. When Brengel expressed surprise over Banister's collusion with an organized crime boss, Banister said: "There are principles being violated, and if this goes on it could affect every citizen in the United States."54The dangerous "gait" of the self-appointed patriots who marched to the tune of J. Edgar Hoover, is predictably familiar. When Banister died, his wife came across a drawer full of the "Hands off Cuba" leaflets that Oswald, as the entire world promptly learned, had distributed in the streets of New Orleans. When Oswald was arrested, Dallas District Attorney Wade told reporters that Oswald belonged to the "Free Cuba" Committee, but mobster Jack Ruby, posing as a reporter at the very same press conference, promptly corrected Wade and indicated that Oswald belonged to the "Fair Play For Cuba" committee, a bogus New Orleans chapter of the pro-castro organization that contained a single member, Lee Harvey Oswald. The fact that Lee Harvey Oswald worked out of the office of a Hoover loyalist like Guy Banister clearly betrays the degree to which J. Edgar Hoover controlled Oswald the patsy. Banister was an extremely violent, rabidly anti-Communist zealot who reportedly belonged to the Minutemen, a right wing paramilitary organization that promoted the need to subvert, sabotage and murder Communists. The Minutemen publication On Target summed up his domestic philosophy very succinctly through the warning: "Traitors beware. Even now the cross hairs are on the back of your necks." In 1962, Banister associate, David Ferrie, a like-minded anti-Communist zealot, was reportedly training exiles in paramilitary tactics at a secret camp across Lake Ponchartrain, at the behest of the CIA.55 In 1963, Ferrie worked very closely with both Banister and Marcello, and according to Banister's secretary, Mafia associate Johnny Roselli and former FBI agent Maheau also had dealings with Banister's office in 1963.56 Given the nature of the company that surrounded Oswald, the fact that he was a handpicked patsy is not idle speculation. Indeed, J. Edgar Hoover Hoover, Robert Maheau, Guy Banister, David Ferrie, Johnny Roselli and Jack Ruby all extended and expected favours from the mob, they were all heavily involved in efforts to oust Castro, and they all expected prosecutorial immunity because they were "patriots" who allegedly acted in the best interests of the national security of the United States. It takes an extreme stretch of credibility to accept the claim that this cabal of anti-Kennedy fanatics is not responsible for framing Lee Harvey Oswald. Compared to the secret world of Maheau, Banister, Marcello, Hoover and the like, the life of Lee Harvey Oswald is an open book. There is certainly not a single trace of credible evidence which suggests that Lee Harvey Oswald was the crazed subversive that Hoover claimed he was. It is, after all, J. Edgar Hoover who is ultimately responsible for producing frivolous evidence in attempt to frame Oswald. The staged or doctored, universally publicized photograph [reportedly taken by Marina Oswald] that depicts Oswald with rifle and leftist literature reflects scripted imagery without foundation. If Hoover was serious about using photographic evidence to link Oswald to the Kennedy assassination, he could have easily publicized photographs that were directly linked to the murder of John F. Kennedy. Indeed, the available record of photographic evidence was so conclusive that even the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository was reportedly captured on film precisely when Oswald was alleged to have shot the President. The photographic evidence alone, much of which was never made public because the FBI reportedly seized film even before it was developed, could have easily been used to conclusively prove the guilt or the innocence of Lee Harvey Oswald. In retrospect, framing Lee Harvey Oswald was typical of the abuse that Hoover commonly practised -there was nothing unusual about it. The secret alliances that Hoover forged routinely perverted justice and affected the lives of millions of Americans in adverse ways. Between 1947 and 1960 over 10,000 industrial employees were fired because they were branded security risks. At the height of the "red scare" 16,000 men and women were forced out of federal jobs and the FBI was conducting political surveillance on over one million Americans. The total number of Americans who were blacklisted, fired, harassed and likely even murdered as a consequence of anti-Communist witch-hunts runs into the millions and this appalling record of abuse was aided and abetted by "ordinary" Americans who did what they viewed to be their patriotic duty. Hoover's obsessive agenda to convert every single American into a fervent and fearless anti-Communist warmonger who persecuted alleged communist sympathizers reaped sinister benefits. Overzealous anti-Communists like Father Charles Rice, a Trade Unionist leader between 1940 and 1953, worked closely with Hoover's FBI and other Washington allies in the effort to "clear the fouled waters" through waging war against Communism. But while people like Father Rice identified and destroyed the careers of the so-called Communists, they proved nothing beyond their capacity to target and harass ordinary American citizens. Victims like former Union Official Ted Wright, an active, black union leader who was evidently too un-American for the likes of Father Rice and J. Edgar Hoover, reflects the absurdity of McCarthy-style witch-hunts when he says: "That's nonsense. [the claim that he followed the Communist party line] We didn't follow it. When you're fighting for bread and butter... you're going to fight like hell to get food."57 The simple, unchallengeable sincerity of Ted Wright is echoed a million times over, by victims all across America. Clearly, the tactics that saw people like Ted Wright blacklisted are vulgar and illegal. Father Rice went to Washington, met a hand-picked group of Mccarthyites in a hotel room, and proceeded to name, label and ultimately blacklist Ted Wright and others in unions all across America. Treated like heroes by the media, Hoover-style anti-Communist warlords made careers out of bandying phoney allegations which identified the so-called un-Americans. Some, like Senator Joseph McCarthy were publicly exposed and disgraced. Others, more cunning and subtle, rode a wave of hysteria that paved a path to the White House. Indeed, as Hoover privately suggested, if it wasn't for him, Nixon would have never been elected President of the United States. The Director of the FBI was evidently not joking. J. Edgar Hoover is largely responsible for the hysteria-dominated political climate that Nixon successfully exploited, and if Hoover had not "legitimized" the process, Nixon could have sufferd the fate of disgraced Senator Joseph McCarthy and avoided Watergate. Professional Communist informants like Harvey Matusow reflect the fraudulent foundation which is responsible for making Richard Nixon a national celebrity. According to Matusow, the anti-Communist "source" that warlords like Nixon exploited: I was really in demand and called for as a witness. I mean we were really having fun. It was a great business, it was a show biz world. It wasn't politics. I used to hang around with Walter Winchell and ride in his cadillac with him as he did police calls, or go to dinner with the columnist Leonard Lyons at Lindy's and he'd introduce me to Senator Humphrey. Or I'd go here and meet J. Edgar Hoover at the Stork club. It was a wild world for a kid who dropped out of high school. Like any hooker on the street... I was not different than a hooker, I was on hire for what you needed, you know, you needed a guy who opened his mouth and talked, I served that function. I was hooked because I suddenly moved into a thirty-two room house in Washington D.C. and had an upstairs maid and a downstairs maid and a butler and a chauffeur. And I had members of the Cabinet and Senators and Ambassadors at my dinner table. And I was a high school drop out from the streets of the Bronx and talking to the power elite of America. Come on, who wouldn't be hooked by that?58 Beyond the trade that the "prostitution" of testimony produced, the war against Communism targeted and destroyed innocent people. Frank Wilkinson, the L.A. Housing Authority Executive 1942-1952, was one of an undetermined number of unsuspecting Americans who were in fact assasination targets. Wilkinson worked on a housing project that he hoped would make Los Angeles the first slum-free city in America. The city of Los Angeles had selected the site of the current L.A. Dodgers stadium to be a massive housing project and Wilkinson was extremely excited over the prospect of providing housing for the poor. Powerful interests opposed the project and anyone associated with it became an instant target. The FBI invested millions of dollars and created over 132,000 pages of surveillance with the intention of disrupting the work of one man in particular, the relatively obscure, L.A. Housing Authority Executive, Frank Wilkinson. As many as eight FBI agents a day were assigned to follow Frank Wilkinson. As a result of the FBI-embraced witch-hunt, Wilkinson became totally unemployable until he eventually got a job in a privately owned store working as a janitor. Wilkinson was one of over 500 state and municipal employees who were fired for political reasons between 1947 and 1960. The obsession to stop Wilkinson reflects the extremely disturbing, violent aptitude of Cold War hysterics like J. Edgar Hoover. The frightening FBI document which relates to the intrusive surveillance of Frank Wilkinson indicates that he was actually the target of an assassination attempt, but the identity of the person who was to kill Wilkinson is blacked out and ultimately protected by J. Edgar Hoover. More disturbingly, when Hoover's FBI recorded the fact that somebody was prepared "to assist in an assassination attempt on Frank Wilkinson," one can reasonably assume that the prospective assassins are responsible for murdering other, undisclosed victims.59 Wilkinson was sixty-five years old before he found out, through the Freedom of Information Act, that he was the target of intrusive, unwarranted FBI surveillance. Until recently, the fact that he had been the target of an assassination attempt had never been disclosed. Ironically, the life of Frank Wilkinson was evidently spared because he got fired and was rendered powerless. Had Wilkinson possessed the power to challenge Hoover and the forces that opposed the housing project for the poor, Wilkinson would have probably been found dead, and a footnote would have probably branded him the victim of suicide. Clearly, the fact that a simple man like Wilkinson could occupy eight FBI agents a day and could be the source of documentation which would take over ten years to produce at 36 pages per day, is absolutely astounding and difficult to comprehend. The willingness to contemplate the murder of simple people like Wilkinson raises serious questions about other un-American targets. J. Edgar Hoover's zeal did not discriminate. In the last analysis, the effort to control un-Americans was predictable and transferable. In the light of the sinister climate that J. Edgar Hoover produced, vague press reports like Scientist called by Red Probers Kills Himself and Scientist Kills Himself on Eve of Probe, reflect Czar Hoover's campaign to destroy the credibility of extraordinary Americans. The "suicide" reports relate to William Sherwood, a scientist targeted by the House on Un-American activities, and in retrospect, the man was obviously a victim of the typical witch-hunts that Hoover promoted. In the minds of anti-communist hysterics, "the FBI was the primary line of defense against any breach in national security," and it was their responsibility to target and to destroy objective, intelligent critics like Sherwood, who was doing research in a Stanford University lab where he was found dead. William Sherwood was conveniently found dead the night before he was to testify before the House on Un-American activities, but it is J. Edgar Hoover the tyrant, who promoted the suggestion that the Un-American hearings terrified Communists to the point of suicide, and he bears the ultimate responsibility for such transparent murders. And so, in the final analysis, J. Edgar Hoover and his Mafia allies were violent, anti-communist hysterics who targeted, tormented and destroyed American citizens, not because they were criminals, but because they were arbitrarily branded un-American. Indeed, J. Edgar Hoover was the Director, not of the FBI, but of the Great American Inquisition. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2E ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1Seth Kantor, Who Was dark Ruby? p. 155. 2Dan E. Moldea, The Hoffa Wars p.167. 3Dan E. Moldea, The Hoffa Wars, p.168. 4Robert J. Groden and Harrison E. Livingstone, High Treason, p.238. 5Sylvia Meagher, Accessories After The Fact, p. 423. 6Report of the Warren Commission, p. 223-34. 7Ibid., p.207. 8Seth Kantor, Who Was Jack Ruby? p. 122. 9Henry Hurt, Reasonable Doubt, p. 189, citing press conference with Jack Ruby, KTVT-TV, Fort Worth, 1964. 10Anthony Summers, ConspIracy, p.443. 11Dennis Eisenberg, Un Dan and Eli Landau, Meyer Lansky: Mogul of the Mob, p.257. 12Ibid. 13Ibid., p.258. 14Ibid., p.292. 15Ibid., p.293. 16Gordon Liddy, Will, p.83. 17Robert Maheau and Richard Hack, Next to Hughes, p.44. 18Robert Maheau and Richard Hack, Next to Hughes, p.161-62 19Ibid., p.158. 20Robert Maheau and Richard Stack, Next to Huqhes, p.41. 21Arthur M. Schlesinger, Robert Kennedy and His Times, p.523, citing Richard Nixon, Cuba, Castro and John F. Kennedy. 22Arthur M. Schlesinger, Robert Kennedy and His Times, p. 523, citing Philip Bonsai, Cuba, Castro and the United States. 23Arthur M. Schlesinger, Robert Kennedy and His Times, p.523, citing Howard Hunt, Give Us This Day. 24Arthur M. Schlesinger, Robert Kennedy and His Times, p.524n, citing Robert D. Morrow afidavit. 25Arthur M. Schlesinger, Robert Kennedy and His Times, p.524n. 26Dan E. Moldea, Tne Hoffa Wars, p.132, citing Church Committee Report. 27Arthur M. Schlesinger, Robert Kennedy and His Times, p. 531. 28Ibid. 29Arthur M. Schlesinger, Robert Kennedy and His Times, p. 590. 30Dan E. Moldea, The Hoffa Wars, p.134-35. 31Robert Maheau and Richard Hack, Next to Hughes, p. 155. 32Ibid., p.156. 33Ibid., 34Arthur M. Schlesinger, Robert Kennedy and His Times, p.489. 35Robert Maheau and Richard Hack, Next to Hughes, p.156. 36Dan Moldea, The Hoffa Wars, quoting Victor Navasky, p.92. 37New York Times, May 24, 1975. 380vid Demaris, The Director, p.226. 39Ovid Demaris, The Director, p. 223. 40Sanford J. Ungar, FBI, p.649. 41Ovid Demaris, The Director, p.166. 42Ibid., p.167. 43Sanford J. Ungar, FBI, p.180. 44Sanford J. Ungar, FBI, p.262. 45Neil J. Welch and David W. Marston, Inside Hoover's FBI, p.97. 46Ovid Demeris, The Director, p.141. 47Life, Septernber 1, 1967, p.43. 48Nei1 J. Welch and David W. Marston, Inside Hoover's FBI, p,84. 49Ibid., p.88. 50Time, December 22, 1975, p.20. 51Life, September 8, 1967. 52Ibid. 53Sanford J. Ungar, FBI, p.395. 54Anthony Summers, Conspiracy, p.338. 55Robert S. Anson, They've Killed the President, p. 123. citing Epstein, Counterplot. 56Anthony Summers, Conspiracy, p.594 n313. 57Ted Wright Interview, television documentery, The Un-Americans, 1993. 58Harvey Matusow Interview, television documentary, The Un-Americans, 1993. 59The Un-Americans, television documentary, 1993. ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, All My Relations. Omnia Bona Bonis, Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. 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