Thank you so much, Kris, for including me -- I have
so enjoyed "Rogue Elephant."
After reading the information, I have some insights
and additional readings, rather "footnotes" that may be of use.
1. "A Spy in Rome" by Peter Tompkins, 1962
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, addresses OSS operations in Rome in 1943 prior
to Anzio -- and throughout, the subversion of the very strong socialist wing
Tompkins relied on for information that was vital to the liberation of
Rome. In the book, the overtones of OSS subversion are clear, the
collaboration of units of the OSS with the mafia, and also the nearly complete
elimination of the the socialist party leadership (involved in the
resistence) during these harrowing days in 1943. The records of the
Italian Resistence 1943-1946 are housed at Hoover Institution, Stanford
University, as further future sourcing.
2. "Una Storia Segreta," Larry DiStasi,
editor, released June 2001: Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, notes the role of the
ONI in identifying Americans of Italian descent active in government and
communities in the San Francisco Bay Area as early as 1936 -- people who were
later interned in 1941 and 1942. This resulted in control over the
docks, warehouses and the political appartus of the SF Bay Area and west
coast, moving to organized crime -- and infiltration of unions on the west
coast. Many of the Sicilians complicit in this were further enriched
during WWII by lucrative government contracts from everything from fish to milk
to produce as the mob moved in and relocated hundreds of people to fuel WWII
needs. See also "The Luciano Project - The Secret Wartime Collaboration of
the Mafia & the U.S. Navy" by Rodney Campbell 1977: New York: McGraw-Hill
Book Company.
The role of the ONI is a part of on-going research,
with the hope some of this might come to light with a report due Congress by
November 7, 2001 (mandated by Public Law 106-451 "Civil Liberties Violations of
Italian Americans During WWII." One question in the Public Law asks the
simple question about why were some fisherman allowed to keep their boats and
others not?
3. As to OSSer who unlocked the prisons of
Sicily and Southern Italy, see "OSS - The Secret History of America's First
Central Intelligence Agency" by R. Harris Smith, 1972: Berkeley, CA: University
of California Press. The deed was done by Henry Ringling North. Hummmmmm.
could there be a relationship to Ollie ??? It seems appropriate that a
relative of a circus family would follow this type of command to set free the
mafia ... and Ollie had his favorite 3-ring Triad ... and ongoing circus about
him.
4. That the Bonanno family was "in charge" of
Montreal and the Corsicans there is clearly documented from records of Canadian
authorities cited in "The Canadian Connection" by Jean-Pierre Charbonneau, 1976:
Ottawa, CAN: Optimum Publishing Company Limited.
5. That Joe Bonanno, Edgar Bronfman, Joe
Alioto gained stature and connections during WWII is documented in their
participation on the Board of Economic Warfare (Alioto's obituary, and Aaaron's
& Loftus "Secret War Against the Jews," as to Bronfman, Bechtel, Henry J.
Kaiser, Gianinni of B of A, Nelson A. Rockefeller as chair of this
Board. Records with the Dept. of Justice for the Board of Economic Warfare
recently released indicate the board was created by FDR Executive Order in March
1942, and disbanded by Executive Order in September 1943. In
addition, by Executive Order Roosevelt for the first time shifted responsibility
for intelligence reporting from his office to that of the VP (in this case Henry
A. Wallace). An interesting exception that wasn't an exception: Bill
Casey made himself a member of Reagan's cabinet -- he reported to President
Reagan while Deputy Director CIA, Robert Gates, reported directly to George H.
W. Bush during the Reagan administration. See Joseph A. Persico's "Casey."
There is too little information to determine what, if any, aspects of "Elephant
Herd" were put into play by Bush.
6. A biography -- good one by Joseph Persico
"The Imperial Rockefeller - A Biography of Nelson A. Rockefeller" details the
fact that Nelson created a corporation in Peru and introduced the first tuna
fleet after the war had settled down -- somewhere online there is an article
that details the fleet was disbanded because it was being used to haul
drugs. This book is also a good one for fixing dates and various capers of
Rockefeller -- his service on the Board of Economic Warfare, then Coordinator of
Latin American Affairs, his role is seeing that Argentina was admitted to the
U.N., his right wing advances, his role "appointing people" to the first HUD
position in New York (Michael Eisner's father who then served more than 20 years
in that capacity), and throughout the period Nelson was Governor of New York
(when money moved out quickly and without notice, by the buckets -- NY oversaw
Puerto Rico and they are the two biggest HUD operations -- Michael Eisner is
Chairman of Walt Disney Corp and his father was a close associate of Meyer
Lansky's word of mouth -- I have nothing in writing about this association).
Please note from this Rockefeller had clearly established interests and wealth
in South America ... his position as Coordinator of Latin American Affairs and
his channels and lines became available to Elliott Abrahms who held the same
position during the Iran-Contra period and when "Elephant Herd" kicked
in.
7. That Lansky continued service to the
government by running guns to Palestine immediately after WWII to help create
the Israeli state (which explains close affinity of the far right element of the
Mossad with the mob's syndicate as well) is noted in Sally Denton & Roger
Morris's "The Money and the Power," released April 2001.
8. Persico's "Casey" also shows a flagrant
resurgance if not flaunting of the "Rogue Elephant" theme. As soon as
Reagan was sworn in, he approved Bill Casey's "Operation Elephant Herd" which
kicked into full gear when the Boland Act was passed in 1983 -- putting into
play all those "rogues" who became contractors to raise funds for the Contra
effort.
9. In December 1946 in Havana, Lucky Luciano
held court with the bosses of the cities and NY. At that time he placed
the control of Meyer Lansky's syndicate UNDER the Genovese crime family (go to
http://www.americanmafia.com and look
to right, scroll, and see John Tuohy's 2 recent articles "Return of Lucky
Lucifer" before they slip into the archives in the next couple of days).
Thus, while Lucky was deported back to Italy, Vito Genovese, who ran the drug
lines and black market in Italy 1936 - 1946, returned to the U.S. and headed for
a short while the Genovese family after Frank Costello. An excellent book
on Vito's arrival (likely thanks to the ONI as much as any, or George H. White
of the FBN, later OSS, later CIA) in Italy, Genovese's operations, and the
fact that he served as interpreter for the Military Admin. of Southern Italy
(former NY state Lt. Gov. Poletti) from 1943 - 1946 is detailed in Larry
Gurwin's "Hoodlum Thieves."
10. Even the significance of the subsumption
of authority and deference of the Lansky syndicate machinery to Genovese is
found in the 1970s when Murray Wilson of the syndicate sought the approval of
the Genovese to link newly arrived members of Russian organized crime into
various rackets. Somewhere in my database I have an article about this --
recent one -- will try to locate this -- however the rule is "were goes
syndicate so goes Genovese" by far the most powerful family now and always --
the political fixers of the lot is the theme that pervades the excellent
writings forwarded.
11. Significant to an understanding of "the
1947 movement from Chicago to Dallas" is the policy decisions that were made by
Lucky Luciano in Havana in Dec. 1946 -- among them were to "whack" Bugsy Segel
and go even more big-time into Las Vegas, to bring Chicago talent down to
enhance Dallas rackets. Also important to understand: at Americanmafia.com
click 26 cities, then San Francisco and note that SF boss in 1932 was Francesco
Lanza -- son was "Jimmy" Joseph Lanza, all related to Joe Socks Lanza Fulton
Fish Market Genovese -- Francesco's partner for the purpose of laundering money
in ownership of SF's Fisherman's Wharf was Giuseppi Alioto, father of Joseph L.
Alioto who served as the representative of the USDOJ to the Board of Economic
Warfare! Joe later served as Mayor of SF 1968-75 and brought out his
"connector" as Vice Mayor, John DeLuca, who in 1975 became President of The Wine
Institute. Also of note is Alioto is married into the Genaro-Papale
families, which gained their prominence in Dallas 1947 forward as part of the
ops there. Joe Alioto's wife was Angelina Genaro of Dallas. Rudy
Papale later moved from his meat processing business (remember crime had vast
control over the industry while Paul Castellano headed the Commission) to
Encino, CA (knew all the Milken boys, for example) -- Regal Meat Processing,
Regal Packaging -- Look Magazine of course mentioned Rudy Papale's business
deals in Mexico with Frank the Bomp Bompensaro of the San Diego mob.
Alioto and Balistreri and Bom all cross-connected through bosses of Milwaukee
crime family -- at Americanmafia.com, select 26 cities, then select Milwaukee --
also San Diego.
12. The role of organized crime in finding
new venues of grand scale through which to launder vast sums of money were
enhanced by the Podesta family and others in Chicago in the later 1960s by
creation of an investment bank, "First Chicago Corporation." Robert Angelo
Podesta was a member of CREEP, his son Robert Anthony Podesta headed Junior
CREEP -- biggest fundraisers for Republican causes and supported Nixon,
etc. First Chicago took companies such as MacDonald's public, then down
hill types like Pizza Hut -- where Jamie Coulter (biggest RNC contributor for
George H. W. Bush campaign) had hundreds of franchises and siphoned money into
political contributions. Same with control of KFC (Kentucky fried
Chicken) through the notorious smuggling outfit of Heublein.
Podesta served as Undersecretary of Commerce 1971+
(shows no ending date) while in 1972 + Peter G. Peterson (now Chairman of the
Council on Foreign Relations and co-founder of The Blackstone Group -- offshoot
of Armitage-Carlucci company per Al Martin) served as Secretary of Commerce --
this is when all the grain trades with Russia began -- among other things ....
taking MacDonald's to Russia, big networking of Pepsi where Alioto was part of
the missions to Russia and took along his friend, Capodonico, who has the Pepsi
franchises in no. Ca. while a Rockefeller has been on the board of Pepsi
...
Using search engines with input "Board of Economic
Warfare" will net an index of records available at the Dept. of Justice and the
index is thorough enough to provide the Executive Order numbers and dates signed
that are noted above.
Somewhere inbetween all of this is Kermit Roosevelt
well above Ollie and likely reporting to Bush -- or maybe giving him a few
orders???? Perhaps Ollie's "un-named clandestine? Someone who may
have controlled Maheu in the Huges deals 1967-1975 -- a time for which we have
no history on Kermit????
I cannot thank you enough for sending the 4
segments. At this very moment I am dealing with challenge to a develop who
is financed by Hong Kong money -- who has associations with The Blackstone Group
- Peter G. Peterson --- Geoffrey Yeh, his son V-Nee Yeh (Hsin Chong Construction
Group, Hsin Chong International, Ltd, a Bermuda Corp) and Herbert Cheng (using
channels through Vancouver, B.C.). On July 31 hope to knock them down with
land use laws -- otherwise looks like the county will lose ag to resort
developments +++ Your work reminded me that Santo Trafficante had
"strengthened systems" for heroin movement in 1968 when he made a visit to HONG
KONG, and dealt with wealthy people there.
If Yeh or Cheng sound familiar, don't hesitate to
let me know.
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