by Gus Russo
31. Re Villa Venice: Russo, Outfit, 43-434; Re Korshak and Fisher: FBI airtel, SAC Las Vegas to director, 10-3-62 (#92-143-144); and FBI Las Vegas report, 11-16-64 (#92-084-61), Korshak file.
32. Roemer, Enforcer, 172.
33. FBI Las Vegas airtel to director, 7-24-62 (#92-903-86), Korshak file.
34. FBI memo, DELETED to SAC L.A., July 1967 (#166-1048-166), Korshak file.
35. Reid, Mickey Cohen, 42, 45; and confidential int. of friend of Eli Schulman, 4-24-05.
36. FBI memo, DELETED to SAC L.A., 6-14-66 (#92-742-66), Korshak file.
37. FBI memo, DELETED to SAC L.A., 12-3-63 (#91-742-138), Korshak file.
38. FBI memo, SAC San Diego to director, 11-25-69 (#92-742-276), Korshak file.
39. For a profile of McCulloch, see Felch and Tevlick, "Unsung Hero," American Journalism Review, 6-29-04.
40. Ibid.
41. Int. of Knut Royce, 4-22-03.
42. Int. of Ed Guthman, 1-19-04.
43. Int. of Frank McCulloch, 1-5-05.
44. Rabbi Edward Feinstein Archives, City of Angels, Rosh Hashanah, 2000.
45. McDougal, Last Mogul, 241.
46. FBI L.A. Field Office, Korshak bio, 8-13-63, 23.
47. See McDougal, Privileged Son.
48. Int. of Frank McCulloch, 1-5-05; see also McDougal, Privileged Son, 246-49.
49. Ronald Kessler, Washington Post, 12-16-73.
50. Moldea, Hoffa Wars, 107-8; and Summers and Swan, Arrogance of Power, 211-12.
51. Int. of Tom Zander, 12-8-03.
52. Investigated by Summers and Swan, Arrogance of Power, 253—59.
53. Tobin and Blake, Los Angeles Times, 5-17-62.
54. Letters from McCulloch to Peterson, 5-23-62, 6-6-62; from Tobin to Peterson, 5-2-62; and Parker to Peterson, 5-4-62.
55. McDougal, Privileged Son, 246-49.
56. Int. of Ed Guthman, 1-19-04.
57. Int. of Connie Carlson, 10-20-04.
58. Int. of Frank McCulloch, 1-5-05.
59. McDougal, Privileged Son, 249.
60. FBI HQ Korshak file, 3.
61. Chicago Tribune, 11 -25-64.
62. Int. of Leo Geffner, 3-18-05.
63. Confidential int., 1-4-05.
64. FBI teletype, Salt Lake City to L.A., 1-16-61 (#92-143-57).
65. FBI report of John Roberts (Chicago), 8-31-62.
66. FBI airtel, Chicago SAC to director, 12-8-61 (#92-113-636).
67. FBI memo, DELETED to SAC L.A., 4-25-63 (#92-113-2155), Korshak file.
68. FBI teletype, SAC Las Vegas to director, 2-2-63.
69. Confidential int., 1-14-05.
70. Smith, "Bob Kennedy's Role"; also, Touhy, When Capone's Mob Murdered Roger Touhy, 252-54.
71. McDougal, Last Mogul, 286.
72. Robb DOJ cache.
73. For extensive details of the Kennedy-Raskin relationship, see Hersh, Dark Side of Camelot.
74. McDougal, Last Mogul, 317-18.
75. Quoted in Andrew, Power to Destroy, 214.
76. Mills, Disorderly House, 84.
77. Ibid., 86.
78. Hersh, New York Times, 6-29-76.
79. Summers and Swan, Arrogance of Power, 228-30; also, Miller, Breaking of a President, 157-58.
80. McWilliams, Nation, 6-2-62.
81. Louella Parsons, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, April 15, 24, 1963.
82. Chicago Crime Commission, memo from Virgil W. Peterson, 6-6-62.
83. FBI H Q Korshak file, 18.
84. Exner, My Story, 277-81.
85. Ibid.
86. Int. of Milton Ebbins, 1-17-05.
87. Rappleye and Becker, All American Mafioso, 209; Summers, Goddess, 268 (NAL paperback version); and Giancana and Giancana, Double Cross, 311-16.
88. Roemer, Man Against the Mob, 175; and Russo, Outfit, 431-32.
89. Russo, Outfit, 375-78, 389-90.
90. Chicago Tribune, 6-8-63.
C h a p t e r Twelve
1. Int. of Andrew Furfaro, 10-20-04.
2. Andrew, Power to Destroy, 4-5, 141-42.
3. Reid and Demaris, Green Felt Jungle, 77.
4. FBI report of DELETED, 9-11-64 (#161-171-9), Korshak file.
5. Reid, Grim Reapers, 254.
6. IRS int. of Sidney Korshak by Furfaro, 10-23-63.
7. Chicago Tribune, 1-20-80.
8. FBI H Q Korshak file, Korshak bio, 9-17-63, 11.
9. IRS report of Furfaro and Turner, 10-23-63.
10. Quoted in Zolotow, Billy Wilder in Hollywood, 225.
11. Bistro records from California Division of Corporations, file #1922461.A, filed on 8-1-63; and California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, lie. #47-3071.
12. Niklas, Corner Table, 21, 33.
13. Ibid., 334-35, 339.
14. "The Bistro's Secret of Success," Los Angeles Times, 1-30-72.
15. Niklas, Corner Table, 10-11.
16. Ibid., 22-26.
17. Int. of James Bacon, 1-14-04.
18. Int. of Casper Morcelli, 2-20-04.
19. Int. of Jimmy Murphy, 2-6-04.
20. Int. of Leo Geffner, 3-18-05.
21. Int. of Hennie Burke, 1-24-04.
22. Int. of Timothy Applegate, 4-12-04.
23. Ints. of Steve Allen, January and February 1997; see also Allen, Hi-Ho, Steverinol, 132-48, and Allen, Ripoff, passim.
24. Demaris, Last Mafioso, 525.
15. Int. of Dick Brenneman, 12-2-03. Brenneman, a former reporter for the Sacramento Bee, extensively researched Korshak and located sources who were aware of Korshak's phone habits. "SK's chauffeur used to drive him around L.A. with a bag full of coins to use pay phones," Brenneman said. "He often used the phone belonging to Harry Drucker."
26. Int. of Timothy Applegate, 4-12-04.
27. Rappleye and Becker, All American Mafioso, 62.
28. Ibid., 162.
29. Int. of Don Wolfe, 1-5-05.
30. Int. of Ira Silverman, 3-10-04.
31. Int. of Andy Anderson, 11-6-03.
32. Bruck, When Hollywood Had a King, 359-60.
33. Int. of Duke Zeller, 4-8-03.
34. E-mail from Andy Anderson, 2-14-05.
35. Int. of Andy Anderson, 11-6-03.
36. Int. of Nancy Czar, 1-25-04.
37. Int. of Gianni Russo, 4-28-03.
38. Int. of Leo Geffner, 3-18-05.
39. Bruck, When Hollywood Had a King, 359.
40. Int. of Mike Wacks, 4-22-03.
41. Quoted in Vanity Fair, April 1997.
42. Int. of Fran Marracco, 2-27-04.
43. Bruck, When Hollywood Had a King, 351-52.
44. Hersh, New York Times, 6-30-76.
45. Int. of David Schippers, 5-11-04.
46. Int. of Adam Walinsky, 12-3-03.
47. Bruck, When Hollywood Had a King, 390-91.
48. FBI memo of surveillance, 4-26-79 (#183-96-&C-l), in FBI Korshak file.
49. Int. of Marvin Rudnick, 4-2-04.
50. Int. of Mike Wacks, 4-22-03.
51. Int. of David Schippers, 5-11-04.
52. Int. of Peter Vaira, 4-12-04.
53. Int. of Tom Zander, 12-8-03.
54. Int. of Andrew Furfaro, 10-20-04.
55. Int. of Connie Carlson, 10-20-04.
56. Int. of John Van DeKamp, 3-28-04.
57. Int. of James Grodin, 12-8-03.
58. Niklas, Corner Table, 19.
59. Chicago Tribune, 11-4-63.
60. Int. of Leo Geffner, 3-18-05.
61. Int. of Carol Felsenthal, 7-1-04, author of June 2004 Chicago Magazine profile of Kupcinet; see also James Ellroy, "Glamour Jungle," GQ, December 1998, 291.
62. Kelley, His Way, 329-31.
63. Int. of Ron Joy, 1-19-04.
64. Sinatra, Frank Sinatra, 181.
65. Niklas, Corner Table, 348.
Chapter T h i r t e en
1. Quoted in Reid, Grim Reapers, 208-9.
2. FBI airtel (Chicago to L.A.) of electronic surveillance (ELSUR), 7-16-64 (#92-149-A-3), Korshak file.
3. FBI Korshak Correlation Summary Report, 8-12-68.
4. FBI memo from DELETED to SAC L.A., 10-19-65 (#92-742-169), Korshak file.
5. FBI teletype from Chicago to director, 3-1-65 (#92-149-47), Korshak file.
6. Confidential int., 1-14-05.
7. Bruck, When Hollywood Had a King, 360.
8. Douglas, Ragman's Son, 403.
9. Johns, Palm Springs Confidential, 82.
10. FBI memo from DELETED to SAC L.A., 3-8-77.
11. Various issues of the Las Vegas Sun, August 1965 to March 1966, copied at Library of Congress.
12. FBI radiogram from SAC L.A. to director, Chicago and Las Vegas, 3-2-66, in FBI HQ Korshak file.
13. Summers, Official and Confidential, 247-53; also numerous mob biographies, especially Lacey, Little Man,66, 97, 99.
14. Los Angeles Times, 4-11-66.
15. Ints. with UFW communications director Marc Grossman, 1-24-05, and Chavez film biographer Rick Tejada- Flores (producer, The Fight in the Fields), 1-24-05; various California newspapers from June 1966, especially LosAngeles Herald-Examiner, 6-21-66; also, UFW history at Web sites ufw.org and cesarchavezfoundation.org.6-21-66; also, UFW history at Web sites ufw.org and cesarchavezfoundation.org.
16. Int. of Paul Schrade, 1-24-05.
17. Schlesinger, Robert Kennedy and His Times, 851.
18. Int. of Leo Geffner, 3-18-05.
19. Dunne, Delano, 90-91.
20. Levy, Cesar Chavez, 215-17.
21. Int. of Leroy Chatfield, 1-24-05.
22. Int. of Wayne "Chris" Hartmire, 2-7-05.
23. Levy, Cesar Chavez, 215-17.
24. Bart, New York Times, 4-6-66.
25. Confidential int. with former Rosensteil attorney, 1-24-05.
26. Re Korshak and Chavez: Levy, Cesar Chavez: Autobiography of La Causa, 215-17; Griswold del Castillo and Garcia, Cesar Chavez, 52-53; Ferriss and Sandoval, Fight in the Fields, 121-22; Taylor, Chavez and the FarmWorkers, 175-76; Dunne, Delano, passim.
27. Dan Swinton, Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, 5-29-66.
28. Ibid.
29. FBI memo from DELETED to SAC L.A., 9-14-66 (#92-438-63), Korshak file.
30. Los Angeles Times, 9-15-69.
31. Niklas, Corner Table, 406.
32. Hill, Dancing Bear, 214.
33. FBI memo from DELETED to SAC L.A., 11-17-66 (#92-742-214), Korshak file.
34. McDougal, Last Mogul, 331.
35. Int. of Henry Denker, 8-30-04.
36. San Francisco Chronicle, 6-9-02; also the Web site http://sfgate.com.
37. Jim Drinkhall, Wall Street Journal, 8-1-80; Paul Wilner, Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, 8-2-80; and Howard Kohn and Lowell Bergman, Rolling Stone, 8-26-76.
38. Undated FBI memo cited in Moldea, Dark Victory, 227.
39. Drosnin, Citizen Hughes, 474.
40. Korshak testimony before the SEC, 6-23-70, 419-20.
41. Int. of Edward Becker, 1-1-03.
42. FBI airtel from SAC L.A. to director, 5-17-67; secondary docs: airtel from SAC L.A. to director, 6-5-67; HSCA outside-contact reports of Ed Reid, 1-1-78, 10-20-78; FBI memo, Rosen to DeLoach, 5-15-67; and HSCA, vol.
11 (Organized Crime), 78-92.
43. FBI L.A. memo of conversation, 12-18-70, Korshak file.
44. Int. of Sandy Smith, 11-11-03.
45. Hersh, New York Times, 6-30-76.
46. Unsigned memo in CCC Korshak file, 11-15-66.
47. FBI teletype, SAC Chicago to director, 11-4-66.
48. CCC memo, from William K. Lambie Jr., 10-9-79.
49. Sandy Smith, "The Mob," Life, 9-1-67.
50. Felch and Tevlick, "Unsung Hero," American Journalism Review, 6-29-04.
51. Bruck, When Hollywood Had a King, 165-66.
52. Int. of Jan Amory, 3-5-03.
53. Bart, Who Killed Hollywood?, 113.
54. Bluhdorn, "The Gulf and Western Story" (speech before the Newcomen Society, 6-7-73).
55. News week, 5-31-65.
56. McDougal, Last Mogul, 231, 367.
57. Biskind, Easy Riders, 144-45.
58. Dick, Engulfed, 102.
59. Biskind, Easy Rider, 147.
60. Vanity Fair, April 1997.
61. Evans, Kid Stays, 98.
62. Ibid., 106.
63. Int. of Dana Wynter, 3-17-03.
64. Biskind, Easy Rider, 146.
65. James Mills, Life, 3-7-69.
66. Moldea, Interference, 466; and Hersh, New York Times, 6-29-76.
67. Bruck, When Hollywood Had a King, 359.
68. Ibid., 355.
69. George Ciurley, "Afternoon of a Golden Girl," Neiv York Observer, 10-27-03.
C h a p t e r Fourteen
1. Int. of MJ Goldblatt, 6-6-04.
2. Int. of Dean Elson, 5-3-04.
3. Int. of Gray Frederickson, 2-28-03.
4. Int. of Gianni Russo.
5. Int. of Jimmy Murphy, 2-6-04.
6. Niklas, Corner Table, 31; Kup quoted in Vanity Fair, April 1997; and int. of Virginia Korshak, 1-20-04.
7. Exner, My Story, 278-79.
8. FBI memo, DELETED to SAC L.A., 10-19-65 (#92-742-169), Korshak file.
9. Jill St. John, SEC testimony, 8-21-69, 60.
10. Bruck, When Hollywood Had a King, 297.
11. Int. of Nancy Czar, 1-25-04.
12. Int. of Fred Sidewater, 5-6-03.
13. FBI airtel, SAC L.A. to director, 3-4-66 (#92-742-180), Korshak file.
14. FBI memo, DELETED to SAC L.A., 10-19-65 (#92-742-169), Korshak file.
15. Niklas, Corner Table, 31.
16. Heymann, Poor Little Rich Girl, 283.
17. Ibid., 33-34.
18. Niklas, Corner Table, 33-34.
19. Int. of Gray Frederickson, 2-28-03.
20. Ibid.
21. Maxine Cheshire, "Sinatra-Agnew," Washington Post, 2-35-72.
22. See especially, Christopher Hitchens, Trial of Henry Kissinger.
23. Maxine Cheshire, "Too Many Cooks," Washington Post, 9-17-72.
24. Int. of Jan Amory, 3-5-03.
25. Int. of Jack Clarke, 1-31-04.
26. Int. of Tom Mankiewicz, 4-4-03.
27. Niklas, Corner Table, 31-32.
28. Bruck, When Hollywood Had a King, 297-98.
29. Ibid., 297.
30. Int. of Missy Chandler, 2-27-04.
31. Int. of Ron Joy, 1-19-04.
32. FBI memo, DELETED to SAC L.A., 12-9-71 (#92-742-328), Korshak file.
33. Nick Tosches, "The Man Who Kept the Secrets," Vanity Fair, April 1997.
34. Int. of Virginia Korshak, 1-20-04.
35. Confidential int., 1-14-05.
36. Int. of Ed Becker, 1-1-03.
37. FBI memo, DELETED to SAC L.A., 10-12-66 (#92-792-207), Korshak file.
38. Doris Lilly, "Party Line" column, Los Angeles Times, undated clipping.
Chapter F i f t e en
1. Los Angeles Times, 6-24-70.
2. Testimony of Richard F. Gliebe before Illinois Board of Investigation, 7-15-70, 166-68, 183.
3. Chicago Sun-Times, 7-16-70.
4. Testimony of Gliebe, 195.
5. Chicago Today, 6-24-70.
6. Testimony of Gliebe, 161-63; Robert Glass, "Hint Mob Role in Hotel Sale," Chicago Today, 7-15-70; and Chicago Sunday Times, 7-16-70.
7. Testimony of Gliebe, 179.
8. Ibid., 183.
9. Confidential int., 2-22-05.
10. Fletcher Wilson, Chicago Sun-Times, 7-16-70.
11. Int. of Nancy Czar, 1-25-04.
12. Korshak, SEC testimony, 7-23-70, 425.
13. Messick, Politics of Prosecution, 90.
14. Glass, "Hint Mob Role."
15. Los Angeles Times, 6-24-70.
16. Int. of Jack Clarke, 1-31-04.
17. Moldea, Interference, 222.
18. Overdrive magazine, April 1975.
19. Haber, Los Angeles Times, January 28, 29, 1969.
20. Testimony of Gliebe, 223.
21. The Canadian report
s are included in the personal files of the late IRS "Operation Tradewinds" investigator Sally Woodruff, supplied to author. For more on this operation, read Block, Masters of Paradise; see also Messick, Lansky, 263-64.
Int. of Jim Grodin, 12-8-03.
Chicago Tribune, 7-15-70.
Transcript of Hughes press conference, 1-7-72.
Los Angeles Times, 5-9-69.
Messick, Lansky, 152.
Moldea, Interference, 471.
28. See #17181, U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit, Additional Appendix, 109-20; New York Times Index, "U.S.
Intelligence Agency," 1967; and Final Report by the Special Subcommittee on House Res. 920, of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, 91st Cong., 2nd sess., 9-17-70, 18-21.