-Caveat Lector- From: http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/Distribution/Redirect_Artifact/0,4678,0-11679 5,00.html The Observer Front page Story index FBI files lift lid on Bing Crosby's links with the Mob FBI files on Bing Crosby Michael Ellison in New York Thursday December 23, 1999 The image of Bing Crosby as the epitome of middle American golf-clubs-and-cardigans decency has long been tarnished by posthumous accounts of broads, booze and beatings. But at least the crooner, whose White Christmas is dusted off at this time every year, has never been linked to organised crime by anything more than the innocuous 1964 movie comedy Robin and the 7 Hoods. Never, that is, until now. Newly released Federal Bureau of Investigation papers show that, in much the same way as there was something of the Crosby vocal style in the young Frank Sinatra, so there was something of Sinatra in Crosby's choice of company. Crosby's connections were rewarded with letters from other than swooning fans. "Bing Crosby, I want you to send me $6,000 wright [sic] away," read one of the many death threats he received. "I hate your guts, you bastard. Your [sic] not going to make a fool out of me & if you don't sent [sic] it your going to have a rip taken out of you & be put to death by God throu [sic] me & you will have to send all of your money for what you did to me & tried to do." The FBI files do not reveal the name of the writer or the nature of the real or imagined slight, but they do help to speed the singer, who died in 1977 at the age of 74, along the Road to Infamy, a song-and-dance man in almost every possible sense. Clyde Tolson, an FBI agent who was a friend of the agency's meddlesome long-time director J Edgar Hoover, reported in 1930 that Crosby, an inveterate gambler, had found it necessary to pay off a mobster with $10,000. Again, the villain is not identified, although the names of Bugsy Siegel, the man who built Las Vegas, and Frank Nitti, one of Al Capone's closest associates, are mentioned. The papers also suggest that Crosby was not above leading astray Bob Hope, his partner in the Road movies. Another FBI man observed that police had raided an illegal gambling den in Burbank, California. "Approximately 100 patrons, among them Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, were permitted to leave the place." A memo from another man tells of a night out in Nevada with the singer and his first wife, Dixie Lee, during which the man was beaten up. Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited, 1999. ================================================================= Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *Mike Spitzer* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ~~~~~~~~ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends Shalom, A Salaam Aleikum, and to all, A Good Day. ================================================================= DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
