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9. Demaris, 277.
10. CCC, Lambie memo to file, 1-6-82.
11. Int. of Gianni Russo, 4-28-03.
12. Chicago Sun-Times, 9-7-55; and Chicago Daily News, 12-7-55.
13. FBI Korshak Correlation Summary, 8-12-68.
14. New York Daily News, 3-19-56; also, CCC letter from Virgil Peterson to Lester Velie, 1-17-57.
15. Int. of Royston Webb, 1-31-04.
16. Shefferman sources: Lester Velie in Reader's Digest, July 1957; Moldea, Dark Victory, 118; Chicago Tribune, 10-31-57; Korshak, McClellan testimony.
17. Int. of Wendell Rawls, 6-17-04.
18. Hersh, Neiv York Times, 6-27-76.
19. Ibid., 6-30-76.
20. Collier and Horowitz, Kennedys, 272.
21. Schlesinger, Robert Kennedy, 153.
22. Collier and Horowitz, Kennedys, 272-73.
23. Int. of Zander, 12-8-03.
24. Salinger memo to RFK, 6-12-57.
25. Hoffa, Hoffa, 105.
26. Ibid., 93-94.
27. Friedman and Schwartz, Power and Greed, 148-49.
28. Korshak testimony, McClellan Hearings, pt. 16, 6274-91.
29. FBI HQ Korshak file, Korshak bio, 9-17-63, 9; also, Roy Rowan with Sandy Smith, "50 Biggest Mafia Bosses,"
Fortune, November 1986.
30. Confidential int., 1-14-05.
31. Carol Felsenthal, "The Lost World of Kup," Chicago Magazine, June 2004.
32. Letter from Lester Velie to CCC's Virgil Peterson, 1-12-57.
33. Demaris, Boardwalk Jungle, 273.
34. FBI HQ Korshak file, Korshak bio, 9-17-63, 15-16.
35. From William K. Lambie Jr. re Marshall Korshak and Sidney Korshak, CCC memo, 10-9-79.
36. Int. of George Schlatter, 1-20-04.
37. Shore, Someone's in the Kitchen, 7-8.
38. Chicago Tribune, 9-9-58.
39. Los Angeles Times, 5-10-62.
40. Los Angeles Times, 9-15-69.
41. Details of Alex on the lam from numerous FBI field reports in FBI HQ Korshak file, especially Korshak bio, 9-17-63, 15; and FBI HQ Gus Alex file; also, Roemer, Man Against the Mob, 32-42.
42. McClellan Hearings, pt. 34, 13118-24.
43. Chicago Tribune, 11-19-58.
44. Intof Zander, 12-8-03.
45. Int. of Adam Walinsky, 12-2-03.
46. Nick Tosches, "The Man Who Kept the Secrets," Vanity Fair, April 1997.
47. Int. of Jack Clarke, 5-11-01.
48. Chicago Tribune, 1-20-96.
49. Chicago Daily News, 12-21-67.
50. Confidential int., 1-14-05.
51. For extensive details of the Kennedy-Raskin relationship, see Hersh, Dark Side of Camelot.
52. Unsourced 9-20-79 news article by Roy Harvey, in Marshall Korshak's CCC file.
53. Letter from Kenny O'Donnell to James Foley, 10-18-62, JFK Library Central Name File, box 1513.
54. See Abel, Missile Crisis, 75-77; and Schlesinger, Thousand Days, 806-8.
55. Int. of Connie Carlson, 10-20-04.
56. Int. of Wendell Rawls, 6-17-04.
57. Int. of Philip Manuel, 11-13-03.
58. Schlesinger, Robert Kennedy, 282n.
59. McDougal, Last Mogul, 279-80.
60. Hersh, New York Times, 6-27-76.
61. McDougal, Last Mogul, 281.
62. Los Angeles Times, 5-6-81; and Jules Stein Probate, No. P-664540, filed May 1, 1981—see especially 1988 Complete Inheritance List, 6: 8.
63. Confidential LAPD report, 4-29-69.
64. Chicago Tribune, 9-1-59.
65. Reynolds, Debbie, 206.
66. Ibid., 16.
67. FBI memo from SAC L.A. to director, 1-29-60, in Rosselli FBI file.
68. Dick Lyneis, Palm Springs Press-Enterprise, 7-27-76.
69. Kelley, His Way, 448-49.
70. Johns, Palm Springs Confidential, passim.
71. Deed cited in FBI Korshak Summary, 8-13-63.
72. Architectural Digest, December 1998.
73. Niklas, Corner Table, 28-29.
74. Int. of Virginia Korshak, 1-20-04.
75. Int. of Ron Joy, 1-19-04.
76. Bruck, When Hollywood Had a King, 354-55.
77. Int. of Leo Geffner, 3-18-05.
78. Int. of Gray Frederickson, 2-28-03.
79. Int. of Dick Brenneman, 12-2-03.
80. Tosches, "Man Who Kept the Secrets."
81. Int. of Leo Geffner, 3-18-05.
82. FBI HQ Korshak file, Korshak bio, 9-17-63, 8.
Chapter Nine
1. Int. of George Jacobs, 2-4-04.
2. Int. of Irvin Owen, 2-15-97; and letter from Owen to author.
3. Int. of John Detra, 5-22-01; also "The Capone Connection," Las Vegas Review-Journal, 3-21-99.
4. Roemer, Man Against the Mob, 88-89.
5. FBI H Q Alfred Hart file, obtained under FOIA.
6. The history of the Flamingo is best told in W R. Wilkerson's The Man Who Invented Las Vegas.
7. Bruck, When Hollywood Had a King, 64.
8. Nick Tosches, "The Man Who Kept the Secrets," Vanity Fair, April 1997.
9. Surveillance transcript in FBI HQ Morris Dalitz file.
10. Quoted in Lester Velie, "Las Vegas: The Underworld's Secret Jackpot," Reader's Digest, 10-8-59.
11. Los Angeles Times, 9-1-89 (obit).
12. Confidential int., 12-11-04.
13. J. Richard Davis, Collier's, 8-14-49.
14. Sharp, Mr. and Mrs. Hollywood, 445-46.
15. Reid and Demaris, Green Felt Jungle, 57.
16. Porrello, Rise and Fall, 141.
17. Sifakis, Mafia Encyclopedia, 96; and Porrello, Rise and Fall, 204-5.
18. Porrello, Rise and Fall, 132.
19. Gosch and Hammer, Last Testament of Lucky Luciano, 167.
20. Ibid., 286.
21. Fried, Rise and Fall of the Jewish Gangster, 234; and Lacey, Little Man, 96.
Additional Dalitz sources include: Hopkins and Evans, First 100, 120-24; John L. Smith, "Moe Dalitz and the Desert," in Jack E. Sheehan, ed., The Players: The Men Who Made Las Vegas (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1997), 35-47; and Matt Potter, "Mob Scene," San Diego Reader, 11-18-99.
22. Roemer, War of the Godfathers, 49-50. Although a fictionalized account, Roemer contended in both the book and in interviews with this author that the dramatizations were based on actual events as learned by the Bureau.
23. Los Angeles Times, 9-1-89.
24. Reid and Demaris, Green Felt Jungle, 58.
25. Ibid., 53-54.
26. Sharp, Mr. and Mrs. Hollywood, 199.
27. Reid and Demaris, Green Felt Jungle, 58.
28. Int. of Gray Frederickson, 2-28-03.
29. Int. of Ed Becker, 1-1-03.
30. Int. of Luellen Smiley, 3-21-03.
31. FBI airtel, from SAC Las Vegas to director, 5-21-63.
32. FBI airtel, Las Vegas to HQ, 3-18-61.
33. McDougal, Last Mogul, 220.
34. Lacey, Little Man, 291-92; and Demaris, Last Mafioso, 145.
35. Castle Bank list of depositors obtained from confidential source; also, Lacey, Little Man, 386.
36. FBI memo from SAC Las Vegas to director, 11-20-64 (in Dalitz FBI file).
37. FBI teletype from SAC Chicago to director, 2-3-65 (#92-177-144), Korshak file.
38. Rothman, Neon Metropolis, 19.
39. Memo from DELETED to SAC LA, 11-19-68 (#92-1112-1165), Korshak file.
40. These details and more about the history of the Las Vegas Strip can be accessed at Deanna DeMatteo's fantastic Web site, lvstriphistory.com.
41. Int. of Tom Mankiewicz, 4-4-03.
42. Int. of Sonny King, 8-9-04.
43. FBI Las Vegas report, 3-19-65 (#92-1170-139), Korshak file.
44. Hersh, New York Times, 6-28-76.
45. FBI H Q Korshak file, Korshak bio, 9-17-63, 18.
46. Int. of Dean Elson, 5-3-04.
47. FBI airtel, from SAC Las Vegas to director, 4-18-63.
48.
Carlson's notes supplied to author by confidential source.
49. Sheridan DOJ memo to files, 3-13-62, cross-filed in Korshak FBI file.
50. FBI memo from Don Winne to Edward Joyce, deputy chief, DOJ OC and Racketeering Section, 1-27-70 (#94 430-1833), Korshak file.
51. FBI airtel, from SAC Las Vegas to director, 4-18-63.
52. Letter from Clark County Sheriff's Office Intelligence Unit to FBI HQ, 4-3-63.
53. Evans, Kid Stays, 114.
54. FBI memo from Don Winne to Edward Joyce, deputy chief, DOJ OC and Racketeering Section, 1-27-70 (#94 430-1833), Korshak file.
55. Los Angeles FBI report, 9-25-63 (#92-113-2085), Korshak file.
56. Int. of confidential source, 1-30-03.
57. Bruck, When Hollywood Had a King, 205.
58. Int. of Ed Becker, 1-1-03.
59. Bruck, When Hollywood Had a King, 204.
60. FBI H Q Korshak file, Korshak bio, 9-17-63, 5-6.
61. Ibid., 11.
62. Ibid., 20
63. Hersh, New York Times, 6-30-76.
64. FBI memo of conversation with informant in New York, 10-13-78 (#CG 183-538-139), Korshak file.
65. FBI teletype from SAC LA to director, 1-16-81 (#183-96 7B-11), Korshak file.
66. Rappleye and Becker, All American Mafioso, 139.
67. Demaris, Last Mafioso, 131.
68. Ibid., 130-31.
69. Chicago FBI report of John Roberts, 8-31-62.
70. Demaris, Last Mafioso, 375-76.
71. CCC memos, 4-15-58, 6-6-62; and New York Times, 4-13-54.
72. Reid and Demaris, Green Felt Jungle,70—74.
73. Chicago Tribune, 9-9-58.
74. Steven Lovelady, "Cleanup of Vegas Fails to Oust Hoodlums," Wall Street Journal, 5-25-89.
75. Rappleye and Becker, All American Mafioso, 136.
76. FBI Chicago Field Office memo, John Roberts to file, 8-31-62.
77. Ibid. For more on the Rosselli-Baron friendship, see Rappleye and Becker, All American Mafioso, passim.
78. Int. of Morton Downey Jr., 8-17-96.
79. Russo, Outfit, 375-78, 389-90.
80. Int. of Joe Longmeyer, 4-14-03.
81. Robert Lusetich, "U.S. Lawyer Walked Mob Minefield," Australian, 2-16-96.
82. Int. of Shecky Greene, 3-3-03.
83. FBI HQ Korshak file, Korshak bio, 9-17-63, 17-18.
84. Surveillance transcript in FBI HQ Humphreys file.
85. Zeiger, Frank Costello, 187-88.
86. Molasky quoted in A. D. Hopkins, "The Developer's Developer," Las Vegas Review-Journal, Internet, undated.
Other Sunrise Hospital sources: Reid and Demaris, Green Felt Jungle; Friedman and Schwarz, Power andGreed; Denton and Morris, Money and the Power; Reid, Grim Reapers; Neff, Mobbed Up; and Roemer, various titles.
Miscellaneous Las Vegas sources: Velie, "Las Vegas"; Jane Ann Morrison, "Mob's LV Clout Doubtful," LasVegas Review-Journal, 4-20-97; Rothman, Devil's Bargains; Littlejohn, Real Las Vegas; Hal Rothman, "A Hard Look at Las Vegas: The Money and the Power and the Rest of Us," Las Vegas Review-Journal, 4-22-01.
87. Moldea, Interference, 413; Messick, Lansky, 225; and "Scandal in the Bahamas," Life, 2-3-67.
88. Grutman and Thomas, Lawyers and Thieves, 151.
89. Becker was quoted on a recent History Channel special on the history of Las Vegas.
90. Denton and Morris, Money and the Power, 232.
91. Brill, Teamsters, 238.
92. Ibid., 239.
C h a p t e r Ten
1. McDougal, Last Mogul, 82-85.
2. Kotkin and Grabowicz, California Inc., 59.
3. Home, Class Struggle, passim.
4. Ibid., 213.
5. San Francisco Chronicle, 6-9-02; also the Web site http://sfgate.com.
6. Kotkin and Grabowicz, California Inc., 60.
7. Reagan, American Life, 108-9.
8. Reagan sources: Vaughn, Ronald Reagan; Edwards, Early Reagan; and Earl Gottschalk Jr., Wall StreetJournal, 10-29-80.
9. Gottschalk, Wall Street Journal.
10. Home, Class Struggle, 214.
11. Int. of Selene Walters, 3-2-05.
12. Moldea, Dark Victory, 111.
13. The six-thousand-page 1962 DOJ record was first obtained under FOIA in 1984 by David Robb, who was then with Daily Variety, and later chief labor and legal correspondent for the Hollywood Reporter. Robb graciously supplied the records to the author.
14. Sharp, Mr. and Mrs. Hollywood, 80.
15. Dan Moldea, The Corruption of Ronald Reagan, http://Moldea.com, p. 2.
16. Int. of Henry Denker, 8-30-04.
17. Moldea, Dark Victory, 126.
18. Ibid., 140.
19. Reagan and Hubler, Where's the Rest of Me? 317-18.
20. Moldea, Dark Victory, 141.
21. McDougal, Last Mogul, 262-65; and Moldea, Dark Victory, 142^13.
22. FBI H Q Korshak file, Korshak bio, 9-17-63, 22.
23. Confidential int., 4-25-05.
24. For details of Voloshen's relationship with McCormack (and Korshak's with Voloshen), see Winter-Berger, Washington Pay-Off.
25. Miller, Breaking of a President, 279-90.
26. Alhambra Post-Advocate, 2-2-60.
27. Hill, Dancing Bear, 169.
28. Cited in Alhambra Post-Advocate, 10-18-58; Los Angeles Times, 10-19-58; Los Angeles Herald-Express, 10 16-58; and others.
29. Montgomery and Johnson, One Step from the White House, 393.
30. Los Angeles Mirror, 6-8-58.
31. Los Angeles Mirror-News, 4-21-59.
32. Lester Velie, Reader's Digest, July 1960, 117.
33. Ibid.
34. Int. of Dick Brenneman, 12-2-03.
35. Hollywood Citizen News, 1-5-60.
36. Int. of Connie Carlson, 10-29-04.
37. FBI telex, SAC L.A. to director, 2-15-60.
38. Los Angeles Times, 6-19-60.
39. Los Angeles Mirror-News, 6-22-60.
40. Bruck, When Hollywood Had a King, 215-16.
41. FBI memo, SAC L.A. to director, 6-22-60.
42. L.A. FBI Crimdel memo, 9-27-60.
43. FBI telex, SAC L.A. to director, 5-9-60.
44. FBI telex, SAC L.A. to director, 5-10-60.
45. FBI telex, SAC L.A. to director, 10-16-59, Ziffren FBI file.
46. Ridgely Cummings, Government Employee 3 (June 1960).
47. L.A. County Grantor-Grantee Records, Book 26241, 184-207; Book 49977, 272; also FBI telex, SAC L.A. to director, 10-15-59.
C h a p t e r Eleven
1. McDougal, Last Mogul, 263.
2. Kelley, His Way, 286.
3. Denton and Morris, Money and the Power, 218, 222.
4. Sandy Smith, "Bob Kennedy's Role in Factor Pardon Is Told," Chicago Tribune, 12-28-62.
5. Bruck, When Hollywood Had a King, 201.
6. Demaris, Captive City, 123-24.
7. Factor file in the Parole Board Records Collection at the National Archives, College Park, MD.
8. Detroit Free Press, 6-10-64; and Washington Post, 6-10-64.
9. FBI memo, SAC Chicago to director, 4-26-63.
10. Letter from Moore to Peterson, CCC, 2-16-61.
11. Miller, Bunny, 84.
12. Quoted in Overdrive Magazine, April 1975.
13. DeMaris, Captive City, 89.
14. Chicago Crime Commission, memo to file from William K. Lambie Jr., 10-9-79.
15. FBI HQ Korshak file, Korshak bio, 9-17-63, 7.
16. Sources for Hefner and the SLA bribery: Miller, Bunny, 81-92; Demaris, Captive City, 90-91; Byer, Hefner's
Gonna Kill Me; New York Post, 2-7-62; FBI HQ Korshak file; and various files of Chicago Crime Commission.
17. FBI HQ Korshak file.
18. Int. of Betsy Hammes, 1-4-03.
19. FBI HQ Korshak file, 14.
20. Chicago Tribune, 4-13-72.
21. "Marge Everett: Sid Korshak Is My Enemy," Chicago Daily News, 1-29-72.
22. Niklas, Corner Tabl
e, 27.
23. Paul McGrath, "Horsing Around with Off-Track Betting," Chicago Magazine, November 1973.
24. Los Angeles Times, 2-18-59, 5-12-59; and walteromalley.com.
25. FBI L.A. Field Office, Korshak bio, 8-13-63, 9.
26. Hersh, Neiv York Times, 6-28-76.
27. FBI H Q Korshak file, 19.
28. FBI teletype, SAC Chicago to director, 8-4-67 (#92-177-160), Korshak file; and Los Angeles Times, 6-13-85.
29. Hersh, New York Times, 6-27-76.
30. Int. of Freddie Bell, 8-11-04.