The Strength of the Wolf (88 page)

  
1
  Anslinger,
The Protectors
, 217–18.

  
2
  Jonnes,
Hep Cats
, 263–4.

  
3
  
New York Times
, 27 November 1964.

  
4
  John Finlator,
The Drugged Nation: “A Narc's” Story
(New York: Simon And Schuster, 1973), 25–7.

  
5
  Ibid., 28–44.

  
6
  Lee,
Acid Dreams
, 150–1.

  
7
  Marks,
Manchurian Candidate
, 62.

  
8
  Lee,
Acid Dreams
, 85–8.

  
9
  Deborah Davis,
Katherine the Great: Katherine Graham and Her
Washington Post
Empire
(New York: Sheridan Square Press, 1979), 213–15.

10
  Lee,
Acid Dreams
, 236–48.

11
  Ibid., 117.

12
  
Ibid., 189–90.

13
  Marks,
Manchurian Candidate
, 200–1.

14
  Gerard Colby with Charlotte Dennet,
Thy Will Be Done: The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil
(New York: HarperCollins, 1995), 497.

15
  Marks,
Manchurian Candidate
, 203.

16
  Colby and Dennet,
Thy Will Be Done
, 515.

17
  Ibid., 521.

18
  Ibid., 523.

19
  Ibid., 527.

20
  Tripodi,
Crusade
, 134.

21
  Summers,
Official and Confidential
, 235.

22
  Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, Memorandum for the Record, 30 January 1967.

23
  FBI Teletype from New Orleans Agent John W. Miller to Director (62-109060) and Dallas (89–43), “Interview with Captain Roy Allemond of the New Orleans Harbor Police,” 20 July 1967.

24
  William Torbitt (Copeland's pen name),
Nomenclature of an Assassination Cabal
(self-published manuscript), 5.

25
  Scott,
Deep Politics
, 116.

26
  DiEugenio,
Destiny Betrayed
, 175.

27
  Scott,
Deep Politics
, 116. 1967 IG Report, 126.

28
  Charles Higham,
Howard Hughes: The Secret Life
(New York: Putnam, 1993), 207, 217–18, 221.

29
  Sam Giancana and Chuck Giancana,
Double Cross: The Explosive
,
Inside Story of the Mobster Who Controlled America
(New York: Warner Books, 1992), 328.

30
  Moldea,
Hoffa Wars
, 175.

  
1
  The CIA station chief in Rome, Bill Harvey, had aligned with ultra General De Lorenzo, and the situation exploded in 1965, when two senior Carabinieri officers were exposed as having set up hit teams to murder Italian leftists. Angleton's staff blamed Harvey for the flap, and replaced the burned-out assassination expert with Seymour Russell, an old foe of Hank Manfredi's from post-war Italy days. After a confrontation with Russell in the Embassy cafeteria, Manfredi had a heart attack. Seeking refuge from Russell, he asked Tartaglino to bring him back into the FBN in the US.

  
2
  
Lee,
Acid Dreams
, 244.

  
3
  Block,
Masters of Paradise
, 81–107.

  
4
  Emrich died in Mexico under mysterious circumstances on 19 September 1969.

  
5
  Richard E. Salmi, Report of Investigation, 30 November 1971.

  
6
  Richard E. Salmi, “Operation Bruit,” undated report.

  
7
  Richard E. Salmi, Report of Investigation, 2 February 1970.

  
8
  Charbonneau in
The Canadian Connection
(108) says Khoury and Alaouie were assassinated in 1965.

  
9
  Hougan,
Spooks
, 213.

10
  Ibid., 213–25. Jim Marrs, author of
Crossfire
, said that Robin Moore, author of
The French Connection
, confirmed that Weiller was the Air France connection.

11
  “Yitzak” may have been Yitzak Shamir or Yitzak Rabin.

12
  Brian Burroughs,
Vendetta: American Express and the Smearing of Edmond Safra
(New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1992), 32–6, 158.

13
  Charbonneau,
Canadian Connection
, 247.

14
  
The Heroin Trail
, 173.

15
  
Project Pilot III
, 87.

16
  Ibid., 96.

17
  Lee in
Acid Dreams
(12), says “that ex-Nazi pilots under CIA contract smuggled [heroin] out of the Golden Triangle … during the late 1940s and early 1950s.”

18
  Talese,
Honor Thy Father
, 156, 240.

19
  Ibid., 266–8, 275, 493.

20
  Sterling,
Octopus
, 105–10.

21
  Blumenthal,
Last Days
, 83–5.

  
1
  Jaubert,
Dossier D
, 160.

  
2
  Kruger,
Heroin Coup
, 225, citing B. Rostin, “A Chapter From ‘The Godfather'?”
Village Voice
, 21 January 1980. As Kruger notes, Sindona was exonerated and in 1972 would offer $1 million to Nixon fundraiser Maurice Stans.

  
3
  Interviews with Edward Coyne and James Ludlum.

  
4
  Messick,
Lansky
(New York: Putnam, 1971), 241.

  
5
  McCoy,
Politics of Heroin
, 251–3.

  
6
  Smith, “Brazen Empire,” 102–4.

  
7
  
McCoy,
Politics of Heroin
, 203–4.

  
8
  Ibid., 298.

  
9
  Ibid., 249.

10
  Ibid., 250.

11
  Lucien Conein, letter to Harper Row, 10 October 1972.

12
  McCoy,
Politics of Heroin
, 250.

13
  
Pilot Project III
, 134, 495.

14
  McCoy,
Politics of Heroin
, 352.

15
  Ibid., 227.

16
  Albert Habib, Memorandum Reports, 16 January 1966; 20 July 1966; 28 July 1966; 5 August 1966; 2 September 1966; and 16 September 1966.

17
  Albert Habib, Memorandum Report, 2 September 1966.

18
  McCoy,
Politics of Heroin
, 211.

19
  Ibid., 228.

20
  Ibid., 227–8.

21
  Secord told the author, “We were never dealing opium in Laos. And if we were, it was policy.”

22
  Robin Moore,
The Country Team
, (New York: Crown, 1967), 114.

23
  Ibid., 188–9.

24
  Georgie-Anne Geyer, “The CIA's Hired Killers,”
True Magazine
, February 1970.

25
  Moore,
Country Team
, 266.

26
  Michael C. Piper in
Final Judgment
(Washington, DC: The Wolfe Press, 1995) says, on page 275, that Moore “had solid links to the CIA.”

27
  McCoy,
Politics of Heroin
, 213.

28
  Ibid., 253.

29
  Noam Chomsky, Introduction to Cathy Perkus, ed.,
COINTELPRO: The FBI's Secret War on Political Freedom
(New York: Monad Press, 1975), 14.

30
  Tripodi,
Crusade
, 148.

  
1
  Charbonneau in
The Canadian Connection
explains that Guido “the Bull” Penosi was a member of the Gambino family, which in 1965 was setting up the Pizza Connection with Tomasso Buscetta. By 1968 the Cotronis in Montreal were delivering French connection heroin to Penosi's receivers. Penosi would traffic in narcotics without getting
caught for several more years, a fact that supports the theory that he was one of the new breed of million-dollar men working for the FBI and CIA.

  
2
  In 1968, Burmudez gave Lawrence to SIU Detective Bob Leuci, the infamous “Prince of the City,” and the subject of a book by that title. Around that time, Lawrence went to work for Andy Tartaglino as a special employee making cases on corrupt BNDD agents.

  
3
  In June 1967, Henry Giordano, Hank Manfredi, and George Belk received medals in the Rinaldo case. Giordano vetoed Selvaggi's award. In September 1967, Hank Manfredi received the Italian Gold Cross and a letter of recommendation in the Nebbia case. Selvaggi and Waters got no recognition at all.

  
4
  In February 1966, Krieger got Vincent Pacelli off the Air France case with a reduced sentence. Krieger also defended Paul Helliwell's law partner, Larry Freeman, on a drug charge, as well as Joe Bonanno and John Gotti.

  
1
  The allegations included the sale, transfer, and use of drugs by agents, sale of drugs by informants at the direction of an agent, transfer of drugs to informants by agents, planting evidence, sale of counterfeit money, leaks of information, improper handling of evidence, irregularities in informant payments, accepting gratuities, retaining confiscated guns for personal use or sale, absconding with official funds, failing to enforce the laws, and grand larceny. Over two dozen informant murders, and the deaths of several agents, were investigated as well.

  
2
  Mortimer L. Benjamin, Memorandum Report, “Allegations made by Vivienne NAGELBERG to Agent Mortimer Benjamin at Montreal on 28 & 29 May, 1967,” 30 January 1968. Vivienne and Gerson Nagelberg were arrested in April 1968, and convicted on 18 June 1970. A young Assistant US Attorney (later a Congressman), Charles Rangel, prosecuted their case. Rangel was quoted in the 15 August 1968
New York Times
(43) as saying, “the narcotic racket could not exist in Harlem without the aid and consent of some members of the NYPD.”

  
3
  After leaving the FBN, Selvaggi opened a delicatessen. Schrier settled
with the IRS and purchased an International House of Pancakes franchise. Waters became a bartender, then a psychologist.

  
4
  Bluth headed the NYPD's Narcotic Bureau from 2 May 1966 till February 1968. Intreri was suspected of passing the missing 1962 French Connection dope to Papa. Intreri hated Selvaggi and Waters, whom he felt had “sold out” John Dolce in the 1965 Frank Tuminaro case. Secret Service Agent Carmine Motto hired Pat Ward's son. Motto later became John Dolce's deputy in White Plains. Sal Vizzini's son Sam also went to work for the Secret Service.

  
1
  Reorganization Plan No. 1, Prepared by the President and transmitted to the Senate and the House of Representatives in Congress assembled, 7 February 1968, pursuant to the provisions of chapter 9 of title 5 of the United States Code, “Message of the President to Congress.”

  
2
  Patrick P. O'Carroll, “Reorganization Plan No. 1: Narcotics and Drug Abuse”, University of Oklahoma, undated graduate thesis, courtesy of DEA library.

  
3
  Ibid.

  
4
  Interview with John Warner, Ingersoll's colleague from California, and later his assistant at the BNDD.

  
5
  Tripodi,
Crusade
, 158.

  
6
  Jack D. Compton Statement (provided by former US Attorney Jamie Boyd), 54–6. Boyd sent Compton's statement, along with other information, to Deputy Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti on 31 May 1981. The author attempted to retrieve Boyd's letter and Compton's statement through a Freedom of Information Act request filed on 23 November 1993, but was told by the deputy director of the Department of Justice's Office of Information and Privacy that the records were not located.

  
7
  In an interview with the author, Compton said the source's name began with the letter Z. One candidate is Gennardo Zanfardino, cited in
Project Pilot III
(78) as buying narcotics, along with the Malizia brothers, from Arman Casoria in New York, who until December 1965 copped from Frank Dioguardia.

  
8
  Recounting what he was told by an informer, David Wiser says that Bob Williams was at La Guardia to cover Frankie Waters, which is why they met in the men's room. According to Wiser's source, after
the men's room meeting, Waters met with the Malizia brothers on a boat on Long Island Sound to discuss whether they should kill McDonnell. Waters defended McDonnell, thus saving his life. Waters denies the allegations, and denies ever having met the Malizia brothers.