The Strength of the Wolf (86 page)

  
1
  
New York Times
, 21 February 1930, 1.

  
2
  Tripodi,
Crusade
, 21: “You kick in the door. If you make the case,
fine. If not, you're Detective Andrews from Homicide.”

  
3
  Memorandum to Mr. John E. Ingersoll, Director, Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, from Andrew C. Tartaglino, Chief Inspector, 21 November 1968, Subject: Integrity Investigation – New York Office History, Recommendations and Conclusions. The author obtained this document, portions of which were redacted, through a Freedom of Information Act request from the DEA. It is cited in the Interim Report of the Committee of Government Operations, US Senate, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, 94th Congress, 26th Session, Federal Narcotics Enforcement (Washington, DC: GPO, 1976), 65–9.

  
4
  Tripodi,
Crusade
, 25.

  
5
  Interim Report of the Committee of Government Operations, US Senate, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, 94th Congress, 26th Session, Federal Narcotics Enforcement (Washington, GPO, 1976), 65–6.

  
6
  Ibid., 68–9.

  
7
  Benjamin DeMott, “The Great Narcotics Muddle,”
Harper's Magazine
, March 1962, 50–1. According to DeMott, Anslinger wanted a Seventh Day Adventist, Dr. Edward R. Bloomquist, to succeed him.

  
8
  Ibid., 48.

  
1
  Marks,
Manchurian Candidate
, 99.

  
2
  Siragusa interview by CIA officer Michie, 24 March 1977 (hereafter known as Michie Memo), document provided by Richard E. Salmi.

  
3
  Hearings before the Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research of the Committee on Human Resources, Human Drug Testing By The CIA, US Senate, 95th Congress, 1st Session (Washington, DC: GPO, 20 and 21 September, 1977),117 (hereafter referred to as Human Drug Testing).

  
4
  CIA Memorandum for the Record, Subject: Report on Plots to Assassinate Fidel Castro, 23 May 1967 (hereafter known as 1967 IG Report), 14–55, 70.

  
5
  Scott,
Deep Politics
, 90–1.

  
6
  Gus Russo,
Live by the Sword
(Baltimore: Bancroft Press, 1998), 246, citing 21 July 1961 FBN memo.

  
7
  Interim Report of the Select Committee to Study Government Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, Alleged Assassination
Plots Involving Foreign Leaders, United States Senate, 94th Congress, 1st Session, Report No. 94–465 (Washington, GPO, 20 November 1975), 58–60 (hereafter known as Church Report).

  
8
  1967 IG Report, 38–9.

  
9
  Hersh,
The Old Boys
, 187–8. David E. Murphy,
Battle Ground Berlin, CIA vs KGB in the Cold War
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977), 217.

10
  “Notes in Draft re. ZR/RIFLE Project,” provided by the National Archives Assassination Records Review Board as part of the CIA Historical Review Program (hereafter known as Harvey's Notes), 10.

11
  Dispatch from Chief of Station (deleted) to William Harvey, 11 October 1960.

12
  Harvey's Notes, 8.

13
  Moldea,
The Hoffa Wars
, 127.

14
  Michie Memo.

15
  Scott,
Deep Politics
, 352 n. 35.

16
  Memorandum to David W. Belin from Mason Cargill, Subject: Search of Files for Materials Relevant to Assassination Plans, 1 May 1975, (hereafter known as Cargill Memo), photocopy from the Gerald R. Ford Library, document provided by Gus Russo.

17
  Richard Mahoney,
Sons And Brothers: The Days of Jack and Bobby Kennedy
(New York: Arcade Publishing, 1999), 91–2. Drug trafficker Robert Blemant (object of Paul Knight's sting operation in 1959 and the founder of Les Trois Canards) is proposed as possibly QJ/WIN by Steve Rivele in “Death of a Double Man,” Washington,
The National Reporter
, Spring 1987, 48–50.

18
  “QJ/WIN,” 1977 HSCA Staff Report, provided by the National Archives Assassination Records Review Board as part of CIA Historical Review Program, 1994, 2.

19
  Harvey's Notes, 4.

20
  
New York Times
, 18 July 1958, 8:2; 25 July 1958, 3:8.

21
  QJ/WIN's 201 File (201-236504), provided by the National Archives through the 1994 CIA Historical Review Program, (hereafter known as QJ/WIN Dossier), Dispatch from Chief, WE, to (illegible), 17 July 1959.

22
  QJ/WIN Dossier, Classified Message from Director to Chief, WE, Luxembourg Narcotics Lead, 29 April 1959.

23
  QJ/WIN Dossier, Message to Commissioner of Narcotics from Deputy Director, Plans, Subject: Chinese Communist Narcotic Activity in Europe, 5 May 1959.

24
  
Harvey's Notes, 4.

25
  Church Report, 45.

26
  Siragusa,
On the Trail
, 199.

27
  
New York Times
, 30 March 1962, 68:1; 31 March 1962, 2:5.

28
  Dispatch from Chief of Station (deleted) to William Harvey, 11 October 1960.

29
  Letter from Cusack in Rome to Anslinger in Washington, 29 July 1960, 2.

30
  Cusack, letter to Anslinger, 29 July 1960, 11.

31
  
Project Pilot III
, 142.

32
  Henrik Kruger,
The Great Heroin Coup: Drugs, Intelligence
,
& International Fascism
(Boston: South End Press, 1980), 41–3.

33
  Garland Williams, Official Personnel Folders.

34
  Richard Stratton, “Altered States of America,”
Spin Magazine
, vol. 9, No. 12, March 1994, 87.

35
  Michie Memo. MKULTRA Document 87, Richard Salmi and Frank Laubinger, interview with Feldman.

36
  Stratton, “Altered States,” 97.

37
  Frias's monthly report, 1 November 1958.

38
  Jonnes,
Hep Cats
, 197.

  
1
  Selvaggi's account of this incident makes it likely that he was the seaman who gave the FBN the tip-off it needed in the Frank Scalici case of 1957 (see
chapter 12
), information which subsequently led to Scalici's assassination.

  
2
  Eboli reportedly was a liaison between the Mafia and the CIA.

  
3
  Though not charged in the Rinaldo–Palmieri case, Mogavero was sentenced to fifteen years in the 1964 Frank Borelli case, which Selvaggi initiated, and which stemmed from the Rinaldo–Palmieri case. Mogavero's sentence, however, was reversed.

  
4
  Charbonneau,
The Canadian Connection
, 156 n. 2.

  
5
  In 1963, Selvaggi would see Simack (perhaps an alias for Szaja Gerecht) with Mexican Ambassador Salvador Pardo Bolland. A few months later he got a description of Simack's plant-man, whom he randomly spotted one night and followed to an apartment in Riverdale. He broke into the apartment and found six empty traps. When he went back in 1964, after Pardo was busted in the Second Ambassador case, the traps were gone.

  
6
  
Gosch and Hammer,
The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano
, 442–3.

  
7
  Charbonneau,
Canadian Connection
, 168.

  
1
  Anthony Summers,
Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover
(New York: Pocket Star Books, 1994), 67.

  
2
  Ibid., 155–6.

  
3
  Ibid., 175–6.

  
4
  Ibid., 220.

  
5
  DeMott, “The Great Narcotics Muddle,” 48.

  
6
  Summers,
Official and Confidential
, 272–82.

  
7
  Ibid., 267–8.

  
8
  Anslinger,
The Protectors
, 209.

  
9
  Tripodi,
Crusade
, 60.

10
  Davis,
Mafia Kingfish
, 139.

11
  Moldea,
The Hoffa Wars
, 138.

12
  Davis,
Mafia Kingfish
, 99–100.

13
  Hersh,
The Dark Side
, 192.

14
  Scott,
Deep Politics
, 179.

15
  Sandy Smith, William Lambert, and Russell Sackett, “The Congressman and the Hoodlum,”
Life Magazine
, 9 August 1968, 20–26.

16
  Interview with Tom Tripodi.

17
  Mahoney,
Sons and Brothers
, 46–9.

18
  1967 IG Report, 57–62.

19
  Mark Riebling,
Wedge: The Secret War Between The FBI and CIA
(New York: A. A. Knopf, 1994), 163–4.

20
  Moldea,
The Hoffa Wars
, 128–9.

21
  1967 IG Report, 63.

22
  Mahoney,
Sons and Brothers
, 46.

23
  Summers,
Official and Confidential
, 334.

24
  Russo,
Live by the Sword
, 66–7.

25
  Hersh,
The Dark Side
, 286–7.

26
  Mahoney,
Sons & Brothers
, 133, citing DOD Task #69, 3 August 1962.

27
  Church Report, 336.

28
  Block,
Masters of Paradise
, 161–73.

29
  Smith,
The OSS
, 307, n 1.

30
  Anslinger,
The Protectors
, 204, 75.

31
  Block,
Masters of Paradise
, 34–45.

32
  
Scott,
War Conspiracy
, 210–12. Lee,
Acid Dreams
, 245–6.

33
  Warren Hinkle and William Turner,
The Fish Is Red: The Story Of The Secret War Against Castro
(New York: Harper & Row, 1981), 297.

34
  Block,
Masters of Paradise
, 72–3.

35
  Ibid., 51.

36
  Jim Hougan,
Spooks: The Haunting of America
(New York: Morrow, 1978), 212–14

37
  Block,
Masters of Paradise
, 49.

38
  Scott,
War Conspiracy
, 208.

39
  Scott,
Deep Politics
, 34.

40
  JFK planned to replace Air America with Seaboard World Services, whose director, John Davidson, died in a mysterious plane crash in March 1964.

  
1
  Robin Moore,
The French Connection: The World's Most Crucial Narcotics Investigation
(Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1969), 9–15.

  
2
  Robin Moore with Barbara Fuca,
Mafia Wife
(New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1977), 121.

  
3
  Gregory Wallance,
Papa's Game
(New York: Rawson, Wade Publishers, Inc., 1981), 20–2, 27.

  
4
  Moore,
French Connection
, 95.

  
5
  Tripodi,
Crusade
, 206.

  
6
  Moore and Fuca,
Mafia Wife
, 134.

  
7
  
New York Times
, 2 May 1962, 17:6.

  
8
  Andrew Tully,
CIA: The Inside Story
(New York: William Morrow, 1962), 45–53.

  
9
  Interview with Paul Sakwa. Also Sakwa's unpublished manuscript, “The Lovestone Connection.” Philipsborn replaced Sakwa as Irving Brown's CIA case officer.

10
  Memorandum report by Mortimer L. Benjamin, 11 October 1965.

11
  Mangold,
Cold Warrior
, 315.

12
  Thomas,
The Very Best Men
, 310–11.

13
  Sakwa, “The Lovestone Connection.”

14
  Rivele, in “Death of a Double Man” (44–50), says that Blemant served with French Intelligence in North Africa during the war, was fired from the Sûreté in Marseilles in 1947, formed Les Trois Canards, and then began helping the Guérinis set up nightclubs around the Mediterranean.
By 1954, he was in Tangiers working with Luciano's reputed narcotics connection, Jo Renucci. When Renucci died in 1958, Blemant took over the Tangiers rackets with Marcel Francisci in Lebanon. Blemant's narcotics were distributed in the US by Santo Trafficante.

15
  Hersh,
The Old Boys
, 42–3, 266, 226.

16
  Ibid., 444–5.

17
  Williams, “The Narcotics Situation,” 21–6.

18
  Tully,
CIA: The Inside Story
, 197.

19
  Tripodi,
Crusade
, 187.

20
  Charbonneau, in
The Canadian Connection
(161–9), suggests that Mouren was Marius Martin. In
Project Pilot III
(59), Mouren is identified as Jean Mounet, a French diplomat. Michel Mertz and Maurice Castellani are also likely candidates.

21
  Tripodi,
Crusade
, 206.

22
  Moore,
Mafia Wife
, 187. Tripodi,
Crusade
, 206, 208.

23
  Group Three's secret operation was an investigation of the unfolding Air France case, which kicked off with the Christmann bust and moved to Montreal, where Mafiosi were buying heroin from Norman Rothman's associate, Lucien Rivard.

24
  According to Mangold in
Cold Warrior
(121), based on information given to him by de Vosjoli, Angleton in October 1962, at a meeting at Le Rive Gauche restaurant in Georgetown, told SDECE chief General Paul Jacquier that SDECE was penetrated by the KGB. The Rive Gauche was owned by Blaise Gherardi, a figure in several FBN narcotic investigations. According to Tripodi (
Crusade
, 187), Gherardi was in communication with Albert Dion, president of a Corsican association in New York, and Vosjoli. The US Secret Service had a garage surrounding the restaurant.

25
  Interview with William Harvey, dated 14 September 1975, from Frederick D. Baron to file ZR/RIFLE (12): “Siragusa was used once to go to Rome to spot assets. He was [deleted] at the time, so his participation with the CIA was an extremely sensitive matter.” Put in layman's terms, being in Rome to “spot assets” meant that Siragusa was there to recruit an assassin and equip him with the .22 that Vizzini pilfered.