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Dwight Eisenhower: "Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are H. L. Hunt (you possibly know his background), a few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid."

Interesting quote.

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That view was expressed in a letter to his brother Edgar dated Nov 8, 1954. The relevant portion of that letter follows:

Now it is true that I believe this country is following a dangerous trend when it permits too great a degree of centralization of governmental functions. I oppose this--in some instances the fight is a rather desperate one. But to attain any success it is quite clear that the Federal government cannot avoid or escape responsibilities which the mass of the people firmly believe should be undertaken by it. The political processes of our country are such that if a rule of reason is not applied in this effort, we will lose everything--even to a possible and drastic change in the Constitution. This is what I mean by my constant insistence upon "moderation" in government. Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are H. L. Hunt (you possibly know his background), a few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or business man from other areas.5 Their number is negligible and they are stupid.

I'm just gonna ditto John; this is one of the move valuable quotes I've seen. IMO it's damn incriminating--though it's long been obvious the HL Hunt & sons were guilty as hell. But this is primo evidence Greg. Esp considering the source. Thanks!

(Lamar Hunt's widow was on the superbowl yesterday and it was just sickening. She gets to stand on the field at the superbowl while her husband's victim--our President--who was "Wanted for Treason by Lamar--lies at the bottom of the ocean.)

It's also interesting given that the Bush regime has attempted to gut social security, and labor laws are practically defunct.

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it's long been obvious the HL Hunt & sons were guilty as hell.

HL Hunt was guilty of expressing eccentric political views and his son Bunker admitted contributing towards the cost of the "Welcome Mister Kennedy" newspaper ad, but no member of the Hunt family contributed to the Wanted for Treason pamphlet and there is no credible evidence that any member of HL Hunt's family ever had any hand, act or part in murder.

Lamar Hunt is famous for having coined the phrase "the Super Bowl." In 1963 the only plot he was involved in was the plot to move the Dallas Texans football team to Kansas City. Lamar died on December 13 last, and all flags in Kansas City flew at half mast in his honor. I have no doubt that his widow and children have every reason to remember him with the greatest pride and affection.

Meanwhile, the JFK inquiry must go on.

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it's long been obvious the HL Hunt & sons were guilty as hell.

HL Hunt was guilty of expressing eccentric political views and his son Bunker admitted contributing towards the cost of the "Welcome Mister Kennedy" newspaper ad, but no member of the Hunt family contributed to the Wanted for Treason pamphlet and there is no credible evidence that any member of HL Hunt's family ever had any hand, act or part in murder.

Lamar Hunt is famous for having coined the phrase "the Super Bowl." In 1963 the only plot he was involved in was the plot to move the Dallas Texans football team to Kansas City. Lamar died on December 13 last, and all flags in Kansas City flew at half mast in his honor. I have no doubt that his widow and children have every reason to remember him with the greatest pride and affection.

Meanwhile, the JFK inquiry must go on.

Hunt's involvement seemed a little too obvious to many at the time. So much so that he fled the country. As the years have passed it seems less obvious. His proximity to LBJ and influence on American society only decreased after the assassination. As far as his eccentric views, my favorite is his belief that one's vote should be weighted proportionate to the amount of taxes one pays. The current President might very well agree, except so many of his biggest supporters live off the stock market, and pay no taxes at all.

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People can and do convert from one value system to another, just as they do from one religion to another, one political party to another.

Greg,

I've finally found the Sat Eve Post profile, and here's the paragraph that stuck with me. I've just bought Mellen's book & look forward to seeing her treatment of Garrison's self-professed admiration for Rand. I must say, though no expert on Rand's followers, I have never heard of any who were of the political centre or left. Still, here it is:

“He has a high regard for Ayn Rand, the high priestess of unfettered individualism, and says that her novel, The Fountainhead, had a profound effect on his thinking. ‘What she had to say about the importance of the individual, even if he must lose, is true,” Garrison says. ‘The statement is regularly made that the individual can do nothing. The answer is – only the individual can do anything,’” (“The Vice Man Cometh,” June 8, 1963, p.71).

The author is every bit as interesting - James Phelan.

Paul

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it's long been obvious the HL Hunt & sons were guilty as hell.

HL Hunt was guilty of expressing eccentric political views and his son Bunker admitted contributing towards the cost of the "Welcome Mister Kennedy" newspaper ad, but no member of the Hunt family contributed to the Wanted for Treason pamphlet and there is no credible evidence that any member of HL Hunt's family ever had any hand, act or part in murder.

Among those "eccentric" views was an enthusiasm for "shooting the Communists" out

of office.

Didn't DeMohrenschildt finger Hunt?

Didn't Hunt & Murchison own the Dal-Tex Building, which was never searched?

Didn't a man with heavy Mafia connections get picked up in that building?

Tell us who would otherwise be the top suspect?

Hunt says JFK should be shot out of office; the CIA-connected Oswald-pal DeMohrenschildt

says Hunt was in on the shooting of JFK (IIRC); Hunt and Murchison co-owned a building

that overlook the Plaza and was never searched by the Dallas Police.

How much influence did Hunt have with the DPD? Enough to get away with a couple

of murders, I'd say.

Lamar Hunt is famous for having coined the phrase "the Super Bowl." In 1963 the only plot he was involved in was the plot to move the Dallas Texans football team to Kansas City. Lamar died on December 13 last, and all flags in Kansas City flew at half mast in his honor. I have no doubt that his widow and children have every reason to remember him with the greatest pride and affection.

Meanwhile, the JFK inquiry must go on.

I'm an Oakland Raiders fan. I have a joyous hatred for the Chiefs.

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I've been asked to post the following information/opinion and link by a fellow researcher

who isn't a member of this forum:

DAVE, THIS IS A BIT MUDDLED. IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE THAT A CANADIAN COULD BE HEAD OF ANY FBI DIVISION - SULLIVAN YES, BLOOMFIELD NO.

AND I THOUGHT IT WAS THE OAS - SECRET ARMY ORG AND ALGERIAN COLONIALISTS WHO TRIED TO ASSASSINATE DEGAUL IN 62, NOT PERMINDEX.

ITS MORE THAN JIM GARRISON BEING HOODWINKED HERE.

JUST MY THOUGHTS AFTER GIVING OUR ANONYMOUS CONTRIBUTOR SOME SERIOUS ATTENTION.

I ALSO THINK WE SHOULD GIVE JOAN MELLON'S TALK AND THEME SOME SERIOUS ATTENTION.

BK

Walter Sheridan, Herbert J. Miller, Robert Peloquin, and William Hundley all worked under RFK as part of RFK's "Secret Team" inside the Criminal Division of the Justice Department. After they left the Kennedy Justice Department many of these guys (Sheridan, Peloquin, Hundley) went to work for INTERTEL the private security arm of organized crime chief Meyer Lansky's Resorts International in the Bahamas.

Joan Mellen points out that Walter Sheridan was sent to New Orleans by RFK. On this she is correct. And Garrison did not catch the CIA when he arrested Clay Shaw. What Jim Garrison had caught in Clay Shaw was the shadowy organization of Permindex led by Division Five head "Major Louis Mortimer Bloomfield" of which Clay Shaw was a Director under Bloomfield.

Permindex was also identified by French Intelligence as being the entity behind the 1962 assassination attempts on the life of French President Charles de Gaulle.

Jim Garrison was hood winked into pursuing the CIA by the circles around Lord Bertrand Russell and his British Who Killed Kennedy Committee.Lord Russell's minions were sent to New Orleans in order to get on the inside of Garrison's investigation to wreck it. This would include famed JFK researcher Mark Lane. This grouping around Lord Russell were able to get Jim Garrison off the trail of the real assassins (Permindex) and point him down a dead end leading to the CIA.

Interesting interview from 1998

http://www.dcbar.org/for_lawyers/resources..._law/miller.cfm

Hi Bill,

regardles of Myras translation, I continue to forward the information from the mysterious one.

I'll be happy to share his e-mail address if someone wants to discuss matters outside of this

platform directly.

The information I forward, I trust to be factual, but lack time,resources and knowledge to check them

myself.

From reading through them though, I think it is worth posting.

It is just a matter of me trying to be helpfull, and I don't care if some don't like/understand that.

So here it goes:

Louis Mortimer Bloomfield was recruited into William Stephenson’s “Special Operations Executive (SOE) in 1938. That same year Stephenson acting as an emissary of Churchill negotiated an agreement with FDR allowing British Intelligence to set up shop in the United States and effectively merge it’s operation with those of the FBI and military intelligence. Under SOE commission Bloomfield was given an officers rank in the US Army and assigned to the newly created OSS, the wartime predecessor of the CIA.

As a major in the OSS, Bloomfield was detailed into the Federal Bureau of Investigation as the contracting (recruitment) agent for it counterespionage Division Five. Bloomfield developed a strong relationship with J. Edgar Hoover and through that relationship Bloomfield was able to retain his powerful position in Division Five long after the war had ended. As late as 1963 when Bloomfield was case offering the assassination plot against John F. Kennedy he was still a top official in Division Five.

Walter Sheridan was also a top official in Division Five. Sheridan would later co ordinate political protection and intelligence services for Resorts International –Lansky casino empire.

##- read the series of articles appearing in Paese Sera on March 4, 12. 14 1967 for editorial references to Permindex’s role in the assassination attempts against de Gaulle in 1962.

Can anyone provide a reasonable source backing up Brian Quig's contention that Michael iJ. s the son of

Robert Peloquin? Fitzpatric (below) either did not know or could not support a relationship between the two in his 1991 article.

http://www.ajweberman.com/monicaA.htm

...HUNDLEY AND INTERTEL

Resorts International, a company that owned the Paradise Island casino in Nassau, reportedly put up two millions dollars to establish the International Intelligence Corporation (INTERTEL) security firm in Washington which was headed by former Justice Department experts on organized crime William Hundley and Robert Peloquin. INTERTEL was described as an organization that looked into the operations of large corporations to ascertain whether any of their assets were being directed towards activities controlled by organized crime. Three major accounts of that firm were Life Magazine, the National Football League and Resorts International. Resorts International owned 91% of INTERTEL'S stock. In the mid-1960's organized crime figure Eddie Cellini managed the Paradise Island casino where William Hundley and Robert Peloquin were in charge of casino security. [They Call it a Game - Bernie Parish - 1971]Cellini's sister was the mistress of attorney Edward Morgan, who represented the CIA controled Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Council. In March 1971 INTERTEL began an investigation of Robert Maheu Associates, before taking over its operations. INTERTEL had been engaged by Howard Hughes to look into his Las Vegas operations which were formerly managed by Maheu...

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1991-06-05/...ck-connection/3

Keating's Camelback Connection

Continued from page 2

Published on June 05, 1991

...Postscript: There's a bizarre history to Keating's building. Records show it was owned originally by James Patrick II and Herman Chanen.

Patrick was the son of a president of Valley National Bank and the head of a firm that developed such projects as Gateway Square and Mountain Bell Plaza.

Chanen is the head of the construction company that bears his name and a member of the Arizona Board of Regents.

Chanen built the Biltmore Fashion Park shopping center as well as the Hyatt Regency in downtown Phoenix and the Sheraton Hotel at Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco.

Patrick and Chanen sold the 2735 East Camelback property to a renowned banking adventurer named Michael J. Peloquin on April 2, 1979, for $550,000.

During the period from 1980 to 1984, Maricopa County court records show that sixty civil suits were filed against Peloquin. He was also indicted for bribing two bank officers to give him fraudulent loans, though the indictments were eventually dropped.

Peloquin sold the building to Keating on November 26, 1980, shortly before the inauguration of Ronald Reagan and George Bush, for $3 million.

This was a profit of nearly $2.5 million for Peloquin in less than a year.

In 1985, Keating took out a $5 million loan from the Prudential insurance company. The loan was to be paid off in a lump sum payment due October 1, 1990. Keating filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in April of that year.

In addition to all this, Keating also paid $13 million for the building adjoining his own. This purchase was made in 1985, a month after receiving the loan from Prudential.

When Resolution Trust Corporation took over Lincoln Savings, it took over the building and used it for offices. One of the reasons the RTC did so is because there is no clear title to the building and, under these conditions, it can't even be sold.

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??? : "The parent company of INTERTEL is RESORTS INTERNATIONAL, which changed its

name from MARY CARTER PAINT COMPANY. MARY CARTER PAINT was reported, in a

significant May 20, 1976 article by Howard Kohn in ROLLING STONE, to have

been founded by Allen Dulles, the Director of CIA under Eisenhower and

Kennedy."

http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv....m/msg29994.html

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??? : "The parent company of INTERTEL is RESORTS INTERNATIONAL, which changed its

name from MARY CARTER PAINT COMPANY. MARY CARTER PAINT was reported, in a

significant May 20, 1976 article by Howard Kohn in ROLLING STONE, to have

been founded by Allen Dulles, the Director of CIA under Eisenhower and

Kennedy."

http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv....m/msg29994.html

Thank you, John.

I wanted a second source to back Quig's connection of father and son Peloquin, and thus Charles Keating's scams. Keating is connected to McCain via a shopping center co-investment with McCain's wife, Cindy, and her father, Jim Hensley. Both Keating and Jim Hensley are connected with Kemper Marley. Marley picked up (fronted for) what was James Ragen's racing wire service, renamed Transamerica.

See for background on Ragen's mob execution and the race wire info service, Crown, General Dynamics, Tom Clark:

Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark: A Life of Service

http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=15323

Anybody think that Marley and Keating simultaneously and independently got this same idea and put it into play?

http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=mar...n&scoring=a

Developers become farmers .

Prescott Courier - Google News Archive - Nov 15, 1988

Kemper Marley, who owns 12 square miles of land near the mcdowell Mountains in north Scottsdale, is putting livestock on the land, and Charles H Keating Jr. .

Jiim Hensley and his brother Gene both took federal felony convictions in 1948 in order to protect Marley. Gene served prison time and Jim received probation. He was able to get a license to distribute beer, in spite of a prohibition

on licensing felons. The Hensleys were convicted of altering liquor invoices to evade the federal tax to increase the profits of Marley's liquor distributorship. The article at the above link states that Marley owned 12 square miles of Phoenix area property. He died a billionaire, and Hensley and McCain were his stooges. Hence Keating's partnership with Jim Hensley and his free resort flights and vacations to the McCains.

General Singlaub and Bush cousin, Walter had offices in close proximity to Keating's at the property Keating purchased from Michael J. Peloquin.

http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=mcc...n&scoring=a

Fact Check: Camps highlight foes' old associates

USA TODAY - USA Today - Oct 12, 2008

Singlaub says he doesn't recall McCain resigning, but also says McCain was never active in the organization and instead just let the group use his name for ...

Keating was John Connally's campaign manager in 1980, and employed Connally's son at American Continental in 1987, when the BCCI scandal started to emerge. That was also the year Connally decalred personal bankruptcy.

The information you posted is a stretch....too difficult to make it stick, without the fluke of a very lucky break.:

http://books.google.com/books?q=intertel+d...nG=Search+Books

New York Magazine‎ - Page 28

Magazine - Aug 16, 1976 - v. 9, no. 33 - 76 pages

4341054897_19b7e7ea9f_o.jpg

Near the bottom of the page:

http://www.heritageatlakinfarm.org/Honorees_2009.asp

Honorees for 2009 - Four Rivers Heritage Center at Lakin Farm

... and Kemper Marley in the Salt River Valley. In 1946 he formed Farmers Investment Co. (FICO). With additional capital from Color Henry Crown of Chicago, ...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=c...mp;aqi=&oq=

Sahuarita, Pima County, Arizona

It was in 1915 that Bernard Baruch, Joseph Kennedy and J.P. Morgan founded ... In 1948, R. Keith Walden bought the Continental Farm from the Queen and moved ...

www.sangres.com/arizona/places/pima/sahuarita.htm

About Us - Green Valley Pecan Store

Bernard Baruch, Joseph Kennedy and J.P. Morgan founded Continental in 1915 with the ... In 1922, the farm was sold to Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, ...

www.pecanstore.com/Aboutus.asp

http://investing.businessweek.com/business...&%20Company

A. Steven Crown: Executive Profile & Biography - BusinessWeek

See Board Relationships. 57, -- ... Previously, Mr. Crown worked at Farmers Investment Co. and Aspen Skiing Co. He has been an Independent Director of Hilton Hotels Corp. since 1992 and Chairman of its Compensation Committee and as a Member of Corporate Governance, Nominating, and Audit Committees. He has been a Director of Caesars Entertainment, Inc. (Formerly Park Place Entertainment Corp.) since December 31, 1998 and Chairman of ... its Compensation Committee and Member of its Audit and Compliance Committees. Mr. Crown serves as a Member of Board of Visitors of UCLA Anderson School of Management. He serves as a Director of Farmers Investment Company (Sahuarita, Arizona),....

In passing, anybody suspect it was possible that Fred Korth was fired as Navy Secretary because "the players" feared Korth was interfering with General Dynamic's retention of the TFX contract, and not because he was trying to help GD keep it?

Tentacles....folks, the mob perpetually had the nagging problem of where to (park and hide) all of their cash proceeds.

New Trustees Elected To Aspen Institute Board – Press Releases on ...

May 1, 2009 ... Newly Elected Aspen Institute Trustees James Schine Crown is President of Henry Crown and Company, .... Leonhard Fischer, William A. Nitze ...

http://www.csrwire.com/press/press_release...nstitute-Board-

Aspen Institute / Aspen Strategy Group - SourceWatch

Nov 13, 2009 ... 2 Henry Crown Fellowship Program; 3 Aspen Health Stewardship Project ... AIHS also sponsors the Aspen Strategy Group, a policy program concentrating .... William A. Nitze, President, Gemstar Group Inc. Olara A. Otunnu, ...

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title..._Strategy_Group

http://news.google.com/archivesearch?um=1&...l&scoring=n

Jul 19, 1985 - Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. and a group that includes Marvin Davis, who owns Fox with Australian publisher Rupert Murdoch, have sold 50% of Aspen Skiing Co. to the powerful Crown family of Chicago for an undisclosed price. Holdings of the Crown family include 23% of General ...

http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=kor...n&scoring=a

Navy Secretary Korth Resigns; Nitze Named .

St. Petersburg Times - Google News Archive - Oct 15, 1963

of Fred Korth— as Secretary of the Navy and the selection of Assistant Defense Secretary Paul Nitze as his replacement were announced yesterday by the White ...

http://www.aspentimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/ar...mplate=printart

Diplomat, Skico owner Paul Nitze dies in D.C.

Scott Condon,

Paul H. Nitze, an arms control negotiator who advised eight American presidents during the Cold War and played a quiet but vital role in the resurrection of Aspen, died at age 97 in Washington, D.C., Tuesday night.

Nitze was one of the most influential foreign policy and arms control advisers in the country from 1940 until 1988. He was a principal architect of the U.S. policy of "containing" the expansion of the Soviet Union and maintaining a strong U.S. military as a deterrence. His views earned him a reputation as a hard-line "hawk" in the Cold War.

At the same time he headed policy planning at the State Department under the Truman administration following World War II, he played a key role in developing skiing in Aspen.

Nitze was the brother of Elizabeth "Pussy" Paepcke, who, with her husband, Walter, embarked on a plan in the mid-1940s to turn Aspen into a mecca for arts, cultural and outdoor pursuits.

When Walter Paepcke recruited investors in the Aspen Skiing Corp. in 1945, Nitze chipped in $75,000, according to a research paper for the Aspen Historical Society by Anne Gilbert called "Re-creation Through Recreation: Aspen Skiing From 1870 to 1970."

Nitze's investment made him the single biggest shareholder, Gilbert wrote. When the new ski company incorporated on Jan. 21, 1946, Nitze was on the board of directors along with Paepcke, Friedl Pfeifer, George Berger and Robert Collins.

"He was instrumental in the formation of the Aspen Ski Corp.," said current owner Jim Crown yesterday. "That family together with the Paepckes - they had everything in foresight. I have great respect for what they did."

Nitze remained an investor in the company until it was sold to Twentieth Century Fox in 1978.

Gilbert's research also raised the possibility that Nitze got the Paepckes interested in the sleepy, down-and-out former mining town of Aspen in the late 1930s. Nitze was a banker at the same investment house where Billy Fiske worked in the late 1930s. Gilbert wrote that Fiske invited Nitze to invest in the Highland Bavarian Corp.'s proposed Mount Hayden ski area project near Ashcroft, but Nitze had "misgivings."

Other accounts differ. When he was inducted into the Aspen Hall of Fame in 1991, the presentation said Nitze tried unsuccessfully to raise funds for ski lifts for the Highland Bavarian project after receiving a glowing report about the prospects from Fiske, according to a 1991 Aspen Times article by Mary Eshbaugh Hayes.

Nitze was also credited in the Hall of Fame presentation with trying to convince the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad to restore a line to Aspen like Union Pacific had done to Sun Valley.

Nitze may well have learned enough about the Aspen area that he advised the Paepckes to visit there in 1938, according to Gilbert.

Nitze went from the banking business to public service in 1940. He regularly visited Aspen and his sister, recalled Merrill Ford, who ran the International Design Conference in the late 1950s when she met Nitze. Ford recalled an annual occurrence with Nitze on the ski slopes of Aspen Mountain.

"He would always take one horrendous fall, then he would get up and ski beautifully," she said with a laugh.

She also recalled that he wore some of the ugliest clothing imaginable on the slopes until she and a friend forced him into the old Elli of Aspen ski shop and made him blow a wad on a new outfit sometime in the 1960s or '70s.

Ford said Nitze had no problem getting away from the weighty global issues he was involved with and relax in Aspen. She said she once commented to him that he must get sick of people always asking him about world events. He responded that he enjoyed it. Ford said Nitze had a knack for breaking down complex foreign policy issues in discussions with his friends. She also recalled that "he had a great sense of humor."

Nitze helped create The Aspen Institute, a think tank with offices in Aspen and the Washington, D.C., area. He co-founded The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington in 1943. Nitze was unable to attend the school's annual banquet last week, at which Secretary of State Colin Powell spoke in tribute to his long government service.

That service began in 1940 with a telegram that said, "Be in Washington Monday, Forrestal." The summons from James V. Forrestal, then a special assistant at the White House, lured Nitze from the lucrative confines of Wall Street to the first of many assignments in government that involved him in the supply of the Allies for the war effort, a survey of the impact of the bombing in Europe and in Japan after the atomic raids on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the feeding of the hungry of war-ravaged Europe, the creation of the Marshall Plan and crises in Iran and Berlin.

In the aftermath of World War II, Nitze became part of that remarkable group of public servants - George F. Kennan, Charles E. Bohlen, Robert A. Lovett, John J. McCloy - that coalesced around Dean Acheson to develop foreign political and military policy as the United States took its place as a major world power.

He was a senior State Department official in the Truman administration, secretary of the Navy in the Kennedy administration and deputy secretary of defense in the Johnson administration. By the time he became one of the chief negotiators on strategic weapons, Nitze had accumulated more experience in the field of national security affairs than anyone of his time, to the point that his critics began to think he believed he had a monopoly on understanding the political uses of nuclear weapons.

Ever since 1950, when as head of the policy planning staff of the State Department he was principal author of a study on the Soviet threat, Nitze took a dark view of Soviet intentions, seeing in the Kremlin a drive for world hegemony.

That study - known as N.S.C.-68 - which conceived of deterrence in military rather than diplomatic terms - warned against sole reliance on the nuclear deterrent and urged a buildup of conventional forces. Its precepts became a cornerstone of American policy. In succeeding years, when the American nuclear monopoly was broken, Nitze warned regularly that the Soviet Union was trying to achieve preponderant nuclear strength as a tool of blackmail, or, in the worst case, to win an all-out war.

From the beginning of the nuclear age, whether in government or out, Nitze urged successive American presidents to take measures against what he saw as the Soviet drive to overwhelm the United States. Yet he may be best remembered for his conciliatory role in efforts to achieve two major arms agreements with the Soviet Union.

In one, he was successful in negotiating an agreement that would eliminate intermediate-range missiles from Europe. In the other, he hoped to cap his long career with a so-called "grand compromise" in 1988 that would have severely circumscribed work on President Reagan's cherished Strategic Defense Initiative in exchange for deep cuts in the nuclear arsenals of both superpowers. His efforts foundered when the negotiators ran out of time as the Reagan administration came to an end.

In a now legendary moment of the cold war, Nitze undertook a bold, but unsuccessful personal effort to achieve an earlier arms agreement with the Russians. In 1982, acting on his own and superseding his instructions, Nitze took a walk with his Soviet counterpart in the Jura Mountains, where he tried to strike a bargain on a package dealing with intermediate-range missiles in Europe.

In that episode, which became known as the "walk in the woods," Nitze tried to cut through the bureaucratic tangle but was thwarted when both Moscow and Washington repudiated the agreement.

Nitze refused an appointment in the first Bush administration as ambassador-at-large emeritus saying that such a post would leave him with no clear responsibilities. He retired to an office at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University - a school that was named for him in 1989 - where he wrote articles in a continuing attempt to influence policy.

With that, his long career in government came to an end.

New York Times reporter Marilyn Berger wrote all portions of this report that were not about Nitze's life in Aspen.

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Im an Oakland Raiders fan. I have a joyous hatred for the Chiefs.

I knew it!

I am a Chiefs fan

I hate the Raiders more then anything else in the world!

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Im an Oakland Raiders fan. I have a joyous hatred for the Chiefs.

I knew it!

I am a Chiefs fan

I hate the Raiders more then anything else in the world!

Dean, I've got another reason for you to be a Chiefs fan....see the thread on Derrick Thomas

(After posting this I realized I may have diverted a more important recent post by Tom Scully)

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Thank you, Michael,

but it remains to be seen...whether or not my posts here are important.

The search term, "Peloquin" , yields just a few results in a search of this forum. I am posting on this topic on this thread because Robert D. Peloquin was mentioned in the most posts here and in rhe Carol Rosenbloom thread. IMO, the following posts fit like a glove, especially because of Terry Mauro's reference to "Emprise", the organization founded by Lou Jacobs oif Buffalo, NY.

Don Bolles was investigating Emprise when he was car bombed to death in 1976, and Kemper Marley was the chief suspect in the conspiracy to murder Bolles. Jim Hensley's brother Gene sold their Ruidoso, NM horse racing track to Emprise, and the 1970's Sports Illustrated article linked in Terry's post included below was regarded as a groundbreaking piece of investigative journalism.

http://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/18/us/cattl...el-dispute.html

Cattleman and Reporters End Their Four-Year Libel Dispute

AP Published: July 18, 1981

PHOENIX, July 17

"A lawsuit filed by a millionaire Arizona cattleman against Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc., was dismissed today when the two parties agreed to drop the litigation.

In 1977, the cattleman, Kemper Marley, filed a libel and invasion of privacy suit after publication of an article that said that he had been associated with organized crime figures.

The report stemmed from an investigation of organized crime and political corruption in Arizona, conducted by the reporters' group, which had been formed after the car-bombing death of investigative reporter Don Bolles of The Arizona Republic.

Mr. Marley named the reporters' group, the individuals who worked on the project and newspapers that published the stories. Last February, after a five-month trial, a jury in Maricopa, Ariz., found that the reporters had not libeled Mr. Marley or invaded his privacy. But he was awarded $15,000 in punitive damages.The dismissal came after both sides agreed not to pursue the case through appeals. No money was exchanged."

http://www.ajweberman.com/nodules2/nodulec29.htm

.....ALLEN DORFMAN

.... In 1979, Gerald Denono, a mafia hit man under federal protective custody, gave a diary to the FBI that he said he stole from Dr. Canale, a New Orleans physician linked to CARLOS MARCELLO. The entry dated January 5, 1973, read: "Fitz OK Al Dorfman chi ok.--Tony Pro Jersey ok ($500,---to C.C. = nix OK." This signified that a payment was made to NIXON through Charles Colson which had been okayed by Teamsters Allen Dorfman, Tony Provenzano and Frank Fitzsimmons. [NY Post 11.16.79] The name of Allen Dorfman surfaced in an off-shoot of the FBI's ABSCAM investigation. Allen Dorfman was involved in an attempt to bribe Senator Howard W. Cannon, (Dem.- Nevada) to sponsor favorable legislation. These charges were never proven because Allen Dorfman was gunned down gang-land style in Chicago.

After the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the Warren Commission received several reports that indicated an on-going relationship between RUBY and the Dorfmans. Justice Department investigator Walter Sheridan received information that RUBY had recently received money from one of the Dorfmans. Assistant United States Attorney Robert D. Peloquin was assigned to investigate the matter. Robert D. Peloquin, who at the time was part of United States Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy's "Get Hoffa Squad," was called off the case by his boss, Herbert J. Miller. [FBI 44-24016-112,1247; 62-109060-1528] Herbert J. Miller informed Robert Peloquin that he had contacted the source of the information concerning RUBY and the Dorfmans, and the source had refused to substantiate the information. Herbert J. Miller ordered "no further inquiry in this matter" because "the story would give Hoffa an opportunity to criticize the Justice Department for trying to tie Hoffa in with President Kennedy's murder." J. Edgar Hoover agreed: "I do wish Justice Department would mind it's own business." [FBI DC-44-1639 BL-E-cover pg; FBI CG 44-645- DWS: pl6, cover page B]....

...Clint Murchison Jr. told the FBI he never heard of RUBY or OSWALD before the events of November 1963. Tommy Webb told the FBI the same. In 1977 Tommy Webb signed an affidavit in which he admitted his association with Clint Murchison Jr. and Allen Dorfman. [Affidavit of Thomas Dougherty Webb Jr. 10.21.77] Edward Partin told Walter Sheridan that Clint Murchison Jr. was a "great benefactor" of Jimmy Hoffa's....

.....MEYER LANSKY

When casinos opened on the Grand Bahama Island in 1964, the presence of Meyer Lansky associate Dino Cellini's brother, Edward Cellini, led to law enforcement speculation that Meyer Lansky played a behind-the-scenes role. Resorts International, the owners of the casinos in question, filed a $100 million lawsuit against Rolling Stone magazine for having linked their properties to Meyer Lansky. In 1977 actor Danny Thomas performed at a benefit to legalize gambling in New Jersey sponsored by Resorts International. RUBY had the name of Danny Thomas in one of his notebooks. On December 5, 1963, John C. Jackson, a friend of RUBY for six years told the FBI: "JACK was a life-long friend of Danny Thomas."

In July 1970 Meyer Lansky moved to Israel. In 1971 Meyer Lansky was indicted for skimming more than $14 million from a Las Vegas casino and for income-tax evasion. On November 2, 1972, Meyer Lansky returned to the U.S. In 1973 he was acquitted of income-tax evasion and in 1976 a Federal judge ruled he was too sick to stand trial for the skimming charges. Later that year, reputed Meyer Lansky associate Alvin Malnick was investigated in connection with misuse of Teamster Union Pension Funds. In a interview Meyer Lansky told reporters: "There is no such thing as organized crime."[NYT 10.28.76, 11.22. 63, 7.9.59 pA-8p; Miami Herald 3.27.77 p20A, 11.3.78, 2.26,76 p7A. 10.20.77, 3.27.77, 1.6.77, 10.18, 78, 10.19.78, 10.13.77, 10.14.77, 10.26.78, 10.25.78, 10.1.76. 11.4.76, 11.3.76, 7.9.59 pl3A, 6.11.59 p9c; 3.17.77 plA and 18A, 9.28.78 plOA; Miami News 10.19.78, 2.22.77, 10.18.78, 10.13.77, 10.15.77,11.4.76, 10.20.78 p7A, 8.12.76, 6.l.77 2.10.7, 3.17.77, 9.29.78; The Record Atlantic City 12.14.76; Life 9.67, 3.10.58; Journal American 2.21.58; FBI Los Angeles- 44-895 - GAP:meh; V5 DC - SDF: Rolling Stone v. Resorts depo of V. Theresa pgs.43, 67; Official bio sheets on Cellini, Hundley and Peloquin; Washington Post, 5.2.76 pCl Outlook 5.16.76.; Jay Mallin Dispatch 1179 9.15.59; Hearings U.S. States Congress - Improper Activities in the labor Field pl243]

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Deep Politics and the Death of JFK

By Peter Dale Scott Page 227

...By one of History's ironies, Life, in its pre-dated issue of November 22, 1963, identified Bedford Wynne as a nonresident member of Bobby Baker's assignation club, the Quorum. For fourteen years after that day Bedford Wynne would virtually disappear. But in 1977 his name would again surface--in a Senate hearing into a Teamster-related insurance scandal. The witnesses were Wynne's two business partners I. Irving Davidson and Clint Murchison's lobbyist Tommy Webb, along with Allen Dorfman, who appeared with his counsel Albert E. Jenner, formerly of the Warren Commission.2

A post from the threaf titled, "Replying to McAdams or me?"....

WTF? What planet are you living on? Clinton and his cronies are nakedly intimidating an independent media outlet into censoring itself and it's conservatives' fault? How? You do realize that liberals are in charge of this miniseries, right? You do realize that Disney and ABC have been reliably pro-Democrat in the past, right?

BS, your posts grow increasingly hysterical, and not just in the "inadvertently funny" sense of the word.

If Clinton and his cronies are seeking anything, it's that the facts are relayed to viewers of this miniseries. As ABC itself has gone to great pains to point out, its product contains invented dialog, composite characters and telescoped events. In other words, the very same acts of artistic licence that got Oliver Stone disembowelled by the media. Just how "real" or "true" can the final product be when ABC itself advises in advance of broadcast "It's not true... it's not a documentary... it's just an entertainment?"

If ABC has been "reliably" pro-anything, it's been reliably pro-CIA since its takeover by Cap Cities back when you were in diapers. You might profit from reading the following, and then consider if the information provided back in '87 helps to rationalize the occasional little faux pas such as "The Kennedy Assassination: Beyond Conspiracy," with its use of the equally disingenuous Dale Myers CGI cartoon. Not surprising that Disney should seize upon a cartoon to explain things to its viewers, or that it would resort to a little "juicing" of the facts to make its 9-1-1 extravaganza a tad more entertaining.

The Seizing of the American Broadcasting Company

[This article originally appeared in the February 20-27, 1987 issue of The LA Weekly.]

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This week network TV hit a new low with ABC's airing of its 14 and one-half hour, $40-million dollar "epic," Amerika. The xenophobic red-baiting engaged in by Amerika is hardly new to TV, but never before has a network spent so much time and money in such a blatant attempt to inspire in its audience jingoistic paranoia toward the Soviet Union and the United Nations. Small wonder that Mikhail Gorbachev complained to visiting American bigwigs earlier this month that "forces to which hostility is profitable ... use high-powered information media to sow hatred toward the Soviet Union."

The commotion about Amerika has obscured a much more serious problem about network TV, one that could serve to validate Gorbachev's complaint for years to come. Despite its length and its crass appeal to the dark side of the American character, Amerika is just a TV show. As such, it's not likely to have much lasting effect. However, that cannot be said of the changes in network ownership and control that have taken place over the last two years. These have transformed at least NBC and ABC from tasteless schlock-meisters merely striving to sell more ads into powerful information gatekeepers with strong ties to established power blocs that have their own aggressive foreign and domestic political agendas.

At issue in the ABC situation in particular is an extraordinary story overlooked by most of the press and never taken up by congressional investigators: Who actually took over ABC when Capital Cities Communications bought it in March 1985? For "Cap Cities" is no ordinary company, and the takeover was no ordinary case of corporate wheeling and dealing. Specifically, an L.A. Weekly investigation has found that:

Cap Cities' primary executive Thomas Murphy, his family and some of Cap Cities' founders had or have a relationship with another firm known to have excellent connections in the intelligence community through one of its subsidiaries. The same firm has also been accused of Mafia ties.

William Casey, the just-resigned head of the CIA and a lifelong maneuverer for that agency in the corporate and Wall Street communities, was and is a major player in Cap Cities. A founder and former director of the company, Casey placed all his stock holdings into a blind trust, except --- in violation of his agreement with Congress --- for his holdings in Cap Cities.

The CIA challenged ABC's right to retain its broadcasting licenses just before Cap Cities bought out the company and during the period it was negotiating for the purchase. This attack had the result of driving down the price of ABC stock on the public market.

In the Iran-Contragate aftermath, with some of the manipulations this administration and William Casey are wont to engage in becoming known, the Cap Cities-ABC deal and Casey's possible role in it have to be considered high on the curiosity list of unexplored events of the last couple of years. For with the Cap Cities takeover, one of the three primary influences on America's public consciousness was delivered into the hands of a company that may well have its own agenda.

GE Whiz!

NBC is the most obvious case of just such a potentially political takeover. Until last year, NBC was owned by RCA, whose other interests included consumer electronics, a record label, broadcast equipment and a fair amount of military electronics. Then RCA was acquired by General Electric (GE), an even larger defense contractor. The new GE, containing RCA, is one of the largest, if not the largest, military suppliers in the world. This led Ted Turner to deplore the acquisition because he felt NBC News would have a vested interest in perpetuating the arms race.

Turner's Cable News Network, of course, competes with NBC News. However, Turner donates much of his time, his money and his cable "superstation's" prime time to agitating against nuclear escalation. His concern, therefore, can't be completely written off as business jealousy. In fact, his concerns were echoed by Ralph Nader and Ohio Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, who wanted the Senate Judiciary Committee to look into the GE-RCA merger. But the committee, then controlled by ever-sensitive-to-big-business GOP, approved the RCA acquisition despite its clear potential for journalistic conflict of interest, as did Reagan's FCC. Similarly, the so-called Antitrust Division of the Meese Justice Department continued its love affair with monopoly commerce by raising no objection to what in another era would have been considered an outstanding instance of restriction of trade. (GE and RCA will stop competing with each other in the home-electronics and TV-set market.)

NBC's outraged declarations of journalistic integrity after the takeover indicate it's not likely to promote Russophobia actively a la ABC's Amerika. More likely is a corporate zeitgeist that encourages the killing of or ignoring of stories unfavorable to the parent company and the promotion of a mindset favorable to the company's interests. GE is also a major contractor for nuclear power plants. One should not, therefore, expect in-depth documentation from NBC on the arms race, nor on defense-contractor cheating, nor on nuclear reactors. One should expect plenty of "hot spot" coverage that makes the world seem an unsafe place for America. One can easily imagine a GE executive saying to an NBC News Executive, "Hey, how come we're not giving more attention to the threat from Ethiopia?" As Ralph Nader has said, "Self-censorship is alive and well in American media."

(The influence of the military and nuclear establishments on NBC News is, of course, mitigated by the fact that inherent conflicts of interest are quite obvious to even casual observers. Thus, when the new NBC administration formed a political-action committee that would collect obligatory contributions from all NBC staffers, including those in the news division, a firestorm of indignation erupted. Once other media and the public saw that GE might pressure its journalists to support political causes, the PAC idea was quickly dropped. The incident indicated from the outset how far the parent company was willing to go in pressing its interests.

ABCIA?

If NBC is now tied into the defense establishment, ABC control has passed to men who, in the case of Casey, have open or, in the case of other founders and executives, questionable other links to what's euphemistically known as the "intelligence community." The potential for abuse at this network exceeds that at NBC because the possibility of spook-driven news manipulation at ABC has never been publicly aired or examined. (Although some may say the decision to air Amerika is one of the first signs of such manipulation, in fact the show was commissioned before the Cap Cities takeover.) On the other hand, despite much public pressure about the series, ABC executives under Cap Cities have remained steadfast in their commitment to the miniseries. While day-to-day politically motivated intrusion by management into entertainment and news decisions is not unusual --- see the Mother Jones issue of November 1985 for historical precedents at ABC before the Cap Cities deal --- the major impact of Cap Cities on ABC is more likely going to be in its choice of senior news and entertainment executives both at ABC and at stations owned and operated by it. The tone and parameters are set from the top down; control the top levels, and you needn't concern yourself about day-to-day affairs.

A closer look at Cap Cities shows three areas that beg for deeper inquiry. One is the founders themselves --- who they are and what their ties may have been to the U.S. intelligence establishment. Another is the relationship of Cap Cities' founders and execs to a company called Resorts International, some of whose divisions have been said to be intimate with intelligence agencies. And finally, there is the stock deal and William Casey's role in it, as well as any ongoing Casey role in Cap Cities.

Cap Cities was founded in 1954 by several men who were or would become prominent. Chief among them, and the principal players in the company, were famed explorer-newscaster Thomas; Tom Dewey, the former New York governor and twice GOP candidate for president (both, like most other Cap Cities founders, now deceased); and William J. Casey, who was Cap Cities' chief counsel and a member of its board of directors until 1981, when he joined the Reagan administration. He still owns $7.5 million in stock in the now-merged entity called CC/ABC, his largest holding.

Casey should require no introduction. Appointed by Reagan in 1981 as director of the Central Intelligence Agency, he brought to the job an early training in intelligence in the wartime Office of Strategic Services (which later became the CIA) and a lifelong network of friends and allies in the intelligence community. Crafty, secretive, an ardent supporter of covert action and a big-time player in corporate politics, Casey is part of an "old boy" network of intelligence hands who have frequently used American companies to help in intelligence or covert-action matters or, as in the case of ITT and the CIA in Chile, persuaded the CIA to help out in corporate affairs. (Using corporations to help out in a variety of ways --- from washing money, to providing fake business to CIA "front companies," to furnishing cover for intelligence agents --- was a specialty of the man who did the most to give the CIA its power and covert network: its former director, Allen Dulles, a friend, wartime colleague and, rumor has it, business partner of Casey.)

Lowell Thomas was a larger-than-life figure --- an explorer, a broadcast personality, a film documentarist and a best-selling author. The Soviets long accused Thomas of also being an American intelligence agent because he often appeared with photographers and film crews at highly sensitive points of "communist versus the Free World" conflict. Thomas, though he had at minimum good journalistic connections in the U.S. intelligence community, always denied being a spook in the face of published articles questioning his activities. But he made no bones about his staunch anti-communist leanings. (He even appeared with John Wayne, Martha Raye and several U.S. generals in No Substitute for Victory, a denunciation of commie-coddling sponsored by the far-right John Birch Society.)

Thomas lived in a New York state enclave for the rich where one of his neighbors was Thomas E. Dewey. (Another was Lawrence E. Walsh, later to become special prosecutor in the Iran-Contra affair.) Dewey and Thomas later were involved in another company, Mary Carter Paint, which later became Resorts International (more on this below).

Before becoming governor of New York and a presidential candidate, Dewey had been a U.S. attorney and district attorney in New York City, where his biggest success was putting behind bars Mafia chieftain Lucky Luciano, who was Meyer Lansky's mentor. As governor during World War II, Dewey agreed to a deal to parole Luciano in exchange for Mafia assistance to the OSS and Naval Intelligence. The assistance involved helping with the invasion of Sicily and using Mafia-controlled dock workers to guard against Nazi saboteurs.

This led to a long association between the OSS' successor agency --- the CIA --- and the Mafia. According to Rolling Stone investigative reporter Howard Kohn, much of the association passed through Dewey. Kohn has reported that both the CIA (via Dulles) and the Mafia (via Lansky) funneled money and valuable information to Dewey's political campaigns as well as to Dewey's protege, Richard Nixon, and to Nixon's pal Florida Sen. George Smathers, like Nixon a close friend of the shadowy Bebe Rebozo. Kohn alleged that Rebozo and Lansky went on to further profitable associations with Resorts International.

Even before becoming governor, Dewey had close ties to the intelligence community. He was known as "the man" in the U.S. attorney's office who could be relied on to threaten New York publishers with prosecution if they were to publish books revelatory of intelligence matters. Dewey helped suppress several such books.

Joining Dewey and the Murphy family in Cap Cities ownership were powerful New York GOP leader Alger Chapman and, for balance, John McGrath, who managed Democrat Averill Harriman's New York gubernatorial races in the 1950s. Also purchasing Cap Cities stock were the following members of the U.S. House of Representatives: Leo O'Brien, Eugene Keogh and James Delaney, all New York Democrats; and Peter Rodino, New Jersey Democrat and presently head of the House Judiciary Committee.

The final important founding player in Capital Cities is its president, Tom Murphy, who Wall Street and media executives widely consider to be among the most talented and successful businessmen alive. (He is also a director of Texaco and IBM.) A very private man, Murphy associates mainly with his relatives and business cronies, while avoiding the public attention cultivated by media moguls like Ted Turner.

Murphy's Gang

In terms of knowing who the players are behind ABC, these relatives and business associates loom large. Chief among them are people prominent in Resorts International, which, as mentioned above, began as Mary Carter Paint Company and was purchased in 1959 by an investment group that included Lowell Thomas and Thomas Dewey.

Rolling Stone in 1977, after being legally challenged by Resorts, retracted a story that CIA Director Allen Dulles was majorly involved in the buyout. Quoting CIA sources, Kohn wrote that in 1958 Dulles gave Dewey and Thomas $2 million in CIA money to set up a front company. With it they supposedly bought Crosby-Miller Corp, which merged with Mary Carter a year later. In its retraction, Rolling Stone noted that while it respected Kohn as a researcher, Resorts International had shown the magazine persuasive evidence that Kohn had been wrong or been misled by his sources.

Tom Murphy was, according to at least one published report, another member of the purchasing group. So was a man named John Crosby, whose sone James would become chief executive of Mary Carter/Resorts International and whose daughter would become Tom Murphy's wife.

James Crosby, who died last April, was a close friend of Nixon (to whose campaign he donated $100,000 in 1968) and Rebozo, and he played host to the recently deposed Shah of Iran at Resorts International's hotel on Paradise Island in the Bahamas. (The shah, of course, was put on the Persian throne in a coup engineered by the CIA, and maintained close lifelong ties to the agency; it is axiomatic that the agency would have tried to see to his welfare after he fled the country.) John Crosby, according to Kohn, had been, like Casey, a "member of the secret circle that lobbied for establishment of the CIA after World War II."

During the early 70s, Resort International/Mary Carter's activities were occasionally cited in the left-wing press as evidence that it had been carrying out CIA business. When similar allegations appeared in a Las Vegas newspaper, Resorts --- as in the case of Rolling Stone --- threatened suit and won a full retraction.

In 1968, the company changed names, sold the paint business and concentrated on hotels and casinos in Atlantic City and the Bahamas. Later, it acquired its Intertel subsidiary, which specializes in private "security" and in intelligence gathering for corporate and other clients. Among these clients were several with intimate CIA relationships, including ITT, Anastasio Somoza, the Shah of Iran and Howard Hughes' vast empire of casinos and military manufacturers. Some published reports have alleged that Resorts may have engaged in money laundering, mentioning the mob, Nixon, and Rebozo as possible beneficiaries. Resorts has also been accused of having ties to Robert Vesco and the Meyer Lansky faction of the Mafia that was involved in CIA attempts to kill Fidel Castro. New Jersey state law enforcement officers who unsuccessfully opposed Resorts' application for a license to run a casino in Atlantic City also claimed that Resorts had suspicious ties to the mob. (Resorts strongly denied this.)

At their New Jersey casino license hearing, Resorts officials also admitted paying $431,000 that went to Lyndon Pindling when he was the Bahamas' prime minister to obtain gambling rights in that country.

Time magazine has characterized Resorts International as "largely a family affair run by [James] Crosby and some of his relatives." These include the two Crosby sisters, one of whom, as mentioned, married Tom Murphy, while the other married Murphy's brother, Henry. A cousin, Charles Murphy, is the corporate counsel. After Jim Crosby died, the Crosby-Murphy extended family inherited some of his stock and voting control of Resorts and Intertel. (The only member of this cozy clan not included in Resorts operations is brother Peter Crosby, an irrepressible swindler with Mafia ties whose Wall Street shenanigans have earned him several prison sentences.)

With Murphy and the other key players now involved in ABC, Cap Cities and Resorts International, it's useful to explore the significance of their other holding, Resorts' Intertel subsidiary --- the largest private security and spy organization in the U.S.

Spies for Hire

The vast yet secret world of private intelligence was first described at length by Jim Hougan, in magazine articles and the book Spooks (Morrow, 1978), as an unregulated "invisible industry, a security-industrial perplex whose influence is more insidious for the fact that its activities are mostly unseen." Started largely by CIA and FBI alumni, the private espionage agencies often work for multinational corporations by "guarding 'proprietary information' at home, encoding communications, infiltrating governments in the Middle East, or funding counter-revolution in Latin America."

If this sounds like CIA work, Hougan says it's because "agents who leave federal service for private employment often take with them not just their special expertise, but their 'connections' as well. Frequently, former agents retain informal access to privileged information, and it's obvious that some even retain an ability to influence the actions of their old agencies."

According to Hougan, Intertel is "nothing less than the legal incorporation of an old-boy network whose ganglia reach into virtually every nerve cell of the federal investigative/intelligence community."

When Resorts decided to enter the private-spook biz, it picked two very well-trained and well-connected men to run Intertel. The agency's first and only president is Robert Peloquin, a former Naval Intelligence agent and veteran of former Attorney General Robert Kennedy's "Get Hoffa" squad. Later Peloquin headed up the Justice Department's Organized Crime Strike Force. Peloquin's first Intertel deputy was James Golden, formerly Vice President Nixon's Secret Service bodyguard and later security chief of the 1968 Nixon campaign. Golden and Peloquin recruited for Intertel many CIA and FBI veterans, as well as former heads of Scotland Yard and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. After a few years at Intertel, Golden rejoined Nixon to head the organized-crime section of the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration. Peloquin remains in charge of Intertel.

(One other prominent Cap Cities connection is M. Cabell Woodward Jr., who was elected to the corporation's board of directors in 1982. Woodward was also vice president and chief financial officer of ITT, a multinational corporation notorious for having meddled in the internal affairs of Chile and other nations, sometimes in concert with the CIA. (A well-documented study of ITT and the CIA was made by the Senate Intelligence Committee in the mid-70s.) ITT has long been a client of Intertel. In 1966, ITT tried to buy a TV network, but encountered enormous opposition in Congress and the FCC because of the implications of such a highly visible politicized company controlling a major news organ. The network ITT almost purchased was --- you guessed it --- ABC.)

The Republican Connection

As crucially important as it is that ABC was taken over by a firm with such a historical and ongoing relationship with the intelligence community, it shouldn't be overlooked that Cap Cities is also a longstanding active player in the Republican establishment. Although volumes could be written about Murphy's and Casey's interlocking corporate/political/government scheming and manipulating --- and Crosby's ties to the Nixon crowd are sufficiently well known to have led to speculation that Resorts International's casinos may have funneled money to the Watergate burglars --- two anecdotes give a taste of the manner in which these people operate.

In 1959, Cap Cities' political connections led to charges of "political payola at its worst" from Wisconsin Sen. William Proxmire, who has also been Casey's most vehement congressional critic. Proxmire believed that President Eisenhower's press secretary, James Hagerty, had influenced the FCC to grant channel assignments and licenses that were very profitable to Cap Cities. Hagerty, who not surprisingly had earlier been Dewey's press aide, denied it all, and the Republican-controlled Justice Department ignored the matter. After Ike left office, the scandal fizzled out. Hagerty was then hired by a close friend of Tom Murphy's, Leonard Goldenson, to run the news department at ABC television.

James Quello, now an FCC commissioner, was for years the general manager of Cap Cities' radio station in Detroit, WJR. According to Morrie Gelman of Electronic Media magazine, when Quello's performance at WJR lagged, Murphy decided to kick him upstairs to the FCC. This effort was successful in 1974, perhaps because (according to The New York Times) "Quello's fellow executives at Capital Cities donated $120,000 to President Nixon's re-election effort at a time when they were actively campaigning to put a broadcaster on the FCC and to make Mr. Quello that broadcaster." By law, the empty FCC seat was reserved for a Democrat. Quello got it, even though ex-commissioner Nicholas Johnson noted that Quello had himself given $1,100 to the Nixon campaign.

Casey's Motives

And then there's the ABC takeover itself.

On November21, 1984, the CIA asked the Federal Communications Commission to strip ABC of its five TV and 14 radio station licenses. (ABC has hundreds of affiliate radio and TV stations, but it's legally limited to owning just a few stations, all of which are located in the biggest, most lucrative markets.) The CIA was ostensibly upset because on Sept. 19-20, 1984, ABC News had aired allegations that the agency had contracted for the murder of Ron Rewald, a Honolulu swindler who claimed that his scams were directed by the CIA, of which he claimed to be a secret agent. The story supposedly so enraged then-CIA director William Casey that he asked the FCC to strike the ultimate economic death blow to ABC by revoking its station licenses. In February 1985, the CIA reduced its demands to asking for FCC penalties under the "Fairness Doctrine," which requires the broadcasters to air at least two sides of "controversial issues of public importance." In both FCC complaints, Bill Casey's CIA became the first government agency ever to seek such redress from the news media.

On March 18, 1985, while the FCC considered Casey's complaints, ABC agreed to be acquired by Capital Cities, a media conglomerate with the lowest profile and highest profit margins in the broadcasting business. It was a "friendly" takeover; ABC chief Leonard Goldenson and Cap Cities president Tom Murphy had been close friends for years. Cap Cities also owns daily papers in Fort Worth and Kansas City, trade journals (including Women's Wear Daily) and, at that time, 55 cable TV systems.

What might explain the chain of events that began with Casey attacking ABC and ended with Cap Cities buying the network? Of course, Casey may simply have been outraged at ABC for airing a false story about a CIA murder plot. (Even some CIA critics have concluded the story was untrue. Unfortunately, we'll probably never know; the judge at the Rewald trial sealed all evidence relating to the CIA.)

It helps to remember that we're talking here about Bill Casey, a man whose scruples were never a match for his zest for daring and outrageous adventure. He's a man who has illegally mined Nicaraguan harbors, and is reported to be up to his neck in Ollie North's dirty tricks. Proxmire called him a perjurer. The Nation said he "made conflict of interest a way of life." He's been accused of shielding ITT and Robert Vesco from federal probes and of arranging to steal debate papers and classified documents from Jimmy Carter when Carter was president, and he was Reagan's campaign manager. Casey has on several occasions been sued for sleazy stock swindles and once for plagiarizing an author's work for his own book. Each time, Casey settled out of court in favor of the plaintiffs. As CIA director, he suspiciously unloaded $600,000 in oil stocks just before the bottom fell out of the market. The CIA, of course, prepares the best --- if classified --- ongoing report in the world on upcoming changes in the oil market.

With that knowledge of the main actor and his associations, here are three speculative explanations of the events of November 1984 through March 1985. They are not mutually exclusive.

Intimidation of Journalists: Casey's action against ABC may have been intended to make that network's news division less eager to run stories uncomplimentary to the CIA. Such a chilling effect could extend to the other networks, which also fear for their licenses.

Infiltration of ABC News: Cap Cities' purchase of ABC could have two non-business purposes. One is to create credible "covers" for spies --- CIA and Intertel --- posing as TV newsmen. Another is to ensure that one of America's three largest sources of news refrains from investigating secret espionage activities and doesn't go overboard in its coverage of certain critical areas. Such infiltration happened in Great Britain, where the BBC admitted in 1985 that employee security checks and promotions were in the hands of MI5, England's equivalent to the CIA. Studies of its history have shown that the CIA has frequently planted agents as journalists and owned some newspapers and magazines outright while financing others, such as Nicaragua's La Prensa.

Personal and corporate gain: The CIA's threat to ABC's economic lifeblood may have kept down the price of ABC stock so it would sell at "a bargain rate," which is what the media trade press called the $3.5 billion Cap Cities agreed to pay for the network. Aside from being a major player in Cap Cities since its inception and being its former counsel of record, Casey owns $7.5 million in Cap Cities stock. His challenge to ABC came exactly during the period that Cap Cities was negotiating the buyout. (See accompanying sidebar.)

Most observers originally dismissed charges of personal gain, since Casey had placed all his stocks in a blind trust in 1983. This meant that he wouldn't even know if he still owned Cap Cities stock in 1985 (although he certainly knew his friends did), as the trustee could have sold the stock without telling him. However, in May 1985 Casey revealed that one of his stocks, his largest single holding, was never placed in the blind trust --- due to a "misunderstanding" with the Office of Government Ethics. That stock was in Capital City Communications.

Apparently, the CIA is unwilling even to give journalists public domain material about Casey's interest in Cap Cities. In October 1985, the Weekly wrote the CIa for information on Casey's stock holdings, as well as for a copy of a statement Casey issued to the press in March 1985 about his stock in Cap Cities. Many weeks later, the CIA sent us a letter saying that they had enclosed the statement to the press, but that we must make a Freedom of Information Act request for the other information. However, the statement was not enclosed. When we wrote them again, we received an official CIA card on which was printed "With the compliments of the Office of Public Affairs." Hand-written beneath it was the message "Sorry for the inconvenience," signed by a public affairs officer named Ann Crispell. However, nothing else was in the envelope.

This is part for Casey's course. He was forced into the blind trust by Congress originally because he'd invested in firms with which the CIA did business, and in oil companies.

Why the Silence?

There's no absolute proof that Casey's attack on ABC and his company's subsequent purchase of it have any sinister implications or results. Still, the odd coincidences and peculiar connections look a little fishy, don't they? Even if a Republican Congress and a Republican FCC ignored the matter, one would have expected considerable scrutiny from the "liberal" media Casey and his conservative pals always complain about. But it never happened, and it's worth considering why.

One might have expected that investigative scourge of the Nixon administration, the Washington Post, would have looked into Casey's ties to Cap Cities and their relationship to his attacks on ABC. But a closer look reveals conflicts of interest for the Post. It seems that Cap Cities didn't have all the cash needed to buy ABC. So Murphy invited Warren Buffett to buy 18 percent of the combined entity CC/ABC. Buffett, an Omaha resident with a well-earned reputation as a "Wall Street wizard," single-handedly controls Berkshire Hathaway, a $2-billion holding company that owns 13 percent of the Washington Post Co., on whose board of directors Buffett sat until the ABC takeover was complete. He was then replaced by Tom Murphy's friend, financier William Ruane. Berkshire Hathaway also owns a sizable chunk of Time, and the Post owns Newsweek. Once Cap Cities became a network, it could no longer legally continue owning its 55 cable TV systems, so it sold 53 of them to the Washington Post Co.

More generally, there seems to be a gentlemen's agreement tat big media companies don't snitch on, or even discuss in public, the affairs of other media combines. That's why you can read, hear and view the sins of every industry in America except those of the broadcast and publishing industries. As CC/ABC, the Post, Time and other major news organs also own other news media, silence is always likely to greet a takeover of one media company by another.

We now know that two of the three national networks have potentially dirty laundry they'd prefer not be aired in public. Surely CBS, their competitor, would jump at the chance to do a little muckraking over the changes at ABC and NBC, right? Don't bet on it. The new chief of CBS is Lawrence Tisch, who also heads Loews, Inc., whose 25 percent makes it the biggest shareholder in CBS. (Tisch's brother, Preston, is U.S. Postmaster General.) Tisch has been involved in non-media co-ownerships (Chemical Bank of New York) with Warren Buffett, who also controls large ad agencies that Tisch would like to have buy time slots on CBS. Also, Loew's, Inc. manages hotels. For years it managed --- you guessed it --- Resorts International's hotel on Paradise Island in the Bahamas.

Crashing the Gates

In the Information Age, enormous power lies in the hands of a few information gatekeepers who control the flow of the news and entertainment that shapes the social attitudes and political beliefs of the public at large. The most powerful of these gatekeepers are the three major TV-radio networks, ABC, CBS and NBC, along with the almost exclusively white male corporate elite who control them. It's bad enough that for years these media giants have exploited government-granted broadcast licenses to serve their private commercial interests. It's nothing less than intolerable for any of the three to use their powers to fulfill secret political agendas that might run contrary to the "public interests, convenience and necessity" they are licensed to serve. Yet this is at minimum a question about ABC and NBC.

It is high time for the federal government to determine just who owns the networks and what they are using them for. Both houses of Congress have committees that are responsible for seeing that broadcasting serves the public. The Justice Department has the responsibility of investigating the concentration of media control. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is empowered to investigate stock manipulation. It is, of course, unlikely that we will see any action from this FCC, SEC or Justice Department until January 1989 at the earliest.

Congress, however, is ostensibly out of the control of the Reagan administration. Senate and House investigations may not change network ownership, but the information uncovered in such investigations could serve to curb the power of the network owners. Information is a powerful tool, both for the gatekeepers and --- when available --- for the people and their elected representatives.

Andy Boehm

....and two posts from the "Carroll Rosenbloom, NFL Conspiracy" thread.

This is interesting info, Bill.

Thanks for posting it.

Georgia Frontiere was quite the merry widow, getting married 2 months after her rich husband's mysterious death.

And how about the NFL's security firm "INTERTEL" a wholly owned subsidary of Meyer Lansky's Resorts International. INTERTEL was run by former Kennedy Justice Department personnel "Robert Dolan Peloquin" and "Willam Hundley".

The rest of the former Kennedy men from Justice went to work for Max Jacobs Sportsystem/ Emprise operation.

http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vau.../8282/index.htm

What a deadly web we weave.

Hey, thanks for reading it and getting something out of it.

And Chris, as for Georgia Frontiere, I tried not to mention her, as she throws a whole curve ball into the whole scene, and reminds me of an Ian Flemisque Pussy Galore.

And Terry, thanks for pointing out the INTERTEL connection to the NFL, as that's new to me, and especially interesting since Peloquin and Company served as security for Resorts International when they were the first to bring casino gambling to Atlantic City.

William Hundley is a new name to me, but I know a few guys who used to work for Peloquin, who may be still alive.

I started this file on Rosenbloom and the other NFL owners after Tim Gratz sent me an email saying that he thought it was curious that the current NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, was the son of former Sen. Charles Goodell, who was appointed to replace RFK.

It is no coincidence that current commissioner Roger Goodell also worked for Lamar Hunt, who also comes into play in the JFK story.

Coincidence or Conspiracy, you make the call Tim.

BK

INTERTEL'S other major client in the 1960's was Life Magazine. They were Life's security agency at the time Jim Garrison was trying to get access to the Z-film.

As far as Peloquin goes he is still shilling for organized crime. He got himself named to the audit board for Louis DeNaples Mount Airy Lodge and Casino.

"The new nominees are Bradford S. Smith, chairman of the New Jersey Casino Control Commission from 1994 to 1998; Robert D. Peloquin, a U.S. Justice Department official in the 1960s who co-founded International Intelligence, a private security firm; and Barbara A. Lang, a former casino auditor in New Jersey".

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/all...0,2500693.story

Regarding the NFL. The new owner of the Miami Dolphins is the grandson to the late Max Fisher the notorious head of the Purple Gang out of Detroit.

William Hundley is a new name to me, but I know a few guys who used to work for Peloquin, who may be still alive.

Bill,

Hundley was John Mitchell's defense attorney during the Watergate drama.

James

It has been reported over the years that INTERTEL played a major role in the coup against RMN.

Here is a website featuring Jack Caulfield "Staff Assistant to the President 1969-1972"

Quote:

In that same genesis description, Dean tells Nixon that Haldeman had directed him to put together, in the Fall of '71, an intelligence plan for the upcoming '72 campaign and that since he had no experience in such matters, he tasked me, then a member of his staff, with the preparation of a final draft document. "Operation Sandwedge" was a twelve page analysis/proposal of what would be required for structuring an accurate, intelligence-assessment capability, of not only the Democratic party's opposition's tactics but also to ensure that the then powerful anti-war movement did not destroy Nixon's public campaign, as had been done to Hubert Humphrey in 1968. It also anticipated facing a Democratic campaign effort that would utilize the astute services of a leading private investigative entity called Intertel, then headed by former officials of Bobby Kennedy's Justice Department. Intertel represented, in my opinion, the potential for both formidable and sophisticated intelligence opposition tactics in that upcoming election campaign.

http://www.watergate.com/ownwords/caulfield.asp

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Guest Tom Scully

Although Michael J. Peloquin is quick to issue statements visible in a number of internet search results stressing that he is not the son of Robert D. Peloquin, and not related to him at all.....how much does that matter, considering this archived reporting? Michael seems to be about 66 years old, recently.:

http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=ano...368617395194910

AFTER A DEATH, A DRAMA UNFOLDS AT RESORTS

$2.95 - Philadelphia Inquirer - NewsBank - Nov 16, 1986

Another, a Phoenix real estate developer and neighbor of Sen. Barry Goldwater (R., Ariz.), was revealed to have once been under federal indictment. ...

All 3 related - Related web pages

SEC EYES BIDDING TO CONTROL RESORTS

$2.95 - Philadelphia Daily News - NewsBank - Nov 13, 1986

Another bidder said to have offered "substantially more" than $125 a share for ... Crosby's heirs is Michael Peloquin, a real estate developer from Phoenix. ...

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Guest Tom Scully

The odds are at least even that Frank (Brandstetter) is alive, 99 years of age as of last 2nd of August....

He was alive to appeal a default judgment in 2005 in a Texas court, and won an appeal of that

judgment in 2007, although it is possible he died in the interim.

Frank's legal name is apparently Hubicki, and there is no SSDI record of his death with either

the last name Brandstetter or Hubicki. James Crosby was tied to many people, including to the Bushes

through their close Greenwich and Jupiter Island friend, Sam Pryor, Jr. Pryor's daughter married Lowell

Thomas's son. Lowell was a principle in Mary Carter Paints.

I read google book excerpts on Frank's book related to Henry Crown and Conrad Hilton more than a year

ago, but I stopped when I read that Frank was no longer employed by Hilton. Bill Kelly's research confirms

that I should have kept on reading about Frank. Good work, Bill!

I found the description of the WWI German flying ace recognizing 16 years old Frank in NYC and calling out to him by his nickname, considering he had not laid eyes on Frank since he was 6 years old, contrived to say the least.

http://books.google.com/books?id=QLdqgDsVio4C&pg=PA25&dq=our+man+in+acapulco+subway+nickname&hl=en&ei=-6P6TMGOJoP88Abuw8HBCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

Brandy, our man in Acapulco: the life and times of Colonel Frank ... - Page 25

Rodney P. Carlisle, Dominic J. Monetta - 1999 - 377 pages - Preview

One cold evening that winter, while heading for the subway, he heard a voice call out, "Muky!" He had not heard the nickname for ten years. He turned to see a well-dressed gentleman speaking German, asking whether Frank was the son of ....

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne_von_Brandstetter&ei=bJr6TPysJYKglAfMq9XLDA&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCsQ7gEwAg&prev=/search%3Fq%3DBrandstetter%2Bbrisas%2Bcrosby%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26prmd%3Div

Marianne von Brandstetter

Spouse (s) Frank Baron von Brandstetter Hubicki (divorced), James Crosby (widow)

Marianne Porzella born in Wroclaw in Poland on 8 February 1936 , Swiss citizen, is a celebrity and philanthropist who participated in many television after committing his autobiography Baroness Flammarion in 2002 . She also starred in two films, People (2004) and Carla Rubens (2005). ...

...At 16, she did an apprenticeship as a beautician and graduated at 18. She then moved to Geneva. After a first marriage (which she won the Swiss national) which will last two years and which will have a son, John, she met during a tournament Backgammon Baron von Frank Brandstetter Hubicki.

Public relations manager of the legendary hotel " Las Brisas "he also owns one of the most beautiful villas of Acapulco , Casa de la tranquilidad ", where he received the jet set for parties and dinners in the world famous wide. She marries him after a year of living together. Marianne housewife cotoie celebs, singers, writers, painters, politicians of the late 1970's . Acapulco then being the resort of the jet Society...

..After a stormy divorce, she maintains, and the name and the title of her former husband and moved with billionaire James Crosby. It is one of the richest men in the United States . Met in Monte Carlo James Crosby owns a national chain of hotels in the USA and Casino Resorts International (Paradise Island in the Bahamas , and several hotels-casinos in Atlantic City with Taj Mahal Casino and several abroad, including one in Monaco and Switzerland )....

...She lived between an apartment of 400 sqm in the Imperial House Building in New York and Atlantic City and a villa on the private island of Paradise Island, Bahamas. She made regular trips to Paris in the Concorde for shopping, not moving by helicopter between the various residences of Crosby and collects jewelry and designer clothes, she only has to serve in the Top hotels from the group until her husband James Crosby became seriously ill. She will nurse until his death and his dedication will make the whole family will adopt Crosby and appreciated for its value, his nobility of heart. He bequeathed a small part of his fortune after his death in 1987 . From Marianne is estimated at 200 million dollars and becomes also owns 24% stake in the group, it will sell a few years later Donald Trump (his ex-wife Ivana Trump is also one of his best friends ).

Today, she organizes charity galas mainly for humanitarian causes.

She currently lives in a suite of Monaco Fairmont Monte Carlo Hotel where she is renting for $ 15 000 monthly this year or not. USA in a loft in New York overlooking Central Park and an apartment in one of the most lavish condominiums Miami Beach (the Portofino Tower ) and a cottage Switzerland a few months a year. ...

http://www.supreme.courts.state.tx.us/historical/2007/jun/050357.htm

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF TEXAS

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No. 05-0357

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Frank Maryan Brandstetter Hubicki, Petitioner

v.

Festina, A Liechtenstein Foundation, Respondent

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